The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-07-08
Vermont Observation-Disclosures
ous DOamgs.

On Friday, q gang Of fanatics lost to all
,ense of moderation, virtue and decencT,
assembled in Vermont. AS these people are
only one remove more extreme than our
Ohio fan atics, we copy from our New York
exchanges some passages from their deliri
,us and disgusting rawlings, in order that u
nay appear whittier great numbers OF the
Black Republicans are tending. II the
leaders Of that delusion in Ohio will peruse
hese extracts, and then in a contrite spirit
resolve to SOW no more the seeds Of these
lwful and disgusting dOings. we may hope
10 be spared exhibitions of this character
in our own State. Otherwise, the disease
will have its course, and we shall have oil
sorts of blssphemy and incontinence openly
advocated among US as Il is in Vermont.
A Aboltionism, or fanatical Black Republican
ism, which are synony nous, is the root from
which these bane!ul plants Plentifully spring.
-Statesman.
A FEW OF THE RESOLUTIONS OFFERED
SLAVERY. .F..
Resolved. That Slavery is wrong which
no power in.the Universe can make right
there ore uny law, constitution, court or
governmen mt, any church, priesthood, creed
or Bible, any Christ or any God, that by ST.
lence or otherwise, authorizes man to en-
slave man, merits the scorn and contempt of
mankind.
THE SABBATH.
Whereas, The Jewish Sabbath is confess
edly abolished by the Gospel Dispensution;
und
Whereas, The same authority sets apart
no other dsy to be similarly observed, there
fore
Resolved, That oil efforts Of church and
priests to enforce our Observance Of the
Christian Sabbath. as of Divine appoint
ment, is hagrant violation of individual
right and must be prosecuted in a dishon.
est disregard of the spirit and positive teach
ings Of the New Testament.
THE BIBLE.
Resolved, That nothing is true or right,
and nothing is false or wrong, because it is
sanctioned or condemned by the Bible ;
,her ,fore the Bible is powerless to prove uny
doctrine to be true, or any practice to be
right, and it should,never be quoted for that
purpose.
RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.
Resolved, That the time and devotion spen,
in religious services can coufer no benefit on
an Infinite and Independent Power, and can
therefore be no virtue.
MATERNITY.
Resolved, That the sacred and important
right of woman is her right to decide for her
self how often, Ond under what circumstan
ces, she shall resume the responsibility ant
be subject to the sufferipgs and cares of ma
ternlty and man can commit no areute
crime aguiust woman as wife and mother
against his child, against society, aud .agains
humanity, than to impose on her muternil,
whose responsibility and suffering she is no
willing to accept md endure.
MRS. BRANCH ON FREE LOVE.
Mrs. Julia Branch, pretty young wGma
from New York, not yet thirty years Of age
thus expressed herself with regard to mar
rlage and the maternal RELATIONS, in th
course Of long speeci, which seemed es
peciaiy satisfactory to her hearers:
Woman must strike the blow if she woul
be free and become the equal of man,
You speak OF her right to labor-her rgi
to teach-her right TO vote, and lus,!,
though not least, her right to get married
but do you soy anything ubcut her right
loue ,Ohen she wiH, ,chere she wiN, and how sh
wiN!
8.
Byron cursed his mother for his deforme
feet, aTd there are thousands and thousand
Of children tursing the sacred name OF mott
er for their deformed mental and moral cor
diions.
Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Rose, Mr.. Wright, an
others, 60 back TO the mothers il fuerc'
and go step further back, and say ii is 4
marriage Institution that is at fault. IL
the binding marriage ceremony that nespS wt
man degraded in mental and moral sauerl
She must demand her freedom-her right t
receive the equal wages Of man for her Il
bor-her right TO bear children when she mi
and by ,ohom she wtH
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believe in the absolute freedom of the u
fections, and that it is Womnn's privilege
aye, ber right to accept or refuse any t.,
that comes to her. She should be The ruin
poUer in all matters # toue, aud when h
love has die out lor the man who has thks
her to his heart, she H. living II lie to he
self, her own naturey end TO him, i! 81
:. continue to hold an intimate relation wi
him. .@
= Whut is marriage! Is it the linking {
eether OF Two loving hearts in holy, sacrt
uuun No! This is seldom the case wht
compared to the many thousands upon tho
, sands ot marriages Ut convenience. w
h men are bought aud paid Tor, as The neg
slave is. She is estimated hs thiny OF ba
o ter, for man counts the cost Of his inten
/ ed wife as deliberately as il he thought
E keeping COW, dog. or pig.
ll* - X
= may have taken IN extreme side o! Il
/. question, but only offer my views as my ow
q and wish that resolution may be put in
more definite form, stating whut curiug
e love is, and to how few or to how many 1
/. isolated household may be limited to. wi
n read resolution that think would be
y more directly on the marriage question:
# Resolved, That the slavery and degrad
s tiUn OF woman proceeds from the institute
i. OF marriage, that by the marriage contra
,. she loses the control of her name, her pc
9 son, her property, her labor, her affection
;. her children and her freedom.
}. WHAT AN OHIO GENTLEMAN THINKS OF MAI
'e RIAGE,
ID Joe, Tiffany of Ohio, INDUCED in eon
IS very plain-spoken remarks. He thought tn
e the people didn't properly distinguish b
y tween love and lust, and that " free love
e was but another name Tor free lust. Nj
IN marry wives that they may be OF use
them, and,after marriage, when nun fin
that she is not perhaps so useful Us he t