, 1860-09-29
THE UNlTART HOUSEHOLD.
Statement Of r. f. Underwood

We copied, q fcw days sgo, from tho NC"
York 1ime,, an <xposs Of the licentiousnesa And
beastiallty said to prevail in the UnltazJ House.
hold New York, Of which E. F. Uuderhill was
tho Chisf. Ar. q. replies iu i two column let
ter in the paper in which the charges originally
appeazed; aad in justice to him and tha in
mates Of his boarding house, we copy 10 much
of his ansxer as relates to the accusation Of FREQ
love and o,her immorslity:
1shall not attempt to reply striafim 70 the
statements which The 1tn.ks has thus given to
the world about IN est4blishnnent whose prinei-
pies arc truthtu!ly stated shove. will sta:e,
however, thzt from beginning to end the astic!o
il 6lied With f4lsehoods.. In reference 70 the
enlJ history Of The - called Free Love League,
which was pseudon7m applied BY persons
outside of It, the article Is fer lete with mis-.
statements. The prrjscs of the Unitary House.
hold wIs nezer discussed in "psirsss" meet
inas prior to its organic Ation, nor At any meet
ioR3 whatever.
Ia existence was not kept secret, sud even
tho writer Of tbs first expose, as il is called,
Was informed By me, a informed scores OF
othere, Of tho project, and what hoped to &C
eonpl;shbI it, weeks before IT'S publication. So
iar from the co-operators being made up Of
those who were identified with the "Le,eue''
already mentioned, only three cut Of thirty in
mates of the house had ever been present or
knew anything OF it. The positive assertion Of
the writer thas the statement Of its being ran
experiment in ehosp living WIS intended to
cloak tho real dergn and purpose Of the enter
prl-e," which design and purpose Is 1ubse-
q1ently set forth In accusations Of adrlsery,
tosnica.lou, lust, the debaushing of children.
universal license, incest, abortion aud general
depsavisy, is Al asroclous lie; aud :usther, that
any faundstion exists for such wholesale ac.
cusation of the worst crimes against the it,
ma nf fhA HnrRahn14 + $n kn
false and malignant libel upon the character of
hundreds Of IL respectable and, 10 use con-
ventional term, conservative" nefaous as can
ba found in the city Of New York. In the case
OF q gentleman who WAS publicly married to the
daughter Of leadink Socialist" by the m,n-
member, ihs author Of the libel grossly falai-
hea the entlro matter. As an appropriate ee-
qutl to tha Abelous statement, I would add that
neither the gentleman or lady were free. loyErs,
aor were there from tho beginning to the end
Of the experiment, a fcore Of persons ont Of
with free love. Nor va. it 4ntiest often alla-
ded to In the houte. do not deny that in sew
erai instances partiee, apparently respectable,
became inmates OF the house, who afterwards
we're discovered to be Of bad character, Is
there hotel in the United States Of the same
proportions which has not been similarly im-
posed uponf and the remedy which other ho.
tells and boardiug-houses apply in such casss,
applied when the fac. ecsme sppa. ent, namely,
the expulsion Of the parties. But certainly,
Mr. hdltor. the conduct which oecasioued ths
raoat scandal in the Household during lis whole
history, and which wis admitted by Ill to hare
been tne most outrageous, was the following:
a man in druoken trenzg, in the presence Of
biz family aad servants, knocked his wife down,
dealing several powerful b1ows, and folio we'd up
tn,a demonstration by chokirg her until she
vas reacued from bis grasp by the Interference
Of others, 70 much bruised that she was unable
to appear for several days in ,he public apsrt.
naents OF the house. Several families demanded
Of me that he should BE- expelled. Ont Of s,n-
pathJ for those dependent upon him, did not
comply with the demand. Tnat man, Mr.. Eli
tor, Is the source Of the libel which has been
spread before the w:r1d in the T.mts. There
neues was " simnltaneeu stampede Of twenty
families from the house." or Ct any other nua..
ber. In Msy last, five families fels the house 10
70 to the country, two Of them, to ny kEowl-
edge, with the Invention Of re:urnirg ia the fall