New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-12

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Isoie,d observation and experience daily show how M
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selection of matrimonial partners the dictates Of humanity ana
contract should be perpetual than either all oil the
R@,d That children born In these unhappy and unhallowed
connections the solemn aud important Of u
lawful birth the fruit of lust hut not Of love- aud 50 not o. God
dvey descended but from the earth whence proceed all man
Roired That next to the calamity Of such birth to tho
household where love not the law but where deord and BIT
abound stamping their demonac features on the moral
nature with I'll their odions pecuates thus continuing the
in weakness and dPayy that mus pc sure precursor
She proceeded TO speak 10 the resolution placing man
above all governments, all institutions. OF marriage
she sad if it is human institution, mere legal con
tract should be treated like any other contract }, -
to be made ut mature age, and faithfully kept. she
compared marriage with the harmonious operations OF
natural laws, to show that it is a merely human ana
alibe institution founded in interest OF friendship
and not in love. From it flow human wretchedness
and DESPAIR; cold fathers, unhappy mothers, ana nope
less children shivering around the hearth where the
fire of love has long ago gone out
She looked upon the family as the conservator OF
national virtue but what family was that where force
and hate ruled and crushed out hope and love Gan
that name be sacred where helpless woman lives IN
| l,pazed prostitution with man from whose touch
Sic shrinEs with shivering horror-where frightened
children fly shrieking from the blows OF drunken
| father You tell us that woman finds her only true
srbete at home. Then let us be supreme III those
| bomes-et MS make the laws which guard that inner
sanctuary of the heart. The beet interests OF the
State and the nation cry out against thousands OF ter
rible marriages. Our papers teen with accounts Oh
suicides of sad and desparng wives our courts attest
the inpossbility of happiness in such alliances.
| Tur TRrgUNr know asserts that these wreched
men and women are united by Divine authority, and
that man msst not separate them. But do not believe
that all wisdom will live aud die with Horace Greeley.
| IArplause and hisses. Had we been married TO The
Mr. York Herald instead Of The TRIBUNE have no
| doubt that Mr. Bennett would long SINCE have disc9v-
cred that there proper way OF terminating alli-
anc,s such as have described Mrs. Stanton sald that
marriage was far to woman than to man. he was
| in business abroad, travelling, could escape an I'M
pleasant home in thousand ways; but with woman 1t
was all in all for life They secluded and 1t was
only through husbands, fathers brothers. or sons that
thew could feel the pusations of outward human life.
Mrs Stanton noticed the divorce laws Of various states
TO show that the marriage contract was the only one
not limited by reason, the only one from which Tue
parties bad legal escape upon the failure oil the
promises of the makers she closed, Abruptly, Wi'h
| paDegyric on woman. "
| Mrs ASToIsETTE BRowS BLACKWELL said there
were two sides TO every question: and proceeded to
read resolutions declaring that marriage il the von.
ary alliance of two persons, and from the nature Oh
the must be as permanent an the NE OF ihe pries
| but that in no case has man or woman rgft 10 sur
| render bis individual freedom, physical, mental or
roraI Mrs Blackwell argued that the marriage rea-
ton can no more be dissolved than the relation OF pa
rent to the child and that the only question 49, whether
there is really marriage She protested III strong
| terms against the subjugaon OF woman to man, and
| pronounced those of her who submit as weak and
| helpless creatures.
| After a general discussion, the resolutions We're
| adopted and tie Convention adjourned sino die.