
I do not know but Ben told you that I was in the Lunatic Asylum during the time that himself John & Charley were recieving receiving hard knocks for Uncle Sam & his dimes. Well, I do not regret the 15 months that I spent there in two installments.
Oh! what a sad lesson I learned there of young America.
A line in Leaves of Grass led me to think that you was the very man to get him out of the Scrape, or at least to show him his danger, of which he seemed quite ignorant. In the Asylum I saw "living bodys" that had been so sadly defiled by forcing semon semen thro' the hand as to retain but little of the human.

More than half the pacients patients in the institution, are there from this cause, And half of the other half from dodging the noblist noblest work of man, because of the expense of raising children, and other imaginary trobles troubles , or as I once heard a young Baptist deacon Say—"I won't have my pretty wife all tore to pieces having young-ones." Mad as they are in the Asylum, this is greater madness. Could not the coming young America be induced to do this noblest work manfully & womanly if benevolent liberals were to form themselves into a Society for the purpose of taking naked infants from their mothers bring them up naked, and marry them at the age of about eight years bringing all Science & all human power to their right mating or pairing.

Ha! my dear friend, there is no investment that will pay like this. Do you See it? If not there is only God & I that sees it.
If you do I know what youd you'd do. I will not ask you to reply to this, tho' nothing could afford me more pleasure. But I have no right to take what, but for me, would fall to the Soldier boys
Henry Wilson father of B H Wilson 185 regtP.S. In looking over if find I have rather neglected female young America in my Asylum remarks; Altho' she has no semon semen she suffers just as much by quite as prevalent habits as her Brother.
H. WP.S. And I do not mean to say that all are young who practice it, they are of all ages in
the Asylum up to eighty years; But I think the habit must have been formed in
youth.

