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engagerments
are admitted to be
abnormal and improper-
b. It is true that such a bounts
Mi
Amarriage, as that proposed might
induce some to select as their wives
from
the
Auctuerous
prostitutes brothels within their reach, but the better the clues of humigrants selected.
the less probability of this contingency;
and should its recurrenc
even
certain, I cannot look
upon
any degree of apprehension:
contrary, I believe that
be
it with
on
the
very many
- this unfortunate clare of females,
iwwere such
At
opportunity
biccented to them of creaping from
then terrible boutage, woli unt
gladů avail themselves of it and become thereafter gratifui aud virtuous wives, for a great
of
great univer them, perhaps a large majoriti
are purchased
as slaves in their
so
infancy, and are es trained up for the
cxpress purpose of prostitution that their mode of life
can scarcela be terned voluntary - Here it is truc
they are
free (and they constauth
their freedom in
take advantage of
this manner), but on the Imainland are l'imagine utterly without
they
the power, if without the
Imoney,
to
obtain their liberty - I am glad that this subject is occupying
the attention