> I doubt anyone was that foul-mouthed back then
Here's a hilarious example I thought of this morning....within seconds of awakening, for some reason:
April 1863: Reverend James C. Richmond, chaplain, meets with President Lincoln, and assures the president that he, Richmond, is "driving the devil out of Washington."
At the same moment, Miss Rosa Bieleski, a typist with the treasury department and a woman of the highest moral character (she was investigated), receives the latest in a string of obsessive and obscene sexually charged missives. Most of the contents cannot be printed here, even with **** deletions, but a highlight is two separate drawings of a p~~~~, one flaccid and one...not. The erect member is captioned "at the sight of Rosa" and along it is helpfully inscribed "Nine inches long."
Miss Bieleski was not amused.
Turns out that the young lady had, properly, filed a complaint to launch an investigation. And, even better, it turns out that her admirer:
(Fair soft, chaste hillocks rise
and heave with rapture's sighs,
beneath the hazel eyes.
On top are coral fires,
the beacon of all sweet desires.
Note- written while undressed in bed and sheet thrown off. I have touched the verse with the head of the prince of love, a lovely dwarf only nine inches in height)
was Reverend Richmond.
Who was soon expelled from both the Army, and Washington.
In 1866, he was murdered near Poughkeepsie, New York, after a man took offense to Richmond describing his mother and sister as "Black strumpets and wh~~~ he'd turn his tongue to."
The evidence saved by Rosa Bieleski during the investigtion, survives at NARA.
Foul mouthery never really changes.
Nor for that matter do perverts who mask their nature behind The Cloth.
