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present state, no real good it effected, but infinite harm is done — mischiefs which will be developing themselves in families for generations to come, unless remedied.
Experience shows it impolitic and impossible to prevent such marriages; humanity and policy dictate the removing from them the still lingering consequences of an obsolete stigma.
I venture to address you, Sir, in your influential position, in the hope that you will admit the substantial justice of the considerations I have laid before you, and give your support to any measure that may be introduced into Parliament to give validity to marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
- Requesting the favour of a reply,
- I have the honour to be. Sir,
- Your obedient servant,
- JOSEPH STANSBURY, M.A.,
- Hon, Sec.
The preceding remarks may, mutatis mutandis, be considered as addressed to all Catholic prelates, and all Catholic members of British Colonial Legislatures, in colonies where the law prohibiting marriage with a deceased wife's sister remains still unrepealed.
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