[BORDEN, Lizzie (1860-1927)]. Manuscript article, "Rev. Dr. Thomas on the Borden Case," challenging Lizzie Borden's defense, for inclusion in the Boston Evening Transcript. Ca 1892.
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[BORDEN, Lizzie (1860-1927)]. Manuscript article, "Rev. Dr. Thomas on the Borden Case," challenging Lizzie Borden's defense, for inclusion in the Boston Evening Transcript. Ca 1892.
3 pages, 8 x 10 in., creased, with separation to certain creases, light soiling, and toning to edges.
The writer of this editorial or letter to the editor lambasts the argument of a Reverend Dr. Thomas, whose defense of Lizzie Borden was based upon her connection with an Orthodox church. The writer states, "No one need live in this world to an old age to learn from experience the folly of such reasoning. Church membership has proved no infallible safeguard against human frailty. It seems as though Miss Borden's thirty years' experience in the christian life has taught her nothing but how to tell outrageous falsehoods, and to stick to them when their falsity was most apparent."
The writer, a woman, goes on to express her dissatisfaction with Dr. Thomas's attitude toward "the women who have had the good judgment, which is not usually ascribed to them, to refuse to believe in Lizzie Borden's innocence...He spoke of them with a kind of grief-stricken pity for their vindictive cruelty toward one of their sex." The writer argues that, in fact, true and tender women have been forced to reckon with Borden's guilt "against their wills, and in grief..."
Inscribed to the upper left edge of the first page: "Published in the Boston Transcript." The Boston Evening Transcript featured a great deal of reportage on the Borden trial, especially in its August-September 1892 issues.
The writer of this editorial or letter to the editor lambasts the argument of a Reverend Dr. Thomas, whose defense of Lizzie Borden was based upon her connection with an Orthodox church. The writer states, "No one need live in this world to an old age to learn from experience the folly of such reasoning. Church membership has proved no infallible safeguard against human frailty. It seems as though Miss Borden's thirty years' experience in the christian life has taught her nothing but how to tell outrageous falsehoods, and to stick to them when their falsity was most apparent."
The writer, a woman, goes on to express her dissatisfaction with Dr. Thomas's attitude toward "the women who have had the good judgment, which is not usually ascribed to them, to refuse to believe in Lizzie Borden's innocence...He spoke of them with a kind of grief-stricken pity for their vindictive cruelty toward one of their sex." The writer argues that, in fact, true and tender women have been forced to reckon with Borden's guilt "against their wills, and in grief..."
Inscribed to the upper left edge of the first page: "Published in the Boston Transcript." The Boston Evening Transcript featured a great deal of reportage on the Borden trial, especially in its August-September 1892 issues.
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