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CHAPTER XII.——[Continued.] ‘

“I, sir,” he said, “ speaking neither as Churchman nor as
Nonconformist, but as a simple citizen, utterly repudiate
the notion that this, our national institution for promoting,
not the suppression of thought, but the highest welfare of
our whole people——for such is my definition of a State church
—is in any sense whatever the rightful exclusive property of
that limited company which at present sits within and enjoys
the monopoly of it, holding fast the door in the faces of the
rest of their fellow-ci'tizens—even of us, who stand without
and knock, seeking in vain for admission, or else turn away
in disgust, and resign ourselves hopelessly to our exclusion.
N o, as a citizen I claim this noble appanage of the Estab-
lished Church, this splendid and far-reaching organization,
this affluence of resource, this accumulation of prestige, as
ours! ours to use and enjoy, ours to preserve and amend,
ours to hand down asa fair inheritance to our posterity, in
the highest degree of efiiciency to which we can raise it. It
is not that we have outgrown all need of such an institution.
The fact that we have called into existence, or are actively
maintaining, numerous private institutions of a similar char-‘
acter, proves that day to be still far distant. It is not that its
shortcomings are due to its connection with the State. As
well might the shortcomings of the police, the railways, or
the Post-office be ascribed to their connection with the State.
No; the shortcomings of which we complain in the Estab-
lished Church are due solely and exclusively to the self—im-
posed limitations of that body to which the State has com-
mitted the management and control of the department-
namely, those limitations upon opinion and expression which
have led to the exclusion of more than one-half of the people,
and at least nine-tenths of the intelligence, of the country,
from participating in its conduct and advantages.

“ VVe hear,” he continued, after a brief pause, “ those who
affect to be friends of liberty, demanding what they "are
pleased to call the liberation of religion from State control.
Liberty! What a spell must lie in that word when even its
enemies venture to conjure with it! Fancy the man bound
hand and foot, a willing slave to religious dogma, pretending
to wish to ‘liberate religion!’ You all know what it is we
mean by Papist. But away with these old terms. They mean
nothing now. There are Protestant papists as well as
Catholic papists. The contest is now not between Romanism
and Protestantism. It is between dogmatism and science;
between credulity and knowledge; between assu.mption and
proof; between dreaming and waking; between slavery and
freedom. For an organization which rests upon a dogmatic
basis, to demand exemption from State ‘control, is for a
tyrant to demand liberty that he may be free to impose a
heavier bondage.

“N o, no, there is but one way of liberating religion, of
nationalizing the Church establishment. Let the State, for
that alone is competent for the task, abolish all limitation of
article, test and creed, which serve but to close the human
soul to the divine voice speaking through man’s developed
mind and conscience. Let it abolish these barriers, which

- were reared in the dark ages of the past, and put humanity

in direct rapport with its maker. In place of a caste and a
sect of narrowly-educated perfunctionaries, let all good and
capable men be free to speak to their fellows that which the
universe has revealed to them concerning itself. Then, and
then only, shall we be free to hearken to the voice of that
spirit of truthfulness of which long ago it was declared that,
when it is come it will guide us into all truth.” ‘

I was fast being vanquished, when he proceeded to de—
scribe the results of the opposite course, and showed the
danger that would inevitably accrue to the State by erecting
in its midst a vast power like the Establishment, bound by
virtue of its traditions for evermore to - crush the souls of
men beneath a load of incomprehensible and unverifiable
statements, and restrain the development of that very intel-
lect and moral sense upon which the State itself subsisted.
The proposed rival scheme of disestablishment he denounced
as being thus a suicide for the State and a robberyfor the

nation, inasmuch» as it would involve the transfer of an

organization and appliances invaluable for the nation’s edu-
cational uses, to a sect comprising but a fragment of the na-
tion, and vowed to repress the development of the national
mind. “Let it not be for nothing,” he said, “that we once
dared to use Ireland as a corpus mile on which to experiment
for our own benefit. The statesman who robbed Ireland of
its national establishment, and endowed a sect with the pro-
ceeds, has other claims to the national gratitude. For this
he has none.” I C

After a rapidly sketched comparison between England torn
by religious factions, and oppressed by dogmas and tradi-
tions, and England united and free, he concluded by asking,
in the words of one who in that age ‘was regarded as being at
once poet and prophet:

“ Is it never to be true that ‘ God fulfills himself in many
ways?’ If so, if the Church is to declare that he shall fulfill
Himself in but one way, and that the Church’s way——that is,
if he is to be prevented from ‘fulfilling Himself’ at all let
us leave the Church as it is, or rather, let us raise higher its
barriers and strengthen its chains; let us stereotype our
minds and consciences into dull, inanimate uniformity, and
sink resignedly to themonotonous level and torpid existence
of marsh monsters; but no longer let us flatter ourselves
that we are made in the image of Him who loves to ‘fulfill
himself in many ways.’ Lacking such faith in the all-living
and all-being, it is the Church, not" the world, that is
atheist.” .

After the conclusion of the recitations, I sat absorbed in
my reflections, heedless af the buzz and tramp of the depart-

ing crowd; heedless even of the darkness in which the hall ‘

was fast being wrapped, throughvthe withdrawal of the lights.
So real for me had been the whole scene and controversy,
that it seemed as if the ages had rolled back, and I was an

interested partaker in the conflicts of the past. But, far-

back, in one respect, as the ages seemed to have rolled, in an-
other respect they had made a wondrous advance. The
change in me was as great and profound as that which passes
over awoman between the day before and the day after her
marriage. I felt that I could never become again as I had
been. The leprous scales of bigotry and sectarianism had
dropped from me and I was now a citizen and a free man.
And more than this. Ifelt that it might yet be possible for
the god of this world to be other than the devil. I looked
round for some one to greet as brother, I who had ever been
walled-up in the pharisaism of orthodoxy! _

At this moment a light step, coming from the room whither
the orators had retired after the contest, approached, and
stopped by me. Looking wistfully up, I beheld a face bent
upon mine, a face such as I had never before seen except in
ancient paintings. It was the face of a man about double my
own age——I was about sixteen—and beautiful exceedingly, it
seemed to me upon reflec tion, for at the moment I was con-
scious of nothing beyond’ the glance of the most mysterious
and penetrating, yet kindest eyes, which, as it were, took in
my whole being, and made all self-revelation superfluous.
Then a voice, low, measured, distinct and unutterably sym-
pathetic, said to me: ’

“ My young friend, pardon my freedom in addressing you.
I sat near you this evening and read all that passed in your
soul. The times of which we have been hearing were the
grandest in their issues that the world has seen. Had you
and I lived then, how eagerly would we have thrown our-
selves into the conflict and struck for God and humanity!
What were ever the battles of flesh and blood compared to
that tremendous conflict of principles which, happily for us,
resulted in the Emancipation? You feel this, now, at last?”

Won by his look andptone, I said:

“Ah, sir, what then becomes of the Revelation?”

"‘ My friend,” he replied solemnly, “ so long‘ as there exist
God and a soul, there will be a revelation, but the soul must
be a free one.”

I made no answer, and he added:

“ I must not aggravate the impertinence of which I have
already been guilty in addressing you by withholding my
name, though I am satisfied you do not consider it one.
Here is my card, and if ever you desire to improve our ac-
quaintance, _or think I can serve you, seek me out. Good
night.” A

On the card was “C. Carol, Triangle.” It was not until
long afterward that I saw him again.

CHAPTER XIII.

The nationalization of the Church Establishment-—achieved -

as it was by the practical sense of the English people, and in
spite of those who loudly clamored for a policy of severance
or destruction—proved to be the gateway of the emancipa-
tion. By it religion, education and society were at once set
free to remodel themselves in accordance with the percep-
tions and needs of the age. The desire to‘ separate the Church
from the State vanished entirely so soon as the department
was thrown open a.nd adapted to the wants of the people.
Now, for the first time in the history of the world, was there
a really freechurch, and it was to the scientific spirit that
the achievement was due—the spirit that said that if a thing
were true and necessary to be received, men could always
ho_ldit in virtue of its de monstrability and usefulness, so that
dogma was a mischievous superfluity. Under the accession
of a new bond of citizenship, the vast majority of the dis-
senting sects brought their wealth of organization and ap-
pliances, their learning and their zeal, and added them to
the common national stock. The “religious difficulty,” as I
have already explained, vanished, and thenceforward Church
and School worked together in the common cause of uni-
versal education, and upon a common basis; for there was
no longer a conflict between faith and knowledge, religion

and science, theology and mora1s——except, of course, in the

little clique to which I belonged, arrogantly self-styled the
Remnant. In the newly-constituted National Church the
State insisted that in order to be teachers men must be edu-
cated up to a certain standard. Upon that basis they were
free to rear their own fabric of thought.

Thus the emancipation consisted in the substitution of ex-
perimental and intuitions). morality for the old traditional

system. This involved the release of women from their pre- '
. ‘vious condition of social dependence. The adoption by them

of several new modes of living was the instantaneous result
of their enfranchisernent. And from the first the experiment
was found to Work better than even its advocates had antici-
pated, multitudes of persons who had hitherto lived together
unmarried, eagerly entering into contracts recognizable by
the State, and thereby legitimatizing their children. Indeed,
the proportion that abused their newly-won liberty was al-
most inappreciable, and these few would doubtless have
proved failures under any system. Moreover, being made
far easier of attainment through the relaxation of its condi-
tions, marriage ceased , to be an object of morbid desire.
Women had something else to occupy their thoughts, and
were more frequently content to follow other careers. Girls
were brought up to leok upon it as a thing that might some

day overtake them as an accident, more or less happy, but .

in no wise as their sole destiny, to miss which would be to
fail in life. Our ancient customs in regard to women were
such that we can hardly refer to them without a blush; so
fatal to their morals was apt to be the struggle to secure
their virtue. The emancipation changed all this. It rein-
stated modesty in the high place so long monopolized by
mere chastity. And, woman having learnt to respect her-
self, no longer a prey hunted and scared, man learned to
respect her also. '

It is worthy of note that in some cases the consciousness of
freedom produced an astringent effect upon manners. For
instance, previously to the removal of the prohibition against
the intermarriage of brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law such
marriages were exceedingly frequent, but since that event
they have rarely or never occurred. Not that there is any-
thing against them, but it is a notable commentary on the
principle of artificial restraints to find that the restraint
itself operated against itself. It was the intimacy fostered
under cover of the legal fiction of relationship between per-
sons so situated that produced the desire for a closer connec-
tion. When there was no longer any law against a man’s
marrying his .wife’s sister, such sister could no longer enter
her brother-in-law’s house, except on the same terms of dis-
tance which regulated his intercourse with other women.
There was thus no longer the attraction so apt to be engen
dered of custom and propinquity. '

There is yet another variety .in our mode of marrying to
which reference must be made, as it is that which was
adopted by Susanna Avenil. Her marriage was not only of
the third class, but it was of that class and the separate sys-
tem combined. Though married, she did not live with her
husband. These marriages are far from rare, and their origin
is somewhat curious. It had from time immemorial been an
almost universal practice of girls, and even of grown women,
of independent means and gentle nurture, to surround
themselves with pet animals, upon which they were proud
to be seen expanding their tenderest sympathies. Scarce a.
maiden lady in Britain but possessed one or more of these
creatures, whom she maintained at greot expense of feeling
and money.

At length, some time after the emancipation, some in-
genious and benevolent person, seeing how many destitute
children the country still contained in its streets and other
asylums, proposed to place a heavy tax on all animals which
were kept for luxury and not for use, but to convert it into
a premiumwhere the pet in question. was an adopted desti-
tute child. ’ .

The suggestion was favorably received by the then Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, a supposed descendant of the once
famous occupant of that office who excited boundless ridi-
cule and wrath by aproposal to tax certain indispensable
machines for procuring light and fire, called matches. Many
a sly innuendo was launched to the effect that the new tax
now proposed might operate as a set-off to the previous one,
by its tendency to multiply matches——a poor joke, indeed,

yet not at the time deemed too poor ta find frequent utter- ‘

ance. The suggestion, however, was adopted, and many a.
pet beast was discarded in favor of an adopted youth or
‘damsel. Young women who lived and worked alone, were

, found especially willing to take upon themselves the charge

of some destituted child. And suchwas the independence
of spirit which they acquired under the emancipation, that
they boldly faced the charges brought against them by
some of their more conservative fellow-citizens with the
answer: -

" Well, and why not? If we choose to exercise our mater-
nal sympathies without parting with our liberty, why should
we not do so?

Tradition being discarded, there were no grounds on which
to found a remonstrance. Parents could not complain, for
their daughters, no longer dependent upon them, had ceased
to encumber the paternal roof. They were free also from
the obligation of making marriage settlements, and provid-
ing costly tro-usseaux. It is even said that the young women
themselves, finding themselves prized for their more solid
qualities, came to place less value upon their dress-——dress,
that supreme temptation of the sex, before which even our
mother Eve is represented as having succumbed; for with
her perfect-ions she must have foreseen thus much of the con-
sequences of her disastrous ‘action.’

It is true that there had as yet been no experience to justify
the practice. But life has room for varieties, and experience
said “ Try.” And so the women of England, considering
that all social expedients are necessarily the result of experi-
ment, did try; and not being degraded by the cmsciousness
that their unions were unrecognized by the law, -succeeded
beyond their most sanguine anticipations.,For the men,Afind-
ing them worthierof their love and confidence in their new-
born independence and' consequent elevation of character
offered themselves far more readily as partners in the higher
classes of marriage than in any period of our history. In-
deed. to have already proved her qualifications as a tender
and judicious mother came to be regarded by men of sense
as a woman’s strongest recommendation for marriage; and
the question they asked was not “ Is she‘ already a mother?”
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It is thus that modern society has escaped the evil which
once constituted the greatest blot upon our social system.
No longer called upon in the struggle for existence to sell
themselves either with or without marriage for the means of
existence, women now give themselves only where they have
already given their affections. Those affections being, by
virtue of their very nature, not readily transferable, sexual
vagabondage is reduced to a minimum, and its evils are alto-
gether abrogated. ' ,

Inheriting the strongly marked independence of character
belonging to her race, Susanna Avenil was one of those
women who valued liberty above love, and placed her own
individuality and work before her aflections. She felt that
as a woman shephad a right to complete herself, and she re-
garded no human being as complete until he or she had be-

' come a parent. In her own case, it was a. duty owed to the

race, as well as to herself; a duty from which, had she been
weekly in body or brain, she would have considered herself

exempt; or, rather, her duty would have lain the other way: '

The lowest types and worst specimens of humanity, she
argued, are sure to breed; so that if the best abstain the
world will soon be given up to the worst, and the struggle for
existence will end in the survival of the least fit.

Her brother used to twit her by declaring that if she had
her way all the links would soon be missing which connected
man with his rudimentary basis. . Already had the ape, the
savage and the negro nearly disappeared, each in turn thrust
out of existence by the race just above it, and she would
still further widen the gap by eliminating the inferior speci-
mens of the higher types.

It was not-without a particle of vanity that she regarded
her own noble development of constitution and form. She
had inherited them, and it was no merit of hers to have
them. But the inheritance brought aduty with it. Having
inherited, she must transmit them. It was only by repaying
to posterity the debt owed to ancestry that she would de-
serve well of her kind.

The old-fashioned domestic life had no charms for her.
She deemed it fatal to independence and individuality, and
scorned, as an oriental extravagance, the notion that it is
a woman’s chief end to minister to the comfort of a man.
She scorned also the man who wanted such comfort. People
had said that, although so fine a creature, she was of a hard
nature. But a time came when she appeared to them to
soften. She had experienced a grief, a mortification, and for
some time held her head less high than had been her wont.
Had she been crossed in love‘? No; the man with whom she
had entered into matrimonial partnership had exhibited no
symptom of indifi“erence -to her. -He was a noble fellow, but
she had failed to become a mother, and the failure was to her
abitter sorrow. She feared that, after all, she was not to
be a complete woman, and at this thought her stately head
drooped._ The terms of her contract made severance easy,
even had the legislature not regarded childlessness as a valid
plea. Their compact had been one into which but little of
sentiment, as commonly understood, entered. Mingling with
his feeling of profound respect for her nobility of character
was a regret on the score of the toe business-like nature of
her disposition. Her temperature could not rise to the level
of such love as was likely to prove creative.

At least, such was his theory. As for himself, he soon
married again, and then came a new mortification for
Susanna. It did not consist in that which ordinarily con-
stitutes a humiliation for women. She knew not how to
be jealous. But in his new association her late husband be-
came a father. .

At length she gathered courage to try again. This time,
to her joy and pride, she had the success for which she pined.
It seemed then as if nature had reversed its usual order of
sequence. Love for her children was followed by love for
their father. Under this feeling she wished to renounce the
principle upon which she had dwelt apart from him in a
home of her own, with independent establishment and
liabilities, and follow the ordinary domestic usage. She was
ready even to encounter the taunts and reprobation of the
party of whose tenets she was one of the most distinguished

exponents. Disapproving of the familiar intimacy of ordi-
nary married folk, as ministering to indiflerence and con-
tempt, the conception which this party had of wedlock was
that of men and women dwelling apart from each other, like

gods and goddesses on the peaks of Olympus, always on their-.

good behavior, and seeing each other only at their best, In
accordance with this idea Susanna had been “content; to
dwell in decencies for ever,” as an old poet hath it———however
unsatisfying to the heart-——isolated and dignified, and re-
ceiving "the visits “of her consort in cold and formal state.

' When she now signified her readiness to abandon the sepa-

rate system, she found an unexpected obstacle in her hus-
band himself. He had not belonged to her party, but being
a truly conscientious man, he declared he could not accept
the responsibility of making her infidel to the tenets of her
life. They had got on admirably together so far, and it
would be a thousand pities to risk all by seeing more of each

‘other. He even said something about it being a “tempting

of Providence.” It is believed that be fully intended to
come round‘ in time, but that Susanna, to whom he was
really attached, would be the happier afterward for his seem-
ing reluctance. It was with much amusement that her friends
were watching the progress of her perversion, when unfor-
tunately her husband died. Susanna was long inconsolable;
but as her children grew up and flourished under her sole
direction, she gradually became reconciled to her bereave-
ment, and forgot how nearly her heart had betrayed her into
turning renegade to her most cherished principles. It was
thus that her own experience served to confirm her belief in
the soundness of her views respecting the relations of the
sexes; at least for persons of their own temperament,

4 CHAPTER XIV.
As Christmas Carol approached manhood lie manifested
certain tendencies which ofttimes indicated to his friends a
sympathy with the Remnant and its doctrines. Cultivating

an ideal in accordance with his own strongly religious tem-
perament, and regarding love as a deep devotion and life-
worship, involving the gathering up of all the relations and
clues of being, and casting them at the feet of the beloved
object, he hardly could bring himself to recognize as capable
of love at all those to whom it was a diversion and an amuse-
ment, a pleasant pastime for occasional indulgence, and
capable of transference from one object to another. Even
the frequent companionship of the Avenils, who found other
engrossments more absorbing than those of the afifections,
and consequently respected the light and changeable of heart
rather than those for whom love was ‘the supreme passion,
failed to operate as a corrective to Criss’s tendency to in-
tolerance on this subject. ,

He did not, however, imitate the Remnant, and condemn
people for having dispositions and principles different to his
own. But he could not help wishing that nature had in this
respect made everybody more like himself.

The Avenils held, and not without reason, that Criss’s ad-
diction to a contemplative life served to foster an ideal which
bore little relation to the real. It was his wont, whenever

his Ariel, saying:

“I shall go and lose the taste of it in the society of my
angels.”

And presently he would be soaring far above the clouds,
in regions where—for ordinary eyes—all was blank and still;
but which for‘him contained sweet sights and exquisite
sounds; for his ideal became real, and heaven opened itself
to him. _

“ Is it not very lonely up there?” asked one of the Avenil
girls of Criss, on his returning from along flight.

He was in a more communicative mood than usual. And
the girls left their various occupations, and gathered round
him while he held forth.

“Lonely up there! Oh n.0, it is never dull in heaven.
There is quite as much variety in life there as here. I see
what is in your minds. You fancy the people of the ideal
world are all grown folk who do nothing but talk profoundly.
That they cannot sufier from hunger, and therefore have no
need to work. That they run no risk of sickness or death,
and therefore need not to be careful. That there are no
young angels who require to be tended and trained. That
they all love God, and therefore do not love each other. Ah,
no wonder you think it dull. Perhaps you think, too, that
they are made of a material too attenuated and ‘transparent
to be visible to the eye, and too rare of density to be percep-
tible to the touch? Perhaps you even think that they are all
alike in the uniformity, or rather lack of sex?”

Criss did not know that Bertie had already reported many
of his aerial experiences. The girls manifested great curi-
osity, and said:

“ Are there such distinctions in those regions ? Do tell us,
dear Criss.”

But they showed no levity; that, they knew, would at
once close his heart and his lips. '

They could not, moreover, help feeling a certain degree of
awe on recognizing the manifest likeness of character sub-
sisting between him and those mystics of antiquity who
founded the various religions of the world. Occasionally,
in his absence, they would discuss the question how far his
peculiarity was due to an extraordinary vividness in the
faculty of _personification, whereby the ideas perceived by
his mind were at once transmuted into bodily form by his
eyes; and how far they had a basis in fact.

Criss’s own theory involved an identification of material
and spiritual substances.

“ Thought,” he argued, “ does not think. It is the product
of something that does think—that is, of a really existing
entity. This entity may be the basis of all things; and it is
a mere assumption to regard it as incapable of manifesting
individuality and intelligence under forms other than our
own, and without transmutation into the grosser plasms.”

