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• t bki tiumn was caKcn mana did for,’? May not others have attempt ea the same game ?FREE LOVE AT CERE3CO.The people of Oercseo, Food du Lac Co., •are in a rent state of excitement about ithe f* Ccresco IInkyn/* said to be an association of «wii and women who believe in thefree lore doctrines of the latter days.— Those of the citizens who do' not believe in this doctrine, naturally think such a set of inhabitants a great detriment to the pros-perity of the town, and they have recently preferred a complaint against a Mr J, H, 'Cooko and Clarissa JL Cooke, far living together illegally as husband and wife, they .were held ' to bail to rppear at the next term of the circuit court to . answer the charge,'-The; Berlin Courant S33’S that they con-the marriage relation anything but sacred., They hold that whenever cither ?party to marriage contract, conceive that the match is unsuitable they have a perfect right.to cast off . their former partner, and take to themselves a “spiritual” husband or. wife, as the case may be. This ...theory is not only advocated, but wa areinformed is actually lived out, in the vil-• Ugo of Ceresco./A '.corespondent of the Fond du Lac Herald writes as follows concerning these people:Last fall as you' know, a certain renegade by tho name of Newberry, who said he was sent here b)/' Warren Chose, made his appearance among us for the purpose of propagating these pernicious doctrines.. The inhabitants treated hiin in such a man-'Tier he was obliged to leave, lie was succeeded1 by two other brutes from Wauke-here by the same Chase, by the ■namesof .Wrght and Bruster. The latter -declared himsulf to have been born two hundred years before hia time. These . long bearded• philosophers and . their coadjutors labored hard .to-prepare public opinion to receive this abomination. Early this spring another pair .came from Long ‘Island, the woman in Bloomers. She made filer boasts-that she had left Her husband rand came otf with this* filthy looking creature. and not knowing of any other mode ;of travelling, footed through the whole distance. *• Some three weeks since,• an old 'hag from- Wankcgan joined her kindred •spirits here, and 'took her bed and hoard. HtWrighl’s, having previously boon acquainted i h\ order to carry out-this new- mode of progressive development and reduce their doctrine tb practice, Wright abandoned bis wife’s bed, and lodged with the old hag sixty years or more. Mrs.•^.Wright remonstrated but she declared she* had violated no principles of their order 'which allows its members to choose their• own sexual,intercourse by the laws of -Affinity. - Cooke and the Bloomer woman are under arrest, and . the old Wattkegan• hag' having 'been notified to leave escaped a coat of tar and feathers, simply because she could not- be - found-by the ladies, who- warchod nearly every free’- lore nest in the ■ place. ’ '= Preceding facts have called out these- indignation, meetings,. The 'inhabitants ore much excited, Tiud the end i s not vet.na:mtIf; tom s!say in Demo *■ fusic hearth oughlj manyticket,ShouldDress, or thb .Hayiians, c.—Mr. Bigelow, of; iho N. Y. Ere. Post, who has—in heher ger tem of sings ti institulsane, h groat h and hei cy.Eve: iratchec other S are kno der pro: be beat* defeat s the stor less pci tricve tl future, Wiscon: fully doOhio -have to for inju: waste oj in quari criminal ed .prior for the t that co s tan dare devote il ocratic and devlt;action, a# •»crown o-election.
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Democratic Standard
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jun 13, 1855
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