“The crime that rightly costs the hind his blood,
For peers condoned, by _partial_ justice viewed,”
Footnote 44:
Sittings of March 22, 23, and 24.
Footnote 45:
Madlle. Daubié, in a private letter elsewhere, points out the terrible
social results which attend the absence of laws against seducers in
England, which, if joined with a system of regulated prostitution,
must bring us as low as France.
Footnote 46:
Moniteur de l’armée, November, 1862.
Footnote 47:
Criminal Justice, First Court-Martial of Paris, Sittings of the 15th
to the 20th April, 1857.
Footnote 48:
Second Court-Martial of Paris, October 1865.
Footnote 49:
The applications of the law which forbids the marrying a victim of
seduction are sometimes grevious. Thus, an officer lost his post for
making the offer of reparation to a young girl, whom moral tortures
and the pangs of child-birth were putting in danger. This noble
deserter from an infamous military honour, hastened to tell her of the
military disgrace which would attend his marrying, and led her to the
nuptial altar, where she died heart-broken with emotion.
Footnote 50:
Man, the sole support of his family, assuming an average of but two
children by marriage, should always earn enough for four and spend for
one: which assumes that there would be no one counting for nothing—no
bachelor among men: moreover the logic of this system would be either
marriage or death—fidelity in marriage or death; the certainty for the
husband and the father of never having any sickness, and of assuredly
surviving his wife and his children under age, &c. O logicians of the
absurd!
Footnote 51:
The United States, Sweden, Prussia, England, Switzerland, &c., reject
this organization: Austria, Belgium, and Italy imitate it. Let us see
in which direction the path of the future lies.
Footnote 52:
Among a group of college students who were treating for a girl in the
public thoroughfare, one of twelve years old at most was noticed.
Footnote 53:
The sole measure of a serious character proposed by the Senate was the
prohibition of provocation in a public thoroughfare; the Government,
it appears, has not even condescended to take notice of this vote. As
to Article 484 of the Code, it declares, we know, that it did not
regulate this matter.
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