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NEW YORK CITY. 1834. American Husbands' Poor Estimation of their Wives; Womens' Bad Habits; Fashion.
IT is a fact might be as confidently admitted as any of Euclid's axioms, that there is an utter absence of all social communion and fireside-enjoyment in America-indeed, their habits, looks, actions, and words (though speaking the same language and springing from the same stock) are as unlike English as they can well be. But one of the most remarkable features in American Society is, notwithstanding their affectation of gallantry, the low estimation in which the females are held by the men.-Had the Americans caught their idea of women from the creed of Mahomet, they could not have held their intellectual powers cheaper than they do. An Englishman loves them for their social qualities, a Frenchman for the charm they give to the living-picture, as the idols to which he constantly sacrifices his constitutional gallantry; but an American looks upon women as the mere animal. If he believes they have a soul, he never suffers them to discover it by either word, look, or action.
His idol is his dollars. He lives upon dollars, talks of nothing else but dollars, & sleeps & dreams of dollars. The consequence is, as might naturally be expected, that morals are at a very low ebb, and are but little studied or understood by the American ladies. And this is remarkably apparent in their intercourse with the male part of society. There is a saying in England, that if a man does not look you in the face whilst addressing you, he is not to be trusted: no American lady looks a gentleman in the face either when speaking to him, or when she accidentally meets him, or he addresses her, either in a room or elsewhere. The heard is half averted with an affected bashful, or what might more properly be designated a sheepish look- mauvaise honte. There is none of the liveliness of the French woman, nor of the virtuous confident manner of the English woman. Both the latter have their rank in society assigned them, and they assume their proper stations. An American lady does not know her place, and she constantly seems doubtful if she has any business in Society at all-She is constantly left to cater for herself.
This is an evil in the Domestic circles of America, which hangs like a dead weight upon their progress in civilization, & continually checks moral improvement-nor can they ever hope to approach, much less enjoy, the charms of polished life, till it is removed. An American husband is an absolute hog in his own house. The little time he does spare from the pursuit of his beloved dollars, is spent in eating, smoking & spitting, or in phlegmatic silence, with his heels on the dinner, tea, or supper table. Perchance he throws himself on a Sofa, and mostly falls asleep after dinner-and if he has company, he does not fail to amuse them a la drone. Conversation is out of the question...
But it is not uncommon for females in America both to smoke & chew tobacco. Indeed, the American ladies are not much behind their lords in habits of a tendency far from pleasing. Ladies of fortune and some pretension to breeding, may be seen in the streets & at home, with a huge piece of Sugar Candy Sucking & enjoying it with all the gout of a spoiled Slobbering child. I have seen them lift their veils & take a bite, and even bite off a piece & present it to a friend or companion as a condescending schoolboy would do, and when the stock is exhausted, thcy coolly walk into a store, or shop, for a fresh supply. This love of sweets infects the American females of all ranks-and accounts in some degree for the universal benefit they might derive by employing a dentist-I saw but few Americans with sound or white teeth...
It was once doubtful, it is said, from the decent length of an (American female's garment, whether she had any feet at all. That doubt, however, is now completely removed. For they wear their garments so short, as to exhibit the whole of the calf of the leg to the gaze of their Beaux-in fact, in the display of their persons, both at home & abroad, they exceed the most coquettish Parisian Belle, though in their manners they want that naivete which in the latter makes it palatable, in a degree. During the cooler season they generally wear tightish frilled trousers, by which their lets are decently kept in the shade; but in the hot weather, they not only dispense with them, but appear in the streets with naked legs, feet, & bosom, with a parasol cap to cover the head. I am now speaking of New York; higher up the country the excessive display of their persons is still greater.
The style of their fashions are the most tasteless & outre imaginable. The preposterous length of their bonnets exceed any thing I ever saw in England, even at the time when the lady's hat was made a subject of ridicule in our English Pantomimes. One writer in an American paper, in the Spring of 1834, with great truth said of the bonnet of an American lady, who came under his observation, that it "resembled in color & shape a smashed lobster! " & was "here & there ornamented with knots, or bows, like peeled Onions!" This latter observation I had myself often made to a friend, as I passed by them in the Streets of New York. Indeed no woman in England could appear publicly in the British Metropolis dressed as the American married ladies generally are, and hope to preserve her character-- ÒEgad! Sirs," as I once heard Abernethy say during one of his amusing lectures, "the very boys would run after her."
Perhaps one reason for American ladies wearing such short garments is that they are generally admired for small and pretty feet. Nevertheless, it is impossible for an English eye not to be shocked at the display they make of their persons, both at home & abroad; and it is surprising that amongst their divines some second Tillotson or Rowland Hill has not sprung up to censure & correct such dangerous incentives to vice, as the female habits & fashions in America really are. But in Republican America, where very many of their spiritual teachers are taken from the very outcasts of European society, who, it is well known, rule the female devotees with as iron a hand as ever did the priesthood of any Roman Catholic community; when it is also well known that at their American Camp-meetings, their love-feasts, etcetera, these same pastors assist in scenes of debauchery that would shock a practiced libertine; it is not surprising that the ladies of America are wanting in that greatest charm of their sex, a cultivation of the delicate, ladylike, adornment and concealment of their persons, which indicates purity of mind & sentiment, and the presence of moral sense; nor that American husbands are not gifted with a very savage sense of propriety.
One disagreeable fashion, to my eye at least, is that of American females almost universally dressing themselves in a glaring red, when at home, the effect of which is almost as offensive to the sight as are their painted edifices. And never did I see the female form so distorted by those tasteless things, modern corsets & stays, as it is in America. It is a fashion for the gentlemen to carry their admiration of small waists to an excess and the ladies have, in consequence, carried their cultivation of it to such a pitch, that I feel no hesitation in saying, many girls never live to be women in consequence. In a room the most respectable married females take a pride in exhibiting the whole of the bust bare. In the streets females of character will be seen in the most gaudy trappings with their stockings full of holes.
NEW YORK CITY. 1834. Marriage and Divorce Practices of the Americans; Polygamy.
It is with matrimony as with all other matters in America, there is no decent observance of ceremony, nor any importance attached to a Union, such as should lead the parties seriously to consider it as entering on a new and obligatory state of life, imposing duties upon the observance of which the wellboing of a social & civilized community chiefly depends.
Any marriage contract is lawful in the United States, whether the parties go through a clerical ceremony, or a man simply says, on entering a room, in the presence of a 3rd person, who signs a paper as a witness, "I take this woman for my wife." Thousands, indeed the majority of marriages, are so made in America, and it is a very common thing for a girl to tell her husband, after they have lived together as man & wife for a few weeks, that she is "tired of matrimony," and forthwith She packs up her moveables, should she be so fortunate as to have any, and walks off to her friends. Her husband has no alternative but to live alone, unless he can obtain a divorce, which is not a very difficult thing to do in the United States, and thousands have not scrupled to make a fresh contract without troubling themselves with tedious appeals to a court of law.
In New York, the only question a girl of the lower & middling classes will trouble herself to put, on receiving an offer of marriage, is-"Have you a wife in New York?" It is no uncommon thing for the American to have one or two in another state. But each one being governed by its own laws & customs, in respect to marriage, no danger is apprehended on that head, and on the girl's being answered in the negative, a paper is signed by a witness, probably instanter, and the twain become one flesh: unless they should have the decency to prefer the assistance of a divine or magistrate, the expense of which is about a Dollar.
