New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-15

The Utica Philsnthropsts Convention has proved
failure. We mesn no disrespect To the better
portion of those concerned in il, and we do not
deprecate the wrath OF its more vitrIohc magnstes
who poured out their vials OF wrath On our head
for our account of the Rutland Convention. We
say now rs We said in view of the Rutland esther
ing. that neither public edifcation nor any other
substantial good can result from such hl-directed
gatherings 4 Convention To sgitate IN hehsh OF
Temperance. Human Liberty, Woman's Rights,
Peace. or any other specific and practical reform,
msy and often does snbserve good end; but
Convention 10 which every hobby-rder Is invited,
with the privilege guaranteed of freely exhibiting
lis nag and putting him through his PAGES ls
foretloomed 10 be WEAKNESS in It's progress and
an abortion in lis result. We were sure OF this,
a priori We think few will deny that repeated
experiment. have demonstrated the soundness OF
our conviction.
Mr. Jackson Davis undertook to give this second
attempt somewhat definite purpose by proposing
for its object the problem of overcoming of evil
with good" But-apsrt from the fact that this
problem seems 10 us 10 have been very fully and
satisfactorily solved more than eighteen hundred
years ago-we cannot see that this Convention
added anything TO the light already existing with
regard 10 il. If We sssume, with Mr. Charles
Partridge. that Paper Money is one OF the evils Of
our age, may it not still be doubted whether Mr..
Partridge's Hard Money essays are the good
| BY which il is TO be- oyercome, And if lndissou-
bic Marriage be indeed one of the chief @bstaces
| to human progress and happiness. who shall ssy
that Mrs. Julia Brsnch's, or Mr. Henry C..
Wnght's, or Mr.. Somebody Else's substitute. or
| whatever il may be rightly called, il the proper
antidote
Mr.. Daviss quasi promise that the Free-Loyers
should be kept out Of or kept silent at, this Con-
| yenton, was not kept-we foressw that it could
not or would not be. They may not have been a
| very considerable portion of the gathering; but
| they made their full share of the noise and gave
an odor TO the entire performance. Yet after they
have talked and talked through two or three Con-
ventions, who can say what they really do mean
| That they do mot snean universal concubnage and
| free lust We cheerfuly testify; but does not
their doctrine afford countensnce and protection TO
the lecherous' If Marriage is quite ordinarily .
state of virtual prostitution, who shall confidently
say that the svowed and shameless hoer'ine is not,
sitter sll as blameless the msjori,y Of continent
| husbands and wives l. it not plain that the ar
suments of Mrs. Branch and company sre resd
/ with satisfaction IN every den Of lniamy IN the
and Why should not julia Branch be read with
| delight by julia Brown. or whosoyer may be the
| representative woman Of the current harlotry Of
the day
| II the Free Lovers have any clear perception of
what they would have done or enacted with regard
| TO sexusl relsticns they seem 10 lack ability 70
| state il. Can they not find decent terms in which
TO declare precisely what they would have done
with regard TO Marrisge and Divorce Do they
| really mean that the mother of hall dozen chill
| dren may desert them 10 clesye to a younger and
more attractive man than their father or that the
| father may disrsnk her who has sacrificed her
health and beauty in bearing and rearing his chill
! dren. in order 10 give her place at bed and board
10 some plump and rosy maiden fresh from the
bosrding-school When Mrs. Cove Nichols and
Mr.. :. +. Andrews were the oracle. Of
| Free Love, We did understand them to
advocate precisely this: but what the II. c.
Wrghts, Cors Barries snd Warren Chsses of to-
day ere really driving at We cannot certainly make
out. We believe they just this. but lack the
courage explicitly To say il. Mrs. Branch does not
lsek courage and Therefore, seems 10 ssy this;
y., We hope she does not nrsn il. What We hear
Of her personally jusiifes this hope. Bat il she
would say exactly what she does mean, We should
De obliged, if not edited.