The general conclusion of the Avenils was that he was sub-
ject to a tendency to dream without entering the condition
of sleep. The strong asseverations of impossible events

means necessarily to conscious falsehood, but rather to that
unconscious and abnormal activity of the imagination which
has its results in the waking dream. Such dream may en-
dure but for an instant, and come in the midst of a crowd of
distractions, and be manifestly based on facts of which we
were previously aware; but it is not the less a dream. The
confusion of the objective with the subjective, caused by
this characteristic, was, they believed, so liable to be mis-
chievous in its effects, that they ardently hoped that Criss
would, as he became older, grow out of it.

It was in reply to their eager questioning respecting the
sex of his aerial friends, that he said, speaking in his most
serious tone:

“The love of God in the heart of the creature must ex-
pend itself on the creature, otherwise it would madden or
destroy. Were there no sex there would be nought but self-
love. Therefore is duality the universal law of life. There
are, however, mysteries which the angels themselves cannot
fathom. Outwardly, their form of government is republican,
having no visible head. Inwardly, it is monarchical and
theocratic, for the idea of God rules in the breast of each.
Every individual angel has a voice in the common affairs.
It would be impossible to exclude the female angels from
taking an equal share with the male, in political as well as in
social matters, for all dress and look alike, save only to the
eye of love.

“ Down here, with us, should a woman approach the polls,
the official, being a male,’ and constituting himself a judge of
dress and fashion, as well of nomenclature, would say, ‘ By
the character of your dress, or the termination of your name,
I adjudge you to be a woman. You must therefore retire.
The privilege of voting is not accorded to those who are thus
attired or styled.’

“The universal development of sex with us makes such
outward distinctions indispensable. But, above, sex is a

the real, either in act or in word, jarred on him, to jump into ,

with which history abounds they held to bedue, by no ,

manifest only to the loved one. Indeed, until love comes, I
understand sex has no existence, being produced only under
the influenceof a natural affinity. When two young angels
first conceive an affection for each other, they know not into
which sex either will develop. But these things are mys-
teries. not yet fully revealed to me.” '

“My dimculty,” remarked one of the elder girls. “in com-
prehending aperfect existence, is mostly of this kind. Of
course there_must be desires to be indulged, and gratifica-
tions to be obtained; for without them existence would be
devoid of an object and aim. But if what one wants comes
without efiort, it possesses little value and brings little hap-
piness. And if the requisite effort be great, it may surpass
the powers of some to make it successfully, and so lead to
disappointment and despair. I should like to know how the
inhabitants of the ideal world contrive to balance between
the two conditions.”

“You are imagining a perfection,” answered Criss, ‘_‘ that
is impossible, save for two, the All-being and the Non-
existent. The happiness of the angels consists in the perfec-
tion of their sympathies, which tell them what is within their
power of attainment and what is beyond it; and of their
good sense, which leads them to be satisfied with the former.
The leading rule of their lives is found in their own Inmost.
The worship of the Inmost is the ritual of heaven. It alone
is sacred to each,for to each it is the whisper of the All-being.
God is to them neither sphiiix nor fiend, but truly a Father
of Lights. There, no church would be catholic, no conven-
tionalism moral, which sought to override this divine voice
in any individual soul.”

“ Why, that is the essence of the Emancipation,” said an-
other of the party; “to follow our individual temperaments,
instead of laying down an identical rule for all.”

“ But it does not follow that one temperament is not
capable of afar higher degree of happiness than another,”
said Criss. .

“That may be,” was the reply; “yet I suspect that fre-
quency of repetition is, for many of us poor mortals, a very
fair substitute for intensity of emotion.”

“ I ought to have said,” answered Criss, “that the angels
exempt love from the category of variables. That is always
a serious matter with them.” _

“ I don’t care to be an angel, then,” exclaimed the charm-
ing and vivacious Bessie. “ And I pity them, for they eyi-
dently don’t know the pleasure of flirting.”

While his friends of the Emancipation credited him with-
belonging to the Remnant, those of the latter with whom he
held occasional intercourse thought hiin terribly far gone in
the other direction. ’

They held the strong old-fashioned doctrines respecting the
heinous nature of “ sin ;” and Criss maintained that they
had no right to judge of such matters except by analogy.
“ No human parent,” he argued, “ ever considers his child to
have erred past forgiveness. You have no right to think that
the Universal parent is harder. As for our own repentance
for our faults, if He can allow them to find aplace in his
domain, it is possible that we may find things better worthy
to absorb our attention.” I

He even became bitter and sarcastic in his reprobation of
th slavishness and timidity of their orthodoxy.

“ Love Grod !” he exclaimed to a group with whom he was

discussing these matters. “ Surely you would not have the‘

presumption. Fear to do wrong! Of course it is better to
do nothing than to do wrong. Much better had it been if
the Creator had acted on your principles and abstained from
creating. Had there been no universe,there had been no sin.”

Some of his hearers thought they detected a blasphemy in
this utterance. It seemed to imply that the Creator himself
prefered to do wrong rather than to do nothing. '

“Well,” said Criss, with a smile that horribly perplexed
them, “ do you hold that there is no evil in the universe? If
there be any, whence came it? And if there be none, what
becomes of your favorite theory of things? Ah, if you would
only fear less to see things with your own eyes.”

“We fear nothing, for our souls are safe in his hands who
has saved them,” they said.

“None can save the soul of another,” replied Criss. "' Even
he in whom yon trust can only show us how to save our souls
ourselves. It is not to be done by thinking or appearing, but
by being and doing. Each of us is a force, to be put into
action and utilized. It would be a poor sort of locomotive
that discharged all its power into the air for fear that if it
commenced to travel it would run off the line.”

His friends in the Triangle knew nothing of this side of his p

character. He was near his majority when Avenil, taking
advantage of a visit from him, sought to sound him on the
subject of his settlement in life.

“ I sometimes fear,” he said, “ that we shall soon lose sight
of you altogether. Your sympathies seem to be more with
the old orthodoxy of the Remnant than with us votaries of
science. I‘ shall not be surprised at seeing you finally cap-
tured by those daughters of Heth.” v

“ Do I strike you in that light?” exclaimed Criss, sur-
prised. “I had no idea of it. No, no, Mr., I mean-Lord,
Avenil dear. If I am not in perfect accord with you, I am
far less in accord with them. For me the first essential is
genuineness. lf ever I marry, than which nothing at present
seems less likely, it is not among the fettered and conven-
tional that I shall seek a wife. Her nature must be nature,
not art; real, not manufactured. I do not quarrel with your
method,.so far as it goes; only, it seems to me to stop short
by so much. In that your science has for its end and aim the
development and satisfaction of the affections, it possesses
my entire sympathy. They of the Remnant would crush
those affections as being merely natural. You work with
nature; they work against it. But 1 always feel that there
are departments in nature of which you take no account.
Delicate and sensitive as are the instruments with which you
gauge the finer material elements and their phenomena, they
are still utterly inadequate to appreciate the existence and

phenomena of the mind. There is thus a whole universe of
facts lying entirely outside of your range, and to me the

_matter of private concern, unrevealed to the ofliicial eye, and most interesting of all facts.”

 

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“ Granted what you say,” returned Avenil, “ there will
ever be this difliculty to be overcome—-the same mind cannot
at once be set in motion and at rest. Study implies activity,
and in order to be studied the object must be at rest. A
man therefore cannot investigate his own mind, and it is im-
possible to see into that of another.”

“For me,” replied Criss, “there seems to be an inter-
mediate condition, of which you take no account; and it is
that which I love to cultivate. I find I can do so with more
success in the finer airs aloft, than down in these denser
strata. ‘It is a condition in which the mind becomes clear
andluminous as crystal; absolutely at rest, so far as effort
is concerned, but still self-conscious. It is a condition, not
of thought, but of reverie: the condition in which alone,
since the world began, man has found it possible to
hold con verse with God. Your scientific activities can
embrace but the limited; and these, parts only of the
organism of the universe. Spiritual reverie reveals the
highest results of the whole. The value of such reverie I
grant willingly, is in proportion to the amount of moral and
scientific training the mind has received. Knowledge and
feeling, taken -separately, are Worth nothing. It is through
their union alone that we can know God. It was because
the intuitions of the ancients were unenlightened by science,
or exact knowledge of nature, that they produced those
hideous ideals of the deity which make the ancient religions
so repulsive to us. Now, my reveries,” he added, smiling,
“have the benefit of all the knowledge I owe to your good-
ness to me; but surely I should be making light of that
knowledge were I to interpret it by anything short of the

‘best of the faculties I find in me. I mean my intuitive per-

ception.”

“You w,il1~remember,” said Avenil, “that I have uttered
no word against the possibility either of intuitive perceptions
or of revelation. I say only 'that,iwithout the capability of
being verified by repetition and experience, it is impossible
to communicate them to others. They remain in the region
of dreams.”

“ I see,” replied Criss, “ and will think over what you say.
But 1 did not come here to take up all your time in talking,
but to congratulate you on your new dignity. I cannot tell
you how pleased I am, both for your sake and the coun-
try’s.”

Criss alluded to Avenil‘s appointment to a seat in the
Upper Chamber of the Legislature, which hadjust been con-
ferred, unsought, upon him. It was a grateful proof ef the
country's appreciation of his labors on behalf of science,
especially in its sanitary and agricultural relations.

(To be continued.)

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SPIRITUALISTIC.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH NATIONAL
CONVENTION OF SPIRITUALISTS,

HELD IN PARKER MEMORIAL HALL, BOSTON, oN TUESDAY,
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 16 AND 17, 1874.
MORNING sEssIoN.

In accordance with the call of the ‘Provisional National
Council, this national mass convention, composed of Spirit-
ualists, Socialists, Infidels, Materialists, Free Religionists
and Free Thinkers, was opened in Parker Memorial Hall,
Boston, on Tuesday morning, September 15, 1874. At 10 :25,
the convention was called to order. .

Mr. L. K. Coonley was chosen president.

Anthony Higgins, J r., Susie Willis Fletcher, Marion Todd,
for vice—presidents; VV. F. J amieson, secretary.

Committee on Order of Business were: Benjamin Todd,
Moses Hull, Sarah Todd, Augusta Cooper Bristol, Mr. Storey.

Finance Committee—Anthony Higgins, Jr., Dr. N. H. Dil-
lingham, Emma Clayton, Mrs. Dr. L. J. Rice, Mrs. Bullock,
A. C. Carey. .

Committee on Resolutions—Augusta Cooper :BriSUO1, D. H.
Hamilton, Benjamin Todd, Mrs. Dr. Cutter, Mrs. Corey, Mrs.
Hope Whipple, Mrs. Geo. L. Barker.

W. F. J amieson offered the following preamble and resolu-
tions which were adopted: -

VVHEREAS, we as a convention are met for the purpose of
advancing the cause of truth and human welfare in the dis-
cussion of all subjects in which the good of the race is in-
volved.

Therefore, be it Resolved, That we, as Liberalists, confine
ourselves to the discussion of subjects, not persons; princi_
ples, not men nor women.

Resolved, That any departure from this parliamentary rule
by any speaker will be declared out of order.

Chauncey Barnes olfered a. prayer. Daniel W. Hull in-
quired if the Lord would febl any better after so much glory.
The President called Mr. Hull to order.

A communication purporting to come from the spirit of
Horace Greeley to Walter Wood, was read.

Daniel W. Hull discoursed upon the “great danger to our
country from religious oppression,” closing with remarks
upon the “tyranny of capital.”

Mr. Atksnson, of Phi1adelphia——I am one of those kind of

—men who believe in equal rights. We are told that he who

is not willing to_shed his blood must be recognized as a cow-
ard. I expect to be courageous when the crisis comes; but
it will be moral courage which shall be more potent than all
the swords and all the material of warfare. It may be that
I will be imprisoned. [Voicez “ Is not self-preservation the
first law of nature?”]

Mr. Atkiuson——Self-preservation the first law of nature!
That is an old «fogy doctrine. [Applause.] There is a power
that can preserve me—a power which has preserved me hun-
dreds and thousands of times—a power that I could not see
nor feel.

Seward Mitchell, of Maine, said while he was in favor of
harmony, he would surrender no right to obtain it. My doc-

_trine is: “Peace; if possible; truth at any rate.” [G-1-eat

applause]
Mr. Clapp, of Scituate, declared the government one of

robbery, and declared that the laboring classes are a
conquered people.

Convention adjourned.

AFTERNOON sEssIoN.

Convention called to order by vice-president Susie Willis
Fletcher. ~ .

Conference—Augusta Cooper Bristol recited an original
poem, which was greatly admired by the audience.

Dr. L. K. Coonley—I am glad we are coming to recognize
the oneness of humanity: that God made us all of one blood;
that we do feel each other’s woes and must bear each other’s
burdens. If we can so educate the masses that they, too,
shall recognize this grand fraternal union, will n_ot the angels
bring us the glory? ‘

Chauncey Barnes——We are here to give vent to our feel-
ings. A convention should be a union of souls. Talk is
cheap. The time has arrived for action. I hope the conven-
tion will take into consideration how we-shall act. We ought
to work for the race, for the nation, and learn how to benefit
each other. '

Mr. Brown——I like this broad call. Let us do all the Work
we can, attend to health-reform and all other reforms.

Prof. J . H. W. Toohey—We should give more attention to
science. Vie have been beating the bush for twenty years.
In the name of freedom we have had more discord than con-
cord. Until you get a scientific basis it cannot be otherwise.
The Spiritualists should not only talk upon freedom, but
should insist upon culture. We should go to school to men
of science. We will need to construct our platform on the
basis of science. [Applause.]

George A. Fuller, of Natick, gave the firstregular address:
“ Radical Spiritualism ”—I come before you as a radical
Spiritualist. Radicalism goes to the root of things. There
are some Spiritualists who are striving to chain spiritualism
to the Bible: The misery and slavery of to-day is the result
of our religious institutions. The present condition of
woman is but the legitimate result of Christian teachings;
woman, bound down with Pauline chains of mysticism, a
slave for centuries; compelled to bow to man as the head of
the woman. That system is damning. We have arrived at
the day when we ought to speak out boldly our thoughts
about these things that have been a curse to the land.

Daniel W. Hull delivered the next regular address on
“ The Sexuality of Religion,” of which We give the following
synopsis :

The lecturer commenced by declaring that “behind life,

whether physical or spiritual, lies the sexual nature. The
Gods of the heathen nations—-many of them—had mothers
who attained the office of maternity in the usual way, though
not always in harmony with the monogamic teachings of the
Pharisees of the earth.” He then proceeded to say that “ the
dignity of Jupiter was measured by the excess of his sexual
nature;” and referring to Numbers xxxi. 40, he submitted
on that basis that the same was the case with the Jehovah of
the Hebrews. »
w A humorous description was then given of the manner of
getting up what are called “ religious revivals,” in which Mr.
Hull declared that the basic power relied on by the clergy
was a skillful manipulation of the youthful females and
males in their congregations. He garnished this part of his
discourse with many texts from the Song of Solomon, which
we decline to insert, they being too highly peppered for the
pages of the WEEKLY.

The rest of the lecture was devoted to a strict and analyti-
cal discussion of the positions held by Jesus of Nazareth and
Paul of Tarsus. on the subject of sexual intercourse. In the
course of it he asserted that the Greek Word rendered
“ without sin” really means “ not guilty,” which would
make the text read: “Let him that is ‘not guilty’ among
you cast the first stone ”——that being the decision of Jesus in
the case of the woman taken in adultery. Also with regard
to the text—1 Cor. vii. l0——“But if any man think that he
behaveth uncomely towards his virgin, and she pass the
flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he
will, he sinneth not; let them marry.” Mr. Hull declares
that the word “ marry?’ should be rendered “ conjugate.”
He concludes: “I boldly affirm that this is the true spirit of
the original. Indeed, the drift of the Whole chapter is
against the ordinary idea of marriage and favorable to lib-
erty in the social relations.” [Of course the lecturer claimed
that Jesus of Nazareth and Paul of Tarsus, by both words
and deeds were free lovers, and in our opinion fully proved
the truth of his position in their cases.——EDs.]

Adjourned.

TUESDAY—EVENINGr sEssION.

L. K. Coonley in the chair, and a largely increased audi-
ence.

Conference one hour.‘

L. K. J oslyn—Spiritua1ists put spiritualism on a scientific
basis of knowledge. Scientists, who do not investigate Spir-
itualism, do not carry the scientific method into religion;
but put themselves in favor of the orthodox religion on the
basis of faith. ' ‘

Afriend, this afternoon, asked me about the free-love ques-
tion. I said there’ is the same freedom there as in religion.
We want some knowledge of love and parentage, some
knowledge of the science which lies at the basis of these
things. The highest scientific knowledge attained by men
and women is the knowledge of how to give birth to healthy
organizations.’ If people made such a. failure in art as they
do iubegetting children, art would be the veriest botch. '

Moses Hu1l—For a wonder, I have not opened my mouth
during these two sessions; and there is another wonder, that
the first words I have uttered are not “ free-love,” as many
of you expected they would be. A person who promises to
love to-morrow the one he loves to-day is like one who
promises to think to-morrow as he thinks to-day. The one
who says he or she is bound to think to-morrow as to-day,
shuts himself or herself off from a fresh thought, and is not
philosophical. I love and believe that which commends itself
_to me to day. Free religion and free-love run on the same
train.‘ ‘

Col. Green—I have tried to find out the free-love doctrine.

I have heard that you have handsomer, better proportioned,
better constitutioned babies than other people. I don’t see any
babies here. The question is, who is going to pay for Mr.
Hull’s babies? Is it not right that a man should pay for his
own children?

Moses Hull—It is the duty of the State to educate children.
Babies born out of wedlock are better than those in wedlock.
Take the Oneida Community, for example. The children
born in that community are superior to those born in legal

marriage. They never had one child addicted to secret vices, . '

not one crooked-legged or otherwise deformed child'in the,
whole community. _ .

Mrs. Dr. Cutter—I am a wife of twenty-seven years, a
mother twenty-five years, a physician twenty-four, and this
question—I judge from experience—is the foundation of all
reforms. We must have freedom before we can have love
and love-children. Those Spiritualist-s who say they will not
discuss these questions are just as bigoted as the church
people ever have been. It is our business to seek out the best
way to improve the race, and the proper Way is to begin with
the children. "

Isaiah 0. Ray——I am glad to hear this woman speak out in
the strong terms she does., One—half the children born into
the world have no mothers. [Laughter] _

I have advocated the idea ever since I was a man, that the
child should go to the State. I have no children, and am
nobody. Some ask, “ Where are the children going if mothers
do not take care of them ?” Good God, Mr. President, where
are they now ? '

[Voice—“ In the State prisons.”]

The gentleman asks, “ ‘What is free—love ?” It is not
forced love! [Applause and laughter.] When children will
belong to the State, when the property of the State will be
used to train them, we will have no unwelcome children.

The first regular address of the evening was given by
Marion Todd, on “ Despotism, or Freedom.”

Closing address by Anthony Higgins,,,J r. : “ Are You Going
to do Anything Practical? ”

WEDNESDAY—MORNING sEssIoN.

Mrs. Augusta Cooper Bristol,Chairwoman of Committee on
Resolutions, offered the following report:

Resolved, That it should be the primary effort of Spiritual-
ism to inaugurate conditions wherebya knowledge and appli-
cation of the laws of science in all departments of life and
action shall ultimate in a just distribution of the rewards of
labor and in equal opportunities for culture; in a freedom
which forever proves that self-ownership necessitates self-
mastery; and in a code of morals that is in harmony with
natural laws, and which profoundly recognizes the needs,
possibilities and divine potentialities of human nature.

Resolved, That all human rights exist and are inherent in
the individual, and when legislators assume to control those
rights they become tyrants and should not be obeyed.

Resolved, That the sexual and social relations are the true
foundation on which to build all the institutions which have
the welfare of humanity in view. ~

Resolved, That we demand the repeal of all laws enacted
for the purpose of restricting the individual in any sense
from the full exercise of both social and sexual rights.

Resolved, That the instincts of all true womanhood are
against bearing childggen for the State and handing them
over to its care, while it is so stupidly ignorant of the best
modes of moral and spiritual culture as to turn over its moral
offenders to the prison and the gallows for correction.

Resolved, That communal life according to congenial
groupings furnishes the only proper conditions for the prac-
tice of stirpiculture; that it is the‘ next step in social prog-
ress and ought to be thoroughly discussed by this convention.

On motion, the resolutions were received and considered
sewlatim. .

The Chairman explained that the adoption of resolutions
simply indicated the status of the convention.

Dr. H. B. Storer moved that the resolutions be discussed
but not voted upon.

W. F. J amieson saw no good reason why the meeting
should not vote and thus express its will as a body.

Hon. Warren Chase agreed with both Storer and J amieson,
but was in favor of no vote’ being taken. We do not Want to
vote a creed. .

Mr. Jamieson was no more in favor of a creed than Bro.
Chase, and was not convinced that voting on resolutions was
voting a creed. Last year we voted; every year we voted.
Bro. Chase voted for a creed last year as long as my arm, if
resolutions are a creed. He is the treasurer of the associa-
tion with the longest creed in the world!

Mr. Chase—And Bro. J amieson is the secretary.

L. K. Coonley—I am certainly in favor of an expression of
opinion by the convention. I see A no reason why we should
not express an opinion as a convention, especially when it is
understood that the minority are not compromised by the
vote of the majority.

