Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1859 — Divorce in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Divorce in Indiana.

The good State of Indiana has her share of bad laws. That law in particular which makes her the refuge of half the discontented and restless men and women of the other States, who, with cause or without, chafe under the matrimonial yoke, and who seek her courts for the relief that more sensible and Christian legislation elsewhere refuses to grant, has been a standing reproach to her reputation abroad, and the cause of unnecessary and wide-spread demoralization at home. Her courts in every county have for years past had their dockets encumbered with cases in which the plantiffs were unknown to Indiana tax-gatherers or censustakers—husbands or wives who have fled form the wholesome restraints.which mattrimony imposes, in search of the cheap and easy method of divorce by which the sapient law-givers of Hoosierdom have practically legalized Free Love and its endless and nameless abominations, not only for themselves but for half the Union besides. Grass widows with whom husbands would not live: grass widowers with whom no decent woman could live; strong-minded women who claim as God-given the right to say how many children they shall have and by whom they shall be fathered; strong-minded men who agree with strong inintied women in their theories and lend their aid in carrying them out; last women who feel that all husbands are nuisances; silly women who have married in haste and are repenting at leisure: silly men ditto, ditto; unfortunate women who find themselves tied to sots, beasts or debauchees; these sots, beasts and debauchees who hate the purity and innocency of woman—all these have by thousands—litterally by thousands-—sought the benefit of the laws which Indiana was foolish enough to-enact. Her villages have swarmed with them in numbers so prolific and with consequences so disastrous to at least one commandment in the decalogue, that the moral sense of the Hoosiers, who,"under such an influx of concupiscence and perjury,have any moral sense left, has become so much shocked that, a change is demanded. One of the first bills brought forward at the commencement of the present session of the Indiana Legislature, was a bill amending this divorce law under which so many iniquities have grown up; and we are assured by a correspondent that it will pass. For the credit of our sister State and for the cause of morality everywhere, we hope he is not deceived in expectations. But whether it obtains the favor of the Legislature or not, its introduction at this time, when so many influences are at work to loosen and destroy the sacredness of the conjugal bonds, is a wholesome and welcome sign. It will not be without its efforrt elsewhere.— Chicago Trib. and Press. •don Recfyd states that thej nunnery of SasstiH (SiTrffinia) was lately taken by an internal convulsion. A rebel lion broke out among the vestals. Many, said they were “free born,” and would be liberated from their ■prison. But the Bishop turned a deaf ear tojj their petitions? dreading their ex am pie would be imitated. Two, however, escaped, and are enjoying the society of their relatives.