Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-06-10

ality, that In our own country. earned
with life and redeemed with blood.
wife is torn from husband. child from
parent. and sister from brother-and
this, is but the beginning of sorrow
and infamyl Now, ask if here is not
sin against God? Who walked the
domestic affections in the breast of
man? Who gave them their sacred
and piercing cry? Who inscribed
those eternal laws upon the human
constitution? Every man knows that
they were written by the finger of God.
and that the authority of Sinia was
not more binding than those sacred
mandates that issue from the domestic
nature of man. The conclusion is in
evitable. Slavery is a violation of the
Divine law Of the domestic affections.
The sentiment that the Creator
sanctions a system whose existence de-
pends on the legal right to tear asun-
der the holiest ties of coniugal and pa
rental love, is monster of blasphemy.
1t impiously charges the holy God
with that extreme of deprsvity which
himself has described as without nat
ural affection"
Fellow man. is there no inviolable
sacredness in the tie which binds YOU
to the wife of your choice? Go tell
her so: and if she ever squanders an
other affection upon your unrepenting
spirit, she is guilty Of treason against
her sex.
Before you sanction such an outrage.
go wrest your own darling from its
mothers arms and dash it against the
wall-or worse, sell it for gold! Nay,
tear out the quivering flesh of your own
heart, and give it to its Legitimate pos
SCISSORS, the beasts of pray. and then
stride the earth heartless monster.
But while you profess the honor of a
husbands devotion and the magnani-
nifty of fathers tenderness, never
lend your sanction To a barbarous re-
peal of all domestic law.
5. There is another law of human
nature peculiar to the female sex, the
wanton violation of which ought for
ever to damn the system of slavery
from civilization and decent society.
[ refer to that innate law of the female
mind which revolts from prostitution.
This sacred instinct, which seems like
the last virtue of Eden--an element OF
social refinement so ETHEREAL as to sur
vive the wreck of the fall-has ever
been the guardian angel of domestic
virtue and the true source of elevated
happiness. But it seems as though
what has escaped the malice of hell in
the garden Of Eden, had become the
helpless prey of the more gross and
malignant sclfshness of slavery. Tn
der the power of this ravenous mon.
ster, the flood gates of licentiousness
have been opened upon the entire fe-
male sex. Hear it, We Americans,
Senators and high functionaries Of this
Government. doom TO siarery IS a
doom TO resistess prostitution Tel
me, say. shall an American citizen
when he becomes politician. cease q
be man! Where, then, is the man,
hood and generosity of American
statesmen, that more than fifteen hun
dred thousand American females ar,
subjected to the lawless will of mas
ter? Hark. what tones Of woe ar,
those that strike nv ear? Ii is Tn,
ceasless wall of two millions Of oul
countrywomen in slavery. Shut YOU
ears To the clanking chains of tn
stronger sex-steel your hearts TO th'
scenes of blood and cruelty through
which they are passing: nature vii
soon relieve them by death. and | trus
compensate their trials by bette
, life, but quench not the generous i'm
pulses of pity for abused and suffering
women. The old Roman breast, witt
all its savage ferocity, was incapable
of such neglect of the wrongs of wo
, men. That hearted people indig
, nantly hurled monarch from hi
throne. in vindication Of the rights o
/ one defenceless female. And shall
the "unnumbercd woes" of two mil
lions Of American women in SLAYER,
, be neglected in country called chris
tian, and by a people called repub
/ lican?
J Can there be n rational doubt tha
slavery is a violation Of the law 0
: God as inscribed upon the peculia
/ constitution Of women? Who is vii
ling to deny to his mother. his sister
{ bis wife. or daughter. this Divine in
stinct? Yet slavery tramples ruthlessl,
: upon it. All the nobler impulses o
, humanity, all the finer sentiments o
the soul. revolt at this unparallele'
{ outrage upon female helplessness.-
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