Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-12-11
Domestic HnfeIici,v.

How much more decent it would have
been for such parties as the Harrises, of
New London, and the Strongs, of New
York, to submit their petitions for divorce
to a Judge in chambers. than to have rush
ed into open court with the full history of
their mutual conduct and misconduct
since the i'll feeling began. The popular
sentiment is Visibly demoralized by
such improper eXpositions, and pri-
vate and domestic matters, which ought
to be kept from the public eye at all
hazards and sacrifices, are the subject of
the jeers of the multitude and the SCOTS of
those who are glad to discover that, after
all, there are few, If any, really less vulgar
than themselves. lthas apparently become
clause in the creed of such as, seek legal
eXtrication from matrimonial bands, that
their case must necessarily be tried by the
people; and they evidently suppose that the u
public press is established as much to an
swer their special ends in this respect as
tor any other purpose. In fact it is getting
| to be good deal of question, If many
| divorce suits are not brought as much tor
the sake of the notoriety begotten of O.
newspaper report as from any special
cause Of real infelicity or suffering. ."
Somebody has offered the not unapt sug-
gestiOn, that no clergyman should permit
| himself to marry a couple who present
| themselves for the ceremony, unless they
can each satisfy him that they have pre-
vioIsly graduated at one of the Courts; by
the employment of precaution like this,
as things now 90, there would be little diff
Guilty in putting a stop to this rapid decay
of the conjugal fabric, by the considerate
use of none but seasoned timber. Some
such resort will certainly have to be had, il
the epidemic continues. What there is in a
the times, the atmosphere, or the moon. to
break down the social dykes In this reckless q
| way, and threaten the whole field with sub
mefsion, no Social Science philosopher has
yet appeared to disclose. BY the road we
are travelling, a man will soon be scarcely
able to get a hearing unless he has had as
many wives (all living, however) as Henry
the EIghth-Or woman deserving of re-
mark except it can be said of her that she
has had as many lovers as Cleopatra or
What medicine to employ tor staying the Z
ravages of such a disorder, not even the /.
wisest of the Judges who preside over these
unhappy causes would presume to pre-
scribe. They know not q whit better than
the parties TO these suits themselves by the ,,
| potency Of what poppy, mandrag0ra, or
other dr0wsy syrup the bitterness aud the
| sleepless smart of these troubles may be al
layed. But they nevertheless would not .
hesitate TO break the bread of trulyfriend-
| ly, if not paternal, counsel among these in 4
creasing ranks of incompatibles, and tell
them by all means to avoid the publicity Of T
jury trials and the needless scandal ofVre-
ports in the papers. They would advise
them, If they recognized no lingering SEN
timent of self-respect in their own bosonls,
to give at least thought to the public NOR
ais and the community inswhiclli they still {;
expected to remain, If no such counsel :
would avail, ,rthen the very Journals which, :.
rehecessitated to spread abroad the shame
full record should apply the lash and point
the sc0rnfulcfing that those who persists "a
ed in achieving so vulgara nptoriety might
understand in advance, that if they. were
resolved in pouring this poison down the
popular throat, they should ifil Alli cases !
bemade TO drain the lees themselves. B6s-
ton POSI- -,l. q ,..-,ft.tsr -.aie