Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-15
The Free Love Abomination.

TO The EtlitOT OF The Ere2iiIlJ Siur:
In your yesterdays report of the Women
suffrage Convention you go entirely out of
your way TO Introduce my name in a SUB
heading thus:
Mrs. Woodhull's Doctrine OF Free Love -
To which the paragraph following makes 10
reference except 10 characterize free love "a
an abOminatiOn.
do not intend longer quietly to permit
editors 20 handy my name about i'm whatSO-
ever connection without calling them to
account. have too long been the victim OF
epithets coupled with my social views, with
out stating what those views are, and when
paper proclaimS that my views and tneO-
rleS are an abOmnation. | shall ask il TO
state them, that its readers may Judge
whether they are so or not; or whether /
have been foully miSrepTeSented, to
pander To supposed public prejudice
that has been coniured up by just such
things as this of which L complain in
The STAR. The vital point around
which all my views and advocates
cluster is, that no woman should ever be
compelled To the liability of bea ring children
against her Will. This is freedom; anything
less than this is slavery. This is what free
love means Is this an abomination? The
reason that demand freedom for women is
that they may have the supreme control Of
their bOdies-Of their maternal functions.
This they do not have in marriage: cannot
have unless they are free. Is IL an abonina-
ton for woman TO be free! To BE- queen in
the domain OF sex?
Can there be any question about the neces-
sity for women to have this freedom and this
control, and 10 he supported in them at
whatever cost to the community when we
know that it is from the anwiilingIy born
children that the vicious and miserable
classes are mostly recruited? If the people
would have no more murdcrers, no more
thleNeS, no more criminals of any class, nor
any more insane and ldiOtic. they must place
woman in a position where She shall never
become pregnant except when she desires il:
and where. when pregnant. she shall be sur
rounded by such favorable conditions a. will
make her always happy; then She will bear
gods to the race instead of the mere abortiOns
that now too frequently cumber humanity.
free love an abomination, indeed! Love
ever Is and ever must be free. Love that is
enforced by any means, whether by marriage
laws or money power-lOve that is not free
IS lust, and lust is an abomination, indeed.
The world has got this matter reversed
wrong end foremost. The abomination is
what IL Is now practising, instead of the
views which i advocate, since the first of
these views would be pure and good. and I'm
generation, only, would regeneratc the world.
Let no children be born for fifty years except
such as the mothers should desire to have
and misery, vice and crime would be banished
from the earth, and the reign of peace and
love and JOY and hope be introduced to take
the place of the anarchy and unhappinesS
which now prevail on every hand.
So, when / advocate free love do not mean
the enforced lust which the world pretends TO
think il is, but pure and holy unity from
which nothing foul or bad can flow. would
replace all enforced lust by free love and at
one fell stroke destroy the worst enemy with
which mankind has ever been afflicted. To
do this, or to advocate its being done NAV be
an abominatiOn; but If it be, then say let us
have the abOmination.
VICTORIA c. Woodruff.
Willard'S Hotel, Washington, Jan. I5th 1875
The GLENDENNING SCANDAL.-At the
meeting of the Jersey City presbytery in
HObOken yesterday a resolution introduced
by Rev. DIR. Imbrie that the sentence of the
presbytery in the case of Rev. John A. Glen
denning should be communicated to the Pros
pect avenue church, was adopted after a
warm debate, during which the clergymen
who think Mr.. Glendenning guilty of the Of
lenses charged against him severely criti-
cised the action of Moderator Wall i'm failing
to obey the order of the presbytery to an
nounce the deposition of Mr. Glendenning
from the pastOrate to the members of his
church, while Glendennings adherents sus-
tanned the course pursued by the moderator.
II was finally decided that the stated clerk
should transmit the sentence to the church.
and committee, consisting of Rev. Messrs
Magee, Riggs, Egbert. and Marshall. to-
gether with several laymen, was appointed
20 confer with the officers and members of
The Prospect avenue church i'm relation to
supplying the pulpit until the synod decides
upon MIR. Glendennings appeal. After trans
acting some routine business, the presbytery
adjourned to mee4in DR.. Hardness church
on the third tuesday in April next. Mr.
Glendenning took an active part in the dis
cussiOn relative to the moderator's action IN
his case and warmly defended him.-N Y
Times, 14fh.