New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-14
Liherrin,sm md Ln,y.

In the Assembly on Monday, the bill providing
for the punishment of Seduction and Adultery as
Crimes was, without opposition, referred 10 Sc
lect Committee 10 report complete. This, we trust,
secures the passage of the bill through that branch
of tho Legislature. We hope the advocates OF
Morality. the champions of outraged Innocence in
the Senate, will be prepared, on receiving it, to
speed its passage through that House also. We do
not thiHk there are ten Assembiymen or five Sen
ators who on direct vote Of Yeas and Nays,
would commit themselves in opposition 10 this
measure And yet we have seen similar bills stifled
In Committees, defeated by sham fights about dc,
tails, &C. &c until we are impeled to doubt whether
any such act as is demanded will really DO passed,
even now.
Tho fault has been in depraved Public Senu-
unent but it is there no longer. The Temperance
and kindred Reforms have renovated Popular Opin
ion on this as many other points The revclers
In Licentousness no longer dare face the commu
nifty in direct argument for leaving this iniquity to
regulate itself; nor do they come hypocritically
forward begging for laws to protect their purity
from the wles OF Delah and her sisters in order to
head off the punishment of Seduction They stand
mute at last and only hope to defeat the measure
they dread through the juggles of Legislation
whereby bills are smothered in Committees or over
laid on the tables of either House
But what will lac denouncing penalties
against Licentiousness be worth z asks doubter :;
will the denunciation or inhiction of the penalty
make the impure chaste even deter them from
practical lewdness I've answer In our judg
nent neither-at least not so as 10 prevent afuturc
ransgression. We would not have the Seducer
visited with severe penalties FURNISHED at ali in
revengeful spirit. The end we seek is The eorrec-
ton of Public Sentiment, of which correction the
enactment now sought is consequence and which II
will turn tend TO promote. The fault hitherto has
been that, in the absence of knowledge on the sub
ject and the prevalence of false delicacy in regard
to it, youth have In good part been suffered 10
grow up unconscious that Liber,inism is wrong, or
at least of the nature and of its crminay In
fact, 20 deprav I'd has been Public Sentiment that
reputation Lbertnism has often been rather pass
port to Social favor and distinction than the contrary
But let the Law place the Libersine on the same
platform with the Thiefor Burglar snd the improve.
nent In popular opinion will al once be evnced and
accelerated For brief period, with regard TO
No suppression OF Liquor Licen ses. the good effect
OF ies'Aanve interpretation may be apparent and
the voaries OF Vice may even be stimulated to more
desperate exhibition of their depravity But gene.
ration educated TO regard the consprator aains, the
Honor and Purity Oh his friends family a, least equal
~ IN the eye Of Human as well ia Divine Law with
tho dcpreda,or on that friends Property could no.
fail TO evince more healthfal Moral Sentiment, with
regard to Lcentioness than has hitherto prevailed
When the punishment of felony is awarded by our
laws to the aaulterer, there will be far fewer viola
- IL e - 4 chi
r. THOMAS B. Woon Loco. Foco has been
elected Mayor of Camden, N. ]. by majority o
ls2 votes over Charles j. Hollis. the Native Ameri
can candidate. The entire LocoFoco ticket, with
the exception of high Constable and one Free,
holder, was carried
We omitted in yesterday morning edition to
state ths 1t was the packet ship Znrics Capt Thomp-