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BREAKING THE "WAY, FOR FUTURE  eENERATIoNs.

,Vo1. IX.—-No. 8. -—VVl;ole No. 216.

NEW YORK, JAN. 23, 1875.

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BY AND BY:
AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE.

BY EDWARD MAITLAND.

B 0 O K I V .
_ Cnsrrnn IV.——C’ontmue.d.
“ And what do you want me to do?”

“It occurred to me that, before the final rupture takes ’

place, you might get her here, and show her, by your own
example, what an affectionate wife should be to a man.”
“ To a man who doesn’t love her?” .
“He does love her, utterly; only she is so full of life and
health, that he cannot live at the same pace. You could
teach her to hold herself in.”
Nannie shook her head.

“ He loves her so well,” pursued Oriss, “that he is ready,“

out of regard for her happiness, to sacrifice his own and re-
linquish her. _ You would have been touched by the tone of
distress in which he told me how deeply he felt his own un-
worthiness and inability properly to fulfill the position he
held toward her. But he counted his happiness as nothing
in comparison to hers.”

“Have they any children?” asked Nannie.

“ Only one; a girl.” .

“And what becomes of it if they separate?”

“ If they separate for incompatibility merely, it will spend
half its time with each parent alternately. Where there is a
serious defect of character or conduct on one side, the law
assigns the sole charge of the child to the otlier.”

“It is just as I said,” she exclaimed, after a brief pause.
“ He does not love her, or he would not give her up for any-
thing. He isn’t a man, and she isn't a woman: at least, not
what I call a woman. If she was a woman, she would make
him love her just as she wished, in spite of everything. I
would, if it was me. I dare say she is not worth troubling

about. What makes you take such an interest in her? Isn’t .

one woman enough for you to be concerned with?"

" Too much, Nannie, if she requires me to abandon or
neglect the friends of a life.” .

“ If you were properly in love you would have no room for
friends.” ‘

“ Were I to be indifferent to the welfare of those who have
always befriended me, I should be a base wretch, and un-
worthy of love. You don’t mean what your words imply,
Nannie darling. I should be cruelly distressed if I thought
you did. I should be forced to think you did not love me,
or else that you were not worth loving, if I thought you did
not care for my character, my honor, or my happiness.”

“What do you want, then, with any woman besides me?"

“ Have I not explained? Do you not understand the mean-
ing of words ?” , ,

“ I understand What you mean by friends, and I won’t have
it. I don’t want any friends. Why should you ?”

“ Well, Nannie, I will. say good-morning to you for the
present. I trust I shall find you in a different mood on my
return. It was a great mistake of mine to appeal to your
consideration for another when you have none for me.”

She was silent until he reached and opened the door, and
then she exclaimed-

“There’s a man! pretends to love me, and goes away with-
out a kiss!” ~

For the first time this appeal failed to arrest him. She
darted after him, crying-— ,

‘E Criss! - Criss! how can you be so cruel to your poor
Nannie, who loves you so?”
“NanIli6." he Said 001513’; “I want to be loved in deeds as

well as in words. If this passes your power, pray tell me so
plainly.”

Throwing her arms round him, and (31111
her whole lithe form, he exclaimed-— .

“ Why, how can I better show that I love you than by being
jealous of you. '

Making no response to her pressure, but speaking still in
the same measured tone, he replied-

“Love and jealousy are two things wide asunder as the
poles. Love, means confidence, devotion, trust. Jealousy
means self-love, and its indulgence is the worst form of
selfishness; for it is a selfishness that takes the most pains to
make others miserable.”

“I am sure you are not miserable with me,” she sa1d_,1n

sing to him with

one of her most winning ways. “No one ever said I was
selfish before.” *

“ Then do not force me to say it now. But endeavor, while
I am gone, to think over -the cause you have given me for
pain, and resolveto be what I wish you in future.”

“ It's no use. I can’t think of anything “when you are
away from me, besides youmand those women! Oh! I will
be revenged on them!” she added, with a dangerous gleam
in her eyes.

With a quick movement, and before she was aware of his
intention, Oriss had carried her back into the room, and de-
posited her on a sofa. Then, ringing the bell violently, he
summoned a servant, and bade him hasten with all speed for
the doctor. He then flung himself into a chair at a distance
from her, and, with knotted veins and heavy breathing, sat
motionless, awaiting the doctor's arrival. I

Nannie lay so still for several moments as to surprise him.
Her hand was over her face. Presently he caught sight of
her eyes glancing at him between her fingers. Seeing he
was watching her, she said—— .

“ Why have you sent for the doctor? Are you ill ?”

The evidently affected unconsciousness of her tone gave
Oriss a keener pang than he had yet felt. Could it‘ bethat
she was utterly heartless? He would ascertain by letting
her suppose by his silence that he was ill. ‘-

Failing to obtain an answer, she began to cry.

“ She does -not care whether I am ill or not. She is think-
ing only of herself,” was his inward commentary on this
new phase. So he remained mute and took no notice of her
tears. ~ During this interval he changed his design. He had
sent for the doctor, believing that Nannie’s conduct could
only be attributable to some temporary excitement of brain,
which required to be allayed by medicine. Seeing that she
was deliberately acting a part, he resolved on another ex-
pedient.

Nannie, on her part, finding her tears unneeded, judged it
time to try some other means of attracting his attention.

“Criss! Criss!” she almost screamed, “I am crying, and
you don’t come to comfort me!”

Still no response.

“'(Jriss! Oriss! what do you want with the doctor? If it is
for me, I won’t see him! I don’t want him to know how
cruelly you treat me;” and then, seeing him still unmoved,
she added-—

“ Or how naughty I have been.”

The expression of pain on his face did not relax one jot,
although Criss was beginning to suspect that her conduct
was simply the result of a. determination to make herself
completely his master. He had commenced to give her a
lesson for her good, and would not flinch from carrying it
out, cost him what it might. V

His prolonged silence was beginning really to alarm her
when the doctor entered. Wondering what was coming,
Nannie shrank into a corner of her sofa.

Criss rose, and having greeted the doctor with grave
courtesy, said in a low and anxious tone, as if in the room of
one stricken with alarming illness—— I

“ I wish, Dr..Markwell, to consult you respecting the efiect
likely to be produced on a child, by the mother’s giving way
during the period antecedent to its birth to violent and un-
reasonable tempers. Is its health of mind or body in any
way dependent on her conduct? I wish you to speak with-
out reserve, as 1 have the most serious motive for asking.”

Looking from one to the other, and divining the situation,
the doctor said that the effect would depend in a great
measure upon the period concerned; and then in a 1ow;tone

he put sundry questions to Criss. Having got his answer, he

looked very grave, and said aloud-—

“It is the most sacred of a mother’s duty to repress, not
merely all violence of demeanor, and everything that may
excite her" during the period in question; but also every
thought and disposition which she does not wish to see
shared by her offspring. A neglect of duty in regard to the
former may result in the production of idiots or cripples.
But even this is not the greatest misfortune which can befall
a"fami1y. The worst unhappiness comes from the depraved
and ungoverned characters which are apt to be engendered
by a neglect of the latter duty.” ‘ A

“Have you anything in the shape of a sedative that you
can recommend to my wife? She has become liable of late
to accessions of excitement, which cause me much anxiety
both for her own health and that of her unborn child.”

I/"
“ Doctor!” cried Nannie from her hiding—place in the sofa
cushions. “ I won’t take anything but poison. Send me some
poison, and I shall be grateful to you. Oh, my father! my
father! why did you give me such a wicked disposition!”
“ You see, doctor, that she needs your care, and that more

have a proposition to make to, or; rather a favor to ask of
you} I am obliged, much against my wish, to be absent from
home for a space of probably three or four weeks. Will you
either allow my wife to dwell with you, under the care of
‘yourself and Mrs. Markwell, orwill you transport yourself
and your whole family hither, and take care of Nannie
during my absence?” .

