The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-19
carved his name high up on the pc
destal of fame, and cnshrined himself
in the hearts of liberty loving people
everywhere.

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The Ereckenridse-Po Case.
IN discussing this case the Posi-
desires it distinctly understood in the
outset that it is no friend in any res
pect of seducers of innocent women.
or of immortality in any shape, form
or fashion. 1t has an everlasting
and an abiding contempt for the SER
pcnt that invades the chastity Of a
virtuous woman, and an everlasting
abhorrenec Of the full hedged hypo-
critics who, while practising immor-
atty, are heaping curses, loud and
deep upon the head of William Z.
Breckenridge. They are not only hyp-
ocrits, but add to their hypocri cy that
worst element in human nature, pup
pyism." BY "pnppyism" is meant
those illterate, narrow minded hypo-
critical cherubms who live daily
lie and seek to condone their trans
gressons by formality at church, and
by abusing men their superiors, men
tally and morally. 1t is not the pur-
pose Of the PosT to go into sclcn-
tiGc discussion of the Breckenridge
affair and cndeavor to show that
man is ever prone to revert to the
animal instincts. That is province
Darwinians are better able 10 discuss.
The newspapers, without scarcely an
exception, have remained silent i'll
regard to the discussion of this case.
They have not commented upon, edi-
toriallv, the merits of the case at all,
but have contented themselves with
filing their news columns with the
whole diabolical and dcmoralizing
evidence. This shows plainly that
they sympathize with Breckenridge
and are afraid to open their mouths
in his defence.
Now to commence with Judge
Bradley's rulings and his instruc
tons were Infamous and show con-
clusi.ely that he is one of these
snarling cherubs who seek by out
ward glamour to conceal the real
man within. \ Judge has no right,
moral or legal, to lean to one side OF
another of cases before him. When
he does so he disgraces the crmine
and makes himself just object Of
contempt. Probably he was inflated
with the notoricty this case would give
him and sought to pose as moral
light, but, however, that may be his
rulings were infamous and urcalled
for.
1t is very generally admitted that
Miss Pollard was scheming, black
hearted strumpet. AS such no
courtesy under the sun should have
been shown her. The law Of society
and the law that public opinion has
established demanded that she should
forever hide herself from the sight Of
honest people. The f2eur dc lis of
sin and shame was stamped upon
her, and it is a disgrace to American
civilization that she should have been
allowed to pose before the public as
martyr, when she was devil with
out wings. a woman Of good char
actcr cannot be seduced 4 woman
of right principle would never have
made the ovcrturcs that she did to
Breckenridge. And a roman, after
being seduced, would never seek to
parade her downfall before = virtuous
people. No, thatlis the brazcn effront
cry of the strumpet stepped in sin.
1t is the last straw at which lepcr-
our and a vile woman grasps at.
In the face Of these facts what has
this jury of twelve men done? They
have opened wide the door for scan
dial lovers to satiate their appetite.
They have flung open the gates for
every strumpet in the laud to gain
notoriety and pull down the charac-
ter Of the men who have fallen vic
tins to their Wiles.
The whole case is g stencil, vile
oder that is sickening. 1t should
never have been tried, or if
tried, an everlasting disgrace should
have been heaped upon the woman
who sought to make capital ont of
her downfall.
The virtue of American women can
not be too safely guarded, The
homes of cur people, their castles
and their Kingdoms whose queens are