The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-21
The Free Love Business.

The world is still moving. little while
ago the great grievance OF the advanced
Radicals OF the North was African slavery,
and the ''poor slave" was made the most Of;
in and out Of season, until, as consequence
Of the war, slavery was abolished forever.
Next upon the carpet was the. bestowal OF
the suffrage upon the freedmen, Of the South,
and; this accomplished, woman suffrage be-
came the rallying cry of the agitators OF
the nation. This last movement is un-
doubtedly making Roadway. Indeed, it has
more to fear. from the zeal Of its friends than
the passive opposition Of its enemies. The
whole affair is looked upon as good joke,
and Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony, and
their petticoated supporters; are caricatured
to the hearts contents Of all who think that
woman has no soul above darning socks
and no brain bigger than q shirt button.
Yet the sturdy danes who make speeches ip
the intervals of nursing. the baby, and write
leaders while young Hopeful tries hard to
choke himself with a very chubby fist, are
honest and earnest. They think the ballot
necessary for the protection OF woman,
necessary for her elevation, necessary for
the maintenance OF even social rights and
manly equality. This was their haltiDg
place o little while ago, but the corps OF
lady warriors have gone q step farther, and
promise to create revulsion of feeling
which will cad the whole work and destroy
the little favorable feeling which had made
its appearance.
As it was indispensable that the emancipa-
ton OF the. colored men should precede their
enfranchisement, 80 it is now deemed proper.
that woman should be emancipated, before
they receive the boon OF the ballot. The
Revolution, the organ Of the New York
branch, now speaks OF the suffrage move
meat as very, email affair. What 1t is
working for, it says is the general emanci-.
sspatlon" OF woman which means, accord
ing to Tie Nation, the abolition Of marriage,
Mrs Cady Stanton declares this is her end
and aim, and everything short Of this is
fitldlesticks! The. Homan'S Advocate, the.
Western organ Of the movement, has sug-
gested kind Of compromise, in the shape
Of 'limited marriage" or marriage for three
years, the contract to be renewable in
definitely at the pleasure Of the parties. In
the case put by tie writer "a woman,) an in
terval OF year is inserted between the
expiration of the first contract and the for
nation of the second, to enable the woman
to go to college and look about her. She
takes the baby with her, the father paying
her for its "board," on the "ground that it
amight prove more OF care to him than 1t
"would to her, as she had been in the habit
.of looking after its personal wants" The
Modern Thinker, which touches on things
uninterrupted yet in prose or rhyme pro-
pounds the theory that women OF high
character, that is, women with "yiews, will
ere long have children at their pleasure,
without any formal connection in the nature
OF marriage, and few such women having
begun it, that the practice will spread:
This is what the woman's suffrage agita-
ton has already come to. Setting out with
the: preteuce that women must hare the
privilege OF voting, the leaders Of the party
now insist that woman should be permitted
and. encouraged to live in open adultery.
Free love is to be followed by the free ballot;
the dry bones OF politics are to be tricked out
in the tavdry robes Of the courtesan. This
is progress with vengeance. And what