Sometimes the ladies are even less scrupulous than this. I am acquainted with an English gentleman who emigrated to the United States about a year & a half since, who had previously married an English lady with a handsome property, but becoming politically prejudiced with his own country, he resolved to transfer his wealth to the United States & settle there. He, however, had the precaution to go alone to make the trial, taking with him a considerable sum with which he purchased a tract of land on arriving at New York & the necessary implements for clearing it, &c., and went up the country to his location without delay. He found it in the neighbourhood of a farm, the owner of which had a family of several daughters, and the new-comer being a man of wealth & education, our American soon sought & obtained his friendship. Every art was used to make him a constant visitor at his residence. The result was, that though he had in the outset told them he was a married man, & that his intention was to return to England & fetch his wife, if he liked his situation in the new world, they used every species of manoeuvre to influence him to remain & marry one of the daughters. But this only disgusted him the more with his lonely life & solitary & unprofitable situation-being obliged to do all the duties of husbandman, wood-cutter, dairy-maid, &c. though he had ample means to have paid for labour, but none was to be had. He no sooner declared his intention of leaving the country than his Yankee neighbours (which is generally the case) persecuted him with every annoyance, and the result was he sold his land for mere waste paper, though he had paid down his sterling gold for it, & it is doubtful whether he will ever realize a penny of the purchase money.
This is the fate of hundreds. And fortunate indeed is the emigrant who goes over without his family to make the trial, for hundreds are now living in America in a state of the greatest misery, who would not have remained, had it not been from a dread of again encountering a tedious voyage with a wife & children. I knew some disgraceful instances of fellows who had left a wife and family behind them in England, and made no scruple of taking a second wife in America. One man had a wife & family living with him in New York, whom he drove away to England by his brutality, and though this was known to hundreds, he found no difficulty in contracting a left-handed marriage with an American girl possessed of 1000 dollars, and his oldest child, a boy of 12 years old, was a witness to the whole transaction and continued to live in the same house with his father.-In fact, it is so common a thing for a man to have one wife in one state and a 2nd in another, that it is a proverbial saying, "An American has one wife in New York and another at Brooklyn."
Another man of 2 wives, who had married an American girl with a small fortune, was a Methodist preacher within a few miles of New York when I was there. When he left England he had never mounted a pulpit, and his wife expected to be sent for with her 6 children, as soon as circumstances permitted. Finding, however, that she recÕd no summons, and suspecting all was not right, she came over to New York, assisted in so doing by her parish, and inquired for her husband. She was told there was no person of the name in New York, but there was a Rev- of the name at Newark. The poor woman posted off to that place, and there found that her husband had abandoned her & been married to an American girl who had borne him two children.
There is, however, a law by which persons may be punished for bigamy in America but it is so expensive a proceeding, from the difficulty of obtaining evidence, &c. that not one injured person out of 5000 could avail themselves of it. In fact the law is in such a state in North America, as regards marriage, and morality is so lax in consequence, that their own papers are continually complaining of it. One of the most ably conducted Journals, the Sun, a short time since took an occasion to observe, that such an enactment was much wanted in the United States such as had lately been passed by the South American states, which made it imperative upon all emigrants entering their country to produce a certificate whether they were married or not, and for the truth of which their resident Consul must vouch.
A short time before I left New York, a poor woman presented herself at the door of her runaway husband who had married an American girl on reaching the United States, and upon her knocking, he opened it himself. He asked her "what she wanted?" She told him she was his wife. Upon this he slapped the door in her face. The poor creature in vain tried to redress herself, and she must have perished in the streets of New York with her helpless children, but for the compassion of a few English Emigrants, who provided her with food & shelter, and she is now living decently, as a washerwoman, within sight of the dwelling of her recreant husband.
But this state of concubinage is universal in America. I lodged for a few days in one house where there were 14 couples living, as man & wife, and the person who kept it declared to me that she knew they were all living in a state of adultery. As for divorces, they are granted in all the States upon very trivial evidence. According to a late number of the Sun American Paper, in Ohio alone there were 5000 in less than two years. My readers may easily imagine what must be the state of morality where such things can be with impunity, and what are the prospects for a family of daughters, should any such contemplate emigrating to the United States.
The customs observed at such marriages as are celebrated with a kind of public recognition by their friends & relatives are anything but such as would be desirable in well-regulated societies. A houseful are invited, and of course there is a feast, which terminates with the ceremony of the bride being saluted by every booby of the party. I was present at one where the bridegroom by no means relished this part of the proceeding, and stood peeping from behind a corner of the room half blushing, half clenching his fist with rage, as the operation proceeded, & no sooner had it closed, than he seized his brideÕs hand, dragged her to a table where there stood a basin of water, and himself well-washed her face. And this precaution was the more necessary; as all the gentlemen present, with the exception of myself, had been chewing tobacco & spitting about the room the whole time they were present.
With marriage vows or contracts so loosely observed, an American Judge has lately decided, in New Hampshire, that if a gentleman for a considerable length of time pays particular attention to a lady of the same rank & standing in life with himself, such as to visit her (whether relation or not), or take her to visit at his father's, or friends, &c. from these facts the jury have a right to presume a promise of marriage.
NEW YORK CITY. 1834. Free Black Population in New York.
One American had the effrontery to tell me, that it ought to be made a crime for a white man to marry a black woman. Let the American gentleman go study the character of the freeblack, and he will behold a fond husband and father and a man social, sober, & industrious in his habits. Their affection for their offspring not only far surpasses that of the American, but they are tenderly, nay devotedly attached to their wives, and far, very far exceed the Americans in their gallantry and estimation of the weaker sex. It is truly delightful to see the free-blacks walk forth, well-dressed & well-behaved, on the Sunday, with their wives & children. Their contented, happy, cheerful faces are by far the most attractive feature that characterizes a New-York Sabbath. As for gallantry & attention to their females, an American is not to be named with a free-black. Yet these same Americans affect universally to despise them, and many have often expressed their astonishment at seeing me converse with them. But I confess their intelligence, their wit and general information, their natural acuteness of intellect, was a source of far greater attraction to me, than any the society of whites, born Americans, afforded.
NEW YORK CITY. 1834. Gentleman Callers on New Year's Day.
MOST nations have their peculiar customs and America is behind none that I am acquainted with for the number & peculiarity of hers. One of them is celebrated on the Ist of January, or New-Year's Day, when all the youth of New York & other towns are early on the move, trimmed out in the most approved fashions of the day, & adorned with all the trinkets & ribbands they can muster. Each one has previously made out a list of the names of those ladies whom he intends to honour with a call 2 or 3 weeks beforehand. One young American exhibited to me a catalogue of 50. Thus prepared, they sally forth, and "rat, tat, tat," is the universal din. At every house they enter, "Is Miss at home?" is the inquiry. Miss is all the while simpering in the corner of the room, and upon receiving an affirmative answer, the next observation is, "I am come to drink her health & wish her a happy New Year." This is accordingly done, and where they are acquaintances, a salute is thrown into the bargain. It is, however, no matter whether the parties are strangers to each other or not, every house is "liberty hall" on this day, and the Cogniac and kisses are all given gratis.
One may very well imagine, that by the time young Corydon has got through his list of 50, he is pretty well 3 sheets in the wind, or "rather hazy" as the sailors say. But very many of the more respectable classes seem to forget themselves on New Year's Day, and to reel from house to house, in no very tempting condition to make love in. I saw numbers led home on New Year's Day, 1834, in New York, who, by the force of gravity, ever & anon came to the ground. You might here & there see men, more sheepish than others, stand peeping round a door, half hesitating whether they should knock or not, whilst Miss might be discovered through the window, every moment expecting the "rat, tat, tat." In some Streets you would see one peeping, whilst a holder youth demanded admittance, and all New York seemed to have poured forth her male population to do the gallant on this day. "They call it social," said an old half-bred testy republican to me. "Pretty sociality it is for mothers to have their daughters placed in a chair, like a stuck pig, for every fool to run his grizzly beard against." "I guess," added the old man, with a laugh, "there's many a match concocted in New York on New Year's Day, if nothing worse happens."
