Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
Tho eeeeher Trial.

For weeks the daily food of every
household this side of the Pacific coast
has consisted of five or six columns of
fine print. containing. details of which
the majority OF readers should be entire
ly ignorant The trial has educated the
BOYS and girls of this generation in mat
tiers which spead a universal shame on
the cheek of the American people. 1t
has prematurely developed youth and
disguised old age. 1t has filled the post
Office with tons of obscene literature,
and dug wide channels for perfect
freshet Of slang. Tea thousand ser
mons cannot rub out the foul impression
already made So far reaching is its
pestiferous influence and so demoraliz-
ing is it that it is the topic of CONVEX
sation eVerywheTe-in the office, on the
street and in the drawing room; and
men and women find themselves engaged
in an animated controversy on the sub
| iect. who year ago would have colored
/ TO the roots of their hair if it had been
/ Inadvertently alluded to. The moral
tone of the people has been let down
| by it, and as new and more nauseating
facts are evolved out of each days cross
examination we begin to wonder if we
! are not, after all, trying to sound the
/ depths of a b0ttomless bog.
+ One is struck with surprise that such
a motley group of human curiosities
could have been drawn around any
single point of interest. There are no
ordinary mortals among them. The
common North American type OF hui
/ manity seems to be absent, and III IT'S
| stead one finds anomalous and abnor-
nal Developments each q perfect and
i priceless curiosity in himself, and the
1 eloquent advocate of some new theory
of social life, which would, to say the
least, make radical changes in our pres
/ ent structure. Such q gathering of over
ceFebrated men and women, each With
Il speCial variety of ''inwardness, and
the happy possessor of all the faults and
Weaknesses which belong to genius, has
never been brought together since the
green. earth started on its career. There
is evidently vast quantity OF psychic
. force in this group, which exhibits II
self in manifold eccentrlc1ties which
Eother -nortals would not dare to own
4 Verify, the whole crowd seems to have
been evolved from bit of protopfasR
y that was found hanging from the ragged
edge of despair. s.l ...-a
, The chief of the prosecution appear
to be laboring under slight ha4lueIna
i ton as to the proper relatiOnef the sexes
and, intellectually at least, upholds q de
gree of promiscuity which makes an old
]. fashioned thinker feel that it the wor
i is not coming to an end very soon, ]
4 ought to. He bears himself with gray
: ty and plays the role of sad Visage
: Diogenes, who looks in vain for an hoI
2 est man, to perfection. The great do
{ ! PENDANT, on the other hand, is sportiV'
. \ fIe holds his divided reputation befoI
: the people. saying, Behold the rent th
I envious Casca made" and then. declare
: himself happier than ever before !
this be true, he presents Tor the lnyesi
cation of scientific men a psychologlc
, problem which they must despair (
z ! solving. 70 be accused OF q crime.
: grave that, after all that can. be delt
!. has been done, he viii come from u
i court room, ia the eyes of many, a,
4. white, bat of a .dull gray color. is so. te
= rible an affection that the best he coa
s. hope to do would, be TO fight It out {
Is the line of innoeence with a stern, sc
lie enan. and awful dignity. But to Try
" whistle it down the wind, as though
L were an insignificant tribe to SET .
= a. Sunday congregations into roars
Il laughter, all this constitutes an. enign
which only he who lives it car. unet
=, 4 stand, but which even he cannot expla
r i to the satisfaction of ordinary me
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