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y their course of action, they would have taken<br />
their stand, that they could not unite their life<br />
interest with men who were cherishing unnatural<br />
appetites for alcoholic drinks, and tobacco which is<br />
a slow, but sure and deadly, poison, weakening the<br />
nervous system, and debasing the noble faculties of<br />
the mind. If men would remain wedded to these<br />
vile habits, women should have left them to their<br />
life of single blessedness, to enjoy these<br />
companions of their choice. Women should not<br />
have considered themselves of so little value as to<br />
unite their destiny with men who had no control<br />
over their appetites, but whose principal happiness<br />
consisted in eating and drinking, and gratifying<br />
their animal passions. Women have not always<br />
followed the dictates of reason. They have<br />
sometimes been led by blind impulse. They have<br />
not always felt in a high degree the responsibilities<br />
resting upon them, to form such life connections as<br />
would not enstamp upon their offspring a low<br />
degree of morals, and a passion to gratify debased<br />
appetites, at the expense of health, and even life.<br />
God will hold them accountable in a large degree<br />
for the physical health and moral characters thus<br />
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