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PROGRESS: FREE’ THOUGHT: UNTRAMMELED LIVES 2
‘ BEEAKING THE WA Y Fore survey .GEN.ERATIf0NS.
rrsrw YORK, JANUARY 6, 1872.

 rules ms cssrs.

J01-IE3. CISCO a son,
BANKERS,

No. 59 Wall St1rcei,,New York.

Gold and Currency received on deposit, subject to
check at sight.

J Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate
oi‘ Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of
each month.

A'LL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASSTHROUGH
THE CLEARINGJIOUSE,‘ AND ARE RECEIVED
ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS.

Certificates of Deposit issued, payable on demand,
bearing Four per Cent. interest.

Loans negotiated.

Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and
Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on
commission.

Collections made on all parts or the United States
and Canadas.

‘73——B5.

LOANEBS’ BANK
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

(ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CEARTER,)
“ Continental Life ” Building,
22 NASSAUSTREET, NEW YORK.

CA,Pr1‘A.L ......................... .. . ..... .. $500,000
Subject to increase to ..................... . . 1,00,000

This Bank negotiates LOANS. makes COLLEC-
TIONS, advances on SECURITIES, and receives
DEPOSITS.

Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants
will receive special attention! ,

@ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on
CURRENT BALANCES, and liberal facilities offered
to our CUSTOMERS.

DORR RUSSELL, President.
A. F. WrLnMAR'rn', Vice-President. ,
IIARVEY FISK.
OFFICE or

FISK 82: HATCH.
BANKER&
AND ,
V DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES,

No. 5 NASSAU srnnnr, N. Y.,

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A. s. naéron.

Opposite U. 8. Sub-Treasury.
-We receive the accounts of Banks, Bank-
ers, Corporations and others, subject to check
at sight, and allow interest on balances.

We make special arrangements for interest

on deposits of specific sums for fixed periods.

We make collections on all points in the
United States and Canada, and issue Certifi-
cates of Deposit available in all parts of the
Union.

We buy and sell, at current rates, all classes
of Government Securities, and the Bonds of
the Central Pacific Railroad Company ;‘ also,
Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons.

We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange,
miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis-

sion, for cash.

Communications and inquiries by mail or
telegraph, will receive carefiil attention.

A FISK & HATCH.
re-8.8. .

RAILROAD IRON,

‘ ‘ non SALE BY
s. W HOPKINS & Coo,

CALDWELL a cu,

BANKERS,
2:7 Wan «st. New York.

Order for Purchase and Sale of United
States Securities, Stocks, Bonds and Ameri-
can Gold promptly executed at the usual
commission.

Collections promptly made‘ in all parts
of the United States and Canada.

@Interest,4 per cent, allowed on de-
posits, subject to sight draft.
'78 to 103. A

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NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK.
THE FREEDMANS SAVINGS AND ‘TRUST
COMPANY.
(Chartered by the Government of the United States.)
DEPOSITS OVER $3,000,000.
185 BLEECKER STREET, NEW YORK. ‘

SIX PER CENT. interest commences first of each

month.

Four per cent. allowed, from date of each deposit
for full number of days, not less than thirty, on sums
of $50 and upward, withdrawn before January.

DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES, as safe as Registered
Bonds, and promptly available in any part of the
United States, issued, payable on, demand, with in
terest due.

Accounts strictly private and confidential. '
Deposits payable on demand, with interest due.

Interest on accounts of certificates paid by check to
depositors residing. out of the city if desired.

Send for Circular. .

Open daily from .9 A. M. to 5 P. M., and MONDAYS
and SATURDAYS from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M.

JOHN J. ZUILLE, Cashier.

A Nnw roux
SAVING-S BANK,

Eighth Ave. cur. Fourteenth   Si.
SIX run CENT. Iursunsr

allowed on all sums from $5 to $5,000. Deposits
made on or before August 1 will draw interest from
August 1.

Assets, $2,473,303 05.

Surplus, $200,272 95.

s. .5... is F.  E E 
BROKERS,

iNsoLn,smcKs&soNns

No.’ 7 saw srassr,

   

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C. J. OSBOBN. ’ADDISON OAMMACK.
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, ossosrr la ioA1unAoK,
BANKERS,
No. -34 BROAD srnnnr.

STOCKS, STATE BONDS, GOLD AND FEDERAL
SECURITIES, bought and soldon Commission.

BANKING Housn

OF
HENRY cLssss”a.‘ce.,
. so. as Wall Street, N. r.

Letters of Credit for travelers, also Commercial
Credits issued, available throughout the world. ‘
Bills of Exchange on the Imperial Bank of London,
National Bank of Scotland, Provincial Bank of Ire-
land, and all their branches. 3 ~
' Drafts and Telegraphic Transfers on Europe, San
Francisco, the Westuhsdies-and all parts of the United
States. ,_ A
Deposit accounts received in either Currency or
Coin, subject to check at sight, which pass through
the Clearing-House as if drawn upon any city bank;
4 per cent. interest allowed on all daily balances;
Certificates of Deposit issued; Notes, Drafts and
Coupons collected; advances made on approved col-
laterals and against merchandise consigned to our
care. ~ 
Orders executed for Investment Securities and
‘ Railroad Iron.
Chnws, HABIOHT 85 00., 11 Old Broad street,
London.

TANNER & ($0.,
BANKERS, ’
No. '11 WALL srururr, nnw roan,
nnannss IN A
STOCKS, norms, com) AND EXCHANGE.
onnnns nxncurnn ‘AT run sroci: AND
com) nxcnmvens.

Iurnansr ALLOWED ON Dnrosrrs SUBJECT are Canon
AT SIGHT.

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Buy and sell at current market rates, the FIRST

MORTGAGE EIGHT (8) PER PER. CENT. GOLD
BONDS of the ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY
.RAILRoA1) COMPANY. . , 
Interest, payable August and February, in New
York, London, or Frankfort-on-the-Main, free of
United States taxes. Present market quotations, 97%

a 98340. and interest.

TANNER &.CO.,

. No. ll WALL srnnrrr.
56 I _ 1

Rail
Road
Bonds.

WOODHULL, cnArL1N r.i¢5o.,i”

Whether you wish to Buy or Sell
write to

No. 7 WALL STREET, K
New York. can

Bankers and §Brokers,

No. 44 BROAD STREET,

New York.

CHARLES W’. EIASSLEIE,

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A First-Class Esme Investment.

——...g.n

Finer   ruosrosoui

 

R.AILRO.AD.

Principal dc Interest Payable in
Gold.

Seven per Cent. Semi-Annually.

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This Read covers 100 miles of the most direct pos-
sible line, between the Great Lakes and deep water
navigation on the Hudson River, the whole -line of
which will be completed-and in operation. on or be-
fore October 1st, 1872, and give a new. line of road to

— Lake Ontario and the West, 25 milesshorter than any

line that can be found.

It passes through the Cement, IT‘la.g-Stone and Lum-
ber regions of Ulster County. and the rich, agrieul
tural bottoms of Delaware and Greene Counties, all
of which have not heretofore been reached by railroad

facilities, and from which sections, the formation of L
the country prevents the construction of a competing

line.

The 36 miles of road operated for three months is
already paying net earnings equivalent to 7 per cent.
gold, on its cost of construction and equipments ,
The issue of Bonds is limited to $20,000 per mile oi‘
COMPLETED ROAD, the coupons payable in goldin
this city.

PRICE OF THE BONDS, 90 IN CURRENCY.

Full particulars of the‘ above may be had‘ of, and
the Bonds for sale by ’ V

 

all Wall Street,’ new sons crrr. M’

5‘; Financial Agents of the R. & 0. Company. 81

MAREET ssvrues suns,
as NASSAU srnnnr, iv. ‘v.,
Six Per Cent. Interest Allowed.

nterest commences on the 1st of each month.

 R. CONKLIN,
Secretaq. 60-'86

WM. VAN mum
President.

 

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Incsnsonié. -Lockwooo,
Late’United States Consul to the Kingdom of Hano-

ver. Author of “ Transatlantic Souvenirs.”
Translator of Renan’s “ St. Paul,” etc. '

1.’ “CoUNT BISMARCK, THE GREAT PRUSSIAN PRE-
MIER.” 2. “NATIONALITY -AND Noizimrr.”
3. WoMEN’s FAcEs.’ 4. “Bruins.”
(New Lecture.) A

Although one of the youngest in the lecture-field,
Mr. Lockvvood’s success has been most flattering, and
press-notices, iiidorsing-' his rare abilities, have been
received from all places where he has lectured. The
following is a sample:

Ingersoll Lockwood, of New York, is one of the
most popular lecturers in the country. He has been
a foreign minister of the ‘government (when only
twenty-one years old), and is one of_ the most genial
speakers of the present day.-—[Even1ng Mail] .- . . .The
lecture was interesting; exhibits a wonderful recon-p
diteness in the subject, and presents an array of on-
rious facts. Though exhausting the subject, he did
not exhaust the audience, which listened to it with
pleasurable delight.—[N. Y. Hera1d.]....The lecture
delivered last evening, before the Young Men’s Asso-
ciation, by Ingersoll Lockwood, on “Count Bis-
-marck,” was a very fine eii‘ort»1n.deed.-—[Troy Ex-.

ress.  .A ood audience was in attendance at

weddle Hal, last evening, to listen to Ingersoll
Lockwood, of New York, on Count Bismarck. Mr.
Lockwood is a distinct, clear and powerful speaker,
and showed throughout a perfect familiarity with his
subject. His presentation of thefacts of the C’ount’s
life, and estimate of his character, were so -well done
as to make his lecture full of interest and profit.—[Al-
bany J ournal.]'. . . .Brilliant and masterly.—[E S.
Journal, White Plains] . . . .An excellent lecturer. An

_ eloquengdescriptioii of the life andacharacter of the

great Prussian Premier.-—[S. S. Republican.]...._Mr.

Loc;zwood's oratorical powers are well known._—

[Home J ournal.] ' ‘ -
Terms, $100, with modifications.

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ILD,  i-‘PAIN, SAFE, EFFICIENT

It is far the best Cathartic remedy yet discov-
ered, and at once relieves and invigorates all the vital
functions, without causing injury to any of them.
The most complete success has long attended its use
in many localities, and -it is now offered to the general
public with the conviction that it can never fail to
accomplish all that is claimed for it. It produces
little or no pain; leaves the organs free from irrita
tion, and never overtaxes or excites the nervous sys-
tem. In all diseases of the skin, blood, stomach,
bowels, liver, kidneys——of children, and in many difli-
culties peculiar to women—it brings prompt relief
and certain cure. The best physicians recommend
an;1l' prescribe-it; and no person who once uses this
wil voluntarily return to the use of any other ca-
thartic. . ‘
" Sent by ma'5on receipt of price‘ and postage.

1 box, $0 2 ................... ..Postage 6 cents.
5 boxes, 1 O0 . . . . . .. .  “ 18 “
12 “ 2 25 . . . . . . . . .. “ 39 “

 

- It is sold by all dealers in drugs and medicines.
TURNE

, , R 86 00., Proprietors,
120 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.

THE RALTIMoRE & OHIO R. R.

Is an Air-Line Route from Baltimore and Washington
to Cincinnati, and is the only line running l’ullman’s
Palace Day and Sleeping Cars through from Washing-
ton and Baltimore to Cincinnati without change;

Louisville in 29% hours. ' -

Passengers by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad hav
choice of routes, either via Columbus or Parker-sburg.
_ From Cincinnati, take the Louisville and Cincinnati
Short Line Railroad. .

Avoid all dangerous ferry transfers by crossinggthe
great Ohio River Suspension Bridge, and reach Louis-
ville hours in advance of all other lines. , Save many
miles in going to Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga,
Atlanta, Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans.

The only line running four daily trains from Cin-

- cinnati to Louisville.

Silver Palace Sleeping Coaches at night, and splen-
gid Smoking Cars, with revolvingarm chairs, on day

rains.

Remember! lower fare by no other route.

To secure the advantages offered by this great
through route of Quick Time, Short Distance and Low
Fare, ask for tickets, andbe sure they read, via Louis-
ville and Cincinnati Short Line R. R.

. Get your tickets—-No. 87,,Washington street, Boston;
N o. 229 Broadway, oifice New Jersey R. R., foot of
Cortlandt street, New York; Continental Hotel, 828
Chestnut street, 44 South Fifth street, and at the depot
corner Broad and Prime streets, Philadelphia; S. E.
corner Baltimore and Calvert streets, or at Camden
Station, Baltimore; 485 Pennsylvania avenue, Wash-
ington D. C. ; and at all the principal railroad Ofiices

in the ast. ,
SAM. GILL,
” General Supt., Louisville, Ky.

HENRY STE , ,

Gen. Ticket Afgent, Louisville, Ky.

\ SIDNEY B. JONES
Gen. Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky.

reassess tr  noisier.

DR. SIGESMOND, Surgeon Dentist to the W0-
man’s Hospital, is the inventor of Artificial Teeth
without plates or clasps. Can be inserted perma-
nently without extracting any roots. Warranted
twenty years. The most painful decayed teeth or
stumps restoredby filling or building up to natural
shape and color without pain, at 63 East Ninth street,
near Broadway, late of Union Square. 68-120.

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Being constructed with _re-ward to scientific accuracy,

are used in all _tests_oI skill by the best players in the‘
country, and in all hrs-t-class clubs and hotels. Illus-

trated catalogue of everything relating to billiards

sent by mail.

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Challenges the world in perfection of work, strength
and beauty of stitch, durability of construction and
rapidity of motion. .

Call and -examine. Send for circular. Agents
wanted.

' I MANUFACTURED BY

LEE8 SEWING MASH-FEE‘ $9.,

'62; BROADWAY, New York.

THE HAIR.
_,ZOECOME! .
THE NEW HAIR RESTORATIVE

Will positiiiely restore luxuriant and healthy growth
of HAIR upon the
BALD BEADED, .

and will prevent the hair from falling out. _

‘ It has No poisonous caustic or irritating ingredient
whatever. It is as harmless as water, and ‘WHOLLY
UNLIKE any other reparation for the hair.

It never fails. Itfihas produced a fine growth of hair
upon those who have been bald for twenty-five years.
All who have used it, without exception, attest to its
great merits.

Persons in New York or Brooklyn wishing to test
the ZOECOME, can either personally or by note make

dences and apply it. , .
MRS. ELVIRA M. DEPUY,

64 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn.

Now Published for the First Time
in this Country! A

GOETHER
Elective -Aoflinities:
' 7 With an Introduction
BY VICTORIA C. WOODHULL._
names, $1 so.

Sent by Mail or Express, as ordered, on receipt of
‘ the price.

 

“ It is very true that ideas of ‘social freedom and of
inevitable law governing the actions of humanity are
rapidly spreading in the world at this day, and that I
may have done something to aid their growth. _ Per-
haps my name may mit, therefore, be inappropriately
associated with this reproduction of the work of the
greatest-Genius of Germany, the first who promul-
gated the thou_ ht that there is a chemistry of the
mind, and that lective Affinities are as powerful and
legitimate in the realm of human sentiment as In the
realm of matter.”

“ Themes of freedom on all subjects form the staple
public sentiment of the world at this age. A doc-
trine like that of Goethe’s is therefore eminently cal-
culated to make progress even unconsciously in this
century.” ~

“ But in any event Genius has its prerogatives, and
the genius of Goethe is incontestable and uncontest-
ed. The American public are entitled to know what
this great leader of modern thought, one of the found-
ers of Comparative Anatomy, has thought on the
more recondite subject of the Chemistry of the Mind.
The question is not, in the first instance, whether his
views were right or wrong, true or false; but simply,
What were they? and in none of his works is that
question so effectively answered as in ‘ Elective
Aifinities.’ ”—Eact7'actsj7"om Introduction.

THE A LAW or MARRIAGE,
, I AN I

EXHAUSTIVE ARGUMENT -
AGAINST MARRIAGE LEGISLATION,

By c. e. JAMES,
Author of “Manual of Transcendental Philosophy.”
For Sale by the Author, post paid, for 250.
Address
Alma, Wis. " 75

A HISTORY
, on THE
NATIONAL WOMAN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT,
FOR TWENTY YEARS,

With the Proceedings of the Decade Meeting held at
‘ APOLLO HALL, OCTOBER 20, 1870,
From 1850 to 1870,
WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE nrsronr on THE

MovEMEN'I‘ DURING THE WINTER on 1871,
IN THE NATIONAL CAPITOL,
Compiled by
PAULINA W. DAVIS.
Foo sale by all Booksellers. Price 500.

A lucid and liberal account of the most important

political movement of the day.-—W. .2 cm W,

-ubstitute for equality, they in the meantime laboring

 
 

-' humanity demands oflwomen that they prepare them

arrangements to have a hair dresser sent to their resi-

' teresting, even to those who are opposed to the doc-

PATENT. '5

srocxine su1T0RTER

Eovhniurv A RIGHT on ‘WODIAN.

 

BY TENNIE c. cL’A1'LIN.

The object of the author in presenting this book to '

the public was : AND \
- First, To show that woman has the same human
rights which men have. “  

Second, To point out wherein 9. condition of servi-
tude has been involuntarily accepted’ by women as a_ NO ‘MORE COLD FEE'1‘__.NO MORE
under the delusion that they were above instead of DEFORMED LIMBS'
below equality. I

Third, To prove thatxit is a duty which women owe
o themselves to become fully individualized persons,
responsible to themselves and capable-of maintaining
such responsibility. ‘

Fourth, To demonstrate that the future welfare of

MRS. DANIELS takes pleasure in oifering the
above articles to ladies, with the assurance that they
will give satisfaction. . , . .

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The trade supplied at 8. discount.
No. 63 Clarendon Street,

selves to be the mothers of children, who shall be pure _ V BOSTON:
in body and mind, and that all other considerations of - V - ,
life should be made subservient to this their high OR MR3 ()3 A__ GLAYNQR, - ‘
mission as the artists of humanity. '

Fifth, That every child born has the natural right to A
live, and that society is responsible for the condition
in which he or she is admitted to be a constituent and
modifying part of itselt.

824, Broadway, New York.

sYi>HERa 00.,  .
(Successors to D. Marley,)

No. 557 BROADWAY, NEW YORK,

7'.

.woivIAN’s I§IGHTS—-NEW BOOKS.

We have received copies of two books which just
now possess considerable interest for many people.

Dealers in
They are entitled respectively, “Constitutional MODERN AND ANTIQUE
Equality, a Right of Women,” by Tennie C. C-laflin,

and “ The Origin, Functions and Principles of Gov- - . ‘ I 
ernment”by Victoria 0. Woodhull. We have ex-   ,
amined ese books carefully. not only for the sake 7 3 .
of the subjfifts Ereatednofa but 13603111186 oft1%he dlSCliS- . . I ;
sion which as een ca e out int epas ew wee s ,
about these two remarkable women. ‘    
It would seem as though everything conspired at
once to bring them and their views before the pub-
li"c. First, the Tribune paraded them as the cham-
t’f.‘.§"w§‘§;‘i‘f2.§"'2i'fIr‘§.l’ ‘J”¢$’o$.f‘.f‘”€il‘§.’lgoi.f3 tiiniteéfif’
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ve ement y up e em, an as y ey were I .
'li‘fi>ught boidilty before the pufblict in_ ‘ghe recent trialfi S E T G g T E E ? H 5
ese con -10 1110‘ e emen -s o no one y were enoug . _

to have made an’; ope famous for the moment; and With plumpeis to set out the cheeks and restore the
ought_to.make the1r_books.sell. The chief element face to its natural appearance. Movable plumpers
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while they were, on the other hand, indorsed so en-
TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN,.

Established 1826.

 

thusiastically by a lady so universally respected as
Mrs. Stanton. Careful examination of their books
fails to show anything so very startling in the doc- With Nitrous Oxide Gas.
trines put forth in them, however distasteful they .

may bef to.man3é_ thrphey advanfie maggt Strong ,fn.gu_ No extra charge when others are inserted.

ments or givin ewomen t e rirr .0 vote, or a

remodeling of the marriage laws, band, in fact, for SPLENDID SETS’ $10 to $20’

the general renovating and making over of society. L_ BERNHARD N0_ 216 Sixth Avenue
Some of these are new, and some not so new, but B t F t th ’ dmft th 1; t t .’,
they are very well put, and will be found not un1n- *3 Ween °“1' 9911 an 99“ 3 We 3 939 SW9’

trines advocated.—Newa7"Ic (N. J.) Register.

ROYALHAVANA LOTTERY.

THE ORIGIN, TENDENCIES AND
PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT.

$330,000 IN GOLD

DRAWN EVERY /'17 DAYS.

BY VICTORIA C. WOODHULL.

This remarkable book, just from the press, contains

.a graphic consolidation of the various principles in-

volved in government as the guarantee and protection
to the exercise of human rights.

/Such principles as, from time to time, have been

enunciated in these columns are here arranged, classi

"fled and applied. A careful ,co:‘-sideration of them

Prizes cashed and information furnished. Orders
solicited and promptly filled.

The highest rates paid for Doubloons and all kinds
of Gold and Silver and Government Securities.

4 TAYLOR & CO., BANxERs,
will convince the most skeptical that our Government, ‘Na 16 W311 Street.
though so good, is very far from being perfect.
Every person who has the future welfare of this

country at heart should make him or herself familiar .  ,
with the questions treated in this book. No lengthy —
elucidations are entered into; its statements are   
fresh, terse and bold, and make direct appeal to the ’
easoning faculties.
' It is an octave volume of 250 pages, containing the _
picture of the author; is beautifully printed on the
best quality of tinted paper, and is tastefully and I FIRST FLOOR’

where he will continue to conduct his business in al

substantially bound in extra cloth. No progressive its branches ,l,WENTY_FIVE PER CENT CHEAPER

person’s house should" be without this conclusive E19-11 h€1'€'00f01‘e. 1I1C0115e<l11e11Ce0f ‘G110 difference in
is ren .

854 Broadway“

HAS REMOVED FROM HIS STORE TO THE

evidence of woman’s capacity for self-‘government

, _ _ _ . CHATELA E IDS
Price, $30 0; by mail, postage paid, $3 25. . IN B3!‘ ’
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tal stimulant. She divests the woman question of
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854 Broadway, up-stairs.

MUTUAL BENEFIT SAVINGS BANK,
‘ SUN BUILDING, A
166 Nassau street, New York. ,
DIVIDEND. —A semi-annual dividend at the rate of
six per cent. per annum, on all sums of $5 and up-
ward’ which have been on deposit for one or more
months next previous to July 1, will be paid’ on and
after July 21, 1871. - sAM’L BARTON,
INTEREST not called for will remain as principal,
and draw interest from July 1.

, BARTON & ALLEN,
BANK OPEN daily from 10 to 3; also Monday and ‘ 3 1
Saturday evenings, from 4% to 6% ovc10ck_ Interest 3 A H K E R S A N 9 Q R 0 K E R Q ’ pm

commences on the 1st of every month following the

deposit - C _ DESK N0. 40 BROAD STREET.
A HA}. 3 -GRAHAM P 1 , ' V
i ’ res dent Mfiégoglgs, Bonds and Gold bought and sold on com
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SUFFRAGE CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON.

The National Woman Sufirage and Educational Commit-

‘ tee will hold a Convention at Lincoln Hall on the 10:11, 11th

and 12th of January, for the purpose of urging upon Con-
gress the passage of a “Declaratory act” during the coming
session.

Friends of Equal Rights are earnestly invited to make
early arrangements for being present at this most important
gathering. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President.

-ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, Chairman of Ex. Coin,

,JosEPHINE S. G-RIEEING, Secretary.

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THE INTERNATIONAL.

It ought to be known that this association is not secret-'
it does not aspire to the honor of being a conspiracy. Its
meetings are held in public; they are open to all comers,
though only members are permitted to speak (unless by
special invitation), and none but members are allowed to
vote. The several sections in this city and vicinity meet as
follows : A

Section 1 (German).—Sunday, 8 P. M., at the Tenth Ward
Hotel, corner of Broome and Forsyth streets.

Section 2 (French).—The second ‘Sunday in each month,
2 P. M., at No. 100 Prince street (especially to accommodate
female members) and every other Sunday, 9 A. M., at the same
place. .

Section 6 (German)'.—Tliursday, 8 P. M., at No. 10 Stanton
street.

Section 8 (German)——Sunday, 3 P. 'M., at No. 53 Union
avenue, 'Williamsburgh, L. I. '

Section 9 (American).—Wednesday, 8 P. M., at No. 35 East
Twenty-seventh street.

Section 10 (French):-—First Tiiesda and third Saturday in
each month, 6 P. M., at No. 650 'hird avenue, between
Forty-first and Forty-second streets.

Section 11 (G_erman).—Thursday, 8 P. M., West Thirty-
ninth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, at Hessel’s.

Section 12 (American).—The second and fourth Sunday in
eachqmonth, 8 P. M., at No.15 E. 38th street. 1

Section 13 (German):-The first and third Tuesday in each
month, 8 P. M., at N 0. 301 East Tenth street. 1

Section 22 (Frcnch).—The second and fourth Friday it
each month, 8 P. M., at Constant’s, 68 Grand street. '

N 0rIcE.—Section 12, I. W. A.——The next meeting of this
section, which will be a special one, will be held at 15 East
Thirty-eighth street, Sunday evening, January '7, 1872,‘
Members and friends are earnestly invited to attend.

WILLIAM WEST, Cor. Sec’y.
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MRS. A. M. MIDDLEBROOK.

‘tecently we gave our readers some account of this talent-
ed lady, whom we are able to count among our most respect-
ed friends. She is open to engagements to speak upon any
subject of general interest——re_ligious, political or social—~—
anywhere in the States east of the Mississippi River. .TG1‘]11S,
$75 and expenses. We take pleasure in recommending her

, to our friends, as one of the most profitable as well as enter-

taining speakers in the field. Her address is box 778 Bridge-
port, Conn.

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NOTICE TO CLERGYMEN.

 

‘We have recently been the recipients of numerous letters
from clergymen in different parts of the Union asking our
terms to them for the WEEKLY. In view of the greatly in-
creased interest manifested by this class of citizens in” the
prhiciples we advocate, since. the Steinway Hall lecture, we
take great pleasure in announcing that we will send the
WEEKLY to them comptzimenta/ry upon an application for it.

'rn_E PRINCIPLES AND PROGRESS on THE 1. W. A.

Agreeably to our promise, we this week print’ the sub-
joined epitome, which applicants for -information concern-
ing the method of forming new sections will find useful.
Orders from such persons for this number of the WEEKLY
may be sent to the subscriber, at 44.Broad street.

1 _ WILLIAM ,WEs'r».
. ; I.-—'BEE PLATFORM. ‘ .k _

The various Congresses held by the Association of Geneva,
Lausanne, Brussels and Basle discussed and adopted the fol-
lowing points, which may therefore be said to form the pro-
gramme of the International : r _ _
1. The total abolition of all class rule and all class privi-_
leges. . ‘_ - -4
2. Complete political and social equality for both sexes.

3. Nationalization of the land and of all the instruments
of production. , " . i

4. A reduction of the hours of labor, so as to allow more
time ‘for improvement and recreation. 2

5. Education to be undertaken by the State——t'o be obli-

gatory, gratuitous and secular.