This speech brought Nannie into full possession of her
faculties. * It was the first time that Oriss had spoken Of 1118
absence as an event near at hand. She sat up and gazed
wildly at him with an expression full of agony and appro-
hension. " I

This demeanor was not lost upon Criss. Regarding it as
one of the artifices by which she sought to establish her sway
over him, and convinced of the absolute necessity, if they
were ever to be happy together," of exhibiting the futility of
her endeavor, he continued his address to the doctor.

, “ I am sanguine, doctor, of the good results which will flow
from my temporary absence. The paroxysms which cause
me so much anxiety and alarm have steadily increased in
frequency,» duration and intensity, until they threaten per-
manently to impair her constitution, physical as well as

sence have no good effect, it at least can do no harm. I need
not tell you how great will be my gratitude should the kind
care and professional skill of yourself and your wife be the
means of restoring to my beloved wife the health, and to
both of us the happiness, which this terrible malady has so
wofully impaired.” And Criss’s voice faltered as he spoke.
The doctor began saying that he and his wife would gladly
do all in their power to bring about so desirable aresult,_and
he would leaveit to her and Mrs.Carol to decide which of the
two plans proposed would be the most convenient and agree-
able. But Nannie interrupted him, declaring that she would
have nothing of the kind; that she hated medical women,
who knew all a woman’s little weaknesses by their own; and

low him. She knew by her own experience how ready he
was-to pick up women and carry them about in his Ariel;
and she was not going to give him the chance of doing so
while she was his wife.

Oriss could not help feeling a certain sensation of amuse-
ment at the unexpected and ingenious perversity of this
new attack. But he said to the doctor— “

“You see. doctor, fo1‘*}’ou1'self what a task you will be
undertaking. It is clear that it will never do for you to have
her in your own house. These high walls are the only safe
asylum. I intend, when you have transferred your family
hither, to instruct my servants to take their orders from you
alone. You will thus be able to control the movements of
your patient.” ’

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“ It shall be as you wish. May I ask when you propose to
take your departure?”

sideration for my wife, already delayed it too long. The
sooner I go, the sooner I shall return. ’I wish to spend the
last month before her confinement with her. Of course, if
you report her state to be such that my presencewill be preju-
dicial, I will delay my return.”

“You call yourselves men,” exclaimed Nannie, “and you
conspire to drive a poor woman mad.”

“On the contrary,” said Criss, “ we conspire-=—-do we not,
doctor?——te keep a poor woman sane, who by yielding to
wanton tempers is driving herself mad. We conspire, too,
on behalf of the unborn, as well as of the living.”

The renewal of this suggestion made Nannie once more
hide her face in the cushions, and sob. Presently a.’ voice
came from the depths, saying, in a subdued tone-— '7
“Tell me when the doctor is gone. I want to speak to
you‘?! /

Crisswhispered a few sentences to the doctor and dis...
missed him. He then seated himself beside Nannie on the
sofa, and awaited her pleasure. .

Presently she looked up, and finding herself alone with
Oriss, said—— i \ g
A “ You don’t know how to treat a woman. ' You will never
conquer me in that way. Such a fuss to make about my

than is possible while you are under diiferent roofs. Now I!

mental. So bad have they become that even should my ab- ~

that if Criss chose to go away and leave her, she would 101,- "

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loving you well enough to be jealous of you, and not like
your leaving me! Why, I have done nothing, absolutely
nothing. Mattie, my sister, was ten times worse than ever
I have been. I have seen her strike him, and pull his hair
out by handfuls. An.d Frank didn’t make half the fuss you
have made over a few words said by poor little me.”

“Poor Frank, what a happy release the plague must have
brought to him.” 1 I

“ Not abit of it. He was very happy with Mattie.”

“There is no accounting for tastes. He must have been
very differently constituted from me.”

“ He understood women-———” , '

“ Women! yes. But not furies and maniacs.”

“ Women who are not logs, like the tame creatures who
pass for women here. Poor Frank! he loved Mattie prop-
erly, and was-very happy with her in consequence.”

“ I wish I knew his prescription.”
“ It was a very__simple one.” I
W.“ Tell me.” , .

“ It cut all her naughtiness short, and -made her good for a
long time together.” I .

“What was it?”

“ I-—I—-can’t tell you.”

66 D0.”

Nannie covered her face "with her plump white arm, and
bending her head a little downward, looked with coy shy-
ness at Criss through the angle of her elbow. Presently the
magic words came falteringly forth, and she said, speaking
in the smallest of voices—— I '

“He beat her!”

Criss turned away with the impatient air of one who has
been tricked; but Nannie exc1aimed—-

“He did; I assure you he did. It is the only way with
women like us. We mu st fear the man we love to be good
to him. If he had not beat her she would have made him as
unhappy as—-as I have made you. And she was the happier

for it too I” -
“Am I to infer, then, that you wish me to follow his

example ?” \\ O

“I often think I should behave better if you were to beat
me, and make me afraid to be naughty. Not with the fist or
a stick, you know, but a little thin whip, or switch, which
only hurts without doing any injury. Oh, I have often and
often seen Frank trying to kiss away the red wales from
Mattie’s lovely skin, while the tears were running down
both their faces. Oh, they never were so happy as then.”

“ I expect my wife to be areasonable being, and influenced
by other considerations than those of bodily ohastisement
Has affection no influence upon you? ’Are you not amena-
ble to a fear of unhappiness, as well as of physical pain-
my unhappiness as well as your own?”

“ You speak to a woman as if she were aman, and open to
reason! I tell you a woman who loves is not a reasonable
being, and you must not deal with her as one.”

“A man who loves shrinks from making her he loves un-
happy.”

“Then why do you make me so?”

“I do not ‘make you so. You make yourself‘ so by in-
dulging baseless fancies.”

» “ Baseless! when you speak to other women!”

“Well, we will see what our medical friends can do for
your disease. I give it up.” V

“Oh, don’t let them come and live here. If you must go
away, let me stay here by myself. I will try to be good-1;
will indeed. And you mustn’t be angry with your Nannie
for loving you too well.” a

[To be continued]

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soomrh FREEDOM.

'WHA’l‘~I’I‘S ENEMIES SAY IT Is AND WHAT WE slur 1T Ia
— ’ BY WARREN CHASE.

Sermons, pamphlets and newspaper articles constantly,
grossly, willfully and maliciously misrepresent social free-
dom and its advocates, and try to convince the ‘people that
we advocate the very evils we are trying to remove, and they
support. Mrs. Woodhull is persecuted with all the malignity
of devils for exposing the wicked and corrupt practices of
certain prominent advocates of Christian virtue, and for
showing the cause of social evil to be in our institution as
upheld by Church and State: and whenever any ‘of us point

C out the source of social evil and moral corruption, as it many

exists in our legal and religious institutions, We are at once
pounced upon by the cormorants that -fatten on the corrup-

! tion, or live on the institutions, as advocates and defenders‘

of the very evils we would cure and remove. We are trying
to rescue the oppressed and downtrodden victims of our
social institutions from the tyranny that made them such
and are compelled to oppose the institutions, and, of course,
expect to meet their power in resistance and misrepresenta:
tion; but it is a singular position to find ourselves accused of
advocating what they support and we oppose-licentiousness
None of the advocates of social freedom are the patrons of
housesof ill-fame; but its enemies are their main Support
They would cease to exist under social freedom, while our
present Amarriage laws sustain them. There never can be
social and sexual purity until there is social and sexua1
justice, and that never can be under our present marria e
laws, which are only the remains of a system of complegte
ownership and slavery of one sex bythe other. Even now in
some instances the female is not consulted, but sold to the
man who wants her, to use as he would a horse or a pump
and her sexual functions are no longer her own but his whip;
he has no such power over him. She has nothing to say
about the use of her body ;he can use it when he pleases
without her consent or against her protest, and even at the
risk of her health and life, and such tyrants often do by such
abuse send two, three or more victims to untimely graves to
make way for more. Some flee to houses of vice where they
have, at least, partial control over their bodies, but more die
in the bondage respectably. Both these evils of prostitution
in and out of marriage, can only be cured by social freedom:

own person, and be legally,,morally, socially, politically, re-

her half of the property, her half of the control of all affairs
in society and life, and, as fully as man has, the control of
her own person. Thengparties can make their own marriage
contracts and annul them, and both themselves. and the
public be protected by the record. ’
The public, through religious teachings, are greatly alarmed
about the encroachments ofindividuals, and are always ham-
pering individual action to protect the great body of the people.

