JOHN J. CISCO & SON,

 

PROGrfRESSI FREE TI—I0UGI—T'I;z UNJTRAMMELED LIVESA

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Vol. V.~—No. 12.—Whole No. 116.

BREAKING THE WA Y ECR EUTURE _i=GElV__3Z_rz/ITIONS.

NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 22, .1875}.

PRICE TEN CENTs.

THE

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LCANERS BANK
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
(ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER)

Continental Life Builing,
22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK.

CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,000
Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000

Y‘

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

Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants
will receive special attention. _

@“‘ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR-
RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our
CUsToMERs. ’

DORR RUSSELL, President.
A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President.

Bankers,

N0. 59 Wall St, New York.

 

Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to
check at sight.

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

ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH
THE CLEARING-HOUSE, 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 of the United States
and Canadas.

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HARVEY FISK. A. S. HATCH-

CEEICE CE"
Ersk & HATCH,

BANKERS AND DEALERs IN.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, '

' No. 5 Nassau st., N. Y.,
 Opposite U. S. 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 careful atteiition.’

A FIRST—CLASS

AT A LOVV PRICE.

The undersigned offer for sale the First Mortgage
Seven Per Cent. Gold Bonds of the Syracuse and Che-
nango Valley Railroad, at 95 and accrued interest.

This road runs from the City of Syracuse to Smith’s
Valley, where it unites with the New York Midland
Railroad, thus connecting that city by a direct line of
road with the metropolis.

Its length is 42 miles, its cost about $42,000 per mile,
and it is mortgaged for less than $12,000 per mile»; the

ing been raised by subscription to the capital stock.
The road approaches completion. It traverses ai
populous and fertile district of the State, which in-
sures it a paying business, and it is under the control
of gentlemen of high character and ability. Its bonds
possess all the requisites of an inviting investment.

A They are amply secured by a mortgage for less than

one-third the value of the property. They pay seven
per cent. gold interest,’and are ofiered five per cent.
below par. ..-The undersigned confidently recommend
them to all class of investors. ’ I
GEORGE OPDYKE & CO.,
‘ No. 25 Nassau Street.

 ;,.; It invests.

To those who wish to REINvEsT COUPONS‘ CR

DIYIDENDS, and those who wish to INCREASE

‘ TEEIRJNCOME from means already invested in less

bprofitable securities,\We recommend the Seven-Thirty
Gold.Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com-
pany as well secured and unusually productive.

- The bonds are always conver'tIble at Ten per cent.
premium (1.10) into the Company’s Lands, at Market
Prices. The rate of interest (seveniand three-tenths
per cent. gold) is equal now to about 8 1-4 currency
,—yielding an income more than onethird greater than
U. S. 5-20.5. Gold Checks for the semi-annual in-
terest on the Registered Bonds are mailed to the post-
oifice address oflthe owner, All marketable stocks
and bonds are received in exchange for Northern
Paeifics ON VMOST FAVORABLE TERMS.

JAY CGOKE & C00.

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risk 65 HATCH, 1,

New York Security

balance of the funds requitred for its construction hav-\

,BANKING HOUSE OF
HENRY CLEWs & Co.,
I 32 Wall Street, N. Y.

Circular Notes and 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.

Telegraphic Transfers of money on Europe, San
Francisco and-the West Indies.

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;
interest allowed on all  balances; Certificates of
Deposit issued bearing interest at curisent rate; Notes
and Drafts collected.

State, City and Railroad Loans negotiated.

CLEWS, HABICHT 36 CO.,
11 Old Broad St., London.

BANKING & FINANCIAL.

._......._.

THE sT. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY’S@

\ FIRST MORTGAGE ‘BONDS

Arc being absorbed by ‘an increasingdemand for them.

Secured as they are by a first mortgage on the.Road,
Land G_rant, Franchise and Equipments, combined
in one mortgage, they command at once a. ready
market. _ _

ALiberal Sinking Fund provided in the Mortgage
Deed must advance the price upon. the closing of the
loan. Principal and interest payableineonn. Inter-
est at eight (8) per cent. per annum. Payable semi-
annually, free of tax. Principal in thirty years. De-
nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons, or Regis-
tered. _ ”

Price 97% and accrued interest, in currency, from
February 15, 1872. I

Maps, Circulars, Documents and information fur-,
nished.

Trustees, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New
York.

Can now be had through the principal Banks and

‘ signed who unhesitatingly recommend them.

TANNER .3; co., Bankers,
No. 11 Wall Street, New York.

AueUsT BELMONT & CO.,

Bankers,
50 ‘WALL’ sT.iREET,

Issue Letters of Credit to ‘Travelers, available in all
parts of the world through the _

MESSRS. DE ROTHSCHILD AND THEIR
CORRESPONTDENTS.

Also, make telegraphic transfers of money on Call-

Bankers throughout the country, andjrom the under- ‘

tomiagflurope and Havana. A

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To'LEDo,I>EoRIA

WARsAW RAILWAY,

sECoND MORTGAGE CON-
VERTIBLE 7 PER

CENT. CURRENCY RCNDS. as

INTEREST WARRANTs_ PAYARLE
CCTCRER AND APRIL,

PRINCIPAL 1886.

We oifer for saleI$10O,000 Br the 3bc!>?é' bends Iii
block. By act of reorganization of the Company these
bonds are convertible_into the First Preferred Shares
°f the Company, which amounts to only 17,000 shares,
and into the Consolidated Bonds (recently negotiated
at Amsterdam) of six millions of dollars, which cave;
the entire line of 280 miles of completed ‘road, to
gethgr with. all the rolling stock and real property, to
the value of more than ten millions of dollars. The

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road crosses the entire State of Illinois and connect

with the mammoth iron bridges spanning the Missi s
sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. The income of the
road for the year will net suificient to pay interest on
all the bonded indebtedness and dividend on the pre-
ferred shares.

For terms apply to A
~ CLARK, DODGE & CO.,
, Corner Wall and William Streets.
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MAXWELL a C0,,  

Bankers -‘Land Brokers, A .0 .

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;No.. 11 PROADI sTREET,  

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NEW roan 

NOTICE TO INVESTORS.

CHICAGO AND ,oANADA
SOUTHERN. . A

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'5 - 5'.’

       

5

7 per cent. Gold Bonds ’

AT 90 AND ACCRLED INTEREST. COUPON AND
REGISTERED. INTEREST PAYABLE IN
GOLD. APRIL AND OCTOBER.

_ We now ofier these Bonds at the above VERY LOW

' price. run CANADA SOUTHERN, or Eastern and

n

of this line, whose Bonds were so rapidly sold 1astsum-
mer, ‘ ‘

is Now rnvisnnn,

1 and will be opened for business in connection with the

TOLEDO AND WABASH and other Western Roads,
at a very early day. The CHICAGO AND CANADA
SOUTHERN, or Western end of this line, is now being
rapidly built, and the Company expect it t0 be finifihed
during the present year. 1
THIS GREAT TRUNK LINE, when ‘completed
through, willbe of immense advantage to the shipping
interests of the Great West, being Level, Straight, and
thirty-three miles Shorter than any other route. Hav-
ing connections with all the lines running into Buffalo
at the-East and Chicago at the West, and under the
management of some of the most experienced rail-
road operators of the country, its success is .-rendered
a certainty, and its Bonds mu’st‘be.a safe and profitable
investment. It makes the shortest and best connec-
tions going West, both at Toledo and Detroit, and is

the only Seven Per Cent. Bond on any through Trunk *

‘line now offered. ~
Pamphlets and all information by

WiNsLoW, LANIER 6: Co.,
Bankers, 27 Pine Street.
LnoNAnD, SI—IELDON;&WI*‘OSTER,

Bankers, 10,Wall Street.
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Finer MORTGAGE 8 ran CENT. BONDS

on THE
MILVVAUKEE AND NORTERN
RAILWAY.

Coupon and registered; Interest June and December.
I / DENOMINATIONS, 1,0004 AND 5003.
We ofier these Bonds for sale atr.90 and accrued in-
terest, believing them to be a secure as well as apront-
able investment. (Full particnlars furnished on appli-

cation.

VERMILYE 82; CO., ,
Nos. 16 and 18 Nassau Street.

GREENLEAF, NORRIS as oo.',
No. 66 Exchange Place»

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WlLLlAli ii. sswAr.n’s
TRAVELS. ,  .

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The undersigned respectfully announce that they
have now ready the order-book containing specimen-
pag‘-es of'the paper, printing, illustrations, engravings,
and styles of binding of,

Governor Sewartfs ', rwonderful
Journey Aroundithe World.

,, This deeply interesting work was completed" a few
days before the distinguished traoellews death, and the
publishers will spare no pains to make it the most
elegantly ‘gotten-up book of travel ever pubZished——'rHn
ENGRAVINGS ALONE COSTING ABOUT $159000-

It is sold only by subscription, and a duly-authorized
agent will call for the purpose of giving all an oppor-
tunity to subscribe.

No copies will be sold from our store at any pmce.

Nearly 300 Engravings. -

‘E. ABBLETOEE‘ £4 3%., I

' Piubéiiahere,
54.9 5.. 55.551 BRQADWAY.
New York. 

’ LADY IN GOOD STANDING HAV-
 mg no acquaintance amon gentlemen, would
like to meet with one of libera_ tendencies, ‘worth
from $15,000 to $20,000 and willing to engage In a
benevolent enterprise,__that would pay.
matured in years, of a genial nature. _Gerinan prefer-
god. Address, 1111 ; AM JiALE.th1s0fii2e.

W0‘o‘111~1‘iJ*1.1.__&~/(3‘1.ri.1'?‘.l.1N9‘S wnnirixr.

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Arnrv, srnnn AND oonronr.

~ NORWICH LINE. 1

For Boston, Worcester, Fitchburg, Groton Junction,
Lowell, Lawrence, Nashua, Manchester, Concord, Pal-
»m‘er, Brattfeboro, and intersecting points.

The new and stauuchsteamers

CITY OF BOSTON,
CITYOF NEW YORK,
. CITY OF LAWRENCE and
CITY OF NORWICH

Will leave New York daily (Sundays excepted),at 4
o’clock p. m., from Pier -No. 40, North River, foot of
Canal and Watts streets.‘ *

For New London, and Norwich,_their connecting
with Express trains for the above points, via Vermont
Central, Norwich and Worcester, and Boston, Hart-
for’d and Erie Railroads. »

For through tickets and rates for freight, apply at
the oflice, Pier 40, North River. .

W. F. PARKER, Agent.

New York, June 7, 1872. , .

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ENTRAL RAILROAD OF’ NEW JER-
SEY.——Passenger and Freight Depot in New York,

foot of Liberty street. Connects at Somerville with
South Branch R. R.; at Hampton Junction with the
Delavvare, Lackawaniia & Western Railroad; at Phil-
ipsburg with the Lehigh and Susquehanna Division;'-
andfiat Eastonwith_the Lehigh,Vallcy Railroad, and its
connections, "forming a direct line‘ to Pittsburgh
and the West, without change of cars; also to Central

Pennsylvania and New York State. '

ALLENTOWN LINE TO THE WEST.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.

Commencing Dec. 16, 1872.—-Leave New York as fol-
lows :

6 a. m.--Way Train for Somerville.

7 a. m.——For Flemington, Eastorn, Bethlehem, Bath,
Mauch Chunk, Wiikesbarre, Pittston, Mahanoy City,
Mt. Carmel, I-lazleton, ’l‘unkhann‘ock, Towanda, Wav-
erley, doc. Connects at Junction with Del., Lack. &
West. R. R. .

9 a. II1.——LIORNING Exrnnss daily (except Sundays),
for Easton, Allentown, Harrisburg and the West. Con-
nects at Somerville for Flemingtoii; at Eastonc’ ).-
Mauch Chunk, Wiikesbarre, Scranton, Towando, W av
erly, 660. v ’ ,

10.15 a. 1n.—Way Train for Somerville. v

12 in.-—Way Train for Somerville.

12.50 p. m.—For Easton, Bethlehem and Allentown.

3.15 p. m.—For Plainfield.

4.00 p. m.——F_or, Easton, Allentown and Mauch
Chunk. Connects at Junction with D.el., Lack 66
West. R. R. , - “ .

4.30 p. m.‘—For Somerville and Flemington.

5.00 p. m.——For Somerville. , ‘ , p

5.15 p, 111.-—-For Plainfield. .

* 5.30 p. m.——EVENING EXPRESS, daily, for Easton,
Bethlehem, Allentown, Reading, llarrisburg, Pitts-
burgh, Chicago and Cincinnati.

6.00 and 6.45 p. m.—For Somerville.

7.30 p. m.—(Emi2_rant)-—For Easton.

9.00 and 11.00 p. m.—’-For Plainfield. ,

For Elizabeth at 6.00, 6.40, 7.00, 7.15,—800, 8.45, 9.00,
9.30, 10.15, 11.00, 11.45 a. m.; 12 111.; 12.50, 1.00, 2,00,
2.30, 3.00, 3.15, 3.45, 4.00, 4.15, 4.30,/1.45, . 0, 5.15, 5,30,

5 0
5.45, 6.00, 6.20, 6.45, 7.15, 7.30, 6.10, 9.00, .00, 12.
p. 111.

Tickets for the West can be obtained at the office of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey, foot of Liberty
street, New _York, and at ‘the ‘principal hotels and
ticket_o1lices in New York city.

' Albany.

Should be ,

R. E. RICKER, Superintendent and Eng’r.
H. P. BALDWIN, General Pessenger Agent.

nw roux CENTRAL AND HUDSON
’ RIVER RAILROAD. ‘

trainswill leave Grand Central Depot:

8.00 ‘a. m.—C11icago and Montreal Express, with
drawing-room cars through to Rochester and ‘St.
Albans. . ' ’ —

10.30 a. m.-«Special Chicago Express with drawing-
rooni cars to Buifalo and Niagara Falls. — ‘

_ 10.45 a. m.——Northern and Western Express.

3.40 p. m.-—Special Express for Albany and Troy.

4.30 p. m.—-Montreal Express, with sleeping-cars
from Ncw York 1:6 St. Albans. .

6.00 p. m.~—Expres.-3, daily, with sleeping-cars for
Watertown and Canandaigua. .

8.00 p. m.—-Pacific Express, with sleeping-cars for
Rochester, Bufialo and Niagara Fall; also for Chicago,
via both L. S. and M. C. Railroads. This train runs on

‘ Sundays

11.30 p. m.-;—Express,with sleeping-cars for Troy and
C. H. KENDRICK, General Passenger Agt.

I EW YORK MIDLAND RAILWAY——
’ Winter arrangement, taking effect Dec. 2, 1872.~
Trains leave foot 01' Cortlandt. and Desbrosses sts., as
follows;

For New Durham and Maywood, 7, 9, 10, 10.50 a. in;
1, 4,30, 5.30, 6.20, and 11.30 p. m. '

For Hackensack, Paterson, Hawthorne, Midland
Park, and Wortendyke, 7, 9.10 10.50 a. m.; 1, 4.20, 5.30
6.20, *11.30 p. m.

For Ridgefield Park, Bogota, Rochelle, Dundee
Lake, Market st., and Riverside,_ 7, 10.50, a, in. 1, 4.30
5.30, 6.20, 11.30 p. in. /I - 1

For Wyckofl, Pompton, and Moutclair Junction, -7,
9.10, 10.50 a. m. 3.30, 4.30, 5.30 p. in. ' ,

For Cainpgaw, ~ Oakland, Bloomingdale, and West
Blomingdale, 7, 9.10, 10.50 a. m. 4.30, 5.30 p. in.‘

For Smith’s Mills, Charlotteburgh, Stockholm, Snu1I-

town, Ogdensburg, and Quarryville, 7, 9.10 a. In. 4.30
p. in. - .

For Newfoundland, Franklin, Hamburg, . Decker-

Middletown, and Bloomingburgh, +7, 9.10 a. 111'. 3.30,
14.30 p. in.

For Pine Bush, Wurtsboro, Fallsburgh, Monticello,
Liberty Falls, and Ellenville, 9.10 a. m. 3.30 p. In.

Returning——Laving Falls, at 6.55 p. m. 1.25 p. m.
Ellenville, 7.42 a. m. 2.15 p. in. /Middletown, 6, 6.56 a.
in. 2.37, 5.45 p. In. West -Bloomingdale, 7, 8.20 a. in. 2,
6,04 p. m. Wortendyke,‘ 6.25, 7.37, 9,‘ 11.23 v. m. 2.37,
4.05, 6.58, 10.56 p. m. Paterson,» 5.43, 6.47, 7.55, 9.19,
11.38 a. m. 2.57, 4.24, 7.15, 11.12 p..m. ' I

Arriving in New York at 6.55, 8, 9.10, 10.30 a. m. 12.50
4.10, 5.40,,8.35 p. in. and 12.50 a. in. ,, I

Montclair Division.-— rains leave New York, foot
Courtlandt and Desbros es streets. j

For Montclair, Pompton, and intermediate stations,
9a. in. 4.30 p. m. 4? , '

For Montclair and intermediate. stations, 3.30 p. in.
arrives '8, 9 a. m. 4.10 p. m. _

:tDoes not run beyond Middletown. *Docs not run
beyond Hawthorne. 'tDoe‘s not run beyond Bloom-
mgburgh.

G. W. DOUGLAS, superintenrlent.

' WM, H. Warn, General Ticketsagent. .45,“ ___

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_ Sleeping Coaches to destination.

’ PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

' and Cortlandt streets, as follows:

Commencing Monday, November 4, 1872. Through A

town, Unionville, West Town, Johnson, Slate Hill, ,

RIE RAILWAY.—Winter Arrangement

of Trains to take eifect January 20, 1873. From

Chambers-street Depot (for ’I‘wenty-third street see
note below). ' ' ' '

9 a. m.——Cincinnati and Chicago Day Express.
Drawing-room Coaches ' to Builalo and Sleeping
Coaches to destination.

11 a. m.-~Express Mail for Bufialo and Niagara
Falls. Drawing-room Coaches to Susquehanna and '

7 p. in. (Daily).—Cincinnati and Chicago Night Ex-
press. Sleeping,,Coaches through to Buiralo, Niagara
Falls, Cincinnati, Detroit and Chicago, without
change.

Additional Trains leave for—'

Port Jervie, 8;‘ 9, 11 and *11.15.a. m_., 4.30 and 7 p._1n.

Goshen and Middletown, *7.30, 8, +8.30, 11 and *11.-
15 a. m., 3.30, 4.30 a‘.’n‘d *7’? p. in.

Warwick, 8, 11 and *11.15 a. m., and 4.30 p. in.

Newburgh, +8.30, 9 and 11 an m., 3.30 and 4.30 p. in.

Sufiern, +7.30, 8, +8.30, 11 and +11.15 a. m., 3.30, 5, 6,
+6.30, *7 and *11.30 p. in. ‘

Ridgewood, Hohokus,A11endale and Ramsey’s,.+7.-
33, 8, 18.30, 11, *11.15 a. m., 3.30, 5, 6, +6.30, 7 and *11.-

pm.

Paterson, 6.45, *7.30, 8, +8.30, 10, 11, *11.15 a. m., 12
noon, 51.45, 3.30, 4, 5, 5.15, 6, 175.30, *7, 8, 10 and *11,3()
;«p. 111.

Newark, 7.15, *8.45 and 11.30 a. m., and 3.45, 5.15 and
*6.30 p. in.

Rutheiaiurd Park and Passaic, 6.45, *7.30, +8.30, 10,
11 a. m., 12 noon, *1.'45, 3.30, 4, 5.15, 6, *6.30, 8, 10 and
*11.30 p. in.

a. m., 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 p. m., and 12 .0'I1d.

Spring Valley and Way, 5, 8.15, and 18,45 a. m., 1, 4
and 5 p. m., and +12 Mid.

Englewood, 5, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.15,
4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and *7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid.

Cresskill, 5, 7.45, +9 ang, 9.30 a. m.,1.30, 3.15, 4.15,
5.30, 6.30 and *7.45 p. m., ‘and +12 Mid.

Sparkill, 5, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.15,
4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and +7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid.

Piermont and_Nyack, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30,
3.15, 4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and +7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid.

N. B.-——Trains leaving Chambers street on even or
half hours, leave Twenty-third street 15 L-iinuter earlier-
than above time. The 5 a.’ m., 10 and 11.30 p. m., and
12 Mid. Trains start from Chambers street only.

N. B.—-Trains on the N. R. R. and Newark Branch
leaving Chambers street _on quarter hours, leave
-Twenty-third street 30 minutes earlier than above
time. ‘

Tickets for passage and for apartments i.n Drawing-
room and Sleeping ‘Coaches can be obtained, and
orders to? the checking and transfer of Baggage may

be left at the Conipaiiyfs ofiices'——241, 529, and 957
Broadway; corner One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street and ’l‘Iiird avenue: 2 Court street, Brooklyn; at
itllie Company’s Depots, and 01' Agents at the principal

ot‘— s.
* Daily. '1' Sundays only. *1 Goshen, Sundays only.
J N O. N. ABBOTT, General Passenger Agent.

Trains leave New York, from foot of Desbrosses and

Express for Harrisburg, Pittsburg, the West and
South, with Pullman Palace Cars attached, 9.30 a. m.,
5, 7 and 8.30 p. in. Sunday, 5, 7,  p. in.

For Baltimore, Washington and the South at 9 a. m.,
1, 9 p. m. Sunday, 9 p. m. .

Express for Phila, 8, 9, 9.30 a. m., 12.30,.1, 4, 5,’ 6,
8.30 p. m., and 12 night. Sunday, 6, 8.30, and 9 p. in.

For Phila., via Kcnsington, at 7 a. 111. and 2 p. m.

Emigrant and second class at 7.15 p. In. ‘

For Newark at 6, 6.30, 7, 7.40, 8.10, 9, 10 11, 11.40
4.30 5

1
a.m.,-12,1,2, 2.30, 3, 3.20, 3.40, 44.10, , 5.10, ,20,
5.30, 5.50, 6, 6,10, 6.30, 7, 7.30, 8.10, 9, 10, 11.30, 12 p in.
Sunday, 5.20, 3 and 8.10 p. in. 1'
For Elizabeth, 6, 6.30, 7, 7.40, 8, 8.10, 9, 10, 11, 11.40,
&. m., 12 m., 12.30, 1, 2, 2.30, 3, 3,20,'3.40, 4, 4.10, 4.30,
5.10, 5.30, 5.50, 6, 6.10, ".30 7.30, ’ , 10, 11, 11.30, 12

, 8.
p. m. Sunday, 5.20, 6, and 8.10 p. in.
For Rahway, 6, 6.30, 7, 8.10, 9.30, and 10 a. in 12
1, 2, 2.30, 3, 3.20, 3.40, 4.10, 4.30, 5.20, ‘0,
7.30, 8.1.0, 10 p. m., and 12 _night. ‘
6 p. in.
For Woodbridge and Perth Amboy, 8 and 10 a. m.,
2.30, 3.40,-1.30, and 5 p. in.
For New Brunswick, _7, 10 a. m., 12 m., 1, 2, 3, 4.10,
5.20, 6, 9 p. m., and 12 night. Sunday, 6 and 9 p. in.
1;1<1)r East Millstone, 7a. m., 12 m., 4.10 and 5.20
p. .

For Lambertville and Fleniington, 9 a. in. and 2
p. in.

For Philipsburg and Bolvidere, 2 and 4 p. in.

Accom. for Bordentown, Burlington and Camden, 7
and 9.30 a. m., 12.30, 2, 3, 3.40, 4 and 6 p. m.

For*Freehold, 7, 8 a. m., 2 and 4 p. in.

p.m..

Trains arrive as follows:

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The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodliullgand
Tennie C. Claflin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid,
at the following liberal prices:

 hull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $3 00
Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claflin . . . . . . . . 2 50

The Principles of Social, Freedoin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Impending Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

1 “ If an ofiense come out of truth, better is it that the offense come
than that the Truth be concealed.”,-—‘Je7'ome.

VOX POPULI VOX DEI.

 

“ ’I‘ruths would you teach, or save a sinking land 2
All fear, none aid you, andrfew understam .”

DANBURY, Conn., Jan. 26, 1873.‘

Dem“ Sisters-The books you sent me by our friend have
been received, for which, please accept my sincere thanks.
But in consequence of the depleted state of your exchequer
I cannot accept them from you as a gift; I therefore send
you six dollars toward replenishing your treasury, which has
been robbed by the very chivalrous ofiicials of the United
States Government. ‘

Your pictures are worth a great deal more to me than the

"price of the books, and I accept them as a very precious gift.

No one, who can read human character, can look at them and
not feel and know that you have been most foully and wick-
edly belied. You may rest assured that I shall make them
do good service in our noble cause. The evening I received
the books, I stepped into the office of a gentleman friend,
undid them and looked to see if each contained the likeness
of its author. As‘ I was looking at sister Victoria’s, I invol-
untarily exclaimed, “ Who can look into that sad, thought-

ful, tender, but firm, face and not see love, truth, purity and.

justice enstamped upon every lineament of the counte-
nance ?” The above soliloquy brought my friend to my side,
who, after looking at the picture intently for afew moments,
broke forth as follows: “ Great God! And that is Victoria
0. Woodhull! the woman that some have called a prostitute!
Hereafter let any one dare to slander her in my presence and
I will hurl back the lie in his or her teeth who utters it! 2 ”
And I responded amen and amen! ! ‘

The fact is, dear sisters, those very likenesses give the di-
rect lie to all your defamers have said or can say against you.
The papers which our friend brought home are revolution-
izing public sentiment here. Those who read your statement
of facts concerning the reverend hypocrite, both saint and
sinner, give you their sympathy, some from one motive and

. some from another. As soon as those papers have-been the

rounds, I shall try to get you some new subscribers. I may
and may not succeed. However, I know that I shall be able
to get adonation for you, or the cause for which you are so
unselfishly working. Mr. , the friend that called on
you the other day, wishes to be kindly remembered to you.
He is your fast friend now, although he took but little inter-
est in you or the cause, before he saw you. The gentleman
who, upon looking at your pictures at once became your
champion, is a truly loyal and royal soul; in him you will
find a true and steadfast friend. He will call on you before

, long and will bring you what funds we can raise to furnish

you with the sinews of war.

