New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-13
FOREIGN Markets,
The GOssips.

A correspondent in one of the New York
dailies writes very sensibly and forcibly
about the gossips who have aided in clrcu.
lating the scandalous stories. He says: To
state it briefly. it has recently come to the
knowledge of the reading public-and now.
a.days the whole public reads-that a
scandalous and filthy series of stories ilnpli-
eating distinguished preacher and Chris
tan lady, set in motion by a man who
meanwhile owned the lady as his wife, and
who had gained success chiefly through the
guidance, influence and aid OF the man he
accused, have been nursed and kept alive,
with their loathsomeness fully aired, and
sent on their swift devastating journey, net
by flash newspapers or persons prOtessedly
lewd, but by people who claim to be politi-
cal and moral refOrmers-and here no re-
ference is made to advocates of licentious-
ness-by lectures, by editors, by business
men, by men and women who devote them.
selves to the work Of securing the ballot
for women, and by Others holding good
positions in society half literary and half
fashionable.
There could scarcely be more hideous
anomaly than the carbon feast of these
self-proclaimed advocates OF woman over
the supposed fall of one OF the sex they
championed, and of a great preacher who
had done more than any one of his profess
sion TO aid the chief measure which many
of them were bent upon accomplishing; but
no such consideration served to deter them
from their chosen task. The nauseating
details, once rolled under the tongue, were
dribbled out to every confidential friend
and by them repeated with picturesque adj
ditons and exaggeratiOns to their cOntiden.
tial friends, with the understanding that
their confidential friends should not lose
such treat. The whole affair is
an excellent illustration of the wisdom of
the Injunction "Mind your own business
Remember that a mans house is his castle,
and when you intrude upon it's privacy you
invade sacred ground. Take care of your
family and your neighbors will take care of
theirs.
And when man comes to you with a
story compromising his wife's honor, or
wants to read you statement" or an
apology" or "tripartite agreement and
asks for your advice as to its wording, or
its general rhetorical effect, or the ingenuity
OF its evasions or prevaricatiOns, take him
by the collar and Set him out of doors with
the request that he manage his family
affairs according to his own ideas of pro
priety. II the gossips, of both sexes, who
joined this conspiracy OF defamers had as
serted their manhood and womanhood
when they were first plucked by the sleeve,
this dreadful scandal would years ago have
become thing of the past. Its promulga-
tor would have found all pure ears closed
to him. He would have been forced to
abandon his scheme and seek some other
way of running his lifelong benefactor: or.
supposing, for the sake Of argument. his
charges to be true, he might have been
spurred to sufficient manliness to state
them in proper way. In either event TIE
air would have long since been cleared:
now there lies upon us a cloud which not
even absolute proof of innocence can
wholly dispel