her husband. Some have good masters and some bad ones.
Those who have good ones would remain, and both would

i be satisfied with equality and equal rights in social free-

dom; and those who have bad masters should not be com-
pelled to remain slaves. Free them, andlet them make new
terms of partnership in equality, or separate it they prefer,
and warn all otherwomen against the tyrant that abused
a woman because --he could under the old law. The slaves
that had good masters remained and worked the plantations
after they were free, while the cruel masters could neither
keep the old slaves nor get new ones. Some people think
social freedom would drive the licentious men, who could
not get wivesiand kill them as they now do, to houses of
prostitution, and that they ought to be restrained by the
marriage laws——allowed to kill their victims. They would
find no such houses nor victims. Females do not go from
choice nor by attraction to that kind of life, but from the in-
justice and cruelty of our present institutions. Our laws of
inequality and injustice to woman are the main cause of our
social depravity and moral corruption, and not the nature of
man, which the Christian says is totally depraved. The
ballot is only one step toward social freedom” and equal
justice, and nothing can restbre us to a sound system of
morals but complete equality in social freedom. Woman is
far more virtuous than manfand hence the licentious sex
has put her into subjection and prostituted her virtue to his
own lusts under the sanction of Church and State. Robbed
of her property and’ her political, civil and personal rights, it
was then easy to rob her of her virtue and her purity. It is
as vain to plead for justice for woman now, asit was thirty
years ago to plead for justice for the slave. Her day has not
come, but it is as sure to come as was the day of emancipa-
tion for the negro slave; and, if we can hasten it, it is our
duty to do so.

 

. AT HOME, Christmas, 1874.

Dear WeeZcly——There is a certain editor not a thousand
miles away who is most unmerciful toward Parson Beecher,
and who has a great deal of fine-spun talk about “virtue ”
and “ chastity,” and the opinion that all “ good and true
people” must have of Henry Ward.

“Now, I’m anxiously on the watch in the columns of his
gossipy and popular little sheet for “ mud-flinging” at the
WEEKLY and Victoria Woodhull. As long as the would-be-
thought immaculate editor confines his virtuous ( !) wrath to
Beecher, I shall let him alone; but just so sure as he touches
Victoria and her dear cause, I shall send him a gentle re-
minder that “people who live in glass houses should never
throw stones ;” for I happen to be informed, that though the
editor in question may not be an advocate of “free love,”
he has been, and most like_still is, an earnest follower of the
doctrine in the commonly understood lustful sense of the
term. ‘ ’

Now, this may seem to all the editors hereabout like black-
mail, since I do not at present care to mention names, and
editors are so especially shaky on this point. But I assure
them all I don’t expect to make a cent by this operation,
onlythere is an editor “ round’ these parts ” who would not
enjoy being -shown up to the public in his house of glass,
especially after all his pretty talk about “ outragedyirtue ”
and the “interests of morality ” and the “ good of society,”
the “ chastity of our women,” the “ corruption of our young
men” and the like.

0! the amount of whitewash used by worn-out old sinners
to make the social. sepulchre look clean! I know a man, not
an editor, who has completely run the gauntlet’ of social evil,
and is now in that state of accepted virtuousness which utter
sexual impotency entails, who cannot find language to ex-
press his detestation of Victoria Woodhull and her “foul
teachings.” He is after a wife to “ amuse him at table and
comfort his bed,” and smooth the pathway of his declining
years, which his past indiscretions and utter ignoring of all
sexual principles have rendered unpleasant to his feet. He
talks loud and well of the “ decencies ” and “ social ob-
ligations.” , / l

0! the troops and troops of men and women that go up
and down in the land whom I see, “in my mind’s eye,” with
a pail of whitewash in one hand and a brush in the other!
They all kneel before Mrs. Grundy and kiss her great toe,

modern society, the odor of whose ofi'ense riseth to heaven,
while they mutter prayers for its preservation and the con-
founding of Victoria and all her followers; and then, that
tribute paid, they commence daubing on the whitewash, till
a superficial locker-on would suppose there never was aught
so clean before.

But to one who has had the password behind the scenes on
the great -stage of human life and motive, what a set of poor.
fools and hypocrites the whitewashers all appear! And to
one who has had grace given the soul to come out of the 1m-
cleanness and proclaim the redeeming faith inabsolute per-.
sonal freedom, the wallowing of the swine in the social mire
forms such a contrast to the sweet airs we breathe on the
delectable heights of liberty. Let there be no turning back

because of ignorance and persecutions.
— HELEN NASH.

CHRISTMAS DAY, 1874.
Mus. Vrcroam WOODHULL:
Dear Madam-This comes from one who is personally to
you an utter stranger but spiritually, and as Ibelieve, men-

Every wife is_ legally a slave, andpartly or W.hol1y.owned.by.

in, which woman will be fully protected in the control of her ,

ligiously and financially the equal of man. She must have \

and then fall’ prostrate before the great foul sepulchre of ‘

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tally, a sister. For two years I have been an interested
(and _I confess, until lately, a surreptitious) reader of your
paper. Last evening, however, Itook it with me into a

public parlor, wherein were a number, of ladies(?), and held ,

it up, with the title page openlydisplayed, so that all might
easily see the nature of my reading, for I am a truly consci-
entious woman, and once convinced, fearless. andbrave, (like
yourself) in the defense of right; and so this Christmas Day
I havedetermined to,make a poor present, to the good cause,
of  mind and heart. and energies.

I have lately delivered several lectures on love and
marriage, at a considerable expense to my husband and my-
-self, denouncing legal marriages and advocating the cause of
true love, which is of course, from its very existence, free.
I» had fancied that the many who are so venomously bitter

to yourself,.might swallow the self-same pills or principles if ,

they were sugar-coated, and I was right. I was applauded
again and again in one of the most Puritanical and hypocriti-
cal districts. of- Connecticut, during and. at the close of. a
lecture after your own heart. When I look around me on the

so-calledrespectable society, my very soul sickens and grows »

faint atthe sight of the scarcelyvailed objects of. prostitu-
tion who are called wives, and of the degraded brutality and
licentiousness of the professed husbands. Women at the
head of families of children, who are altogether unfit to rear
and educate, properly, kittens, let alone immortal souls and
bodies who are each to have a sphere and influence of their
own.

I gave vent to a prolonged “ Oh, my!” when my husband
brought home your paper out down in size. I want it back
to its original dimensions, with a still greater number of
talented men and women contributing to its columns. I.
think it scandalous that the only truthful free paper in the
country should be swamped for want of support. Grant, for
argum-ent’s sake, that it is all its worst enemies call it; it is
even then infinitely purer than the Herald, and not to be
mentioned in the same breath with the Sunday Mercury. I

think I can do something and I will try, and if you are well ‘

enough to see a sincere friend who is ready to help you to

the utmost of her every power, send a note to
Mus. S. H.,LE FEVRE‘.

 

LOVE EXPRESSED.

The sweetest notes among the human heartstrings
Are dull with rust;

The sweetest chords adjusted by the angels
Are clogged with dust;

We pipe and pipe again our dreary music
Upon the self-same strains,

While sounds of crime and fear and desolation
Come back in sad refrains.

On through the world we go, an army marching,
With listening ears,

Each longing, sighing for the heavenly music
He never hears;

Each longing, sighing for a word of comfort—-
A word of tender praise—-

A word of love to cheer the endless journey
Of earth’s hard, busy days.

