Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-07-14

done the old answer will never wear out. Those
who have grace must be the salt of the earth =
Who will deny the truth Of these statements =
Now. And yet there are few who will com
plain ofthe law relating to marriage, and the mon
ey matters that cannot help but corrupt it. The
same law and the aame obligations are applied 10
all cases. Age condition, or circumstance make
no difference. A young man and young girl
meet in society impulse brings them together like
the blossoms of the corn. they know not how
They get married, they know not why, except that
they cannot help it. Again, poor man, aping
good society, will marry his daughter of thirteen
TO rich miser of ninety three' Who waits TO
have heir TO his estate, aud in both the OBJ
legations, marriage vOwcs and other duties are the
same. The girl of thirteen swcars before God and
the witnesses present, that she will love and obey
the old man until death doth them part and the
priest who administers the oath, and all present,
know it to be perjury on the spot But this hor-
rid violation of nature, and base perjury, part
of holy matrimony in the higher circles In this
there must be gross error; but it is much easier to
discover the error than to point out the remedy
My opinion is, that marriage and money should lie
ter totally and forever separated The marriage
ceremony should never convey the property of one
person TO another. Instead OF being fixed obliga-
ton, it should be a contract or agreement between
the parties themselves, and adopted to the circum-
stances, and failure of one OF the parties to com
ply with the obligation should cxonerate the other
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of marriage as they ought to be, and conform
able to the laws of nature family disputes repiuing
vicious celibacy; irretrlevable iniamy, and many
of cureless insanity, would be forever Danish
ed. The enjoyment of love is as essential to hu-
man happiness eating and drinking, and it is res,
traint that produces excess in all cases
About three hundred years ago or before what
was called the reformation, a woman was as much
the slave of her husband and in many cases, was
used as harshly the slaves OF the South are.
Wives were beaten with clubs, sticks, tongs, or
whatever came first 1t came into the head OF
somebody that they should not be used so haIshly
A bill was brought into parliament providing that
no man should beat his wife with anything over
not the debates of parliament on that occasion by
me, but have no doubt that the sand-stili poll
tcians of that day were using the very same argu-
mcnts of the sand-still politicians of this The
editor of the Argus says: upon this question:
the grand difference between us and ultra reform
ers is this: They seem to insist that woman has
right to be "A man. We insist that she has right
TO be Just what God made her-a woman and moth
ing else; and he who attempts to make her any
thing else abuses her and cheats himself out ofthc
last relic of paradise" am not sure that they
used the very words, but most assurcdly they were
as applicable then as now. The bill passed and
has never loen reported and as adopted the
laws of England ii is now the laws of Wisconsin
Does it require a further rciorm7
Since writing the aboye.on of my ncighbors has
been sent to prison for abusing his wife This cir
cumstance has elected much gossip Some blame
the man, some the woman, and some both: but the
principle part of the fault if not the whole lies in
the system that holds discorlant materials together
by force CONCILIATOR