I 6. Religion to be ignored, as being a spe.culative subject
concerning the individual. No religious differences or creed
to be recognized.

7. The substitution of a direct system of taxation based
upon property, instead of the present system of levying tax-
ation upon industry; the taxation to be progressive;

8. The abolition of the standing army, as being a provo-
cative to war. » . .

9. The adoption of the principle of associative production,
with a view to the complete supercession of the present sys-
tem of capitalist production.

II.—HIS’I‘0RY.

The first idea of this society appears to have originated
during the course of the visit which a deputation of Parisian
workmen paid to the Universal Exhibition of London in
1862. They had been sent over at the expense of their com-
rades to study the general condition of European industry,
became acquainted with English workmen and initiated
into the nature of Trade Unions, and discussed the subject
of strikes. The idea naturally occurred to them that if the
principle of co—operation in strikes was a good thing for the
workmen‘ when applied to one country, it would be far
more efiective when applied on a grander scale throughout
Europe. The basis of an International Association was
‘then proposed, whose members should engage themselves to
support each other in all countries, whenever strikes should
be deemed necessary in the interests of the working classes,
and it was agreed that .

A GREAT EUROPEAN MEE’l‘INGr OF DELEGATES

of workingmen should be held in London in 1864. The
meeting took place on September 28, 1864, incSt. Martin’s
Hall; but the original, project had grown considerably in
the interim, and assumed a much more revolutionary form
than was at first desigied. Various representatives of the
Continental nations were present. They elected a committee,

who were charged to draw up the statutes of the Associa-'

tion, and" it was decided that a general congress of the work-
ing classes should be held in 1866, and that up to that
period the committee should act as Central Provisional
Council of the Association, and should sit in London. Of
this committee Mr. Odger was elected President, and they
drew up the statutes in accordance with the vote, prefacing
them with a_ declaration of principles.

This declaration afiirmed that the emancipation of the

'workingmen must be effected by the workingmen them-

selves. That the economic subjection of the workingman to
the possessors of capital was the cause of his political, moral
and material servitude. That every political -movement
should, therefore, be subordinated to his economical eman-
cipation. That all efforts to arrive at this had hitherto failed
through want of a common interest between the working-
men of every profession in every country.

The organization of the International, as finally settled,
consists: of—-1. A General Council. 2. Federal Councils.
3. Sections. This organization is at once simple and st_rong.
The Sections represent the type of the Commune; it is a
federation of groups, each group being composed of the sev-
eral sections and affiliated members of the same kind of
industry. I

THE FEDERAL COUNCIL

is composed of delegates elected by the various sections com-

prised in one federation ; and is the intermediate body be-.

tween the Sections and the General or Central Council.
Each member of the International, pays two small. yearly
subscriptions; one subscription defrays the expenses of the
federation, the other those of the General Council. 6 It would
take too much room here to detail the system adopted of lo-
cal and general reports and other regulations of the society.
It is sufficient to state that the sovereign legislative body of
the association is the Congress which should be held every
year. The General Council is merely the‘ executive. Up to
the present time there have been four Congresses. The iirst
met at Geneva on the 5th of September, 1866; the second at
Lausanne, on the 2d of September, 1867 ; the third at Brus-
sels, on the 6th of September, 1868; the fourth at Basle, on
the 6th of September, 1869. Last year, owing to the dis-
turbed state of Europe, there was no Congress, but aprivate
conference was held in London, Eng., in September last,

. the proceedings of which have already been printed in the

WEEKLY: ‘

III.—-REVISED RULES AND ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS.
C’onsz'dem'9zg,

That the emancipation of the Working classes must be
conquered by the working classes themselves; that the
struggle for the emancipation of the working classes means
not a struggle for class privileges and monopolies, but for
equal rights and duties, and the abolition of all class-rule;

That the economical subjection of the man of labor to the
monopolizer ,of the means of labor, that is the sources of
life, lies at the bottom of _‘servitude in all its forms, of. all
social misery, mental degradation, and political depend-
ence; ‘ ~‘

That the economical emancipation of the working classes
is, therefore, the great end to which every political move-
ment ought to be’ subordinate as a means;

That all efforts aiming at that great end have hitherto
failed from the want -of solidarity between the manifold
divisions of labor in each country, and from the absence’of
a fraternal bond of union between the working‘ classes of
different countries; ' " -

That the emancipation of labor is neither a local nor a
national, but a social problem, embracing all countries in

3 which modern society exists, and depending for its solution
on the concurrence, practical and theoretical, of the most

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advanced countries; , . g
_ That the present -revival of the working classes in the most
industrious countriesof Europe, while it raises a new hope,

gives solemn warning against a relapse into’ the old errors, .

and calls for the immediate combinations of the still discon-
nected movements; 6 . P‘ A '

‘F0? these'reasons—

The International Workingmen’s_ Association has been
founded.  P ’ " ‘ '  " "

It declares :

That all societies and individuals adhering to it will ac-
knowledge truth, justiee and morality as the basis of their

_conduct toward each’ other and toward all men, without

regard to color, creed or nationality; P

V 2 That it acknowledges no ‘rights without duties, no duties
without rights;

‘.And in this spirit the following rules .have been
drawn up : * - ' . ’ '

' 1. This Association is established to afford a central me
dium of communication and co—operation between work-

, ingmen’s/ societies existing irrdiiferent countries and‘ aiming

at the same end, viz.: the protection, advancement and com-
plete emancipation;of_ the working classes. '

-2. The name of the Society shall- be "‘ The International
Workingmen’s Association.” . - V '

 There shall annually meet a General Workingmen.’s
Congress, consisting’ of ’ delegates of the branches of the
Association. The.Congress‘-will have to proclaim the coin-

- mon aspirations of the -working class, take the measures

required for A the successful working of the International
Association, and appoint the General Council of the
Society. ,

4. Each Congress appoints the time and place of meeting
for the next Congress.‘ The delegates assemble at the ap-
pointed time and place without any special invitation. The
General Council may, in case of need, change the place, but
has no power to postpone the time of meeting. The Con-‘

gress appoints the seat and elects the members of the Gen— ’

eral Council annually. The General Council thus elected
shall have power to add to the number of its members.

011 its annual meetings,‘ the General Congress shall re-
ceive a public account of the annual transactions of the
General Council. The latter may, in cases of emergency,
convoke the General Congress before the regular yearly
term. I l

5. The-General Council shall consist of workingmen from
the different countries represented in the International Asso-
ciation. It shall from its own members‘ elect the officers
necessary for the transaction of business, such as a treasurer,

a general secretary, corresponding secretaries for the differ-
. . .,

ent countries, etc.

6. The General Council shall , form an international
agency between the difierent national and local groups of
the association, so that the workingmen in one country be
constantly informed of the movements of their class in

every other country ; that an inquiry into the social state of '
the different countries of Europe be made simultaneously, »

and under a common direction; that the questions of gen-
eral interest mooted into one society be ventilated by all ;
and that when immediate practical steps should be needed-
as, for instance, in case of international quarrels——the action
of the associated societies be simultaneous and uniform.
Whenever it seems opportune, the General Co'unoil shall
take the initiative of proposals to be laid before the differ-
ent national or local societies. To facilitate the commu-

nications, the General Council shall publish periodical’

reports. , ,
7. Since the success of the workingmen’s movement in

each country cannot be secured but by the power of union «

and combination, while, on the other hand, the usefulness
of the International General Council must greatly depend on
the circumstance whether it has to deal with a few national
centres of workingmen’s associations, or with a great
numberof small and disconnected local societies; the mem-
bers of the International Association shall use their utmost
eftoits to combine the disconnected workingmen’s societies
of their respective countries into national bodies, represented
by central national organs. It is self-understood, however,
that the appliance of this rule will depend upon the peculiar
laws of each country, and that, apart from legal obstacles,
no independent local society shall be precluded from directly
corresponding with the General Council. ,

8. Every section has the right to appoint its own secretary
corresponding with the General Council.

9. Everybody who acknowledges and defends the princi- -

ples of the International VVorkingmen’s Association is eligi-
ble to become a member. Every branch is responsible for
the integrity of the members it admits.

10., Each member of the International Association, on re-
moving his domicile from one country to another, will re-
ceive the fraternal support of the Associated Workingmen.

11. While united in a perpetual bond of fraternal co-oper-
ation, the workingmen’s societies joining the International
Association will preserve their existent organizations intact.

12. The present rules may be revised by each Congress,
provided that two-thirds of the delegates present are in favor
of such revision. , ' -

13. Everything not provided foriin the present rules will

be supplied by special regulations, subject to the revision of

every Congress.

’ REGULATIONS.
I.——r1—IE GENERAL ooncnnss.

1. Every member of the International Workingmen’s As-
sociation hasthe right to vote at elections for, and is eligible
as, a delegate to the General Congress.

2. Every branch, whatever the number of its members,

may send a delegate to the Congress;
3. Each delegate has but one vote in the Congress.
4. The expenses of the delegates are to be defrayed by the
branches and groups which appoint them. ‘ -
5. If a branch be unable to send a delegate, it may unite
with other neighboring branches for the appointment of one.
6. Every branch or group consisting of more than 500

members may send an additional delegate for every addi-I ’

tional 500 members. 1 .
7. “Only the delegates of such societies, sections or groups
as form parts of the International, and shall have paid their

contributions to the General Council, will in future-be al-

lowed to take their seats and to vote at Congresses. Never-
theless, for such countries where the regular establishment
of the International may have been prevented by iaw, dele-

ates of trades? unions and workingmen’s co-operative soci-

eties will be allowed to participate in Coiigress debates on

 

 

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questions of principle, but not to discuss or to vote on admin-
istrative matters. . ’‘ E .

8. The sittings of the Congress will be twofold_--adm_inis-
trative sittings, which will be private, and public sittings,
reserved for the discussion of, and the vote upon, the general
questions of the Congress programme.
« 9. The’Congress programme, consisting of questions placed
on the order of the day by the preceding Congress, ques-
tions added’ by the General Council, andquestions submitted
to the acceptance of that Council -by the different sections,
grou s, or their committees, shall be drawn up by the Gen-
eral ouncil. 1 ‘

Every section, group or committee which intends, to pro-
pose for the_discussion of the impending Congress a question
not proposed by the previous Congress shall, give notice

thereof to the General Council before the 31st of March.

10. The General Council is charged with the organization
of each Congress, and shall in due time, through the medium
of the Federal Councils or Committees, bring the Congress
programme to the cognizance of the branches. . x

11. The Congress will appoint as many committees as
there shall be questions submitted to it. Each delegate shall
designate the committee upon which he may prefer to sit,
Each committee shall read the memorials presented by the

difierent sections and groups on the special question referred I

to it. It shall elaborate them into one single report, which
alone is to be read at the‘ public sittings. ,_ It shall moreover
decide which of the above memorials shall be annexed to the
oflicial report of the Congress transactions.

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.12. In its public sittings the Congress will, in the first 

stance, occupy itself with the questions placed on the order

of the day by the General Council,-the remaining questions
to be discussed afterward. - . *

13. All resolutions on questions of principle shall be voted
upon by division (appeal nominal). _ .

14. Two months at latest before the meeting of the annual
Congress, everybranch or federation of branches. shall trans-
mit to the General Council a detailed report of its proceed-
ings and development during-the current year. The General
Council shall elaborate these elements into one single report,
which alone is to be read before Congress.

II.—--THE GENERAL coU’Nc1L.

1. A The designation of General Council is reserved for the
Central Council of the International Workingmen’s Asso-
ciation.’ The Central Councils of the various countries
‘where the International is regularly organized shall desig-
nate themselves as Federal Councils, or Federal Committees,
with the names of the respective countries attached.’ z

' 2. The General Council is bound to execute the Congress

resolutions. - _ 0
 As often as its means may permit, the General Council

shall publish a bulletin or report embracing everything

which may be of interest to the International Workiiigmens

Association.
For this purpose it shall collect all the documents to be

transmitted by the Federal Councils or Committees of the
different countries and such others as it may be able to pro-
cure by other means. ,

' The bulletin, drawn up in several languages; shall be sent
gratuitously to the Federal Councils or Committees, which
are to, forward one copy to each of their branches.

In case the General Council should be unable to publish
such bulletins, it shall every three months send a ‘written
communication to the different Federal Councils or Commit-
tees, to bepublished in the newspapers of their respective
countries, and especially in the International organs.

4. Every new branch or society intending to join -the In-
ternational is bound immediately to announce its. adhesion
to the General Council. F .

5. The General Council has the right to admit or to refuse
the afiiliation of any new branchor group, subject to appeal
to the next Congress.

Nevertheless, wherever there exist "Federal Councils or
Committees, the General Council isbound to consult them
before admitting or rejectin the affiliation of a new branch
or society within their jurisdiction ; without prejudice, how-
ever, to its right of provisional decision. - ,

6. The General Council has also the right of suspending,
till the meeting of next Congress, any branch of the Inter-
national. .

7. In case of difierences arising between societies or

’ branches of the same national’ group, or between groups of

different nationalities, the General Council shall have the
right of /deciding such differences, subject to-appeal to the
next Congress, whose decision shall be final.

, 8. All delegates appointe’d by.tlie General Council to dis-
tinct missions shallhave the right to attend, and be heard at,
all meetings of Federal ‘Councils or Committees, district and
local Committees and local branches‘, without, however,
being entitled to vote thereat. ‘ ‘

9. English, French and German editions of the general
rules and regulations are to be reprinted from the official
texts published by the General Council. '

All versions of the general rules and regulations in other
languages shall, before publication, be submitted to the Gen-
eral Council lor approval. ‘

'III.-—-CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE PAID TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL.

1. An annual contribution of one penny per member shall
be levied from all branches and affiliated societies for the
This contribution is, intended
to defray the expenses of the General Council, such as the
remuneration of its General Secretary, costs of correspond-
ence, publications, prefiaratory work for Congresses, etc.-

- 2._ The General Council shall cause to be printed uniform
adhesive stamps representing the value of one penny each,
to be annually supp'lied,‘in the numbers wanted, to the Fed-

eral Councils or Committees. -

3. These stamps are to be afiixed to a special sheet of the
livret or to a copy of the rules which every member of the

, associationis held to possess.

4. On the 1st of March of each year the Federal Councils
or Committees of the different countries shall forward to the
General Council the amount of the stamps disposed of, and
return the unsold stamps remaining on hand’.

5. These stamps, representing the value of the individual
contributions,_shall bear the date of the current year.

IV.--FEDERAL COUNCILS OR COMMITTEES.

1. The expenses of the Federal Councils ‘or Committees
shall be defrayed by their respective branches.

2. The Federal Councils or Committees shall send one re-
port at least every month to the General Council. ’

3. The Federal Councils or Committees shall transmit to
the General Council every three months a report on the ad-
ministration and financial state.of their respective branches.

but market bare.

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_ 4. Any Federation.rnay refuse to admit or may exclude
from its midst societies or branches. It is, however, not em-
powered to deprive them of their International character,
but it may propose their suspension to the General Council.

I V.'*"LOCAL SOCIETIES, BRANCHES AND GROUPS.

1. Every branch is at liberty to make rules and by—laws for
its local administration, adapted to local circumstances and
the laws of its country. But these rules and by-lawsmust
pot contain anything contrary to the general rules and regu-

ations. .

2. All local branches, groups and their committees are
henceforth to designate and constitute themselves \simply
and exclusively as branches, groups and committees of the
International Workingmen’s Association, with the names of
their respective localities attached.

3. Consequently, no branches or groups will henceforth
be allowed to designate themselves by sectarian names.-
such as Positivists, Mutualists, Collectivists, Communists,
&c., or to form separatist bodies,,under the name of sections

'of propaganda, &c., pretending to accomplish special mis-

sions distinct from the common purposes of the Association.

4. Article 2'of‘this division does not apply to afiiliated

trades’ unions. ‘ ~ .

5. All sections, branches and workinginen’s societies atfili-
ated to the International are invited to abolish the ofice of ‘
president of their respective branch or society.

6. The formation of female branches among the work-
ing class is recommended. It is, however, understood that
this resolution does not at all intend to interfere with the
existence or fprmation of branches composed of both sexes.

'7. -Wherever attacks against the International are pub-
lished, the nearest branch or committee is held to send at
once a copy of such publication to the General Council.

8. The addresses of the ofiices of all International Com-
mittees and of the General ‘Council are to be published
everythree months in all the organs of the association.

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VI.-“GENERAL STATISTICS OF LABOR.

1. The General Council is to enforce Article 6 of the rules
relating to general statistics of the worktng class, and the
resolutions of the Geneva Congress, 1866, on the same sub-
ject. V i

2. Every local branch is bound to appoint a special com-
mittee ‘of statistics, so as to- be always ready, within the
limits of its means, to answer any question which maybe
put to it by the Federal Council or Committee of its country
or by the General Council.

It is recommended to all branches to xemunerate the
secretaries of the Committees of Statistics, considering the
gegieral benefit the working class will derive from their

a or. .

3. On the 1st of August of each -year the Federal" Councils ‘

or Committees will transmit the materials collected in their
respective countries to the General. Council, which, in its
turn, is to elaborate them into a general report, to be laid
before the Congresses or Conferences annually held in the
month of September. ,

4. Trades’ unions and International branches refusing to
give the information required, shall be reported to the
General Council, which will take action thereupon.

5. The resolutions of the Geneva Congress, 1866, alluded
to in Article 1 of this division, are the following:

One great International combination of efforts will be a
statistical inquiry into the situation of the working classes
of all civilizedcountries to be instituted by/the working
classes’ themselves. To actwith any success, the materials
to be acted upon must be known. By initiating so great a
work, the workingmen will prove their ability to take their
own fate into their own hands.

The Congress, therefore, proposes that in each locality
where branches of our Association exist. the Work be,imme-
diately commenced, and evidence collected on the different
points specified in the subjoined scheme of inquiry; the
Congress invites the workingmen of Europe and the United
States of America to co-operate in gathering the elements or
the statistics of the working class ; reports and evidence to
be forwarded to the General Council. The General Council
shall elaborate them into a report, adding the evidence. as
an appendix. This -report, together with its appendix, shall
be laid before the next annual Congress, and after having
received its sanction be printed at the expense of the asso-

~ ciation.

General scheme of inquiry, which may, of course, be
modified by each locality- 1. Industry, name of. 2. Age
and sex of the employed. 3. Number of the employed.
4. Salaries and wages; (ct) apprentices; (Z2) wages by the
day or piece-work; scale paid by middle men. Weekly,
yearly average. 5. (on) Hours of work in factories. (b) The
hours of work with small employers and in home work, if
the business be carried on in those different modes. (0)
Nightwork and daywork. 6. Mcal—times and treatment.
7. Sort of workshop and work; over-crowding, defective
ventilation, want of sun-light, use of gas-light, cleanliness,
&;c. 8. Effect of employment upon the physical condition.
9. Moral cbndition. Education. 10. State of trade: whe-
ther season trade, or more or less uniformly distributed over
the year, whether greatly fluctuating, whether exposed to
foreign competition—-whether destined principally for home
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MARRIAGE.-—LOVe at wholesalemprice from a mill to a
million, with board and clothes-——often terminating in a mill.
Decreasing demand. The hire law creates great prostration
in the market. '

PRosrirU'rI0N.—Love at retail. Prices rule higher, and
consumers sufi"er, as is always the case with the poor, who
are compelled to live from hand to mouth. > Great changes
in the market, from extreme activity to deep depression, but
never complete stagnation. , ,

FREE LovE.——No sale. Much inquiry among the bulls,
Great complaint that this article can be
dealt in only in lcmd, and not for cash or bonds. ~_ '

“ Love and love only is theloan for love,”

is a “Night Thought” which embarrasses Young dealers

‘new to the business, and restricts transactions. As to expe-

rienced operators in the streets, so few have anything left
over of the real article, or any margins above old mortgages
and other liens and obligations, that they are astounded and
put to their wits’ ends how/to procure what money cannot
buy, or what at all events inflexibly requires this very scarce
collateral. . L ‘ . C. '

THE MURDER OF ROSSEL AND HIS COMRADES.

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They took their way to the Satory camp
On -that bleak November day; ‘
Few were about to see the sight

Or to follow the deadly way,

For the thing was done like a guilty deed
That dared not brook delay.

On they went to the place of blood,

Three" of those heroes bold,

‘Who dared to die, but not disgrace

The cause they had vowed uphold;

And their blood must flow for their daring deeds, \
And their bodies soon lie cold. ' -

Two were men of the rough hard type,
Who always are easy led ’

Although it be writ blood red,
And do not shrink from the cruel task
Because of the storms ahead.

One was a man of a milder type, . 
Polished, and good, and pure,

Such as the truest of martyrs are,
Ready to do and endure, '

But will not yield to the rage of man,
For their hearts are firm and sure.

His was the soul to think and plan,

To rule by the power of mind,

To drawpall things to the common good
And every factionbind;

By sorrow and pain half blind. -.

Oh 1 ye who attacked our hearths and homes
Who drew us to the fight, . I
Ours is the pain of a great defeat,

But ours is the cause of right;

But only by cursed might.

Firm they stood to receive the shots,
Fired by their comrades’ hand,

Men who ne’er flinched in the hottest fight
Smiddered to see them stand

So calmly erect to meet their death,

While others were quite unmanned.

None dared speak in that solemn hour

Of pain or of conscience’ smart;

They knew there was more in that dauntless l1Il€'l2\ .

Than could come from a traitor’s heart ; - ,
And so with a silent awe they stood '

Till body and soul should part-

Oh I when the Judge of the World shall come,

In that awful Judgment Day,

Whose shall the blame of that slaughter be, 4
Or who shall the reckoning pay? .

For the God of Heaven who saw the deed

Willvnot His vengeance stay.

Let us not pause on the bloody scene,

Or their cruel 1incalled—for fate; ‘ 
Far better to (lie as these martyrs died, _ Nu "~' ‘* in.

At their much-loved city’s gate, K‘
Than live to see it enslaved by those ' ' I
Who had sworn to preserve the state.

Friends, ye have taken your noble dead . v
And laid in the silent tomb; -

Oh! ye have wept for that bitter day * .
And that cruel, uncalled-for doom;

But the light will spread and the day soon come
To dispel this awful gloom. «

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Paris! thou ‘shrine of advancing thought, ‘ ‘ _
Still shalt thou lead the world; ‘

Learn by the fate of thy noble sons ,
Where thy foes would wish thee hurled;

But thou shalt rise in thy might once more

With the blood-red flag unfurled.

Still there are thoughts for thy sons to know.
By lessons they-’ve learned with pain;

For many had joined the noble cause

Only their ends to gain,

And so had disgraced that bright-red flag

By a black and filthy stain.

Ferré and Bourgeois were bold and brave, ,

And calmly met their fate, _
But though they died in a noble cause

On their heartwas a heavy weight,

For their cause was not wholly pure

Nor their vengeance free from hate.

It was not so with that other one ‘ I
‘ Who fell in that vengeful time ;

For Rossel’s fault west to do his best

To check every hideous crime ; _

And yet he was shot in that cruel hour,

In his early manhood’s prime.

Shed no tears o’er his last long sleep,

For his soul is with God above;

And swear no vengeance over his tomb,

For he died in his Saviour’s love,

And that heart, like a.1ion’sin the battle’s strife,
Could be soft as the gentle dove.

Thou hadst the make of a leader of men

In that form and soul and brain;

Had they but left thee pardoned and free

Thy country’s had been the gain,

For the nation once more might have stood erect,
Free from all foreign stain. _ ‘

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One last farewell to the hero brave

Who died in his manhood’s prime, /'

And one sad look at his early grave , q " .

And the scene of that awful crime; I’ ~ , 1
But his was the death of a soldier brave,

Though it came not in battle time.

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Dealt both by foe and friend,

‘ But thou must endure for a little while,
And thy suffering soon will end,
Then thou shaltlrise like a city of men,
And thy hideous shackles rend; ‘

But ch! in the dawn of thy free-born life
Forget not this dreadful year 1

. Remember the cause of thy failing now,

And hold every lesson dear ; »
Leave malice and lust for the slaves around,
But keep all my redord clear.

Forgive the men who have slain thy chief,
As he died at peace with all, 7

But let the lesson of that pure life

Sound like a bugle call, .
To lead us all in the noble path,

E’en if like him we fall.

Then cast the ilowerets over his grave,

Still keeping his memory pure, , '

And as in our daily paths we tread,

Like his let our feet stand sure;

So though he’s dead the tale of his life

Shall ever and aye endure.

. WILLIAM BUFORT.
December 16, .187 . ‘

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“ THIS SAME JESUS.”

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Said the two shining ones to-those gathered around, as he
ascended and was caught away from their vision, “ Shall so
come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven.”

Was this the self-same Jesus who hung upon the cross in
all the agonies of insense torture and anguish of spirit, who
was crucified, dead and buried ? Yes, the very same. But
“flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God,” eh?
Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption; therefore the
?1hrist_thtat elisceéiged above all principalities and powers was

e spiri ua ize esus.

The corruptible body of fleshand blood dissolved and re-
turned to its original elements - for the natural fiat is--
“ Unto dust shalt thou return.” ,

But the spirit cannot be confined within the narrow limits
of the strong tomb. The ancient seer had prophesied “ Thou
wilt not leave my soul in hell (grave), neither shalt thine
holy one see corruption ;” for it is an elemental law that the
more refined and purer rises above the grosser, so that the

. ilpirtiltlqjf ].1Ie1s(ii1g1_ascended .be“cause it was not “possible for
ea 0 0 im.”

Was it the fleshly body, then, which was received by a
cloud from the gazing vision of the group on the Mount of
Olives, or was it not rather a substance in precisely the same
form as the natural body highly spiritualized, the reflection
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' ' . n 1 cou ave
been a spiritual body only that went away, -it is by this spir-
itual substance only that this “ very same Jesus” can ever
come again. . .

_The apto§tl1:3hwhI(;'was fgvored firith so many spiritual inter-
views wi e ivine ne we un erstoo this we tn’ k,

, ‘hence on one occasion. just subsequent to one of these siiline
transforming seances he breaks out: “ I have determined,
i.§$2ei§’.§.2‘%s.§°c‘ti?.l as  I

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him no more.” Were we asked the, reason we should be very
as

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So come, my brothers of the modern advent fatalist
it-’:‘%i‘§°3.’..g.i§’.;" sttslililaéd %?.‘i§i‘§§ 315131;: “tiflfil. 8”“ .g””‘°
w _ re no seen
-Josie s}piigtii6al——tt;hat 541:8 etprnal sand It? be dfleshly-minded
is eat , ' u to e spiritua -min e is ie an peace.
B Passgnlgsonelof our churches of Evgngelical ‘worship on a
eauti u unc ay morninof we entere just as the crowded
congregation standing w_e°r.e_ just raisihg their first song" of
Z°..“§.?il’;§i‘..i.‘:.‘1.“’§i2?.“.i1°§.?f i‘“medv1y-in

Illow Eegreshing t<t) thetspi_rit:hw1e1ared with Ehe week’s tur-
moi an isappoin men s 1S t e armony o spirit voices.
At once we were blessed. y ,

But the text. It was well chosen. “ There is joy in the
presence of the angels over one sinner that repenteth.”