A. C. ,Cotton—Suppose you, as a convention, discuss the

question that capital punishment is wrong and ought to be .

abolished? Are We to have no expression of opinion as a
convention? . ’ ‘

Josiah P. Mendum——The Convention ought to waste no
time in discussing its mode of business. Settle that after the
discussion. ' A

The Chairman—It is a ’pm'1°.c73ple which ‘we want to settle,
and_ not merely an order of business. ~ ,

The convention voted not to vote by adopting Mr. Storer’s
resolution :

Resolved, That we do not vote upon the resolutions pre- ’

sentcd, but accept them for discussion simply.

Carried by a rising vote of 134 against about twenty, the
noes not counted.

J . W. Fletcher gave the first regular address of the fore-
noon: “ Spiritualism not to be made Respectable, but
Respected.” » g

L. K. J oslyn delivered the second regular address, which
was on sexual freedom. ‘He said: “Sexual freedom and
knowledge is intimately connected with spiritualism and
with all other reforms. Sexual purity and truth is basic to

 

 

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Oct 10, 1374.

all purity and truth; and it is only through purity and in-
tegrity on our part that we can afiiliate with the true and
good of material or spiritual spheres. The community that
possesses the most of political, religious and industrial free-
dom is the best prepared for the philosophy and practice of
sexual freedom.” ‘ g

The lecturer then went into a very able discussion of the
fruits of legal and forced marriage, and stated that seventy
per cent. of the deaths in the six great centres, in the month
of J uly last, were of children under five years of age‘. The
subject of physical adaptationin sexual unions next came
under discussion, and was very ably treated. Then some
fine remarks were [made on the law of evolution. The rest
of the lecture we give in full: ' O '

“ Must not love be free? The love of the mother must be.

free. There is no force in this, no force in the love that the
babe holds to its mother. It lives in the halo of love’s glory,
and puts a joy in all things in the World. Love, must be
essentially free. It cannot exist by compulsion. The
mother loves the child, and by the same law of nature the
father is equally obligated to love the children.

“ If there be a time whenlthe woman needs the baptism of
love it is when she is carrying her unborn babe. [Great ap-
plause.] She needs the manifestations of affection from the
man she loves. The babe should be the little outbirth of
love and attraction. _

“A few years ago the education of children by the State
was a myth; but, as soon as the world saw that the State
could educate them, it was willing to have it do so. It was but
a step further to say that parents who cannot educate and
take care of their children should have the State to do so for
them. In Russia this is the case now. Hundreds of thou-
sands of poor children are there reared and educated by the
State. Cannot free America do as much for her children as
monarchical Russia?”

The State will take the children tenderly in her arms and
provide clothing and shelter for them until they are capable
of taking care of themselves. Under care of the State, a
scientific training will be given, and they W111 GU30)’ the
benefit of rambling over the fields that our father (God) and
mother (Nature) have furnished for all their children.” [Ap-

[To be continued]

DR. F. R. MARVIN.

Doctor Frederic R. Marvin, the author of the treatment of
“Mediumania," is said to be at work on a new book which
.wi11 not only use up spiritualism, but Christianity and every
other anity that recognizes the doctrine of immortality.
It had better be known once and forever that Doctor

.. Marvin is a Positivist and a follower (though in secret) of

Auguste Compte. He .has not the courage to call himself a
Positivist, and so We help him out of his difliculty and con-
fess for him. We congratulate the Positivists on the conver-
sion of this young poet, who may in the future sing their
songs of matter and annihilation. We relinquish all claim
to him. Good-bye, Dr. Marvin. D. DOUBLEDAY.
THE BANNER OF LIGHT AGONIZING.
BY W. F. JAMIESON.

Two texts this time in the paper vaiich suffers from icono-
clasts. The Banner is good to get. texts from. Like Bible
texts there is not much truth in them, and they are selected
solely toshow the baleful influence of sticking to a position
when it is rendered untenable. '

Spiritualists are not all liberalists. Building on a different
foundation from that of the Christian church; never seek-
ing to accomplish the impossible and undesirable unity of
belief sought after by the Catholic and no less by the Pro-
testant church, they have every possible incentive to be lib-
eral. Diversity of thought and its free expression have been
the distinguishing characteristics of the rise and progress of
modern Spiritualism. If the harmony, so much talked about
among Spiritualists means agreement in opinion, the world
does not need its quieting influence; but, instead, the HP-
heaval of revolution, the thing which kings and Priests 333
other conservatives dread.

While I propose to show no mercy to 8113’ Opinion 01‘ State-
ment which I conceive to be false or erroneous, yet I am de-

sirous of elevating the manner and matter of all controver-
sies to the altitude of refinement, taste, elegance, courtesy,
soifar as one humble worker can. Wit, sarcasm, ridicule,
have their part in purifying the mental atmosphere. As the
lightnings play around the mountain tops,so the keen flashes
of sarcastic speech light up the grandest and highest thoughts.
The reasoning organs and mirthfulness are next-door neigh-

b?_[ItS.may happen that I wound some of my best friends in
my eagerness to thrust error to death. If friendship and
truth cannot dwell in sweet accord, their unionis the basest
sort of adultery. A friendship that demands the sacrifice of
truth is a‘ counterfeit. With this feeling did I write Bro.
Colby of the Banner. People do differ, was the burden of
my fraternal greeting, and let it be in k'mdiIl6SS- T0 thls I
received the following response:

“W. F. J ., MCLEAN, N. Y.——All right. Many of the ‘ har-
mom'a.l philosophers’ are prone to smite with one hand and
pat with the other. We cordially 1‘95P°11d to your 500d
words.”—B. of L., Aug. 15.

Tie true. But I did not care to have him come out in his
paper and make so humble an apology. It reveals. a refresh-
ing candor - in the nature of dear Luther, however, that
surely must compensate him for the humiliation he endfures.
I think he deserves the rank and title of “ Chief of Harmo-
nial Philosophers.” I shall use my influence with the “ Bu-
reau of Iconoclasts ” to secure ‘him. that benign position. 011
condition tha he will never again “smite with one hand and
pat with the other.” It is a _mixed sort of salute, J to say
nothing of the brown study into which it throws a philoso-
pher. The puzzle is to discover with scientific accuracy
which is the “ smite” and which the “pat.”

When I read the Bomner’s kind words to W. F. J ., I felt

like putting aside my iconoclastic hammer, and devoting the

remainder of my days to the peaceful pursuit of putting. No
more attacks upon iconoclasts! Born for war as they are,
yet down will they lie with “ harmonial philosophers.” They
will perceive that, although their Ways are dfiferent, they
should be friends, as closely knit as a doctor and tombstone
vender. The iconocla.sts destroy the idols, while the “har-
monial philosophers ” harmonize the broken fragments! and
curiously humbug the world wi th the idea that they are as
good as new. '

Alas! for the frailty of human nature. The Banner falls
from grace! In its later issue (Aug. 29), it returns to its old
way of smite and pat. Says the Banner:

“Iconoclasts have a right to their own peculiar views; of

ward and say Spiritualists must indorse them,.whether the
latter fully agree with their peculiar views or not, it is quite
time to assert independence in such matters.”

There! there! don’t get angry. Do iconoclasts say that
anybody must indorse them? Who is the iconoclast that
says so? Liberal Spiritualists do say that iconoclasts, infi-
dels, free religionists (as well as sectarians) ought to be heard,
and therefore financially and otherwise sustained. Liberal
Spiritualists invite such men as Horace Seaver to occupy
their platforms. -Mr. Seaver widely differs from them in
almost everything pertaining to a future life. Such liberal-
souled Spiritualists preserve Spiritualism from the little-
ness, narrowness and sectarianism which have cursed man-
kindin the name of Christianity. Christians say to their
ministers: “Preach the creed-or starve.” The liberalist
grandly rises with the inspiration of a principle, and nobly
exclaims: “Advocate your convictions regardless of conse-
quences. '

The Church pays a heavy premium upon hypocrisy. It
virtually says to its ministers: “Be cowards; preach by the
book-right or wrong; (see Mou1ton’s father) smother your
individual convictions.
preach the truth higher than the creed, then religious and
social ostracism. await you.” The distressed wife and hungry
children tug at the minister’s heart-strings, and though their
appeal may be mute it is none the less piteous: “ Husband,
father, preach a lie that we may have bread.”

And has it come to this in Spiritualism ? Is it possible that
the oldest Spiritualist publication in the world is false to its
high mission of freeing human minds from error and inclin-
ing them to the love of truth? Dare the Banner soil its folds
with this foul ;blot of counsel to Spiritualists that they should
not encourage lectures to express convictions differing from
“ their peculiar views?” If so——if Spiritualists are unwilling

to lfsten to views with which they do not agree—how
much better are they than Catholics? Neither Spiritualism
itself, nor the truth in any other science, could have been re-
ceived if such a narrow principle as the Banner adopts had
been adhered to. Those who first received Spiritualism were
more liberal. All investigators are. At first they were not
believers. yet they paid their money and gave their time to
listen to sentiments widely different from “their peculiar
views ” about God, Heaven, Hell, the Bible, Religion, etc.

« No lecturers that I ever knew_ “ come forward and say
Spiritualists must endorse them.” Lecturers do claim that
they ought to be heard. The right of free speech implies
listeners. A free press implies readers; but did ever the
most conservative editor demand that his subscribers must
endorse his paper? According to the Bannefls mode of
reasoning, Christians and other anti—Spir-itualists are justified
in not listening to the advocacy of Spiritualism, and, much
more, in never paying a cent to support Spiritualist papers
and speakers. I have observed that investigators—outsiders
—1argely support Spiritualism. There are many Spiritualists
who se_lfishly say they are satisfied that the dead live, and they
pay no more {money for lectures or papers. To repeat the
language of the. Banner they “ assert independence in such
matters.” Let me tell the Banner that the lecturer or
preacher who is not independent of congregations and socie-
ties is a slave to them. A paper which is dependent upon its
subscribers for existence is apt to be cowardly. A lecturer
who looks to his hearers for financial support is ].iable to de-
generate to sycophancy. There are a few ministers, editors
and lecturers who will, at all hazards, express their senti-
ments freely, though threatened with expulsion from their
vocations. They usually pay the penalty for their plain speak-
ing—-pay it as surely as did Harvey or Socrates. They eke
out a bare livelihood while engaged in the promulgation of
unpopular “views,” whereas the same talent and zeal in a
popular field would win distinction and luxury.

There are societies of Spiritualists that object to engaging
me or lending an ear to my iconoclasm. The message which
many Spiritualists refuse to even listen to is accorded a hear-
ing by the “ world’s people.” I may as well announce, once
for all, that I am owned by no society or church. I do not
“belong” to anything of the kind. I think I can “paddle
my own canoe,” as I have done for twenty years, whether I
am indorsed or not by societies or papers. It is about time
the public understood that societies do not generally hire
speakers to accommodate the speakers. Usually the society
engage a speaker for their own benefit, intellectually, and
sometimes financially. ”

The meaning of all this talk about the rights of speakers
and societies is, there are lecturers that the people like to
hear who refuse to be gagged. The broadest liberty of speech
is by such speakers insisted upon. Spiritualists do not like
to admit that they are unfriendly to the uttermost freedom
of expression. Let them surrender this freedom and Spiritual-
ism loses its vitality, so far as they are concerned. But those
who impudently (dictate to spirits in earthly bodies, and
spirits out, as to the subject and matter of an oration to be
delivered, betray their ignorance of the plainest principles of
freedom. There could be no liberty of speech on such de-
grading terms. All such subterfuges to strangle freedom of
speech (such as that iconoclasts say “Spiritualists must in-
dorse them”) are unavailing to extricate the apologists for
mental slavery from the dilemma in which they find them-
selves.

Try again, Luther.

course that we do not object to. But when they come for—~

If you outgrow the Church and '

THE PARSON OF BROOKLYN.

There is a jolly parson,
His name begins with B,
Who,»in’ our sister city,
Sits down to take his tea.
He drives his team so deftly
Along the middle track, . -
You’d think he’d got a patent out
To prove that white is black.
But, if you follow up his course,
You presently will see,
That though he sometimes serves the Lord,
He oftens aids the D.
Ah me!
That I should say so of this Brooklyn I’.

"I‘was well, in bygone times,
To hear him thunder forth

The woes and crimes of slavery,
His face right fronting north.

But soon he’d turn around
To prove that white was black;

And, standing on a well-known(1) line,
He’d strive to block the track.

S0 queer, so strange his counselswere, ’
But yet with method, he

Would seem to serve the rightful cause
As well as aid the D.

Ah me!
That I should say so of this Brooklyn P.

When our Elijah(2) forth
Was sent to seek for aid;
When B-aal’s prophets filled the land
And all were sore dismayed;
When, full of sighs and prayers,
We followed on his track—-
Ahl who could deem a friendly hand
Would strikehim in the back,
Alas! for him who held the blade-
For sure you’ll all agree
Such coward blow was never struck
By any——but the D.
‘ Ah me!
That I should say so of this Brooklyn P.

He who, beyond the sea,
Had heard his bugle sound,
Would deem him freest of the free,
And ever foremost found.
But faint and low, indeed;
At Sumter ’twas unheard,
Though twenty thousand ears were strained
To catch a we1come(3) word.
The gospel failed—-the law (4) went down
And flung the banner frec—-
Who turneth backward from the plow,
Is serving of the D.
Ah me!
That I should say so of this Brooklyn P.

The battle fought and won,

Though still the foes around,
With anger pale, with sorrow dumb,
Looked on in rage, and frowned.

When weak-kneerl brethren bent,
And limp back-bones were lost,
Who was so quick to leave the ranks
Of freedom’s mighty(5) host?
‘Tie true, with easy whirl
He fell in step, you see;
' But such an act, at such a time,
Was serving of the D.
Ah me!
That I should say so of this Brooklyn P.

’Tis thus, with vim and wit,
He’s elbowed on his way;

N o matter what he took in hand,
He‘d surely make it pay.

No wonder that his pews ran up,
Where widow’s mites are vain;

That round the reeking auction block
The dollars fell like rain.

That Wall street poniedyup the cash,
For well it knew that he,

While preaching truth with all his might,
Would also serve the(6) D. '

Ah me!
That I should say so of this Brooklyn P.

But now his course is run,
His days of fight are o’er;
The hand of fate hath struck him down,
' He’ll soon be heard no more.
Against him, through the land,
The masses are arrayed;
Though round him stand a stalwart band,
They soon will be dismayed.
The age of shame must pass,
The truth must come in free,
And hypocrites must take back seats,
With all who serve the D.
Ah me! _
That‘ I should say so of this Brooklyn P.

(1). Mason and Dixon’s.

(2). Dr. Cheevcr.

(3.) The word “vote ” was omitted in that famous oration.

(4). Chief Justice Chase.

(5). The Philadelphia Convention, where South Carolina and Massachu
setts walked invarm in arm.

(6). See his sermon on the text, “ The love of money is the root of all
evil.”

-?———:a-—-40+—4———————

SOOIALISTIC.

27 BERNARD STREET, RUssELL SQUARE,
LONDON, Eng., Aug. 9, 1874. E’
Vt'ctom'a—Can I tell you what a lack there is in my life,

‘what a. “nameless longing and vague unrest,” that even this

voyage and this new country cannot fill? Since my inspira-
tion left me to write for the WEEKLY I’ve not been myself at
all. I never shall be again what I was before my illness.

There is not the same zest to life there was. My thoughts ' '

and desires constantly turn to you as the only source from
whence can come my medicine. -

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Ocet. 10, 1374.

The common existence seems to me so aimless since I
learned of progressive truth from you, before whose light all
lesser lights must fall. Yet, how sunk in a wallowing mire
of perfect indifference seems the world! And I have been in
it myself for months, and, like the poor starling, I can’t get’
out! Ilong with all my soul for a wave of the old enthu-
siasm to sweep over me and bring the supreme ecstacy. But
it comes not; neither will it come, Victaria, save from your
presence; yet, it seems fate intends to put the wide wasteof
waters between our material selves, that our imprisoned
spirits cannot span.

We had a delightful voyage over—-only three rough days,
and they were pretty bad, enough so to ship seas over the
hurricane deck."

The only relief I found for an imprisoned spirit was one af-

“ ternoon on deck with a Scotchman, a'Presbyterian Sunday-

school -teacher, with whomql had a theological discussion for
three mortal hours, and nothing but the dinner-bell could
have ended it. I quite impressed the old gentleman, and I’m
sure he never heard our social system so overhauled before.
Ldared tell this Scotchman the truth about himself, when he
told me his wife had borne him children unwillingly. The
result to me of that sunny, breezy afternoon on deck was a
nicely burned left cheek, where the soft wind had a fair
sweep.

We have been in London one week, and begin to put on
airs concerning our knowledge of localities. We can direct
you most anywhere you want to go, from the Tower of Lon-
don to Madam Tussand’s, from Buckingham Palace to Rac-
quet Row, from Westminster to Billingsgate, from Regent.
street to Cheapside, from fair Belgravia to the Bank of Eng-
land.

As illustrative of manners and customs. or “ tricks on trav-
elers,” I must tell a little incident that befell us three wan-
dering Americans in St. James Park, last Sunday. We be-
came fatigued and took three of the little wire chairs, painted
green, which abound in the park, to rest from our weariness
and watch the water-foul in the “ Serpentine.”

We had been seated; perhaps, five minutes, when up comes
an official-looking hindicidual, and says he: “ If you please,
sir, would you pay for the seats now? ”

“ What! ” says the party addressed, with amazement worse
than Hamlet’s mother had it. “ Twopence for the can as has
harms, if you please, sir; hand one penny for those as his
without harms, sir! ” q

“ Hall right,” says the party addressed; “ But vy in thun-
der don’t ye stick hup a sign so has a feller can tell cot he’s
got ter pay?”

We were informed we could sit in the park “hall day”
for what we paid, and when we asked for a check the feller
said he “ halvas trusted to is memory.”

Look sharp in London, for the first thing. you know some
seedy-looking hindividual has “roped you in” for a penny.

We do not open in ‘London for the present, as the season
is not commenced. We open in Brighton on the 17th for one
week, and shall reserve London for the return of the ban ton
in October.

Now, Victoaia, won’t you please write me a few lines; it
will be such an inspiration to me! I shall not look for it for
two months, but shall hope for it all the time. Don’t let me
be disappointed. Address me, in care “ American Exchange,
449 Strand, London.” —

Please let me know whatyou have been doing, and ho
the wind sets socially. and what your prospects are, for you
may be sure no soul takes a more loving, anxious interest in
your affairs than HELEN N ASH;

SEASONABLE ADMONITION.
Now, Mary J ane, y0u’ve jined the church,
I hope you will be clever;
And don’t forget that I’m your love,
While I am down the river!

If Parson Smooth should come to pray,
And tell you hc’s your preacher,

Oh! watch him as you would a hawk,
And don’t forget old Beecher!

It may be he will want to sing
The old song, “ C_‘oronation;“

And tell you not of worldly things,
N or give you consolation!

Just tell him that the Bible tells
Of joys beyond our reaches;
That he should always stick to that,
And practice what he preaches!
' —B7'.smarck Tribune (Dacotah Terri.tor‘_2/).

[From The Burlington (Iowa) Daily.]
THE LESSON OF RECENT EVENTS.

“Modern society undoubtedly is in a state of chronic revolu-
tion. Every reformatory idea is the basis for a revolution,
frequently occasioning violence, as the resistance it meets is
more or less obstinate, * but more frequently carrying its.
point through by means of time and patience. All reforms
and every revolution, political or religious, are really social,
12. e. they tend to improve our social relations, whatever spe-
cialpoint they originally intended to accomplish. Revolu-
tions are not made, they come; they are as natural a growth

f as an oak. The world moves. The age of men armed in

mail has gone by long ago. The age of the divine right of
thrones has gone by. The age of church power, if not entire-
1y gone, is passing swiftly, and such events as this Ply-
mouth Church expose addkto the speeed. Men undervalue
this Beecher incident. It needed a mass of evidence to con-
vince a majorityof our people_of the aggressive iniquity of
slavery. The Beecher affair has shown up to the thinking
part of the community the sham of church society, as it exists
among us. The great mass of the people can never be made
to stay and argue a long and deep question. They must be
made to feel it through the hides of their idols. When you
have launched your spear into the rhinoceros hide of a
Beecher, every one of Mrs. Grundy’s slaves feels it. It is on

WZIOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY‘

mistakes of great men. God gives us great hypocrites for
texts to revolutionary sermons.

To-day it is no longer Beecher’s special act of adultery that
concerns us, but the train of social rottenness and hypocrisy
it has brought to light, hidden under the wings of the chnrch
and so-called best society. True religion can and must be a
gainer, brought about by the very men who pretend to de-
fend it; just as Papal corruption gave birth to the reforma-
tion, or as the infatuated blindness of the slave-lords opened
the eyes of the nation to their iniquities. Thus Public Opin-
ion isbeginning to open its eyes and to draw a distinction be-5,
tween “church” and religion. Intellectual and social revol-
ution takes a stride in advance. Large gaps have been
made in the phalanx of “ best society,” and its esprit dc
corps has suffered a signal defeat. Very likely it will rally
again and attempt to cover up its losses, but the blow has
been a severe one. That Protestant order of Jesuits, the Y.
M. C. A., will never recover from their blunder of hounding
down Mrs. Woodhull for the crime of having told the truth.
Thanks to the Printing Press, the people more and more get
into the habit of doing their own thinking, and the time is
coming when all our revolutions will be accomplished with-
out bloodshed. Though it takes a long time for deeply-rooted
institutions to die, yet when they are founded on hypocrisy,
and on the slavery of the mind, they are bound tovbe ulti-
mately conquered by Truth and Justice. The church,‘ in-
this country, is one of our converitional shams, and its flimsi-
ness has been glaringly uncovered by this Beecher campaign.

