New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-16


true or untrue why do you not cite me before your
readers honestly You allow your printer to turn the
hrst quotation you make INTO sheer nonsense and You
20 bcdevH the second with ostenta.ous and minatory
italics, that needless reader viii look upon the imb
Gle tumesacon az so much solid argument AMI infer
that any one who can provoke that amount Of purely
typogreI hc maledicou from pious editor nu nee Il
be closely efiiated-you know where.
Now, as mntter OF speculation merely why should
I you desire 70 prejudice me before the communityl |
tm humble Individual without any influence tocom
mend my ideas TO public acceptance apart from their
Intrinsic truth And it. you aege my sire and ain
De 10 destroy the marriage institution, am AZ least not
SO foolish as 10 attemp; tina, labor by mere exhibition
/ OF wl. must have adduced come colorado reasons
Tor lis dcstructon. W you be good enough To tell me
where have exhibited these Or falling to do
70, VIII you be good enough 10 coness yourself de-
ieated trickster, unworthy the companonsh Of honest
Doubtless, Mr.. Editor, you address an easy gooina.
tured audience who do not 20 nicely the
stagnant slip op which your weekly ladle deals out %
them. But tle large public perfectly appreciates your
1imsy zeal for righteousness Every rea enable m1n
kDCws that ass6ll cherishe1 institution without the
exhibition OF valid reascns alone must prove the SUE
ferer, ind that Immediately Every such person there
lore suspect when plOu editor COCA cut Of his way 10
insult me for this imputed oense that hs apparent
tive Is only mask to some Eore real and covert one
And this picOn would be papGby just in the present
instsEce. You are by means concerned about any
hottiy real or imaginary, which or any other person
may exhibit toward the marriage institution | DO you
tic justice the contrary, TO believe that you woul
only be too happy TO find me and all your other lned
.
/ sioI-"ogainst the seventh commandment" Bui ny
Ienevoeaoe least, il quite too weak afford you tia
qualification. Na:urasis TIL u that tn Sepia cutie
tsb when puTsued il in the habit "of eecing n6y
fluid which coors the adjacent waters so deeply a. %
sford ii easy means of escape" Now science in re-
veang the splendid analOgie5 Of nature teaches us
that the Sepia cutleish of these wat ny audes is
only olCue orimpertect form Of the tricky setaFan
editor Of hg er even as that tricky editor is him
self only obquc or imperfect prophecy Of hcineyra
MAN Of still higher attitudes Accordingly if we take the
I oNplora tho intv and dpcppfivo nudda
have jected in path, shall find that the origin
Of your i'll viii lies very much behind that We shall fad
that it lies altogether in the criticism which have
tonay brought to bear upon that fossil and fatguing
Christianity, OF which The ObsTr1 Is so ai;tye type
and its editor distinguished and disntercsed
! tyr. Indulge me with few lines upon this topic.
Christianity in its only real or vital apprehension,
seems TO me TO imply very perfect life for man. or
one which SAFELY dsuses all profes .iona knayery, IA
sure TO dsappoint ell merely professional or private
ambition. have expressed poorly enough allow, my
dawIrg conception e this majestic lite Il ID at last
the veIitdbc life Of God in the soul Of man, and one
muet celebrate it with stammcring lips rather than be
| wholly silent. 1t through ones veins like new
wine and if ones speech thereupon grow lyrical and
babbng it should rather be argument OF praise TO
the laefcund and authentic Bacchu- than o. blame 10
his ETH uniashiOned wOrshpsr. have tried to put tnis
miraculous and divine wine into old customary bot
ties but the bottles pop VIM sPn9er ana c5acn 80 On
ughinely protest that shall have no rest short OF
Acknowledgment bottles Now these bottles admit of no
private manufacture. They vast in compass, and
so costly in material that they claim all the resources
and all The wit Of society to fashion them There Is no
HARM Of course, in patient citizen Ike me occasionally
stirring up the pure mind Of his brethren by way OF re-
membTancc or INDUCING word now an1 then upon
the pattern the fabric should follow Accordingly do
drop occasional word in the columns OF the Iri5nn
and would be happy do the in those OF The o.
serrer on this interesting topic limiting how, as con.
ceve cur good old family bottle, cOgugaI bottle and
social bottle generally - might be destroyed - mol
might saud from destruction, reH'ued, regenerd:ed
ard reformed by wise and timely legislation | am happy
to say too that my efforts seem 10 be taken in growing
good part VrtuOus and genial even asWei
as mere tnre -mented sinners beginning 10 EXPIRE
an interest in the attractive theme and hope OF good
fruitto come out of s seasonabe agitation. For 1t Is
evident 10 every honest mind that if conjuga, pa
rental and social ties generally can be safely discharged
of the purely diabolic element OF omuard force they
must Instantly become TRANSPORTED by their own III
ward divine and irresistible loneliness.
