St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1858-07-08


Of last week. some eight or zinc hundred pro-
phets and pFophctc->es of tile new era, whose
yn.ssi"n it Is TO reform society, by aboiisiIins
the marriage tic. and t0 prepare the waS for
1.-the go al TING coIlsin2" BY casting contempt
upon the Christian religion. IL was a free
! convention IS free speakers, and it would be
"a SlandcT up''n these choice spirits, ~ say that
the men were bashiIIl or the women pFrstlish
! The Primitive people Of Rutland were anything
but ptasssi Win tife preserve st tiIC=e social
iconOciiEsts, and not tGnly Chased their doors
Eas5ilSt thcs.l, but tIcy t,ok the ftIrtlsIr pre-
lcauti,m ~ scnd niT their daughters d, other
/ places among sheslsiIls during the three days
that the t.ssctrnes Of Free Is0vc, SpritislisIn
Abolitiohi~ga aud fhe Rights u Women were
funder discussion. J. There was, nevertheless, a
considerable crowd IT outsiders, though the
men who COMPRISED H. in part are described a.
"a lazy, unslGUTn AMI siIiftleSs looking set,
while "f tile wrssMeA, the correspondent Of the
i New York Tribune remarks that III any one
tof them should ever Dc accused of being what
cITnal-nIipde,l people call 'good-looking, there
/ Is not jury ia the land but would Instantly
I acquit her of that uusoundel charge With
tits material 70 work upon, the RsfUnrscrs
EOpened their batteries, aud under the guarantee
lof "frcc speccht0 every boly, on every subject -
fall kii.ds Of c,ld matters turned up for discus
sion, Through the whole Of which, in spite Of
tie efforts of the spiriiuaist< To suppress it, ran
an uIHler current-Uf Free Love. TIE exercises
commenced with the reading Of string Of re-
solutions, in which IL wuuLl be difiicuIt to say
whether nonsense. or blasphcnly mos: prehm-
mated. They were designed, however, TO cover
the whole grUund of discussion, and embraced
a series of propositions, concerning Individual
\ ity, Slavery, SpirituaIisn, War and Death
Punishment; Marriage, Matrinony, Woman's
Rights, the Bible, Free Trade, Land Reform,
the Sabbath, and Sunday Doctrines. Here at
least. was scope and verge enough 10 air the
vocabulary vi the speakers, aud they were by
no means backward in taking advantage Of the
opportunity TINS afforded them. FIRST Of all.
the HarnHTIials sang Reform Lyric, and then
4 MIR. Tiffany upene,l in opposition to individ-
ual, and IN favor of associated enterprise but
~ lis remarks were unpalatable, to % majority
Of the delegates present, he was requested 60 sit
down, which lac incontinently did, The after
noon performance being thus abruptly brought
tO close, snme Of the delegates, with an eye
| to the main chance. announced that they had
books for sale; and Mr.. Henry G. Wright,
Commended ~ the affectIonatc regards of the
! people one book in particuiar-a very funny
! Notwithstanding the paraduxical title ut
Tile tnUrticome CEitd or, The Crime If dn
Undersigned and UtNiesired Natgnity' At the
evening session, the siiri.ualists had it pretty
much all their own way bur, in the mean-
while, the Free Lovers were gathering strength.
The following morning they came out in force
| Mrs. julia Branch, of whom it is sufficient TO
say that she is the female leader Of the Free
Lovers of New York that she writes for the
Sunday papers Of that city, and is Il member
Of the Cnitary household of Stephen Pearl An
drews, led Oh the discussion upon this delicate
tDpc by quoting conversation between her
self and L%SX stone Blackwell! upon chs 9 p iiIe
was not come when it could be publicly dis
cusseJ. Mrs. Branch thought otherwise
| Lucy sid that it was mistaken idea, that
woman was obliged to give up her name and
take that of her husband slle-Lucy-had
not given up hers. WLereupon Mrs. Branch
very pcrtinenty asked, how it would have been
with Mrs. Blackwell, she had kept her mar
riage 4 secret, AMI had gone to "a hoteI under
her maiden nahIe Of Lucy Stone, with the IN
tention OF Stopping there few days with Mr.
Blackwell? Mrs. Branch believed the mar
riage ceIcnInny necessary but she believed,
also, that woman Is, Ill every respect, the equal
Of man, and before marriage, or after marriage
lis free 10 lOcc. trhc1l she cell, lckeTs she arM
and hOsc she IciH.' She snecrrd at the idea OF
an isolated household with an exclusive cOuiu-
gal love; repeated some very chaSts lines from
that very caste poet, Ton Moore, and prU-
nOunce,i them quite pretty in sentiment, but
utterly worthless for practical purposes. Then
followed n sketch of "A household drudge. and
to this, succeeded a something which she termed
"a Lament" We are unable to do justice to
this Sunday paper" composition, and there
fore pass it by without comment. 1t was
fit prelude 10 the heroics in which the speak
or subsequently, induISesl, ard 10 the licentiUus
propositions she undertook to maintain. Ste
phen Forster, the husband of Abby Kelly, dis
sented' from the views of Mrs. Branch. He
lelieyed that the marriage relation WAS the
OILY real good there is left in this sinful world
Mrs. Branch would abr1;ate the marriage re-
lation ), but he begged leave to ask--was not
the remedy proposed worse than the disease :?
Mr. joel Yiilany explained the difference be-
tween Free Love and Free Lust, and euiogizcd
what lie called true marriage In u true
marriage" said lac, '.rn;tn aud wife become
one" Which one :" asked q voice in the
crowd. "BOth,' replied ME. Tiffany, and then
there was a sh.,It Of laughter. But the qIer.
list was not to be bafiied. (Which owns the
farm % lac asked. Buth-the man and tin
woman" grayely responded Mr.. Tiffany, and
then there was laughter again. Mrs. Rose and
| Mrs. Farnham next expressed their opinions
on the CUDlgal Relation, and ON WOman's
Rights. aud then Mr.. Thomas Curtis, a young
aud ardent gentlemen from Pennsylvania, who
said ke lad married himself to- has srife, and
she had married herself 10 Aim, undertook to
counsel soMe imaginary young woman after
the following fashion When," said he, adj
dressing tie imaginary young woman afore-
'sAil, .'wlsen you lind young man who comes
TO you and says, sMy tlsar, yOu and 4 are per-
iectiy syMpathetir you and ! are ono indi-
vidal, aud designing 10 remain 81 through all
this life aud through al other possible lives
take my word COZ ii, lie is kumLsgging yOn
l[LAnghter.l You are q foil il YOU believe
him! j know great tnany people who preach
these doctrines. but whose practices are lar diff
fercns. They lind q young wUlnan with whom
they assume ~ have this perfect sympathy and
unensssr b1i n soony as the Consequences which
fthey wish Ia follow frlm that sympathy have
been obtainesi: they go to some other woman
and talk 10 her ias sne same strain; they ART
lc~naianeasy changing their sympathy and one
nesS from enc ShrCt % ahOthCrw Mr. Henry
e. Wright, else gentleman who pesldlcd tiig
u ~ sFiAI. fhs. rxtaf fifk. next st,f.alie a