I was told, that I should be fully expected to pay the honours & take my dose of Cogniac Schnapps with all the pretty American girls I had been introduced to. I was, however, too much amused with what I saw to make a single effort on my own account. Myself & a friend took the round of several streets to "spy out the nakedness of the land," towards afternoon. We saw old maids & Bachelors, or what ought to have been such "frosty with age," trudging about in all directions. One youth had made his entrance & exit so often, that after mounting the steps & knocking with great difficulty, he fell upon them oblivious. How he was received by his fair one, I did not wait to learn The whole scene, in fact was a perfect Saturnalia throughout the city. No wonder there are so many divorces annually in the State of Ohio.
NEW YORK CITY. 1834. The Unhappy Custom of Serenading Women.
IN lands where minstrelsy and melody are the order of the day; and in countries where tourneys, chivalry, and beauty and bright eyes were the burthen of the harper's soots; when ladies' favours were the rewards of valor & victory; & where lovers wooed to the light guitar amidst bowers of thyme & myrtle, beneath Italian skies; one might still dream of midnight-songs and serenades. But will it be allowed that your money-loving American, whose hands are eternally in his breeches' pockets, fumbling his dollars, who has less voice & fewer notes than a cuckoo, is to be seen in the streets of republican America at one, two, or 3, in the morning, serenading his mistress, with "Hard is my fate,"-"My Lodging is on the cold ground," & various other pathetic melodies, to the annoyance of more peaceable citizens? Yet such is the fact. One unhappy swain, to whom his mistress had, I suppose, "given the beg," as they say in England, woke me out of a comfortable sleep every night for a fortnight. And he had no sooner made his exit, than another love-sick swain took up the like trash a few doors further from my lodging, with something very like the tones of a cracked clarinet-probably Apollo had not blessed him even with an American voice. I might very well liken the tones of his instrument to the cracking of a whip in the hands of a lusty English waggoner.
NEW YORK CITY. 1834. Christian Reform Societies; The Danger Presented to Women in the Person of the Clergy; the trial of Reverend E.K. Avery for Adultery and Murder.
But all religious matters in America, like everything else, are conducted upon a System without a parallel in the history of any well-regulated community, as the foregoing facts and the following truths will show. The Sun American paper of May, 1834, observes, "This is the season of the anniversaries of religious & charitable institutions. They are numerously attended, and their reports speak favorably of their increasing strength and usefulness. Having for the most part, the welfare and happiness of man as their grand object and aim, we wish them all success in their efforts. There are, however, one or two associations among them, which, whatever may be the purity or zeal of their supporters, are calculated to produce the most serious evils. Among them, is the Society for the promotion of the Seventh Commandment-or in other words, the Society to prevent lewdness. There are certain subjects which the common consent of all civilized societies has marked as too indelicate, gross, and distasting in their character, ever to be brought- except in extraordinary cases, and where the moral sense of the community has been severely shocked-before the public eye. Of such a character must of necessity be all details connected with the proceedings of this Society. Its supporters defy all common sense of propriety, all received notions of decency, and do not hesitate in public assemblages, where ladies form a great part of the audience, to give the most disgusting accounts of low debauchery and sensual indulgence, such as can hardly be communicated to the delicate mind of a woman without polluting it. This society probably owes its existence to that record of the stews, McDowall's Journal, which has already been presented by the grand jury as a dangerous and immoral publication. In all charity, and without seeking to inquire into the motives of men to profess to be guided by a desire to promote public purity, and public morals, we must say that this association, unless opposed by the same general spirit which demanded that a public example should be made of McDowall's Journal, will exert a most pernicious influence upon the morals of this community. Every friend of decency & morality should frown upon and discountenance it.
The same authority stated in the previous month of April, that "a religious sect had sprung up in the county of Surry, one of whose tenets is to salute each other at a holy meeting with a holy kiss. One of the female devotees, a young lady of a thousand charms, happened to encounter a young gentleman of whom she was enamoured, and gave him a more cordial & loving salute than was quite becoming. The next day she received a message from the high priest of the sect, saying she had been excommunicated for 'kissing with an appetite.Õ I could relate anecdotes of their camp-meetings would make the ears of decency tingle and the cheek of modesty burn with shame enacted, not only under the eye of their spiritual teachers, as they call their vagabond pastors, but in which these same pastors were the principal actors. I shall not, however, dwell upon them. Those who would be better versed in the history of an American camp-meeting, I must refer to the writings of Mrs. Trollope, and to the more recent publication of Mr. Ferrall. I have never read the latter, but I am told he has fully entered into the subject. It is a fact that the females of all classes of fanatics in America are under a complete state of subjection to their spiritual pastors, and that they alone ought to be looked upon as their hearers & their supporters. One would suppose from appearances that the American women were all fanatics, & the men all atheists-Indeed, I believe it to be near the truth. I have been in many of their most crowded congregations, and amongst several thousands never saw above a hundred men present at the same time; in fact the disproportion of the sexes never fails to create surprise in strangers. It is to the women all their appeals are addressed, it is upon them all the baser purposes of fanatical preachers are made to operate.
Let us then inquire who this great class of preachers are, and we may thus draw some conclusion as to the value of their influence upon female society in America. I have elsewhere recorded the fact, that several abandoned characters who emigrated from England leaving wives & families destitute, became popular preachers after reaching America, settled as such & married American women with property, and on their wives & families arriving in the United States & claiming their protection, these same pious preachers of the word of God declared their wives & families to be impostors, in which they have in most instances, nay in all that I am acquainted with, been countenanced & supported by their American congregations. One man, now a popular preacher no great distance from New York, emigrated from a city in Norfolk, where he was a dyer & scourer, by trade, and little better than a confirmed sot-now he is the RevÕd Mr--, in America. I know a lady who lately emigrated from England, that went with some American acquaintances to hear a popular preacher at Brooklyn, near New York, which has been recently made a city. The party were persons of influence, and after the service concluded, the new settler was taken to be introduced to the RevÕd favourite. His name was no sooner uttered, than she recollected that such a person had fled from England with a large sum of money belonging to a society for the Conversion of the Jews. She no sooner looked him in the face than she recognized the renegade Jew, and she confessed to me that the blush of shame mantled in her face as she put out her hand to shake that of a known thief. After she retired with her American friends, she named the fact to them. But they did not profess to be at all surprised or ignorant of the matter, and exclaimed-"Ah! but he is a fine preacher!"
This is only one out of many I could relate. But there is a more recent case before the American public, the remarkable one of a preacher being retained in his office of pastor, an acknowledged Seducer & adulterer, a convicted liar, and a darkly acquitted murderer! This man is the RevÕd E.K. Avery, the father of a family, who was & is still a Methodist preacher of note in the vicinity of Boston. He had for one of his congregation a poor factory girl of the name of Sarah Maria Cornell, represented as interesting & intelligent. For some indiscretion, it is said, she had come under the bann of this fanatical Moloch- designedly, there is too much reason to fear, to make her a sacrifice to his baser passions, & this he accomplished during one of their infamous Camp-meetings, about the middle of 1832. She became enceinte, in consequence. Her health obliging her to seek advice, she first learnt her situation from Doctor Wilbur, a member of the Society of Friends, in the month of October, of the above year, and to whom, after a promise of secrecy, she declared the father of her offspring to be the RevÕd E.K. Avery. It was with great astonishment the Doctor heard her, as he supposed the RevÕd delinquent a man of character, and after several interviews with this physician, at every one of which, it is affirmed "she appeared to be deeply affected, with a sense of her conduct, and always shed tears," she persisted "in naming Avery as the author of her difficulty."