They love us, and we know it; this suffices
For reason’s share;

Why should they pause to give that love expression
With gentle care?

Why should they pause? But still our hearts are aching
With the? gnawing pain

Of hungry love that longs to hear the music,
And longs and longs in vain.

We love them, and they know it; if we falter,
With fingers numb, *

Among the unused strings of 1ove’s expression,
The notes are dumb.

We shrink within ourselves in voiceless sorrow,
Leaving the words unsaid ,

And, side by side with those we love the dearest,
In silence on we tread.

Thus on we tread, and thus each heart in silence
Its fate fulfills——

Waiting and hoping for the heavenly music
Beyond the distant hills.

The only difierence of the love in heaven
From love on earth below \

Is: Here we love and know not how to tell it,

And there we all shall know.
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“ TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION ” -
“ SECTARIAN STRATAGEM ”--GOVERNMEN T OF
THE DISTRICT. ‘

Such are the titles of two articles and the subject of another
in the WEEKLY of January 2, on which I desire to offer a few
brief comments, regretting that the necessity for “ half
size” involves only references where the case demands ex-
planations. ~

Mary E. Tillotson complains of taxation of women without
representation. Does she know that under the present elec-
toral system the majority of voters (to say nothing of minor-
ities) are not and cannot be represented, and that voting,
representation and rule are three distinct» things, though
commonly confounded? Voting is of no value unless it leads
to representation, and one might as well put his (or her) bal-
lot into the stove as in the ballot box, unless itaids to elect
representatives. Men have had the shadow——which is voting
~—-for some generations, now women are as earnestly de-
manding it as if it was the substance. But it is time for all
adults to demand not only the right to vote, but the right to
be represented, which, under existing systems, is exceptional
even to voters. ‘ ‘

I can prove, and have proved, that under the method of
répresenting by localities, a small fraction of voters can elect
a so-called representative, while the larger portion are as

practically disfranchised as if’ they could not come within a —

thousand miles of the ballot-box.

But “why is this thus?” Simply from the indisputable
numerical truth that a majority of a majority may be, and
most_1req,uént1yis,a minority-:-woven as two-thirds o1_Itwo-

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thirds is less than half. Here, for instance, are two parties,
one of which comprises two-thirds of the voters; two-thirds
of that party want A to represent them, the other third want
?, but prefer A somewhat to C; then it is clear that A is only
wanted by four-ninths of his constituency, even where the
party line is strictly drawn and his party in a large majority.
But suppose parties are, as now, all in confusion, platforms
Babylonish as insignificant, and the majority of no party at
all, where is your representation? Then, again, it is not only
a fact, but an unavoidable fact, that party candidates are
virtually nominated not by a majority of the party, but by
the strikers and professional politicians. I afiirm, but have
no space to demonstrate, that this is unavoidable, and not
merely incidental, to the system of electing by parties and
iocal subdivisions.
Then, agai, who knows not that the best men and women
do not and cannot work in the “harness ” (that is what the
‘friends of the present system call it) of party organizations?
What thinking individual, desiring the public welfare, is
willing to make an agreement beforehand to_vote for and
work for any scoundrel, tool or fool that may succeed in ob-
‘staivning a party nomination? A “ faithful” party man must
‘shut his eyes and then open his mouth in favor of the nom-
inee, regardless of his individual views.
How can we do better? /

Simplify. Ignore ‘location of candidates or voters, if both
are within the municipality, ‘state or county. Divide the
number of votes cast by the number of candidates to be
elected; the quotient forms the quota. All candidates receiv-

ing this number are at once elected; all receiving more must .

transfer their surplus to other candidates. Transferred votes
count as original; all receiving less, and not elected by trans’-
ferred votes, may transfer to other candidates similarly. If
the number of candidates thus elected is not equal to the
number of representatives allowed, then “elect the remainder
at large; but this latter contingency would rarely occur.

This method demolishes at “ one fell swoop” caucuses,
rings, parties, and all abuses there arising. But were women
to vote at the very next election, while legislation would be
largely improved in many important items, the general corrup-
tion and inefiiciency would be, I think, about the same; the
root of the evil would remain; and those who call themselves
radicals should not be satisfied with merely lopping off the
branches, when it is as easy to root up the whole thing; and
it soon must come to_ “ root hog or die.” Adult suffrage with
‘representation of all is as easy attainable as adult sufirage
with only representation of cliques and rings.

But, says Ed.. “be brief, I’m sick.” Now comes the Jew-
ish Times unearthing an Index czvpurgatorious for railroads
and steamers, approved by the President. The scheme is
clearly at war with justice and the U. S. Consifitution; but
what care legislators? As elected they cannot open their lips
on the subject, because in a legislative district a candidate

-succeeds in proportion as he can make persons of every sect I

and opinion believe that he is with them, or at least will not

oppose them. A representative of a district cannot risk the;
‘displeasure of even a small fraction of his voters for fearé
it may unseat him next term. “ The successful man must be‘

the nominee of some party, and he must be such that no sec-
tion of that party shall fall away from him. He must be ob-
scure enough for all.” But if the two or three million earnest
diberal thinkers in the .U. S. were represented in Congress
and the State legislatures by liberal thinkers, as such, while

’ determined sectarians were even less in number, it would not

be diificult with the aid of those less pronounced, to enact a
law placing all publishers, books and papers on an equal foot-

, in.g in public conveyances.

Now, about sufirage in the District of Columbia. Only one
of the branches of its late Legislature was elected, and it was
powerless». They voted, as well as Congress, to tax church
property, but it has been appraised at less than a tenth of its
value, and one who claims to know says, even that tax will
mover be paid. But even this one branch of the Legislature
was -not representative, for reasons hereinbefore stated, while
there, as elsewhere, the proportion of non-voting voters, many
or whom staid away from the polls because they could not be
represented, was 20 to 25 per cent of the Whole. The rascali-
‘ties of the “ Ring” were however perpetrated, and are sub-
stantially continued, by appointed, not by elected persons.
Universal suifrage is not, therefore, a failure in Washington,
and would be a very decided success, if any one thousand
voters, irrespective of the portions of the District in which
they reside, could send a member to an elective house, and
the principle of transfer of votes was applied to the election of
‘the executive officers, as it readily could be.

An Upper House is either a superfluity or a nuisance. If
«one house represents electors, that is all that is required; and
two houses that don’t represent them will not be practically
«equivalent to one that does. ALFRED CRIDGE,

THE BARNES. WILL CASE.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 2, 1875.
EDITORS or THE WEEKLY: ‘

I find in your issue of Dec. 26a communication signed by
Emory Fletcher Boyd, pertaining to the Barnes Will case,
and addressed to me as‘ Secretary of the Indiana,State Asso-
aciaticn of Spiritualists, which, if unanswered, might tend to
injure the cause for which the writer professes to have such
“‘ profound interest,” hence I ask space for reply.

