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SOCIALISTIC.

. - - EUFAULA, ALA., Feb. 12, 1874.

Dear. I-Veekly—-Again I come to the discussion of the great
social question, and again I assure all those who hold me
“shameless and hold” for thus publicly proclaiming my in-
most thoughts, and the result of my observations concern-
ing the theme, that I come not to it in aflippant tone. I
bear as keen a sense of delicacy, as tender a sensitiveness to
the .merciless talons of vulgar ill-judgment as ever yet quiv-
ered under the cruel scalpel of public opinion. But the spirit of
truth that ever enshrines the martyred soul is before me for
a guiding star, and far better to sink in temporal darkness
than turn a coward’s back to its distant glimmering ray.

Let all be assured I approach this theme in deepest rev-
erence, for in it inheres the future good of the race. And
as we are faithful or false to the redeeming principle, we de-
termine our weal or woe——whether we will have ruin and an-
archy, or peace and progress for our future inheritance.

Herein I shall make frequent use of the Word sexual, and
I assure all those to whom the word has a nasty appearance
that there is no nastiness in my mind concerning it. I have
divested it of all its social vulgarity and secret specula-
tion, and invested it with a degree of its rightful sacred-
ness. Therefore he or she who pronounces me “ shame-
less” for expressing my thoughts freely but pronounces ac-
cording to his or her sexual status, and by their wincing,
often reveal where the jade has been galled.

The q_uestion is, in my esteem, of most vital importance to.
the race. I believe that in its open, free discussion, divested
of all mawkishness and sentimental mysticism, lies the key
to purer sexual conditions. And no soul has any right to
impeach my motive s, since I have stated them as -the purest
thatcan actuate a-‘human being—a desire to promote the
good of humanity. If you differ from me in my views, meet

_me like a inan or woman, and refute my propositions, and

not skulk behind ‘a social breastwork and employa mur-
derous sharpshooter to pick me off by impeaching my. virtue,
which I frankly tell you does not wear the faded colors of.
Madam Grundy. This I put" in by way of preface, for the
benefit. of the midnight assassins who, not being able to
measure lances with me in a fair field, seek my overthrow by
piling social scarecrows in my path.

I have long since come to the conclusion. that sexual
bondage and impertinent meddling, with the personal afiairs
of each other, are the source of all our woes and ills, and that
making it nobody’s business but one’s own how we-settle
our mutual personal affairs, so we don’t invade another’s

. province, is the key to a better future state, the avenue to

greater happiness, purer sexual morality and ahealthier race
of beings. '
Under these colors I fight, and will “fight it out on that

, line if it takes all summer,” while there is a free journal in

the land to publish my manifestoesl

‘ I’m not prepared to say there would not be a strange mix-
ing of elements for a time, under the substitution of the
above platform for our present ill-‘working status, but I am
prepared to say, that in sexual freedom is the medicine for
the healing of the nations-the actual tree of life—-the stone
that was rejected by the builders which shall become the
crowning glory of the temple!

'Won2an’s bandage to man, or else hex-‘utter abstinence
from all sexual knowledge, is the fatal cause of woman’s
general lack of sexual vigor, which, instead of being the
good and virtuous state of feminine nature it has been con-
sidered, is the loudest crying evil of our day and gen-
eration! - * ‘

On the other hand, the dissipations incident to the prosti-

>tute’s——the illegal prostitute’s—career, and the fact that she

is compelled, by the rules of her life, to accept repulsive con-
ditions, cause the frightful ravages in her womanhood. The

 legal prostitute stands a better chance to drag out a longer

igniserable existence than the illegal; that is the only advan-
tage the former has over the latter. , ’ if T

A This is plain talk. But the facts of our lives terribly out-’
weigh the sentimentalities confined in the romantic brains
of adolescence. I impeach our entire sexual status! I do not
tear down, offering no hope of building up, as the opposition
accuse us all when at their wit’s end for argument. Simply
because they do not accept our remedy, they say we offer
none. But we explicitly and in terms set up sexual freedom
for sexual bondage. Our platform isfair and square, and
none buta beggar of the question would dare say we pull to
pieces to create a ruin merely. I l V

’Tis a vexed question, I admit,\full of intricate labyrinths

. of reason and deduction. I for one have brought it up out

of its social degradation, and consequently my respect for
true manhood and womanhood is enhanced a thousand fold.
Why should not the same be true of all souls? .,

When I speak of “true manhood and womanhood,” I’ve

such, steeped in a vitiating ignorance that blights all health-
ful vigor and growth like a mildew. I mean the man and
the woman capable of standing front to front with the sick-
ening shams of the dayin emancipated intqlligence, climb-
ing forbidden heights, exploring secret depths of deceitful-
ness, laying siege to the tree of knowledge as the eternal
heritage of souls created in the image of God. ‘

I believe there is but one sanctifier of sexual know1edge—
mutual reciprocity! Then “ let fools rush in where angels
fear to tread.” , ‘ _ i .

Next, I believe it the unpardonable sin against her woman-
hood for a woman, because she loves a man clearly in her
mental and spiritual nature, to sacrifice her body to him in
the revolt of her sexual nature.
spiritual being, a sexual being, and blessed above woman is
she who holds all in harmonious union with one. That con-
stitutes the truemonogamic relation ; all other is but an
empty name. .

Much of the love of wives for their husbands is entirely
removed from the sexual principle of their being. Thou-
sands of married women, if they dared, would bear me. out.
Sex is not dead within them but dormant, consequently the
other life principles need a stimulus and inspiration that only
afully developed sex principle can give, for it is the basic
principle of all being, which either dormant, demoralized or-
dead, turns the fair face of Nature into mourning, makes
dyspeptic our imagination, transforms our desire of heaven
into a forlorn hope. I

Despite all your “side issues,” human beings will never
know the perfect bliss of loving till they cease to hold impu-
dent iespionage over the functions of the object of their
love. Our present social or rather sexual status is but the
offshoot of that barbarism which justified the savage in
holding his women subject to lock and key. Our civilized
savage makes his woman swear she will hold herself sacred
to him, while he, like love, laughs at locksmiths and snaps

. his fingers at the oath.

It seems some power has set the curse of false sexual rela-
tions directly upon the woman—she becomes incapable of
sexual enjoyment, though not impotent to bear its painful
results, rendered still more painful by her unnatural submis-
sion. Witness the .myriad wrecks of women, ’who flatter
themselves with the foo1’s fancy that they are pure because
impotent‘!

Woman is the natural arbiter in sexual relations, and the
time must come when a man would as soon go hang himself
as touch an unresponsive woman; when knowledge of the
true relation will be so perfected, a man would consider it
a stain upon his honor to hold an unwilling or a self-sacri-
ficing woman to his embrace; when he will regard the emo-
tional woman as sacred as he now holds her in contempt.

Then we shall see nor hear no more of men so lost to all
sense of manhood as to make use of a woman and afterward
spurn her as an unclean thing, or to boast vulgarly of a con-
quest that made him king in a realm which he should ever
after hold illuminated in memory. '

“ Yea! it becomes a man
To cherish memory where he had delight,
For kindness is the natural birth of kindness.
Whose soul records not the great debt of joy
. Is stamped forever an ignoble man."

If sexuality were exalted to the plane it of right should
claim, men would esteem the price of a woman above rubies
who met them on that plane, and there would be no more
Hagars wandering with branded Ishmael in the wilderness,
but all mothers would be held holler than aVestal—-—all preg-
nant women as the inner sanctuary of the incarnate God.
But sexuality must first be got off the plane of barter and
sale, and a woman must hold herself exclusive to him and
him only capable of inspiring her nature. ’That self-asser-
tion on the part of all women would completely annihilate
prostitution and bring men into normal conditions.

Prostitution could not exist where all women were true to
themselves. I mean prostitution in its intrinsic sense,
which is the false use and abuse of any function which is
subject to immutable law. Woman is the cause of prostitu-
tion; she can be the cure. But such sexual morality abso-
lutely demands freedom. V

Women make men the sexual cormorants they are, by
their weak and wicked submission, for no man’s appetite
but grows by what it feeds upon. And if he feed it upon
pure selfishness, not strange if he becomes a sexual monster
and drain the woman as dry of the life principle as Sahara is
of springs. Thelpendulum has swung to man’s selfishness;
it must swing back to woman’s, for the law of compensation
is just. » — ,

These things are all wrong, and we, as a people, are reap-
ing the sorry harvest of a diseased and sexual status that is
no better in the marriage bed than in the brothel. You ask
in Go d’s name what is the remedy. I answer once more
and in plainer terms: Freedom to choose our sexual ailment
as we choose our dinner; for one is as essential to ourpurity
and growth as the other. In fact, pernicious sexual ailment
can do us more harm than pernicious diet. Better eat pork
and cabbage than subject our sexual natures to false condi-
tions. ,

Breathes there a man with soul so dead as not to honor the
woman who holds her sex sacred to its promptings? There
is a sure instinct in the soul of the lowest men that makes
them scorn the woman who sells them her body, in marriage
or out"; while ’tis only a surface sentiment that brands the
woman who defies the law to be faithful to herself, for all
men know she is true queen by grace of God, and they in-
s tinctively do her homage while stoning her to death. Her
eye is bright, her step is light, her proportions fair’ to see,
her voice attuned to harmony‘, like‘ silver bells, herlaugh

not the remotest allusion to the social abortions that pass for ‘

There is a mental being, a i

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her time, nor haggard nor sapless; she commands men by
the force of her unimpoverished womanhood, for she would

the public brothel. Gifted among women, she can retain
her sway if she keep the clutches of “damned custom” from
her Vitals. ’

These sentiments, in private correspondence or conversa-
tion, would meet a large proportion of solid" assent, which,
published, will bring down anathema from the same parties
privately assenting. . Many married women, who don’t
know what ails them, would stoneme; and many, too, who

to a purified womanhood. .

“ What! would you make harlots of us all?” The thinkers,
my dear madam, are evolving the intrinsic meaning of har-
lot, not based upon a stupid social romance but upon de-
duced scientific fact. A harlot begins to look vastly like a
woman who subjects her body to the use of man under any

which alone sanctifies the act. Under the scientific lenses,
my dear madam, it will not do for you to get upon your
social stilts, lest you reveal the draggled‘ edges of your moral
undergarments. » g ‘
No! we would not make harlots of women. We would
have women repudiate an institution that makes them such
in spite of themselves. We would teach women the immut-
able law, and bid her break her neck before breaking that
law. . K HELEN Nnsn.

A SOLEMN WARNING AGAINST MARRIAGE.

G. J. Banta, of Bergen County, N. J ., courted a girl seven
years—stood it well without suicide; but alas! : for poor
Banta, he married her on Saturday. On Sunday he Wrote his
will and gave directions about his funeral, and rising Mon-
day morning from her bed at 3 :30 A. 11., went straight home
and to his barn and hung himself, thereby escaping to that
country where there is no marrying nor giving in marriage.

marriage, but no right to personal control is given to the

‘man over the woman. What Banta found in marriage that

he could not endure, he did not tell us. The friends, of
course, said he was insane; but as this was all the evidence
he left of insanity, it is a poor excuse. The cause is more

_likely to have been the disease of onanism, unfitting him for
-married life, and the realization of it, opening his eyes to his

terrible fate, impelled him to escape it if possible, even at
this terrible sacrifice.

I have heard and read of many cases of suicide of young
wives soon after marriage, finding lust instead of love
prompted the union on the part of the man—,-Where the heart
that asked a fish got a serpent, asked bread and got a stone.
And it was not strange that such terrible revulsion should
lead even to suicide. And I have known many more, who,
not quite driven to suicide, soon withered up and died, as a
flower plucked from its native stem. But it is rare that a
man goes either to suicide or the gravefrom a marriage
union, since he can walk off and stay far or near ‘away, and
no oflicer of the law will catch and return him to the “ bed
and board” he does not like to sleep and eat in. But the poor
female victim who attempts to escape the poisonous fangs of
a. legal scducer has no home and no friends to receive and
protect her, and the legal blocdhounds are set on her track,
and she is caught and delivered into the power she would
escape from if she could. Hence so many female suicides and
untimely deaths; but they are allsacrifices to the legal mo-
loch—that is sacred,§ not for its good, but because the church
makes it so, being itself the holy authority that gives sanc-
tion to the law and the tyranny. Poor Banta mighthave
saved his life and courted the girl to the day of his natural
death if she would have agreed to it. If the law had been
as it should be, they could have made their bargainand gone
into partnership and lived together, and by contract neve

do if marriage was a civil contract and only subject to
general law of contracts requiring record for enforcement
by parties. At least the woman could then protect and con-
trol her own person and the man his; and she could insert “a
clause that if he sought other company sexually, he should
have no further claim on her for such intimacy, and I believe
that would do more than all social evil laws to keep such men
out of other company and from physical pollution.
WARREN CHASE.
Dns Monms, Iowa.
Dear‘ Weekl/y=-1 have received several letters from Eastern
friends, asking my views on the “ social, question,” a.nd if I

WEEKLY to say to them that I have carefully read Mrs.
Woodhullfis writings——have heard her lecture, and I heartily
indorse her sentiments. , . \

But are you a Free Lover? Yes: I love all that is loveable,
I recognize the law of attraction and repulsion. If we are
upon a low material plane of growth, our attractions will
correspond; if spiritually developed, we will love that which
is pure and spiritual. 4
; Whom God, or love, hath joined together, no man can put
asunder. Where there is no love there is no marriage.
Hardly a day passes but tidings come of some man killing
his wife, or a Woman leaving her liege lord and going away
with a lover. I only wonder that so many are tolerably con-
tented in wedlock, when so few among the many are really
God‘-joined. \

Old fossilized ideas and institutions are rapidly passing
away. We have outgrown them. Let us be awake to the
live issues of the day. Long enough has woman been the
slave of man.’ I do not believe inasking for what belongs
to us. “In union is strength.” Let us unitedly demand
justice. i ' *

Some of you will remember that years ago, when little or
nothing had been said in regard to the right of Woman to

untouched by undeatone of sadness. She is not old before .

commit suicide sooner than‘ sell her body at the altar or in *

do know what ails them, but prefer a ghastly respectability I

circumstances for any consideration save a natural impulse,’ ~

which, we suppose, means not only no property is given in, ‘

sleeping together nor having sexual intimacy, as many would

am aWoodhullite? Allow me through the columns of the’

herself, if n’1‘arried,that I revolted at the barbarous tyranny A
of a husband, and, taking my life in my hands, in spite of '

 

or suitus to each other.

» changed her name.

4 ‘I I C woonnum. & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY.

March 21, 18-74.

Mrs. Grundy and the law, struck out for freedom. To-day
finds me still on the side of justice and the right.

We have had Mrs. Woodhull in Des Moines this winter.
The largest and most intelligent audience ever assembled in
this place greeted her. She told truths that struck high in
Church and State. We could tell who were hit by the flut-
tering among the clergy and politicians; and one solitary
saint of the 5‘ pure ” spiritual persuasion, whose experience
in socialism had evidentlyuot been the most satisfactory to
himself, howled a great big howllr But the best men and
Women said “ she was the most eloquent speaker they ever
heard,” and “every word she said was true.” God and the
angels bless the brave, fearless, noble woman is my prayer,

The signs of the times indicate that we are on the eve of a
great and thorough revolution. Men and women of America,
arouse yourselves, and see that you are on the side of justice
and liberty! Never mind Mrs. G~rundy. We will soon have
abig funeral, and bury the old lady so deep that she" will
never hear Gabriel’s trumpet, and will never be resurrected.

In sympathy with all reformatory efforts, ‘
‘ ALMIRA F. PATTEBsoN.

. I .[From the Golden Age]
THE STORY OF A THOUGHT.
(BY WALLACE ruruhrt REED.]
What seemed a dark and formless void
Is now astir with life,
The pallid germ, almost destroyed,
Bears upward in the strife;
It quivers——breathes—the color glows,
And into being hurled,
The new Idea, like ligtning, goes
Through all this busy world.

Ti1ne—hono1'ed Error takes affright,
And strikeshis brazen bell-

Up start his guards in armor bright,
They know their duty well;

7 The long-drawn line, with sounding tramp,

Obey their Inaster’s will,

And form without their common camp .
To prove their deadly skill.

Adown the line the" Strange1‘—Tl1cught,
All unattended, comes-

Old Error’s guards are bribed and bought, —
They roll their noisy drums; .

But loud above the jarring sound
Peals out a clarion clear,

It fills the welkin, round and round,
And wins the hostile ear.

Some skirmishlng there is, no doubt,
But soon old Error sees

His trusted forces put to rout,
And with them quickly flees;

And thus the new Idea begins
Itself to demonstrate-

It wars against both shams and sins-
The little and the great.

So runs a living Thought its course,
Straight onward in its track,

Dcspising Fraud, unawed by Force,
And never turning back.

And when, at last, the gauntlet’s run,
The stronger for the test,

Stands forth this latest chosen one-—
The youngest, yet the best!

VINELAND, N. J ., Feb. 16, 1874.

CHARLES DICKENS.

The following passage occurs in Foster’s Life of Dickens,
being a letter in which the novelist explains some of the rea-
sons‘ why he was separated from his wife. Dickens writes:
“Poor Catharine and I are not made foreach other, and there
is no help for it. It is not only that she makes me uneasy
and unhappy, but that I make her so too—and much more
so. She is exactly what you know, in the way of being ami-
able andcomplying; but we are strangely ill-assorted for the
bond there is between us. God knows she would have been
a thousand times happier if she had married another kind of
a man, and that her avoidance of this destiny would have
been at least equally good for us both. I am often cut to the
heart/by thinking what apity it is, for her own sake, that I
ever fell in her way; and if I were sick or disabled to-mor-
row I know how sorry she would be, and how deeply grieved
myself, to think how we had lost each other. But exactly the
same incompatibility would arise the moment I was well
again, and nothing on earth could make her understand me,
Her temperament will not go with
mine. It mattered not so much when we had only ourselves
to consider, but reasons have been growing since which
make it all but hopeless that we should even try to struggle
on. What-is now befalling me I have seen steadily coming,
ever. since the days you remember when Mary was born, and
I know too well that you cannot, and no one can help me.
Why I have written I hardly know, but it is a miserable sort

of comfort that you should be clearly aware how matters ‘

stand.”

IVIISS OLYMPIA BROWN was married last spring, but hasn’t
She says that she and her husband
agreed before they were married that they should hold on to
their own names. In fact, she wouldn’t have married with-
out such an agreement. I asked her if Mr. Willis (her hus-
band) didn’t wish to change his name to Brown. She said,
“ Oh, ‘no. He would be simple if he did, Willis being a much
prettier name; besides, had his name been Higginbottom,
he would have preferred to retain it, considering it was
his own, and the one he had always been known by.” I ask-
ed her if no one ever calledher Willis? She said, “ Oh, yes,

_ sometimes they did, but she didn’t wage any special war on

that, any more than if they had called her some pet name
that never belonged to her.” And so it is John Henry Wil-
lis and the Rev. Olympia Brown; and he attends to his gro-
cery business, and she preaches to herhcongregation of saints
and sinners every Sunday. and they keep 3.» snug little house

in Bridgeport, on Golden Hill, and the name on the door is
“ Olympia Brown”——that partner in the matrimonial firm be-
ing the better known of the two.-—Ha7'tford Times.

MARRIAGE OUTSIDE OF THE INSTITUTION.
‘BY VERRES.

I hold that the truest marriage should exist outside of the
“institution.” 4' .

1. Because of the individuality-—the true manhood and
womanhood which so radical a step will tend to develop in
the parties. , ‘ *

2. Because of the example of independent virtue thus set
for those who are struggling for a social freedom which can
only be obtained by a life of individual purity enthroned far
above either the helpjor hindrances of legal usage. .

3. Because that thoughl believe the truest marriages are
most permanent, I find that the marriage institution asserts
the principle arbitrarily and dogmatically. and not from a
rational, philosophical perception of its truth. I

4. Because I see few but selfish motives for marriage ‘inside
of the institution—such as the convenient pass it affords us as
persons of “ good moral character,” notwithstanding the in-
dulgences it grants. Even marriage “ under protest ” is
tinctured with a miserable expediency, as swearing to sup-
port the United" States’ Constitution with “mental reserva-
tion,” or for the purpose of “ preserving the Union!” \There
is “rottenness in Denmark ” when such props become
necessary. , I

5. Because I do not believe in the annihilation of woman’s
individuality, by the surrender of her name, person, or prop-
erty. C I

6. Because of the effect which the subserviency of men
and women to custom produces on their offspring, who in-
herit weak, cowardlyi and servile dispositions, incapable of

Dependent women, so feeble in body and mind that they
dare not claim their own persons, who pay homage to empty
forms, to .the goddess fashion, cannot become mothers of
manly men orwsromanly women.

7. Because, also, of the counter effect which woman’s supe-
riority to the received standards of virtue—-the prevailing

on their posterity, in the forms of human beings of angelic
dignity and power, in whose presencethe State with her
legal devices, or the Church with her “ sale of indulgences,”
dwindles into infinite littleness.

8. Because the marriage institution takes no cognizance of
the “will of God,” as expressed in our “ bodies and souls,”
but ignorantly magnifies its “ pious fraud ” into a principle
of virtue. I can only look with intolerable compassion on
such legal “ purity,” and say, now and forever, away with it!

HOPEDALE, Ma.ss., Sept... 1859.

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SPIRITUALISTIC.

DEEDS BETTER THAN WORDS.

The following testimony to the zeal and charity of the Bos-
ton Spiritualists is highly encouraging. The time has passed
when people are measured by their faiths. The world now
estimates the excellence of I a man by his “ledger,” rather
than by his “ bible.” The excellence of a creed is shown bet-
ter in the actions of its followers than in its prayers or lit-

anies:
V

“ SPIRITUAL CHARITY.—WhateVer may be the popular es-
timate of Spiritualism, mediums and their manifestations, no
one familiar with their work in Boston can fail to give the
disciples of the ‘ new philosophy ’ credit for asincere purpose
to elevate the race and ameliorate the condition of the poor.
The work of love and charity which they do in silence is pro-
portionally, at least, quite equal to that performed by those
professedly religious and charitable bodies which enjoy pop-
ular indorsement and aid.- The Banner of Light oflice, in-
deed, might be ranked among our most efficient bureaux of
charity. At the thrice-Weekly cirmes there held for spirit-
ual communion and instruction under the mediumship of
Mrs. Conant, there are constant and touching appeals in be-'
half of the poor, and no little substantial aid is thus gather-
ed and distributed among the needy of our city. The relig-
ion which shows such fruits cannot be altogether of the
devil, and if a delusion, is at least a. very humane one.”-
Boston Harold. S

No one ought to hold wealth at a less value than a Spirit-
ualist. The Christian may deem that he can obtain future
felicity by an eleventh-hour repentance. Not so the Spirit-
ualist; the improvement of himself and his fellows around
him is the main duty of his life. His advancement is based
on theirs ;, it is not a monetary change but a gradual growth.
As yet, however, we have hardly entered upon the working
phase of Spiritualism, a specimen of which is shown in the

above article.