I

And now, dear _sist_ers,I wish I could see you for aufew

I moments and look over the situation with you. I think that

I shall see you before long; in the meantime do not be dis-
couraged. The angels are raising you up friends every day.
There are thousands of loving, faithful hearts all overxthe
country, beating time to the music of your own. Through
the great law of human sympathy, they rejoice at \ your joy
and are sad at your sorrow. The poisoned arrows of envy,
hurled at you from the quiver of malice, will ‘pierce them and
cause them to suffer with you. But be of good courage, for
when the battle is over and humanity shall stand enf_ran-
chised in all their rights, political, social and religious, you
“shall see of the travail of your souls and be satisfied.”
Again I say God bless you, my noble sisters Victoria and
Tennie. . _SILUs TYRRELL.

P. S.-—You see, dear sisters, I am bound to do all I can to
help on the cause for which you are battling. I know that
I shall never regret- it, either in time or in eternity. Under

whatever circumstances you may be placed you may always"

know that there is one soul in deep and earnest ‘sympathy
with you and who will ever. be ready and willing to share
with you his last dollar in prosecuting the war which you
have inaugurated. ’ ~

I may write an article for the Wnritrr before long. ,You
are at perfect liberty to use any or all that I have written, if
you think it will serve the cause of truth and justice. My

, friends think I am crazy because I have taken such a bold

and defiant stand in defense of you, but I find it‘ is having

its influence even upon them. They already begin to feel

anxious about your situation, and I can see the cloud pass
over their faces when I tell them you are in trouble, and
clear away when I tell them you are free again. I Will you
not write: me just a word? . s 9.‘.

1,533 SPRING Gannnu Sr, PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 133, 1873.
My Beloved Sister Victoria--It is’ the eleventh hour in
which to send you my sympathy and love, but I trust you will

trial. I wrote you a long, loving letter when you were first
imprisoned, full of my soul’s indignant rebuke of yo1_1r_perse-
cutors and my changeless love for you, yet that letter was

did not long to send it; it couldinot have been from fear, for
‘I fought and still fight your battle, as some of the brave souls
in Philadelphia will tell you. I can ‘only believe that my
time had not come, and I am compelled to wait the mighty
moving of the waters. 1 But the day has come; and with the
same fervor and fidelity which first impelled me -to you, I
send to you, again imprisoned for the truth, my soul’s deep
love andaid. - o _

All I can do for you in public and private I shall do, am
doing, as burning words uttered by my angel guide each Sun-
day and week day can testify. . , I .

I plead only for justice to God and humanity when I plead
for you. Placed beyond the pale of law by the stigma of sex,
how has this Government the right to -execute law upon you?

so-called word of G-od——the Bible—~how dares the law assail
you! In that very book are the witnesses, the jury and the
judge who shallall prove you guileless and without guilt. -

' While the Bible, with all its undeniable impurities, is printed
and proclaimed from pulpit and press as God’s holy word;
while it is circulated from shore to shore, and even incul-
cated in the public schools, this Government has no right to
silence and arrest you for uttering words which are whiter
and holier than many of the Bible’s words.

In the name of God, whose characterfhas been so long tra-
duced in the Bible—whose virtue, purity and truth are every-
where impeached in the Bible, I demand that this Govern-
ment be tried throughout the land at the bar of public opin-
ion for its violation of its own laws, which is .proved against
it every time it allows the obscene literature in the Bible to
b.e sent through the mails‘; a literature whose only safety is
in its false label——“ the word of God,” a name which is an
insult to God and the soul of man.

Is this nation attempting the tyranny of the Napoleonic
Empire? Isa free press thus to be assailed and gagged in a
Republic whose blood-bought freedom is daily proved a farce
and a delusion? Are they, *then—-both Church and State~——so
afraid of a woman’s voice, who voiceless, voteless, nationally,
can yet stir the nation to its depths, and invoke its utmost

you are placed behind prison bars and bolts? Havethey not
yet learned the ages’ lesson, that God’s messengers are
stronger than all battlements and barriers? , r

The God of the slave has not forgotten the past. Again
“he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes. of wrath
are stored,” and, little as the world believes it, the armies of
the Lord are gathering at G—od’s command, and they will do
battle with you for the right. ,

Take new heart of grace in your prison, my sister. The
love and co-operation of thousands of’ new friends are born
of each new injustice to you, and from this new trial shall
you go forth victor. \ V

Debarred of liberty, you reach liberty’s supremest goal-—
the leader, the liberty-angel of the world to a diviner free-
dom. . I

Said a consecrated cue, “ If I be lifted up I shall draw the‘
world after me ;” and again the world must ascend through
the crucifixion of its best souls, and it is the evolution of the-
world into that nobler life in which shall be established the
kingdom of God, which you are accomplishing.

The mighty presence who’ controls‘ me bids me assure you
that the spirit-world loves you and supports you; that, deso-
late as you seem, thousands of new souls are gathering to
your standard; that burning words of truth shall support
you; thrilling truths shall so fill the souls, of the people that
they shall be compelled to follow the shining star of God’s
presence; and that you shall be justified, beloved and
crowned, Victor Victoria. . I ,

We say, the Lord’s will shall be done. , . 

May the eternal love light your path this hour with new
glory, the eternal law hold you strong above all fainting or-
faltering, a11d the eternal__life infill and surround you with
divine peace and the mighty power of the unconquerable.

I. hope toseeyou on my way home, and will write you.

Accept the love and blessinglof a sister-soul, who is now
untrammeled to work with and for you, and thus for the
wide world and for God himself. ’

, And the benediction of God rest upon you and your faith-
ful husband. _ I

“ Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
. glory, halleluj ah I ” ' , , '

Your sister in the battle for truth, justice, equity and love.
i a J ENNIE. Luvs.

§ 

Gn:t:c.~s_eo, Jan. 27, 1873.
‘Mesdantes ‘Woodhull  Ola,/Zrm~‘—l)eeply sympathizing with
you in your martyrdom, I desire to render "you what little

. aid I can. I‘ have been receiving your paper nearly or quite

a year through my subscription to the now deceased Present,
Age. I take the Banner of Light, Relay/£0-Philosophical
Jou/meal and yours, and much as I like the other two, if com-
pelled to take but one of the three, yours would be my selec-
tion. Please take my name ofi the Present Age free list and
put it on your own paying list. Consider me a life subscriber.

‘ I have faith that your paper will live to accomplish its mission,

and that I shall live to see it. ‘fulfilled. I remember some
years ago escorting you through the Chicago jail to see Henry
Jumpertz, who was then under sentence of death; and as
we passed the cell-door of J umpertz, Miss Tennie remarked
that he would never be hanged, statingshe saw a large crowd
and the gallows, and Mr. J umpertz passed under the gal-.
lows and went tl1rough.the crowd until lost tojview, as is_well
known he was acquitted after a new trial. He did. pass under
the, gallows which was then erected inside the jail, he has

passed into the crowd. and is lost to View to the residents of

not turn /from me even at this late time in your great day of ‘

withheld from you, why, I know not. It was not because I ‘

Uttering words more pure than hundreds of sentences in the -

fear and malignity, that they are rendered safclonly when;

woesuotr. ta» emrtinés wearer. I ‘ *  ° . , s

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this part of the country. Miss Tennie was then inspired. I
believe her inspiration has grown with her years. I believe
that you and she will both outlive your present trials and
troubles even‘ on this material plane of life, and I desire the
honor of being ‘one of your helpers. Please find inclosed $20
—-$2 of which ‘is for numbers already receive, balance for six
years in advance. /_ ‘J. ‘LINESS.

Bnrnonronr, January 27, 1873.
M's. Woodhull-—Through the kindness of a friend, I‘ have
had the good fortune to read your most estimable paperof

V January 25; and while ‘perusing its columns, feelings of grat-

itude, indignation and contempt, have alike aroused within
me a spirit of response. a ‘ ,

I With the true heart of woman keenly sensible to the
wrongs done my noble sister Victoria C. Woodhull for so

earnestly and ably maintaining the cause of freedom and 

progress———do I desire to ‘show my appreciation, expressive of
gratitude to the benefactor of our sex, who justly deserves
a crown for truth and humanity’s sake. M — . _

Inspired with a sense of indignation and contempt toward
those who would wish-' to defame your name and your repu-
tation, and, place you before the world in effigy for the
clamorous multitude to howl and scoff at, I would say: The
scaffold you have erected upbn which to- hang your victim,
for the crows to feed on, may drop low and entrap your
illustrious selves. «- -

Like the true knight that he is, E. H. G. Gllark, I would
show my manliness, dear sirs, and atone by acknowledging

that I, too, was misled through’ error, and in the future would a

be more careful and ‘not mount so quickly upon the dignity
of my highness, and presume to denounce what you have not
the wisdom to comprehend or the courage to admit.

A few words in conclusion to those professing to be Spir-
itualists, but who, in reality, are but lukewarm, and so un-

charitable as to stand edgewise and aloof, ready with battle-

‘ax to attack the citadel as soon as some immaculate partisan

cries an alarm; If you haven’t the courage to face the music
leave the platform and return to “ Old Theology,” where the I
balmy heat of hellfire may have the effect to warm you over,

and, possibly, restore you to consciousness. .

Yours, in highest esteem, H. M.‘ H. BURNETT

 

Mus. Vroronra C. VVOODHULL:

Dean" S1lster—~I consider it no‘ liberty in thrusting a
stranger upon your notice. I, too, am a devoted enthu-
siast in the common cause of human fr_eedom—from every
species of bondage, of both soul and body. A. freedom

I both for man and woman; the liberty to either follow the

union of bodies when the souls are as separate as the poles;
or to seek——though it may consume a whole life-time—that
true companionship of persons and souls where every want
is met, where self-sacrificing love, in order for the purity,

.intellige1rge and the bliss of each, is the attending angel-‘

crystal drops from the universal spiritual fountain ever
sparkling into one. ~
This is, indeed, the return, not of Jesus", but the Christ or

anointing agency of new and unwelcome truths to those

living the life of the base of the brain. They tremble lest

their God be taken from them, and they be forced to a life in

the coronal region. But no, all we aim at is to strike a death-
blow to this legal and pretended moral forcing of woman in"
particular. Poor torture-forced woman! How my soul

bleeds at the sight as I ‘ clairvoyantly gaze at the nightly andn I‘
daily prostrated, unwilling victims to tyrant man’s brutal "

appetites. Many of them noble men, true lovers, who would
give their life for the women they in their ignorance are
murdering, but who—chained by custom, a false and barbar-
ous religious education-—deem it proper and a necessity-to

enact with woman, deeds which the brute is incapable’ of.

I sometimes wish ‘that woman had the iron heel of the
brute to dash/"into the very face and eyes of man when such
insults are offered‘ under the ‘pi ea and rite"of marriage:
VVhat is the world afraid of if the marriage code is abrogated?
That there will be a flood of vice and of obscenity which
shall engulf woman. That flood is now sweeping, through
deterioration of soul and ‘body, our best mothers from the
earth. Give us more freedom of love, and those who live in
the hell of passion will seek those organized like themselves,
where they can burn out the ainatfve fire. ‘When marriage is

' no longer a necessity with all women, even the delicate, this

torrent of death will cease. Give woman the practical right
to life, and she will pursue another road to, happiness

than submitting to the brutality of man for her I clothes and

crust; But woman’s nature is pre-eminently of love, and she. I
should be left free to love wisely. VVhen she is illum-ined by
the free play of her higher nature she will thus’ love; when
her shackles are broken, and’ in highest liberty, being'self-
sustaining, she stands nobly before her former lords, bidding
them defiance; she anew invites them to a higher 1ife——the

' life not of sensuality, but ‘of love; telling him ‘if he wins her,

it must be from day to day, and because he proves himself
her God, whom she can_ truly worship for his unselfishness,
abstinence’ and purity. Dear ‘Sister, I am in the field——~a
lecturer-tn the only infallible "dogma, Spiritualism- I am 7
watching you. Ilove you truly, and dare proclaim the fact
to the world; but it is not the form of VictoriaAWoodhull,

but the soul, which I see so expanded that it takes in the (

whole world. Thatvlove has followed you in the prison and

to the rejected rostrum, and itpwill meet you in every strug-

gle for the right. The angels are with us. ‘We must conquer. ‘
\ ]3‘1-aterna11y-, ’ T. S. A. POPE.

, BOONVILLE, M0,, February 1, 1873.

Dear Madam=~—Admiration prompts the use of a more on-
dearing term, but non-acquaintance forbids. uYour estimable
paper of the25th instant we have seen. We have read every
word ofthe speech which was to have been delivered by you
on January 9 last. We offer our sincere condolence, and are
with you heartand hand in the enterprise which you have so
zealously and untiringly started and cling to. We are heart-.

 

Lily in, favor or the principles which/you have advanced, and

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be near at hand. .
0' We subscribe ourselves, in all sincerity, your
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woonnnrr & Oi.AF:[.iN§s wssirtr.

4.: .~ 4* Feb. 22, ms.

our desire is to see these same principles indorsed throughout
the length and breadth of our land. V
The “American Bastiles” (which, by the way, we consider
a very appropriate use of speech) are springing up around us
like “ J oss" houses Sour Chinese brethren reverence. They
are apparently the bulwarks of the affections of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, therein to be incarcerated the
high and noble-minded free thinkers of our land. Already
in the background of all of our houses of justice, those fiends
of prejudice, malice and revenge and public sentiment are
gathered, and one can scarcely say his soul is his own. The
noble stand which you and Miss Claflin have , taken Thas ex-
77 cited our admiration,,and we wish you unbounded success.
The old saying has  that “the darkest hour is just before
the dawn.” ‘For the truth of the foregoing we cannot person-
ally vouch, but we hope that the dawn of your success may

l3ooNv1LLn Anvocnrns.

 

A REPLY TO A BOSTON LETTEH.

NEW YORK CITY. 510 Pearl st., Jan. .28, 1873.

Dear Fm'em:Z—Yours of 24th is received. True, I have been
in New York city nearly one year, which, however, doesnot
enable me to answer your que§tions concerning Rev. H. W.
Beecher, Mrs. Woodhull, Mr. Train, E. S. Stokes or William
‘Foster. Mr. Beecher, I presume, is the best paid servant of
the Lord in America. In my opinion his congregation is as
intelligent and virtuous as any congregation in the world.
I made a great effort to see Dr. Beecher a year ago, with dif-
ficulty I saw him, and, knowingly, I shall never call again on
any man who gets $20,000 per year for services rendered the
Lord. I _

I think Mr. Tilton in his description -of Mrs. Woodhull, de-
scribed her complexion, size and appearance well. Aside
from that, you know as much about her as I do. She is now
under $60,000 bonds. "Saturdays and 5 o’clock P. M. has been

, the fashionable day and hour for her arrest. She has ‘been

arrested by order of the U. S. Government—that same Gov-
ernment that hanged Mrs. Surrat and let Jeff. Davis go free.
I called to see G. F. Train at the jail; he is neither crazy or
afool. By order of the U. S. Government he occupies cell
56, Tombs jail, and is as sure to go to Sing Sing as ex-rebel
Vice-President Stevens is to go to the U. S. Senate. Stokes
and Foster will soon be out of sight. They have killed but
one man each; had they killed as many as Longstreet and
Mosby has, they would be kindly received in Washington.
All ex-rebels have free access to church or hall in any part of
your good State; even Capt. Alexander’s big dog, he used in
guarding prisoners, was kindly received in Boston? Was it
liberty not to allow Mrs. ‘Woodhull to, lecture in Boston. It
was not much consequence as to what kind of names Mr.
V Redpath called Mrs. VVoodhull. I do, however, think the
dignity of the best State in the Union suffered a little when

its Governor called Mrs. I/Voodhull such names as he did. .
The Government committed a foul, wicked murder when they ,
hanged Mrs. Suratt. One half of Congress is now trying the '
other half for robbery, The men who served on the J efi. »

Davis Grand Jury have learned that the way of the trans-
gressor is hard.

If your Governor" had ordered Mr. Redpath to have’! I
searched Mrs. Woodhull’s naked body, perhaps he might have i

found some mark which would have enabled him to declare

‘put to death, As he did not do it, I fearyou may see her
again in Boston. She outwitted five detectives. She handled
two husbands to the entire satisfaction of Mr. Tilton. Sleeps
as well in a granite cell as in a brown stone'on Fifth avenue.
She reminds me of the bull and the engine. ’

If allowed to come before twelve men, they will say to her

a —“ Go thou free.” Mrs. Woodhull does not understand the

Bible as I do. She does not regard the marriage contract as
I do. Politically we agree. '

Yours respectfully, BEEHAM WARDWELL.

, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1, 1873.
M7y~Dem‘ S1'sters——In a most worthy cause I am glad to see

» that you have passed beyond that plane which requires sym-

pathy to sustain it, and are “ masters of the situation.”

That charity covers a multitude of. sins we all too well
know; and, considering that we are the children of circum-
stances, and conscience a creature of education, we all too
Wellwish that charity may cover a multitude of sins in the
light of saying, “ Go thy way and sin no more.” But there
are circumstances under which “charity ceases to be a vir-
tue ;” and thus I consider it in your casei

To be intentionally misrepresented, slurred in reputation,
and “driven to the wall,” as you have been, on no just ground
of provocation, by, with few exceptions, a venal, craven,
time-serving, mercenary press, by a clique of priest-ridden
scavengers of bigotry’s sloughs, dastardly conservators of
political corruption, sacrilegiously crouchingunder the sacred
name of Liberty for protection, while those who had it in
their power to save you from unjust and ignominious thrusts,
and who should have done so for truth’s sake, stood passively
by, and seemingly, if not positively, acquiesced in all the pol-
troonery, if they did not say amen, is sufficient justifica-
tion in my mind for you to open fire from your own vantage
ground, as you have most nobly and persistently done, ‘i‘ to
rough how the line, let the chips fiy in whose eyes they may,”
sustained by the fact tha “necessity knows no law” either
in ethics, physics or polity. ' '

I do not now intimate that I know certain declarations,
which you have made, to be truths; but if they are, then I
here affirm that, on the ground of-self-defense, you are jus-
tified. I know that invective is but the argument of chil-
dren; still, I“ cannot, in this instance, forbear “ casting a grain

of mustard-seed by the way—side.” Poor, supercilious beings! a

,Who can save them if they yet persistin weaving their own
halters! C ’

/ If truth is divine, it can harm nobody. It may wound our
pride and «humble us for a short time , but this it does only
to egalt, only to free us from .abJ'e9tlS1aV6TYa and send us on A

the more of light, the more of knowledge; the more of knowl-
edge, the more of wisdom; the more of wisdom, the better
will we be prepared to endure the vicissitudes of life, have
charity for all, and bravely face the world, intent on doing
our duty whether in the right or wrong.

While the age is pregnant—excuse the obscene expression-
with events which portend a more glorious future, we should
not be unmindful of the truth, that, if we stand listlessly by,
we shall awaken to “ behold our house left unto us desolate.”
It is no blind zeal nor notoriety-seeking that impels the few
to arise and confront those who menace our political and re-‘
ligious freedom, butthey rather act under the inspiration of
the fact,.that treason to usurpation is justice in the sight of
high heaven. And if we cannot, by appeals to the candor,
reason and common sense of those to whom we have intrusted

A the administration of our rights, stay the wave of bitterness
. and woe which now rolls mountain-high, and threatens to

overwhelm the unwary and defenseless, then I say let jus-
tice be done though it shake our political, commercial, social
and religious fabric from center to circumference, and pre-
cipitate the “irrepressible confiict.”

Do not imagine, my dear sisters, that there are but few on
the mountain-top peering into the dark valley below,‘ but
rather be assured that there is, in this your hour of extremity,
a host of silent watchers, an army of veterans, who are, I hope, .
only abiding their time, only waiting for the shaping of
events, that they may move in one solid phalanx to the res-
cue, and thus make the discomfiture of yourmaligners all
the more glorious. ~ 0

{clasp hands with you in your noble intentions, and in-

that it shall not conflict with the sacred obligations of honor,

I if nothing more, under-which we all at present stand related

one to another. What I mean is this: We have no right to
tempt or cause any one to violate his or her obligations to
another, no matter whether the revelations which they as-
sumed or assume under the name of marriage, were or are
founded on fidelity to each other or not. If thus you declare,
then will I stand by the banner which you have “placed on
the outer wa ” and so flauntingly unfurled to the breeze of a
fretful, fastidious, hypocritical public sentiment.

The propriety and expediency of the ground which you
have chosen in the arena of principle and self-preservation I
hope time will prove tothe entire satisfaction of all' parties
concerned. When your traducers begin to learn that every
/act of our lives is, as it were, daguerrotyped on our" spirits, a
perpetual record, to get rid of which would require annihila-
tion; and that wherever falsehood is incorporated it will
surely produce disintegration and final dissolution, then,
perhaps, they will ever be careful and truthful in their utter-
ances, and never compromise fidelity to their highest convic-
tions. _ , «

“ They are slaves who fear to speak

For the fallen and the weak;

They are slaves who do not choose

Hatred, scofling and abuse

Rather than in silence shrink

From the truth they needs must think;

‘ They are slaves who dare not be

In the right With two or three.”

hera Witch and under the 01 d law of your State had her 1,, Dives/ted‘of all preconveived opinions and prejudices, I
1 7 . 7

shall ever stand firmly and maintain that which should be
inscribed on all our banners: Justice to all, Violence to none.

w. D. Y.

‘ BnENrwooD,.L. I., January 31, 1873.

Editors of the Wee7cly—I renew my subscription to the
freest paper in the world. I hope and believe that your ene-

for a new social order. Christian civilization, all through
the past centuries, has been fostered by philanthropic
minds in the belief that it would produce human perfectabil-
ity, and consequent !happiness——-the millennial state, or the
kingdom of heaven on earth. But a thorough trial of nearly
two thousand years has proved abortive. The present gen-
eration manifests no advancement in purity of morals, good-
ness of heart or brotherly kindness, but rather an increase of
selfishness, fraud, seduction and murder, with the full cata-
logue of all conceivable crimes. “ The tree is known by itst
fruit ;” and this prevalence of vice is but the legitimate frui .
of civilization in its present state of (so-called) prosperity

I Hencewe arrive at the rational conclusion that, notwith-

our way__rejoicing. The more of truth, the more of light; 3

dorse all that you have advocated in principle, if you mean .

« friends wish to be remembered to you.

mies will not be allowed to permanently paralyze your efibrts _

standing the constant efforts of good men at reform, the su-
perstructure has proved a failure. Its foundation rests on a
false basis, a basis not in harmony with the natural laws of
our being. Wisdom, therefore, admonishes the substitution 1*
of a, new order, adapted to man’s nature and wants. But the
old must first be removed to give place for the new, though
heretofore none have shown the courage to attack its foun-
dation in earnest,'while protected as it is by the anathemas
of the clergy, backed by the wealth and power of Church and
State. ‘Nay, it has been left to woman——brave, loving woman
—-tostrike the first well-directed blow at the keystone in the
arch, on which rests oursocial fabric. Exclusive love, indi-
vidual ownership, in the form of monogamic marriage, is the
very keystone in Christian civilization; and this it is that
binds human beings, especially women, in bonds often more
cruel than those of chattel slavery. But brave Victoria has
taken the foremost step, and only needs the sustenance and
aid of friends and those who (although too cowardly to shows
themselves at the front) would still rejoice to witness it
overthrow to enable her to break the last link in the chain
of oppression and let humanity go free. 0

Let all, therefore, who desire to witness the advent of
brighter days for humanity do what they can to sustain the

-WEEKLY through evil as well as good reports, and thus enable

its editors to work out their glorious mission.

$Yours,‘in the love of freedom.  $3, 13. H. Lewis. J

VALPARAISO, Ind., January 30, 1873.

Deon" Sisters lV0oclhull and Clafim——Of whom the world
seems unworthy, I sympathize with you in what you seem to
be, to do and to suffer. , Not believing in spirit existence, as
you do, I could expect to do no good beyond this life, and
therefore should endeavor to refrain from advancing to an
unappreciative populace such ultra, but beautiful and benef-
icent, truths,as to "incur martyrdom, or even persecution of
any kind, more intolerable than the present se1f—denial of
free expression. But all must judge of these matters for
themselves, and I want to bear a portion of the odium and
the burden cast upon you for your advocacy (discreet or in-
discreet. as possibly in some degree it may have been) of true
social freedom. Humanity is my object of worship, and so
far as I can judge, you are among its noblest specimens; I,
therefore, wish I could properly e,xpress_the esteem I feel for
you. Good bless you! Accept the contents of this letter as
a‘ faint expression of the love and gratitude which I consider
humanitarians owe you for your unselfish and untiring and
self-sacrificing labors in the cause of human advancement
toward true and happy social order and freedom. I love hu-
manity and human freedom, and I love_ you—as fearless and
foremost advocates of human interests. Bless you again and
again!

That I may know whether you receive this safely, I should
be thankful if you would acknowledge it by letter. And would
it be ‘teo much, to ask that, if convenient, you two sisters,
who haunt my imagination in‘ forms somewhat angelic,
would both- sign your names? This is a childlike request, but
I confess to some simple traits and wishes, and excuse‘ my-

< self therefor by the thought that of such is the kingdom of

——~--— well, the reign or rule of peace and love. Yours, for
freedom, WM. 0. TALCOTT.

FREMONT, Ind., February 2, 1873.

