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Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. ’ Gen. Ep. James, v. 1. A QUESTION FOR ULTRAMONTANE CATHOLICS. The following extract is from the “ Religious Topics ” of the N. Y. Herald, January 25: “ The Freemcmis J ourmtl defends the Irish-American pop- ulation of this city against the charge of being Communists, and transfers the odium of this ism to the public schools. The antidote to Communism is to make education more Christian.” As St. Peter instituted “ Communism,” would it not be a better plan for the -“College of Cardinals” to place the fourth and fifth chapters of the Acts of the Apostles in the Index Expurgatorius ?—ED. WEEKLY. PROSPECTUS. To the People of the United States——The undersigned, be- lieving the time has come for the establishment of an Inter- national organ whose principles are as deep as justice and broad as the human race, put forth this prospectus for our paper:'“ I The political economists, and especially the financial econ- omists, of the past, have failed to give the world a solution of the just utilization of the forces in Nature; and, there- fore. through that false political economy our industries throughout the country are paralyzed, and 5,000,000 of men, women and children who were wealth-producers are to-day out of employ, with pauperism, crime and starvation staring them in the face. _ ' ‘ We here present you our platform, the accomplishment of which will solve the question——thus: All members of the human family are entitled by nature to the use of sufficient of the common elements (land, air, water andxlight) to maintain their existence, and property develop their being. 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It is hoped that all journals favorable to our platform W publish this Prospectus. G. W. MADOX, Editor‘. , W. A. A. CARSEY, Managerand Dublisher. AN INVOCATION. Come forth from the valley, Come forth from the hill, Come forth from the workshop, The mine, and the mill; From pleasure or slumber, From study or play, Come forth in yourmyriads And aid us today. There’s a word to be spoken, A deed to be done, A truth to be uttered, A cause to be won. Come forth in your myriads! Come forth every one! Come youths, in your vigor; Come men, in your prime; Come age, with experience ; Fresh gathered from time;, Come workers! You’re welcome! Come thinkers! You must! Come, thick as the clouds Of the midsummer dust~ Or the waves of the sea, Gleaming bright in the sun; There’s a truth to be told, And a cause to be won. Come forth in your myriads! Come forth every one! Cnaanns MAGKAY. Q>—4-—-———____ SOOIALISTIC, SPIRITUALISM vs. FREE LUST. A LYMAN o. HOWE T0 PROFESSOR E. WHIPPLE. of commitment as proclaimed in her first message. Beside freedom, and ask me to define their difference. What ed? And when applied, does it not confirm the stru implies worship. Sexuality relates us to each other. R exhaust our passions upon the citadel of his purity He erence turns upon the dfiferent bearings which religious dev tion and sexual intercourse have upon the rights and rel pose the same responsibility upon earthly society, that co p...m.,;,n;-g-/ es. la hast. it iifhlirtle ts LjY§li?J.:'¥l G, El2'i!V!’*.3e°:'. New York. at $2 per annum, and 50. per copy; the first My dear Brothe'r—Your questions and criticisms have been not-um itself good -Rn Why evade the Square issue? Passion‘ duly considered.* It is easier to ask than to answer. One left free devejopg anarchy, There is no impulse that may Golumn may contain more questions than can be Clearly an’ not enslave if not regulated by reason. Mrs. W. urges the swered in ten columns. Hence, if I seem to overlook any, ‘ you will realize that the most important have the first claim. 301113 Of your questions need no answel“ I Said nothing agrees that it may produce “brutality in man and beastli- against “ Freedom as a principle.” The action of the Chicago A Convention virtually commits all who hold their peace, not only to social freedom, as expounded by.Mrs. Woodhull, but to her social ethics as well. After her election at Troy, she issued a message to the Spirituallsts of America represented by the national organizations, in which she assumed that her election was a virtual indorsement of her theories. She urged that her social and political theories were known to the Con- vention tbat made her their President, and they were there- fore bound ‘by their own act to help enforce them. She re- capitulated some of her strong (or weak!) positions, among which were an avowed determination to carry her claims and 0°“-quenveven to the precipitation of a bloody revolution! restraint in the face of this definition is to talkldespotism. This position has never, to my knowledge, been recalled. She If I 6180,, to use my powers to Seduce your flaughter andkthen has continuitd to urge her extreme views’ mot of frwdom murder her to escape the responsibility incurred by act merely’ but of sexual morals (Or immomlsl)’ which are ma 19 that is my right under this new order of freedom. And if quite as prominent in her writings and speeches, as the “ ab- you know of my act and anticipate my attempt to kill, gna “met question of freedom", NOW She is re'e1e°ted for 3 third interfere to save your child by restricting the exercise of my term without a protest from her supporters against her claim of and religious freedom is not infringed. All the State claims to do in our present civilization is to protect human rights , and enforce loyalty to relations voluntarily assumed. It as- ill sumes monogamy essential to purity and peace, and if it is the highest and best, why_ not? The State limits the exer- cise of religious worship; not to protect God, but to secure the rights of society. ‘ “You may worship a crocodile, a snake, the sea or the sun, or you may worship a,virgin, and none to molest or make afraid. But if your faith requiresyou to sa.cri~ fice a virgin to the God of fire or the flames of sexual pas- sinn, it touches human rights and is rightfully subject to restraint. If religion requires mothers to throw their babes to crocodiles, or men to poison their neighbors’ wives, would - you say let them? Men may love or lust and there is no law human rights, either individually or collectively, or involves relations that endanger public morals, we are all concerned and have a right to a voice in the matter. You ask, “ What conditions must be fulfilled to constitute one an advocate’ of freedom?” Answer. A recognition of order versus anarchy. ' Order requires the obedience of impulse and physical desires to moral judgment interpreted through wholesome laws, limitations, restraints. _ - I Passion abounds in anarchy. Free passion enslaves the man: Thefree man holds sexual impulse subordinate, makes it a servant of purity, an obedient child of love. An advo- cate of freedom must urge theseconditions; must insist on the rule of the spiritual and the subjection of the animal to the laws and limitations of higher reason. 2. I“ In what reii . spect does Mrs. Woodhull fail to embody these conditions ?’ Answer: In that she urges no moral government over sexual passion—the most enslaving of all impulseswbut‘ declares that restraint is dangerous, induces insanity, and when “ hu- man fiends " are found whose passional slavery murders the “ consenting party,” she offers as a remedy not restraint, but a larger field and freer expression of the demon! Again: “Does the statement that one has the natural right to exercise sexuality—that sexuality in itself‘ is good——carry the implication that Mrs. W. ‘ is a fanatical devotee of pas- sional slavery ?’ If so, would not the advice ‘ to use any fac- ulty or follow any other attraction make a fanatical devotee and slave to such faculty?” Who questions the “ natural right to exercise sexuality?” or who has implied that it is superiority of sexual feelings because they are the creative. And she advocates the most unlimited gratification. She ness in woman.” Is that “good?” Sexuality regulated by reason, subordinated to moral instinct, is as pure as any other impulse. But you seem to doubt that she teaches obe- dience to impulse in defiance of moral restraint. Would that I could share your doubt. Her own words must be the witness. What are they? 1. Her definition of freedom is but another name for license. It is the doorto anarchy. Hear her‘: “ What is freedom? The right of each individual, to make such use of his or her powers as he or she may elect. Anything less is restriction; and restriction by any person or aggregate of persons, is despotism.”—Sz'lcer Luke Speech, N ow these words are positive, unequivocal. To talk of powers in the way I elect, then you are a despot! Though S, , _ Mrs. Woodhull publish whole volumes upon the necessity of every resolution indorsed by the Convention favors her restraint’ She but adds confusion and contradiction, While claims as far as they go, while every resolution tending to this bold, unmistakable definition stands as her idea of limit or compromise the most extreme sentiments was promptly rejected. Mr. Cotton’s resolution was not against iiffeiiiffil.f’E§Z°.‘§i§f.‘§,.§“;..‘Iiff.§i§f’i.’§.Z‘E.‘3.%*i.i.l§’.Z§’$”§-S?.§f?.‘i W 38 We1,{,f,°§;g;,: 3§§gg“0:SGgi§§§e,g:g§1- ,1 gfegt» the anyone. It is constantly urged that monog-anJY is highest ::Xua P58); be Ossessed of the most um’ 3:6’-I me emon ' and best. This is the palladium of Mrs. Woodhull’sdefend— pp.°Se , th ‘:1. . . M t. .1 .g ma .6 Sexual ers. Then why reject Bro. Cotton’s most liberal and -high- passion his. 61. wane mg d 0 1dS,,eXermSe accordmg to hm toned resolution? Was it because it expressed commisera- or her Own mo ma’ 1011 or eman ' _Weekly’ ZMCW 4,1872- or then, “I refuse to yield tacit assent” to Mrs. Woodhull’s S.r§:1tO deli‘; Efizzlirfioa S: :eZ:1a ilsluns} EaV,e_n° social theories. A few of the special points will ap- rlght,,'(,) Th.Sd fi .13. f“ V . livlcdunio 17 15 dwme pear anon. You compare religious freedom with sexual mg " 1 e m 1on0 seem me Om encourages the" freedom. Again, “ Social freedom means freedom in the social relav If, then, the “ demon ” has the “ divinc’right ” to debauch is rule of the “ most ungovernable sexual passion,” enslaving freedom? What do you know of aprinciple till it is appli— or dethroning reason’ Prostituting love’ and wldvocates’ c_ obedience to impulse” in defiance of reason, law or “mo;-at ture or nature of things to which it is applied? Life and restmmtf”. “Immense Sgxual power" unacCOmpameC.1.by love may be Principles, but what do we know of them till (lorlespondd ugly .de.W.a10ped mtg/uectual Ind m?m1 Capacmesi they are expressedin persons or things? Life-principles ex- pigduces brutality In man“an€1 beasthnesé In WOma.n"77'" pressed in a tree or a snake appear very different from the life W “’“lf{’ May 331' Does the . v0m:,,Of G?,d In film .SOu,1.,’ pm“ of man. All the difi"erence I can see between religiousvfree- duo? Brutalffy and beaSthneSS' If restriction 15 deg‘ dom and social freedom, is in the different relations they in- pomsm’ and sofiml freedom means fraedf) fOr.the demon volve. Religion relates us to our God or Gods: it generally as for the angel’ and such have the dwme right” to act 8 “ according to inclination or demanc ,” what is there to hope, ligious freedomi sirfllfly leaves our direct dealings with God from the enthusiastic labors of B/lrS' Wooéhull but the Sub" for Him to regulate If we worship acceptably well - if-not He Ordination of reason and moral Sense to brutality and beast” ' . . . ’ . ' 4 ’ 1' ! is our proper judge; if we refuse Him praise, he is able to do mess without it or bring us to time in His own way; if we trespass _ I upon His rights he is able to defend himself. Though we of the WEEKLY’ Mrs‘ W’ says: “ E01‘ our own pa“ We 03.71 S03 is no choice between the despotism of law and the despotism A unharmed. So long as our worship does not infringe human of morals. Nor what, either amounts to unless methods for rights the State may not interfere. The whole question of dif- ‘ts enfomement are also proposed‘ We declare! that’ l3h61‘6 is In the reply to Thomas W. Organ, Vol. VI., No. 9, page 8 0_ no right in any person or persons to enforce a standard a_ of sexuality nor any more to enforce one of morality. tions of society. Is any illustration necessary? If religious If law and morals ‘amount to n°thingWith0‘1t,being 611' worship impose offspring upon the kingdom of heaven, He forced’, and #10 person or _1°‘31‘S°“S has any right to enforce who governs there or they who share the burden of their them’ of What Value their existence ?” A support have a right to object or regulate the conditions under which they will accept the charge; but if religion im- same paper she saysé ‘* The man or woman who best exeml 11- ‘plifies the capacities and instincts with which they are en-” cerns us, and the State may regulate the conditions if it can, d.0W6d» Whether pt}-13417 3nd0Wm61-it is 10W d0W11 in the scale . of evolution or high in the ascent, is the truly moral person.” . her 11% eerily this at legality. some an to prevent; but when the expression of that lust violates = Does not thatlook, like ignoring moral restraint? In the 4 / lwoonnuti. & CL.AFLIN’S WEEK/LY. ,iF,eb. ‘7,',1js7i4, ~ , dowed with strong “capacities and instincts”v’for -theft, others for strong drink, others for murder, ‘others for sexual debauchery; and as most people desire to be counted “ truly moral” they have here the incentive offered to “ exemplify their capacities and instincts” bylfollowing their degrading proclivities! You must change the language of this quotation to escape this conclusion. . . . ‘ ' Those having “immense sexual capacities” will “best ex- emplify their endowments ” by “ brutality and beastliness,” and these, we are told, “ are the truly moral persons 1” Are 27011 “with her” in this estimate of moral worth? , In her Steinway Hall speech she says: “ Nature proclaims in broad- est terms, and all hersubjects re-echo the same grand truth, that sexual unions which result in reproduction are mar- riage.” ‘Reproduction may result from rape, and oftenjdoes follow unloving embraces in legal marriage bed, which Mrs. W. calls prostitution. Are rape and prostitution marriage? Oh, my dear brother, to what a depth ‘of depravity must our moral and conjugal instincts fall toithus degrade our concep- tions of love and the,di'vine significance of marriage! In the case of a Methodist minister whose passions murdered his “ consenting” wife, Mrs. W. offers no remedy but gratifica- tion. She would distribute his brutality among members of his church or with “ prostitutes for hire.” She would ex- tend the sphere of this “ sexual animal,” and enoouragea freer activity for his animalism. As he was a clergyman, _.it was 'important that he “ exemplify his capacities and in- stincts,” that he be “ truly moral.” At the rate of “ six to ten times a day,” offspring -wouldirnaturally follow at the rate ‘of 500 to 2,000 a year, which, by the law of inheritance, might be expected to exemplify their father’s brutality.- Does this look like encouraging moral‘ restraint? She sees the great ,W1‘01-‘IS done the broken—heaI-ted wife, but what is her remedy for such inhuman debauchery ? Is it Spiritual discipline? Is it moral government or restraint? N o. It is gratification. It is very cheap and easily applied. One would suppose that a teacher endowed" with high and healthy morals, with a gen- uine love of humanity and trustworthy principles of ‘social freedom and pure . reform, would have suggested hospital treatment and the application of influences that should awaken his higher nature and subdue this morbid animal- ism, and emancipate the man. I do not mean to imply that Mrs. Woodhull is immoral, but the blight of bad doctrines ; seems to hide the higher truth. » / She consults the appetite, of her patients, and takes good care that nothing unpalatable be administered. She would distribute his “ brutality,” notdrestrain. She would establish sexual equilibrium. by encouraging free, promiscuous jndu1_ gence. Now, if this f‘human fiend ”. had — such enormous “sexual capacities”-—and exercise increases power, which Mrs. W. claims is the law, applied to sexuality as to the mus- . cles of-the arm: and that power is already in such bad pro- portion as to constitute him a “ mere sexual animal”-how long‘- must this process of sexual culture continue to trans- form this animal into a well-balanced and purified man? Again, she assumes that “ government has no right to enact laws to limit the pursuit of happiness, in whatever direction or in whatever capacity.” Then what can government do to ‘protect such victims as this clergyman’s wife so long as his “ capacities" and the “ direction of his pursuit of happi- ness ” require the tender sacrifice? In the case of a maniac soothed and sobered by the caresses of his “sweetheart,” Mrs, Woodhull intimates that sexual intercourse was the remedy employed, and advises this treatment as a general panacea for insanity! But since all are not thus favored, she suggests that. “ for all patients who haven’t sweethearts, some should be found for them!” Now, what woman could be enamored of a maniac? And if these new-found “ sweethearts ” did not love their patients, would she subject them to their embraces? But suppose women could be found who could love a maniac at sight, would you allow the sexual embrace and subject these sweet- hearts to the natural consequences? rWould you tolerate “ sexual freedom” in such a case, knowing that the fruits might be the reproduction of maniacs? Do not think I mean to insult you by such questions. Butlyou say, “If you A rightly understand Mrs. Woodhull, you are with her in her doctrines of social freedom.” These are her doctrines, as publicly avowed. You may urge that these are “ side issues,” and have nothing to do with the “ abstract question of free- dom.” But it is not “ abstract questions ” we-are discussing, We are discussing Mrs. Woodhull’s social theories, of which “freedom as a. principle” ‘is but a small part. You assume that 1 confound “social freedom” with “sexual promig- cuity.” No; but I study Mrs. Woodhull’s, social freedom in the light of her own interpretations. I Her social freedom and social ethics run together and are inseparable. You have no more reverence for pure freedom than T. I claimed in my note to the Banner that Mrs. Woodhull was not an advocate of freedom. Of course I did not deny that she employed the word and claimed to advocate it, but I was docking at.’ the practical application of her doctrines; and they revealed the worst type of slavery. Now, let me ask, do you indorse Mrs. Woodhull’s social theoriesas set forth in the verbatim questions I have here given? If not, then you are not “with her in her doctrines of social freedom.” You may modify them and interpret them in the light of some of her better sayings and your own superior moral sense, and assume that it is settled; but until ,Mrs. W. recalls and cancels the unqualified expressions herein quoted, all attempts to explain andreconcile will but exhibit the self—contradictions and demonstrate her incon- sistencies. What *I have quoted are strong points, to be sure, and you may assume that theyjdo not faithfully repre- sent her, since she has occasionally intimated that certain kinds ofrestraint are proper, etc. But these bold, strong texts are the centre of power that carry her theories to the world. And when ‘she gives an unqualified definition of freedom to the world, that is supposed to represent her true meaning. ,And when she has pronounced all restriction des- potism, ifshe talks of restraints and ‘limitations, it strikes those who are familiar with her definitions as a slip of the tongue. Forwho of her admirerfi Would flatter. 1.1.9!