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


hen tk.,e ia NO hatred between man and wife, psis
o,i,rs no stabbms., the absence Of which things
Ssub.less msk.s the Cape Hayden se~spspers very
du reading. bat st hss its advantages Then there
DO prosstsisB there, ssd consequsny none Of tscss
fearful di,e~es which grow on, Of it, and which are
estirg out the very vitals Of Our civilized nashood
And zen, moreover, VIII warrant you there s oou'-
psrayely little Of that horrible sef-polu.on in Cspe
H.ytisr which IL the csrse Of artificial
Manner AID which lie fast turning our Young people
into pulpg iypcobohdriacs or rsvirg nsdmen. These
vice, grow out Of the enforced suppression Of honest
natural wait under the eIigences Of q corupt SOCIAL
order they are natures grOans and means ossngash
70 be delivered from the domination Of human mbe-
city, and made free with the ongpronised freedom
Of the sons Of God. But for Of sense like yon
10 take your stand upon fssering dung heap Ike
New-York and raise feeble ebuckle Of triumph over
the comparatively pare manners Of Cape Hsyten,
simply because those manners are notwithstanding
consss strikes me ssyery funny. But truce 70 the
solemn Kr. Redpath.
claim an enlarged freedom Of Divorce exclusively
the interests Of Msrsge You reply thai, if had my
will in this respect nearly everybody would seek do
Hyersnos from their present ties. What does tais
provei Does il not show that your boosted marriage
cepton shelter for the grossest fraud and dsehood'
And this tie permanent, Interchangeable aspect Of
Msrisgei deny it. believe in Marriage. be-
Hevs that men and women s,e capable Of a pure and
perfect reciprocal devotion on earth as well as in
Heaven; bat then believe that they have this caps-
city only by virtue Of what ia Divine in them, namely,
their self hood or sentiment Of freedoms and not by
virtusof what is urdvire in them, namely their mere
i If Nhii n an
irfrm conventional social organzstio Give,
then, cay, free play to these higher in
stncts in man, which quicken his self respect,
and insure bis being freely good Our curse at present
is that We utterly void Of serespec and hence do
not look upon ourselves "a the true, aud only true,
tabernaces Of God. How shall man learn to respect
himself who perceves society, as currently organized,
to be at war with him, who percsiyes his own Divine
brth1sht Of freedom rsbtusy betrayed TO the clown
ISL necessities Of our existing presthOods and govern
msnts How shall respect myself when find the
law Of my action dating not from my own spontaneous
taste attraction bat exclusively fromthe necessities
Of certain established institutions, which, AN firmly
persuaded no longer 30 me or any other humsn being
so Of good but on the contrary great deal Of harm
may be, in reference to those Institutions, good
citizen Sc compared with other that is to
organization rather than bad subject Just as one
horss is conventioDally good in comparison With
another, by virtue Of his superior docity to bis mas
erswi But the best hors for our uses lie nothe best
for hi, own nsure is never the best horse absoutey
Sothe bsstcitizeni after ell, avery mesger man. lhsye
been familiar all my life with rreproachsbis citizens
with men of fsultless morality, who were without
fpsIk Of what call manhood. What l call manhood
the power of doing the proper thing in all times and
places, spontaneously, or without the base Incentives
Of hope and fear. l hold that every man has this
power simply by virtue Of his creation, and thst our
entire history is but restless provdsntisl effort to-
ward its ultimate complete enfranchisement from the
bondage Of nature and CUSTOM Let us then mount at
once to the ideal of human Life and action. Let Us re-
lease man from that stheistic bondage ne has been
under to bit and bride, which perpetuaIy desrsdes
him in his own eyes and lie will instantly bring forth
the divinest fruit especially in the conjugal sphere.
He has been prey TO temptation here above ALL De-
cause here above a.. the only force which God has i'm
planted in the human bosom adequate to resist temp
t.ion namely affection, has been habually betrayed
and .upsrseded in the nteres Of mere csrna prudence
or outward expediency. Make the marriage relation,
then one Of pure affection, far az may be, and you
instantly remove all those temptations which now eI-
let TO adultery and so free society from an everlasting
liability to such oGt1sges lately disgraced our ns-
tionsl metropolis.
You dissert from this view Of Marriage You hold
il TO have 10 properer sanction than force. You sd
nit that affection is good to nsugurste the relation,
but that afterwsrd it properly obeys the regimen Of
force. OF course, your view proceeds upon the as
sumption that man is the helpless SUBJECT of society;
that the private life il essentially serve TO he public
rsr- IL L. M
be esmsble only so far as If promotes consciously or
unconsciousy private decency, or leads every ndivd
nal TO selfrespect honor the individual worth OF
Mr.. or Mrs. Siokles infinitely above that Of these
United States. doubt not that the heart of God
beats with tenderer yearning 10 that crushed And
outraged woman than it does toward all the pompous
priests and pretentious politicians whose brilliant say
pgs and doinss TIE TRIBUNE has chronicled for the
past year. Are you not ashamed, Horace Greeey, 70
have psraded in your oelumrs the unwomany contes-
zion of guilt Trung from that poor crestuTes abect
terror! never felt my humanity so insuted as BY
that easily publication. If there were one particle oil
sympathy with Christ 10 orr churches we should
make amends to his violated spirit, by covering that
covering and desecrated form henoeforth with endless
forgiveness.
But am depressing. grant you that wherever my
private aims and interests are hostile to good fellow
chip, or involve anothers damage, | am bound 10
submit Bnt when my interests are in harmony Win
those of other mep what them Then society, or the
public hfe is bound to ne s bound to promote
the private life. For example, my natural appettes
ard passions are intrinsicsly in full harmony with
those of all other men, becsuse they are Gods exclu
ave hardwok. Society Is bound accordingly TO pro-
vide ne fit satisfaction of these things My aatura
powers Of mind also, and my faculties Of action Of
- 80. ba;co . div;na an1ovment cannot involve