Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-05-10
An Important Movement

"Those who bring trouble into families" ex-
cluded from official stations.
The editorial remarks copiel from the New
York Evangelist, referring to de recent admira-
BILE movement in the French National Assembly,
will be read with deep interest. We rejoice in
the stand thus taken relative to moral character
being qualification for Office not only because
of its moral influence upon France, but because
of the voice it utters to the civilized world
The Development Of a great principle, so i'm.
portant to the welfare of society, in quarter SO
unexpected. is surely way mark in the prog
ress of Reform, point gained that should lead
the friends of human veal renewedIy to " thank
God and take courage" Yes, the story is TO be
told in all the earth, that "infdel France" ali
centious France" has by her highest judicatory,
enacted decree that "Aduterers and those
who bring trouble into families, shall be exclu-
ded from her National Assembly" And upon
the simple and most reasonable ground that if a
common thief is ineligible to office, much more
should he be who has committed the highest
kind of social robbery, and inflicted upon the
family and upon society the deepest and most
irseparabe wrong. This righteous Act rebukes
alike the two classes of libertines, and ought to
reach the eye and heart of all who belong to this
4 category whether in France or America. Those
who bring trouble into families How numer-
GUS the list how deadly and soul-ruining their
work! Suppose them all gathered from the diff
ferent walks of life, and branded with the sen.
tence, Ineligible to office for having brought irOub-
lc into families. Might not such stigma if ap-
piled universally, affect more in its moral bear
ings, than fine or Imprisonment, and hasten the
: time when the columns of every weekly and dai
ly sheet shall be no longer marred with the com.
/, mon caption, Seduction and attempted suicide,
a Another victim Of Seduction A brothers re
venge,' &c.
1t may well be said Of nations as well as ind
viduals, "nevGr too old to learn" The expert
ence of the French nation might have laugh
e them long ago that the sanctlty of the domestic
ties could not be invaded with IMMUNITY. Tha
T" in sacrificing, practically, just estimate of Vr
tue, they sacrificed the bulwark of their strength
y that obedience to the laws of God, persona
relative, and notional, would have been found
better safe guard than standing armies and mu
nitions of war. But better late than never"-
Of Lessons learned by the hardest mode are usual
remembered longest. 1t is fitting that Franc
should at this late day take high ground an
o maintain it. Her example will have the NOR
weight just emerging as size is from her baptism
h of blood and smarting from the scourge that he
immoraities have invoked.
:; May the day soon come when every legsla
tive assembly IN our own favored land shall b
freed from the presence of those "who brinJ
trouble into families" and when the friends c
ID purity shall no longe: appeal to them in vain 70
IS tho enactment Of righteous laws for the protec
ton of the family and tile guardianship Of tn
g exposed and the friendess. When our petition
go up again, we may accompany them with tn
~ argument of NJ. Leroux-M Moral Retormer.