The New Hampshire Gazette

Messrs. Printers,

Having accidentally met with the enclosed beautiful scrap, which I would earnestly recommend to the careful perusal, meditation and improvement of the many young Bachelors of this town and state—I have to request you to give it a sightly place in your entertaining and valuable paper, and thereby you may oblige and perhaps greatly benefit many of your readers of both sexes; but thus far I will assure, that you will oblige at least

One of your Male Customers.

The following is the piece I allude to. It is copied verbatim from the great Doctor Hunter's Sacred Biography.

"Let me take occasion from that Institution which God deigned for the completion of human happiness in a state of innocence, and for the mutual assistance and comfort of the sexes, in their fallen condition, to censure and condemn that spirit and practice of celibacy, which is one of the crying vices of our own age and country, and which is equally inimical to religion, to good morals, to public spirit, and human comfort. He who avows, or lives as if he thought that "it is good for man to be alone," gives the lie to his Maker: sins against the constitution of his nature; dishonors his parents: defrauds another of one of the justest rights of humanity, and in a case too where it is impossible to complain: and exposes himself to commit offences against society which are not to be mentioned in this place. In truth, celibacy, is a vile compound of avarice and selfishness, which would pass pals upon the world for prudence and self denial: and the state of our country at present in this respect, looks as if a single life, as in Roman Catholic countries, were established by a law, but that the laity, not the clergy, were bound by it. But alas! I am only furnishing matter for a little conversation. There must be more virtue, religion and good sense among the young men of the age, before this crying evil can be remedied."