Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-11-05
Tho Crest New York Sensation
woodruff and Clafin's
Reform" EEa

which no one OF course VIII lAil 10
road. We feel this to be fitting &C.
casion to give the Herald readers
some additional information. The
great mass Of our people are too lit
tie aware of the true intent and aim
of many Of the modern abominable
''isms" that are disgracing our land.
We have oil looked with too much
charity on Spiritualism, Socialism,
Communism, Fourierism and Social
Reformers generally. Very few jn-
deed in our peaceful and virtuous
section know what these things real
~ are, or appreciate the disgusting
immortality with which they seem in
separably connected. fa ..i4
The Herald Office received some
days ago copy Of Woodruff and
Clahinss Weekly, of the edition
which has caused the arrest and i'm
prisonmeRt of the vile and dan gerous
women who have 80 long been pub
fishing that obscene Free Love sheet
Ii sooms that various difficulties
caused It's suspension las: June, and
this is the first number since. 1t
comes full Ct gall and venom against
all that is good and true on earth.
1t shows how for years they have
striven TO seduce leading clerical re-
formers, especially H. W. Beecher
and Theodore Tilton, into an open
pulpit advocacy of Free Love. 1t
shows that they did not succeed in
this aud probably some other
schemes; and are therefore determin-
ed to publish every degrading rumor
Of immortality against all those lead
ing men and women, and drag them
down into the filth in which Mrs.
Woodruff herself gIories.
The respectable % aspect of these
disgraceful doctrines is laid aside, and
these infamy-seeking women come
out with fourteen largo printed
pages full of slahder against Beecher
and all other moral teachers, brazen
sophistry and false reasoning in favor
Of their practices, and bitter denun.
citation Of the institution Of marriage.
They assert that the true design of
God and Nature is that men and wo.
men shall be unrestricted in their in.
torcourse, That no union of sexes is
or should be binding on either side,
and that "StirPicvlture," or the select
ion Of temporary partners for the sci
Ontidc improvement of the human
breed, (like the practice of scientific
stock -raisers) is the great reformato-
ry institution, that shall inevitably
Supplant the old wicked tyranny of
our present system of marriage for
lie ana sacred homes.
We allude to these revolving things
in tho briefest style and in words far
more delicate than Mrs. Woodhull's,
merely to announce the enormity
Of the crime committed in publishing
such paper and delivering such lee.
lures. We shall say nothing of Mr..
Beechers merits, except that moth
ing Published from such vile source
alone, can destroy the public faith in
his honor.
But what We must say TO the Her.
aid readers is something we'll known
TO the more acute general reader, but
rendered necessary by the Tendencies
of the times. The pretended moral
reforms that try to improve upon old
institutions and laws are all linked
with libertinism. They all tend to the
breaking up Of Marriage and Home,
and the practice OF gross vice. They
all are in tue hands of men and won
On of known immoral life. There is
no one that is posted, who imagines
that Spiritualism exists any where
as pure morality.
Mrs. Woodruff is y leading Spirit.
ualist, and says in this paper that her
speeches and writings on this Beecher
expose are all inspired by the spirits
of Theodore Parker and others.
Thousands Of people have, like
Greeley, been lead to adopt Commun-
ism, or Fourierism, at oast in theo-
ry. This mesus living together Of
different ages aud sexes in Aocks
like cattle, sud a holding of all pro-
perty in common, The Commune"
Of Fourier implies great farm or es-
tate, belonging to band Of people,
(but TO no one in particularly living
promiscuously in q large dwelling,
where oil the women and offspring
are tho wives and children of no one
In particular. Societies Of this kind
are existing in eastern states to- day,
and Horace Greeley is now involved
in heavy suit growing out of his
being q trustee Of such property in
Indiana.
ShAkerism is another and less re-
pulsive form of this modern crusade
against Marriage. Mormouism is an
other great foe of the true system,
and like the rest breaks down the
sanctity and psrpotuity of Wedlock.
Divorce laws and false public senti-
ment aid the general decentralization.
The agitation Of Womsn's Rights is