INTOLERANCE IN SPIRITUALISM.

Dear VVec7cI/y—I notice in the Banner of Light, under date
of February 21, a portion of a letter from the pen of N.
Frank Vifhite, in which he comes forward in defense of cer-
tain committees, who he thinks have certain rights as well
as lecturers. So far as rights are concerned this is unques-
tionably the truth, but what shall we determine with regard
to the principle involved which solicits toleration as a means
of agitation of thoughts considered to be of great import-
ance to the public? The Spiritualists in this ‘country are
divided upon the question. of toleration versus intolerance,
and the social question is the subject brought in to ascertain
the position of committees upon the question of toleration.
I had, in the past twenty-four years which I have been doing
battle for Spiritualism supposed that ideas were to be ad-
vanced, concerning which -we were to be allowed the privilege
of listening, after which we were to determine for ourselves
what we considered to be truth. Spiritualism, I had sup-
posed, placed its adherents in the position of willing and

llatiemi listeners to What ‘might emanate from inspiration.

true heroism, and tre‘n1u1ous at every beck of public opinion“

“gentleman and lady” quanhum of “ morals” will produce,

I

The quality of inspiration might have undergone a severe
sifting had it been subjected to us previous to having been
uttered through the media. Whilst I would concede to
every committee the right _to place outside their doors a
thermometer, which should indicate how high the spirit of
truth might rise, provided they did not assume the patent
right to everything which bears the name of progress, and
condemn to obloquy those who might difler from them, I
would ask if Brother White discovers any difference be-
tween such committees who put themselves in the form of
dictators, and other committees who act in behalf of the
sectarians of our day? If all that pertains to truth has been
explored then we don’t need any more explanation, for was
all know it from the least to the greatest.

It is at present conceded that any form of sectarianism...
irrespective of what may be its form of expression, acknowl-
edges theimpossibility of further inspiration. 1 have not so
understood Spiritualism; and hence I think committees who
may act in behalf of Spiritualism have the right only to see
to it that the, privilege be granted to the inspired minds to
utter convictions concerning what may be given to them,
and let the light within each hearer determine how much of
truth has been uttered, but (allow a scriptural quotation)
“ if the light in them be darkness how great is that darkness.”

If ax lecturer has any thoughts to give to the hearer, having

in the normal condition made preparation and study upon
subjects of vital importance, they should be his or her best
thoughts upon the subject. Let us imagine a prescriptive-
Spiritualist-one of the class to which Bro. White refers-
impressed with a sense of duty to promulgate the beautiful
idea of spirit communion (without side issues), going to a.
town -where but one public building is to be found, and
that a church, making application to the trustees‘; for
the privilege of holding service in said building, agreeing
to pay a. proper rental therefor, and receiving answer
that the church could not be used for any such degrading
purpose; ten chances to one that such prescriptive lecturer
would go away with the idea that there was a little intoler-
ance exhibited. Now the right of these trustees to refuse
to let their building will not for a moment he denied. and
perhaps a perfect consistency is maintained, since they only
are true to the creed-bound notions which they entertain;
but viewed from a little higher plane supposed to be occu-
pied by the proscriptive lecturer, they are pronounced intol-
erant and bigoted. The like parallel exists between the
committees which Bro. ‘White refers to and such advanced
Spiritu: list lecturers who may chance to receive the baptism
of a higher thought, and would seek for opportunity to advo-
cate the same before those societies who by their prescrip-
tive thermometers give no indication of any spot where the
spirit of truth can speak upon the vital questions of the hour.
So far as myself is concerned I’do not wish to sell myself for
thirty pieces of silver; to measure off truth at the dictation
of self-constituted committees, but ever to hold myself in
readiness to speak whenever opportunity shall offer of that
truth which has been committed to my charge. And although
I believe in liberty of speech, I do not believe in forcing my
convictions upon those who would not be tolerant enough to
listen tothem, but all such who might not permit their utter-
ance should receive the mark of intolerance and bigotry.

I hope Bro. White may yet rise out of that paltry condition
which he confesses himself to be in, wherein he claims the
privilege for, and confers the right to, committees to mould
him to their purposes. A. C. ROBINSON.

. BROWNSVILLE, Mo., January 31, 1874.
Dear Sisters Victoria and Tcnm'e—-I wish, for the benefit
of my brother and sister speakers, and the cause of afree
platform, to put another society upon record.

It is the society of “Spiritual Investigators,” of St. Louis,
Mo.

Expecting to pass through that city to fill my engagement
here, I wrote to the president of the society (as found in the
Banner of Lightlist), concerning my speakingbefore his soci-
ety. In my letter I stated that my wife--an independent clair-
voyant and medium——would accompany me, and that her
gifts would be at the service of the society and the public
while there. I

In reply, I received their “Preamble and Declaration.”
thefollowing letter from the M. D. Secretary and one of
said M. D.’s business circulars. »

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 10, 1874.
CAPT. H. H. BROWN: I ‘ ' O ,

Dear Sir and Brother—-Our President has just handed me
your letter of the 8th instant, and requested me to reply.
As you make no definite statement as to the time you
would be here, and as I am" in correspondence with others,
I hardly know what to say. Our society is small and poor,
but have a hall rented, for Sundays only, and well--known
speakers will draw fair houses. with an admission fee at the
door. As you are a stranger to us, we do not feel like guar-
anteeing you any definite sum of money for your services.
Our society does not permit any one ‘of Woodhull or Moses
Hull proclivities to occupy our rostrum. Neither do we wish
to employ clairvoyant or any other doctors to impose their
ignorance upon the credulous public. VVe think the time has
come for every one to follow their legitimate calling and
nothing more. While we do not expect to unnecessarily
trammel our speakers, we take the liberty of informing them,
at the outset, that we wish to promulgate the truth and
beauties of our spiritual philosophy, instead of exposing and
abusing the errors of old ‘theology. These are some of the
distinctive features of our society. If you are with us in
sentiment, and desire further c0rI'6SP0Dd6110e, 37011 may
address D. WHITE, M. D.,

203 North Sixth street.
CAPT. BROWN’S REPLY.
I DANVILLE, l1l., Jan. 17,1874-..
DR. ‘Wurrn. M.D., ‘ . ~
S_ec’y St. Louis Society of Spiritual Im:est2‘gators:

Dear Sir-—Your reply of 10th inst. received. I proposed,

if I came to St, hoiiis. to speak upon spiritualism. You seem

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March 21, 1874.

woiohnutta oi.Aii‘Li:N’s W_EEK?LYi vi ‘ {



to have so “hedged in ” your society as to have left the dis-
cussion of that to the outside world. ’ V
A Moreover I never “ worked in a harness,” and am not
“ mad ” that I need a “ muzzle ;” therefore, though your
society were rich and powerful. instead of small and poor,
and you offered me greenbacks by the pocketful, I’d not
bend my neck to the yoke you propose.

Had your platform been ‘free, and my spirit helpers alone
been the dictators of my utterances, I would have spoken
for your “poor” society for what you could collect. I only
hope that you may as a society soon so progress, that all the
barriers you have put up may be broken down, and all speak-
ers shall be welcomed to speak their truth in your hall. I
will then offer to come again, and till then may you starve
for spiritual food-, and live only on the husks any muzzled
speaker wi.ll'give you. Yours for freedom,

, . H. H. BROWN.

I would like to put this query: Is all M. D. business legiti-
mate, and is mediumship considered by these wonderful,
tight-laced, respectable, iescbew-side-issuednvestigators le-
gitimate? , ’

VVhi1e I am willing to accept invitations any wh ere, and to
speak upon any theme, I will stand upon only a free plat-
form, and no modern Moses shall lay down the law with a
“ shalt not.”- I also know better than to “ give strong meat
to babes ;" and this babe of “Spiritual Investigators will be
likely to need diluted milk forisome time to come. It is cry-
ing aloud now for a wet-nurse.
ply them '3

\Vo1-king ever for spirituality, purity, love and freedom in
all things, I recognize the 'W.i«:E1;L1' as the true champion of
them all; and I see, prophetically, in the not-far future when
all these “hedged-in” societies will have thrown off their
corsets and have "taken an invigorating, full-lunged draught
of the true elixir of life—“ freedom absolute.” Then we will
obliterate the above record; till then let the list swell till we
shall know them all.

~Yours in spirit and intruth,

Can’t that “ minority ” sup-

H. H. Bnowx.
Fi~1n1\'i)ALE, California, Feb. 12, 1874.
Mrs. W0odhull—We wish to give you a word of encourage-
ment by saying—-truthfully, too—that notwithstanding your
social question is to many a new one, and its philosophy but
poorly understood by the masses, there are tens of thousands
who have sense enough to see that the low, vile slander,

‘ abuse and misrepresentation of your enemies are not argu-

ments against it. The day is past for the cry of “ mad dog”
to frighten, at least that portion of the people who are pro-
gressive and have no axes to grind themselves’. VVhi1e We
of Humboldt County, California, are somewhat hemmed in
by mountain barriers, yet We do now and then hear what is
going on outside this valley. and we are not much frightened
in regard to whether the fair discussion of this so-called
terrible social question IS to damage Spiritualism or not. As
the Kentuckian would say, when he had raised a large crop
of corn, “there is a fine chance” of. Spiritualists and other
free-thinking, individual-liberty-loving citizens among the

I California people, and you may rest assured that your open,

frank and fearless discussion of this tabbooed (by some)
question will not lessen the list of subscribers to your paper
one whit.

‘We feel in this part of the country glad to know that there
are those who are so competent and withal so willing to
brave all for the sake of truth and right, even it led by a
woman. It is strange, to some of us at least, who have been
Spiritualists for many years, to witness so humiliating; a
spectacle as that of having those in our own ranks perse-
cuting with slander and misrepresentation those Who advo-

cate as you and ‘others do certain Views honestly entertained,

when many of these parties have been the loudest coni-
plainers against outside pressure on account of their own
convictions on the subject of spirit return. The course
these parties have pursued in their opposition to the Chicago
Convention and to its members since, has done more to
really damn Spiritualism. could this be done, than all other
combinations that could be placed together, even were their
views unsound. VVhere, in all their opposition, have any of
them offered a single, well-established fact or argument to
rebut any position presented in any of your published
speeches? None that we have seen. Perhaps, however, we
are obtuse on this coast. \

Go ahead in the future in the advocacy of those higher
truths as you have done in the past, and you will be sus-
tained by host upon host of the good, pure and true through-
out the land.

Yours, etc., 0. B. P.

EDITORS or THE Wnnacr: -
The following article was sent to the Bmmer of Light, in
reply to one in the Jan. 10 number from N. Frank VVhite;
and as the latter grossly misrepresented the Spiritualists and
Free Thinkers, and was calculated to spread false impressions
abroad (and has already), we felt that they were in duty
bound to publish it; but it was refused: ‘
- January 13, 1874.

To the Edz'!;oa' of the Bmme/r ofLz'.ght—In the last Bummer’

we notice an article from the pen of N. Frank VVhite, giving
a detailed account of the dedication of Liberty Hall and the

‘ organization of the First Free Religious Society of Spring-

field. And it is for the purpose of correcting erroneous ideas
and preventing wrong impressions from going abroad that
we write this article. '

He commences by saying that the “dedication of the neat,
pleasant and capacious ball, so generously donated by our
good brother, Harvey 'Lyn1an,ito the Spiritualists and Free
T inkers of Springfield, took place Dec. 4,” etc. He then
goes on to say that “Liberty Hall, dedicated to free zflzought
and occupied by the First Free Religious Socieiyof Spring-
field—a society formed legally,” etc. The language used and
the impressions it conveys are very far from what the true
facts in the case will wzirraut; and Brother White either did
not take the trouble to inform himself correctly, or else he has
been looking through the green goggles of respectability so

long that he has become completely blinded to the real facts
as they actually exist-. ' I

In the first place, was the hall “donated” to anybody?
We have always supposed that a donation was a free gift to
the individual or party receiving it, to be used by them in
anyway they think proper, and for their especial benefit.
Is this thefact? Harvey Lymanls name is down on the sub-
scription books of the First Free Religious Society of Spring-
field for the support of public speaking “to the use of the
hall Sundays.” The rest of the time it is rented to all sorts
of balls, parties and lectures, and must pay a very large per-
cent. on the investment, even beyond the most sanguine ex-
pectations of its proprietor; and when‘Brother ‘White says,
so “generously donated,” we think he must have spoken
without the knowledge or consent of Brother Lyman, for
that is no more than some of us gave for several years before
he became identified with the Spiritualists, and have/been
giving right along ever since. ‘

But to the real question at issue——was the hall“'donated” to
the Spiritualists and Free Thinkers? This is a very impor-
tant question, and one which it is well worth the while to
consider; and however sincere and honest those‘ may be
who differ from us, it is our candid opinion that the “ First
Free Religious Society of Springfield ” was organized in the
interest of and for the especial benefit of Materialists. In
fact they gave it its name, and it was the argument used when
the first article in the constitution was read, that it be called
the First Free Religious Society of Springfield, and when
an amendment was ofiered that it be called the Springfield
Association of Spiritualists and Free Thinkers, it was op-
posed and voted down, on the ground that it was ‘sectarian
in name, and many would not go to a Spiritualist meeting,
but would go to a free religious meeting. The truth is, the
real Spiritualists and Free Thinkers, war-horses that have

been in the battle from the first, were ignored entirely and

altogether, and were not allowed even a minority of its offi-
cers in the organization. It is true the treasurer first ap-
pointed was an old Spiritualist, but he was so shabbily treat-
cd that he has not joined the organization, and does not in-
tend to. And true Spiritualists have been refused thehall
because they would not pay the usual price for lectures in
advance. Does this look like a donation to Spiritalists and
Free Thinkers? If it does, it is a new idea in the matter of
of gifts. The truth is, the atmosphere in Liberty Hall,
which is devoted to “free thought,” has already become so
close and oppressive that measures are on foot for the organ-
ization of a Spiritualist Society, and when it is done it will
define its position in a way and manner that will not give
forth any uncertain sound. In the formation of societies the
times demand that something of this sort should be done in
all cases.

It is a‘ question of great importance to us all that we should
know what is meant by the terms Spiritualism, free thinking
and free religion. And really, what do they mean? Spirit-
ualism certainly does not mean Materialism. And from the
nature and meaning of the words. everybody must be a be-
liever in one or the other. Spiritualism is as broad, as deep
and as grand as the universe. It pervades everything and
fills all space. A true Spiritualist knows no such word as
fear. Death, helland the grave have no terrors for them,'and
they will not have any fear of attacks from without, or from
enemies within; consequently, side issues, as they are called,
which agitate and trouble Spiritualist-s so much, instead of
dividing them, should unite them the more closely together.

Free thinking means, if persons think it their duty to tell
their experience, they should do it. A Free Thinker will live
up to and be true to his own convictions. A genuine Free
Thinker will act out and advocate his own thoughts,whether
right or wrong. regardless of Mrs. Grundy. _

Free religion means free to have any religion. A free re-
ligionist can be a Methodist, a Baptistfia Congregationalist or
a Roman Catholic. A free religionist can be a G-odite and in
favor of putting the Rev. Mr. .Ieh_ova-l1 God into the constitu-
tion of our country. It means this or nothing, and we are
inclined to the latter opinion.

These are our sincere and honest thoughts; and if it has
come to pass that Spiritualists are ashamed of their name, do

they deserve to be called such? This is a question that Spir-

itualists will be called upon to answer some time in the fu-
ture. Ashamed of Spiritualisml God forbid. It is too
grand, too glorious for anybody who has once tasted the joys
and consolations that it affords to be ashamed of. Let us all,
then, unite and buckle on the armor, and do battle under its
banner, which is far-reaching and outspreading enough to
take in the universe, and let us not waste our strength in
petty quarrels because we can’t all think alike. for this is not
possible in the nature of things. ' _

And may heaven preserve us from idolatry, and let us not
turn back again to the fieshpots of Egypt.

F. R. LADD,
In behalf of the Spiritualists of Springfield, Mass.

' [Z/lrom rl/La February Number of London Society]
S}_’lRI’1‘UALlSi\/I IN f1*..()NDON, GREAT BRITAIN.

It is not perhaps generally known, but such is the fact,
that for some time past persons in the best social position in
the metropolis—members of the learned professions and of
societies celebrated for the successful pursuit of scientific
knowledge:-have met together in limited circles for the de-
velopment and elucidation of the phenomena called “ Spirit-
ualisrn.” The manifestations produced in their presence are
inexplicable and irreconcilable with the known laws of
science. Matter is frequently passed through matter in the
presence of‘ those persons. Objects in one portion of a
house have been removed, and brought through locked doors
to another, and not only shadowy, evanescent forms, but
app-aritions materialized in all respects to the human figure
are frequently seen, and touched, and heard.

In the northern suburbs of the metropolis, called Hackney,
is a street called Eleanor Road, and a terrace of modest
houses. Arriving at Eleanor Road, with a proper introduc-
tion, /you will be received by a very amiable family, named
Cook. The eldest daughter of the house (Florence) has not

yet, I believe, reckoned eighteen summers. This young girl
is what is, termed a medium. In complexion she is a bru-
nette, and decidedly pretty. Her figure is slight and her
manner engaging. She has not a morsel of affectation about
her, and is in every respect frank, girlish and truthful. She
states that when a child she used to see figures, and used to
speak to them; and when asked what she was saying, her
reply was, “Iam speaking to the people.” These statements
were naturally regarded as infantile delusions, and after a
time were not repeated.

Until two years ‘ago Miss Cook used to laugh at tales of

subsequently became sensible of some external influence
about her which she was unable to account for or control.
Knockings were heard in the house, inanimate objects were
moved, and finally voices were heard, which did not emanate
from any of the family. Eventually, but not until after some

occurences announced itself to be a certain “ Katie King,”
and promised, if possible,‘ to show herself. Shortly after-
ward a face, or what was believed to have been a face, was
seen in the breakfast parlor.

It was about this time that I was enabled to be present at
a seance, in the hope of seeing “ spirit faces.” A daily jour-
nal celebrated for, its sensational articles subsequently pub-
lished a communication on the subject, to the accuracy of

which I can bear testimony.

In order to make the narrative of my own experience in-
telligible it will be necessary to explain the conditions under
which the faces first became visible to us. The breakfast
parlor in question is a small room in the basement, and in
one of the recesses formed by the pier of the chimney is an
ordinary cupboard, with folding doors. The shelves have
been taken out, and an aperture some fourteen inches by
twelve has been cut in the Wainscot just above where the
doors open. The depth of the cupboard is just sufficient to
admit a chair, the feet of which have been shortened.

Before the commencement of the seance, Miss Cook’s hands
were securely tied and sealed,,her feet were also secured, and
a string was passed around her waist, one end of it being car-
ried through a hole in the door and held bya person outside,
ortied to a chair, so that if the young lady had moved, the
fact must have been immediately detected. She then took
her seat in the cupboard, the door was locked, the key taken
out and handed to a visitor, and the light was turned down.
but enough of flame left to show every object in the room.
After an interval of a few minutes, a voice was heard carry-
ing on a lively conversation, sotto race, with the medium.
Presently but one voice was heard, and the presumption was
that Miss Cook had become entranced. I then for the first
time saw the “ spirit faces.” There were, I think, three on
this occasion. First came Katie King, a pretty face, with a
strong general resemblance to the medium, but rounder, and
with, as I thought, lighter eyes. Then came a male face,
with black beard and moustache, and then a dark face like
that of a Parsee. Katie spoke to us and answered a variety
of questions. The light was then turned up, but not to the
full, and we distinctly saw the color of the eyes, the teeth,
and the motion of the lips. K _ ’

As the phenomena became more developed, the faces stood
a higher degree of illumination. Katie then began not only
to show her hands, but to use them. She put on gloves and
rings, wrote notes rapidly and correctly, and allowed us to
feel her hair, touch her face and press her lips.

On one occasion she gave an explanation of the manner in
which she materialized herself. She said she took more or
less power from every person in the circle.

At a subsequent Seance she was asked whether she would
cut off and give us a piece of her head-dress, which resem-
bled a sort of turban of white cloth. “ Yes,” she said, “ give
me a pair of scissors quickly.” These were handed to her,
and we saw her distinctly cut off a piece of the substance
about two inches square, which she handed to me, and which
is now in the possession of one of the gentlemen present on
that occasion. It has since been submitted to several well-
known drapers, who have failed to discover of what material
it is composed. It is not linen or calico, cambric or muslin.
It has not been possible to’match. it, and when interrogated
on the subject. Messrs. Howell and James, and anotherhouse
of equally high repute, said “they supposed it must be In-
dian.” .

The time had now arrived when it was deemed desirable to
endeavor, if possible, to obtain some more definite view of
the apparition than could be gained through the aperture I
have described. ’VVith this end the doors of theicupboard
were thrown open and a shawlwas improvised as a. curtain
and hung over the opening. Katie had previously promised

to show herself bodily, if possible, and she proved as good
as her word. "

The first seance for the full figure was rather exciting, but
not disappointing. Miss Cook took her place as usual, but
her hands were tied and sealed, and as a further precaution
a broad white tape was tied round her waist and sealed. The
end was then passed through a brass eye screwed into the
floor. again sealed (as were the screws of the eye), and finally
trailed along the floor of the room in view of the whole cir-
cle. In a very few minutes the curtain was gradually pushed
aside; then came a white, well-fashioned arm, and then a
little naked foot, and eventually the fullisized figure of .a fe-
male taller than the medium and more robust. She was
dressed in a white robe with a double skirt. It was gathered
in at the waist, and the portion over the chest was in what I
believe are called plaits. On her head she wore a cove1;i_iig_
very similar to that from which a portion had been out as ‘de-

peared. Subsequently she again showed herself, but in no
instance did she come out of the cabinet. There was then
sufiicient light to see her features and observe her move-
ments. ' »

A few nights afterward she was asked whether she could
bear a magnesium light, and whether she could stay long

table—turning, mysterious knockings, and so forth; but she I Y}

. months had elapsed, the invisible agent of these mysterious ‘

scribed. She spoke to us in a whispered voice andVdisap- ’

enough to be photographed. She said she thought she could,

 

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- Margch 21, 1874.

and on two occasions (at one of which I was present) she
stood unflinchingly under this intense and tremendous glare.
and several photographs were taken of her on glass.