Dear Mrs. Woodh1oll—I have sent on the money for your
paper another year. We are anxiously waiting for news from
the seat of war, and we get it only when we receive your
paper, as the other papers are as silent as the grave on this
great question at issue. I sincerely hope, ere this, you may
be blessed with your liberty again, but if not, keep up good
courage, as it’s “the darkest hour before day.” You have
the sympathy of many brave hearts who would gladly assist
you, were it in their power to do so. This is a tremendous
conflict in which you are engaged—reaching far down the
dim vista of years, and fraught with greater changes than
many dream of. But in the far-off future, many shall re-
member you, to bless you for your brave and fearless words
spoken in behalf of poor, bleeding and crushed humanity.
So be of good cheer; for “she who bears the cross to-day
shall wear the crown to-morrow.”

Yours, for truth and justice, MRS. M. F. HOPKINS.

 

Ponr HURON, Mich., Jan. 24.’, 1873.

Sister Woodhull——There are thousands who believe in your
right to be heard, and yet do not indorse all the details of
your theories on marriage. I do not believe in the,Catho1ic
dogmas, but shall I not sympathize with the Catholicstbf Ger-
many persecuted by Protestants ? It is not a questionpf
soundness or unsoundness of views, but of liberty to express
convictions. I do not agree with you in your ideas of God,
Christ or Religion. I am an Atheist, anti—Christ, anti-Re-
ligion. I have a natural right to advocate such ideas, but the
Christians do not recognize the right, and if they had the
power I know that my mouth would be stopped. We must
stand by each other—Liberalists all over the Union.—in vindi-
cating human freedom, no matter what the views are. “Let
Truth and Error grapple.” Who are the “ saints?” We
are stirring up the Church here. J. H. Haslett and other

Yours for justice, W. F. J AMIESON.

 

No. 25 MILFORD Sn, Bosroiv, Mass. Jan., 21, 1873.

Dear. Friend T/'L'ctow3co—I wrote you a note of inquiry as to
your address some time since, and afterward sent you Mrs.
Merriwether’s article from the M emphts Acalcmch. I hope
you receivedthem or rather it; The lecture one weekiago
last Sunday was by Lizzie Doten, and in the course of her
remarks, she gave her candid oppinion in regard to the course
of affairs with you and the committee at Music Hall. She
denounced the course taken in the strongest manner and as-
serted that in that matter you stood as the champion offree
speech and the victim of ecclesiastical persecution. I was

ell pleased, knowing she was not in full communion with

u. Her «reference to the subject was greeted, with repeated
applause. Yesterday, F. L. H. Willis spoke. You well known
his conservative disposition. His discourse was advertised to
be upon “What the Spiritualism of the Nineteenth Century
Teaches.” He, however, digressed, and took up the Music Hall
matter quite as earnestly as Lizzie had done, and warned the

Spiritualists that inasmuch as they abandoned you in your .

extremity, they would feel the force of the storm directed
upon you whenever you were broken down. He severely
denounced the course taken, saying, that it was a combined
attack upon free speech, free press, and free thought, in
which he felt disposed to, take a part and, amiable as he was,
it made him “ full of fight.” I am improving in health, while
wife is pretty well.

Sincerely yours, E. S. WHEELER.

 

LONDONDERRY, Vt., Feb. 3, 1873.

Mus. VICTORIA C. WooDnULL:

Dear Madam—I cannot but believe that you are right in
the great and leading principles ‘of reform which you are ad-
vocating, and cannot otherwise than deeply sympathize with
you, and with all who are sacrificing so much individually to
secure the largest freedom, and, politically and socially, the
equal rights of all. ,

Your almost matchless courage should command at least
the respect of the world. -

I, too, know of wrongsin high places; and, in consequence
of them, myself and family are compelled to eat the bread Of
poverty. The of the House Committee for invest-.igat~

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ing the charges of corruption among members of Congress in
regard to transactions in the Credit Mobilier does not stand

smorally free from stain, A and had I not a fear (perhaps
cowardly) in regard to the welfare of my wife and children,
temporally, I should feel compelled as an act of public
justice to “ cry aloud and spare not,” until at least some of
the self-righteous, who occupy places of trust and influence,
and which should be places of honor, stood before the world
in their true character. 0 _

Ishould be glad to hear from you. I am unable to learn
whether you are in prison or not. I am anxious to learn of
your present condition; also of the condition of G. F. Train,
and of others whose influence the powers that be seem de-
termined to suppress; but the attempt to suppress truth will
ever react, and be like sowing to the wind and reaping the
Whirlwind. “

I have taken the Banner of Light for many years, and am
surprised that of late its editoiss do not seem to think it of
suflicient interest to their readers to inform them of the wel-
fare of one who has been so prominent as yourself, and of
your success or otherwise in battling for some of the great
truths that they have held in common with you.

With much respect, A. A. M. M.

BIG CREEK, STEUBEN Co., N. Y., 1
Jan. 29, 1873. _§

VICTORIA C. VVOODHULL:

lily Blessed Stster andFrtend—BecaL1se I’ve so lo11g delayed
to help sustain you with sympathy and what little pecuniary
assistance I could command, has not been because I’ve not
daily and hourly had you in mind, but for a long time I did
not know where to reach you, and absence from home has
also hindered my early action in your behalf. But on my ar-
rival I was overjoyed to find WOODHULL 8: CLAFLIN’s
VVEEKLY of December 28th on my table, awaiting perusal,
and by the time that was devoured, that of Jan. 25th came
to hand, and, after reading, I am circulating it Withlthe other
issue, to see if I cannot add a little more than my own mite
to help you through the dismal hour.

You already know enough of my private history to know
that I’m weak in funds, but thank God I’m strong in sweet-
soul sympathy, and advocate your cause wherever I go; for

‘A by the touch of one’s fingers I some time since learned it was

love that made the wife and not law, and also that love to be
pure must be free.

I’m sorry to hear you suffer; but, precious one, such is the
fate of all pioneers, and, like our elder brother, all leaders
must bear the _cross before they can wear the crown.

You have weighed your radical friends in the balanceand
found them wanting; so have I, but my guardians assure me
that at the right hour I shall be clothed with power to go
forth and teach, by precept and example, the true gospel of
freedom, love and truth, so that all I can do at present to aid
you is to, in a private field, workito get bur ideas before those
I associate with, and sustain with sympathy those who are
already before the world as iconoclasts, to tear down the
barriersthat hinder the emancipation of humanity from the
thralldom of lust. .

I have just finished a letter to Tilton, telling him plainly
that I couldno longer subscribe for his paper, because I must
sustain those who had the moral courage to throw their all
on the altar of freedom, but that I would pray that “the
crown of thorns” might be removed from his brow by being
true to the light within him. _

That God and all his holy angels may guide, guard and keep
thee is the daily prayer of \ .

Your sympathetic sister,
JULIA C. FRANKLIN.

_ . ONETO, Feb., 4, 1873.
Mus. WOODHULL AND Miss CLAFLIN:

Dear, Lad/ies—Inclosecl find Post-oflice order for twelve sub-
scribers for six months, commencing with last week’s issue.

Nine out of ten of the spiritualists in this_vicinity are with
you in heartfelt sympathy for your noble and self-sacrificing
efforts for the amelioration of the races. We believe that
your noble efforts for the right, and consequent martydom,
is the ligitimate sequence that is to follow in the foot-
prints of the dawn of spiritualism, and none but cowards
among professed believers will skulk behind the shadow of
the coming conflict. Yours for the truth, J OHN WILoox.

 

MILWAUKEE, Nov., 1872. ’
.My Dear Glorious Sister V7.'ctor*£a.—~My soul goes outtto you
in loving sympathy, and I feel as much troubled for your
unjust treatment as though it were myself that was now in
confinement. I know what it is to be persecuted for con-

science sake; have felt it for years, having advocated the ,

same liberty that you have advocated’; but not having your
opportunities to be felt so strongly by the opposing powers, I
have onlybeen martyred upon a smaller scale. How I did
rejoice when I saw the glorious WEEKLY again issued, but
little did I dream that that issue alone was to come to make
glad my heart and the heart of the many who read it. I have
prayed for you to be strengthened to meet the ordeal through
which you must pass. It is an honor to be worthy to suffer
for truth’s sake; and although the present generation will not
appreciate the worth of the work you have done, your name
will stand enshrined in history, and be held in grateful re-
membrance by coming generations, when those of your per-
secutors will have been long forgotten. A thousand times

leather would I be with vou in your prison cell (as I believe"

you have a pure conscience) than to stand, as Beecher stands,
honored by men, but without my own self—respect. _

Do not despond, my brave, noble sister, for there are hearts
all through the country, whose deep sympathy and respect
flows to you,'a'nd thousands more would, could they know the
truth of the case. r ' p

All this great trouble will eventually work outa greater
glory for you, if not in this life, then in the second, but I
think in this. If you should never be able to do more inthis
life you have done a great and glorious work, and justice will

I you know! But then he is an educated man, and can tell

some time mete you its reward. Keep up-faith in the angels,
if you lose faith in professed friends. I am lecturing every
leisure day at different places, and I speak loudly for freedom
and for you. When my power be as great as yours lex-
pect my persecution will be also as great as yours. Your
paper is read by every one who can get hold of it. A‘man
here told me he was offered 9.310 for his and would not sell it.
My husband had a letter from Laura C.»Smith, speaking of
you in terms of sacred friendship. I think she is a true soul,
who will stand by you. .

With a heart full of love for you, and of righteous indigna-
tion toward the cowards who dare not stand by what they
know to be truth and right,

' I am, most truly, yours,
' J. H. LEVERABDE, M. D.

ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 1873.
To Mas. VICTORIA C. WOODHULI. :

Dear Jl[adam—Tho1'oL1ghly conscious of the majesty of
your mission, deeply imbued with a sense of the purity of
your motives and exalted aims that lift you like a glorious
beacon above our more common humanity; and knowing,
as we do, that envy, malice, hate, bolstered by bigotry and
hypocrisy, are eager to annihilate your influence and bury
you under a load of shameless (Christian?) aspersions, we,
the undersigned, most respectfully beg you to accept our
warmest sympathies, and to consider/us as your firm friends
through weal or woe, and as those who are determined to
stand by you and see that justice is meeted out to you, and
that your calumniators, sooner or later, gather the bitter
fruits of their malevolence.

G. L. Ditson, M. D. Miss N ella L. Allen,
VVillia1n Brunton, Miss Dora J. White,
Mrs. H. M. V. Chapin, Mr. M. N. B. Cornwell,
Mrs. Wm. Brunton, _Mr. Chas. D. Torrey,“
J. B. Chapin, ' Mrs. Martha A. Torrey,
Mrs. Branton, Elizabeth Strong.

HT/lo Word favors the abolition of speculative income, of
woman’s slavery and war government; regards all claims to
property, not founded on a labor title, aspmorally void,
and asserts the free use of land to be the inalienable privilege
of every human being——one having the right to own or sell
only his service impressed upon it. N 01: by restrictive
methods, but through freedom and reciprocity, the Wbrd
seeks the extinction of interest, rent, dividends and profit,
except as they represent work done; the abolition of railway,
telegraphic, banking, ,trades—union and other corporations
charging more than actual cost for values furnished, and the
repudiation of all so-called debts, the principal whereof has
been paid, in the form of interest.—E. H. HEYWOOD, ‘Editor.

Contributors, correspondents, and those from whose works
extracts may be printed are responsible only for their own
opinions; the editor must not be understood to approve or
reject any views, not editorial, unless he say so.

TERMS: 50 cents annually, payable injaclvance; 5 copies,
$2.00; 10 copies, $3.50; 20 copies, $6.00; 50 copies, $12.50;
100 copies, $20.00. Single copies, 5 cents. Address The
'WorcZ, Princeton, Mass.

 

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The relentless persecution of Mrs. Woodhullcontinues.
She, with Claflin and Blood, was imprisoned Jan. 9th, and
released the 11th. The famous Trinity were again seized
January 21st, but rescued the 22d. There seems to begio in-
tention to bring her to trial, for it is evident that n:c3%':c»ase-
can be made out against her in any court with a ray of com-
mon scnse.- Not the pious puppy, Comstock, but Beecher’s
money, influence and desperation inspire this vindictive pro-
cedure. But evidence accumulates to show that he is surely
doomed. Mrs. Stanton denies that she‘ ever denied, and
Tilton’s late letter reveals a desperate efi"ort, ti) say nothing
about facts, which heartless, double-dealing and skulking
cowardice cannot much longer conceal. Mrs. Woodhull’s
WEEKLY continues to be issued.

WASHINGTON OLERKS—~TI-IE ROMANCE AND THE
’ FACT.

[Correspondence of the State Register, Des Motnes, Iowd.J

_ WASHINGTON, D. 0., January 27, 1873. A
“Who is that gentleman I see standing in your shadow all
the evening?” whispered I to the wife of a Senator. “ Oh,”
she replied, “ he is a friend of my husband; not particularly
a friend, but an acquaintance—that is, we know his folks.
They live in our vicinity and they are peple bf influence.
He has been here in Washington a long time, and knows
everybody; a kind of influential, good-natured soul! and we
must show such people attention, you know!”
, “ Y9Sa I See,” said I.’ “ He isone of those incumbrances of
political life who must be endured for the good they have
_d011<’ga and who may be available for some purpose hereafter.”
“ Oh, heis more than that! He is highly respectable and a
gentleman. But they do become such a tax upon one’s time,

one all about everybody and everything that has happened
in Washington for twenty years!” “ Indeed,” I replied.
“ He is the man I am looking for! Introduce me to him,
and, with my friend’s permission here, I will exchange part-
ners with you for your benefit.” Ifound this new. acquaint-
ance all that ’ the lady represented him to be; well bred,
educated, kind-hearted, and a man who could “tell all about

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ton for twenty years; and in the hour’s conversation (for
which I shall always consider myself his debtor) I also dis-
covered what this valuable experience had cost him, and
why he was now, in the, prime of manhood, compelled to

stand in the shadow of those who under other circumstances ‘_

would have been compelled to “get out of hisisunshine.”
In an evil hour he had bartered [away the bright promise of
a useful manhood for a clerkship at ‘Washington. Twenty
years of tread-mill life had afiorded him ahumble subsist-
ance it is true; but what of the future; with self-reliance
and personal independence gone, like- a ship at sea witha
valuable cargo, and the propelling machinery destroyed.
Young man of the country, whoever you are, and whatever
may be your situation in life, never permit your vanity to
be excited with the promise of a clerkship at Washington.
If you have influence with the voters, or have made‘ your-
self useful to “the man who runs for Congress,” or if you
have any influential friends and any of them ever propose to
reward you with a clerkshtip at Washington, before you ac-

cept it, ask some man who has spent twenty years as clerk in ,,
one of the departments here ;—I say to you ask his advice. 1

But you may not be able to find such a man anywhere but
here, so I will volunteer a bit of advice to you myself.

In the first place you must understand that the magic
word, ,5‘ Equality,” has no meaning’ as applied to life in
Washington. Theoretically, the “ ehuality of all men ” is
a good thing to read about. “In fact, a constitution, or politi-
cal platform, or Fourth of July oration, would not be com-
plete without the frequent use of this American word, but
practically it amounts to nothing for a young man to set up
business on. It is a kind of soothing syrup for the masses-
for those who hold the plbw and turn the wheel and spike
the rail, over which the lucky man rides to VVashington!
Equality among the people means votes on election day, but
in ofliicial life it means an equal amount of money to buy an
amount of luxuries. .

Success, nowadays, means money or fame. I am far from
reflecting upon that class who have achieved it; for the only
heroes" we have are those who have conquered success. I am
talking to those’ who are expecting or looking for an easy
road to fortune and fame. That road has newer yet been dis-
covered, and the young man who seeks it in a clerkship in
Washington may read in the faces of the gray-haired vet-
erans who sit at theirdesks by the thousand, in {the Govern-
ment service, that

-. He who enters here, leaves hope behind.

The law of compensation is inexorable. If you are getting
a thousand dollars a year, and go to eat a costly dinner with
a man who gets five thousand, you must fulfill this law of
compensation, or you have bartered away a fraction of your
manhood. If you return the favor, you must go up another
flight of stairs to lodge, and-wear your last year’s hat through
the fashionable season. Either one is fatal to social promi-
nence or political advancement. ' ' 1

Here is a little history from the lips of the great War Sec-
retary: “ I left my home in New Hampshire,” said Chief
Justice Chase, “ at the age of twenty-one, with all my
worldly goods tied up in a bundle, started out into the great
world I knew nothing of. I made Washington my objective
point, for no other reason than I had an uncle in Congress.
He was a plain, blunt man, who was more indebted to an .ex— '
traordinary giftof common sense and his sterling integrity
for success, than to any thing he had ever learned from books.

Upon my arrival there, I proceeded to make known to him a. .

desire for an appointment to a clerkship. With a look that
seemed to search out everything of my present and future,
he said: ~

“ ‘ Young man, if you are out of money and a situation, I
will "set you up in business with an ax or a spade, but I
will neverconsent that the son of my sister shall ever enter
a clerkship in one of these departments.’ ” ‘

The poor country boy who afterward became the great
National Bank originator, says he did not ‘accept the ax, ,
but earned his board that winter with a wood saw, and never
knew until after life how to value the advice of the stern old
uncle. _ ' . A

Man, as a simple machine, is! doubtless themost valuable
piece of mechanism ever invented but the poorest use he can
be put to——in my opin_ion—is to stand in the shadow of an
ambitious politician and wait for him to take snuff, that he
may come in with the sneeze. _ ANNIE SAVERY.

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THE OUTLOOK FOR GOLD.

Solomon has said, “There isano new thing under the sun ;”

, but either history fails to record the general investment by
' the world of a large proportion of its wealth with’ one partic-
T ular nation, or else if Solomon were to return he would find

something new under the sun. ~ 5 T ' A

Since 1862 a vastly increased currency, coupled with exces-
sive taxation both direct and indirect, has so enchanced the
cost of production, that merchants of the United States are
compelled to purchase much more than before in foreign
markets, while the same cause has precluded payment

_in the products of our labor.‘.

The result has been year by year a growing increase of
debt to foreigners, settled by transfer of national, State,
municipal and corporate obligations, supplemented of late
years by a large floating European capital employed in this
market, by a short interest in gold on part ofmerchants, and.
‘on that of bankers by a dangerous amount ‘of accommoda-
tion sterling; that is, billsof exchange drawn upon their
credit, in lieu of exports with which to take up maturing
drafts. - , " _ _

‘ The aggregate of this debt cannot be definitely stated.’ but
in the fall of 1808, ex-Commissioner .Wells, through the
‘agency of Jay Cooke, and under the auspices of the General
Government, declared the amount then represented by
American securities was $1,455,000,000. Since then, statistics
show that the (balance of trade has been even‘ more adverse;
but at same ratio, the present total of mortgages against the

everybody” and everything that had happened in Washing-'

country would be in excess of $2,400,000, without counting


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the floating European capital, the short gold interest of mer-
chants, and accommodation sterling of bankers. I

It is upon the period when our European creditors shall
demand the accruing interest in products or coin, and not in
other American pledges upon the future, that the gold ques-
tion pivots. , '

In comparison with this cause, Congressional action as fix-
ing a day for resuming specie payments is infinitessimal in ef-
fect, because where the Treasury controls millions, interna-
tional t°racle sways scores of millions. ‘

The difierence between the sgmembers of a nation holding

its securities, whether national or corporate, and the same I

being owned by non-residents, has never been duly con-
sidered. .

No more certainly does the continued fertility of any soil
depend upon the loss, of moistgirevthrough daily evaporation,

being returned thereto in the “invigorating, fertilizing show-'

ers, than does the financial prosperity of a nation rest upon
the retention within its borders of the fruit of its labors.

A district whose evaporation should be continually wafted
to another section, would speedily become a desert, and
such in proportion to degree of financial bondage, must be

, ‘the result to a nation, the product of whose labor is abstract-

ed to meet the claims of foreign creditors. ,

Heret-ofore no such evil result has ensued to the United
States, because the supply of" railway and other bonds has
been acceptable to our European creditors, and has taken out
of the country so far nothing but the paper on which these
promises arerecorded.

But within the past few months, a decided lull in the for-
eign market for_ American miscellaneous securities, gives
warning that the period of demand for actual payment in
products or coin may not be faridistant.

T It is extremely improbable that the transfer of promises
against the future will ever again be witnessed on the scale

of the past.

The 11on-payment of interest by some Southern States, the
partial repudiation of outstanding obligations by others,
combined with the prospective repudiation of the total debt
in those States, now supremely swayed by negroes, has given
a serious check toa:AInerican credit.

To these exciting causes of distrust must be added the vast
increase of liabilities by old corporations, the creation of
new railroads far beyond the borders of civilization, the ex-
posures of fraud all through the land, the latest——the Credit
Mobilier-—impl;icating many who have, and still hold, “the
highest and "most prominent olficial positions in the gift of
the people.

All signs indicate that we have entered upon the period
when the country will be tested by the reality, not by the
promise, of payment. .

In View Of 1511989 f9«0’E-S9 the supply of gold possesses peculiar
interest. ' A

From the Bureau of Statistics, the report thereof for the

past fifteen years will reveal the probable strength for the
futures, v 1

  

Total coin Specie Actual bal.
» exports. imports. of coin.
31858 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $52,633,147 $19,274,496 $33,358,651

"1859 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  63,887,411 37,434,789 56,452,622

1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 66,546,239 8,550,135 57,996,104

1861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 29,791,080 46,339,611

1862 . . . . . . . .. .. 36,886,956 16,415,052 20,471,904

1863 . . . . . . . 64,156,611 9,584,105 54,572,506

1864 . . . . . . . 105,244,350 13,115,612 92,128,738

1865 . . . . . . . . . 67,950,065 9,810,072 58,139,993

1866 . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . .. 86,044,071 10,700,092 75,343,979

1867 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 60,868 372 22,070,475 38,797,897

1868 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 94,236,047 14,188,368 80,047,679
1809 .................... .. 57,138,390 19,807,876 . 37,330,514
1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 58,155,666 26,419,179 , . 31,736,487
1871 . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . .. 98,441,988 21,270,024 77,141,964
1872.; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 79,877,534 3,743,886 66,133,648
_ _ $779,652,686

Less bal. imports in 1861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 16,548,531

‘ $763,104,155

This $763,104,155 represents the total amount of coin which
‘the United States have been able to export during the past
fifteen. years; but it has not all been supplied by the mines

' during that period.

In 1858 the country was on a specie basis, and no authority
places the amount‘ of coin ‘then in circulation at less than
one hundred millions. Assuming this moderate sum to be
correct, as it has now passed away, it undoubtedly furnished
that proportion of the exports. . .1

This would leave $663,104,155 as the total mining produc-
tion during fifteen years that has been available (after sup-
plying the demand for artistic purposes) to settle interna-
tional balances, or about $44,000,000 per annum.

Beyond this annual supply there is no stock available to
meet any sudden emergency, for the amount in the sub-
Treasury, less coin certificates, wavers about forty millions,
a sum scarcely suflicient to inspire confidence in case of for-
eign demand, while the amount in banks (less gold checks
called coin) is probably not over $12,000,000_to $414,000,000. On
October 3, 1872, all the National banks held only 610,229,000.

To those merchants who run short of gold wherewith to
pay for their imports, the prospect is certainly gloomy in the
extreme. 1

While to those bankers who issue sixty days’ sterling on
the strength of collaterals unavailable for the redemption of
.their drafts, at point of payment, the future is equally preg-
nant with danger. ,

Unfortunately our legislators have been so busily engaged
in self-aggrandizement that they neither have, or will,inves-

tigate the causes of our great dependence upon the outside.

world for self-support. . »

.Even the almost total extinction of our oceancom-merce,
once unsurpassed, has failed to arouse them to action, or
evenito suggest a remedy beyond burdening with an,addi-

7

During the past decade the whole country has been living
upon faith, with vain boasts “comparing itself with itself, and
now the threatened settlement with our European creditors
6 promises to reveal the financial volcano over which it has so
I long been quietly and ignorantly slumbering.

' - 1  BB-INTQZX, Jr", 50 Broad. street, N. Y. 1

THE LITTLE GRAND LLAMA.

[Written by Thomas Moore in the -time of George the Fourth,
adapted to suit the reign of Henry the First]
In Thibet once there reigned, we’re told,

all little L1aina—one year old;

Raised to the throne, that realm to bless,
Just whenhis little holiness ‘

Had cut, asnear as can be reckoned,

Some say his first tooth-—some his second.

, Chronologers and poets very, , ‘

Which proves historians should be wary.
»We only know th’ important truth

His majesty had ‘cut a totith.

And much his subjects were enchanted,
As well all Llama’s subjects may be,
And would have given their heads, if wanted,
To make tea-totums for the baby.
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But short this calm; for just when he
Had reached th’ alarming age of thrce,=
When royal natures, and, no doubt,
Those of all noble beasts,’ break out,
The Llama, who ’till thenwas quiet,
Showed symptoms of a taste for‘ riot.
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In short, such wicked pranks he played, ’
And grew so mischievous-——Grod bless him!
That his chief nurse was most afraid,
When in these moods, to comb and dress him.
_At length some patriots, a breed
Of animals they have in Thibet,
Extremely rare, and fit indeed -
For folks like B——-n to exhibit- ‘
vSome patriots, who saw the length
To which things went, combined their strciigtli,
And penned a truthful, plain and free
Rcnionstrance to the nursery,
In which memorial they prayed
That honorable nursery
,, That such reforms be',,henceforth made
As all good folks desired to see. 9
And then still more to prove their zeal, «
And in the bud the mischief nipping,
They ventured further, and they. took
And gave his majesty a whipping.
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When this was known, no Congrevc rocket
Discharged upon a f0eman’s trenches
Elcr equaled the t1'<3I1101l(l0llS~'ShOCk it
Produced upon the nursery benches.
The bishops, who of course had votes,
By right of age and petticoats,
"Were first and foremost in the fuss.
What! whip a Llama! Suffer birch
To touch his sacred -4! Infamous!
Deistical; assailing thus /’
The fundamentals‘ of the church!
No, no; such patriot deeds as these
They held to be rank blasphemies.