‘ by cal1== ing her a despot? Your clear and trained intellect, your highmoral endowment, your sweet spiritual sympathies and your manly virtues cannot consistently subscribe to these extremes. And I am constrained to believe that Mrs. Wood- hull, in her deeper self and clearer moods, would shrink from their horrid bearings. Sheis not my’ “ central point of at- tack ” only as she stands in the shade of her theories. For the brave words she has" spoken in defense of abused women and helpless children, for her scathing rebukes of popular vice, her startling portrayalof the havoc of secret crime, and the bravery with which she defends her convic- ‘tions,'I honor and bless her. I have no partisan feeling to serve. She may be an appointed instrument for a special work in the great transition. In any conflict between free- dom and despotism you may be assured I shall be arrayed. on the side of freedom, but I hope never to be arrayed against order and the regulations of justice. Give us a freedom that is loyal tolove and exalting to the spiritual nature of. man, that will purify and bless the sacred altar of home, preserve the rights of the weak as against the capacities and instincts of those truly moral persons who exemplify their capacities’ in brutality“ and beastliness, and that shall recognize the rights of wives, husbands and mothers, as well as of thefickle and ardent lovers, whose passion often crucifies love and vails the face of reason. Love, to me, is divine; home the \altar of my hopes, and purity of purpose thekey to the King- dom of Heaven. Mutual responsibilities and duties acknowl- edged and cheerfully performed; self-restraint and mutual sacrifice for the good of each other have infinitely more sav- ing grace than the self-regulating principle of freedom inter- preted as anarchy, anddenying these equal and reciprocal bonds in marriage". It seems to me that my statement in the Bummer is sustained affirmatively by the quotations I have made, and negatively, by the absence of any evidence against it. Wherevhas Mrs.Woodhull ever urged the duty or clearly in- dicated the necessity ofiholdingthe passions subject to moral restraint? To find a “consenting party” is, so far as I am able to learn, her only moral limit. Your suggestion, if 1 do not like the company kept there” (in the WEEKLY) must be ironical. What did you know of me to call for that insinuation? Do you count mea pharisee! I have seen many expressions in the WEEKLY that to my ear sounded vulgar, and thoughts that profaned the purest tem- ple of love. From these I feel repelled. But I do not think the men and women who fall into line and fight for their faith are widely different from the rest of the world. If monogomy is the highest marital 1aw,we would naturally~ex- pect the best minds to gravitate to that side of the question. And in proportion as. they feel the sacredness and purity of that relation would they be shocked and repulsed at the recognition or even toleration of promiscuity. But I do not believe the average of practical purity is very largely in favor of either side; but a pure ideal will do something to exalt the standard of practice. It is plain that earnest persons may offer their lives in defense of a theory or assumed truth that is a mere superstition. But their motives are as pure as though the dogma were a truth. But their effect upon their lives and society in which they live will be according to the real virtue their faith embodies. You ask if you can consistently advocate freedom for others, whi le you have no occasion to use it yourself. Have I said anything to. impeach your consistency? If you hold -monogamy sacred, the highest and best, to which all are to attain as fast as their better nature develops, and then urge no necessity for promiscuous natures to conquer their lower proclivities and live for the higher, it seems to me that you fail in your duty to your weaker fellows. Yes, these are times “ fraught with terrible meaning.” When prostitution is honored and exalted, chastity pro. nounced ‘crime, virtue ridiculed and rape exalted to the dig- nity of marriage, and when all;who object are pronounced vile, and warned to fall into line‘ or be damned, we may well look to the brooding heavens and read in the lurid shadow the crimson prophecies of “ terrible meaning.” ’ In conclusion, let me assure you that toleration is my creed, free discussion and pure love my hope, charity and fraternity my gospel, radical thought and “ naked truth ” my religion, and consistency my aim. I am open to conviction, and ready to follow where reason. intuition and moral purity lead. I claim no superiority, accept no despotic dictation. I have boundless trust in the Divine and hopeful love for the human. If my position is not sustained, the reading public must be my judge. May the dawnof impartial reason break into radiant bloom and kindle the sacred morning of peace and promise in our loyal affections and show us the perfect way. 4, ‘ WAVERLY, N. Y., November 17, 1873., REPLY TO LYMAN c. HOWE. [The above communication was forwarded for publication several weeks ago, and Mrs. Woodhull being ‘absent in the far West. the local editor. hesitated to publish it onaccount of its length. It has been submitted to me I or comments should I- choose to make any.) Two circumstances prevent my reviewing brother Howe’s criticism at length just at this time. First, because a multi- tude of labors I cannot waive, together with sickness in my family, taxes all the energy I have to spare; second, I can- not presume upon the over—crowd/ed columns of the WEEKLY with a discussion which might assume a quite indefinite length. While I ‘venture to suggest that Brother ‘Howe has failed to make out his case upon the points raised in my‘ pre- vious communication, I shall for the time being confine myself to what chiefly interests society in general and reformers in particular, namely, the assumption that the State is invested with the right to compel its citizens to live moral lives. H Brother Howe has read history to little purpose if he sup- poses that the State has generally restricted the religious liberty’ of the subject purely in the interest of Jehovah. The State has, with rare exceptions, assumed that an un- believer is an unsafe citizen; that without the recognition of future rewards and punishments a man has no motive to respect the rights of others. And many of our free States ‘ of America to-day reject by their constitutional provisions the evidence of an atheist in a court of justice, not because God needs protection, but because, not holding? the belief which the party of “law and order” think essential to con- stitute a safe member of the community, his evidence is«sup- pressed to protect society against perjury... Brother Howe has utterly failed to show that the question of social freedom is different in kind from that of religious freedom, and all this talk about the terrible anarchy which would flow from social freedom is not only irrelevant but it is the old argu- ment over again which kings and priests have always used to coerce, the people into the old ways of living! Now, Mrs..Woodhull’s central idea of freedom, that upon which she has uniformly insisted, is the same as that held by Stuart Mill during the last fifteen years, namely, that all acts which are self—regarding, acts which concern only the, individual, not only should be exempt from any inteference by the State, but it is the duty of the State to protect the individual in the exercise of his freedom against the en- oroachments of the community. But the conservators of public morals deny that any acts are purely self-regarding. They assert that a bad belief communicates like the small- pox, ‘and hence ,,must be restrained. As we are incapable of an act which does not directly or remotely react upon society, so society must have the supervision of our conduct with a view to its own protection. If our living is bad, for example, our children will inherit scrofula, and hence, in the interest of children the State should preside overlour table, prescribe our diet, and regulate all our domestic concerns. And so there is no tyranny of interference with the individual which may not be sanctioned upon this principle. I utterly ignore the idea of paternal. functions vested in the State. I ignore the State’s assumed right to compel the individuals loyalty to the monogamic or any other ideal. Its business is to let the individual alone in what alone concerns the indi- vidual, and to see to it that he lets others alone in matters of their own concern. We need not trouble ourselves about the moral law; that will assert itself without the aid of State machinery. Those who persuade themselves that society will go to the bad without the paternal care of government, distrust human nature. “The only freedom which deserves the name,” says Stuart Mill, “ is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of,,theirs or im- pede their eflorts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live H as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.” Mrs. Woodhull says, in her Steinway Hall speech, that “ when one person encroaches upon another person’s rights he or she ceases to be a free man or woman, and becomes a despot. To all such persons we assert that it is freedom and not despotism which we advocate and demand; and we will as rigorously demand that individuals be restricted to their freedom as any person dare to demand; and as rigor- ously demand that people who are predisposed to be tyrants instead of free men or women, shall by the government be so restrained as to make the exercise of their proclivities impossible. * * * And the most perfect exercise of such rights is only attained when every individual is not only fully protected in his rights, but also strictly restrained to the exercise of them within his own sphere, and positively‘ prevented from proceeding beyond its limits so as to en- croach upon the sphere of another, unless that other first agree thereto.” Mrs. W. has said as much in other places, and I believe in all she has ever published the above limitations have been kept strictly in view, and the attempt to construe her lan- guage as opposed to all individual and governmental re- straint by keeping these limitations out of sight, looks as though the chief anxiety was to make out a case and convict the alleged criminal. Bro. Howe tells us that a principle can be tested only by application to the things with which we propose to deal, and in the same connection expresses deep solicitude for the wel- fare of helpless infancy, just as though under the old order of things childrenwere born right and always properly cared for. ‘I will ask how has the State, from which our brother expects so much, dealt with this problem? Does it not license prostitution without making the men who support it respon- sible for the children they propagate in those dens of infamy ? Does not the State license and permit the half-idiots, the thieves, the liars and the vagabonds to become legal hus- bands and propagate their kind ?’ And does it not virtually compel thousands of dependent, helpless women to embraces which they loathe andlto a maternity which they abhor? This talk about Mrs. Woodhull’s elevating rape to the dig- nity of marriage and justifying. prostitution, while the party of ‘‘law and order” legalizes both, evinces a tendency to look only on “one side of the shield.” and were it most any other person than brother Howe who writes in this style, I should think it deserved the appellation of cant. Those who have a vision of a better day for humanity; those who have more faith in man than they have in the worn—out tools of‘ civilization, have the welfare of children quite as much in view as have those who are anxious to preserve the old social machinery. ‘ Again, Brother H. says that passion left free develops anarchy. Well, there was plenty of both before Mrs. Wood- hull came upon the stage, notwithstanding the guardian care of the State. The expression of “ free passion ” in children is all but universal. The child receives no wise instruction regarding that wonderful power for good or evil whichis soon to become potent in its organization, and so falls a victim to ruinous practices. The Oneida Community has dealt with this question’ intelligently, for they count sex- uality among the divine attributes; and they assure us there isno secret vice among their healthy} W911'b°1‘11 011i1dI'e11- And strange as it may seem to our brother. Mrs» Woodhull herself has grappled with this question with her character- istic earnestness, striking the ax of reform at the root Of this tree of sexual vice; And. again, if! 16831 marriage P35" sion is “free,” at least on the masculine side; and our déar ‘. -’/ ,4 ~,-—\-. I ‘ Feb. 7, q1874.= woonnutha C‘LAFLIN’S wrnfktri paternal State makes no provision for its restraint. When our brother remembers that nearly all the vicious men have womenvtied to them legally, andthat the State gives their passions “full swing” in relations where they may freely propagate, it would seem that he would forget Mrs. Wood- hull entirely in his serious concern for the welfare of “un- born generations.” Men who have money restrict passion by making a monopoly of it. Mrs. Woodhull proposes to break down this monopoly by limiting each individual to his own sphere, or to that of “ consenting parties.” The language quoted from the WEEKLY of May 4 is, I sub- mit, consistent with the limitation expressed in the Stein- way Hall speech. All that is implied there is. that all _faculties and powers are good, and that they are entitled to exercise within their sphere. The so-called demon is a pos- sible angel, and the State‘ transcends its sphere when it attemptsyto compel him to order his private life as it may think best. i g V , . I must say that the use Brother Howe makes of his quota-. tion from Mrs. W., to the effect that the truly moral man is one who best exemplifies his capacities and instincts, is a complete travesty of what the language expresses. Had I seen such an application in‘ the Tribune or Herald it would not have surprised me; but to see it from a gentleman whom I believe aims to be most just on all occasions, argues the ‘ incompetence of our language or the extreme bias of preju- _ dice. Here we have physiological and pathological problems utterly confounded. By “instinct” and “ capacity ” Mrs. W. plainly has reference to faculties and organs. of the body, and not to conditions of disease. Nor has she reference to 1 those conditions and manifestations where the sphere of others is invaded, f or she has distinctly stated that all such conditions and invasions should be restrained by the State, as in cases of theft, murder and rape. Does Brother Howe really accept the implication of his own words? Does he admit the Oalvinistic doctrine that human nature is endowed with instincts for theft, murder and rape? If he does, I sup- pose he must be excused for the construction he has put upon Mrs. W.’s words. But Bro. Howe’s toleration nearly breaks down when he considers Mrs. W’s. panacea for certain species of insanity. I would remind him, however, that in this he is with the mob in their narrow views of progress, _while Mrs. W. is with the most enlightened who have made the pathology of the mind a life-study. Some of the leading physicians of New York and Boston, together with Dr. Maudsley, of England—men who have long had charge of the in- sane——committed themselves to a similar view before Mrs. Woodhull was known to the public. Nor do I see that such a method of treatment, conducted under the direction of a competent physician, and administered with reference to the welfare of the unfortunate, need be at- tended with any such calamatous effects as Bro. H. so,sor- rowfully depicts, or as worse classes perpetrate every day in irresponsible legal marriage. No doubt the rigidly virtuous will throw up their hands and elevate their noses if they chance to read these words, but ‘-I shall take my consolation in the reflection that the physiologists have a more exalted view of human nature than have the Mrs. Grundys. From Bro. I-Iowe’s recent solicitude for the welfare of poor unborn children we may expect he will soon petition the government to look after the insane, the halt, the blind, the criminals,who are in legal marriage, and respectfully ask that they see to it and prevent them from further propaga- tion, It is undeniable that this unfortunate class are mainly recruited from the legally married, whom the State has thus far permitted to exercise passion without restraint. It ex- hibits a bad grace to croak about the terrible consequences that would flow out of social freedom, while we are confront- ed with the ‘utter failure of those institutions we are be- sought to retain. ' ‘ i I I have no‘idea that much constructive work in social re- form will be accomplished’ during the present generation. We are “not” now fighting‘ for either monogamy or variety, but for freedom. Our labor for the present is negative. We must first secure freedom as a condition of growth, stop the meddlesome interference of government in matters that do not concern _it, protect all social experiments that are under- taken in good faith, cease to require conformity to any body’s crochet or social ideal, and accept the whole social problem as an open question which only the enlightened future may be able to. finally settle and reconcile with nature. Therace is yet young and embraces a thousand latent germs which need the vitalizing air and warm sunlight of freedom before they can_become evolved into life and power. This « human nature will not consentto remain in Chinese shoes and dogmatic ruts; it must carve new grooves and spring forward toagrander destiny. _ ” V Personally, I esteem Brother Howe as a man of more than ordinary heart and brain, as one with tender and refined sentiment, endowed with noble and generous impulses-—the last man who would oppress either man or woman, or who wouldtry to compel others to his way of thinking or mode of life. ‘Yet Ivcannot do otherwise than construe his recent attitude as essentially conservative, and his estimate of Mrs. Woodhull and the socialmovement with which she is identi- fiecl, very unjust; though I would not have it understood thatgl think he has any intention of being unjust. He seems _ t,'o‘.1_n_e timid and distrustful of anything which parts com- pany with the old spirit and methods. The terrible earnest-_ ness of a Luther, or Garrison, or W'oodhu1l—whose truth- telling arrays an empire in hostile strife——frightens our brother. He turns with disgust from the pointed speech, the scathing rebuke, the ‘abrupt demeanour. The nice ways niustbe observed, the proprieties must be consulted, the methods must be in keeping with our traditional usages. If these are spoiled, the whole work is vitiatedbeyond repair. But the future historian will penetrate beneath these inci- dents in Mrs. Woodhu1l’s career, and assign her a place among the world’s great‘ reformers which ‘her contempo- raries are too short-sighted toacknowledge. ' Finally, those who talk so long and loud about Mrs. Wood- hi.11l’s advccacyef promiscuity should'be oft reminded that the present agitation" does not aim to secure the acceptance of any particular social scheme. The more intelligent agitat- ors understand it is too early intthe day to frame resolutions declaring either monogamy or variety to be a law of nature; they wisely leave such questions for future adjustment. And it might be further suggested that the people of rigid virtue, who look down with such pity and contempt upon those who haveabundant sexuality, might often with pro- priety turn their eyes in the opposite direction to ‘get a glimpse of the real contrast between such people’s condition and their own. We should remember that our notions of virtue and morality are relative, not absolute. While my own idea of the relation of the sexes is that of monogamy, yet if that mode of life cannot survive a free and open con- fiict with rival schemes, independent of the paternal care of the State, then I should conclude that the social order capa- ble of supplanting it is best adapted to meet the social re- quirements of the race. I anticipate a condition of society take the place of negative virtue and rigid moral codes; a condition in which man will take no thought of set rules and dogmatic standards. As the lilies bloom and the corn grows, so will humanity evolve the latent germs of -charac-* ’ ter and express the possibilities of instinct and faculty. In the meantime we must protect the individual sphere from the meddlesome interference of society, and restrain the in- dividual when he invades the sphere of another. ‘ - . E. WHIPPLE. 896 MAIN Sr.. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Jan. 16, 1874. MAD GE MILLER. Madge Miller, on a summer day, Walked, as usual, her pleasant way.