Daily Republican., 1878-11-14
THIRD EDITION.
For the RErUBLICAs.l
q CraeieAl Reply 10 n. l.. Z. and
sarah.

sarah.
MEssRs. EDIroRs:-- Will you please
allow me little space in one of your
columns, for short reply to NJ. +. G..
and Sarah, both of whom s1en evident
ly t. have been offended, and their
sensitive feelings hurt by some few
remarks made by me Nov. llth, in the
REPUBLICAN.
M. II. C. carried away in raptures, re-
sulting in paltry and high tiourishing
language, complaints, as if heartbro-
ken, Of the great wrong done by me to
the ".jactory giris." whose wrongs he
feels hims II goriously called upon to
redress. NJ. 4. c. wants to know there
fore why | should pass so abruptly
from the colored couple and their assail-
ants to something which has no con-
nection whatever with the subject" !"
l do really believe that the brain OF M.
4. c. has never been used to any logic,
because reading my artiole carefully
through, he would see that it was
not so mucl my intention of describing
the assault, Of which | was no eye
witness, as to point out the general
misconduct of hat place by using the
new incident as a further proof of my
assertion.
Moreover | say it and repeat it again,
that persons (plural number) have Of
tentmes been insulted or scoffed at by
factory girls "both day and night
and this happened to persons not long
ago, which is proved moreover by our
Jealous M. K. C. who admits that she
(factory girD is not entirely blameless
Of fthe charge. Now, M. 4. c. why
should the charge be made? Any man
OF a little common sense and some ex-
perience knows that there are good
even exemplary persons among all
classes of society, hence also among the
taboring class which Lc erta,niy Lore and ad-
mire as such, but does this mean that
we should excuse the actions of those
that work evil or that we should suffer
to be- insulted by the impudent. My
charge did evidently and could reason
ably not &C against the laboring class
and any one (factory girl or noD whose
conscience is free of guilt, would never
think OF being offended by my words.
Moreover | never dou bted moment
that "factory girl" had she any in
centive could not rise to far higher
sphere of life, both morally and intel
lectually, than even NJ. Il. C. himself
though $ e may be at loss to initiate
M. L. C.'s poetry and high hourishing,
but empty expressions.
NJ. L. G. asks me then if | had no
other scandals il high life, clerical or
otherwise q suppose he means the
laity) to report. | don't suppose that
l would be at loss in either case.
They are numerous enough, but this
has nothing to do with the subject
here. Perhaps M. E. C. knows plenty
within his own circle. Finally, NJ.
X. c. closes his thesis in sanctimoni-
GUS manner, which shows that he is
probably Christian.
thought to put the learned NJ. Z. C.
and the selfconfdent Sarah together,
as both have similar characteristics.
Sarah denies, flat-footed, my charge
against some of the factory girls. To
prove my assertion against Sarah, call
upon the armed NJ. L. c. to assist me-.
He says plainly " it may be she (per-
haps Sarah herselD is not entirely
blameless of the charge" 1t is true.
Sarah, those girls are working from
early morning till the close Of day, but
may they not, or have they not been
guilty of the charge on Sunday, or
any other night in the week |
thought it hardly worth while to reply
to NJ. +. c. and Sarah, but if they have
been touched by my words, and feel
that the cap fits them, well, let them
put it on. S.