His faculty for reading into things what was in his own mind was never more clearly demonstrated than by his description in “Frauds Exposed,” of the work of the National Liberal League, an organization formed in 1876, one of the chief objects of which was the repeal of the Comstock laws. He devoted a long chapter to it, writing in great detail of how “Infidelity” had “wedded Obscenity.” At the first convention of this League, Comstock says, they “espoused the cause of nastiness” and “considered means to aid and help the vendors of obscene publications.” He asks, “Do infidelity and obscenity occupy the same bed? Are they appropriately wedded?” He declared that at this convention they “proclaimed the banns between Infidelity and Obscenity in the following resolution, which he quotes as overwhelming proof of the nastiness of the organization: _Resolved_, that this League, while it recognizes the great importance and absolute necessity of guarding by proper legislation against obscene and indecent publications, whatever sect, party, order or class such publications claim to favor, disapproves and protests against all laws which by reason of indefiniteness or ambiguity, shall permit the prosecution and punishment of honest and conscientious men for presenting to the public what they deem essential to the public welfare, when the views thus presented do not violate in thought or language the acknowledged rules of decency; and that we demand that all laws against obscenity and indecency shall be so clear and explicit that none but actual offenders against the recognized principles of purity shall be liable to suffer therefrom. _Resolved_, that we cannot but regard the appointment and authorization by the government of a single individual to inspect our mails with power to exclude therefrom whatever he deems objectionable, as a delegation of authority dangerous to public and personal liberty, and utterly inconsistent with the genius of free institutions.” “Therefore,” says Comstock triumphantly, “I charge that they defended obscenity for the love of it.”