And is it so, that we,’ and even’ sinners worse, perhaps,
than ever Paul, the persecutor ever was-—aye and the
Magdalene of the most abandoned cast—-are the subjects of
so much angel solicitation and concern?

It sounded encouraging to us to hear so free and hearty
endorsement from an Orthodox pulpit of the ministration of
angels, their constant attendance on us, and their increasing
interest in our welfare. And when in the height of his
eloquence and from the depths of his spirit, he declared that
“Jesus was equally as raql and even more powevful to—day
than in the days of hrs fies/L; that spmtual bcmgs are now an
this audzcnc_e chamber; angels are hovering round ; our loved
ones are still with us, and, were our spiritual vision more
cleai'f,1.nieore We should see them threading .their_way
and itting a t rough this vgst, devoted congregation,
our lsczloul 36§R0nd.1€13d b-lriegrtily, Yes, there is a spiritual
wor ,an itisa a on us.’ ’ 1

We knew by the lighting up of many faces and the mag-
neticresponses of emotion perceptible and felt through the
audience that to many, though they would hardly like to be
termed “ spiritualist,” yet the fact presented to them so
_€3»1_‘111l€Sl.3.13’i 111 thill‘ tgwn Church was, to say the least, cheer-
in y we come 0 cm. ' -.

ince our inadvertent visit to that musical congregation
and. witnessing, nay feeling, the happy eflect upon them of
that “ sermon,” from so h,cpe-inspii"ing- 21. _texi;, wig fggl more.

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-hopeful and fully assured that the prevalence of a" purer
and purifying spirituality is humanitys only effectual re-
demption. _, . REICHNER.

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A LEARNED MAN-_—“, YES, A VERY LEARNED

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_ PRINCETON, Wis., December 10, 1871.
Tollzc Eclitor (2f;;:};W00d7LulZ cfc 0'lagflin—’s Weekly:

We, as asociety, have thought best to‘ inform you, and if
you think best, others, through the columns of your paper,
of our efiforts in the cause of Women’s Suffrage. up 1

Believing that, as American citizens, we have the right to
vote, we concluded to take the preparatory measures. Ac-
cordingly, on the appointed day, sixteen ladies presented
themselves for registration. Upon making their business
known the chairman or the board informed them that they
were not pitizens, and he could not allow them to register
their names. _ _ , _ , _ V ,

One of the ladies asked him what they were it not citizens,
and he replied only females. . He was forced to listen to the

reading of the Fourteenth and Filteeiith Amendnients,

when he showed his ignorance by calling it only “ some
trash, sent out to deceive the poor ignorant people.”

He would lisikn to no discussion of the subject, but utterly
refused to allow them the privilege of registering.

Perhaps it is but just to say that the board was Demo
cratic. -

Mrs. Ione Dantz Bentlyis President of the Club.

, . A MEMBER.

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BASIS OF RIGHTS;

The great business of the philanthropist is , not only to
mitigate human sufi'erln‘g, but to establish those causes which
shall forever contribute to the welfare of the oppressed.
The basis of all human rights is intelligence and virtue,
which, applied to the elective franchise, does not confine it
to sex or color. "We can never be truly emancipated until
we have grasped the great central truths of the universe——
until we are developed and educated. We can never act
wisely without wisdom, thus it follows to “ get wisdom ”
anc “ understanding” is the great business of life and the
sure road to the attainment of everything desirable.

If our birthright entitles us to liberty, it also entitles us to
the means of attaining liberty, and makes the demand for
education every way honorable, as being the basis of all our
privileges and institutions, and the foundation of all our
prosperity and happiness.

Whatever method is the best for the universal dissemina-
tion of knowledge and the attainment of wisdom, should re-
ceive our ardent sympathy and ample support, whether it
be through the establishment of free schools, public lectur-
ers or the press. - ‘ -

But as we have all these various methods of communi-
cating knowledge, and yet fail to act wisely or to be satis-
fied with our present results, and we have loud calls upon
our sympathies in behalf of down-trodden and oppressed hu-
manity. Only a short time since, Theodore Tilton inquired
through the press—-What can be done for the lower stratum
of humanity ? of whose degraded condition he drew a fright-
ful and loathsome picture. We are perpetually plied to give
our mite for the relief and support of young thieves and rag-
pickers; and the throng of squalid, p ale-faced children
who ‘imbibe their education from the streets of the city of
New York, are frequently the comment of the papers who in-
quire what can be done with them, or how can crime be
prevented, and how can we do awa with filth, idleness and
wretchedness, among the classes who have none to provide
for their Welfare ? .

The reply is very simple, and can be met on much easier
terms and with far less cost than it takes to build and sustain
Houses of Refuge, Asylums and States Prisons——with far

‘less cost than the tax of supporting wars, the result of igno-

rance. This last war cost more than the amount necessary
to have properly educated every child and every grown per-
son in the land, not to mention the suffering and desolation
which devasted our social firesides. ,

Let all of 'our free public schools -be graded industrial
schools, and the problem is solved; and letthem furnish
means-for integral development, so that each child, man or
woman who graduates through them will be capable of ex-
isting independent of all others—-so independent, thatif they
should be cast on a desolate island, or shouldthe earth be
depopulated excepting one man and one woman, they could
go on and replete the civilization commenced, having the
art of existence developed within themselves. Every man
and woman should attain such a point of individuality before
they are allowed the elective franchise, and, combined with
obedience to tlie-requirements of God’s laws, it should form
the basis of rights. M. lvlnnron.

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ALMA, Wis, December 14, 1871.
Woodhull at C’lajlm’s Weekly.‘ “

As a remedy for prostitution the marriage system has had
its trial and its failure. Wherever marriage. is prostitution
is, except in a few theocrasies like Utah. The reason is
plain enough: the marriage system, as it exists among us,
confines the-woman to the house, and consequently excludes
the man fromany pure or permanent connection with the
other sex until he is able to give some woman a house.
Hence an. enormous proportion both of men and women
everywhere cannot marry; and the women thus situated,
being out of the only business they understand, are miser-
ably poor. Thus, both the demand for and the supply of
prostitutes are created by the system which, at the same
time, has the impudence to call itself a remedy for prostitu-
tion, because ~whcn an old rake marries he gets a woman.
all to himself, and isno longer obliged to expose his precious
carcase to contagion. The only real remedy for prostitution
is free love and co-operation in business. These agencies
will make the majority of women independent producers,
and the rest well-provided housekeepers, thus cutting off the
supply, and will create a sell‘-regulating condition of the
sexual passion which will stop the demamcl as well.

Yours, etc, 0. L. JAMES.

THE SOCIAL PROBLEM.

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If “the agitation of thought is the beginning of wisdom”
our mod-ei‘n societg must, certainly be about to blossom forth
into a screening lsplay of wisdom; perhaps thereafter to

   

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ripen its fruitspin a state of ideal happiness and perfection.
It would be difiicult, at all events, to imagine thought to be
more profoundly agitated than it is today. We have coming
down upon us a perfect avalanche of new theories on all
possible and impossible subjects. Every man one meets has
got some pet scheme inphis pocket ; and about every third
man is on the eve of leading expectant mankind straightway
into the so~long.promised land. The worst of it all being,
however, that there are so many leaders there are no
people left to be led. 1 - ,

One distinctive feature of -Woodllmll ct Olaflinfs Weekly is
that, as foremost among the progressive journals, it is
naturally chosen as the vehicle for the introduction to the
public of a great variety of these pet schemes and profound
theories that are about to flood with light a_ much befogged
world. We havefirst a theory of woman’s rights. Then
a theory of finance. Then again, a theory of free love.
And somebody else has a theory about labor and capital.
And floating around in society are theories diametrically
opposed to the VVoo'dhull & Clafiin sorti some theories even
that have partisans as well as propounders. All, moreover,
‘have a certain infusion of truth, down even to the most

absurd. ‘ - ,

Tlic one radically vitiating element in all these schemes
and theories, however, is the fact that they attempt to treat
isolatedly the several parts or phases of a problem which is
really integral and indivisible. Theyare all professingto
treat of social affairs, and yet all alike ignore thefact that
society is a living organism, a vital unity. Men talk as
though they were going to make society; they forget that it
exists. It existed before them and will exist after them.
Nay, it made them. 1 1 1

The essentialpoint is that no social question ‘can be treated
isolatedly. Men may talk about it, and utter plenty of
pretty phrases that will tickle the fancy, but a real solution
is another thing. By a real solution I mean the discovery of
the corresponding natural law. It has been well said that
there is, or at least may be, a positive science of physiology,
but there cannot be a separate science of the stomach, a sep-
arate science of the lungs or liver, or a separate science of
great toe nails. So there is, or there may be, a positive sci-
ence of sociology; but there cannot be any genuine science

relations, nor a separate science of labor organization. You
may string together phrases on the several subjects or any
others, but they will either have no meaning, or will be
given the lie by the facts. Our professors of gastrology and
hepatology, and of the sublime science of great toe-nails
must, by the very nature of the case, ever be but quackfs.

. , I HENRY Enema.

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REMEDIES FOR SOCIAL EVILS.

I do fondly hope your paper (our paper) will not, like
many others, harp upon our social evils without suggesting
any remedies.

ing of colon s or villages by the State or‘city governments,
that should not be just like our poorhouses nor our asylums,
our seminaries, hospitals or prisons; butan institution com-
bining the good of all these. Let it be amply endowed and
furnished with everything necessary for the comfort of all
and the useful, occupation of all able to work.

ner of distress that is brought on by the operations of
nature. ‘

there should be ample provision for all the children and their
mothers; an infant school, a dormitory and everything ap-
pertaining thereto. Let‘ it be a refuge for all kinds of
widows. orphans, imbeciles, aged and cripples, etc. And
especially let it be a ‘home for all sinners disposed to repent
and reform. "

Tb start this grand asylum the funds may be raised by a
tax on bachelors or a change in the law of descent of prop-
erty, so that none shall inherit property but children or
those in a direct line of descent. '

the beginnin of the present century, entitled “ Equality: or
A History 0 Litheonia ;” a book I would recommend to all
reformers, to be obtained at the Investigator office, in Boston,
price 25 or 30 cents. 1 WM. GOULD.
Bates, Sangamon 00., Ill., Sept, 1871. . ’

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_ FEMALE surrnnon.

ALExANDnIA, V a. , Dec. 13, 1871.
To‘ the Edeitor of the State Journal : _ '

I am, truly suprised at your hearty indorsement of the
cause of female sufirage. I had supposed myself almost as
much alone on this question as.I was in this State fifteen or
twenty years ago on the question of emancipation. or man-
hood suifrage. But I am finding sympathy and encourage-
ment on all sides. Public sentiment in this State on this
question is 'much more favorable than it was to emancipa-
tion in 1861, orto -manhood suffrage in 1866; and yet, in
two years from the dates given, both causes achieved a per-
manent victory. I mention these reminiscences for the rea-
son that many people are, fortunately, more "influenced by
prospects of success than by the real character or beneficence
of any movement. Will you be so ponsiderate as to inform
your numerous readers that the New York branch of the
woman’s suffrage people will hold a convention in Washing-
ton, on the 10th, 11th and 12th days of January next, at
which time a general invitation is extended to all friends in
Virginia and elsewhere. It will afford me much pleasure to

from all partsof our common country who will assemble
then and there, with many of whom I have the honor of
some personal knowledge; . .

But let us one moment consider the significance of this
great question. It means temperance in place of drunken-
ness. It means purity in the place of licentiousness. It
means educationin the place of ignorance. It means ofiiciai
integrity in the place of plunder. It means the order and
decorum of the parlor in the placeof the confusion and vio-
lence of the bar-room and the corner grocery. It means
peace in the place of war. In one word, it means the ele-
vation of our civilization to a plane immensely above any»

_ thing heretofore known or attainable in any other way.

And how simple and easy the means to be employed; si-
lent and simple as the great changes of nature in bringing
on the spring in its beauty or the summer with its glorious

efiocted by simply allowing our mothers. Sisters. wives and

of political economy, nor a veritable science of the sexual ,

As a remedy for our social ills I would propose the found- .

The principle is, that society should provide“ for all man» ,

As the propagation of our species is a function of nature,‘

These ideas are made up from a little bookwritten about "U

introduce my acquaintances, to the great men and women.

growth, or the autumn with its ripened harvests. It is to be.

as-< 2%-e»v«~F¢'».>r.u

speed the good time swiftly coming.

69 A     "WOODHULL .a .cLxri*.iiv’s wnni<LY. , 

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daughters to drop a little envelope into the ballot-box as
quietly‘ as they now drop a letter into the post oflice. God

Sincerely your friend, - J OHN C. Unnnnwoon.
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- ; Fnnnoixrr, Inn, Sept. 2; 1871.
Woodhull db Ololflin .' _ V .
DEAR FRIENDS——I ‘do hope you Will be sustained in your
great work. 1 Suppose a large farmer should set a torch of

’ ‘fire to his grain‘ and his haystacks, and 've as his reason

that he was exchanging them into coin. uppose he would
fund his money and his non-interest-bearing debts into inter-
est-bearing debts. ,_ 1 .
Now if he were acting’ for himself, people would declare
him insane ; but if he was acting only as agent.for‘another,'
and he should do such things, suspicion would fasten on
him at once, and if they found him really insane they would
send him to the; asylum. But if not insane, and he should

, continue in such course, they would send him to State

prison. .,

If A. T. Stewart’s clerks should gather his goods from
the shelf and_burn them in the street, and they should also
loan to outsiders (among whom are many of these very

/ clerks) without one cent in consideration therefor, would

not the courts, on application of Mr. Stewart, send those of
his clerks whom they did not send to the insane asylum to
State prison ? -

Why do Congress demand that this American people shall

reverse all the rules of science and common" sense when fur- ‘

nishing ourselves our money ‘? They refuse money stamped
on paper, because it is too cheap ;. and when coin costs one
thousand times as much more, though it does not fill the
function of moneyas conveniently as ‘when on paper, they
will contract to buy it, just because it does cost more.

Why follow the rule that the greater amount our money
costs us, the greater value there is in it?

Suppose any man should follow such rule in the purchase
of a farm or a horse, or any other article whatever, would
not he be regarded as insane ? Why, then, are we, the
‘Americanpeople, required to furnish ourselves our mone
at rates giving thelhighest price instead of the lowest one?

Money is only a means to an end. It serves a like function
under our trade and commerce as water. does under our ves-
sels, or wheels do under our railroad trains. And all will
agree with me that he who should claim water and wheels
would be the better by being more costly, would be so green
that a frost would not be needed to bite him to make him
rot.

The secret lies here. They who hold the world’s bonds
reap the world’s coin annually and want to sell it. And
while we hold, as Congress does, that the morelwe pay for
coin the greater is its value, they can sell it us at any figures
they ask, as we are told those metals are worth more because
they cost more.

Now when we acquire a little common sense on this ques-
tion, and see that buying coin for inonev and paying a

large price for it, on the foolish supposition that that makes

it of greater value, we will attain a higher civilization than

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wife. Why this distinction should be made between Utah
and other portions of the country I cannot conceive.
If lasciviousness be a crime in Utah, then it must be a crime
also in Missouri or New York, and if it can be legalized at
all then it can be no crime except by legislative enactments.

Can it be less. degrading for-a man to publicly acknowledge
half a dozen women to be his wives to protect, defend and
honor them as such, than to have one wife to whom he
swears fealty and a dozen mistresses on the sly, whose con-
dition. as mistressess insures degradation, ruin and moral
death, while he smiles with privileged complacency at the
sure destruction of the licensedvictims of his 'self-gratifi-
cation ? 0'

If the animal so excessively predominates with the male
sex that they cannot be controlled by the will and thus
undue indulgences brin s obloquy and ruin on their asso-
ciates, would it not be ‘ar better to have these male neces-
sities legalized as wives? The life of a woman set apart for
promiscuous male intercourse is a fearful thing. The shrieks
of the dying in the flames of a burning city may fora moment
rend the heart, then all is hushed in the stillness of death.
But the anguish of crushed hopes, of blighted love, of the
scalding tear oozing from the istifled sigh, coursing down
and dripping from the pale, sunken cheek in the unseen,
lonely, melancholy hours of one lost to friends, hope, the
World, buried in the living, reeking death of licensed
lasciviousness ? Rather let us away with the one-wife system
and thousands of licensed conveniences. Away with one
wife and mistressess on the sly. Enough of marital perjury,
‘of killing paramours, of court trials of jealous assassins.
I have no sympathy with Mormonism, but I question the

purity of their accusors. Their very judges may have their
mistressess with impunity, or visit their licensed victims
without reprovalf Let us have consistency and justice alike
in every State, and a law for the amelioration of women in
our own corrupt city. B. B.

Mrs. Vlcwrico 0.’ Wooclltull 
MADAM—I was surprised to find in a newspaper (not the

'WEEKLY), edited by a woman, the following, viz.: “Whether
3’ women have the right to vote under the Constitution, as

now amended, is a question we are not prepared, if com-
petent, to answer.” I have been reading one of Thomas
Jeiferson’s letters, dated at Monticello, September 20, 1810,

and beg to submit an extract which may help those who are

unable to comprehend great principles. He says:

“ A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one
of the highest duties of a good citizen ; but it is not the Mg};-
ost. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving
our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To
lose country by a I scrupulous adherence to written law,
would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property
and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly
sacrilicin g the end to the means.”

It is plain to my mind that the writer of the Declaration
of Independence and founder of our institutions regarded
the welfare of the greatest number of people to be of higher
value than the written law, and: that if a majority of the
people, whether men or women, desired to exercise a right,

we now occupy when coin and royalty will have played
out.-. ' YPUTS» W. Hoi=KiNs.
., .

- . BUFFALO Dec. 19, 1871.
ii/[esdames Woodhull ch C’la_fl2'n.- 3 ’

Theft-ruthful and outspoken articles appearing in your
progressive and reformatory, journal are attracting the atten-
tion of the people. _Mrs. Woodhull’s lecture here in Novem-
ber, on_Womans Right _of Suffrage, has largely increased
discussion on that topic, and the subject is being more ear-
nestly considered than ever before by many of the most in-
telligent minds of the country. The people are evidently
getting weary of the rule of “ Rings,” not only in politics,
but also in social and religious affairs, and many are in-
quiring.“what they shall do to be saved”f.rom the “great
damnation.” of Mrs. Grundy’s thi-alldom. Miss Claflin’s ar-
ticle 71,11‘ your last WEEKLY, ‘”_Virtue, what it is and what it
Isn t, is to the point, and strikes the keynote of a reform
more needed by woman than all others. What is for woman’s
best interest is best also for man, and God bless Tennie C.
Claflin for her utterance of such brave and noble senti-
ments. While the good people all over the country are re-
joicing at the downfall of Tammany thieves, it is to be

, hoped the cormorants and public plunderers connected

with the General Government will not escape the conse-
quences of their embezzleinents and fraud. The financial
operations of his honor, George S. Boutwell, Secretary, per-
haps have not all been exactly on the “ level.” Though the
word syndicate does-not properly indicate sin, it is a queer
sounding word, and much sin may have been ceminitted in
connection therewith. Why should Secretary Boutwell find
it necessary to send his Assistant Secretary (Judge Richard-

. son) with a bevy of clerksto Europe to negotiate the new

government loan? Then, too, why is it that $100,000,000
to a $130,000,000 of the people’s gold has been permitted to"
lie idle in the vaults of the government for the past two
years while the country is so largely in debt? Has this vast
sum in gold been idle, as supposed, or has" it been used all
orin part, for loans or speculative purposes in Wall street ?
The influence of Secretary Boutwwell retains a man in posi-
tion here, as Depositary of Public Moneys, who unblush-
ingly acknowledges he has used thousands of dollars of the
governments funds intrusted to his safe keeping for his own
private business purposes 1 “ Like master, like man.” If
Secretary Boutwell absolutely knows, as he does, that such’
nefarious use has been made of the people’s money by a gov-
ernment officer, and does not take measures for such oflicer’s
removal and punishment, is it not reasonable to infer that rot-
tenness may exist in the Treasury Department in Wasliing—
ton, in comparison to which the Tammany frauds are utterly
insignificant ‘? It is to be hoped that Congress will, by reso-
lution, soon look into the affairs of the Treasury Depai-tmentg,
and that a committee of the best men of that body be ap-
pointed to make such examination as the interest of the peo-
ple demand. _ - Sn1.AH_
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New Yonx, November, 1871.
Woodhull (fa 0la,_]‘ll'n’s Weekly." ,
Brigham Young is to be tried for lascivious-ness. He, it is

alleged, is guilty of cohabiting with a plurality of wives,

which, according to a recent act of Congress, is a penal

offense in Utah. In the State of Missouri the same crime is

legalizecl- women are licensed for promiscuous cohabita-
tion, providing they submit to periodical medical examina-

I ticn. All men may cohabit with not only sixteen women

(Bi=igha;n1’s number), but as many as they’ wish without
license or any other stipulated conditions,-except the posga.

or a supposed right, that they could and would do so, thus
proving that the will of the masses is law, nature/s law, and
above written law. The people ratify, the Constitution
records. The only inference that can be drawn from the
foregoing, and in fact the only conclusion I can arrive at, is
that women always had, have now, and ever will have the
same right as men to the ballot. The only question that re-
mains is, will they use it ? The only answer, they will.
Respectfully, C. H. PoLLocx.
AAAA 
* WASHINGTON, D. C.,'Nov. 2'7, 1871.

rlflasolames Wbodllull (fl Ola’  ‘

under’ spirit control four Sundays, concluding yesterday.
She was entirely unknown here, and I fear is less known
elsewhere than her merits as a speaker (or rather those of
her controlling spirits) render desirable. She speaks mainly
or wholly from subjects selected by the audience ; her edu-
cation and experience have not been such as to account for
the entire readiness and general thoroughness on the sub-
jects elucidated. Her manner is that of a most finished,
graceful and impressive orator. Yesterday evening, how-
ever, she far surpassed previous efforts, handling every sub-
ject presented with marked eloquence and ability. The
climax, however, was reached in a dialogue in which she
alternately personified the allegorical characters of “ Alone”
and “Charity.” The action could not have been excelled.

She has drawn large, increasing and enthusiastic audiences,
many of them‘ members of churches, and many more who
are not usually attendants on Spiritual lectures. -

N. B.——I am not in the habit of going into ecstacies over
lectures or anything else, as a general thing. My language
fails to do justice to the subject. A_ C_

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The grand and popular eflort for the relief of sufi'erei*s by
fire should be continued through the winter if necessary;
and the benevolence so thoroughly aroused should not be
allowed to flag till some of the chronic poverty, crime and
suffering of the world shall be removed, Especially should
the reformers see to it that the" apostles of liberty are not al-
lowed to die martyrs to the cause. Death by neglect is the
next thing to murder. Is it not about time that the old
fashion.was played out, that of hemlock and the cross for
the living and a monument and a “great white throne ” for
the same when dead? -

Is it not pitiable to hear one pray for a speedy death, as
Austin Kent has done, that he may cease to be a pecuniary
burden to his frien'ls? Many who do not indorse his social
theories, in view of his great sincerity and his utter physjgal
helplessness, have contributed liberally to his relief. No
doubt they will be held in grateful remembrance by iim,
both in this world and in the world to come. G. R.

Farmington, Mich.

The right of sufirage is the right to make the laws on
which our happiness depends; to determine what shall be-
come of our property; to provide education and opportunity
for our children; to guard our families from violence or
vice; in short, to secure happiness for ourselves and chil-
dren. Siiffrage in America includes in it every natural
right of man. It isamethod of the.e.xei-cise of the most
sacred rights of human beings. While,‘ then, society may
regulate the mere incidents’ of this grand and central natural

bility of its reaching the ears of their one chaste, confiding

right as totimes, places and manner, yet society did not
confer it, and has no right to suppress it. I ’

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Mrs. C. Fanny Allen (or Allyn) has been speaking here‘

 

Jan. 6,  J

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save‘ ME FROM My FRIENDS.

There is an adage—’-“ Save us from our friends 1”
Oh I save us from relations when their ends
Conflict with ours. No stranger’s enmity,
However strong or vile it chance to be

Can equal theirs; no statement is too base,

So that they think ’twil_1 brand you with disgrace.
Who’ll rake the depths of hell for defamation
With half the pleasure of a near relation?

The nearer the relationship the stronger

The natural tie may be, then all the longer

The slandering will last. If you refute

One scandal, lest it injure your repute,

Scarce will the echoes of it die away

Ere they will wing another on its way;

So laugh to scorn their petty machinations,

Reply, when told, “Dear sir, they’re my relations.”

For bear in mind, whatever path you choose
(Especially, if. they have naught to lose),
Youcannot gain by taking the defensive

Against a charge, no matter-how offensive.

A vindication, made however clear,

Can, after all, but make it to appear

That you are blameless of the imputations;
Meantime you’ve spread the tales of those relations.

Remenfber, those who know you will not heed

The calumny; therefore there is no need

For proof——that is, so far as they’re concerned.

Remember also, hundreds who have learned

I The scandal never hear the refutation;
’ So, after all, the clearest vindication
Is little gain; then let your reputation
Live down the scandals of eachdear relation.
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THE RADICALS AND CONSERVATIVES AS SEEN
BY GEORGE STRONG.

While stopping in Boston a few days ago I overhlieard a
conversation between two gentlemen, the substance of which
was that there would be that night at a certain hall a meet-

ing of” the radicals and conservatives. I determined to go,

and, therefore, as soon as night “ drew her sable curtain
arounc ,” I wended my way to the place designated.

There were two doors to the hall, at each one of which
was stationed a radical and a conservative.

,“ One dollar admittance,” said the radical, “ the money to
be expended towards a free public library.” I

“ One dollar admittance,” said the conservative, “ the
money to be expended towards founding a Presbyterian
Theological Seminary.”

“You’re my man,-” said I, giving the first of these gentle-
men a dollar, and then stepped forward‘ to enter.

“ Hold on, young fellow,” they shouted in concert, “ What
is your opinion about the antiquity of man ?”

“ No one can enter here,” said the conservative, “ who
believes that man is over six thousand years old.”

“ N 0 one can enter here,” chimed in the radical, “who
don’t believe he is over forty thousand.” \

“ Whew!” I exclaimed, “ what is a fellow going to do;

gentlemen, Icannot honestly agree with either of you; I
can’t go much higher than fifteen thousand.”

They both looked at me with the greatest contempt-one
because he thought I went too high, and the other because
he thought I did not go high enough. I told them that I
was open to conviction by either party, but that at present
I could not decide otherwise than I had. The conservative
raised his hands with holy horror and said “ that I could not
go in unless I would have faith.” The radical opened his

door and said “that I could go in if I would study.” ~

Passing in Ifound that the room was large and lofty.
Through the middle of the floor, the whole length of the
room, ran a chalk mark full three feet wide. On the right
hand side were about two hundred persons of all colors,
ages and sizes. They were most of them very intelligent-
looking people; but some of them were dressed in odd
styles, and all of them behaved in a very free and indepen-
dent manner.

