Court-Martial Condemns Officer’s Marriage by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 1, 1883

Court-Martial Condemns Officer’s Marriage

By Editor

WE have learned that the American army can be disgraced by the action of its officers. A court-martial has decided that an officer has disgraced the army by marrying a woman with whom he had lived as his mistress. Those who are acquainted with the army well know that drunkenness in an officer is not disgraceful; gambling is not disgraceful; to live with “a mistress” is not disgraceful; but to marry the woman with whom he lives, that is disgraceful! But we are happy to say that the finding of the court has not been approved.