Mr. Boyd’s letter contains one point of just criticism,
'-which I will acknowledge in its proper place as I proceed;
301117, taken as 3 Whole. the communication is not a favorable
exhibit for a cool-head ed worker in the humanitarian field.
,Pull off your coat, brother, and put your shoulder t,(‘;._1-jhe
:wheel. The persons who are actively engaged in ‘sustaining
the Barnes Will also have a “ profound interest ” in thecase,
and, like Mr. B., they are poor, or only in moderate circum-
stances, and find it hard work» to fight, almost unaided,
.a8£a«iDSt tW0 millions of. money, which one ofthe heirs alone
can control and is using freely, A few “trustees” thus
Situated Should not be ezpectesto “save this bequest with-
0W5 13119 aid 03 0‘0h01‘§-” And those who are looking on with
fioldeg arms show? he 931937111 how they bh;l‘0W!.imP§diments

in the way of the faithful few_ wy aredoing the very best
they can. Critics should become posted before they strike
too hard, lest they strike amiss. Dr. Allen C. Hallock, of
Evansville, is chairman of the committee appointed to prose.
cute the will case. No one can doubt the doctor’s honesty
and earnestness in the matter. If he errs in the case, it is
from the head and not the heart. He was a warm friend of
Mr. Barnes. The will was placed in his hands, and, asa
precautionary measure, a copy was taken and properly wit-
nessed. Owing to the supposed convalescence of the testator
the will was recalled. After therelap so which followed, the"
doctor was again sent for to receive the will, but before his
arrival it had been stolen from underneath the pillow of Mr.
Barnes, who was among the first to discover the loss, but,
owing to his extreme weakness, the friends present thought
it inadvisable to attempt getting anotherhvill. They, as well
as Mr. Barnes, thought they would be able to probate the
copy (about which there would have been no trouble had it
been in the interests of Christianity). Dr. Hallock has his
whole soul in this case; it forms a large part of his thoughts
by day and dreams by night. He has given money beyond
his ability, traveled in its interests, and written over. one
hundred appeals and letters giving information, and still
"stands ready to write to all who desire it; but all his efforts
have brought but meagre results by way of aid from others.

If the doctor was a man of wealth, you‘"would hear of no
more begging to get afew dollars reluctantly given. Well

may Mr. Boyd say‘, “ It is a disgrace to the whole body of
Spiritualists, and must become a standing reproach to the

boasted intelligence and probity of American liberalism.”

But that disgrace will rest on “ the whole body ” who are

lockers-on, and not on those who are toiling with the load.

But, laying aside generalities, I will notice the particular
points in Mr. B,oyd’s communication. The charge of allow-

ing the “ will to be spirited away” I have already answered.

The new evidence in proof of the stealing is very strong, but

I will not relate it here; perhaps Mr. Hallock may do so

privately. The next charge is: “ When they needed counsel

they kept mum.” Attorneys engaged in the case advised

(whether properly or not) that but little publicity should be

given, from fear of attracting more opposition than aid; and
later experience shows they were, to somegextent, justified in
their fears, only a large part of that opposition comes from

professed friend. Some think we would succeed better by

taking a bold stand in denouncing Mrs. Woodhull; while

others think a milder opposition toward the prevailing
churches would do more in our favor. And others still have

their plans to propose. We will try and profit by the advice
of each, but a little money to help defray expenses would be

acceptable also.

In Mr. Boyd’s next charge I think he is correct; hence I
will mark 1 in his favor. He says we have placed a limited
construction upon the will which its language will not jus-
tify. I plead guilty of lack of care in writing my appeal, and
in following the frequently.-expressed language of others in
that particular, rather than going to the will itself for a
"guide. The institute, or school, or home to be founded has
been called an “ orphans’ school,” more from the well-known
fact that Mr. Barnes made the Girard will the basis for his,
and that is an “ orphans’ college” or institute. I acknowl-
edge that we were in error in this particular. In answer to
Mr. Boyd’s queries,'I will say that Samuel Orr and David
Mackey, named in the will, are supposed to be the same as
those given in the attorney’s compromise list; but the will
not being established, they have no legal responsibility com-
pelling them to defend it. .

Mr. Orr, I believe, was appointed by the Court as‘adminis-
trator of the estate in the interests of the heirs; hence had
to be made a defendant. The reason why the attorneys “are
not prosecuted ” is that one suit is as much as we can shoul-
der without more aid; hence will a few liberals, who have a
“profound interest” in the matter, give some little assist-
ance. It is no small matter to prosecute successfully nine
influential attorneys, even if the State was made plaintifi’.

In regard to “ reporting” and “appealing” to the Legisla-
ture, Mr. Boyd entirely fails to comprehend the difference
between legislative and judicial powers and duties: it be-
longs to courts exclusively to decide as to rights of property.
Whenever the courts decide that Mr. Barnes left a valid will,
then the association has certain duties to perform under it,
and among these that of reporting to the Legislature; but
the court has not so decided as yet, nor can the Legislature
change the judicial decisionvwhen made final. Neither is the
Legislature compelled to pay attention to any reports which
we might make, and might lay them on the table indefinii ely,

‘although that would ‘not exonerate the association from any

duty imposed by the will. The Legislature, if appealed to,
could appropriate money to prosecute the suit (and some of
the board have thought of thus appealing), but do Spiritual-
ists or Liberalists generally think that such an appeal would
be successful at this time? Neither is our Legislature (which
is biennial); in session. That the lawyers at Evansville tried
to sell us out no one questions, but the trustees are not to
blame, and should receive more aid on account of the fact.

We-“have employed other lawyers (and we believe true
ones), among’ them Ernest Dale Owen, who is working faith”-
fully in the interests of the Will.

I trust the foregoing is sufiicient to satisfy Mr. Boyd as
well as all other real or professed liberalists, that the cause
is theirs as well as ours, and that each one should do some-
thing, however small. Yours truly, J .R. BUELL,

" Seo’y Ind. State Ass’n of Spiritualists.

; GOSSIP. ‘

Under the heading of ‘.‘ Talks About New Books,” the New
York Herald thus critijcizes the romance called “ Broken
Chains.” Considering the position it holds as the champion
of the daily press of the United States, we feel that we can
congratulate the American public on the advance made
toward our position in the dl_S§3ll§Sl0Il of the Subject of (legal)
marriages; -v

95 ‘Broken Chains’ is too passionate a novel for my taste,”

Popular Novels upon the table at her side. “ Still there is a

great deal that is good in the story, and I enjoyed it very

much. I detest such men as Reinhold, and do not think they
have any right to marry. Men whose souls are too high for

this world are very uncomfortable sort of people to live with;
they are not madegfor everyday life, and should retire from
the world at once.” _

“ I do not blame him for leaving his wife and going off with
Beatrice, the opera singer,” said Miss Hamilton, a young lady
friend of Felicia’s, who had dropped in to spend the evening.
“ Reinhold was a great musician and a genius, while his wife
was as commonplace as a woman could well be. As he said,
Beatrice answered the requirements of his soul, and of «his
deeply passionate nature. She appreciated his musical crea-
tions, while his wife had no sympathy with. them; and then,
again, he did not marry Ella because he loved her, but simply
because her parents decreed it from the day he was born.
He was chained to a woman he could never love, and
although he is not such a iman as I admire, I think he was
not so dreadful as far as his elopement is concerned. He
talked to his wife brutally on the night he left her; for that
there is no excuse.”

“ Reinhoid was a weak, selfish man,” said Fred, joining in
the conversation; “he had no business to desert his wife;
she was a magnificent creature, too good for him by far.”

“You forget that she developed into what she was after
Reinhold left her,” said Felicia. “At the time they lived
together she was only a weak, loving woman, who appeared
to care for nothing beyond household duties. If she had
always been what she at last became her husband would
never have left her.”

Fie, Miss Hamilton, to talk about “not blaming” a

singer; don’t you know it was his bounden duty to stay
with his wife and make her miserable until he had killed
her or she had poisoned him ?- And then think ‘of that
monstrous statement of Fe1icia’s, that, after her husband
left her, “she developed into a magnificent creature.” « Oh,
Felicia, naughty Felicia, do you know that such an observa-
tion is quite inconsistent with our present style of “ social
order” and the ordainments of society. Really, neighbor
Herald, had we published the above spirited conversation in
the WEEKLY, we should have expected to have been called
to account by conservative Spiritualists for so doing; but we
return thanks to you for taking up our role, notwithstanding.

A PHYSICIAN ’S VOICE.
MARKESAN, Wis., Dec. 4., 1874..