Some were lying down and some were standing up. One
man was so sunk in Materialism that he was crawling about
on all-fours. One individual loved nature and primitive
habits so well that he was entirely naked. He had a dozen
acorns in his right, and a bottle of spring water in his left
hand. These, he said, were enough to support any reason-
able man. Two persons were holding forth, with a great
deal of rhetoric, about the seven spheres. One man was
denouncing salt, swearing it was the curse of the world.
Another had his hands full of something which I thought at
first was mahogany sawdust. On examination, however, it

proved to be Graham flour, the only stuff, he said, that was.

fit to make bread of. ‘

Seven old fellows were loaded down with potatoes, beets,
cabbages, turnips and squashes. They were praising upa
vegetable diet, and everlastingly running down the meat
eaters, who, in turn, were giving the vegetarians back as
good as they sent. Most all denounced rum and tobacco,
and all were in for the abolition of war. '

Plato, Kant, Huxley, Darwin and Emerson appeared
to be the favorite male authors. Mrs. Stanton, Horne,

VVoodhu1l and Hooker the female; and each one ex-~

pounded his favorite, with many Variations and theo-

u  V
WE find the following comprehensive statement, covering’
, the whole question in the Ulirlsllan Union, Henry,Ward
- Beecher editor:

ries of his own. Most all of these Radicals were
VVomen’s Rights men, Free Religionists; and some—vei'y
‘few of them, however—-Free Lovers, in the best sense of the
-word. They) believed in the rights of all, irrespective of
creed, sex or color. ‘

A banner, on which was painted .“ Salvation by works,”
was extended upon the Radical side of the hall. The shelves
on this side were filled with the Bibles of the world, and
books, magazines, reviews andinewspapers of all kinds. On
the walls were pictures af steam engines and printing presses,
‘telegraph instruments, ocean steamers and many other mod-
ern inventions and improvements.

I suppose it is scarcely necessary to add that these ner-

_vo'us, sanguine, excitable, intellectual and intelligent, niorose

and thoughtful, goodnatured, kin.d-liearted and satirical
crowd, were the Radicals. .. -
Now let us take a look on the (i1.li.er side of the chall;

 

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vJan.6,1872.

servatives, for they look as much alike as a row of ‘Spring-
field musk_ets.- There are one hundred of them and they sit
in easy chairs, wrapped_ in senseless apathy- There was no
more expression in their faces than there is in a Bologna
sausage. They had no more individuality than a Dutch
cheese or a clam shell. They had no more energy than a
canal boat, nor so much ideality as a Government mule.

Once in about twenty minutes they opened their mouths
, all together and denounced woman’s rights, free religion,

Zdivorce, all amusements, secret societies, witchcraft and
long hair.

Then freeloveism in women and Radicals; but they say
nothing against it in Conservatives. Then they gave rail-
roads, steamboats and the horrible secular newspapers a dig,

. and also the colleges and schools where science is taught
, I that awful thing that leads to infidelity.

So on and on, once in twenty minutes, they speaking like
.a huge machine, denounce all together, in set phrase, some
phase of progress. ‘ ‘

On this side of the hall is a banner on which is painted, in
large letters, “/Salvation by Faith.”

Behind them on the shelves was an immense pile of old
moth-eaten Bible Commentaries,the newest one in the whole
collection being “§Scott’s,;” and also in a glass case, Mark
Tv_vain’s Map of ‘Paris, which had been soaked in tobacco
_]LllCe to make it look old, and presented to them-by a Ger-

slmlle captured in the Strasburg Library.

‘ On the walls were pictures of old-fashioned agricultural

implements; and a dilapidated stage-coach drawn along

through the mud on an earth road by four pairs of sorry old
plugs, at the prodigious rate of two miles an. hour. In the
distapce was seen a scow rushing along through the raging

cana . .

They veted on woman siifirage, public fisheries, divorce,
temperance, anti-tobacco, and many other questions.
There were two hundred of the radicals and but half of
that number of the conservatives, mind you. The radicals
were all for progress, but the conservatives «were not. Now
see how a question was decided: Before they voted the
conservatives consulted a commentary, and then they all
voted together against progress as one man. -

The radicals, if the question to be decided wasone they
were red-hot on, then they would vote; but if it was not,
then they would not let each other vote, but they would
make night hideous talking, each on his own particular
hobby; sometimes a few would vote against woman suffrage
, if a few conservatives would go with them for the abolition
‘ ' of salt. By swapping around in this waythe one hundred
. conservatives beat the two hundred radicals every time, or
“ else it came to‘ a tie; as an illustration, they would not

agree to vote on the question of which was the best religion,
becausethe radicals had so many, but they did finally agree
.to throw up a cent and abide, just as long as they were a
mind to, by the decision. _

Now, these two parties were afraid of filling robbed by
each other, so they had brought no money with them. Like
most authors, I had but one single piece of money in my

*- possession. I agreed to throw that up for them. The con-
servatives had the first choice, and of course said, “ tails.”

\ So it was “heads” for the radicals. Up I threw the money,
down it came. It proved to be a very old Mexican quarter,
and had been worn perfectly smooth, on both sides.

After this the radicals passed a vote of thanks to Josh Bil-
lings for his rich article-on Second Advents and Adventesses.
he conservatives passed a vote of censure on Mark Twain,
because he had ridiculed their blessed Sunday-school books.
There was only one question on which these radicals and
conservatives could agree, and that was this : “ That Boston
was the hub of the universe.”
At 11 o’clock the meeting was broken up, and the radicals

, went home about their business,but the conservatives settled
. back in their chairs. There was to be a meeting on the fol-

lowing night; so they decided to stay where they were, so as

to be in season, and it would save climbing three pairs of
stairs. In the meantime, they sent out word to their wives
to have them cook and bring up their suppers, not forgetting
cards, cigars and a keg of Medford rum.

. 

WHAT THE POETS SAY.

/ BY T. C.’ LELAND.

All the way down from the first dawning of rhyme, if
not of reason, the poets, while adoring Venus and idealizing
love, have had their flings at merely conventional, mercena-
ry marriage. They have felt instinctively that outward ties,
though ever so silken, and vows and bonds, though ever so
lightly borne, were "out of place, with so absorbing, self-
binding a passion ; and they have so expressed their in-
spired thoughts and scattered them all along the ages,
though surrounded with an ignorant, materialistic, unin-
spired population. The ages are just beginning to come up
with the poets, and their dearest love-gems can now be re‘-
vived and read with manifold interest and appreciation.

It was a poet, as far as we have been able to trace its ori-
.[ gin, who first made use of the word Free Love. /-It may be
I claimed that the honor should be accorded to Pope, when‘
he transposes the words and makes Eloise write to Abelard :

“ How oft, when pressed to marriage, have I said,
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,

Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies.”

But it was left for Bailey, the author of “ Festus,” to use
the word direct. In that most delightful love poem, pub-
lished more than thirty years ago, of which Margaret Fuller
said, “it contained poetry enough to set up fifty common
poets,” he makes Helen, the third of the several lovers of
Festus, apostrophize Venus as ' .

“ Thou glory of J ove’s free love skies l” I

We shall dig up from the dusty and forgotten past some
of this buried literature, and show that ancient sages and
poets thought and wrote as we do ; and that press and peo-
ple, who are so very conservative of old thoughts and ancient
doctrines, and who howl at us for desecrating the divinest,
institutions of the past, are spurting very unholy water over
their own friends.
married, and regained it when he didn’t--and published an
 elaborate and convincing plea for divorce.
: who wrote hymns that the church will never let die, also
 wrote phillipics on“ marriage that the priesthood will never
, ‘f ' let _live, if they can help it. Bishop Percy solaced his literary

 hours in the collection and publication of songs and poems,

J, » someof which any churchman would be considered very”

 “ low ” it‘ he should publish them at this day, and the clemi
' mbnde might well exclaim, “How is that forliigh ?”

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Milton lost his Paradise whenever he:

Isaac ‘Watts;

l

, mark. You may know man instant that these are all Con-p 8

man wag as a map of the Holy Land, as it was from a few ,

woonHULL .3. CL.AFLIN’S WEEKLY.   4

But much as we know that the great poets—the writers
‘jwhom the reading, thinking world cons, quotes and learns
‘by heart, the “mlscz'tur non fit ” kind of 7poets—glorified and
‘-idealized love that is free, and lampooned and scorned that
which is bought and sold, we confess to much surprise, ‘and
more delight at finding such a manifestation of Free Love as
we discover in“ The Last Tournament,” the latest elaborate,
poem of Tennyson-—a production of such power and interest,
and by so famed an author, that the Harpers have taken
special pains to procure advance sheets of it, and made un-
wonted haste to‘ lay it before the million readers of their
‘Journal of Civilization.
Now Tennyson, our readers should remember, is the Poet
Laureate of England——that is, the Official Poet, the “Poet
to the Queen,” the: poet selected, par excellence from‘ all the
‘livingpoets of the realm to receive royal honors and govern-
ment endowment and support. He is probably as courtly
iand refined as Horace Greeley-; as learned, orthodox and
inspired as T. W. H. or H. B. B. ; and, on the whole, as
“smart” as anybody in the “Hub.” Yet he is not afraid
‘to tune hislyre to the very great delight of two Victorias
and sing :
“ Free love—free fields-we love but while we may:
The woods are hush’d, their music is no more:
The leaf is dead, the yearning past away:
New leaf, new life—the days of frost are o’er :
New life, new love to suit the newer day :

, New loves are sweet as those that went before:
, Free love—iree field——we-love but while we may.”

Nothing finer has been/said or sung for our Victoria, and
we hope Tennyson’s appreciates and admires as oursdoes.
Now, two or three gems from “Festus” and we have
done : .

Oh! not the diamond starry bright
Can so delight my view,

As doth the moonstone’s changing light
And gleamy glowing hue:

Now blue as heaven, and then anon
As golden-as the sun,

It hath a charm in every change—
In brightening, darkening, one.

And so with beauty, so with love,
And everlasting mind ;

It takes a tint from Heaven above,
And shines as it’s inclined;

Or from the sun, or toward the sun,
With blind or brilliant eye,

And only lights as it reflects ’
The life-light of the sky.

FnsrUs.—Poets are all who love, who feel great truths
And tel1.them ; and the truth of truths is love.

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Forgiveness? Let it be so; forI know not
What I have done to merit endless pain.

Is pleasure crime? Forbid it, God of bliss !
Who spurn at this world’s pleasures, lie to God;

And show they are not worthy of the next.
What are Thy joys we know not——nor can we
Come near Thee, in Thy power, nor truth nor justice.
The nearest point wherein we come toward Thee
Is loving—-making love— and being happy.

8

ELISSA.—NOW, Festus, this is wrong. ‘-
FnsrUs.—— What? What is wrong ?
Shall my blood never bound beneath beauty’s touch,
Heart throb, nor eye thaw with hers, when her tears
Drop quick and bright upon the glowingvbrow
Plunged in her bosom, because, forsooth, it is wrong?
Let it be wrong! It is wrong, it is wretchedness
‘ That I would lose both sense and soul to suffer.
ELISSA.—-HOW dare we love each other as we do?
Thou lovest one whom thou ought’st not to love.
FESTUS.——AI1d what of that? Love hath its own belief,
Own worship, own morality, own laws : 4
And it were better that all love were sin
Than that love were not. It must have by-laws,
Exceptions to the rules of earth and Heaven;
For it means not the good it doth, nor ill.
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EL1SSA.——-I feared how it would end. /
Can nothing less than sinning save the soul?
Can nothing but perdition serve to rest
Our hearts after so sweet~a flight of love?
' FEsrUs.—The might and truth ofhearts is never shown
But in loving those whom we ought not to love,
Or cannot have. The wrong, the suffering is
Its own reward. ’

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THE CHRISTIAN PANDEMONIUM.

London is admittedly the most populous and opulent city
in Christendom. Its nobility possess untold wealth ; its
merchants are princes; its churches point to heaven. In it
are special colleges for the training of missionaries, who
take the Gospel with them, and proclaim the sam'e in heathen
lands. Herein also are raised immense sums of money to
carry out, in distant regions, works of religion, charity or
mercy. A right glorious capital so far. Taking but a cas-
ual glance at what London presents to our view, and at what
it accomplishes in the way of philanthropy, we are led to
estimate it highly. . Nevertheless, what‘ ought to be an Ar-
cadia or earthly paradise is none other than a Christian
Pandemonium !

In this wealthy metropolis, where luxury and abundance
display themselves /perpetually before our dazzled vision,
dwells a mass of foul, festering, pestiferous pauperism, which
is a curse to the nation at large and a damning slur upon a
Christian community. ' _ .

The recipients of that State bounty which a wise and
benevolent legislature has provided, and which is so amply,
justly and nobly administered by Poor-law guardians and
their underlings, just number 116,455; quite sufficient, one
will think, for a single city. These may be classified thus:

In-door paupers, 83,875; out-door, 82,580. In addition to

these, about 1,100 vagr-ants weekly receive temporary——very

temporary relief. But the actual paupers, or those whose

chronic diseases of impecuniosity and destitution are treated,
by the parish, form but a fractional part of the impoverished“
denizens of this over—teeming city, where human life swarms

thick as ants on a mole-hill. -The poor of London cannot be
computed. Yet one may form a tolerably fair estimate of,
their number. From one group of parishes we might judge
of others. Not many days since the vicar of St. Mary Hag-
dalene, Soutliwark, made a pithy and touching appeal in the,
Times on behalf of his parishioners. Therein the public are-
informed that the parishes south of the Thames, and in im-1
mediate proximity ‘to the river——sucli as Lambeth, South-g
wark, Bermondsey and 'Rotherhithe-—contain a population?
‘of something like three hundred thousand, “ the most part of,
which are of the very poorest description.” Then_a1‘.e~
told the distressing truths that “ the largest class of men con-Q
sist of cobblers, brush-drawers, costermongers and water-._
side laborers, whose pay in summer is both small and pre-
carious: and hence their miserable poverty in winter, at

once almost too bad for belief, as well as harrowing to wit-
ness.” And to what cause is this public appeal attributable’?

I prevailed in this huge city.

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,Why‘to the non-residence of theiwealthy employers of labor
in those districts, who have betaken’ themselves to elegant
suburban villas, spending but a few brief hours daily amid
the smoke, dirt and din. of impoverished neighborhoods. 8

With such the old -adage is realized, “ Out of sight, out of
mind." Then we are told thatdestitute mothers and starv-
ing children cry for bread; that the dwellings of the poor
people are in a “dreadful state,” being “ fearfully over-
crowded,” engendering, naturally enough, vice, disease and
death. In the parishes above named are foetid courts, and
streets, and cellars which it were well did they but share the
fate of Chicago, and from which only purgation” by fire can
stamp out fevers and other dire diseases that make fell havoc
there. The puzzling question is asked——and who will con-
sider himself bound to answer it, if but to his own conscience?

——how are the keen wants of the starving poor to be met ‘.9

Echo answers, “ How ?” ‘

So much for a few adjacent parishes in one section of Lon-
don. Will other districts in the south,‘ the east and even the
west compare favorably with those ‘.9 We greatly doubt it.
Nay, we are sure they will not; Then let the reader take
in review the “ Arabs” and thieves and the “grand army”
from which these outcasts frdm society are yearly recruited.
The superintendent of the East-end Juvenilevli/fission recently
made astatement somewhat-startling in its character,—to wit,
that five thousand homeless boys and girls came weekly un-

' der the notice of the managers of that institution, and dur-

ing the brief period since its establishment fifty thousand
children had been brought into contact with them. Some
of these forlorn gamins are regularly hunted up by agents
after midnight. We are assured that sometimes as many as
fourteen boys have been found sleeping in one small room in
some stifling lane or blind alley. Many poor lads lay out their
last twopence for a filthy bed, and go without supper. Lately
as many as seventy youths, of various ages, were found one
night lying in a lane called the “ Shades,” at the foot of
London.Bridge, covered up in crates. And in such weather,
too ! The bare thought is sufficient to chill us all over,
make our eyes water and our hearts ache. ‘

Last week, the Bishop of Winchester, that right reverend
father in God, preached an inaugural discourse on the occa-

sion of the reopening of St. Peter’s Church, Southwark. He '

made no allusion whatever to the appalling physical destitu-
tion that surrounded him. That would not suit .-a,bishop’s
lips, andweuld be sure to soil lawn sleeves. He referred,
however, .to the great and widening gulf that existed be-
tween rich and poor; told his auditory that the former in-
dulged in a great, deal of luxury, while among the latter
existed much “ social discontent.” He stated that the work-
men in great towns were not regarded as brothers, but
rather as humble members of a guild, of which the rich man
was the upper member. But, primarily, this good shepherd
,,of the sheep dwelt upon the vast spiritual destitution that
He inferred that this peculiar
want produced the necessity for building more churches, as
though there were not enough of them already-—enough and
to spare. The Bishop of Winchester, like his lionied-tongued
brother of London, is as wise as the serpent, if he be harm-
less as the dove. He knows full well that every new church
set up in his diocese brings him so much patronage and priv-
ilege. If there comebut very few souls to“ be saved, there
will at least be so many more “inferior” clergy over whom
he eandomineer. Then an additional opportunity will ‘be
afforded him of preaching a charity sermon, or of blowing
his own trumpet, or sounding his own praise and that of his
mitred order, as his Lordship of London did in his “Charge”
the other day. How odd it seems that s‘hovel—hatted,‘pett1-
coated prelates rarely preach except charity sermons for the
repairing or building of churches. It is to the hard-working
clergy is left the irksorne duty of making known the sharp
wants and keen sufferings of the farnisliing poor. '
Last of all, look at the open and _
tains, and the terrible evils that pursue it——the Eumenides
‘of nature to avenge its outraged laws. Thousands of
women walk the streets for
and miserable lot to the rascality of men who are called
“ gentlemen ” because they belong to “ good families” and
move in high positions. The whole of society is tainted. It
is rotten at the core. There is little soundness in it. _
iS’atu7'day Review and Lady” Mordaunt are to be accredited,
women in the upper ranks pride themselves upon their de-
bauchery and general looseness of conduct. We have, we
apprehend, adduced sufficient evidence to prove that Lon-
don fairly warrants the title which we_ have placed at the
head of this article. _ \ . -

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Macomb’s Dam Bridge was again opened for travel. yesterday. It
is said to be now in a perfectly safe condition.——Hemlcl. ,

Rather a profane way of putting it, but we suppose it is
meant as speakingrwell of the bridge.

The great-grandfather of George I. had seven sons, all Dukes. They ‘
entered into amost extraordinary compact. Only one of the number ‘

was to contract a legal marm1age.——Hemld.

That was the orthodox, by—the—grace-of-God way of
making royal l’ove arrangements in those days—and, for
that matter, ever since. No rule of the Church or law of
the land ever stood in the way of Dukes and “sich.” Our

marriage laws have come down from just that crowd of,

people-——binding upon us, but no law to them—~and Horace
Feeley would like to hold our noses to the old feudal grind-
stone, though long ago “busted up ” as to everything else.

The former “ belle of New Haven ” is said to haverbeen committed as
an habitual drunkard in New Jersey. Perhaps she took to drink be-
cause when she was a belle her feelingswere wrung.— The World.

Perhaps she was a church-going belle and never told her
love. , -

 

In the windows of some of the confectioners there is to be seen a

new and improved style of that old-fashioned institution, the “ gingeiu -

bread wife.” The modern articleis coated with sugar into the sem-
blance of a. fashionable lady’s dress, panier and all. _The obvious
advantage of a gingerbread wife over a real one is that it can be sum-
marily disposed of without the process of d'ivorce.—T/Le World.

. But the purchasers in both, cases generally love their
wiveslvvhenlthey are bright and new, enough to eat them up,
and after they get old and musty, wish they had. Some-
times, too, the real wife does get literally “chawed up,”
and thatvery summarily disposes of the process of divorce.

unblushing vice that ob-7 ,

breacl,»who owe their wretched .

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one, and is coated with a sugar that isn’t sweet into as many
seniblances as chignon, Grecian bend, panier and all can
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The National Sufirage Committee will hold a convention
at Lincoln Hall, in Washington, on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of January. All those interested in woman’s enfranchise-
ment are invited there to consider the “new departure”~—
women already citizens, and their rights as such secured by
the 14th and 15th amendments of the Federal Constitution.

This view, presented in “ The Woodhull Memorial " at
the last session of Congress, was respectfully received, and a
minority report of the Judiciary Committee .made in its
favor, which has been sanctioned by the opinions of some of
the ablest constitutional lawyers and judges in the country.

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THE connvo REVOLUTION.

To the fact thatthere are great undercurrents at work
just beneath the outer surface of society and civilization,
seeking some possible vent, ‘no observing person can be ob-
livious. Wherever‘ a few persons meet their conversation
involuntarily turns upon some topic revolutionary to existing
customs, forms and practices; but with this distinction,
when compared to all past stages of incipient change: the
topics are as various as the collective human interests. With
all the variety of application to existing things, however,
upon which attention is centred, there is a very remarkable

. . concomitant fact. to be observed, which is this: All the P
I tendency to, and-desire for, change, springs from a common

cause: the dawning on the minds of the people of an idea of
justice common to all divisions of the people, of whatever
kind or form.’ I i 0

The word most revered of Christianity for ‘many centuries
pales before the searching eye of this ‘uncompromising prin-
ciple. A thousand things that have been accounted good
and great and Christian cannot stand the application of this
later development‘ of ’ the human soul. It will not do for
people to longer be simply charitable‘, they must,1earn to be
just. Charity has covered a multitude of sins ; but justice
shall soon require measure for measure in all ‘thin gs. Under
its reign everybody will come to learn the true, the direct,
the only safe way in which to walk,’ since to deviate there-
from will be to encounter rough ways hedged with brambles
and strewn with thorns.

Charity hath heretofore dealt leniently with her subjects.
In her mantle of whiteness, purity, and thoughtless inno-
cence, she has given too great allowances for the weaknesses,
the smallnesses and the diseases of those who could, for the
time, cover their failures with well-feigned regrets. In her
unsuspecting simplicity she has been most grossly deceived,
and in dispensing her largesses has too frequently sacrificed
right to tenderness. , I

The world has advanced beyond the age for charity to be

its watchword and guide—-beyond the midground in which
it shouldilegijtimately have sway. It must and will be re-
placed by a larger virtue—-by its natural successor. Charity
is born of the sentiments, of the aifectional element of
human nature’. These, when operating unmodified by
guiding rules, minister injustice upon all sides. In the,char-
ity that places right upon the altar of sacrifice is concealed
the bane of the future, since humanity begins’ to see beyond
the superficial, down deep into the very essence of being.

If justice be inaugurated, where may we naturally look for
it to begin ‘its work of readjustment ? All evolution is three-
fold-«material, intellectual, and spiritual. Justice will then
begin its work in the material relations of humanity, and its
stern decrees will reach and terrify many a person who has
never dreamed of being less than just in all his dealings.
Many, , when it shall summon, will answer; “Have
I not always kept the law faithfully ; dealt as I have
agreed ; rendered to every man according to the tenor
of ' our contract ; even given much alms to the
needy poor ? But all these will not suffice, justice will
reply: these are but things written down in the law that you
should do, and which, not doing, you had been compelled.
There is an unwritten law, deeper, broader, higher and all-
comprehending and more important, inherent in the human
soul, to" which your reverence for the written law has made
you blind. in your strictness to meet all the requirements
of the law you forget to think that there is a God whose
edicts are paramount to them all, and by which all cases
over which the laws of men have held jurisdiction shall be
supplemented, revised or reversed, And it must and will
call all men to account. In nature there is no escaping
exact compensation. Everybody knows that. But almost
everybody is foolish enough to imagine that in humanity
there may be some escape, even if it be by so small a one as
through repentance, forgiveness and substitution. ' We often
wonder if those people with whom circumstances have con-
spired to favor the accumulation of the products of “the
sweat of the brow” and “the wear and tear of the muscle”
ever stop to think to whom, in a strict sense of justice, these
aggregations belong. - There can scarcely be any so far from
comprehending ‘ the situation as to ‘contend that they are
justly entitled to that which thousands have expended all
their lives in producing, and especially when they never
lifteda muscle themselves for its attainment.

They reason superficially who arrive at the conclusion
that, because they have been surrounded by more favorable,
circumstances than thousands of others have, permitting
them to possess themselves of what the thousands produced,
it is theirs absolutely. It is a notorious fact that the accumu-
lated wealth of the world is aggregated in the hands of the
few who did not produce it——in the hands of those who for
some reason—-by some trick or 1aw——-have been able to take
these products from the possession of therlaborers, and con-
centrate them for their own selfish purposes. It does not mat:
ter in what manner wealth has been aggregated by nion-pro-
ducers it has been taken from those to whom’ it belonged,
and it may be twisted and excused in whatever way it please
its possessor, the fact can never he escaped.

Let it for‘ a moment bevsupposed that all the wealth of
the world was distributed among those who produced it,
what a changed condition there would be! But would
not this be the just condition-j-—the only possibly just condi-
tion? What business has one person to what auothervby

his labor has produced, even if he were “ hired ” to perlorm

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the labor? Does that fact stamp the process with the seal
of justice ? ’Nothing\ can be more unsound than such an
argument. It may be earnestly protested that “ All these

things have I done from my youth up,” and still the stern ‘

verdict will be, “Yet one thing thou lackest. -Go, sell all
thou hast, and give to the poor, and come and follow me.”
We believe that the age of justice is about to be inaugu-
rated, and it is with the kindest of feeling for those who
must come before its tribunal in material things, that we

continue to endeavor to impress these truths. It is coming, "

and cannot be avoided, and blessed will those he who, when
it shall come, shall not be found wanting ; who shall not be
unprepared. * A

It may as yet be impdssible to predicate in what precise
orm this shall come. If the wealthy would be wise, they
would anticipate its coming by rendering, up accounts of
their stewardships, and having their rsettlements ready to
present for acceptance when demand is made. They should
come forward and show their willingnessto render justice--
should propose even and easy means of transition from the
present unjust conditions to such as Christ taught and lived,
when “They /had all things in common.” Besides being
professorsof Christ and his doctrines, let them become doors
of his works. . Theoretical Christianity has run its race. It
has dressed in fine linen and fared sumptuously every day

quite too long. It is time that the inquiry should begin to

be made, “Who ismy neighbor?” and having received the
answer, \“ Humanity,” for preparation,by practical methods,
for its complete recognition.

By these means only can we hope to escape the gathering *

tide of neglected,’ down-trodden humanity, everywhere
straining its nerves for better conditions, everywhere de-
manding redres's'ior its grievances, everywhere coming into
the recognition that it has been robbed of its own. The
wealth of the world cannot afford to ignore these efibrts, be
deaf to these demands or indifferent to this knowledge. Its
own safety depends upon immediate action, which has been
already too, long delayed, perhaps too long to escape the
vengeance of the outraged and neglected ties of a common
brotherhood. 0
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PLYMOUTH CHURCH AND ITS ‘PASTOR.

