Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-07-22
,as but another name for free lust. Men

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them, and after marriage, when man finds
that she is not perhaps so useful as he ex.
pected, and bis ardent love eyaporates, he
regards his wife TOO much as a thing of pur-
chase, as he would a horse or an ass. sFhe
women look upon the men in the same
light, and make calculation beforehand Of
what use husband is to be to her. Thus
marriage becomes matter of bargain and
sale. Men and women are not married in
true sense. This is what the marriage
relation undoubtedly is, and yet the COM
munity uphold the system. Such union
of love, is but of lust. When man finds in
a woman all that his soul yearns for, and
when a woman finds man who is the full
embodiment of all her desires, if that man
and woman unite under those conditions,
then they are truly married.
THE FREEsT OF FREE LOVERS.
Mr.. Thomas Curtis, young and ardent
gentleman from Pennsylvania, expressed
his sentiments. They were rather start
ling. He said, after some preliminaries:
Our friends Mrs. Rose and Mrs. Gage
have told you that they are married. So
am although l have not been married
twenty years, as they have been. l
married myself to my wife, and she mar
ried herself to me; upon the express un-
derstanding, not that God sanctifed it
we did not want God in the manter-not
that it was sancti6ed by magistrate or
priest, because we cast that idea aside, as
none of their business but because we
saw that in marriage better fulfill our high
est and best use, and carry our happiness
to the fullest extent. When we were mar
ried, we expressed that. sentiment; and
when we agree to separate we shall accom-
plish that separation without the help of
God, or priest, or magistrate. We don't
want the consent of either of the three
We do not want to be united because God
unites us; and we will not be separated
because God separates US. We will act
upon our own Judgment and opinions; !;
each respecting the impressions, not what
state, or what she states, but the impress
sions which are for both, and which are
common property of all, and, as such, to
to be used by men and women.
HORRIBLE BLasPHEMY
In the discussion of the Slavery ques-
tion which followed that an Free Love,
Mr.. Curtis made his second appearance
He quoted that resolution which declares
that sang Christ or any God that, by si-
lence or otherwise, authorizes man to en-
slave man, merits the scorn and contempt
Of mankind" Curtis inquired who was
this God that people talked about Ifhe
was the all-powerful being he was repre-
sented to be, why don't he go down South
and put down Slaverys He desired to,
ask this plumply-How is it that you don't
do your duty? With what consistency
could men worship this God, whom they
considered powerful, when he neglected
to exercise his power for the extinction of.
Slavery?
Henry C. Wright observed that, rather
than give up one of his children to Slave
ry, in order to save the Union, he would
'ssee the Union id to everlasting d-m."
Emphatic!
Mr.. Cutting had something to say on
the Emission of Spiritualism" and shu-
man brotherhood" and branched off in
to disquisition upon the future state.
He remarked that if, according to the old
theology, such men as Plato, Socrates, &c.,
were to go to hell, he himself "prefsrred
to go to hell and be man, rather than go
to Heaven and be skulk, or something
worse" .,sa
We might fill column with further Sc
lections from the rawlings Of this crew of
maniacs, but enough have been given to.
show what denominations may be covered
by the hopeful name-REFoRM.