Th’ alarm thus given, by these and other

Grave ladies on the nursery side,

Spread through the land, till such a pother,

Such party squabblcs, far and wide,
Never in history’s page had been
Recorded, as were then between
The whippers and non-whippeifs seen.

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And though, ’mong Thibet tories, some
Lament the royal martyrdom
(Please to observe the letter D
In thislast word’s pronounced like B),
Yet to the example of that prince,

So much is Thibet’s land a debtor,
’Tis said her little Llamas since
Have all behaved themselves much better. »

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CHRISTIANITY VERSUS REPUBLICANISM. ‘

I love fair play whether it. be in a nation orsa person; I
despise the truckling Bendigoes of the ring or court-room,
who have not the courage to stand up manfully and take

fool, but Don Quixote amended with a. modern Bill Sykes,

woman in her own hair and plash his brutal hands in the
crushed skull and bloody brains of confiding love. When
such a blending of hell and eccentricity takes place in human-

club-armed bully of the law, reels and staggers in the intoxi-
cation of power through constitutional rights and impales
upon the truncheon of his highness the Commissioner Daven-
port, unoffending female citizens, because, for a reformatory
purpose, they expose the moral leprosy festering beneath
the tender white of a Christian cuticle, then society owns
or is rather owned by a monstrosity, combining the worst
elements of imbecileand assassin. The heart recoils at the
thought of such an one waiting in the dark places of our
public thorougfares for an unsuspecting victim,;,but when
it leaves the dark rookeries, of the night, assumes moral im-
portance, masks the vicious frown and sweetly smiles upon
the unguarded citizen as Christian judgment in our courts
of law, then the danger to the sovereign people is the more

secute and rob, and for love of power, the dreadedienemy of
liberty has donned the garb of heaven to serve the devil.

To smile and jeer on the verge of disaster is the fate of
simpletons, and to the league of the new order of Jesuits, who
held holy sessions in the ‘Grand /Jury room at the trial of
Woodhull, Claflin and Blood, the people shouted Sancho
Panza! Penetrating public! 8 How easily it discovered the
fool in the Star Chamber. But the knave, the Bill Sykes,
the hired rufiiau who is beating out,‘ the life, happiness
and business of Woodhull, Clafin 86 Co» ‘Wh‘cl13 Of him? ‘V110
hears the martyrs’ groans from B1f0'€Ld Stmeii flllfl LE!-CHOW“
street Jail? Where is the recompense for the sulfcriiigs of the
three true soldiers of human emancipation? See /how the
thumb screws tigh,t€*11.?l"":d:i?1l<iir races blelltil 1:11 13h€?'d€~¥9?‘3;§’ 91"»

- tions established;

and give in a conflict of might or right. Don Quixote is a noble »

that brutal, ibg,1rly ruflian, ~who‘ can smilingly strangle a ;

character, and the lantern-jawed fanatic leagued with the

imminent and threatening, sinceit is afarceyorganized to per- 1

crucifixion for truth. Hear the cowards smile amid an uproar
of laughter; peace banished, health prostrated and business
ruined, heart broken and dragged from prison to court in_a
whirlwind of derision at the folly of the prosecution.

The cry of old was “Burn him, he is a Jew, a so offer,” but
we have outgrown Smithfield bonfires, ducking-stools and

‘ whipping-posts; that is a vulgar way of displaying the inside

of Christian love, to make a heretic’s life a lingering agony.
were stupid torturers who so quickly killed Joan of Arc.

shamble of St. Bartholomew.

When priest and king were one, religious persecution dis-
played itself open—handed, and ripped open the jugular of a.
thinker and reformer, in the same manner that our butcher
boys stop the squealing of a pig; but where the clergy and
people are ‘not one, then persecution, with well-sniveled oily
gammon, squirms its way to the throne from which revolu-:
tion deposed it, and now begins to condense twenty deaths
in one. VVhy this retrograde movement. Why this falling
off of liberty and justice. The answer is easy. Christianty
has been moulding public opinion according to a1'Christian
and not an American ideal of liberty.’ The interpretation of
human rights after all is more in public sentiment than in a
parchment. If the Church have the power to inoculate the
people with the notion of the superiority of the psuda Divine
law, it is evident that all human law, constitutional or statu-
tary, can be so warped and twisted by this tremendous and
dangerous influence in the hands of fanatical Christian propa-

~ gandists (whose avowed ambition is to govern the world),

that there is no real protection for the Infidel, the Jew, the
Spiritualist, or the Freethinker. A Christian Republic may
be a grand scheme; but that means just, no republic at all;
for if the press is subsidized, and free speech gagged, the
workingman may light his pipe with his ballot for all the
practical good it will be to him. 3

It is questionable if the public really understand the terrible
meaning of the skirmish between Victoria C. Woodhull and
the gray-haired eighteen centurian at the back of the dinner-
thief, Anthony Comstock.

Woodhull, Beecher, Tilton and the Young Men’s- Christian»
lAssociation are merely the skirmishing parties of a rapidly
advancing revolution. The real question is, “How much
liberty does the Constitution guarantee ? and what supervis-
ory power over the conscience and speech of the citizen is
delegated by the Constitution to the Christian Church?”
This is the next irrepressible conflict the American yeoman

who are over-anxious to bury an effete and primitive concep-
tion of duty in the Constitution, it matters little whether
Beecher remains boss of Plymouth Church or falls in magnifi-
cent ruins; they are warring against ideas—not persons. The
raid on Mrs. Woodhull is made for the Church’ authority and
not for Beecher’s reputation. The radical denial of the

ophy, and social freedom, these and kindred ideas have
‘spontaneously cropped out of our system of Government, it
is upon these ideas that the attack through Mrs. Woodhull is
made. The Christian Church is long-headed enough to per-
ceive that she must either gradually field up her constantly-
weakening authority, or curtail the rights of the citizen in

'_ such a manner as to secure her own perpetuity by blockading
, out of the field of public action all anti-Christian reforms and

movements. -Hence the strenuous efforts of the ‘ffisher’s of
men” to force a Christian God into the Constitution. The
next move was made upon WOODHULL 8: CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY,

I and the arraignment of Woodhull, Claflin and Blood for the

publication of alleged obscene literature.

The Young Men’s Christain Association have an impor-
tant work to perform. A precedent once established, reform
can be muzzled, and a basis for future evangelical opera-
Vifoodhull, Claflin and Blood must
be sacrificed, and the war carried into Africa, and thus sub-
stitute a servile Christian slavery, instead of the abomination
of freedom and independence. Everything is auspicious for
the success of this delicious ‘little plot, gotten up for the love
of God. ‘ Even an analogous“ case (thanks to the English
bench of bishops) is found, and the eloquent District Attor-

trio.

All this is in keeping with the foul conspiracy against
popular government. The precedent quoted in the exami-
nation of Woodhull, Claflin and Blood is the natural out-
growth of monarchy, and ecclesiasticism. The lords and
bishops of England forced that case, as a means of fettering
the tongue and pen of the” British subject. The spirit of
English Constitution admitted of such restrictions being put
upon the press, and with no possibility of a conflict between
such a decision and the British Constitution. Not because
it was in keeping with impartial justice so to decide, but be-
cause that decision against the freedom of the press was in
accordance with the limited liberties granted to the English
people by theirimixed form of government. This hunting
up of British, cases to find a precedent to push Yankee
morals to an enforced Christian perfection is a treacherous
and dangerous doctrine, and may meanmore to the future
of our "country than State sovereignty or negro emancipa-
tion did in the past. ‘ '

Let us pause a moment and refiect before we attempt
national suicide by enforcing ’ the evangelization of America
uponthe “European Plan.” The logic of history has taught

kind, olficious care of the religious bigot, that the reasoning
faculties should always precede the religious instincts—~the
policeman must go before the, creedalist. This is the gist of
the American Constitution, else why separate Church and
State, and leave the words God and Christian out of the
Magna Charta of our liberties. ‘ Do we not see that obscenity
is the first. cousin to blasphemy, and that political‘ questions
which were settled at the p_oint of the bayonet in 1774 and

again? Shall we, because the Exeter Hallites of the land of

_lords and. bishops grasp the 1+lng1i.sh press by the throat, arid

Oh! that beats roasting one like -an ox all to pieces. I They ‘

Our Yankee ingenuity would never have made a. bloody ,

must prepare himself to meet. To the Christian crusaders, ’

plenary inspiration of the Bible, Spiritualism and its philos—.

ney flourishes the damnable proof in the faces of the guilty . 9

us that the citizen must carefully guard himself from the’

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choke political and social heresy (which means religious
progress, national reform, and industrial growth)~—-shall we,
at the covert attack of organized religious rebellion, at war
with the ‘Constitution and operating at the back of that
simple-minded blond, the puritanical booby Comstock,
yield up to sham morality and ambitious clergymen the
rights we’rested with bloody hands from Caesar and pope,
king and parson? S Shall justice drop her scales and take up
the cross again? Shall masked inquisitors seize the capital
of the nation, our law courts and homes, and Write with the
martyr’s blood the epitaph of constitutional liberty, and all
(so the enemies of the people pretend) for public morals as
privately practiced by the simpering, giggling immaculates of

* the Young Men’s Christian Association? Are we prepared

for all this? If not let us be up and doing; even now we might
skin our statesmen and public oflicials, and find J esnits be-

. neath.

The enemy are indeed hard pressed when they seek an
English opinion of obscenity. How 1-emu;-kab1° that 3 113,
tion, politically our inferior, should be our moral superior.
Ah: true! we have no I) the American Parliament;
but_then we have this written in the hearts of the American
people, That there is no unbiassed action of civil law in a
country where church and state are united, where this unholy
unionexists, either directly as in England or indirectly as in
America to-day. All the really good in common law is neu-
tralized by ecclesiastical intermeddling, blunder-ing and per-
secution.

It is said that the Constitution comes down flat-footed for
the freedom of the press; but if public opinion is in the
hands of the parsons, ‘what is the value of that instrument?
It professes to protect the citizen from the unjust attacks of
persons or organizations. Well, what is it doing for Woocl-
hull, Claflin and Blood, and George Francis Train? The law
makes no provision for putting a Methodist hymn-book in

' the hands of the printer’s devil, or a basin of holy water for

the editors of our daily and weekly papers to bless them-
selves with, night, noon and morning. But Aminadab Sleek
can coax Mrs. Grundy into the belief that that is what the
law means. The moral intentions of the modern children
of antiquity! Ah! sanctisima! This moral self-righteous-
ness and parental regard for the eternal welfare of everybody
but one’s self! Wliat a coaxing, cousining devil it is, smiling
its way to conquest through sanctified coertion, treating alike
the simp1e—minded savage of the Indus and the soft-brained
civilizee of Columbia. Not satisfied with martyring the
grandest souls of the past, and butchering humanity in the
name of religion, it now seeks to tear the charter of our
liberties in a thousand fragn;,1ents, and let hell loose among
_men in the New World.

O, pious thought! Our consciences shall be seized by an
orthodox coup d’etat——by the peddlers of ancient obscene liter-
ature. The right of judgment as to the moral purpose, cased
in speech and writing, shall be no longer the inalienable
right of the citizen. The naked truths_ which fire the soul of a
Woodhiill may be the machinations of the inventor of
the printing press, the friction match and other evidences
of the black art, once too dreadful to mention. The
devil’s whisper, as it entered the well-prepared soul of a
Cincinnatus, a Payne or a Parker may drag us_ all down to
everlasting perdition. Ah! if we could only see as our supe-
rior moralist sees, that the security to spiritual salvation is
in the perpetuity of a Shristianized scheme of social dam-
nation.

But we squint on mystery in”vain,

. Tho praying paradox doth stiil remain.

Shall we throw up the sponge and yield to the Protes-
tant rebels of Rome, and sacrifice our brains and common-
sense upon the altar of legends and traditions, to please the
new pretender, spawned from the loins of hierarchy and
J esuitism? '

Metaphysical conundrum /of Brooklyn, why not come out
of your conservative shell and teach_ the preachers that soci-
ety is muddle-headed over the mystery of the talking
sphynx, and beats in wild and drunken fury at 48 Broad
street, where, in golden letters, is to be seen: “ Woodhull St
Claflin, Bankers,”-—No discount on Truth? ‘

The cry is, “Up with systems and belief, and down with

principles and truth!” The crisis calls for a man——one with
strong mental grip—to scotch the snake ere its fangs reach
the vitals. O, ‘for a mental Jove, to lift the world from the
bruised shoulders of the female Atlas! But we call in vain.
The nineteenth century owns no heroes; moral heroism is
dead; soul is shriveled up and sapless; not one tear ‘left to
shed at the blind folly of fools. ‘
Reform is a crime—the law an instrument of persecution;
and because somebody talks or lives a lie, yet are the inno-
cent punished. When the truth is a sword, Woodhull flings

, away the scabbard; lo! Comstock carries it to Tilton, and he

hums a song of peace in the spirit of war: “I would, wait
upon~—I dare not ;” and a leaden heart in a golden age puz-
Z108 the curious. There are more prisons than Ludlow.
God’s jailors are not all appointed ‘at Albany. Infinite
ShI'6Wd11e3S, after all, may be a match for a vestry-rooin con-
spiracy. If moral cowardice couldioutwit truth, the world
were in danger. The power behind the throne is greater than
the puppets who aspire to the sceptre. The tide of public
sentiment is on the turn.
Revolutions! Open the sluice-gatesof your soul and deluge
the public with the truth!—-—let it be turbid and muddy as
the Mississippi, or clear’ as the mountain torrent.
When the hurly—burly”s done, A
And the battles lost or Won,
the coming man and woman will build monuments to Vic-
toria C. Woodhull, Tennie Claflin and Colonel Blood out of
the prison bars of Ludlow-street Jail.
’ ANTEIONY Hreems, Jersey City.

‘Will our correspondents, when sending Post-ofiice Money
Orders, please oblige us by having them uniformly made
payable to Woodhull dz Clafliii, instead of to either of us per-
son:illy., since not to do so  consider;..,l)1e CQ;1f11SiQ.jQ in
Mlccting the orclenu *

Press on with the Revolution of?

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[Written for Wooozzmzz cc UZaJlm’s Wéekle/.>] O
DEEDS VS.’ CREEDS.

 

BY HORACE M. RICHARDS.

 

This is what the angels teach:
“ Better by far towork than preach;”
This is what they always say:
“ Better by far to work than pray;

Better a kind and loving deed '

Than priestly cant or priestly creed;
Better a loaf, to a hungry one/,

Than mumbled prayers or oi-gan’s tone;

Better for cold at good warm fire

Than all the prayers beneath church-spire;
Better by far to dry the tear A
Then cause its flow through slavish fear.”

And this great truth our minds must store:
Loving deeds a.re the open door

Through which God’s angels enter in

To purify a soul from sin.

You better thus a soul can draw
Than drive by fear of broken law,
And all the bolts of wrathful Jove
. Will fail to win like deeds of love.
PHILADELPHIA, J aiiuary 1, 1873. O

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THE RELIGIOUS AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITU- ‘

TION OF THE UNITED STATES.

CALL FOR A NATIONAL CONVENTION. ,

The question of the Bible in the public schools, of Sabbath
laws, and many similar questions, are now demanding atten-
tion and decisive settlement. Shall the nation preserve the
Christian features of its life? This is rapidly becoming the
issue of our day. A

Many thoughtful citizens view with deep concern the as-
saults now being made on everything of a Christian charac-
ter in our civil institutions. Not only time-serving politi-
cians and irreligious men, but eminent oflicers of govern-
ment, and leaders among Christians, accepting the false
theory that Government has nothing to do with religion,
co-operate in these assaults. ’ ‘

An appeal against the Bible_in the common schools now
lies before the Supreme Court of Ohio. ‘ It will come up for
adjudication, in its regular order, some time this winter,
when a determined efiort will be made to overturn the pres-
ent noble school system of that State.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of ’

New York has recently decided that the Bible, though as-
signed an honorable place in the State systemaof education
when first established, and actually used for sixty years, can
no longer be legally read during regular hours in any school
of the State. Armed with authoritative decisions like this,
the enemies of the Bible certainly will succeed unless the
friends of our common schools awake to the dangers that
threaten them, and take prompt and adequate /action.

In order successfully to repel their assaults, the assail-

ants must be met at their own point of attack. They assail,

the Bible in the schools, Sabbath laws, laws against polyg-
amy and every similar element of our Christian civilization,
on the ground of their inconsistency with the Constitution
of the United States, which acknowledges neither ,God nor

the Bible and with which everything in the actual adminis-;
' to make a complaint, and when the, thin woman went before
Judge Dowling, that gentleman said it was a conspiracy; 

tration of the Government should harmonize. »
What shall be done? This is the momentous question
now forcing itself upon the American people. It will not
down. It must soon be answered in one of two ways.
Which shall it be? Shall we obliterate every Christian fea-
ture from existing institutions, or shall we,.make the Con-
stitution explicitly Christian? Shall we thrust out the Bible

from our schools to make them conform to the Constitution ?_

Patriotism and true statesmanship answer no E‘ But let the
acknowledgment of God and /the Bible be inserted in the
Constitution to make it conform to the common schools.
The National Association has been formed for the purpose
of securing such an amendment to the Constitution as will
suitably acknowledge Almighty God as the Author of the
nation’s existence and the ultimate source of its authority,
Jesus Christ as its ruler and the Bible as the fountain of its
laws, and thus indicate that this is a Christian nation and
place all Christian laws, institutions and usages in our Gov-
ernment on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental
law of the land. This Association invites all citizens, who
favor such an amendment, without distinction of party or
creed, to meet in the hall of the Cooper Union, New York
city, on’ Wednesclay, February 26,1873, at 2 o’clockP. M.
VVILLIAM STRONG, U. S. Supreme Court, “
z . President of the National Association.
VICE—PRESIDENTS.—-His Excellency, James ‘M. Harvey,
Governor of Kansas; his excellencey, Seth Padelford, Gov-
ernor of Rhode Island; the Hon. J . VV. McClurg, ex—Governor
of Missouri; the Hon VV. H. Cumback, Lieutenant Governor
of Indiana; the Hon “Wm. Murray, Supreme Court of New
York; the Hon. M. B. Hagans, Superior Court of Cincinnati.
Felix R. Brunot, Esq., Board of Indian Commissioners,

Pittsburg, Pa.,; John Alexander, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.;
Charles G. Nazro, Esq., Boston, Mass; Thomas W. Bicknell, »

Esq., Commissioner Public Schools, Rhode Island’; James
W. Taylor. Esq.,Newburgh, New York; Prof. Tayler_ Lewis,
LL.D., Union College, New York; Edward S. Tobey, Esq.,
Boston; Russell Sturgis, Jr., Esq.,.Boston; the Right Rev.
G. T. Bedell, D. D., Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio;
the Right Rev. G.  Cumming, D. D., Assistant Bishop of
the Diocese of Kentucky; the Rev. C. S. Finney, D. D.,
formerly President of Oberlin College, Oberlin, O. ; the Rev.
F. Merrick, D. D., LL.'D., President of the Ohio University,
Middletown, Conn; the Rev. A. B. Mayo, D. D., Cincinnati;
the Rev. T. A. Morris, D. D., Bishop of the M. E. Church,
Springfield, Ohio; the Rev. J. H. Mcllvaiue, D. D.," Newark,
IN. J.; Prof. O.» Na Stoddard, /1414. 13:9 WOOSWI UniV9rS3‘TJ’s

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Ohio; the Rev. M. Simpson, D. D., Bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal Church; the Rev.-J. Blanchard, D.D.‘, President of
Wheaton College, Ill.; John S. Hart, LL. D., Princeton Col-
lege, N. J .; the Right Rev. John B. Kerfoot, D. D., Bishop of
the Diocese of Pittsburg; the Right Rev. F. D. Huntington,-
D.‘D., Bishop of the Diocese of Central New‘York; the Rev,
T. L. Cuyler, D. D., Brooklyn; the Rev. Levi Scott, D. D.,
Bishop of the M. E. Church, Delaware; Prof. Julius H. Seelye,
D. D., Amherst College, Mass; the Right Rev. Charles P.
Mcllvaine, D. D., LL. D., D. C. L., Bishop of the Diocese of
Ohio; the Rev. A. A. Minor, D. D., President of Taft’s Col-
lege, Mass. ; the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D. D., Peoria, Ill.
§£GENEnAL SECRE’1‘ARY.—,-The Rev. D. McAllister, 4.10 bl/Vest
Forty-third street, NewiYork.

Conransronniue SECRETARY.—The Rev. '1‘. P. Stevenson,

’ 38 North Sixteenth street, Philadelphia.

RECORDING Sncnnrsnr.-.-The Rev. ‘W. W. Barr, Phila-
delphia. ,

TREASURER.-—Samuel Agnew, Esq.,1126 Arch street, Phila-
del.phia. ,

[We paid our first respects to this proposed inquiry last “
week, and shall continue them in our next, with the view to
demonstrate that it is infamy, instead of Cliristianity.]

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A WOMAN IN A RUSSIAN BATH.

 

M. H. B., the sprightly lady correspondent of the Missouri
Republican, has been taking a Russian bath in New Yerk-~
and don’t like it. Here’s what she says about it: “ We were
divested of every stitch of our clothing, our rings and brace-
lets locked up, our back hair taken off, our own special pos-
session of seventy—five or a hundred hairs made into a little
hirsute pill‘and impaled with a hairpin. That was the only
token of civilization we boasted. The procession formed. At
the door we were handed a miniature sheet and ‘a little bit of
sponge wet with cold water. Through a passage to a room,
where we dropped our sheet and entered a vapor that clothed
us decently. I wonder the lllustratcd Police Gazette or the
Day’s Doings haven’t hit upon this businessfor illustration.
Well, in this steam I thought I should suffocate. It peured
up and in and down through holes till it was dreadful. The
use of the wet sponge I here ‘ascertained was to put on the
top of your head to prevent coup dc steam or some such dire
complaint. They wouldn’t let me out,and the temperature

got worse and worse, and~.I began to think of my mother and '

an obituary notice in the Republican, when we were pro-
nounced cooked enough, and let cut into arooin in which
was a mighty tank of cold water, through which you must
wade or swim as you could. Czesar’s ghost! I flew through

' it. My anatomy and physiology were heated to a ’]boiling

point. This water seemed like ice. It sent the bleod rush-
ing to my hollow head (I’m convinced I have no brains), and

my heart came kerflop up and went kerchu-nk down. I_,made 
up my mind this was the worst of it, and tried to be resigned.

I had been soaped and scrubbed in the vapor room till I was
scarified. I stood on the brink and watched my companions
splashing through the infernal tank: One of ’em, to expedite
her own release, caught at my ankle. Away went my soapy,
slippery feet from under me, and I went in for a second time.
How very near an end was the happy connection between
H. H. B. and the St. Louis Repzoblican! At the next stage
of this truly awful experience we received the “shower.” I
had now become convinced that I should never see home or
friends again. In a calm despair I walked under a solid
column of water that nearly broke my back, and just here I
gotimad. The fat attendant hasn’t yet recovered sufficiently

that no woman of my size, unaided, could do such damage.
He told the woman to go home and Say Iwthillg ab011i7 15; f0!‘
slie’d evidently been dreadfully drunk, and undertaken to
walk through a carpet-cleaning .machine. And that was the
first and last Russian bath I take?’

PROPOSITIONS IN SEXUAL SCIENCE.

BASAL PROPOSITIONS.
First.—The human race is dua1——male and female.

‘ Second.—The continuation of the human race depends
upon the blending of its quality in sexual commerce-

A ‘Third.-—The commerce is natural when governcc by the
law of its existence——its regulation by arbitary law being at
prostitution of its natural. use and purpose.“ I '

_ DEFINATORY PROPOSITIONS.

' First.—I.ov1+iis sexual attraction, and may be passional
and temporary——-passional, intellectual and moral, and con-
sequently perfect and permanent, or modifications of these,
.both as to incentive and continuation. p. ’

Second.—FnEE Lovn is the natural name for the relations
of the sexes, which primarily result, from——and are main-
tained by-‘—mutu'al and reciprocal attention.

Tliird.~——PI{osr1rU'rIoi~I is the "natural name for the rela-
tions ef  sexes, whieli primarily result from—~and are
maintained by——reas0ns other than mutual and reciprocal
attraction. - _ S ' f —

Fourth.——MoDnnN l‘.vIAunIAen is a coiigloinerate modifica
tion of Free Love and Prostitution—ranging from the first
in its purity to the last in its extreme sense, where sexuai
disgust replaces dveliglit, and ei'idur—ance, reciprocity.

’ RESULTANT PROPOSITIONS.

Fil‘St.--Tile highest order of liuinanity results from -sezrzual
relations in which love is the only element present.‘

Second.~—~"i‘he lowest order of humanity results from sex-
ual relations where there is disgust instead of delight, and
endurance instead ofreciprocity. A

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Thii'd.————The intermediate orders of liiiii1a,ii:uy res»-.1133 ifs. om

various inodifications of tlie two ezrztieiiies.

 

 

 
 

 

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YORK, SATURDAY, /FEBRUARY 22, 1873.

‘TO OUR FRIENDS.

 

Notwithstanding the responses to our appeals have been
hearty and generous, we must still urge all those who ar_e
interested in the success of our cause to renewed exertions.
The instances of individual acquiescence are very satisfac-
tory, but those of combination are not sufliciently so to dem-
onstrate active work in behalf of the WEEKLY. In every place
in the country, those who read and _,value it, should put
forth every possible exertion to form a club. They should
not be content merely to send on their own subscrip-
tions, but they should canvass all the friends of reform and
induce them to join with them to spread the glad tidings of
the New Social Dispensation. _ ,

' We have often said that ‘we cannot work alone to any ad-
vantage any longer. We want the active co-operation of
every radical in the country ; and we hope ere long to be
able to present for their consideration a proposition that
shall show the necessity for and the practicability of con-
structive movements in these purposes far beyond the.mere
facts of ‘agitation. But before we do this, we wish the
readers of the VVEEKLY to be very many more than they are
at present, so that the consideration may partake ‘of some-
thing similating to a general consideration by all the people.

