New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-11
WAE IN THE WoMAy SUFFRAGE CAMP

MRS. HENRY B. STANTON, FREE DIVORCE AND
FREE LOvE-T. W. HIGGIssoN, NEAT AND
DAPPER REPORMER AND AN AUTHORITY ON
CULINARY UTESsILS-HESRY WARD BEECHER,
MAN OF sTRAw-REFREsHING OPINIONS
or EACH OTHER.
Now there is % war in the Woman Suffrage
camp. For n time the enforced retirement Of Miss
Susan g. Anthony and Mrs Henry b. stanton from thor
assumed leadership Of the HewYcrk Suffrage party, aud
tho change In the tone and conduct in The Bsv0iaton
there hollow truce between that yivacious organ
and the decOrOus HOmdns Journal OF Boston, whereof
Lucy Stone. 4. ". Higgtnson. and Mrs. LiyermOre
are the prophets But 1t evident from the begin
ming the peace could be only truce. Mrs Henry
ssntons recent address in NewYork In favor Of Free
Divorce appears to have been the signal for the
renewal OF tho conflict although may well he suspected
from aspects Of the struggle that the amabe habit
cherished by this lady and Others OF saying guaut
things about their associates has led to hoarburnugs
The first open outbreak appears In the fOrn OF tren-
chant editorial Marriage and Divorce In The Woma"'
JoaraaI VI Nov. 8, from which extract as follows
Woman Suffrage meeting was heid In New-lork,
wbnt iS repsred in tho daily papers However
ports may differ IN other respects they agree painfully
In reference to the speech OF Mrs H. b. Stanton on that
| occasion Mrs stantOn's argument Was IN faVor
OF liberal marriage and divorce laws, which she
reported "a completely destroy the purity and su-
bility OF marriage, and 10 render divorce contingent On
| within, caprice, passion, or convenience. II MIS-
stantOns theory carried out TO It's logical results
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or divorce. Men would take wives and women Husbands
they fake house servants, or rent houses or enter
nence dissatisfaction opportunities Ia better them
seyrs from within caprice There would be no ne
| Stanton recommends All parties would make laws
for Themselves. There would be, In large number
end Ten" II cilren were born Of these Haisons-we
cannot call them maTfiages-we are at q ioe' 10 20
| worth anything to Themselves. to the world.
saGnes than her REPUTATION Of tie monstrous senti
mens which now generally attributed 70 her ana
But We did net intend 70 write q homily on THIS
snbcct-ouy 10 express our regret at MT, 5anIOh az
vOcacy OF these loose notions OF marriage ana dFOt We
consider hom demoralizng They tend u the asinte-
grafton OF society. They the sort 81 seed which, com
ng to blossom and fritage produced the awful Freneh
Revolution. The prevalence OF such ideas and tner
ues- mental and moral nature which We have In
herited an American people, and w9ald plunge US
lutte days Lcgtimatey carried out these theories ao-
rogate ln"rrage' ana We nav t tn So e i sns
| free lust
| This was the first blood for The Womans Journal
Tie Revolution OF yesterday next takes its innings. II
has a sarcastic communication accusing Mrs julia Ward
Howe Of heterodox speeches, and The Womons Journal
OF an editorial pronunciamieDtO ia favor of several
causes Of divorce. which amount practically 10 comics
Ia of the doctrine Of free love. Next 1t denies
Ne Won,ans Journals denial the charge that the fol-
lowing extraordinary proposition had appeared IN The
Homoa's Adr0eote organ OF woman suffrage in the
West and proves that IL did appear In paper which
has since consolidated with the very WOH0Hs Jour
nal which now makes the denial;
A writer In The WOrpGns Aduoe1te. the organ Of
suffrage in the West, lays down platform for tho
party. with this anorg other declaratonS; : Let the
| at TIE option OF the contracting parties"
This seems pretty clearly TO prove moderate amount
OF free love In al least OF the original elements that
constitute the present Boston composite wonaDs organ
But next, and most havorous OF all lie Mrs. Henry
stantons private publication wherein she treats
| cal Uaufr HiQcin danF an.
thOry on dress manners and culinary utensils, explains
the slavery under which his wife suffers and which he
Is incapable compromising and eucdates the char
acter OF Beecher rash observer might he tempted 10
the theory that the venerable lady IN Il-humor
when she wrote these piquant phrases; but nothing
could be more unjust She Is known 10 lose her
equable calm De swayed from the pOise Of her
ladyke fairness freedom from personality, and deyO
| ton solely TO great principles
Mr. HigginsoD boasts that under his leadership the
ranks cleared VI all Objectionable persons and
side issues and the reform clearly based on one idea
As and dapper refOrner and rBetorCaD, as an ex
cathedrs authority ia dress, manners, ana culinary
utensils doubt whether the earnest, suffering woman
hood OF THIS nation viii accept him their mouth
| piece 70 measure the depths OF ther degradation.
spo Sppr SssS when IN its order should
Invariably fret Had this curt cain, complseent
| gentleman ever belonged 90 on outraged, Osracised
class he might sometimes have been betraye ed INTO such
oyeroyings OF impotence and indignation ss arc quite
beyond his ideas Of dignity aud proprety to-day is
able" says Dean swift, with what patience and
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II "a lust az impossible for 10 understand the slavery
Of the women their hCsebods az II vas FOR shave
holders to understand that OF the African race on their
plantations aud just impossible for one ~ the other 20
step 10 eduoatOns elevation, ana en-
! franchiement, IL personal freedom.
CRAFTY priests and politicians hiding from woman
the real causes OF her hepiessnes, dependence, and
| hem of the wOman's movement IN England, no would
compel Josephine Butler Emily Faithful, and Lady Am
berIsy 10 take back for discussing this side
issue" think the Boston Society should make T. W.
H. President for lie Is really the moving spirit IN thht
Assoc atiOn Beecher IL merely man 81 straw without
the slightest knowledge Interest IN their plans or pu
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