The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-01-12
THE ONEIDA C0MasUNiTV.
aome Account Of the American
Sodom--Its Origin. Histofy'
and Object.
FxyATIcAL LascIyioUsNEsS AND DEs-
PORTO LIBERTINIsH.
Noyos, the High Priest Of. Lust and Incest
The testimony of One Who has
beea There.
From the Chicago Republican. I


John Il. Noyes. This remarkable individual
came into this mundane existence in the
Green Mountain State, which also has It's
honor of yielding his prototype in religious
and social fanaticisrn, the irresistible Brig
ham Young. Noyes was born about the year
1911. OF Intelligent and respectable parents
Il 8 father at enc time represented his 81,
trict IN Congress, and was man OF rTal'n
and influence III society. The jun''f NoFes
graduated at Dartmouth College 81 nj neseen,
ssudled law year, became re1gious,ssuoieo
theology st Andover, and dna!iy graduated
Perfectonist at the ale Theological
- Seminary in 1891 From this time forward
Moves career presents O curious mixture of
egctism. fsuatieism, and RIGHTEOUSNESS. His
perfactiopisn caused his expulsion from
the Seminary amid the cheers and SCOTS of
the faculty and students Crest excite>
men: perveded the usually. tranquil city of
New Haven, az it was currently reported
that I" Moves was crazy"
PREACHING THE GOSPEL.
For several years thereafter, he wander
cd, preaching, from village to village, his
new doctrine that the Kingdom of heaven
was as hand y and thas he was about to re-
construct the religious and social fabric of
society, and establish the new heaven and
the new earth" wherein should reign su-
premely, domestic felicity. He defed the
most sacred laws of God and man he
trsmpled under his fee. the marrisge insti-
tuition, with al its most sacred associations,
and Propounded new and repulsive theory
Of sexual freedom. Noyes fundamental
idea was, that, in the Kingdom Of Cod"
every man would be married to every wo
man and, cire cerSa-or, as he had it that
''every dish would be- Tree to every guest"
THEORY REDUCED TO PREACHING.
This was the theory and few years
later he established, al Pu,ney, Vt, e COM
munity wherein he openly practiced his vile
and repulsive theory. Ia d1e time, how
ever, the good people OF Putney became in
creased at such vile practices, and Noyes,
threatened By moo violence, evacuated the
place and "turned up, few months later,
near the village OF
ONEIDA,
in Madison county, New York where not
wlthstanding numerous skrmishes with his
neigh bors, be has, thus far held his own.
In the fell Of 1867. however, they came very
near cleaning out the Oneida Community,
and their dispersion Is now simply cues
ton Of time.
THE HAEEM-E0W ITg PRIVILEGES ARE REGU-
LATED.
The social advantages of the Oneida Com
munity are not stsll equally divided. Noyes
IS extremely selfish. Out of one hundred
men in the community, Noyes is the only
one that has "iull swing among the women,
and especially among the young girls. Hug
cling them is his best hold No social
freedom Is permitted without Noyes con
Hent. lie is the great head-center. His
word is law, and 10 one dare resis, him. II
one hos what they call community spirit"
/. e.. Is attentive to business, and is loyal to
Moves. his reward Is social freedom" with
the elder women, but not with the young
and handsome ones. Moves reserves those
for hts own private use II one is lazy and
discont ented, "socisl freedom" is withheld,
and the offender criticised, and held up 20
The scorn and contempt OF his companions :
60 that it generally pays to behave we'll.
Some men, however, have lived in the Com
munity for years without scarcely touching "a
woman. "social freedom" does not always
depend upon ones loyalty and business
habits, but more upon Noyes favor.
DEsPOTIC RULE.
Beyond and above mere social freedom"
or the lack of it, is the great fact that the
Oneida Community Is despotism of the
success.
It is only on the ground that the Oneida
Community is a despotism, in which one
ran rules the rest, that the Community
exists OF all. No one would live there il
they were not induced to believe that they
would be damned if they went away.
This is the spirit that holds the Oneida
Community together. 1t is spirit
OF despotsm. 1t destroys free agency.
1t makes ono slave. 1t psralyzes am nition,
and saps manhood and virtue. |. destroys
NIL accountability to God man. The in
mates of the Oneida Community know no
law-neither the laws which came by Moses
nor those enacted at Albany or Washington
They are not under law but under NoYes.-
No one there. dare resist him. He rules
them soul and body. have heard poor
deluded fools confess that Moves owned
;hem-sou, body and spirit. They "move
and live and have their being" under his
magnetism. They have Eoyes on the brain
ISOLATION.
Isolated as the Community are from the
rest of society, with no opposing religious or
moral influence, it ia not strange that such q
man as Moves should rule them. They are
ASSOCIATED from the rest Of the world es the
inmates of Sing Sing or Auburn. They do
rot attend church or Sunday school, OR any
thing of that kind. They are taught that it
is sin to have anything to do with their
worldly friends and relatives.
PRoPAGATING FANATICIsM.
The Oneida Community is world within
itself. Noyes is @ great talker and writer,
and he dscourses by the hour. Night after
night, day after day, week after week. for
months aud years, Moves has filled their
miuds with cursed fAnaticism, by evolving
new religious and social theories, and By
claiming special intimacy with the Almighty,
until he has completely overcome their nat
usal sense of manhood and womanly virtue,
aud actually made them believe that it is
right to violate the most sacred social laws
of God and man.
After one becomes thoroughly magneised
By Noyes, leaving the Oneida Community is
like walking out of the gates Of Heaven
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