New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-21

Laws as produce Harmony in all other branches OF
creation
la this difficult, and arduous work, We must be,
Gin at the beginning, that is with the practical ana
material interests and affairs OF society. We must
give TO Labor which Is the great source oil %eaith
and riches good Organization we must oie my
il and make il attractive; we must apply 10 II al
the resources of science and Invention SO as 10 IN
crease production greauy-iour, SIX, eight ioi0' by
this means we can secure abundance 10 az anu
Danish the scourge OF poverty from the world, the
prolific source OF so many lesser evils MS - the
first great step 10 be taken.
We must then secure 10 every being-io the man,
the woman and the child-his or her rights par.
ricularly the Right of Property. and the Right OF
Labor or productive and conCenial occupations. BY
this means we shall secure 10 all Pecn"adry mae
pe1ldence which is the second great step
In the third places, we must give to all children,
without exception equal social opportunities and
particularly equal chances OF education, an Inc
hes, possible one both industrial and scientific, that
the human mind can discover and the experience
OF the past suggest. This will secure untrerSdi cut
ture and refinement and unity Of hGbitS, manners,
idnpp0ge. DC -
These three measures which could so easily be
carried out if there was sincere Love of Humanity
10 prompt the hearts and the iDteiiects OF men 10
seek for the means, would bless the world with
abundance with real Liberty and Independence, and
with 1,nirersal x nowledge and Iteration.
Jointly with these three measures. we must INTRO,
duce into society Unity OF Interests, Confined
lctiou and the principle of association, and re-
place by them the conflict OF all interests, the lnco-
hereni action and the universal lndividuaIlsm and
the antagonism, that now reign
When Mankind have achieved these, preliminary
reforms when foundation Of practical truth and
Justice is laid. which will take two or three genera
lions then they will be in position 10 discuss and
leeisatc upon any higher reforms which may be
deemed necessary; and they will be capable OF so
doing for abundance and knowledge Will be uni
versal. and refined and elevated generations will be
there to decide upon them.
Our duty and business are 10 bc0rh f0r me present
generation, to propose and carry out S"c measures
as The present time regureS-dS are appropriate 10
the actual rants and condition Of Hlanktnd, ana
form tie first at q regular series u mss IN me
greas CHAIN of a SOCIAL Reform. We have TOO
much common sense, we trust, to undertake TO say
what Humanity shall do ages hence, and 10 lay down
laws and principles which It snail iohoW- 1t VIII
be guided we do not doubt. by lis own sentiments,
researches and studies: and looking back TO the
dark age in which now live with It's Ignorance,
misery brutality selfshness siavish and disgusting
subserviency 10 pecuniary considerations lis preJu'
dices and general intellectual weakness, It Will think
as little Of taking advice of the beings oil such an
age as we do of following the views OF the darkest
of the middle ages and. in fact might say, as we
should of asking the councils OF band OF Congo
Negroes, or n horde of savages, upon questions OF
social and political interests.
AN INDUSTRIAL REFORM and the ORGANIZA-
TIoN OF LABOR, the guaranty all OF Rights-the
Right of properly, the Right of congenia and pro-
ductive Occupations, and the Right of Education
and Social Protection, or Social Providence for the
chid-these are The measures for which the Asso-
cG,ioniss are contending, the reforms which they
are cndeavoring TO carry out.
AS regards Marriage, the Associationlsts have not
treated il scarcely adverted 10 It. They leave
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dition for they are fully convinced that it is not
question for the present age. II Is their opponents
who moot the question, and not they.
AS regards their opinion upon the goodness and
truth of the Institution, will state the views which,
believe. are held by most OF US. This Will meet
the question direct
In the first place, we do not al all believe that
Marriage that the promise and vow between two
beings before God love each other for ever, is the
cause of the quarrels the discords, the anpathles
the iealousies the sorrows. the materiaism the OPP
preston, the abuses, and the thousand denominations
that now exist and take place between married
couples We believe that all other evils in society
combine TO produce these results; that poverty and
Ignorance that coarseness and brutality, particularly
on the part of men, with vices like gambling and
drinking that antipathctic and incompatible charac.
tiers. that undeveloped and misdeveoped minds and
bodies with repulsive habits. views and opinions
growing out of these moral and physical deiorml-
rash marriages, the fruit OF the mere sensual I'M
pulses-ihese and other evils and abuses combine
10 poison and degrade the relations, and cover 1t
with their contamination Butabove all, we believe
that the system of separate or isolated households
which makes woman domestic drudge reduces
her 10 state of entire pecuniary dependence upon
man-orcipg her in many cases 10 barter the de-
sres and aspirations of her soul for clothes 10 cover
her for food 10 cat, and for house Tor shelter
which brings up between the man and the woman
thousand petty discussions upon low and common
place subjects, upon pecunlary concerns, expenses
economy &c. and which soon dsslpate the sentl'
ment that produced the union-it is this system IN
particular which exercises most deleterlous lntiu'
ence upon the relations OF the sexes.
Now. we do not wish 10 change or abolish mar
riagc the abuses which we see at present
connected and interviewer with IT, We wish first,
TO change all the social, POLITICAL and household
evils that surround il; and when this Is accomplish
ed, shall then be in position TO form clear and
correct opinion as 10 what is TO be done next II
other evils still remain We are positively certain
that if marriage were TO be done away with al pre-
sent and all the monstrous abuses and defects which
now exist in society, left standing, that chaos and
arrangement, far greater than now exist would be
the consequence.
But suppose in the second place. tina, Marriage
is an incomplete and imperfect institution, and re-
ouires TO be reformed; what then, are your views
and your policy In regard 10 II
Our views are very clear upon this point; and
will state them.
We believe that it is for the women OF future
generation-lchen all the preliminary reforms, Of
schich ace spoke, are carried oat-when woman pos
sesses her pecuniary independence-whe she en-
joys all her rights, and gains her own livelihood by
her efforts, in asystem of dgnifed and attract
i've industry-when she is fully and integray de-
veloped. morally and intellectually, and when the
paternal protection ofsociety social providence,
is extended to all children it is believe, for the
noble women Of the future, of regenerated race
TO decide upon this most delicate and intricate
question.
In industrial and political affairs man should hold
the preponderatng power in all things relating to
marriage and the family il should be held by wo-
man Man has usurped both; and we deem ii
just on the part OF Reformers, composed almost ex
clusively of men, 10 continue this assumption; and
10 undertake TO egisate, not only for the future,
but also for the opposite sex, in matters peculiarly
its own.
Now, both from theory and conviction, We alb
stain entirely from laying down laws or building up
a system, for the government: OF The relation OF the
sexes We know and feel that we not capable
of doing IL II requires, in the first place the deep
est experiences of the heart and the proioundes,
judgments of the mind, based upon those experien-
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