Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-25
VOL. 4...NO. SO.
DAILY VIRGINIAN.
Free Love Aasoclation.

Every man or woman who has the least regard
for morality, will be pleased to learn by tele-
graphic despatch in this mornings Express. that
Mayor Wood has effected a wholesale arrest of
tho Disciples Of Free Love, found assembled in
the fourth story Of Taylors Saloon Broadway.
One of the most disgusting pictures OF New
York society is exhibited in the daily newspaper
reports of that city ofthe dongs of an associa-
ton called the Free Love League. From the
facts disclosed, il is not necessary to go to Salt
Lake to find beastial sensuality figuring under
speoious aud plausible names.
o. }. Victor, Esq, one of the editors Of
tho Sandusky Register, who has recently
visited New York and witnessed the work
ings Of tho damnnbe system, writes to his pa
per, from the great city of iniquities. rs follows
Among the most significant Innovations 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 one
oi the INITIATED shall open tho way to the Club
Such friend we found, and what we heard and
saw is worthy of record, if for nothing but its
moral
On broadway il n room occupying the whole
ith story Of large buildings. where gather the
professors aud disciples of the Free Lovers"
These persons abrogate the marriage laws. and
deny their binding force. They propose, as tho
only true marriage, that persons of both sexes
shall come together from athnites-that II, they
shnll live together rs man and wife when their
spiritual natures assures them they are fitted
for one another, and shall only live together as
long as their natures ''harmonlous, when
this harmony ceases, the parties are Mt liberty
to choose other associations, and bed and board
with others of the opposite sex, If it pleases.--
This is the sum and substance of the whole insti-
tuition, regard it as we may, and its fruits may
easily be guessed.
In lady present. says Mr. Victor, we found
n willing communicant, and facts enough were
given us to authorize the interpostion Of the
strong hnnd of the law to break up the gather
ings. Young women, beautiful and accomplish
ed, were pointed out to us as having given them
selves up 10 the embraces Of certain young men.
for whom they had nm affinity" while the whole
brotherhood looked on approvingly and seemed
to regard it as entirely proper. One beautiful
French girl, present, looked worn and exhausted;
il was told TO US by our informant that, sir weeks
ngo, Mndemoselle was MS blooming and loveable
u creature ever graced any parlor-that she
had become thoroughly indoctrinated with
the Free Love principles rs to become "a truth
tui dlrciple-nnd as consequences, she had be-
come the mistress of four five ofthe "spiritu-
! nj minded" and was now but Il wreck of what
was u pure woman few weeks since This. We
nrc assured, was but one of many instances; and
yet tho CLUB was rapidly Increasing. drawing
within il many people of intelligence and virtue.
who thus blndly sold themselves to the Devil,
| in the pursuit of an abstraction which IL but inn
purity itself in its reduction to practice.
Truly, says the National american of yester-
day, may the journalists proclaim that New York
is rapidly becoming perfect bot-bod of corrup-
ton. Tam,nany politicians, and Tabernacle
lectures, venal judges, rapacious aldermen. and
mercennry members of the municipal Councils;
all these are pure when compared with those dar
ing repudiators of the marriage vow, who glory
in their efforts to undermine the social fabric.
who openly abjure what the world calls moral-
! ty, who deny the existence ofa Supreme Being,
and who advocate the loosest principles Of sehst
atty under the specious plea of 'Pa-sional At
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