Upon the Doctor's expressing his incredulity, his surprise and horror, at the bare imputation of such an offence on a minister of the gospel, his penetrating eye, and searching inquiries it is said, lest he should be imposed upon, seemed to produce no other emotion in her than those of heartfelt anguish, and the additional information that-Avery had advised her to make use of the oil of Tansy, in doses of 30 drops, with a view to destroy her offspring, or rather to kill the poor girl herself, and remove as he thought all the living evidence of his guilt, as 10 drops, the doctor informed her, were sufficient to lay her dead at his feet She further confirmed the truth of what she had stated of Avery by shewing the Doctor a letter she had recÕd from him. Upon this Doctor Wilbur insisted she should demand an interview with Avery and negotiate with him for a sum sufficient to enable her to retire from the labour of the factory, & support her comfortably till she should be again able to support herself-proposing a sum larger than she thought her seducer could afford, upon which she generously refused to demand it, alledging that she knew Avery was poor, and that she would do nothing to distress him & his family. She finally consented to ask for a smaller sum and to request an interview.
She shortly afterwards called on Dr. Wilbur & shewed him a letter she had received from her seducer, appointing to see her in a secluded & very solitary spot, at night, near the Fall River, in which neighbourhood the Doctor lived. This struck the Doctor as remarkable, & he begged of her not to go alone. This advice was not attended to. The scene of the meeting was so near the Doctor's residence, that when he arose in the morning he was surprised at seeing people hurrying by in evident anxiety and on inquiry was told that a young woman had hung herself. He put on his hat & hastened to the spot to which the people were crowding, when the 1st object that met his view was the poor girl in whose welfare he had taken so much interest, suspended from a tree quite dead. There was no evidence how she came there, but Avery had been seen in the neighbourhood the night of the proposed interview, which had proved so tempestuous, that Avery, as it afterwards came out had in vain endeavoured to bribe a boatman to take him across the river to the opposite side, the direction in which his dwelling laid.
Upon taking down the poor girl's body, it was found that the rope by which she was hanging was tied with a double knot, and that it had been drawn so tight on the first being tied, that it must, as the medical men stated, have caused instant death-so that it was impossible the poor girl could have been her own executioner. All the medical men, from the distorted angry look of her features in death, testified that she had died by the hands of a murderer; and it further appeared, that she had on her hands a pair of clean white gloves, which must have been soiled had she hung herself, as the rope was in a dirty state. And it was found, on examination, that the flesh was violently pressed in on both her sides, with finger marks, below the stays, as if by the grasp of a powerful man, which Avery is. In short there were so many circumstances that shewed her death to have been the work of a murderer.
But all these facts did not all come to light at the time her body was first discovered, and much pains were taken by the Methodist preachers and their friends, in the neighbourhood, to defame the poor girl's character, after death. They actually refused to bury her in consecrated ground, & an honest old farmer, of the name of Duffee, who lived near the scene of death, was so moved with the barbarous persecution that was going on, that he declared she should have a decent funeral, in a spot he had appropriated to be the resting place of his own family.
At length public rumour bruited so many suspicious circumstances against Avery, that he was apprehended on a suspicion of being her murderer, & her remains were exhumed for further examination, but the evidence not being deemed sufficient to commit him upon, he was suffered to go at large. Other evidence, however, was procured sufficient to make a different impression upon the minds of a coroner & jury, and a warrant was granted for his apprehension. Upon this he fled and was traced by the officer to the cottage of an old woman, who to the officer's inquiry denied that he was there. At the instant, however, the constable thought he perceived something to flit behind the dour, and darting forward, he found it was Avery, who fainted on being seized.
He was soon after brought to trial for the murder, during the progress of which many singular circumstances occurred. Amongst others was that of a woman coming into court & stating to the Judge, that she had dreamed for 3 successive nights, that the man who had murdered Maria Cornell had a wound on one of his hands. It was then recollected that Avery had, from the commencement of the trial, kept one of his hands gloved, and upon his removing the glove by the Judge's order, it was found that there was the remains of a wound, as if caused by a bite.
What makes this trial one of the most singular that ever, perhaps, took place in the known world, is the shameful conduct pursued by the Methodist preachers of the district, the friends of the accused, who are said not to have spent a less sum than 5000 dollars in their endeuvours to establish Avery's innocence. Every means was resorted to by them, with a barbarous ferocity to blacken the poor girl's character with lewd practices, females were intimidated by them from coming forward to give evidence who had been eye-witnesses of familiar scenes between the poor girl & her seducer.
Amongst other instances, says a writer in the Free Enquirer, American paper, "of the shameful manner in which witnesses were tampered with and their testimony kept back," is that "of a person who was heard to say, previous to the trial of Avery, that he saw him & Miss Cornell walking together during the camp meeting at Thompson, and that he knew them both. This information was communicated to the gentlemen who conducted the prosecution, and one of them went to Connecticut to procure the witness. But he was one day too late. On his arrival at the residence of the man, it was found that no less than 3 Methodist Clergymen had stolen the march upon him. The result was, that the witness refused to answer any questions put to him, and as no compulsory process could be had, nothing could be elicited from him. If any person shall think proper to question the facts relative to the 3 clergymen," adds this writer, "their Names, and that of my informant, shall be promptly given to end all doubt."
It was sworn by a respectable witness, that he saw Avery & his victim "walking arm in arm" on the evening of the 20th of October, in the neighbourhood of the Fall River, and "Mrs Bidwell also, wife of the RevÕd Ira M. Bidwell, testified that, on that night, Avery, who was expected to lodge at her house, was out so much later than usual for a minister, that she went to the house of a neighbour to inquire for him. And Mr. Bidwell himself stated that on the previous evening he saw Avery & Miss Cornell within '3 feet' of each other, & left them together, because he supposed Miss Cornell wished to have some conversation with him. All this does not look like a desire on the part of Miss Cornell, to avoid an interview with Avery as was pretended by him, and also by Mrs. Mayo, at the Thompson Camp meeting."
Evidence the most conclusive was produced on the trial showing the intimacy that had subsisted between Avery & his victim, more than one witness swore to his being seen in the ncighbourhood where the poor girl was murdered, yet Avery was acquitted, but acquitted only upon the Judge suggesting to the jury that any doubt in their minds ought to be given in favour of the accused.
One American paper observed upon this termination of one of the most interesting & exciting trials that modern times have produced, that they were glad he was not to be hanged, as he was a descendant of one of the old Republicans who had fought for their independence: so much for American love of justice. The report of the trials is before the American people, and but few who are not living under the despotic influence of the Methodist preachers have the smallest doubt in their minds but that he ought to have suffered an ignominious death instead of being now at large and actually forced upon a congregation by the influence of the Bishop of the district (Methodists have their Bishops in America), and the party of Methodist preachers, upon whose shoulders he may be said to have been triumphantly borne from the tribunal of murder, to defile God's temple with his unholy breath.
NEW YORK CITY. 1834. Female Labour in America.
A short time before I left New York, several thousand females struck for an advance of wages, and the Sun American paper of March, 1834, observes, "The low rate of female labour (in America) is a grievance of the very first magnitude, and pregnant with the most mighty ills to society. It demands the most serious consideration of those whose situations in life give them influence upon manners & customs. This unjust arrangement of remuneration for services performed diminishes the importance of women in society-renders them more helpless & dependent-destroys in the lower walks of life much of the inducements to marriage-& of course in the same degree increases the temptations to licentiousness. It is difficult to conceive why, even in those branches, wherein both sexes are engaged, there should be such an extreme degree of disparity in the recompense of labor as every person acquainted with the subject knows to exist." I was told by several tailors that the reason why their labor was paid so badly was, a great many women were employed in the trade, who worked for next to nothing. None but the very best hands amongst the men could get what was called good wages.


