Part 4 (1/2)
”In the small town of Billerica, there are ninety families with ten or more children; five of these had fourteen, and one twenty-one: the total in the ninety families is ten hundred and ninety-three The birth-rates show that American families _do not_ increase at _all_, and the inspection of the registration in other States shows that the same reoing a gradual depopulation Sandgate had a population of 1,187 in 1810, and 805 in 1860
The town of Rupert had a population of 1,848 in 1800, which had diton was settled in the year 1762 In the year 1800 all the arable and pasturage land was occupied, and the inhabitants numbered 1,569 In 1830 the number had decreased to 1,207, and in 1860 to 1,146
Mrs A B Boone says, in her book ”The Increase of Cri one or two children, but no ht it merely a joke, but eventually I found out they _meant_ what they said, and I was amazed And when these women do condescend to have one or two children, what sort of a lifelong inheritance are they giving their offspring? ill-health even unto death Frequently I come in contact omen of thirty, and even twenty-five, so debilitated that they are far more fit for hospitals than to fill the sacred office of either wife or mother
”I am sorry to add that the crireatest extent aeport, a medical lady informed me that she was continually applied to for this purpose, and always refused in the e, one woe, from a hundred to a hundred and fifty cases in a week And yet churches abound in this place
”The Rev Dr Todd has written two most truthful lectures, one entitled 'Fashi+onable Murders,' and the other 'A Cloud with a Dark Lining' His revelations with regard to the determination that the Americans evince not to have children, is fearfully true,children, reminds o I had a letter of introduction to a lady ished to engage ive
She received me with an air ofwas postponed, as dear little fanny was 'real sick' I saine-glass and teaspoon on the table by the side of the sofa, which had a s up so that I supposed to be a sick child I approached, and gently drew aside the blanket I ju, whose black eyes winked at me as if about to cry: a sort of appeal for sy orbs I was alhter, it was so unexpected When able to speak, I said, 'Pardon ht it was a baby' She replied indignantly, 'Oh, dear, no! I never had a baby; nor I don't want one either!' And it would be a blessing, I say, if such woirl, and heard people say they hated children, and saw the kittens with a spoon because the _old cat_ was too weak to attend to so many, and knew, at the same time, that poor _human mothers_ were compelled (just as _slaves once_ were) to separate from their husbands and children when _poverty_ deo into the '_Union_,'
or, rather, _Dis_union--I say, when I pondered on these things, thoughts would flit through my mind, whether, when death severed the body from the _souls_ of these people, that their spirits were not instantly infused into cats and dogs, and that they came back in those shapes as a penance for their _brutality_ to -kindness_ to _brutes_ However, we never went to the party The woht h at a little, sick, _innocent_ dog!
”Three doors from the rooms I lived in is the stylish house of Dr and Mrs Grindle, where there are hundreds of 'fashi+onable murders'
committed yearly And twice the papers have tee, and on the last occasion the child was not to be found, although born alive--and nothing done to either the doctor or his lady!”