It is too much the wont of professing reformers ‘to be sat-
isfied with merely keeping themselves V‘ ‘read up” in reform
movements, never puttingltheir own shoulders to the wheels

, that carry them forward. Too many are timid about being

outspoken or pronounced radicals, for fear of a loss of social
standing. ~ . .

‘Now, it is to just this sort of friends that the death of
any cause is attributable. Let it not be said that the grand-
est movement ever _yet inaugurated in the world died be-
cause its friends were mere lockers-on instead of active
workers. This is -a question.- in which every individual
should feel called upon to act as anindividual, not waiting
for his or her neighbor to ‘urge it. , ,

Therefore, when this comes to the attention of our readers,
let each and all of them resolve that for two months they will
put forth every effort in their power to increase the readers
of the VVEEKLY. If this be done, it will by that time be
placed where none ever again need to work to insure its
safety, but only to increase its power. Again we say, work
with renewed energy yet a little longer, until the morning is
fully come.

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‘A. REQUEST TO OUR FRIENDS.

 

Since the newsmen in the country cannot obtain the
WEEKLY through the accustomed channel—The American
News Co.—many of them suppose the WEEKLY to be dead.
Now we are ‘aware there is a demand through this medium
for a hundred thousand copies per week, which is sup-
pressed by the refusal of the above mentioned company to
furnish,them. VVe ask ourfriends in all towns where there
is a news depot, and especially the cities, to interest them-
selves sufficiently to call repeatedly upon the newsmen and
urge them to order a supply directly from us. We are send-
ing them regularly through the mail in packages to suit all
cusstomers ; and where the newsmen are subsidized against,
the WEEKLY, we ask our friends to order weekly supplies to
fill this demand. Hundreds of people would buy the
WEEKLY from news agents and ultimately become interested
in it, who, at first, would not subscribe. Perhaps there is
no way our friends could do us so great service as in this
way, and we hope they will press their news agents every-
where to order the WEEKLY direct from us, until the Great
Monopo1y——the American News Company—wi11 consent to
furnish its .

towns to the fact that there is an immense transient demand
for the VVEEKLY through the numerous news agents, which
cannot be supplied by the regular method—-through the
American News Company——but _which, if supplied, would
soon grow into a very large and general regular demand,

In ‘various places our friends have taken it upon themselves
to order twenty-five, fifty, or a hundred copies per week to
supply this transient demand. In most cases this has resulted
in some live newsman taking hold of it and off the hands of
our friends. V/‘e instance a single case:’Our friend Laura
Cuppy Smith, during her stay in Worccste1', had us send her
a few copies weekly, but a few soon grew to be fifty, and
this in the hands of another friend and co—laborer, Mrs.
Martha P. Jacobs, grew to be a hundred ; and this again, in
the hands of Mr. Holland, the enterprising news agent, No.
3 Post-office block,’ grew to be one hundred and fifty per
week. I "

Now, if our friends everywhere would take enough inter
est to.do likewise, they would at once put the circulation of
the WEEKLY at ‘two hundred and fifty thousand, and by so
doing peacefully revolutionize the whole social system.

Of course we do not know who among -our friends in’ the
variousplaces are best situated to take this in hand; but we
know there are those who will be willing to do _it when its
necessity and benefit is presented to them.

And we hereby earnestly request them ‘to take
hold of the matter; and if they themselves cannot in every
instance give it their personal attention, procure some"unem-
ployed person to do so. In every city of ten thousand in-
habitants, any active person can make a respectable living
from the WEEKLY alone. I

Then, friends, give us your aid in this most important
direction, and we shall soon be established uponabasis
against which the combined powers of Church and State
will be impotent for harm. "

We will send the VVEEKLY by mail, in any reasonable
numbers, to any intelligent and honest party"-having satisfac-
tory reference, in every city in the Union, upon request to
do so with a statement of what they propose to do, and with
the understanding that weekly returns are to -be made for the
same. Get your news agent to do this if possible; if impos-
sible, proceed as above, and thus assist the now well-estab-
lished movement in its onward career. Of the last issue
twenty—four hundred hundred numbers were dispatched in
this way. Let that number be doubled for the next WEEKLY.

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MALE RELIGIONS. -

Under this name may be classed all thosegcreeds in which
the female element is omitted, or those in which “ woman”
is not represented among the divinities——the angels. The
Jewish, Protestant and Mohammedan faiths are specimens of
these masculine religions. In the Mosaic decalogue “the
house” takes precedence of “the wife,” anc ‘,‘ the maid” is
ranked between “ a servant. and an ox.”

Those who expect justice to woman to arise out of any
religion based on that of the Jews are referred to the fifteenth
chapter of Leviticus, which treats of the purification of wo-
men. In it womanv is sternly held answerable, not only for
her diseases, but forinatural effects over which she has no
control, and ordered to pay ‘tribute to the priest by way of
atonement for what the “man” Moses must have considered
and believed to be the defects of her nature.

It is true that the Catholic church has, with profound
policy, sought to remedy this apparent injustice by deifying
a woman. It is believed, also, that Catholic priests do their
duty by the youth of both sexes committed to their charge,
by warning them against the commission, of “sins of the
flesh,” a _duty., sadly neglected by their Protestant .cotempo-
raries. So many and so gross are the above-mentioned crimes
that it is not saying too much to assert that, in cqinparison
with them, illegal natural unions almost appear as virtues. I

It is no wonder, therefore, that, so far as regards the_ male
sex, such liasions are but lightly condemned by society. If
in ’l‘urkey, illicit amours are followed by the physical, and in
Protestant countries by the social, death of the females com-

tmitting them, the reason is, because-in both creeds woman

is not properly represented, but is treated as the inferior of
man. But even, under such’ ruling, something like equal
justice ought to be meted out. If there are “fallen women”
there are also “fallen men.” Shakespeare appreciated this
fact when he applied the most opprobrious term in language
to one of his own sex. In the play of Troilus and Cressida
(act 5, scene 1), Thersites uses it in rating Patroclus. The
Jpassageis npt quoted lest it might offend the Y. M. C. A.,
whose piety might, be staggered at hearing such a term ap-
plied to one of the lords of the creation. But he who “was
not for a day but for all time” understood our language,
and used it rightly: If the terms “ unfortunate” or “fallen”
are not applied to male as well as female—offenders' against
legal morality the cause is obvious. L It is not that they are
not equally merited, but because, by partial laws (social and
civil) men are rated as woman’s s‘uperiors——these laws them-
selves being the natural results of .0116.-sided and unjust male

religions. . I

to face opposed by theYoung Men’s Christian Association——=
the new Jesuitical Order of Protestants. This body of Pro-
fessed saints affect a holy horror when it is proposed to discuss
the causes and effects of social revolution. In the cramped
condition of their souls, corresponding to the cramped relig-
ious theories they profess, they conceive that any reference
whatever to the function of life, by and through which all
have life, is obscene. They openly declare that the God-
instituted and God-maintained ‘offices of procreatio~n——of con-
ception, pregnancy and child-birth——are obscene things, and
their discussion to arrive at what may be remedied in their
present imperfect condition as also obscene; and they are
endeavoring by every method known to them in trickery and
influence to obtain still more restrictive and repressive legis-
lation, by which to aid them in shutting off this discussion
and the consequent agitation of these all—important subjects.
At the outset of any consideration, any legislature may
give to the demands of these superlative professors, it

the vital question if it be not permitted that it be publicly
discussed upon the rostrum, in the press and in books? No
one can be insane enough to assume that our sbcial ills are not
largely if not wholly due to the general ignorance that exists
regarding the science of the sexes, which, though least under-
stood, is after all the most important of all the sciences. If
life and health, if intellect and morals, depend upon the
functions of generation, gestation and subsequent birth and
growth, how can it be expected that their best results can be
obtained in their ignorant performance and operation? How
stupid, aye how criminal it is, to say that the most beautiful
and at the same time most wonderful operation of nature,
that of constructing a tenement‘ for a human soul, is so ob-
scene, so vulgar, so indecent as not to be permitted the most
open and thorough investigation, so that the most general
and comprehensive understanding of it may be obtained!

But just this thing do the Christian young men say when
they say that they who shall attempt to discuss the abuses in
our social system shall be punished for obscenity. We won-
der if the next step will not be to expurgate from the Eng-
lish language every word by which the sexual organs and
functions are now known? Will they not demand that the
dictionaries shall be revised so ad to convey no information
upon these tabooed subjects? Will they not ask that a grand
bon—fire be made and that all medical and physiological
books and anatomical charts of the human system shall be
piled upon ‘it to increase its volume? Shall not our colleges
and medical schools be debarred from teaching anything
‘whatever regarding the profound mysteries of the processes
of life? It cannot be maintained that it is proper that physi-
cians alone of all the people shall know these things when the
great command to everybody is, “Know thyself.”

But the farce is too palpable, the pretense too apparent,
the object too evident. To say that any knowledge is good
to be possessed by any body, and to follow this by saying that
the same knowledge is not good to be possessed by everybody,
is a palpable contradiction that needs no argumentation to
demonstrate ; and it therefore clearly remains to be inferred
that these ‘Jesuits desire to have well-defined statutes on
morals, and then elect themselves to be the judges as to
what is moral and what immoral.

N ow, we contend, and shall continue to contend, so long
as we have strength to speak, or power to write, that the
immorality regarding sexuality, its surroundings and in-
volvements consists not in its free discussion and general
understanding by the general people, but in the almost com-
pl’etc ignorance that exists regarding them; Each individual,
instead of urging legislation to prevent discussion, should
urge such as would make it a necessary part of every cl1ild’s——
girls as well as boys, and more emphatically girls—education,
that they have a most perfect understanding of everything
that relates to sexual intercourse‘. ~

things socially than now exist. '

In no other way can it be expected that boys and girls can
hope to escape the pitfalls into which everywhere they are
now falling, and in which they are ruined. Every physician
of medium intelligence knows that it is next to impossible to
find a man or woman just arrived at maturity who is not
sexually diseased ; nevertheless these same physicians, under“
the same rule by which the Jesuits are governed III}.
their raid against free discussion, keep their lips sealed to the:
terrible fact and its causes, which they, as well as we, know
to be lack of knowledge upon the sexualfunctions. We
say, out upon such shams as this is, falsely called
modesty and purity. Modesty and purity, forsooth! Vul-
garity and nastiness rather, '
But it remainsto be seen whctherthe, good sense of Legis-
lators in State and National Assemblies will permit them-
selves to be hoodwinked into the passage of laws by which:

the modern Pharisees hope to stop the onward wheels of‘
progress for the most perfect discussion and understanding of’
the whole social and sexual question, over which the public,
mind is now so tremendously agitated. For our parts we
shall write and speak as we feel called upon to do, let these
long, Sunday-faced hypocrites squirm and write and blush
and hide their faces as they may; and we know that the
good sense of the people Will. ultimately come to uphold us,
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’ THE . voTE DIRECT vs.‘ THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE.

A great deal has been written and spoken, both pro and 6077/-,
upon the very important question as to the manner by which
the President should be elected; but almost all the agitaiton
for reform that now exists looks to a change from the es-
tablished method to that of by the direct vote.

It is argued that the Electoral College method is unneces--
sarily indirect, as well as open to the possibility of the will

of the people being thwarted by unlocked for combinations

. in the Electoral College, which would be entirely removed

if the people were to vote directly for the President. It is
also contended, which, so far as it goes, is undoubtedly true,
that by the vote direct there could be no possibility, which
has occurred, and which is always liable to occur, of a per-
son being President for whom but a minority of the votes
were actually cast, large majoriwies in some States being offset
by small counter majorities in other States.

To this last objection it cannot be denied there is now some
force, which did not obtain while the theory of our Gov-
ernment was that it was a confederacy of sovereign States.
This theory having been effectually disposed of by arecent
decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, affirm-
ing that the United States is a government of the sovereign
people, and no longer that of the sovereign‘ States, the prac-
tices built upon it certainly ought to bemodified to conformi
to this radical change, and to carry out the new theory
made necessary by the substitution of the nation for the
State as a basis of ‘citizenship, which is, undoubtedly, a step
in this direction, not as it is argued by some superficial rea-
soners, of ‘a centralized government, but in that of a more
complete and equal distribution of the functions of govern-
ment ameng the whole people, whose desires meet in
unitary, instead of hydra-headed, purposes. This is
apparenj if it be remembered that the more nearly and per-
fectly the people, as individuals, are related to the Govern-
ment, or the more nearly the Goverment is the people, the
more evenly is the governing function administered.

This would seem to settle the question at issue between
the vote direct and the Electoral College for the election of
President, in favor of the former; and it was, undoubtedly,
this view of the case that induced Mr. Sumner to submit a
proposition to amend the Constitution in this direction. But
while the force of this cannot be denied, it ought not to be
forgotten that there are. other reasons which should have
their legitimate weight in the consideration. ,

For instance, it should be remembered that the true the-
ory of a Republican Government is not that the majority
should rule, but that the people should do so. The election
of President by direct vote isclearly the success of a major-
ity and the defeat of the minority of the people. It is true,
however, that this objection applies, though not with the
same force, to the vote through Electors. I

But if there is a system which would more nearly repre-
sent the views of the people as a whole, then that is a method
superior to either of the methods under consideration. And
that there is must be apparent when it is remembered that a
person like Mr. Adams, as President, would more nearly
represent all the people than would either Mr. Sumner, on
_the one extreme, or Mr. Hendricks, on the opposite; while
the direct vote under the rule of party spirit and strife would
elect one of the last two, instead of the first of the three.

And here we reach the bane of our system of Republican-
ism. It lies in the fact, that the canvasses for all elections,
almost necessarily degenerate into a strife, not for the
election of the best man, or the best representative man,
but i11to a strife between two parties for the election of their
candidates, and thus to secure. the success of party, merely
for the sake of success and the perquisites it secures.

It is bad enough to be obliged to submit to the periodical
demoralization which invariably accompanies an election,
even in a city ; but when thisis extended to the whole coun-
try, it becomes a matter to be deplored, if, indeed, it be not
a sufficient cause to alone warrant the prediction that our
present system cannot endure. For at least one-eighth of

. the whole time—six months in every four years—nearly

every newspaper in‘the country is filled with matters per-

taining to the canvass, usually of a purely personal charac- 

ter, divorced from all consideration of political economy
and principles. As a consequence, a very large majority of
all the people think and talk of little else but the claims and
prospectsof the respective candidates, as individuals——a rem-
nant of the one—man rule, which should be done away with.
We have just passed through a great political Babel, beneath
the confusion of which all consideration as to what the
public welfare demands was submerged.

A change from the Electoral College to the direct vote
would rather serve to ‘enhance than _modify the bitterness of
this strife. If we want reform, then, it must be looked for
from other sources. The present evils come largely from
party strife, and the necessary separation of the people into
two great political divisions, instead of a dozen or more as
there really are. The evils of" the direct vote system would

also be the same. - A remedy for party strife, then, is what _

is required, rather than a change in the method of election.
The people should not be compelled to take “Hobson’s
choice” between two candidates, but every person should
have the privilege, in some manner, of voting for a repre-
sentative of his own peculiar political views, whose influ-
ence shouldreach and be felt in the objective purpose. This

evil of the present system was sufficiently potent to compel-
the Democrats, in the late election, to choose between Gen.
Grant and Mr: Greeley, while many of them had no sympa-
thy with either of them, as individuals or candidates, or with
the platforms upon which they stood.

N or does this aspect of the question present the only de-
fects of the system. The fact that thousands did not want
to vote for either of the above candidates made them indif-
ferent tO° politics, and they did not vote at all; since to vote
otherwise’ Was, as it is said, to throw their votes away, which
is literally ti 'ue. There are very few people who, knowing them-
selves to be largely in a minority, will expend their time and
means‘ in a cause which they know cannot yet sueceed. But
these same people would be zealous in their cause if by so
being xtlieir influence could have its legitimate weight in the
common purposes of the Government. A

Hencde, it is safe to conclude that a system which compels
citizens ‘do choose between two persons, neither of whom,
under any other circumstances, VVOlllCl.:-«I38 their choice, or,’as
the only alternative, to refrain from participation in poli-
tics, is ‘a false, not to say a pernicious, system, and in-
compatible with the theory of a Republican Government, and
consequently that achange from the Electoral College to a di-
rect vote for President, would remedy none of the real evils '
by which we are now afflicted. -

THE -oBsCENE LITERATURE QUESTION IN CON-

The \Young Men’s Christian Association, finding from re-
cent occurrences that the present statute regarding the
sending of obscene literature through the mails isimpotent
to stop the publication of this journal and the consequent
discussion of matters and things which they are either too
ignorant to comprehend or in which they are too much per-
sonally-involved to permit agitation for fear of detection,
have hastened to Congress, to urge further legislation; and
we have the information from a prominent member of the
House Judiciary Committee that that committee is consider-
ing how the application of the present law may be extended.

It was only last June that the United States statute on this
subject was amended at, we believe, the instance of these
same Christian young men.

— They tlnought what they had obtained would permit them
to watch the departure of anything alleged to be obscene in
the mails, and to seize it in the Post-ofiice before it sheuld
be dispatched, and thus do away with the necessity of
their agent; going to the country with a. lie in his mouth to
But this nice game I was prema-
turely nipped inithe bud by the adverse opinion of Attorney
General Williams, who does not believe that the Post—of‘fice
Department. ought to be run by these exemplary Christian
It is more than likely, at the time he rendered
that opinion, he had a too palpable view of a Patterson, in-
volved in a Credit Mobilier, ora Dodge, deep in the mysteries
of revenuie frauds, to put the United States Mail service under
the espionage of the Associated Brothers of such individuals.
At least, their agent feels compelled to continue his country
visits, and. to invent new aliases with which to cover his

entrap the unwary.

Under the pressure of the recent exposures of Senators
and Representatives, heretofore held immaculate, Congress
may, by a spasmodicassumption of a temporary and as-
sumed vir1L.'ue, submit to the demands of this association,
presided «over by those who so well understand how to
cheaply irnport foreign goods; but if they do,,,it will not be a
very long time until the people will cry out in thunder tones
against such usurpation of their rights and such cowardly
yielding to the demands of a set of persons who hope to
subvert the people to their control and compel them to their

We call upon the press, generally, to lift its all-powerful
‘voice and forbid that they whom the people have elected to
represent them in Congress shall thus desecrate their trusts,
since it is the freedom of the individual that is in question,

To us one of the saddest things we see in the present is
the horrible clamor made by the press for the lives of those
unfortunate beings who are confined in the Tombs and else-
where, charged with murder.
victims of our false social system rather than the demons
some would make it appear that they are. What person who
» is now loudly demanding blood for blood will dare say that,
had he been subjected to the same influences that have fol-
lowed and controlled any one of those who have taken the
life of a human being, he would not also have committed
the deed? These clamorous individuals forget that they
have-never been tempted as those they would now [have
hanged were tempted, and that, instead of ende-avoring .to
hound on the law officials to strangle them, they should rather
thank heaven that they were not themselves the victims.

We said that they were the victims of our false social sys-
tem; and we would repeat it in tones of thunder until the
whole world should wake up to the consciousness that all
criminals are therresults of lcauses existing in‘ society over
which it is impossible that they could have had any control. .
Nothing is better established than that there are born thieves,
and why not also born murderers. All that is required to

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make a murderer is to have given an individual possessed of
a disposition capable of being so wrought upon by surround-
ing influences as to rouse the dispositien to action, and the
object upon which to direct this action. There are very few
cases of murder which are coolly and deliberately planned
and executed, and but a very small proportion of these that
are not really the result of some form of insanity. .
The desire to punish murder by murder comes from the
fact that the doctrine of free—wil1 has so extensively pre-
vailed. This doctrine makes it within the jurisdiction of
all individuals to choose or refuse, by mere force of personal
will, in regard to every circumstance that is developed during A
life, never taking into consideration the most palpable of
all facts, that it is apvery easy matter for one person to decide
not ‘to do the very thing that another person cannot possibly
resist doing: but in various degrees this rule applies to every
act of human life. But justice, so called, _takes no cogni-
zance of these difierences in personal ability to choose or
refuse, and blindly holds to equal account the weakest wit
the strongest. - A

When the tornado sweeps over the forest, the stronger trees
resist its force, and are not overcome, while their weaker
neighbors bend and break beneath its fury. So it is with
-humanity. When a storm of passion or a whirlwind of rage
sweeps over it, the weaker ones give way under its fury,
while the stronger remain erect and firm; but it is no special
credit to the stronger that they do not yield to the storm,
since it is from the actual possession of a superior power
lacking in those who yield, that enables them to do so. And \
when our criminal jurisprudence shall come to be regulated
by these natural laws, the weak members of society will be
regarded as victims to be pitied and cared for, rather than as
demonsto be tortured and punished for not being possessed
w of the natural gifts which enable people to be firm and strong
at all times and under all circumstances.

Wejare also totally opposed to capital punishment for the
effect it has upen embryotic life. When the verdict of
“ Guilty” in the Stokes case_went out to the world, it caused
a terrible and wide-spread horror to creep in the souls of all
persons having any of the common sympathies of humanity
within them. From what is known of the effect of such
~thrills of horror upon foetal life, who can presume to say
that this single case of conviction has not already imprinted
murder uponla thousand unborn souls? What motherun.
dergoingthe beautiful processes of pregnancy can presume;
to say what eifect that horrible fact has had upon her unborn‘
chfld? — / _

I But aside from all these considerations ef the expediency
of strangling people to death, there are certain inalienable
rights existing in every individual, of which he cannot
rightfully be despoiled under any circumstances. Life is
one of those inalienable rights; and if, unfortunately, aper-
son becomes the victim of such untoward circumstances as I
to destroy it in another person, that is no reason why the

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

In our esteem they are the

community should turn upon him, and in the attempt to
punish one so-called crime, commit another equally as, if not
still more, heinous than the first. For ourselves, we Consider
the person who, under the terrific impulses of passion, takes
the life of him who rouses the passion, as ‘infinitely more
human than they who, in cool blood, deliberately lead
another to the scaflold, and then as coolly strangle him to
death. A thousand excuses instantly arise in the pitying
heart for the former, while to us it seems impossible that
there is a single excuse for the latter; and all the better in- .
stincts of humanity revolt at themerc thought of S1101). a hor- I
rible deed’. It is a sight almost any sc2:is<itive person can en-
dure to see, two persons in mutual:  seeking each other’s
life; but to see the rope coolly adjusted to the neck of any-
body, no matter how great a wretch he may be, is a deed
from which every soul must‘ shrink away, in loathing, and
think less of humanity, that such a thing can be tolerated‘ by

a professedly enlightened people. -

 

And especially is this thing a damning deed to be perpe-
trated by a professing Christian people. The old‘ Mosaic
law taught, “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth;”
blood for blood, and life for life. Q To this law the Jews may

consistently hold; but for professing followers of Christ to

hold to it is self-evident upon its face that they are not His
followers, for He taught the very reverse°of the Mosaic law.
Indeed He said it was fulfilled by His coming, and that the
law He gave to take its place was “ To resist not evil,” “ To
love your enemies,” “ To do good to those who despitefully
use you and persecute you.” Now what person, with these
teachings before his very eyes, dare stand up and advocate
capital punishment and at the same time profess to being,a
follower of Christ-—to be a, Christian? Yet thousands of so-
called though self-styled Christian ministers advocate the
death penalty-. I _ .

- It is a most illogical deduction to be made that the fearful
prevalence of murder is the ‘result of the failure to hang
murderers. There is no possible connection between the
two things. Murder depends wholly upon other and entirely
different causes, and they who best understand the forces
that move upon and which control the actions of society
begin to comprehend that, whatever penalty may be affixed . I
to whatever crime, it has neither repressive or inducive effect I
upon its repetition ‘by other persons. When the science of
society, when sociology shall become the guide of life, the
present remnants of barbarism will begin to disappear, among ‘
the first of which will be that of hanging, or the taking of
life in any way, as a punishment for murder. “Vengeance

is mine, .I Will repay saith the Lord,” means, when properly

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interpreted, that man should not attempt to interfere with
the inevitable judgments of the ‘immutable laws of the uni-

t. verse, which mete out justice to all persons and things. »

HELD FOR ANOTHER INDICTMENT.

Last week we presented to our readers the somewhat re-

markable instrument now known as Commissioner Daven-

port’s opinion in regard to how questions over which exist-
ing statutes have no control may be settled. It came to us

just as we were about going to press, and we confess we.

were too much confounded by its profunclity or its lack of
it, we are scarcely yet certain which, to any more than pub-
lish the instrument without expressing any opinion regard-
ing it. , _ -

But having, at least partially, recovered from the shock

I by which we were at first ‘overcome, we now propose to take

the literary scalpel in hand and to dissect this subject, so
that a full comprehension of its force and intended effect
may be obtained: '

“I have carefully examined the various grounds of de-
fense urged on behalf of the prisoners, together with all the
authorities cited on both’ sides, and but for the ruling in a
recent English‘ case" (Regina agt. Shore), not eited,should
have considerable doubt as to the Challis articles being, as is
claimed by the prosecution, obscene in law.

“ The case of Shore is so nearly parallel, however, to that
of these defendants, and the grounds of defense and agn-
ments of counsel so much the same as to compel me to
adopt the ruling ‘therein and hold the article in question to
be obscene. , I

“ Upon the further question as to the intention of Congress

* in the framing and passage of the statute under which these

proceedings were instituted, I am quite clear that a case of
this cliaractcr was never contemplated, and uncler ordinary
cii'c1i111st'-ances I should at once release the accused.

