Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-12-05
WmOLE NO. a13.

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none more truly reprehensible than Free
Love, infidel breathing and soul hepriX-
ing innovation, which public conservators
regard as an experiment. they wish to SEQ
TESTED, viz whether human creatures
lions, without falling into sin. Why
have doubted the result.is n mysterySto
us; but now the result is visible in the
lost virtues of scores Of fmales,and females
I-in the blight that has been brought to
many happy home. made desoiate by
the conduct of the father or mother. or
both-in depraying tastes and licenses it
is epgendering among young persons of
both sexes; it seems 70 US that the press
OF New York owes q duty to humanity
to expose the whole scheme, and give
the authors of it the benefit of =
full exposition Of the shocking Free
Love principles. Humanity. purity, re-
ligion, demand it at their hands.
In letter 10 the Buffalo Advertiser,
Mr.. Brisbane acknowledges the existence
of this club, stating that the gentlemen
who established it, "has succeeded beyond
anything that he anticipated. He bad
two objects in view +: one was to furnishE
cheap amusements for the people, to give
them balls, parties, DO. bringing them. tos7
gether, and enable them to enjoy social
Intercourse. which now is not within thoir
reach, the other was &c. establish the prin-
cipal Of the soUersignty Of tie individual.
that is the right of every individual TO bo
the sole judge Of his or her own actions.
and TO FOLLOW the dictates OF his or her
own attractions, provided it did not iu-
fringe on the rights OF others. This would
lead to Free Love or not, according TO tho
taste ofindiYiduals.
Mr.. Brisbane does not state that the
Club in question is to his own knowledge.
success. but considers anything good
which will break up the spiritual stag
nation Of the present society"
Mr.. Brisbane is very explanatory on
the relations OF Passional attraction his
logic will appeal TO Ihe inclinationS of mN
ny, if not to .heir intellect:
al doubt very much whether the civ
ilized have strength and elevation of char.
acter sufficient 10 be allowed TO exercise
the principal of individual sovereignty:
if they had, it would be q good means Of
discipline. Disorders and frolics would
occur in the beginning. but they would
be OF very little consequence.
sta man has right to think for hiUaSelf,
he has right to feel for himself If he has
right to follow his own ideas, he has u
right 10 follow his own attractions. Be.
foro Luther's time the right Of man TO
think, to exercise individual reason wss
denied him at tho present day, the right
of the individual to feel for himself, 10 fol-
his attractions, is condemned by the NOR.
alist as immoral and vicious. They who
advocate the sovereignty Of the indiVid-
ual, assert that this new principle must
be proclaimed and battlOd for til trlum-
phant."
Truly may the journalists proclaim
that New York is rapidly becoming hot
bed OF corruption. rammany politicians
rapacious aldermen and mercenary mem
bers Of the municipal Councils all these
are pure when compared with those par.
ing repudiators Of the marriage vows.
who glory in their efforts TO undermine
the social fabric. who openly abjuTe what
the world calls morality, who deny the
existence of Supreme Being and who
advocate the loosest principles OF sensu.
ality under the speoiOus plea of"Passion-
al Attraction"
The following, from the New York Tri-
bune, will give a further idea Of the wOr>
kings Of the Free Love dOottine
They repudiate the present system Of
marriage, deny the right Of society or the
State to interfere in any way with the sub
ect further than It'll may rightfulIy interfere
with any civil contract, and contend that
marriage may be limited or lie partners
ship, at the option Of the man and wO-
man, who are the sole and'rightful judges
Of the time and manner Of its beginning
and termination. One Of the fayoriLe
dogmas is that a woman has the right 70
chose. the father Of her own child. This
theory has, we understand, been reduced
TO practice 70 great extent in this city.
One young man whose name we with.
hold, bad great difficulty in converting
his wife TO the new theory, but finally
succeeded, and was rather crest fallen
when he discovered few months later,
} that his wife was " attracted in smother
J direction than TO himself He took the
matter phiIosophiCally, however. and BY
the infalIible Law Of psssional attrsc-
ton, finally discovered his true part
ner in the person Of another mans wife
aud the four remated, are now said 70 bS
living lovingly under the same roof.
Another case is that Of woman Of
ine talents aud accomplishments, and
rather pretty Withsl. who actually believes
The theory, and whose Worsere half
) not being the right one, selected the faith
:. er Of her child, short time since, 10 the
person Of avery respectable young mar
RED gentleman, and Is now living on Ve.
~ short commons in an attic. where she
! e rerr much nnnnfirah hn the fraternitH