New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-20
'Nen GrItaas 1aIlp Crestert,
HRS. GUREEYs LETTER.
From she New york Trsbune.l

&AE OF IWp GAtafeIl, Wffa lAsB year icit ucr Htas
&sads house, ana went to the continent of Europe
ssish her groom. The event caused deep sensa
ssen NOT only in England but in this country, where
sfe family il wei known. In the document which
ne snbjoin the runaway wife attempts 70 justify
Asar crime II IL letter written to female friend
&c hers IN England, and has hitherto been circna.
9ass In that country in pamphlet form.
Ara. Gprneys letter opens with an ailtsicn to
sser school days aud her passionate desire 70 be
freed from al restraint, moral Or physical She
lssn ailudes hsf marriage as species Of slavery
aad lays down
THE RgeESEKATE SOCIAL PLATFORM
It IL past now--gny living death Is over \ naFe
asfqsen between the universal nde1nnation OF the
&0Tid and my own sense Of right; not IN any sub
ysasc way but Iii The simple truthful way my nature
craved. lie down ii the evening and rise in the
szser4tinr for the sifst time since child blessing
gSogi for existence. Nothing can rob me of this
NOW but death alone. have that treasure to a
gnntaH's heart flsaa woman can alone understand,
Sass open avewsl Of the love that controls her
being With IT, part of it. all of it, is the man free
sran prejudice. hlled with every noble aspiration.
VAC y ~ object. Should 1, ! ask yon, have pre-
sagFed the reputation which the world accords to
Aar who, yielding to its forms, becomes daily the
living lie 1t approves
They who go On disposing Of hunian instincts,
hmsElan affections and human brains i'm their own
lszF. according to their owa sense of right and
Mrong, shoul1 so further; they should change
Eanirfaeeting houses and churches into monasteres
ard eeavents, and watch the religious aspirations
xsley would control By daily and nightly super
vision. Into sheiF homes they should introduce
knFega espionage, that the bodily instincts, which
FSsey hold in enforced compliance, may never have
Y ~ opportunity to assert the truth about them
setFess Heresy and adultery, the two exeommuni-
sak5ve words, which social life suspends over the
dBprnea head of q woman who thinks and acts
nntrary 60 its Enies Of action, have not that full
power and eject they are supposed to have. No
tfta
Body. and, if It were possible, of the mind can
Tzfeveat a woman from becoming The secret avower
Of her belief and Of her instincts. The excommu-
nscatiYe words do not restrain from either oense
Haey onIy develop that anquestionabe vice of wo-
mans Weakness hypocrisy. The brain, when inf
ael, InhdeI by its own proper organization, and
Icy who assail It's iRaelity strike vanity at the
Sod who made It, and implanted it in every new
N hern soul !; the body when inhdel to the connec-
Son aa " hicn It is placed, is so by its own proper
Instincts, and they who attempt to control it strike.
A aiazewises at lew of Its creation.
love TIE ONLY RELIGION,
When will uarrow-minded bgeted men learn
fhat the one absolute, controlling law Of d wo-
asan's nature is loye-fhat it is the only good and
desirable thing about q Woman-the only reliable
shiHg about her They can trust her, with her
hoTe, 70 live IN . house of prostitution; they can
not control hea without ii, blythe most absolute so-
Ciai 0stracisn.
and this love, what is it? It is a power present
fways in the world which, recognized by two like
yand the control, and in violation if need be, of
aaF other laE--4s my mothers love bound her to
ny father and my fathers love bound him to her,
dsre hat eyer exsted dsi Between n sG ts
human beings.
Auw long have I been in ascertaining= and yield
ing n1yseK mp To this divine law What wasted
years! What subjections derogatory to the yilest
AaAtufes What Hypocrisy. dishonoring to God
VII hat suffering have caused this man. assigned to-
alone, since that day which first in him re-
*segnised myself N
Il seems 50 long ago; ii seems far longer to me
zlan she tins makes it, it seems as if an eternity
atad Naled backward To that day.
Oh, had questionings of right and wrong in
Nat fathomless interval Of despair, far other far
deeper, than all had been taught or could be
taught by their ips-q -questionings that brought me
So fhe very brink OF death
nv should have loved hims Why do I love
him? What is # love in him? All this have
asked myself a thousand times, and there has
never been, can never be, an answer to all this
questioning
Net 4 NV now I'd you Why should / not love
sims What is there not to love in hims NY heart
saniy answers: What is there in me that should
he leged; that should know that Joy which in its
siniest moment makes all years of other time a
And these questions do we ask each other daily
and nightly forever.
And yet there is one reason, they say, why /
should not have loved him one word there is which
4Ile world places as impassable barrier between
sEs--a word that has never crossed my lips till now
I'd meaningless word and yet involving in their
eyes crime as great as that adultery which Icom-
mil just a. great, for both are equally meaningless
Us touching cur relation.
And that word Expresses the social position he
bore lne. Rather than have been his lawful wife
even, might have been Q kings mistress, or any
aohleman's paTanlpur, with less offense.
Aud 4, who was the reputable bawd of marriage
eitess was above him. !, a daily ohanse against
sleceney In obedience to the same social law that
you'd have forced him to lifelong humility? Was
= 1tap h How In fxyhaf f,xrory tir in
the abasemant OF my own weak, unnatural com
piiances below the vefiest nameless outcast Could
be above anything Was he not at least my
peSra He,who, il we leave too such vapd uiIes-
lions Of distinction. Is Hyperion to satyr Gem COM
dared ~ person with short, fat little body that
] ami.
have silently asked myself in his arms, when /
dared not soil our lips with their utteranee, about
These words groom and adnterer. Yet well j
knew tiiat they had no relation to our love-that
kiaey were bnt Words-that true soul no social
contamination dedles or degrades--that nobility
uurecognized aud virtue an outcast, wherever
placed, are etegnally the same.
After reference 10 her mother, and the fact thai
#he Gurney, received these delightful teach.
5ngs 1t the maternal fount, we have lengthy ana
elaborate attack upon the whole Quincy set, and
u particularly severe upon The system Of consan.
gainsols marriages, which, it appears, prevails to
sial extent ID the family. Mrs Gurney cites
six Or eight Instances besides her own, Of cousins
intarmarrying with the cousins. Then comes an
account Of her sanderings after o man like the
aercesof the age Of chivalry, men who never set
up h tue clerks STOOL &C men with stalwart
forms. y with an immense deal more Of the same
kind Of nonsense.
now AND WHEN SHE FOUND THE HERO
It was not SO hard conquest. Myrequirements
were simple and natural. was surrounded bv
everything unreal and artificial. / demanded the
societs OF q living man, free from the education
and Influences Of family holding all these foolish
Eeafiss that deprive of the real enjoyments Of
sfe -6ne who could look upon water as water and
drink II without q homiy look upon food not as a
subject OF prayer, but Of mastication- the
sunshine and air as sunshine and air, and talk with
aleH and women as such without shrinking from
sless ~ heteroa0x, or love them as orthodox loo
@eli--one who could listen to music and find Ii
pleasant to the ear, and not be exercised whether
Sod intended ii should be agreeable-who could
contemplate picture not as engine of the devil
Aut work of art;-one who could enjoy aIi de-
sights as requirements Of NATURE and not as sub
5eets Of deep concern. In Mr. Taylor found such
b man. He Looked upon 81 these things as i'll.
decd, also saw thenl5 but with him it was not q
matter which cost him questioning. He knew it
sll without thought, and without education al thev
saN it. He lived in tie intutiye knowledge Of it,
tn the Interchange Of kindred thoughts about
these thugs we lived day by day, UNTIL uuconsci-
hns