Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-10

about whom one cannot help having
the kindly hope that they do not
wholly perish.
He must be very weak and juven-
lie, or very selfish and wicked, who
can ever have a thought Of pleasure
outside his relation to the woman
who has brought wifehood and
motherhood into his house and
home. And there can be only vii
lainous abomination in the inspira-
ton which leads a creature, called
by courtesy man, to announce it
as gospel that new desire warrants
breach of old loyalty, even to de-
sertion of one who has become both
wife and mother. No guise of pro-
phecy can cover SO vile principle,
no charm of poetry gild so hateful
o treason. 1t may be sung; but it
is still the black vomit of horrible
moral disease. It may be cried
aloud where men look for sacred
speech; but still the breath of hell
will be in it, and the taint of per-
dition on tie lips from which it
comes. Sickly female enthusiasts,
not yet received by the madhouse,
may lend it their sorry praise and
the slim authority of their practice;
and accidental evangelists of the
press or the platform may lift up
its banner and float it's challenge;
but it can never become a decent
cause, or anything other than dis
graceful spectacle.
The necessary influence Of the
mother upon her unborn offspring,
and upon the education of infantile
instincts and childish powers, and
then upon youthful faculties and
character, until manhood and wo-
manhood are reached, point as
distinctly as possible to permanence
and peace as conditions of an hon
est and honorable conjugal relation.
There must not be SO much as the
shadow of doubt on the heart of
the mother while under her heart
throbs the commencing life Of the
child. How much man owes it to
woman when fulfilling her Office OF
mother that he secure her quietness,
peace, and comfort cannot be too
strongly asserted. 1t is one OF
those respects in which ingenuity
and fidelity may be taxed to the
utmost, yet fall far short of the ur-
gent requirement of Nature and OF
truth. It is when love most ten
der and faithful comes in full power
into two human souls that there is
most surely that overshadowing OF
human condition by divine influence
which ought to help mother and
child during all the time that Their
life is one. To deny this love al
such time, and suffer the condi-
tons of greatest tlessing to mother
and child to fail, is the deepest pos
sible wrong into which husband and
father CAN be betrayed. To make
This denial and disturbance an ad.
mitted common rule, at any bid.
ding of desire, or in presence O
any difficulty of union, is to put
wrong for right, falsehood for truth
and cruelty for kindness, in way
the most mischievous and most In
excusable possible 1t is either
crazy or a brutal philosophy which
can even suggest any other order
for motherhood than that Of mar
riage, founded in permanence ant
peace, beyond possibility of dis
quiet or disturbance.
Still further, if q man has taker
a woman's hand helpfully, humbl'
walking with God requires him t.
hold it faithfully, trusting alway
that the Providence which was owe
the beginning of his covenant vii
) continue to the end. To fly out O
a position like that of wedlock an
fatherhood upon any impulse, O
: from any difficulty, either unde
, stress of temptation or under stres
of trouble, is flagrantly is disregar
+ of the submission which ever
honest believer owes to providenti;
ordinance, and which every homes
, man owes to social order. N
r more goddess, immoral, and mi:
! chievous individualism is possibl
S than this Of q man who wishes I
say to her whom God has unite
+ him with in marriage, and by whol
: God has given him offspring: "Yo