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I had such a fun time on set and I loved the way it came out! It's such an amazing show and as always it's super surreal to be on something that you're already a fan of! Also playing Kim Jong-Il is a longtime dream. He's my Evita.
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Delaware State Police troopers are investigating a robbery of a 51-year-old woman that occurred at her residence in the 500 block of Wilson Road Tuesday evening.
Delaware State Police troopers are investigating a robbery of a 51-year-old woman that occurred at her residence in the 500 block of Wilson Road Tuesday evening.
The incident occurred at 10:14 p.m. Tuesday when the victim entered her vehicle, which was parked in the garage of her residence, State Police Cpl. John Day said. As she prepared to drive out of the garage, a black male suspect, armed with a handgun, appeared at her vehicle's window.
The suspect forcibly entered the vehicle and made the victim sit in the passenger seat. The suspect drove the vehicle to the Wells Fargo Bank located at 2011 Concord Pike, and forced the victim to withdraw money from her bank account using an ATM. The suspect then took the money, drove the victim to her residence, and fled from the residence on foot. The victim was not injured in this incident.
The suspect was described as a black male, 30 to 35 years old, approximately 6-foot-2 with heavy build and wearing dark clothing, Day said. He was armed with a handgun. No further physical or clothing description available.
If anyone has any information in reference to this incident, they are asked to contact the Troop 2 Robbery Unit at 302-834-2630 extension 6, or by utilizing the Delaware State Police Mobile Crime Tip Application available to download at: http://www.delaware.gov/apps/.
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In the old days, sports talk radio had this handled. Now, Monday morning quarterbacking is a second-screen experience. Channel 7 is introducing a Monday morning one-hour digital fan chat for serious Broncos followers: "Orange and Blue Review."
Beginning Sept. 8 at 7 a.m., the "appcast," or mobile cast and chat sponsored by area Honda dealers, will go live, hosted by 7News' Mitch Jelniker and Lionel Bienvenu. It won't be televised on Channel 7 ("Good Morning America" will be in progress). The audience is instead encouraged to chime in via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Skype or phone. A chat box will be launched under the live-stream, and questions will be welcome on various platforms.
To watch, download the free 7NEWS app for iPhone, Android or iPad or live-stream online at TheDenverChannel.com. The stream will also be simulcast on the station's digital channel, Comcast Channel 247.
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Essendon's sports science team allegedly bypassed the club's AFL-accredited medical staff and used at least one external doctor to assist in a supplements program at the centre of an anti-doping inquiry.
Fairfax Media can also reveal the doping affair has spread, with an official involved with a Australian professional road cycling team linked to performance enhancing hormone peptides.
The Bombers' sports science team is understood to have engaged the services of at least one, and possibly two, external Melbourne doctors with limited sports medicine expertise to participate in the player's supplements regimen between late 2011 and mid-2012.
Medical sources aware of the arrangement have alleged that one of the external doctors involved may have written prescriptions for the players to be issued with supplements.
Essendon's long-standing and respected club doctor, Bruce Reid, is understood not to have been aware that the players supplements regime involved doctors from outside the club.
The external doctor involved has refused repeated requests to discuss his role in the supplements program.
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority is investigating Essendon's supplements program for the 2012 season. The club and its former sports science chief, Stephen Dank, have denied any performance enhancing drugs were used.
But the club and its players could face sanctions if it is established that the injections given to players breached the AFL's rules on intravenous infusions.
A spokesman for Essendon declined to comment on the alleged use of external doctors, citing the ongoing anti-doping probe.
It has previously been reported that two former Essendon players confirmed players were injected in the stomach by a club high-performance official and fed supplements intravenously at a nearby Botox clinic.
Australian Medical Association Victorian president Stephen Parnis said although he did not want to directly comment on the Essendon situation, it was an established principle that the use of dual doctors could result in "potential harm" to patients if either was not informed of what the other had prescribed.
"There's always the potential for adverse reactions to medications," Dr Parnis said.
He said doctors were ethically obliged to act in the best interest of individual patients and "should not be afraid to tell a patient, an employer or even a sporting club things they might not want to hear".
Greg Stanton, a lawyer for Dank, declined to answer questions about the alleged use of external doctors at Essendon last year, saying his client had nothing further to add to what he said on the ABC's 7.30 earlier this month.
Invoices obtained by Fairfax Media show that Dank, in his capacity as Essendon's sports science chief, operated an account with South Yarra compounding pharmacist Nima Alavi.
As a compounding pharmacist, Mr Alavi is licensed to import and sell peptides to patients with a prescription.
He has declined interview requests, but through his lawyer, Jack Bock, has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
Dank has denied providing any banned substances to players. He told 7.30 that Essendon's coaching and medical staff were fully aware of his supplement regime for the players.
He also alleged several Essendon coaching staff took substances that were did not comply with the ASADA and World Anti-Doping Authority's code.
Fairfax Media has confirmed that Mr Alavi was asked by a Melbourne doctor to provide a peptide hormone known as CJC 1295 to a man believed to an official of an Australian professional road cycling team.
Under ASADA's rules, team officials can be disciplined for possessing banned substances, such as CJC 1295 which acts as a growth releasing hormone.
The cycling official did not return calls. ASADA is understood to be assessing his situation.
Mr Alavi's lawyer, Mr Bock, last week stated in a letter that his client "wishes to stress that he supplies peptides to patients and, although under no legal obligation to require the same, only on prescription by a medical practitioner".
"My client only dispenses medication to individual patients and does not supply any clinics or sporting bodies with medication. My client does not supply any performance enhancing drugs [including peptides] to any AFL player or other professional sportsman," Mr Bock wrote.
Mr Alavi's pharmacy website was this month promoting a banned hormone peptide called GHRP-6 as "coming soon".


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NIAGARA FALLS, ONT - Tourist season is upon the honeymoon capital of the world and that means the annual pilgrimage of visitors from all over will descend upon this city to take in the diverse attractions to be had.
They will also bring hungry stomachs and for those traversing the bustling downtown core, a landmark restaurant is waiting to greet them, boasting a brand new look in tow.
The place is Big Anthony's, owned by the family of the late Canadian wrestling legend Tony "Cannonball" Parisi. Over the years it has become a favorite dining spot for not just locals and tourists, but among wrestling aficionados.
Over that past winter season, members of the Parisi family have busily renovated their establishment and in doing so, are now presenting an atmosphere of renewed warmth and hospitality.
"I'm doing it more for Tony," Clara Parisi told SLAM! Wrestling, mentioning that both she and her late husband had planned to change the look of the restaurant. "Just before he passed away, we were going to do it (renovate) and continue the business. We worked hard at it."
The overall effort is a complete makeover for Big Anthony's, with an inviting maroon coat on the walls, which only punctuates the varnished wooden interior frames. A new floor and bar were also part of the changes to the inside, with cozy booths and an enclosed, quaint banquet room located in the back. Exterior renovations were also done, adding a bold new presence to the busy Victoria Avenue business scene.
What has not changed, though, is the impressive pictorial collection of professional wrestling history, displayed proudly on the walls, making Big Anthony's a must pilgrimage for grappling fans. In fact, many of the pictures were re-inserted into frames made by the Cannonball himself.
"He (Tony) was a good carpenter; he loved to do things like that. He had a passion for building and fixing things," his widow said.
In fact, the Parisis are going the extra mile for wrestling fans who journey to their place of business, by adding a merchandise boutique at the front of the restaurant, offering Big Anthony's souvenirs.
"I figured everyone else in this town makes money off souvenirs so why shouldn't we," Clara said jokingly. "It's not the money, it's more the memories."
The featured logo for those souvenirs will of course be the likeness of Tony Parisi, compliments of the couples' daughter, Ida.