SHAKERISM ON BEECHERISM.

In the “ Beecher-Tilton scandal” there is more than the
public or even your own dear self may imagine.

It is not persons, but principles and systems. It means
Babylon. Generation and Christianity mixed—(—}od, not
man,is in it. It is the judgment of Protestantism in America.
even as Catholicism is being judged in Europe. Does not
Europe possess her infallible Pope? And does not America
possess an image of that infallible Pope in every one of her
great, popular preachers and leaders? ' War, “ the Bible and
Sharp’s Rifles” are component parts of Proiestantism as of
Catholicism.

. How long since Church and State clergy were slave-hold-
ers? Some being slaves and Christian ministers too. It is
judgment day. The revelation of the Christ Spirits is in-
creasingly brighter and brighter. The Christ Angels do often
obsess the public. men and corresponding leading women,
and in the “fervent heat ” of their inspirationcause them to
forget themselves, and to utter sentiments and advance ideas
consistent only with Shaker theology. This creates confu-
sion in their own minds,and great incongruity between their
life conduct and their preaching is the result. Not that
they, as men and women, are .“s'inners above all others,”
but being quickened by Christ Angels and their spiritual
powers developed, they are capable of sinning beyond the
power of the unbaptised. If their light be turned to dark-
ness to do evil, how great the darkness and how transcendent
the evil !—Elder F. W. Evans, in the Shaker and Shakeress.

ANOTHER BEECHERISM.
The members of Mr. Beecher’s family are naturally afflic bed
and depressed by the unfortunate position he is placed in, and
their nervousness and excitability are pardonable. But they
have an unfortunate predilection to printers’ ink. It would
have been far better had they followed the example of his ret-
icence, and kept silent until compelled to speak. For while
most of their utterances have injured themselves and each
other in public estimation none of them have helped him.
And this is particularly true of the letter his elder sister, Miss
Catherine E. Beecher, has given the public in a morning pa-
per. She is naturally anxious to protect her brother, and
makes an appeal to the public for justice in his behalf, as

though he were the only person worth saving and justice

would save him. Then she goes out of her way to smite and
smirch a half dozen persons, accusing them of all sorts of
wickedness, as if the badness of Bowen and total depravity
of Moulton and the weakness of poor Mrs. Tilton prove that

her brother is innocent of the crimes with which he stands

charged. Her language is of the boldest, and shows the in-
tense agitation of her mind, but if her letter is the rhetoric of
despair its reasoning is logic in hysterics.

that her brother is innocent. And this is her reasoning re-
duced to a syllogism: A great and good man never commits
adultery; Mr. Beecher is a great and good man, therefore he
is innocent and Moulton and Tilton are conspirators. She for-
gets that David was reputed a very ‘good man, and yet he had
an affair with Uriah’s wife which the moral sentiment of the
nineteenth century hardly approves. And she also overlooks
the fact that her brother’s character is the very thing in ques-
tion. Slie dwells with pride on the good he has done for thirty
years, and his standing for integrity, kindness and virtue.
Nobody questions that he has preached grandly and done
noble acts; but how does this prove that he has not yielded
to temptationhimself and tempted others to their ruin ?. How
does the preaching of a grand sermon on forgiveness prove
that henever took advantage of the absence of a confiding
friend and despoiled his home? How does -giving money to
missions and ycharities reconcile his apoplectic story to his
committee with his perfectly healthy condition when he
wanted his life insured? Such reasoning is altogether too
filmy and transparent to shelter him for an instant, and the
fact that his sister finds nothing but gauze to throw over him
shows that her intellectual wardrobe is very poorly furnished
with materials of a finer texture. Miss Beecher protests
against her brother's trial by jury. Anything but that. The
courts are carnal. ‘ The jurors belong to this world. The
ermine of New York and Brooklyn is badle sullied. .So good
a man as her brother should not be obliged to defend himself
before the rough and stern tribunal of common justice. The
court of common sense is the only one he should be tried by,
she says. This is very sisterly, and under the circumstances
very‘ kindly meant. But the court of common sense is

this principle that every reform‘ must take for its textthe

Miss Beecher naturally enough belives, ‘or wants to believe, K

*7.

she have her brother live under this awful shadow of sus-
picion and go down to his grave dishonored when the facts
would prove his innocence? Or does shevthink the facts
would convince the remaining third of the jurors and lead to
a unanimous verdict of “guilty?” Her letter looks as
though her fears had got the better of her faith, and will
hardly satisfy any one that Mr. Beecher be made an excep-

tion to the common rules of ' justice made and provided for
other men.-—Gra1ohic. K - ,

HUMAN justice is very apt to be injustice. When WOOD-
HULL AND CLArLIN’s WEEKLY came out with the first public
statement of the Tilton-Beecher scandal the country was
greatly shocked, and the publishers of that periodical were
prosecuted for circulating obscene matter through the mails.
Of course that was a wrongful charge. If Woodhull and
Claflin were guilty of anything it was of an atrocious libel.
But for some reason or other nobody wantedto prosecute
them for libel. and so the other chargewas trumped up ‘to
stop their mouths and get them out of the way. After some
time, during which they were imprisoned and legally prose-
cuted, they were discharged without a trial. That is one
case of human justice about which there can be now but one
opinion. But to make it more clear we have had more elab-
orate and more indecent statements of the same offense cir-
culated in all the newspapers for the last three months and
nobody is indicted for it. There seems to be a marked
respect of persons, or papers, in enforcing the laws. What
was obscene and criminal in WOODHULL ‘AND CLArLIN’s
WEEKLY is purified "when passed through a respectable me-

rient prudes” form a large class in society, and “pious
cant” is as persuasive and potent as ever it was. Perhaps it
is well, now and then, to have it demonstrated.——-Sunday
Herald, Boston. C

A CLERICAL GEM.

_ VINELAND, Sept. 1, 1874.

» “Perjury for good reason is, with advanced thinkers, no
sin.” (See Moulton’s statement, last clause of letter marked
(5 N 7.37) '

Will the writer of said letter_ please state if his brother,
H; W. Beecher, is sufiiciently advanced in thought to indorse
the above clerical gem? If so, the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher
has ‘gratuitously given to the world a key that will unlock the
“ skeleton closet ” of Plymouth Church, as well as many
other hidden mysteries in Christendom. ’

S. C. PAYNE.

BEECHERANIA.-—‘-A proposed substitutional name for Brook-
lyn to perpetuate the name and fame of “ the great preacher”
and‘his principles, and the free-love institution over which

A. I). 1874..

ANOTHER VICTIM!
BY L. o.— BARRETT.

T It was an autumnal afternoon, near sunset;
The sky red, cloud-curtained and beautiful;
The landscape so grateful for that day’s sun.
I was ‘meditative, thinking how good our world
Might be if man were true to nature,

When my inspiration suddenly chilled-
What was that rustle in the magnetic air,
And the sombre touch of feeling in my soul?
I looked, and lo! a slow-moving procession
Of mourners, wending by the 1akelet’s shore,
Attired in black, that dismal fashion,

Heads bents in melancholic revery,

I asked, “ Who is the victim this time?"
My hostess answered: “ A maiden of twenty summers!”

Her first years were girlishly innocent;
A young man courted her, and her confidence
Proved her an angel. Was this a fall,
To love so well, even if ‘misguided? 4
When the procession returned. broken up,
Each to renew the usual life of starving,

‘ An angel said to me: * * * *

Societyds damned!

It made his mother mould him so——lustful!

He came into the world libertinized!

He afiiliated with the bestial of society,

And thought woman was but a convenience!

Thro’ parentage society fell first; then he;

And she, the victim of a false primogeniture!

Were it not better that the child should live?

Better still, had he been fitted for that office

By the hallowed education society owes

_ To all fathers and mothers for its safety?
0, sin-stained humanity, revengin g natural defects,
Begin at the fountain of life for salvation;
Invigorate here with healthful affections;
Electrotype with spiritual polarities;
Obey the laws of life set in the horoscope
Of wisdom, gleamed by experience,
And the future will bring the regeneration!” ,
Dishonorable, he forsook her when most needed-— '
Whenthe bud of infancy asked for protection!
She wept—-Oh what tears in compensation .
For that loving truth of indiscretion!

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The shadow fell on her—the social stigma-'
Herself and unsought babe outcasts for life!
Everybody said in looks: “ You are disgraced!” '

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Poor weeping mother, so young and tender.

Her parents knew no law higher than man's;

» Thought more of Society’s respectability,
Than for the daughter, now so desolate;
How could she, then, report her secret?

One chance left to regain a social position-
The murder of the foetus at the risk of her life! '
The blow reacte<l—she died too! and that day
The people carried her symmetrical body

To its suicidal grave, where the minister said:

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NEW YORK, SATURDAY,‘OCT. 3,1874.

THE ULTIMATUM.
FROM THE SPEECH “ TRIED AS BY FIRE.”

Sexual freedom, then, means the abolition of prostitution
both in and out _of marriage; means the emancipation of
woman from sexual slavery and her coming into ownership
and control of her own body; means the end of her pecuni-
ary dependence upon man, so that she may never even seem-
ingly have to procure whatever she may desire or need by
sexual favors; meansthe abrogation of forced pregnancy,
of ante—natal murder, of undesired children: means the birth
of love children only; endowed by every inherited virtue
that the highest exaltation can confer at conception, by
every influence for good to be obtained during gestation and
by the wisest guidance and instruction on to manhood, in
dustrially, intellectually and sexually.

* 

A CORRECTION.

The WEEKLY is glad to perceive that the N. Y. Independ-
ent has thought it right to make us the amende honorable by
contradicting its previous statement, which was to the effect
that this paper had been discontinued. Here is the notice
of the same, which is taken ‘from its issue of the 24th Sept,
1874: ‘

We lately stated that an occasional Weekly in this city,
edited by the President of the National Spiritualistic Asso-
ciation, had apparently suspended publication in consequence

of the recent departure of that functionary for Europe. We
are sorry to have ocular proof that the paper referred to is

still in existence.
As our paper has been published every Wednesday for the

past eighteen months, probably the time may come when
our contemporary may do it the justice to consider it a
“regular” rather than an “occasional” weekly, When it
recognizes the fact we look for an amendment to the amend-
ment before us.

-=--—-==-—-:>—4Q+—<-——-———
THE EMPEROR.

Long before theN. Y. Herald moved in the matter, the
WEEKLY, in a series of articles, pointed out the fact that
the republic ofithe United States was verging into a des-
potism. A third term to any President means that and
nothing else. We showed that the executive of the United
States was top-heavy with strength, and that, under such an
incubus, the liberty of the nation was nowhere. Now, the
New York Herald joins in the cry, but we believe it is a

. day after the fair. It says, in a long article headed “ The
Philosophy of the Third Term: ”

“If he (Grant) is stronger than the party nothing but his
magnanimity will prevent us from entering upon the second
centenary of our national existence with a change in our form
of overnment as radical as that effected in the government
of Trance when Napoleon accomplished his coup d’etat. [We
say nothing Will prevent this but G_reneral_ Grant’s magna-
niinity. We have yet to find that distinguished soldier and
statesman magnanimous enough to decline anything in the
way of public dignity that has been oifered to him.”

Well, the WEEKLY said the same thing years ago; it saw
the evil» in its incipient state, and warned the p‘eopl"e against
it. Its voice was unheeded. But we do not ‘despair of the
republic. The people are not yet ready for an emperor.
The cities are corrupt, it is true, but there is a vitality in

the country in which we can put ‘our trust. With the

THE SOCIAL EARTHQUAKE.

In our last issue it was announced that, in the present
number of the WEEKLY, we should begin the general “ sum-_
ming up” of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal case. By this we
did not mean so much a review of the testimony that has
been developed during the trial by the public, as we did its
effects upon the great question of social reform that is in-
volved in its relations. It is by no means a matter of serious
importance to us whether, in any coming trial of the facts

T of the case that may be made, Mr. Beecher be found guilty

or innocent of the charges that have been preferred against
him, although it must be confessed that it will be hard to
find an unprejudiced jury anywhere who could review the
evidence that has already been given to the public and
honestly acquit Mr. Beecher. Mr. Beecher’s position and
reputation are no defense. He must be tried upon the evi-
dence and the facts presented relating to this case, and made
an equal merely before the law with all other citizens, since
so he has elected that it shall be.

That he has been a “ revered citizen,” whom Judge Noah
Davis, or his assistants for him, considered “well worth
the while of the United States to vindicate,” by the illegal
imprisonment of the editors of a paper who had dared to
mention‘ his name, will be of no service in the case now.
The utter folly, as a measure of defense, of that act, so far as
Mr. Beecher is concerned, waslong since made evident, and
will tend in no small degree to question the honesty of any
other defense which Mr. Beecher may now essay to make.
From the very first it has been Mr. Beechei"s policy to dodge
the question really at issue, and to decide the merits of the
case by the degradation of the persons referred to, upon
other and utterly irrelevant causes. But all this failed him,
and he is now confronted by the same persons with whom
he conspired, or who, by their silence permitting him to
conspire, became accomplices with him in his movements.
If there were ever a conspiracy against anybody, there was
one against us when the effort was made to have us con-
demned to the Penitentiary for sending obscene literature
through the mails—a charge which one of Mr. Bowen’s
lawyers has since admitted that Mr. B. could have had dis-
missed at any time through his influence with the Ad-
ministration. It was in this quarter that the “device” for
Mr. Beecher to escape originated; and who can doubt that
Mr. Beecher was fully cognizant of all that was being done
in his behalf, even if he were not the active mover behind
the scenes?

But the question may now be asked, have the results that
are already evident justified the purposes for which the scan-
dal was originally made public‘? It is by these that our part
in the drama is to be adjudged. What has been accomplished
to benefit or to. injure the cause in the behalf of which it -was
undertaken? To decide this understandingly it is necessary
to go back to the beginning, and see if there can be found
any distinct evidence upon its face as to what were the mo-
tives behind it all that decided us to give it publicity, and
to put Mr. Beecher on trial before the world in case he
should fail in his loyalty to himself. We have been charged
with maliciousness so frequently of late, that something of
its spirit may have entered into the public thought, and being
there, may-operate prejudicially against our review of the
case. We think we may state one fact and rely confidently
"upon there being no one found who will question it, viz.,
that whether everybody believes or not that the facts charged
as to Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton are true, nobody will pre-
tend to disbelieve that the authorities which We quoted origi-
nally in confirmation of their truth, were as we stated them.
So far then as the evidence goes upon which we predicated
the scandal, whether it be true or false of itself, we are fully
exonerated from the charge which has been so often pre-
ferred against us of having originated the story. We gave it
as we received it; but we gave only such parts of what we
had as we had received in a way that made it honorable for
us to part with it in the way that we did. We have been
content to rest under the most dishonorable insinuations
when we had "the evidence in our possession to clear them
away; but we have in no single instance revealed what came
to us in confidence, either to add to thestrength of the origi-
nal statement or to defend ourselves against the attacksto
which we refer.

We knew that, ultimately, everything would be made clear,
and we were willing to wait for our justification until
the fullness of such time. We know of the “ other hearts
that would ache,” and we speak confidently when we say,
that it is these other hearts which will ache that are now
blocking the progress of the case, and which stand trem-
bling upon both sides of the verge of the abyss, lest
their names be the next involved. Right well did Theo-
dore T ilton ..feel, the weight of his words, when he

people of the States, outside of the debauched centres, we Wmte that l31‘0Phet1.0 Phrase “ the Other hearts that Would

feel assured the word will be “ No Caesar.”
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BRILLIANT OPENING OF MRS. WOODHULL’S
- A LECTURE SEASON.

ache,” since were, and are, they not almost daily appealing for
mercy? But justice to all may not be staid in its course even

though mercy be emplored by the blanched cheeks and
trembling lips of beautiful, talented and cultured women

whose social status, as they imagine, rests upon the brittle

[From the Daily Union, New Haven, Conn., Sept. 28, 1874.] tenure of secrecy. What is there that ought not to be said

The announcement that Mrs. VVoodhull would deliver an against a social system that compels men and women to
address at Loomis’ Temple last evening, on “What is True such horrors, or else which denies to them everything for
and what is False, Socially,” drew out, as might have been which their souls crave; that compels them to deny their
expected, a large, concourse of people, bent upon listening  Christs-—the principles which dwell in their souls-in order
to this noted woman. The hall was densely packed, and by- that they may profess homage to persons whom they des- it. What had previously been winked at as the practices of

eight o’clock standing room was hardly attainable.

pisef?

- The original statement, upon its face, was made for the
purpose of “ ventilating the most stupendous scandal which
has ever occurred in any community,” which it was intended
should “ burst like a bomb-shell into the ranks of the moral-
istic social camp,” to show that “ the most intelligent and
really virtuous of our citizens have outgrown” the marriage
institution, “ and that they are constantly and systematically
unfaithful to it, despise and revolt against it, and submit to
it only from the dread of a sham public opinion.”

Is there anybody anywhere who has traced this scandal to
the present——and who has not, even down to the boys and girls
of the country schools ?——who doubts that all this has been
accomplished? What other scandal ever convulsed even the
small community in which it existed as this has convulsed
the whole country? It is safe to say that no single thing that
ever occurred in any country so completely absorbed the
puplic thought for so long a time as this has done. The
papers, while protesting editorially against spreading the
facts before the people “ to the detriment of public moral-
ity," have been literally compelled to surrender the whole
space of their papers to the public demand. Some few
which essayed to ignore this demand and to be sanctimonious
and pious were compelled to fall in with the seepwing tide, or
else rest with their editions unsold upon their hands. And
now even, when as by common consent it is admitted that
the case is closed, so far as its trial by the public is con-
cerned, if there were any new facts developed they would be
as eagerly sought by the public as any that have been pre-
sented were sought. For once the papers have been forced
into the discussion of a case which they vainly endeavored
for years to crush out, and have been taught the lesson
which they needed to be taught, to wit : that there are some
questions so interwoven in, or related to, the sentiments of the
human heart that the press cannot control them when once
the public has caught their inspiration, and that the social
question is one of these. The public, after all, is greatertlian
the press. The press, however, will not get wisdom by ex-
perience. It pretends now to ignore the meaning of this pub.
lic demand. They wish the people to believe that what has
occurred is not the result of a great and demanding inquiry
which is going on in the public mind in regard to this very
question of our social institutions. The demand of the pub v
lie was to know whether the chains which have galled it so
severely, and which are worn under protest by so many, 11: cl
been cast aside by the representative, social and religious
lights of the age--—the great, the popular preachers. Had the
subject been some unknown person of no public importance
in the sense in which Mr. Beecher was and is of public im‘
portance, the scandal would not have created a ripple upon
the great swell of social thought; but Mr. Beecher was an
authority, and rightly so, to thousands of persons who
had never even seen him or heard him speak or read
his writings His magnetism, emitted from the pulpit of Ply-
mouth Church, spread all over the land, touching all hearts
in sympathy with his great impulsive nature. N 0 one so
much as Mi‘. Beecher has contributed to the liberalization‘
of the intellectual atmosphere of the country. It was lmpog-
sible for such a man to live and labor for twenty—five years,
as he has lived and labored, without in a measure modifying
publicsentiment toward his own standard. The spirit of
his ideas once cast upon the tide of thought were drank in
eagerly by thousands of thirsty souls; and so it has come
about that the very conflict which he by his own acts has con-
jured up, now rises before him, as he thinks, to overwhelm
him; whereas it only confronts him to learn whether he is
strong enough to, and will, bear open and direct testimony
to the logic of his forty years’ experience; or whether, hav-
ing wrought such destruction and anarchy in the public
thought regarding the old, he will now leave its victims want-
ing his leadership into the new. A tide once sent on its
way will not be forced backward; having cast loose from
one shore it must onward until it breaks upon the oppo-
site. To halt midway is to be overcome and borne
down by those who follow. Will Mr. Beecher pause in his
career and invite this calamity? This is the question that
the public is now asking.

The press and the pulpit of the country, when it had heard
the enunciation in the Steinway Hall speech of the right of
sexual or affectional freedom, joined hands to declare that
there was no such question in existence, and that the public
ought not to and would not listen to arguments about social
freedom; while the former denied the admission of such
arguments to their columns. In the meanwhile, abortion,
infanticide and wife-murder on the one hand, and private

the other, flaunted their falsehood in the face of these self-
elected conservatives and guardians of the public mora1s_
They built up a solid wall of prejudice so high and so sharp
at its apex, that they believed it impossible that anybody
would dare to scale it, and having done this they laughed at
the baffled who would criticise legal marriage. When this
condition was in its height of glory, suddenly, as if out of a
clear sky, this scandal fell and sh_ook the country from
centre to circumference. But these people, quickly gather-
ing their scattered senses and seizing upon whatever weapons,
launched them, not at the parties impaled upon thevhorns of
the social problem, but at us, as if they would bury us for-
ever out of sight for having impiously touched the anointed
of God. They pretendedly ignored the evidence offered,
and insisted on visitirg their wrath upon those who ofi"ered

a few was boldly launched as the keystone of society. It

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mattered not what a person should do, as there was no
wrong in the act, since the crime consisted in having it
found out, and that the criminal was he or she through
whose instrumentality it should be revealed. _

But there was no other escape. This resort had to be
made or else we, as the discoverers to the world of this tre-
mendous scandal were, according to their own theories, pub-
lic benefactors. Strange as it may seem, they were com-
pelled to almost precisely the position that we occupy upon
general principles-——that every individual’s private afiairs be-
long religiously to him or herself, and that whoever inter-
feres with them is a trespasser upon the sanctity of the indi-
vidual. Our grounds were completely transposed. We
were acting, apparently, upon their pretended theories, while
they were strenuously advocating ours; and so it has come
about that they were compelled to use their own defenses
against themselves. Had we been boiling for vengeance
upon our defamers, we could have had no sweeter revenge
than to see them thus made the unwilling advocates of just
those truths that they had previously so ostentatiously de-
nied our right to advocate. ’

In the article we said that “ they, Mr. Beecher included,
would gladly crush us if they could—will do so if they can—-
to prevent us from forcing on them considerations of the
utmost importance.” Were we not right? Did they and have
they not done every thing——all things, in fact—to crush us
and to forestall the discussion of this question ‘? Our posi-
tion was one of warfare. Not that we desired to make war
upon anybody or upon society; but society forced us to ac-
cept its challenge. They denied our right to speak and write
the truth as we saw it, and retaliated upon us for doing it
by all manner of slander and abuse. We were therefore
compelled to take up their own weapons and hurl them back
in defiance; and we did so, with all our might.

