WESTPORT SOCIAL INFLUENCES.
(To the Editor of the Westport Times and Charleston Argus.)
Sm, —As an old resident of "Westport, I may be allowed to ask, how it is that the social tendencies of the inhabitants here are step by step degenerating ? How that, within the past year particularly, the immoral influences on society have so materially and markedly increased ? Were the population equally increasing, in numbers or in point of commercial success, there would be some tangible allowance made for a proportionate importation of evil with good. But such is not the case. For months past, Mr Editor, ttris has been a subject of remark with many more than your present correspondent. I ask you to look at Westport for an hour—at/ midnight. Take a moonlight promenade around its suburbs. Enter its halls of " moral and intellectual " attraction. In plainer terms—walk round its back streets, and pop into its dance-houses. This is all I ask —I leave the rest to you.:—l am, &e., Improvement. "Westport, Nov. 24*.
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 742, 26 November 1870, Page 2
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168WESTPORT SOCIAL INFLUENCES. Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 742, 26 November 1870, Page 2
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