Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-04-24

llDIt illiiIl DTtltN, accomplished anu lONtu-ul
least, some of you have. You want career.
As woman, you see that you cannot have one,
save through matrimonial connection. You
wish to do something-to be something--to be
the mistress of an establishment, or to be asso-
ciatcd with one who has the public eye, or the
public consideration. 1t is thus that wcalthand
position come to you with very great tempta-
tions. A man of wealth or man of power of
fers you his hand, and, unless he is absolutely
rcpulsivc, he will generally get it. You will try
to love him, or learn to love him, or think YOU
love him or perhaps you will take mcrccna-
ry or a worldly view of the whole thing, and
marry him for what of wealth and position he
can bring you. Now all this marrying for mo-
ncy, or for position, or for any other considcra-
tion, when genuine love is absent, is essential
prostitution. ! know of no difference between
selling ones self for life time and that sale of
the soul and body which is made in the house
of her whose steps take hold on hell. If you
find yourself willing to give up yourself to man
Ill a lifelong connection for the house he gives
you, for the silks and furs with which he clothes
you, for the society into which he introduces
you, for the position with which he endows you,
then, whether you know it or not YOU become
the sister of the drah whom you so inconsistent
ly spurn from your side. In fact, the motives
that have made her what she is NAV be white
bl tic Sidt vi NoulS. NdTfNlHp lOr lONc may
seem to be very silly thing to n woman of the
world; but marrying without love, for a consid-
Grafton, is wicked "Loye in cottage" is laugh
ed at by very 'judiciouS people" but il is very
sweet thing by the side of Indifference in pal
ace. know of nothing more disgusting in all
Gods world than that merccnary tie which, un-
der the name of marriage, binds woman to
the bosom of one who bought her with his mo-
ney.
know what the world says about this mat
ter and very heartily dcspise the world for it.
When ask the world if Jane has "madc out
well" by her union, and am told that she has
done finely, and married a man worth hum
drcd thousand dollars, | am tempted to be pro-
fame. When | ask the world how Kotn i set
fled and am infnrmoJ nc tho ossor,;aI nor,;nr
of ,bc renI, ,ha, hnr b,,sLamd - ..a,, Panli,
nroyidcr :" I am temntcJ to s,,;, in 10 G,cc Tho
rorvn,,i,ral ;Jon ~ La,,,,r ,','J -
moninl connection i 50 r1;, and n
thnt il Is No wonder tbo, nnsorb;s,;.',aI ,';r}
sncrGcn ,hemseyns ni,, ,t,', cr,,,, ~, e.,
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Tbev learn oorlv IN min, a, ,,.al,b or ,.i,;,,, o
nr;Tor, and snnr,,,,ni,, dg-s;r,iI, iI;'- ,','''
br;lIont match in ,be r,c, oc ,bn ,,orId -
fn. In,y rnnrals nucon,,,,;l ,'.,o" ,'i i''io
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coJ.nco nf eycr,;h;n,r Il Iso w., 1i
ertv n consider anv,I;ng hoenro ,h;s ~
ba:ed mon on,thnc eSo i ne b,,o a,r,,.
told Won, ESSENTIAL nroS,i,nt;on 7, J.. ",,o a,;"t,
no,ure o,,a;ns, CT ,,s, ~
lnm, ;n,ortonS Won o,,' ,,,aia "',n MI,
n man no, based on ,hS ,hat ,r;il "" t
n;ncss Fr;endsbin alnnc w;i, nn, ma
alone viii nor do Tbo ;da, af ',;,;,', ,,'r..J.
to man s;mnl, hacansa ynn w. sn,, o''I
rcsnect him d;s,nst;no m" wn;a,, at ,h"
current of your l;fo viii ,ha, nr - ,n", !. ,h,
,,rcat event Of your b;s,nr, and ;T III. h Wv. W.,
through thosc rinrul al am,i, - :, ,,,aei,iss ana
partialitics-that passion OF your soul which
heaven intended should be called into exercise by
manhood-then it is only a conventional union
and no union in fact. Love, then. | say. is the
essential thing and vet. love. as have said be.
fore. is only one thing There NAV be in the
man who exctes the hoiest and strongest pas
sion of your nature many things which. if YOU
value peace--if you value your own purity, ever
should lead YOU to pluck that passion from
your breast, and turn your back upon its object
that (,o1's lrht nv u,,nr, Vo,,r Ir,,r