Stephen Smith
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1,482 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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The sense of shame, the greatest, surest safeguard of virtue, except the grace of God, is gradually blunted, ruined, and finally destroyed.
New scenes are witnessed and participated in with a countenance of brass, the very thought of which once would have filled the sensitive heart of modesty with pain and covered its cheeks with burning blushes.
The mind of one, thus brought in daily and nightly contact with such scenes, must become greatly debased, and its fall from the assaults of vice.
rendered almost certain
Another writes, These houses seem to be always open to newcomers, and in some way or other they can accommodate them.
I have found three families of men, women, and children in one room.
There they lived and there they slept.
Can anyone doubt that there must be a rapid declinion of morals in both parents and children, or that a bar is here opposed to moral and religious instruction, or that this state of things is consequent on the circumstances and condition of life?
I could give you many details of other tenant houses, the reputation of which is a reproach to any city in the civilized world.
Such is Gotham Court, Rotten Row, the Great Eastern, Sebastopol, Quality Row, Bummer's Retreat, etc.
Speaking of the tenant houses, the Reverend Dr.
Muellenberg says their homes that cold and damp cellar about as tentable as your coal vault.
Do you call that a home for the distressed body crowded in one corner there, swollen with the pains of rheumatism, or that close apartment heated or stifling in preparing the evening meal on the shattered stove?
That suffocating room where you would not stop within for a moment, is that the home which you think so favourable for the worn asthmatic, catching every breath as if the last?
Ask any clergyman, he will tell you with how little satisfaction he makes his visits among the poor when they are labouring among disease, how he never has the heart to speak of comfort for the soul
the soul when discomforts of the body call so loudly for relief, and for which the scanty aid he can minister seems akin to mockery.
Mr NP Willis, who witnessed the draft riots, thus truthfully and graphically describes the inmates of tenant houses for
The high brick blocks and closely packed houses where the mobs originated seemed to be literally hives of sickness and vice.
It was wonderful to see and difficult to believe that so much misery, disease, and wretchedness can be huddled together and hidden by high walls, unvisited and unthought of, so near our own abodes.
Lewd but pale and sickly young women, scarce decent in their ragged attire, were impudent and scattered everywhere in the crowd.
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