The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-07-22
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT

One OF their fifteen resolutions denounced
Slavery "as a wrong therefore, any law,
constitution, court or government, any
church, priesthood, creed or Bible, am CHRIS,
or any God that By silence or othtrwr~ au-
hori.es man 10 ensiate man, merit, The seoYn
and contempt of mankmd.' PsorDnoS's
devil worship is mild TO this.
The third resolution affirmed Spritaalism
q fossth cpFfsses; ~ss .s,j-saf4.as irara.osr.
ment, fifth denounced marriage. Tie sixth
givea new turn to wonan's rights--thus
KesoIptd, That the sacred and important
right of woman Ia her right TO decide ior her.
self how often, and under what circumstances
she shall assume the responsibility and be sub.
iected TO the sugerings and cares Of maternity;
and man can commit no greater crime against
woman M wife and mother, against his child,
against society, and against humanity, than to
impose on her maternity whose responsibility
and suffering she ia not willing to accept and
endure.
This recalls DorGLAs JgggoLD's sugges-
ton to the women, that il they should be Of
one mind, in the course Of forty years or SO
they could annihilate their tyrants from the
face Of the earth--by simply refusing to
bear children.
The eighth denied the authority of the
Bible, the ninth denOunces tariffs, the tenth
went in for agrarianism, the eleventh repu-
dated the Sabbath the twelfth protests
against religious worship. God denied
the Bible rejcctcd-Property, Marriage.
Government denounccd-what, one asks,
with Il sort Of terror, would these people
put in the place Of Society?
but the only doctrine taught by these
pseudo rcformcrs, which has any possible el-
ement of danger in it, is the most hideous
and revolving Of all, because it contains the
same appeal to the brutal sensualities of our
nature which gives Mormonism its destruc
tive fascination. II is this doctrine of free
love, which with woman for its Interpreter
would substitute universal cOncupiscencc
for the sacred law Of marriage. Free love
indeed, or FREQ lust, was the absorbing be.
cause il was the newest, widest and most
atrocious Of the themes before the crazy
conclave. Mrs. JuLn BRANCH, who was the
exponent Of the Free Love thesis, led off in
this style:
Is The binding marriage cen sa0ng that KEEPS
,roman degraded ~ mental and moral siapery
She mast demand her freedom-her right TO
receive the equal wages ot man for her labor
her lgh 10 bsaT oh,tdfd, whsa she ,cW and BIZ
trhOn shs TW.
believe in tho absolute freedom OF the aiiec-
tons, and that II Is w0mans privilege, aye her
right, To accept or refuse any love that comes
to her. She shpuid be he ruling posrst IN oil
matters u lore, and when her love has died cut
for the man who has taken her to his heart. she
Is living lie to herself, to her own nature, and
10 him. II she continues to hold an intimate 10.
lation with him.
And 40 Is man relative position 10 woman.
When his love has died out, and he continues to
live with his wife, on any consideration. he
strikes u bow to the morality OF his nature,
and lives IA lie Of deception, not only to her
and society, hut he ia responsible for all the
crimes that his children, born under such cir.
cnmstances, are liable TO commit.
Then, says she, IN another place, we have a
right, and listen, woman OF the nineteenth cen
turyi The marriage Institution gives You one
right one right that you have not, perhaps.
hitherto, Salued--it gives you the right to bear
childlen
II IL not privilege II Is mo-, an Inheritance
that your nature Graves. But IL is the law Of
" isc men, who know very much better than
you do when you rdnf a child, and rssn you
ought 10 become q mother.
Love is not dependent on reason, or iudg.
ment, or education, or mental requirements. or
society. or control Of any Kind. 1t Is An inspi
ration Of the soul II is a holy, sacred emana.
aud To say when or where it shall be limited or
h u violation Of our individual rights,
FREE LOVE- AND iSpiyiprAL sovEasiGSry.
Mr.. Thomas Curtis, young aud ardent gen
ileman from Pennsylvania, expressed his senti
ments. They were rather startling. He said,
after some prolimtnaries:
Our friends, Mrs. Rose and Mrs Gage have
told you that they are married. SO am AL
though have not been married twenty years
a. they have been. imarried myself 10 sg rUe,
and she married hers III 10 .,s, upon the express
not that God sanctlhed tive
did not want Tod in the ma.ter--not that II was
by magistrate OF priest-beea ase we
asst that idea aside a. none of their business
hut because we saw that We could in marriage
our happiness TO the highest and fullest extent.
When We were married We expressed that sen
timent and when we agree TO separate, We
shall accomplish that separation rdhoui The
Asip Of tod, or prtssi or magistrate. We don't
want the consent OF either of tho three. We do
not want TO be united because God unites Us
aad u, ~A mol BE- separated because 10 ,spa.
rates U.s. We will act upon our own Judgment
and opinions, each respecting the Impressions
not what state or she ststes-hut the i'm.
pre- ssions which are for both, aud which are
Tho common property 81 all, and. rs such TO be
used by meu and women.
II is pleasant 10 be told after this, that
the women who oder their charms at this
cheap rate are old and ugly--and tina, not
this open and public abandon
mcnt OF themselves 10 prostitution therc
was uone among them whose virtue would
no, have BEEN safe in California MIN.
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