Gallipolis Journal

Organized Licentiousness.—A New York correspondent of The Buffalo Express furnishes the following intelligence of a new and dangerous sect in Brooklyn, N. Y.

"A wicked and dangerous socialistic sect have sprung up of late and established their head quarters in Brooklyn, the City of Churches. This sect style themselves 'Progressionists,' and have male and female agents who smuggle themselves into our family circles and after three or four visits adroitly allude to the existence and peculiarity of their institution. The doctrine of this sect is that matrimony, as at present understood, is a ludicrous sham; that a man has no right to live with his wife unless he loves her spiritually as well as physically; that a woman is not bound to live with her husband unless she loves him spiritually and physically; and that when she sees another whom she can love better, she is morally obliged to cut the former and take up with the latter, and so on according to each new fancy, until she dies. The agents of this sect are very numerous, and the institution itself is filled with proselytes—made up in the main of husbands who have abandoned their wives, and of wives who have abandoned their husbands, together, as one of its agents informed me, with a bountiful supply of young men and women who have never yet been 'yoked' in the usual form. As you may readily imagine, this sect is breaking up the peace and happiness of a great many families."