Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-07-22
The Convention of Radicals, in
Vermont.

The Convention of Radicals, in
Vermont.
Disgusting Proceedings-Free Lore
,Spiritualism- Wonsan's Rights, ana
6lasphemy in the ascendant-Every5o
dy and everytAing denounced.
On Friday last, agreeably to call is
sued some weeks previous, but very disa'
greeably to inhabitants of Rutland, "Re-
formers Free Convention assembled in
that town, remaining in session over Sum-
day, Every complexion of radicalism, bru-
tality, infidelity, and we may add, insanity
was represented, although in the babel Of
conflicting theories and contradictory
speeches, hardly anything could be said to
be set forth as the opinion Of the conven-
ton.
Some of the more monstrous sayings of
this body of fanatics, as reported in our N.
York exchange, will be found below:
A FEW OF THE RESOLUTIONS OFFERED
SLAVERY.
Resolved That Slavery is wrong which
no power in the Universe can make right
therefore any law, constitution, court or
government, any church, priesthood, creed
or Bible, any Christ or any God, that by
silence or otherwise, authorizes man to en-
slave men, merits the scorn and contempt
of mankind.
THE SABBATH.
Wheareas, The Jewish Sabbath is con-
fessedly abolished by the Gospel Dispense
ton; and
Whearas, The same authority sets apart
no other day to be similarly observed, there
Resolved, That all efforts of church and
priests to enforce our observance of the
Christian sabbath, as of Divine appoint
ment, is fragrant violation of individual
right, and must be prosecuted in dishon-
est disregard of the spirit and positive
teach ngs of the New Testament.
THE BIBLE.
Resolved, That nothing is true or right,
and nothing is false or wrong, because it is
sanctioned or condemned by the Bible;
therefore the Bible is powerless to prove
any doctrine to be true, or any practice to
be right, and it should never be quoted for
that purpose.
RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.
Resolved, That the time and devotion
spent in religious services can confer no
deneft on an Infinite and Independen Pow
er, and can therefore be no virtue.
MATERNITY.
Resolved, That the sacred and import.
ant right cf woman is her right to decide
for herself. how often, and under what cir
cumstanees, she shall assume the response
bility and be subject to the suferings and
and cares of maternity; and man can com
nit no greater crime against woman as wife
and mother, against his child, against So
society, and against humanity, than to
impose on her a maternity whose response
bility and suffering she is not willing to ac-
cept and endure.
MRS. BRANCH ON FREE LOVE.
Mrs. Julia Branch, a pretty young wo-
man from New York, not ye. thirty years
of age, thus expressed herself with regard
to marriage and the maternal relations, in
the course Of a long speech, which seemed
satisfactory to her hearers:
Woman must strike the blow if she
would be free and become the equal of
man.
You speak Of her right to labor-her
right to teach-her right 10 vote, and last
ly, though not least, her right to get mar
ried; but do you say anything about her
right to love a0hen she wiN, where she aosU
and Aow she a0iH.
Il
Byron cursed his mother for his deform-
ed feet, and there are thousands and thou
sands of children curcing the sacred name
of mother for their deformed mental and
moral conditions.
Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Rose, Mrs. Wright, and
others, go back to the mothers influence,
and go step furter back, and say 1t is the
marriage institution that IS tile fault. 1t
as the binding marriage ceremong that
Keeps aoonsan degraded an mental and NOR
al slavery. She must demand her free
dom-her right to receive the equal wages
of man for her labor-her right to bear
children vhen she aOM and by avhona she
wiM.
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I believe in the absolute freedom of the
affections, and that it is woman's privilege,
aye, ber right, to accept or refuse any love
that comes to to her. She should be the
ruling poscer IN all matters of love, and
when her love has died out for the man
who has taken her to his heart, she is liv-
ing lie to herself, her own nature, and to
him, if she continue to hold an intimate re-
lation with him.
What is marriage? Is it the linking to-
gether of two loving hearts in holy, sacred
union! Mol This is seldom the case
when compared to the many thousands of
marriages. Of convenience. Women are
bought and paid for. as the negro slave is.
She is estimated as a thing of barter, for a
man counts the cost of his intended wife as
deliberately as if he thought Of keeping a
cow sd0g' ora pig.
Imay have taken an extreme side of the
question, but only offer my views as my
own, and wish that resolution may be put
in more pefnite form, stating what CON
jugal bveis, and TO how few or how many
an isolated household NAV be limited to