The North-Carolinian., 1855-10-27
Free Love AssG clatiGR.

Every man or " oman who has the least re-
gard for morality, will be pleased to learn by
telcgraphic Dispatch that Mayor Wood, has
effected wholesale arrest Of the Dcciples of
Free Love. found assembled in the fourth story
of Yaylor's Saloon, Broadway n Y
One of the most DIS gushing pictures of New
York society is exhibited in the daily ncwspa-
per reports of that city Of the dongs of an as
sociation called the Free Love League. From
the facts disclosed, it is not necessary to go to
Salt Lake to find beast. sensuality figuring
under srccious aud plausible names.
O. j. Victor, Esq, of the editors of the
Sandusky Register, who has recently visited
New York and witnessed the workings Of the
| dannabc system, writes to his paper, from the
great city of iniquitics, as follows:
Among the latest aud most insignificant inno-
| vations in the social world may be ranked the
Free Loveism. \ visitor in the city is not
likely to learn much of this last specimen of
progress, except some of the initiated shall
open the way by introduction to the Club"
Such friend we found, and what we heard &saw
is worthy of record if for nothing but its moral
On Broadway Is a room occupying the whole
4th story of Il large building, where gather the
professors and dcciplcs of the Free Lovers"
These personS abroyatc the marriage laws and
deny their binding force. They propose, as the
only true marriage, that persons of both sexes
shall come together from ''alfinitics"-tlat is
they shall live together man and wife when
their spiritual natures assures them they are
fitted for one another and shall only live togetIl-
er long their natures "harmonious,'
when this harmony the parties are at
liberty to choose other associations and bed
and board with others of the opposite sex if it
plcascs This is the sum and substance of the
whole institution. regard it as we may, and its
fruits may easily be guessed.
In lady present says Mr. Victor we found
q willing commandment, aud facts enough were
given us to aut ,oriZe the interposition of tie
strong hand of the law to break up the gather
inys. Young women, Leautiful and accom-
pshed, were pointed out to us as ha wing given
themselves up TO the embraces of certain Young
men, for whom they had an affinity" while
the whole brotherhood looked arprovngly
and seemed to re.a' d it entirely proper. One
beautiful French girl present, looked worn and
exhausted; it Was told to lis by informant
that, six weeks ago, Mademoisclle was as bloom
ing and ovtable a creature ever graced any
parlor-that she had become so thoroughly in
doctrinatcd with the Free Love principIes us to
become a truthful discie-and, as consequent,
she had become the mistress of four five Of
the spiritual minded," and was but
wreck OF what was pure woman a few weeks
since! This, we are assured, was but one of
many instances; and yet tho "Club" was rap
idly increasing drawing within it many people
Of intelligence and virtue, who thus blndly sold
themselves to the Devil, in the pursuit of an
abstraction which is but impurty itself in its
reduction of practice.
Truly says the National American, may tho
Journalists proclaim that New York is sraIdlv
becoming perfect hot-bed of corruption Tam
many politicians, aud Tabernacle lecturers.
| venal Judges, rapacious aldermen, ant! mercena-
ry members of the municipal Council; all these
are pure when compared with those daring re-
pndlators of the marriage vow, who glory in
their efforts to undermine the social fabric who
openly ALLURE what the world calls morality.
who deny the existence Of a Supreme Being.
aud who advocate the loosest principles of sci,
suali'y under the speciols plea of iPassional
Attractions"