Hinc ale ldchryme! This the open source OF your
trbulaiior, the papable spring of your Intellectual
venom. With the instinct unhapply OF seltpre'eTVa
tion you perceive that If our social relations once pc
come orderly not by constrint but OF an inherent ana
divine necessity there will be speedy end TO the en-
pe Of cant and false prelenson For If living pIety
once invade the human mind, Piety atuned 70 the
ministries of science piety which celebrates God no
longer the traditional source OF aped and con-
ieliciies but the present ana papabe d9er
OF the aIts population, clothing the naked enilghten
ing the ignorant comforting the detected breaking the
woke of every OPPRESSION cleansing the diseased con-
science, banlshng want and sickness and envy, and
difusing universal plenty, peace and rghteousness-
what, in Heavens name will become OF that Vapi piey
which eXhAlcs only IN the forms Oh eenl-n anu
mendicart application or else oil lmpudent ihtefer
encc with the pIvacies of other peoples souls ~
have yet had the pleasure OF reading any OF Nrs.
Smiths publications. and cannot therefore estimate your
candor in associatng her labOr5 with mine. but mas
much perceive from the newspapers that thht wen
intentioned lady is engaged IN very arduous crusuc
agans the natural and obvious distinction OF the Sexes
tie which distinction meanwhile set great store oy,
presume your good will i'll tais instance 10 DC as trans
parent have found 1t IN others, ana thank you ac
A. 10 Your attempt to insinuate community of pur'
pose or tendency between mysof ana that Tamhcat,on
of your own religious body known a. ire OheMa rei
feccnst. may SAFELY leave 1t to the scorn oil those
among your readers who can estimate Inc coWhrulCe
which in wsntOn disregard OF a nelshoors gool name,
hints and insinuates the calumny II dare' moi ooiuy
mouth Thee az learn IRON thelr own tory, arc
lfra-that TO say observation-disclosures, VINO nave
fou in III bosom OF the doctrines you yoursch pro-
fss the logic warrant OF the practices which you new
ertLelefs condemn. From conversation or TWO winch
have had with some of their Leading men, JuuSei /
them TO be persons OF great sincerity but oil oePoraoe
fanaticism VINO were driven 10 the lengths "hOu gu 80
nenily rcprobate strictly because they eXemphly .
what yCu do MOI logical Abandonment 10
then own religious convictions ltoid them cahuniy' /
that any man OF common must give shor shrit In
hi regard to deity who elected men to the privilege OF
oa0ing d orderly lives but AT the same time saw that
they were way nGble 10 the tribunal OF common
son,e. An UNHAPPY religious ianatclsm, the howcr1ng
Of your fundamental prime pies has lifted them out
OF that Who'll, some judcaurc, and they must hence
folth DRIFT whithersoever the bcnsnant powers-who
after all paramount in this world, spite OF many 10
s0r1s--vill let them. But at the same time must
avow that these strenuous and unhandsome sectarss
appeared TO me far worther tender compassion than
OF brutal public vituperston. Honest upright souls
thcy seemed at bottom, though sadly misguided by an
insane sense of duty and delicate women were among
them too full doubt OF womans indestrucn0ie /
truth They were fathers aud husbands and broth, .
ers ike myself disfgured 10 be sure by a morbid
religious conscience but no less capable OF snnsrhS
ON that account whatever | suffered. And 20 .
| could not help saying 10 myself how surely
must errors ike these involve TINS poor unprotected
pcol lie in permanent popular disgrace or %ha Is
ryoIsr ncraus provoke the fatal violence OF disgust
inc nlalisaic mob; and how gladly, therefore, must
good men Of every rather lessen than tle
Scyit Me olu1n in which they stGndl Accordingly ~ J
70 me about as unnany sight rs the sun now
fh ,,,on IN see greet prosperous newspaper Ike
rnfheTlng fOgether tne INO