New-York tribune., 1871-09-25
TILTON REBUKED.
LOOSE MARITAL NOTIONS DENOUNCED,
A LETTER TO THEODORE TILTON By A "wohANs
AOv0CATRn
Rton m OAtoaae (eNrNal, S.pt 2e.


FrO~ TAs OAtase yew~at SYt o.
DEAR SIR :, You have recently SAID, IN I@
Golden Age hold that love- and love only ccnstntes
SOno when tas Ove and SoDOr end sSs eC1traG:
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crime is tho death Of the contract. That fact
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will hardly Be able 70 prove golden fruit OF new oSs Se
properly ESSs md your sssnen
Tess s ugly truth promise 70 pay cues nSS Snpor dies
when fhe loving and hOnoFnG finally cease The bright
honor Of the promise being gone It: vsrac come.
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treatment Of woman 70 ses rid q tine s 90 Tst rid cf
the contract by the method Of DlsHoSoEi ~ .r. .,..
take in hand tho case which you commonly Pos nSc no
%ors permit the law Of snd eSs1sia me e tSs
woman whom On bnScS SS @Se M" SsT ss slave omit part
your sentence which does not AFFECT the case W b"t
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the Land to hold you your free promise ana saCrea
SS1e You 6S force rec" and sandcuns You woman
against your VIM 1su, 6o%;parason HSS; 4sa Is
s.verT the ssTes free and honorable contaeti II
not then there Is not tot OF reason N & .ne
with woman made upon iree end urgent desire freely
aud made % reSoS and law religion for the
reality OF the bond and law for the cover ana Iofm Oh
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the law nor the law intrudng one hars breadth upon
the religion. but both agreeing TO seal contract the
most firm and sure as It is the most ce ana oenueae'
Tns matter Of some other relation than marriage Of
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MORE the world is wide, and hell thereof sum
consciously and deliberately but good and true mar s
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YOU to your own free and solemn contract. And your
for refusing to have te 0Tm of aGMS Sd % Ss s
OF honor 1t is not that you would have religion alone
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"love should be like religion. free from mandate ma
SSnerston ss viii d this sentiment with ne gold"
The sentiment has been done in brass sufficiently long
the next generation should make Of it golden calf
the sentiment Sf love free & to yEaSH nVot nons
but rascaty For you demand freedom 70 SiOste & onS
2s proese %e ~ as 1S Well a: " legal You only
to have the law you alone u order that may leave
the
10 make plain the Infamous character OF the license to
yOmrscf; and that Is the reason which the woman you
wiSh to pnt away had TO require Of you contract
marriage You desired her to give you, irrevOcahly
that Of and Of Ten o Is ne Ser es
OF marriage which once given are forever given There
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uOnstraints OF solemn promise OF unchangng ndelty
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tity, requires, and must always require, the
Of 0GRS5 S@ehsnsHs %S aGey can give you
not mean love and honor and propose marriage which
nds and an SSco Of WEAKLY S%1 sC
the winning TO enjoy rs 80 much more to the average
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sna os do Exist the necessity
woman Of law give form TO the fact or the fancy OF
iiaSe Law viii forbid the man to let his desires wan
der it will at least compel him TO MAINTAIN ma 4scSn1 %
contract religious for the real fact and legal for the out
ward cover and form, is no moro than woman may
/ have spoken only Of the wOusns honor; 1t we're
in lfe wi the average, s terribly injured by the
Of n relation h She can can give SttsD but
set aside she must remain rejected thing pc perhaps M help
most shame 1t must be than slight cause more
than an ordinary reason which can MAKE ner nh WILING 70
But still more, there is motherhood, adding in every
ssssred 'Tf TSe moser and children must i've must
and kindness for years onward into the future must
husband and father whose is the sole reSpons6ity IN
to the man who stands before God and the law held
To%an cSfnot but ask for yea insist this double
contract Religion alone would answer the purpose It
Iibertne rascslity. But this religion alone can
not do as surely as law W9 faa aS e
IuseO woman the added OF the legal contract
dncSsn I nam and Ssndcua him is utterly and absolutely
necessary If restraint of wrong doinSis anywhere ne,
with q woman chains and slavery.
on that To viii not let the law Of the land hold You to
a contract which you wish to ylolatet II you mean %
TO hold YOU or at least able to brand you monster
In the last issue Of The Golden Age you argue the mat
fricndiiness not Kindness esteem, but loveand
has ceased TO feel for the woman who sits at the
the least immoral you willfor him to break the
chains which h HnG h m G5esH them % as gently aPd %
put himself in position to live true te or to wear
WSe % ali the S6nnSs ei heaven 70 do for him what he
has not the courage 70 do for himsehp
tyns 9@' vsrey the head 6
could understand It, You speak Of the man only, If
You seem to God her cheaper than Of free lives
commonly hold mistress StS Her honor ThcS 5d % yOT can
motherhood which must continue none the less for your
make Of no 10
your table,, and i s question OF Leaving her to sit
that YOU cali the Age OF Gold. 1t looks to like
the time when tools were first made Of bronze after the
mSnpess in yonr whmpering appeal TO the moral law
ruled the breasts of rude cavedvelers who would have
broken your head with stone hatchet and served you
sations You might easily be set down half fool and
either character are at all deficient You st there
wishing her nean, you confess lndl Nnht SOu
'hds the spirit of murder H it." You quote q church
member who said that II was Impossible Tor human ma
turo not to cherish this murderOus wish under such
circumstances; and then you rumphantly ask whether
II Ia better murder the woman or TO put her away.
Either may be better for the woman but the question
what you bound to do, not what lie worst OF the
crimes You say you intend TO choose between.
You go with Stone Age morality OF this sort: What
II the woman who pleased your youth has no charm for
your manhOOdi What you married. as most men do
who marry young, in utter ignorance OF yourself and
your needs You wake up some day to realize that
you stranger at your own hesrthsone-that there
there who c0mprehends your purposes or shares
your fastest Just when You have settled your