Year: 1860




Mrs. Gurney.


The hue-and- cry against her commence
in the nest of virtues, the Tribune offict


Mrs Gurney is young English worna
who deserted her lawful husband som
months ago, and ran off to Paris or some
where with her groom.


Now, she has added to her crime b,
writing letter 10 one of her friends, ii
which she defends her conduct on principle


The editor of the Tribune thinks the let
ter very dangerous one, and accordingly
prints it, at full length, and calls attnetiol
TO it long and somewhat lugubriou
leader.


Many of the other editors follow suit
and they all make good thing out of it
They get the credit of being splendidly
indignant and superbly virtuous,- aud sell
thousand of extra papers.


Verify, the amount of disinterested vir.
tue and indignation exhibited by the male
human being on certain occasions, is some-
what refreshing to contemplate. ...
In fact the male human being is a very
solemn and sublime animal, and when
once he gets chance to display his quail
ties, comes out with them in manner to
dismay the gods.


Especially is the male human being in his
clement when he comes forth to espouse
the noble cause of conjugal honor.


This is the great theme.


The male human being travels on his
devotioo and fidelity to the marriage bond.


Especially on his fidelity 10 it.


Hence his indignation when it comes to
be violated by woman, and especially
when, after violating it, the woman runs
away, as in the case of Mrs. Gurney, and
gets beyond his reach.


But, alas for the woman she must run
away.


Ii man violates the bond, he needn't
run away unless he's mind TO.


Gases of Inconsistency on the part of bis
sex are so rart, occurring as we all know,
at millennialintervals, that society is char
liable enough to tolerate the offender,
while if the wife intelfers she simply makes
herself ridiculous.


Accordingly, the adulterous male human
being feels under no great concern of mind
on the subject, and in truth, carefully avoids
it, until some woman is found guilty of the
same offence, and then mis- love of virtue
overpowers all other considerations-even
that of bis own guilt, and he joins with
his sex in hootirg her if possible out of
the world.


In fact, the loudest hooters and howlers
on such ocasions are generally males of this
class.


We don't complain of theis state of things,
but merely call attention to it.


For ought we know, it may be all right.


Mrs. Gurney, doubtless, doesn't think so;
but then Mrs. Gurney is woman, and
when she hears aduterous men denounc-
ing her moro violently than any one else,
she may, in the weakness of her intellect,
think it at piece of gross injustice.


But then Mrs. Gurney should bear in
mind the male human being is genrally so
pure and incorruptible, that she ought, if
only out of respect to his chaste sex, to
look upon every thing he does in the cause
of conjugal honor, as done from the high
est motives, and with single eye to the
elevation of woman!


We fear, however, that Mrs. Quincy will
look upon the matter in very different
light.


Indeed, it is just possible that she don't
quite believe in the immaeulacy of the
male human being,-tbat, on the contrary,
she believes that where woman violates the
marriage bond once violates it hundred |
moreover, man can and does |
violate it constant y, with entire impunity,
whereas, if woman is so much as supected !
Of such thing, her character is ruined
forever


But whatever Mrs. Gurney's opinion may
De, these ideas are erroneous, as otherwise
he male human person, instead of being
, just and noble creature, would be the
embodiment of all meanness and injustice.


In view of the above remarks, the read
'r will be prepared to have us urge upon
he male portion of the community to go
IN with their crusade against Mrs. Quincy,
t only 10 give additional proof of their
,wn unshaken virtue.


Besides, man has from the beginning been
70 unscrupulously just to woman, has been
% careful at all times to make the laws as
avorable as possible to her interests, and
n his capacity of husband has so uniform
y been a model of fidelity, that if in the
ace OF so brilliant an example, she will de-
'art from the paths of chastity, she must
f course expect that he will boil over, as l
le is now doing, with "virtuous indigna- I
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