The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-04

PROGRESS OF NFIDELrTY, ATHEISM, ADOLF
TIoNIsM AND IMMoRALTY.-The two organs of
the advanced intelligence OF the day-the New
York Tribune and the New York Tmes-are
daily becoming more edifying In their efforts to
promote the cause Of universal knowledge. Not
only do they labor themselves diligently to be-
wilder the minds of people by visionary and
startling spcculations, but they make their jour
mails the vehicles of all the depraved and raving
fanatics whose insanity or whose wickedness in
ducee them to attempt crusade against reli-
gion and morality. Talk of the obscenity and
corrupting influence of the amatory publica-
tions which give the police such active occupa-
ton, both here and elsewhere! II is nothing
compared with the filth, the impiety and the
blasphcmy of which these journals are made
the mediums. The Ovidian writcss may cor
rupt the morals, but they do not utterly destroy
the souls Of those to whom they address their
secret instigations to vice. They do not dare
to revile God, mock religion or rdieule the
marriage tie. Our universal knowledge
propagandist, On tin contrary, Gil their
columns with sentiments and opinions of
the most shocking and revolving kind,
the bare perusal of which must work In.
cslculable mischief Imagine the effect upon
the minds Of young people-already viciously
or sceptically inclined open appeals to their
passions, their contempt Of social relations, or
their tendency to infdelity The very admis-
sion Of such things into the columns of journals
setting themselves up as the advocates of pro-
gre~, gives them q sort Of weight and import
ance which cannot but be attended with the
most pernicious consequences By making the
mind familiar with specfacles Of irreligion or
vice, they already half corrupt Il, whilst at the
same time they give to the utterers Of these oh.
scenities and blasphemies q currency and an
importance which enable them 10 extend still
more widely the influence of their fatal doctrines
The prominence given by the Times and
Tribune 10 the report Of the proceedings of the
Free Love Convention at Rutland, Is one of the
worst evidences Of the spread Of that contempt for
all the old standards by which the morals Of our
people were directed and regulated. II Is truly
alarming. as showing the daring lengths to which
the Fourierite and free love philosophers are
prepared 10 push their execrable theories
From communism and the principle Of woman's
rights the transition TO free love, common pros
titution, in6delity, and atheism is one how
ever, for which we ought to have been prepared.
They follow rs naturally as the plant from the
seed, and We are now called upon to witness
their fruits. That our contemporaries of the
universal intelligence school should constitute
themselves the organs Of these vile doctrines.
and help their dissemination, lie, considering
their tendencies, perhaps equally natural, al
though the public may be inclined to think that
II IL pushing beyond the bounds Of all justifable
latitude their privileges as Journalistic
What are the theories promulgated by this
Rutland convention, and circulated by the aid
Of these progress loving Journalist We give
them textually-that woman has a right 10 love
when she will, where she will, and how she
will-tbat the marriage ceremony keeps woman
degraded In mental and moral slavery-that
she has right TO bear children when she will
and by whom she will-that the Bible
Is not the word Of God-that any Christ or
any God, who, By silence or otherwise, autho.