Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1853-09-13
GRAFTON an SYRACUSE

The Hon. pASIEL DlcNINsoN recently delivered
an Grafton at Syracuse, a portion of which he de
voted to e Women and Reform The people O
Syracuse are annually annoyed by Wumcus Rights
aud other iSUitU Conventions, and there WIS there
lore, peculiar fitness in the rebukc yyhrh the dis
tiuguishcd speaker has so lorcibly aud p.tbIy cS-
pressed in the following paragraph:
Every age has furnished lis sc!EcousGutcl rest,
less, bgzzng feormcrs. who regard society
gauized evil and hence have csstycd Ia uproot arl
reconstruct II according to their ttuptn Cheurs
and dreamy spcculatioIls. Hitherto toTTuuaI-y these
moUnstruCl cuuCciCs have hecu coutiued TO tue die
vicious and deuen;cd; hut now. uutap,,i.y ha>e
many OF different class and OF diversified character
sticS, big with the spirit Of some social riuTInan
which IS to cNlcrmiuatc from land every real and
imaginary i'll. And laucntaLlv furI .u,>t aud most
conspicuous in the performance respectable l.
males who, finding the relation If y if. mother and
sister too and SpiritlcSs TO engage their atttn-
tons and command their SUlicitude, have unssId
themselves, left the homehesrth cold and tlesoai'
and with ideas and costume alike elevated are srug
CLING to stand at the head Of this motley crusade
that like Peter the Hermit they may the holy
land where wOuan's rights are entOmbcd from the
grasp of the infdel man. Norris this HlI The ultima
thule of perfection is not to- he attained until fhe
premaCy of kindredism is vindicaisd and established;
until both sexes shall pursue the same yocons IN
common; until the barriers which nature rTEctgd be-
tween coorS and races in physical devclopmenissDd
dissimilar tastes shall be Frustrated by anIalgams>
ton; nor finally, until entire communities shall dBs
together from one universal platter and eisasss's'
linen in common tub
By the interpositiOn of kindred genius and SIM
lar class of modern scers, the teachings Of phios-
ply, too, have been rendered useless through The
occult process of spiritual manifestations and D-
vine revelation superseded and rendered useless by
the receipt of the latter intelligence from the land
whittier we are fastening. The Immortal, yet ODE
dent and convenient spirits of the departed up
pear like the shade of the ancient prophet on the
summons of some modern witch of EHdor, and re-
Yeals what is doing the other side By plyihg
spiritual knucklss upon substantial and material
thingsl Pitifnl, humiliating, and shameless dela-
sion! the grecn-roOm where tragedies rehearscd
to be enacted in the mad-hOuss; in its influences cor
rupt, sensual, and devish, at variance with eTey'
process of reasoning, subversiTe of the cOnmOndt-
lcacies and decenCes of life, ana in derugation Of
all religion, revealed natural. Its hcrcsies are
more threatening to the of morals than the
hbertinism Of the worst ages, and more hurtul 10
the cause of religion than the works of Paine ana
Noltaire sown broadcast among the people. W ls
We can look with induIgent compassion upon the
humiliuting mummcrieS Uf heather idoatry Peo-
pie whose mission is to iuculcate the principles OF
civil and religious liberty, and whose government
rests upon their virtue and intelligence. should
rescue their history from contamination, and h9oi
all such impOsitions beyond the pale of society.