“ New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward who would keep abreast of truth.”
, —-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

Everybody %the world has heard of Henry Ward‘

Beecher, and almost everybody has done so to honor and re-
spect him. Perhaps there is no single person in the world
who has the ready command of so great and extended an in-
fluence as he, and this in spite of all his radicalism in theol-
ogy. A careful observer of his course can but come to the
conclusion that he has pretty nearly discarded theories and
transferred his allegiance to truth and principles; nor can it
be doubted that he has many things to say to his disciples
that they cannot yet bear to hear, since this is true of all re-
formers, in all departments of life.

But with all that clan be said of Mr. Beecher———oi‘ his out-
spokenness upon things religious, of the power he possesses
to sway his audiences, of his great research, learning and in-
tuition—-it must have been remarked with not a little sur-
prise that he felt called upon to explain, in a letter to the
Tribune, his late reference, made in a Sabbath discourse, to
Spiritualism; and almost everybody who has admiration for
him must have felt a sensible dimunition of it upon read-
ing that letter. , t

We have reasons to know that there have been somewhat
remarkable table-tipping and wrapping manifestations in
Plymouth Church, under the influence of his preaching ; and
it may justly be in/ferred that the remarks made by him re-
garding Spiritualism were directly attributable to those
manifestations; and if they were it is impossible to regard
his attempt to ignore them, and all other material manifesta-
tions, by raising distinction as to the particular kind and
character of Spiritualism which he accepts with anything
short of astonishment. i

That the table used by the unseen influences has been re-

moved from the church, is also another fact which those
who have confided in his devotion to truth for its own sake,
let it be what it may and lead where it may,may'well regard
with suspicion as to the truth of the foundation of their con-
fidence. If the spirits did act upon the table as a means of
calling attention to their presence, why should they not
have been permitted to continue their effcrts until they had
accomplished their wishes——namely, their identification.
Plymouth Church is destined to enact a great role in the
cause of spiritual truth, and all, that may be done to shut it
back will only make the denouement all the more startling
when it shall come. There is but one manly way to meet
all such things, in fact, to meet all things of which life is
made up ; with a bold heart and a cool head. Nothing
which is truth, principle and right in_the sight of heaven
can harm anybody, no matter how startling and unpopular
it may for the time be. Generally, the more unpopular a
thing is at its beginning the more potent it becomes, and
more enthusiastically it is accepted when .it obtains a hold
upon the hearts of the people. It requires a true moral cour-

age, however, on the, part of its apostles to stand before the

denouncing, ignorant and hypocritical world to introduce it ;
-but that they are so can be no possible excuse for the want,
on the part of the individual, of the courage to advocate it.
Herbert Spencer has said in substance : That if a person be

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to become its advocate and champion, he not only proves
reereant to the high trust reposed in him, but also unworthy
to be classed among the world’s teachers.’ Under this rule
it should be the particular ambition of everybody to present
the truth with which God has intrusted hini. And every
word spoken. by everybody has a background, if not a, fore-
front of truth; and this is always made" ‘apparent. by the
after illumination, where early attempts are made to cover,
hide or pervert it from its full application. , , ,
We say that with all the means there are at hand in this
country to be convinced of the reality or falsity of the claims
of Spiritualism, it-is a great shame for ministers of the Gos-
pel of Christ to stand up in their places before the‘ people
and innocently tell them, either that it is all humbug, with-
out having the proof of it, or that they are not sufiiciently
informed upon the subject to give a positive opinion. . It
seems to us that the firstduty of every minister in the land

. is to investigate this matter to the very greatest extent. All

-Spiritualists court it; and all mediums desire it. ’ If our ad-
vice were to be desired upon the subject, we should say that
the churches cannot ‘afford ' to ignore these things any
lo,nger—-—that is, if they desire to exist as institutions for
another decade. Andlwe would have been more than pleased
had Mr. Beecher taken a bold and determined stand when
the opportunity was given him to become the head of the
introduction of actual spirit life into the lifeless creeds and
defunct theories ofour established Churches. But if he reject

~ the opportunity some one else, with more moral courage and

niore devotion to the truth, will be selected and assigned to
that post of honor; which Mr. Beecher cannot afford to per-
mit. We hope the spirits, deprived of their table already
prepared, will come in still more palpable and potent form
and compel attention to their behests; and in such manner
as to make it immpossible for either pastor or people to ignore
t em.

E-ELIGvlCN—THE INTERNATIONAL.

Last week we gave up a great portion of our space for the
purpose of presenting the ideas upon which the Interna-
tional is based, as presented twenty years ago by the great
leader Karl Marx. There are but a very few people in the

whole world who have even a small understanding of a true

political economy—by which the material affairs of humanity

* should be regulated. This lack of knowledge has obtained

in the world because Government and the rules of society
In the
_International,for the first time in political propositions, have
fundamental principles of religion been formulated The
great students of Socialism in Europe have arrived at‘ the
deduction that" justice among the people can .."{.‘.e‘l75.’>1“. be so.
cured except through forms that shall recognize the unity-—
thc “solidarity”——of the human race.  All classes, all races,
all nations and all tongues must first-be recognized and
treated as brothers and sisters of a Common Parentage and
Inheritance. It does not specifically follow that the
Christian idea of God must pervade the expressions through
which their ideas find form. ‘Butif they recognize the unity
of all people that is something that the Christians, though
professing to believe in God the Father, have failed to ac-
complish. If ye acknowledge not your brethren whom ye
have seen, what practical benefit can result from the ac-
knowledgment of God whom ye have not_seen?

The International does not propose to inject God into

their Constitution and then mock Him b ersecutino* a ' or-
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tion of His children, and deride Him by dealing in all sorts
of injustice in His name. These matters of individual con-
science it proposes to leave to the people, since they properly
belong to them. . But, like Abou Ben Adhem, it desires to be
written down as loving “my fellow-men” theibest. It does
not deal in mere abstract propositions, incapable of realiza-
tion, but seizes the vital issues which separate the extremes
of humanity. It proposes that the favored few shall be lev-
eled down and the oppressed many leveled up to a cominon
equality, and thus practically exemplify the teachings of
Christ, which, in parables, were always to this end.

It is to be expected that the favored few» will rebel
against all their propositions ; that their organs of the Press,
who rely upon their favors for sustenance rather than upon
their capacity to teach truth, will utter anxious howls of
disapprobation, and designate the International as a revolu-
tionary society. Well, it is revolutionary, in the extreme
sense. Its first and last purpose is to revdlutionize the present
construction of government and society, and.where tyranny
now sits, bidding defiance to equality andjustice, to enthrone
the reign of the people. It /has the interests of the great
masses at heart. It has listened to their grievances‘; heard
the fearful tales of their woes ; seen millions of men toiling
eighteen hours a-day, life-long, that thrones and castes might
be supported ; heard the moans of "the mothers ofthe nations‘
as they bend over their midnight tasks, to complete the gar-
ments in which royalty and wealth should next evening luri-
uriate ;_ and, rousing into action, it has raised the banner of
their amelioration, inscribing upon its comprehensive folds
the significantwords :

“ Our country is the world,
, Our religion to do good.”

Now, Christ could not have ‘desired a more beautiful
recognition of His teachings than is embodied in this motto.
It recognizes that true religion, consists in acts rather than
professions, and that the whole world is the subject of its

‘ application. The Christian churches had better consider

before they proceed further in denouncing the International
as desirous of disturbing the existing order of things. They
must not forget that Christ was one of the worst—best——
D disorganizers and disturbers of existing things who ever
lived; and if others‘ spring up, following in His footsteps,
and disorganize old fossils, by the same means and after the
same principles He did, that it is scarcely becoming to de-
nounce them while professing Christ. _ .

lt is a matter open -for serious consideration, whether
those who actually incarnate the principles and precepts of
Christ, should not openly avow themselveslas His true fol-
lowers, and expose the assumption and falsity of those who
have stolen H_is livery in which to serve other masters, or
their own selfish ends, in utter disregard to the common
classesof humanity. We ‘say that, unless the professing
Christians practice the precepts and live the rules that
Christ gave, they are frauds and cheats upon the world, and
oughtto beexposed and held up to the contempt of the
world. Those who in this age re-enact the part of the
scribes, pharisees and hypocrites oi the olden time will as
surely receive their recompense as did the Jews.

The world requires to befstripped of its hypocritical pre-
tenses and long robes and loud prayers, andeto be baptized
with the principles of true religion, and this to‘ be made to
be the guiding rule for all its relations. Government must
be based upon it, and its structure erected in harmony with
all its precepts. It the International carry out its pro-
gramme, suchtwill be the result.

The recent ceremonies of the internationals of this city
updn the murder of Rossel and his associates have brought
this society prominently before the American people, which
of all other nations is ripest for its inauguration. It was an
imposing thing to see the “ Red Flag ” carried in our streets
in a funeral procession consisting of thousands of earnest

' men and women, and received without murmur by the

quarter of a million of observers who thronged the streets
through which they moved. And though the telegraph
reporting it to the country endeavoured to make it as
small as possible, the city papers were obliged to speak
something approaching the truth; and through them the
country has been informed of the first faint rumblings ofrthe
coming storm which will rain down upon the heads of those
who will not take warning from the initial notes already
sounded. They who denounce thernas the “scum of the
working people” may have an opportunity of reversing
their opinion; but, in the meantime, please to count us as
belonging to and ‘forming a part of that “scum,”~ since we
doubt, if Christ were among us to-day, He would be
ating with them, as all His doctrines were Com-
"r tendency.

   

 

V POLITICAL ECONOMY" IN consnnss.

Whether  Hoar knew just whathe was doing when he
introduced into the Congress his late resolution looking to
inquiring into the justice of the relations between the “ pro-
ducers” and the “ receivers” of wealth we cannot say. But
a field has been entered upon that will result in an entire
change in the forms and means by which the entire products
of industry are forced through legislative channels into the
coffers of the already wealthy. The present systems are
simply so many machines by which the laboring, wealth-
producing millions are compelled to pourcthe results of their

toil into the hands of the few who expend all their time, tal-
ents and strength, mental and physical, in making the chan-
nels more perfect, never directly adding a single dollar to
the wealth of the world. , ‘

N ow it isa proposition that nobody can gainsay, that he
or she who produces nothing lives of the labors of those
who do produce, and, therefore, are living upon their bounty.
This is equally true of a beggar or of an Astor. If Mr.
Stewart never actually produced an article of wealth he has
lived from the products of othersf This becomes a plain
proposition if we_try it by the axiomatic proposition, that
people are only entitled to the possession of what they have
produced or to that obtained by an equitable exchange for
something that they produced. All else is either legalized
or illcgalized theft, the former in the abstract being just as
injurious to the community and criminal in itself as the
latter.

Mr. Boutwell reports the public debt reduced by some
hundreds‘ of millions of dollars. Wl10~ have paid that por-
tion of the debt or from whom did the money come that is
now safely lodged in the pockets of the capitalists or loaned
back to the producers at high rates of interest? Are the
capitalists so many millions of dollars short ofwhat they
werebefore the bonds were paid ‘.9 Not a. bit of it. They
have all they had, besides the money for the bonds they
held. But the poor laborer, toiling under broiling sun or in
winter frosts, has paid this debt. He was without .capital
when the debtwas at its highest figure. He ‘has labored
daily these ten years, and still is he penniless. And such is
the vaunted success of the financial policy of the govern-
ment. Every dollar of production, leaving just enough to
support life in the producer, is taken from him and deposited
in the cofiers of banks,_ from which these same producers
must go and plead, ‘sometimes earnestly, to obtain it again,
even at rates oi interest, or rather discounts, sufiicient,‘it‘
kept up another decade, to destroy production altogether.

And Congress wants to appoint a Board of Inquiry, just
as though the inquiry has not already been made and the

who have made this question the study of their lives ‘:3
Why does not Congress call them‘ to their counsels if they
really want to know something about the relations of labor
and capital ? It is a sufiicient condemnation to send Con-
gress in disgrace to their several homes for them to admit to
the world that’ they are ignorant of ‘these vital matters. Is
Congress to legislate for and protect the.intei‘ests of the
people, and yet know nothing about the causes that have
conspired to rob the laborers of all their hard—earned wealth
and transfer it to the keeping of non-laborers !. '
Why, most wise legislators, it is yourselves that have done
this thing. You have not only permitted, but fostered the
growth of enormous ‘corporations, which leach the people in
every possible way ; you have devised laws by which these
same corporations have monopolized vast areas er the public
domain, and by which millions of money are paid to another
class for no services rendered ; you have so arranged ina_tt'ers
in the interest of the favoredifew by your tariffs and protec-
tions, that the products of the many can find no market at
adequate prices to reimburse their cost of production, al-
though the price for the sales, at home are somewhat in-
creased in price over what they otherwise would have been;
you have fixed the rate which the producersmust pay to the i
acquisitors, at a figure so far beyond the real increase of
gain or wealth that it will require but a few years to entirely
consume it; and yet you stand there and innocently ask :,
What has done all this? and propose to appoint a Board to‘
inquire into the causes. ,. .
But have your ‘commissions, and get wisdom, and above

all things get; understanding, I or Heaven knows you need it ,

sadly enough. The movement will not blind the laboring
classes to the extent of a single vote.
ahead of you in knowledge of these things. While you
have been legislating so as to keep the control of the gov-
ernment in your hands, they have been quietly learning the
causes of their condition; and these have become clear to
them, since they are able to. watch their producedwealth
move, by authbrity of law, directly into the pockets of their
neighbor capitalists. If the laborers are not‘ as" a general
thing so well cfiltivated as you are, they are very far from
being fools, and you make a serious mistake when you so
account them. _. ‘ I

It may be seriously asked. where the remedy for all this
injustice is? and it has, perhaps, never been answered; but
if these things have come because of a system of laws, then‘
there must be some fault in that system. And here you
reach the bottom of this matter. It is in the form 0fg(_)ve1'n-
ment which does not prohibit legislation upon human rights,

equality, or against exact justice in its most abstract sense,
A form of government which requiresggo. be amended to

, meet every new condition that arises within its jurisdiction, ,
as has been the case with ours, ought to be supplanted by \

one so grand and comprehensive as‘ to be equal to all emer-
gencies, contingencies and evolutions that can possibly arise
in humanity. C L o i

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THE DESCENT OF THE SPIRITS.

From all parts of the world do we hear‘ of the nearer ap-
proach to, and more intimate relations of, the spirit world
with our sphere. Rapidly following the appearance of the
inhabitants of the other sphere at Moravia in so palpable
forms as to be seen by the natural vision, comes news of like

appearances in various other places, through various other ‘

mediums. In Cswego a blind Canadian girl is made the
agency by which they assume form and likeness, while in
thispcity it is said there are at least three places where they

tinctly visible, and at one of them ‘to have been able to
speak. _ ' I - , p

All of these new phases of Spiritualism, added to the
spread into new fields of those with which Spiritualists are
familiar,’ such as the rappings and table-tippiiigs——the A B
Cs of manifest-ation——in Plymouth Church, and the occupa-
tion of the time of test mediums by people from the religious
flocks, who heretofore have stood‘ aloof, plainly indicate the
near approach of the time, when we “ shall see as we are
seen, andknow as we are known,” being “ face to face.”
There is a whole volume of teaching in that sayingof Paul’s;
since for mortals to see as they are seen, and to know as
they are known of the spirits, will be to revolutionize our
present standard of morality and virtue; exposing tomortal
gaze what has, until now, been vailed, ‘But to just that con-
dition are things now making a near approach, and we shall
hail the day when it is fully ushered in. Perhaps some who
now cry out “thief,” may themselves appear not as white as
snow, or as chaste as ice. ' so

. ________¢__________
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL.
4'

This gentleman and statesman has earned the respect and
admiration of" friends of justice and right, ‘by his veto of the
bill abolishing ,Woman Suffrage in Wyonning. His veto
message is an admirable piece of composition, grand alike
in its conception of. the matter involved and its consecutive
ldgical constructrion. It will stand as a monument to his
memory to all future ages. We should be glad "to give it
entire, but we can only quote the following : ,

But even if We concede that these rights once acquired
may be taken away, the passage of this bill would be, in my
judgment, a most dangerous precedent. iOnce admit the

exact condition known’ and under-stoodl Therefiare men,

right of a representative body to d-istranchise its constituency,

They are just a little '

and forbids any enactment looking to discrimination against '

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and who can establish the limits to which that right may not
be carried. If this Legislature takes from women their
franchises and privileges, what is to prevent a future Legis-
lature fromldepriving certain men or classes of men, whom,
from any considerations, they desire to disfranchise of the
same right ? We should be careful how we establish pre-
cedents which may return to plague the inventors and be
used as a pretext for taking away our liberties.’

It will be remembered that in my message to the Legisla-
ture, at the commencement of the present session, I said:
“There is upon our Statute Book an act» granting to the
women of Wyoming Territory the right of suffrage and to
hold office, which has been in force two years. Under its
liberal provisions, women have voted and held office. It is
simple justice to- say, that the women entering for the first
time inthe history of the country upon these new and un-
tried duties have conducted themselves with as much tact,
sound judgment and good sense as men.” , _ .

In this Territory women have manifested for its highest
interests a devotion strong, ardent and intelligent. They
have brought to public affairs a clearness of understand and
a soundness of judgment which, gonsidering their exclusion
hitherto from practical participation in political agitation
and movements, are worthy of the greatest admiration, and
The conscience of women in all things is
more discriminating and sensitive than that of men ; their
sense of justice not compromising or time—serving, but pure
and exacting; their love of order, not spasmodic,or senti-
mental merely, but springing from the heart. . All these—the
better conscience, the exalted sense of justice, and the abid-
ing love of order—have been made by the enfranchisement
of women to contribute to the good government and well-
being of our-‘Territory. To the plain teachings of these two

4

‘wnNDnf.L PHILLIPS.

The voice of this glorious old leader has been once more
heard in New York. Chief among the conquerors of black
slavery, he reorganized his soldiery andkeeps right on in
battle against white slavery. ,

“ Straight into double band’
The victors divide ; ‘
Half for freedom strike and stand.” _

W'e maybe sure alwayswith which half Phillips will
advance. And every conquest, says another poet, “ makes
‘a still greater conquest necessary.” Phillips goes on from
conquering to conquer. ‘He is a God of Reform, “ without
variableness or shadow of turning.” No taint of Webster,

K:

A Seward, Greeley, or any other moral or political scrofula‘
infects his firmly-knit constitution.

No pregnant hinges
crook his knees ; and no “ handful of gold” will ever make
us mourn a “ lost. leader.” The workers for wages are for-
tunate in winning so powerful an advocate to plead their
cause. May he live to seeas glorious a success as resulted
from his championship of black slave labor.

The following are some of his ringing sentences pronounc-
ed. before a large audience" at Steinway Hall last week,
taken by our own reporter specially for our paper:-

“I have often spoken in New York when the situation was
grave and the subject momentous, but I feel seriously the
vast 'importance—I might almost say the terrible signifi-

-cance~—of the cause which you invite me to present to you

to-night. No event of disappointed hope, no momentary
defeat makes me despond on looking at the present demands
of the laboring classes. My only feeling is one of the

greatest anxiety over the startling, sudden growth of this

great social force. My fear is that the easy classes and
civilization* itself are not ‘ready to meet this volcanic erup-
tion of all the sub-tier of civilized life. - Ihave no fear about
its limitations, its inadequate strength, or its ultimate
success. ~ g .

“ My anxiety is on the other side. My fear, as Istand in
its presence, is that the leaders of society, the owners of
wealth, party organizations and all the other appliances of
civilized life are not ready yet to meet and recognize the
popular claim, and try to guide this gigantic interference in
the nineteenth century. * ‘

“You ask me to speak to you on the relations of capital
and labor. I am a capitalist. Why, then, am I here? Be-
cause I am dissatisfied with. the relations of capital and labor
——becau_se I am dissatisfied, nay, almost ashamed, if that is

r not too large a word—of the civilization around me. Civili-

zation is grand when you measure the height and breadth of
it by centuries—it is a great, a terrible advance. From the
time when the noble Norman ca e home from the hunt and
warmed his feet, as the readiest way, in the blood of a peas-
ant, while waiting the preparation of other fire, down to
such protection as is accorded the peasant of to-day, we see
there is a vast advance.‘ But still civilization has perilous
gaps; it has awful deficiencies. When you look deep into
modern civilization, grand as it is in seeming, large and gen-

erous in some of its results, you yet will. find, hidden within,
some ulcers that confound social science, and leave it aghast.

The students of social science confess themselves at their
wits’ ends in «dealing with the great evils of the day. The
easy floater on the surface of society thinks everything all
right. He does not know of the leak in the body of the
ship, which the captain and crew have watched for days.

“ Gentlemen, I am not here with the vain dream that we
shall ever abolish poverty. I am no Utopian. My creed of
human nature is too bitter for that. There have always
been men who drink, and, as long as there are, there will
always be poor men, shiftless men, half-baked men-——nobody
knows how or why they were born. There is no millennium
to dawn for such. _

“But if you don’t expect to abolish poverty and give every

Y workingman some funds in bank, fine apparel, and tickets

to library and theatre,» what are you going to do for him ?

We don’t expect any such blissful state of society as that.“

w«o-on-HULL -& cLArL1,n’s WEEKLY.

r But we do expect to remedy the state of things that compels
half the people the world over to starve. You can find
millions of men who never taste of meat once a year, and
there are very common luxuries which they never dare to
taste. In your own city men and women live in quarters
which no man in Fifth avenue would trust his horse in
twelve hours. t .

“I will take the great social spectre which confronts so-
cial science the world over—prostitution—the social ulcer

that eats into the nineteenth century; and everybody who‘

has studied the subject will confess that the root from which
it grows is poverty. The poverty of one class makes it the
victim of the wealth of another‘. You may ascribe it to what
influence or accident you please—hot blood, deficient moral
training, individual temptations-give them all the weight
you please; yet rising above all, surmounting all, "is poverty,
the great root of the social evil, te necessity of one class
making it the victim of the larger means of another class.
Give women a "fair chance in the world of labor and enter-
prise, and ninety—nine out of a hundred will disdain to buy
diamonds and dress with the wages of shame. . Go down to
the bottom of this lamentable sore and itsicause will ever be
found in the pqverty of the victims.

“VVhy is it that three-fourths of the criminals are from
the pborer classes? Why dothe statisticians of crime tell
you that, when you have deducted about fifteen per cent. of
the criminals—— consisting of the enterprising, energetic,’ and
intelligent—the rest are ‘below par physically and mentally?
Becauseothey were the children, grandchildren, or great-
grandchildren of parents who were bodily and mentally
weak. Out of these weak ones the devil selects his best
tools. Employ and feed that class better, and you will
empty your prisons. But the capitalists exclaim. ‘ How are
we to blame? We built these brown-stone houses honestly;
we got the charters of our banks above-board.’ I often read
the priceof wheat in the English market.
the thermometer of crime,'and Lfind as the price of wheat
goes up a shilling crime increases. Prices rise and crime
goes on with unvarying parallel. It shows you that the
great majority-of the people stand just on the edge of neces-
sity. It tells you that the lines are drawn so closely that,
if you increase the price only 2. turn, it topples multitudes of
men and women over into the prisons. That is your civiliza=
tion as it is to-day. ‘

“ But I am not this painter: 15 do not sketch this picture.
Oh, no ! it is an old, old work, from the ancient masters all
the way down. I can get you any number of despairing
groans from students of the nineteenthlcentury, which will
show you that I am only a parrot pirating their words. But
few of them appeciate the depth of the difficulty. They
say, ‘ this is only a spot—simply an ulcer.’ We will try to
apply some medicine, some poultice. We will reach this
disease with opiates and palliatives. But -the great seat of
the disease is dangerous if not deadly. The trouble is that
, one-quarter of the human race, lives at ease and the other
three-quarters pay the expense.
Christ and these eighteen centuries can do let us sit down
and curse the God who made us. Give us the comforting
faith that there is something beyond and better than that,
and that we, with sublime endeavor, can yet accomplish it.
That is the meaning of-. the labor movement.

“ We are no enemies of capital. I never saw the working-
man ‘yet who was the enemy of capital; and.I never saw the
man yet who did not recognize that his interests andthose
of capital are identical ; that he is more interested, if possi-
ble, than the capitalist himself in the preservationeof capital;
and that it is the fund out of. which he is to be fed, and the
result ‘to which all his own efforts ten;l—that labor and
capital are the two parts of a pair of sc1ssors—nothing
except when combined.

“ Now, what is the crime of the International, whose
name the good people of the city of New York use to
frighten their children with ? Why, the crime is simply
looking back into history and seeing the French Republic cut
the hamstring of landed monopoly; obliging each man, when
he died, to let the land he owned float back ‘into the nation.

“I have two remedies for the evils which the laboring
classes suffer. I would tax enormous properties heavily,
andI would make enaployes co—operative in the corporations
which they serve. At all events, statesmanship must take
up this question and deal with it. That is the reason I
dislike Grant. . His message reads like a ' promulgation of
1812. It might have been an inspired document if Mon-
roe had written it; but today it is musty. As Shakespeare
says_: ‘It hath an ancient and a fish-like smell.’ If that
document is his apprehension of the needs of the hour he
has gone up, because there’s nothing of a sheet—anchor in it
that can hold in American politics.”

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BY TENNIE C. CLAFLIN.

LA connnsrounnncn]

- NEW Yortx, Dec. 22, 1871.

TENNIE O. CLAFLIN : What is seduction ? You have
described virtue, “What it is and what it isn’t.” You will
do the subscriber a favor by defining seduction——what it is
and what it isn’t. The term, in its generally accepted sig-
nification, means a deception practiced on awoman, resulting
in her fall from “virtue” as it is’ called. What I wish to
know is,» how would you apportion the degree of crimi-
nality ? Does it wholly attach"to the male, in all cases ‘B The
law now assumes that it does. Is it a supposablecase that
even the most simple of her sex is ignorant of the probable
result of sexual intercourse ? Is not the criminality about

I place ibeside it .

If that is the best that

SEDUCTION : WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT,

Jan. i;5,‘l8i7"‘7’.

equally divided? Must it not be a voluntary act ? When
force is used it is known as rape, not seduction. ‘ Does the
promise of marriage j-ustify awoman in risking the happiness
of a life time on the faith of mere words ? Do you advocate
the abrogation of all laws affecting seduction, as well as
those relating to marriage. , I * I BOQUA.

‘I/IR. BOQUA : Dear &'r——Your inquiry is very pertinent,
and the reply that I am prompted to make is in precisely
the same vein as that of the previous article to which you
refer. The assumption is that women, and women only,
are liable to seduction, and that men are entirely free from
any such weakness. Now, what is the implication in all
this ? Why simply that women are weaklings and ninnies,
and that they have no opinion, no character, no power of
self-defense, no anything, but simply the liability to be in- .
fluenced to their ruin by men. And women consent to and
strengthen this implication by conceding the truth of this
false notion by joining in with the clamor about seduction,
precisely.as they concur in the false and insulting discrim-
ination between the virtue of man and the virtue of woman.

