The Scandal in High Life
April 21, 1894
Summary
The Planet critiques a court case, where a white politician broke the promise of marriage to a white woman, charging that whites always claim moral high ground even though they commit murder and adultery like everyone else.
Transcription
The Pollard-Breckenridge Case is ended and the plaintiff has been awarded $15,000.
End view of the contract of marriage which was not denied by the defendant, the pressure of public sentiment, and the instructions of Judge Bradley to the jury we do not see how any other decision than that of Damages could have been reached.
Both Madeline Pollard and WCP BreckenridgeWord negro heaters. Both shared in the feeling of content for the black man.
She discoursed upon the immorality of our race and in so doing forgot the rottenness of his own.
Members of the superior race who are disposed to try to the Negro for his shortcomings should keep their mouth shut in the face of such an example.
It should not be forgotten that it was openly asserted that Congressman Breckenridge's case was only one of many and that there are at present in Washington public men who create with fear at the result last day to might be drive for in the life of a Noonday Sun by some of the unfortunate with whom they had lived in beastly immorality.
The verdict shows the testimony- his deceit, double-dealing, line assertions, and arrant hypocrisy was just one.
She has been made the object of sympathy- she deserves none.
From the beginning she deceived an old, unsuspecting Kentucky farmer, and used his money to secure an education, a pond see that she was feeding herself to become and his wife, went as a matter of fact she had no such intention and had declared she would never marry him.
He had grounds for a breach of promise to against her, but that has silence him forever.
It Is Passing Strange that God should have permitted the punishment and that the retribution which has finally over taking her was a practical, demonstration of the Divine announcement: ” the same measure ye mete to others, the same shall be measured to you again.”
End view of the contract of marriage which was not denied by the defendant, the pressure of public sentiment, and the instructions of Judge Bradley to the jury we do not see how any other decision than that of Damages could have been reached.
Both Madeline Pollard and WCP BreckenridgeWord negro heaters. Both shared in the feeling of content for the black man.
She discoursed upon the immorality of our race and in so doing forgot the rottenness of his own.
Members of the superior race who are disposed to try to the Negro for his shortcomings should keep their mouth shut in the face of such an example.
It should not be forgotten that it was openly asserted that Congressman Breckenridge's case was only one of many and that there are at present in Washington public men who create with fear at the result last day to might be drive for in the life of a Noonday Sun by some of the unfortunate with whom they had lived in beastly immorality.
The verdict shows the testimony- his deceit, double-dealing, line assertions, and arrant hypocrisy was just one.
She has been made the object of sympathy- she deserves none.
From the beginning she deceived an old, unsuspecting Kentucky farmer, and used his money to secure an education, a pond see that she was feeding herself to become and his wife, went as a matter of fact she had no such intention and had declared she would never marry him.
He had grounds for a breach of promise to against her, but that has silence him forever.
It Is Passing Strange that God should have permitted the punishment and that the retribution which has finally over taking her was a practical, demonstration of the Divine announcement: ” the same measure ye mete to others, the same shall be measured to you again.”
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Carlos Serrano
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“The Scandal in High Life,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 12, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1571.