Chief Justice Story, Massachusetts.

"Nothing is more common in almost all the States of America than second marriages of this sort; and so far from being doubtful as to their moral tendency, they are among us deemed the very best sort of marriages. In my whole life I never heard the slightest suggestion against them, founded on moral or domestic considerations. Everything that I have read upon this subject, for the last 20 years, has satisfied me that the objection is utterly unscriptural and unfounded."