Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-01-15


and imPri,onnsni for petty theft or IA
: sing tueuiy.6ve cent counterfeit scriF
knowingly. then il Is the duty Of the go'
r erumeut 10 educate them on these points
n and the duty OF mothers to INFORM them
= selves upon all questions Of Law, that,
vitality affect then and their of.pring.
! That little farce played on Mrs. Wood
5 hull in NeW York City may seem 10 thOs
c not interested a. a trivial transaction. ye
4 there is underlying its shallow surface
a deep principle, which affects the inter
, Get Of every editor and Journalist in tbs
laid, and every person who wishes to avail
himself or hertelf Of mail transportation
Out Of the issues involved in this ques-
ton. arise others Of still more importance,
What is to be the character Of nailable
literature? What the standard by which
lie moral or pernicious qualities and ef-
fleets are to be testedf And who is to be
the Immaculate. unprejudiced, disinterest.
ed, impartial judge, to draw and fir the
line Of nice distinction1 No class Of men
know better than journalists, what pariic-
ular items of interest tao public crave.
and that all subject. must be preached aud
discussed TO meet the Increasing demand
of the growing age, aud the ideas Of the
thinking world, amt cloihe their articles
and communications in as chaste, pure and
classical language as is possible, there are
still mary disagreable recltals, that can.
not be screened or concealed by the deli
cacy Of the most artist, taste, of the pur-
est and saintliest minds.
When little innocent publication like
that OF GATES \ jar" creates such Il SEN
sation in tho religious community. and
whole Congregations are warned against
ITS pelnlciOus tendencies by the Rev. di.
vines. who would, no doubt, suppress all
such literature if they could, let US not be
surprised at the course other people take
when their christian institutions, and what
they term their individual rights, are in
yaded. When only short time since. |
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher assisted at the
marriage ceremony OF the dying Richard
son aud Mrs. Mcfarland, he did more TO es-
tablish the doctrine that marriage without
mutual love. was no marriage at all, and
should not be made obligatory by legal au.
thoriy, than all that Mrs. Woodruff has
said or written since; aud thinking men,
who watch the signs of tho times, so un.
ierstand it, But after few severe crit.
clsms from one class, and few regretful
'lghs from another, the subject was very
wisely dropped, and he was left to the
Of his own theories, in his
'wn way, from his own standpoint. How
'vsr,a sharp controversy and discussion up
IN the subject, or little prison discipline
night have resulted in throwing great.
n light upon the so much vexcd marriage
question.
When the magnatos of the land show
heir contempt for the sacredness of old
and Their asrespec, for The rev.
renee paid to man made institutions and
MUST enactments, which give one class of
nen power TO exercise undue authority
YER another class, the public mind is open
conviction, patient, enient and tolerant.
When the overflow OF this government
Ias attempted, how few we're the arrests
nd Imprisonments. Even Jefferson Davis
rison was little less than au open palace,
nd now he walks the streets with as much
ersonal liberty and security as any man I
4 the country. '1 .a
When as stated in many OF the leading
apcrs,) not only judge and jury, but a :
hole Legislature is bought up in sim 8
lc day. it is only "grand strike, ;,
good wheel" ora magnificent cheta aeuure. T
'ut how is it when weak woman steps :.
side from the old landmarks aud asserts !.
ny God-given right in her own strength =
I'd name, when she merely assumes to be :,
ans equal in the great copartpership of ;,
ts, claiming the same protection in her
arson and property, the same immunities
'at he enjoys, and no more, and the same
ositlon in society he is allowed to assume,
case of failure or ALTERATION, no more, IN
I'd no less, shrinking not, from the in. a
ction OF the same penalties he is subject /,
!? Echo answers how ? ega3.s-E ~
T ebaua Truly Yours, sf r.
K .ts 9 iagaaa FAIR Play. ia
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