,EDITORS WOODHULL AND CLAELIN’s WEEKLY:

Please find inclosed post-oflice money order to renew my
subscription. I cannot do without the WEEKLY. I hope you
will keep ,the ball rolling until, like the stone cut out of the
mountain, it shall fill the whole world with a better knowl-
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on until the world shall not be afraid of the knowledge of
all things, and until parents are not afraid to teach their
children what they know. . The Nazarene said, “Ye shall
know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” An an-
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Dear Weekly——W'e send you joyous greeting that she, thy
guardian, aye! thy mother, still is spared to you and us.
You are both very dear to us, because you have sown the
seeds of justice, wisdom and truth broadcast over the land.
This noble work you are constantly doing to better the con-
ditions of all classes; but these repay you chiefly by heaping
curses on your devoted heads, and by striving in every possi-
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misery to earth’s benighted children, when it should be a
fount of joyand life eternal.

Each week we watch and wait thy coming, eager to feast
upon the thought—gems that crowd thy pages. Many grand
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THE PRESENT A PERIOD  CRISIS.

To every thoughtful mindthe passing time is of supreme
interest. Human life seems stirred to its profoundest depths,
and all things portend change. Forces are abroad every-
where, latent or cognizable, which have a potent bearing
upon individual and social destinies. Beliefs, usages, laws,
institutions—nay, even the character and organism of whole
peoples are undergoing transformation, thus preparing the
way for a new order of affairs on earth. Believe as we may

in the desirableness of all this, we shall probably have to
accept the situation and make the most of it, for nothing
seems more certain than that the forms of thought and life
which have answered our purpose will not do for the coming
man or woman. '

The aspirations of the mind for knowledge, purity, free-
dom, are a prophecy of better things to come. . And it seems
to be now a prevailing hope among the oppressed of all
nations, that here, in America—here. under the light and in-
spiration of comparatively free institutions, the new social
order shall first appear. Here, on our favored soil, uncursed

fense of our children’s children_fo,r manygenerations. I-Iere
shall be wrought out in practical forms of _life the grand
problem. heretofore dimly outlined in our political constitu-

seifis Miss Bessel; as the iris driest es J»  Ossoee $6 0982-.

mm, of eq al rights for all cl‘asses,—r.’l‘he Intesttgatofy Boston,
Mass. ‘  ‘ I ’ ‘   ’ .

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MRS. WOODHULUS LECTURE AT NEWBURGH,
NEW YORK.

‘ (From the Telegraph, N ewburgh, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1875.)

If there is a woman in this country who has been better
abused than Victoria 0. Woodhull, the social agitator of the
period, we would like to see her. She arrived in this city
yesterday and gave a matinee lecture to women’ only. In
the evening she lectured to all, Without distinction of sex.

There was a prelude to the lecture-—a reading by Miss
Tennie Claflin of a poem written in memory of Tom Paine.
Miss Claflin is a blonde of about twenty-eight years of age,
and is a reader of merit. Her pose on the stage is very good.

Mrs. Woodhull was received with marked applause. She
began her lecture by reading from manuscript, but gradually
warming with her subject she placed the manuscript on the
table,-and spoke as she felt, citingnumerous dramatic in-
cidents in her extended career since she began the “Social
Crusade,” as proofs of the peculiar views she holds, and at
times rose to enthusiasm in her denunciations of the “ rotten-
ness and hypocrisy ‘of society as at present constituted.”

, Her audience manifested their appreciation of some local

hits, and approval" of telling points, by frequent and up-
roarious applause. ’Whatever they say of Mrs. Woodhull,-
they cannot deny her sincerity, and a power of oratory pos-
sessed by but very few men‘ or women. There is an earnest-
ness in her speechtfitand something a_5b0I,1,t the Woman that
isabove ssnsstionalism. ~ - ‘ _

THE NEW RELIGION—UNIVERSAL JUSTICE.

 

No. XII.

There has been a great mistake made in the legislation of
this country. Almost all of the laws that are on the statute
books are for the protection of property rights, which are
not even referred to in the preamble to _the Constitution in
which the purposes for which it was framed are set forth,
and all the laws that are not for this purpose were enacted
to, and do, abridge if not destroy those rights which were de-
clared to be inalienable by the Fathers of the Republic.
Wipe from the statute books these two kinds of laws, and
there would be nonp left. This reveals the fact that the pur-

' poses for which the Constitution was framed have never

been attained. Take statutesafter statute——law after law——
until all statutory provisions shall be consumed, and try

and they wouldall go down condemned, and we should be
left with the Constitution standing alone as the supreme and
only law. Practically, then, we have no Constitution; we
have such laws only as usurping men have, from time to
time, seen fit to make. A One of two things, then, must be true.
We either have no rightful laws, or else the purposes for
which the -government was instituted are nothing more than
words, used without meaning.

Laws that can be rightly framed, and work in unison with
individual rights, are such, and only such, as will secure to
each person’ the full and free right to the full and free exer-
cise of every natural and inherited personal capacity; while
the exercise of these capacities would guarantee to every
one the needed means to meet the demands of the other part
of man. Not any law has rightful force that limits or
abridges‘ or destroys the rightlwhich all possess of seeking
their own happiness as best they may, and when and how
they choose. If self-promoted to the place of power, the
men may vote the exercise of: any right conferred by God,
then they may limit each or all to any space they please.
So far as natural right is clear, no jot of difference can be
found among the several parts’ of man by which a portion
shall appear to be above another part. A man perfected in
his form and mind embraces all that goes to make up man.
If even but a single power be deemed accursed by law, be
singled out as lower than the rest, and is restrained from
what its genius claimsi, then there is legal wrong enforced
and individual rights abridged tyrannically. What is man
that he should set himself to say that he is wiser than his
God by crushing out the life that He has given! that he
should cast a hampering chain, of whatsoever stuff, about
His gifts to other men, and say that “ there” they cease!

If man is rightly seized of all the gifts he holds——if he has
robbed no other man of them——then how shall other men
have power to place them under ban of law? If they may
say that love of any sort is blind, then they may also say
that love of drink, of food, of sights sublime, of blended
sounds is also blind and needs their guiding hand; but if
they fain admit that this is free, is best enjoyed for self and
all the rest by being free, then they must also say, if they
would keep their logic sound, that love of sex as well as
love of life is best when free from their control and man-
aged by the one on whom that blessing was conferred by
God. '

Thus in the coming time when that which is, shall be
replaced by that which is to come, these rights, in whatso-
ever form they are possessed, in whatsoever grade of growth
they are bestowed, must to man be secured inalienably.
Each individual of the growing race by God endowed,:must
have his right to work his way to God, by naught entan-
gled, by naught restrained, but aided on by every kind ad-
vice that brother man can give; by every added’ light to
those we now enjoy; but never be compelled to travel o'er
a road which is to him unplcasant—is uninviting to his
sight and mind, and which no promise makes to his desires
of happy termination for his toil. There is no sacred law,
no creed from ‘nature gained that would compel the world
to worship God or toll for man in any single way, but each
is rather told to say his prayers and wend his way along the
road of life guided by the monitor within and such exterior
aid as seems acceptable. N 0 one of firm and earnest mind,
of individual merits strong, can by another’s light be led.
He must follow the rays that, from his own lamp pierce the
dark before him, lightingup the way. A brilliant light
from other sources, by intermediate things reflected, may
lead him on the shoals where he may strand forever, when
had he followed the dim rays, perhaps ,of his own small
light, as step bystep they showed the way,‘he had made
less but safer progress onward. What is light to one is
darkness to another; so every one by that he hath must be
inclined, from time to time amending by what is gained
from others in kindly way, as weihave said before.

Hence, when the race shall start again to climb the steeps
of time which lie before, it must be sure that nothing of the

old shall cling around to shackle the ascent that must be

made. Each individual has a right to say thatenaught shall
enter into law or form, or statute ever be framed, that shall
one limitation place upon a single aspiration of the soul, or
shall shadows cast to damp the hopes that flutter forth from
whatsoever source. The distinctions that exist between the
difierent grades of men must have their recognitions, and
each must give to all the rights that each inherits from his

late; 110;’. .1165 the least among the whole he wrongly dis-.

them by the fundamental rules laid down in the preamble, I

- possessed of even thesmallest of his smaller powers, or the

meanest of his meaner qualities denied their exercise.

