The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-12-02


ment which had become uproar. Cries
of Put him out" greeted him, the
audience evincing decided prefer
ence for Mrs. BROKER. Mr.. Tilton
stated that it was right enough lady
should speak-here Mrs. Brooker said,
8. | am her sister, Mr.. Tilton contin-
ued, ~ would myself ask her to come
down on the platform and address
you [Cries of " Yes" "yes"], for l
believe in free speech, but MrssW ood-
hull must be protected also in the ex-
ercise of that right, and shall again
introduce her."
Mrs. Woodruff then continued her
speech, now very excitedly and at
race-horse speed, as if she feared that
something would again interpose.
Free love, she said, will be an in
tegral part of the religion of the flu
ture. The legitimate sequence of So
cial Freedom is Free Love, or freedom
of the affections. "And are you free
lover? 2" "YEs, / AM free lover !
Loud hisses.l l have an inalienable,
constitutional and natural right to
love whom I may, to love as long or
short period as | can, to change that
love every day if l please renewed
hissesl, and with that right neither
you nor any law you can frame have
any right to interfere; and | have
further the right to demand free and
unrestricted exercise of that right, and
it is your duty not only to accord it,
but, as community, to see that | am
protected in it. ] trust that | am full
Iy understood, for / mean just that
and nothing less! Why did Mrs. Fair
kill Crittendeng Free love was not
the inciter. 1t was because she be-
lieved in the spirit of the marriage
law: that she had better right to
him than Mrs. Crittenden, to whom
the law had granted him and, rather
than give him up to her, to whom he
evidently desired to go, and where,
following his right to freedom, he did
go, she killed him. Gould more per-
feet case of the spirit of the marriage
law be formulated ? Most assureedly
no! If Mrs. Fair had let him go,
when he desired such freedom, would
it not have been the more Christian
course, and would not Mrs. Crittenden
have loved her for SO doing? / tell
you, my friends, that you have taken
hold of the wrong end of this business.
have better right to speak as one
having authority in this matter, since
it has been my province to study it in
all its variouslights and shades. When
l practiced clairvoyance, hundreds,
ay thousands of desolate, heart broken
men came to me for advice. Kisses,
cheers and laughter. Some may think
that it, is better to keep the semblance
of husband or wife, even if it be not
lover. Such is not my philosophy.
I address myself to such as have souls.
If you belong to the other sort, take
advice of Tombs lawyer, and not OF
me.
"I have learned that the first great
error most married people commit is
in endeavoring to hide from each 9th
er the little Irregularities into which
all are liable to fall laughter], since
nothing is so conducive to continuous
happiness as mutual confidence. Ii
our sisters who inhabit Greene street
and other filthy localities choose to re-
main in debauch, and our brothers
choose to visit them there, they are
only exercising the same right that we
exercise in remaining away, and we
have no more right to abuse and con-
denim them than they have to abuse
and condemn us for exercising our
rights our way. tStorms of Kisses.
But we should by our love and kind
ness endeavor to prevail upon them
to desert those ways. Let me ask OF
husbands if they think there would be
1000 women of the town supported
by them, if their wives were ambitious
to have an equal number of men OF
the town to support, and for the same
purposes. l tell you, nay. The good
women of one of the interior cities oil
New York some two years since or
ganized movement to put down pros
titutiOn, and tried by stratagem to
find out who visited houses of prosti-
tuition, in order to ostracise them
They pushed the matter until they
found their own husbands, brothers
and sons involved, and then suddenly
desisted, and nothing has since been
heard of the eradication of prostitu-
ton in that city. Laughter. The
same experiment tried here would re.
suit the same. What can be more
terrible than for delicate, sensitively
organized woman to be compelled t.
endure the presence of beast in the
shape of a man, who knows nothing
beyond the blind passion with which
he is filled, and to which is often add
ed the delirium of intoxication Mer
who, before marriage, preserve deli
cacy and regard for womanly sensi
tiveness and refinement, too often af
ter marriage show themselves in theil
true character, and prove to be little
better than beasts; and thousands o
pallid cheeks, sunken eyes, distorted
imaginations and diseased Junction.
testify to the truth of what I say"
At the conclusion of the lecture til,
vast audience remained, shouting fo
Mrs. Brooker, who finally stepped t,
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