Show A correspondent signing F M takee tho editor of the JUNCTION to task in awell written article which appears elsewhere in to daye dinue the subject of his opposition being a recent editorial paragraph in which was chronicled the circum of of self marriage or union of alio sexes in accordance with the woodhull plan having been sustained by ahe supreme court of massachusetts our critic evidently a well informed well educated gentleman who has doubt less given iho subject treated upon some little attention wo like to talk to a sensible mau and like to hear a sensible talk whether we agree with him or not and right hero will take occasion to detate that our opinion in relation to the subject in controversy ie not changed iota by our contributors tribu tors arguments we look at th matter from different standpoint and having allowed him the fullest freedom of expression ip which to state hh case will assume the same privilege in rebuttal F II 11 M ii of the opinion that the ideas enunciated in the article referred to idere boru of prejudice that kind of prejudice to ite inheritor and biases his views inclining a lie it mistaken nd we ask pardon tit the reader for so far intruding upon hia time and patience we do in announcing that if there ever was among all the children of our common parent a person who utterly abhorred and cast from him anything any all thing partaking of bigotry fanaticism or intolerance then tho writer hereof claims to be even each a person it is true society permits those who prefer the self marriage system to that privilege but in tho we do our utmost to convince them of what we conceive to be their error and uee every possible mean coneie tent with freedom and justice to prevent their batem becoming wide tho paragraph in relation to the restrictions by government upon the people we have not space to discuss nor ie this the occasion to do it we partly agree and partly disagree with our critic we take ideue with him essentially when he enunciates the idea that the laws of man perpetuate and make galling the errors committed in times of weakness and absence of judgment just the re veree making certain allowances for the inevitable imperfection which characterize every work of man the laws in regard to the conjugal may be found in every statute book in alie land are as broad find liberal as tbt absolute necessities of our race require not going to the point of permitting complete promiscuity in this important matter besides would it bo likely to afford greater protection or yield more numerous benefits to society if the transaction of marriage in its general sense were left en lirely to the caprice of tho contracting parties our friend seems to object to legalizing marriage be VI W which only the power originally invoked can what objection can there reasonably bo to this only aa we look at it the objection which is hardly an objection at all that unrestrained license should be the principle actuating our law mak er by of which conjugality would become to the malee loment at least simply a garment to be donned and cast oo 00 at pleasure in other words in order to avoid the obligations and duties which the married state imposes and which the I law enforces tho law should bo annulled and parties allowed to cohabit until they get tired of each other then to seek green fields and pastures newt this Is doubtless a very inviting picture to those who grow restive under the restraints which civilization and its demands have placed upon us in order that others as well as ourselves may be protected and cared for for waiving all questions SM to the precept practicability of the doctrine defended by F II 11 M we will look to the future the gentleman will of ciurea read ily admit that the sexual association of man and woman lias the direct result of reproducing our spec lei he will also concede that the now arrivals are utterly helpley hel ples and power leas cn destitute of everything bat the faculty of partaking of the nourishment nour ishmen t which they cannot provide and that their coniing reduces abo maternal parent to a condition al mo atas as that of their own from what source i protection succor and support to in luch by chance from the at large from any public treasury noa thousand times no ai the delicate and vines which timidly peep forth from the earth receive the care and attention of he who planted them in order that they may fructify end in their turn their kind so las great of nature ami of nature H god ordained that be who designed aid directly decreed alie creation of an additional human being should give it lie car his protection lie NAME and if he would shirk the responds ability then lo 10 whom or to at agency ball we look for the mean to him to do so to tho united voice of the people which i aund which provides that father mother anc child a trinity in aruty too to be dissipated by the mad revolutionary disintegrating teaching of who enlist theca ellyee under the degrading banner of Woodhull Min otherwise known as aroi love Oi tASTe in chicago per hpe exceed ia point of preparation and a any the coming man ba yet received it la great to b great |