In this way only can the race together live; in this way
only may the different grades of souls unite to swell the
anthem of the common human family. The great melodious‘
strains that the Creator had in view when forth from chaos
he did wake a sleeping world, must find a chord in every
human heart before their consummation comes. Indeed,
each heart must add its strain, or else the concord will be
marred and harshly sound upon the ear of him who
fashioned it to be performed by all his children, of every
sort and grade combined, to swell the harmony divine.
Until such concert is attained, t’is human music only
we shall hear. The great and crowning melody must have
a strain from every human soul into its measure blended in
perfect harmony; and then shall come the end, when heaven
and earth in sweetest concert meet to usher in the glorious
day since earliest time foreshadowed; when all the earth
and all the sky shall know that prophets old and poets sweet

and sing that this should come to be creation’s crown of
joy and bliss forever hence.

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THE DRAMA.

 

There has never been a time in the recollection of the
“oldest inhabitant” when the drama was generally sup-
ported so niggardly throughout the country as it is now.
Every week a half-dozen or more troupes that have traveled
fdr years return to the metropolis for want of support,
while in the city itself only one or two of the theatres are
“paying.” ’I‘h'is falling off is by some attributed to the
dullness of the times, and undoubtedly to some extent this
is true; but it is also true, especially in cities, that when the
financial pressure is ..the strongest, the most embarrassed
people seek amusements to blunt the keenness of their
troubles.

There is another and more vital reason for the falling off
of the receipts for amusements. For a number of years
sensationalism has ruled the stage. If a play were not
sensational, it was good for nothing. But this has had its
run. Peopleare/sick of mere sensation that appeals to the
sight and ear without reaching the soul through sentiment or
principle. If sensation were based upon some new and
grand principle, or truth, the people would rush en masse to
see it. Besides, the people of this country have had a
greater real sensation during the last year than any that any
manager has ever dared to present upon the stage. Compared
with this real sensation playing is tame and no longer attracts
the people. Their tastes having been satiated by the
greater, find no pleasure in the less. Moreover, this real sens-
ation has introduceda new subject into the public thought
which appeals more directly and forcibly to the hearts of
the people than any subject that they had previously enter-
tained. Before the drama will be again popular, it will
have to be based upon, and made to appeal to, and meet the
demands of, this new subject that has been developed in the
public mind.

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BIDDY’S PARADISE.

 

In the leading article of Harper’s Baear of Jan. 9, under
the heading of “The Deity‘ of the Kitchen,” we find the
following verdant but refreshing statement:

The youngest peasant who engages service here knows that
the sentence which declares that all “are born free and
equal” isone of the “jewels five words long” which, like
the precious stones beneath the foundation of the City of
God in the apostle’s vision, are at the foundation of our
government, no mere idle letter of the law, but an actual
fact in the new civilization.”

This is “soothering Biddy” with a vengeance, but the
conclusion of the sentence is rather humiliating:

She knows, too, that if she does not earn ihéney enough to
go home and live as she likes, she will marry here a man
whose vote is as powerful. as his master’s, and who will find
every avenue open to honest and intelligent and persistent
effort.

“Master” is a word not often used by Americans. The
song said that, during the War of the Rebellion,

“ He took his hat and he lei’ berry sudden,
And-I tink he ran away.”

From the above extract we may presume that he has re-
turned and taken possession of Messrs. Harper Brother’s
establishment. However, we are glad to note that every
avenue is open to the man who has a “master,” and that
Biddy may revel in the reflected light of his glorious liberty,
if by her charms she can attain to the noble position of being
the helpmate of the deputy’s deputy.

Now, let us ask our contemporary the following reason-
able questions: Why shouldnot every woman find every.
avenue open to her honest, intelligent and persistent efforts
as well as every man? _ Or why should Biddy be counseled
by the Baea/r to hang on to Patrick’s coat-tail? We sorrow-
fully admit that, under present circumstances, such advice
is sound, but we object to the circumstances that make it
so, and are trying to improve them. But Biddy is not alone

for masters as well as poor Biddy; but we forbear to name

what such foolish women are. If Gail Hamilton is right,
some of them do not get too well rewarded for their syco-
phancy; for that writer tells us in another article in the
same paper that the English Daily Telegraph reports eight
cases of wife-beating, three of them fatal, andljlog/d’8 Weekly
thirteen. ‘

were not beside themselves with wine when they did say‘

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woonnunn n CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Y  A _ Y5

' _ i {run RIGHTS or CHILDREN.

The first of these in a civilized community is a right to a
civilized existence. As this right commences with birth, it
necessitates the demand for the same right for all mothers
at the periods of parturition and gestation. The second
right of children is partially adniitted——it is their right to
education. But we do not restrict this to book learning
only, as is .. the case at present. Technical education is
quite as much a necessity of existence as intellectual edu-
cation, and nations who do not wish to take a back seat will
do well to institute it forthwith. A, right to moral (but not
religious) instruction is also asserted for all children. Hold-
ing, as we do, that children are not to be punished for the
sins or omissions of their parents, we put in a third demand,
viz.: that they should all have, as far as lies in communal
power, an equal chance in the race of life; and that our
present system is barbarous which condemns from birth
the many, for no fault" of their own, to be and remain the
servants of the few. Without attacking parental claims,
therefore, we assert, for all such children as may need com-
munal care, their just right to the same, and declare that
such demand is consistent with the soundest economy and the
highest civilization. — ,

At present there are three parties who claim -power over
children—the community, the parents and the churches.
Inthe passage of the “Compulsory Education” law, the
State of New York has indorsed the superior right. of the
first-mentioned in this particular. As regards parental
power, we think it is well to ignore it when it conflicts with
the physical, intellectual or moral well-being of the children.
When the churches have agreed as to which of them shall
be intrusted in the matter, we will look into its claim, but
not till then. For these reasons we are glad to reprint
the following remarks on the subject which were published
in the Golden Age and reproduced without comment in the
New York Journal and Educational News. They will not be
at all new to the readers of the WEEKLY, and we merely
submit them as marks of the progress of public thought on
the question of the rights of children:

Laws for the enforcement of universal education have
already passed the Legislatures of nine States, and a half-
dozen other States have such laws under consideration.
They indicate a long and important stride in the develop-
ment of public sentiment and the true social idea. Accord-
ing to the old notion the child was the exclusive property of
his parents, who could do quite as they pleased with their
own. It was the old Roman idea of absolute ownership, and
the parent could deprive his child of any privilege, require
him to do any Work, or beat or starve him almost at pleasure.
This idea has lapped over the centuries and civilizations,
and has been reproduced in the papers of this city within a
twelvemonth as an argument against the measure under
consideration. But modern culture has taught us that the
child belongs primarily to himself, and from the momenthe
enters into life begins to live on his own account, developing
a responsibility he cannot shake ofl‘ or divide, entering on a
career which involves his own well-being and destiny; and
neither parent nor guardian has the right to deprive him of
a single advantage that mayaccrue to his welfare. or inflict
a single penalty that may injure his faculties or embitter his
experience. His parents are not his owners, but merely
older friends, bound to him by the tenderest and holiest ties
of affection only to serve him the more and the better. He
is a moral and accountable being, and to injure him in any
way is to mar his manhood and insult his Maker.

But the second idea involv:.=d in this measure is "quite as
important in itself and still more far-reaching in its conse-
quences. It is the interest and property society has in every
human child. For human beings belong to others quite as
much as to themselves, and the well-being of society requires
the best possible nurture and trainingof every child born
into it. Seventy—five years ago a pauper girl was thrown
adrift on the world in one of our upper counties, and over
two hundred criminals in our prisons and penitentiaries have
descended from this wretched waif, preying on society in
every possible way. Statistics show that illiterate persons

roduce thirty times as many paupers as the educated classes.

very child suffered to grow up in ignorance and vice be-
comes a trained enemy of society to recruit the dangerous
classes which make war on property, and treat life as a play-
thing when it crosses the track of their greed or lust. The
peril of modern society is at its bottom. not at its top(?)
Society can protect itself against its worst foes only by en.-
forcing education on all children alike. The property-
holders, who are taxed for the support of public schools,
have a right to require that the costly privileges they furnish
shall be utilized. But in order to make this wise law avail-
ing, public sentiment must back its provisions and require
their enforcement:-Golden Age.

