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Show THE OLD ROMANS. 8peaking one day of tbe early Romans, Webster said he could al most believe everything related by historians of their extraordinary virtues, public and domestic, when he dwelt upon tbe fact that although their laws authorized divorces, yet lor ; the first five hundred years no individual everavailed himself of such . a license. If tbe purity of tne marital .relations in a nation be an indication of the virtue of that nation, what will posterity think of America in this generation, when tbe damning record of our daily nc-wBpupers show that our divorce courts wore never so busy ' as they are now, aud domestic jacandals, which do not reach the jdivorce court", are, through the same , nitdium, served up smukiDg hot with j the cofheaud bUcuits ut nearly every tbreakfant table in the land. I - - |