“In view, however, to the importance as well as to the
subtlety of the questions involved, the anxiety of the prisoners,
as well as "the community fordefinite settlement of the whole
niattér, I am disposed to and shall hold the prisoners to
await the action of the Grand Jury, to the end ‘that a judicial

determination by the Circuit Court of the United States may-

be had, and the rights both of the prisoners and the public
be finally ascertained.” I

_ It seems to us that the Commissioner took the dog’s way
-—the_ furthest ‘way round is the nearest way home-—to

_'arrive at that at which he unquestionably felt it necessary-
that he should arrive, to wit, our holding: If there is no

American law which contemplates cases of this kind, we

should like to inquire how it is possible to import a foreign,

law to supply the deficiency and to meet the demands or
exigencies that may be pressing. The Commissioner was
“ quite cle"ar” upon this point, and “ under ordinary’ circum-
stances” he would at once have released us. _Now what

were the extraordinary circumstances that did not /permit‘

him to release us, as even his own conception of the law in-
dicated that he ought to have done‘? He proceeds to inform
us that the questions involved are not only important, but
also very subtle, and that both the community and ourselves
are anxious for a definite settlement of the whole matter.
,Now what are the important questions and in what are
they involved? He is “quite clear” there is no law either
involved or contemplated; that is, that we have violated no
law and consequently that we had been arrested and our in-

dividual liberty outraged without even the sanctionof law. ,

Did Commissioner Davenport stop when he wrote that de-
cision to think about the logical deductiens that must.neces-
sarily follow it? ‘VV_e fear that he did not;, butthat being,
from some motive which he could not very well explain,
under obligations to hold us, he could not afford to think of

consequences. , We say if the issue of Nov. 2 is not obscene, ,
as contemplated by the statute, that he had no right to hold

us to await the action of the Grand Jury; and that in hold-
ing us to do so, he has laid himself liable to impeachment.

The importance and subtlety of the questions involved,then,
lie outside of the question of law, but the law had to‘ be in-
voked and outraged in order that they might havb considera-
tion. To determine what those delicate questions are, it is
clear that we must go to the facts that have been connected
with this case, and from the very first they have beenboth
clear and forcible.‘ Itcmust be remembered that this is the
second charge" of the same kind, upon ',the same basis, for

which there is no law, under which we have been deprived of
our liberty. In the first it was so apparent that we were arrest-
ed, because we had dared to touch the reputation of a rever-
ed citizen, that the question of obscenity scarcely came, to
the surface. Vie had been obscene only, because we had at-

tacked the r‘eputation, not the character, of Mr. Beecher.‘
Not a reference even was made to the Challis article; it was’

all Mr. Beecher, and he was the inspiration of the whole out-
rage upon us. i c
Under that outrage we remained in prison, sufi‘;’ering all the
brutalities connected with’ such a situation,‘for more than a
month, inwhich time the emissarics of the persecution had
pretty effectually ,ruined our business and suppressed our
paper. But we released ourselves and began the agitation
just where. they had compelled us to leave it off.
, VVe -proposed to go» even further, and to speak in the
Cooper Institute, upon “The l\lal2:_ed. Truth,” and this second
arrest was plannetl to prevent it. Noxv these things are so
evident to every observing mind, they need no other verifica-
tion than their observation as they occurred. And. new

thdt Commissioner Davenport says there is no law upon
which to base these arrests, it seems certain that even-in
the minds of those who ordered the ar1'ests,-these considera-
tions were the uppermost thought. The important and subtle
question then,‘was whether we have the right to criticize
the conduct of such citizens as it is “well worth the while
of the Unitecl States Government to vindicate.”

‘But the Commissioner says the prisoners and the com-
munity are anxious for .a definite settlement of the whole
question. Now how can Commissioner Davenport assume to
speak for us, and indicate that we think. there is any ques-
tion to settle? We have never supposed that there was any
question of obscenity. We know there is no honest, unpre-
judiced person who will say that there is at single obscene
word or an immoral thought in that whole paper; and
everybody engaged in this nefarious matter also knows it,
andlthe time draws near when the community will indeed
be anxious to have this matter definitely ‘settled; but it will
not be about the question of our obscenity; but -what con-
sequences should be meted out to oificials who have dared
to institute these infamous proceedings to sustain at our ex-
pense the reputation of any citizen, no matter who or what
‘he may be. . - » ' G

If it were a question to be decided by the law, which from
its character and its subtlety was important, and about
which the prisoner’ and the community are anxious, what
was the necessity of a second indictment, when we were
already held under a similar one to be tried by the same
court? It must have been convenient for Commissioner
Davenport-to have forgotten the former indictment at the
time he wrote this decision. Every question that can possibly

— be reached by a trial of this last indictment will be reached

and settled by the trial under the first. Hence, with this in
view, it was unnecessary to have held us without authority
of law, in order that any question at issue might be settled
thereby. / - .

But in view of all these things, ‘f I am disposed ’’——without
any law whatever~—“and shall hold the prisoner,‘ to await
the a'ction of the Grand. Jury, to the end that a judicial deter-
mination by the Circuit Court of the United States may be
had, and the rights of the prisoner and the public be finally
ascertained.” Having decided that we had violated no law,
but still having been deprived of our ‘rights in spite of all
law, it seems to us that this portion of the decision would
have been somewhat more consistent had it recited, instead
of rights to be ascertained, it had been wrongs imposed.-

the finality of all this should make our rendition the more
proper one. ' I I
But with all his desire for justice to the prisoners and the
public, the Commimioner could find no law under which
it could be administered ; therefore, he must needs find
some other pretext by which to reach that ' devoutly-to
be-wished for consummation, and by diligent and pro-
longed search, extending through three weeks, he is
rewarded by finding an English case (Rigin vs. Shore)
“not cited by the authorities,” which -“ compels ” him to
hold the Challis article to be obscene, although to him it is
not so, either according to his own interpretation
or in the contemplation of the United States law. If this is
not a smuggling of foreign things——the evasion of the com-
mon’rulestof custom~—with a vengeance, we are at a loss to
find a name by which it can be properly described. Had not
Commissioner,Davenport, to be consistent, bettertake us to
England and try us there, where the law he assumes to prac-
tice under has virtue and force ‘B He has just as much right
to do this as he had to hold us when he confessed there was no
law to authorize it. Perhaps we are too fast in supposing
that he may not do this. We suppose the people would
quietly submit to see this done, and the city press would not
dare to say a word about it, any further than to record the
fact that such a--thing had been done. Oh, Liberty, where are
thy defenders! Oh, Justice,where are thy administrators! Oh,
Tyranny, are we again to be subjected to thy sway ! that

‘ such an outrage can be perpetrated, without even the pre-
’ tense of legality, and therein no voice outsidethat of those

who suffer which dares to raise itself to denounce it. Veri-
ly, are the days of Republican institutions drawing to a
close. V, , ‘x '

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-_A GREAT AND GRAVE Q,UEEiTIOl\T.—

The ages have been full of momentous questions. Each

portance. Early in historic time the years rolled slowly,
tediously along, because time is not marked so definitely by
the number of its days, months and years as by the weight
and number of events that its passage evolves; and these
succeed’ each other, as they come trooping down the steeps
of time, with an ever-increasing rapidity.

But the advances that civilization has recently made are of _

such tremendous import that they outrival comparison with
the attainment of previous centuries. Even in the early
stages of the present century, a single startling fact com-
manded the wonder and attention of the world for months;
but it now becomes‘ restless and unsatisfied if something
new, strange or startling be not chronicled in the columns
Of each II10.1‘n‘i11g’s newspaper. Thus he or she who lives now

who lived “three score years and ten.” ’
There is another fact connected with the evolution of

civilization equally as marked as this one referred to, and

lSti1lIl10l’6 significant in its general import, and this is the

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WoL1ld’it not be a wonderful exemplification of justice if '

century has settled one or more of more than ordinary im-

a score of years, lives more than he or she of “ former times”

Feb.) 22, 187%.

area or volume of present movements. The heart of the
whole world, it may be said, beats with one pulse. Time
and space have been practically annihilated, so that the en-
tire people of the world are simultaneously informed of the
same things; and this has accomplished the universal unison
of intellectual consideration.

The “ Viva la Oomvmme,” ringing from the departing soul

ment, strikes the heart and moves the resentment of every
lover of human liberty wherever he may be. It is not alone
his brothers and sisters in France, who, by the cry, are
nerved anew to the determination to wipe tyranny, in
whatever form it may raise -its head, from the face of the
earth; but it is his brothers and sisters everywhere whose
hearts respond to his death-struggles. _

In attemptir g to wash out the memory of the Commune
with the blood of its defenders,’ the Versailles Government
pits itself not only against freedom in France, but against
human freedom in all countries, and arrays it against itself;
and, as monarchs and other governments of ‘ other nations-
silently watch the stream of blood, their peoples inwardly
set them down as accessories to the murderous proceedings;

The "process, which is going on in the world under the in’-
fluence of this comparatively new agency, is.rapidly dividing
the people into two classes—~those whose hearts are attuned
in sympathy with despotism, and those with human liberty.
Even now it may be said there are but two opposing powers
in the world—Conservatism and Radicalism——and that their
lines of demarkation are, day by day, becoming more and
more distinctly defined. The former denies the theory of
evolution in civilization; believes in, and desires to main-
tain,‘ things as they are ; the latter affirms that theory, and
makes hast to evolve each succeeding step; is never satis-
fied with the things of the present, having an abiding faith
in the possibilities of the future.

The interests of these two classes of people, whether upon:
one Continent or on the other ; whether in America, Europe”,
Asia or Africa, are identical. If radicalism in one country
do not mean just what it means in another country, the
radicals of both countries are nevertheless in active sym-
pathy. If the radicalism of one country be even behind the
conservatism of another country, the radicals of both coun-_
tries are more nearly related to each other than are either to
the conservatives of the other.
countries means the same thing ; anclso also doesite more‘
formidable opponent.

But behind all mere difibrence in progressive ideas, whether
in religion, politics or ethics,’ there lies a question which is,
everywhere, one and the same, not only in name, but also in
substance and fact. Examine it as represented among the
most intelligent, refined and intellectual, and its features are
similar to those that exist among the ignorant, the gross and
the illiterate. It is not confined to any nation, race or clime ';
but wherever humanity is in a condition superior to the
brute, there this question is found; and it is the greatest
and the gravest, with, perhaps, a single exception, that in-
volves the interests of the himan race.

In common parlance, this is called the Labor Question;
but in its universal aspect it should more properly be de-
nominated, ,Material Equality, since it is not a question
simply of labor, but of equity between different kinds cit’
labor. It is even more than this : it is a question as to what
labor itself is, and what pauperism, since it matters not to
the laborer who the person is who lives from his toil, toiling
not himself-—~whether in the almshouse or in the palace.
And it/is upon a basis no less fundamental than is involved
by this proposition that this question must soon be settled.
No government will be permitted to exist-Zwhich does not
plant itself squarely and unequivocally upon the principles
of individualfindustrial equity, interpreting this to mean,
equal rights, equal opportunities and equal compensation,
and making the ‘hours labor of the drivers of our ‘street

scavengers equally remunerative with that of the highest‘
State oificial ; the difference between the two being solely in
the fact that one is capable of oificial duty, while the other’s
natural employment is of the most repulsive sort; and the
equity between the two’ existing inthe fact that the oflfcial,
at the same price, prefers to ‘remain the oificial, while the
scavenger could not become the oificial if . he would-11.
difference upon which the world has hitherto set a money
. value, and upon the wrong side.

ciple must necessarily be merely palliative and transitional ;

delays the final settlement, after which only can a true order

of society begin to be evolved. - I '

WHAT ARE CIVIL RIGHTS, AND WHO ARE EN-
TITLED TO THEM ? -

-In this age, when the discussion of almost every question
is made to turn upon the rights of individuals as citizens or
non-citizens, and when classes of individuals are the subjects
of a wide range of treatment,’ it may not be improper to in-’
quire what is meant by equal civil rights, and also to decide,
if possible, whether such rights are not already guaranteed
by the organic law of the country, to ignore Which is to set

entirely at variance with the reservations and provisions of
indisputable, and may be laid down at the outset as so,,that,

under the same circumstances, different individuals are en-
titltifi 1iQ.1i1£.e'priyil6g9S @991 llllhlllsities, both. at the hands of

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of some victim at Sartory to the blood-stained Thiers move- ‘.

Hence conse1"v’atisn1 in all i

All political reforms which do not include this vital prin- A ’

and all the time consumed in endeavoring to enforce them

up an opposition to the Constitutional’ right of citizenship, A

Constitutional law. Onething would, at least, appear to be.

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services and create oflices and elect persons to fill them to V

Feb. ‘as, 1573. ~

CAWOODHULL &l[o5LA;rLIN’s WEEKLY. '   I q A   11V

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That is tosay, no official or person who is either commis-
sioned or licensed by the public to do certain things for the
public has any right to discriminate among that public as
to whom he will or will not serve, so long as he can or has
the means to serve, though each may prescribe general rules
Of 01‘de1',\to which all applicants must conform. _

To question this proposition is to set up a caste in the fran-
chises, which the public grants to certain members of itself.
All officers are elected to serve the public, and not upon the
theory that their respective ofiices are created for the ofiicers
The people require certain

render such services. These persons are commissioned by
the whole people, and they can have no more right to dis-
criminate in the rendering of their services than they have
to create additional functions or ignore those created. They
must perform their dutieswithout partiality and without
favor. They must not compel an early applicant today for
attention to delay until to—morrovv because other and later
applicants of better social or financial standing, or of “ our
party,” also desire attention. In a word, an officer, to fully,
justly and impartially perform ‘the services required by the
people, must be “nd respecter of persons.” -

But does not this rule apply with equal force and justice to
quite another class of people, who heretofore have never re-
garded themselves, as bound by the law, to adhere to it ; but
who, nevertheless, in general parlance, do, in 9. manner, re-
gard it, though, perhaps, purely from the fact that impar-
tiality is a permanent characteristic of the general American
people. .

There is a very much larger class of people than all public
oflicials, who are really as much the servants of the public as
are its elected or appointed ofiicers, who have never been
legally held as performing the functions of public servants,
nor held accountable as such in the administration of their
respective affairs. VVhoever in any manner serves the gen-
eral public is, strictly speaking, a public servant. A very
large proportion of the public accommodations are conducted
by individuals whom the public, as individuals, pay, and
many of the most valuable franchises of the country are held
and exercised in this way, making innnense profits from the
individuals who require their accomniodations.

Among this class of public servants may be named the
proprietors of all methods of public conveyance, of public
amusements, of all public recreations, of all public restaur-
ation, and of all public merchandising. All of these classes
of people are permitted by the public to pursue their various
branches of business, and -are licensed to do, and are pro-
tected in doing so. But up to this timetheir duties to the
public have not been considered as subjects to be regulated
by any other method than their own personal choice, and at
their own chosen price. , ‘ ,

But this is altogether an assumption of privilege as an
analysis of their rights will clearly show. ‘All of these va-
rious callings, professions and public accommodations are
primarily permitted upon the proposition that they are pub-
lic necessities, or at least public conveniences; and that they
will, in one way or another, be a benefit to the public. No
single one of them is permittedby the public upon the oppo-
site proposition—that the public gives permission for its con-
duct for the benefit of the individual proprietors. Neverthe-
less, and almost without a single exception, they are con-
ducted as if they are entirely for the benefit of the conduct-
ors. In other words, the public commissions or licenses
them, to offer their accommodations‘ to the people, and,
by not making prohibitory regulations, virtually says to them:
Make all the extortionate charges for your accommodations
that the people -will endure, and extend or deny them to
whomsoever you please. A This, we say, is the theory upon
which all these public conveniences are now conducted.

Now, observe the philosophy of this theory carried into
practice. In receiving a franchise, permission - or license
from the public to conduct any business for the accommo-
dation of the public, every one of the people constituting that
public joins in the grant of right. Once in possession of
the right, the individual assumes to choose to whom among
these persons constituting the public he will extend the use
of his franchise, thus virtually assuming to deny its accom-
modations to the very power which primarilyauthorized
him to offer them to the people, and which protects him in
such use, and thus virtually afiirming that the public can
create a power greater than itself and which can regulate
itself.‘ .

It is because this fallacious theory obtains in general prac-
tice that so many of the public conveniences expand. into
immense monopolies, which hang upon the necks of the
people with ever-increasing weight; year after year demand-
ing larger profits as the price of their existence. Thus the
public, by its own -foolishness, creates powers which exist
and grow fat upon its vitality. Every corporation and indi-

vidual in the country which, in the prosecution of any call-'

ing, has amassed a wealth in excessof a just proportion of
the total wealth for each individual have done so because the
public has unwisely given the authority, or by not providing
the necessary regulations and restrictions to protect its own
interest, has commissioned them to levy unjust charges upon
the people. And this is the parent of the present wealth
aristocracy. \ \ - » \ '
There are are two remedies for thir-t (_:onditiou of things
First, and that »which begins to have some attention, to
1im_.it‘tl1ej)1'oiits which shall accrue ‘row. the conduct of any

4

r all public oflicials and theproprietors of all public resorts.) btisiness which is conducted for the benefit, accommodation

or convenience of the people; and second, and the only per-
fect method, for the public itself to provide and conduct all

the necessary accommodations for the people instead of

authorizing individuals to do so, as is now the practice. By
the. first method the rates of charges would have to be regu-
lated so as to produce a stated income; any sum realized in

‘excess of which, being paid over to thepublic. In the sec-

ond, the public conveniences would be conducted at cost of
maintenance or at the public expense, as public highways
are now maintained, without regard to the individuals who
make use of them.

It is only by such regulations and such organizations of the
public necessities that the theory of equality upon which our
system of government is based can be practically realized by
the people. Any other practice necessarily leads away from
equality toward monopoly, rule of caste and an aristocracy
of wealth, each one of which is an emphatic denial of the ex-
istence ef a government such as was contemplated by the
theory laid down in the Declaration of Independence.

The results of present practices are, that by the consent of
the people, through its government, there have arisen powers
which are greater than the public itself ; that is, these powers
that have grown by taxing the people enormously for the
the accommodations enjoyed, have become so great that
they, instead of the public, control the government. No-
body will be found rash enough to risk a reputation for
sanity by denying that our government is to-day a govern-
ment of the wealth of the “upper ten,” maintained over and
at the expense of the poverty of the lower million, which
must be evident to all when it is remembered that the wealth
of the few is not diminished by the expense of the govern-
ment, while the poverty of the many is,continually main-
tained. »

’ In the place, then, of civil rights, nearly all of our insti-
tutions are civil wrongs ; civil rights being the result of
civil equality, and civil wrongs civil aristocracy. Civil

9:

rights in a republican government should mean civil equality

for all the citizens of that government. In this sense our

government is not even an approach to republicanism, since
in its administration the theory of equality is entirely ignored.
Civil rights, guaranteed to all persons, mean "civil equality be-
forevthe law for all persons, and in everything that law pro-
tects. The law, then, can take no note of individual charac-
teristics. VVhatevermay be the mental, moral, intellectual,
physical, professional or pecuniary condition, civilly he or
she is ‘entitled to the equal protection and benefit of all laws,
and of all things that exist or are conducted by the authority
of law. And this ‘alone would be the equal maintenance
of civil. rights.

Such being the theory of our government, and the contrary
being the practice under it, what are the provisions of law
really in force regarding this matter? And for this, since it
is the law, whatever else there may be in existence, we refer
directly to the Constitution of the United States. The Four-
teenth Amendment declares that no State shall make or en-
force any law that shall abridge the privileges or immunities
of citizens of the United States. Nor deprive any person of
life or liberty, except by due process of law; nor deny to
to any person the equal protection of the law. Now this
language is sufficiently comprehensive and positive to make
all persons equal before the law; and to entitle all persons
to equal protection of and to equal enjoyment’ of all public
conveniences authorized and provided by, the law; and that,
too, as we have before remarked, tvithout regard to any distinc-
tion among individuals, and regulated only by general rules
applicable alike to all persons, and beyond the power of the

ofiicer, publicvservant or public licensee to modify in accord~'

ance with his own desires or tastes. '

If this interpretation of constitutional law be the corfect
one, all individuals, even in the absence of a Civil Right’s
Bill, are civilly equal and equally entitled to the benefits
of all public conveniences. And these individuals may be
men, women‘ or children; whites, blacks or Indians; capital-
ists, merchants or mechanics; clergymen, gamblers or ‘pros-

‘titutes. ' The rough, uncouth daily laborer equally with the
kid-gloved gent who profits by the toil of the former, is,

under the same rules, entitled to the hospitality of - the
popular FifthAvenue,.the rechercfze Clarendon or the immacu-
late Gilsey; and so, too, is the unfortunate woman of the
town with the most notable belle of the city.

No person has any civil right to seek the accommodation

‘of any licensed public convenience and object to any other
‘person who is enjoyinggor who desires to enjoy the same,

and no possessor of any franchise, which entitles him to levy
profits from the people, has any right either to refuse the
use of his franchise to any person, or to eject any person
from the enjoyment of it, so long as that person main-
tains» the peace and observeslthe generalrules. And
although this interpretation of the law has never been en-
forced, there can be no reasonable doubt that, since the
passage of the\,Fourteenth Amendment, it has been the law;
or that whoever 1'efL1sbs to so administer ,the law and to
maintain equal civil rights is liableto have hisfrancliise, or

license revoked; and to indictment before the Grand Jury

for misdemeanor. ,

The general public is so rapidly coming to this apprecia-
tion oi civil rights, that proprietors of hotels as a. class, and
as the most outrageous abusers of civil rights, would do

kwcll to lnodiiy tll{.‘li° p1‘e;-but arrogant assuir.pti.ons and con-

form themselvcs, in the conduct of the accommodations for
the public, a little more near°l.y to what they will be com;

pelled, when individuals shall be courageous enough to

demand their rights and enforce them by legal means when
they fail to receive them from those from they have the
right.

WATCHMAN! wnar or run NZGI-IT at

The country might regard, our statements as to the moral
condition in which we are as the complaints of an inter-
ested party. We dispute such conclusion; and in proof that
our statements are correct, we‘ call to our aid extracts from
leading articles from the two most popular papers in the
city of New York——the New York Herald, of the 5th, and
the SZHZ, of the 6th inst.

 i [Hemld, Feb. 5, 1873.]

Exposures,” the former says : g _
“-If this were all the .country might regard their degrada-
tion with the joy that comes of the knowledge that their pun-

of its professed followers. The Church is regarded with
contempt, and its ministers are contemptible. The mention
of the Young Men’s Christian Association raises a laugh.

from a hundred lips. Christianity is becoming a reproach.
Piety is regarded as a cloak forfraud. Temperance and all
the virtues are pointed out as the covering for corruption.
There is nothing good except evil, and nothing evil except
being caught at crime. The smirk. of goodngss is equivalent
to hypocrisy, and the affectation of immorality the badge of
integrity and truth. The want of private virtue indicates
the possession of public‘ worth. The ' order of things has
been reversed, and the unbelievers are loud in their thankful-
ness because t_he ‘ good men ’ have come to grief. The
‘ good men ’ oower before the storm. They can never again
be their former selves, for, like the woman who was happy
in the love of "her children, yesterday a Wife and to—day a
‘courtesan, they carry their shamc in their faces. Like the
unfaithful wife, they plead their temptation while they deny

Their fall is immeasureable, for the injury done to morality

sioned "it. ”
[From the‘ Sun, Feb. 6, 1873.]

Thus far the list of wrecks left by the Credit Mobilier is
sadly imposing. Look at it for reflection and inst1'uctio11 :

SCHUYLER COLFAX, Vice—President.

IIENRY WILSON, Vice-President elect.

JAMEs. HARLAN, United States Senator from Iowa. _

Janus W. Parrnnson, United States Senator from New
Hampshire. ‘ I .

W. B. ALLISON, United States Senator elect from Iowa.

HENRY L. DAWES, Chairman "Ways and Means.

J AMES A. GARFIELD, Chairman on Appropriations.

JOHN A. BINGHAM, Chairman of J udieiary.

G-LENNI W. Soorrnm), Chairman on Naval Affairs. ‘

SAM’UEL Hoorrm, Chairman on Banking and Currency.

W’. D. KELLEY, leader of Protective Policy. .

J AMES Bnoous, member of Ways and Means. ~

J. F. WILSON, ex-member of Congress, whom Grant wanted
to make Secretary of State. 7 I -
. ::< =3 :< — -.2 ac ' =r >r >l=

N 0 party ought to live that sustains such rascality as has
been established against these Republican leaders. Corrup-
tion, bribery and false swearing are fastened upon some of
their foremost men,'who have heretofore sought public confl-
dence as teachers of morals. V At the very time they were ad-
dressing Young Men’s Christian Associations, preaching tem-
perance, deploring immorality, and holding up the banner of
reform and progress, they had conspired with arrant knaves
to plunder the public treasury, and ‘being caught, they have

wvvv

other crimes uardly less odious. ' . ,
[From the JV.’ Y. Herald, Feb; 6]

LIBEBAL REPUBLICAN GENERAL COM'MITTEE—- GENERAL
J onn COCHRANE on WOMAN SunnRAeE.——The,second meet-
ing for the year of the Liberal Republican General Commit-

presiding. . ; ,
9 SHALL WOMEN VOTE? - I ,

Joseph J ardine, Fourth District, submitted a preamble
and resolutions to the effect that the Declarationof Independ-
ence sets forth that all men are, created free and equal, and
whereas under the generic word “ man” is included woman,
it follows that to deny woman the right of suffrage is to
violate the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Incle-
pendence. The speaker quoted Henry ‘Ward Beecher on
this subject and called upon the members to carry out the
principles of Horace Greeley. _

General John Cochrane, in an eloquent address, insisted
that they had no stock in trade, and would not exclude from
discussion any subject germane to politics. He laid down
the principle that what is natural to man is natural to woman,
under the general term _“ man.” But A the suffrage is not a
natural, but a conventional right, given to the fittest.
under twentyjone years cannot vote. But they and women
go to form the public opinion which sways the government.
At the cloemesticheartli woman votes and implants the seeds
of law, and: they who say (here the General brought down
his fist on thetable) that she is not a legislator lie, andthey
know it. _ [Cheers] Let her remain in, the domestic circle.
[Applausej ‘ ‘

' connnurs.

