The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-04-18

llnenC Danger That the pOhclChi cOn-
rol of those States will pass into the
ands of the Republican party. We y,
ave no faith in the success Of any
forts to shut the negro electment 3
ut Of politics. 1t is the part OF wis
ON frankly to accept the situation,
nd get beforehand with the Radicals
n gaining an ascendancy over the I
legro mind aresG@
FASHIONABLE MURDER.
BY REV. JoHNToDD, D. D.
Nothing but an Imperative sense
If duty could induce me to pen what
am about to write. Letters from
different sections of the country, and
rom physicians too, are so urgent
that / should write on this subject,
that l may not choose. have no
fear but what l am about to write
will be read but l wish it might be 1
pondered. l am about to
speak, and plainly too, of the prac-
ticc of producing abortions. If any
ofmy lady readers shall complain of
q want Of delicacy, beg thom to-
three facts: first, that
the practice is fearfully common );
second, that probably they are every
week associating with those who are
guilty Of the practice; and, third,
that Is per cent. of oil the abortions
are caused and effected by
females. What then Of delicacy2
IT is well known that families Of
children, Of this generation, in New
England, do not average but three
and half'each. I speak of our native
population. With foreigners it is diff
fercnt, and the cause of the difference
will soon be mentioned. By the adj
vertisement Of almost every paper,
city and village, in the land Offering
medicines to be effectual from what
shameless and notorious great estab-
lishmente fitted mp and advertised as
places where any woman may resort
to effect the end desired by the con-
LESSONS of hundreds of women made
to physicians, who have been injur.
cd by the process, and by the almost
constant and unblushing applications
made to the profession from "women
in all classes of society, married and
unmarried, rich and poor, otherwise
good, bad or Indifferent" to aid them
in the thing, do We know Of the sire
quency Of the crime" ad
AS d class, the medical profession
have q noble stand. The desolation
have pecoIno vu fearful that, as the
guardians of human life, they were
compelled to do SO; ara society owe.
q debt of gratitude to III. II. r. Stor
er, of Boston, especially, for his pow
erful arguments, lucid arrangement
of facts, patient Investigations and
earnest and eloquent remonstrances
Among the writing on this subject
tho little work entitled uWhy not,
*is "book for every woman" and ]
wish every woman might carefully
read it. But the medical profession
cannot arrest the evil, and they tel
me they need and must have the NOR
al power of good people to aid them
even now, as have reason to fear, ali
the profession are not beyond the
reach Of personal appeal, or an enor
nous fee, and 1 do wish that every
such an one could see that tee
steeped in blood, and crimsoned with
shame, cannot bring blessing tc his
family. gtln
am sorry to learn from undoubt-
ed testimony, that the practice is far
more common among Protestants
than among Catholics-Dr. Storel
says, Infinitely moro frequent" and
this accounts, in part at least, for
InuciI lnrgor tamihes OF; the Irish
Catholics. There is nothing in Pro.
testanism that encourages, or con-
hives att, but there is vast ignorance
as to the guilt Of the thing. But in
the catholic church, human life is
guarded, at all stages, by tho confess
sional, by stern announcement and
by fearful communications. The
Rule in the Catholic church is unben.
[ding. ii'
"Seiulam operam dent Sacerdotes,
ut quantum pet-unt, impediant illud
salus quo abhibitis chirurgicis instru-
mentis infans in utero interficitur.-.
Omnis fo9tns quorumque tempore
gestationis editus baptixetus, vel alb
solute, 81 consset de. vita vel sub
couditione, pisi evidentcr pateat cum
vita carere." l.i.ss.i
Tho Roman Catholic Bishop oil
Boston says, efoquently and power
fully, sThe very instant conception
has taken place, there lies the vital
germ Of a man True, it is hidden
in the darkness Of tho womb, and it
is helpless, but has sacred rights
founded on Gods law, and 80 much
tile more to be respected because it
is helpless. 1t may be already a liv-
ing man, forpeither mothers nor ply
sicians can tell when life is infused !;
they only tell when its presence is
manifested, and there is wido differ
s"WHY MOTT" A book for every wom-
an. The Prize Essay to which the Ameri-
can Medical Association awarded their
gold medal for 1865: By Haratio ROBIN
by order OF the American, Asso-
citation. Papar covers, PIP. 81, Boston:
Lee a Shepherd. Price. 80 cents. THE
publishers will send 1t by mail on receipt
of price,