New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-12


rogade 1t is the lions skim under which the
witness Of the fox and the wickedness of the
wolf are most conveniently eloaked, and is,
therefore, on all needfnl occasions, misappro-
priated to- the uses Of vice or self-interest. IT
was d reform . shat hurried Huss and Rid
lev to the stake and drove our pilgrim fathers
across q stormy ocean. 1t was q Z" reform "
that brought On civil war in England, inF France,
in spain-in almost every known country; and
il has been this same bastard " reform" that,
has caused most Of the civil, religious and social
suffsrings of the world s5r = ~
Painful as it is to be said, it is yet true, that
no portion Of the world has ever been more pro.
life in these unreal reforms than our own eoun-
try International constitution seems peculiarly
liable to their sttacks, and some new case of
an almost chronic character has to be chrenicled
nearly every year. We are always tinkering
our religions belief, and have produced, pro-
baby, more new creeds in the last fifty years Of
cur national existence than any ten nations ever
known. wear equally fertile in morals and
machinery. in literature and liquor, in greed
and in godliness. The whole gamut of possi-
bilities, good and bad, is annually run through
by our steam engine. high pressure, progressive
population only to be gone over again, how
ever, the gear after. The English witwho stated
til it he found three Yankees anxiously engaged
ii studying Scripture, that, thereby, they might
be enabled TO detect the principle Of Jacobs lad
| der and scale heaven more successfully than the
giants who. erswhile, piled Pelion upon Ossa, or
Ithe builders, dispersed BY the confusion Of
tongues, only cast merited sarcasm upon this
excessive and ill-regulated zeal for d. Q pro-
gress that is displayed amongst us in all
shapes, good; bad and Indifferent.
Weare called to these remarks by finding, in
| a late number o. a New England journal, an
account Of q new reformatory and progressive
movement that has lately broken out in that
lk under the captivating title Of ssFree Love .
r. the real gist Of which is open fornication
and unbounded adultery. The details are not
well suited for re- publication here, buta proxi-
mate idea of the nature Of this new & advance
| may be CLEANED from o synopsis of the system,
materially fore. shortened from the full length
j picture. The account from which we take our
learning says: s: ftrS AIT III II
1 On Broadway - room occupying the whole fourth
story Of large building where gather the professors and
disciples Of the Free Lovers These persons abrogate
marriage laws and deny their binding force They
propose the only true marriage that Of both
sexes shall together from arites THAT 10 they
shall live together and wife when their spiritual
natures ass them they fitted another and
live together long their natures shsr-
monious When this harmony ceases the parties
liberty choose other associations and bed and board
with others OF the opposite sex, II IL pleaseB.
Another account says:
This doctrine teaches that, when human twain OF
opposite sexes feel that their hearts are one they do
parsons That is in palmer terms the two may live
together and wife solong they make themselves
perfectly agreeable to each other but when they s-
justified, nay are (fsuch word be used in
such connectioD) bound to separated
That this principle y has followers, and has
had ever since the Creation, no one needs to be
told, The records Of both sacred and profane
history --she paintings of Pompeii and Hsrcular
nsum-the writings of Chrysostom-the dis
courses of divines the whole testimony Of the
world, shows that men are naturally inclined to
practice without philosophy what is here urged
and advocated throughit. tits . practice even
now regnsnt with the Moslems and Pagans Of
Africa, as it was q few years ago among the
South Sea Islanders, The original Native
Americans were about the only unenlightened
people who did not follow their free-lose incli-
nations to an extreme, and they we're bridled by
|impossihility. perhaps, as much as by philoso-
ply or inclination. Our boosted nineteenth
century and era Of reform, was left to make a
moral discovery, which the nnguided sense Of
pagans and the unenGghtened reason of hea.
then, caused them to reprobate and avoid
Verify. the march Of mind is onward, and the
dawning Of the millennium giving signs in the
Esat We have passed all old philosophy, reli-
gion, natural sense and human feeling, finally
10 discover that we are gregarious, like the
brutes las irresponsible and unaffectioned as
they are. What the next discovery will be, time
Eonly can decide, for reason and experience
Ionce the lamps by which mems judgments were
formed and their feet guided--seem to be flicker
ing in the socket and about to Wane into endless
might.
With this state Of thingsin the North, and
directly under the noses Of our eternal monitors
Of morality, We trust the faults and failings Of
the South will hereafter be overlooked, or meet
with concentration rather than abuse If, as
has sometimes occurred, child be born into
the world, ouriously composed Of two coiors, the
incident should DO looked upon as fresh proof OF
AvNkNih6 RnaNaVPAJ WAA q isA0WSu religious
zeal; for the abolition doctrine would cover the
amaigamation and the free-love dispensation
purge the criminality. What next To what
new philanthropy, what fresh philosophy will
our doctors Of law, literature and morality,
turn their attention What unexplered pas
| lures, undiscovered rivers and nnmapped oceans
will they seek for the exercise and display Of
their all embracing zeal in the pursuit Of thoss
| ideas which are the base and eubstructurs o.
Abolitionisn, Inidelity, and Free Love
fsQaonsque, tandem, Horace Greedy, aba,
tere patieatia nostra ~ s#5 asg sei91l
Il haHrs OF SHIpPERs.--A novel case, but one
Of the highest Importance to the shipping into.
rest, 10 Row before tho supreme Court Of New
York The shippers. of part Of the cargo ON
board the packet ship Connecticut, to sail for
Hasre, have applied for an injunction to re-
strain the ship from proceeding to sea until
lightened OF part Of her cargo on the ground Of
being overloaded, and preventing them from
obtaining the customary insurance. Her Cargo
is valued at 500, 900, Of which the plaintiffs
! own $30, 900 worth, and the underwriters hay,
declined to continue their Insurance on it, un.
less some of her cargo be taken out, as in hel
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