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We recently mentioned the fact of our having procured
genuine photographic likenesses of ourselves——Victoria C.
Woodhull, Tennie C. Claflin and Colonel Blood—to supply
alarge expressed demand that has been made almost con-
tinuously during the past two years. There are many un-
authorized editions floating about in the country and being
sold by various persons. None of these are genuine, except
such as have been procured directly from us, while many
of them that we have seen are either burlesques or libels
upon our ‘features. - ..

We are "aware that these at a dollar each are dearer than
photographs of imperial size usually are, but we thought our
friends would be willing to help us in this way to pay the
immense expenses to which we have been put by our numer-

ous arrests and coming trials, and we are gratified by the very-

liberal responses with which our request has been received;
but the amount realized thus far falls far below what we are
obliged to have before we can properly prepare our cases for
trial. We can draw nothing from the-WEEKLY to meet these
demands, because it requires all that is realized to cover its
current expenses, and its existence must not be endangered
even to meet these very necessary claims. .

So we again say to our friends, while you nominally pay
one dollar each_for our counterfeit presentations, a part of
this is really to apply to expenses to which we have been
put by the Government in its attempts to “squelch” the
WEEKLY, and that all who respond to the appeal for this

. purpose contribute so much toward this end.’ ,

‘ON account of the extraordinary press of matter for the
last three weeks, very much against our wish, we are com-
pelled to lay the Plan of Organization, which we proposed

to publish in this issue,‘ over till next week. In the mean-

- time-we hope the discussion of the subject of organization

will go on among Spiritual-ists, since the time rapidly ap-

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cessity by which to protect themselves from their’ natural

enemies——the God-in-the-Constitution people, the Y. M. C. A.
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. We must again call upon the friends of all—sided freedom
to renew their efforts to raise clubs for the IVEEKLY‘. Every
even inconsiderable town ought to furnish one of, at least,
twenty persons; and if the friends are zealous this can be done
everywhere. Even one day a week, spent by a few persons
in each place, would soon double our number of readers;
and luke-warm, indeed, must be he or she who cannot de-
vote one day in seven to a cause which, being in its infancy,
needs the assistance of all who embrace it.

Then put your shoulders anew to the wheels upon which
the car of progress is to so triumphantly nearing -the apex
of the mountain up which it has had to climb, so that, the
summit being gained, all may stand and calmly survey the
stony and stormy path by which it had to be approached.

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TO NEWSMEN AND FRIENDS.

VVe are. glad to be able to inform our friends that the
American News Co. is now prepared to fill all orders
from its customers, as formerly, for the ‘WEEKLY. The in-

quisition which the authorities, located in this city, attempt-

ed to establish over the freedom of the press, by their arrest
of ourselves and Mr. Train upon the charge of obscenity;
and, perhaps, the fear that we had libelled M1‘. Beecher

, have, until now, prevented the Company from supplying its

customers. Hundreds-of newsmcn have, in the meantime,
received notice that the Company does not furnish the

' WEEKLY, and they will now be obliged to renew their orders

before they will be filled. VVill our friends everywhere
take the trouble to inform their newsmen of this change in
the relation of the Company to the WEEI{LY.

We would also specially request friends to send us the
names of such liberal newsmen as would, in the various
cities and towns, be most inclined to deal in the VVEEKLY,
so that we may take the necessary steps to furnish it to
them. '

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REVOLUTION: IS IT AT HAND.

Before the slave war broke out, anybody who had fore-
sight enough to see that war was to come, and the courage
to express it, was set _down as insane. When Genl. Sher-
man, after the war had broken :out, said it would require
years of time and a million soldiers to subdue the rebellion,
he was universally declared insane. Indeed so good evidence
of insanity was this opinion of his, considered, that it came
nearly to depriving him of a command in the army. In fact
whoever conceived the idea that a rebellion against the Gen-
eral Government was possiblc was instantly -voted of un-
sound mind by the pulpit, the press and the people. ’

But nothwitstandin g the fact that those whom the world

held to be insane at that time have been proved to have

beenithe onlyreally sane people there were upon that sub-
ject, thc world learning no lesson from that experience of
utter incompetency and fallaciousness continues to brand as
insane those who now see revolution ahead. This thought-
less, and as will be proved, hasty decision, has-been made
without any ‘ weight having been given to that which is

patent upon the face of things——that the causes that may lead

to revolution now, are of a much more direct order
than were those that led to the slave rebellion. That was
precipitated and waged upon one side, and the primarily
aggressive side, by those interested in it from motives of
principle divorced from all personal interest; while the
causes that will lead to that which is to come, combine the two
elements of principle and of personal interest. How much
more imminent, then, are the prospects for revolution now
than they were before the late war. In many regards the
situations are similar if not identical. The first gun of that
war was fired against the government——aga'1nst the power
thathad, under legislative administration, attained the con-

trol. so also will the war that is to come be introduced,

not by the aggressive party, but by those whom the aggres-
sions will subjugate in a legitimate way, and they will resist
its decrees. " ,

Neither had that war any collateral issues tending to pre-
cipitate events; it was a question of freedomfor the negroes,
merely; but various causes now point from different direc-
tions to the same general culimnation. The money
question had nothing to do directly withthat war; while it
will be the chief one to precipitate that which is coming.
For the past two years, we have been telling the people that
there could be no solution of the impending question, that
would be given, by which war could be prevented. We
saw that it must come; but we were set down as insane, be-
ing simply desirous of creating a temporary sensation; and
now that another who was long since dubbed insane by the
self constituted censors of society, declares that blood will
flow within ninety days, he is of course stark mad, and in
danger of being sent to a lunatic asylum.

