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Show Vesteudat Victoria 0. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin were indicted by the grand jury, sitting in New York city, for libel and the publication of obscene literature. It is high time for this step. That women should be permitted per-mitted to utter openly in',, the public streets, and scatter broadly through the press, the sentiments and language lan-guage expressed by these women should bring the blush upon the very pavements and rouse a storm of indignation in-dignation that would silence them forever. for-ever. Of the fame type a1? Mrs. Laura Fair, Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin have gone on id their unbridled ribaldry ribal-dry and licensed libel, until they know no righu which are Eacred from their attack. That they havo at last reached an extreme that will not bo tolerated even in the city of New York encourages the expectation that they now arc to be taught that there is a limit where common decency calls upoD every ono to stop. Still, arrest and indictment in New York arc but a very smill step toward merited punish-incut. |