As we said at the outset, we repeat now, that “To Mr.
Beecher, as the individual citizen,we tender our humble apol-
ogy, meaning and deeply feeling what we say, for this or any
interference on our part with his private conduct.” “We do
again, and with great sincerity, ask his forgiveness ;” but
being compelled, we adopted war measures in sheer self-
defense, so that our rights might not be wholly lost to us and
rendered utterly null and void. Nor was Mr. Beecher, and es-
pecially was not his representatives, blameless in this part of
the matter. We had entered upon a campaign which, if
they had not actually advised, they had tacitly assented to
the justice and the propriety of what was to be gained by its
prosecution; but when once it was fairly under way they
deserted to the rear, afraid to accept, or dissuaded by more
influential personages than ourselves from accepting, the po-
sitions which they would have been obliged to assume had
they continued to advance. “

But they had already gone, and encouraged us to go, too
far. They miscalculated the effects of their own work, and
entirely under-estimated the hold which radicalism had made
upon the public pulse, as well as the number and influence
of the radicals themselves. But this error might have been
remedied had they made use of the way which we opened.

— Had Mr. Beecher, instead of moving heaven and earth to

crush us for having resorted to war measures, come boldly
to the front and declared that he would not be arraigned,
and that he would not admit the right of anybody to ques-
tion or compel him to plead by stooping to answer whatever
anybody might be pleased to charge against him, he would
have risen as high as he must now fall for choosing the
opposite course. Nobody wanted Mr. Beecher to confess.
Everybody wanted him to become the embodiment, to an
unattained degree, of the doctrine of individual sovereignty.
What should he have confessed? Had he invaded anybody’s
personal rights and grossly trampled them" down? No!
Nobody believes that Mr. Beecher has ever encroached upon
any one’s sovereignty, wanting the acquiescence, not to say
the invitation, of the individual. And to whom should he
have confessed, and of whom asked forgiveness? Surely
not to the committee. That very respectable body of re-
presentative Christians will hardly pretend that it was in
any position to cast stones at Mr. Beecher. If the repre-
sentative Christians could not do it, what of the laymen
generally? This was a case of the exercise of the right to
the pursuit of happiness, over which the individuals con
cerned, and they only, had control. It was not in the
jurisdiction of anybody else to require them to plead, to
aflirm or deny, or to enter upon a defense. So long as in-
dividuals will permit such usurpation of their personal rights,

‘ so long will despotismexist. '

So, then, what business had the public with his matters?
None whatever; and it was to induce him to tell the public
just this truth, which it would not accept frcm~ us, and
which they so much needed to have told them by just such
a man and in such a way as he only could have told them,
that we pressed this matter home upon him.

He was not equal to the occasion, however. He lost his
opportunity, and thereby invited what he should; have for-
ever put it out of the power of anybody and everybody to.
have compelled him to; and should it come out, as it is in-
evitable that it must, that the proof against his present
position is not to be escaped, he will then realize what a
prize he has permitted to elude his grasp, though until then
he may, perhaps, delude himself with the idea that the ap-_
pcarance of fidelity to the past is of more value than can be
gainel by a rigid adherence to the truth of the future.

Much as we regret that he should have made this unwise
choice, the result to the cause will be the same ultimately

vh

that an opposite course would have produced immediately,
the difference consisting of whatever of personal suffering
and sorrow that has already and that must still come, and of

. the “other hearts that would ache” when the time arrives

in which they must pass through the fiery ordeal to which
Mr. Beecher’s course has condemned them. But even these
will not be without their compensation. Bound about with
chains of social servitude, they now walk the earth in sor-
row and fear. From this bondage they will be released
when the day of trial shall have passed, when they will
once more be free; and then they will offer prayers of thanks-
giving to heaven, which has .ordained for them so much
wiser and better than they would have chosen for them-
selves.

 

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‘THE NEW RELIGION—UNIVERSAL JUSTICE.
No. II.

Man is material, intellectual and moral—a trinity con-
structed out of the physical universe by the operation of

depends the degree of resulting happiness. The elements
of matter that enter into his composition relate him eternally
to the external universe; the orderly arrangement of these
elements making comparison between them possible to his
consciousness, establishes the possibility of an intellectual
comprehension of the law involved-«an understanding of the
method bywhich law becomes a part of consciousness-
while the outworkings of this law develop certain defi-
nite standards of morality. Each individual is therefore
an exact illustration of the orderly or disorderly action of
the elements of matter of which he or she is composed,
modified by the influences of the environment. It is as
impossible for two people, born of different conditions and
surrounded by different influences, to perform the same
acts under like circumstances, as it is for different rays of
light differently combined to produce the same color.

It is necessary to make these preliminary remarks in
order to fix the idea of individuality firmly in the mind.
Each individual is the result of certain causes and influ-
ences, which are not the same in any two persons; else
there would be two individuals between whom it would be
impossible to distinguish. Each individual is difierent
from every other individual. In this fact, alone, rests the
possibility of individuality. But there grows out of this
still another fact which even more fixedly confirms the
idea of individuality, and this is, that while it is true,
primarily, that each individual differs from every other, it is
still further true that, as each individual develops physically,
intellectually and morally, he becomes, as the evolution pro-
ceeds,ever more distinctly individualized. Development in any
direction means coming into the recognition of the higher
laws of nature—means coming more into harmony with
nature—means becoming more like nature—more at one
with nature. There are then two processes ever at work
moulding humanity; one that of individualization, becom-
ing more unlike everybody else-, the other of adjustment to
all others, becoming more in harmony with the whole.

These fundamental principles lie at the bottom of any
movement in which humanity, or any part of it, may en-
gage; and its success or failure, or its measure of either,
will depend wholly upon the proper recognition of these
principles. No movement that is not based upon them all
can ever succeed ultimately. A movement to adopt a part
of them and ignore the rest will, no matter how strongly
supported or how earnestly pushed, surely fail. All past
systems have failed, and all present systems will fail, be-
cause they were builded without a complete foundation.

Justice is the end to be sought by whatever movement.
Justice is that adornment which renders the structure per-
fect and harmonious. It is the completed edifice whose
foundation is firm; whose frame-work is perpendicular and
horizontal; and whose finish is harmony. It implies, in
humanity, that it consists of free and equal‘ individuals,
harmoniously related. Is this that grand finality which the
people pretend to desire? If so, will they take the neces-
sary steps to secure it? This is the important query. It is
foolishness to prate about reform and to make a great noise
about better things, unless something is done to secure
them. The mountain will not come to the people. They
must go to the mountain. So will not justice come to them;
but they must seek it out, and, finding, adopt it.

Physical, materia1,justice lies at the basis of all other
kinds of justice. If this be not comprehended and adopted
it is folly to think of intellectual and moral justice. If that
justice which should regulate the material needs and de-
mands of the physical body be not comprehended, how can
it be expected that those rules which ought to govern that
which evolves throughthis body should be understood?
And yet the priests all over the world have, for centuries,
been endeavoring to instruct the people in moral justice, by
an effort to utterly ignore that which lies at its base. They

have endeavored to divorce the diflerent natures of man; to

immutable laws, upon the perfectionofwhich operation :

make him feel that his moral nature is in need of salvation,
and that salvation can be attained only through the utter
abnegation of all physical things. It is not at all to be
wondered at that absolutely no advance has been made to-
ward justice in any direction. The terrible failure that has
resulted from the ill-advised efforts upon the moral nature
of man, brings us back to the point of departure, and com-
pels us whether we will or not, to remember that We are
not only moral beings, but physical and intellectual as
well; that morality is a growth upon these other depart-
ments; and that it is not only improbable but impossible
that moral growth should result, where the soil in which
it has its origin is fouled with weeds. In other words, all
past efforts for the salvation of the world have been di-
rected to the wrong part of the human nature. It has
been attempted to beautify and adorn a rotten and imper-
fect structure; to put new wine into old bottles, the result
of which has been that the bottles have bursted and the
wine, good enough, perhaps, in its proper place and time,
has been wasted. I A V A

A more deleterious policy than this even has been pur-
sued. Not only has the moral nature been made absurdly
prominent as a subject of redemption, but it has been
taught that this could be gained only by the -crucifixion of
the physical. The anathema of eternal damnation has
been held in terror over trembling ignorance, to deter its
votaries from giving to the physical that attention which
its life and health rigorously demands; and thus the bodies
of mankind have been left to rot almost, with the absurd
idea prevalent, that moral growth would be hastened by
the decay. This process has been pursued so relentlessly
that humanity is now so far gone into demoralization physi-
cally, that it is doubtful, to say the least, whether any re-
deeming process can be set up which shall beable to rescue
it from final dissolution, and thereby prevent the extinction
of the physical man.

Moreover, the first and prime necessities of physical life
have been anathcmatized as emanations from hell. The
holy instincts of procreation have been slimed all over with
the feculence of the thoughts of those who, by long abuse,
have sunk their own past recovery in the slough of lust‘;
and all mankind is smirched with their filth. The natural
passions, born in pure and healthy bodies, have been held
to be degrading and as adverse to morality, and their sub-
jects have been taught to consider them as worthy of ab-
horence only, until u almost an universal shameaccompanies
the possession of this benign gift of nature. The race is
already beginning sensibly to suffer the legitimate conse-
quences of such absurd teachings, in the natural decrease of
children and the growing disinclination among women to
hear them, counterparted as it is by the decreasing capa.
bility ‘ among men to generate them. All these things,
which have been for years silently at work beneath the ex.
terior of society, together with the terrific social convul-
sions that have recently burst upon society externally, show
conclusively that humanity is on the verge of a revolution
that will mark an era in its progress; or else equally as
vividly indicate the point from which it will begin to de.
scend rapidly into darkness. VVhich course shall it be?

step boldly to the front and stem the tide of social de-
moralization and decay, whether their voices of warning
shall be potent enough to cause the people to drop their
masks of affected virtue, sham morality and mock
modesty, and to come back to recognize themselves as in-
dividuals, responsible alone to the laws of their own beings,
and capable of growth in any direction, only through giv-
ing to each department of their natures its proper attention.

Religious devotion has had its day and failed. The
world is no better morally than it was a score of centuries
ago. Physically the world is constantly deteriorating. In
spite of statistics, which seem to show a gradual increase
in the length of life, the general standard of physical health
is surely decreasing. Intellectually, only, has the world
made any advancement; and this has been gained to no in.
considerable degree at the expense of its physical health.

' But this intellectual advance may, perhaps, have its recom.

pense to offer to the physical, if it shall show how utterly
absurd it is longer to attempt to secure moral growth While
the physical base is left to decay. Religion has been and
still is, the deadly foe of intellect. In its domain reason, the
offspring of the intellect, has no place. Intellect is, however,
rapidlytgaining dominion and power among the people, and
as rapidly preparing them to abandon religion to its doom,
and to take up its own products and use them as the means
of restoration to pristine purity, health and strength physi-
cally. Nomatter if these products are now condemned by
religion, they are accepted by the people; and the sway of
the priest and the bigot is thus rapidly passing away.
Heaven speed it on its passage. Meanwhile the evidences

is approaching a culminating point._ Politically, perhaps,
more evidently than in any other way, are the signs of the
times pregnant of change. Imperfect systems begin, grow
and culminate. They have no real, constant existence.

When their fruits are corruption and dishonor, and these
only, as they have come to be in this country, it requires
no prophet mind to foretell their speedydissolution. A
government, pretendedly of the people, has here become a
huge machine by which the rights of the people are sub.

jugated by those whom they have chosen to be their sex.

 

The answer rests with those who shall have the courage to,

of decayare every day becoming more apparent in all dc-‘
partments of life. It is clearly to be seen that everything .

 

- the people without being accounted thieves.
. the conditions are still more ominous.

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Oct. 10, 1874.

vants. Patriotism is dead. Self emolument alone lives,
whether it be in the White House or in the petty ofiiee;
whilethe measure of manhood is determined arbitrarily by
the length of the purse which officials fill at the expense of

The laboring masses
toil on year after year, and at the end of each find them-
selves more firmly bound by iron chains. They stir the
soil and induce it to yield its wealth. They feed themselves
nigga.rdly and clothe themselves scantily, and see the major
portion of their labor go to enhance the comfort and luxury
of those who never toil. They construct elegant mansions
in which those, who regard them with disdain, live away
their lives in idleness,_while the builders themselves must be
content in the humblest cot. These classes begin to realize
that there is something wrong somewhere, and they are
asking in no uncertain tones, What is justice for us and

it how are we to obtain it? Does it mean that we are to go

on generation after generation and see the proportion of
our classes constantly increasing, while those who accumu-
late our products as continually decrease in numbers? Have
not they, whom we have labored to feed and clothe, while
they have poured over the problems of science, yet found
some solution to this outrage upon us; have they not yet
learned what is justice ‘between the producer and the
consumer? These and other equally indicative ques-
tions are rising from the toilers in every branch of
industry, and unless they are answered, and that, too,
"shortly and satisfactorily, they will seek a solution for
themselves by the means with which they have toiled so
1ong——by brute force. Be warned in time, oh ye rich. men,

_ and ye men of science! ‘Burden not this class beyond the
, power of human endurance, else it will revenge itself upon

you mercilessly.

Socially also, is the harvest time at hand. The relations
of life which nature prepared to confer happiness only
upon the people, have been blasted by the eanting hypocrisy
of so-called religion, until humanity groans in anguish under
the bonds with which it is bound; while they who have the
hardihood to assert, practically, that nature is a higher law
than that which religion has framed and custom enforced,

I are crushed beneath the Juggernaut of public opinion.

But to these despots also do the signs of the times say, Be-
ware!
PARIS, France, Aug. 27, 1874.

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Now Is the time to subscribe for the WEEKLY, so that
those who have not fully read up the great Brooklyn Scan-
dal may obtain a full knowledge of it from the first, as we

shall shortly begin a review and “summing up” of the case,

with the particular purpose in view of ‘showing its effects
upon the Social Question. The frightened press assume that
this Scandal has dealt Free Love its death blow, whereas, we
shall show that enforced lust———legal marriagc—has been
killed instead. All the back numbers containing the various
statements of the parties to the Scandal can be furnished
from our oflice. ' ' ' '
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“HARPER’S BAZAR” ON STIRPICULTURE.

There are many propositions for the improvement of the
race of mankind, physical, intellectual and moral. The
great question of questions is, How can we improve the
human stock? We commence with demanding better pre-
natal conditions. We object to marriage, because by it,
under law and not under love the world has been filled with
abortions. We freely admit that there are cases in which
love is an ingredient of modern marriages, but we also aver
that there are many cases in which it is not. When it exists
law is not needed, and where it does not exist law cannot
supply its place. Every infant that is not the fruit of an
affectionate union we believe to be more or less of an abor-
tion, and in order to reduce the numbers of such forlorn
little ones, we demand the withdrawal of all laws, ecclesi-
astical or civil, which we hold to be the primal cause of
the production of such monstrosities. We claim that, in
making such a proposition, we are only following nature,
and lament that, in sexual matters, man can take needed
lessons from the inferior animal creation. But, though we
oppose all our present marriage laws as both useless and
mischievous, We are truly glad to welcome an ally who
works even within them to forward the general improve-
ment of our race, and therefore it is that, with profound

-— pleasure, we place before our numerous readers from

Harpar’s.Ba2wr the following article on V
“ nncxnnss MARRIAGES.

“ The vigor and just development of the highest qualities
of every animal race are dependent upon certain physio-
logical laws. These can be easily ascertained andvobeyed,
so as to secure the desired result. Man, in breeding those
domestic animals which he requires to administer to his
wants or pleasures, takes care to conform to the well-estab
lished principles of science, and -is thus enabled to fix with
the utmost precisionthe good quality he seeks in the in-
ferior creature subjected to him. His horse, his dog, his
cow, and even his pig and his goose, are in this way
moulded, as it were, to his particular requirement. He
evokes at his will fleetness, strength, fruitfulness and plump-
ness, and the still higher attributes of Vdocility and faithful-
ness. - ' I

“ The power man thus possesses over the inferior he un-
édoubtedlycan exercise to a ‘great extent upon his own sug

Financially .

perior race.- Careful as he is, however, in every particular
of the breeding of the occupants of his stable and cow yard,
he remains heedless of the most important influences in -the
development of his own family. -

“The marriage of man and woman, it might be supposed,
would commend itself as seriously to the consideration of
human beings as the pairing of those brutes of which they
are so regardful. The two processes are essentially gov-
erned by the same laws, and’ as these are obeyed or dis-
obeyed, improvement or deterioration of race will equally
result in both. Marriage, however, is generally as recklessly
assumed by young lovers as it is inconsiderately sanctioned
by their elders. There is not a momentary thought given
to its probable effect upon the family and race. ,

“ In spite of all the popular denunciation of all interfer-
ence with the mutual love of the young of opposite sexes,
we do not hesitate to question the safety of leaving this
serious matter of marriage to be decided exclusively accord-
ing to their impulses. Let us confine ourselves just now
merely to the physical view of the question, which to the
sentimental may appear too gross and cruel for the refined
and tender vision of love, but which, nevertheless, is the
one with which humanity is most concerned. How seldom
is the good health of the pair the conditi0n,_a.s it should be,
of every marriage? So far, in fact, is this from being so,
that the most attractive force in bringing young lovers to-
gether and uniting them in the bonds of matrimony, is a
type of physical charm inconsistent with the fullest vigor.
The qualities of the beauty in vogue are tenderness, slight-
ness, paleness and a diminutiveness in hands and feet,
which are incompatible with a robustness of constitution.
To secure these qualities all vigorous exercise must be for-
gone and the generous expansiveness of nature carefully
restricted’within the narrow boundaries of art. Breathing,
circulation and muscular movement are carefully chetked
to reduce the natural proportions to the standard of fashion.
The process succeeds admirably, and the delicacy demanded
is abundantly supplied. Health, of course, cannot be had
into the bargain, and does not in fact seem much asked for.
“ Absolute disease, strange as it may seem, is often pre-
ferred to robust health. It is not presumed that disease is
chosen because it is disease, but it has certain charms so
conformably with the prevailing taste for delicate beauty
that they are irresistible to the young. The skilled physi-

of the fellest disease. The consumptive, cancerous and
scrofulous taints in all their varieties often manifest them-
selves in the young by an eye, expression and complexion
which the ordinary observer will contemplate with delight
and pronounce ‘brilliant; ’ but the doctor, with a shake of
his head, will term ‘fatal.’ ”

It is evident from the above that the writer has appre-
ciated the magnitude of the questions descanted upon. To
reconcile arbitrary copulation (the male being in power)
with race improvement is, we believe, a diflicult and even a

-hopeless task. If the world wants an improved human

stock, love must be free, and the fetters must be taken off
those who produce it. The aim to fix the affectional status
of either a man or a woman, which is the base of all mar-
riage systems, is another folly. John loves Mary to—day,
therefore he must love her forever; the same constancy be-
ing expected from her also. Is this demand according to
nature? Our bodies change; every fourteen years we have
a new suit of flesh and blood; but our affections-—they must
be fixtures. If there be anything over which human beings
cannot be considered in power, it is over their affections.
We know that they may—do——-change in years, days, and
sometimes momentarily; but they must not change in mar-
riage or the race will deteriorate.

We respectfully differ, however, from the writer of the
quoted article, in the addition therein proposed. It says:
“In spite of the popular denunciation of all interference
with the mutual love of the young of opposite sexes, we do
not hesitate to question the safety of leaving this serious
matter of marriage to be decided exclusively according to
their impulses.” The WEEKLY takes the world to witness
that, in the matter of stirpiculture, it has never gone so far
as to interfere in cases of affection. We object to the in-
trusion of the priest or the magistrate on such occasions,
and must consequently resolutely close the door in the face
of the doctor also. The_ right education of both sexes in
“unemasculated physiology” is all we can depend upon
to produce the proper mating of human beings; further
than that we dare not go. By admitting the right of per-
sonal sovereignty we can look for an improved race of hu-

‘man beings, but never hope for such a result by its further

surrender. The remainder of the article contains some
well-timed if not well-placed advice, to young women, who
often render themselves incapable of sexual pleasure, in.
order to ‘please. It is very well to decry fashion——small
waists, small feet, etc., but the curiosity of it is how comes

Beam‘? For the other side of the question see the illustra
tions therein.

