Year: 1867

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sprung up-the general appearance of a
I genteel family residence, 6 no one would
suppose that within their quiet walls is
witnessed the daily crime of murder
the board and moderate attendance is at
such places enormous, ranging from FIVE
hundred, to one thousand dollars for few
days attendance. A distinguished med
zeal gentleman estimates the slaughter of
children to be thirty week"


AND am sorry to add that you have
branch institution of this sort in this
refined city of Painesville. And that fe-
males of good social position from neigh
boring towns resort to it to escape the
discomforts oflegitimate maternity.


L have made these quotations for the
purpose OF showing the prevalence ofthis
criminal practice throughout. every Sec
tioI. OF our country, at which physicians
as body. have never been accessory or
conniyed, but on the contrary, they have
uniformly>denounced it as crime, and
have been earnest and perseyering in
their efforts to arouse public attention
In behalf of its suppression.


1t would indeed seem strange that a
Practice so at war with human existence
and with every position of religion and
morality, and so fearful upon the physi-
cal condition of its victims, and upon the
social condition of society, should become
so popularized as to be adopted by every
| grade Of society.


But making due allowance for the de-
pravity of human nature, to me it does
not seem so strange when consider the
newspaper trainingour young people have
Ehad-that, till within two or three wears.
our public journals of most every grade
and pretention, were literally crowded
with advertisements giving indirect assu-
rance of remedies that would bring about
certain results in spite ofany law which
nature may oppose. ..-.I -
| Now these advertisements which ap-
peared In almost every daily paper in the
State till interdicted by law through the
influence of medical man some two
years since) were couched In the mcst
vulgar and offensive language, which
will not here repeat, lest / bring upon
myself the reproach of being indicate;
suffice it to say these filthy advertise
ments were for a long time arrayed be-
fore the eyes of our sons and daughters
without let or hindrance, perhaps three
! hundred times a year. Now who can
estimate the ultimate effect of such de-
moralizing notices upon the mind of the
unstaid youth, especially at the age when
the impulses of passion are sure to out
strip in their developement the admoni-
tiOns of reason. And when we remem-
Der that our daughters have been train
ed under the influence of such reading,
with knowledge that it was welcomed
to the best family circles, without rebuke,
is it strange that, as they assume the re-
sponsibilities of more mature age, they
should entertain loose ideas of their mater
nal obligations? And Just in proportion
to the satisfaction with which these filthy
lying nostrums were read, was it easy
for our SONS and daughters to desecrate
the marriage relation to the mere gratii-
cation of animal lust And we NAV
readily suppose that those females who
have no just ideas of the obligations i'm
posed upon them by marriage, and the
consequent condition of the maternal
state would be influenced, rather than en-
dure the discomforts of confinement at
home, of nursing and bringing up their
children, to venture upon q trial of
these detestable. promises, and if disaD-
pointed in results, it would require but a
further sacrifice of principle to try the
more certain remedy OF instrumental in
teryentiOD.


But, alas how little do they consider
what solemn thing it is to war against
the laws of the Omnipiotent Ruler of the
universe! Or, what sorrow and suffering
they are preparing for themselves, even
in the present world. i will not attempt
to raise the curtain that preserves from
the future; but / know the misplace
ments of the womb, with induration, ul-
ceration. leucorrhea, neuralgia, ETC., are
the lot of nineteen out of twenty. And to
these discomforts we may add, low spir-
its, and such dependency of mind as In
some instances makes death desired re-
suit. These under the most favorable cir
cumstances, are the ordinary portion of
the self abortionist. And indeed death,
in two many instances, does come in its
most appalling form. | can give the names
of seven women who have died outright,
either from their own hands, or the
hands of some ignorent charlatan. Per
haps ought to add that death is not
the necessary result of skillfully pro-
C red abortion. Certainly have never
known fatal result when skillfally pro
cured under circumstances classification
Neither do L allow that law of nature
ordained of God as law of human exist
ence, can be thwarted with impunity.-
Now We would suppose that an act hav-
ing attached to it such grave consequen-
ces as seem to be the portion of those
who resolve on the destruction of their
own offSpring-of an Immature human
being-would have for its justification
some very great excuse. Well, have
listened to them, time after time, and oc-
casionally with the offer OF tempting fees;
Mrs. A. cannot, during the winter forego
the pleasures and gaieties of balls and
parties: Mrs. 3. can't give up the pleas
ures of summer trip, East or West
Another has persuaded her husband to
overhaul the house, and fashion it to
modern style, and in this enterprise she
feels bound to join with all the energies
of her soul and body. One is too poor,
and another is too feeble in health, while
another has already as many children as
she can take care of. ~ l ro-


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