‘ K Her dress was tidy, her apron white; Her face was sweet as the morning light. She was a country village maid, Learning a country milliner’s trade. Her hands were soft, her dresswas clean, And little she knew what care might mean. She said, “ I’ll work at my pretty trade, And live a happy and free old maid. Lovers may come and lovers may go, I’ll have none of them, no, no, 1101” But a suitor came, with a tall silk hat; He told her a. story worth two of that. The same old story by lovers told Since first the earth out of chaos rolled. (Let us kindly hope, who are old and Wise,» He did not know he was telling lies.) ‘ Marry me, darling, and you shall be The happiest Woman on land or sea! No longer then will you have to go I To your daily laborthrough heat or snow. . ‘ It shall be my pleasure, my law, my life, To make you a blest and happy wife. ‘ ‘ Marry me, and you shall never know A sorrow or hardship, a care or woe!” She heard the story of promised blissm She waited, wavered, and answered, “ Yes.” Bright and big was the honeymoon, And clouded by worldly care too soon; For housework led her its weary round-A Her feet were tethered, her hands were bound. And children came with their smalldemands, Fettering closer her burdened hands. V ‘In her husband’s house shecame to be A servant in all but salary. All her days, whether foul or fair, Were endless circles of Work and care; And half her nights—as up and down She Walked the floor in her dressing~gown, Hushing an ailing infant’s screams, Lest it should break its father’s dreams; And wash the dishes and rub the knives» The lofty mission of duteous wives;—- < i > Or coaxed and doctored a sobbing child By the pangs of ear-ache driven wild— I _ Were seasons of wakeful, nervous dread. So if at last o’er her aching head The angel of slumber chanced to stoop, _ He brought her visions of mumps or croup; And sherose unrested, and went once more ' ' \ Through the dull routine of the day before. Week by week did she drudge and toil, And stewand pickle, and roast and boil, And scrub and iron, and sweep and cook, Her only reading, a. recipe book; And bathe the children and brush their locks, Button their aprons and pin their frocks, And patch old garments, and darn and mend - ' Oh, weary worry that has no end! she lost her airy and sportive Ways,’ The pretty charm of her girlish days-- For how can a. playful fancy rove ’ When once tied up to a cooking stove? . ’ Her face was .old ere she reached her prime-~ Faded and carewom. before its time. I when human nature will be trusted and spontaneity will ' Sometimes would her well-kept husband look Up from the page of his paper or book, ‘ ' ‘And note how the bloom had left her face, And a pallid thinness won its place- “ How gray had mixed with her locks ofbrown, And her forehead gained a growing frown, _ And say, “ She is ugly, I declare; “ I wonder I ever thought her fair!” Season by season, year by year, _ ' Did she follow the round of “ woman’s ‘sphere ”-- Not vexing her husband’s days or nights. By any mention of woman’s rights, Till she died at last-too severely tried-— ‘Her life’s one se1fis‘l1‘dee'd-she died, Proud and happy and quite content With the slavish way her days were spent! - : . . ‘ ’,i~ H Feeling, of course, that her life was lost . ’ . Nobly in saving a. servant's cost! him of an thc,sad’thoughts or women or men, The saddestis this: “It needn’t‘have been!” -—PortZomd fl’ramcript. HERBERT SPENCER ON SOCIAL REFORM. DISCUSSIONS, IN SCIENCE-—PAGE 128. “That form of society toward which we are progressing, I hold to be one in which government will be reduced to the smallest amount possible, and freedom increased to the great- i est amount possible——one in which human nature will have become so molded by social discipline into fitness! for the social state that it will need little external restraint, but will be self-restrained-—one. in which the citizen will tolerate no interference with his freedom save that which maintains the equal freedom of others; one in which the spontaneous co- operation which has developed our industrial system. and is now developing it with increasing rapidity, will pmduce agencies for the discharge of nearly all social functions, and will leave to the primary governmental agency nothing be- yond the function of maintaining those conditions to free ‘action, which make such spontaneous co-operation possible; one in which individual life will thus be pushed to the great... est extent consistent with social life, and in which social life will have no other end , than to maintain the completest ‘sphere forindividual life.” ILLUSTRATIONS or UNIVERSAL rROGRnss.——rAeE 96-98. “ When at length the controversy comes round. as contro... versies often do, to the point whence it started, and the ‘ party of order ’ repeat their charge against the rebel that he is sac- rificing the feelings of others /to the gratification of his own willfulness, hereplies once for all that they cheat themselves by misstatements. He accuses them of being so despotic that, not contentlwith vbeing masters over their own way s” and habits, they would be masters over his also, and grumble be.. cause he will not let them. He merely asks the same freedom which they exercise; they, however, propose to regulate his into agreement with their approved pattern; and then charge him with willfulness and selfishness because he does not quietly submit. He warns them that he shall resist, never- theless; and that heshall do so, not only for the assertion of his own independence, but for their good. He tells them that they are slaves, and know it not; that they are shackled, and and complain at the walls being broken, down. He gays he must persevere, however, with a View to his own release, and in spite of their present expostulations, he prophecies that when they have recovered from the fright which the prospect of freedom produces, they will thank him for aiding in their emancipation. - . “Unamiable as seems this find-fault mood, offensive as is this defiant attitude, we must beware of overlooking the truths enunciated, in dislike of the advocacy. It is an un- fortunate hindrance to all innovation, that in virtue of their very function, the innovators stand in a position of antago- nism; and the disagreeable manners and sayings and doings which this antagonism generates are commonly associated with the doctrines promulgated. - Quite forgetting that whether the thing attacked be good or bad, the com- bative spirit is necessarily repulsive; and quite forgetting that the toleration of abuses seems amiable merely from its. passivity, the mass of men contract a bias against advanced views, and in favor of stationary ones, from intercourse with their respective adherents. ‘ Conservatism.’ as Emerson says, ‘is debormatre and social; reform is individual and imperi- ous.’ And this remains true, however vicious the system conserved, however righteous the reform to be effe'cted. N ay, the indignation of the purists is usually extreme’ in tion as the evils to be got rid of are great. ESSAYS, PAGE 50. s “ Though we have less self-confidence than our ancestors, who did not hesitate to organize in law their judgments on all subjects whatever, we have yet far too much. Though‘ propor- _ ‘we have ceased to assume the infallibility of our theological beliefs, and so ceased to enact them, we have not ceased to enact other beliefs of an equally doubtful kind. Though we no longer presume to coerce men for their spiritual good, We still think ourselves called upon to coerce them for their material good, not seeing that the one.,is as useless and as unwarrantable as the other. Innumerable failures seem, so far, powerless to teach this.” ‘ ESSAYS : MORAL, POLITICAL AND lns'rHnrIc-PAGE 163. “ Shakespeare’s simile for adversity-—~ ‘ Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head, might fitly be used also as a simile for a disagreeable truth. cherished illusion is presently found to contain thejgermiogf a. more salutary belief. The experience of every one fur-= course as well as their own; to out and clip his mode of life” I kiss their chains; that they have lived all their days in prison , Repulsive as is its aspect, the hard fact whichdissipates a’ ,:/4*\, I ‘ssh-.. .. .. WOQDHTULL & j,cLArL1N*s/ WEE-KLCY. Feb. 7, nishes instances in which an opinion long-shrunk from as seemingly at variance with all that is good, but finally ac- cepted as irresistible, turns out to be fraught with benefits. It is thus with self-knowledge; much as we dislike to admit our defects, we find it better’: to knowvand guard against than to‘ ignore them. It is thus with changes of creeds. Alarm- ing as looks the reasoning by Which superstitions are over- thrown, the convictions to which it lead prove to be healthier ones than those they superseded. And it is thus with political enlightenment: Men eventually find cause to thank those who pull to pieces their political air castles hateful as: their antagonism once seemed. Moreover, not only is it always better to believe truth than error, but the repugnant looking facts are ever found to be parts of some- thing far more perfect and beautiful than the ideal which. they dispelled; the actuality always transcends the dream. {ONE OF THE CROWD. [An incident related by Urapsey in his "Nether Side of New I’or7c.”] / A house was seized. (I spare the earlier scenes Of all the wickedness that sentence means.) And forth into the unaccustomed air ’ Were led the tainted ones that harbored there: Poor women, lost and joyless; viler men, Profane at being caught within the den; . . A group that angels might bemoan to see, \ But well deserving of the deVil’s glee. The station-house‘ was rcached—the men let go— ' The women held to answer for‘ their woe. 1 Among the rest a girl of beauty rare— > A spotted lily that was once most fair, With eyesthat not of sin but sorrow told, - And delicate features scarcely yet grown bold. A touch of feeling the rough sergeant knew, That smote him with strange pity through and through‘. The usual questions then—till, sharp and clear, . "‘ Your occupation ?”‘smote her shuddering ear. “ My occupation? Write. it with a curse: I am what men have made me—nothing worse! I have a mind for once the tale to tell Of what has brought me to this living hell;— Not that my woe will ever cause a tear, But I would haveit out where most can hear. “ Two years ago no thought of wrong had I, And life was pleasant as the days went by. My home was 11 a country town, and there Was none more happy, and no girl more fair; And I was wooed with many an eager vow.—- 7 Great God, the contrast!-—Look upon me now! “ Among the men that sought to gain my hand » VVas one my father favored for his land; Rich, handsome, pleasing, he was all ‘complete To bring the world in fawning to his feet. « He still walks, unashamed, with level tread, And I—-what bitter shame is on my head! "‘ I learned to love him well, with utter trust, And he, relentless, ground my soul to dust. I loved him over-much, and so I fell; My crimewas love-its punishment was hell! When I was ruined, deaf to every prayer, He broke his vows, and left mevto despair. “ There came a time that withered my fair fame, And showed to every curious eye my shame. No hope was left me then in all the earth; My father sternly bade me leave his hearth; I had no mother; he was like all men— Curse the old man that had no pity then! “ Thrust from my home, in all that town was none To save or shelter me, Not one! Not one! Heart-broken, sick, and crazy with my woe. ‘What man for crime has ever suffered so? Not one in all that town but scorned me then- Damnation take such women and suchmen! '5‘ My baby died, of course, for what was I That any joy deserved, except to die? My little baby~oh! that tiny face! But better so than live to know disgrace. * There must be heaven somewhere; who can doubt That precious baby-soul has found it out? , ’ “ Well, murderers go unhung, and thieves unwhipt, But all pursue the woman who has slipped. Death on the hideous gallows would have been A boon, to save me from this life of sin. All felons hope for pardons and reprieves; But we are worse than murderers and thieves. ~“ Far from the home that knew my, infant steps, My only friends on earth are demireps. / You call that wretched house disorderly; That house is all the home that’s known to me. I am the wreck that men delight to make— Strike me to death, Great God, for mcrcy’s sake!” K “That night the sergeant hastened home apacc, iWith moistened eyes his loved ones to embrace. . PELEG ARKWRIGHT. , »BACKWARD GLANCE. Galileo said, "‘ the world moves.” But the following reso- lutions and speech, taken from a paper published in 1858, prove that, in spite of all theeiforts of social science reform- ers, it does not move very fast. From the Boston Liberaterhof 1858, page 160, we make the following extracts: _ ' c "‘ Resolutions passed at a Yearly Meeting of the Friends of Hunian Progress, held at North'Collins, Eric 00., N. Y.,‘ on the and September, 1858. g 7 ‘ “RESOLUTIONS. “ 8. That the only true and natu-ral marriage consists in an . exclusive conjugal love between one'man andone woman; and those who live together as husband and wife without; this love, and merely becauseithey are licensed so «to live by the Church and State,~are living an unnatural and prosti- tuted life, from whichduty to themselves, to their lposterity and to the God of purity and justice, requires that they should at onceand forever cease. “ 9. That the empire of» woman as a mother over the char- acter and destiny of her offspring is supreme in power and eternal in duration; therefore, in our efforts to promote the happiness of the race in wisdom and goodness, and to people the earth with a noble type of manhood and womanhood, our main dependence must not be on man as a father, a teacher, a priest and a ruler, nor on the school, the Church or the State, but on woman as a mother. “ 10. That the most sacred and important right of woman is the right to decide for herself when and under what cir- cumstances she shall assume the responsibilities and be sub- jected to the cares and sufferings of maternity; and that man is most unmanly and commits a great wrong against woman, posterity and humanity, whenever, under sanction of marriage, he imposes those cares and sufferings upon her against her wish. , . , “11. That the facts’ and phenomena of Spiritualism are many and well proven, etc. ‘ ' ‘ “12. That the facts of Spiritualism and the philosophy de- veloped therewith are of great practical use to mankind as an aid to broader and clearer views of the unity of all reforms.” I [From the Same Paper.] gsrnnon or MRS. JULIA BRANCH AT THE PHILANTHROPIC 1 CONVENTION HELD AT UTICA, N. Y., SEPTEMBER, 1859. Among the speakers at the Philanthropic Convention, re- cently'held‘at‘Utica, N. Y., was Mrs. J ulia Branch, of New York City, whose speech at the Rutland (Vt.) Convention on marriage, has subjected her to so much opprobrium on the part of journals disposed to place the worst possible con- struction_upon her motives and language. Here is what she said at Utica: , -‘ Mrs. Julia Branch, of New York, said she did not come to make a speech, but as itgwas expected of her, she had pre- pared some facts. Strong prejudices had arisen against her, as the promul gator of horrible things. But she did not fear public opinion. The man or woman who fears to advocate his or her principles is“a coward, and does not know the meaning of Freedom. 'A man or woman is not fit to work thoroughly in our present condition of society until they have lost their reputation. The layers of the Cable buffeted the ocean waves; so this Convention was fighting with the mountain waves of popular prejudice to lay a cable for hu- manity’s benefit. ‘ We -are here to speak of evil and its cause. But evil is so‘ glossed over by respectable society, it requiresan age of ex- perie nice to detect the sub'tilty which conceals-its deformity. She had spoken against the marriage institution at Rutland as the cause of theslavery and degradation of woman, and she had nothing to take back, but rather to add to that in- stitution two of the worst evils the world has to contend with as their originator and promulgator. She alluded to prostitution and infanticide. Nearly all have been educated with notions of false modesty, and for a female to have knowledge of such subjects is to stamp her with doubt as to her own morals. But she had an interest in all humanity, not excepting the -woman who had strayed from virtue. Dr. Sawyer, of Blackwell’s Island, says he found in the City of New York between three and four hun- dred houses of noted ill-fame, and with between seven and eight thousand inmates, and sixty thousand daily visitors, and expenses of between seven and eight millions of dollars a year. Of private prostitution he could make no estimate; but Acton, an English writer, estimates one woman in Eng- land and Wales in every fourteen to be of that class; but after an average of four years they marry with all grades of society. _ Five-sixths of the visitors to all such places are married men. The Mayor of Providence has declared such places to be necessary evils, and the Mayor of New Bedford declares that without them our wives and daughters would be liable to be insulted in every street. By whom? Who are they but husbands, fathers, brothers? Whose father, whose; brother? Is it yours or mine? It is some of God’s humanity -but who? ~ — ~ ’ " - And the eight thousand ‘women ——what -tender-hearted mother supposed, that the little baby-girl she presented to the admiring gaze of her friends should be tramping the dark streets. bedecked in ..crirhson robes and tinsel glare of paste jewelry? The cause—where does it lie? In our present mar- riage institution, which forces men and women to live to- gether until death, without either mental, moral or physical adaptation. Society should abolish all ties of uncongeniality as an outrage upon its morals, as ‘an preventive of the accu- mulated evils in the shape of half—formed, undeveloped and perverted children. This could not make society any worse. Child after child is being born daily, hourly, to fill our streets with paupers and our prisons with criminals. And do you ask, whocwouldtake care of the children? Doyou suppose parental feelings would be destroyed by the act of separa- tion? If they are based on so unsound a foundation as the laws of society, it is time they were utterly destroyed, and something newestablished. The law allows the rights of marriage to the most depraved and unhealthy,.with the knowledge that their children would be equally depraved and unhealthy. if not worse than their parents. An un- . healthy beast is killed as not capable of reproducing a per- fect specimen of its species. . But, said the speaker, it would give a license to immorality if the marriage institution were abolished, says one. ‘‘,Would you have any more liberty?” “I can regulate myself; the law was not made to check me.” “Who was it made for?” “ Why, men of no principle.” “ Well, who are men of no principle?” “ Oh, it is Mr. So-and-so, who neglects his wife; ‘he would give all the world to have the “privilege Of 10Ving somebody else, or get rid of her in someway.” “ How old is his last child?” " “ Two or three months.” Does not the heart sicken at the depraved picture, and even at every sys- tem of palliation which would cloak cover such evils? The other evil, that of infanticide, Mrs. Branch traced to the same cause.’ She cited the report of Dr. Wynne, stating that the prematurebirths in New York in 1850 were one to . twelve. The ratio of still-births in various parts of the coun- try was also cited. In New York the crime of infanticide had increased 415 per cent. since 1808. Mrs. B. said she traced the cause of this to the marriage institution. Both in and out of marriage there is no hesitancy to destroy the ‘life of a child before-birth; out of marriage, for the fear of los- ing respectability; in marriage, because the troubles of ma- ternity are confining, irksome and arduous. You are not aware to what extent this murder system is carried. Yet when compared to children that fill our prisons, we are al- most willingto consider this murder a blessing. Do you wonder the next, child born of that mother is hung for com- mitting murder? ‘ ’ It is in you, mothers, that the only hope of the regenera- tion of the world lies. Mothers, think of it! Every son that you bring into existence, that is not conceived from the purest love, is imbued with all the elements that‘ go to fill prisons and pauper-houses; every daughter is imbued with those qualities that fit them to enter houses of prostitution. What a weight of responsibility rests upon you. How neces- sary it is for you to have your absolute right to say when, where and how you shall bear children! How necessary it is that all arts and sciences, all trades, everythingthat is now in the hands of men, should be open for your benefit, in order to produce better children! I reject in tow the idea that it is bliss to remain in ignorance. Woman should know everything that man is capable of knowing, and there must be perfect freedom for the advancement of either the indi- vidual or nations. Every chain that is put about you retards your growth, and you should snap it .asunder, no matter whether it is placed there by Church or State, husband or friend, wife or child. Slavery is an evil, and the cause is ig- norance. ,.Get out of bondage by acquiring knowledge, and plant your foot on the rock of freedom. In the year 1852, in England and Wales, there were 55,000 illegitimate children born. The marriage institution has not certainly prevented children from being born under any circumstance; and now, in order to stay the frightful crime of infanticide, and that woman now looked upon as degraded who has departed from the so-called virtuous paths may have a chance of becoming respectable, I offer the following resolution, hoping, too, that it will be the means somewhat of making the next gen- eration of children better and purer: \ “Resolved, That as the crime of infanticide has increased and is increasing yearly under the existing false forms of marriage, all children born under any circumstances within any State, shall be declared by that State legitimate.” A PARABLE. To her who is called Victoflcv. the Spirit send; th Greeting: On the evening of the eleventh day of the month that is called January, the spirit of the Lord came upon me and did ' cause my pen to become as that of a ready writer, while my hand guided it to trace the words of the following parable. Then I said in my heart, “This parable shall grace the columns of the paper called Our Age.” But the spirit said, “N o; thou must not be too partial to thine own child; send it to the child of Victoria, falsely called Weekly, as it is very strong,” and so I was obedient to the heavenly vision. Per- haps, beloved, thou mayest, in thy wisdom, be able to in- terpret the parable. If so, thou wilt do well. L. W. ADVOCATING, DISCUSSING, E’.I.