The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-02-11

bond. together With the customs of society,
limit the affections to the parties 10 the
bond. They NAV love, or hate, or be utterly
| Indifferent to each other. Let il be either,
| il is all the same with the law. 1t is clear
| then than the effect of the law is to bind
people together who. otherwise, would not
| live together. Its abolition would certainly
not result in separating any two who 1--we
for love. All who live, would continue to
live together If the law were repealed to-
morrow So then the result OF the law Is
| to keep those together who would separate
| if it was not for its force. The real qnes-
| ton at issue, then, in arguing this question,
| is not as to whether the law Is night or
| wrong, since this depends upon another
| question with the decisson OF which the law
must stand or fall but the real question to
be determined is whether people who do
| not love each other ought to live together,
and co-habit, and have children. This,
however, belongs TO another part oil the
| subject.
In marriage, woman loses the control Of
her own actions and body; and especially
Of her maternal functions. To establish
freedom as the rule, in place Of the law, rs
TO remand this control back to woman, TO
make her queen in the domain OF sex. Is
there any woman living who viii dare say
that she does not believe that this control
belongs to her by natural right; or that she
cannot control her body-say when and
when not she shall become liable TO bear
children, better than anybody else can do 80
for her? II there are any such women,
then, indeed, they are willing slaves, which
L cannot CONCEIVE.
Now, why Is 1t that women are AFRAID OF
me, because l am asking this enfranchIse-
ment for them! Don't they wish TO nave
II in their power to determine themselves
Don't they know when they desire COM
merce and children, better than anyone can
tell them? i want these women, who pro-
Ter to be SO frightened oil me, TO KNOW what
1t Is that am asking Tor them and then l
want the public TO know that these women
don't want what am asking TO know that
they are IN precisely the same relation TO
TINS question oil emancipation, that the
negroes, who opposed freedom Tor them
selves, sustained TO abolition oi many.
Wendal Phillips, Garrison and others,
asked Tor the abolition oi legal
slavery oi the negroes; am
asking ior the aboiihon Oh the
The legai slavery OF women IL Is the
same question In ahother department Oh
NE: ihis ana nothing more, ana tae time
WIZ ooiiie ~nen uiee "oiieii VINO Up
pose me- VIII oe regafuet, Preciseiy as .,iose
hegroes are now resarueu WHO oPPose 'heir
Own emancipation:
90 MOI complain III 70 nuch oi ,he Icei
non Vi the mSi SIAM - .ne
noioefs sUoou' 'hes navy so' !" resisI
their coh,roi over "oihei,' Nne'i my uehnsi1
Is graii'eu; Pfecisei! i1 'iie sia,I-o"iIr ~ hiu
10 nesiS theif coiioi over uie heSTo
ihey kiio" IL women nave iheif iree'i"hi,
tnat 'leir positioh VIII De eiahseu i,9ni one
OF cohtfoi 10 one Oh suPpiicalion, anu Ion
biane them ior Iie'r 3pposi,ioh. Ihes
nave -oihetiiihS to Iose. pu' vi 'ie "ohi
en- VINO nave every lni'is W gam VINO ,ooh
society sqaareiy III 'iie iace, anu "a! uol
wan i'.Hnohi-i I'm ashaiiieu; l Pi'f Such
supsei .Nhcy' s"cn slavery. II can oeioiiS
only 10 weakness ana ignorance.
Again, IL Is sometimes remarked 10 me
DO you want 10 make al women pfos'itut's!
reply that The institutions OF lreedonh
could not by any posSlDiiity MAKE any |o-
man a prostitute. WHAT ASK IL tnat
women stall have the opportunity TO decide
all THIS Ior themselves. III
=
ture, ought not TO pe oiamed lor IL 10
you mol see IN "hat RIDICULOUS position
the women VINO oppose me are placing
themsei'esf III they pecoiie "ros'i'utes,
IL Is because they "aht 10 10 So anu MOI pe
cause 1 want them 70 DO so. l 90 mol oe-
heve IN prostitution ana thls is why OPP
pose marriage. ior large Part OF me com
merce 'hat Is carried on py tnis function Oh
the law, Is no'hing more nor iess 'hah pros
utu,ion. Inc SUCKERS ior leeal marriage
ought 10 remember .ha' a law cahh9t MAKE
ahythihg ,ish' tha' Is Mrohg IN l'Seii anu
ihai an iiihS u'ia' II rish' IN i'Seii caIiho'
pe mace .iong " in" Instance ~
wronS IN I'~eii 70 sl%Sh ia.set. no Id" ma
might pe Paa'eu coui" niahe ~ riSH'i sex
y uai c"nilierce tna' i' nor niuluaIis ueslreu
Do'h parties 10 II, Is "rohS' no law 'ha'
ueci'ieI = II IisIt can ,lahe ~ 10 1 enis op-
Ject 10 the iiiarrlase "a" 80 lar as II ooeS
compel or sgeiniSis coipei, such com
herce IN az otler S caSeS, II Is etue-oi no
Ii'Ie', si.o: ."e po Eo. w, motu o'c..
9id not e1Ist- @nione tne Ia" anu us
iofce, aild 'iia' Is Pule anu no,s ana 'fue
tha' .hefe rs eA1t "ouiu sun con,
t,hue 20 ehis!' on. 'hat WhIch Is pa9
'ia' WHICH "iin1it anu IMPURE "ouid
8 Sease, hehce, eoS'T tI, 'iie IiiiriaSe ID" 70