Now the fact is that seduction is, and ought to be, mu-
tual. Seduction, in the last analysis, is simply sexual
charm—-the deliglitwhicli one sex feels in contact with the
other. No love is without seduction in this sense. Seduc-
tion, or mutual charm, is of the very essence of love; but
love is not the only attribute of either man or woman.
There should be wisdom, and character, and purpose, and
power of selfregulation and defense on the part of each or
both. ‘ -.

If there be any difference in this matter, woman is, of
the two, the grand seductive force, whether the seduction be
legitimate charm or its counterpart. She is by nature and
organization, if the poets all speak the truth, a magazine
of enticement and influence, and power over the imagination
and the conduct of the opposite sex. But even if that were
not so, if she stood on the same level of capacity in this re-
spect with the man, the condition into which society has
‘thrust her compels her to make a profession of seduction.
It is a disgrace for a woman not to get married. She must,
therefore, by all possible means, seduce some man into mar-
riage at least; and not succeeding in that directly, she must
seduce him into some act which will compromise him and
compel marriage subsequently. She has the strongest pos-
sible motive, therefore, in this point of view, to be herself
the seducer; and if the roofs were lifted off the tops of the
houses, if the facts were simply known of what is every day
occurring, the cases, I believe, are nine in ten where women
exert an undue seductive influence over men, to one of the
contrary kind. a _

But it is not merely that the female sex is pre-eminently
interested in the whole matter of love, and is, by nature and
organization, representative of that half of human concerns,

nor the fact which I have alluded to that she is disgraced, A

contemned and despised by society if she fails to'secure a
man; but there are still stronger impulsions and motives
and necessities’ operating on her. As things are in the
world at present, women have no adequate method of earn-
ing and winning anything ; men hold the purse and women
are dependents and candidates for election‘ to place. They
must entice, and seduce, and entrap men, either in the legiti-
mate or illegitimate way, in order to secure their portion of
the plunder. It is no fault of theirs that they have-.to do
this. Society condemns them to a condition in which they
have no other resource.» I am not arguing that point now.
I am merely adverting to the fact as a reason, and quite a

suflicient reason,why women make a business~—the great.

pursuit, in fact, of their lives—of the seduction of men ;
while with men, the seduction of women is an incident,
mostly a sudden temptation, perhaps thrown in their way
without suspicion on their part, by‘t‘he very woman who
then raises a hubbub of excitement about having been
seduced. I
When planters have slaves they expect that their pigs,
chickens, corn and everything lying loose about the planta-
tion will "be stolen, for it is well known that slaves will steal.
The planters, have begun by stealing the liberty of their
slaves, by stealing their labor, by stealing, in fact, all that
they have and are ; and the natural reaction is that the slaves
will steal back all they can. So in the case of women. Re-
duced to the condition of dependency, and with no other
avenues for acquirement or success than the onewhich lies
through their mastery or influence over the opposite sex,
their natural powers to charm and seduce are, of course, re-
inforced by astuteness and trickery, and they not only have
the cunning to seduce the men in the majority of cases, but
the cunning, also, to throw the blame on the men for se-
ducing them. This is sharp practice, butthey are taught in
a school of sharp practice which the men have instituted for
them ; and the result is anatural and necessary one from the
present organization of society. V
The very foundation of ourexisting social order is mutual
deception and all-prevalent hypocrisy ; and this will always
be the case until we have FREEDOM; until we recognize the
rights of nature, until we provide by our social usages for
the fullest gratification, in a normal and proper way, for
A every passion of the human soul. . ‘ I
There are two policies or theories of action in the world.
One is the policy of Rnrnnsston, the other is the policy-of
ENFRANCHISEMENT, or enlargement. The policy of repres-
sion has its whole troop of legitimate consequences which
, are, in the main, what we now know as the vices of society.
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The depressed and oppressed woman is made to be hypo-’

critical and frivolous and in every way false to the higher
nature of womanhood, false to her duties in life, and false
to the true relations, which she should hold to men. I By
enslaving her the male sex is doing the greatest possible
injustice to itself. It is only by enfranchising her, by help-
ing her in every possible method, to security of condition,
to the opportunity for development, to the means of being
true and noble, that he will have in the world a being whom
he can truly love and whom he will be proud in all ways to
aid and protect. The policy of repression is therefore
suicidal or self-defeating ; and, as the world grows wiser it
Will be, in all the spheres of life, ‘replaced by the nobler,
more celestial and beneficent policy of freedom, with order
of a higher and better kind, which will spontaneously spring
up in the soil of freedom.

But I am getting somewhat away from your questions. I
have spoken of seduction in a somewhat more general sense
than the definitions you will find in the dictionary, as ap-
plicable to allxthe cha‘rm which exists between the sexes
or that which is exerted by the one upon the other; but
seduction is generally confined to and defined in its bad
sense, as the exertion of this charm unduly and adversely to
the real wish and the true interests of the party affected by
it. In this sense it is, as you suggest, mutual, or as likely
to occur on the one side as on the other, even if it were not
stimulated on the part of the woman by the considerations
which I have suggested. What I have said will enable you,
perhaps, to apportion for yourself the degree of criminality.
The immediate criminality is more likely to be with the
woman than with the man; but the remote criminality of

_ instituting and maintaining conditions in society which‘
‘ force the woman into hypocrisy is more that of the man;

and yet it is hardly worth while to talk of criminality in
either case. The great fact is one of ignorance and unde-
velopment. What the world wants is more knowledge of
how to do right. The human passions have been found to
be terrible forces, like steam or fire ; and instead of study-
ing them, in order to regulate them in accordance with
their own true laws and their adaptation to the world’s
well-being, they have been feared merely, and fought down
and repressed. ' ’

You ask me, Ought a woman to risk her happiness for a
lifetime on a promise of marriage? In my profession of
clairvoyant, and in a practice of more than a dozen years,‘I
was consulted by women especially, and those of the higher
rank in society, for the reason that they had more leisure,
,means and opportunity to investigate. I have been con-
sulted by thousands of such women, and _I can truly
say that, in a very large proportion of cases, , they
have confessed or confided to me that they had bestowed
their best favors upon their husbands prior to marriage ;
and that no advantage was taken of that fact by the men.
In other words, the so-called seduction in these numerous

instances was not followed by desertion. It never became
known, therefore, as seduction.

It is a very prevalent opinion that the prompting motive
to marriage, on the part of men, is the mere gratification of
the one passion. The truth is, I believe, very much the
opposite ; and that men instinctively seek, and hope to find,
in that relation a true, rational and spiritual companion-
ship, as well as material charm; but, alas 1 how
often are they sadly disappointed. The woman
proves to be a mere doll—a characterless and insipid per-
son. The ideality which had enshrined her before marriage
is dispersed with a few/days or weeks of acquaintance and
familiarity. Instead of rising in the esteem of her husband
by the development of new and grand ‘characteristics, she
sinks under his contempt, or palls upon his interest, andihe
is driven elsewhere in the hope of meeting that companion-
ship in woman which the higher instinct of the manly soul
constantly, whether consciously or unconsciously, craves.

This popular assumption that, if a woman has conferred

her highest favor, she is threatened to be despised and aban-_

doned for that, is a scarecrow of the same dignity and rank
as the old story the mothers in the country used to tell their
children, when sugar was dear, that it was “ sure to rot their
teeth.” If she were a woman of a great and noble soul, a
commanding character, of intellect, spirituality and womanly
worth, the true man from that time begins to know how to
live. He is initiated by her generosity into the true knowl-
edge of his own nature, and elevated to the moral and aes-
thetic plane of woman’s soul. , '
On the other hand, her silly pretension of ignorance, her
lack of true sentiment and dignity, her childishness, growing
in some of its many shapes out of the false education and no
education which surrounds this whole subject, are precisely
what disgust andrepel men and ruin them. .
It is another blunder to suppose that women are the only

ones who get ruined. lVo1nen who allow themselves to think ‘

that sexuality and prettiness are the only charms they are
expected to have, and that it is a disgrace for them to be
strong—minded, are pretty sure to wreck their own happi-
ness and that of the man whom they ought to love.

You ask, finally, do I advocate the abrogation of laws
aifectingscduction as well as those relating to marriage?

Undoubtedly, in the same sense. I do not advocate the ab- .

rogation of the marriage laws so long as they are needed, so
long as there is nothing better, so long as people’s ideas are
not elevated above the plane of such laws. What ' I advo-
cate is freedom of thought and speech on the subject, free-
dom to devise better methods, freedom to experiment, even,
and to learn; but I mean all this a great deal more with
reference to opinion than with reference to law. Change
public opinion on the subject and the change of the laws
will take care of itself ; and until public opinion is changed
the laws, such as we have, may, for all I know, he better

adapted to the condition than their abolition. My work is

social more than political. I care more to know what are
the true or God-ordained relations of the sexes than I do to
know what “Boss Tweed” and others of his ilk have en-
acted on the subject at Albany. The laws have always been.
probably about as good as the stage of development of the
people. What I want is higher developme.nt, better knowl-

 

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edgeand, of course, better laws and better institutions to

grow out of these. .
There are undoubtedly a portion of women who are weak

and silly and simple, and who are taken advantage of by de-

signing men‘. Until we have such systems of education and ,
daylight and everywhere pervade almost every department

development as will tend to prevent women from being
weak, simple and silly, it may be right to have laws punish-
ing seduction; but we have also, asl think I have shown,
spooneys among men, and ought we not therefore to have
laws for their protection? An act of the Legislature, entitled"
“An act for the protection of spooneys against designing

women,” would be something refreshing, and perhaps logic- ‘

ally based upon the reason of the laws for the protection of
female virtue. Indeed more were, at one time, laws in
England specifically “for the punishment of bad women
who seduced the soldiers of the king.” I do not remember
that the Bible has said much, if anything, about the awful
crime of seducing women! It has, I believe, put the boot
onthe other foot, and commiserated the sad condition of the
spooney part of our mixed population. Read attentively
the seventh chapter of Proverbs on this subject. Somewhat
abridged and commentated, it reads as follows: . ‘
“Sayunto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call under-
standing thy kinswoman, that they may keep thee from the
strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her
words [the seducer]. For at the window of my house I
looked through my casement (peeped from behind the cur-
tains, spying other people’s affairs, which showed the writer’s
interest in the subject), and ‘I beheld among the simple ones
[the spooney populatYon—not the women, mind], I discerned
among the youths a young man void of understanding [not
a very rare case] passing through the street near her corner
[whosoever she was--the woman that lived on the corner
over the way], and he went the way to her house in the twi-
light, in the evening, in the black and dark night
[that is to say repeatedly, and sometimes when it
was so dark it was all I could do to watch ’em] ;
and behold there met him a woman‘ with , the attire
of a harlot and subtle, of heart [cunning and capable of se-
duction], so she caught him and kissed him; and with an im-
pudent face said unto him: I have decked» my bed with
coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of
Egypt. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cin-

namon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning ;'

let us solace ourselves with loves. For the good man [the
husband] is not at home'—he is gone a long journey. He
hath taken a bag of money with him [plenty of greenbacks],
/and will not come home at the day appointed [that is to say,
not too soon for us, as he has gone on w spree hz'msélf]. Witli
her much fair speech she caused him to yield [seduced him],
with the flattering of her lips she forced him, to yield (figur-
atively, rape, I suppose]. He goeth after her [spooney-like]
straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool [as
he was to the correction of the stocks ; till a dart strike
throug his liver [etc., whatever that may mean———something
that the advertisers of quack medicines refer to, I suppose-
not, probably, the orclinary liver complaint].

The point here is that the Bible makes the chief instance
of seduction to be that of the man by the woman in the
common allusion to the matter. Indeed, we always admit
this, after thefirst instance,’ but, then, without much logic
for it, we assume, that it is always the man who, in this ji/rst
instance, the so-called “fallfrom 'vt'rtuo,” who hasseduced the
woman. This point the Bible doesn’t mention or refer to.
If, then, woman  the only sex which eeleccttes seduction into
a profession or a lz'fe—busz'ness, I suggest that there may be
some mistakelahout, the matter, and that the poor innocent
girl, or older maiden, who wakes our sympathy for her
wronged innocence may, at least in a majority of cases, have
planned her own ruin, and have seduced the spooney man
into what goes alterward as his criminality. I still adhere,
therefore,‘ to my proposition of a law, 'to emanate from

‘Albany, “ for the protection of spooneys against the seduc-

tion of young-girls and grown women.” If law is to regulate
the matter, let the whole ground be effectually covered.
These are my sentiments. More, perhaps, on another occa-
sion. > I :
V /  .
THE ,NATIONAL LABOR REFORM—PRESIDENT
GRANT AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 1871.

Regarding the recent message of President Grant from the
labor standpoint, we can but pronounce it the weakest
which has ever emanated from the White House. All its
suggestions evidently have one of two primal objects—ei'Eher
to conserve the special interest of rich capitalists, or to’pro—
mote Grant’s re-election in 1872. '

We of the Labor Union are compelled by stubborn facts to
regard Grant and the Republican party as entirely opposed
to labor, indeed as much so as ever were the slaveholders of
the South.

Throughoutthis entire juinbleof words little can be found
worthy a statesman or political economist. Nothing in re-
lation to the contest between labor and capital——the all-
important tariff question—~the resuscitation of our expiring
shipping-interests and commerce between Europe and
America--of relief. and encouragement to our agricultural

.interest——or of the railroad extortions and abuses which are

stirring the American people of every class and section
throughout the country. i
There is one suggestion bearing remotely upon transpor-
tation, namely, the subsidizing one steamship line to some
far-off islands! In the absence of 'I‘rumbull’s Committee of
Investigation, we'may long remain ignorant of his motive
for this. His statesmanship would seem to consist in bar-
gaining with the rich money kings of Europe in the way
to enrich them, while grinding the American toiler. He
seeks applause for any settlement of the Alabama claims.
We find Cabinet Ministers plotting and Assistant Secretaries
permeating the bank centres, and planning fraternity be-.
tween the money kings and gold lords of the old world, in
efforts to facilitate closer alliance with foreigners, the owners
of a majority of the stocks and bonds of all our through
lines of railroad,who practically dictate our National policy.
No wonder so much of his message is spread out and sugar-
coated to cover the noxious drugs hid away under “our

foreign relations.”

   

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Of course it matters not toihim that the national energies
are everywhere trammeled; that commerce is wanin g,

-while that which remains is, practically, in the hands of

foreigners; that intrigue and corruption revelvlinlbroad;

of the government ; that the producing and laboring por-
tion of the people everywhere complain, bowed down as
they are with a measure of suffering and oppression such as
was never before known in our history.

It matters not to Grant and the Republican majority that
the rates of interest on money accessible to the producing
and developing industries of England are from 1-} to 3 per
cent., while the American competitor pays from 12 to 50 per
‘cent, How does he look at all this ? The following, which

[might haveentered into the head of a dull schoolboy who

read the Republican newspapers, Grant parades for a cause
and remedy; he stultifies himself in asking us to give him

[another term :

“ Continued fluctuations in the value of gold, as con1pare,{l
“ with the national currency, have had a most damaging ef-
“fect upon the increase and developmient of the country, in
“ keeping up prices of all articles necessary in every—day life.
“ It fosters a spirit ofgambling, prejuc_lici.-al alike to ‘national
“ morals and national finances. If the question can be met
“ as to how to get a fixed. value to our currency——that value

“ constantly and uniformly approaching par with s pecie-——a

“ very desirable object will be gained.”
Now, every man of common. sense and business experi-

ence knows that the above combination of words is as utter- .

lyiinappropriate as it is ridiculous. What answer can Grant

or Boutwell make in respect to the power of gold to regulate I

anything in the United States today, when iur foreign debt
exceeds three thousand -millions, and we have but one hun-
dred millions of gold, all told, in the whole country. Gold
indeed ? The Black Friday must have haunted the chamber
in which this muddle of words was concocted. All practical
men understand that specie payments never can, or will be
resumed in the United States, until the balancecf trade is
turned in our favor. /

Every unbiased business man /of intelligence will bear out
this declaration. All know that the balance of trade li-as
been and is steadily increasing against us; that England’s ex-
ports. to the United States were larger the last year-than any
year before, and that a balance of trade in our favor is only
to be brought about by an entire change in on/*fi7mnci'cl system.
No tariff legislation can ever do it. The true system is
clearly expressed in the platform of ‘the National Labor
Union, whereby to reduce the rate of interest in the United
States to that established through the English system of 3
per cent. Consols,~ and thereby set the now idle capital in
active exercise to find a better return. This will stimulate
production and cheapen products at the same time. The
railroads and banks require “all the currency issued by the
United States to-day, while the laborer and producer are
turned over to the tender mercies" of the outside usurers,
who take all he earns. Labor has no chance in the scram-
ble, and is starving, while dennoralization pervades every
department—how soon to be followed by anarchy’ God only
knows. This senseless clamor for specie "payments ! Do
the people object to Government notes ‘? No. Tliis cry is
kept up by usurers. Let us, too, call ior specie payments——
with three thousand millions of securities in foreign hands at
our door ;—the one hundred millions in the United States
would remain with us five minutes —certainly not five
hours. The people don’t want specie; the usurers do.

How long will we maintain any repu‘olic—-not to say
keep one intact——while all the travel and tran.sportation be-
tween the East and West are manipulated by and for foreign.
capitalists—the board ‘of directors practically in London or
Frankfort,where the controlling instructions have no thought
or desire for that bond of unity and mutual benefit between
remote sections of this country ‘B’ Do the peopleof the,United
States really control State or National Legislature,on_these
questions ? No ! Railroads, banks and bondholders," by
the corrupt use of this money, legally stolen from us, govern
this country--and Grant is their tool. ‘A

"This state of the case was ominously illustrated recently
in another quarter. At the, National Board of Trade, so-
called, which recently held its annual meeting at St. Louis,
efforts of the most strenuous character were made on the
part of the people of the West to bring some remedy
prominently before Congress and the people, and this was
stifled again by these agents and confederates of the foreign
capital, who assemble yearly under a false name to mani-
pulate and overshad ow the people and the great West. To-
day, the three great cities of this Union~—New York, Phila-
delphia and Brooklyn—are practically under the govern-

the polls where majorities are against him. -

Honorable Senators of his own party even,- standing up
in their seats in the Senate of the United States, charge
fraud and corruption against the administration, andask for
an impartial committee to investigate these charges, while
the confederates of these money kings, the majority, quietly
submit, and openly vote to stifie investigation I

In the other House one of Grant’s adherents proposes’ to
send a “ wife’s cousin” to us, in the_ shape of a commission,
to be appointed by Grant—God save the mark l——in which
we are to have no voice, and to report within two 3/emw
This clap-trap may pass; The investigation has been had ;
the people have already a report.‘ The next question that
rushing events may bring to our consideration will be a sum-

mons to take muskets in our hands to support the govern-

/

ment of Committees of Safety, and Gra‘nt7s bayonets attend ’

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. take muskets we shall know our mark.

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& CL.AFLIN,’S W.EEKlinY.

Jan. 6, .1872.

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merit! Support the government! -And for what ‘P To be-
come a still greater oppression, to draw still harder upon
the vitality-nay, upon the very body and bones--of hu-
manity. - . ' .

All republican forms of government have this basis,
namely, that it is self-supporting. When it ceases to be so,
through its just and equalized taxation, depend upon it,
traitors are at the helm of the ship; and when again we
It willnot be to sus-
tain a banditti who would continue to riot and rule over us.

Honaon H. DAY.

   

NEW BOOKS.

Fnnncnr, -GERMAN, SI>ANIsH,E.'1_‘C., LANGUAGES, Wrrnonr A

M.A.s'rEn,; by A. H. Monteith. T. B. Peterson 65 Bros.

Royal roads to learning are friends. Steady plodding is
your only way to results in the pursuit of knowledge. Ex"-
pcrience made easy‘ is \a deceptive promise, if thee real and
not the seeming good is to be attained. It is possible, how-
ever, to find help and assistance, and any means that makes

, the path less rugged and the work less wearying is to be

gladly welcomed. The systems of instruction in the teach-
ing of foreign languages—-indeed of all instruction——are for
the most part enveloped with unnecessaryidiificulties. This

. book is a reprint of -‘an English work onwhat is called the

Robertsonian method; it was formerly known as the.Hamil-
‘tonian. The writer only professes to give a little elementary

assistance, andsays well that “persons cannot organize a

language thoroughly without a diligent [and assiduous study
of its principles.”

PT-A_L HOME TALK AND lVlIEDIcA1_. Oozsnvron Sirnsn.

B. Foote, M. D. Wells & C.ofiin,—New York. ,

“Know thyself” is the sum of all wisdom. “Health
the chief temporal good .” is a generally received truism.
The author ofthis volume’ puts the two together, and,
stripping off all disguises and false pretenses, goes fairly
to the root of the matter. It is a mixed question whether
medical books for the million are of much use.‘ There is
a vast deal of humbug and quackery in the practice of
medicine, especially among that very class which would be
most likely to read medical books. The fashionable and
the family physician must and does accommodate him-
self to the whims and fancies of his patient, and it is

By E.

' shockingly ill-bred, as well as ridicu.lously neglectful of his

own chances, for a medical man to tell his dyspeptic or fine-
airs patient, “Pooh l pooh! my dear sir (or madam), nothing
the matter at all. Eat less, work more; avoid late hours, and
don’t lace so tight. You don°t want physio, you
We cannot expect physicians
to be more than mortal. Five dollar fees cannot be thrown
away. The physician who only tells the blunt truth, like
the painter who paints people in all their unredeemed ugli-
ness, may possibly meet success, but he ‘travels the roughest
road and needs splendid. ability to overcome the obstacles.
Poor patients, who do -not read books of advice, are very
apt to get more ready skill and less hurnbug. If the physio
taking and medical book reading public would read this

Plain Home Talk, and, having read, would walk by its ad-

vice, there would be small need of doctors. But that is just
where the laugh comes in. They would skim over itspages,
trace out their own symptoms, and then carefully abstain
from common sense and hygienic rules, and, knowing the
right, persist infollowing the wrong. This is not a book of
maladies and prescriptions; it is" a treatise upon man’s
physical nature and upon the relations between health and
those moral and physical laws which are of universally bind-
ing obligation, and the nonobservanoe of which entails de-
rangement and disease of the animal economy.

The heads of the chapters will show how wide a field he
has gone over. It is really a Book of Health. The “ Causes
of Nervous and Blood Derangements—Violating the
Moral l\lature_——Foocl, Atmosphere, Qlothes, Bad Habits-
Sexual Starvation—Unhappy Mar.riage—Excessive. Study——

Prevention of Diseases—-Common-sense 1lemedies——includ-A.

ing a brief but suggestive chapter on Annual Magnetism.”
On the subject of “ Female Doctors” we are told that “ it
seems really difficult to write a word seriously under this
head, for the reason that when the question is presented to
any unpractical mind it would appear that if there is any
avocation to which woman is better suited by nature than to

, another it is the care of the sick.” In the chapter on Marriage’

and the Relations of the Sexes the opinion of Henry Ward
Beecher as to the value and significance of thepropensities
and interests in the balance and due proportion of the full
human being is there quoted, i - .
. “ Christianity includes every part of man. The religion
of the individual includes the sum-total ‘of the action
of every. part of his nature.    ‘ The soul
is a symmetrical whole. There is nothing superfluous in
man ; if he were to he made‘ again he doubtless would be
made as he 1S. Man’s faculties are well constructed. The

* fault is not in the faculties themselves,‘ but in the use of

them. Every part is needed. In religion are included not
the moral feelings alone, but also the imagination; and not
the moral ieelings ‘and the imagination alone, but also
the reason ; and not the moral feelings, the imagination and
the reason alone, but all the organic passions‘ and physical
appetites; subordinated, controlled, applied to normal and
proper ends; but nevertheless thepassions and appetites.
For a man without his appetites and passions would be like
a man pulled up by the roots.    . They are not

averse to grace in their true function; and religion claims

not just so much of the mind as is called the religious facul-
ties; but the whole soul and all its parts.”

 

, RowELL’s Nnwsrarnn REPORTER contains, in addition
to its usual matter relating to the press, a serial history of
engraving, with’ illustrations, in a highly finished style of

art.
. 3,

, THE National Labor Commission is goodas a step. in the
right direction." It calls Congressional attention to the fact
that there is widespread dissatisfaction in the people, over
the remuneration for labor and the indifference of labor in-
terests manifested in our national government. True. that
every one outside of Congress knows that, but it requires

' that one should rise from the dead to teach Congress any-

thing of importance. That body is deaf to Moses, to the
prophets, unless. they talk party. supremacy and money bills.
The Massachusetts Republicans, who have been moving in
the labor and capital controversy, naturally wish to get the
credit of the movement for the Presidential election ; and
the point now is that this commission of inquiry shall not
end in a mere collection of facts, known in everyiworkslrop
and factory, and which need no verification or further
proof. What are you going to do about it? Here. comes
the crucial test. . Will Massachusetts fiapitalists consent to
cooperation, to limitation of the rights of landholders, to
restriction upon the, accumulation of property and so forth ?
Merely to sit through the session and to find out that a 1nill-
owner makes two hundred and fifty thousand a year for

"himself, while his five hundred employes divide just the

same sum between them, or that he lives in a palace and
they live in tenement houses, will add nothing to our sum of
knowledge. What we shall want to learn is how the earnings
of thesociety are to be distributed without injustice, either
to brain or muscle. Justice to all; partiality to none. . The

data are so simple that any ordinary well-informed reader of

newspapers can state them in ‘the form of a preamble :.
Whereas, hereditary aristocracy and ‘hereditary land owner-
ship do not exist in this nation; and whereas, all men are
supposed to work for their living; and whereas, a system of
plutooracy, or association of capital, threatens to take the
place of aristocracy, whereby individual responsibility to the
law and to public opinion is removed and the nominal re-
sponsibility of an unknown and invisible company is substi-

tuted ; and whereas, by reason of high rents and high prices

and heavy taxation it is difficult for wages-earners to make
a living—seeing that wages, by whatiis called a’1aw of polit-
ical economy, never keep _pace with prices ; and whereas,
it is just and right that every honest and industrious worker
should have‘ a reasonable chance in his youth and manhood
to lay up something for his old age, and that the day-worker
should earn enough in fine weather to provide food and shel-
ter in the winter days, when work cannot be done. To this

_point the preamble is pretty well settled. Now we come to

some debatable ground. Why is this thus? What’s wrong?
Is it finance or the money system, tarifi“, competition, home
protection or general misgovernment, and, if so, what is the
remedy? ‘If it be inevitably in the nature of things that the

that there can be no remedy but a periodical upturning of
the foundations, when Croesus shall take the pauper’s place
and the slave shall be the master, will» the three commis-
sioners dare to face such a conclusion? Or, finally,is -the
inquiry 3. dodge to show radical readiness and to stop the

termined shall be a pouringof water from‘ one yessel into
another, to divert popular attention.
-—-———————--9 . '

THE Prince‘of Wales who was dead is now alive. He
was only killed by cable and special. Why didn’t he die ?
Thé press might then have said that nothing in his life so
became him as his death : he should have died that news-
makers might be justified. His death would, no doubt, have
precipitated the revolution his life had suggested. Only,
after all, a king is of no account in England—-his life or
death, like Mr. Toots’ feelings, is of no particular conse-
quence. Still, when Royalty had ‘announced an intention of
dying, what right had lloyalty to balk the people of their
just expectations it Perhaps the Christian mind ma not
err in indulging a hope that the sickness and the peep into
the awful valley of the shadow may scare the reprobate back
into the paths of virtue, only that even a deacon might bet
ten to one that the whole thing was bogus, got up only to
excite sympa'thy—-and then how the people, who were raven-
ing for a change of government, would rush to the bulletin
boards in crowds. , Fickle mob! And how shocking it is
that a king that shall be should catch a mortal disease in the

 

unless he took it in an estimable noblen1an’s mansion, by
drinking too much water, or taking cold, or in some other
way. ‘And don’t we all know that his conduct was so bad

'at a theatre that he was warned off by the lady manageress,

who doubtless would have done it had he been there to so
misb.el1ave: himself; and is. he not coarse, ungentlemanly,
brutal, except when he is courteous, affable and considerate?
And is-not all this ;and much more the staple of news con-
cerning not only the Prince of Wales but divers other per-
sons-and facts ?

