New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-18


first il given az from Fourier and maintains ina'
a woman who has been dissolate in youth need
not therefore be driven forth from society rs ep-
rocs outcas; TO herd with The vilest vretcoes an q
plunge rapidly into horrible debauchery disease ana
death. but might unde, diferea; Circumstances ana
different stale OF opinion, become iaithfo! VIE
and mother. OF this the Observer says
.sub..oueo;ly we are informed TIA: the writer thinks
se generations must eapse before :his theory can &c
ss,s mo nrac,.ce II via be By the above tia:
Fousr had some limits % his plnn- But this f; TOO
narrow for The NewTo,k FoureT1tss II was vel enough
for France tie American Assocstionsts mus' naFe
Isrer liberty Hence Brisbane declares that Ia he New
orssr u. decree. OF the heart viii De he true guide
Now the knavery OF this pretended citation OF
" this theory " his plan" SC &c have already
been fully exposed 10 the public. Fourier pro-
pounded no such plan nor eveD theory as IS
here attributed to bina as part Of his system Of
Assoc.atton he expressly declared as have his
followers efler him, that all questions regsr ding
Marriage and the relations OF the Sexes should be
settled by the Ministers OF Religion and the Wo-
men of nobler and purer era, and tha; ne antine
existing institutions should be sustained. This is
bis theory and bis plan No such passage as the
Observer quotes is contained in any Of his trans
lated works 90 we necessarily depend on The test
nony Of others sustain as in saying that the pas
sage ont of which it has been made is given by The
author as conectural and Hypothetical only just as
there are in his mulufarious writings theories of
Cosmogony, of Life in the Sun and various Planets,
the production Of beings on one by the influence Of
other Planets, &c &c All these, like the kindred
reveries of STedenborg, may be very extravagant
and absurd or may not for sught we care. All we
know or care is that they form part Of the system
of Industrial and Household Association which we
conide in and cherish the only and efectual rene
dy for the ignorance misdevelopment enforced idle
ness, degradation, wrong, want and misery which
are now and long have been the destiny earth of
large portion of the Human Race. Whatever is
essential TO this we believe in and try TO promote
for all beyond i, we nothing, whether its au-
thor were Fourier or any body else.
And now word 10 the publishers and respon-
sible di,ors of the Observer. You, gentlemen,
have permitted person in your employment TO use
several columns Of your widely circulating and in
huen,ial paper to calumnate and cruelty mlsrepre
sent vast and most bene6cent plan OF Reform, ca
culsted and intended 10 raise millions from beggsry
TO independence and from agonizing want to COM
lOIt, W nile II VIII pItecIHc uliIiOHo LuoAO IA 'HhS
cence who are else predestined to vice and crime
We now respectfully ask youto allow us barely one
of your columns In which 10 state simply what As
socisdon Is and what its friends hope TO achieve by
it, VIII you allow US that one column, and we will
allow you t,ro columns Of The Tribune for eay kind
OF answer or objections you may choose 10 make
Will you do it Dare you
p. s. Looking again over the Observer las; ar
tcle, we find interviewer in paragraph an attempt
TO remove the brand CT direct and palpabe untru,h
which we before fastened upon it. That we may
do no Injustice, we quote the whole Of it, viz
THE Tribune has tried 10 fas,en upon charge Of
inconsistency in admitting that certain individuals OF the
sect may be licentous while we believe the 'commu
nifty body wish all restraints upon their lus.s
be removed. IL often been the fact that fase phil
losophy has made the disciple worse than the master
Satisfied .ror, farther information which we
have obtained that s needless for to take any special
paine to make exceptions.
Now zee what the Observer actually did say In
its opening article. already quoted by us, viz:
1--WE do not say that the men who propagsting
these Infamous and soducipg doctrines are hessloes
cenou, that they desire 10 seduce others into cen
tiousnebs"
Does this look like making 'exceptionsf Does
refer to certain individuals of the Sect or the
entire propaganda Read and judge