‘O.-——A PA/QRABLE FROM LOIs WAISBROOKER. . Once upon a time there went forth an edict from the ruling power of a certain country, declaring that only white people were good people, and that those of other shades must be- come white or they could never live in the good man’s heaven.‘ S Straightway, every man and woman in that country began to look upon every other man and woman to see who was the whitest, and those who were particularly fair in their com- plexions were counted by others, and looked upon them- selves, as very good. No matter what their lives were, if their skins were only white. Now, there were some people who were naturally black- were born so, as were their parents before them, and wash as much as they pleased they could not change the color of their skins; and what to do they did not know; behave as well as they could, their color was against them, and they were everywhere condemned. ‘ ' In their desperation, some of them finally came to lead very bad lives; not because they wished to do so, or that they were naturally worse than others, but because they felt that it was of no use to try to be anybody or do anything praiseworthy, as they only received condemnation, no mat- ter how good they were. , - Finally, one more skillful than the others invented a tight- fitting garment just the color ‘of the white skin that was taken as evidence of goodness, and these black people com- menced wearing said garment. It was also put on to their children when they were quite young, and being elastic in its nature, the older the child grew the tighter it fitted, till finally the wearer would come to think that it was his natural color. _ In time only those more honest by nature, or those who had been subject to some trying ordeal,which tore their false I robe from thern——only these two classes remained black; the former because too honest to deceive, and the latter because they were not allowed to put on another garment of white after it had been proven that the first one was false (for re- member, no one acknowledged that they wore a black skin under the white one), so these two classes were condemne together, and there was no hope for them. 4'" Finally there arose one, who boldly declared that goodness did not consist in the color of the skin any more than it did in the appetite for different kinds of food; that one whose skin was black had just as good a right to be black as the one“ who was white had to be white. Then there arose a great storm of words about this matter; the advocates of being white anyhow claiming that white was the natural color of good people, and if people desired they could all be goodand of course all be white. _ * ' M 0 J I b - Others said let us have the testimony of Nature ; andsuc -,__A_d_: { 2;:-:.:-_ ~ V -‘hum. -M Feb. 7, 1374. I EWOODHULL 83’ CLAFLI-N’\S) WEEKLY‘.&» 7 71'. continued to bring forward evidence that some were natu- rally black and could not help it, and said such were just as good for all of that, if they didnot try to make white people black, and only chose those who‘ were willing to associate with them as their companions. But the advocates of the exclusive white theory said, “ No; people must have .a law to make them white if they will not be white without, for people are naturally white, and they should have -a law to make them so or they will all turn black.” — When those who were searching for the truth in this matter continued to investigate, the white party accused them of advocating blackness. ; 4 “N 0,” replied the truth—saeker; “we are not advocating anything, we are only trying to find whether some people are naturally black, or whether the color of their skin is the result of crime. We are discussing the problem for the pur- pose of finding the factsof the case. It will be of no more use for us to advocate blackness than it would whiteness, if both are natural; and if only one is a natural color, the other being assumed or the result of wickedness, we shall be able to find it out, andiwhich, if you will only free the people from unnatural restraint. But still the cry went forth that these truth-seekers were advocating blackness, wanted to make everybody black; and some of those who were naturally black, but whose white, close-fitting garments were in danger of bursting open——they having partly outgrown them—-made the loudest outcry and were fiercest in their accusations. 0 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. SCIENTIFIC SERMON BY STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS, DELIVER- ED AT DE GARMO HALL, CORNER OF FIFTH AVENUE AND FOURTEENTH STREET. ' Reported by Ghirwrdini. Jan. 25, 1874. Your reporter has heretofore confined her report to the sermon as the centre of interest. Those at a distance who have not opportunity personally to attend the New Catholic Church may be interested to know that all religious forms are set aside. We have no invocation, no prayer either long or short. “ Our pastor ” does not spend fifteen minutes in- forming the Lord of the miserable condition into which his creatures have fallen, or in imploring a general shower of blessings upon us and our children and the far-away heathen. Neither does he waste time beseeching him to look after the spiritual condition of a. remote town in the West, the in- habitants of which being unfortunately “ under the influence‘ of avowed infidels, are temperate and industrious,” but “having no care for their souls,” need his especial looking after. The Fulton street‘brethren have laid their case be- fore Him the past week; they are provided for; booked for time and eternity. How about the voluntary inebriates and involuntary idlers of our own city? But, believing the cen- tral Y to be so strong a pivot that all things will revolve in harmony around it, MR. ANDREWS, after the deft fingers of MASTER BENEDICT have caused the grand piano to discourse sweet music, reads a short selection of poetry and proceeds at once with his sermon. . At its close we again have music. Then, I am sorry to con- fess, but necessity compels the passing around of the—no, not the hat, but two peculiar oval baskets made of red wil- low. These baskets are strongly suggestive of green fields, singing birds, piny odors and gipsy encampments. Your reporter cannot fully understand them, but has no doubt they are analogues—typical of something——have an echo in everyfidomain. This matter of the significance of these baskets is shadowy and dim as yet; but so soon as the light of Univers- ology shall make it clear, your reporter will hasten to lay the solution of the question before your readers, even to its most faintly repeated echo. Do not be misled into calling that a mixed metaphor, but remember the special scientist tells us that it is light which clears the air and gives it power to transmit sound. These baskets properly circulated, music again follows, then the opportunity is given for questions,which opportunity is generally improved, and frequently elicits matter of in- tense interest both from the questioner and questioned. All questions being disposed of, music is again heard, and the audience is then dismissed; but they arein no hurry to leave. The opportunity is taken for friendly greetings and intro- ductions, and this social feature is one of the greatest attrac- \ tions at,De Garmo Hall. But you have now been kept quite too long from the report ofthe segmon. Allow me, gentle public, to present Mr. Annnnws. ~ Permit me, hesaid, to call attention to an article from the “ London correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial” in relation to’ “ the passion for Sunday lectures on science which now prevails in that city.” The two lectures particularly mentioned in the article were given by an American, Mr. John Fiske, author of “Myths and Myth-Makers,” and in 1870 lecturer at Harvard University. The lectures were given in a church. The audience contained some of the most emi- nent literary and scientific men in England. The first lecture was preceded by hymns selected from the poetry of Emerson and Longfellow, and Scripture lessons were read from St. Paul and Mohammed. That from Paul was the chapter in which he speaks of the whole creation as groaning and trav- ailing in labor until now, waiting for the liberation of the sons of God. The reading from Mohammad was the discourse where he paid a tribute to Reason, and exclaimed, “— The ink of the Scholar is more sacred than the blood of the Martyr.” On the occasion of the second lecture’, Mr. Fiske was pre- ceded by an anthem, the words of which were taken from Shakespeare : “ To thine own self be true, ~ And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any mam” Then a hymn was sung, the words being written by the Pres- ident oi the Royal Philological Society. ‘The ‘readings were a, Hebrew‘ psalm and a hymnto the earth, co1np”osed in ‘India. some 1,500 yearsago. In these lectures the Darwinian theory was brought before the audience in a comprehensive and popular form, This isiparticularly interesting to us as show- ing how widespread this passion for scientific instruction is becoming and is destined to become. _ In review of our last discourse, I would again call attention‘ to the distribution, on our chart, of the vowels on the one side and the consonants on the other. The vowels are‘ rep- resented by circles and are themselves typical of all that is beundless——-without limit—_-infinite. Au (ow) used as a sum- mary of the vowel sounds, becomes the proper type of Phi- . losophy in its highest sense——Metaphysics—-of all which per- ‘ tains to the Infinite. On the other side ‘of our chart we have‘ the consonants represented by the radii of the circle, and indicating limitation. Between the two we have an ~ intermediate space, at the apex of which, and which is also the angle of our chart, according with the centre of a circle, we have Y representing the sound of the squeezedi (ee),which presents a radiating centrality, and holds the position which has been assigned to Divinity. It is in the broadest sense the pivotal centre, the primary centrality, the Ipse-hood, the Ego—ism, the God within, that we hear so much of, as well as the God without; the Inflne, ever-present God who exists, certainly as an idea, whether really and personally or not. Again, taking the K and V as a summary of the consonants, we have, with au (ow), the summary of the vowels, and i0 as signifying world, kingdom or domain, we have kauv-is to signify the Finite World. The Y, and H-sounds occupy the intermediate space between the vowels and consonants, and serve to harmonize the two. They hold in some sort the position the priest was supposed to occupy, as joining/those whose union is God~ordained. The W and H have Y for their base; Y in its significance of God—head or pivotality denotes Chieftainship, authority. Whether we say God Almighty, King, General, Captain, Pope, Priest, Bishop, or “ Boss,” one idea underlies them all——Ipse-hood, Egoism, Ra- diating Centrality. It is a criticism of the Positivist, that herein lies the whole idea. of God; that it is nothing else than thevobjectioication of man’s subjectivity. This is'a ques- tion for Positivist and Theologians to fight out‘. My busi- ness is, at present, to prepare the ‘best weapons for the com- bat. , The consonants cannot be used without the vowels. The finite cannot express itself without the Infinite. The first stage of man’s-mental evolution, following Comte’s order, is then Yoio. As the child wills, determines and does, so he comes to conceive of some power outside, beyond himself, as doing the same. This gives the Gods of the infantile stage, -and. finally, the One-God idea. Next comes the metaphysi- cal stage, wherein we personify mere principles. The third and last stage is science, or precise objective knowledge—— Positivism, Echosophy. These three stages are. in simple terms, Theology, Ietaphysics and Science proper. The idea of the personality of Grodiis held in theology, the Scientiets most generally repudiate it. It tends to dcify either the Universe, Pantheism, or Humanity, which last is the idea of the Positivistic religion——“t'he Religion of Humanity.” It is not my purpose now to criticise Comte, the founder of Posi- tivism, but at some subsequent time I will return and show, not the erroneousness so much as the inadequacy of his sys- tem. It is a peculiarity of Comte and his school, that hav- ing emanated from the Theolcgic and Metaphysic stages, and passed into the Scientific_stage, they regard the two first as worn out or efieie. We shall find them to possess a. static as well as a /motic power. All these three aspects ofmind are eternal, inexpugnable, subject only to modifications, each in its own kind, through higher development. There is also in C'omte’s system afailing to classify.the Metaphysical Sciences, and this is important as illustrating what I mean by the double-aspected-ness of the whole do- main of knowledge. Positivists make a great mistake in ignoring the metaphys- ical half of it, because of its abstract consideration of Thing or Being; with as much propriety they might ignore chem- istry, because chemists make much talk about the ultimate atom. Ontology permeates all the special science. Palion- tology is the science of old things or of fossils, and in this word we. have Ontology cropping out in one of the Special and Positive Sciences. When, however, Ontology concerns itself directly with the question of Being, the Positivists set it aside and suppose they have done with it forever. Not so, however. Ontology concerns itself with thing or things as such, and Relatology with the» relations of or be- tween things, with their conditions. ‘This though apurely metaphysical basis of distinction, makes the I ski (Ontology) and Eski (Rclatology) as important a. distribution of science‘ his Bau-ski (the science of the Dead World) and Vau-ski (the science of the Living World). . The immense importance of Re1atolog)'—the Science of Relations or Conditions—is finely illustrated, or stated rather, in the following extract which 1 make from an article on Plato and Owen, by HENRY TRAVIS, published in the National Reformer, Mr. BRADLAUG-H’s paper, of the date of December 7, 1873: ’ ‘f The new knowledge, or science, which Owen discovered, maybe called, as he sometimes called it, ‘ the Science of Con- ditions.’ It is ‘ the knowledge of the conditions upon which evil and good in the formation of character and in human affairs generally are dependent.’ ” ' i He also called it “ the science of surroundings ” and “the science of the overwhelming influence of external circum- stances over human nature.” But as it is in part the knowl- edge of the efiects of internal conditions, and especially of ideas upon man, and not the knowledge ofthe efiects of ex- ternalponditions only, the best name for it is, perhaps, “the science of conditions.” I ’ The basis of this science is a general truth; and the begin- ning of it is to know the effects which have been produced in man andin social affairs generally by ignorance of this truth and by the denial of it. and by ignorance of this sci- ence, and to know the effects which will be produced by the knowledge bf this truth and of this’ science. Thegeneral truth is, , . . ‘ : ‘That the formation of man’s character, opinions and de- terminations, is dependent upon conditions, in i the individ- ual, and in the, external .ci_rcumstances,-_the, persons and ‘ things, by whom and which he is influenced, and upon his» personal agency—b-ut his personal agency in the forming of them is at all times dependent upon internal and external conditions.’ . If man were not thus dependent upon influences there, icouldvnot be any s_cien_ce.of conditions. And as it is imagined in the erroneous part of the common idea of free will, that man’s agency in the forming of his determination is inde-_ pendent of conditions, the science could ‘never have been discovered, or even have been ‘supposed to be possible, by men who believed in this common "idea. But to believe in the general truth. that man "is to a" great extent dependent upon conditions, is comparatively of little utility while men do, not know what conditions produce evil. and what will produce good in the formation ofcharacter. ‘ ' Religionists, reaching back for 1,800 yea_rs,'have labored to . develop the individual heart and soul——-the thing (man)-rre- gardless of its (or his) conditions; and now the positivists have taken the opposite ground. With them, change condi- tions, and all will be well. Now, the one ‘theory is just as much true and just—as much false as the other; and each is but a half truth, and only in the harmonious union of the two is the whole truth realized. Thus Fourier’s scheme had not one word even in relation to the direct improvement of *the individual. It was a. grand machine for grinding out an mproved humanity from an improved mill of conditions. And just here it failed. ‘A one-sided or lop—sided scientific classification or theory of life is alike defective, and can no more co-ordinate mankind than a lop-sided gait can appear graceful. Now, lest some of you may think to catch me tripping, I wish to explain still more fully the nature of i(ee). I (ee) signifies not only thidg but point, and in , a sense even line also. Fix the eye or thought upon a point be- fore us, and as we look or think that point’ drawn out through space, or even through time, by merely continuing to be, becomes a line, though’, so long as we regard it only endwise, point toward us, it presents to us a point merely; but the line is there and cannot be eliminated; so I may at times speak of i /(ee) with equal_accuracy both as apoint and a, line, as each can be a centre. So, also, it signifiésiatqm, unit and individual. The other vowel sounds are of similar importance, or accumulate masses as it were -of meaning.. Indeed, there are no words to define their fullness of mean- 4 ing. They must) be used rather to define the ideas which will spring into growth and group themselves around each of them from our study and consideration of them. This homogeny of the centre, thing, unit, atom, individual, and so on, opens to us a system of unification of related ideas T which is entirely new and takes us \into every domain. The change of thought it involves is as if one who in going up and down our city had confined himself to an acquaintance- , ship with the avenues only, and should afterward be called on to investigate the streets which cut the avenues at right angles. , This would introduce him to a new set of considera- tions and avenues, and give to him an enlarged and more accurate, and in a word, an integral" idea of its true to- pography. , . The drill. upon the vowel sounds which I am compelled to inflict upon you is no part of Alwato proper, but belongs rather to Phonography, and had you been trained in that by my friend Prof. MUNSON, whom I see in the audience, or by Mr. Mksounnxnn, who, for twenty years past, has been as. siduously laboring for its introduction into the educational institutions of our country, we should not have this trouble. It is really a deficiency in your education. But when we turn to the meanings of the sounds, we turn to Alwato (Al-1 wah-to) proper, and consider it in a Universological light. As i (ee) signifies centre, thing, etc., e (a) signifies relation,- the betweenidities of things. A (a as in mare) signifies flat- ness, surface, degree; a (ah) substance, solidity, reality, wealth, goodness; u (uh) time, stream, or current; 0 (aw) space, expanse; 0 (oh) presentation, view; u (00) movement, perspective, inclination, or the tendency to move, etc. A At this point the orator burst into a torrent of exposition, inference and application, which rendered any detailed re- port hopeless. The appreciation and applause of the au- dience proved, however, that he hadgcompletely retained their intelligent attention and commanded their convictions throughout. » -—-———-—->-40 REFORMATORY LECTURERS. 0. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. .J. I.~Arnold, Clyde, 0. J. O. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. \ Chas. G. Barclay, 121 Market st., Allegheny City, Pa. Capt. H. H.‘ Brown, 592 West Chestnut st., Louisville, Ky. Mrs. H. F. M. Brown, National City, Cal. , Addie L. Ballou, Terra Haute, Ind. , Warren Chase, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Jennette J, Clark, Montpelier. Vt. Prof. J. H. Cook, Columbus, Kan. A. Briggs Davis, Clinton, Mass. ‘ , Miss Nellie L. Davis, North Billerica, Mass. Lizzie Doten. Pavilion, 57 Tremont street, Boston, Mass. Mrs. L. E. Drake, Plainwell. Mich. ‘ R. G. Eccles, Kansas City, Mo. ' Dr. H. P. Fairfield, Ancora, N. J. _ , James Foran, M. D. Waverly, N. Y. I. P.‘Grreenleaf, 27 Milford street. Boston, Mass: L. A. Griffith, Salado, Bell Co., Texas. , T Anthony Higgins, Jersey City, N. J. E. Annie Hinman, West Winsted, Ct. , D. W. Hull, Hobart, Ind. Charles Holt, Clinton, N. Y. ‘ Mrs. Elvira Hull, Vineland, N. J Moses Hull, Vineland, N. J. R. W. Hume, Hunter’s Point, L.'I,._ . W. F. Jamieson, 139 Monroe street; Chicago, iii". ‘ . Miss Jennie Leys, 4 Tremont Tfemple,.Boston, Mass Cephas B..Lynn, Sturgis-, Mich, , g Mrs‘. F. A. Logan, Buffalo, . ‘ I ’ Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Ct. Dr. ‘Geo. Newcomer, Jack_s.on,, Mich. A Mrs. L. H. Perkins, Kansas City, Mo.‘ J. H. Randall, Cl de, 0; « . I ‘A. C. Robinson, yn.n.,M;as_s._ . , . _ ‘ Wm, Rose, M.‘ D., 102 Murison street, Cleveland, Elvira‘Wheelock Ruggles, Havana, Ill‘ ‘ a. w. Julia A. B. Seiver, Houston, Florida. , , Mrs. J .‘ H. Severance,,Mi1waukee, Wis. ' Stewart,.Box 1306, J anesville, ~«._-4. -.....«-..~...“,‘$ _,.. '_:t 1...- —- 1; .,r_ Feb. 7,~1s74.-. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S_ WEEKLY. I H H U 9 Its second editorial is a strangly directed attempt to pre- vent the proposed union between “ The Granges,” of the agricultural districts with the skilled, mechanical labor of the East. These two classes whose interests are identical have for years been kept apart by just such newspaper influence as is exhibited in this Times editorial. It endeavors to show that the communistic idea is to take from the Western farm- ers, the land they have purchased. But the real effect of the reformer’s propositions, will be to secure the use of their lands to them past all peradventure. It is the attempted ownership of land that keeps the Western farmers poor. They first pur- chase their farms by making a moderate cashipayment, while the interest upon the balance consumes from year -to year all the farmers can make from their crops. Now, will not the farmers see at once that if a decree should go out abolishing ownership in land, but securing its use to its present occu- pants in such a manner that it could never be taken from them, that their condition would be vastly improved? How many thousands of farmers are there in the West now who would cry for joy to be relieved of the mortgages and de- ferred payments upon, their farms, and to have their use secured to them, so that neither the sheriff nor the trustee could sell them out? The natural disposition of the land Would lead to just this much—to~be-desired consummation, and in so far release the hold which capitalists have now got upon the throat of the Western farmers. Nobody asks the farmer “to surrender his land;” but the reformers ask that the government shall secure every one of them so that there can no case arise which shall force him to give up his home- stead. It is homestead exemption in reality that commun- ism asks—-an exemption that shall make it impossible for the homestead ever to be encumbered by mortgage or deed of trust, or to be literally eaten up by interest. This, and this , only, is what the communistic ideas of land mean; and it is such ideas that we have always endeavored to inculcate in the WEEKLY. ' ' The inconsistent attack upon the land question is followed by the suggestion that the land and labor reformers ought to be locked up, in an article entitled, “Lock Him Up.” Now, this is the re-echo of the capitalists, who see’ their in- terest fading away, and of the land oligarchs, who see their thousands of acres equitably divided among the people. What if these agitators are foreign born? Are they any the less citizens of the ' United States? The Times, instead of attacking them, ought to have attacked the naturalization laws. And if they are foreigners, the more is the shame that the laborers of this country ought to feel that they have been blinded to the demands of justice by such influence as is shed upon them by these articles in the James, and required that these ‘people should come to arouse them to a sense of their rights as human beings. Perhaps “ the capital of this country owes them nothing;” but we can inform the capitalists that the capital of this country owes its very ex- istence to the class of people who are now being aroused to a realization of their industrial servitude. Capital belongs to the labor of the country that has produced it; and the Times knows and fears this fact, and knowing, also, that there is no method by which it can be shown to the contrary by it argument, it demands that those who press this truth shall be “locked up as vagrants.” Such arguments may stand I for atime, but they failed in the war for the abolition of ' negro" slavery; so will they also fail in the coming war for the abolition of wages slavery. Having thus paid its respects to these questions and per- sons, the Times, in its fourth editorial, attempts the refuta- tion of the principles upon which all these reforms are based; but its arguments in this instance are fallacious as its state- ments in the previous instances had been ridiculous: The proposition that “All mankind are born with a natural, in- herent right to an equitable proportion of the natural wealth —-the land, the air and the water,” is by ‘the Times reduced to the senseless assertion that "‘ The world owes me a living.” What are the prime necessities of life? Clearly, the air to breathe, the water to drink and the fruits of the land to eat." It by no means follows because each individual is of right entitled to these that he is also entitled to consume what others compel the land to yield. It means simply, that each person is naturally possessed of the right to the use of as much land as shall produce sufiicient to supply his or her bodi- ly demands for food. They are the philosophers of the Times school who practically advocate just what they condemn in the Communist. They uphold a system of industry that does compel one class of people who are the producers of the country to give to another class who do not produce any- thing at all the food and other necessities to maintain their lives. Then does the weapon with which the monopolists are endeavoringto cut their opponent’s throats enter their own hearts to destroy them. I , Here is a specimen of the logic of the Times. A propo- sition’ to which the land question is corollary is that, as people are born dependent upon the free use of oxygen, hence they are entitled to breathe the air. But the Times, either igno- rantly or presumptuously, and in either case ‘most ridicu- lously, argues thus: “But in this case is it the duty of so- ciety to furnish individuals with the breath of life?» We re- ply, by no means. But we will also reply that the just de- mand is that society shall not bottle up the air and deal it out to individuals for a price. It is neither the duty or the right of society to furnish people with air, but it has no right to deprive them of its use. It must let the air be free to be used by each individual as he has need. But having decided that it is not a~duty.of, society to fur- nish air to the people, the Times goes on to argue that by the same logic it has no right or duty to perform about the land. The veriest dolt in the country ought to be lashed if he could not detect the absurdity of such reasoning. The demand of the reformersiis that society shall take its restricting hands off of the land, and leave it free to the use of thepeople as it doesthe air. They ask that the land monopolists shall be compelled to give up the ownership of that which deprives the people of their natural right and inheritance. They do not ask that society shall furnish land to the people. The God of Nature who created both the land and man has already done that, and now it remains that those who have aborted the designs and plans of this God be divested of their power to do so longer, and that that which of right belongs to the people be remanded to their possession. It would be just as proper and right for a, class of people to monopolize the pair or the water, and thus prevent another class from breathing and drinking, as it is for a class to monopolize the land and sell it for profit; and by no sort of argumen- tation can the philosophers of the Times school escape the logic of their own arguments when applied to the vital issue’ —the land. Nobody pretends to have the right to monop- olize the air; but some do pretend to have the right, and society upholds them in it, to monopolize the land. Re- formers of the class whomithe Times berates demand that this wrong shall be no longer upheld by society. They de- mand equal rights, equal opportunities and equal compen- sations for all people; that every one who has the capacity to labor shall at least produce as much as will meet his consumption; that if the person be able but unwilling to do this he shall be compelled or left to starve; and that those only who are incapacitated by birth, disease or accident shall be subsisted at the public expense. These, and nothing more, are the demands of reformers; these, and nothing less, will satisfy or stop their demands. . I MRS. WOODHULL’S SPEECHES._ THE ELIXIR on LIFE; OR, WHY no wE DIE ?—-The extra- ordinary demand for this pamphlet has already consumed two large editions; but another is now ready, and all de- mands for it will be promptly supplied. Single copies, twenty-five cents, or six for a dollar. Beside this, we also have on hand Mrs. Woodhull’s latest speech, “Reformation or Revolution, Which? or, Behind the Political and Social Scenes,” which has created a most profound sensation wherever it has been delivered: price, the same as above. We have also a supply of “ The Prin- ciples of Social Freedom,” the original Steinway Hall speech, the introduction to the present social agitation, and the “ Scarecrows of Sexual Slavery.” Three of any, or .any three, of these speeches will ‘be sent, postage paid, for fifty cents. Send for them for yourselves and friends, and cir- culate them among the opposition, and especially procure their readingiby all ministers and doctors in your region. ..__.__,_i. LABOR VERSUS MONEY. The root out of which springs the larger part of the vices which areso rapidly extending throughout this community, unquestionably is “the oppression of the laborer.” The best authorities admit that, since the War. of the Rebellion, while the cost of living has trebled, the wages of workers have not even doubled, so that those who had little enough previously have at least one-third less now. This is the case with man’s labor. Asregards woman’s, ‘in our cities, its wrongs are past computation. Nor will these rascalties ever be amended until the stout arms of the great family of the producers——agricultur_al and mechanical——compel justice from the soulless traffickers and financiers who oppress, and, not unfrequently, absolutely rob them. As human beings are now compelled to herd together in the majority of our cities. in order to “procure the means for their subsistence, it is not their fault, but compulsory on them to generate diseases and crimes. ,. - The conditions under which they generally exist are so fearful that sur- geons, magistrates and clergymen can easily calculate upon the ghastly consequences ofsuch a state of existence. If the authorities of our cities did their most important duty, which, according to the Declaration of Independence, is the protection of life, they would soon alter this sad state of affairs. But they dare not. They are the agents of property, not the agents of man; and the cries of suffering humanity have long appealed to them in vain. ' . The natural consequences of this close packing of man kind are now upon us. We. have sown the wind, and we are commencing to reap the whirlwind. Crime is advanc- ing upon us with infernal rapidity. Social disorders, are rampant in almost every family. Mammon bullies us from the bench of justice, cajoles us in our halls of legislature, and not unfrequently grins at us out of the ‘pulpit. The daily press, with few honorable exceptions, instead of in- structing us has become our betrayer, the advertiser of all abominations and the debaucher of thegmorals of the com- munity. The theatre follows suit. Instead of holding the mirror up to nature——“ showing virtue her own features; vice her own image, and the very ageand body of the time its form and pressure ”——iti-has become a place of assigna- tion, where ribaldry often passes current for wit,’ and where Shakespeare is crowded off» the boards by troops of half naked women. But the most fearful sign: of the’ times is the robbery of it A the toiler of the due returns of his labor. In almost exact proportion to the arduous nature of the work done, is the diminution of the amount it secures to its performer. The minimum of pay is given for the maximum of labor. Added to this injustice, the rights of producers are rendered le-I gally subservient to those of traffickers, and those of traffic- kers in their turn sacrificed to the demands of financiers, stock gamblers and idlers. In 'many factories the very name of man is ignored, and the wholesome titles of brother, neighbor, workman, are forgotten. Human beings, in such places, are often considered as parts, inferior parts, of the machine, and only recognized as hands, operatives, etc. In some they are degraded even lower, and, in lieu ‘of. a name, are branded like bales of goods, with a trade mark or number instead. But the condition of women toilers is frequently worse than this. Socially, politically and legally Generally defrauded out of equal pay for equal labor with man, low as that return is, the wretched pittance they are able to obtain would often justify them in envying the higher rewards in food, clothing and shelter obtained by the beasts they pass as they plod their way to the miserable dens in which they labor. Fearful as this picture is, there is a lower deep yet, which, alas! too many of them are forced by want to fathom; when, driven by poverty ‘and hunger to crime, they turn on society in their despair, and are trampled by sinners greater than themselves into the dust of the earth. I If this be the state of too many of the mechanical toilers, ‘what is that of the larger bodies, the tilers of the soil, who? tion of the alienation of the people’s land, the common prop- proportions from the West and South? The natural fortress of the hardytoiler is becoming closed against him in both themselves in the West are being, in many cases, worked and mineral lands are being kicked about like a football in the markets of: New York, Philadelphia and Boston, and not unfrequently in Paris, Frankfort and London. But the Samson of the West is already rousing from his sleep, and the parchment bonds of monopolists will soon be scattered to the winds. In the South the negro, who has for two cen- turies cultivated the soil, appears before Congress and de- mands justice at its hands. He yet stands erect, -but he can- not stand erect long if he has no land to stand on, so he puts in his modest claim for it. It is-——two centuries of un- requited toil upon it. But, in the meantime, both in Great Britain and the United States, the Grangers are rising in vast numbers with singular unanimity, and in the great West have already commenced to right the wrongs of the soil- tillers. great labor war now convulsing the civilized parts of the earth, if our legislators do their duty and curb the powers of the oppressors. It will be well for us, as a people, if we hearken to the cry now clearly ringing through the air, de- manding, as 'of yore, “Where is thy toiling/brother?” It keeper?” We are republicans, and by the very construction of our government itself we acknowledge our duties in his case. In Great Britain, a nation top-heavy with legal «and barism, but in our freer country it generates -crime. One turn of the screw upon labor and crime starts up instanter, shall sooner reach the end of our tether, and are better able to institute reforms in our industrial system. When the conflict occurs in Great Britain between money end labor, will be dreadful, for there will be little quarter given on either side. i I A , that of defrauding its laborers. classes it as one of the four deadliest sins—which, to use its language, “ are crying to God for vengeance.” Are we not, as .a nation, guilty of this crime? ' What is our condition even now? Do not our criminal records of the past year teem with human miseries and human cruelties? With murders of ‘parents by children, of children by parents? of husbands by wives and wives by husbands? Are we not flooded with social crimes similar to those which, if the Bible be true, preceded the destruction of the tribe of Ben- ; jamin and the cities of the plain? Have not foeticide and abortion taken their places publicly in our daily papers in. thelist of the fine arts, and are there not existing in our cities thousands of mothers who have murdered and are murdering their offspring? These being facts, and alas: there is no reason to doubt their correctness, surely it must appear that the cry of the toil er against the stern and intense money pressure (which is the prime cause of such horrors, and which here as well as in’ Europe .is defrauding the laborer of his hire), is not appealing to justice in vain for retribution. _ “V A DRESS REFORM. Last week a Dress Reform Convention was held at Vine- A land, New Jersey. Many reformers who attended it abjured the present style of attire, which all confess to be particu-" larlybarbarous and unhealthy. It is not, however, origina_l, for the projectiiigiposterior decorationlof n;¢dern‘£ashicn'a'isj unprotected, they are often the sure spoil of villains. -- are the prime source of all wealth? Is not the grave ques’- - erty of the community, looming up before us in gigantic " these instances. Those who have succeeded in establishing ‘ out of their claims, while the finest sections of ‘agricultural — It will be well for us,iamid the din and tumult of the will not do for us to reply with Cain, “Am I my brother’s l executive powers, oppression is generating brutality and bar-. as is now evidently the case daily. It is well for us that we,‘ and it is even now rapidly approaching, the consequences" There is no greatencrime that a, nation can permit than- The Catholic Church wisely, . l 7. I 10 p Y T A WOODHULL (E OLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. known and usedby some of the African tribes. It is prob- ably slightly sensual; but what of that, the ladies patronize it. Such reformers as‘Olivia Freelove Shepherd and Mary E. Tillotson, who wear the Bloomer for health and locomo- tion, who are financially independent of man, and mean to remain-"so, abjure it. The medical faculty, we believe, also condemns it. It is probable that many well-developed women only tolerate it". But the lazars, whose name is legion, must have it. Is it too cynical to infer that they prefer art to nature, by thus relying upon manufactured charms? We dare not say so. But the Vineland reformers are not the only dress reformers in the community, asthe following ex- tract testifies: . ’ — ‘ ' . “ LECTURES T0 LADIES.——-A series of lectures is being given to women, under the direction of a committee of ladies of the Sorosis, upon the ,“ Hygienic and Moral Influence of Dress.’ This is a practical way of treating the subject of women’s rights. Many women, otherwise intelli- gent and well educated, are compelled‘ by the conventional rules of society to adopt Fashion’s arbitrary dictum, to the sacrifice of personal health and comfort. We trust these lectures will be attended by many well-thinking and sensible women, and that much profit to themselves, as well as to man and woman kind generally, may result therefrom.”