The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-21

rive at the conclusion that the appointment of
this Standing Committee on Frauds is only
sham, intended to cheat our citizens into the
belief that our city shepherds are keeping strict
watch and ward over the public wool.
The SANpUsKY FREE LOvERs-THE MORMONs
AND THE BLACK REPUBILCANs.-We publish to-
day, from an intelligent correspondent full
and interesting account of the late camp OF free
lovers of Berlin Heights, in the neighbor-
hood of Sandusky City, Ohio From this &C
count, gathered from their own official organ,
this free love organization is one of the most
curious inventions of modern social philosO-
ply, and comes nearer the first principles of
barbarism than any of themany other theories
of our Northern social reformers. Individual
sovereignty, male and female, is the basis of
this delectable system, including the unrestrict-
ed liberty of their amatory inclinations Each
individual is his or her own government, abso-
lutte in ITSELF the community being only held
together by the vagabond's law of gravitation.
The fountain head of these free love societies,
we believe, was that which existed some two
years ago on Broadway, under the fatherly aus
pices of Albert Brisbane and Stephen Pearl An
drews, but which was suddenly broken up by
an ungodly invasion of the police. The dis
closures which led to this proceeding were
brought about through the publication in the
HERALD of some curious revelations of SINH
lar society at place called Ceresa, in Wiscon-
SIM if we are not mistaken. This concern was
under the special patronage, we believe, of the
celebrated Thomas l.. Nichols and his wife
Mary Cove Nichols-two very conspicuous
teachers at that day, of the sublime doctrines
of "Esoteric Anthropology." Lately, how
ever, they have repented of the error of their
ways, and have sought the remission of their
sins in the bosom of the holy Catholic Church I;
SO that now, instead of diffusing the hereses of
"passional attraction" they are devout and
humble believers in the Immaculate Conception.
But the most remarkable fact in reference to
all these social free love reforms is their active
sympathy with the abolition heresies of the
North. Our spiritualistic societies and free
love conventicles are pretty much the same
thing. The Fourierite fhalanx system though
it recognized the promiscuOus freedom of the
sexes, had for its special purpose the delightful
object of making "labor attractive" Their
plan was great free love establishments
great farm, community system of property,
constant work for their weak-headed brothers
and strong minded sisters and a life OF ease and
luxury for the managers of the concern. Several
phalanxes of this sort-each upon. large
scale-were put in motion in our Northern
States some fifteen years ago; but they have
all since collapsed and faded away. The
founders thereof, however, have, from that day
to this, under various forms and DISCUSSES, still
held fast to their original ideas of social re-
formation.
Thus, while Brisbane and Andrews have de-
generated into the doctrines of the Berlin free
lovers, Horace Greeley and his immediate col
leagues, of the Fourier philosophy, after trying
spiritualsm, the Rochester knockings, women g
rights, &c, have settled down upon the compre-
hensive social reforms involved in the abolition
of African slavery. And why not! Get up a
National Abolition Convention, and it will be
certain to embody the leading spirits Of Fourier
ism, free loveism, women's rights, amalgama-
ton, bigger equality, whites and niggers, of
both sexes and of various colors, all perfectly
harmonious upon the great fundamental princi-
Piles OF negro emancipation, human rights and
women's rights.
Ii is not surprising, therefore, that the lead
ing black republican journals Of the North, with
the prospect of an early extinction Of the Kan
sas humbug, should now, In their sympathies
for the Mormons, find new ground of hostility
to the administration. Mormon polygamy is
the essential element Of Fourierism, spiritual
ism and free love, in the boldest and most
successful practical application that spritualist,
free lover OF Fourierite could desire. IL Is very
natural, then, that the correspondents of our
black republican organs, following in the wake
Of the army marching upon Utah, should mis-
represent and fslsify the facts of the campaign,
in order to throw dscredit and reproach upon
the administration whose object Is TO suppress or
expel this nuisance of Mormonism. On the other
hand, excepting the spirit Of abolitionism and
all its abominable afIinities, 1t is sufficient for
the administration that the universal sentiment
Of all parties and sections IL with the army
en- route to the Great Salt Lake.
The expedition has involved heavy expendi-
lures, has incurred heavy losses, and millions
more may be required to accomplish the end in
view. But the country will regard the sup
preston or expulsion of Mormonism as a cheap
thing should il swallow up with a due regard
to economy the whole Of Mr.. Cobb's twenty
millions of treasury notes.
The Two CHARITY BALIs-WHo ARE THE
SNoBs9-A few weeks ago number of re.
spectacle ladies and gentlemen, of benevolent
dispositions, got up ball In aid of several
benevolent institutions. We suggested modi-