grants no resurrection.

In a letter to the National Woman's Suffrage Convention, held at St.
Louis, May, 1879, upon this condition of Licensed Vice, from Josephine
E. Butler, Hon. Secretary of the Federation and the Ladies' National
Association for the Protection of Women; a society which has its
branches over Europe, and has for years been actively at work against
this last most hideous form of slavery for women, Mrs. Butler says:

England holds a peculiar position in regard to the question. She
was the last to adopt this system of slavery, and she adopted it
in that thorough manner which characterizes the actions of the
Anglo-Saxon race. In no other country has prostitution been
regulated by law. It has been understood by the Latin races, even
when morally enervated, that the law could not without risk of
losing its majesty and force sanction illegality and violate
justice. In England alone the regulations are law.

This legalization of vice, which is the endorsement of the
"necessity" of impurity for man and the institution of the
slavery of woman, is the most open denial which modern times have
seen of the principle of the sacredness of the individual human
being. An English high-class journal dared to demand that women
who are unchaste shall henceforth be dealt with "not as human
beings, but as foul sewers," or some such "material nuisance"
without souls, without rights, and without responsibility. When
the leaders of public opinion in a country have arrived at such a
point of combined skepticism and despotism as to recommend such a
manner of dealing with human beings, there is no crime which that
country may not presently legalize, there is no organization of
murder, no conspiracy of abominable things that it may not, and
in due time will not--have been found to embrace in its guilty
methods. Were it possible to secure the absolute physical health
of a whole province or an entire continent by the destruction of
one, only one poor and sinful woman, woe to that nation which
should dare, by that single act of destruction, to purchase this
advantage to the many! It will do it at its peril. God will take
account of the deed not in eternity only, but in time, it may be
in the next or even in the present generation.

The fact of governments lending their official aid to the