New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28
ILLOGICAL PROPOSITIONS MADE BY THE
PLAINTIFF.


Now, gentlemen, whenever yOu establish the
proposition breaches Of external morality
that threaten tho very fabric of society the central
point tho purity Of the family, occur without pre-
liminary moral degradation and Experimentation
being accompanied by Inflammation Of the low desires
and the triumph Of the flesh tho spirit-can be
practiced with the maintenance Of all the active
beaeyoencos and exhibition Of all the beautiful
virtues Of life, you have struck q blow not at Mr.
Beecher not at Mrs. TntOn, but at your own
wives and your daughters. Why do you
rear them in the distinction between the wise and
the foolish virgins the wise virgins, with their lamps
trimmed and burning are be left In the outer dark
ness and the wedding closed against themi Why
you look ut tho growing beauty OF the face and for
and safel Because observe and trust an equal
Towering OF the immortal spirit and find that her
mothers virtue shows itseh In every disposition of tho
beautiful maiden; that she loves charity, seeks the
lowy teaches tho ignorant the abandoned. loves
father her mother loves her brothers, loves her
sster has hands full through days OF constant and
painful lbors appropriate to her sex and condition.
sleeps night upon pillow prepared by prayer and
watched by Him to whom the prayer was addressed
What are til these things you IL 1t Is demon
strated by tho verdict in this trial that there Is
no connection between the moral nature and the levd
wicked low, baec prostutions OF the body And what
do you think OF your wives IL have watched them
through - years Of marriage and OF duty, and found
Clem to be las you knew they wero when yon clasped
hands with Them the ALTAR pure, noble, Intelligent
discreet virgins sspousod them, and have
found that they loved their husbands to idolsty loved
tler children with devotion for which there Is no cpl
thet and no comparsonf Who heard illustration
of mothers ovef Nobody give an equivalent for
that. Low often have other forms OF human affection
been Ciglcd by comparing them in power and intensity
80 a mothers love But you find nothing to compare
mothers love to- prepossessiOn that fills the heart
satisfies mind shows 10 the widest experience that
there nothing be placed above it to illustrate It,
II with oil this md with your daily observation OF the
course OF life, the coming in and the going out Oh
woman the correspondence day by day during your
absences you ind ont, 4th Of July morning. that
course OF temptation of solicitation, OF coarse ana vulgar
contact with the body has prepared the way to final
adultery that continued for sixteen months would
you not lose your faith in religion. faith In women
your faith in society your faith in human naurei Why
all the while may be going in oil our families, and
nobody knows anything about It What shall we then
discard all this sRah believe that these sins como
only by power against which NO morality can guard that
there no necessary connection between character and
conduct that sins do not como from wthln but
that with all purity they may arise. Character and
fate the opinion OF society all crush you and your family
What will you bcevsS Those idle and frivolous sugses
tons made by the oats OF Mr.. Ton and Of Mr. Nouon
or will you look 10 higher authority Now, there was
once great authority in this world whose brei sojoun
I'm the flesh changed o. the world and laid Sac
foundations OF that rel on which all profess and has
redeemed individual. raising him TO glory
since ami has redeemed society from the vicious iDfu
ences with whica heatAenisn corrupted IT, and raised 1t
70 its present eev aon said of Him that he need
ed not al need, you need-that He needed no:
that Should testify of man, for He know what
was IN man. Now, what does he say on this subJectf
For from within of the heart Of man proceed evil
thoughts. aduerief foundations, murders thes, Gov
wckedness Deceit ascviousncss an evil eye,
blasphcmy. pride, foolishness; all these come from
within AMI dele man" And that is the basis which
you the Christian education which is to preserve tho
chastity OF your beautiful daughter against all allure
ments and temptations, and you watch whether in
her you ind any beginning Of uncertain steps
outside the way which abe should co. and If you do
not but find that all seps in the paths OF
the Gospel you have fears Now, did not to be
40 win women or with men. Are to dis
card this life giving, purifying. eevating sentiment
on which our society has rested so well
and 50 long, which b to be extended by the benevolent
ors OF our missionaries and the generous contributions
OF all Christians OF all creed for the help OF sinking
wordf Are we 10 abandon these and go back TO the old
systetn OF physical security ! should think NOS
ould like 10 sec the men that would look their wives and
dauehters in the face and tell them that they must go
back TO the duenn the dsns and TO the harein
for Tho married women And not princes, ana
have NO system In equal society by which the
fair and the beautiful crowded into the possession OF
the princes an pobss Of the world. whenever we under
take 10 lose or rsngon and virtue In tire equality
and purity OF wOrnsu shall have to adopt some OF
those associated Of protection by which combined
efforts may furnish adeqoAt security. We shall have 10
l4ye q wife Deposit Company, where we can leave our
wives during the day, and shall have TO have some
paten eoutryaIee Of paramour alarms by which
, can IN, called 10 the rescue when the nsdious under