Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the New Haven Rcsis;cr
THE FREE LOVE" MOVEMENT.


THE FREE LOVE" MOVEMENT.
The columns of the New York Tribune and other
papers have been much occupied o late, with ex-
poses and discussions OF the Free Love doctrne'
which i, found 70 DO widely aud fear!uy dlsscln!na
ted among the people OF that city; especially among
~ organized band of receivers OF the Free Love
doctrine, is that leach man or woman has natural!
Justly nlefeasible rg git 10 dissolve his or her exist
in: relation to person Of tho other If such he
or she shall at any time, have contracted, and enter
into new relation under the guidance ui his or her
spiritual afintes attractons-this also, to be dis
soiubl. any time in obedience to the same spiritual
aiintes; and so on indefinitely. Its openly arowed
objects are the emancipation OF the affections from
all outw I'd Interference or, i'll other words, the
overthrow Of the institution "f Marriage, as being
hostile the regulation OF the relations Of the se1es
BY the law Of "passional attraction. Every sound
thinking mind in which n-!uc pie Of right aud duty
TO one self and to fellows pTepondcrutes, TO the
exclusion of sen5ueiity and all those reprehenslbie
passions which I've in the base alone cannot but shud
der al and become Disguised with the perusa of the
history the principles and practice Of this baneu or
saniza,ioa. Here those sentiments and feelings most
r,sious aud detrimental to the sacred institutions q!
home, of marriage, virtue, aud all that contributes
most to the happiness and welfare of mankind, ARE
advocated and defended by ambiguous and specous
argun.nts, upheld by All absruse philosophy, highly
colDred with tho hues o. morality aud virtue and
we'll calculated to lead astray the unwary, to at
tract those whose Lax principles uordnate desires
naturally leaQ tueu 10 tUoSs pIhctS where tuey
can be most easily gra,itied "typocrsy,"
writes the French sage, "is the homage which
Vice pays to Virtue" And under the veriest cloak
of hypocrisy that ever served to shield crime dis
gusln tho vilest concoctiou Of RIGHTEOUSNESS under
the specous curb Of morality and virtue, this Free
Love system held forth and ruinnusly propay gated
The individual whom curioeity has led 10 inquire
into its mysteries induced 10 believe, first, that all
iendness and selfindugence j. utterly d!.couneDau
ced b. the Society, and then, by :he mos: willy in
sij.0usness that the "!reedorn o! the affections
that which is mos, calculated advance their happ-
nes. and that s other aud rules Of society,
Including that lad down III the Holy Scriptures
are wrong. BY thls 6ejHiiIve line drawn between
tho indulgence Of the depraved appetite aud the free
and uncontrolled manifestation 0t the feelings, are
p.u-eytes Inede-rnsde Of those whom the intensity
II the evil IN i's most glnring colors, would repel
with .e!f.rizt!;eous .hudIer. In order TO allure,
the more readily, those most sensitive as 10 the
ALLY Of the platform adopted. it is Unlimited that
with the movement whatever but attend the parties
sol-y because Of the entire absence of conventonali
~ 10 hear music and participate in the dance, and
other eIjoyments afforded Thus are many victims
entrapped.
This subject ia one which. il it has already gained
the footing in the community which it is asserted it
Las, should at once be held up to severest censure
by the press, for goes step farther than Mormon
.-n. without its boldness and perspicuty, and will
work ont the ruin of all who become contaminated
with i;s touch. AS the deliberate violation OF the
marriage vows is a hcnous crime, and seduction
j. crime. 30 is this Free Live business 10 less u
crime, and deserves equal punishment.