New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-28

y Is seKsv,d they have cone West n
~Ionry schrrer eorei from this CITY lsst weeN W11
the wife II neighbor leaving behind we IN"
children
Here are four persons, all Of whom have de-
libcrately broken the most solemn VOWS
Heaven was ever Invoked 10 wtness,-three oil
whom have deceived and betrayed those to
whom they had sworn fidelity in the most I'M
por,ant and intimate relation OF llie-one' at
least. of whom has deserted the children ne
was bound by every tie of Nature and Duty 70
supDort and educate in the ways OF wisdom
and yirtue-yet all throwing themselves on
their Individual Sovereignty and trampling on
every dictate of Duty in subserviency TO their
own selfish husband what would your doc
trine do with them Nothing, but save them
the expense of running away. They might
have taken respectively the next house TO that
they deserted, and there Haunted their infidei-
ity and lechery in the eyes of the partners
they had perfdiously deserted, the children
they had abandoned. / cannot think this an
Improvement. On the contrary, so long as
men and women tcN be thus unprincipled and
lecherous, am glad that the Law imposes on
them at least the tribute TO public decency OF
running away.
And this reminds me Of the kindred ease Of
two persons in Nantucket who have advertised
in the newspapers that they have formed ANA
trimonial connection for life, or as long as they
can agr,e; adding that they consider this part
nership exclusively their own affair, III which
nobody else has any concern. l am glad they
have the grace not to make the State party TO
any such arrangement as this. But tr"e Mar
riage--the union of one man with one woman
for lfe in holy obedience TO the law and pur-
pose of God and for the rearing up ofpure, var
tuous and modest sons and daughters to the
State--is union so radically different from this,
that trust the Nantucket couple will not claim
or that al all events their neighbors will not
coHcede, 10 their selfish shameful, alliance the
honorable appeation of Marriage. Let us at
least hold fast the form of sound words.
/ DO not care to follow you over wide area
which has no necessary connection with our
as neither right nor wrong, good nor bad, In
itself, but only in view of its practical issues.
1t is aiicays bad when it tends to throw work
ers out of employment or diminish the scanty
rewards of Labor. When the Social and Indus
trial conditioned the various Peoples shall have
been so equalized that there will be no temp
tation to undersel and supplant the Industry
of one Nation with the cheaper products ofan'
other, then absolute Free Trade may work
well but the mere equalization of wages ia
but one among several conditions precedent
to heathful freedom from imposts The Cot
ton Manufactures of India were ruined and the
Manufacturers starved by the far better paid
labor of England, aided by vastly superior
machinery. wise, paternd Indian Govern
men would have prohibited the British Cot
tons until the British machinery could have
been somehow secured and set sufficiently to
work Thus efficient Protection would have
opened the speediest way to benefcent Free
Trade and 50 In other cases But understand
me to believe and hold that what you commend
as the free play and full development aud
varied experience OF tho afcctions",i is not
and never can be a good thing, but will remain
10 the end Of the world most revolving aud
diabolic perversOn of powers divinely given
lie for benefcent and lofty ends to the base
uses of selfish and sensual appstte-to uses
whereof the consistent development and logical
expression are exhibited in the Harlot and the
B'hOy.
1t is very clear, then, Mr. Andrews, that your
path and mine will never meet Your Social.
ism seems to be synonymous with EgOtisn;
mine, on the contrary, cOntemplates aud re.
quires the Subsection of individual desire and
qualification to the highest good Of the commu-
nity--Of the personal to the universal-the
temporary to the everlasting. utterly abhor
what You term the right Of woman to choose
the father Of her own chd'-meaning her
right to choose dozen fathers for 50 many
different embarrassing that it conflicts d.
rectly and fatally with the the paramount right
Of saeh cLild through minority 10 protection,
guardianship and intimate daily counsel and
training from both parents. Your Sovereignty
of the Individual is in pslpable collision With
the purity of Society aud the Sovereignty of
God. IL renders the Family q smoke wreath
which the next puff OF air may dssipate--a
series of dssolying views, wherein Honor
thy father would be command impossible TO
obey--nor, indeed, can perceive how the
father, under your system, would deseryebonOr
OF the hands Of his child. In such bestial
Pandemonium IS thac system would inevitably
create l could not choose to live SO long as
those who think as / do are the majority in
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