When the summer came, Miss Cook, and her family left
town, of course, as everybody did; but on her return, in Oc-
tober last, I received an invitation from my friend Mr. Lux-
more to be [present at a seance at his house, with Miss Cook
as the medium. —

Having heard that there had been a few developing seances

‘ since the return of our interesting little friend, I was anx-
ious to ascertain what had been done. (We assembled to the
number of some fourteen or fifteen persons in the o large
front drawing-room of Mr. \Luxn1ore’s house. The night

was cold, andthere was a bright fire on the hearth, and a

moderator lamp was burning, the wick of which was turned
down, but not to such an extent as to prevent us seeing
clearly anything that might take place. The back drawing-
room was in perfect darkness. We examined it and locked
the door. The furniture, which was of a heavy description.
was pushedback from the folding-doors to a distance of
some ten or twelve feet. The doors, which instead of being

on hinges, slid out from the wall in panel fashio, were then-

partly drawn to, so as to leave an aperture of about two feet

‘ and a half wide by some twelve feet high, and in front of the

opening, thus formed was hung a curtain. An arm-chair

was placed just behind one-half of the sliding panel formed I

by the door, and Miss Cook, having been tied and otherwise
secured in the same manner as at home, took her seat in it.
In a few minutes the accustomed voice of the apparition
was heard speaking to the medium, who subsequently gave
a. low moan and went off into a deep trance. The figure then
appeared and spoke to us, recognizing several of the circle,
and asking the names of one or two whom she did not appear
to know’. She then went back into the room and returned
I immediately carrying a large china bowl (one of two which
had stood on a round table several paces removedfrom the
medium), and placed it on the carpet in the front room.
She afterward brought out the other bowl and some other

" ornamental objects. She carriedion a lively conversation

for a considerable time, and when a hymn was sung joined
in in a sweet, clear contralto voice somewhat different from
that of the medium. She allowed a lady who sat close to
the curtain to touch her, and she put on a diamondring
which Ihanded to her. This she afterward dropped into
one of the china bowls, observing that she liked to look at
gems, but had no need of such things.

A Russian gentleman present asked her if she would turn
round, on which she made a regular pirouette, observing,
naively, “ Will that do for you? ” She remained on this oc-
casion about an hour, and at the expiration of that time

said, “ My medium is in a very uncomfortable position; her.

head has fallen over the arm of the chair. Let some one
come and put her right.” -
‘.‘ Who is to come?” asked Mr. Luxmoore.

“ Ohl any one——but come at once,” was the rejoinder.

I then ran through the opening and found Miss Cook ex-
actly as described. I looked in vain for the apparition in the
snow-white robes and naked feet. I neither saw her nor
heard her. Miss Cook was-in a deep trance.’ I moved her
into a more comfortable position and returned to the circle.
Katie then reappeared, bidding us good night and calling
each person by name. The duration of this seance was one
hour and five minutes. -

Before proceeding to refer to the latest experiments which
I amenabled to record. I ought to mention a curious inci-
dent that occurred at one of Miss Cook’s seances last winter.
On the occasion to which I refer I was sitting close to the
cabinet withfmy ear to the curtain, sothat had the medium
attempted to disengage her hands or to take off one garment
and replace it by another, I‘ must have heard her. I only
refer tothis to meet the objection of persons who say, “ How
do you know that the young lady did not get out of her liga-

' tures and array herself in the costume in which you saw the

so-called apparition?” My reply is that it was simply im-
goossible for her to make any movement of the kind without
my knowlx/dge. The experiment. can, however, easily be
tried. Let any person get behind a curtain and take off a
single garment—mnch less a whole suit——and put on another,
and the noise absolutely inseparable from the movement of
the body must be audibly heard by any person with his ear
at theiother side of the curtain. On the occasion I refer to
the medium was perfectly motionless, and had been so for a
considerable time. The apparition then said, “Extinguish
‘ the light entirely.” This was done. A sweet perfume then
became diffused over the room, ‘and a strong light was seen
through the crevices of the curtain in the cabinet. The ap-

’ paritionr then stepped out, holding in her hand a luminous

body about the size of a hen’s egg. The reflection from this
"substance lighted up her face. It represented exactly such
a. light as might be produced by placing a candle within an
ambaster vase. ‘ I asked whether I might touch it, and ob-

, tamed permission. It felt hard and polished, something like

horn, and, as far as I could judge by touching it with the
tips of the fingers of my right hand, was nearly spherical in
forum It rema,in,ed“for about five minutes, and the figure
advanced into the room, extending the hand that held the
luminous, substance, so that those in the circle farthest off

- might see it, The figure then returned behind the curtain

and the gas was turned on. , g ,
_ On the 28th of October I was again invited to be present
at a seance at Mr. Luxmoore’s with Miss Cook as the
medium.’ »On this occasion a well—known Fellow of the
Royal Society and a chemist of admitted ability formed one
«if the circle. Miss Cook did not appear to be very well. A
few days previously she .had cut her finger accidentally, and
the maimed digit was strapped up with court plaster. Be-
fore she took her (seat in the chair, the lamp (somewhat
shaded‘) was placed on a table close to the curtain. Mr. Lux-
moore’ took his usual seat by the sliding door, having the

'.E‘. R. S. on his left, and removed but a few feet from where

the medium was seated. The apparition came this time
‘wwearinga thin white vail teaehing down to the waist; no
she had ever before seen her similarly arrayed» ‘Having

talked for some time on a variety of subjects, she disap-
peared, and presently we heard her moving the furniture
about. Shethen appeared again, rolling before her, in peram-
bulator fashion, a heavy chair with a high back, that stood in
the recess of the back drawing-room. This she pushed into
the room, and having fetched acushion for her feet, sat down
amongst us. The F. R. S. watched her very narrowly, as it
was his duty to do: and having asked to be allowed to touch
her hand, she at once consented, and he held it in his own
for a second or two. He then examined the fingers to see
whether one of them was out like that of the medium, but
said he was unable to trace any sign of the cut, nor could we
see the strapping. .IIaving asked the apparition whetherhe
mightcome to Miss Cook’s seances, she replied, “Yes, when-
ever you like, except to developing circles.” Presently she
asked for pencil and paper, and having rapidly Written an
order to admit the applicant, langhingly threw it to him. I
then reminded her of the uncomfortable position in which the
‘medium had been placed a few nights before, and asked her
what became of her (the apparition) when I entered the room
to place Miss Cook in.an easier position. The answer she
gave me was that she could become invisible and intangible
at will.

“ Then how long do you take to materialize yourself? ” I
asked. ,

“ That,” she replied, “ depends upon circumstances-some
times five minutes; sometimes ten minutes.”

The F. R. S. was, I think, agreeably surprised on this oc-
casion, and appeared gratified at the prospect of investigat-
ing the phenomena further. ,

Another seance of a somewhat similar character was held
at Hackney on the 2d of December. The apparition was,
however, observed’ to be niuch taller than the medium.
She wore a veil as before, and allowed some of the visitors
to examine its texture and also to feel her‘ hands and feet.
For this purpose she came out into the centre of the room,
seating herself ina chair close to where Lady S—-—— and my-
self were sitting. Happening to observe that I had been in-
formed that muslin was so plentiful that a celebrated draper in
Westbourne Grove was selling it at three farthings a yard,
she resented the remark by giving me a sharp blow on the
chest. I pleaded that I meant nothing personal in the obser-
vation: but she declined to. take any notice of my explana-
tion. She, did not, however, nurse her wrath, as soon after-
ward she gave me a playful pat on the cheek, and examined
a gold coin affixed to my watch-guard. A repeater carried by
Mr. Luxmoore seemed to afford her unbounded amusement.
Suddenly she inquired what had become of Miss Co0k’s
watch. ,\Mrs. Cook said it was in a little box in her bed-room,
but it was broken. The apparition then disappeared behind
the curtain, but returned in a. couple of minutes with the
broken watch in her hand.

“ I have been to get it,” she said; “the box was not locked,
although she has two keys for it-—but of what use are they!
Don’t tell her I took her watch, or she will be angry.”

I then offered her my watch to put in the box in lieu of
that of Miss Cook’s, but she replied, “ Oh, I can’t go back
again.” She. then handed Miss Cook's watch to Mr. Lux-
moore. .

The aparition is often questioned as to her condition when
in earth life. She states that she died when twenty-one, and
that her life was by no means happy. She lived, she said, in
part of the reign of Charles the First, through the period of the
Commonwealth, and after the Restoration. These, she says,
were troublesome times, when there was bloodshed, and

\

‘civil war prevailed. On one occasion she said that she re-

members men with steeple hats, who prayed a great deal,
but who were, notwithstanding, very wicked. This is by no

means improbable—-men without steeple hats occasionally do ~

the same in our own day.

The possibility of retaining the apparition in a solidified form
has been tested. Mr. Wm. Crookes, F. R. S., states that he
has grasped a hand with the firm intention of holding it, but
that it seemed to dissolve under his pressure. Although I
myself have repeatedly touched thehands of “ Kattie” and
of other forms, I have never attempted to retain them. _

On Tuesday, the 9th of Dec. last (the first day of the mem-
orable fogs), I had, however, some involuntary experience
of and attempt to grasp and retain the apparition of Katie
King at Mr. Cook’s. There was a seance that night, at which
the Earl and Countess of Caithness, Count do Pomar, Mr.
Luxmoore, Mr. Blackburn of Manchester, myself and others
were -present. I was seated between Lady Caithness and

"Mr. Blackburn, holding a hand of each. The apparition ap-

peared several‘ times and came out into the centre of the
room. It was arrayed in a long white dress, with a double
skirt, had naked feet, and wore a vail over the head and fall-
ing down below the waist. Count do Pomar asked whether
he might approach it; and, having obtained permission, left
the circle and walked straight up to it. Katie held out her
hand, which he took, and subsequently returned to his seat.
The apparition (then advanced to the portion of the

room farthest from the cabinet, when a person, who to ‘

me was a perfect stranger, jumped up, caught ' the
figure round the waist and held it, exclaiming, “It is
the medium!” Two or three gentlemen present rushed for-
ward and caught him, and a struggle ensued. I watched the
result with considerable interest, and observed that the fig-
ure appeared to lose its feet and legs and to elude the grasp,
making for that purpose a movement somewhat similar to
that of a seal in the water. It eventually disappeared behind
the curtain. N 0 particle of the vail was found in the room.
The medium was subsequently observed to be tied by the
waist and sealed as when we left, and on being afterward
searched by the ladies of the party, who never lost sight of
her, no white garments or vail were discovered. The me-
dium appeared, however, to have sustained a nervous shock,
and complained, when first released from the tapes, of a burn-
ing sensation in the throat. She was not, she said, aware of
anything that had passed. If the object of seizing the figure
was to detect imposture and discredit the medium, it signally
failed, as, although the person who made the attempt was

pen to clutch, the apparition glided out of his grip, leaving
notrace of corporeal existence, or surroundings in the shape
of clothing.
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It would seem, then, that‘the time
public opinion to these extraordinary occurrences.
may be, after all,‘ nothing novel in them. They may be as
old as the Witch of Endor; but whether new or antiquated,
it is desirable that their existence should be admitted and
that the delusion should be dispelled that the _limits of scien-
tific knowledge have been reached. '
There are few who are not prepared to concede that every
great error has some admixture of truth. Sturdy disbelievers
in everything beyond their own circumscribed ideas of what
is possible and what, is not, will no doubt treat the subject
of modern apparitions with ridicule. To such I would ob-
serve that ridicule is no argument. When Lord Brougham

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has come. for directing

and Prof. Faraday met Mr. Home at Cox’s Hotel, in J ermyn I

street, and witnessed some of the earlier phenomena, they
did not laugh. All they said ‘was that they could not account
for what they saw, and that they were unable to detect any
contrivance for imposing upon their credulity. True, Prof.
Faraday subsequently endeavored to account for table-turn-
ing by what he termed “involuntary muscular action,” but
that theory has long since been exploded by the fact that
tables have not only been turned when no hands have touch-
ed them, but that solid objects have been carried through
locked doors from one room to another.

The age in which we live is one of remarkable progress.
Men little past the prime of life can remember the opening
of the first railway. The electric telegraph, the art of pho-
tography, and many other wonderful developments of human
thought have followed. In these respects history is not re-
peating itself; but with regard to the phenomena to which I
have referred, it may be that pagan sophists have testified to
the same facts as Christian martyrs. It may be that to evo-
lution, and not to progress, we are to assign these marvels.
In any case, the moment would seem opportune for a strict
philosophical investigation of the phenomena considered as
psychological facts. HENRY M. DUNPHY.

SPIRITUAL CONVENTION AT VINELAND, N. J.

The first Quarterly Convention for 1874 of the New Jersey
State Association of Spiritualists and Friends of Progress
was held in Plum—street Hall, Vineland, Feb. 21 and 22. 1874.

We have been furnished with a very complete report of
the proceedings, but we can find space for the resolutions
adopted only. They are asfollows, viz. : ,

Accepting the well-authenticated facts on which modern
Sspiritualism is based, believing in the general Harmonial
Philosophy as presented in the writing of A. J. Davis and
others—‘this Convention esteems it a high privilege, as it is a
pleasant duty, to now proceed to a careful consideration and
application of them to the wants of humanity; therefore,

Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the new labor
movement as instituted by the Grangers, Sovereigns of In-
dustry and like orders, and that we will heartily co-operate
with those who are striving to lessen the burdens of the
workingmen and women of the country, and adjust properly
the relations between labor and capital.

Resolved, That we look with much satisfaction upon the

efforts now being made in the old world and the new to
abolish war——to promote universal peace in the settlement
of national and other disputes by arbitration, without resort
to the sword or litigation, and we earnestly recommend and
will encourage the establishment of courts of conciliation
that shall take the place of the present, so-called, courts of
justice. ’
Resolved, That the compulsory reading of the Bible in our
common schools is in direct opposition to the spirit of free-
dom, forcing upon our children a religious teaching which
many parents disapprove; also

Resolved, That we tender the thanks of this Convention
to the Judiciary Committee ef the House of Representatives,
for the noble stand they have taken in refusing to act on the
petitions proposing to put God, Jesus Christ and theBible
in the Constitution--leaving the Great M-agna Charter in
tact as-it came from the hands of our Revolutionary fathers;
also

Resolved, That we deeply deplore the state of society in
New Jersey, which results in one solitary vote in the Senate
for so amending the Constitution that church property shall
be taxed.

Resolved, That we ask at the hands of Congress the enact-
ment of laws directing the issue, by the General Govern-
ment, without the intervention of any system of banks, of
full legal tender, paper money tokens, interchangeable, at
the option of the holder, with government bonds bearing a
low rate of interest, not to exceed the aggregate increase of
the national wealth, in such amounts as the people may re-
quire to enable them to conduct their legitimate business for
cash; also /

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to
the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress as-
sembled.

Resolved, That while we believe that marriage is a neces-
sity of human nature, and that it is exhibited in the mineral,
animal and vegetable kingdoms, yet it does not follow that
persons who may have entered into connubial relations un-
der the old dispensation, should be obligated to continue

therein when such union, from any consideration, produces °

continued inharmony and unrest. We propose that all such
persons should mutually agree to separate. and the com-
munity should be educated to respect such individuals in
their moral right. I —

Resolved, That Spiritualists should be encouraged to assist
and endow institutions which shall undertake the kind care
of aged and faithful mediums who may not have the needed
means for their personal support.

Resolved, That we heartily indorse the example set us by
the Smith sisters, of Connecticut, and_ by Abbie Kelly Fos-
ter, of Massachusetts,‘ of putting in practice that spirit of our

apparently well able to hold on to anything he might hap, Revolutionary mothers and fathers, which says: “Taxation

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WOODHULL a c’LAiiv:.IN¢s WEEKLY. ‘ A 5:

without representation is intolerable tyranny, and resistance
to tyranny is obedience to God.”

Resolved, That we demand for woman equal pay with
man, for equal work performed; also

Resolved, That we call upon all women, and men, too, to
labor for their-own support, believing that a life of depend-

ence is a life of degradation. ~

Resolved, That a blackness of ignorance worthy the.dark

‘ ‘ages seems to envelop the minds of the majority of even ad-

vanced thinkers in regard to the needs of a dress for woman
which shall give her that freedom of respiration, circulation,
and especially of locomotion, which the best use of her pow-
ers of mind and body demand. ‘
Resolved, That it is profoundly impressed upon this Con-
vention, that every reformer and medium should ultimate
his or her philosophy inactualities of life to that extent that
all shall be living epistles for good——known and read of all.
VVHE REAS, Theories and principles are of small moment

V «without practicalization, therefore

Resolved, That it is the duty of all lovers of progress to
immediately abandon the follies of popular usages, and do
the good things that they wish it were the custom for all to
do—the things that must be done before justice can prevail,

‘ or personal independence exist.

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lV:[nMri1i‘s, Tenn., March 1, 1.874.
M."/y dear Iifrs. Woodhull~—Perhaps it might suit you to re-
publish the inclosed in your WnEKLif. lVhen men and wo-
men are equal before the law, they will be equal before so-
ciety. Then a bad man will be on a level with a bad woman,
not as now, her master, and would be superior. You are
doing a great work. You are giving terrible blows to old
time-honored wrongs. May you live to see them righted.
How much every true woman sympathizes in your suffer-
ings you may imagine, but will never know.
Yours truly,

E. A... M.
THE WOMAN QUESTION. C '

VILETTER _l1‘R0.\X MRS. ELIZABETH A. l"aIERlV‘r'ETHER T0 HON.

CHARLES SUMNER.

“ Senator Sumner said this bill.(the Civil Rights bill) should
have been acted upon the first day of the session. I-Iis desire
—he might say the darling desire of his sou1——was to see this
bill passed.” -

“ The Boston School Committee yesterday evening refused
to grant seats to the ladies elected to the Board. The vote
declaring them legally unqualified stood forty-six to thirty-
nine.” .

“ HON. CHARLES SUMNER: . ~

“ Sv'9'—From the Memphis Appeal of to-day I clip the two

above short paragraphs——short, but full of the saddest signifi-

cance. In the time to come, when the justhistorian is mak-

ing up the record of the age we live in, when he is pondering
on the place your name shall finally fill in the judgments of
men, these two little paragraphs will rise and testify in your
case. The second will outweigh the first. The second will
overwhelm and overshadow the first. -The second will drag
down the name of Charles Sumner from that high place the
time-servers of to-day may flatter you it shall reach by rea-
son of your ‘ darling desire.’ .

“ Permit me to ask: Has it ever occurred to you to look
dispassionately at the black man’s disabilities, which you
work so zealously to remove? Has it ever occurred to you to

‘ compare his few and trivial wrongs, mostly of a social char-

acter, to the mountain pile under which the women of Amer-
ica groan? .

“ Could you be induced to make that comparison, you
would blush for your paltry ‘ darling desire ? ’ I shall make

‘ it for you, and entreat for it your unbiassed consideration.

“ ls the black man taxed without representation?

“Women are. A

“ Is the black man debarred by law from any elective
office, from the" presidential chair to the poorest place in the
gift of the people? I

"‘ VVomen are debarred from the lowest as Well as the high-
est. Women may not even have a voice in the management

-of schools, though the training of children is their heaven-
ordained business. ‘ '

" Is the black man restrained from the ballot-box?

“ .Women are imprisoned for approaching it.

“ When a black man is arraigned for any offense, petty or
penal, he may be tried by a jury of his peers.

“ A woman is tried by a jury of her masters.

“ A black man may pursue any profession or trade for
which his desires incline him, or his intellect fits him.

“ VVomen are restrictedto the humblest callings. Thus it
happens, every year, every day, thousands and thousands of
women, thrown on the world to make their bread or starve,
too often find themselves, in consequence of such rest:ic‘-
tions, face to face with starvation or- dishonor. Statistics
prove that just in proportion as the paying trades and pro-
fessions are open to women, just in proportion as women are
made self-supporting, the ratio of prostitution decreases.
The logic of this fact is irrefutable. Every street-walker is
a protest against laws the pressure‘ of which makes‘prostitu—
tion the best-paying ‘avocat.-ion a woman is permitted to
pursue. . A

_“ In the time to come, when the annals of "humanity’s
struggle for freedom “is written, your course on this woman
question will be called up for trial; your words and deeds
will be arraigned before a. sternly judging pogterit-,y_.._v0u, the
eloquent advocate for ‘ equality before the law’ where black
men are concerned:-the soulless statue, the rigid stone, the
dumb and deaf mute where the rights ‘of twenty million wo-
men are atstake. . ’ ,

“ It will be asked what word you have ever uttered for we.
man’s equality before the law; what blow your strong arm
has ever dealt again st that most iniquitous inequality? Com-
pare this inequality with the few social disabilities the negro
complains of. '

“ When the negro travels he is given a seat with people of
his own race and blood. and color; when hotels and steam-
boats feed him. he is placed at table with his own race and
blood and color; when his children are schooled they V are

consorted with classmates of their own race and blood and
color. Do they scorn‘thisconsorting? Do they secretly de-
spise their own people? l)o,they'unnaturally crave to mix
and mingle with beings of another race andvblood and color,
in preference to their own? \ '

‘ judgment, what amazing obliquity of vision must that man
possess whose judgment and vision magnify the small imped-
iments yet lying in the negro’s path to social equality, into
large and galling grievances.

“Sir, you have dwelt too long on this one theme. You
have brooded too much on the negro and his needs. Your
mind has. become morbid, your feelings sore, your sympa-
the Weakly sentimental. They flow forth
streamsif a black man but complain of a social slight; they
are dry and arid as the sands of Sahara, though twenty mil-
lion women lift up their shackled hands. You need the
tonic of a new thought. Could your heart take a healthier
tone it would feel for those most deeply oppressed.

“ Could your vision become less biased you would perceive
the fact that the few restraints under which the black man
labors and which. the ‘ darling desire of your heart’ so yearns
to remove, more pique the negro’s vanity than affect his
material welfare—more impinge his pride than impede his
progress. Are women, then, so destitute of pride they may
be suspected of feeling no hurts under their deeper humilia-
tion? ' Are ru,-iomen less sensitive‘ than your black brothers?
or are you, sir, so peculiarly constituted you can only sym-
pathize with the vexations and sufierlngs of your own sex?

