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s- paupers maue no impression upon mem.i A couple of weeks ago a bright young ■e woman of the New York World's staff pre-- tended to be insane in order to get a chance to write up the actual condition of affairs n in the Black well's Island Insane Asylum, is Although a perfectly sane woman the smart is doctors pronounced her a crazy Woman, and to the asyjmn she went. She staid there ten days, and then secured her releaseit and wrote her story. And what a story iti- was! No self respecting journalist, after x reading it, would charge the Southern peo-?- pie with “callous indifference'1 to human ir suffering, because a Sheriff of a Southern is prison denied his prisoners sufficient food. Is The fioor inSane women on Blackwell’s s. Island are not only starved. ), but are subjected to cruelties that would g drive a healthy * woman crpzy h in le.s than a month. The condition of it affairs in that asyluiu, however, doe not o prove that the Northern people arc imliffer-a ent to human suffering, any more than the ir starving of the inmates of the New Orleans - f Mi son proves that the Southern people re-is gurd with indifference the wrongs suffered a by those who are not in a condition to pro-ic toot themselves. The man who would b- slander a whole feople because of the acts of i- one man, or one set of men, is a fit associate 11 for those who starve criminals and paupers 1- to fill their own purses. , • r
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Savannah Morning News
Savannah, Georgia, US
Fri, Oct 21, 1887
Page 12
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