New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-28
SPLITTING THE MARRIAGE TREE.

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marriage tree is simply not to be split.
If it be-, no matter about circumstances,
the sparks and splinters that fly, that burn
or MAIN, smash or squelcb, are iegltl
mately homicidal, and
"The world will be the better for it."
That is to say, although the MARI
age be treated at home as diabolism
out and out, and the stronger partner
tread its frail tendrils under his big feet
till the other forgets ali about its tradi-
tional holiness, yet if she proceed to split
the tree and splinters, and sensations fly
till murder be done, it be not murder,
thou wilt note, but lawful killing-so that
the prevalence of wife killing, and its
spread since the recent verdict, will alarm
only weak minds not receptive of the new
ism, which will have its place in the en-
cyclopedia of marriage as soon as Its ap-
propriate name is got at.
The freelove tenets have exhausted the
maledictions of everybody not concerned
in them. Home folk are united in the
conviction that love has no business to be
free, lacking the training and discretion OF
a sound minded MAJOR; and that society
should incontinenty squelch it. But of
the endless excavations that free-love has
received from every quarter the slightest
remove from its own, the world is equally
tired. Now it is breaking out with the
mania of wife murder, which, as an escape
cock, carries off the accumulations of ami
"Reminiscences that cover the spiritual
skies from mortal sight, leaving only moral
visions of their beatitudes. The holiness
OF this marriage tree Is convertible, depend
ing for its condition upon what is contem-
plated respecting it. In brief it will bear to
have anything done to it but splitting.
Skull and other less metaphorical
splitting, will follow that in all proba-
bility. And then it would be but penalty
by the higher law FOR pitching into the tree
with an implement sharper edged than the
aforesaid feet, that rend its little love
sprouts and do away with such Unnecessary
adornments as remove it from the big
world, which at times almost forgets it is
wholly its affair. What sublime relief to
legislative assemblies, and to courts of
justice, to have no business to interpose
when the splitting of the tree is by such
higher doctrine, or the new axiom,
avenged by the immediate and sanguinary
splitting of the skull-or of some skull
that is to say, of what gender such skull
De, or whether wifes or some other,
married CT single skull, shall make
no difference; and we shall have no
such farcical entertainings, as Juror look
upon the prisoner, prisoner look upon the
juror-will you be tried by this JUROR
Tried, indeed Be it the law or the new
moral axiom, which into be the same
thing, that when the tree is sought to be
split by the refractory marriage member
who does not appreciate the holiness of
marital thrashings and, with statute law
OF without, has the temerity to try to do
the splitting, that then it shall not be
done nor the tree split in any manner, ap-
pearances and judicial DEGREES to the con-
trary notwithstanding, but that the axiom
attic other marriage member shall lawfully
proceed, by such splitting as the world
has always recognized, to destroy said
allegorical tree, leaving no baseless fabric
OF metaphor even, behind.
This has been muchly the drift of oper-
atoms, since the late verdict, in New York
and New Jersey. 1t might be difficult to
say which of these stroug-minded sover-
eighties is ahead in the striving, so far.
Broadwell has given the former
particular note, by declaring judi
cially, when asked who did the ex-
and in the teeth of the lower
law functionary-who proposed to
make the expurgating of the Broadwell
tree by the pistoling of the feminine life
element of that product, an offence that 1t
was his, meaning Broadwel's, business.
Of course, New York! else what was the
use of Acquiring Mcfarland? Ifevery one
is to be called to judicial account as
before for squelching lives under the
legally recognized ism that waits for some
name to be called by, then New York
Mac was acquitted in vain, and prisoner,
look on this juror" and vice versa, were
idle exercises of vision. Or, New York
take another of the illustrations of the late
verdict-the Halloran case; the grubbing
and destroying of the tree by means
the masculine boots, after the feminine
attempt to split. If the cerem onial farces,
called Investigation and trial, are to be
persisted in by old fogy functionaries, OF
what use to the world was the late verdict
at all? Fair play, old sovereignty treat
the ganders all alike, and do not make
some of them into apostles of new creeds,
while you do the others as they do the
geese.
But New Jersey is not yet to be consid-
cred second best in this most moral strife.
One of Its Quarter Sessions, at Hudson
City, is trying to stem the tide from New
York, in the trial OF one Charles Shultz,
who split the wien of the other half in
the front basement of the domicil "where
two OF their daughters were sewing, and
where, the first they knew, the wife and