New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-04
HORACE GREELEY.
FREE-LOvE IN THE TROPICS.


SIR; once knew a man who had no friends to favor
and no enemies to punish. With respect to the va
rious doctrines of Marriage and Divorce am now in
the same Indifferent condition of mind. | have no
desire to get married to be divorced and quite
willing that other people should live out and outlive
their own ideas-no intention therefore Of intefer-
ing in the controversy between Mr.. Henry James and
Mr.. Horace Greeley, which an expression of opinion
in my Letters from Cape Haytien seems to have un
expectedly originated. But, waving all design Of
participating in this conflict of opinion ask to be
permitted to present certain tacts, gathered in
ton. where the Free-Love system is in favor, and
where divorce from legal marriage is easy as the
virtue of the people.
In the Second Epistle Of james to the TRIBUNE
(which alone have perused,l | find this paragraph
of facts and fancies:
say you supporter Of thing. they in New
York Mr. Redpsth' True there is legal marriage, conn
parstiyey Cap Hsyen but then there hatred be
wife, psonng stabbnss the absence
which things doubtless make. e Cape H9ytien newspaper very
tuition theH and consequently none OF those fearful d.
our civilized manhood And then moreover wil warrant you
there comparatively little Of that horrible efPouton In Cape
and which turning young people pulling hypochon
drae. or ravns madmen These vices grow The
rpi social order: they and Of anguish
be delivered from the domination Of human mbecty and
with the long promised freedom Of the Of God
But for Of like take your stand upon Tester
ing cheap like New York and raise feeble chactle Of
triumph the comparatively manners Of CaP Hayen
simply because those uneyiiEed-this confess
strikes very funny But truce to the solemn Mr.
Redpath"
wish to make some comments on this paragraph
but before doing so, must partly demur to the para
graph of Mr. Greeley in reply:
Your assumptions that Haytieu regime there
founded nay emphatcay oonrdced BY Redpah expires.
testimony He states that beneath the usual and respected
g sft damn
what recosnzed even there As mere aHnia Indulgence or
sexual vice"
The latter portion of this paragraph is correct but
said nothing Of hatreds stabbings poisonngs, for
the reason that was not qualified to speak about
them.
| had a companion with me who favored the Free
Love theory, and his conversations and arguments,
antagonistic my opinions, induced me to inyes
tigate its influence on the society of Hayti.
i protest, in the first place, against the term IN.
civilized as applied by Mr. James to the manners Of
the influential classes in Cape Haytien. | spoke OF
the leading people, the families Of wealth, position,
education; not of the lower order Of citizens, who
might more appropriately deserve the unhatterng
designation. The weather. class is in no sense, 50
far a. intellectual culture is intended, uncivilized;
for they have chiefly been educated in the colleges of
France OF in the thorough and scientific educational
Institutions Of Chrstophe.
Ii there is no hatred between man ami wife
down in Hayti, the result of my investigation com
PEELED to believe that neither is there any Of that
holy and mme asursble contdence-that unfsihomabe
fsitl in the fidelity and honor of husband Of wife
which form the halo and glory of true marital rela-
tons. The 80 wives"-I mean the unmarried wives
are generally faithful told but they crushed
in heart without confidence IN the perpetuity Of their
existing relations, and AFRAID, thereorr-and this IS
point that the Free-LOyers oyerlook-to yield 10 an
affection which ever seeks abiding object. but
which, without il, If permitted to 90 forth, becomes
source of the acutest and profoundest sou to.tufes
Without perfect faith there can be no pure love-
fdene is and every where It's herald and perma
neni marriages whatever may be their occasional dis
advantages, powerful agencies in producing this
trust.
That there Is prostitution in Cape Haytien is
mort astounding declaration. prostitute l. wonsn
who sells her desires. There are very few women
among the lower class of the Cape Haytiens
who would hesitate for single second Ia
accept prostitutes price. II is true that there
are very few women, II any, who entirely sub
si-f on the wages of their crimes; but the i
that there much RIGHTEOUSNESS in the city per-
nit such exclusive profitable eriminality. There
but few white persons strangers who ever visit
,he mort. mno-Sihle therefore n