The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-09-08


In the warm blush of affection!
In the tear of sympathy!
In the sweet, low voice whose accents
The spirits gadness prove,
Oh the world is full of beauty
When the heart is full Of love.
From the Oshkosh (Wis.) Courier.
The "AnthrOpOlOgi. or sCeresco Free
Love Union"
In the western part Of the county Of Fond
du-Lac, Wisconsin, in a beautiful district of
country, lies the pleasant town of fCeresco.-
Hitherto unknown to fame, the locality
seems destined to become suddenly famous,
as the location Of those modern socialist cs.
adjustments Of the silver sort, which some
times lead usso doubt whether there is in
man the most Of the brute, the IDIOT or the
demon. The history and doctrines Of the
establishment We gather from the proceed.
lngs OF q mass meeting held in the ncighbor
ing village Of Ripon, called to hear the report
OF an investigating committee and take some
steps to put down the nuisance. The doc
trincs ofthc "Union" were proven to be
Of the most vile and mos. dsorganizing
character, having apparently but one com
/ mum bdNlS-iut IONtSl StUSuIlllN. ut
horrible nature Of these doctrines NAV be
judged Of from the following brief synopsis ::
| !. The right of every woman to choose
whoever she will to perform the part Of a
husband for the time, and to change that
person as often as she pleascs.
2. The duty of woman to yield herself to
the embraces Of the one she loves.
! 3. That these principles, when put in prac
tice will bring about the millennium; will do
away with the pains Of child.bcaring and
alleviate human seflerng in various ways
A. The iorncation may be "hoiy."
3. That bigamy is no crime.
/ q. That the crime Of adultery is "fcti
tious, and that what the world calls atul
terry may be the highest and trucst relation
of which two persons are capable.
Z. That bastards are the most beautiful
children in the world.
S. The society ought to be destroyed
0. That wives, though idoiizcd ly their
husbands, and supported in ailluence, are
to yield to the love Of other men if they like
them better.
Each and every one Of the above "articlcs
ofbelief' is proven by the committee, by rcr
erence to book and page" Of the books
which they circulate and receive as the text
books and by acknowledgement and public
statement Of members, to be dc fifcto the be-
lief as received and acted upon by members
of that liccntious band, not secretly, but
openly and avowcdly. The books referred
to are the "Esotcric Anthoropology," and a
work on Marriage" the former by a mis-.
Rights" Socialism," &c, I. l.. Nichols,
and latter by the same individual, conformity
with Mrs. Mary S. &. Nichols, one Of the
strong minded women Of the age.
The history Of Ceresco Union may be
briefly given. II seems (as stated by the
investigating cOmmttce) that q DR.. New.
berry arrived at Ceresco last summer, where
certain minds had been prepared for his doc.
trincs by the study Of the works Of Nichols !;
that Newberry taught all the pernicious doc.
trines Of the books which VIC have reviewed;
that some of the persons who now compose
the Cercsco Union countcnance the same,
and then residents Of Cercsco received him
into their houses, where he received more
marks of confidence and affection than
a stranger commonly receives from the fe-
male portion Of the household that it vas
determined to form an association while New.
berry was there that Newberry proposed
and discussed the plan, and that the Ceresco
Union is the result; that Newbcrry publicly
stated that he is opposed TO marriage, and
went further than Nichols. This avowal
was made in the presence Of many now form
| the Union, who were there countenancing
and upholdins him. 1t appears that anoth.
cr important character among the Ccrcsco
Unionists is Mr.. Warren Chase We
quote from the proceedings:
Mr.. unnals introduced to the attention
of the meeting, and read letter in relation
to Warren Chasc-which letter purpor-
ted TO be from man in Onondaga county,
N. Y, representing that Chase had been
guilty of. criminal and icentious conduct in
connection with lady in Auburn, and that
| he left her in an extremely unhappy condi.
ton. Mr. Gould denounced Warren Chase
as black hearted scoundr>l. Mr.. Runnals
said the facts against Mr.. Chase were not
isolatcd they were abundant and notorious
A very volumnOus correspondence had been
made public which revealed the character of
Mr.. Chase in that respect The correspon-
dcnce devolved the fact that at least six diff
fcrcnt women had become victims of Mr..
Chase. He read these ttcrs.--Chase can
be traced by amours and illicit in trigues all
over the country.
The conclusion seemed to be, that il the
principles Of the "Cercsco Union" could be
universally car led out there would be moth
ing left for us but prospective generation
Of bastards and strumpcts"
Yet, strange as it mays appear, in this
nineteenth century, in the midst Of this
civilized community, there are men and wo-
men who have the brazcn hardlhood to put
forth such doctrines-doctrincs which, il
received, would turn the world into q vast
brothcl, and set up such vile community,
where, fulfilling the sculptures literally, We
find every man "ncighborng after his neigh
bors wife" The regions of the damned
could hardly present the realization of a
more horrid picture And yet, these things
these dcformtics these horrible cxcrcsenccs
upon society, are the necessary and lcgiti
mate results of the teachings of those
wretched vagabonds of the Greeley and Lucy
Stone school, both men and women, who
stroll through the country, and, under the
Suso ofsomc social reform, are preaching
Socialism," "Spirtualism," "Women's
Rights" and all other denominations
There seems to be a hankcring with sucl
persons in some way or other, to get bacS
to the filthy sty of heathcnism--unbridledli Ii
ccnsc.
We think the people in the neghborhood
Of CerCsco do well to protect themselves
against such people as they would agains
wild beasts.
THE WHEELER SLAVE CAsE.-Philadelphi,
VI. a.