“ lan you not picture to yourself what a proud woman
must feel under laws which class her with idiots, lunatics
and paupers? Vilhich tax her without representation; which
imprison her for using the ballot; which -try her by a jury
of her masters; which exclude her from every place of honor
and profit; which shut the doors of colleges and universities
in her face; which put clogs on her ambition and compresses
on her intellect; which will not so much as admit her to the
school board which directs the education of her own chil-
drcn? Oh! you, the world-renowned advocate of equality
before the law--I call on you to look on this picture of wo-
man’s wrongs and on that of the black man’s trivial griev-
ances. I call on you to pluck from your heart that pitifully
small ‘darling desire,’ and in its place to put ahigh and
noble resolve henceforth to use your energies and eloquence
in avigorous warfare with woman’s wrongs. Do this, and
you will make the evening of your days as resplendent as
their dawn. -

“ Respectfully, ELIZABETH A. MERIWETHER. ‘

“ Mnnrnrs, TENl\'., January 28, 1874.”

SINS OF OMISSION.

What religion can show a perfect, or anything like a per-
fect, society? What religion can’ show a society free from
horrible evils? What religion is ashamed because it cannot?
Does Romanism apologize for the condition of modern
Europe, which for a thousand years it had all but completely
under its control? Does the Greek Church apologize for the
mental and moral degradation of its millions of subjects?
Does the English Church blush for the crime and misery of
London? Does Protestantism in New York—-rich, popular,
infiuent.ial~—hang its head with shame at the financial frauds,
the mercantile dishoncsties, the nameless social abomina-
tions in which its members in high standing are implicated?
These things are quietly charged to the innate depravity of
human nature, and the sects call for more money and more
power that they may be enabled to work harder the machin-,
ery of regeneration. The reformers who have at heart the
improvement in social well-being in special particulars in-
variably take up their position outside the sects; the phil-
anthropists detach their philanthrophy from church mem-
bership; and men who, like George Holyoake and Charles
Bradlaugh in England, and men I need not name at home,
make social well-being the object of their lives, finding that
theycannot work inside the religious organizations at all,

war. This evil may be traced, in large measure, if not
wholly, to the substitution of a religion for religion. For
religion, rationally understood, begins with these very facts
which the special religions neglect-.—Rev. 0. AB. Frothinghanz,
Indem.
MARCH 5, 1874.
Dear Weelcly-—By inserting the following, by that philan-
thropist, Robert Owen, you will gratify all his disciples, who,
I believe, are all readers of your paper.
J01-IN HEPBURN.
The Coinditions Reqwisitc for Ifunum H(Lpp’t?t€S8, and which
will ult~i7ri'atel,z/ be secured to all under the Batvonal System
of Society." V
1. The possession of a good organization--physical, mental
and moral.

2. The power of procuring, at pleasure, whatever is neces-
sary to preserve the organization in the best state of health.

3. The best education, from infancy to maturity, of the
physical, intellectual and moral power of all the population.

4. The inclination and means of promoting, continually,
the happiness of our fellow-beings. . I

5. The inclination and means of increasing, continually,
our stock of knowledge. . I

6. The power of enjoying the best society; andmore par-
ticularly of associating, at pleasure, with those for whom We
feel the most regard and the greatest affection.

7. The means of traveling at pleasure.

8. The absence of superstition, supernatural fears and the
fear of death. ’

10. The utmost individual freedom of action, compatible
with the permanent good of society. _

11. To have thecharacter ._formed_for us to express the
truth only upon all occasions, and to have pure charity for

the feelings, thoughts and conduct of all mankind, and a sin-
core good-will for every individual of thehuman race.

“But however thismay be, what monstrous deformity of _

in copious .

consider them their foe and wage against them unrelenting _

9. Full liberty of expressing our thoughts upon all subjects.

12. To reside in a societywhose laws, institutions and ar-
rangements, well organized and well governed, are all in
unison with the laws of human nature.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN RHODE ISLAND.

PROVIDENCE, R. 1., March 4, 1874..
' Editors W eekly—The Specialflommittee of the Rhode'Is1-

woman suffrage, and submitted the following resolution:
“Resolved, ‘A majority of all the members elected to each
House of the General Assembly concurring herein, that the
following article be proposed as an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the State, and that the.Secretary of State cause
the same to be published, and printed copies thereof be dis-
tributed in the manner provided in Article XII. of the Con-

stitution.
“ARTICLE.

“Men and women, politically and legally, shall be entitled
to equal rights and privileges, and shall be subject to eqiial
duties and liabilities.” , ,_

This is the first time we have succeeded. in getting even a
decent recognition of the subject. Fraternally,

WILLIAM. FOSlYER, JR.
0 CHICAGO 1
BY J. o. BARRE’I.".l‘.

Victoria C.-Woodhull, through her agent, Mr. Locke, had
engaged. Kingsbury I-lall, Chicago, wherein to lecture A on
“Reformation or Revolution, Which_?” paying $59 in ad-
vance to seal the bargain. This was on the evening of Feb-
ruary 20, 1874.. She appeared, and the people demanded the
right of hearing, but the Hall was closed against her!_ So
much for free speech in Chicago. ~ ‘
Through thy streets walksdestitution, .
Lank‘ and lean for prostitution,
Vainly seeking -restitution
,By thy Christian contribution,

0, Chicago !

Many mad with soul starvation,

Under pomp of wealth’s ovation;

Never hell had such a nation

From the haunts of assignation,
" 0, Chicago 2

., Damned in many a stately mansion,

Damned at every mammon stanchion,
Damned in tricks of tra'd_e,expansion
' Till you rot in circumvention,
0, Chicago l

With a Press that lies like blazes,

With a Bar that justice crazes,

With a Pulpit that outrages

All the warning words of sages, ’
0, Chicago !

All your boughten wives, Circassian, »
Proud as Lucifer in fashion, I
Void of sisterly compassion,
Lusting after gain and passion,
0, Chicago !

Vices by your , arts concealing,

Love to you is rape and stealing;

Syphilis is thus revealing

All your want of moral feeling,
0, Chicago 3

Fill the measure of your cheating,

Glut in your promiscuous heating,

All the Western cities beating

In rejecting righteous teaching,» —
0, Chicago 1 ’

You may think you’re very witty,

1n the singing of your ditty,

That you saved your Christian city

From Vic's speech, so full of pity, ‘
0, Chicago 1

While‘ you discount from the labors
Of a million starving neighbors
Who are fast becoming raiders
To destroy your rascal traders,
0, Chicago 1

Slumber on until the quaking

In your street s of cannon raking,

Till your thirst for blood is slaking, ‘_

In your doom that knows no waking,
0, Chicago 3

By request l send the following verbatim: copy of corre-

spondence: V
“ Monnow, Wis., J an., 1874.

“ mr. Stewart-I am requested to engage you (to give a course
of lectures) and the money is ready for you. Now Mr. Stew-
art we want you to come and lecture on Spiritualism from
our Stcmdpo-int. so far as this is consurned we dont go any
on wood hull ism and we dont want you to say any thing
hard alooutother isms if you can help it. , »

“Yours, &.c., D. L; MGMILLAN.”

_ /REPLY. ’

“ Dean‘ Sz"r—-Yours rcc’d and contents noted. I should be
glad to come to Monroe and give a course of lectures, pro-
vided I can give my highest thoughts in my own way; but
there is not money enough in North America to purchase my
silence for one moment on any subject that is of importance
to humanity. 1 V

“ Yours, SL0.” , - -

This is a sample of a good deal of the correspondence of
Western radical speakers. by C. W. Srnwanm.

 

and House. of Representatives yesterday reported in favor of .

THE 'Californi_a Senate has passed a bill making women.
eligible toibe school directors. _'-This proves that the Califor-
niasenatehas morewit than the Boston school committee...
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0N TRIAL.

As this number of the WEEKLY goes to press our trial
for libel is still in progress. It began on last Wednesday,
the 4th inst., and has consumedthe entire time of the Court
of General Sessions-,—Judge Sutherland presiding-since.
At this time Mr. Brooke, our counsel, is crosscxamining

\ the prosecuting witnesses in rebuttal, and the case will «

probably go to the jury to-morrow (Wednesday). Our next
week’s issue willcontain a full report of the trial. Whe-
ther it endin an acquittal. in a disagreement of the jury, or
in a conviction, the WEEKLY will continue to be regularly
issued during whatever term we may be sentenced. In the
last case, however, it will need the kindly sustenance of its
friends and patrons in a larger degree than otherwise.

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SPENCER!‘ vs. SPENCER AGAIN 2

We do not conceive it to be required that we apologize

‘ . for continually keeping the name of Herbert Spencer before
'our readers. His writings are at this time producing a

wider» and more profound. impression, perhaps, upon the
scientific world, than are those of any other scientist. Nor
is it because we‘ wish it to be understood that we differ
merely from some of the positions of this great thinker ; but

. it is because, being—as he is—almost an accepted authority,

his words carry an influence, which, if exerted‘ in the wrong
direction, is capableof doing immense damage to those who
are induced blindly to accept whatever he puts forth.
Hence it is, because we believe that his teachingsupon the
points which we question will result injuriously to scientific
inquiry, that in our limited sphere and way we shall on-
deavor to correct their influence. Two weeks ago we at-

. tempted to show what seemed to us to be the inconsistent

position of Mr. Spencer upon the question of education, by
quoting what were evidently opposite theories, contained
almost in the self-same article. We now propose to take
up the sentences which compose the paragraph in which he
made, for a philosopher, such an extraordinary attempt at
badinage ; and shall endeavor to show that in each of these
sentences is contained a truth to which all his previous
reasonings have directly led, and which of themselves, aside

. from his ironical statement of them and when considered as

propositions, are the true‘ methods of. progress; such

"methods as will obtain when society shall have advanced

further toward organization than it is at present. ‘We are to
consider these as separate and distinct propositions, having
no relation to the connection in which they stand in the
article in question, except in so far as the spirit of their
utterance is concerned, since it is this which alone gives
them their peculiar significance as coming from Herbert
Spencer. He says: M '

“Having in successive generations done our best, to diminish the
sense of responsibility by warding ofi evils which disregard of responsi-
bility brings, we now carry the policy further, by relieving parents from

certain other responsibilities which, in theerder of Nature, fan upon J
,:ihem.” . .

’ Now here we take issue with th9~llI1pll.e(1_ meaning of Mr.
Spencer, and maintain that what he says we are doing is
what ought to be done, rather than the opposite which he
would inculcate as the right theory. If we were to admit
that “the order of Nature” includes all that Mr. Spencer
evidently intends to include in his statement, then there
would be no chance for an issue with him ; but it is just this
that is in question. We doubt, seriously, if Mr. Spencer
woulddare to maintain, as a separate proposition_, that the
order of Nature makes it incumbent upon parents to attend
wholly to all the present methods of education and fitting,
bywhich children are prepared to become citizens. “The
order of Nature,” in our estimation, knows nothing about
education and practical life. These are wholly questions of
mental fitness, required and made individually necessary by
the advancement of the times in which individuals chance
to live. “ The order of Nature” makes it incumbent for the
mother to furnish nourishment for her child during that
period in which it is by Nature made dependent upon her,
but no further ;/ if her providence is extended beyond this
period, then it is the customs of the times and not the
order of Nature by which ;it is continued. ‘ To con-
found utterly this statement oflMr. Spencer, conceive how
far short the order of Nature would have fallen in giving
to parents the entire charge of offspring on to maturity, had
it been the custom, as it might have been for the last hun-
dred years, for parents to have transferred their care of
children to the community, immediately they become by age,

independent of the mother’s breast for nourishment. .The V

blindest can see that this custom, practiced for a century,
would have so established itself as a part of the habits of the
people, that the further care of children by parents would
have been the debatablejquestion, rather than the opposite
as it is now. ‘f The order; of Nature,” then, only demands
that parents care for their children until they arrive at that
age and growth, in which they may be provided and cared
for by others, when the method of procedure will be de-
termined by the advisability of this, that, or the other
method, as the people may determine. If it were an estab-
lished fact, to-day, that the good of children demanded that
this transfer of carefrom the parents to the community
should be made, would Mr. Spencer "pretend to obtrude the
proposition that the orderof Nature is an absolute objec-
tion ? Scarcely! Then what becomes of his facetious
statement of the same idea as contained in the paragraph in
question ? Evidently it is obsolete, having no logical force
or effect, and stands as an evidence against his claim to the
position of always maintaining philosophic positions, de-
ducible from “First Principles.” In this connection, Mr.
Spencer might, with equal propriety, hold that by “the
order of Nature” it falls upon the beasts to train their
young for the uses to which they are to be put when grown.
The application is evident. —

But if not, it will become so when we present his next
sentence as follows . ‘

“By way of checking recklessness and discouraging improvident
marriages and raising the conception of duty, we are diffusing the belief
that it is not the concern of parents to fit their children for the business
of life, but that the nation is bound to do it.”

Here, ‘again, if it were self-evident that children would
always, or in the majority of cases even, be better fitted for
life by the non-interference of the community, leaving it

’ wholly to parents, then there would be no chance for an

issue as to which course would best promote the interests of
children and the welfare of the community. It seems to us
that this is the point to be considered in this question. It
is not as to what is, or what is not the duty of the parents;
but by what means can children generally be best prepared
to assume the position of citizens of the community, so that
they shall add most to its interests, and, consequently, most
to their own wel1—being. By Mr. Spencer’s own philosophy,
it is the bearing upon the future and its society that should
determine such questions, rather than any immediate effect

that may be expected to follow upon present society. There

is nothing that can divorce the concern of parents for their
children ; but there may be many methods by which they
may be better fitted for life than by any that are at the com-
mand of families as isolated parts of communities. The
logical deduction from Mr. Spencer’s ironical position is, that
parents must themselves, in person, perform’ all the acts by
which their children are to be fitted for after life. Surely
Mr. Spencer did not stop to think that very nearly all the
fitting which children now have for active adult life is per-
formed by others than ‘parents ; nor that a concern for chil-
dren might not better extend to action in others than to that
which might be performed by themselves as parents.
Children are fitted “ for the business of life” clearly by their
education and by their contact with life outside of home,
before the adult age is reached. A child shut up within the
influence of the home circle, let his or her education he
never so thorough, would be badly prepared for any of the
public affairs of active life. What, then, does Mr. Spencer
mean by this concern of parents. He is not given, usually,
to the use of language intended to convey no meaning;
but, evidently, he has employed such terms in this sentence
as have so near no meaning at all, as to make us even doubt
if he considered what the language really implies. Whether
the nation is, or is not “ bound to do it,” it does it really
now, almost wholly, while nominally only, it is to some
extent accredited to the parents. The only question, then,
at issue now, is : Shall not the community, theroretically as

well as practicably, assume the responsibilities of rearing

childre:; for the business of life ‘3 Shall not the community

recognize by its practice the °self=evident truth that it is
more interested in the 1nental,,moral and physical status of
the individual about to enter upon equal citizenship, than the
individual parent can possibly be‘; the effects of incompetency
or ill-directed talent to the latter, being temporary and per»
sonal ; while to the former they may be widespread, affect-
ing adversely the whole community? VVith us there can be
no hesitation,,even, as to where the responsibility and in-
terest for good citizenship rest.

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BARNUM (NOT P. T.) AGAIN.

 

WE acknowledge the receipt of a long communication
from Brother Barnum, of St. John’s, Michigan, too lengthy,

for publication, inasmuch as it goes over the same ground ,

so often gone over in these columns before. He reaffirms
that he cannot see the difference between advocating the
right of a person to do athing and advocating the doing of
the same thing. If Brother B. cannot see the diilerence be-
tween our advocacy of the right of a brother or sister to be a
Catholic, while we urge that Catholicism is not the best reli—
gion, we cannot help it. We can make the proposition, but
we cannot furnish the brains with which to comprehend it.
Hence, if he also cannot see the difference betwen advo-
eating social freedom, to be applied as each individual may
desire to do, and at the same time advocating a certain form
of freedom as the highest type of life, we cannot help him in
his blindness. VVe pity him, but are powerless to rescue
him from the condition.

He also says that we advocate promiscuity, because we
published Moses Hull’s letter. Again, we pity the condition
that cannot comprehend the meaning andcifect of a free
press, but cannot relieve it.

To clinch all his sayings, he winds up thus :

“Be honest enough, then, to come out and say that your doctrine for
humanity is, monogamy for those who desire it. selected variety for
those who desire it, and promiscuity for those who desire that ; that you
advocate not one, but all of these different theoriesvas your doctrine for
humanity.”

We do not imagine that any of our readers, excepting
Brother Barnum, need any elucidation of this closing up of
his. But we do not think that he knows really what he has
said ; but to do what we can for him, we will endeavor to
make it clear. Now we did not imagine there was
any need of our being honest enough to come out and ac
knowledge the former part of this peroration. We have
always come out and done so. VVc have always “ come
out” and said that our doctrine for humanity is Catholicism
for those who can be nothing but Catholic; Calvinism for
such as can be only Calvinistic; Luther-ism for those who
see through Luther’s eyes ;, Universalism for those who can
follow where Murray led, and so on to the end of the
chapter. Here comes in the modifying point which Brother

Barnum’s mental eye cannot perceive. At the same time ,

we are saying .this—while all the isms imaginable fare
spread out to view, with a free choice of any—we also advo~
Cato our belief in Spiritualism, and endeavor to point out
to each seeker its superior beauty and blessings.

So, also, in the sexual sphere. We say : Spread before
you are all the varieties of social life ; choose, ye, which you
shall live; but at the same time we say that it is our firm
and wcllsottled conviction that the highest conditions for

the mostperfect happiness, will be found in the perfectly ‘

mated man and woman; and that to attain thisj'_'perfect
mateship should be the aim and efibrt of all, because it will
bring more happiness when gained, than any other condi«
tion through which it may be necessary‘ to pass to reach it.
But all this is a matter of freedom. The monogamist has
no more right to say to the promiscuous, you shall be a
monagamist, than the promiscuous have to say to the

inonogamist, you shall be promiscuous. »If Brother Barnum

cannot now see the difference between advocating the right
of a person to be promiscu.ous and advising them to do so,
there istno hope for him ; since we fear he is so immovably

settled in the plane of promiscuity, that he cannot lift his _

eyes to eithergharmony or unity.
lVe conclude by advising Brother Barnum of the mistake
madein his last sentence. The various theories are not all
our theories. Promiscuity belongs to the promiscuous;
selected variety to the varietists, and monogamy onlyto the
monogamist} We could not possibly be all them at the
same time. VVe advise Bro. Barnum when next he writes,
to do so so plainly that we may know what he means by the
language employed; because in this communication we
know he uses language which conveys a meaning widely
different from what he really meapt to convey. "We beg
Brother Barnum’s pardon for any seeming personality. He
has been personal with us. He, and many others,
have traveled the country over saying that ‘we are this, that
and the other, Without really knowing themselves what we
are. life have a right to demand that people knowgwhat
they are talking about when they use our name, and we
have had several occasions recently to enforce this right;
and we are glad to observe it has resulted beneficially.
>-—<¢
ANNA M. L. POTTS, M. D. ‘
There are but a few perhaps of our readers who have ever
heard of this woman. It was only until recently that we
had that pleasure, beyond the most casual hearsay, from
some friends in Michigan, her residence being at Adrian.
During our tour in that State at almost every place where
we lectured some person would ask if we had ever met Mrs.
Dr.Potts. This became so common we at last began to

 

 

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inquire as to ‘who she was and what she was doing that
should {make this query to be so frequently asked of us.
The universal reply was that “she is doing in another way
a work almost identical with your own.” Then a genuine
desire arose in our heart to see and know this woman whom
we found to be doing so much in so quiet away, and at last
this desire was gratified. When at Akron, Ohio, some two

‘ months ago, as we were in the afternoon resting, prepara-

tory for the regular evenings lecture in that place, having
ordered that no one should disturb us for awhile, two wo-
men insisted on being announced, and contrary to our usual
custom at such times, we sent word for them to come to our‘
room. On entering they both greeted us very warmly, al-
most lovingly. Imagine our glad surprise when we found
that one of them was Mrs. Potts.

An animated and most interesting COI1VLI'S3.tlOIl immedi-
ately sprang up, continuing for two hours, during which we
learned the causes that had sent this worker into the field,
her method of labor and what she is accomplishing. , Being
a graduated and practising physician and withal possessing
a keen insight into character and causes, she soon, after
beginning practise, saw that something more than medical
advise and treatment were demanded to mitigate the troubles
from which she found her sex suffering. That almost total
ignorance regarding their sexual instincts and maternal
functions were the foundation for the long list of female
miseries, and this ignorance needed enlightenment. She
had herself been a careful student in these matters, and she
determined to put her knowledge to practical use, by giving
series of lectures upon physiology. But also knowing how
terribly sensitive most people are about the public discussion
of matters so nearly related to their basic faults; and also
knowing that to make a bold announcement of her purposes
she would propably lose the ears of the very ones she de-
sired to reach, she began in a very quiet way to investigate
the sufferings of women, and from them gradually to work
backward to their causes.

In this way she was able to get churches to lecture in, and
to have the support of ministers, as well as deacons and lay-
men, and thus to work into the very citadel of the enemy’s
stronghold—the Churcli—they never once dreaming that
these fatal doctrines led unavoidably to the vitalquestion of
sexual independence for women; nor the women themselves
that her lessons were diametrically opposed to Paul’s injunc-
tion, “Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands.” But
she approached these points so nearly that many women
came to her and unburdened their souls; and such a chapter
of human misery as she has compiled is enough to make the
stones weep!

In this way she is going about, preparing the minds of the
public finally to accept the whole truth in its broadest appli-
cation, and spoken in the plainest language. She is awaking
the women into thought, and this thought will inevitably
lead them into demanding freedom, to the end that there
may be salvation from physical misery induced by sexual
abuses. '

Indeed, the grand results of her work were then and
there made visible, since the person, Rebecca Jones, of
Orangeville—— a place where she had been lecturing—-
who accompanied her—-came to us with apressing invi-
tation to stop at this newly prepared field and speak to the
people still more radically than had Mrs. Potts spoken. This
we agreed to do, Akron being the close of our then-laid-out
trip. They remained at the lecture, and early the next
morning we went with Miss Jones to Orangeville.

It was a query to us how she proposed to get the people
together that night; but when night came we were surprised
to find the church—the same in which Mrs. Potts had lec-
tured——-crowded. She had dispatched couriers in every di-
rection, and in a few hours had the whole country informed
of the lecture. A crowded house was the result. We are
glad to say that we now have an invitation to speak there
again, at the earliest possible date, which we shall certainly
do.

