Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1873 — Free Love. [ARTICLE]

Free Love.

The .American Association of Spiritualists met in convention at Chicago last week, under, the presidency of Victoria Woodhull, the leading free-love apostle of America The convention vas composed of abo tit 2 Off do legates i nos t of whom endorsed the peculiar and repulsive views of their president, and reelected her to that office for the second time. There were some good men and women present who did not endorse the nastiness thrown to the. crowd by Mrs Woodhull, Mrs. Dr. Seaverancc," MtsT Owens, of Indianapolis, Dr. Blood, Messrs. Jamison, Randolph, and others, but strove by their voices and votes to. stem the tide of free- • love which dually overwlmbued the convention. There_uro two classes of spiritbelieving that free iovo must prevail before "Spiritualism can be rightly understood, the other repudiating in toto the pernicious doctrines practiced and taught hv Woodhull, Blood, Moses? Hall, ot al., and, through their organs 'are! dealing sledge-hammer blows in ; defense of what they claim to be [ pure Spiritualism. The hearty sympathy and good wishes of all \ those who recognize and revere the j marriage obligation will be accorded the 1 alter class off Spiritualists in their fight against lust and nastiness as embodied in the teachings ■ of Mrs. Woodhull and Rev. Moses 1 Hull. When the Chicago Times, a paper : supposed to be about as nasty and ! filthy ns can be found, unties with 1 the other Chicago papers in cor-1 demiting the works ami speeches off the convention,. our readers can safely conclude that the majority of the members of the convention were! a pretty hard set. The Times speaks | of the convention in the following 1 style: “The moral streams of Chicago ! arc running rather "muddy curren ts ; at present. One place of amusement 1 presents a couple of lorettos as the j principal characters in its leading ] play; another presents naked legs j and busts as its attractions, while j -the boss-bawd of the world draws iin-.j mence audiences to her queen performances. Marriage and chastity are publicly termed ‘scare crows,' and lecherous old scalawags applaud the utterance ‘to the echo.’— Where, in the name of all that is decent, are the police?” —Crown Point Register.