New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-23
NARRIAGE-DIVORCE.

7, O. Esaer sJ The N. Y. TriSs"e.
sn, II is an unfortunate feature OF yonr contro-
ysrs tsotcs that you should, whenever any 81 your
peiudices are esssiled pick up any oonventonay OPP
probrious name which readily offers itself TO Hing a.
your adversary and to escape the eHnsi OF considering
his reasons Thus It suits your present convenience To
hmm nv plea for increased facilities Of Divorce "a plea
urged soey in the interests as regard them, OF Mar
rage with the efforts of the FreeLovers on behalf OF
her doctrine The artifce may succeed with numb
skulls but no one else can be duped by it. You know
perfectly that have no fber of sympathy with that
set of people nor any respect for their doctrines but
was 60 easy to invoke the prejudice connected with
that name, and thus befog an otherwise plain subject
Neither is there any shadow Of q controversy be-
tween your friend Mr.. Redpssh and myself but rather
between you and him. He il defaming your bsasted
obligatory marriages, by proving them to generate
deeper vice and crime than ever heard OF in sooe
ties where such marriages are unknown. lie states, OF
couse many facts very shocking to our sense OF pro-
pretty. But feel very slender interest IN his re-
searched / am contendng not for the lesser but the
greater ssnctity Of Marriage, that which 1t derives
from no law or convention of men, but solely from
the ineacesble divinity of mans origin and destiny
from the nbon and insrsdicAble dignity of human rs
tnrs. Why should it surprise me, therefore 10 dis
cover that, in sembarbSIous community Ike that OF
Cape Hsytien, where Marriage had never hsd even
ihs; purely outward and legal recognition 1t has hsd
here should also lack that intensely and exclusively
spiritual ratification which desderlte for il You
Ee by 10 means . stupid man: and yet at times how
very stupidity you talk Thus you seem 10 fancy that
vsh to bring men back TO state of nature, allow
thsmteroourse of the TO obey the mere prompt
ru Of appetite. On the contrary, l want 10
BIZ them utterly above nature, and sub
jset both appetite and passion to the control
dour spiritual and immortal parts. / agree accord
itgy, with Mr.. Rsdpath, that our corrupt civilization
with eli its oonconitant horrors IS yet vastly prefer
able to the squahd routine of barbarsr, locate 1t
where you will; because il IS step TO the iaa
puriheshon, because It furnishes that needful MANI
iIsrATIoS Of evil which is demanded by is evsRtuL
ehnnnston. In this way / reconcile my rsbelEous
tote to the sinking broth which THE TRIBUNE and
IAe I'WN' and Tie Herald lsdls out to me every
morning ii breakfast collected from Gil the reekisg
su''sn oi ChnSendom. still the persistent clsmors
we and child, by insisting that We sre
hauisy such hlthy dogs, and 50 inevitably prone to
oneesphg practices that We cannot begin to be cured
ehli our worthless noses are eec.ualiy rubbed IN the
WON'T We make. Itssch them that your pevspspers
are only highly ssedfal exhibit Of the carruptiop
winch Is latent IN uSregerersts nature; which De
comes patent IN our conventional societies and ,,l BE-
attrty pat array IN true scientific society Us1s,
m purely natural Sspect, human soc;ety i,
mA Of the dssdHest tyranny ard oppression.
everywhere, it sacrifices toe humble to tae prouI
ue ss1 70 the strong, the timid 10 the bold. the
70 ne cunning, woman TO man, pGrent 10 child
.e~is 70 head Our conventional so.,ietes f..bio,a5
us maj dt'o,di.g movement Of God in history c.Isd
NNureh' brings al this pert-up inquity to light or
msxsa manifest by the light of prehibtorv l.v n
0'asr tA. We may heartily losh ne il. and molor. With
eVtnR' minds the guidance Of tbo.e DIVINE l.w,
s snea vitshze tina. ssoesSing movements Of Cod in
80 . ~usc the State, and which shsn eventually
a up IN immortal loneliness.
wa" y ysu, he supporter Of sbipss ss they