St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-07-29
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MODERN REF0RMERS" AND
THEIR DOCTRINES.

Somebody has said that ait takes
all sorts Of people to make UP a world,
which is certainly true, if world
must necessarily be constituted as
ours is. We have "all Sorts and
the imagination may strain its Capaci
ty to the utmost to picture to the mind
any possible kind or species of the
GEMS h0m0 that docs not enter into the
composition Of our multiiariOuS "hu-
man family without avail We
have intellectual and moral as we'll as
physical momstcrs-dcvils in spirit
and mind as well as in " human shape. "
We have just been reading (wc
have half Il mind to blush for acknowl-
edging it) a long and disgusting re-
port of the proceedings of a convcu-
ton lately held in the staid and beau
tiful Vermont city of Rutland, of a
set Of men and women from various
parts of the Union, calling themselves
" Reformcrs' 1t was conglomcra.
ton OF the most extraordinary Gle
ments Of human character, represent
ing variety of the most cxtraordina-
ry mOnstroSitics Of opinion and ranat-
icism. The advocates of modern Spir-
itualiSm, who desire to overthrow all
present rCiigtuuo Ur.,'i., II euprlor
them with an absurd imposturc which
has neither reason for a basis, nor re-
ligion for a garb the cxponcnts of
the disgracctul and immoral . Free
Love" who wage war upon the sacred
rite of Marriage, desiring to establish
in its stead a system Of universal
prostitution the Garrisonian Aboli-
tionists. who believe III sacrilcgiouslv
shivcring our national constitution and
Union into atoms in order TO abolish
Negro Slavery at the South ; the "Wo
mans Rights" monOmaniacs, who
would reverse the order OF the sexes,
and deprive women Of tie two chief
elements of their beauty, attraction
and moral inAucncc-gcntlencss and
moIlcsty, - and bcstow upon them
" rights" which no sensible woman
would exercise if she could, viz OF
mingling in our political party strifes,
and engaging in the rough and mascu-
line occupations for which they are
not suited either in physical capacity
or general disposition the lnidcls,
who repudiatc the divine word of the
Bible, and dcspisc the Holy Religion
that is derived from and based upon
it the Atheists, who do nct believe il
the existence Of a Deity, because thcil
ignorance is too confirmed and THEN
reasons too obtusc to "sce God il
clouds, and bear nim in the wind
and we don't know how many othcI
morally insG.ne advocates of moral,
insane notions and hobbies, had par
in this novel assemblage Of modern
.eformcrs.'
These people want to reform the
world--retorm socicty--rcform pres
ent systems of social, political, rciigi
Gus and moral ethics and establish
ments. With long faces, wise as
poets, and longing for notoriety
they make scnsclcss speeches hour
in length, pass resolutions, empty a
sound and long as the moral law, am
form and reform crccds, which they in
terpolatc, extend and Improve at cacl
succeeding meeting. They make on
great and radical mistake, however
which, in all their "philosophic" dc
libcrations, has never occurred to thci
minds, and which is the cause of al
their irrcgularity II is Memmircs moJ
than society tcbo need reforming. 1t i
proper to say that very few Vernon
people were present at this gathering
and the good citizens Of Rutland wer
much mortified that the fag ends {
all creation should disgrace thei
beautiful town by selecting it as thei
place of rendezvous.