A gentleman of one of the smaller towns of Connecticut writes to the _Independent_ as follows: ”I have just read, with great interest, your editorial on the 'Murder of Helplessness' The paper will go into hundreds of faainst it; for, thank God, it is fashi+onable to take the _Independent_
For more than a year it has been on my mind to write to you upon this question You will have the thanks of every isher of the hureatconfined to the large cities It prevails all over the country I dare not tell you what I know--and the inforiven me unsolicited--in reference to this horrid practice in the land I do not believe there is a village in the New England States but this crime is practised more or less There are men who make it their business, with hter And even MD's (physicians) in good and regular standing in the church have practised it Men are hly moral State, 3,000 and 4,000 a year in the small towns alone, at this business Their patients are froious and fashi+onable to the low and vicious Their scale of charges is according to the cupidity and size of purse of the victiht, dressed in masculine attire, to avoid detection, to obtain the means to hide their shame The cause of the evil lies in 'lust, which is as near to the murder as fire to se, in the practice of licentiousness, furnishes a topic of the greatest anxiety to the philanthropist When American women lose their shame, the race is lost--church-membershi+p is no bar The continence of man and the chastity of woman is the only hope”
Trustworthy physicians assure us there are not less than sixty ghouls (gules) in New York City, who grow rich by killing infants We have seen the nuh Fifth Avenue, New York, , or rather palace, in the neighborhood of the Central Park It was built by a certain doctress who has acquired her wealth by the murder of helpless innocents
The unhappy victienerally of the low and debased sort Most of these illegitimateto say, under the age of fifteen; many of them delicate, sensitive females, who make use of these unhallowed means to hide their shame from the eyes of their friends and relatives
The nuely decreased within the past few years The cri A certain species of it is practised in the first fa such murders are publicly sold everywhere Physicians advertise publicly, offering their services to enable people, as they say, ”to enjoy the pleasures of e without the burden” At least 25,000 foeticides are annually co children, seem to be the chief aim of many women nowadays In the upper classes of society, in soe cities, a lady who is the mother of more than two children is looked upon as unfashi+onable
The author of the book ”Satan in Society” writes, on page 130-131, as follows: ”A medical writer of some note published, in 1861, a pamphlet, in which he declared himself the hero of three hundred abortions” He admits, in a work of his, that he only found abortion necessary to save the life of thethat in an immense nurounds; and yet, in the face of all this self-accusation, several attempts at his expulsion from his county medical society have been defeated, and he is accounted ”a brother in good standing” of several learned bodies, and holds an enviable position in a fashi+onable church and fashi+onable society This rascal walks unhung; for this the ”Medical Code” is primarily responsible, and after that the ”ministers of the Gospel,” the ”worshi+ppers” in the churches, the dwellers in ”south fronts”
I have said above that the love of children has always been deeence--of nobleis a quality possessed alike by all animals, with scarcely an exception; and few indeed of the millions of the ani after birth, or to so neglect them as to leave them liable to destruction by other bodies or forces It was left for huences to encompass the death of their children, both before birth and after, and it was left to the anti-Christian civilization of this nineteenth century also to discover and adopt theand barbarous means to accomplish this end The crirowth Like every other crime, it has had a venerable existence, but its beastly develop us has been o its prevalence attracted the attention of medical jurists in all parts of our country, and essays, tracts, and bound volurew apace, and its deadly and dastardly fruits appear before us to-day, sickening to the ious senti increase of this criht to the Medical Society of Ohio, in 1860, will soon be fulfilled, namely: ”The ti us with as little hesitation as a the Hindoos, unless we stop it here and now”
The frightful increase of immorality, of unnatural crimes, in these latter years, and especially in those very States where the common school systeland, proves, beyond doubt, that there is soo the public were startled by the shocking developments of depravity in one of the fe, indeed, as aler belief The Boston _Times_ published the whole occurrence at the tireat excitement for a feeeks, thethe character of the co transactions ca the character of so school commissioners, and some of the principal female teachers in the common schools These scandals becaer blinked at or s papers cao papers assert openly that the Public Schools there are _assignation houses_, for boys and girls above a certain age
”It is but six or seven years ago that Mr Wilbur H Storey, ns the _Chicago Tiest circulation in Chicago--published in his paper, and sustained the assertion, that the Public School systeo had beco, who had reached fourteen years of age, histled at by his companions as a _spooney_, if he had not a _liaison_ with soirls!
”The Daily _Sentinel_, of Indianapolis, quoted Mr Storey's articles, and said, with great regret, that it was only too true of Indianapolis also, judging by the wantonPublic Schools in Indianapolis”
And there are but too many cities to which the same order of remark applies Far be it from me to say that _all_ the children of the Public Schools of any of these cities are corrupted It is e_ of vice, in these hot-beds of pollution But the _systeious teaching and discipline, tends only to one vile end We are assured, as to the City of New York, that sirls, even of lected fate, froirls only a few years older tell what ”_nice_” acquaintances they have , and what delicious lunches they have taken with these ”gentlemen” at restaurants of s I have learned from a friend who heard them from members of the City Police, and froe of the facts indicated
The moral character of the Public Schools in many of our cities has sunk so low, that even courtesans have disguised theirls, in order the more surely to ply their foul avocation
Does any one wonder, then, that we hear and read of ”Trunk Horrors”?