National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-02-04
FREE LOVE.

These Eevils will Scale Heaven to Grcum-
vent us to our Ruin"
To the Bstor Of the National Republican:
SIR: A great many persons when they wish to
use al improper expression say it in q foreign
tongue. Why7 A consciousness that If thor
OughEy understood they will incur dis1leasure or
disap2robation makes them wary and timId
When the advocates OF "fres love" speak Of the
sentiments OF love they represent It as pure, high
and holy, Invested Of and divided from passion
and sensuRlity, the scale whereby we ascend to
heaven. To this view tie undepraVed mind in
stEntly assents. 1t Is no more incomprehensible
than the first great commandment-thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. Such
love is and ought to be free. But the love that
should attract particular man to a particular
woman is a special kind 1t is not general, and no
mind that is capable Of analysing an emotion
gainsays it. You may place q female canary bird
in a cage with three male birds, each separated
from the other by a partition, and in process OF
time an attachment will spring up between the
hen bird and one Of those singing birds. The two
will interchange noter Of greeting, and there will
be constant manifestations OF affection cOnspcu-
Gus to the most casual observer. In time you
may put first one and then tho other of the two
male birds Tor whom no attachment has been
shown into the compartment Of the hen bird, and
she will fight them both. Now, bring the one
she loves, and she will mate with him. This is
free love- is it not? Is this analogous to hRman
marriage under proper circumstances But God
Instituted marriage, ana Adam anu Eve we're the
tirst married couple Do you say there was no
marriage ceremony l deny it; the Lord of
heaven and earth united them. No certificate?
1t was witnessed by the angels, and recorded in
heaven.
But what mesns free lover Simply and solely
free lust; uDTebuked and unrestricted adultery;
unchallenged illegitimacy of offspring, and cor
ruptiOn OF family blood and characteristics. And
this by the acts Of wives.
Does not an evil so disastrous to the human
race, SO subserVive Of religion, OF morality, Of
health, and finally so at enmIty to Gods Law,
need to be tolerated for q moment to be spoken Of
in foreign laneusHef Who SO bold as TO call II
by its plain Anglo Saxon appellatiOn Of fornica-
tfOn?
An honest man, who contracts debt for Dor
rOWed money, gives note. Does the note render
the act OF binding and the act OF receiving any less
borrowers word merely had been given and taken?
What is the use of marriage certificate? 1t is a
creation Of wisdom and law in the interest Of the
parties and the heirs Of their bodies. shame
and disgrace? No, an honor and protection;
q safeguard for wives a consolation for husbands
and q guardian for orphans. BY it the right to
inheritAnces, leg acles and property is secured.
These weak, vain and incousiderate women who
have lately started up out OF their rghtul places
ct home, and neglecting their rightiul duties to
their God, their offspring and to society, sailed
forth TO improve the world, are as capable re-
formers as the emancipation monomaniac, who
went about to Hibernate the wild animals Of ZoOogi
cal gardens and menageries. Their zeal outruns
untitled they are for the exercise Of the right Of
suffrage, the performance Of legislative duties
and for the otice Of enlighteners OF the public.
HAwK-EYR