"My daughter remembers her dad with this beautiful smile," Clara said. "My husband was a fun person and with our logo, she (Ida) wanted to capture that fun person that he was. It turned out very nice and we're very proud of it. It's going to work out nice."
For Ida, who works along side her mother at the restaurant and at the family's attached motel, The Niagara Family Inn, the recent effort to bring about a new look has only reinforced her passion for working at Big Anthony's, starting when she was only eight years old, working the cash register.
"I've been doing this my whole life," said Ida. "I can't picture doing anything else. I love doing this, it's fun. The only thing missing is my dad."
Ida took on numerous tasks herself with the recent overhauls, which included selecting color schemes, painting, redesigning the bar and other general duties. One of her more creative endeavors, and of special interest to wrestling fans, will be the condiments located on the tables, held within a miniature wrestling ring, ropes included.
"They're really cute and they'll be available for sale too," said Ida, adding that she would also like to add televisions to the restaurant, showing classic pro wrestling era matches.
But the good times have also mixed with challenges that come with running a business, especially in the Niagara Falls region which relies so heavily on tourist traffic. From the early days of paying off the high interest rate loan needed to start their venture, to recent slumps in visitors after the tragedy of 9/11.
If that is not enough pressure, so too have the Parisis contended with offers to buy them out.
"Even last summer, people came up to us to see if we wanted to sell. There are people who do want to buy the area. We could sell the place and turn it into money, but then there would be no fun," Clara said, explaining that what keeps the Parisis anchored to their restaurant is without question the fond memories they have of Tony. "You just can't throw that away. We've been here 25 years; we built it up as a family restaurant."
While the Parisis have no shortage of grand memories to look back on, they are blazing forward with making new ones. In the case of Ida, it will be her upcoming wedding this fall, where she will be given away by none other than her late father's tag team partner and best friend, Gino Brito.
"He's amazing and he reminds me so much of my dad," added Ida, who fondly refers to him as Uncle Gino. "The wedding is going to be pretty traditional and I always wanted my mom watching me walk down the isle," Ida said.
"My daughter asked Gino if he would give her the honor of walking her down the isle," added Clara. "Gino is just wonderful. He was so close to Tony and looks so much like him."
Big Anthony's Restaurant is at 5677 Victoria Avenue in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The toll-free number is 1-888-860-7078.
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Queensryche Singer Geoff Tate's Stepdaughter Tries to Set the Record Straight on Band Issues
The first voice to emerge with an explanation about the current goings-on with Queensryche is not one you would expect. Singer Geoff Tate's stepdaughter Miranda has hopped online to rundown the situation and clarify some of the reporting that's been done on the group's recent dealings.
Tate, who is also the daughter of Queensryche manager Susan Tate and former wife of guitarist Parker Lundgren, has given a 13-point presentation addressing some of the issues.
For those not up to speed, Tate is touring solo this summer while his fellow bandmates have formed a band called Rising West where they're performing Queensryche songs with another singer, Todd La Torre.
While both sides have stated that Queensryche will continue, there have been rumors of a physical altercation involving Tate and other band members and the singer honored a Queensryche date solo in Salt Lake City this week while members of the group cited "personal reasons" for not being able to make the scheduled show. In addition, the members of Rising West posted that they had been locked out of Queensryche's websites.
Miranda Tate started by revealing that no one from Queensryche, including Tate, had posted on Queensryche.com in months and that the shutting down of the account was not the singer's doing. She added that Tate, as well as all of the other band members, still have access to the Facebook site.
Miranda says that since Chris DeGarmo's exit, Tate has been responsible for writing a heavy majority of the material, but with 'Dedicated to Chaos' he bowed to his bandmates who were more involved in the process -- she cites the album credits as proof. She adds that the singer has also always shared album sales royalties equally even though he has been the main writer and primary public persona for the band over the years. Tate says that her mother has negotiated with some of the outside writers used over the years to give part of their publishing royalties to the non-writing members of the band.
Miranda also paints the other members as disinterested when it came to contributing photos, messages or info to any of the band's websites or social networking. She also reveals that the Tate family had been stopped by other members of the band from checking fan club email or taking care of meet-and-greet passes, but that the singer has still honored every fan club and meet-and-greet requests for their performances.
And finally, Tate says that every concept for each tour was voted on by the band, and that all the money from each tour was split equally.
Miranda concludes "Before you think the man that worked the hardest by a long way for years and years is a tyrant then think again. You don't know that facts." Miranda Tate's posting was soon followed by a posting from Misty Rockenfield, wife of drummer Scott Rockenfield, who added, "This is all a flat-out lie."
Look for some official band member statements coming soon, as Geoff Tate is reportedly scheduled to do some interviews later this week.


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Many changes have occurred to the National Electrical Code (NEC) since the first NEC was published on Aug. 31, 1897. Even though the electrical industry was in its infancy, this "first" NEC was remarkably insightful and has withstood the test of time. Despite the many changes since the first NEC was established, some of the original requirements are still found in the 2002 NEC.
Electrical technology has advanced greatly in the 100-plus years since the adoption of the first NEC, but the laws of physics have stayed constant. What is truly amazing, however, is the level of safety that the early electrical pioneers recognized and placed in this first Code. Some of these safety issues are still addressed in the present Code. The language may have been modified, but the original concept is still there.
The intent of Section 230.70 in the 2002 NEC for the location of the service disconnecting means at a building or structure has remained relatively unchanged since 1897. In 1897, the electrical experts of the time decided "there must be a main disconnecting switch installed at every building to disconnect all service wires, either underground or overhead, and that it be located in a readily accessible place as near as possible to the point where the wires enter the building. This disconnecting means must be arranged to cut off the entire current." These early safety experts also felt that electrical power should be turned off when the last person left the building for the evening, so the disconnect was required to be reasonably easy to access as that person exited the building.
The actual text in Section 230.70(A)(1) is as follows: "The service disconnecting means shall be installed at a readily accessible location either outside of a building or structure or inside nearest the point of entrance of the service conductors." By closely studying the actual text in this section, it becomes obvious that the disconnect switch can be located anywhere outside the building or structure with no maximum or minimum distance from the building. However, as soon as the service conductors enter into the building, the service disconnect must be installed at the location where these unprotected conductors enter. This location will vary depending upon the construction of the building or structure and the accessibility of the disconnecting means inside the building.
Section 230.6 provides some relief where, due to the construction of the building, it is more desirable to install the service disconnecting means at a location further inside the building. The service conductors can be installed under not less than two inches of concrete beneath the building or structure or installed within the building or structure in a raceway that is encased in two inches of concrete or brick. Where the floor of the building is not concrete, the service conductors may be installed in conduit under not less than 18 inches of earth. The service conductors can also be installed within a three-hour rated vault that meets the construction requirements of Part III of Article 450 for transformers.
Where any of these four requirements are satisfied, the service disconnecting means would be required to be installed where the service conductors emerge into the building. This would permit the service disconnecting means to be located on the roof of the building or somewhere in the interior of the building. It is always best to limit the distance that service conductors can travel within a building or structure, thus limiting potential danger to the building and occupants.
A recent addition to Section 230.70 is permission to use shunt trip devices at the service disconnecting means located within the building but locating the shunt trip remote operating devices on the outside of the building. Locating these remote operating devices outside the building permits the fire department or other emergency response teams to disconnect power to the building without having to enter the building first. These remote devices are not listed for use as service disconnecting means, as required by 230.66. It should be noted, however, that shunt trip devices do not guarantee that operating the remote device will actually disconnect power to the building. Without power to these remote devices, the shunt trip devices would fail to operate. Always verify that power is turned off before working on the electrical equipment and make sure the power has been locked off.