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RENEWALS or SuBscnI1>:rroNs—We must again remind our
subscribers that it is their duty when they receive a bill for
the renewal of their subscrptions, to at once forward the
amount or else to notify us to stop the WEEKLY. This is a
matter of a few moments’ time and should be promptly at-

tended to in every instance, as it Iuatter of simple justice to
M. . . . . ,

cian will see in the qualities most admired indications only .

it such doctrines are preached from the pulpit of Harper’s‘'

EDUCATIONAL. '

At the Board of Education ‘in the City of New York, a
circumstance lately occurred which is thus narrated by the
New York Herald of Sept. 17, 1874:

Now happened a queer incident, which defines the otfioial
title of each instructor in the public schools to be “ teacher."
The Committee on Evening Schools reported Professor Al-
berto de Tornos for “professor” of the Spanish language in
the Evening High School. President Neilson’s dislike for
pretentious titles was shown immediately. He said that he
did not believe that the regulations of the Board recognized
a “professor” in a public school, and a member of the Even-
ing Schools Committee replied that “teacher ” was the title
meant and the one that should be inserted in the resolution.
The remarks agitated an old gentleman, one of the trustees,
who declared that he could not see that the Spanish language
needs to be taught in public schools, and that on_ principle »
he disliked the attempt to put classical, ornamental fringe
on what ought to be aplain educational garb. The discus-
sion awakened some other trustees, and when the resolution
was voted on it was found that instead of the Board being
unanimous, as upon every other question, several of its mem-
bers voted against the appointment of Teacher de Tornos.

' Although we deem that the world has outgrown the the-
ocracy of the ancient Jews, we respect the sturdy democracy
which is exhibited in their earlier history by their rejection
of titular barbarisms. We admire the simplicity of a people
who refused even to their great leader “ Moses ” the title of
“ His Excellency ;” whose high priest was known merely
as “Aaron”—without being burdened with the prefix “ Rev-
erend” or "‘ His Holiness,” or that moi'e elaborate and more
barbarous monstrosity of language with which England des-
ignates her clerical magnates, which would have converted
the simple biblical style of “Aaron ” into “ The Most Rever-
end Father in God, His Grace the Archbishop of Jerusalem.”
Even their great military heroes seem to have been treated
in a similar uiiceremonious manner, for their all-conquering
captain is merely noted as “Joshua, the son of Nun.”
With such feelings in the matter, we can well commend the
action of President Neilson in objecting to admit the title
“Professor” into our Public Schools.

But there is another point in the discussion which also is
well worthy the attention of the public; it is the impo1icy—
we might add the injustice—of robbing the public for the
purpose of destroying the unity of our country, and cultivat-
ing anarchy in our Union, by permitting the i_nstructi0n of
our children in “ foreign languages” to be introduced into
our Public Schools. With our present educational force in
this state, which is equal to the present money appropriation
by which it is sustained, it is questionable whether it is sufl‘i-
cient to give the children of the state a good and thorough
training in one language, and superfiuities cannot be added
except at the expense of the same. More than that, the great ,
glory of our country, the strong bond of union upon which
we can rely more than upon any parchment, is “unity of
language.” If that is to be invaded, where is the invasion
to end? If such innovations are permitted to be established,
in all probability, in the near future, our citizens will talk
German in Pensylvania, French in Louisiana, and probably
Chinese in California.

In private schools, where a certain foreign tongue is a
specialty, not one out of ten pupils acquires a[second language-
save at the expense of the first. “flute, there are cases, many
cases, in which such an acquisition is very desirable. The
question is——I‘s any Board of Education justly in power to
introduce it in our Public Schools at the general cost of the
community? We think not. We think it an unwarranted
and pernicious usurpation in Public School Officials so to or-
dain. Music is a universal language, and is both necessary
and useful. Drawing, unless as a nation we elect to fall be-
hind Europe in the mechanical arts, is also requsite; but both
these should be general, and no study that is not general
ought to be admitted in our public_ Schools. Until, how-
ever, we havea national Bureau of Education established
in VVashington, in other words, until the nation thinks as
much of its human progeny as it does of its pigs, we suppose
our people will have to submit to the infliction. At present
we have a perfect Babel in the book department, constantly
changing, as this, that, or the other great publishing house
secures the lead, notusually on the excellence of its goods,
but on the strength of its purse, and we feel it our duty to
protest against the adding to it of another Babel, viz: that of
confusion of tongues. .

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OUR LECTURE SEASON .

 

We are happy to be able to announce to our friends all
over the country that we have returned from our trip to
Europe refreshed and strengthened in health, and eager to
re-enter the lecture-field in defense and advocacy of those
truths which, we believe, must finally be the foundation for
the salvation of the world -from sorrow and suffering. The
intense agitation of the social question through the discus-
sion of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal has caused the thinking
people to ask earnestly, “ What is to take the place of a
social sysem which this scandal has shown to be tottering
to age and decay ?" One of our principal efiorts during the
coming season will be satisfactorily and rationally to answer
this question, and we feel warranted-in saying in advance
that when it is answered, all the doubts and fears of anarchy
and confusion which now occupy the minds of the timorous,
will be quickly dispelled, and the most conservative will be
willing to acknowledge that it must be a happy change that

will bring such a consummation. We expect to begin our
season about the 1st of October. Those who desire to effect
engagements any wherein the United States should make

early application, as our routes Will be arranged several
weeks ahead. ' '

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DEFAMATION or CHARACTER.

Throughout the Tilton-Beecher case, the advocates of the
cause of the pastor of Plymouth, whenever they found
themselves cornered in argument, have usually thought fit
to relieve their overburdened spirits by an abuse of Victoria
C. Woodhull. Of course the WEEKLY hasdisdained to
notice such irrelevant ob_servations in most instances, but
there is a line that we must draw as a limit to our forbear-
ance. That boundary we feel has been passed in the fol-
lowing instance, which we quote from the N. Y. Herald of
Sept. 22:

“ The Irish Times has informed its readers that Mrs. Wood-
hull leads the free love wing of Plymouth Church. This is
only a Hibernian method of expressing a lamentable fact.”

We know not what we have done to the Irish Times that
it should so malign us. As to the’ indorsement of the state-
ment by the N. Y. Herald, we look upon that simply as
“satanic.” From the World, indeed, we might expect such
treatment, but then its articles are written in such a stilled
style that few read them and nobody can understand them.
But a truce to prating on the subject, save to solemnly
warn our opponents, that whoever after this shall dare so
to slander us, as to consign us to that black pit of infamy-—
Plymouth _Church—we shall hold responsible for so inali-
cious and unwarranted an assertion in a court of law.

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NEW SUBSCRIBERS.-0111‘ friends ought never to forget
that the public press, in favor of the old and worn out social
system, takes every opportunity to prejudice the minds of
the liberally inclined against the WEEKLY. If efforts from
some quarter are not put forth to oppose this influence, it is
easy to see that the grand doctrines of woman’s emancipa-
tion cannot spread rapidly. We do whatever we can upon
the rostrum and in the distribution, as far as we are able, of
sample copies of the WEEKLY, but it must be remembered
that without the personal efforts of all who are in favor of

social reform, "it cannot make much headway against the or-

ganized opposition that confronts it upon all sides. Every
reader of the WEEKLY ought to have interest enough to se-
cure at least one new subscriber. In this way’ the principles
which it advocates may find their way into many a sorrow-
ing heart to comfort and cheer. Let the patrons of reform
papers have, first, the courage of their opinions, andthen
the further courage to do what they can to spread them
among their friends and neighbors.

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ROME AND THE ROTHSCHILDS.

 

.The priestly power is always more or less at war with the
money power. Really worshiping the same deity, Mam-
men, at all times and in all countries they always have been
and are now jealous of one another’s advances. They are
both underground workers. Like moles in their labors, you

A cannot detect them in their operations, you .can only note

the mischief they do on their travels. Like Joey Bagstock,
in Dickens’ “ Dombey and Son,” they are both—-“ Sly, sir,
sly; devilish sly!” But, although, both in their characters
and in their methods of accomplishing their designs, there is
great similarity between them, they much dislike and always
have cordially hated one another. This has been the case
from time iminemorial, and it is the case now. Priesthoods
and usurers are a couple of parasites feeding on the body of
labor; they are the bed-bugs and fleas of the working classes.
Both of them are so insatiably greedy that they fear they
will never get enough, and that is the reason that there
always has been war between them in the past, and is now
between Rome and the Rothschilds. ‘From the time of
Charlemagne to the sixteenth century, the papacy had the
advantage of the usurer. It would not permit his calling to
be recognized by law in Europe. It treated it as a crime,
and branded. him as a criminal. But in 1545, nine years
after what is called the Reformation, interest for money was
“legalized” by Henry the Eighth. Then the money
changers got the whip-hand of the priesthood in England,
and, since then, they have established themselves in power
in all countries. Now, they really are the world’s poten-
tates; and monarchs, legislators, priesthoods and presses,
have been mere instruments in their hands to carry out their
purposes and efl’ect whatever they pleased to decree to be
performed.

of the money changers of Europe. Our readers will remem-
ber that when it was declared it startled the nations like a
clap of thunder out of a cloudless sky. None could discern
for it a cause, for every one saw that the reason given by
Louis Napoleon for such a proceeding was invalid. Few
knew the real cause. It was the abduction of a Jew child,
Edgar Mortara, which had taken place about six months
previous to the declaration of war by the French Emperor,
that was the underlying reason why that potentate took up
arms against Austria. But it was not the simple abduction
of one child that justly stirred up the wrath of the Roths-
childs. It was far more than that. The Pope claimed and
still claims the right to kidnap in all countries, where he has
the power to do so, all baptized Jewish children, and any
Catholic, male or female, can administer the rite of baptism.

We give the account of the abduction of Edgar Mortara’

from our contemporary, the Jewish Times of New York:

A reputable Jewish family named Mortar-a lived at Bblogna
in the year 1858, of which the father was a successful manu-
facturer. One night he came late to his home and found it

in possession of eight or ten servants of the Inquisition.
They demanded to be shown all the children of the family.
Amidst the tears" and lamentations of the mother and the
calmer grief of the father._the officials selected one child,
Edgar, of only seven years of age, tore him from the

embraces of his parents, and carried him away to the prisons’

of the Inquisition. The cause of this strange outrage was re-
luctantly told. _ It seems that a servant of the Mortaras. a
Roman Catholic, whose_ character is said to have been infa-
moug, had secretly baptized the child, as he affirmed. when
it was ill of a dangerous disease. But her story was contra-
dicted by the parents, and she seems to have been wholly un-
worthy of belief. She had told the priests of what she had
done, and the Church had resolved to maintain its-claim to
the possession of its unconscious convert. In the morning
the boy was 13130861 in a carriage and hurried away to Rome.

And now began the long and fruitless pursuit of their lost
child by the wretched parents. They followed him to Rome;
they besought the officials of the papal court to restore him
to their arms; they saw Antonelli, and strove in vain to con-
vince him by proper testimony that the servant was a profli-
gate and a liar. He refused to interfere; but they were told
mockingly by the priests that if they would become Christians
they might regain their child. The parents were permitted
to see their Edgar in the presence of his captors, The boy
seemed anxious to follow them home, but he was again
hurried away to a distant convent at Alatri. Here, too, the
Jewish parents followed him secretly, and were driven away
by the priests, and were even in danger of ill-treatment from
the fanatical populace. It was no longer safe for a Jew and
Jewess in 1858 to travel far in the papal dominions,

But the story of the abduction of Edgar M01-tam became
known to all the Jews of Europe and America, and an in-
tense resentment filled all the powerful ]_'3,c9_ The page in-
sult of the papal court might weii seem the most cruel they
had yet endured. What Jewish child was safe, what Jewish
family might I101? Suffer the fate of the Mortaras, if the power
of the priests Were equal to their audacity and pride?
Europe rang with the remonstrances and the lamentations
of the Jews. The memory Of their ceaseless sorrows in the
past seemed renewed with fresh bitterness. They saw once
more the burnings, the tortures and the exactions, the ban-
ishments, the robberies of English kings and French Cru-
saders, the rage of Arbaes and Torquemada, and the mocking
tenderness of German lords. Yet the Jews in their afllic-
tion found many defenders. The liberal press of France,
England and America denounced the cruelty of Pius IX.,
and even calm and enlightened Catholics denied that any
such extravagant right to seize the children of heretics or un-
believers was inherent in St. Peter’s chair. But the Pope
refused to give up the child even at the solicitations of
foreign courts and powerful influence, and the Umvcrs‘ and
the Civilitw Cattolica. enlarged on the happy fate of Edgar
Mortara. They pointed out that the right to seize Jewish
children was one that the church had always claimed. They
asserted that the authority of the natural parent was as
nothing to that of the spiritual. They assured the Jews that
their involuntary convert would never be given up, and that
the Church had made him its own.

The Mortaras never regained their child. Edgar grew up
in a convent, forgot his parents, and has become, it is said, a
priest. The Pope and the Jesuits mocked at the impotent
rage of the Jews. The fatal insult they had inflicted upon a
sensitive race seemed never to be avenged. Yet the moment
of retribution at last arrived. The papacy fell into ruin
while proclaiming to the world its own infallibility, and in
the wreck of the French Empire the Pope was hurled forever
from his temporal throne. It is said that of all his Italian
foes. the most resolute and active have been the Jews; that
the Italian press owes much of ~ its brilliancy and vigor to the
gifted offspring of the rabbinical schools, and that with keen
sarcasm and unsparing ridicule the Jews have never ceased
to assail the Jesuits and the priests, who still assert their
right to snatch children from their parents and exercise
those repulsive acts of persecution thatoifend the plainest
principles of humanity and of civilization.

At the time of the abduction, Austria was the sword of
the Papacy, and France was powerless at the Vatican. It
was not until the battles of Solferino and Magenta had been
fought, after peace had been purchased by the surrender of
Austrian power in Italy and the sequestrationof a very con-
siderable part of the domain of the Papacy itself, that France
regained power in Rome. That Louis Napoleon had no
hand in the abduction of the child, Edgar Mortara, was
proved by a letter he wrote to Pio None on that occasion,
a translation of which was published in the New York Herald
at the time, wherein the French Emperor earnestly entreated

the Pope “ not to make so antiquated a claim, which would

be sure to cause trouble.” .Pio None answered “ that he
had only done his duty as a Christian Pontiff in the matter,
and that he could not act otherwise.” After this answer,
Sir Moses Montefiore, of London, the great Jew negotiator,
was sent to the Vatican, but he fared far worse than the
Emperor of France. The Pope treated him somewhat after
the style the Grand Master of the Knights Templars in Ivan-
hoe treated the J cw-—Isaac, of York. It is believed that he
was even worse entertained than the latter worthy. For the
Grand Master did condescend to receive the letter of Isaac
from the hand of a Christian, inasmuch as he said, “ Com-
rade, take thou the letter from the dog and give it unto me;
I touch not misbelievers, save with the sword;” whereas, it
is asserted, that the Pope refused an audience to Sir Moses

j Montefiore. _
The last French and Austrian war is a proof of the truth ,

I of this statement. It exposes the underground movements

We do not absolutely aflirm this last statement to be an
exact fact, but we do assert that the mission of Sir Moses
Montefiore was absolutely fruitless. There was no further
effort at negotiation. Three months afterward the blow
fell, and the European money-holders struck down Austria,
the friend of the Pope, with the arm of France. The settle-
ment that followed the war proves satisfactorily the truth of
this assertion, for, at its close, the Pope suffered far more
than Austria. What had Pio Nono done that he should be
shorn of more than half of his territory? It was the pound
of flesh the modern Shylocks justly claimed from their im-
becile oppressor, as he lay prostrate at their feet. They did
not care a straw for the honor of having conquered their fee,
but their intent was to teach him better manners in future,
and to warn him of the danger of rousing the ire of the
kings of the kings of Europe.

But, notwithstanding the force thus applied, the Pope has
never given up the real point at issue-—viz., “his right to
abduct all baptized Jews, wherever he can enforce it.” Nor
is the battle between the Pontiff and the money-changers
yet concluded, although the latter -parties have more_,,than

once tendered the olive bianch to the Catholic Church. The
first time they did so was when Mr. Peabody, the great
banker, went to Rome, and was more successful than Sir
Moses Montefiore in his embassage. He knew how to deal
with the Vatican. The New York Herald stated, at the
time of his visit, that he dropped five millions of francs into
the Papal treasury chest. If you ask for what? we answer,
for silence on the crime of the “legalization” of usury.
Since then, some two years before the capture of Rome by
Victor Emmanuel, the late Rothschild, of Paris, who had
partially agreed to loan the latter potentate sixty millions of
florins,-withdrew from his engagement on the singular pre-
text “that he feared it might be used to the detriment of
the Italian clergy.” How is that for “ high” from a Jew?

The reason for all those love-taps from the money-changers
is obvious. The last thing they‘.desire is to drive the Vati-
can to. extreme measures. The cession of Rome to Victor
Emanuel and the destruction of the temporal sovereignty of
the Pope was no part of theirgplan. The late Rothschild, of
Paris, would have much rather used his money to keep the
Pope, in than to turn him out of, Rome. In Rome the money-
changer had him fast with the Papal loan. That tie is now
severed; The “legalization” of interest for money is the
foundation of the modern financial system. That is now
pressing the life out of the peoples; it is the mother of the
national debt system, and that necessitated the paper money
system, which has made money cheap; and in making
money, which is the exchange for labor, cheap, it has made
labor cheap, and beggared the masses who perform it.

But the time is near at hand when open war will be de-
clared between the Papacy and the Rothschilds. As to the
Papal loan, at six per cent. interest, we shall be told that
that was not borrowed by Pio Nono but by the secular
government of Rome. Whether it was or not the seizure of
Rome by Victor Emmanuel frees Pio Nono from it, for the
debts go with the estate. When the priests air the subject of

usury or interest for money they will not strike wildly. Our .

friends, the labor reformers, are now, and have been for a
time, engaged in conflict with it. Every sensible man knows
that interest for money is unjust, and all the world’s great
legislators—Moses, Aristotle, Jesus and Mohammed-—have
condemned it. But, per contra, we maintain that if Apleases
to loan money to B at any interest upon which the parties
may agree, he has the right so to do. Communal laws have
no right to override individual sovereignty. Yet, we per.
fectly agree with those who attack our present financial sys-
tem as an uneconomical and cruel system that is the bane
of civilization and the merciless robber of all wealth-pro-
ducers. How, then, can it be annihilated? Why, by an.
nulling the law that sustains the usurer. Usury is a crime
that cannot in itself do much harm, but the “legalization”

of it, that is the arming of it with communal power, has en- .

‘abled it to crucify the masses of mankind. The base of the
national debt system 1S the “legalization” of usury. De-
prive money of that usurped power and it must fall into
dust. Much money will never be loaned at interest when
there is no law to recover that. interest, and we maintain
that there should be not only no law to recover the interest,
but that, as the loaning of money is not a transaction in
which money acts in its only legitimate capacity, viz.: As a

medium of exchange for labor, it should be looked at as a '

credit affair, and there should be no law to recover the princi-
pal also.

What we whisper we believe and trust will soon be
trumpetedithroughout the world by the Vatican. Every.
thing shows that since the declaration of the infallibility of
the Pope, and the consequent dissolution of the firm of
Priest, King & Co., that Rome has taken a new departure.
Catholic papers, such as the Irish World,’ the Sumlcty Demo-
crat and many others, based on republican or democratic
principles, have their hundreds of thousands of subscribers,
which twenty years ago would not have been supported or
even tolerated by their co-rcligionists. The Papacy, having
lost its former base, the good will of governments, is
naturally turning for support to the masses. In order to ob-
tain that it cannot do anything better than unlimber its guns

against the “legalization” of usury. We believe that it"

will do so, and trust that this number of the WEEKLY may
prove to be the “Maverick” to let in light upon the battle
that is now being waged between Rome and the Roths-

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MISCELLANEOUS.

PEARLS FROM THE SEA or THOUGHT.
SELECTED BY LAURA CUPPY SMITH.

“ Christianity is now the established religion. He who
attempts to impugn it must be contented -to behold mur-
derers and traitors take precedence of him in public opinion,
though if his genius be equal to his courage, and assisted by
a peculiar condition of circumstances, future ages may exalt
him to a divinity, and persecute others in his name, as he
was persecuted in the name of his predecessor in the homage
of the World.”-.-PERCY Brscnn SHELLY.

“You may build your Capitol of granite, and pile it high
as the Rocky Mountains; if it is founded on or mixed with

iniquity, the pulse of a girl can in time beat it down.”— ‘

WENDELL PHILLIPS. A —

‘ “ A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is
the hope of the heart; our beatitude waits for the fulfillment
of these two.”-EMERSON. ‘ -

“Who ever passed the tomb of Abelarcl and Heloise, in
the ground of Pere la Chaise, without a heart-swell? 
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WOODHULL J5 GLAFLIN’S WEEKLY.

, ‘ Oct. l’), i

“ It is impossible to be a hypocrite and to be brave at the
ame instant.”——THoMAs Pxmm. H

“No man finds in a woman’s soul the revelation of a rarer
self, receiving it into his heart as an incentive to a higher
life,_ who ever loses it wholly or who ever forgets the gentle
face that was its visible type.”——MARY CLEMMER Atrrcs.

