Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-02-14

our social and family life has sunk,
that the daily papers man takes into
his house are filed with advertisements
Of Theodora's s ''detestable precautions"
or the means Of committing murder in
security
50 universal has this become with rs,
that il is one Of the marked things that
first strikes a foreigner on coming
among us. The very last book Of traV-
els in America contains extensive com
ments on this, az the most atzllEing and
unaecouutabla feature Of AmeTicau So
eiaI Iifef Tzbere has. probablv. never
/ been so rapid and thorough corruption
/ in this respect among any people. And
I the penalties OF preuatuF6 old age, loss
Of health and beauty, Of grace and
strength, and an early death, or lin
4 gering death in life, are eXacted for all
/ this, releutlessly and our wise ply
/ sicfaus talk about ttthe delicasy OF
I Am ericau women" and "the evils OF
thin shoes %
/ There are those bold enough and hsH-
/ est enough, at least we are happy 70 say
/ to speak out, and call things BY tna1F
right names, and proclaim the change
I less truth that the laws Of nature and
/ OF God are not to be trampled on with
I fmpun1ty. The foreign immigration ID
all, that to-day, increases the popula-
I tiou of the country. We owe 1t 10 the
4 healthy hearty European mothers, who
/ find health and happiness in obey1ng
/ the laws Of God and bearing the bur
I dens Of life, that there are still, in this
/ land, men to do its work, and women
I to share their lot, and the curse OF
childlessness is not the common curse
/ among Us.
4 On the terrible sin which is revealed
to be so common, the public conscience
/ is dumb, as it is on so much else
/ There are thousands who practice lt
who ars 90 utterly ignorant Of any
frrsa "a IA
/ of Church to educate this deprayed
/ conscience. It may be "a delicate"
matter but delfeacT IS hardly an eX-
cuse for letting people go to ruin In the
practice Of a most horrible crime 1t
is really time to make deHcacy yield
for a moment to decency ana righteous
ness.
siBut it cannot be preached upon. y
We rather think IT can Indeed, we
are very sure that ii must be preached
upon, in some shape; and we had sup
posed that vas precisely what Priest
hood exists for-tO see the people do
not corrupt themselves in utter blind
| ness and Ignorance. If there is no way
in which people can be instructed in
such q matter as this, cur methods OF
administration need revising.
we can hardly take ground like
this. People must not be let to run
blindlH 60 their own ruin. The thing
Will be preached upon emphatically a.
last by the OUTRAGED laws OF too ana
nature IN a way the whole world shalI
mark, unless we find some way to
preach upon It, and that very effective
ly and c0uvincfngIpy
It is a strange thing So see, among
Christian people, the FedGlest crime OF
heathenisn revived Z SmOng the young
est people, the crime Of worn out and
dying nations; and to see the means Of
its commission unblushiBgty adVeT-
tised in so-called "religi01s" papers,
even, and to know that the confession
Of its commission is a. jest on the lips OF
matr0nsf
$50 children and the fruit Of the
womb are an heritage and git that
eometh Of the Lord.
"EiIze as the arrows in the hands Of
the gianb, so are the young people.
"Blessed is the man that hath his
culver full Of them. They shall not be
ashamed wnen they speak with theiF
enemies in the gate. ."-AaesTicG's Ottsrch-
man.