—- _ N. Y. Herald, Jan. 23. - ‘ Some may infer that dress reform must now advance, as Sorosis has taken it in hand; but many -old reformers be- lieve that Sorosis will deal with fashion far more tenderly than Psyche ever fondled Cupid. ' Since writing the above the lecture of Mrs. Dr. Studley before the Sorosis has been reported in the New York Herald. It may be that the Psyche and Cupid observation was unjust, inasmuch as that lady advocated “ the Bloomer’ costume in preference to the tightly-drawn dresses of the present fashionable lady.” Alas! that we must add that the fair lecturer wore a rich brown: silk dress, made on pdmwer, when she said so. Of course our indomitable Vineland friends will insist, in such case, that example would have been far better than precept. Nevertheless, they ought to be ‘thankful for the spoken words, which certainly were diamonds, although they were not set in gold. V - —————-———-—>-—-+O»——<—--——---- A LA WBREAKING LAWMAKEES. The Constitution of the United States declares that “ Con- gress shall make no law abridging' the right of the people peaceably to assemble .”——Amendments, Art. Extract from the Herald of the 23d J an.: ' The Communists will probably learn a useful lesson in -the conviction yesterday of one of the Tompkins square rioters and his sentence to three months in the penitentiary. Afew more such examples will probably convince our foreign friends that America, while a land of liberty, is not a safe place for the mischievous advocates of Com- munism. ’" - V United States citizens who happen to be Communists also, or whether they be or not, will learn no such thing. Many will learn that their constitutional duty is to resist oppres- sion. All willlearn that the above quoted article in the Constitution of the United States, in the city of New York, is void and of none effect; and deplore the fact that, in these days, State laws, and even‘ municipal ordinances, are thus permitted to overthrow the “ Rights of the people.” CV--4 HANDS OFF THE NAZARENE. ._..u._.._.. At Plymouth Church on Sunday morning, January 25, Henry Ward Beecher is reported in the N. Y. World to have commented on the text, “Think not that Iam come to send peace on earth; I am not come to send peace but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in- law against her mother-in-law.”——Matt. x.; 34-35 verses. Mr. Beecher said: « “ To those that think that the teachings of our Saviour are very sim- ple and very literal, such passages as these must be very difficult. There never was a teacher that needed to be construed more than our Master. That universally quoted and universally disregarded Sermon on the Mount is an indelible example. It is supposed to be the simplest of all possible sermons, and yet a literal construction of it would set the world, right in the face of God’s providence; would destroy the very things for which the gospel is revealed, and would bring society to a summary end. For it, in literal terms, forbids foresight, prudence, the laying up of property, enchains the charity that we inculcate everywhere, and would very speedily demoralize men, and make unvirtue instead of virtue. Now we all know that the coming of the Lord was predicted by the angel’s song of “ Peace on earth, good will toward men,” and that this’ is the ultimate design we full well believe, though from the lips of our Masterwe have this sentence: ‘ Think not I (lame forany such purpose; think not I came to send peace; ’ but in the most unequivocal manner whatever, without explanation, with perfect carelessness, it says, “Iam come, not to send peace, but a sword.’ There ,it stands; anybody that wants to misunderstand it can; and then‘ it would seem as if it wen1j,e,fur- ther and undervalued the most precious of all institutions, that of the household-—as if it set religious experience higher than those more precious experiences, the natural love between parents and children- for it goes on to say, ‘he that loveth his father and mother more than me is not worthy of me.’ And in another place, that there may be no - mistaking, follows; ,‘ He that leaveth not father and mother and taketh not up his crossand followeth not me is not‘ worthy,’ and in the most positive and violent language he declares, ‘I am come to set man at variance against his father, and daughter against her mother, and daugh- ter-in-law against her mother-in-law.’ Well, that is a precious dispensa- tion.’,’ . - The WEEKLY objects to the criticisms on the sayings of the Great Nazarene contained in the. above ‘extract. To us they appear to be more than criticisms, and to justly merit the title of absolute contradictions. Until now the Christian ' world has had full confidence in the Sermon on the Mount, but Henry Ward Beecher tells us that a “literal construction of it would destroy the very things for which the gospel is revealed,” etc. Believing this statement to be false, the ' WEEKLY proposes to defend the doctrines of the Great Naza- ' Irene as they are written, and as it understands them. , . Few there are who comprehend the full grandeur of the teachings of the great Apostle of the Poor. There are many, who like Henry Ward Beecher‘, can only see in them the destruction of the individual or_family idea, as in the text quoted, and cannot perceive the force of the collective idea, which needed its’. removal before society -could be properly developed. A dime held close to the eye will hide the noon day sun, -so the family not unfrequently -“ cabins, cribbs and confines” the afiections that properly belongto all humanity. This is "why the Great Reformer sought to annihilate the family idea in his followers. It was not to destroy their relationship with their kind, but to extend it. “For whosoever doeth the will of my father which is in heaven,‘ the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”-— Matt. xii. 50. - ’ I If it be true, as Henry VVard Beecher asserts, that a literal construction of the sermon on the mount “would set the world right in the face of God’s providence, would destroy the oery thtugsfor which the gospel was revealed, dud would brlrlg society todsummdry end,” it is a pityit was ever spoken. But our answer to such statement is ‘f not proven.” Leav- ing “ God’s providence” out of the question, of which we know nothing, we holdxit to be the gospel, and though it would destroy modern society, it holds in itself the elements for its broader and \ nobler reconstruction. True, it forbids the laying up of treasure, but then it was not/spoken to a rich congregation but to the poor of J udea, and the reason given for such command was, “for where your treasure is there will your heart be also.” In ninety—nine cases outof a hundred is that ndt the truth, and was the reformer wrong who refused to sacrifice his fellow-men for gold? If Christ came not‘; to bring peace but a sword,’ there was peace under the sword; and, in spite of a million “Te Dennis” since, the only militarypcommand he ever gave was to Peter “to put up his sword,” and that command was coupled with a curse on all who drew it. Every true re- former knows that spiritually he is a sword; i-f he be not, he is no reformer. Society loves not to be reformed, and it has a handy way of letting those who seek to improve it know its ideas upon the matter. In the commencement of the war of the Rebellion, whenlthe people were beginning to perceive the enormity of the crime of slavery, an eminent abolitionist said: “He feared that he was not speaking the truth, as the stale egg payments were not near so regular as they had been previously.” i No man or woman can be a real, earnest and sincere re- former, who is not called to the work, and who has not re- ceived the baptism of fire. To such all natural ties are secondary to the great business of their lives; and that is the reason why, generally, their foes are those of their own household. [It is not the prudent, careful, money getting man of which you can make 'a reformer, or even a true Christian. You may make a Churchman of him, but that is as far as you can go. Ministers who preside over such Churchmen (calling themselves Christians) must lmodify the doctrines of the great Nazarene if they wish to retain their positions. They cannot hope to be well-fed and petted un- lessthey wear the collar of mammon. This is the only apology that can be given for such wholesale condemnations of the doctrines of Christ as appear in the above extract from Henry Ward Beecher’s last Sunday sermon. r-40 COMMON LABORERS; On Wednesday, Jan. 21, the item quoted below appeared in the New York Herald. A couple of words have been extracted from it for the purpose of forming a heading for the following article. Readers of the WEEKLY need not be told that our duty lies with the down-trodden of both sexes. To examine the causes of human oppression, and to remove the same, is the prime business of the WEEKLY. To this end it seeks to annihilate all tyrannies of sex or race that yet degrade our laws, and to stand before the community as the unflinching advocate of all reforms which tend to overthrow the miserable British classifications which exist among the citizens of our Union: WORKINGMEN ORGANIZING. . “ Throughout the present week workingmen’s meetings will be held in the different wards and districts under the Provisional Committee, which is to take the place of the Committee of Safety. The object is a thorough organization not only of mechanics and the various trade or- ganizations, but also of COMMON LABORERS Who are out of employment. At present the general body of trades-union men‘ are without leaders, and there are no less than four distinct bodies representing workingmen —the Workingmen”s Union, the Workingmen’s Central Council, the Workingmen’s Independent Association, and those organizations for- merly represented by the Committee of Safety. Much jealousy exists among the members of the various societies, each claiming the leading place. As yet no united action has been taken in regard to the present condition of the unemployed workingmen. The French, German, Irish and English organizations recently formed under the direction of the Provisional Committee now number over 20,000, and as soon as the necessary arrangements can be completed, it is intended to hold a ma.ss- meeting at Cooper Institute or at Tompkins square, after parading through the streets of the city, withor without the permissionof the Police Commissioners, and there make an appeal for Work and food. It was intended to hold a mass indignation meeting on Thursday next, but it hasibeen abandoned. From the statistics sent in by the various wards, it would appear that there are about 10,000 Germans, 4,000 French, 15,000 English, and a floating population of 5,000 ‘now out of work, with- out including the workingmen who are not members of a trade organi- zation. A large number of men as winter ‘approaches annually appeal to Assemblymen in the different districts for work, and it is said that’ the applications have increased at least 20 per cent. over those of other years. It is also computed‘ that there are at least 40,000 workingwomen and girls in this city, one-half at least still out of employment. It is intended that one general organization shall be in existence during the Feb. 7, 1874. I . and Bleecker streets, and at Landmann’s,-Fifty-ninth and Si/xtieth streets, for the purpose of enrolling members with a view to this end,” “Common” laborers! The WEEKLY objects to the epi- thet “ common ” when applied to any body of men in this or any country. When the works done by our laborers. during the past half century are ccnsidered, which have almost annihilated time and space and changed the geography of North America, the use of the word “common ” in refer- ence to them is as incorrect as it* is objectionable. In these days some -skill is required in the performance of the rudest kind of labor, and the services to the community of the man who carries the hod are as necessary and as valuable as those of the mason who lays the bricks or the architect who designs the building. Nature herselfgfixes the value of skill by demanding more toil of those who do not possess it; but there is no , just reason whyman should add to the burden thus imposed upon ignorance by awarding the minimum of pay to the maximum of toil. , Until workers admit and ordain one price for their services, whether they be agri- «' culturists, -miners, mechanics or artisans, they cannot effec- tually unite, and such union is the necessary preliminary to a successful revolution against the non-producers———their present oppressors. C Whoever carefully examines the state of the labor market _ will find that now human beings are generally rewarded in. an inverse ratio to the arduous nature of the duties they are called upon to perform. Financiers and land-holders (not land-tillers) usually obtain the largest return out of the yearly labor crop; after them come the distributors, and last and least rewarded of all are the producers. There may be occa- sional exceptions to this ruling, but the WEEKLY deals with A masses, not with individuals, in this instance. As general propositions the foregoing statements are correct. As labor» V ers are now, under a false politico-economical system, com- pelled to toil, it is not too much to say that strict justice would invert the order in which producers are now reward- ed. Soil-tillers, miners and other hard toilers would cer- tainly be right in setting their extra toil against the extra skill of their brethren, and in demanding equality of pay with skilled artizans and mechanics. “One price” as well as one time for all human labor, and that set by the united will ‘of the masses who perform it, would solidly cement and render effective the army of the toilers, and teach finan- ciers and distributors that producers had something to do in fixing the value of their labors, political economists and the unerring laws of demand and supply to the contrary notwithstanding. * , As in the social question, the battle for the emancipation of woman rests on theelevation of the most despised mem- bers of her sex, so in the labor war, the Malakoff of the strength of the position of the enemy is the oppression of the masses of the hardest and least paid manual laborers. At an absolute gain to themselves, their more skilled breth- ren, the artisans and mechanics, can capture this position whenever they please to unite with their more wronged brethren, on the basis of “ equal pay for an equal time of labor.” Until the former choose to accept these terms and act upon them, all producers will continue to be robbed of three-fifths of the full returns of their toils, as they are now. When workers overthrow the tyranny that exists in their own ranks, they will soon overturn that of their idle and non-producing oppressors. Would that the great armies of producers—-—tl1e agriculturists, the miners, the artisans and the mechanics—would act upon these suggestions, and then we should hear no more of “common laborers.” -—-—-————->--'si WEEKLY. MISCELLANEOUS. , JAPANESE J OTTINGS. There is food for reflection in the following curious gov- ernmental proclamation which has very latelybeen received from Japan: , A ' Order for the guidance of Japanese emigrants in the Celestial Empire. The Japanese Herald publishes the following: The government has published the following rules to be observed by the Japanese residing in China: A _1. N o persons except military and naval officers to carry ofiensive weapons of arms. ' I . C I _ 2. Must not cause any obstruction or annoyance by fast and furious riding or driving. I , 3. Must not cause any obstruction through intoxication. 4. rMust not break. or destroy any flowers, shrubs or trees V in any garden orstreet. W5. Must not throw any. earth, dirt, stones or rubbish into any river, ditch, path or road. 6. Must not commit a nuisance on a public road. 7. ,Must not appear indecently exposed in the streets. 8. Must not tattoo the body. 9. N o exhibitions of wrestling between men and"women oriserpent charming will be permitted. 1 A '_ 10. No women to cut their hair short. in 11. N 0 person to appear inthe streetswithout a hat or cap. 12. Men or women to put on clean clothes when they go out, and not to cover the head or face with a handkerchief, etc. /13. N 0 woman may prostitute herself. I J V —N. Y. Herald. LETTER . ON THE SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION or THE NATIONAL WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION IN LINCOLN HALL, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 15 8: 16. BY w. 1?‘. JAMIESON. , , But. few delegates attended this Convention, of which Miss Susan B. Anthony is president. Fourteen ladies and one gentleman occupied the platform." There was an audience, however, of between six and seven hundred, mostly ladies. Firstesession began in the morning about half-past eleven. The object of the Convention, as stated by Miss Anthony, was to secure the action of Congress so that women would have their rights on an equality with colored citizens. The principal speakers present were Miss Anthony, Mrs. Eliza- beth Cady Stanton, Mrs. Matilda J oslyn Gage, Miss Lillie Devereaux Blake, Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, Mrs. Sarah J. Spencer, Frances E. Burr, Mrs, L. Dundore, Mrs. Nettie C. Tater and Miss Phebe Cozzens. _ Communications were read from Ernestine L. Rose. of England; T. W. I-Iigginson. E. G. Lapham, Vice-President Wilson, Benj. F. Butler, and several others. The speaking was, with few exceptions, of the highest or- der. .There werea sufficient number of comical incidents ’Which might have been seized by the Bohemians if they had been intent on burlesquing—had it been, forinstance, a Spir- J itualist convention. The Washington press treated the meet- ing as the Republican party promised to treat the suffrage movement——with “respectful consideration,” althoughthe Chronicle verged on mild sarcasm. At the opening of the Convention, Miss Anthony inquired if any one felt moved, as the Quakers say, to engage in vocal prayer. N o spirit came, and we were saved that much pure nonsense. . I The President remarked that prayer was the desire of the heart, expressed or unexpressed. If Congress would act upon that hint, there would be a saving of several hundred dollars per annum to the tax—payers for the useless praying perform- ance of the Chaplain of the Senate and Chaplain of the House. Unexpressed prayer is the most economical and the most sensible. If people must have prayer, let it be the unex- pressed, when people who do not believe in it are compelled to pay for it. On the first evening there were but few present. The ad- mission fee-—only 50 cents, Women and children half price- may have produced this result. I Sufficient money was raised by collection next day to pay the hall rent——$100 a day, and all subsequent sessions were free. The attendance was large; the last evening the hall was filledto overflowing. Lincoln Hall will seat 1,500 people, so I am informed. I. judged not i more than 1,000.’ As tothe arguments, and the hundred other good things said with an earnestnesswhich carried conviction, space will not permit an enumeration. ’ K Miss Cozzen’s 'speech the last evening abounded in rich thoughtfdelivered in a skillful manner. As the young woman- lawyer of St. Louis, she reflects ‘honor upon the legal profes- sion. Mrs. Stanton declared it is time for protest and rebellion. In answering the objection, “ Women won’t fight,” she said that women’s duties were supposed. by men to be to save pennies and scrape lint. Battles are being fought every day by wlomenvsingle-handed and alone. Like the Indian, her fighting is a kind of deadly skirmishing. She related several cases of women disguised as men enlisting in the army, and who fought nobly; that when detection of their sex fol- lowed, they were sent home in disgrace and never paid. — She averred that this nation needs strong-minded women to lift men out of corruption. There is need of a great vital principle in party. Politicians have something more to do than to perpetuate party power. The prestige of the Repub- lican party is gone. After the enfranchisement of the colored . men, the women’s turn ought to have come next. The ques- tion of woman suffrage will be the battle-cry of the Liberal party, for Gen. Cochrane says it is considering it. The signs of the times show that in 1876 that party will prevail. The threshhold of a new era has been crossed; every issue of _ African slavery is dead, and henceforth labor reform is the watchword. The laborers of the land have "nothing to lose .in_ a revolution but their chains. They are waking from their ’il°e‘thargy, and the day is not far distant when international- ismcannot be put down. by the cry of “ Communists.