“ If ever you have so loved that all cold prudence, all selfish,
worldly considerations have gone down like driftwood be-
fore a river flooded with new rain from heaven, sothat you
even forget yourself and were ready to cast your whole being
into the chasm of existence as an oifering before the feet of
another, /give thanks to God that you have had one glimpse
of heaven. that so divine a guest could enter and possess
your soul.”——HARn.Ir:r Bnnonnn Srown; '

“I love my fellow-men. The worst I know I would do
good to. VVill death change me so that I shall sit among the
lazy saints, turning a deaf ear to the sore complaints of souls
that su1fer?”—JoHN G. WHITTIER.

“A creed sometimes remains outside the mind, encrusting
and petrifying it against all other influences addressed to the
higher parts of our nature; manifesting its power by not
suffering any fresh and living conviction to get in, but itself
doing nothing for the mind or heart, except standin g sentinel
over them to keep them vacant.”—JoHN STUART MILL.

“The world’s old;

But the old world waits the hour to be renewed.

Toward which, new hearts in undivided growth

Must quicken and increase to multitude

In new dynasties of the race of men-

Developed whence, shall grow spontaneously

New churches, new ceremonies, new laws

Admitting freedom, new societies

Excluding falsehood.” —G. B. BROWNING.

_ “All injustice rights itself in time.”—SUMNER.

“ Love opens the door to divi’nestlife.”—ANON.

~ A FOLLOWER OF JESUS.

With a public lecturer, truth, regardless of all things else,
should be paramount. When this is not obvious, suspicion is
thrown on the speaker’s best utterances; and, touching pub-
lic morals", an earnest seriousness should be visible, to give
confidence, and have his words effectual. In this day of light
and progress ( ?) all who call themselves spirituaiists, and
who propose to level all the mountains of error, should, of all
people, foster truth most tenderly; for, a present victory
resting upon ingenious equivocation, or any false foundation,
is at best short lived. I regret to observe that Br. J amieson,
in replying to me, has seen fit to resort to prevarication and
wit in order to avoid the shafts of truth. '

He sets out with either a willful or ignorant perversion of
facts. The first proposition in regard to Jesus, which he
deigned to notice, the merest tyro in logic knows, was ahypo-
thetical judgment, of which proof cannot legitimately be de-
manded. He says: “ Mr. Eades asserts,” when there is no
assertion in any part of it, thus changing it to the categorical.
In the first part, the saying that Jesus represented the attri-
butes of Deity better than all the Universe besides, was con-
ditioned by these words: “ So far as we. have knowlege, and
the truth of his biography,” and the focalizing in him all
spiritual truth, was conditioned by may, and predicated upon
the same; a positive, let alone an “unwarrantable assertion”
nowhere appearing. He, by changing the judgment and
terming it an “ unwarrantable statement,” then demanding

‘proof, only shows into what straits he felt himself driven.

He, in this perversion, was either willful or ignorant. He
was either ignorant of the canons of logic, or he willfully
perverted the judgment. If the latter, and he feel disposed
to be honest, my advice would be, for him to take off his hat,
and walk manfully up to the confessional. If the former, I
would advise him to study, in his closet, the works of Sir Wm.
Hamilton (Philos. and Logic,) with John Stuart Mill’s criti-
cism, together with Archbishop Thompson’s laws of thought,
for at least twelve calendar months. Then for six months
more, study the New Testament under a spiritually enlight-
ened teacher, then he may well appear in the lecture field,
when he will bear a. very different testimony in regard to the
honest, loving Jesus than what he does now. If I have read
correctly, he has said that spiritualists should criticise each
other, and expose their fallacies; but when this was uttered,
the probability is, that he had forgotten that his house was
3,130 made of glass.

He affects astonishment at my laying aside my modesty
and rushing into print, and doubtless wishes I had not:
when, if rightly informed, I Was in print when he was in his

’ cradle; so the lack of modesty seems to be on the other side

of the equation! Bro. J. says: “ We may now expect some-
thing brilliant from his (Mr. Eeades’) pen.” Now, I do not
propose to offer anything “ brilliant,” but certainly desire to
offer that which is true; but from what I have seen I regret
very sincerely to be compelled to say that I have no justifia-
ble grounds to expect from his pen either the one or the
other. I

1 very readily confess that the proposition next quoted by
him: “Riches and bliss are incompatible,” is aflirmative—-a

A categorical judgment of which proof may be demanded, but

it does not follow, neither is it true to assert that, “ according
to Mr. Eades, poverty is bliss,” which he does with a deal
of quizzical fun-making and repartee; but repartee is not
The conclusion he has reached does not logically

subject. '

Riches and poverty are antinomics—were there nothing
between them~—no other possible state of existence but riches
or povpe-cty——there would be some excuse for his deduction,
but as it is there are no number of links in a correct chain of
reasoning that could reach his conclusion. Who does not
know that if all would comply with and follow the teachings
of Christ, that there would be neither rich nor poor. but
quantum sujfictt, and consequent happiness for all. But ire
falsely accuses me, just as he does Jesus, of advocating pov-
erty as the true means of bliss! See his mode of reasoning:

Riches cannot produce bliss, . ,
Riches and povertygzrc incompatible,
Ergo, poverty is bliss! '

The merest tyro in logic can’t fail to see the syllogistic
saltus here, which is a plain violation of Rule 4, Hamilton’s
Logic, and this he expects the public to accept as sound rea-
son! It seems like a mere quirk, not to say dishonesty. But
he says he does “ not understand what Mr. Eades is talking
about.” If so, this must be accepted as a satisfactory apology.

Because the “whole world are laboring to get rich,” and
in every possible. way striving to get something more from
their fellow men than what they give (which is the principal
mode of acquiring riches), is no proof whatever that riches
are compatible with bliss, or that this course will not end
in misery. It is no marvel that the good Jesus decried
against it. The great apostle sets it in the true light: “ Hav-
ing food and raiment let us therewith be content. But they
that will be rich fall into many‘ foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the
love of money is the root of all evil.”-1 Tim., 8-9 x.

I am happy to unite with Bro. J. in denouncing salaried
preachers; none such can be counted among the followers of
Jesus. But what he says about universal famine being a
blessing in Eades’§view, is in'_. keeping with his other reason-
ing which I have noticed.

It belongs as much to Bro. J. to prove the aflirmative as it
does to me to prove the negative of the question: “Are
riches and bliss compatible?” I have oiferedthe most con-
spicuous instance on record to prove my position——and can
give others, sacred and profane, almost without number-
but so far he has failed to find one single instance to support
his position. Hear again the wise man: “ Doth not wisdom
cry at the entry of the city and coming in at the doors. Unto
you, 0 men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. Re-
ceive my instruction and not silver, knowledge rather than
choice gold. * * He that trusteth in riches shall fall; but
the righteous shall flourish as a branch.”—Prov. viii. 1, 3, 10;
and xi. 28. ’

— The poet Pope shows that riches are incompatible with bliss,
agreeing with Paul, whom I have quoted; and Burns shows
the possibility of happiness‘ even in poverty. Experience has
taught me, and will ultimately teach him, that riches cannot
produce bliss, and he ought, for very shame, either to give
some proof—philosophical, logical or spiritual-Zthat it can, or
else yield the point.

Bro. .T. blunders as badly in accusing Jesus of advo-
cating poverty as he does in accusing the writer. He takes
not into the account the promises of Jesus to those who
sell all and give to the poor. He, Jesus, looking forward to
the larger community than the little one over which He then
presided, with all things in common, and which He and His
disciples enjoyed, He said: “There is no man that hath left
house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife,
or children or lands for my sake and the Gospel, but he shall
receive an hundred fold now in this time—houses, and
brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands,
and persecution.”--Mark x: 29-30. Here is where the rub
comes. A little persecution does not seem afair exchange
for the wife. Had Jesus only promised anhundred fold of
wives, as He did of other things, just’ as the parties might
agree, who knows but what He might have secured Bro. J . as
one among His most ardent supporters. The arguments he
now offers in support of the proposition that Jesus has no fol-
lowers, were they valid, would prove that he nor any other
man ever had a follower. A man is a follower of another so
long as he adheres to his doctrine and teaching and obeys
him, so far as he is able. Nor God, nor Jesus, nor Reason
could ask more, nor would either deny that such was his fol-
lower. So I re-affirm the proposition that Jesus has follow-
ers, and if Bro. J. cannot include Mr. Eades in the n umber, and
will point out to him in what respect he does not follow him,
he will receive the thanks of Mr. Eades, who will promise to
mend his ways. Brother J. seems still unable to see the
possibility of forsaking, and hating, and loving the sister. I
will try to make it plain: The same reasons apply to the sis-
ter which was given for the wife, husband, etc. Torcome into
the Christ—life and conditions. All the narrow, selfish rela-
tion must he forsaken in order to obtain the hundred fold re-
lation. So the sister in the selfish relation is hated and in the
spiritual and universal is loved. The sister in the new rela-
lation is no more the same sister than the woman is the wife
—the natural being superseded by and giving place to a
spiritural relation when the one hundred is loved as one.
Am I now understood? Christ taugh.t us to lay up spiritual
treasure. knowing full well that happiness based on anything
that can perish will perish and leave the soul destitute.
Philosophers, from Plato to Hamilton, agree that the ego and
non-ego are contradictory and distinct—have no relation to
each other by touch. Hence it were silly to attempt a founda-
tion for spirit-happiness with riches or any material body or
thing, either of wife, or husband, or house, or children. All
these change and vanish. Thackeray well expresses it:
“ Oaths mutually sworn, invocation of heaven, and priestly
ceremonies and fond belief——a love so fond and faithful that
it never doubted it should live forever—are of no avail. It
dies in spite of all the bans of the priests. It has its course
like all mortal things—its beginning, its progress and decay.
It buds and blossoms into sunshine, and withers and dies.’
What argument, then, have we for basing spirit-happiness on
any of these things? None !—absolutely NONE. The matter,
then, rests just here: whether we prefer treasures that perish
to those that do not. These teachings of Christ, so spiritually
sublime, and more, very much more of similar import, never
entered the “ noggins ” of the heathen, of whom he has given
no new light, yet are so highly eulogized by Bro. J. The
words of Jesus: “Deny thyself and take up thy cross and
follow me,” were not an empty sound. A few have done so,
and such are veritably His followers beyond a peradventure
or- possible doubt, the truth of which no amount of wit and
twaddle can shake, and any further denial of the fact would
seem to be nothing short of madness or unadulterated obsti-
nacy. ' ‘ v

It is a mistake to say that “the early Christians perceived
the absurdity of claiming to be the followers of Christ, and
originated a spiritual bankrupt act.” It was the seceders
who did this. The true Christians, while any existed, ac-



cording to Gibbon and other historians, followed Christ in
their practical lives, never dreaming of a vicarious atone-
ment. All those councils, Nice and others, were anti-
Christian councils. .

Bro. J. exhibits the same unsound reasoning in what he’

says respecting the be-thyself-doctrine (and which he says
Christ had not sense enough to teach) that he has in other
places-—but I will not further worry the patience of the
reader to point it out. Am glad to learn that, by implica-
tion, he finds it necessary for men to either restrain them-
selves or be restrained, though he does not directly say so.
With one more effort I think he will get to believe the pros-
titute ought to hear and obey Christ; _ that the gambler an-d
drunkard ought to be something else than what they are.
But why? According to his theory gambling and prostitu-
tion are their chosen modes toget riches on which to build
their happiness. Gamblers who have money to change ands
think this way to be. no worse than for a clergyman to cheat
his neighbor in a horse trade. The prostitute prefers this to
making shirts in a cold, lonely, dark garret at eight cents
apiece. Now, logically, the man whose profession is that of
gambler is all the time “ being himself,” whether he is gamb-
ling or not. If he is not himself while gambling, who is be?
He is either himself or somebody else. If he is somebody
else, he is not accountable to God or man for his acts. The
same holds good with the prostitute, also the drinker, whom
Bro. Jamieson says is not himself when he is drunk! Con-
venient subterfuge, surely, to exculpate the guilty! There
is another kind of drunkenness which inebriates worse than
the juice of grapes.
good Jesus thinks the man is as mean as the woman. Among
other good sayings that the heathen had not thought of was
this: “Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her,
hath committed adultery already with her in his heart.” Lust
drunk is quite as bad as brandy drunk; and all those who
practice sexual connection, for the sake merely of gratifying
the sexual appetite, are drunkards, and, “being them-
selves” and nobody else. All such are the followers of the
great whore of Babylon, spoken of in Revelations. “ with
whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
and are made drunk with the wine of her fornication ”—Rev.
xvii, 12.

According, as I understand Bro. J ., persons getting drunk
with this or any other wine, and losing self-control, are not
themselves(!) But he does not tell us who they are. One
thing is certain, they are being in both cases precisely what
they desire to be. I see no way for a man to entirely avoid
these drunken conditions than to take the counsel of Jesus
and deny himself, both of grape juice and looking on women
to lust after them, for “lust, when it is conceived, bringeth
forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

In closing, I will thank the Spiritualists and editors» for ex-
posing the corruptions, bondage and slavery that exists in
and is cloaked under monogamy: but allow me to add that,
in my opinion, free-love is not the remedy if it means un-
bridled sexual intercourse between any couple, at any time
and place, where and when the parties may mutually agree
upon. H. L. EADES,

South Union, Ky.

WHAT IS A NEWSPAPER?

Organs that gentleman play

To answer the tastejof the day,
Whatever it be,
They hit on the key,

And pipe in full concert away.

News from all countries and climes,
Advertisements, essays and rhymes,

Mixed up with all sorts

Of (f)lying reports,
And published at regular times.

Articles able and wise,

At least, in the editor‘s eyes,
And logic so grand
That few understand

To what in the World itfiapplies.

Statistics, reflections, reviews,
Little scraps to instruct and amuse,
And lengthy debate
Upon matters of state
For wise-headed folks to peruse.

And funds as they were and are,
And quibbles and quirks of the bar,

And every week

A clever critique
On some rising theatrical star.

The ages of Jupiter’s moons,

The stealing of somebody’s spoons,
The state of the crops,
The style of the fops,

And the wit of the public bufioons.

Lists of all physical ills,

Banished by somebody’s pills;
Till you ask with surprise
Why any one dies,

Or what’s the disorder that kills.

Who has got married, to whom;
Who were cut off in their bloom;
Who has had birth
. On this sorrow-stained earth,
And who totters fast to the tomb.

The prices of cattle and grain;
Directions to dig and to drain.

But ’twould take me too long

To tell you in song
A quarter of what they contain.

—-Dublin General Advertiser.

W. F. JAMIESON is engaged to return to Boston for the
Sundays of Oct. Will receive applications for week-evening
lectures in vicinity of Boston. Address No. 9 Montgomery
place, Boston, Mass. - '

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[From Hull‘s Crucible]
PERSECUTION.

Editors Hull’s Cruc/L'ble—I possess that sense of justice
which will not allow me to see a great wrong done to either
friend or foe without raising myvoiee by way of protest
against it. When a great wrong is perpetrated under the
seal of the authority of the law, the public shrivel up before
the august presence of the devil in red tape, as if laboring

undertlie delusion that right and law are synonymous. But _

injustice may be, and is practiced by the collective assent of
the people through their city officials and representatives.
Vfhen an individual violates the law we can reach him im-
mediately. But when representatives, lawyers and coroners
violate all equity and justice, there is no way to reach them
save through reform or revolution, and the incipient stage
of reform or revolution is that method of protest which
either by tongue or pen commands the public ear.

It is true that a certain kind of protection is guaranteed
to individuals, trades and professions, but that protection is
necessarily based on the knowledge of those who administer
the laws, as in the case of a coroner's inquest. If a Dogberry
presides over the proceedings of a “ crowner’s quest court,”
and the professors of metervjd medica are lamentably igno-
rant both of the physiology of man and the nature of poison,
we may expect that physicians of a radical tendency of
thought like Dr. Dillingharn, of 21 Indiana Place, will not
only be misunderstood, but purposely maligned by the po-
litically poised coroner and appointed physicians, who View
an autopsy of a dead man with an eye to the “ golden
calf.”

Radicalism in profession is as much persecuted as radical-
ism in creeds, and the doctor who will not worship at the
shrine of certain medical beliefs will assuredly find his cal-
vary in a coroner’s court of inquest. It has proved so in the
case of Dr. Dillingham, a physician of forty-seven years’
practice and experience, whose reputation as a skillful, deep-
thinking, careful physician has been impeached by the ig-
norance and stupidity of a money-making coroner and in-
viclious fellow-practitioner. The doctor is a Spiritualist and
radical of the ultra type, and carries his growth into, his pro-
fession. The owls of materia medica are on the qm' rice for a
chance to stab the man of mental independence. A chance
occurred, and they gave unmistakable evidence of their
presence.

It appears that about a year ago Dr. Dillingham attended
a sick infant, and, among other things, administered gelsemi-
num. The drug remained in the keeping of the family for
over a year, when a male member of the family was taken
sick. The sickness was of a peculiar nature, more intimately
connected with the social evil than the friends of the family
or the doctor who was called in to attend the case knew of.
The disease culminated in syphilitic rheumatism, and no
doubt would have killed the man without the assistance of
any kind of poison. Some friends of the family gave a dose
of the gelseminum, used a yeartprevious in the case of the in-
fant, and the man died. A doctor was called in, who, sup-
posing that the gelseminum had killed the man, called a
coroner’s inquest, and these wiseacres decided that the
drug had killed the man, and censured Dr. Dillingham,
although he had not administered it to the deceased. The
doctor proved at the inquest that the gelseminum did not
kill the man, since other persons had taken twice the dose
which he had taken; and further stated that no doctor had
or could prove that it was an absolute poison. A

An appeal to the public is the right of theinj ured citizen and
doctor, and though he, in his proud contempt of the whole af-
fair, does not deign to reply to the absurd verdict, I do, and
declare the verdict of the coroner’s jury to be whittled out
of professional persecution of Dr. Dillingham by a brother
professor, who is envious of the doctor’s renown as a skillful
practitioner. It is evident that the time is coming when
Spiritualists and radicals of all trades and professions must
stand by each other, and I earnestly request all Spiritualists
and radicals of Boston and vicinity to patronize Dr. Dilling-
ham, of 21 Indiana Place, and show the cowardly pharisees
of either creeds or professions that we will resist all such
petty persecutions to the_death. In any event, if we are sick,
we need a progressive physician and an honest man, and that
man is Dr. Dillingham, of 21 Indiana Place, Boston.

A. HIGGINS, Jn.

H. B. B.’S RESCUE OF VVOMAN SUFFRAGE.

“ H. B. B.,” of the Woman’s Journal, seems determined to
write himself down an ass. In an article very immoder-
ately eu logistic of Beecher, as well as grossly abusive of Tilton
and Moulton, H. B. B. claims to have assisted to rescue the
woman suffrage cause from the hands of these men and their
associates. By “associates ’.’ he means Mrs. Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony. Why, H. B. B. is not worthy to unloose
the latchets of the shoes of these. women-. He “rescue” a
cause from their hands! It would be like a baby rescuing its
wet nurse. The cause of woman suffrage, as everybody
knows, has “ rescued” H. B. B. from the inevitable oblivion
that awaited him, in consequence of the lucky accident that
he was tied to the apron strings of Lucy Stone. But for this"
fact the cause could and would, in all human probability,
never have reached or rescued H. B. B. from the obscurity
to which he naturally belongs.

Just as if the suffrage cause, or any other cause, belonged
to anybody in particular, or could be taken and re-taken
possession of, and hawked about like the ark of the cove-
nant of the old Hebrews! Yet this is H. B. B.’s idea of the
nature of a “ cause,” or of truth, which is the same thing.

H. B. B. is trying to mix up woman suffrage with the
Beecher-Tilton controversy, and he proposes to harness it to
the car of Beecher, as a good, strong, safe and sure salva-
tion. .

H. B. B. two years ago harnessed his ark of the covenant to
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, for which he has repented and con-
fessed, and apologised and explained ever since. His equal
want of sense will become, even to himself, very apparent
n a few years, for trying to harness it to Beecher, or to

“rescue” it from anybody. But when H. B. B. talks about
rescuing the cause of woman suffrage from the hands of such
women as Mrs. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, he simply
writes himself down a veritable ass.—Earlm'lle Transcript,
Ill.

DEACON J ONES” EXPERIENCE.
_ ARKANSAS conrnnnncn, 1874.
Yer right when you lays it down, Parson,
That the flesh is weak and a. snare;
And to keep yer plow in the furrow
When yer cattle begins to rare
Ain’t no sure thing. And between us,
The same may be said of prayer!

Why, I stood the jokes, on the river.
Of the boys, when the critters found
That I”d jined the Church, and the snicker
That, maybe ye mind, went round '
The day I sat down with the mourners
In the old camp-meetin’ groundl

I stood all that, and I reckon

I might, at a pinch, stood more-
For the boys they represents Baal,

And I stands as the Book of the Law,’
For it seemed like a moral scrimmage

» In holdin’ agin their jaw.

But thar’s crosses a. Christian suffers,
As hezn’t got that pretense—-
Things with no moral purpose,
Things ez hez got no sense;
Things ez, somehow, no profit
~ Will cover their first expense.

Ez how! I was jist last evenin‘

- Addressin’ the Throne of Grace,

And mother knelt in the corner,
And each of the boys in his place,

When that sneaking pup of Keziah’s
To J onathan’s cat giv chase!

I never let on to mind ’em,
I never let on to hear,

But drove that prayer down the furrow
With the cat hidin’ under my cheer,

And Keziah a whisperin’ “ sic her!”
And mother a sayin’ “ you dare!”