By the way, this Miss Jones is one of the most interesting
characters we have ever met. Although an unmarried
woman well advanced in years, she is an out-and-out radical,
fully comprehending the meaning of and necessity for
agitation upon the social question. This is so different from
what is usually the case with women of her class that we
confess to an intense interest not only in her personally,
but in her projects to introduce social reformation into
Orangeville, which she seems determined upon doing. By
a. systematic economy she has amassed quite a little prop-
erty, and she feels that it can be put to no better use than
to endeavor to improve the condition of her brothers and
sisters in that region. A really earnest woman in any com-
munity can work radical and wonderful changes, and we
have no doubt but Miss Jones will do so in and about
Orangeville. Oh! that there were more women untrain-
nieled as is Miss Jones, and eager to do something to amel-
iorate the condition of physical degeneracy into which her
sex is drifting.

We cannot conclude this without first advising our
readers in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio to secure the ser-
vices of Mrs. Potts. She will do the cause in your vicinity
untold good.

 

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THE MISERY’ or MARRIAGE.

 

 

The_Anglo-Saxons are a humorous race; but when they
commence to jest on grave matters, such are commonly
not long lived among them. It was not the edict of Henry.

the Eighth that overthrew Catholicism in England, but the

famous “Robin Hood Ballads,” which had been sung in

their cottages a century before it appeared. Nothing

pleased bold Robin better than to lighten the sumpter mules

of a fat monk; and the avarice and sensuality of the Roman

priesthood of that time were the burden of the larger part

of the songs of the people. In the following instance the

pomp and ceremony of marriage is neatly hit off by the
ablest periodical of London, and we commend the extract,
to the attentionof our readers, as an exhibit of the animus
which exists against it among the upper ten of the old
country: . » . .

“ There is a form of misery,” says the Saturday Reniew, “ with which
mostof us have to make acquaintance at least once in our lives. Man-
kind has agreed to surround the marriage ceremony with observances of
adistressing, not to say ridiculous, nature. It is generally assumed.
we need not ask with what accuracy, that a marriage is in itself a cause
for congratulation to the persons most immediately interested; and,
therefore, it is inferred that they should suffer, cheerfully the small de-
duction from their satisfaction which is involved in making them selves
a show to their acquaintances and to the public generally.” It thinks
that, as the world grows more civilized, the quantity of ceremonial is
diminishing; “and it may be hoped that in time two human beings,
performing the most solemn act of their lives, will be allowed to get
through the business quietly and seriously, without being exposed to
the impertinent intrusions of the outside world.-‘:’

The WEEKLY is a stanch advocate of openness and can-
dor in all love matters, that is, between the parties.inte-
rested; but it does not deem it best to parade such matters
before the world, as is our custom now. It confesses that
it has an innate shrinking, call it modesty if you please,
against beholding a fashionable marriage. The bride al-
aways appears to it in such case as a victim adorned for
sacrificing; or, to transpose the idea, the bridegroom ap-
pears like a successful hunter or warrior leading in triumph
the captive of his bow and his spear.

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THE BEGINNING OF THE END~—OVERTAKEN BY
- HIS CRIMES.

 

We trust our readers will pardon the introduction into the
WEEKLY of the following reference to an object so obscene
in its tendencies as is the oneinvolved. “ The mills of the
gods” have at last reached this grist, and it may be safely
assumed that they will grind it remarkably fine. Perhaps
there never was a statutory law enacted under which so
many infamieslwere practiced as there have been under this
one regarding the sending of obscene literature through the
United States mails; nor one, except it be the excise laws,
under which there were such opportunities for levying black-
mail. Nor again is it probable that there was ever a better
field in which to play off a sham morality and a detestable
hypocrisy, in the garb of Christianity, than in this obscene
business. Its projectors, however, probably knew what
they were about when “this object” was given charge over
it, upon the adage, “Set a thief to catch a thief.” But to
the issue: . ,
[From the Commercial Advertiser, March 5.1

SUPPRESSING HIMSELF.
Mr. Anthony J. Comstock has taken an active part in suppressing ob-
scene literature, and succeeded in sending several innocent parties to

prison, on suspicion of aiding in circulating obscene quack advertise-
ments. Mr. Comstock, some time since, caused the arrest of Dr. James

Post Office. The charge could not be sustained, and he was discharged.
Bryan now turns on Comstock, and had him arrested yesterday on a
charge of false imprisonment.

Mr. Comstock, who it seems received an appointment some time ago
as a special detective in the Post Oflice, has so far transcended his au-
thority that his speedy removal will surcly follow. He has acted in the
most arbitrary and perseeuting manner; has so outraged every sense of
propriety in his malignant zeal to gain notoriety that he has at last been
made to feel the first blow of public resentment.

The Postmaster General repudiates all responsibility for the appoint-
ment of Comstock; and while he would cordially indorse the efforts of
any man in the service to suppress the diffusion of obscene literature,
he strongly condemns the oflicious course of Comstock, who has made
himself generally obnoxious by tampering with th'e mails and private
correspondence.

[From the Ezzentvig News, March 5.]
MALICE AND BLACKMAIL.

THE ACCUSATION ON WHICH ANTHONY J. ICOMSTOCK WAS HELD TO
BAIL.

’ Anthony J. Comstock, Special Mail Agent of the Young Men’s Chris-
tian Association, was yesterday arrested on a warrant issued by Judge
Donohue, and held to bail in $5,000 on a charge of malicious prosecution
and attempt at blackmailing, in connection with one Shaw.

The plaintlif is Dr. James Bryan, of 147 East Fifteenth street, who
alleges in his aflidavit and complaint, that Comstock and Shaw procured
his arrest on a charge of obtaining letters out of the Post Office by fraud
and deception. On the examination“ before Commissioner Osborn, Dr.
Bryan was discharged, after the evidence of the porseciition was heard.
While the examination was pending, Comstock caused Bryan to be ar-
rested on two similar charges, both of which were also dismissed.

Dr. Bryan then visited his lawyer, W.‘ H. Newman, who quickly insti-
tuted proceedings against Comstock and Shaw for false imprisonment
and anattefnpt at blackmailing, laying damages at $20,000.

The letters which Bryan was charged with having obtained from the
Post Office were addressed to other parties, from whom he held power
of attorney to receive such letters.

The power of attorney has been deposited in the Post Oflice, of which
fact Dr. Bryan chargesthat Comstock was aware.

Mr. Newman says, that pending the trial of Dr. Bryan, several persons
called on him, representing themselves as being sent by Shaw, and offer-
ing to have the case settled by a payment of money. They were all
scouted out of the office. ,

Shaw was at one time arrested for mailing obscene literature, and is
now under bail on that charge. - J
The case will come up for trial before Judge Donohue, and the matte
will not stop at the civil suit for damages, as the plaintiff is determine
to have the parties indicted for the criminal charge. ‘
Comstock gave bail in $5,000 last evening, his bondsmen being Morris
K. Jessup. Qteorgc L. Rose and J 9.0013 F. Wyckofi; 1

Bryan, against whom he brought a charge of obtaining letters from the ‘

A CREDAL CURIOSITY.

Dean Swift, in his Tale of the Tub, ridicules the doctrine of

transubtantiation by statin g that Peter (the Catholic) invited

his two brothers -Martin and John (Protestants) to a feast’;

they went, and Peter then placed bread and water before

them, assuring them it was good roast beef and wine. This
Martin and John denied, and Peter put his three hats (the
triple crown) on his head, and kicked them out of his house
(the Church) in consequence. If the statement of the
“ Liberal Christian” be correct, and there is no reason to
doubt but that it is so, the following letter of instructions
was distributed among themembers of an Episcopal (High)
Church, in Newark, N. J ., which proves that now John is
very nearly ready to accept Peter’s statement as truth,
although Martin still remains perverse and obstinate. The
following regulations are given in it for the benefit of those
who ‘propose to partake of what is termed the Sacrament of
the Lord's Supper: I . _ .

“ The consecration and after: Here begins themost solemn part of
the office. Up to this point Christ is not objectively present, but at the
words, ‘This is my body, this my blood,’ Christ comes to the altar under
the form of bread and wine. At this point the faithful bow or prostrate
themselves in deepest adoration of him who veiled his godhead and man-
head under the mean form of a little infant, when the wise men knelt
and worshipped him, and who now veils both his Godhead and manhood
under the mean and common forms in the blessed sacrament. If they
should by any chance be obliged to enter or leave the church or pass be-
fore the altar after the prayer of co7zs€c7'al2'on they will also kneel on one
knee in the same adoring spirit. 1

“ In going up to communion, the devout, if they find the rail is already
full, kneel on the door till thereis a vacant place, for it is unseemly to
be standing in the presence of the King of Kings in his sacrament.
‘And then to receive the Lord’s‘body, they cross their right hand over
their left,’ so as to make a kind of a throne for it, and raise it in the palm
of the hand to the mouth, and then carefully take up every particle

our Lord. Says St. Cyril, ‘ How carefully oughtest thou to observe that
not a crumb falls from thee of that which ismore precious than gold or
precious stones.’ It is hoped that the irreverent habit, nay sacrilege, of
wiping the mouth with a pocket handkerchief after partaking of the pre-
cious blood of the Chalice, is passing away forever. The faithful, if
they have communications at the early celebration, stay all through the
mid-day celebration for the purpose of adoration, but not to receive the
blessed sacrament again. If any of the blessed sacrament remains on
the altar during the Gloria in Ecccelsés, the faithful bow reverently at the
words ‘ We worship thee.’ ”

to laugh at their Buddhist and,Brahmanica.l neighbors for
being particular over trifles in their religious ceremonies.
Were the Nazarene reformer again on earth, and could he
compute the tuns of blood his “last supper” has cost poor
humanity, surely he would never have had the heart to have
instituted it. But, were "he here now, there is little reason
to doubt but that he would rebuke such ridiculous tithing
of mint, amlee and cumvmln, such polishing of the outside of
_the cup and platter,’ while the simple mundane base on
which he built his religion, true charity, love of humanity,
is almost wholly neglected and forgotten among those who
profess to be his followers.
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“MURDER WILL OUT.”
A . This old adage is again verified. An oft~repeated declara-
tion of the Boston, or the veryirespectable wing of the
Woman Suifragists, that Victoria C. 'VVoodliull has done
more to damage the cause of suffrage than all other persons
qcombined, has recently had a remarkable verification. This
comes in such a way, too, that its application cannot be
doubted. Remember! Livermore, Blackwell,‘ Howe, Hjg.
ginson, Stone & Co., time and again have said that “ that
Woodhull” has driven all good people away from the con-
sideration of Woman Suffrage by her free-love advocacy.
Now for an illustration, which, it cannot be said, does not

lowing news : / I

“WOMAN SUFERAGE IN THE MICHIGAN CONSTITUTION

“ LANSING, Mich., March 5.——The House voted to-day, 56 to 39 to
strike out the word male in the article in the new constitution concern-
ing the elective franchise. The article providing for the appointment of
the judiciary was referred to the Committee on Judiciary, with instruc.
tions to report a section "providing for the election of Judges.

Our readers in Michigan will remember that in the months
of November and December last, that “that Woodhull”
made the almost complete tour of the State, speaking in an

the lP1'i110iDal cities and towns upon the suffrage and free-
love questions combined. Many of the members composing
the legislative body which. voted as above, listened to her at
various places. As legislators, they were urged to do this
justice to women.) They have not been unmindful of her
exhortations, and if, as we hope it may, the Senate shall be
of the same mind‘ as is the House, Michigan will be the
Banner State on the suffrage question, notwithstanding
“ that Woodhull” stumped the State asking that it should be
done. Willthe “Co.” referred to please take notice, and
when next it has occasion, repeat the well-worn phrase.

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From the New Northwest of Portland, Oregon, ‘we clip.
the following extract, which contains a comparison between
the movement for the Enfranchisement of Woman and that
for the Eiifranchisement of the Negro, which appears to us
to beworthy‘ of a more extended notice.’ The real fact is,
that as regards their real rights, the large majority of women.
are as ignorant as the large majority of the slaves were of’
theirs at the commencement of the war -of the Rebellion,

with the tongue, since every particle contains equally the whole body oi‘ -

Really, after such an exhibit, Christians have little reason ,

apply. The telegraph announced on the 6th inst. the fol- i

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March. 21,» 1874.

A fact, after quoting the article above-mentioned, we intend not answer. That this is so is not the fault of the WEEKLY,

to illustrate:

which merely recognizes the facts above mentioned, and re-

"'Somc of the newspapers announce, with seeming delight, that there fu59S,t0 COHGGIHH the diSC01'd33Y1Ce5 of flat“-1'0 011 that Subject-
are women teachers in the Boston public schools, who deplore the ap- One/more ejgtfact’ with which We close; it is;

pointment of women on the school committees, and say, ‘they would
rather be under the dominion of men.’ It would be strange if it were
not so. There has been 3. parallelisni, step by step, between the anti-
slavery and the Worm an Suffrage movements, and it would be strange if

it were to fail at this point. . It is always the result 01' a long career of
subjection, that thosewho have been reared under it have to be edu-
cated into self~respect."u

The truth is that man ‘ slavery and woman slavery are
brother and sister ; they commenced in the earliest ages, and
for thousands of years have tidod down the ocean of time to-

. gether. Twenty years ago, the slave’s highest idea of happi-

ness was a kind master, and that, in most cases, is woman’s
‘highest idea of happiness now. All that Sambo cared for
was to be fed well and kindly treated, and that is what most
women seek after now. The slavery of man was sanctioned
by the churches then, just the same as the slavery of woman
is sanctioned by the churches now. A great similarity may
also be found between the virtues and vices of both these
parties. The virtues ofra slave were to love, honor and obey
his master; and the principal churches in the land urge
similar duties upon woman now. Sambo’s defences were
prevarication and lying whenever needed ; with him they
were hardly considered sins. Are not those of the masses
of women the same ; and does not the position of an inferior
almost justify a resort to such measures, which are the only
weapons that can possibly be used against absolute authority?
To continue the parallel: as with the bondsmen of the past,
so with the bondswomen of the present; both were taught to
hate the “ bobolitionists.” The negro was instructed by his
owner to curse his best friends, and woman is expected by
“society” to de nounce hers. But the slaves in their hearts
loved liberty, and so do women ;*though, like the former,
but few of the latter are brave enough to travel over the rough
road that leads to -it. To conclude, as in the case above-
mentioned, woman hates to see woman in power, just as
much as the slaves of the South formerly disliked to work
under a. black overseer. But we are told that in a state of
freedom, the latter case is exactly reversed; and so let us
hope that it will be with woman when she also is entran-
chised. Till then, we must watch on the mountain tops

and wait for the day. C’
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THE ADVANCE or SOCIAL REFCRMS.

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Twice within the past month the VVEEKLY has called at-
tention to the fact of the public discussion of , questions
connected with the social reforms of which it has for a long
time been almost the sole advocate. The first of these was
a. paper read before the B.Ioral Educational Association of
Boston, by Nicholas E. Boyd, on the subject of “Sexual
Holiness;” the second referred to was an article written for
the (Universalist) Ladies’ Repository by the Rev. Olympia
Brown, in which the minor frailties of women were ac
counted for on the ground, “that a false system of educa-
tion had so magnified the one virtue of chastity, that all
others seemed trivial.” To these we have now the pleasure

of presenting extracts from two essays on the same subject ‘

of social reform, published in the Herald qf Health, Feb.-
10, 1874. -The first of these, on “Enlightened Mother-
hood,” was read by Caroline F. Corbin, at the Women’s
Congress of New York, and the second is Mrs. Horace
Mannfisi review of Dr. Clark’s book on “ Sex in Education.-”
From the first of the above-mentioned articles we make
the following extracts:- J
°‘ Youbring up ayoung girl to sixteen,‘ eighteen or possibly twenty
years, educated in all the artsand sciences, with refined esthetic tastes and

‘ aspirations, and a beautiful but very delicate physique, but without a

rational idea in her head on the subject of motherhood. Then you

marry her to a man equally ignorant’ and unreasoning concerning the

duties of the new relations, and with his animal forces stimulated to the

highest degree by the use of tobacco, alcohol and highly-seasoned ani-
mal food; andyou require her to submit herself without reserve to this
man's appetites, and to become, whether she will or not, again and
again and again, a. mother. It is all unnatural and wrong. She is unfit
by nature and education for such a life; she knows it, and she will not

“ But I believe also that the ignorance of the hygiene of marriage and
nrotlierhood which prevails to-day, and is the fruitful parent of social
vices, is a state in which Lucifer rejoices. ‘It leads to crimes which he
need have no ambition to ec‘ipse,‘to a hell than which a hotter never
burned. Let us quickly reform our ideas of marriage.” 

To all this the WEEKLY cheerfully responds, Amen! and
it is to thisend that it seeks. to.esta.blish the individual sov-
ereignty of woman, asserting that she is the natural queen
in the domain of the affections. Her rightful sceptre has
been wrested from her by man’s law, and it is for that
reason, and not because we object to monogamic unions
between monogamists—and no edict can establish them
elsewl1c‘rc——-that we demand the ‘abrogation of marriage as
atp1'esentconstituted. Under it woman is and must re-
main man’s financial slave; and it is believedthat now, in
nine cases out of ten, man misuses his unnatural and des-
potic powers. Until communities recognize their duties to
women and children, this state of affairs must exist, although
its abrogation is necessary to the improvement of the race of
mankind.

The second paper is equally valuable as a necessary ad-
junct to the former in the formation of a. superior race of
human beings. Next to the duty of procreation comes the
duty of education, and we are glad to reprint from Mrs.
Horace Mann the following extract; , C .
“Ido not share in the fears expressedby Pres. Eliot of a. demoral-
izing influence from the co-e-iducation of sexes. Experience has amply
proved that such fears are -groundless. Young men and women have
long been educated together "in country high schools, in academies and
n01'111al schools, and of late  colleges, and the result has been satisfac-
tory; a healthy stimulus, a great enjoyment, and productive of mutual
self-respect. But I agree with him that Harvard College is not the place
to try it in at present, for several reasons—-the traditional prejudice, the
want of proper arrangements, the very low moral character of the col-
lege community; but I think’-the history of Antioch College, where the
system was carried out under great advantages, is asufiicient testimony
to the success and good effects of co-education as well as to the possi-
bility of harmonious persistent study for women.” ,

As regards Harvard, the WEEKLY disagrees with the lee-
turer for the reasons given by the lady herself. In our opin-
ion, “traditionalprejudices ought not to be succumbed to
but opposed and conquered;” “ want of proper accommoda-
tions ” can easily be removed, and ought to be; as to “ the
very low moral character of the college community,” that
certainly ought not to be given as a reason for the continu-
ance of the system which, in all probability, has produced
it. No, the WEEKLY is certainly correct in claiming every
point given by the lady lecturer as a reason against, instead
of an argument for, the continuance of the present monk-
ish, one-sex system which has produced all the above la-
mentable results. But we hasten to terminate this long ar-
ticle, which has already probably somewhat taxed the pa-
tience of our readers. It is written in reference to Antioch
College, where both sexes are admitted:

“The mental and moral influence of the mutual college life were very
marked in the superior moral deportment and refinement of manners in
the young men, and the unexcited and modest demeanor-"of the young
woman, both meeting with mutual respect for each others’ intellectual
and social claims.” '

After such a statement of the happy effects of the com-
mingling of the sexes in their youth, the barbaric system of
the separate education of the sexes ought to vanish into
“thin air.” There is no other way to remove the sexual
crimes that are barbarizing and decimating our people but
the natural one of the close contact. of the sexes from youth
to age, from the cradle to the grave. The liasons that might
grow out of such collision, for we hardly hold them to be
crimes, are nothing to the bestialities which grow out of the
separate system, which are degrading the human race lower
than the beasts that perish.

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'EoLLow MY LEADER.

This is the name of a game, which, though first instituted

submit to it if she can help it. You have made her wise enough to find at 3011001: human beings are 31“ to Continue '50 P133’ 3-t duliing
means out of her dilenima, but you" have failed to impart to her that life. In it the boldest are usually selected for leaders and
Wisdom which would lead her first to acquaint herself and her husband the rest are expected to fouow, Forty years ago, Ga1‘1'iSOn

with natures laws and requirements, and then with holy love and pray-
eriulness, to take upon herself, voluntarily, the noblest obligation

which a human being ever assumed, the obligation of motherhood.”

Of course it is necessary for Social Reformers within the
pale to throw a sop to the Cerberus of Society. Here it

follows: ,

“When marriage becomes the hiding-place -of wrongs like these,
which I have merely indicated, it is no wonder that sensuality can steal

and Wendell Phillips were chosen, they dashed into the
“black bog” of slavery, struggled through it and finally
landed on the hill of liberty on the opposite side of it. The
nation cursed them, watched them and finally followed
them, so that now we are all there. It is the same in the
dress reform movement. A short time ago Mrs. Dr. Stud-
ley delivered an address before the N. Y. Sorosis on that

the garb of virtue, and ‘stalk abroad asa. reformer! It is no wonder subject, which was commented on in the WEEKLY. Last
hat fanaticism re udiates the marriage law, and ‘shakes our social week Dr_ Mar Safiord Blake followed 11) on the same
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. system to its very centre with its fierce denunciations. Society cries out question. at Boston. These ladies are Where they are be_

against these apostles of license, but Society made them. i What must
be those hidden crimes, eating in secret like some foul ulcer, which

have produced our own notorious advocates of social freedom ?"’

cause the bloomer-clad ladies, Mary E. Tillotson and Olivia
F. Shepard, are miles ahead of them, and have pioneered a

We pause to answer this charge by asserting that our path for them in which they can travel without soiling their

crimes, or crime, is not hidden, “it is telling the truth’

, skirts very much. But, though this be so, we are glad to

fem_1eSS1y_ Had We not done, so possibly this lecture would obtain evidence like the following of the movements of so-
have been deferred to another oppol-1;unity_ Further on We ciety in this particular, and for that reason it is here inserted:

read :

“I believe in monogamic marr-iage as an institution ‘indlspensably

necessary to the progress and prosperity of the race.”

“Let the garments be ample in quantity and quality, of. material to
give suitable warmth. Let their distribution be as equable as possible. To
facilitate speed in dressing and to obviate the necessity for. mult,itudi-
nous bands about the waist, unite in one garment vest and waist

The WEEKLY has never condemned monogamy, but and drawers. Let no weight Whatever rest upon the hips, and
nothing is more certain than that there are now and have if the Shoulders rebel against the burdens laid upon them,

been from the time\of Noah, if the Bible be correct, polyga-

lighten them. Let the stockings be of wool, if not uncomfor-
table, and let them be suspended by elastic bands‘ from the drawers. If

m01lSP30P1e 3150- This talk will answer for this/latitudei woolen stocking are uncomfortable, use fleece-lined, the heavier the
put‘ for the hundred millions of Mohammedans it would better. Leggings are not to bedispensed. with in this c1ima.te_during the

winter season. Let the soles of the boots be broader than the feet.
The ‘higher the tops of the boots, the warmer‘ the ankles, provided they
are so loose that the circulation is free. Do away with the mass of dead
material-—false hair—-on the back of the head. On the authority of Von
Grrafe,_t1ie most eminent oculist of modern times, it is stated that one
of the most prolific causes, of amaurosis was the wearing of spotted lace
vails; and of near-sightcdness among children the wearing of any vails.
As regards jewels, if they must be worn, to show them to the best advan-

‘ tage follow the example of the Apache squaws, and hang them on the nose.