Many of the tools that we now use to provide the data necessary to design and install electrical installations were just simply not available to the electrical pioneers that first provided us with a National Electrical Code back in 1897. Yet, we still can recognize the basic concepts of these first safety requirements imbedded in the present National Electrical Code. EC
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VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have lacked for many things over their history, but rarely in the last 20 years have they been without hope.
They looked fairly close to it Friday night after Game 2 of their first-round National Hockey League playoff series, down 0-2 to the Los Angeles Kings, who are far better than people reckoned when the visitors were being picked to lose to the Canucks in five games — six, max.
In 17 previous series that started with two games in Vancouver, the Canucks had never lost both games. They've never won a series after losing the first two games. They hadn't lost the first two — home or away — since 2001, when they were swept by Colorado as the Avalanche was on its way to the Stanley Cup.
There are lots of ways for the Canucks to rationalize the deficit.
Vancouver just needs Daniel Sedin back from his concussion. If only the power play would wake up. All the Canucks need is a bounce. Even playing poorly, they've been close in the third period of both games.
But for 120 minutes, the Kings have been stronger on the puck and won more of the battles for it. They've looked quicker and better organized. And as good as Roberto Luongo has played, the Kings' Jonathan Quick has been the stronger goalie.
The Canucks played better in Game 2 than they did in the opener and still lost 4-2 — the same score as Game 1. They had 48 shots on goal Friday and still lost. There isn't too much to feel good about, and the Canucks haven't a road map to get back in the series because most of the players have never been in this position.
"I think the big thing is to not panic," veteran Sammy Pahlsson said. "Everyone wants to win so badly, and now that we've lost two it's easy to panic and just try to do it yourself. That's not how you win games. You have to do it as a team. We have to try to play our game, and not try something else because it's not working.
"We knew they were a good team. We knew they had a good defence and a good goaltender. But we're making mistakes and that won them the game today."
The Kings scored twice short-handed and once on the power play. And their other goal was from power-play pressure.
Los Angeles is 3-for-12 in the series with the man-advantage. Vancouver is 0-for-10, minus the killer short-handed goals it surrendered Friday.
Of course, Sedin, the concussed winger who led the NHL in scoring last season, is brutally missed on the power play. But four goals in two playoff games, though meagre, is not an offensive crisis by post-season standards. It's the eight goals against that is more of a concern.
L.A. was 29th in scoring this season. Vancouver was fourth in goals-against. Nobody expected the problems to be in the Canucks' zone.
The fact that the Kings' franchise lost the only series it ever led 2-0 is inconsequential because it occurred in 1968 and we're pretty sure there was still a "rover" in the lineup back then.
It may be more pertinent that the Boston Bruins trailed the Canucks 0-2 in the final last June before winning the Stanley Cup, although that oddly isn't a comforting thought in Vancouver, which has lost six of its last seven playoff games.
"I'm not in the mood right now for examples," Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said. "We're going to sit back tonight and get a good night's sleep and tomorrow come to work and do what needs to be done. Any team in our situation, what you have to do is stay in the moment. You've got to stick with the game plan, stick with the process and play with the urgency a situation like this dictates.
"You've got to build on the positive things and adjust where there needs to be adjustments. Right now, specialty teams have been the difference in this series. They've been the better team."
Canucks players were citing "positives," too — mostly Vancouver's sharper focus and superior even-strength play on Friday.
But as Jannik Hansen, arguably the best Canuck so far, pointed out: "A loss is still a loss."
Since we're ignoring the '68 Kings, who played home games in three arenas and were led in scoring by Eddie Joyal, maybe we should point out that Los Angeles had fewer points at home this season (49) than Vancouver had on the road (53).
Does that make you feel better?
"There are a lot of things we did right tonight," Canuck defenceman Dan Hamhuis said. "We had 48 shots; there were a lot of positives. And we've got the confidence that we were the best road team in the league."
They'll have to be almost perfect Sunday in Game 3.
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Why won't the agenda-driven media report on Barack Obama being gay, sexually harassing male actor Kal Penn, and frequenting Chicago bathhouse Man's Country…you know, the way they leaped to trash Herman Cain with unsubstantiated sexual innuendo?
UPDATE: Listen to an updated report on this story via podcast HERE
Last week, the agenda-driven, drive-by media trashed Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain with unsubstantiated and poorly sourced sexual innuendo.
This week, let's all talk about Democrat President Barack Obama being gay, him sexually harassing male actor Kal Penn, and his frequenting of Chicago gay bathhouse "Man's Country" — using the Left's established precedent for journalistic integrity when it comes to rumor and gossip.
Fair's fair, right — in love, politics, and what's apparently allowable in the 2012 election now that all-out war was declared on the black Republican presidential contender. Why shouldn't conservatives treat Barack Obama the way the Left treated Herman Cain? If the operating assumption is that anything whispered about by anonymous sources is true about Herman Cain, then I guess everything people in Chicago have talked about for years related to Barack Obama being a closeted gay man into younger Pakistani guys must be true too, right?
During the 2008 election, I campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primaries. Repeatedly, I heard over and over here in Chicago that Barack Obama is gay and that his marriage to Michelle is one of mutual convenience. In the black community, this is called "being on the down-low", where a closeted gay male weds an often-times gruff and demanding woman (typically without other male suitors of her own) to take public scrutiny off them both and afford the pair a successful life they'd never achieve separately.
There are, apparently, a lot of such relationships forged at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago — where Barack Obama's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, oversaw the coupling of down-low gay black men with sour and caustic black women.
This apparently happens not just in Chicago at Trinity United, but in black communities all over the country. Author Terry McMillen and talking-head Star Jones married down-low gay men to benefit their careers and help their public image too.
Black women who marry gay black men are lavished with all the social perks these marriages of convenience afford them, while the men get to go off together on "camping trips", to "basketball games out of town", or to other "social events" where they can engage in gay activity with one another secure in the knowledge that no one in the Reverend Wright's "down-low club" would rat the other fellas out. You need to understand how much homosexuality is despised in the black community to appreciate both the need for gay black men to stay "down-low" and the willingness of some black women to become "beards" for these men when they think they can benefit from the arrangement in some way themselves (usually because these are difficult-to-deal-with women who were unable to find anyone willing to marry them otherwise).
Oprah Winfrey and her longtime "boyfriend" Stedman Graham were for many years also members of Trinity United Church of Christ, and you can read whatever you may like into that.
In Chicago's Boystown gay community, older guys who frequented the little dive bars that have been around forever told tales back in the 2008 primaries about Barack Obama slipping out whenever he was in Chicago for romps at the local bathhouse "Man's Country". The details given in these accounts of his activities were substantial. Apparently, he went most often to this Andersonville neighborhood bathhouse on Wednesdays, and while there he was rumored to seek oral sex from older white men. According to the gossip, Barack Obama would never reciprocate in these encounters, but enjoyed being pleasured by older white guys. Evidently, he is not a giver and is something of a selfish bathhouse regular when not being the current President of the United States.
This jives with everything Larry Sinclair said about his own sexual encounter with Barack Obama in the back of a limo many years ago. You remember Larry Sinclair, right? He's the man the agenda-driven media worked overtime to destroy and did its level best to silence because he posed a direct threat to the narrative the Left needed to push for Barack Obama to elect him president — and needless to say, that narrative didn't include Barack Obama receiving oral sex from another man in the back of a limo in Chicago.
You need to appreciate that when a Democrat is accused of anything, the Democrat's accusers are crucified with remarkable zeal in the press; but when someone whispers anything obscene about a Republican, that person is lauded by the "journalists" of the Left as the bravest and most credible person who ever lived…even if that person refuses to give her name, actually state on record what she claimed happened, or provide any sort of corroborating evidence that what she's alleging is in any way remotely true.
To the media, it's true just because it was said about a Republican. Meanwhile, Democrats can always get away with murder. Just ask the Kennedy family about that.