 

. '**‘——.*''“‘3*
THE civil service reform, if it end with the proposed com-
petitive examination, willdo neither good nor evil. College
‘degrees and academic honors are of very little value in the

common sailings of business life. The practical inefficiency

rich shall always be getting richer and the poor poorer,’ and‘

public mouth with the sop of an inquiry which it is prede-

slums of London in drunken orgies with the worst company,‘

an

of our educated men has led, indeed, to an inference that it
takes a fool to take a‘ degree. Scientific or literary acquire-
ments are not needed in nine-tenths of the government

offices. What‘ examination is wanted for a letter-carrier or

a»Custom House omcer? Honesty and punctuality are the
requisites. The men who possess the most of these sterling
qualities are precisely those who can least justify themselves

in an examination. As for promotion for faithfulness of .

service, that is a shadowy good, unless the omce be tenable
during good behavior, and not subject to the caprice of a
superior, or the shiftings of party claims. Government pay
is poor pay at the best, but it ought to be sure. And the ri-
diculous system by which our recruits are taken in just long

enough to‘ be useful, and then turned out, would be laughed .

at in any other system than ours; ‘to say nothing of the pow-
erful inducement, or say rather the necessity, for dishonesty
and peoulation. .

   

0’

THE equality of woman with man, the possession of
property, the liability-to taxation, and a variety of other
propositions, taken separately, are’ of no real value in the

argument for woman suffrage. If true when applied to

womcnthey are just as true when applied to men. Thus
Michael Angelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Humboldt were
men, but all men are not their equals. Astor and Vander-

bilt are property owners, but all men are not property own-

ers, nor liable to direct taxation. Therefore only a few
giants in intellect, or magnifiooes in wealth, would be en-
titled to suffrage, and all the rest would have to go begging
for permission to speak. No. The right of speech and of
suffrage appertains to the man as a citizen. It is the recog-
nized expression of his freedom, and is the accompaniment
of his personal interest in the welfare of the community and
his privilege of legislating for himself, subject to the like.
privilege in others. If this be true of the man it is equally
true of the woman. Her right to suffrage does not hang on
her personal merits or her intellectual or property qualifica-
tions, but on the fact of her being a human being, with
duties, interests, passions, and with the privilege to provide
for herself and direct her own life.

o———-——:~——_

THE Anti-WomanSuft"ragc-TrueWoman petitioners to
Congress are so virtuous themselves that they insist no
one else‘ shall have cakes or ale._ We don’t want to vote,
therefore you shan’t. Can they not see that by their peti-

 

tion they are exercising the right of citizenship which they .

repudiate. A foreigner truly may petition Congress for re-
lief ; but only a citizen has a right to be heard on matters
affecting the whole community. Some men,. indeed many
men, will not go to the polls, but nobody thinks of shutting
them out. So if ninety and nine women shall ’refuse to ex-
ercise their rights, that is no reason why the door shall be
shut on the hundredth. C The one shall be free to enter if she
so please; the rest may stay outside if that betheir humor.
—--—--—————+

THE Herald affects, in a “ let-well-enough-alone” way,to
deprccate the movement of Labor against Capital. The
good things of this world are pretty well distributed, and the
poor people will not better their condition by making a fuss
about it. A crushing charge on the irreconcilable irregulari-
ties of our social institutions was to be found in last Sun-
days Herald. One page filled with the Christmas festivities,
the expenditures and enjoyments of the well to-do in their
season of joy and universal brotherhood. On another page
a sketch, brief and powerful, of the condition of the poor in
certain wards of this city: their privations, sufferings and
worse thanbestial degradation. And yet these things need
ndamendinent. ' ' -

IN THE Canadian House of Commons the Premier, Mr.
Chauveau, taking offense at some expressions of opinion in
the galleries, moved that they should be cleared. A lady
harangued the House from the Speaker’s gallery with the
sentiment that the masters of the government, the people,
ought to be present. Good for that woman! She might
not have been in order, but she told the truth.

..._._..__._._¢p__———————

THE late decision of the Court of Appeals that pedestri-
ans must look out for themselves in the roadway, seems a
violation of previous law, as well as of that common sense
of which law is jocosel y said to be the perfection. The
result is that it is no longer safe to walk on the streets. The
trueseoret of the decisionis said to be that those under-
ground and viaduct railroad fellows who are smart enough
for anything, are working together, and have “seen” the
Court of Appeals. The idea is ingenious.

VVE are permitted to publish the following letter, which is
a sample of hundreds we are receiving, marked “ private 2.”

, MY DEAR Mus. WOODHULL: A copy of your late Steinway
Hall speech was handed me the other day‘. If that is a true
exponent of the doctrine of “ Free Love,” then have I been
a “Free Lover” many years.

~ i believe it to be the only true basis of social reform so
‘much to be desired. You have put the subject in loveable
clothing, and so distinctly that none but those willfully blind
can help but see what your meaning 

I would like to send a few copies to some of my friends

 

who still believe “Free Love? to be some horrid monster

seeking to destroy the holy ties of matrimony.

Please send one dozen copies and oblige

Yoursinoere friend, Mns. E. N. HUNTINGTON’,
15 Laight street, New York, Dec. 23,1871.-

P. S.-—-I shall be with you in Washington, at the National
{Sufirage Qonyention, in January, if it is possible for me to
cave.

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wooDHULL .& CLAFLIN’S wnnkLv. U.   A is

LECTURES AND LECTURERS.

 

As it is utterly impossible for Mrs. Woodhull to meet the
calls for her lectures on Political and Social reforms, we
have been induced to make arrangements to supply the de-
mand whenever agreeable to the applying parties.

- Applicants will please state subject, and whether they are
willing to have a competent substitute. We are prepared to
answer. general calls, for lectures on all reform subjects.
Send in your orders, and we will do our best for you. There
are plenty of good thinkers and talkers who await the
can popuZt'~——the “ call” special———to enter the lists against the

‘ demons of a corrupt age and false civilization.

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THE CAUSE OF THE FALL OF  g

1.

BY MRS. D. B. BRIGGS.

It has often been said that the fall of man came through
woman. If this be true, should she not raise him up ? Give
her the opportunity; free her from forced servitude; secure
to her the conditions of freedom, that she may live a true
life, that your sons,-and daughters may be born of free, and

not of bond women, of peers and "not. of slaves *; that they '

may be generated in equity by just men, instead of in sin by
tyrants. .

In all the past the creative work has advanced toward
perfection only as conditions and circumstances would
allow ; and so it will ever be, therefore, if we would perfect
the human race, all the requirements of successtmust be
complied with.

Every good or evil thought, condition or circumstance;
every thrill of joy, every pang of sorrow, leaves it impress,
and willbe perpetuated by either parent unless stamped out
by a deeper impress. .

, The education of the present generationbegan with the
infancy of the race, and will continue through coming ages.
Capabilities are limited by germinal and gestative devel_op-
ments, and therefore‘ it is necessary that both parents live a

true life from childhood up; and more especially is it neces-

sary that only good impressions be permitted through the
period gestation. In the past it has not been so. Marriage
has placed woman in subjection to man, regardless of
justice,.mercy or even decency. Protect her from forced
maternity; from unrestrained lust; from the drudgery, in-
sults, ignominy and torments of a servile subjection to an
irresponsible lord and master. -Vihy ask this of man? As
a class, they will not grant it, until we mice and make, instead
of seek and pray. Sisters, let us arise and equip ourselves
for this great work; and rest assured that -many good men
willbe our helpers. All the atrocities and evils mentioned
have been committed and are perpetuated in the name of
and under marriage; but the results of woman’s subjection
to man do not end here; she is still further a.prey to the
rapacity and cruelty of man’s unrestrained lusts. Out of
wedlock man seeks to cntrap, that he may consume on his
own lusts; and when thus debased, woman is cast out and
called vile; the finger is pointed, the lip curled with scorn,
the tongue moved with calumny and reproach; all means of
support other than her own degradation is withheld from
her. Thus cursed, she shrinks from ‘{h;:.3»’,glit, and h_ides_.in
dens, cavernsand attics, that she may not see the shaking of
holy heads, and the shrinking from her withholy disdain, of,
those who stealthily seek her in her dens and caves of dark-
ness and woe.

And for what is all this? VVhy are these victims of man’s
lusts and perfidy thus cast out, and maltreated? She is de-
based to satiate man’s lust; she is cast out as the scapegoat
of man’s shame; she is compelled to subsist by her own deg-
radation that man may continue sure of his prey. She is
treated with scorn, contempt and calumny, to remind her
that she had better have given herself freely on the altar of
‘marriage to be sacrified with a cruelty less ostentatious.

Can woman be subjected to all this and her children not
be marked and tainted thereby? Nay. It is thus that chil-
dren are “ conceived in sin and born in iniqu_ity;” are taint-
ed, blighted, rendered idiotic and vile; and thus came the
The fall came by
man, and redemption must come by woman.
arm yourselves for, and acquaint yourselves in, this work.

m 

[From the Tribune of Nov. 13.] ’

Mr. Riddle, the Don Quixote of the ‘Woodhull-Claflin
party in Wasliington, suing for the right of women to vote be-
cause of the light of nature and the constitution of the United
States, has met with a reverse in the Supreme Court of the
District. As well as we can make it out from the imperfect
report, the Court holds that women have no present right to
vote, but that it is quite competent for Congress so to amend
the laws as to give them such a right in the District, or for
the States to do it within their respective jurisdictions. Mr.
Riddle prefers, it is reported, instead of now asking Congress
for Woman Suflrage in the District; to go next to the United
States Supreme Court for it. There is no ‘provision of the
Constitution that can hinder him from making; such an ef-
fort, if he wants to. V , ~

The above looks funny in Washington, where Mr. Riddle
is the Tribune lawyer. Two years ago the Tribune was sued
for refusing to pay for a committee report that it published
in advance of its being made in the House; and Mr. R. suc.
cessfully defended it on the ground that the report had been
stolen. ' ..

Not six weeks ago the Tribune trumpeted to the world
that its Washington correspondents~i~White and Ramsdell——
were acquitted. They were indictel for refusing to tell
what they knew of the larceny of the Washington Treaty,
and defended by Mr. R. l _

All of which shows that Mr, R. is not very particular
about the character of some of his clients.

Mr. R. secured a judgment of the Supreme Court of the
District that the Fourteenth Amendment advances women
to full citizenship and gives them the right to vote; and
will be able to endure just such another reverse, as the
1’ ribune calls it, in the Supreme Court, of the United States
indue time. And the Tribune as usualwill again be silly
at its own expense. -

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Arise, sisters, ,

WHO’ _woULn Nor BE!

BY 0. much. FARLIN.

 

Who would not be a Radical!
Since they alone have wrought,
The greatest transformations
‘ For which men ever fought?

Who would not his a Radical 1 ,
Since due to them alone,

The greatest earthly blessings
Mankind have ever known ?

Who would not be 8. Radical l

With pulses strong and warm,
Andjoin the mighty army
‘ That usher-s"in Reform ?

' Who would not be a Radical 1
Though‘ all the world deride,
And ’stead of drifting with the stream,
Row up against the tide? _
Then let us all be Radicals I .
Andjoin the restless throng,
Who seek to usher in the Right
And usher out the Wrong. .
Respectfully inscribed to Victoria 0. Woodhull, by the Author.

/FINVOLA.

 

[coNcLU1>nD.] , ,

Qf course, Miss Bowering reminded us when, we went
home that it was very unfemihine to make speeches in pub-
lic. I was going to rejoin that I thought her term unfortu-
nate, and that it seemed to me that the best rule for public
speaking was the broad one, that those only should speak

-who had something to say and knew how to say _it, without

regard tolsex; but Lord Carlington had spoken after Mrs.
Fane and made the usual unfortunate exhibition of inca-
pacity, so I felt tongue-tied. No" one would intentionally
hurt good, kind Lord Carlington. As a reward, I think, for
my self-control, Mrs.Fane’s silvery voice haunted my dreams,
only with one singular variation of the previous evening’s
scene. I thought that instead of sitting at the tea—table
looking either at Mrs; Fane or her ypung daughter that I
was leaning against the window w ith the fair Finvola by my
side and my arms round her waist. . ~

This preposterous fancy seemed to have come from a
hazy idea that I was being told that we were -all in Utopia,
where everything was everybody’s, and so this bonnie lassie
mine by a logical consequence. I know it was very disap-
pointing to awaken and realize my delusion; and then morn-
ing dreams always go by contraries-, ‘my nurse used to tell
me, which childish reminiscence made me feel quite ill-
tempered. ’ 4 '

A very happy day stands out next in" my recollections——
the promised salmon fishing came off. I had promised to
meet Capt. Fane at a particular bend of the river, and I had

. not been there many minutes before his boat glided in sight,

punted, to my great surprise, by his fair daughter. As ‘he
jumped out of the stern he said, “ Such an idle old fellow I

"look, don’t I, sitting still and letting the child punt-—but she

likes it and declares that I should topple overwith my game
lc;,:,..from thisfniiall.»boa—t.-’?«~4—-&ll.l5;§ré1§;,fii‘étrrefirlid' not ‘think her
painting required any explanation, it was pleasant .ex‘ercise,‘
she said; and then she was not going to tire her arms with a
salmon rod, We fished patiently all the morning without
success—then Miss Fane called "us to luncheon, which she
had laid out on the daintiest and most appetizing manner,
under a large tree with swollen roots" which provided us
with seats.

I remember in particular, some very savory ‘curry puffs,
made, it appears, after a private recipe of Capt. Fane’s,
which he detailed to me with-great precision, dwelling with
great emphasis on the watchful care required during the fry-
ing of the ingredients, at which crisis Miss Fane interrupted
with a merry laugh, “ N ow papa, dear, do you believe/that
Mr. Lyndhurst is going to make some himself ?” -

“ And why not, my dear,” answered her father. “ I have
no respect for a man who does not care for what he cats and
doesn’t know a good curry from cat’s meat; besides, if Mr.
Lyndhurst can’t cook, perhaps he is married and might ex-
plain the matter to his wife.” *

“Oh, no,” I put in "eagerly, “ I am not married, and I
don’t know much about cooking; but I should certainly like
to have your recipe, Capt. Fane.” ‘

He replied, solemnly:

“ You shall ; and now let us resume the business of the
day, which is salmon fishing, sir, salmon fishing.” '

Miss Fane declined my assistance in clearing away the
plates and dishes, so I took up my rod and followed her
father. Let me confess at once that I am no enthusiast in
angling, and have a very slight knowledge of the art. I had
made several random casts with the smallest possible anxiety
as to where the fly alighted, and the faintest possible interest
in there being any salmon near to rise to it, when Captain
Fane, who was at a little distance, made signs to me, and on
my joining him said: ’ ‘

“ No go, this.- I shall move higher up. Where is Fin-
ola? Oh, I. see; going to those cottages to leave the re-
mains of our luncheon. Good little wench. Well, now, she
[will be back soon, and your legs are younger than mine,
both straight, too ; stop and tell her I have gone higher up,
.and then you can be after me with a hop, skip and jump,
and I’ll show you somegood po’ols.”

“ Thank you,” I replied, “I will wait for Miss Fane with
pleasure; the fact is I have a peculiar pain in my arm” (it
was very peculiar) “ that prevents my throwing properly to-
day. I am afraid it is rheumatism, and that I shall have to
give up fishing for the present,” _ »

“Bless me I” exclaimed‘ the Captain, “what a pity; but
perhaps’ it will go oif after a little rest,” and he walked on.
I/Vhen Miss Fane returned I gave my message, and we

walked‘ together after him. As soon as we had him well

in view we sat down on a fallen trunk of a tree. I explained
my inability to fish any more, and felt rather/piqued, I con-
fessed, at the cool, indifferent manner in which I was
answered. “ Then I suppose you are going home ?” .

“ No,” I rejoinded, “not unless you are going to dismiss
me. I should like to stay and watch your father’s luck. Is’
my company disagreeable to you, Miss Fane ?”

“ It might be very agreeable,” she exclaimed with a sud-
den brightening of the eyes. “ I want to read and to work
too. Could not_you_ read to me 7?” and she produced a small
paper book Lfrom her pocket. It was French-—“La Coupe
Feerie”~—George Sand. I ‘

- I consented itofiread it with pleasure, and she proved a
charming auditor, so still and attentive, and with such
noiseless needlework. Every now andthen certain furtive
glances, sent searchingly over my face, slightly disconcerted
me, but of course I had up business to have known of them,

' and was supposed to have been absorbed in my reading.

Gradually the charm of the composition brought her (uncon-
sciously,-I think) nearer to me. She laid down her work,
clasped her hands and looked up at me, following my words
with intense interest. It must have been a good two hours
before we came to the end-+l1alf that time we were both in
fairy land. My companion, with glowing cheeks, and long,
curled lashes, moistand tender, wrapt in -the progress of the
tale; I, with every nerve tingling with emotion, seeing
Paradise reflected in her eyes, “and having only one wish in
the world beyond the present pleasure, and that to clasp her
waist. Why were these hours so fleeting, why could’ not
they have lasted longer S? I am sure the fair proportion of
minutes never was in them. The tale was ended and we
wereboth silent for a while, then I observed, “ Do you mark
the moral-, Miss Fane ?” . '

“Oh, please, don’t talk of morals,” she protested quaint-
ly ; “ I don’t want to be instructed.” -

“ Then you 1 won’t see,” 1 continued, “"that it advocates
your pet ant1pathy—-marriage-with its cares and tI‘L€;l.1S, but
deepest bliss ‘B7’ . .
_ She colored. The first rosy thought of morning ; is
‘not lovelier than Finvola’s' blush; then she turnfed proudly
away as she answered, ‘ “ I cannot tell how I much you
know of my antipathies, _nor am I ‘inclined to discuss them
with such a -stranger.” A , ‘

I had just asked, “How long am Ito be lookedupon as a
stranger?” when Captain Fane shouted to me to come and
help him with a large fish. I

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1 ran down to the river and managed to gaff a twenty-fiye
pound salmon, whichwe soon after successfullylanded.
Then came a triu,mph.ant trudge to the boat, Captain Fane “
and I carrying the prize_ by turns. Quite forgetting the
time. and that every step was now carrying me further from
Mount Sandford, I jumped‘ in with _,my companions, and
taking the punt poles, in. spite of my rheumatism, we soon
landed opposite, Captain Fanels house. '

It was about 7 dclock, and he warmly pressed me to stay
and dine, assuring me that Mrs. F-ane would excuse my
morning dress. I accepted his invitation gladly, upon which
followed the following quaint colloquy between the father
and daughter: f “And now Finvola, child, what have we
got ‘for dinner-«sometliing good, I hope.” Answered the
young lady, “Really; papa, I shall not tell you. People
never ask those questions in the upper classes. Mr. Lynd-
hurst will think he is among savages.” “Saucy wenchl”
“eX_cl-aimed her father. .“ Never. mind, I’ll trust you; I know
you wouldn’t let your old father go out for a long,day’s fish-.
mg without having provided something nice against his rev
turn,” upon which his Finvola relented, for I heard a whis-
per of, “ Beefsteak pudding, and I mixed the ‘seasoning
before we-st—arted.’” At any rate there was the most perfect
beefsteak pudding I ever tasted-~—a. pudding that was pure
delight, with a flavor of fair Finvola all over.

Besides Mrs. Fanc there was a General Pembertoni at din-
ner, who had arrived from London the day before, and was
staying with them. He did not look much older, it at all,
than Captain Fans, and I turned over in my mind the" possi-
bility of his being one of the numerous suitors whom Miss
Fane had treated with impartial discouragement——the only
thing agaigistwit. being ’t}.;.is'7 sl e seemed perfectly at home
with, and i:?ag.li‘e1*,,§‘<2,nd of "" J Finvola was in white, and
looked diVine—-:—-tile olives i ‘the wine aiilre l.ost,t tlie-%1‘,f1avoi°

 

     

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when she disappeared with her mother. 1 , .
In the -drawing-room Captain Fane dropped into the
easiest of arm-chairs, and directed me to another, while

companied on the piano by F.in'vola. * g

It was like a new fairy land—-‘that sitting at ease sipping
ccg”e_no2'r perfectly made, listening to charming music and
gazing undisturbed at two of the most beautiful women in
the world. At last the music stopped andMiss Fane, drop-
ping her hands into her lap, closed her eyes with a comic
air of exhaustion. '

“The child must be really tired,” said Mrs. Fane, “ shdri
has been out of doors nearly all day.”

“Well, then, she shall go to roost,” cried her father, rous-
ing himself; “ butfirst she must give us one little song.” - ,

Finola strucka few chords pensively, then to an old sim-
ple. German melody she sang the followingwords (a transla-
-tion of one of Henrich Home’s exquisite morceaus) in a pure
soprano voice, touchingly sweet: ‘ .

p I.
“ My darling, we sat together,
We two, in our small boat;
The sky was calm and the sea was deep
Whereon we were afloat.
ll.
“ The fairy island, the lovely,
Lay dim in the moon’s pale glance;
There sounded the sweetest music,
There waved the fairy dance.
III.

~ “ It sounded sweet and sweeter,
It waved there to and fro, ‘

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But weuslid past forlornly
Upon the great sea flow.”

' She ceased, and I remembered with pain that I too must
go to roost, and so far ofi. ‘

Captain Fane thought I must be too, tired to walk, and
offered me one of his ponies to ride. .

“ But then Sagittary must ride the other and bring them
both back such a long way l” exclaimed Miss Fane, pa-
thetically. Cf course I protested that Sagittary should not
be troubled, and that I was perfectly able to walk-«not that

domestic, whom I well recollegted, but because I saw clearly
that the meanest thing about I invola’s home was dearer to
her than legions of admiring outsiders. ‘ ,

The_next day, in relating my adventures at Mount Sand-
ford, I mentioned General Pemberton. 

They seemed to know him well, and declared they must
immediately send him an invitation to thedanee they were
going tohave the next evening. “Is he one of Miss.Fane’s
admirers?” I asked. ” ‘ '

Lady Maria replied, “ Oh, no; but he has been in love
with Mrs. Fane for twenty years, they say. ‘ He will make a
nice escort for ,Finvola, who will nowbe left without excuse.
about coming. ’ " .

_ “‘ lililifis Fane does not care for going out, then '2” I re-
mar e .

“No, she almost dislikes it; but Mrs. Fane will not let

her shut herself up ; she says young people who stay always

at home get to think too much of themselves and only find

General Pemberton played the cornet exquisitely, ably ac» V

I sympathized in her concern for the robust and red-faced '

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I Is it not?” (turning to the youth).

 

their proper level in society. So Finvola goes out with Lady
Holland, her aunt; her mother cannot take her,—-she is too
excitable and delicate for large parties, and her father says
he stays at home to keep his wife company ; but I believe it
is also because he likes to do gardening and hard work of
that kind all day, and so gets too tired to move willingly
after dinner.” « ’

Miss Fane and General Pemberton came -late to the ball.
Mrs. Fane had been very unwell all the day, which had de-
tained them and had made her daughter unwilling to leave
her at all. Indeed, Miss Fane looked so much out of spirits
that I asked if Mrs. Fane’s illness were serious. .

“ Only because my dear mother is so weak and frail -that
any change for the worse is serious for her,” she answered
softl . — . I .

Fiivola had at least heart enough for her relations, I re-
flected. - She had been dancing with Captain Willet and
was now engaged to me, but she looked so pale that I pro-
posed that We should sit down and talk instead. She “said,
“ I am not ill, thank you ; I never am—being very strong-
but I began with a little fatigue to-night and ‘should like _to
rest, only pray don’t_stay with me, you will not find me in-
teresting to talk to, like Mamma ; I am a very commonplace

erson.” .
P “"’Perhaps you will define commonplace, Miss Fane ?”
’ “ Tliat is easy : it is to have a very small proportion of

mind—to likelgardening, boating, cooking and needlework

very much, and all such like occupations that require the
smallest exertion of the intellect. ” '

“ You never read or think then ?” ‘ _

“ Sometimes; but I prefer to be read to and to be thought
for. It occurred to me the other night, when you and
mamma were talking of Shelley, how very, very strange it
wasthat he, who believed;and thought and .felt so deeply,
should have been held irreligious, while commonplace. peo-
ple, like me, who never have, nor crave. to have, a single
deep personal conviction, we, real practical atheists, are held
orthodox and safe.” ;  _ ' _

?‘ Did you go on to imagine you were not safe ?”\

“No, if heaven is a reality, I shall not be deprived of it
because I cannot see it through our denseatmosphere. It is
not in everyone’s power to rise, notwithstanding ‘ the hosts
of meaner cares that life’s strong wings encumber ’-—perhaps
it is even desirable that many should not-—they must stay
and do the meaner works below.” » '

“ Dear Miss Fane, you do not really believe it is mean work
to tend your delicate mother; to gladden and help your
father in his out-door occupations; to lighten the domestic
toils of your less fortunate sisters ?”

“No, no——a thousand times no ; that does not keep me
low. It is’ only I who am mean and trifling, and selfish even,,
which is another name for earth bounc .” I exclaimed:
"‘Dear child, remain earth-bound, and let me give you a
stronger‘ tie here.” Shestarted up from her seat. “I want
to’ go home. Please call General Pemberton. Oh, here is
Lord Carlington. Good night, Mr. Lyndhurst. Perhaps
you will be kind enou h to order the ca_rriage for me.”

, She was gone, and was left with my own thoughts, to
make what I could of my abrupt dismissal. Extremely dis-
concerted, I wandered to a quiet corner of the refreshment
room, which opened into a balcony. .

’ As I approached, I heard the following remark from
thence, in a strange voice; “ Your friend seems to be mak-
ing strong running for the fair Miss Fane : is it any good ?”

Jack Willet answered, “ Not the least, she won’t have
him; besides, there’s Mr. ’Soiit(erton and hispchildren, co -
ventioital mothers would only leek to the ,fact fl his not b -
diughtier walk over their heads.”

