Joseph Stansbury, MLRA: For the Exclusive Object of Promoting the Passing of an Act to Render Lawful Marriage with a… (1862)
“ It only remains for us to express the satisfaction with which we have learned that Friends in many of our meetings have concluded to petition the legislature for the repeal of what we cannot but consider an unauthorized restriction of the law of marriage. ”
Joseph Stansbury, MLRA: For the Exclusive Object of Promoting the Passing of an Act to Render Lawful Marriage with a… (1862)
“ Of all second marriages I have no hesitation in saying that these are the most suitable and likely to be the most frequent, if the law did not sometimes prevent them. It is quite monstrous, judges and lawyers speaking as they have done of late upon this subject. ”
Joseph Stansbury, MLRA: For the Exclusive Object of Promoting the Passing of an Act to Render Lawful Marriage with a… (1862)
“ I think where persons feel that they can without scruple contract them, they should be allowed to do so." — Speech of Earl Russell "I cannot bring myself to believe that the Divine law prohibits a man from marriage with a deceased wife's sister." — Dr. Musgrave, late Archbishop of York. "You are at liberty to refer to me as approvng of the abolition of the restriction on marriage to which you allude." ”
