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A Solemn Appeal - James White

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murders re-echo more plaintive still the groans and<br />

woes of unhallowed passion! A physician recently<br />

avowed his belief that if, by any secret means,<br />

however painful or dangerous, he could prevent<br />

progeny, he could make a princely fortune in a<br />

year. Thank God! no one has found out a specific<br />

preventive. Nor ever should; because this will<br />

throw open the floodgates of passion, and trample<br />

under the foot of unbridled lust nature's great<br />

ordinance, nature's great laws. Hear our news-boys<br />

either boast of their licentiousness, or else tantalize<br />

those whose native modesty is not yet wholly<br />

effaced, of their failure!<br />

"What kinds of edibles command the highest<br />

price in the market? Those that stimulate this<br />

passion, and because they create impure desires.<br />

What mean those oyster stews, and crab parties,<br />

and terrapin soups, and squab suppers, wild fowls,<br />

cloves, and a host of other like things? Eaten, in<br />

many instances in high (?low) life, expressly to<br />

beget unhallowed desires! Oh! shame, where is thy<br />

blush! Do you want more proof ? Behold the fertile<br />

South. But particulars are too revolting, both as<br />

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