Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-17
Senator Sumner left New York for Washing.
ton, yesterday morning.

SOCIAL REFoRMERs.-Th Social ReUolu-
troniSt, magazine published in Ohio, and
very properly, too, in Dark County, enunci-
stes its doctrines as follows:
81 repeat, that every grade of freedom has
its own peculiar conditions. The conditions
of marriage do not give noble woman the
freedom she Graves. She wants freedom the
conditions of which at no time rob her of in
dividual sovereignty. So she must be sover-
eign through the day and through the night
she must have her own room and her own
bed, at her sovereign disposal. If she become,
either by her love or by any other condition,
dependent upon any one man, then is her in
dividual sovereignty at an end; she becomes
the mere appendage of mantle thing that
she is now held to be by law and gospel. l
say if woman is thus dependent upon any
one man, in any condition growing out of
love, *** then is the social freedom we are
hoping for an ignis fataus.'
The editor thinks that something in the way
Of phalanx is necessary to realize the full
beauties OF loose morals, as will appear by the
following extract:
''Afectional freedom demands facilities for
industrial cooperation, and the irateInal or
unitary home with a room and bed for each
adult individual. 1t is not necessary that
such cooperation shall sink the individual
Large hotels are, in sense, unitary homes.
individuals sojourn or reside in them, and
find their own employment, and yet are they
as free as those who live in the isolated house
hold. Unite many thus in one home; give
each the control of his own business, free in
all times to cooperate as seems to the par
ties concerned best, then would the unitary
home and industrial corporation exalt rather
than depress the individual. Thus located in
the fraternal home, or in many of them &C
cessibe to each other, and women independ-
ent therein, then may aiiectional freedom OBJ
tain and be wholly compatible with all the
rights and all the relations of humility
Love-free love, if you please-would take
the place of arbitrary yoke atching, and pa
rents will not be robbed of rights in their chill
dren, nor children of highs in their parents
Parties who may have loved, but are not TT
ted to live rs husband and wife in a life
union, may part quietly, and still enjoy their
children, il there be any. Marriage makes
hell for such now, and it does so by its arbi.
trary bonds freedom knows no such bonds"
At Skaneateles, N. Y, a man by the name
of Tyler is said to have been successful in
organizing one Of these Socialist clubs A
letter from that place says:
"Such was Tylers success that there are
now no less than twenty whole families in
this vicinity who avow free love doctrines,
and whose conversion is due directly or indi-
rectly, to his influence. And besides these,
there are many isolated persons, who have
announced their entire sympathy with the
movement. The converts are mostly highly
respectable farmers all of whom are well to
do, and some wealthy. They had previously
been connected with the Baptist, Methodist,
Presbyterian, and Unitarian denominations.
They hold regular weekly circles at the pres
ent time, in the houses Of some of their num-
Der, and there exists among them a perfect
unsnimity Of feeling"