“ Exactly so,” says my lord lvlerisopht, “the suffrage is net

On an article, headed the “ Effect of the Credit Mobilier V
ishment is deserved. But religion suffers from the crimes’

‘The Sundayschool business is played out’ is heard daily ‘

their guilt, and thus make the proof doubly damning.’

and religion is as I much a part of it as the sins which occa-

not serupled to add perjury and subornation of perjury to.

tee was held at 814 Broadway, last night, Thomas A. Stewart *

Males .

 

- than those that have already appeared.

; Sun of August 18,, 1871, and were pointedly illustrated by

A that time the movement for suffrage for women under the

‘ mind, and we confess we were obliged to disabuse his mind

_ them that he has now buried from public view:

, eyer terminate. Thaat “foul deeds may smell above the

12 V  f s A woonr-IAULGL a C'LAFLI1N"S wnnxtv.

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Feb. 22, ‘I873.

a natural but a conventional right to be given to the fittest.
Of a surety, these Republican Americans are beginning to
have some very pretty ideas of governn1ent.” As to the
argument that women -should not legislate because they do
legislate, that refutes itself. We only demand that she
shall openly legislate and be answerable for the effects of her
legislation. . ~

 

, um V

FANNY PATTEN.

i)ied suddenly; let the mockery of the law be done.

Go bid‘ the coroner with majesty of inquest come,

Surround the corpse with "salaried authority and state,

And gabble to a callous world the pauper’s fate. I

Frightfully emaciated, breadless the cupboard, fireless the room,

Prayer prattlers of the stony hearts adjudged her doom.

Poor, suffering, powerless she; they all potent, lacking the will to save.
One more. Yawn again, Potters Field of the slabless grave.

Pray pity the frozen dead, ye of plethoric purses, ,
Iilistarred Fanny Pattenis starved to death in the City of Churches, ~
Love, charity and murder. Only think, dear Christian brother,

Wanted a littlebread, thirty summers old, a wife and mother.

A motherless child’s grief, in hunger’s frantic yell,

Drowning the silvery chime of plenty’s sleigh-bell;

A workless laborer’s heart broke—all but that turned to stone—-
Sobbing hopelessly on the skeleton of a wife, in the mockery of a home.
.})icd of a strange disorder, bafiiing an M. D.’s skill-—

Ah! mysterious providence, -want of bread is sure to kill.
fosaintly-churchcd Brooklyn, what 9. sight was there:

A famishedhusband clasping a frozen wife in wild despair.

“ Little children come unto me,” whines Old Mother Hubbard;

[Dame Christian’s too busy to visit coal bins and cupboards;

Her fat budget is self, power, persecution, evasion.

Go chew the cud of faith as preventative of starvation.

Blessed are the p-o-0-r, heaven in the guise of hell is near,
Preaches the turkey-crammed pastor of many thousands a year.
Murder sanctifies its acts, turns up its well-trained eyes,

And dispatches a hasty prayer somewhere in the skies.

Ah‘! the poor we have always with us, ’twas ever the same-
Muscle must starve to yield gluttony and lust to brain.
Hypocrites! Not a dollar for the life of a starving creature,
Where late $10,000 floral oiferings crowned the brow of Beecher.
Scofiers at Christ, pluck the unmeaning symbol from the temple door—-
“ Go sell all thou hast and give to the needy poor;” '
Scatter the leaves and fishes, ye tract-dealing knaves;

Murder no more, for Christ’s sake, of ‘laborba pauper slaves.

' ' A. HIGGINS.
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MEDDEJE AND MUDDLE.

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res new scnoor. or .J’OURNALISM——HOW nomcn GREELEY
, was ncmnn-rnn moo or rim rnnss.

 

The following remarkable letter,‘under the above caption,
which we copy from the Pittsburg Commercial of the 7th
‘inst-.;, was written by one of A the ablest correspondents of the
 He has occupied positions, journalistic, political and.
official, that have made him familiar with all the behind-the
scenes operations‘ of all prominent political movements; and
especially is this true regarding Mr. Greeley and the Tribune.
No one can read the Uommercial letter and not be conscious
that it was written by one who is not only master of the situ-
ation, but who is also capable of handling it to the best ad-
vantage. The letters of X. I. X. in the Oommercial and the
Chicago Times, upon several recent topics of public interest,
have created a wide-spread effect. We understand they are
to be followed by others of equal if not more importance

it may be expected that we ought to make some explana=
tion of the reference . to ourselves contained in this letter.
Certain it is, that at the time to which reference is made all
the circumstances to which this letter merely hints were well
knowrfin the circle of many intimate friends. They were
even more graphically than here stated in the New York

one of ' the pictorial weeklies, which is ever ready to seize
upon any points in the lives of public men by which to pan-
der to the tastes of the class of people ‘who patronize it. At

Censtitution as it is was in its incipiency, and knowing the
influence and the general radical tendencies of the late editor

of the Tribune, we were anxious to secure the support of .

that paper-in favor of this question, and as leading directly
to this, we were glad to receive calls, not only from Mr;

Reid, but also from those in any editorial way connected '

with any paper. -— 

As a class, we found these persons intelligent, courteous
and radical; but in the instance to which the letter refers,
the not unusual idea among those who are low down in the
scale of social development, that a person who advocates so-
cial freedom is necessarilyla clebauchee, was uppermost in his

of this false opinionin away that was certainly as distasteful
to us as it must have been ‘unexpected to him, since, as is
stated in this letter, he soon afterward endeavored, by dis-
connected quotations from the WEEKLY, to proveithat we,
instead of himself, were in favor of prostitution. It is suffi-
cient to say, that he never essayed to call either at our office
or house after that evening; and that he has taken every
possible opportunity to speak disparagingly of us in the col-
umns of the Tribune. It is well that the motives of"such
men should sometimes’ be made manifest, and we hope
X. I. X. will continue to unearth the many things regarding

[Special Correspondence of the Pittsbu/rg Commercial]
. . NEW YORK, February at, 1873.
It seemsas if the deplorable wrangle 1n which the asso-
ciates of the late Horace Greeley are now engaged would

earth,” the curtain is raised to enable the world to witness
for itself the monstrous deeds that paralyzed a great brain.

The tragic death of the great editor, his last will and testa-
ment, and the bickerings of the discordant elements of the
Tribune Association, have been a prolific theme for the en-
tire journalistic fraternity; and yet the public know literally
nothing of the intrigues and deceptions which were praotcied
by a horde of unconscionable knaves, who for a period of
two years, held before the eyes of the “late lamented ” the
dazzling prize of the Presidency. Ever since Horace Greeley
thwarted William H. Seward at Chicago, he looked forward
with unabated hope to a Presidential nomination. He never
neglected an opportunity to appear before the people, and
hence half of his time was spent in traveling throughout the
country, addressing his audiences on every conceivable topic.

Mr. Greeley’s protracted j ourneyings were a constant
source of anxiety to the principal owners of the Tribune, for
the reason that the editorial management of the paper was
invariably under the control of persons not “ to the manor

I born.” It was on the Tribune that that potential personage

in journalism, the managing editor, first made his appear-
ance in the person of John Russell Young, now Paris corre-

spondent of the New York Herald. Young’s advent on the

Tribune was an important epoch in Mr. Greeley’s life. He
(Mr. Greeley) had for years been more or less under the curb
of Charles A.cDana, who was actually the backbone of the
Tribune. The Tribune oifice was the oasis in Horace Gree-
ley’s desert of life. 7

His sanctum was hischome. He had absolutely .no other
attachment or place of attraction, and, strange as it may
seem, among all his panegyrists there was but one who told
the world. of the canker that was eating at his heart, the pan-
acea for which was constant, unremitting mental labor. An
editor who had possessed his confidence to an unlimited de-
gree, said; i '

Nevertheless, to the few persons who intimate1y—that is, who in-
wardly-—l.:new this man’s great-minded, tender-hearted and childlike na-
tare; who knew his iiiany‘ points of extreme sensitiveness to the touch
of other hearts; and who knew his habitual contact for thirty years with
an unspoken yet manifold S07“7'0tU that deepened into angui.s>7i,'—-to such
persons it is not at all remarkable that at last, under an unlocked-for
conjunction of private grief and publictrial, the nervous «vigor even of a
pow'erfu'_l mind should have lééhii uvcrborne; and that the great gladiator
in wrestling thus unequally with his last enemy’, should have been
dragged through a delirium of reason into a paralysis of life.

This “unspoken yet manifold sorrow” Horace Greeley

I bore with the patience of Socrates’, yet it developed an ele-

ment of. eccentricity in his mind which only those persons
intimately acquainted with. him could understand Dana’s
autocratic assumption of Mr. Gr‘eele‘y‘s prerogatives finally
produced a rupture, and Dana was forced to retire. Sydney
Howard Gay, who succeeded Dana, was neither a sycophant
nor a fawner. He could not be played upon by political
tricksters, and he failed to encourage the Presidential aspi-
rations of his chief, hence his administration was short
lived. J. Russell Young, a clever disciple of Forney from
the Philadelphia Press, was the next to assist , Mr. Greeley,
which he did to his entire satisfaction. Young’s career was
brief but brilliant. His abrupt_retirement from the Tribune
resulted from his own duplicity. He began by seizing every
pretext that ofiered for the dismissal of the old staff, and
every vacancy brought another of F0rney’s disciples from
Philadelphia. Bureaus were established in distant quarters
of the globe for those who could not be dismissed, and the
veterans were ordered, in true military style,‘ to proceed to
their far-ofl’ destinations without delay. To the remon-
strances of his associates regarding his lieutenant’s course,
Mr. Greeley was deaf. He discouraged attachments of every
kind, and advised his decapitated editors to “go West.”
Young soon established an editorial ring, and like his veter-
an patron, attempted to run two papers (both daily), the
Tribune and the Philadelphia Post, of which he was prin-
cipal owner, which proved is ruin. The Post, which was
known by the “ Ring” as the "Baby,” took ‘nourishment
from the Tribune. Its squeals disturbed the Associated Press
and they ‘demanded Young’s scalp. Mr. Greeley resisted
their demand with one of his characteristic editorials; but
they were inexorable. and Mr. Greeley was inconsolable at
his loss. Whitelaw Reid succeeded Young. The means
whereby he secured the position throws Iago’s little game
completely in the shade, of which more anon. Young and
Reid had been Washington correspondents. Their meeting
was like two Thomas cats on a garden wall. Youngfs audacity
proved not a niéatch for Reid’s mendacity; besides, Reid had
while in Washington “put money in his purse.” Reid, while
correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette, together with
Horace White, -who then performed the same duty for the
Chicago Tribune, did, with uuerring accuracy, prophesy as to
the intentions of the Ways and Means "Committee regarding
the taxation on whisky. Whether the information was im-
mediately communicated to their respective papers is not
known; but certain it is, that Horace White soon became
editor and part proprietor of the Chicago Tribune.

How natural that Reid should ibe impelled by emulation.

,Uriah Heap was never more obsequious, than was now Mr.

Greeley’s new lieutenant. The Tribune founder still mourned
for Young, whose ways were so clever. His absence made
him morose and sullen, yet everything went on as usual. It,
however, was not long before the principal stockholders dis-
covered that there was a baneful influence surrounding Mr.
Greeley, more subtle, but not lesspotent, than before.

Mr. G-reeley’s over-weening desire for office alarmed his

' friends. "His proprietary interest in the paper was small, yet

his will was absolute.‘ Had his life-long associates had but
the _courage of their opinions, how easily they could have
rescued their chief from the toils of the gushing Professor of
the new school of journalism. But fate decreed otherwise.
The two men who conceived the plot were actuated by the
most selfish of motives. ‘With one it was envy; with the
other it was avarice. ,
as the sequel will prove. They played i1l’D0 83011 0l3116I"S
hands with a cleverness and ingeniousness that challenges

admiration. Each thoroughly Q0rr1DI'6hended the P1'e‘d0mi"

nant weakness of his victim, and he played his respect-

Both, in any event, were bound to win,"

ive game successively to the end, The most persistent‘ ef,-»
forts were_ made to enlighten Mr. Greeley as to the true si't‘7i*.:..-
ation of affairs. Every attempt was met with anger and con-
tempt. Flattery and dissimulation‘ held full sway; and
Horace Greeley rushed headlong to his ruin, carrying with
him his business associates, who, notwithstanding they had
no heart in the cause, were willing to share the fortunes of
their chief: and to-day Mr. Greeley’s life-long partner, and
once principal owner of the paper, who for a quarter of a
century toiled withhim to build up the Tribune, is bankrupt
and without an occupation. True it was, when the great
publicist, bowed down by cruel disappointments, bfoken
hopes, and crushed desires, said :' “ Ilwam ruined, the Tribunefis
ruined, and I have ruined my. friends.” ~

The last two years of Horace Greeley’s life were passed in;
an atmosphere of mystery and deceit. The writer, who from:
childhood knew Mr.. Greeley intimately, and who for a score
of years worked on the Tribune, has been behind the scenes,
a spectator of the farce which ended ‘so tragically. The true
causes which led Horace Greeley to desert the Republican
party have never been narrated. The following incidents,
briefly stated, have no parallel for mendacity and knavery.

In August, 1870, Horace Greeley was desirous of receiving
the nomination for Governor. His personal friend, of thirty
years’ standing, the late General Hiram Walbridge, reviewed
the political situation in an able letter, which was published
in the Tribune and Herald of August 27, 1870. In that letter’
he strongly recommended his old friend for the Gubernatoriaf
nomination, and General Grant for another term. About
the same time the Executive Committee of the Republican

I State Committee met at Saratoga, and appointed the day of

meeting for the State ‘Convention. At that meeting the S
strength of various persons was canvassed, and the Hon. A.
R. Cornell strongly pressed Horace Greeley for the coming
campaign. Notwithstanding the objections urged from the
Northern counties, it was finally decided that Horace Greeley
was the strongest man to run, and a committee, among whom
was Judge Ward~ Hunt, waited on Mr. Greeley, and urged
his acceptance, to which, in his peculiar manner, he assented.
It was known that Marshall 0. Roberts had strong claims on
the party for the nomination; but so desirous was President
Grant that Mr. Greeley should receive the nomination, that
he visited Judge Pierrepont at his residence at ,“ Garrisons
on the Hudson,” and while there made a personal request of
Mr. Roberts that he would withdraw in favor of Mr.
Greeley, which he did a few days following in a letter.’
published in the New York Herald. At the opening of the‘
Convention everything looked favorable. Cornell. Murphy,
Judge Hunt and others considered the nomination of Mr.
Greeley a foregone conclusion. But, watching his opportu-
nity, Charles S. Spencer broke the slate by naming George
W. Curtis. This action was in return for the Tribune’s de-
nunciation of him while counsel for McFarland, who shot
Richardson, of the Tribune. Greeley could never be made
to believe that the leaders had kept faith with him, and he
declared war on Murphy and Cornell, who were entirely in-
nocent. General Walbridge, however, pacified.Mr. Greeley
by pronouncing his failure to receive the nomination a.
blessing in disguise. The General immediately consulted
with prominent Republicans of Washington regarding Mir.
Greeley’s political prospects.‘ He strongly urged his nomi-
nation for Vice-President.’ Everywhere in political circles‘.
in Vlfashington the proposition was favorably entertained. ’
-General Walbridge being a confirmed invalid, he could not.
give the matter his personal supervision, and it was now
that General Walbridge began looking around him for some
person skilled in politigal diplomacy who could “fix things.”

It was at this juncture of afiairs that Horace’ Greeley was
brought‘ into contact with the person who was to play an im-

portant part in his destiny. Charles A. Lamont had come M’

into possession of a. patent for the desiccation of eggs, and was
attempting to organizea company under the name of the Unit-
ed States Egg Desiccating Company. The company never suc-
ceeded in getting into operation, and never has to this day.
Several barrels of the article had been manufactured, but it
found its way to the barnyard, where it was used as manure.
‘Lamont made no more attempts to manufacture, but opened
an office where he exhibited newly desiccated eggs. The
thing appeared feasible, according to Lamont’s representa-
tions. General Walbridge was the first victim. Possessing
a glib tongue, Lamont eloquently discoursed on the advant-
ages of the desiccating process, until General Walbridge in-
vested several thousand dollars to push along the enterprise.
Lamont frequently dined with the General at the Astor
House, where. he soon succeeded in drawing into his not
several of the General’s friends. Plausible and audacious,‘
Lamont reaped quite a harvest. Lamont was recommended
by the General to Mr. Greeley, as a young man. of tact and
judgment, and one who could manage matters in his interest
at Washington. Supplied with letters to distinguished
officials, he made frequent’ trips to the capital. General Wal-

Lamont’s sad visage and grave demeanor, as one of the mourn-
ers, made. him a conspicuous character at‘ the funeral,
which took place at Washington,’ and was attended by dis-
tinguished citizens of every rank, chief among whom were
the President and his cabinet.

General Grant and Horace Greeley met in the Cemetery
after the burial. It was their second meeting, and General
Grant invited Mr. Greeley to ride with him to the White
House, where they afterward dined together. Mr. Greeley
returned to New York the same evening, but,-a few weeks
following, be again visited Washington; and while there was
the guest of Senator Chandler. The Senator gave, his ‘distin-
guished guest 2). reception, which was attended by the Presi-
dent, Vice-President, Members of the Cabinet and the prom-
inent Senators and Congressmen. This was in February,
1871, and it was tacitly understood, in administration circles,
that Mr. Greeley would be the next candidate for Vice-PIGS-
ident. . .

This understanding was the cause of Schuyler Co1fax’s
early letter of declination, a fact never before stated. A

trifling circumstance upset all the plans of the political

bridge died suddenly at the Astor House in this city, and x

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savans. Lamont, while manoeuvering in Mr. Greeley’s inter-
est, was also attempting to secure the appointment of one».
Ferguson forxthe position of United States Supervising In-
spector of Steamers for the Eastern District. Ferguson was
the son of Dr. Ferguson, of Chappaqua. an old friend of Mr.
Greeley. Lamont knew the advantages to be derived by con-
tact with the manufacturers of life-saving apparatus. The
President directed the appointment sent in; but Ferguson
was rejected by the Senate. Ferguson kept Lamont in funds
pending his confirmation. Lamont now presumed. on his in-
timacy with the President, with whom he had had several
interviews, ostensibly in the interest of Mr. Greeley. The
President finally fathomed Lamont’s character, and denied
him further audience. Mr. Greeley believed Lamont a man
of property, with large business interests. Gen. Walbridge
died in the same belief. Lamont frequently referred to the
fact that his business required his individual attention. Mr.
Greeley’s admiration for the youthful diplomat was un-
bounded; such generous devotion he had never before expe-
rienced. Mr. Greeley had decided on a trip to Texas, osten-
sibly to lecture before an agricultural society, but really to
feel the Southern pulse on his return trip. It.was now that
Lamont began to instill the poison into Mr. Greeley’s ear.
Chagrined at the frustration of his schemes at thecapitol,
he began by innuendoes and hints to create doubts in Mr.
Greeley’s mind regarding his political prospects. It was in
May, 1871, that Mr. Greeley, never suspecting the treachery
of his emissary, gave manifestations of his discontent with
the administration. The entire programme of his trip was
altered. General Merrett, who had been but recently re-
moved from the N aval office, and who was Senator Fenton’s
right hand man, was chosen as his traveling companion. Mr.
Greeley,’s immaculate lieutenant played his part to perfec-
tion. He never attempted to penetrate this vail of decep-
tion in which his chief was wrapped, but persistently fed the
flame. Old readers of the Tribune were astonished to read
such sentences in the leading editorials on the political situa-
tion, as the following: “Shall we sail on or drift in the
fight ?” meaning the campaign. “It is one thing to support
the administration and another to support the President.”
“ We support the administration.” “ Be it understood,
then, throughout the Republican party, our unfriendliness to
General Grant is, at all events, not concealed.” Mr. Greeley
went to Texas and what transpired on the route home every-
body knows. It was now decided that Mr. Greeley must
have a private headquarters. His emissary rented a furnished
residence in Twenty-fourth street, and he and Mr. Greeley
went there to reside. Here were hatched the conspiracies

that produced the sheet—iron thunder for the liberal organ.,

Here Lindsay, of Custom-house and Ludlow-street Jail noto-
riety, plotted with Lamont aud Reid, and the Cooper Insti-
tute meeting was the result of their labors, and their slogan
was “ Forward to Cincinnati."

Recruiting for the forward ‘movement was the next act in
the comedy. Forney, Sam Bowles, Murat Halstead, McLean,
Horace White, Watterson and Knapp were reported all right.
The only break in the editorial circuit that was feared was
Manton Marble and Wilbur F. Storey. Marble came in at
the last hour, but Storey would not have it.

Terrible tales were now reported from Washington. A The
Professor in the Tribune shouted “ corruption,” and his con-

federate told of the wicked scenes he had witnessed in and

around the White House and the “Arlington.” Charles A.
Dana, in a spirit of bitter irony, placed at the head of the
Sum, “ for President, Dr. Greeley.” Everything was now at
the flood, and, to cap the climax, the Blair family helda
meeting in Washington, where the slate was made out that
sealed the fate of Horace Greeley. At that meeting were
Blair senior and junior, brother Montgomery, Sunset Cox,
Ethan Allen and a few others. Ethan Allen was there to
urge Horace Greeley’s claim. Blair, senior, sent words of
good cheer to Mr. Greeley, and Allen returned to the city
overjoyed. Then came the Fifth-avenue Hotel conference,
where the famous editorial trio, Reid, White and Watterson
rallied the Liberal host and laughed to scorn the croakers.
How they did chuckle when, some time after midnight, they
hopped into a coach at the front of the hotel and directed
cabby to bounce them. Jaw ‘Alfred was along, also the
brilliant man of the New York Tribune. The two Tribunes
had settled the destinies of the nation.

The most ridiculous scene in the Liberal movement was
enacted at Cincinnati. N ot half a‘ dozen men understood the
actual situation the evening following the first day’s pro-
ceedings. After midnight there arrived from St. Louis
Senator Frank Blair and his cousin, Governor B. Gratz
Brown. Brown’s presence in town was kept a secret. The
arrangement was that on the following morning a carriage
was to convey him to the rear of the Academy, and on the

_’ announcement of the first ballot, he was to suddenly appear

on the platform and carry the Convention for Greeley.

It is only “time unfolds} what plighted cunning hides,”
hence the saddest part of the narrative remains to be told.

. The last two years of Horace Greeley’s life were passed in an

atmosphere of mystery and deceit. Encompassed as he was
by confidence men, is it to be wondered "at that he was
ruined? Lear was never more mighty in his wrath than Mr.
Greeley at any refle ction on his judgment of men; and yet
mutual friends of President Grant and himself endeavored to
harmonize matters by exposing deceptions which had been
practiced. Gen. P. H. Jones, postmaster, to whom Mr. Gree-
ley was much attached, acquainted him with convincing facts,
but it was too late; the Presidential maggot had entered the
great brain. Benjamin F. Camp, one of Mr. Greeley’s many
debtors approached a well-known staff‘ officer of Gen. Grant
during the war with a proposition that he should in-
duce the" President to order the payment of an alleged claim
of his against the Government for $100,000 or more, which
would reconcile Mr. Greeley. No person who knew. Mr.
Greeley need be told that this was a fraud. ‘This gentleman,
who is well known in this city, and on whose authority this
statement is made, spurned the proposition; 1 but there was
an, ex-postm-ast'er’of this city, whose estimate of the Presi.

dent and Mr. Greeley was so low that he actually did, upon

the representation of Camp, go to Long Branch andmake
the proposition to the President. ‘

Secure in Mr. Greeley’s confidence, Lamont now began
operating in egg stock. Inihis ofice he displayed ounce

boxes containing the article, which, when fresh, possessed a

very "‘ eggy ”’odor. Letters from Mr. Greeley were scatter-

ed about his desk,~the peculiarchirography of which Lamont »
would refer to. Hon. Calvin H. Hurlburd, Superintendent of ,

the New York Post—office, through General VValbridge’s rep-
resentations, invested $7,000. General Pleasanton also

‘thought it a good investment to the ex!.=.ult of several thou-

sands, besides several others. All this time Lamont had
never said money to Mr. G-reeley; but now there was an im-
mediate necessity for machinery. Mr. Greeley assisted his
friend to the extent of $20,000, in cash. Next Col. Ethan
Allan, Chairman of the Liberal National Committee, was in-
vited to call on Mr. Greeley on the affairs of the campaign.
Allan soon became fascinated with the egg/scheme.

Fimally. Lamont remarked to Allen that Mr. Greeley had
requested him to let Allen have a slice. The stock was all
taken, but he would let him have $15,000 worth of his stock,
and should he at any time_desire to return it, he would allow
him seven per cent. for the use of his money. Fortunately
for Allen, his eyes were opened by a friend, whose teeth had
been cut.  Greeley had never made such a request, and
when he at last became convinced of the hollowness and
treachery of the man, hemanaged by strategy to bring him
into his presence, where, with menaces and maledictions, he
demanded the return of his money; but it was too late. It
hid gone “where the woodbine twineth." Other victims are
now clamoring for their money with no better success.