The stranger said, “ Do they know?”
He was answered, “,Certainly not“; but they would be
sure to hear ~————’’ 5 ‘ i -
I I turned away, went togmy own room and locked my-
self up. “ Earth-bound! I was hell—bound—-all heaven was
before iny eyes, how could I risc—the devil held my feet;
I had made terms with him once and he kept me to them.
Another mood came over me—-this was folly, madness. I
was not worse than other men; I was not nearly so bad as
;many. I was capable of a true, deep love, and of making
myself worthy of this pure, sweet girl, and she should not
reject me thus. I had been sinned against as well as sin-
ning. She would know all .,one day. Win her I must and
.would. She had been taken by surprise; I would see her
again-many times more. _ _ _ ‘ _

The next day I excused myself from joining the shooting
party on the plea of letters to write;_and in the afternoon, as
the young ladies were engaged to ride with some friends, I
said I should stroll out to inquire after Mrs. Fane. Lord
Carlington volunteered to accompany me, but, as he was
detained by a visitor, I went ‘away alone. .

Mrs. Fane had a visitor, also. «he was in her usual seat
on the sofa, surrounded by books, with a writing-table be-
fore her. Over.tliis table bent a young man, evidently of
the laboring classes, looking very earnestly into her wonder-I
fully—beautiful face. He rose directly-I entered, and Mrs.
Fane held out to him her small white hand. As he bent
over it very gracefullyl remarked that I feared _I was inter-
rupting. She said : “ No, I think our conversation is ended.

He answered; “ Yes,
ma’am; and I thank you truly," and left the room. I in-
quired after her health, and she replied that she was better;
but she looked even more transparently delicate than usual,
and there were ominous dark circles round her eyes ;
yet it was with her usual bright, infectious enthusiasm that
she took up one of the books near her and began debating
upon it. I remember the concluding remarks: The usual
conventional novel, with its bad attempt at art and false
morality-—when women make a hero of a reckle_ss—.profligate,
one isgrieved, but not surprised—_it is from their ignorance;
but when men do it they are without excuse—they know
how detestablea thing‘ is vice, and that nothing short ofa
miracle makes heroes of worn-out */“oues in real life. They
lznow that virtue is adorable, and that in their secret hearts
they bow before men who can say, like King Arthur, to
their true loves, “ For I was ever virgin save for thee.”
That nature has made no such difference, mental and moral,
between the sexes as justifies in any wise a different standard
of morality, and yet they dare to keep up the threadbare
delusion that there is one they dare to trade upon, and thus
keep open the fostering sore of , our hollow civilization.

I observed, “ To acertain extent I feel deeply with you
in all this, andthe bad moral -effect of the popular novel
cannot be gainsayed; but, Mrs. Fane, can you deny that a
certain experience b.ene_fits and elevates-——that the Adam of
the iininortal legend, laboring outcast, condemned to death,
was not greater,‘and had not risen above the calm, sinless
wanderer of the garden of Eden ?” .

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step backward will make two forward.” But I alluded to.
those who do not walk’ at all, to these amazing and most
unchristian heroes who, we are informed, “ spare neither
men in their anger nor women in theirilove,” and as such
are held up as models for the envy of men and the adoration
of women—live a full life——love in generous measure; but
revenge is not noble—a life of idleness and self-indulgence
is not life, and celestial gratificationis not love. The Chris-
tian ideal is the highest in love-—one true and devoted affec-
ti n as life-long. The mistake of our ,institutions of mar-
riage is that no one can b‘e forced up to any ideal, and the
higher the harder to attain. ‘ I * .

We can encourage virtue, but we cannot make it by law.
Irrevocable ties can only be justified by a belief in the infal-
libility of human judgment. » At present they ~ try most
cruelly those highest hearts——the eager confiding ones—who
invariably make the greatest mistakes in love.

“ Ah, here is one who understood these things—,-here is a
real hero,” and Mrs. Fane took up a volume of Shelley. As
she clasped both her hands about it, lovingly and reverently,
a sudden great desire came into me to lay before that large
unfettered sympathy my own troubled life. Would it be
death to my hopes of Finvola, as Jack Willet had said?
Ought I not to run even that risk, in hopes of benefit for my
little Anna, for the yearling babe,. or even for—~——

But Mrs. Fane, drawing out her watch, suddenly remarked,
“ I am quite vexed to have to dismiss you, but I must write
a few lines to send by this post. Finvola is in the garden,
perhaps you will like ‘to join her for a little while.”

I walked all through the garden without finding her, but
on inquiring of the constellation I learned that “ Missie ”
was in they ard. There I then found her seated on the step
of a horse mount, with a large apron on, cutting up some
green herb or vegetable. She bowed gravely without moving
from her occupation, and as.I approached I noticed a bril-
liant color rise into her fair face, but what emotion sent it
there Icould nottell. _. —

I asked, ,‘.‘ Are we friends, Miss Fane? ”

She answered “ Oh, of course, why not? I don’t offer you
my hand because its green and rather sticky; you see I am
cutting French beans for dinner.” .

“ May I help you?” ,

“Thank you; but certainly not: it requires practice,
being a delicate operation, and I, -have not enough here -for
you to learn upon.” »

t, “Miss Fane, I must ask you for the second. time, is my
cotnpartydisagreeable to you ?” - .

“It seemed so last night; you ran away from me very
abruptly. ” . i

No answer. '

“Miss Fane, you will not let me help you, will you help
me?

“ How can I help you?”

“I want your friendship and your sympathy. I am op-
prtd  .. iii ‘.

r. rs , u in s‘ excuse me, u ave no

sympathy at command, nor even curiosity about the troubles
of rich and independent men who are not likely to have any
that they have not brought upon themselves.”

“ Which makes them easier to bear?” , I

“ No, harder; still they do not come within in line.”

“ No, dear, your line is safer; go on praying’, ‘ cad me not

into temptation.’ ” There was one quick, searching glance"

up into my face from eyes that were moist, and then an al-
most whisper of “ It«have,q:ten1ptation;” ,

“ What is it, mychild‘? , ‘ “ ‘ _

“ I cannot tell you; but I am not going to make a trouble
of it by giving way: and I am not a child; I am nineteen.”

“ And I am not a rich and independent man, as you have
considered. I have for the last three years practiced a strict
economy for the sake of some who are dependent on me,
and I have been rewarded by being nearly ruined by the
reckless extravagance of one to whom I gave my full confi-
dence.” .

. Finvola looked steadily on me with full bright eyes, almost
smiling. I said, “My misfortunes appear to amuse you,
Miss Fane T?” ’ e

“ Oh,/no,” she answered,.eagerly ; “but I am glad and
sorry too—-.I don’t know how to tell you—only I wish to be
your friend now,” and she placed one of her dear, clever
hands in mine, trying to draw it away the moment after, on
the plea of her late occupation. But, at the risk of being
green and sticky for the term of my natural life, I could not
have relinquished it so quickly; in fact, had not its tantalizing
possessor insisted upon calling the cook, I don’t know how
long it might not have beenpbefore I gave it up. As it was,
Finvol-a followed that functionary into the kitchen, to wash
her hands, she said, and it was some ages, I thought, before
she reappeared. * .

, When she at last came back, she informed me, with an
air at once shy, inviting and mutinous, defying description,
that she must go at once into the drawin -room. Lord‘ Car-
lington was there, and her father and eneral Pemberton
had also come in, too many for her inother’s nervous ex-
citability to bear at once; so she must go and relieve her, and
I had better go away. ‘I I amended that I would first re-enter
the house and carry off Lord Carlington. So we walked to-
gether to the French window of the drawing—room. There
was a little excitement there, caused by a letter from Lady
Holland, just brought from the town by her brother. The
old lady wrote to report herself very seriously indisposed
and begged them all to come and see her, perhaps for the
last time ; or at least she must have her darling niece, Fin-
vola, who would cheer her. ’ - .

They did not seem much alarmed, as it appeared that the
writer was rather subject to nervous panics of this sort, and
Mrs. Fane said that a literary engagement requiring close
attention would prevent her being able to leave home just
then, but Finvola of course must go. It seemed natural
that this bright, helpful girl should be wanted in every
emergency; but Lady Holland was at Dover, on her yearly
autumnal visit to the seaside, and there was a difliculty
about Miss Faiie’s undertaking this long journey alone. I
immediately ‘offered myself as escort, pleading that I had in-
tended leaving shortly (which was true); also, that I wished
to go in that direction to Canterbury (which was not true
till that moment) ; and urging the very great pleasure it
would be to me to make myself of use/to them; '

“ You are very kind,” remarked Miss Fane, “ but an escort.
is really quite unnecessary. I am not likely to run away
with a guard or to be carried away by a porter, and there is
no other danger that i I can imagine between this and
Dover.” A . ‘

“ T ate-tot’ petite clwttte,” interrupted her father; “you are a
free and independent oitogerme, we are allaware, but you
don’t’know theworld. Why, a disagreeable fellow might

get’ into your carriage, or a maniac, attractedby lag beams

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gens de 7node77wz'3eZle. It’s very kind and very proper for-Mr.
Lyndhurst to ofier to take care of you, and I beg you will

put on your best manners forthe occasion.”

“ (Pa depend,” answered his daughter; but it was settled
that we should go together.

Two mornings later I was pacing the little station waiting
for the younglady, having beguiled some of the. time by
hinting to the guard that as I was going to travel with a
lady I should be obliged by his allowing us the carriage to
ourselves as much as possible, and adding ‘a token of my
confidence in his amiable disposition. When she arrived
and all was just ready for starting, this‘ useful functionary
gave me an imploring look,‘ and on my going up to ask what
was the matter, he reproduced the token, pleading, “ If you

‘please, sir, I didii’t know that it was Miss Fane you were

goin to travel with. Sli'e’s been very kind to me and mine,
and couldn’t do anything not fair to her.”

“I give you my word not to make it unfair,” I- answered,
walking away, which so completely reassured the good man
that we had the carriage, to ourselves for a long time. When
we were fairly ofi' Miss Fane remarked, “ Now, Mr. Lynd-
liurst, we shall be together for some hours; if you smoke or
have any other disagreeable habits (most people have- some),
let me beg of you to treat me without ceremony and to in-
dulge yourself.” ,

“ Thank you,” I replied, “ I do smoke sometimes, but

just now I should prefer talking to you ;- perhaps, however,‘-

you spoke partly on your, own account ;, if it be possible
that you have adisagrceable habit, I beg that you will in-
dulge in it without regard to me.” She opened a small trav-
eling-bag, saying deliberately, “ You are very good ; I don’t
smoke, but I—ahem——3knit; however, there’s plenty of elbow-
room here, so I’ll endeavor to make myself as little danger-
ous as possible ;” and she spread out feur of the longest
and sharpest of knitting-needles, pointing each of the four
plpints 1c{>f the com}1){ass ; nay, worse, for all the eight ends of
t ese s ewers stuc out. .

It was not a promising beginning, but I had no time to
waste bemoaning that. “ You have not regretted promising
to be my friend, Finvola, have you ?” I asked.

“ No,” she answered promptly; “ but call me Miss Fane,
please, it sounds better.” ‘ '

“llahoittd nogtfhilnlz Mr. Lyndhurst sounded better if you
wou ca me a ter.” , ‘

‘° Perhaps not, but sentiment is not my line.”

“Miss Fane, do you care for me in the least?”

“ Yes, I like you'vcry much.”

“ Only like ?” l
. “ W(h1a‘§},311Ol'e do you want since we are not going to be
inarrie . .

“ Isdit qtiite out of the question that we should be married
some ay .’ ~

“ Why, Mr. _Lyndhurst,” exclaimed my companion, drop-
ping all her stitches, “ didn’t you tell me yesterday that you
were almostruined ‘B Ruined men don’t think of marrying,
andl thought it was all going to be so pleasant.”

“ Dear Finvola, is it really so unpleasant to think that I
shall be able to marry some day ?” ’

“ Only because it makes an unpleasant explanation neces-
sary between us. You may, of course, marry ten wives if
you please, but1I caén’ never marry at'all.”

‘ “ Why not, ear . ,

“ In the first place, because my line in life is already
marked out for me. I am necessary in my home. My
mother’s health is very delicate and peculiar. She requires

constant» care and watching. I am not happy away from.

her, not she from me. My father is lameffiso he too needs
my Help and companionship. I will never leave them. In
the second place, I am not fitted for marriage. Englishmen
value personal freedom above all things. I, an Englishwo-
man, have the same feeling (by mistake, you will say, of
course), and I will never be subject to any one, least of all
to a husband. To my mind love, like friendship, requires a
certain equality. I could not live under orders.”

I answered: “You are quite right; no one need who is,

capable of ordering themselves. As far as I am concerned,
I fully agree withthe divine poet, who says :
_ ‘ The man
By virtuous soul commands not nor obeys.
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pellutes whate’er it touches. and obcdiende,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
— Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton.’ ”

“ Good! You might have answered me with the usual stuff,
‘two cannot rule in one house,’ 850., &c., as if two friends
cannot, and did not, constantly live together on terms of
‘perfect equality. But you have sense.”

“I do like you, Mr. Lyndhurst! ”

“ Only like? ” I asked again.

“ What do want? ” she pleaded softly. “ You see I cannot
leave my home, and you are heir to a title or some rubbish
of that sort which would prevent your ever being able to
settle down with us. Why do you wish to make me dis-
contented?” , »

“Dear love, I have no right indeed to ask anything of
you; at present I am a miserably fettered man; one day,
soon, I will write and tell you all my life; till then, decide
nothing against me, but only try and think of and feel for
me a‘little.”

“Yes indeed, I will do that.” ,

How ‘cruelly fast we steamed away; as I sat there holding
my dear loive’s hand how hatefully, swiftly we were carried
through the air. I exclaimed, “Child, if you look at me like
that, do you know what I shall do? ” and I moved from my
seat opposite and sat close beside her.

“ Yes,” she whispered, with the quaintest look, answering
my actions rather than my words, “you may kiss me once,
if you like; I’ll tell you why afterward.” ‘

It is quite unnecessary to say that I availed myself of this
singularly accorded permission, but I was allowed short
grace, and the “Now go back to i your own seat or I shall

not tell you anything” was very peremptory. Then came .

the explanation. Said Finvola, “ Once Lady Maria Carling-
ton had an admirer; he went on paying her attention for
some some time, and she could not make up her mind
w~hether_she liked him or not. One day he asked her to
marry him, and she saw no reason against it, so she con-
sented——then he kissed her: But upon this a horrible dis-
gust came over her ; she did not love him, so she could not
litealr it ;,she told me there could be no better test of one’s
ee ings. ‘

“élgd what are my darlings feelings, then, at this ino-
men .

She answered with awild, gay laugh, that rung in my
ears long; but just as I was going back to her side to re-
peat the telling experiment the wretched train stopped and
some people got into our carriage. We soon reached Dover-
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- board was unanimously in favor of the measure.

ing, or the establishment of churches.”

    

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JESUS CHRIST AND LA COMMUNE.

 

AMERICAN BOARD on FOREIGN MIssIo1vs.—At the meeting

at Salem, Mass., Wednesday, October 4, the following reso-
lution was offered by Rev. Mr. Buddington, after eloquent
speeches had been made upon the .subject by various
speakers: I - , ~ ' '

“ Resolved, That hereafter the American Board will be
ready to enlarge its operations_ by extending its sovereign
work in nominally Christian lands, and Will form missions in
Europe, -South America or other foreign lands, as God in his
providence may open the way; and that the prudential Com-
mittee are requested to conduct such missions on the same
general principles that they have acted upon in past years.
“The venerable President then started to his feet and
asked all who approved of the resolution to. rise. The vast
assemblage rose quickly as one man and burst into the grand
missionary refrain, ‘ The morning light is breaking.’ The
Dr. Well-
man then consecrated the new mission by prayer;

“ Rev. Athanase Coquerel, of Paris, next spoke, thanking
the board for their new movement. He said: ‘ We of the
Latin race are laboring to-day under a contradiction between‘
liberty and religion.’ The working classes ~
of this country had come to believe that all
religion was_a species of despotism, and this
had destroyed their faith in God. They firmly
believed that if they embraced any religion
they must give up every civil and political
right. He then explained how the supreme
dominance of the Catholic Church had effect-
ed this terrible work. Atheists, he thought,
were less than heathen. He analyzed the
irreligious elements in ‘the late insurrection
with great power ; and closed by advising
the board to begin their campaign in the
European mission with schools, not preach-

’ The general failure of Christian missions,
even when backed up by the army and navy
of Christian powers, (which does not include
the United States,) is a sufficient reason why,
despite the argument of President Hopkins
to the contrary, the Am. B. of F. M. should
try for luck in a different way somewhere
else. Mons. Coquerel is a well-meaning
pastor of a Protestant church, seemingly as
much of a philanthropist as a sectarian, His
mission in‘this country is to secure money
for his church in Paris. The working class
of France have come to the very sensible
conclusion, that so long as the Churches,
both Roman and Protestant, are mere stipen-
diaries of the State, part‘ of ‘the machinery“
of oppression, they will have ‘nothing to do
with such religion as they are exponents of,
nor acknowledge the God they worship, even
by implication. ~ . _

So they declare themselves “Atheists,”
which—when the Chiurch is a political im-
position, and the O. T. Jehovah the only
God referred to——is a very pious thing to do.
The International Association is the Holy
Church of the future, and the Commune the 4
repository of about all the religion there is
in France. Jesus Christ, if he had lived in
Paris,would have been behind the barricades
with La: Uommune, just as he is said to have
driven the bankers and brokers out of the
temple; and because he promised always to
be where true belief was found. Ishe notl ' -
reported to have said: “Call no man Master,” “ Sell al
thou hast and give to the poor,” “ Let him who hath two
coats give to him who hath none,” ,“ Woe unto you rich
men?” The Commune would consider him a sanguinary
Red, andworship him more intelligently than Coquerel or

I . Dupanloup.

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THE SOCIAL PROBLEM IN GERMANY.

Bismarck, it is said, has hit upon a startling measure for .

allaying the discontent of workingmen. It is reported that
he intends to prepare a bill “ for the regulation of the profits
of manufacturing associations,” providing that when the
profits reach a certain percentage the surplus shall be divided
among the workingmen employed in them. The bill ap-
plies only to manufacturing companies, but most of the
large manufacturing establishments in Germany are in the"
hands‘ of associations, so that the importance and bearing of
the bill are obvious. It is a bold step toward socialism.

' Five years ago no one in Grermany except the followers of
Ferdinand Lasselle would have ventured to advocate such ,

To-day the social problem has assumed
so threatening an aspect that even reactionary
organs, such as the Berlin Ifreue-Zeitung, freely
admit that something must be done, and done
very quickly, to prevent a general social convulsion, while
even such cautious liberal journals as the Augsburg Allge-
meme ZerItm2,g and the Hamburg News advocate laws to se-
cure "the workingmen some share in the profits of their labor.
The German government announces that it will not inter-
fere in any manner whatever between the employers and
their workingmen as to the hours and wages of labor, but
will leave these questions to be decided by -themselves.
This, of course, will be welcome news to the manufacturers,
but they will offer a most determined resistance to the bill
of the ,Chancellor. The debate on this bill will certainly
attract attention throughout the world. .

The above has been going the rounds of the press without
comment. It is very doubtful that Bismarck would commit
the blunder of crushing socialism with one hand, and with
the other iridorsing one of its fundamental principles. The
non-interference with hours and wages is another contra-
diction. The division of the surplus earnings creates a
new system. of remuneration tending to abolish wages.

3. 1Il€£tSllI‘€.

Brussels, but returned to Paris during the Revolution, in
February, 1848. Matters having now assumed a‘very dif-
ferent aspect in Cologne, he once more went there, and be-
came publisher of the New Rkemsk Journal, which shared
the same fate of its namesake and predecessor, and was sup-

iwooinr-IULL &- onnrvmuisd WEEKLY. 

DR. KARL MARX. '

 

The heart and soul of the International Society, Dr. Karl
Marx, was born at Trier, Germany, in 1818, and after hav-
ing received an excellent education, first began the study of
law, and then philosophy and national economy. He set-
tled at Bonn, Prussia, as private tutor, in 1841. He did not,
however, continue long in this capacity ; for, during the
following year, he became editor of a Rhenish newspaper in
Cologne, anddespite severe censure and strong opposition,
began, through its columns,‘to attack the Prussian Govern.-
ment. The paper was suppressed in consequence shortly
after, and Karl Marx was forced to leave Cologne. He went
to Paris, and,‘ in connection ,with Arnold Ruge, published
the Fremco—Germem Annuals, with the purposeof causing
revolutionary movements in Germany. . The Prussian po-
lice were, howeverhvinstructed to prevent any copies to pass
their lines, and it was not long after that Marx _was ban-
ished from France by the government. He then left for

KARL MARX,

pressed in the following year, on account or its sympathy
with the Saxon and Baden disturbances. Marx then re-
-turned, afugitive, to Paris ; and subsequently went to Lon-
don, where he issued several works on national economy,
wrote for several newspapers, including some published in
this country, and became one of the founders of the Inter-
national Society, whose object was to unite the working
classes throughout the world, and promote their social prog-
ress. The society gained ground rapidly, and now embraces
several million members.~——Frcmk Leslie's Illustrated Weekly.
yAA 

INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY.

Sir, you-’re another! You were not warranted in using
your technicality as you did; but if so, it is only a truism,
while Minn is altruism, or the right ofiothers to be governed
by ME, and while I consider you the greatest of living think-
.e1-'s, I regard you as an egregrious ass (with concealed claws)
and compared with me, no more than an ox in the hands of

_ A. Buronnn.
. ,,,M,W___g__WW\M
Acoonnrue to Senator Buckingham there are sixteen hun-

shore mostly, whisking their brooms and splashing away

their very doors and over their nicely-sanded floors. Poor
old crones! They don’t like the Atlantic Ocean ;' they hate
navigation——and yet the tide will rise and they have got to float
and vote with the rest. Scolding the billows, wringing of
hands and mops and dashing dirty water won’t save them.
The Senator, too, grabs a broomand yells amid the surging
roar that these sufierers by ballot are 9‘ not manly women,”
and they are afraid that “ others more bold” will launch out
upon the waters and help the Atlantic Ocean, and that the
tide will rush in all over the floors and put out the altar-fires
and “introduce discord into the marriage relation.” Ye
Gods, Senator! do you say discord ? Can the ballot carry
any more coals to that Newcastle ‘2

beautiful and poetic.
spiration, only thatit is calm and graceful rather than

dred Dame Partingtons in Connecticut, living close along‘

like mad at the sufirage tide that is rising and rolling. at:

 

Jana   
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We glean from a Pittsburgh paper the following‘ extracts,

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evidently written by a prominent lady member of the Phila-
delphia Convention, probably Mrs. Jennings. They are so
tastefully and - elegantly expressed and withal exhibit
so much genuine apprehension of the present condition, that
we take pleasure in transferring _them~to our columns 2

PHILADELPHIA,‘ November 

Mnssns. EDITORS: The American.“Women’s Suffrage

Convention‘ assembled on Tuesday morningiin old National
Hall, Philadelphia, a building’ full of historic associations
with anti—slavery times. '
pleasant hall, but I suppose its history redeems it, as many
an individual borrows respectability from his ancestors.

It is an old-fashioned and un-

The Convention has been well attended and the meetings I

have been very interesting. Mrs. Tracey Cutter presides
with dignity and speaks well.

Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Campbell are both fine speakers,

and.’Mrs. Mary Grew, one of the old anti-slavery pillars and
a pioneer for woman, every now and then darts in bits of
wisdom. -

But the brightest star to “me-is Celia Burleigh; She“"is°
She has a wisdom which seems in-

fervid. She is a queen, not of the tragic
order——not one who would take off the head
of a subject if he refused allegiance-—but one
whose spiritual supremacy would compel a
lovingallegiancei‘ to what is noble and good.

. Robert _ ale Owen-’—benignant—-wise in
his beautiful simplicity, told us of the fifteen
years’ struggle he made to get through the
Indiana,Legislature a bill to protect married
women in their proper-ty rights. '

Lucretia Mott, whose eighty ‘years are
crowned with wisdom, beauty and renown,
gave some very curious reminiscences of the
‘ early history of the cause. I . V

Not only Philadelphia. but the whole world
loves and claims Lucretia Mott. She has
not only taught the nations wisdom, but she
has shown women how to grow old ‘beauti-
fully, and proven that they maybe angels at
eighty as well as at eighteen.

Prof. Stone, of Michigan; Judge "White-
head, of New Jersey, and C. C. Burleigh, of
anti—slavery renown, made able speeches. .

The resolutions, especially one re arding
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amen ments
were warmly discussed. ,

I must -not omit to mention that Mrs.
Sweas, a sister of ‘John Jacob Bright, graced
the occasion and said a few words of encour-
agement. Her snowy hair reminds, me to
speak of the many silver-haired women who
appear in these gatherings. It is very no- -
ticeable. The sight is as suggestive; as it is
beautiful. " -

The intelligent mothers and grandmothers
of today are not restricted to the kitchen,
or sequestered in the obscure chimney cor-
ner, as of old ; they come out to give us the
wisdom of their ripened ears, and they come

out to hear and applaudy the noble words of
» noble men and women.‘ Honor to the age
which honors its white-haired women.

. Discussion has been intense and interesfi;

mg all through the convention, especially

upon the Fourteenth and — Fifteenth Amend-
ments of the United States Constitution.

I notice a material change in the character
of the discussions on this subjeet~—both in
conventions and among the people.

The talk ‘today is not whether women are
physically inferior to_ men, and whether the
female brain weighs as many ounces as the
male brain; it is not the anatomical right of
women to vote, but of the Constitutional
right. We are no longer on the dissecting
, table, where we have been dragged for years,

we are now in the Courts. It is being discovered we are
not animalculae, to be studied with the microscope, but that
we are fair-sized persons, “citizens,” standing face to face
with Congress and the Judges of the land——and the Great
Judge is above watching us all. H. P. J.

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H‘ worms AND DEEDS.

BY WM. BRUNTON.

0; words may be as fair

As truth and love and light,
And purest feeling share,
 Yet have no beauty bright; ‘
For let a deed deny,

The words so sweetly fair,
And lot We pass them by

As birds the empty air.

The words are dead and cold
If in the hour of need
We would the word unfold
‘ And yet withdraw the deed;
Then let our words be fair,
But fairer far our deeds,
So that the trees may bear
The fruit denied to seeds.
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.. THE Indianapolis news gives us the following: .
Socrnrr AS A CHILD Ownnn.-—Society‘has a sort of joint ,
proprietorship in the child. If he is reared as a thief, so-
ciety sufiers. If his health of body or mind is impaired,
society must bear the less. So that, -indeed, we must grant
the right of the State to protect the child from his‘ parents.
And itis t-he especial business. of society, in its organized
forms, to protect the individual. The future man has a
right to expect protection fromtlie selfishness and greed and
brutality of the guardians of his infancy. -
The ball gathers volume in rolling. This is the very point.
in education and infant care which the WEEKLY has con.-

prietorship. It has the whole responsibility. It assumes

“ So much for Buckingham X”

the right to ‘punishwa condition precedent is the dutyto
protect and educate. ’ I

  

“‘”-‘*.--or“"’“**~'~'»«

stantly urgedgwonly that society has more than a joint pro- ’