Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-22
FRANCES ROSE MACKINLEY AND
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.
am the San Frnncisco Republican.l /

/ From the san Francisco Republican,
Mr.. Train held quite a reception in his
hotel ON Monday night. Among his
visitors was Mrs. r. +. Mack. She
sent her card in, and was politely re-
| ceived by the lighting Presidential call-
didate. She apOlOgized for intruding on
! Trains time, and excused herself by
stating that she had called to see him
because she thought he-like herself
was aiming to liberate women from the
thralldOm of man. For herself, she
thought marriage was more disgraceful
than open prostitution; that every wO-
man had natural right to select the
father of her children.
Madam said Train, interrupting
her, sit is true my desire is to elevate
woman in the social scale, and make
her the equal of man in every respect;
but cannot subscribe to the ideas you
have expressed. On the contrary, /
consider the institution of marriage one
of the most sacred, and which should
not be severed except by death or UIn-
faithfulness. | wish you to distinctly
understand, madam, that do not in
dOrse the Woodruff free-lOYe heresy. l
advocate woman's rights for the purpose
of strengthening her hold on mans
love, not to bring her into his contempt.
l have read a circular, of which l be-
Iieve you, madam, are the author"
"Have you?n inquired the lady,
"and now pray, Mr.. Train, give me your
honest opinion about it.u
"Well, l can't trim, and wouldn't if
could. III just tell you what think
of your circular. | consider it disgrace
to a woman to pen such sensual, un-
wOmanly ideas, and more disgraceful
still in her to circulate such moral poi
son among the homes of the virtuOus
women of America"
=" Mr.. Trainw exclaimed the lady,
rising from her seat, and looking at
Train as if she would wither him at
glance.
DO not be angry, madam replied
Train. " / did not desire to give Otfense.
You asked me to express my honest
opinion. L have only done as you
asked, and, pray excuse me for saying
further, that your own aetiOn-in get
ting angry at the expression of an
opinion evoked by yOurself-is a proof
that your assumption Of the character OF
moral refOrmer is a disguise"
"Sirp she exclaimed between her
teeth, her face almost white with rage.
"YOu see, Madam, that / never get
mad at what they say about me; though
a serviIe press and the hlrelings of mo-
nopoly and corruption have been
bounding and abusing me for years, |
do not get mad. The work L am des-
tined TO accomplish keeps me above
that weakness of human nature which
makes us angry at whatever displease
us.n 81
The lady sat down, drew a deep sigh,
and remarked: "Well, perhaps you're
right about the human weakness, but
you are decidedly wrong about my work
on free-Iove. l think it is the cruelest
of tyranny to compel woman to en-
dure the embraces of man she does not
love-
Just at this instant about dozen gen.
tlemen came in. After they were seat |
ed Train invited the lady to proceed |
with the tale of love, but she declined,
that she was disappointed at
her reception; that she had expected to
have been met with Outstretched arms, |
with warmth and ardOr, instead of with !
icy coldness and Puritanical sermon
on chastity, and she swept out of the
room in a manner which showed that
she was not well pleased.
''There," said Train, after she had
gone, sis a woman who thinks that l
am Free-lover, when there is no man
living who despises that class of women
more than do"