Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-11-27

| YanRee Social Life.
The New York Herald says: Yankees and
their desce endsnls have seldom received 80 un-
desirable blow as that delivered from Fall
River pulpit ThursdAg. They arc charged
with being dangerous enemies 10 the family
! through their irt quent resort to divorce laws,
and tie figures given, if correct, lend serious
weight to the charge, while the statement that 10
RESPECT to divorce Rhode Island Gnd Count cicut
are worse than Fraoce jas before her great
revolution, and Greece AID Rome 10 their de-.
! csdebce, is more uncoD'plimeutsry than sny cf
| the old time Southern hlnss at New EnplaUd.'
The sermon referred TO was preached at
Methodist church by R,v. James h. Nunlnp,
A, NJ, the pastor, who has before givCu some
| honest blows, straight from the shoulder. when
peakiDg of the many matters which &C: So
ci,l life ia tha, city. His teXt was from Psalms
xviii, Good ,tteth the solitary 10 iaml"
1hss." de began by saying that he SHOULD dc
mart from the usus style Of complimentary
| That k.piviog s4rmous. There was to day IN
the cir chiuess that orhoded Coming sorrow
to the people The great leslon DOW b2tore
us, pressing itself toto eVery avenue OF thought
and feeling, was labor. Runcr s1ppsuted
sctual Knowledge, and sstlke OF oil
tho trLies Of the city wts LhreateDco.
| Ho could not now depart from his
chosen line of thought to deal with this
subject as he should on Sunday evening nsxt.
A cross iriustice was pending, an evil Of the
greatest magnitude threste0ed the peGc, aod
comfort, even to the necessities nf our domcs
Ii vas unnecessary; it was upjust. 1t would
| bripg sorrow, only sorrow. The stropg haod OF
| o p1wer would b.. raised, yet uuder God the
| stronger arm Of Justice and rieht would triumph.
"Suddeniy changing bis theme the speaker
| entered upon what es.ouishtd his audience, and
spoke some Of the br.vest words ever uttered 10
a Fall River pulpit. Alter Dleasaolly Teterllag
TO rhaukssiving, It's origin and observance, he
saiG Il regard all these blessings to which
have referred as emana'ing from and Rtrlhnta
bIe to the home. Whatever strikes at the
bcmc Strikes at the Church aud through that
at the government. Destroy these auG there ls
no government. Ao thUn rehearsed a volume
statistics touching plas he'd been accomplish
ed, not ooIy 10 Now England bul throughout
the whole land, by reason of New England
home irfaenoes. and claimed that ii va, being
lost for causes be dared to straigp. Marriage
| is au Institution OF God, hut is assslIod by a
variety Of enemies which threaten lis existence.
Amcug these arc :-Fts, rx.ravagan,y h'2h
stelda!ds Of coE4tvrt, Coupled With il hited
means, discouraeiDg mstrlm Iuy and forbtdnlne
tho ruariug OF childicu. Scc3nd, low Vi Iwa
Of the marriage relation, little sanciity
auach,d to il. it being regarded simply a. q
civil cbiestiOn, to be severed &C the couyehlenca
or Inclination of the party making it. Thri,
losiog sight Of the main otjacts FIR which mar.
rage was insiiluted-vz, tho rr0uuo ion OF
children, the preservation os chastity snd
mutual help end happiness 10 each other D socla,y,
He then dealt with the Causes tcldug 10
weaken the f. rJs aud obligation OF marriage,
and plsinly Rss,ed the seutiment which de-
manded aud sustained such loose and lax legs.
l,tioo IS is to be luuLd 10 oGr divorce laws.
| 1ke birth rate, as reported 10 th1 o"Dsus. shows
the diminu ion oi what are really n W EnSlaad
families 10 30 broad q light tnai L Qaota the
reverend gentleman figures.
He said:-Frw OF us rsalizo to what * ent
the divorce business hos grown 10 the uutry,
particularly whom We remember the fac; that
the Roman Catholics aod foreigners generally
but rarely secure divorces. Alior uakiug a.
lo1aucc Iur Roman Catholic marriages the RATIO
of divorces 10 MARRIAGES 10 Massachusetts IN
1868 Was 10 Is; Vermont, l 10 l3; Rhode
Is aod, to auo Copneoticn:, 10 s The
Wes cru R.s,ry3 ooudtles OF OhlJ, Th,ch are
more purely New Eosland as TO their pOpuls iOr
than sny other c.ion Of the cjuGtry. New
| E0SlauQ DUL e6ceptCu, nahS Sf6u WIS. %
hibltion, the ra,i) baiEg here double that OF ttG
rest of the State, Lake county brlDg worst o
all, Furnishing divyroe for every marriages.
! the same oouuty beiog more thoroughly Yam
kae than any other 10 Onin Coshoctoo hss
only to 47 and Gallia TO 50, the population
being foreign and Southern, with hardly c 7 an
kee. He then proceeded 20 charge the Yankee
people, wherever located, with the offence oi
seeking 10 destroy tho American ia nl!y through
divorce and worse crimes. and VIndicated th'
. | foreign element among US, saying: divorces
| are of rare occurrence among our foreign popu
lstioD, During the past twenty-five years ths
, birth rate has decreased about ns fast as the
> divorce rate has increased and where the tlrtf
rate is lowest-Which is where Yankees mos
sbound-the divorce rate is hlghest." he sa'c
, also: 'tThere is C ose connection between
low birth rate and high divorce rate" express
d ing his hsef thht "lhe relation between Inc tW
is that Ct cause and effect the tormer being tn
csuse and the latter the effect. In the hlstor.
of nations there never has but three tlme= oc
lcurred such breaking up OF the family ss
now taking place among people OF He" Eng
. land blood-when the Greek and homan eln
pires we're about to fall und during the Frelc!
Revolution Of the last century, Wnen ZJ,OGU oi
= yorces were obtained in France IN one kud =!
;, yeas. Bad IS this is, when population 8 con;
~ pared il is not equal to what II true OF kh0o
s. Island and Connecticut of late years. IN
Is lsnpusee. from the lips of cecend SIT OF To
q Puritsnts and q man of Rkote lsla1d birth an
II blood, challenges our attention at least
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