Finally, if women will live true to the highest standard for which they
were created, if they will measure their lives by noble deeds, let them
make for the soul impcrishable garments, and give as little thought as
may be to the clothing of the body.

As with individuals so with presses. There are very few
newspapers which mould public opinion, many which reflect
it. When one of the former falls, although its circulation
may be small, its loss is almost incalcul-able. For every true
leading newspaper has its host of followers, though the lat-
ter may not for prudent reasons, admit such to be. their
position. The ideas - of the VVEEKLY, more or less watered,-
are permeating the great ‘Vest. The time will soon arrive
when the people of that locality will demand that they be‘
less diluted. It is the same with presses that it is with per-
sons, there are few leaders but many followers.

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TO THE W'Ol\"lEi\T OF THE UNITED STA’l.‘ES.

This day, ‘Ncdncsciziy, March 4, 1874, the proprietors of ,
the WEEKLY, together with their able ccadjutor, Col. Blood,
are again cast into prison. Mr. MacKinley, one of their
bondsmen, having Cwithdrawn his security, and they,
having no notice of such withdrawal, not being prepared /
with a surety to take his place. This tiineithey are all con-
fined in that dreary den, the Tombs prison of New York.
Every woman in the nation knows what for. Victoria C.
Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin, on Nov. 2, 1872, dared, in
the WEEKLY, to measure two men by the same sexual rule-

that all men apply to all women, but, as in the presentin-

stance, never suffer it to be used in reference to themselves.
For this revolt against the one-sided and partial law of
society, backed as it is by the laws of the land, the above-
mentioned proprietors of the WEEKLY, Victoria C. Wood-
hull and Tennis C. Clafiin, have been again imprisoned by
the despotic authority of a Government which assumes
power over them without asking their consent, and are to be
tried by a necessarily partial Court and Jury of their self-
constituted legal and political superiors, in which their sex
is not represented. Setting aside all personal questions
which are not at issue in the case, the above truthful state-
ments are commended to the careful consideration of the
nurepresented half of the American public.

R. W. H., Associate Editor.

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VOX POPULI-—VOX DEI.
VVe present a picture from the trial of the proprietors of
the NVEEKLY, which shows that the New York public are
beginning to well understand the fact that between “Free
Love ” and “ Free Lust” there is a wide ditFe1'encc. Several
times during the delivery of his opening address, Mr.
Brooke, counsel for the defendants, wasapplauded. The
day following, Victoria C. \Voodhull was called to testify.
The following picture is from the Daily News of New York:

“ After detailing her conversation with Challis on several occasions,
Mrs. Woodhull was asked by hercounsel _to state her motives in publish-
ing the alleged libelous article. The question was objected to by ex-
Judge Fullerton, but allowed by the Court. Mrs. Woodhull then stated
that having seen the universal persecution of women for offences which
men were unpunished for, she had published the article in question for
the purpose of showing the world that men who were guilty ought to be
ostracised as well as women. The statement of Mrs. Woodhull’s mo-
tires was greeted with- loud applause, which was, with difliculty, sup-
pressed. The jndge announced that he would punish any persons found
guilty of so great a breach of court etiquette should it be repeated
during the course of the trial.

“Mrs. Woodhull then related the objects which induced her to enter

4— into the warfare on behalf of the weaker sex, and while reciting her

sufierings burst into tears. She also stated that she had no hatred to-
ward Mr. Challis. The audience was visibly aifected during the recital
of ‘Mrs. Woodhull’s alleged wrongs. At the conclusion of her direct
testimony a recess was taken. 3 .
Verily, when the public appreciate the truths of ‘the
Social Reform movement, so long advocated by the VVEEKLY,
they will be astonished at their purity and excellence.
When they are established, the reign of shams will pass away,
and the reign of candor, truth and integrity be commenced.
When woman, who knows that her whole power depends A
on the sexual purity of the race, is admitted to her rightful
throne as queen of the affections, she will prove ‘Z1. far better
conservator of the morals of mankind than all the laws that
ever were written or printed by man since the dawning of
creation. A

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OPEN CONFESSION GOOD FOR THE SOUL.-

P In a paper which professes to be very religious and very
philosophical withal, there occurs, in a recent leading edi-
torial, a very remarkable admission, Which, considering the
direction into which the mind of the reader must be directed
upon its reading, is very suggestive, The sentence is as
follows : O ‘

. “ We want truth; a truthometer, too; such an instrument
would stop slander, vituperation and abuse.” ,

Doubtless the first part of this sentence was the expression
of a deep settled conviction that existed in the mind of the‘
writer, following from the old adage that, what one has tl1e
greatest need for, there exists the gravest desire ; but to be-
come perfectly satisfied as to the latter part, one has only to
read the‘ paper itself ; therein he will see the need, since it
consists of those three articles mentioned. VVe hope some
charitablypinclined individual may supply both these wants ;
the former for the sake of the Editor, and the latter for that
of his readers. A Y

. MISCELLANEOUS.

FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
Watchman! Tell us of the night.—SoNe. ‘ v

The next State election for 1874 will be that of Connecti-
cut, on Monday, April 5. The State is so closely divided be-
tween the Republicans and the Democrats that the slightest
disturbance to the disadvantage of the Republicans gives the
victory in a State contest to the other side. N ow let the
women of this State bestir themselves, and use every lawful
means to secure to themselves the right of suffrage. So long
as the States, in their Constitution and laws, limit this right
to the male citizen, it cannot be exercised———certainly not till
the question has been settled by some department of the

General Government. Women should, act in every just and,

possible way to remove their disability, both in the State and
nation.

It would seem that in N. H. the question is hopeful. At
the Republican Convention held in January last, the Chair-
man, in taking his seat, said that “ woman suffrage is the
next great moral issue which this country must meet, and a
reform which no party could afiord to despise, indubiiably
right as he believed it to be. He regarded its success as in-
evitable, and whatever party opposed it was as surely des-
tined to defeat as was the party which ‘arrayed itself in op-
position to the anti-slavery cause.”

At a Convention of the American Woman’s Suflrage Asso-
ciation, held in October last, a letter from George William
Curtis was read, in which, among other things, he said:

I do not, as you know, anticipate any immediate result from the dis-
cussion of the question. It relies upon reason alone, and has none of
the accessories with‘which a demand for the ballot is usually armed.
How little impression it has as yet really made upon public opinion is
evident from the utter contempt shown for it by one of the political par-
ties and the polite indifference of the other. Yet these parties comprise
those who have the final decision of the question. But the inexorable
logic of common sense and of experience, which has constantly ameli-
orated the injustice of thelaws in regard to woman, will at last invest
them with an equal voice with men in electing the lawgivers,

We give next an illustration of what women will do when
they can vote. Look at them in Wyoming Territory. A
correspondent says (last September):

Our Territorial election, one week ago to-day, passed off very quietly.
There were no sneers, no profanity, no fighting. The women went to
the polls as quietly as if they were going to church. They seemed to be
conscientious as to what candidates were worthy of their suffrage, many
refusing to votefor men on account of intemperance. It was an agree-
able surprise to know that the Republicans could carry this Territory,
as one year ago the democracy elected their delegate to Congress by 1,500
majority. Wyoming has been redeemed by the vote of the women. As

‘near as we can estimate the number, between 400 and 500 women voted
for Wm. T. Jones, the Republican candidate for Congress,while less than
one-third that number voted for Wanless, the Democratic candidate.

The ladies at the Maine ‘vVoman’s Suffrage Association, in
January last, resolved :

The Association will not cease its efforts until the unjust discrimina-
tion in regard to voting is swept away; that especially in the election
for President. where the qualifications of voters are not prescribed, the
experiment should be tried of allowing women to vote. —

Many intelligent ladies of the United States, thinking they
had been too long debarred of the exercise of their consti-
tutional rights, in the matter of the ballot for members of
Congress and electors of President and Vice President of the
United States. just before the last Presidentialelection de-
termined to submit no longer to the injustice of a refusal to
allow them access to the polls and to deposit their ballots.
But they are wiser and know more to-day than they did yes-
terday. Their studies and experiences since have contribu-
ted to instruct them in the proper methods of redress and
abatement of their grievance.

' An intelligent and worthy lady correspondent, a member
of the ‘W/‘on1aii’s Sufi‘:-age Association, under date of Toledo,
0., November 7, 1872?, says to me:

I cannot retrain from telling you what I suppose has flashed over the
wires before this-—that the women of our place really made a demon-
stration. The two in the Third Ward (strong Republicans) were accept-
ed: the rest of us in other wards were refused, but a, pouring rain did
not deter us from carrying out our resolution. So you see we acted on

' your excellent advice, coupled with that of good friends in this place.

Ithank you for sending me the notices which you did; they helped
greatly to strengthen us. [Articles of mine on female suffrage.—H. 1).]

Some controversy has been excited through the pap_ers. I have made
a. little reply to an article in the Toledo Commercial, which should have
appeared to-day, but undoubtedly will‘ to-morrow, based upon your
ground, for which I do sincerely thank you. All men who interest them.
selves as you are doing in this cause deserve ‘the lasting gratitude of
women. _

Here is what the Toledo Commercial had to say concerning
these noble and earnest ladies:

It is understood that our indefatigable’ and irrepressible friends, the
woman Ballot w omen of Toledo, propose to put the’ judges of election

, on record by demanding in the several wards theright to vote for Presi-

dent. So far as such action may be part of the agitation of that ques-
tion deemed necessary by its supporters, it is Well enough. W’e can see
no harm in their making such deinand,‘and in using the refusal which
they no doubt" expect in their future discussion. It is hoped, however,
that the presentation of the question and the decision by the Election
Boards will be clear and distinct, to avoid unnecessary interruption in
the voting. There will be little time, with the heavy undisputed vote to
be polled, for discussion of the rights of a new class ‘of claimants. In
these remarks we intend no disrespect to the latter.

Again: Another journal, the Toledo Blade, thus particu-
larizes and comments unon election day's doings in that city:

The women of this city made a raid upon the ballot-boxes to-day, and
in one ward, at least, two vs'omen’s votes were received and deposited in
the ballot-box. In the Third Ward, Mrs. Mary J. Barker, wife of J. J .
Barker, and Mrs. Dr. Nolen, offered their votes, and they werogreceived
by the Judges of (Election. In the Eighth Ward, Mrs. Sarah B. L. Wil-
liams and her daughter, Lottie, ofiered their votes, but the Judges of
Election refused to receive them. In the Second Ward, Mrs. A. W.
Gleason, Mrs. J. P. Anger and Mrs. E. Bissell offered their votes, but the
judges declined to deposit them in thc ballot-box, remarking. hewever,
that they would make a note of the fact that such votes had been offered,
and rejected. =

This is an incident in the history of the Woman Suffrage movement
which will be of interest hereafter, and Mrs. Barker and Mrs. Dr. Nolen
will have the distinction due to the first women who cast a vote’ for P1-es~
ident in the city of Toledo. ’

The Jersey City .E'*uent'n.g J ournal, a paper in favor of
female suffrage, thus states what was done to test the mat-
ter of right to vote in that city:

Application was made in person to-day by Mrs. Dr. King, of Grand
street, and Miss Dr. Pratt, of York street, at two precincts, to be regis-
tered as voters. They were accompanied by Mr. Horace Dresser, as
counsel. Application was made, first to be registered to vote for Presi-
dent and members of Congress, next to vote for other ofiicers. The reg-
istration ofiicers, not feeling competent to make a decision, replied that
they would ask the opinion of Mr. Lewis, the City Attorney, and be gov-
erned by that. _

This city functionary, learned in the law (?) decided that a
woman could not vote, and hence might not be registered.

these applicants, on such advice. The action of certain ladies
of the city of Rochester, among whom is Miss Susan B.

needs only our mention here. N o more need be said in that
regard. But some things in addition and related to those
topics it seems proper here to state and consider-

In July, before the Presidential election, a memorial, pray-
ing for the intervention of the,President of the United
States in the matter of Female Suffrage“, backed up by an
exhaustive argument, was addressed to that oflicer and
lodged in the Executive Department, showing the female
citizens of the United States, alike have equal, constitu-
tional right of sufirage; and that the President of the United
States alone has constitutional power to remove all obstacles
to the exercise of woman’s right of suffrage. These docu-
ments, though “ respectfully submitted,” have hitherto been
disregarded, and apparently treated with contempt——no tid-
ings concerning them having been received.

Would it not have been wise as well as prudent for
President Grant and his political advisers to consider well
the consequences to himself and the Republican party, of a
willful neglect to remove all obstacles interposed by the
States to the ballot box by all persons entitled to vote, since
memorials in this behalf are in the Executive Department
awaiting his formal decision? A prudent manforeseeth the

punished. ,

Let some of the many female citizens of the United States,
constitutionally entitled to vote for United States oflicers
at the last election of President. and who were hindered by
the election oflicers of the United States, in the exercise of
their right of suffrage, make application for writ of quo war-
romto, out of the Supreme Court of the United States, against
the President of the United States. “fill that high Court
denythe writ? If female citizens have the right, equally and
alike, with the male citizens to cast their ballots, and shall
not have been allowed so to do, will it be avalid constitu-
tional election of President and Vice—President when one-
half of those entitled to vote have been deprived of their
constitutional privilege? What reasons can be urged in sup-
port of the validity of such an election? ‘The nation was at
peace—no rebellion existed, the several States were in the
bonds of the Union (e plurlbus ummn) and they all had their
electorial tickets, and yet only one—half ,the constitutionally
entitled voters were allowed to vote for Presidental electors.

President Grant had it i11 his power, to enable every voter
to visit the polls and to deposit the ballot, and thus save the
question to come before the Supreme Court of the United
States, if any female barred of her vote will move in the pre-
mises. Why then did not President Grant and his party
listen to the warning voice? Being forewarned should ad-
monish to be forearmed. The main body of females would
have voted for him—if for no other reason, as benefactor.-

”Were I a female and had been denied myright to vote for
President at the last election, and especially had I been
treated as has been Miss Anthony, it would not be long be-
fore I would make application for a writ of qua warrwnto, to
test the right of U. S. Grant, to exercise the office of Presi-
dent of the United States. It ought to be said that a major-
ity of the Court are his nominees or political friends, but no
matter for that—-I would see how learned is the Court in
constitutional law. HORACE Dnnssnn.

EAU CLAIRE,‘ Wis, Febllé, 1874.

To Mas. WOODHULL: .

Dear Fmencl-——Allow me to congratulate you on the success
of your engagement at this place, for it was truly a great’
success. Men who had persuaded their wives to stay at home
through fear your immoral utterances mightpbe offensive to
their delicate ears, went home regretting that they did not
bring their families. Bigoted, narrow-minded conservatism
and prejudice will always howl when the straight, sharp
truths of progress of any kind are" hurled at them; but the

progressive mind is always seeking for advancement, and

The Board of Registration-refused to enrol the names of ii

Anthony, whose record in that behalf has become historic, I

evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on and are

will always accept the truth, acknowledge it, and, if needs
be, fight for it! Until I heard you last nightl had never
fully understood your position, and therefore I with many
others was prejudiced, as ignorance will always beget preju-
dice and contempt; but I can now truly say the scales of
ignorance and superstition have fallen from my eyes, and
',IlOW I can see andunderstand the full importance of your
purpose. Persevere 1, You are doing a noble work, and hosts
of friends are gathering round your standard of God and
humanity. '
“ Dare to be right, dare to be true,
You have a work that no other can do.”

Yours ever in the cause of justice and humanity.

' i i  ‘W. W. (3.

' on

LOVE’S COMING.
Break into beautiful blossoms,
O buds of the sunny May,
And sing. my robin and blue-bird
Your sweetest carol to-day—
For my love has written a letter
And the world is all in tune,’
He is coming with the roses _
In the fairest days in June. ‘
I am counting the daysbetwcen us,
I am counting the moments and hon rs,
Telling my beads, like a solemn nun,
On a rosary of flowers;
For he said, when the buds of the roses
Are flushing like royal red,
He is coming to claim a promise——
(I wonder what I have said).
Break into songs and blossoms,
0 birds and buds of Springp
Lilies,‘ scatter your fragrance,
And sweetest song-birds, sing.
And skies drop golden sunshine
In the beautiful days of June,
For my love is coming to see me,
And the World is. all in tune.
[Plltsburglt (Pa.) C’ommercz'al.]
CRITICISM AND OBJ ECTION S SPECIALLY INVITED.
BY W. F. JAMIESON. '

Such are the welcome words in the WOODHULL 85 CLAR-
LIN’s WEEKLY prospectus. Such a sentence commands the
respect of Liberalists everywhere. We are also informed
that it is “the only paper in the world conducted absolutely
upon the principles of a free press.” . p

Probably there is not a paper in the land, even down to
the “ weekly Pollydoddle ” of .a rural district in Wisconsin,
which would not spurn the imputation that it is notsa free
paper. Each editor is sole judge, however, as to what; shall
appear and what shall be refused an insertion in his publica-
tion. He or she supposes himself or herself guardian of the
morals, politics or religion of the dear public. And this is
how it comes to pass that, after all, we have no free press.
Pretexts are abundant for excluding obnoxious sentiments,
provided they do not belong to the ‘editor. Baskets full of
MSS., crowded columns, press of matter, taxing readers’ ‘pa-
tience until liberty flies away, a sorry-looking bird.

The press of the country aspires to the noble dignity of
freedom; but in practice, alas, there is no freedom except
for press controllers. When the test comes, they are found
lacking. I trust the WEEKLY will never flinch from actual-
izing it in the broadest sense, and vindicate its title to free-
dom. , ’ ,
The battle for religious freedom has not yet been won.
For more than fifteen years I have been a public lecturer.

form. ,
There was a special agreement between Mrs. Woodhull

the WEEKLY, furnish, if I chose to, on an average one
column of matter a’week.- There was no “ proviso whatever
as to what subject ” I should treat, or “regarding the man-
ner in which it shall be treated.” This is the “ broad guage”
of the WEEKLY. . I

Now, I have lately begun a pleasant discussion with this
paper. The WEEKLY trusts that its last words will termin-
ate it. It is, of course, the WEEKLY’s prerogative to remain
silent; -but I have much more to say. It is under no obliga-
tion to notice any words of mine. But 1 take it for granted
it does not wish to debar me from expressing-my convictions
through its columns, per agreement, not only, but judging
from its Well-known‘ liberality of tone. So I will continue
my criticisms‘ and heresies. I opine the readers of the
WEEKLY are not to measure liberty by impatience. The
impatience of societies has prevented the utterance of many
a truth, because the preacher or lecturer was too cowardly
to tax the patience of his hearers. How many societies are
tired of Socialism? Shall -the discussion of Socialism cease?
I chose my own theme. Strange, indeed, if the world can
be deluged with talk and writing‘ in favor of Jesus for more
than eighteen ages, and the readers of a liberal journal oh I
ject to objections against him after reading two or three
columns! People are not obliged to listen to a radical
speaker nor to read a radical anti-God, anti-Jesus, Y anti-re-
ligious writer’s heresies. I am after Jesus, not church
fashion, nor WEEKLY fashion, but in my own way. Let us
have truth. ’ ' i

 

pardon me for seizing the first moment available to express

ty-five years of close study has discovered [that Jesus was a,

. mendicant, and in proof of mendicity cites the precept “give

to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of

is the corner-stone of mendicancy. What may not be called;
in question and be subjected. to animadversionif a precept.
which inculcates liberality toward those who need and ask a.
gift, and an accommodating spirit in lending to those who

only wish to borrow.
Verily J amieson is smart!

of it. Truly’ Pray don’t cut oif the prosofs

Q

STEUBEN, 0.,‘; March 1, 1874.

 

From the first day I refused to speak upon a muzzled plat-

and myself that I would, in accordance with the spirit of‘

Fm'ends——The WEEKLY of 7th inst. came last night. Do-

my great admiration of "the astute intellect that after twen:

thee turn not thou away,” adding that the principle involved C

 

‘12’

wioonnum. & icsartxinis WEEKLY.

Math 21, 1874.

,[l7’1'cmthe Damiess 00. Wis, Democmtf] .
EAU oL.i'i1m, Wis., Feb. 19 1874.

The winked Woodhull made us a visit last week. She lec-
tured last~Friday night to one of thelargest audiences that
ever assembled in this city. The best men of the place wgre
present, many of them accompanied by their wives, and the
neighboring towns for thirty miles aroundwere represented.
Public lecturers seldom receive the close attention which
was paid to her, and but few are more applauded than she
was. ‘

Mrs. Woodhull is a comely woman to look upon, and there
is a vivid play of spirit about her face that attracts most
every one. Every word comes out clear and distinct and
can be heard all over the house. When she gets interested
in her theme, her utterance becomes more rapid, but every
Word distinct, and combined with her gesticulations and her
evident earnestness, makesher a powerful speaker. What-
ever is thought of the doctrines she teaches, none denythat
she is one of the greatest orators of the day. ,

She believes in free love; said love was the only true mar-
riage tie; a marriage for convenience. for money, for a
home, was as wicked a prostitution as that of the woman
who soldher body nightly; that though no other means than
love could” the World be reformed; that God is love and love
is God. -

The lecture frequently called forth loud applause, and at
its close the speaker was heartily congratulated upon her
effort. Though the large majority stilldisbelieve in her doc-
trines, her lecture has created a great change in the feeling
toward her. Many who before thought her the worst woman
in the world, now‘ regard her as an eloquent, talented and
and honest woman. ’ TOM MALLORY.

SHUT THE DOOR SOFTLY.

Shut the door softly, mother’s asleep;

Her fever is broken, her slumber is deep,
Look in her pale face and see there no pain--
Darling, be thankful, we’ve mother again.

Shut the door softly and come to her side.

What should we do if our mother had died? i
She who has loved us our weary lives through-—
Shut the door softly, and do as I do.

Shut the door softly, and kneel with me here,
To Him who has spared us our own mother dear,
Who has given her back to our arms once again,
Borne her through danger and softened her pain.

Shut the door softly, and look in her face,
And see how it gathered in health and in‘grace.
Is she not handsome, this mother of ours,
Waking to life like the budding of flowers?
Let us lose all in this fast flying life,

Sister and brother ‘and husband and wife;
Mothei-’s love only all time has defied;

Shut the door softly, and come to her side.