“ With we I labor reform and farmers’ grange movements the women are combining, and are awake to all the great questions of social science. « Mrs. Blake declared that the “respectful consideration” which the women have [received from the Republican party is such as the eagle shows to its prey and thepoliticianlto the non-voter. . Mrs. Spencer said: Not being fashionable ladies but work- ingwomen, we haven’t time to read whether Mrs. General this or Mrs. Admiral that wore gros-grain velvet or brocade at her last reception; but_ we do take care to inform our- I selves as thoroughly as possible in regard to the vital needs and present welfare of the women of this generation. To enable those unacquaihted with Washingten to appre- ciate the humor of this allusion, I clip from the VVashington Evening Star the following, under the head “ Society :” I “ Mrs. and Miss Fish were assisted by Mrs. Bancroft Davis in entertaining all who called. Mrs. and Miss Richardson had the valuable services of Miss Oldfield. Mrs. Delano’s daugh- ter, Mrs. Ames, was assisted by Mrs. J. I-Iubley Ashton and ' another lady. Mrs. Belknap was the personification of ele- gance in a train of blue silk, with overdress and waist of muslin and rare Valenciennes lace. The beautiful Madame de Potistad assisted Mrs. Belknap, While not farofi‘ stood three beautiful girls, in elegant silk reception dresses. These were Miss Susie Lee, Miss Sally Frelinghuysen and Miss Ella Ray.” Aw! I It will be glorious when women will have something to do besides dressing themselves like wax dolls. To that end I hail every movement which promises to broaden the sphere of woman. “Hail! happy day.” There were several allusions to what the Bible says on the subject of woman, as if it matters what it says. It is of no account any way in settling any question. Mrs. Spencer said: ' ' “There are spine excellent people who think the Bible forbids women ._to vote all the way through, just because it does not say anything about it from beginning to end. True, it does not give’, any authority for it. Neither does it give any authority for using sewing-machines or clothes-wring- ers. or telegraph wires, or railroad cars. The zealous people who diligently search the Scriptures, not for spiritual growth, but to find the narrowest promises for women and the broad- est for men, assume that all that is not commended to wo- men is strictly forbidden.” Miss Dundore thought if those persons who believe the Bible is against woman’s sufirage would read far enough they would find the Scriptures in her favor. There is where the lady is in error. If the book is read through it is unmistaka- blyagainst woman as it is against the slave. VVhat of that? The slave was set free in‘ spite of the Bible. Woman will Votein spite of it. Miss Cozzens showed her lawyer-like skill in quoting, the Old Testament to prove that it recog- nized woman as ruler, judge, juror, on an equalitywith man. She did not go far enough to damage her case; for she would have found the New Testament against the assumption of suffrage, nothing would please me better than an appeal to the Bible as a finality. There are several instances of wo- men spoken of in the Old «Testament as “model women,” that Miss Cozzens probably did not have time nor inclina- tion to notice. They would be no comfort to the suffrage movement. Mrs. Stanton, in No. 5 of her Civil Rights Bill for women, hit the nail on the head: “ All religious sects shall be com- pelled to bring their creeds and biblical interpretations into line with the divine idea of the absolute equality of women with the colored men of the nation.” That is, if the Bible is for woman slavery, correct it so as to read woman freedom. The question may arise in such a case, Of what use is the Bible? The question is irreverent; it comes from the devil, and ought to be dismissed! One feature which was prominent in the speeches and reso- lutions consisted in the use of the phrase, “ equality of women with colored men. There is quiet sarcasm in that. Benj. F. Butler is the champion of the woman cause on the floor of the House. — Mr. Sargent, in the Senate, heartily es- pouses the cause of woman. . These men deserve to be rewarded by them when they come into power, which is only a question of time. But the Congressmen refused to favor the ladies with their distin- guished presence on the platform during one of the sessions of the Convention. Miss Anthony, in her speech, said she had been writing in- ached, and yet none of them have come to the Convention; they are afraid. There was one exception, Hon. Alonzo J. Ransier (colored), member of Congress from South Carolina. He occupied the platform the last evening, and made a short speech in ‘favor of woman’s equality with negroes. Miss Anthony captured Vice-President Wilson. She saw him in the audience (the second day), and earnestly appealed to him to say a word in behalf of the cause. She. knew his heart was with them, and she hoped, if he would not come on the platform, he would rise in his seat and give them a wordof encouragement. The Vice-President arose from his seat in the center of the hall and said: “ I wish simply to say that I am under imper- ative orders to make no speeches on any subject. I will add, however, that twenty years ago I came to the conclusion that my wife, my mother and my sisters were as much entitled _to the right of suffrage as myself, and I have not changed my mind since.” [Loud applause.] ' r \ Miss Anthony said: “ Let me say that Vice-President Wil- son is the first Vice-President we have ever had who was in favor of woman suffrage. Let me also predict that our next President will be in favor of woman suffrage.” [Laughter and applause] ‘ The ‘lack of gallantry in the Congressional gentlemen refusing Miss Anthony’s invitations was equalled by the re- bufi‘, which Mrs. Belva Lockwood, of Washington, received from Charles Sumner. A She had appealed to him tobccome woman’s equality with man. Were I an opponent of woman ' vitations to members of Congress for five days until her arm _ “s, Feb. '7, I them them the benefits of the Civil Rights Bill. It was a_ of three letters—-s-e-x—in_his bill. _ To this, she said, he sent her a “ paltry answer.” ’ Gen. Butler promised the women to present the memorial? of the women suffragists of the District of Columbia, and to prepare a bill in accordance therewith to submit to Con- gress, and that on Tuesday next they would have a hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, and have an oppor- tunity to speak in behalf of the cause. i I I submit, in conclusion,the Resolutions and Civil Rights Bill adopted by the Convention, as taken from the N atvonal Re- publican of this city: A Mrs. Stanton, from the Business Committee, reported the following: , Resolved, That we demand that Congress shall take the necessary steps to amend the National Constitution, that in all constitutions and by-laws, State and National, the terms persons, citizens, people, residents, inhabitants, voters, elec- tors, taxpayers, shall hereafter be interpreted as to include both sexes. THE RESOLUTIONS. WHEREAS, The women of the Republic are to-day in the. same political standing that their fathers were, as British subjects, one hundred years ago; therefore, in the language of their bill of rights. “ Resolved, That the women of this country are entitled to all the. rights and privileges of the men of the country. Resolved, It is inseparately essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of all women, that no taxes be imposed on them but by their consent, given in person or by their representatives. _ Resolved, That the only representatives of women are per- sons chosen by themselves, and that notaxes ever have, or can be. constitutionally imposed upon them, but by legisla- tures composed of persons so chosen. Resolved, That it is with indignation and shame that we note the fact that, while Congress consumes the people’s time and money in unending discussions of a civil rights bill for men of color, not a plea has been introduced for wo- men, ”whose political, civil, religious and social rights are de- nied in every State of the Union. Resolved, As taxpayers, this Convention forbids the ap- propriation of any of the people’s money fcr beneficences to which women are not admitted on equal terms. Resolved, That as the right of suffrage was vested in the women of Utah by years of legalized usage, as its exercise affords the surest guarantee of the peaceful extinction of "polygamy, we denounce the proposition now pending in Con- gress to disfranchise the women of Utah as an assault on vested rights, a trick in the interest of a ring, an entering wedge to the disfranchisement of all voters. Resolved, That the bill of Senator Frelinghuysen, which is designed to rob the women ofthe territories of jury trial, and the bill of Senator Logan, to restore the action of com- mon law in the territories, are insults to the women of the Union and a disgrace to the Forty-third Congress. Resolved, That we recognize in the great industrial organi- zation known as the Patrons of Husbandry, a movement of. vital significance, socially, economically and politically also, if only by force of example and association, and that this , significance is singularly illustrated by the fact that it has given a wider recognition to women as an integral and es- sential quality of an attempt at industrial reorganization than any other movement having allied on similar purposes which history records. We give it hearty welcome, and feel assur- ed that the logic of its principles and purposes will lead the Grangers to the fullest acceptance of the equal place that must come to women in all such movements. ' Mrs. Stanton then presented the following as a bill of rights: ” ‘ - A _ Resolved, That in national convention assembled, the wo- men of the several States demand of Congress a civil rights bill for their protection: I the advantages and opportunities of life. 2. That shall open to them Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and all the higher institutions of learning with equal rights with colored men, to become both students and professors. . I K 3. That shall compel the medical profession to admit wo- men into all their colleges and societies, to practice in the hospitals, and in every way recognize them as equals pre- cisely as they do men of color. 4. That shall open to them the law schools, with the right for married and unmarried women to practice in all our courts on the same terms‘ with colored men; to sit upon juries, to sue and be sued, and to testify in our courts as do colored men; to be tried by a jury of their peers; and to be made eligible to all the honors and emoluments of the bar and bench. ‘ , _ . 5. To be admitted to all theological seminaries on equal terms with colored men; to be recognized in all religious or- ganizations as bishops, elders, priests, deacons; to ofiiciate at the altar and preach in the pulpits of all churches, ortho- dox or heterodox; and that all religious sects shall be com- pelled to bring their creeds and biblical interpretations into line with the divine idea of the absolute equality of women with the colored men of the nation. A 6. That women, equally with colored men, shall be pro- tected in all their uprisings and down-sittings and in all their outgoings and incomings ; that they be admitted’ to theatres and hotels alone; that they may walk the streets by night or day; ramble. in the forests, or beside the lakes and rivers, as do colored men, without fear or molestation or insult same as colored men, shall have equal place and pay in the world of work"; be admitted into whatever trade or occupa- tion they desire as apprentices, journeymen, masters; and if any white man refuse to Work beside a. woman as an he refused to work beside a colored man. the defender of women, as he had the colored man, and give r small favor she asked of him, the insertion of one little word . 1. That shall secure to them equally with colored men all from any white man whatsoever; and that women, the“ equal, he shall sufi‘er fine and imprisonment, precisely as if » ‘-.---...‘‘~-‘.;. - w,..;. ...,,;__ w.Feb. 7, 1874. , wooinHUL.L la C-LAiFLIN’S wEExLY. 13 A CRUEL QUESTION. I . It is recorded that Susan B. Anthony met the President on Pennsylvania avenue the other day, and that he asked what he could do for her, which Susan thought decidedly cool after she had “stumped” the country to secure his election, voted forhim and been imprisoned for it, and was now at large without his movinga finger to help her. We think Susan deserved it, for swallowing the bait so adroitly thrown to her and others in the famous “Worcester pl.at- form.” ‘She has tested the worth of the “respectful con- sideration” of the Republican party there represented, and i at this late day General Grant adds insult to injury, by in- quiring “_What he can do for her?” We hope she is satisfied. ——Dailg Union, Detroit, Mich. Enrrons or WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY: We find in your paper of Dec. 27 a letter addressed to the Baltimore American, written by an inmate of a house of ill- fame. Our sympathy was greatly moved by the appeal of this poor outcast, as shouldbe that of every sisterly heart. ' She states briefly her unhappy condition, and asks why something is not done against vice? Yes, and more of us ask why, in’t_he name of God and humanity, is not something done to suppress it? Oh, ye people that are free to think and act! How can you turn a deaf, unsympathizing ear to the imploring cries of society’s wronged prisoners 2?’ "I say society’s prisoners, for such they certainly are. If they are free, why do they not flee from this wretched life and seek a better one? Why do they beg to be released? If they are not wronged, why do they implore justice? Society has ensnared them, sur- rounded them by circumstances that led or‘ forced them to evils that they hardly realized as such, caused them to trans- 'gress one after another of its own laws, until they had gone entirely beyond its strict limits of virtue, when they must be arrested by that same law that helped them. on to per- dition. So to protect this sacred society they must be im- prisoned, chained to the rock where social vultures per- petually prey upon their bodies, while day after day and night after night their sin-sick souls pant for the relief that is denied them. These vile birds of torture come and go at will. No law binds them to the spot which their better natures disdain, and from which their souls are’ sick to be free; while their victims are shut up away from all moral, refining influences, compelled to live'by the evil for which they are so cursed. Even G-od’s free, refreshingair and sun- light are almost forbidden luxuries. Only that spark of undying, heavenly fire which burns in every woman’s breast is left to keep warm the soul that feign would be chilled by the world’s coldness. She speaks of seeking a kindlier clime, but, will she’ find it this side of Heaven? Not under the present system of society. She “ hopes that there is forgiveness in the hearts of her parents if yet living, and that she may be pardoned by God.” These hopes she may not cherish in vain, for God and mother are always our friends. Mother beingea woman, can feel fore, womanly heart; and God being justice, can never turn» her away. Call to mind, if you please, the diflerence in the treat- ment of men and women. A man may be guilty of every form of evil, and if not caught in his acts, he is all right; and even if he is detected in the basest cond.uct, and con- fronted by the woman who claims his affection, if he con- fess his guilt and ask her pardon, she, Christian-like, will forgive him a1l——yea, more than all! She will help him to lead a better life, and guard against the evils of this world.‘ And not only here does she watch and pray for him, but even beyond the grave her soul would intercede for him in heaven. In the estimation of the world his wrongs are com- paratively nothing—he is it man ! Let a Woman take one misstep, no matter what the circum- stances are——let her transgress in the least, and what man would forgive and accept her the same? Is there one? She might throw herself at his feet and pray for forgiveness, ‘while his stern look and harsh words would turn her scald- -ing tears to ice. What will the world do? Why, banish her; put her where her influence may not contaminate society. Now, we ask, is this just? Is it even humane? Is there any person or body of persons that have the right to prohibit the “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” of others in this manner? We answer no; it is an outrage upon nature, God’s own law. Then why do we permit such insolence? Women, dear women, we entreat you to Wake up and exercise that true spirit that has been sleeping,,as it were, for centuries in silence. - Long enough have we trusted to men for justice and liberty. Long enough have we appealed to hearts that prove to be stone. - The time has come for us to demand it if we wouldhave freedom. “ Let us fight for ourselves,” and prove to lockers- on that only one-half of the world’s power has ever yet been exercised; and when women wage war, nothing but true justice can ever appease their wrath. JULIA W. LEAVITT. ANN ARBOR, Jan. 8, 1874. I Ludies—Allow me in behalf of myself and several other students, who denounce the disgraceful and outrageous con- duct of the students and citizens of Ann Arbor on December I 1.5, to express our sympathy for Mrs. Woodhull and our in- dignation at the barbarities of these high-toned ruffians. It is true that there were students present that conducted themselves with the utmost propriety and intelligence, and yet it is to my sorrow that I must acknowledge that the majority of the students acted with the rudeness of savages. The orderly students were in the minority that evening, and could exert no influence in suppressing the disturbance, and, disgusted, they left the scene. It is for the justification of these students that I mention this fact, and it is our wish that you exonerate those that had nothing to do with the disgraceful affair. Again. allow me, in behalf of 1311686 Stu» X says: “ Through Dr.'Deems I learned thatthe celebrated Mrs. dents, to express our heartfelt sympathy for Mrs. Wood- hull and our indignation‘ at the barbarians. ' Yours respectfully, ’ LAW STUDENT- [We cheerfully give our friend’s disclaimer of any con- nection with the rioters referred to, withholding his name that the “barbarians ” may not “ haze” him in retaliation. --ED.] ' IAI WOMAN WHO, RULED. Mrs. Westmorland,’in a letter to the Atlanta Constitution, Eaton, who did the honors of the White House during Gen- eral J ackson’s administration, still lived-—.was in this city, and was one of his congregation. N aturallyl felt an interest in and some curiosity to see a person who had played so con- spicuous a part in the affairs of the nation at one time, and learning that she was fond of company and would consider it no intrusion, I called. In doing so I was more forcibly re- minded than ever before of what slaves we are to the caprices of fortune—what victims to the vicissitudes of life, over which we have no control. Here was a woman who once held the destinies of a nation in her hand. To win her approval au-, gured success——to arouse her anger meant defeat. ,. Health,§ luxury, flattery, honors—-everything this world could give was laid at her feet. Now an old, feeble and jaded woman, deserted by friends, forgotten by the world, she ekes out a bare existence in a retired boarding-house which overlooks Washington square. Although in her seventy-sixth year, she still bears the traces of having been a beautiful woman, and though miserably dressed, she received us wih the grace and elegance of a queen. We found her very accessible; the con—. versation naturally turned upon events of the past, and we were surprised to find every incident connected with her ‘eventful life as fresh in her memory as if they had only just? occurred. Her story varies somewhat from the facts laid‘ down in history, and perhap s—-who knows-——she may be right and the historian wrong. Such things have happened (i), for of all people who profess to be entirely nnprejudiced, we think the generality of historians are more prejudiced than any other class of writers. She spoke of Mrs. Randolph and the Dutchess de Fensendeck as her only children, and, in the midst of many changes and heavy losses, she said she consid- ered herself blessed in being surrounded by her grandchil- dren, who are very devoted toiher, and console and comfort her in her old age. Mrs. Randolph has been dead many years, and it is this family of children she has reared, and who now care for her, the youngest son making it his duty and pleasure to provide for his grandmother, whom he seems to love with a devotion bordering on romance. She men- tioned, in conversation, that her son-in-law, the Duke, had two titles, the other one being the Duke de Sampayo, and that their only child, a daughter, was married to one of the Rothschilds, the son of the elder Croesus. She said her daugh- ten had become thoroughly foreignized, and hated America so that she would not allow her husband to accept a position to this country which was offered him two "years ago. I asked her if she ‘ ever visited Washington now ?’ She said, ‘HN‘o;A my recollections of Washington are so painful that I do not? like to go there any more ’—then added: ‘I very foolishly married a third time, although this marriage lost all of my property; and it is not pleasant to go back and see other peo- ple enjoying what righfully belongs to me. He married me for my money, and it took him ten years and seven months to get it into hispossession. Then when he got it all he left me, taking some woman whom he fancied, and left the coun- try. I was in complete ignorance of his movements until a letter reached me which he had Written from the steamer, saying he returned to me my honored name, and left the country because he was not worthy to be associated with me and my family, confessed himself a villain and an adven- turer, and assured me he would never trouble me again.’ The name of this magnificent scoundrel was Antonio Bu- I chignani, and Mrs. Eaton says a very handsome and elegant man—a man who had served ;as librarian at Washington,. although he was an Italian adventurer of whom nothing was known. Of course she at once resumed the name which had been so generously restored to her, and for the distinguished honor of playing the short role of Madame Buchignani she paid the princely sum of nineteen houses and six square blocks of real estate in Washington City. . A few more years" and the sands of life will cease to flow for this woman,whose career is without a parallel.” ANY PORT IN A STORM. Thegravest mischief that man has ever done to himself is the formation of an opinion, the adoption of an idea, or the acceptance of a theory on anything appertaining to his own personal condition or that of others, when not in conscious self-possession and realizing the uninterrupted harmonics of his ownpersonal being. The whole atmosphere is alive about us, and all impressions that mislead us come from a meddling source, never from ourselves. The very fact of feeling out of sorts indicates the presence of a somethingpquiteitoo near us that is unlike us, and that, in the fitness of things, has no business with us. For whilexwe are interfered with or dis- turbed within ourselves, every conception that strikes us as consistent or proper, seen from our then standpoint, will be.‘ ‘ more or less a copy of the very impressions that we feel so unwelcome to us, like a ship in stress of weather making for the nearest port, without regard to where it would go, but apparently bound to what must be done.‘ Erom such con- ditionshave sprung all the wretched theories and fo-llies that curse the race to-day, or that have ever blighted human hopes and made this good world a bedlam. safe in adopting any line of action or drawing any conclu- sion, even respecting itself (except that it is really out of fix), and much less of «another. The ever-to-be damned odious- ness of meddling with another comes from this source. It this world has ever recognized, and from ‘all evidence that can be drawn from human actions, adopted as apattern. For every one knows this who knows anything, thatvina personally ‘disturbed condition he feels more of an itching to find fault, pass judgment and to worry others than would at other times be ‘agreeable to him. That this-disturbance comes from a foreign source is i just -as evident as it is ~ that it is distasteful to us. monious organization,.they do not seem to know what an organization is. bumps indicate the unbalance of a human soul. dence that this unbalance is the legitimate outgrowth of a constitutional and organic being’; for whatever the organiza- tion, it need only to repeat itself to be harmonious; and A hence it involves the contradiction that the organic soul is in disagreement with itself. Besides, organization is the ‘fit- ness in parts that goes to make up theperfection of a whole, and stamps the claim for personal inharmony arising from When people talk about an inhar- I do not care how many phrenological an improper organization as a mistake.‘ Thatpeople should show a marked» difference of cranium and facial expression with the character demonstrated in uses, is more to be attrib- uted to these uses than to anything else, and that upon the principle that the child that is always carried never develops those muscles in limbs that it would do by using them, and that the arm of the blacksmith is proportionately ‘stronger by daily wieldingthe sledge, it being not the peculiar capa- city of this arm above other arms, but in the uses to which it is put. The variety developing that whichwe call char- acter, as expressed in the world, is attributable more to unseen surroundings and the artificial moldings formed by our forced habits in the way of pursuing life than to any peculiarity in an organlization, that marks the individual as good or bad when measured by any rule. For whatever the organization, it could only be characteristic of itself, and by no necessity inharmonious. Hence the idea of an inharmonious organization is onlya play upon words, and only forced upon the human “mind to justify the frauds that are practiced. upon man from the un- seen. ' To illustrate the point further as to the molding of the man so far as life with him here is concerned, we may look into the cramped and unnatural conditions under which he is cheated and forced to pursue life. To make this point still more clear to the mind, I will relate -a particular I once read in a paper, and glean from it the inference it naturally suggests. » It is some years since I read it, therefore I shall not pretend to be scrupulously exact in narrating it, still I claim to preserve the substance of the little narrative: A little, dirty, ragged boy, born, cradled and ‘fed in the slums of a foul citylane, wandered into one of its wider‘ and more inviting streets. He amused himself with new sights until hunger began to pinch him. Bewildered with what he had seen and heard, the way to his home was ‘a question with him. In this mood of douot,and sadnes, he stopped before a very pretty residence, and, while looking up at the windows, a little girl of some three or four sum- mers caught sight of him, and besought her mother to‘ call in ' the little boy. The mother naturally opposed so strange a fancyin the child; her opposition, however, was unavailing. A.—servant wassent to bring him into the kitchen~—the ex- pression of neglect, dirt and rags. /When washed “and /fed» he must be conducted into the parlor, and there be treated to further little dainties that a child loves. He looked into the sweet face of the little girl, whose interest in himself had lost nothing, and, while a large tear trembled in his eye, he timidly asked the mother if he might kiss the child, who seemed so dear to him. The mother hesitated, when Birdie responded, “Yes, mamma.” And waiting wistfully for her mother’s nod, she passed her hands behind her, and with a graceful ease that older ones never know, she walked di. rectly toward the ragged little boy, while pursing her njod, est, pouting lips for him to kiss, and said to him in her ‘fond- est tones, “ Is oo nice?” I This one incident told the little boy more of himself than he could have learned in a lifetime in the home and with the surroundings where he was born. He felt this to be a, home, and begged to be allowed to live there, where he had seen the first bright rays of life and had felt its warm sun. shine; The angel of his awakened heart pleaded his suit and gained it, so far as these new-found friends were con. cerned; and the other arrangements were easily’ made and the change effected. Birdie, until then an only child, early died. , He made a man for whom his new—found parents never had occasion to blush. Those conditions where hope lives and smiles, unfolded Ya! life in a safe direction, while roughness and coarse manners would have ruined it. The bumps that get the WOI‘Si‘«, of cm. tivation would have produced a rank growth, and have indi- cated a different chrracter; and organization would been damned for the result, while Science would have deified for making the discovery. AUBURN, N. Y.., January 10, 1874. have been E. WHEELER. VICTORIA o. WOODHU/LL——WHAT A woMAN' - THINKS or HER. W « ' I ‘ Sr. J osnrn, ,Mo., Jan. 19,1874:, Woodhull &: Olafiin/s Weehly——Mrs. Wood/hull took St. Joseph by storm. The St. Joseph Daily Herald, one ofthe most liberal and live papers in the United States, has . no words too strong to use in her behalf. I send you an extract from the pen of a lady correspondent of that journal, show. ing the eflect,ot‘ truth on prejudice. Respectfully, (3, L- “Curiosity to see the woman whose name has been her- alded throughout America and Europe led me to the Opera, ‘ House Friday evening. I went expecting to beshocked; I M went full of sympathy for mysex, that were alm'ost,becom- Until the soul is in musical harmony with itself it is un— ing infamous through thisnotorious agent. ‘ “ I expected her to strike boldly at our sanctum sanctorum —--the fireside influence; and she did strike. She disclosed to her breathless audience the; ashes and vermin concealed by the artful ignorance of the mothers has been the prime quality in the character of all the God loving sires. ' W . “I expected to hear her denounce woman’s ‘virtue and ridicule her purity, and she did. it; and for the ;first_timc and the pleasure- It is no evi- \ .14 . I I HWOODHULLI J5 CLAI+‘LIN’S WEEKLY. Feb. 7, 1874. lifevl felt that there is a, pwrenessjor woman that is perfioly. » The mother whoidevotes her life to church and prayer-meet- ings, leaving her sons and daughters to while away the hours in debauchery and falsehood, rather-than take themyby the ,hand andexplain the mysteries of the life which they, igno- rant alike of moral and physical laws,‘are converting into a burden to themselves and Others, are practicing a virtue that is perfidious. I expected her to denounce the churches, and she did denounce them. But she did -not denounce the humble Jesus Christ, who, eighteen hundred years ago, supped with harlots. and was a brother to the greasy fisher- man. She denounced the gilded representatives of to-day, who are drinking,‘blindfold, their own life-blood. She cried out, not against the esus who said to the harlot ‘go and sin no more,’ but bitterly she denounced the Christ Jesus of to-day who cries from our gilded pulpits and religious _]our~‘ nals, ‘Away With this woman for she has fallen.’ Fallen from where, and by‘ whom? When a boarding-school is turned into a harem, she cries out, not against the arts Of the seducer, but against the infamous modesty of the mother who could send a daughter into the world to fall a victim to her own ignorance. She cried out against the pastors be- cause they were political leaders of an impolitic people, not because they were co-laborers with Christ. “Iwent expecting to hear hisses, and I heardthem; but they were hurled at the head of a government that sits cloaked with chaste garments, from the foot of which strides a cloven hoof. I went expecting to be mortified, to be made indignant; I left mortified to shame and indignant to dis- gust with a press so false and politic that but here and there can be found an editor who will write what he knows to be true. , , “It is not ours to-day to spot her with the indignation of our ignorance, while we may safely follow many of her_ teachings. A ‘ “Ilistened with anxiety for the utterance of a sentence A that should brand her as the unchaste woman the billions press has pronounced her—but I listened in vain. . ~ . “ E. T. W.” ...__——————>-—-4&9--4 BUSINESS EDITORIALS. sOCIAL REFORMERS’ NOTICE. All persons, young or old, bond or free, interested in the Social Reform movement, either directly or indirectly, are , solicited to send their names and post-office addresses to the undersigned immediately. Don’t neglect for one second after reading this. Call the atte ution of all your friends to this notice. ‘ An “ underground railroad enterprise on, hand, aiding all enslaved women out of bondage by an “air-line ” route, where neither lawyers or judges are conductors. All about it if you will send us your name. WILLIAM WARRINGTON, Painsville, Ohio, U. R. R. Agent. Editors Weckly—As this is a benevolent and charitable movement on the part of a few earnest philanthropists to aid A women in the effort to obtain freedom and liberty in des- pite Of courts of law or public sentiment, please give it a place in your columns. The leading spirits are old workers the cause’, and the work will go on.» « WM. WARRINGTON. goo.-wuja EXPLANATORY OF THE NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH. A [See Advmfisemznt on page 15.] Integralism is thename of the New Philosophy, coupled with Universology, which covers the whole ground of Na- ture, Science and Art. Art is the effort,‘ through labor, to realize our ideals. Religion is the result-of the reflex action of our highest ideals on our conduct, by stimulating the ear- nestness of_ our efforts to realize or;to attain to them; ex- citing, especially the unifying sentiment, or the sentiment of the unity of mankind. It is, in other words, the Worship of the Most High, meaning thereby, not necessarily a personal God. an ideal Heaven in another world, or any special defi- nite form of conception; but-simply that which is The High-' est, whatsoever it be, to which each individual mind has at- tained as an ideal. The woman who castsher infant into the is river or the fire, or the devouring jaws of an idol; the scien- tist~who labors, from the love of truth, to discover new truth; or the atheist who devotes his life to blasting what he believes to be the deleterious delusions of the Christian or any other faith, is as trulyrcligious in his devotion to what he conceives to be the truth as the most devoted Christian. The truéth of opinion is another matter, and belongs to the region Of inquiry and instruction--to Science rather than “Religion- It is a perversion of the meaning, of religion to make it consist of dogmas, which must, of necessity, undergo change from age to age, with the mere increase of Intelli- gence. It is the first object of the New Catholic Church to 'educe, distinctify and definitely fix this fundamental con- ception of Religion, as the common elementary ground of Unity for all Sects and Special Religions, in the Higher Re- ligious Life, and in the Higher Organization of the Religious Development of the Future; in harmony with Nature, Sci- ence and Art. The edifice to be raised on such alfoundation will be rightly entitled to be called THE GRAND RECONCILI— , , ATIQN-—“ The final restitution of all things.” C‘ It is the mistake of the Church, at this day, to continue to teach Dogma as if it were assured Knowledge; and the mis- , take of Science to attack. Dogma as- if it were essentially erroneous. Dogma, held as hypothesis, reinforced merely by faith, but held subject to revisal and improvement with advancing Knowledge, is perfectly legitimate, even from the Scientific point of view; and, so soon as it ceases to pre- ‘ tend to be anything more, will be accepted and cultured by Science. Faith is not Knowledge, and should not be claimed ‘gs such. The very word “I believe,” gigufesses that <"._j[ do £339? W9“??? A S ‘ ‘ I The scripture phrase “ N ow we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face,” is as applicable to the unfolding fu- ture higher knowledge of this world as to the other life be- lieved in by Christians. ' ‘ , The recognition of the consecration and devotion of the whole being to the worship of The Most High, or of whatso- ever highest ideal, as the essential basis of religion, is, at the same time, the basis of a true -and universal religious fellow- ship; now for the first time propounded and scientifically de- fined. Upon this ground, and upon no other, the Universal Religious Reconciliation of mankind ‘becomes possible—the co-operative unity of all, in a higher and broader sense than that in which the Christian world is now beginning to aspire after Unity; as, by the discovery of Universology, a similar reconciliation of all Intellectual Conceptions is effected; and as, by Pantarchism, the practical Orchestration of all Hu- man Afiairs will be accomplished. The measuring reed, the cubic structure of the New Jerusalem, and the governing force of the Mystic or Sacred numbers, as revealed to the in- terior vision of St. John, are realized in the exactifications of Universal Science. The New Catholic Church is, therefore, THE OHURCH,oE THE GRAND INTEGRAL AND FINAL RE- CONOILIATION. To belong to the New Catholic Church involves little or nothing of ceremony, and does not necessarily demand sep- aration from any other religious or secular body; any more ship of the individual States of the Union. It is socially and religiously as The United States are politically, and as the Pantarchy will be, for all Nationalities, e plnribus unum. Within its pale, the other religions and sects of the world are regarded as lower and higher classes in conducting the religious education of mankind. “ The Constitution of the N cw Catholic Chiwch” will be furnishedto applicants. ‘ - The Old Religious Strongholds will not be subdued by simply denouncing them, in the spirit of a Negative Infi- delity. They will be easily, and even gladly and gratefully, overcome and absorbed or annexed, by being transcended in their own sphere, PROCEEDINGS oE>..THE TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OE THE AMERICAN ‘AssoCIATION or SPIRITUALISTS. 12m, pp. 266. THE ELIXIR OF LIEE; OR, WHY DO WE D:E? 8vo, pp. 24. An ORATION delivered before the above-named‘ CONVENTION, at GRow’s ‘ OPERA HOUSE, CHICAGO, by VICTORIA C. 'WOODHUI-L, September 18, 1873. The above “Report of the Proceedings of the Tenth An- nual Convention of the American Association of Spiritual- ists,” is an accurate and impartial account of what was said and done at the above. convention. The speeches are pre- sented to the public word for word as they came to us from the hands of the able reporter employed by the convention. The orations of the members, on both sides, discussing the question of “ Free Love,” or rather “ Personal Sovereignty,” areworthy of the serious attention not only of all Spiritual- ists but of the community at large. In proof that we have not overstated the merits of the work, we respectfully submit the generous testimony of Judge Edmund S. 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' APPROACHING CONFLICT—— The irrepressible issues between universal liberty and des- potism to precipitate a terrible war within five years that will ‘terminate in the overthrow of the American Republic and the establishment of a military dictatorship. ‘ Church, State and ‘Capital are combined, under the leader- ship of the Republican party, to precipitate the conflict that will end in a defeat of their aspirations, and the ultimate triumph of industry, socialism and rationalism. The nation is slumbering upon the brink of ruin as uncon- ciously as the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum in that awful moment that preceded the belching forth of Vesu- vius. * -‘ The most astounding foreshadowing of the future destiny of this nation ever issued from the press. A book of 250 pages-will be sent to any address, post—paid, for $1.50. Liberal terms given to agents. A Address, . JOHN WILLOOX, , 172 and 174 Clark street, Chicago, Ill. The First Primary Council of Boston, of the Universal As- sociation of Spiritualists, meets every Thursday evening, at Harmony Hall, 18% Boylston street. Seats free. J ‘ JOHN HARDY, Cor. Sec’y. ADDIE L. BALLOU contemplates a trip to the Pacific Coast, and will makeappointments to lecture at points on the,route if early applications he made to her at Terre Haute, Ind. ’ Dr. Slade, the eminent Test 91 cliuni, may befifflllnd at his I sees-N9. its mirth are so} than to be a citizen of the United States precludes citizen- . ,DR. K. COONLEY. This active, able, zealous and practical reformer intends to return again to the open field. He willcanswer calls to "speak anywhere in the country. No word of ours is needed with Spiritualistic public for twenty years, and returns to “it now refreshed and reinvigoratediby two" years of fruit ‘growingin Vineland, N. J ., at which place he may for the present be addressed. CEPHAS B. 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