I asked for a light for the heathen, - ~
To guide on his narrer track, ‘

With that dog and that cat jest waltzin’,
And J onathan’s face jest black,

When the pup made a. rush, and the kitten-—
Dropped down on the small of my back.

Yet, I think, with the Lords assistance,
I might have continnered then,
If gettin’ her holt, that kitten
Hedn’t dropped her claws in me-when
It somehow reached the “ Old Adam.”
And I jumped to my feet with “ Amen!”

So ye’r right when you say it, Parson,

That the flesh is weak and a snare,
And to keep yer plow in the furrow

When yer cattle begins to rare
Ain’t no sure thing. And between us,

I say it’s jist so with prayer.

Bmrr HARTE.

OLIFE LO GAN’S HARDSHIPS.

“A1ady in Connecticut, a strong, robust, active woman
wife of a prominent citizen of the Nutmeg State, was one
day talking with me about my work, and receiving with (as
I grievously suspected) polite doubts my account of the hard-
ships of the life, whenl proposed to her that she should
accompany me on a little tourI was making in New England.
She was pleased with the novelty of the idea, and agreed to
it, “just for the fun of the thing,” and to see what lecuring
‘Was like from a practical point of view. The trip was one
of the very easiest that any lecturer can hope to arrange,
comprising only towns round about Boston, not many hours
apart, and all connected by railway. But it included a few
of the peculiar trials of the lecturer’s life, such as getting out
of a warm bed every morning at 6 o’clock. in cold and bleak
weather; hurrying to railway depots in the early wintry
dawn; jostling through crowds; rushing after baggage; eat-
ing picked-up meals at railway stations, and at irregular
hours; an occasional night arrival at our destination, and
sombre searchings in the dark for “the'committee;" a ride
or two over frozen roads in jolting omnibuses to cheerless
rooms in village inns ; various examples of unutterable
cookery; unpacking trunks and dressing for the lecture-room
in a, jaded, worn, half-fainting, wholly unhappy state, and
observation then of the fact that the lecturer was expected
to be as fresh as a daisy, as blooming as a rose, and as
sprightly as a spring chicken. And the result was that on
the morning of the sixth day my robust companion was com-
pletely hors dc combat. It was a rather gloomy parting, as
my friend shook hands with me to return to her peaceful
and comfortable home, while I went on with the same life,
only worse, with my resting spell in the dim distance of the
coming Spring. ‘I have got a new light on this business,
my dear,’ she said. ‘ I used to think one hundred dollars a
night was fair pay for your work ;— but now I think you ought
to have about a million.’ ”—Olz'oe Logan in the Galaxy.

This is a specimen of the reckless exaggeration which passes
‘current for first-class literature in our magazines. With

‘ Beecher to err.

women are far superior in all that constitutes true woman-
hood to any daubers of high-colored word-pictures, redolent
of stagyness and falsity. ‘What a “ robust companion” that
must have been to be hers dc combat in six days, with no
house-keeping cares, no financial anxiety, and nothing to do
but travel forty or fifty miles a. day and eat!

Many as good speakers as Olive Logan in the reform ranks
get but $100 per month for eight or nine lectures, and are
glad to be employed two-thirds of the time at that price,
though the compensation, it must be admitted, is far too
small. But, then, they insist on telling -truth, instead of
popular fiction, and don’t make wry faces about nothing.

Olive Logan a few years ago wrote a book, all about her
marriage and the delights of monogaxny. Her views on the
marriage question are doubtless as accurate, rational and
exact as her deductions from her experiences as a lecturer.

(What she needs is a transcontinental tour, per mule and
wagon, on a. pocket and stomach as nearly empty as com-

patible with the accomplishment of a journey. A few
“ picked-up meals ” would then be appreciated. I
' ' A. CRIDGE.

[Burli/nylon (Iowa) Da.ily.]
SILLY.
Scribner’s Magazine for October contains a short article on
the Beecher matter, written by Dr. Holland. Sensible

. people. who may have admired Dr. Holland‘, heretofore, will

be ashamed of him now. The article is the weakest, siiliest,
most bigoted squib that has been printed for many a day.
There is but one point to it, and that is, that simply because
Mr. Beecher is the man accused, the whole story is a lie.
The ground that Dr. H. takes, is that it is impossible for
Many people who ‘have despised and mis-
trusted him for many years, don’t think so. Dr. Holland’:
impudent assumption that Beecher “has carried a. pure

‘ name through life,” is an insult to the intelligence of the

public who have arnaigned that distinguished charlatan more
than once before. “ Prep/osterous ” and _“ absurd ” and
“brutal” and “impossible” are big words, but there is no
logic or evidence in them.

The sanctity of Mr. Beecher’s personal character is the
only reed which his friends ha e had to lean upon, and it is
a very frail one. He is not the first sanctimonious hypocrite
who has been unmasked. These pious Puritans who prate of
his infallibility profess to be horrified with the doctrine of

to claim such a thing. But if that quiet Italian Christian
gentleman were a Protestant Brooklyn rode, it would be all
right.

TAKE THE CHILDREN OUT on THE MILLS.

This is the plainest lesson of the terrible Fall River disas-
ter. Here, all through the commonwealth of Massachusetts,
the public schools have been open for three weeks,
and yet in one of the most spirited communities in the State,
the fourth and fifth stories of a cotton mill are full of chidren,
and the carelessness of a boy occasions a confiagration,
which instantly paralyzes their infantile judgments and
snatches away two score of them to deaths of agony, and in-
flicts life—long injuries upon as many more. Why weren’t
those boys and girls in the public school? Before the last
legislature convened, and again while it was in session, we
took occasion to invoke the authority of the State of Massa-
chusetts in behalf of these children. We said that they were
ignorant, the children largely of immigrants, ubject to

- their own caprice and the unwise greed of their parents and

their employers, and that it was time for the State to bare
the sword of its wise authority in their behalf and compel
them to attend the schools, whether they would or not. We

out of the market, their paernts and those who should sup-
port them during their infancy would experience a rise of
wages amply sufficient to compensate for the loss of their
children’s earnings. In no employment need wages be so
low as to require the exertion of the children and the super-
annuated. The wages of the family must support the family,
and if the children do not work, as they ought not to during
the school season, depend upon it .that.thc wages of the head
of the house will be raised suificiently to maintain them.-
Springfield (Mass.) Republican. '

. —-—~—--——--o—o~&-—-~————

THE} PRESS AND PULPIT ON BEECHER.

The heavy blows of Moulton’s and Tilton’s last statements
are beginning to produce their proper effects. ‘The Religious
Weeklies one after another are beginning to haul down the
Beecher colors. Even the pulpits are commencing to proye

“ That ever the right comes uppermost,
And ever is justice done!”

For proof, we present extracts from two sermons, one pub-
lished in the Weekly Herald of Cleveland, Ohio, and the other
in the Lincoln Blade, of Lincoln, Nebraska.

The first of these comes in the formof a review written by
the Rev. E. B. Fairfield D. D. L. L. D., pastor of the first
Congregational Church of Mansfield, Ohio. It commences by
declaring that its author has been for many years a warm
friend of Mr. Beecher. We are also told that he was one of
the parties who urged the removal‘ of Mr. Tilton from the
editorial chair of the Independent. With such antecedents it
is evident that he comes before the public not biased against
the accused party.

On the confession of Mrs. Tilton to her husband, he asserts
that——‘‘ It was made not only to her husband, but to Mr.
Moulton, to her mother, to Miss Anthony and also to another

“towns not many hours apart,” what would be the need of
“ getting out of a warm bed every morning,” or one morning
out of twenty, to get forty or fifty miles by sundown? As to
“eating picked-up meals at railway stations,” there is really
but little to complain of; the food thus obtained is pro ‘Q-ably
more wholesome and better cooked than in an average house-
hold. Many a toiling housewife or seamstress would gladly
be relieved of the drudgery of cooking or the scant fare of
cheap boarding-houses if only the 7“ picked-up meals” so
despised could be had at the same cash cost—-and: at $100‘per

person, whose name he (Dr. Fairfield) withholds.” In dis-
missing this part of the affair he asks—“ VVhen before, was
ever an accused person’s denial in court——and that too, when
it was shown to be full of falsehoods in its details-taken as a
complete offset to all the confessions that had previously been
made?” ,

After describing the pistol scene he makes the following
comment: “ If the man who gave up that paper in these cir.
cumstances is an innocent man, we may safely defy the
records of the World’s history» to produce its like.”

night, cost is of small consequence. And many of these

We copy the concluding paragraph of the Cleveland

the infalllbility of the Pope. In their eyes it is rank heresy ‘

said that when this was once done, and their labor was taken I

 

n

. their good character.

14 W00/DHULL & CLAFLIN’S. WEEKLY.

 

Oct. 10, 31874,

Herald, which contains the termination of Dr. Fairfield’s re-
view of the subject: A '

“After referring to several other points in Mr. Beecher’s

statement, to the manner in which the Committee of Investi-
gation was picked out by the accused himself. and the
method by which it endeavored to stifle, instead of eliciting
the truth, Dr. Fairfield says he accepted the conviction of
Beecher’s guilt with unutterable reluctance. He resisted it
to the last. But the time came in his investigations when he
had not the slightest remaining doubt of it, when he was
compelled to stultify himself by rejecting all the laws of evi-
dence, or else admit that Beecher was guilty beyond a ques-
tion. ' In closing, he says: ‘ Never did I write under a pro-
founder“ sense of my obligation to the Master than in penning
these columns. Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise! God
help me! Amenlf”

Of the sermon reported in the Lincoln Blade, and preached
by the Rev. W. E. Copeland, on Sunday, Sept. 20, we also
give the conclusion: '

“The action of Plymouth Church reveals the paralyzing
effect of these old dogmas; dry and unproductive of life. The
Investigating Committee showed that the truth was not the
object of their search, but a means by which theycould vin-
dicate Beecher. Tilton was blackened in every possible way,
until he appeared a monster of ingratitude and sensuality.
Moulton was‘ attacked with every possible word of con-
demnation, and was even threatened with personal violence.
Women of the highest standing,ieven Miss Anthony, who
dared whisper a word against Beecher, were deprived of
A bitter hate toward all not disposed
to regard Beecher as a demi-god, marked these members of
an orthodox church; a determination to utterly crush all
who would not worship their idol was evident in every move
of these disciples of the loving”Nazarene ; Beecher was or-
thodox, his enemies heterodox, and the evangelical churches
almost to a man rallied to the defense of their esteemed
brother. Beecher represented the true faith; an attack on
him was an attack on Christianity, and the religious press
cared less for the truth than to preserve their creed. In all
this business, sad and unsavory, we can find little evidence
of the divine on the evangelical side.’ The truth, the very
essence of divinity, was scouted; Christians preferred the
error. Light, clear proof of God’s presence, was avoided,
and the churches, as too often before, preferred darkness.”

It ‘even appears from the N. Y. Tribune, of Sept. 28, that
some of Mr. Beecher colleagues in Brooklyn are not entirely
convinced of his innocence. This is what it says in an article
headed “ Rumors of Another Council :”

“ A Tribune reporter conversed on the subject with an

oflicer in the Church of the Pilgrims, and that gentleman said
that he had heard that the subject of trying Mr. Beecher be-
fore a council had been spoken of, an.d he had no doubt I)
fore the end of the week the matter would take tangible
shape. He said that the subject came up as follows: Some
members of Plymouth Church, who are strong friends of Mr.
Beecher, drew up an address expressing the confidence of
the signers in Mr. Beecher’s purity and innocence, and in-
tended to obtain the signatures of all the lcongregational
ministers inBrooklyn, and present it to him on next Saturday,
so that it might be a gratifying assurance that he had not
lost the confidence of his fellow-clergymen. Some of the
persons to whom it was presented refused to sign it, remark-
ing that the serious charges against Mr. Beecher had not yet
been ‘satisfactorily met, and that in their opinion he should
refrain from preaching until the subject had‘ been judicially
decided.”
. From our exchanges it is plain that though the press of
some of the Eastern cities partially sustain the pastor of
Brooklyn, the general tone of it throughout the Union is
largely at variance with the decision of the celebrated " In-
vestigating Committee” on the subject of the innocence of
their pastor.

MR. MOULTON INDICTED.

The New York Tribune of Sept. 29 states that: “ Francis
D. Moulton was indicted by the Grand Jury of Kings County
last Saturday. He is charged with having ‘wickedly and
maliciously’ libeled Miss Edna Dean Proctor. ’ Two indict-
ments were found against him, and the alleged libels appear
-in his last statement.”

Miss Proctor has also brought suit against Mr. Moulton
and the N. Y. Graphic for damages, estimating the same at
$100,000 in each case.

[From the N. Y. Graphia]
MISS BEEOHER’S LETTER.

Among all the remarkable letters and statements brought
out by the Beecher scandal, the letter of Miss Catherine
E. Beecher is one of the most remarkable. It seems as if
every attempt of the friends of Mr. Beecher to cover up or
explain his offense is made the instrument of its further
revealment. * * * * * * *

All the efforts of the defenders of Mr. Beecher have been
directed to prove that the charge of adultery was never,
made against Mr.Beecher by Mrs.Tilton', but that her charge
was merely one of “improper advances.” Yet all this pre-
tence of the defense seems to be overthrown, and the con-
trary admitted in the following extract, which I quote ver-
batim, from Miss Beecher’s letter:

" I read in a History of Insanity,” she says, “ and learned
also from periodical medical works, that at periods of child-
bearing modest women who are sane in all other respects
will accuse sometimes their husbands and sometimes them-
selves of adultery. When I first heard of this strange accusa-

on of my brother by a modest Christian wife and mother I

upposed itwas a case of such monomania until she revealed
her husband’s cruel agency.”

So it seems that Miss Beecher understands that Mrs. Tilton
actually made the charge of adultery, as Mr. Tilton and Mr.
Moulton have asserted, against the denial heretofore of all
the defenders of Mr. Beecher! Well may this‘. poor man
pray to. be saved from the iujudicious defense of his friends!

The Jnoonsistencies in Miss Beecherfs defense of her,
bi'ethe_rare no less. numerous and startling than have been

found in all the “statements” and “reports” emanating
from that side. For instance, she asserts that Mr. Tilton
“ secured a conspicuous editorial position ” by her brother’s
infiuence—meaning evidently his position as chief editor of
the Independent—whereas it is well known that Mr. Tilton
assumed that position after Mr. Beecher had withdrawn from
the editorship of the paper, and held it while Mr. Bowen
was, as Miss Beecher asserts, in a state of “ anger” toward
Mr. Beecher, and not likely to be “influenced” by him in
the selection of his successor. * * * * *

What surprises one most of all is that a paper usually so
fair as The Tribune should commend this epistle of Miss
Beecher, abounding as it does in self-contradictions, abund-
antly disproved allegations, and new and fatal admissions as
“remarkable for a certain hard common sense which cer-
tainly has not abounded in the voluminous statements and
replies that have preceded it.”

If this is “ common sense.” it is “ hard,” indeed, and needs

the peculiar mind of a Tribune editor to distinguish it from
an uncommon want of sense. And why, may well be asked,
does Miss Beecher deprecate an appeal to the courts, which
now to most people seem Mr. Beecher’s only and final chance
of vindication from the dreadful charges against him? Why
this manifest dread of the result? Well might Mr. Beecher
fear lest his friends should “ break out in aruinous defense!”
They have indeed done so.

Yours for the truth and IM1>ARTIAL.JUsTIcE.

Mr. Henry C. Bowen prints a card in the Tribune of this
morning in which he unequivocally denies the statements
made by Miss Beecher. He denies in the most positive ‘man-
her that he ever “ accused Mr. Beecher of adultery and rape,”
or that he “is the real originator of the present scandal ;”
and adds:

A “This is not the first attempt Miss Beecher has made to
convey information on the subject in question, and my ad-
vice is that in future she look more carefully after her facts,
or she may need more than a mutual friend to help her out
of some serious difficulty. I am quite willing that Mr.
Beechershould act as a judge and jury on my conduct, for
he knows and has often said, and recently, too, that he did
not censure or condemn me for the course I had taken in
this most unfortunate «affair. Happily for me in this matter
I have a witness of his words in one who is now and always
has been one of Mr. Beecher’s warmest friends.”

——>-+0

BUSINESS EDITORIALS.

 

THE Iowa State Association of Spiritualists will hold their
sixth annual convention at the Universalist Church in Des

Moines, commencing Friday, October 9, at 7% o’clock A. M., ,

and continue over Sunday. The following speakers are en-

gaged: Hon. Warren Chase, R. G. Eccles, Dr. Samuel Max-1

well, Dr. C. P. Sanford, Mrs-. H. Morse, Capt. H. H. Brown,
and several others, embracing the different phases of Me-
diumship, Materialization, etc.

To the Spiritualists We would say: Come in the unity ‘of
the spirit, to strengthen the bonds of peace; come with the
bold resolve that our banner of truth shall be carried for-
Ward, and whatever may be. its fate we are ever ready to
rally around it; come, reaffirm our grand cardinal truth,
that man never dies.

To the Christians we say come; you hold thejdoctrine of
future life with a trembling and doubting faith———most of you
afraid to meet it. Lay aside your prejudice, be just to your-
selves, and investigation Will show you that good may come
from your supposed Nazareth. ,

To the skeptic we say come; in Spiritualism you will find
beautiful truths, ignored by your philosophy, yet, when ac-
cepted, remove that secret dread, that inward horror of fall-
ing into naught. . .

Our platform is free toany one having the ability to pre-
sent their thoughts and ideas in a respectful manner. A
dining hall will be provided with suificient for all. Friends,
having the means convenient to do so, will aid by bringing
a Well—filled basketof provisions.

EDWIN CATE, President.
MRs. J . SWAIN, Secretary. '

THE VERMONT STATE SPIRITUALIST AssooIATIoN will
hold its next Annual Convention at St. J ohnsbury, on Fri-
day, Saturday and Sunday, October 16, 17 and 18. 1874. Good
speakers will be in attendance. Board at the Avenue House
at $1.00 per day. Return checks issued to those who pay full
fare one way over the Central Vermont Railroad to attend
the Convention. A cordial invitation extended;

Per order of Committee,

. A. E. STANLEY, Sec’y.
LEICESTER, Vt., Sept. 21, 1874. .

LAURA CUPPY ,SMITH’s engagements are as follows:

January and March, Boston; October, New Bedford,
Mass.; Dec., New Haven, Conn; February, Salem, Mass.
Societies desiring to engage her for the intervening months
would do well to apply at once. Address, till further notice,
27 Milford street, Boston, Mass.

DR. H. P. FAIRFIELD is engaged to speak in Putnam,
Conn., during October. Would make other engagements.
Address, Greenwich Village, Mass. V

 

SEWARD MITCHELL desires to inform his correspondents
that he has removedfrom Cornville, Me., and his present ad-
dress is WestLittleton, Mass. ‘ ’

Miss Nellie L. Davis ‘will speak in San’ Francisco, Cal.,
in December; in San Jose, [;_during January.
address, 235 Washington st., Salem, Mass.

Permanent

ADDIE L. BALLOU

Having had quite an extended tour through California,
Where she has been greeted by large and enthusiastic audi-
ences, has gone to Oregon for a term of some Weeks, after
Which she will return to the States, about the 1st of Novem-

,ber. Parties along the route wishing to make engagements

with her to stop off for one or more lectures on her return
will please make as early application as possible, to secure
time; till middle of Oct., care Box 666, San Francisco; later
and for winter engagements, to Terre Haute, Ind.

DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the distinguished magnetic physician
heals the sick with surprising success by his Magnetized
Powder. Those who are suffering from Nervous and
Chronic Diseases should not be Without it. $1 per box.-
Address Vineland, N. J . ‘

THE N ORTHERN ILLINOIS AssocIAT1ow or SPIRITUALISTS
will hold their Ninth Quarterly Meeting in GroW’s Opera
House, No. 517 West Madison street, Chicago, Ill., com-
mencing on Friday, Oct. 2, 1874, at 10:30, A. M., and continue
over Sunday, the 4th. ,

The platform will be free, and all subjects germain to hu-
manity are debatable on our platform. Good speakers and
mediums will be on hand to entertain the people. Come,
Spiritualists of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan, to
our Convention. See and hear for yourselves. The First
Society of Spiritualists of Chicago will do all they can to
make your stay pleasant during the Convention.

0. J. HOWARD, M‘. D., President.

E. V. WILSON, Secretary. ' '

E. M. Flagg, dentist, 79 West Eleventh street, New York
city. Specialty, artificial dentures.

DR. L.K. CooNLEY has removed from Vineland to Newark
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HIILDS CRUCIBLE.

A WIDE AWAKE SPIRITUALISTIC &
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Prominent among the Reforms advocated in HULL'S
CRUCIBLE are the following:

1. Reform in Religion, such as shall ‘do away with
many of the outward forms and restore the power of
godliness. .

2. Reforms in the Government, such as shall do
away with the rings, cliques and monopolies, and put

’ all matters concerning the government of the people

into the hands of the people.

3. Reforms;:regulating the relation of capital and
labor, such as shall secure to labor, the producer of
capital, the control of capital.

4. Reforms regulating the relations of the -sexes to
each other, such as shall secure to every member of
each sex the entire control of their own person, and
place prostitution, in or out of marriage, for money or
any other cause, out of the question.

Any thought calculated to benefit humanity,
whether coming under any of the above or any other
propositions. will find a cordial welcome in the
columns of HULL’s CRUCIBLE.

HULL’s CRUCIBLE joins hands with all reforms and
reformers of whatever school, and welcomes any
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