Before referring to the tragic ending of thisconspiracy, it
will be necessary to explain that other baneful influence
whigh was now destroying Mr. Greeley. Previous to Presi-
dent Lincoln’s second nomination for the Presidency, Horace
Greeley desired a more positive knowledge of the changes in
the political undercurrent in Washington than was communi-
cated by his Washington “special.” What was required was
a pliable youth, not over scrupulous, and one having access to
the various political centres. Such a one was not Samuel
VVilkeson, then the Tribune “special;” but Whitelaw Reid,
“Agate,” of the Cincinnati Gazette, filled the bill, and he was
engaged by a friend of Mr. Greeley’s at the moderate salary
of twenty-five dollars per week to render this secret service.
Reid divided his allegiance between Secretary Chase and
Horace Greeley, but the Secretary received the lion’s share
of the service. Reid did his little utmost to defeat Lincolnfs

re-nomination in the interest of Chase; but it was about as”

futile an effort as his abuse of President Grant. As a. recog-
nition of his services, he was the bearer of Mr. Chase’s letter
of declination to the convention. In June, 1868, Mr. Greeley
engaged Reid to assist his managing editor (Young),in run-
ning the “Tribwne machine” during the Presidential cam-
paign of that year. His coming was entirely unknown to
Young. The first week there was a little unpleasantness.
Young’s order for Reed’s salary was only half the amount
agreed upon between Mr. Greeley and Reid. This, however,
was remedied, andihonors were made easy, Reid receiving
the same salary as Young. They both buried their hatchets,
but left the handles sticking out.

This armed neutrality was never suspected by Mr. Greeley,
he being about as much of a stranger to the Tribune editorial
rooms as the Sultan of Turkey. On an unlucky daya Tribune
editor encountered a foster brother of Young’s in Phila-
delphia, to whom Young had written numerous confidential
letters, in which he had unfolded all his plans for capturing
the entire Tribune concern.

They had quarreled over some spoils, and the foster brother
wanted his scalp. McClintock came on here, but seemed
loath to give up the letters. ‘If he had any qualms of consci-
ence, they were removed after having had a clandestine
meeting with Reid at his residence on Second avenue. The
letters_were finally published by Dana, and the mandate of
the Associated Press ordered Young’s dismissal. The Trib-
une was obliged to obey, notwithstanding Mr. Greeley’s re-
monstrances. Reid’s complicity with McClintock has never
been suspected up to this day, particularly as he had sym-
pathy for Young in his dilemma. It was by such manoeuver-
ing that Reid mounted the Tribune saddle. .

Never was the influence of a great journal so shamefully

‘prostituted as under the management of this vain, stiff—neck-

ed, self-sufficient prig. He originated a new school of jour-
nalism, and in the capacity of preceptor urged the practice
of the cardinal virtues? as essential to success in the profes-
sion. How thoroughly he exemplified his doctrines and pre-
cepts was demonstrated from day toiday in the Tribune
columns. *

For a time he, with others of advanced social views, was a
frequent visitor of Victoria Woodhull, at her palatial man-
sion on Murray Hill. She was flattered at his attention, and
sought to enlist his influence in advancing her peculiar doc-
trines. At one of his visits he saw, in the vestibule, the well-
known hat and Cloak of a prominent champion of woman’s
rights, who has since been prominently identified with her
interests. The evidence of the close proximity ofthis ‘golden-
haired Apollo prompted the gushing Professor to “enthuse”
on the social question. He became so radical that she was
obliged to remonstrate with him; but nevertheless urged
him to infuse some of his social warmth into the columns of
H16 T7”1'-b‘Wb6- A Reid’s ardbr, however, cooled, and a‘
few days following this “ flow of soul” he requested afriend
’D0 Obtain fI'0I11 MP8» Woodhull a file of her paper. His motive
was not apparent at the time; but in the Tribrme of the 10th
of May, 1871, Mrs. Woodhull was the subject of a two-column
editorial, copious with extracts from WQODHULL 8: VCLAF-.
LIN’S WEEKLY, the object of which article was to. show that
she‘ was in favor of prostitution. His reckless libels on Sena-
tor Cameron and Gov. Hartranft, during the Pennsylvania
campaign, were so palpable thatthey were never heeded. It
was not until Mr. Greeley reached Pittsburgh, on the even-
ing of the 191211 of Sep'teInb_e,r, that the scales fell from his

wc,o-niicLr& (.‘3LAFiiLl'N"S wssrf.r.! .     3 it

eyes. Fifty thousand people had’ filled _the streets ‘of that
city for two days preceding his arrival, viewing the proces-
sion in honor of the soldiers. The tameness of hisreception
disheartened him, and in his speech he angrily discountenan-
ced the maintaining of the pride and pomp of war. He re-
turned to this city utterly despondeut, to find his invalid
wife prostrated. VVell might he have exclaimed
Here is my jonrney’s end: here is my rut,
\ And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

The death of Mrs. Greeley was an event which her family
had long been prepared for. After her death came Horace
Greeley’s crushing defeat, and it was this, and this alone,
that killed him. For years astranger to home comforts and
pleasures, there was now nothing to dispel the black‘ and
ugly mass of. grief that oppressed him. For years, frauds of
every description, from the millionaire’s outcast son to the
petty swindler, had prayed upon his purse; and he wrote to
a friend of forty years’ standing: '

“Having lost, by indorsing, nearly all I ever made, and
being unable to work as efficiently as I once could, I have
firmly resolved henceforth to work for my own family rather
than others.” ' _

But his work was done. Crushed in mind,'he died the vic-
tim of misrepresentation and fraud, the enormity of which
he never realized. ‘

The most distinguished men of the nation followed the
deceased publicist to his tomb. Here and there in the cor-
tege was an employe who had’ known the founder of the Trib-
une; but standing under the shadow of Trinity spire were a
knot of men who had passed the best part of their lives on
the Tribune. The pressure of the hand, now passing them
cold in death, they had felt time and mime again, and no one
knew better than they the causes that led to this solemn
scene. Each could have laid truthfully, “Not on me the
deep damnation of his taking ofl".” ‘

The Tribune died with its founder, but immediately efforts
were made by Mr. Greeley’s old associates to so secure the
assets that the paper could be resuscitated. This was con-
summated by the purchase by Wm. Orton, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, of fifty-one shares, for
$510,000. Mr. Orton suddenly sold again fifty shares, and
received the amount he had invested but a few days before,
leaving him the possessor of one share which cost him
nothing. 0 - ’

The following facts, if known to Mr. Orton, may have de-
termined his action: In January, 1872, the Trz‘bune’s disaffec-
tion reduced its circulation to that extent, that it excited
the apprehension of its stockholders; but if the books of the
Tribune don’t‘indicate afalling off of sixty-two per cent. in
the subscription receipts from January 11 to January 20 in-
clusive, of this year, over the same period of last year, then
there is no truth in figures. How Whitelaw Reid was en-
abled to elect himself publisher and editor is his own busi-
ness. A half million dollars is a large sum to raise. It is
hard to tell‘ what policy Mr. Greeley would have pursued, but
that he would whitewash Jay Gould, and urge the. hanging
‘of Stokes, passes belief. The twaddle about Mr. Greeley’s
disciples is all “bash.” They have all departed, excepting
George Ripley, Esq., and he is one of those fastidious, courtly
gentlemen who, in his literary labors, comes seldom in con-
tact with the professor or his boys. The brilliancy of Hay or
the humor of Twain cannot save the Tribune. The assets,
consisting of real estate, presses and machinery, A and Mr.
Greeley’s life policy, are worth $800,000; and as the location
will be between the Brooklyn bridge and the new post-ofiice,
its value will increase with years. XIX.

 

[For Wooczzmzz a ciafimfs W7ee7cZg/.]
I am neither spiritualist or freelover, but a radical believer
in the spirit of the revealed word, as read and taught by the

nessed, with painful apprehension, the innovations of the
times, and especially of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher——in
many respects the most gifted American minister of the pres-
ent age. It is clear to the mind of a careful and impartial

rev. gent. claims, and justly so too, tmbe a champion of free-
thinkingjon moral, religious, social and political subjects, and
the champion of a “free press” in -America. Now, hadiany
other man or minister caused his friends to have made such a
covert and cowardly attack on the “ freedom of the pres,”
as Mr. B.’s friends have made in this oft-repeated and long-
continued persecution of Woodhull and Claflin, for publish-
ing uncontradicted and as yet evemundenied facts of a grave

the clarion voice of the reverend pastor of Plymouth Church

his trenchant pen would have been wielded in defence of this
popular right of a free people. “ How are the mighty fa11en_‘>z

The guilt or innocence of this great man, in reference to the
particular and specific charge of adultery, I know nothing
about. I have read Mr. Tilton’s remarkable and mysterious
letter. I have witnessed Mr. Beecher’s unusual and unnat-
ural silence. For once he comes to a sudden pause.. ‘His
lips are “hushed” in silence, and the Church and the world
call in vain for one single word. Some of Mr. Beecher’s
friends point to his former high standing, and say that it is
impossible that Henry should have thus sinned. The Pastor
of Plymouth Church stood high, but not. quiteso high as‘ did
King David before he. fell into sins that likened him to the
beasts of the field and the dragons of the pit. The history
of King David’s fall and David’s tears are a fact of the Holy
Bible. That record was made under Divine instruction, and
made for thehonor and glory of the Church and the godd of
the world. Nothing could more completely vindicate the
truth of thatjpassage of Scripture» which says: “ Be sure that
your sin will find you out.” If God would not hide David’s
sin for the sake of the Church, how idle it is to supppse that
he will spare Plymouth Church, if, indeed, its distinguished
pastor has been guilty of the dreadful sin which is ndw 15101
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are not chosen to do a good work in the world—“ You twelve

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universe is one vast reservoir from which Jehovah draws his

gagencies to govern the moral, intellectual and physical

world. , MORE Anon.

     

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[From Golclsmith’s Deserted Village]
‘“ As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, . j .
Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm,
Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal ‘ moonshine’ settles on its head.” _
NorE.——?We believe that the correct text is “ sunshine," butlour friends
will have it “ 1noonshine.’f——ED’s WEEKLY. '

A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT.

To run Enrrens or WoonnULL an CLA2E‘LIN’S WEEKLY:

On Sunday last Father Dj ering, of the Russo-Greek
Church (in New York, more’s the pity), deemed it proper to
devote a considerable part of his sermon to the instruction of
American Internationals as to the true meaning of the words
liberty, equality and fraternity. It is only courteous, in
return, to aid him with a comment on those words as used in
Russia. - g ' V ‘

To commence: Liberty, then, as understood in that country,
means the full -right of the natives to the extension of their
power. Grab all you can around you; that is freedom. An-
nex the Finlanders by bribery and treachery, and subdue the
Polanders by the sword. If they rebel, stamp out the lan-
guage of the country, and’ cool the ardor of the patriots in
the mines of Siberia. That is Russian liberty. A

As to equality: “ The Government of Russia,” said Talle-
rand, “is a despotism tempered with assassination ;” and in
the grave all are equal. Another writer asserts that the peo-
ple of that great Empire are exactly -graded, and every man
enjoys and uses the privilege of kicking the members of all
the grades under his own, from the Emperor down. to the
flunkey at his gate. So it may be said that all under the
Czar possess, in the right of kicking and being kicked, a cer-
tain degee of equality. ; .

, Lastly, as regards fraternity: Where shall we find it so
well exemplified as among Russian Christians? The State,
Church and the Old Believers are about equal in numbers in
that country. Hepworth Dixon tells us that the latter will
neither eat, drink or sleep with the former. I/Vhat loving
kindness is here exhibited, and how fit atperson is a member
of such an amiable brotherhood to preach fraternity to

, Americans.

In conclusion, permit ' me to add that, though I doubt any
Russian’s ability to comment on or even conceive the mean-
ing of the words liberty, equality and fraternity, there is a
biblical text on which I’ feel assured Father Djering could
edify the Internationals. It is the passage referring to

\ Christ, which says: “And he made a whip of small cords and

drove them (the money changers) all out of the temple.”
Doubtless a learned Russian could instruct us as to the exact
length of that knout, and how the knots were tied in order
JOHN.
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MEDIUMISTIC EXPERIENCES EXTRAORDINARY.

/

Dear Victorian C. Ii/'ood7mll——In the latter part of the year
1866, my father introduced me to Dr. -——_~ and his family,
which consisted of awife and one daughter. Dr. —w_had

become seriously interested i'n Spiritualism, in consequence ’

of what had been told him by spirits, in the presence of Mr.
Foster—then on a visit to this country——and Mrs. Mary Mar-
shal, of London. ‘

My fathe‘r,who was a patient of the doctor at that time,

* hearing of this, requested the latter to permit him to join in
‘ his seances or experiments. A
- and my father attended, with myself and brothers.

Dr. '———' willingly acquiesced,

I was then between sixteen and seventeen years old—~knew
nothing of the world or the world’s ways, and was as simple-
minded as any maid who had never left her mother’s side
‘ could be. ‘

N eed,I say that, when at the entreaty of my own father I

first sat at the doctor’s table, I then knew as much of Spirit-

‘ualism as I did of Hebrew.

At my first sitting I was entranced ;" at my second I was
controlled, and gave tests, and the effects of a few sittings
confirmed my mediumship; and the usual round of physical
phenomena began,.and has continued till this hour. I see
and converse with spirits, with the utmost ease; direct writ-
ing is given me from the spirit,~in out-of-the—way, impossible
places, sealed and guarded with lock and key. In the pres-
ence of my father and the entire circle, the spirits gave me
to Dr.)-——; and in the deepest of trance, after lying twelve
hours in a cataleptic state, my own hand controlled by the
spirit——gave my heart to Dr. ———; the spirit of God united
-me to ‘him, “for good or evil,” for instantly when Iwoke
from my abnormal condition I beheld a flame of celestial
fire surrounding us both, which burns to-day with as undi-
Ininished a lustre as it did near seven years ago.

“ 0,‘ then, began the tempest of my soul!” ' _

If I could pass ‘over the necessity which demands a personal
description of the parties in this drama I would; but my
account demands uncompromising, plain statements. .

First, the doctor, my o‘ompanion,,,my ‘‘lord and m,as,ter”
from choice as well as spiritual destiny, is thexembodiment
of all that is good and noble; I will not attempt to describe
him further, as I should fail to give you a_true estimate of
his chara/cter.f ' V - t

Then his “legal representative,”. to whom the aforesaid
was married when an inexperienced boy of twenty years.
To characterize this person as mildly as possible—she is the
antipodes of her husband, and you can imagine for yourself
the sert of pair Whiohvthis woman makes with the gentleman )

I have endeavored to describe above. The spirit of Mesmer,
when. asked what he thought of the match, declared that it
was like pairing a thorough-bred horse with a donkey! ..

The family remaining of this match is a daughter, who was
my dearest friend until “misfortune” overtook me in the
form oftwo of the loveliest ohildren——a boy and a girl——which
I bore to her father; but she is no more like my Faithful
than I to Hercules.

And, then, as to my own father. Merciful Heaven! How
shall I describe this most heaiatless person, who used to beat
me, long before I saw Dr. ——-, within an inch of my life? I
have seen my father strike one of my‘ brothers with a ham-
mer, and then he would clap his hands and dance, with his
face to the wall. At another time, he kicked one of my
sisters down a flight of stone steps, and then he went to
chapel to sing and pray, returning to do worse than before.

These are our deadliest enemies to this hour,"and, seek by
day and night the bitterest revenge on our poor heads. But
there is a relief to this picture. A member of this circle,
whom the spirit named Fidelity, who began in 1866 with us,
has been to us “the friend that striketh closer than. a
brother,” in whose affections there is no variableness or
shadow of turning. ’ ' O‘ — .

I should have told you that as soon as the spirit, the doc-
tor’s guardian, had given through my organism‘the strange
mandate above alluded to, my companion took it to his wife,
and asked her opinion of it, and proposed to her to break

me not responsible for the consequences, since I am very
much attached to J——, meaning the waiter, and it will be
unwise to tax my nature beyond my powers of endurance.”
Under these circumstances, what action do ‘you imagine the
wife took ? Why, she laughed at the communication, and
told. him to never mind it, as there was nothing in it I

Therefore, the sittings continued as usual, until the spirits
ordered the doctor to London on a mission. “On a mission!”
How the doctor has been laughed and jeered at when he has
mentioned his mission! I will describe ‘this mission to you
in a few words. The doctof is a reformer of the most ad-
vanced school, a great scholar and scientist, and whose stud-
ies and affections have always been engrossed by a scheme of
social regeneration, amounting to a complete revolution in the
minds and habits of men and women. Firmly convinced
that this can never be brought about in England, his nature
has yearned for years to try this plan on virgin soil, where
the interests. and monopolies that obtain here should not be
arrayed against his efforts to redeem. The spirits knew this,
and sympathizing with him in this benevolence, pointed out
through me a location in South America, in the neighbor-
hood of the mine herein mentioned——in juxta-position to the
fertile banks of the great Amazon.

‘ This location will only be made known to us when there;
and I shall be guided to the place by a star, as I havevhitherto
been, when giving proof of my powers to discover hidden
gold. ~

But you should hear all about this matter from FaithfL1l’s
own lips.

This mission, also, was to speak the truth to the Spiritual-
ists of that modern Babylon, London, precisely as you have
spoken it to the people of the U. S. A., on sexual freedom and
kindred subjects. Theupshot of all this was, of course, per-
secution, lost practice, family jars, scandal, ostracism, pover-
ty and the birth of our boy, now nearly five years old. M

Because the Doctor, who is a great healer, would not
acknowledge Jesus, in a theological sense, his practice was
almost worthless, and but for our friend Fidelity we must
have perished; at least, to all appearances. Long before this

America, and there discovered to me a mine of geld, called by
them “the central lode,” and a spot wherein was hidden
more than £2,000,000 in coins, nuggets and dust, which had
once been the property of the Incas._ Since that hour I have

cover it, wherever hidden‘, and have given tests. to this effect
to all inquirers; nor will this power leave me till I stand on
the spot above indicated, when I shall be allowed to wear ‘and
touch the metal. VVe tried everywhere to get money sulfi-
cient to bring us to South America in vain; _ and then, for six

' entire months, sat at the bidding of Franklin, etc., in order
to try whether they, the spirits, could bring us suflicient of

the precious metal fromvbeyond the seas (from the/heap in
South America) to frank us thither. After six months of the
most unheard-of spiritual experiences and phenomena in the
village of Tottenham, near London, the spirits failed, and
we were physically prostrate from excessive electric and mag-
netic labor. 0, if you knew what we suffered you would
pity us!

Ever since then (1867), by all sorts of direction and labor,
we have tried to compass a sum sufficient to take us to a place
where we shall be put in possession of untold wealth; but
not through any fault of the spirits, rather through the hard-
ness of our friends’ unbelief and the times we have failed.
We have been waiting everyday. for these last six months for

about £1,000, to take us there. These friends are ,_well assured
of my gold finding and other rnediumistic qualities, but the
thought of “ parting ” with their “bird in the hand ” rends

Faithful (the Doctor) has ever remained true to his “call,”
and we, living as we do now, under a perfect storm of bitter-
est and blackest opposition and persecution; and, dear Vic-
toria, there being no shade of difference -between your own
teachings and ours, between your heart and ours, I trust—~for
I know you and converse with your f‘ D ”—-and seeing that
the truth, always stronger than fiction as affecting mediums
suffering from having followed the lead‘ of God rather than

readers of your WEEKLY. I have the honor"to.trcub1e you

.f)‘*

connexion with me at once, “for," said he, “if I do not, hold -

the spirits, Franklin, Newton, Stephenson and many, many
others equally distinguished, took me in the spirit to South V

not been able to bear the touch of gold, and’ can easily dis-J

“some able friends, who believe in us, to grant us the means,

them asunder. We still live in hope, however; and dear’

men, would not only interest you and your sister, but the

toria, Yours in love and hope, TRUTHFUL.
P. S.~—Inclosed I send you our Phot’s, with the names,
merely as a phrenological, physical and spiritual study.
‘ The spirit of love will tell you true, ,
Who is which and whichis who 3 T.

TO THE PRESS.

The course the Government has _pursued to suppress the
VVEEKLY, and thereby to establish a precedent which, fol-
lowed, may extend to any recalcitrant journal, having been
most disastrous to us financially, we ask both friends and
foes to extend us the journalistic courtesy to insert the fol-
lowing in the several papers under their control:

'WoonrmLL & CLArLn~I’s WEEKLY’, an‘ Independent Jour-
nal open to the absolutely free discussion of all subjects in
which human welfare is involved, and which is especially
the organ of social reform, is published by Victoria Cr VVood-
hull and Tennie C. Clafiin (Woodhull'& Claflin), at _No. 48
Broad street, New York, upon-the follo/wing terms :

One copy one year, - - - 4. _ -. - $8 00
Five copies one year, - -_ - - -I - - 12 00
Ten copies one year, . . - , - .. . , 22 00
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Six month, half these rates.

a most exceptional, position in regard to its contemporaries,
the reformatory, religious and secular press. Outside of
semi": half—a-dozen journals, there is little contained in the pub-
lic press which is of use to the editors either as news or other-
wise. But we know that the entire press, while for the present
mainly silent upon the great question that is now agitating
public thought, is deeply interested in the main feature of
the»-VVHEKLY. Formerly when we were in better pecuniary
circumstances than we now are, we sent the VVEEKLY regu-
larly to about onc—third of the press of the country, and we
are more than repaid by the modifications of public opinion
upon reformatory questions which have indirectly resulted
therefrom. *

There are about six thousand newspapers and journals of
all sorts in the United States. We want to send the VVEEKLY
to each of them ; but this would be at an expense to us, for
printing and paper only, of over ten thousand dollars, which

’want it at $2 per annum—our lowest rates for large clubs.
This course suggests itself to us because we havealready re-
ceived numerous applications from editors for the best terms’
upon which we will furnish the WEEKLY to them. This is
a small matter for individual papers, while the press, as a
whole, would be a very mighty one for us to exchange with
—-one which its representatives cannot expect us to bear.
If the WEEKLY were a political or religious or a literary
iournal merely, we should not presume to thus address the
press’, to which, in many instances, we are under great obli-
gations; but it is exceptional, being the only advocate of
social freedom in .,tl1e world. And this, coupled with the
fact, that momentous issues will be discussed in its columns
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ALL women know that it is beauty, rather than
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ped in the sex. Can it be wondered at, then, that
so niucli of worno.n‘s time and attention should be
directed to the ineuiis of developing and preserving
that beauty? ‘Women l{I10\V too, that when men
spool; of the intellect of women, they speak critic-
ally, tanicly, cooly ; but when they come to speak of
the charms of a beautiful woin:.in, both their language
and their eyes liindle with an eiithiisiasm which
shows them to be proiouiidly, if not, indeed, ridicu-
lously irecariiest. It is part. of tho nzitural Sagacity
of women to perceive all this, and therefore employ
cveiyallowablo art to become the goddess of that
adoration. Preach to the contrary as We may

against the arts employed by woincn for enhancing

their beauty, there still staiids the eteinzil fact, that
the world does not prefer the society of an ugly
woman of genius to that of a beauty of loss intellecfr.
ual acquireniexits. _ . _
The world has yet all.O'~\'£3[l11Dl1lgl1el'111lSSlOi1 to
woman than to be beautiful, and it would seem that

the ladies of the present age are carrying this idea '

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of the World to greater extremes l.il8.11. everyfor all

women now to whom n2.tiii'e lias denied. the talis-O,

manic power of beauty, supply the deficiency by
the use of 0. most deliglitful toilet article known as
the “Bloom of Youth,“ which has lately been in-
troduced into this country by GEORGE W. Lumn.
A delicate bcuutificr which smoothes out all in-

‘dentatioiis, furrows, soars, removing tan, freckles

and discolcnratioiis, mid ini_pzi,i'ts bwuty, cleariiess,
and softness‘ to the slum. giving the checks the
appearance of youth and beauty. With the assist-
ance of this new Americaii ti-icl: of a lady’s toilet,
female beauty is dcstiiicd to play a. larger part in
the admiration of men, and the ambition of Women,‘
than, all the arts cinployed since her creation.
Ladies, bewmce of Bmcgeroece and W0?'tIl=
lcss,I1ni’.t4z1e".4i'ns of George W’. Iaird’s
“Bwono of Ym2.Lt}'a.x" ‘ .
§£53L=PTiiE GNNUINN nuivnuus use COMPLEXION
CLEAR, BRILLIANT, AND ‘BEAUTIFUL; run SKIN
Sour A-:;_ Srioorsz. This delightful Toilet Prepara-
tion is used tliroiighout the‘ wrnid. Thousands

‘of testimonials liarze been sent to the proprietor,

indorsing and recommending the use of this purely
harmless Toilet preparation. A dzmgerous Counter-
feit of this article was in circ.u.latioii; had it not
been stopped, it was c.ilcu_latcr.l to damage the well-
known reputation of the Genuine Preparation.

BE PARTICULAR to ask for the C-ienuine. it has the
name G.  LAIRD stamped in glesson the
back of each bottle.‘

Ladies who are careful to obtain the genuine
“ Bloom of Youth," will certainly be pleased with
the effect produced by it.

One of the most eminent Physicians of New-York. '

or .
.15,’ Dr. LOUIS A. seven,

After carefully examining the analysis of the

‘genuine Laird‘s “BLOOM or Youriri," pronounced.

’ the preparation harmless, aiidcfree from“ any ingro

dielit injurious to health.

(Nezv-York. Jeraza, Am; 26, 1870.")

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CANoER.—In another columnwill be found the card
of Dr. J. M. Comins, to which we-cal-l the attention of
those afflicted with that terrible disease—_—ca.ncer. It is
not a usual thing for us to mention ‘practising; physi-
cians; but in this case we know wliereof we spealr,
and we speak in the interest of the afliicted, rather than
on that of Dr. Coniins. He has specimens of cancer
cases which have been cured by his treatment, which
place him at the head of his profession. But the po-
sition he occupies in this disease is held by him in all
others, especially in those, of a chronic character.

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265 BROAWAY.

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854 BROADWAY,
Has removed from his Store to the
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than licrctofore, in consequence of the difioienco in
his rent.
CIIATELAINE BRA-IDS.
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INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, ALBANY, N. Y.,}
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O R V I S ’ ..
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“ NEW YORK, July 8, 1871.

“ DR. Ozavist Dear Sir——Please send me, Q. 0. D., one
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(This was one of the worst cases of constipation I
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_ “BROOKLYN, L. I. Nov. 3, 1871. ,
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