Now, we do not know that..revo1ution will come in ninety

days ;' but we should not be surprised if it were to come in

as many hours ; and we do not see how itlcan be deferred
anotherlyear. Circumstances are combining with frightful
rapidity; almost too rapidly to be competentlyvnoted.
Events move no more . in stagecoach methods. They
have assumed the speed of the locomotive, if not, indeed, of

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the telegraph, and hence, when one is brave enough to de-

clare that it will be upon us in ninety days, he but speaks
what is clearly seen or impending, and liable to fall at any ‘ ‘

hour. .
And Aprilcomes in with prophetic indications. In the
East, labor is gathering up its sinews to wrestle anew with

capital, and on every hand, strikes are being inaugurated. In I

New York one trade, that of gas-making, is already out, and
seems determined to accomplish its purposes~—more pay
and less hours for labor. In the VVest the producers of that

upon which the East feeds, is in almost open warfare against ’

the mighty railroad monopolies, that are leeching the life
out of these producers; while they who compose these
monopolizcrs are the same against whom the Eastern

. laborers are rebelling—the Eastern capitalists; and though

the two parties, the Eastern mechanic and the Western
farmer, have not yet seen that their interests are identical, it
will become evident the moment ‘a blow falls anywhere,
given by anybody. When Sumpter was struck by the rebel
shot the whole people immediately took one side or the
other. So, too, when the Sumpter shot shall again be re-
ceived, will the whole people take one side or the other ; and
can any doubt upon lwhich the vast majority will be ? can
any sane person imagine that the labor interest will be in the
minority ? If they do, they _had better rectify their judg-
ments, and not wait to have them rectified by the logic of
events as did the slave interests in the late war ; unless, in-
deed, the people remain wilfnlly blind to what is going on
before their eyes.

Everybody willrcinember with what a jealous eye the
Administration regarded any upward movement in the price
of gold before the election. It will be remembered to what
questionable methods resort was made to keep the price ”
below 113. Is it not singular that so soon after the election
is settled that the price should rise to 119 and no effort on
the part ofthe Administration be made to stay its upward
tendency‘? ' .

It may seem strange to those who do not look beneath the
surface of things. But it is just what was anticipated by
those who regard the cause that lies behind movements
rather than the movements themselves. It was as necessary
that the Administration should succeed in November as it
was necessary that Tammany should succeed in its last elec-
tion. It would not do to have the Administration pass into
new hands. There was too —1nuch that needed another term
to safely bury from all future observation. But that was
not all. Behind even that, there may perhaps be another
and a deeper scheme. Let us see if the exigencies of the
condition do not point unerringly to such a scheme.

It will be remembered that the South went to war to
preserve slavery. They saw that the sentiment against it
had obtained such growth and strength that unless it were
strangled slavery, would be compelled to yield to peaceable
legislation; hence they resolved to take the issue of war;
and results have demonstrated that they waited, as it was,
a score of years too long. Freedom had obtained a much
greater hold upon the popular pulse than their most saga-
cious men imagined. In a word, it had conquered
slavery even before the war began.

Now the condition of the monopolists of free labor to-day
is precisely what the position of the monopolists of slave
labor was before the war. Like them the same class of the
present see that unless by some coup they can obtain a more
secure hold upon the power gradually slipping from their
grasp, at no distant day it will be wrested from them by
peaceful legislation, and without a struggle they will be
compelled to yield the positions they have so secretly and
adroitly obtained. They know that the demands of labor
cannot much longer be put off by make-shift policy and
sham or pretended legislation in its behalf. The cry is too
earnest, and is repeated too frequently t.o leave them in any’
doubt regarding its meaning.

And they also know there is but one method of salvation
——to secure a firm grasp. upon the government. Now, what;
does this mean? We repeat that the monopolists, the moneyed
aristocracy, in all and whatever form they exist, know that
their days are numbered; they know when the trial comes,
between them and the masses whom they enslave, monopoly
must go down. Consequently everybody who is not a pro-
ductive laborer is secretly, if .not openly, in league against
the increasing demands of labor for justice. But how shall
it "be successfully resisted? As we said, there is but one
method, and that is to subvert the government, by making
it a government of the monopolies, by the dictatorship or
by the empire. ‘

Of course we shall be named insane for even hinting that
such a scheme is on foot in this country; but we neverthe-
less assert it to be true, and the people will learn it to their
sorrow before the expiration of the present Presidential
term. It is the only method, we repeat again, by which
the powers that now control events can hope to hold their
places. A11d in view of this, are the laboring people simple
enough to imagine they will not resort to any seemingly ne-
cessary measure to avert the coming destiny? Will they not
even be as desperate as were the Southern slaveholders?__ We
tell you they will hesitate at nothing; and more, they are
already resolved that they will liesitate at nothing. . g

‘’ Have the people ever stopped to think of the reason for
last year sending three cmissaries to the various European

"monarchies? Does it not look as i.f there were some secret

plotting going on for which the approval of European
, 
er owns was desired? Surely they would not have been so-

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