\

I
Shut the deer‘ softly, mother‘s awake,
Back from the shores of the fathomless lake,
Weary with travel, but laden with charms,
Longing‘ to clasp us within her dear arms.
Mother, dear mother, we’ve loved you before,
Now we shall love you a thousand times more. '
Welcome, dear heart, from the shadowy land;
~ Shut the door softly, and kiss ‘her dear hand.

LESSONS OF LIFE.
BY JULIETT H. SEVERANCE, M. D.

Health iscthe‘ great need of the age, but how to obtain that
delectable condition is a matter but little studied by the
great mass of the people. They have been educated to be-
lieve that if they become sick, it is a sort of fatality over
which they have no control, and all they have to do is to call
aphysician, who of course is the embodiment of all wisdom
in that direction, and who will administer some remedy that
Willflin some manner they know not how, restore them to
their lost inheritance. - I

They are not taught to believe that sickness is the result of
violated law; that were there nophysical sins, there would
be no physical sufiering——-which isthe truth-—-and that it is
just as absurd to think of restoring health by taking drugs as
it is to think of escaping the penalty of violated inoral law by
accepting the atonement. There is no atonement for sin of
any kind; the penalty surely follows, and the only method
by which you can escape suffering is to cease to transgress.
Learn the laws of your being in every direction, and live in
accord therewith, then may you reasonably expect health
and happiness. I

Let us consider for a moment the manner in which we
ruin our children, post natally, to say nothing of the manner
in which we entail suffering upon them by wrong ante-natal
conditions. In the first place, we shut out from their deli-’
cate lungs, formed with nice adjustment thereunto, the
sweet, fresh, health-freighted air, and confine them to the
heated, stagnant, impure atmosphere of the nursery, the air
of which is loaded with emanatiuns from the skins and lungs
of those occupying the’ room, because the ignorant nurse is
fearful that the little stranger, or the enfeebled mother, will
“take cold,” when both need, more than anything, the
strength which comes from the plentiful inhalation of this
greatest tonic in the univer se-—pure air. » '

Then food is given at all times and under all circum-

stances to the little one, and, even if it escapes the common
\ nursery -abominations of debilitating slops, soothing syrups,

etc., soon indigestion is ‘manifested, by flatulence, colic and
other disturbances, and to still its cries of pain it is nursed
again.

Now the stomach of the newly—born infant needs rest as
much as any other part, and it is a grave error for any person,
be he young or old, to be irregular in eating habits. Reg-
ularity is the great law, allowing sufficient times between
meals for thelstomach to become empty, rest and recu-
perate. I

Asthe. child. grows older and commences to eat solid food,

 

instead of furnishing it with a diet of properly prepared

grains, fruits and milk,,we feed it according to our own falsely
educated" appetites, and because the delicate organs of taste
have Abecomerso blunted by improper use that everything
5‘ tastes flat ” without salt, pepper or other condiments, we
ignorantly suppose that to be the I case with “ baby,” and in
a short‘ time we have perverted its natural taste until we
have the same false appetite in our child, and diseases begin
to appear as the result, which we fail to attribute to its
wrong habits, but commence trying to remedy by calling our
famiiy physician, who pronounces the trouble to be the re-
sult of teething or worms——never thinking that the process
of teething is anatural one, and, with proper conditions,
would be painless; and that if proper food were taken, so
that digestion was perfectly performed,‘ there would be no
decaying matterto generate worms. _ .

Then the process of drugging commences, poisoning the
young life, the result of which is, that half the little darlings
die before they are five years old—-victims to the ignorance
of those having them in charge. while those that escape
death thus early, as they advance in years, are subjected to
other health-destroying processes.

The way we clothe children, with limbs poorly protected
—-clothing unevenly distributed——is a source of a great deal
of disease. The bodies are usually thickly and warmly
clothed, While the extremities are poorly protected from the
cold, and the blood flows where there is most warmth, caus-
ing congestion of the viscera and diseases innumerable.

I wish to note apoint right here, which is this: In all my
experience and observation in regard to the diseases of chil-
dren and their relative strength and endurance up to the
time when fashion says, your girl and boy must be differently
clad, have different habits of life, different kindsof amuse-
ments-which difierently iievelop the body—we find no dif-
ference in the sexes,’so far as health and strength are con-
cerned; but with this change, which gives the boy ample
opportunity to develop ;his physical power, while the
girl is trammeled with garments so constructed
that freedom of muscular action is impossible,
and is taught that romping plays that would develop the
body into a beautiful, strong, fully orbed womanhood are not
ladylike; then we see a gradual failing in health and
strength; our boys are strong, our girls weak, and worst of
all we consider the weakness beautiful and cultivate this
sentiment, never dreaming that strength of brain depends
largely on strength of muscle or that our girls as they grow to
womanhood have more necessity for health and strength
than our boys; that our future nation, our future humanity
depend upon the mothers who produce it.

Then our educational system is ruinous to both girls and
boys. It is of the first and of paramount importance that the
physical of children should be developed. This is the foun-
dation upon which every thing, else is builded, and our educa-
tional system should take this into consideration, the culture’
of the body first, mental "culture being of secondary impor-
tance: and that confining children in a sitting posture
for six hours in a. day, without liberty to turn their bodies

. or move in their seats, is an outrage upon every physiolo-

gical law. The mental exercises should be interspersed with
physical action, and gymnastic exercises should be practiced
for a short time every hour, until we shall have founded a
different method combining labor with study. Then, instead
of confining children to the conning of books, object
teaching should be more thoroughly adopted, as perception
belongs to childhood, reflection to more mature years. The
ordinary method of stuffing the minds of children with the
contents of books——-as you would stuff aturkey for baking—is
all wrong. Education is development, growth is what you call
out of a child’s mind, not what you stufi in. A person with
a good verbal memory may be a walking encyclopedia and
still not be educated. What he has received may be entirely
undigested, wholly unassimilated, hence, forming no part
of the individual. As with food, no more should be taken
than can be digested, so it is useless and injurious to burden
the minds of children with what they cannot comprehend.
All education should be practical—of everyday use. In my
next I will speak of the sexual condition of our children and
their necessities in this direction.

. MILWAUKEE, Wis.

PARADOXES.

BY R. G. ECCLES.
February 24, 1874.
’Nature began in contradictions, and now exists by the
same. V Nothing can be aflirmedias true of her that is not
also necessarily false. Everything she has evolved is, like
herself, at once static and dynamic. Downward to the neg-
ative zero, rest can only exist by motion and upward to the
positive zero motion can only exist by rest. All is motion,
all is rest; there is no motion, there is no rest. The
eternal warfare continues between cis inertia and Ms
viva, yet it would take ten thousand Solons to tell

here they elude us. Both are causes, both effects of each
other. , I

Since error is a receding fitness, and truth the present or
‘coming harmony, the one must direct—polarize-~the other.
Every error must then possess a soul of truth, and every
truth a matrix of error. A case of the former will be found
in our present theology which is a modified form of the old
idea that the universe is governed by two infinite powers in
eternal ‘ contest. Each has its own type of truth that is dia-
metrically opposite to the other. By selling their soul to
God they might have his revelation, or preferring to give
themselves away to Satan, they might get his. God’s truth
was eternal life (vis mIva.),. the Devil’s, eternal death (mls in-
ertia). Who ever begins to reason, as science does, from the
statical, is a child of the devil in that he must deny the ex-
istence of God as a creator and free agent, and put inert
law in his stead. Hence all scientific investigation was the
black art andlfrowned upon as destructive of happiness.
Scientific materialism and illogical theology both fail to see
thatthey are but reflecting each .other’s positions and are
but nature’s supplement and complement. The one finds

which is which. Only in unity can we harmonize, and even‘

consciousness in evolution, the otherevolution in conscious- —

ness. Both fail to see they must be alike and equal. If mind
is evolved, it is evolution; and if .mind, is evolution, evolu-
tion must be mind. If mind then is active by intelligent

will, law can only be volition. The one is but the other in _

miniature. On the other hand,’ the absolute mind can only
act in perfection or by a perfect plan, and since there can be
but one perfect plan, necessity gives to God but one course
to pursue, from which he can never vary without becoming
imperfect. That course can only be the course manifest in

nature in the path of law or evolution. His word or decree‘,

then must be evolution. “ In the beginning was evolution,
andevolution was with God, and evolution was God, the
same was in the beginning with God. All things were made
by ‘evolution, and without evolution was not anything made
that was made. In evolution was life, and the life was the
light of men.” All truth, all light, all love, centre in evolu-
tion, which is but another name for the rearrangements of
nature, while dropping into an ever-transitory equilib-

rium. Here again we find adaptation and truth synony-
mous.

,When we thoroughly analyze phenomenal nature in her
revelations to us through the successive steps of evolution,
we will find that all we know of her is by the way she
adapts herself either to our five senses or from them to our
intellect. Aside from adaptation then, no matter where or
at what we look, two contending contradictory factors meet
us demanding a harmonization as we mentally follow them
up and down to the inscrutable that lies beyond the horizon
of our reason. To the intellect the adaptation is the most
extensive possible, and predicts whither the development of
subsequent generations mustvtravel. To the mere external
sensesiof seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling, is at-
tached the smallest circle possible of conscious cognizance
with man. The latter never can understand the former, and
the former sometimes finds it difficult to understand how
the latter can be so short-sighted and stupid. Only when
he reaches the crest of the next wave, and looking back finds

himself but differing in amplitude of vision, can he under-
stand the matter.

To early man the horizon bounded the universe. He could
see no farther. To intellect, a horizon, be it ever so large, is
nonentity. To the former the earth was fiat, while the lat-
ter beholds it the reverse of flatness—a globe. Thus we
reverse every idea of the savage or civilizee who judges of
things merely as they seem to the limited senses. The earth
is no longer flat, but round; it is not now stationary, but in
motion. The earth revolves around the sun, not the sun
around the earth. All vision is subjective. Objects look
through the window at us; we do not look through the glass
at them. Motion once was invisible, now all we see is mo-
tion. Matter once was visible, now no man has ever seen,
heard or handled it. Everything was once a creation, 11'ow
we cannot conceive of a creation. In ten thousand different
directions can we thus see a reversion of thought every time
the amplitude of intellect is augmented. Here lies the secret
of religious and social persecution—the fagot, inquisition
and auto de fe. The devil is seen in every such reversion,
and God is .in need of their help to crush him. Every new
thought has been fought as soon as it began to win ad-
herents, and so it will continue till men cease to imagine
themselves as the only ones in the universe that know any-
thing. It is nothing in the world but superlative egctism
and its twin brother, self-righteousness, that makes men
abuse each other because of doctrine. Both are bornof con-
summate ignorance. The musiy past glories in ignorance
and abuse; the coming future speaks of love and good-will
to men. The former is the furnace from which the latter
comes forth freed from dress. The radical reformer can see
that all this is but his gain. Becoming a man, he‘ learns to
act as a man; or, if awoman, in the pride of womanhood.
Their opponents are but children—overgrown babies. They
show it in their deportment. They are restless in meeting,
as children always are. They go into a passion because some-
body tells them something theydo not believe. They are
afraid they will come to some terrible end, and draw the

rest of mankind after them, if they do not believe as mother ’

(Grundy) does. They know more about any given subject
after five minutes’ consideration than a man does after years
of tedious study. They go to abusing and calling names at
everybody they have reason to fear or do not like. Let all

' reformers treat them as babies, and give them a piece of

sugar to keep still.

But there is another class whom it is harder to deal with
because of their excessive passivity. They have seen the
light, and are willing privately to acknowledge its splendor.
They have gone just far enough to see that all is right. Out
of contention they behold the fit arise. They stand upon the
crest of a wave. Both progression and retrogression, like
every other form, simple or ‘complex, of nature, ebbs and
flows in rythmic cadence. VVhile the reformer struggles
with his load upon the ascending wave, feeling as if the
abyss had been opened against him and hell let loose to
thwart his aim, these, as they in complacence look around,
seem to be to him thevery picture of demoniac malevolence.
Cold, zealless intellect led them there. One step more and
they would see the necessity of self-sacrifice; but that step
they cannot take. ‘ They are hemmed in by conditions they
cannot gain will enough to overcome. This is why so many
leading minds fail to be found .in the list of the reformers.
Erasmus was certainly in intellect the equal of Luther. He,
too, knew the necessity of reform. Luther thought it never
would come without’ him. Erasmus knew it must come, no
matter by whom. Had he thought everything would be lost
without his being sacrificed, I doubt not but his name would
have stood far in advance of where Luther’s now is.‘ Luther’:
zeal made him victor. Let us content ourselves with the
knowledge that they are put there by nature to balance the
swinging scale of unfolding development.

While the clergy and press usually mark as rviclettes the
coming army of the people, these stand upon the pinnacle as
watchmen to tell the reformer all is well, and he must
triumph, for God is with him. ‘

March 21, 1874.

WOODHULLA 65 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY.’

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION IN GERMANY.

We glean the following interesting item from the Weser
Zevltzmg of February 1 (published in Bremen, Germany):

“The ‘national liberal’ party is at this moment forming

/ a league, under the leadership of the Baron of Stauffenberg I

at Munich,.for the purpose of agitating a federal progressive
income tax. Their intention is, according to the plans of the
originator of the move, Dr. G. Hirth, who is not a. Socialist,
however, to apply the proceeds of such a tax principally to
the perfecting of a general, many—graded, free, public school
system by the Federal (Imperial) Government of Germany.
This afi"ords an instructive instance of the power with which
the current of public opinion drifts toward Socialism; how
just appears to the people the demand of the Socialists to
afford to every member of society the most extended facili-
ties of education, even by means of so radical a measure as
the progressive income tax.” "

SPIRITUALISTS AND SHAKERS.

Believers in spiritualistic doctrines and a number of per-
sons belonging to the Shaker Settlement, held a meeting at
Ha1le’s Hall, on Superior street, at two o’clock Sunday after-
noon. .

The services were opened by Mr. Peebles, who said but
few persons were aware of the prevalence of spiritual mani-
festations. The world was, however, progressing. In com-
men with other persons the speaker had once believed that
spirits failed to appear to man since long ago, butthose ideas
had been entirely uprooted.

Elder James S. Prescott, of North Union, next spoke, pre-
facing his discourse by congratulating Mr. Peebles on his
safe return to the United States. _ A

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In the report of this meeting in the Cleveland ltlemld,
there was omitted the “ odium ” cast upon the much-abused
“ Woodhull faction” by Elder Prescott, who, in quoting
from the proceedings of the Tenth Annual Convention of
Spiritualists at Chicago, gave a construction to Mrs. Wood-
hull’s words there uttered totally opposite to her well-known
views. In this, where Mrs. W’. claimed a person “had a
right ” to change his or her husband or wife, the Elder
stated she, Mrs. VV., indorsed and advocated the idea of
change—of promiscuity. We are loth to believe that so good
and kind-hearted an old man would knowingly and “ with
malice aforethought ” bear “ false witness against his neigh-
bor.” When he stated- that “ We, the Shakers, don’t pro-
pose to follow or indorse that branch of spiritualists, he (the
Elder) did that very thing by first setting up his man of
straw by giving an erroneous construction to words spoken,
and then demolishing him by false conclusions. VVe would
pardon all this were it not well understood that in this case

“ There was apow-er behind the throne
Greater than the throne itself.”

Our Mephistophiles in this instance (Rev. J ames-M. Peebles)
had “ breathed into the good old Elder’s car a spell that
murdered truth.” His words were but the echo of his
master’s heart henceforth. Those words thus breathed and
echoed were: “ Give ear, oh ye earth,” and “ Harhen! oh
ye heavens,” while the mountain is in labor that will bring
forth a very small mouse. “ Mrs. Woodhull had at one time
made a statement to a friend of his, giving Mrs. Peebles as
her authority, when at that time Mrs. Peebles had never
seen Mrs. Woodhull.” Therefore Mrs. V‘Voodhull was a liar.
Therefore she is full of ways that are dark and tricks “ that
are vain.” Therefore I have repented me that I introduced
her at the Rink in Cleveland a few years since and indorsed
her very strongly. What he (Peebles) should have said was,

— at the time‘ Mrs. VV. advanced her doctrines of social free-

dom, being in England, hob-nobbing with the Spiritualist
lords and ladies, I thought, in imitation of the Apostle Peter,
to gain favor by claiming I “ knew her not,” hence my letter

I to the London Medium and Day Break denouncing her. It
pays, therefore I will keep it up, and everywhere denounce
and villify her, and claim she is not fit to come between
_ the wind and “ my noble self.” In indorsing social freedom
“ her offense is rank and smells to heaven.” Take her away.
“ Crucify her, crucify her.” To be sure I have not done this
openly and above board, but privately, and when I can en-
tice, bambozzle or humbug another to do it "(as in case of
good old father Prescott). Then, haven’t I worn my
“ patent cloak of double distilled, XXX, respectability;
and as heretofore advertise myself as Hon. or Rev. James
M. Peebles, just returned from atour around the world, full
to overflowing of “ Respectable, Spiritual Philosophy.”

Now, as to the "leading Spiritualist” who wrote the letter
to the Iferald, we would call his careful and earnest atten-
tion to the fable of the ass who “ clothed himself in the
lion’s skin.” iThe.“ ear marks” show that he is one of those
who have fallen into the sere “ and yellow leaf,” and to whom,
as with old Solomon, “ The grasshopper has become a bur-
den.”

In conclusion we would say, if the . ’ Spiritualist So-
ciety of Cleveland finally dies—-and it certainly has been
living but at a “poor dying rate ” for the last few years——on
its tombstone should be written this epitaph: This society
passed away, dying of old-aged respectability, against which
the unpopular truth dashed. so hard for admissionthat rather
than yield it died. ’l‘RU'rH TELLER.

MRS. WOODIIULL ATJANESVILLE, WIS.

An audience of the, most ifitelligent citizens of J anesville
greeted Mrs. Woodhull at Myers’ Opera House, on Wednes-

 day evening, February 4; and after the recitation of a poem I

by Miss Zulu Woodhull, “which was given in excellent style,
Mrs. XV. came forward, looking somewhat careworn and
weary, and was received with applause. _ K »
Her subject was “ Reformation or Revolution—VVhich ?”
and for an hour she held her audience spell-bound, Save
when the flow of earnest eloquence was interrupted by some
keen point of satire upon the shams of the day, which elicited
the applause of the entire audience.
There was but one opinion on the street next day, and that

was, “ She has told the truth, and everybody must ad-
mit it.” A‘

In company with a few friends we met Mrs. W. atithe ho-
tel next morning, and had the pleasure of listening to her
conversation on the important topics of the hour. It is here
that one may obtain a view of the real ability of this lady.
Every sentence she utters is a clear-cut diamond, which
strikes upon the ear like a prophecy or an oracle, carrying
conviction with it. , ' _

Long will we remember that interview, and the words of
counsel and encouragement that were given us. . . - ,

Thanks, Victoria! .And may the world soon learn that she
whom it is slandering and, persecuting is the angelthat is
rolling the stone from the door of the sepulcher of its purity
and peace, that they may arise in glory to bless and save hu-
manity. C. W. Srnwnr.

AGAIN IN THE TOMBS.

My Dear IVIrs. Woodhull-—For such I shall call you, while
dispatches like this below run the round of ‘the American
Press:

THE CASE or WOODHULL & oo.

“ NEW YORK, March 5.—In the case of Woodhull,’ Claflin
and Blood, on trial for libel in the Court of General Sessions
to-day, an application for a reduction of bail was refused,
and the prisoners were taken to the Tombs.” . .1

Str-anger or acquaintance is all the same now. ;' Daniel
Webster once said, in a Sunday political speech, “There are
no Sabbaths in revolutionary times.” Then, surely, there
can be no strangers in times revolutionary as these! Times
that try the souls of women as well as men——of women
more than men—and their bodies, lives, even, as well" as
souls. This is no time to say to you, Mrs. Editor. v

Again in the Tombs! and the telegraph wires don’t melt
down in_telling the tidings in the two hemispheres.’ Nor do
the hearts of operators, reporters, editors, judges, nor coun ts,
melt that such tidings are true! Nor will the hearts of
the people, I fear, to any great extent, in whose behalf you
have spoken and Written, laboredand suffered»-—and suffer
still. VVill even the hearts of mothers melt in common
whose daughters you would save, have tried to save, by warn-
ing of dangers besetting them everywhere——-in town and
country, in school and church, as well as at opera and in the
ball-room! More will weep for you than dare speak their
sympathy to their dearest friends. I 1

Watched with special attention your lecturing tours here in
the ‘Nest, and the notes and comments of the press in the
towns and cities where you have spoken. And I am sure it
is not too much to say of those places, as was said of some
not more favored, “The Kingdom of God has come nigh
unto them." -

But I fear your persecut-ors design your destruction. Be
it so, then. They cannot destroy the evangel you have pro-
claimed to the world. Theworld’s pressure of hate and
spite may harden it down like the coal in the mountain rock-,
which is only the condensed. carbonated sunshine of the
elder ages, but now the light, the wealth and joy of genera-
tions, grown wise enough at length to detect its mystery.
So shall your spoken and written words yet warm. illumine
artl bless and save millions of the children and children’s
children of those who to-day seek your blood, or look on
with frightful indifference while the chastisement of their
peace is upon you and with your stripes they are healed.

Courage, then, brave spirit! N oblest soul, I trust it shall
yet appear, of this nineteenth century. .

“ Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown
of life,” is the pledge and promise of Him who holds the

bonded security for its fulfillment for ever and ever.

That you and your heroic fellow-sufferers in this persecu-
tion may be found worthy suchrhonor; here and hereafter.
is and shall be the sincere desire and fervent prayer of your
constant co-laborer in all good work, A

I , PARKER PILLSBURY.
LMWOOD, ILL., March 6, 1874.. v

SPIRITUAL AN THROPOLOGY.

