The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-03
WE s'PITY THE SORROWS OF A POOR
YOUNG MAN,

In the columns of the Republican news
paper, of the I'd inst, an article appeared ur
der the following caption "Have the Friend
less Poor No Rights, ETC."
The article is over the signature of "Citi
zen." But it appears strange to the mind @
any common observer that "citizen" shoul
champion lewd and abandoned women. Hal
the gentleman that chivalry, which he in hi
article endeavored to impress the mind O
the public he possessed, he would not hav,
sought the cloak of q nom de plume, but would
have, like all brave men who champion tn,
cause of woman, signed his full name anG
immortalized himself among the frail ones al
humanitarian, or in the eyes of respect.
able public have written himself down ar
ass. Probably the action of the police, in the
execution of their duty and their earnest de.
sire to crush out this evil and quell the in
science of these bold and wicked women,
has come too near the door of the writer, and
caused this outburst Of sympathetic nonsense.
The evidence Of guilt is not as the gentle
man would have it the natural consequence OF
an arrest, but the plea of equity" made by
these women was sufficient evidence against
them, and, therefore, the presiding judge
within the jurisdiction of his authority had
the legal right to impose such fines as he did.
1t is patent fact that when prisoners before
the bar of justice plead guilty" the court is
generally more lenient with them than with
those who set up plea of not guilty, and are
afterwards proven by unimpeached witnesses
to be fully guilty of the charge brought
against them; hence the difference in the
fnes imposed.
1t is claimed by "Citizsn that q presid-
ing judge is called upon to act as counsel of
prisoners. He claims that this is the hu-
manity of the law; but we fail to see where
the justice of the law is embodied in this wild
assertion, for it is we'll known that the coun-
sci for prisoner endeavors to accomplish the
acquittal of his client whether he or she be
guilty or not. So far so good.
The gentleman again delivers himself in
the following strain
"Probably SO humiliating an exhibit of
oppression under color of law, such disregard
OF rights of citizsns, and such mockery in
the administration Of justice we're never be-
fore made to an intelligent community"
No, nor was there ever so humiliating an
exhibit Of lack Of every sense Of propriety
made by one who at least, we supposed,
claims the name Of gentleman, as has been
shown by one who, finding no better theme
to write upon, nor no more virtuous mode by
which to relieve his heavily ladened mind,
PUSHES headlong into print as the defender of
1arlots, and with streaming eyes and unre-
Varded ambition seeks the sympathy and
admiration of such women. Oh Clahin and |
Woodruff the star of your greatness pales |
before the greater light of "Citizen," and all |
'our efforts and labors are as nought in the |
balance when this champion stands on the |
'ther beam.
Further on, "Citizen" asks: "What COM
,ensation is to be made to the several respect |
BILE women who were arrested and incarcera-
ed"
The answer is simple, s'birds of feather
7ill flock together" and that when police
nen find respectable (?) women in the socie-
? of prostitutes they must, as natural con-
fusion, be all judged alike. Wrought up by
he warmth of his argument Citizen" be-
ONES pathethic and weeps bitter tears even
d ''the distress of the far off heather" and
oes so far as to allow his heart to bleed. We
Q not censure his sympathy for the '.heath-