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Rh, ceases to be respected and becomes weak as a spider's web, and that implicit confidence which the parties once reposed in each other becomes shaken, or perhaps is given to the winds. Such publications are nuisances, wherever they are seen. The family newspaper should contain nothing that is inconsistent with the most scrupulous virtue. It should in all respects be pure as the mountain snow, and no obscene word should be allowed to pollute its columns. It should be fit to grace the parlor or drawingroom of the most fastidious female. The public seem not to be aware of the immense influence that such publications have upon human life. Every thoughtful mother and every virtuous daughter should commit every newspaper to the flames the moment she finds any such stain upon its pages. Let this be done, and such vile prints will soon disappear from common observation, and be found only in the sinks of harlots. No law would be required to suppress them, if female sanctity, thus abused and profaned, would rise in its might and consign them to darkness and infamy.