At a recent meeting of the Liverpool Anthropological So-
ciety, Dr. William Hitchman concluded a speech ‘on the
“ Spiritual Nature of Man ” in the following terms:

“As science, thus tested, is expanding our knowledge of
true spiritual phenomena, we find that man’s aspirations on

heaven itself. Its fruits, when duly appreciated, therefore,
cannot but be of the nature of practical righteousness and
more godly lives, springing from a conviction of religion in
the heart—a demonstrative truth of ‘Modern Spiritualism
which no enemy of its progress can triumphantly assault-
Onw/ard ever is its motto——humanity upraised throughout
the world from an existing vortex of vice, crime, drunken-
ness, disease and death; the Slough of Despond transformed
into a haven of peace; since man now learns, from the
positive experimental testimony I have here placed before
you (and that, too, by an intelligence from that bourne
whence, it is said, no traveler returns), that he is himself
the creator of his own spiritual sphere, whether for wealor
for Woe.”——Spirt'tual2'st of London, G. B. I ‘

_..___

. QUEER LOGIC. ‘
Some men’s reasoning powers seem to be so defective or
distorted that they alwavs appeal‘ to be Standing 011 their
heads and look upon events with their heels. But when such
an unhealthy state of affairs is manifested by a newspaper
editor, it becomes positively aggravating. Because John
Smith, for instance, don’t know enough to keep S0b31'a the
H ctwIc—Eyc sage wants to forbid William Smith drinking any-

a thing at all. And now he comes and electrifies his readers

with the following sparkling bit of reasoning:
“ Mrs. Abram Hartzler committed suicide near Marshall
last Thursday, hanging herself in the privy with a strip of

muslin, She was s dutiful wife, her his was pleasant and

I have read" carefully your journal all winter, and have‘

helm of the universe ; and whose honor and throne are

earth for the beautiful and the good are really born of A

‘H!

happy in all its relations, and it is impossible to conceive of

any motive for the rash act.”

‘Wonderful! Her life must really have been very pleasant
and extremely happy in all its relations; in fact, so exalted

“'35 her happiness, that she could not stand it any longer,

Door thing, but goes and astonisht-is the Home-Eye by com-
mitting suicide. . “'6 are also informed that, “she was a
dutiful wife,” which would make matters more “ impossible
to conceive,” if it were not for a gap in the information,
113me15'.‘VVe are not told whether Mr. H. was a dutiful hus-
band! This little link in the information is now likely tore-
main a secret, the principal witness beingdead. How un-
kind in poor Mrs. Heriz'er to depart so mysteriously. It is
not every man, and especially not the Sage, who can say,
“The voice of the dead is a living voice to me.”——B/url2"ng'ton
(Iowa) Da2'Iy..

“ MARY ANN,” OF THE SPICY BURLINGTON (IOWA)

’OTE.—HURRAH FOR Us.
Editor Daily-—It is very rare that the telegraphic news,which

much that would not keep without spoiling until it came by
mail, or that is of much importance to the huinan race any-
how. But to-day I actually blessed the Hawk-Eye for giv-
ing me a day of rejoicing, which, without the telegraph, we
could not have enjoyed before to-morrow. This morning,
before breakfast was on the table, I was skimming the col-
umns of your tiresome contemporary, when, to my intense
delight, I ran across the following little telegram:

'“DES lvlomrzs, March 4.—A joint resolution striking out
the word male from the Constitution passed the House by a
vote of 56 to 38.”

Throwing the paper to the ceiling I proposed three cheers,

will. If ever I was proud of the State of Iowa it is to-day.
Perhaps you do not quite understand the bearings of this
move, but it is only through woman that this country can
be saved from going to the bad; never by prayer crusades
and ladies’ relief societies and other well-meant but weak
/tea kettle excitements, but by declaring and accepting wo-
man as a citizen, as the peer of the “male” citizen. Then
will woman cease being a weak sister, man will become more
manly, and our political and social atmosphere will become
purified. Yours joyfully, M ARY ANN,

JAPA'N ESE WOMEN.

Naturally there are no figures more perfect than those of
the Japanese young Women. The children, up to the age of
fourteen, or as long as they have the free use of their limbs.
are models of symmetry. About that time they begin to
fasten long garments about their hips, the efiect is to impede
their gait, and give them an awkward shamble. In course of
time itdoes worse, and interrupts the development of their
legs and thighs. Among the laboring class an additional
misshapening is accomplished by the practice of carrying
burdens, from an early age, upon the back, for the support of
which broad straps are passed over the shoulders and
breasts. VVhen a ‘ Japanese girl reaches the age of
sixteen without having undergone either of the processes of
deformity, she is a wonder to the eye, and remains so until
twenty-five, possibly a little later. Then she ceases to charm
for a certain period, in any way excepting by her manner,
and that is generally preserved to the last. But as she grows
old she has a chance of becoming quite delightful again.
There is nothing prettier than a dignified and white haired
old Japanese lady. She is always happy, for she is always
much respected and cherished by her youngers, and at a cer-
tain age the natural high breeding of the race appears in her
to’ attain its crystallization. Whatever her station in life,
sheis almost always sure to suggest an idea of ancient no-
bility, and to be surrounded by an atmosphere of an Oriental
Faubourg St. Germain.——Atlantz'c Monthly.

' DRJKARL MARK, the leader of the elder branch of the In-
ternational Association, is engaged translating his work on
*“ Capital,” which-' has not yet appeared in an English form.

‘A CHICAGO paper having obtained a new subscriber, re-
cords the startling fact in a half column article, headed

“ Still Another! Our course indorsed by the people.”

REFQRMATORY Lnotrunnns.

C. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass.
J . I. Arnold, Clyde, 0.
J .0. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich.-
Chas. G. Barclay, 121 Market st., Allegheny City, Pa.-
Capt. H. H. Brown, Brownsville, Mo. 3
Mrs. II. F. M. Brown, National City, Cal. , -
Addie’L. Ballou, Terra Haute, Ind.
Warren Chase, St. Louis, Mo.
Prof. J . H. Cook, Columbus, Kan.
Mrs. Amelia Colby, Winona, Minn.
. Mrs. Jennette J‘. Clark, 25 Mi1fordst., Boston, Mass.
1 VA. Briggs Davis, Clinton, Mass. * A
1 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. Greenleaf, 27 Milford street, Boston, Mass.
’ L. A. Griffith, Salado, Bell Co., Texas. -
4 Anthony Higgins, Jersey City, N. J.
' E. Annie Hinman, West Winsted, Ct.
, D. W. Hull, Chicago, Ill.
Charles Holt, Clinton, N. ’Y. * .
, Mrs. Elvira Hull, Vineland, N. J’ y ; A /
Moses I-lull, 871 Washington st., Boston; Mass.
R. W. Hume, Hunter’s Point, L. I.
W.)F..Jamieson. 139 Monroe street, Chicago. ill.
Miss Jennie Lays. 4.; Trepciont Temple, Boston, Mass.

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‘DAILY. ON THE RAMPA-GE—-SHE EXPECTS To ‘

the associated press doles out to us every day, ever contains I

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Cephas B. Lynn, Stu is, Mich. -

Mrs. F. A. Logan,‘Og en, Utah. «

Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Ct.

Dr.,Geo. Newcomer, Jackson, Mich. ,
'Thos. W. Organ, Painesvillc, 

Mrs. L. H. Perkins, Kansas City, Mo.

J. H. Randall, Clyde, 0. .

A. C. Robinson, Lynn, Mass.

Wm. Rose, M. D., 102 Murison street, Cleveland,
‘Elvira Wheelock Ruggles, Janesville, Wis.
Julia A. B. Seiver, Houston,’ FlorIda._

Mrs. J. H. Severance, Milwaukee, W1s._ T

C. W. Stewart, Box 1306, J anes_v1lle, Wis. _ E _
Laura Cuppy Smith, Daily Union Ofiice, Detroit. Mien.
M. L. Sherman,_ Adrian, Mich. I

John Brown Smith, Amherst, Mass.

Mrs. H. T. Stearns, Corry, Pa.
Dr. I. D. Seely, La Porte, Ind.

Russell Skinner, Lyle, Minn.
Mrs. C. M. Stowe, San Jose, Cal.

v Dr. H. B. Storer, 137 Harrison avenue, Boston, Mass.
C. W, Stewart, J anesville, Wis. E »
J . H. W. Tonhey, Providence, R. I.

F. L. H. Willis, Willimantic, Ct. _
Lois Waisbrooker, Battle Creek, Mich.
Elijah Woodworth, Leslie, Mich.

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BUSINESS EDITORIALS

 

PLATFORM OF THE “ REFORM LEADER,” PUB-
" LISHED AT OSKALOOSA, IOWA.

Labor the only basis of civilization. .

Equal rights to all interests. A

Sober men for leaders, and honest men for oflice.

Arbitration between individuals in preference to legal
litigation. 0

“Honorable compromises of all National difliicultics in
preference to war.

A strict adherence to the Constitution in all legislation.

A strenuous support of a Constitutional administration of
the State, or General Government, regardless of party or
personal favor. _ 0

Economy in Public Expenditures.

Equalization of taxation. \

A decrease of ofiices and salaries, that there may be less
taxes.

A low tariflf for revenue.

Less laws and less legislation. J

No religious amendment to thc_ Constitution. «

Mutual rights, ,mutual’interests and mutual responsibili-
ties. . ‘ ,

More liberality between those who differ in religion and
politics.—— We should not tlz-in]: our opponents are dishonest for

A dz:17"em'ng unlit us——1t is more unportant to promote good men
, and measures than to be a blind partisan in bad company/.

And be it ever ours to advocate and defend the interests‘
and rights of the Farmers, Mechanics" and Laboring Men
of the country, on whose shoulders the great National debt
now rests, and by the sweat of whose brows it must be
paid. I I ,

And be it ours, also, to labor to bring about A BETTER
STATE or FEELING between the antagonistic elements of
the country, and in every possible manner endeavor to heal

the bleeding wound inflicted on,the body politic. ‘

But be it ours never to fear to express an opinion on any
question of public interest. ' I A

Farmers, mechanics and laboring-men, to you we appeal!
This paper will fight your battles of anti-monopoly. Will you
support it? The power of all the rulers and representatives
of the whole community is held principally in your hands.
Will you support men who from time to time disregard your
rights and interests, nor scarcely speak to those from whom
their power emanates? Many of ~ you and your intelligent
sons age well qualified to fill the numerous offices now im-

properly given to white-fingered demagogues. Will you ,
suppo1't a-paper that will contend for your rights, and in every‘

possible manner ‘endeavor to promote your interests?
Hoping to see the day when a general throwing overboard
of corrupt, white-fingered demagogues shall. take place in
all parties throughout the length and breadtlrof the land,
we expect to remain true to ‘the principles upon which we
established our paper; '
THE WORD,
A Monthly Journal of Reform——Regarding\ the subjection of
Labor, of Woman, and the Prevalence of War as unnatural
evils, induced by false claims to obedience and service;
favors the Abolition of the State, of Property in Land and its
kindred resources, of speculative income and all other
means whereby Intrusion acquires wealth and power at the

‘ expense of Useful People. Since labor is the source of _
wealth, and creates all values equitably vendtble, the Word

(not by restrictive methods, but through Liberation and
Reciprocity) seeks the extinction of interest, rent, div-
idends and profit, except as they represent work done; the
abolition of railway, telegraphic, banking, trades union and
other corporations charging more than actual cost for values

~ furnished, and the repudiation of all so-called debts, «the

principal whereof has been paid in the form of interest.

,4 V  Hnvwoon, Editor.
Terms—75c. annually in advance. 1
Address The Word, ‘Princeton, Mass.

WILL J udge A. J. W. Carter call at our office for a. letter

which has been intrusted to our care, or send us an address‘

to which we can forward it?

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THE Scientific Sermons by Stephen Pearl Andrews, at
De Garmo Hall (corner Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue),
are tobe issued, as reportcdlby a phonographic reporter, in
pamphlet form, with accompanying charts.

WAREEN CHASE

Lectures in Council. Bluffs, Iowa, March 15th and 29th, and
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“ Chambersystreetn 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street  7.00 “

:: Jersey City . . . . . .. .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “  Jersey City...  7.20 “

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“ Hornellsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ Hopnellsville . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ 

“ Bufl’alo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ Bufialo...; . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.45 “ Express.
1Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.00 “  “ fir guspension griclge . . . . ..  1:.‘ M. —--—-..—_.....
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Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10.21 “  “ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . ..  8.55 “

“ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ 11.25 P. M. “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . ..‘ . . . . .. 11.25 “ 9.27 “
“ Ann Arbor _ _ _ _ _ , ,  , , _ _ , _ , __ 11.00 “ 11.43 “ “ Ann Arbor . . . . .  . . . . .. 11.43 “ 9.50 “
“ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.15 P. M. 1.00 A. M “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. M. 11.30 “
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“ ca1un3’et.............LII.I.. 7.18 “ 7.47 “ “ Calumet ................ .. 7.47 “ 8.00 w

“ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 800 “ 800 " “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “  “

Ar Mi1waukee,,_,“ ___________ _ , _ 3-5.31) A_,‘,M. 11.50 A. M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5 30 affn

Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. £555 1-. M. . . .. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. ~  mm

Ax La Crosse _ , _ _ _ , . _ _ _ , , , __ _ 11,50 1», M, 7.05 A. M. Ar LaCrosse..~. . . . .  7.05 A. M 7.05}T‘m

Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 P. M. A1‘ St. Paul...;....., . . . . . .. 7.00 A M. 

Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8.15 A. M. Ar St. Louis....; . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M. _.'. * W

Ar ]%g<Ii1:1.Sli)a1. . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . ..  P‘.‘M. A3 lgteéggilgafi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  A.‘ M. .. .

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Ar Bismarck , _ _ _ , . , , _ _ _ , _ _ , _ __ 11.00‘ 1-, M, Ar Bismarck.. .. . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 r. M.  WE‘

" “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M. “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ 

“ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., 7.30 P. M. “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  

A‘1‘g>111‘l1fi1gt()I1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $.50 A. M» Ar gurlifiigton . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

‘ ma 9. .................... .. .00 P. M.  v “ ma a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

“ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..   “ Cheyenne...

 0gden....-_...‘. . . . . . . . . . . . . ..    0gden...._..-..‘ . . . . . . . ..

San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . ..  . San Francisco.‘ . . . . . . .

Ar Halesburg, . . . . . . . . . .. . 6.40 A. M-  Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

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“ Kansas City 10:40 P. M.  “ Kansas‘ City

“ Atchison... . 11.00 “  “ Atchison  .

" Leavenwort , 12.10 “— I " Leavenworth . . . . . .. .. 

“ Denver. . . . . . . . .  7.00 A. M. [ “ Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  , 

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Michigan Central  .. Great Western Railways.

At St. Catharines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne.

At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover.

At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. 
At. Paris, ‘with G. vW. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk:Rallway.

_ At London,'with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley and
daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. ' ’

_ At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De.
troit, Lansing & Lake Michigan R. R; to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit 35 Bay City lt. R.
Branch Lake S. & M. S. R. R. to Toledo.

At Wayne, with Flint & Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc.
At Ypsilanti, v ithD t‘ ‘t, H‘ll d l & Eel River R. Rs for Ma ~hest ', H'll’ cl 1 H v  * .. ‘
Columbia City, N. ‘ll'Iancliae1sSt)ér, D1eniezi'eand Indianapolis. ’ nc ex 1 S a 0’ dvmsmyo’ “ ammo

watef, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three Rivers and Cassopolis
Also with Jack, Lansing & Saginaw Branch, for Lansing, Owosso. Saginaw, Vveno-ta, .Sta]]dfgh Q,m,.f,,,.,‘3
and intermediate stations. Also with Fort Wayne. Jack & Saginaw R. R. for J onesville Waterloo [rm-1
,Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cin. R. R. to Lincinnati. - ,’ , ’

At Battle Creek, With.Peninsular R. R.

At Kalamazoo, with South Ha en Branch to G. Junction South Have, , to. Al ' ‘tn ‘_ . , C
R. R. for Clam Lake and intermediate stations’. Also with Branch of L. S.n&eM. s. I~i.°1i‘.n VG Rapids ‘K M‘

At Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw.
At Niles, with South Bend Branch. ‘

At New Buffalo, with Chicago & Mich. Lake S. R. R. for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pcntwnter am)’
all intermediate stations.

A}’%MIi{chigan City, with Indianapolis, Peru &, Chicago R. R. ' Also with Louisville, Ne w A]},,,ny &, («h A
cago . . ‘ ’

_ At Lake, with J oliet Branch to J oliet.
-' At Chicago, with all railroads diverging.

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WOODHULL &,CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY.‘

March 21, 1 874.‘

    

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The recent test of Fire-Proof Safes
by the English Government proved
the superiority of Alum Filling. No
other-Safes filled with '

‘ A Alum and Plaster-of-Paris.
MARVIN, E um,
I 265 Broadway, M. 17., ~
772! chestnut $12., Philu.

$20 The Beckwith’ $20

Portable Family Sewing Machine,
ON THIRTY DAYS’ TRIAL.

WITH STRENGTH AND CAPACITY EQUAL TO ANY, RE-‘

GARDLESS OF COST.

The Cloth-plate is the size used by a $100 Machine
is of Polished Plated _
tionate size and quality, while the entire machine has
corresponding finish throughout. Braider, Embroid-
erer, Guide, Hemmer, Gatherer, four sizes of Needles,
etc. , are given with every Machine.

N0 TOILSOME TREAD on THE TREADLE.
Every Mac/line carefully Tested and fully Warranted.

BEOKWITH SEWING MACHINE 00.,
862 Broadway, N. Y., near 1'?th st.and Union Sq. 142

MISS. LIZZIE L. CROSBY,
B USINESS CLAIR VOYANI

AND

SPIRIT MEDIUM.

Magnetic Treatment.

No. 316 FouFri-i AVENUE,

Between 23d and 24th streets,
, -NEW YORK.
Hours: 10 A. M. to 8 r. M. Terms: $2.00 to $3.00.

“MADAME CLIFFORD,
(LATE on 24 MYRTLE AV.),
THE GREATEST LIVING

Medical & Business clairvoyant,
HAS REMOVED To
222 STATE ST., near COURT,
Brooklyn.
I ;Examines diseases personally and by hair, and is
consulted on all affairs of life. and business generally.

SA TI SFA 0 TI ON G UA RAN TEED.

Oflice hours from 9 A. M. till 6 P. M. , Life Charts writ-
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THE

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ORGANS,

MANUFACTURED BY

E. P. lleeilham & Son,

14.3, 145 8C 147 EAST, 23d sT., N. Y.
ESTABLISHED’ IN 1846.

Responsible parties applying for agencies in sec-
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and liberal inducements. Parties residing at a dis-
tance from our authorised agents may order. from our
factory. Send for illustrated price list. "142

FREDERICK KURTZ’S
DINING ROOMS,

23 Newgsti. and 60 Broadway

76 Maiden Lane& I Liberty St.
AND, .
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Mr. Kurtz invites to his large and comfortably fur-
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suring them that they will always find there the
choicest viands, served in the most elegant style, the
most careiully-selected brands of wines and liquors,

s well as the must promggt atitentlora iii? secular liaiiea

7 Estes

Steel. Attachments of propor-,

Music has Bharmsl
ruicu EEDIJCEE.

The est in the .World.

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The best musical talent of the country recommend
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any address, upon application to »

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— V THE A 
Western Ru ral,“
THE GREAT

AGRICULTURAL 6: FAMILY WEEKLY
JOURNAL OF THE VVEST.
H. N. F. LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor,
WITH AN ,
Able (mcl Prcwtl'coll Edil0‘7"l(ll Stafi‘,
AND AN

EFFICIENT CORPS or SPECIAL AND
TARY CONTRIBUTORS.
‘ TERMS: V -
$2.50 per Yea‘; $2 in Clubs of Four or More.
SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS T0 AGENTS.

"A PLUCKY PUBLISHER.
[From the Chicago Daily Sun, Nov. 30, 1871.]

“ One of the most remarkable examples of Chicago
pluck and energy is given by Mr. H. N. F. Lewis, pro-
prietor of the Western Rural, one of the ablest and
most widely circulated agricultural journals in the
country. Mr. Lewis lost by the fire one of the most
complete and valuable printing and publishing estab-
lishments in the West, and also ‘his residence and
household goods. Yet he comes to the surface again
with iins‘nated ardor, re-establishes himself at No. 407
West Madison street, where he has gathered new ma-
teriulfor his business, and from which point he has
already issued the iirst number (since the lire) of the
Western Jluml, the same size and in the same form as
previous to the fiery storm. Nobody would imagine,
on glancing at the neat, artistic head and we'll-filled
pages of the Rural that anything uncomfortably warm
or specially disastrous had ever happened to it. Suc-
cess to Lewis and his excellent Rural. Chicago ought
to feel proud of it.” ’

The Largest and Hamlsomest ‘Paper for
Young, People.” ,

‘ THE

Young   Folks’ Rural,

A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY JOURNAL
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF COUNTRY AND CITY,

TERMS:
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The Young Folks’ Rural is a novelty among publi-
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different from any other in style and character. Six-
teen pages and sixty-four columns—t/‘Le largest news-
paper in C’/zicagol ~

IVHAT “THEY SAY.”

[From the (Iiztc-ago E1;entn.g'Post.]
“ H. N. F. Lewis, Esq., the well-known publisher of
that admirable weekly, the Western Rural, is publish-
ing a monthly rural and literarv journal, under the title
of the Young Folks’ Rural. * * * "i/Er, Lewis
is just the man to make it a. ‘big thing. ’”

[From the Letter of a llestem Mother .]

‘_‘ The Young Folks’ ,Ru_m_l is just what 0111 dear
children need. Altogethemt 1s a noble enterprise, and
will do an untold amount of good. It is the ‘ parents’
assistant,’ and all thinking parents will join me in
thanking you.” I

[From a School Teuchen]

“ I am a teacher, and take the paper for the benefit
and amusement of my pupils. Eyes are bri hter and
lessons better learned when the‘ Young Fo Ics’ Rural
makes its appearance.

SPECIMEN NUMBERS SENT FREE.

VOLUN-

Address. H. N. F. LEWIS, Publisher,
’ - -4 Chlcago, 111,
Both Western Ji?uml.and Young Folks? Rural furnished

THE   SllN.

No Chrome Fraiid with it.

 

DON’T SUBSCRIBE IF YOU-\VANT IT FOR
IV rapping paper or for cut-

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The Sun is printed in he read.

BY

PROGRESSIVE PEQPLE,

And takes its place on the Centre Table. '

While the old

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GOES UP ON THE SHELF.

SEND FOR THE TOLEDO SUM

Edited and Published, by J NO. A. LANT, at 129 Summit
A Strest, Toledo, Ohio.
TERMS:

$2.00 for fifty-two numbers; $1.00 for twenty-six
numbers; 75c. for thirteen numbers, in advance.

DR. J . C. PHILLIPS,

clairvoyant and Magnetic Healer,

OMRO, Wis.

Disease diagnosed at a glance by Look of Hair, by
letter stating age, sex and residence.
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Dr. Phillips is faithful, trustworthy and successful.
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UR AG-E.
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Spiritualism in the broad sense of that term-—does
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Can there be sides to a perfect circle or a perfect
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OFFICE AT HIS
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as CANAL ST., UP STAIRS, GRAND
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treated strictly on Botanic principles.

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Manufacturer and Proprietor

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