The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-13

70 which we need BOT direct the atteut'on sno es
II quite 70 receive that without any suggestion
OF odrs-atteuou earnest absorbing, serious and we
have no doubt sad Nor have we any apology " make
r laying such confession before them-she confession
Of soul without faith Of life without moral purpose,
of sentimentaity morbid 10 idotcy, Of passions wo
and shameless and OF an immodsty 20 unchecxea tnas
20 have here q woman without womsu's nrst IN
stnct Hardly In the worst productions OF TIE worst
school Of ncsios Is there subtle, ingenious
in the world Than shs grancatOn Of unbridsd passion
But the paper before US Is no nctor II is sober fact
that this the defence not merely Abe deliberately writ
ten the deliberately printed defence which young
wife and mother s3ers Of her conduct months ater shs
had abandoned her husband and her children for "the
qualification OF her lcve' with paramow. And there
fore we print It, fact Ike this be covered up
out OF sight such deveopement OF social wrong must
example 30 pernicious can have the least influence
Mary Quincy. the author Of this paper, is the
Parliament for Lynn Regis. Norfolkshre, England
They second cousins, he being the son Of the
q the n Of az
and she the daughter OF the late Richard Hamburg
Quincy, also . banker The two fathers were drst
cousins Samuel Quincy the banker and phlanthropst
Of London Elizabeth Fry the prison reformer and sno
Their sister the wife Of Sir Thomas Fowcl Baxton the
were the brother and sisters Of Joseph John Quincy
rhere Il hardly private family in the world better
AI This Some months s some scandal was
which culmn We'd, at length in ner e.opement with her
groom William Taylor. She gives 10 the world this
abandonment Of her home the publication Of such an
apology for that sct indeed the fact that any apology
ScS ssscSes 70 The Whole ssr are reasons wh
should not withhold 1t from the public. That 1t is
ul OF subtle poison do not deny Perhaps ii Ia 30
baneul that like some poisons II carries its own anti
dote. But, we repeat, when such apologies oderef
for the worst OF social SINS II Ii best that they appear
where there may be some counter action TO their deal
There are ,nsters In the moral world well in the
material Men are sometimes born who have genius for
AnA ukA lxx Ala tha alIouuu and
women are sometimes born possessed OF one single
INDUSTRIOUS passion that they know real life except in
its indulgence These are moral monsters. Neither in
teect ability, beauty, power Of will,
power OF charming can goze over the essential charac
Ter Of susS rDo.s Ia a,
to end, pervading like pungent essence Is one single
sentlment-"I love, love, and love- Her song
has other burden her usic no other tune q" love,
love- and love-" She believes In institution Of IN
that checks or binders the way of her desires She
scouts traditions of her childhood and the faith Of her
fathers when they hint at restraint Religion is thing
only 70 be ebed and scoicd at, II II limits lust She has
trust In God except that she may appeal to Him
no other sentiment in this long letter but the sentiment
of lust II sares out boldly 1t turks In hidden and un
for the husband she had deceived udicrous picture
presented of imbecle Jshnny the edge of chair
where the expression OF some lingering longing
inevitable, comes the fierce grow OF lussy
woman who had borne puny young to an
almost incompetent husband OF her paramour should
know from this letter If we did not know from other
sources that he was an animal of nobe proportions
younger than herself strong lmbed, OF good stature, full
Of blood and vgor She only say Of him thai he is
and she measures manliness by physical strength
the strength of those old Gourna and lie All, from
as enobe and eneminate and who knew no higher merit
than to ceave Paynim from skull TO mdrif Could she
have claimed Roman descent she would have sighed, in
like manner, for the Rape of the Sabues. Faugh!
never was the word love used to cover more licen.
tious sentiments As we read on, our fear Of
any possible harm from such document to any
creature not foreordaincd from the beginning OF
the world TO be prostitute, fades away. It's very
deceived or are 10 be led away by the scky
seDtmenality of Illicit passion, how weak aad BASE and
absurd it s 70 pretend that ever is or can be- enno
bling right No woman take In this poison To her
harm, when she how utterly the modesty of woman
Is forgotten No man drink Of such mixture when
seeing that that which the most depraved prize
woman, her womanly modesty, is burned up by Illicit
passion.
ment, is forgotten. william, though no doubt Justly
must have been more than ordinarily backward, for
it rs evident il was in her TO be demonstrative
swas our love told" Then comes such acs poor
stun an talk OF loving her as his "destiny," Of
"hopeess endless misery" and then long, fond kiss
All this sckening dd nuusctm but II we believe t-And
could not be told were IL not true-what may We not
believe, and dsbeeveS What credit can we give to the
date Of her uDfahfulnesss But that Is OF little moment
Observe how when she forgot that the ruest life is life
except that belonging 70 her OCCASIONAL attraction
overwhelmed her how cruelty and nsutngly she sneers
~ her HUSBAND now destitute OF AL mothery feeling IN
the illusions TO her children with Whist she speaks
OF friends whose at least should have made them
verenced, and who besought her to pause In her
headiong leap into the jaws Of that moral DEATH
with what hate she mathematics all the restraints
OF social le OF family ties OF moral ncucaons OF
gious observances that had held her back Con
sumed by nerce rage OF DESIRE she remember only
Yelowpashs philosophy that there rule, duty
In lfe but the pursuit Of happiness and rgets utterly
or remembers only With contempt and hate the hearth
she had made desolAe and the hearts she had al
broken. wo ceases TO be 4 woman when she for
gets how 70 pity No sadder picture than this be
shown 70 the tran gressor. The madness OF unhoy
and ignobie passion makes this woman rave.
One allusion in this letter may not be at
once un 1erstood. Mrs. Quincy Is herself an lille
gitimate child, and carried, therefore, In her
blood ne seeds of tn maduess Like produces like and
In no case ofteper than in that OF Legitimate chill
drcn the egitmscy often running from generation TO
generation. This only cnforccs the lesson which
fail 70 read In this domestic tragedy Mistakes
times perhaps oten made IN the choice OF husband and
wife. wretched undoubtedly Is the life OF those who
have committed such But 10 break those bonds
10 follow blindly passions leads TO misery OF
far lower depth and be defended only this
defends it, by the abnegation Of all moral ties and
sderatiops, and forgetulncss Of all that adorps aud
blesses life She not bound before she is not bound
but either party is free to follow any fancy
No more fatal mine than this be sprung under the
OF the social edihce No reasoning
such philosophy plausible. cOQ cover up