Clearly, we saw this Leftist double-standard (or, non-standard, as the case may be) applied to the mystery woman Politico sourced as Herman Cain's sexual harassment accuser last week.
So, why can't we all talk about Barack Obama dating Hollywood actor Kal Penn during the 2008 presidential campaign, and Obama then inventing a strange, nebulous position for the actor in the early days of the Obama administration (just so Penn could abruptly leave his hit TV show and move to Washington to be close to Obama?). Apparently, since Penn then left the White House abruptly after just a few months of work (in a position that was created solely for him) the current President and his down-low boyfriend must have broken up.
Did Barack Obama sexually harass his subordinate, Kal Penn, in the brief time he worked in the Obama White House?
You can speculate about what went wrong between these lovebirds while you're watching the new Harold & Kumar movie or eating at White Castle. Because, let's face it, if there was an (R) after Barack Obama's name this whole affair with Penn would have been nonstop "news" since 2009…instead of the pervasive sound of chirping crickets we got because Barack Obama's a (D) — which stands for "down-low", don't you know.
Why shouldn't this week be all about talking about Barack Obama being gay and having sexual misadventures with men, since if it was a Republican president there's no doubt the agenda-driven media would have been all over this story, regardless of who, if anyone, would go on record to confirm any of it.
You know full well the "journalists" on sites like Politico would have spent the last three years digging relentlessly into a Republican president's past, repeatedly asking why not a single former girlfriend has ever stepped forward to identify herself or speak on the record about her past with the man currently in the Oval Office.
Isn't it strange that the public's never been introduced to A SINGLE GIRLFRIEND that Barack Obama ever had in high school, college, law school, or the days before he met his
beard wife Michelle?
Don't you wonder why the "journalists" of the Left have never done any in-depth profiles of Barack Obama's male friends from his years at Occidental College in California, talked about his "roommate" while at Columbia, or wondered about any of his social activities through the years?
I know there are endless mysteries centered around a man whose college transcripts, vital records, and other important paperwork were apparently sealed away from the public in an impregnable vault somewhere cloaked in riddles and enigma — never to be seen by human eyes again — but if Barack Obama was a Republican he would have been outed as gay many years ago.
If Barack Obama was a Republican, the agenda-driven media would have hounded him about the nature of his relationship with his "bodyman" Reggie Love.
If Barack Obama was a Republican, the Left would have somehow gotten ahold of his lifetime membership at Chicago gay bathhouse Man's Country and would have plastered those records across Politico to destroy his political career.
If Barack Obama was a Republican, the press would have quickly interpreted the dearth of girlfriends in his past as evidence of a surfeit of boyfriends and no one at the New York Times would have slept a wink until every Tom, Dick, or Larry in Barack Obama's little black book was awarded his own reality show to gush about their down-low adventures.
But, Barack Obama is not a Republican, so the agenda-driven media provides him enormous and constant spin to conceal his gay past. It's really very reminiscent of the old days in the studio system, where PR agents worked aggressively to hide the fact that men like Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, Tab Hunter, and even Liberace himself were gay…because the media had a vested interest in these men's success and it wasn't on the agenda to expose the truth about them. Instead, the media was complicit in selling the public a mutually beneficial fantasy.
Barack Obama is gayer than Liberace, but you'll never read about that on Politico — just as you'll never read about him chain-smoking in the White House, his rampant drug abuse during his twenties and thirties, or the fact he got all Ds and Fs in college (produce his transcripts and prove me wrong on that one).
Because Barack Obama is a Democrat, the agenda-driven media is as committed to promoting a heterosexual, scandal-free image for him, because this is what "journalists" are apparently trained to do for Democrats in school…and it's expected for them to do if they wish to keep being employed as "journalists" in the Democrat public relations machine we call the media in this country.
Someday, when the Left no longer needs Barack Obama to push the Left's agenda, this protection will be gone and you'll spend the last few decades of your life hearing all about Larry Sinclair, Kal Penn, Reggie Love, Man's Country, Jeremiah Wright's Down-Low Club, and the many men Barack Obama has been with through the years. I'm sure a great many books will be written on all of this and a great deal of money will be made by the media companies selling the scandal of it all to the public.
But, for now Barack Obama is the Left's guy, so he's getting the full-on Rock Hudson/Liberace protection treatment.
While, of course, opponents of the Left such as Herman Cain are relentlessly attacked with unsubstantiated sexual innuendo in the agenda-driven media's nonstop effort to discredit and destroy anyone who poses a real threat to Obama's grasp on power.
If you don't see what's really happening here and are someone who's quick to believe the anonymous and sketchy sources the likes of Politico put forward when it comes to a Republican in the hot seat…then maybe you should spend today coming up with a valid reason for why YOU can't name a single girlfriend Barack Obama had in his entire life before Michelle and why so much of Barack Obama's past is so aggressively cloaked in perpetual and deliberate mystery.
PS — If you ever wonder why Republicans don't just out Barack Obama themselves, you need to really think about how the Cocktail Party GOP establishment actually works.
There are currently at least two closeted gay sitting Republican United States Senators. There are several closeted gay sitting Republican Congressmen.
All of these men are forever praised in the media for being "bipartisan", which means they conveniently sell out conservative voters whenever the Left needs them to.
I am 100% convinced there's blackmail afoot in this, with the quid pro quo being these men get to remain sitting Senators and Congressmen so long as they keep folding whenever Democrats need "bipartisan" votes across the aisle.
It's no coincidence the closeted gay Republicans are all Cocktail Party GOP establishment types who are more interested in maintaining their own hold on power than ever bucking the system and doing what's best for this country and their own constituents.
It's an open secret in the political world that Barack Obama is gay, and that there are plenty of closeted gay Republicans too. But you won't hear about any of this because members of the permanent political class on both sides of the aisle don't want you to hear about it.
AND they all think you are too stupid to ever figure this stuff out on your own.
Even though all the clues are really obvious and sitting RIGHT THERE if you really wanted to piece it together without the media's help.
UPDATE: We have more on this at The HillBuzz & Mrs. Fox Show, where we ask "Is Barack Obama Gay?"
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Philip Rivers didn't grow up an NFL fan.
He grew up a fan of quarterbacks.
A northern Alabama native, college football games on Saturdays were his sports meat and potatoes. The NFL was dessert.
"The quarterbacks were the ones I had posters of," Rivers said. "The quarterbacks were the ones I picked who I liked, and what numbers I liked and everything."
Brett Favre, Troy Aikman, Dan Marino, Joe Montana, John Elway, Steve Young. His walls were living monuments to the game's best.
It's why Rivers said he doesn't take for granted the opportunity he'll have Sunday when Los Angeles (3-4) takes on the New England Patriots (5-2) and Tom Brady.
"When you're going against a guy that's won all these Super Bowls and is still playing at the level he's playing at 40...to me, it is a big deal. It's special," Rivers said. "I'm looking forward to getting another shot."
Rivers is just 1-6 against the Patriots, winning his lone game in 2008 in San Diego, when Brady was sidelined by a knee injury.
If Rivers can post his first victory in Foxborough, it would also be the fourth straight victory for the Chargers, who are coming on after starting the season 0-4.
Brady said he has always admired Rivers from afar.
"He's really not fazed by much. He has kind of seen everything," Brady said.
A victory would also be four straight for the Patriots, who have also found a groove over the past three weeks — particularly on offense. Brady leads the NFL with 2,208 passing yards, and is tied for second with 15 touchdown passes.
After two early season losses at home, New England would like nothing more than to enter its bye week with a victory.
"You want to finish on a high note and you want to go in feeling really good about what you've done," Brady said. "The problem is this team — they're hot, they've won three straight, they've got a really good defense. There's nothing easy about it."