Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], July 20, 1860,
Mr. Comet:—We of the “milder sex”—a term applied to us, by masculine humanity are not disposed to object to the edicts of the lords of creation, who, by virtue of muscel, claim to govern the world. I am not a woman’s right’s woman, I would have you also to understand in preface; yet there are evils and wrongs under which we live, that might be modified to suit the advancing spirit of the age. Do you notice Sir how our cases are treated by the semi-barbarians, who set on benches and in jury-boxes, and determine between us in that God-forsaken place, the city of New Orleans. Notice this sir, and then notice how the press handles us. Here is a sample from the Picayune. It is rather short for the dog days, but will suffice.
Ladies Quarrels.—Miss Betty and her mother had an introduction to Recorder Adams, yesterday, at the request of Mrs. Carr, who stated that they had been persecuting her for the last three months, and finally on the 14th inst., at the corner of Rousseau and St. Mary, had threatened to cowhide her. The case was fixed for examination on the 19th.
Now Sir, I appeal to you if such a case is a case for the sneers, and low jests of a masculine court? Could not the arbitration of friends and neighbors of the parties—people occupying the same status in society and of the same sex; fix a difference of this nature, in a better and more satisfactory manner, than the Court Recorder? There is one at least who thinks so, and she is your friend.
Marie.