New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-06
y The Nss. York o5.e-rer of las, week had

e Inc Netc-i orr OoSsTrsr OF !asi week had
en- article entitled Net,- York Fourie-i:es on Nor
riGgs," which we ask every habi,ual reader OF that
paper TO scar closely and judge candidy the degree
OF moral honesty wiki which It's authorship is COM
patioe- Especially We ask such readers 10 scruti-
nize The desperate Iegerdenan By which i. assumes
to have proved tha, Brisbane on Association con-
dennis Marriage because il defining the novel
term 'civilizee it says,
TIE barbarian likes ss se1giios: the ci7;l;zee i'd
t-ss ne institution OF marriage TIE barbarian likes
FnT'ne wandering Life he c!Tilzse likes his home
snd a--sit-.'
By The logic here employed # the author had
proceeded, as ne very properly might have done, TO
say, TIE barbarian lives By hunting and fishing
the civiizee BY tiIling the earth and the various
modes of regular daily labor the Observer nsn
might assume Tia: he had condemned industry and
agriculture
We cannot follow the writer through Two col
umDs OF srch demonstration Of which the follow
Jog isihe most notable specimen. Re quotes from
an article By NJ. 3. in the Democratic Review tie
following question:
BIZ, suppose in the second place that Marriage an
Incomplete and imperc, institution and require. - D..
r-f,Tued what then. are your views and Jour polcy
Ia regard 70 III
AnJrs-"w We belie-e I, ls for The women O: future
Fenrr-ayo-viez al he prei,Hs;aa-y r,cr. NJ ,iieh
re spoke, earrd when pOss-s-e, her pc.
canlary indepenGeuce-Ihen she enjoys all her rights
and gains Der o~n livelihood by her eEnrta In a
OF dignided and Attractiv. ndrstry-xhen 4.
fully and nteeraly de=eloped morally and intellectual.
y and when tie pat-roa protection OF society
cia providence il "xr-nc-d 20 al br- children Il 10 ue
believe for the noble women OF the FUiur- Of regen-
Grated race 10 decce upon this delicate and ini.
Cate question.
On this the Observer man comments as follows:
In this passage declared that the A.soci4,oui.t
do not propose make upon the marriage in.,itu-
non a. present Tn World Is res5y for *. There
other be 60; 81 the nay before this assaulted
Blu, .oan principles prevail. nisn tie pre,t /
nary rc-ms earrvd op' tulSrk that then the wo-
sh-ll decide for themselves whether there
shall Dc such az Institution q. marriage.
This ia the doctrine of ls.ess lust, this Is the doc
tripe which se,ks destroy the hsrem and the house
hold. 10 Nuke the earth one brothe"
Where did this Res. gentleman find bis warrant
for putting into his opponents mouth the declaration
thsii is intended TO consider whether or not there
shall be such iastitut ion as Marriage The
writer be quotes has proposed 10 consider simply
whether Marriage in civilized society is iucom plete
and imperfect" and even that is to be left entirely
10 the decision OF the noble women of The Failure
-ofs regenera'ed race" Suppose the writer had
proposed 10 consider whether The Morality OF Civ
ization with its Wars, its Slavery, its merc.nary
Marriages and legszed Frauds and Expressions
was no, incomplete and imperfect-u hat should
be thought Of an enemy no attempted 10 convince
preju iced public that he proposed to assail,
make war upon and call people 10 decide 'wheth.
er there shall be any such thing Morality Yet
that is precisely the Observers case.
We do not mistake the fundamental cause of ell
this maiignity. go long Association proposes 10
make Useful Industry the only road to comfort
wealth and honor, and establish practical Equali
~ of Social Rights and Advantages it is doomed
to encounter the deadly unring hatred of all such
as this writer in The Observer.
We have expressed our conviction that the author
OF The article in the Observer, whoever he may be-
is dishonest man and in farther proof of we give
the following extracts. the from near the com.
mencement the other from the close OF his last ar
ticle.
|. 1--WE 60 not that the men who rropagatirc
these infamous seducne doctrines Themselves ce-
tous. iha, they desire seduce Others into ceAous-
ness !"
9. 81 These community men bear the idea OF
any walls between them and he qualification their pas
ons ana ercrre they drnouace society IS and seek
bring the world into their system where the property
and the women selOng To more than Ia
another. No they afraid civilization with
OF justice. TheN instinc-
dread OF Justice that the had who his
neck whenever re passed a field OF hemp"
In these two passages behold the man.