New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-24


trnwlers who now infest them BY decreeins 'na' no
.ucb per.op sboud be hereafter eligible TO them on
pain Of immediate expulsion that IS TO say tneS
Hmi, Tie present terms Of admission 60 Congress ny
enhancing the qualifications of members Ana 80 VI
every .ocia institution including marriage Inc way
N nurifr il, or enhance It's public honor and uiiy u
purre i, of every thing that decs By rsld restrcon
ofits Benefits only to the upright and orderly ini''
eordpe;y l. the sum of my demand toward society !"
rcgnrd 10 marriage ssk il to put new honor upon MAT
riase by leeatively excluding every man and every
woman from is benefits whose conjuga! temper ana
habits bring the present administration OF the h''''u
ton into well deserved contempt
One may account for slmo-t anything IN the O''erer
but how could OF the least thought ard cahdor
have made the mistake you make in giving my views
a Free. Trade" aspectf NJ views enphsticaily con
fess the Tariff regime What precisely ask LOT Is
a higher Tariff on connubal commodities. insh'
that the Legislature impose additional duties upon
marriage which must be paid under the ln'S'lSo'e
nena,ty of forfeiture Of its benefits The STATE no"
authoriDcs only rersHEetGrg that u to say II I'M
poses only such duty secures 20 i;se an adequ@'
suprly of members. But demand iromH ssTV J0'
,ro,scr;or az well in order not only that marriage may
he nroftsble 10 the Slate bu thar those also VINO pur
,ue its clean and lawful vocation, may be projected
labo-s under so many needless disabilities the honor
and advantage of those who maintant are so ht'le
looked after BIZ the State which cares only to wrias
out II. annual tribute of children that the outside
bsrbariansr actually subsst upon its dishonor The
wife practicallv 30 degraded under the present FREE
Trade and Sailors Rights" administration Of the institu'
ten that the mistress" makes much better hgure
in every market, and is quietly enticing away inc
custom of the world. The wife Ike our home manu-
facturer enrches her whole neighbcrhood, ana her
position were duly honored, woeld stimulate produc
ton 10 an unlimited extent But the mistress, ike
the foreign rival ofthst manufacturers enabled To COM
pete with the wife only by discouraging production oy
using up and starvng out her own wretched Tools,
ard consequently by diausing IN the cad universal
barrenness, decay and desolation.
Nothing else hut this public or legislative neg'ect OF
Marriage explains the contempt into which the institu
ton has fallen; nothing but this contempt again
explains the shocking increase among US oil those
fast" manners, as they are called, which are bs'
robbng our young ottheir youth, and our madens
of their rnodesty Should society wake up to clear
sense of it. responsibility in the premises; should it
perceive the instant obligation it Is under TO protect s
orderly citizens fcom the msladminstrstcn of its own
institutions and accordingly, have no doubt that
we should instantly realize benedcent change OF
manners. Marriage would be Immediately elevated in
social esteem and this elevation would, OF course,
beget corresponding depression on the side ofhcen-
tiousness.
should ike very much to know the grounds which
YOU and The OJserrcr have for thinking that an in.
creased freedom of divorce would lead to the most
fragrant disorders" cannot imagine your warrant for
this conviction. Freedom in any sphere, is not usually
found to beget disorder. He who is the ded OF
Freedom IL also the ideal of Order If it were possible
to put Deity under constrsint ] think we can es,y
predict that His action with reference to that con-
straint would be dsordery in the exact measure of
His essential Freedom. Now surely you need not to be
taught that the offspring OF Deity obey no other power
than Himself and that what would be true OF Him,
therefore, under given circumstances, must also be
true in of His strictly dependent creatures
God Is our life. When cay God mean God. do
not any finite Deity the idol of mems Imagination,
but the spirit Of infinite truth and goodness This infinite
spirit is really te say and consequently by the
very necessity of our being shall ourselves in dis
orderly relations with and society. until nature
and society shsll have shaped themselves into the ac
Acknowledgement of this grand truth until they shall have
begun to admit that not children Of the Devil,
but only of God. Here take my stand. Upon this
thesis am willing-nGy, shall be proud and happy
to do battle with all the force you bring against
disorders is that society does practically auhert
cate tie GiUiniy Of source, sufficiently legitimate,
therefore, our tue selfrepec by conforming It's nsa
tons TO purer ideal standard have conceit Of my
ability controversiaist but the truth, when
fairly seen exerts sustaining power that should DO
very unjust 10 my own deepest convictions in decn
ing this encounter
Both yourself and the Editor of Tie O5srrer appear
forget that laws admit only of diss0IzbIe marriage
You necessarily talk Of "indssouble marriage az Il it
had recognized existence among us. But the only
marriage recognize Is which is dissolube upon
the nhdoity of either party to the other II is this pc
culiarity of our laws, and of the English laws from
which derived, that gives TO the marragete
that unquestonable superiority public respect which
tpossestesin England and this country Catholic
countries In Roman Catholic countries the tie IL re-
garded sacrament and therefore iDtrnsicslly inds
soluble The consequence is thai the institution has
fallen into very great practical contempt while in
this country ard England the legal recognition of it,
intrinsic dissolubility-n / may use the word--stn
maintains il in comparative honor. Our legislators
wisely hold with Jeeus Christ that al institutions .acra
mental or sabbatsrian made for man. not man for
them and in Of sister States accordingly they
have already greatly modified the old grounds Of di.
vorce. hear as yet Of no bad result have an idea
that the marriage institution enjoys greater practical
honor in Connecticut and Vermont than in our own
State And il it is only because Connecticut and
Vermont have wisely guaranteed it, honor by providing
for its purity that is by giving its honest subjects
speedy and complete relief against the Jygondsge
which still di,hsures it here
Its all very wei for you to profess an inaexibe op
position to any extension Of the privileges of divorce
now accorded by our laws" But no one knows better
than you that our laws extremely variable on this
point in States allowing il for many reasons in
others restricting i; to the ground of adultery
Now which of Our laws" do you hold by. aud which
would you rejecti And while you are answering this
question, lie pleased to answer another namely, why
the morality Of Maine for example with liberal law