Thus our original doctrines of children’s rights and the
primal claims of communities over children are marching
forward to victory. lVe do not care where we meet our
own mental babies, nor heed much in what new dresses
they may be attired. We object, however, to the sexual
limitation in the above article.

SLAVES OF CUSTOM.

Theslavery of custom is in some respects more galling
than the slavery of law. In this Republic chattel slaves had
a defined position, which is an advantage not yet possessed
by the women of the United States as regards their political
condition. There is no Congressional or Constitutional

edict forbidding woman from exercising what we believe to Y
' be “her right to” the franchise, nor any law authorizing

any one to forbid her from depositing her ticket in the bal-

lot-box. This is a sad omission, for custom places woman

under the foot of every petty official who pleases to tyran-
nize over her, and debars her from any means of redress for
injuries so committed. We present this view of the subject
at the present time, because the New York Sun of January
8th instructs us that I

The women suffrage seekerswaded through the slush under
the pouring rain “last evening to their monthly meeting at
Mrs. Dr. Lozier’s, in thirty-fourth street. They elected as
delegates to the annual convention of the National Woman’s
Suffrage Society, to meet in Washiiigton next week. Mrs.
bozier, Dean of the H.om9e0p,athic Medieael Qollegei Mrs» L

5

.D. Blake, author of “Fettered for Life‘;” Mrs.

.a friend, East Cleveland,

_Hal1ock, an
able speaker; Mrs. H.  Cooke, author of “Goldthread;”

’ and Mrs. E. H. Kane.

In the opinion of the WEEKLY the best method of pro-
cedure would be to solicit from Congress a law defining
the present position of the women of the Republic in the
matter. If they are to remain “political slaves,” they have
a right to demand such a national exposition from their

‘ political masters. It has been proved to the satisfaction of

a considerable minority of our present legislators, that the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution do not
forbid the “right of suffrage” to woman; and there are
many who believe with the WEEKLY that both of those
great state papers intrinsically authorize and sanction it.
Under such doubtful circumstances, the delegates appointed
by the National Suffrage Association cannot do better than
demand from Congress an explicit law on the subject, for if
they are to. be ruled as the political inferiors of men, the
slavery of absolute law is preferable to the more undefined
slavery of custom. During the past decade Congress armed
millions of yesterday’s male slaves with_the ballot; now let
it pass a law authorizing woman’s present degradation, ex-
hibiting her inferiority to her negro rulers, and ‘proving that
mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are not virtuous

enough or sensible enough to be intrusted with similar po-“Y

litical power. We do not believe that it can do so without
insulting the common sense of the nation and of the civil-
ized world. ‘ - _ ‘

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PERSONAL LIBERTY.

 

If there be any especially’ sacred right of property it is
that of personal ownership. Any restriction of that right
by another party is thequintessence of insolence on the
part of the person or persons so interfering; and submission
to such influence constitutes on the part of the sufferer the
quintessence of slavery. Notwithstanding this, the mean-
est man knows and feels that he is in power over all wo-
men in this particular, the latter holding no corresponding
authority over him. Objecting, as we do, to such a one-
sided arrangement, we are glad to learn from the Rochester
Devnoemt and Chronicle that there is such a body in our Re-
public, as is mentioned in the following item:

_A meeting of the society for the “ Protection of Personal
Liberty ” will take place at three o’clock to-morrow after-
noon, at the hall of the society. Business of importance to be
transacted.

If, in good faith, the members of the above society mean
business, we would advise all the women in the nation to
join it; for heaven knows, that what with ecclesiastical and
legal interference, with absolute political slavery, and ‘with
the stern and steady tyrannies of society and fashion, the
women of our Republic are pretty roughly used in themat-
terof their personal liberty. As we look at their condition
now they appear to be handed over collectively, and very
often individually, to insolent male rule, and that their per-
sonal liberties are, in consequence, most grievously abridged
and trampled upon. O ‘

POST~OFFICE ESPIONAGE.

The great dailies of New York that ignored our sufferings
for the maintenance of the sanctity of the public mail and
the freedom of the press, are beginning now to feel con-
cerned about those matters. In evidence, we reprint the
following leader from the N. Y. Sun of January 12:

OBSCENE MATTER-—A. CHANCE’ FOR COMSTOCK.

If the man named Comstock, who preserves the public
morals by prying into the mails to prevent the transmission
of obscene matter, will walk into the General Post Office any
morning this week, he will not have to pry a great way or a
greatiwhile to find a plenty of matter answering to that de-
scription- For what are the full reports in the great dailies
of the Tilton-Beecher suit but obscene matter? .

What will Comstock do about it? Will he suppress all the
leading papers? Will he suppress the leading daily papers,
and send their publishers and proprietors to the penitentiary
for circulating obscene matter through the mails? Or will
he go a step further back and suppress Plymouth Church
that gives rise to such scandals? — ,

These queries raise the points of Comstock’s authority,
and of the practicability and expediency of enforcing the
statute under which he acts, and they are now presented in
a highly interesting aspect.

The public morals should be preserved; but how far it is
the business of the United States Government to undertake
the preservation of them through Comstock, and to pry into
the mails for that purpose, quere.

Yes, there was something more involved in the Woodhull ’

& Claflin persecutions, which ranged over a period of two
years, than the simple oppression and destruction of the
Proprietors of the WEEKLY. They were venomous assaults
upon the most ualuable of your public liberties and public
rights——the liberty of free discussion, and the right to the
untramrneled use of the Post.Ofl:ice. The religious and com-
n1ercial.espiona.ge that we already have, which is daily be-
ing more and more augmented, has annihilated honesty both
in our churches and on our mai-ts of trafiic; and we com-
mend the N. Y. Sun for its opposition to the further ex-
tension of a system so subversive to the best interests of our
Republic.

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DONATIONS.

J. P. L., Terre Haute, lnd., $1; a friend,1',Ayer, Mass., $1;
Ohio, $5; .a friend, Louisville,
Ky., $10; G. K. , San Bernardino Cal, $1; W. B. H., West-
field, N. Y., $2; N. F. R., Aurora, Ill., $5; H. H. &W. E.
R. S., Chardon, Ohio, $5; Mrs. N. J. L., Columbus, Ohio,
$1; B. T., Port Huron, Mich., $1; J. S. C., Eureka, Mich.
$2; J. B. M., South Chelmsford, Mass, $1; Friends,
Putnam, Con-11., $3; I). E., Bloomfield, $50; L. S. 0., Wes

Potsdam, N, 13., $2-, a friend, $1,. Total fortbe week, $91t.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

J. C’. D., Boonscille, Kentueley.—-You are correct. The most
conservative Spiritualists in their talk are usually the least
conservative in their conduct. Burns lashed their Scotch
Presbyterian counterparts well in the following lines,
taken from his address to Gavin Hamilton:

“ Steal through a window from a W-—-e,
But point the rogue that takes the door;
Be to the poor like any whunstane,
And hand their noses to the grunstane;
Ply every art 0’ legal thieving;

No matter-—stick to sound believing.
Grunt up a solemn lengthened groan,
And damn all parties but your own;
I’ll warrant, then, ye’re na deceiver,
A steady, sturdy, staunch believer!”

Hard Money, Memphis, Tenn.——The Supreme Court has al-
ready given two different rulings affecting the legal tender
clause on the greenbacks. It will have to revert to its
former position. We do not know how it is to be manip-
ulated.

W. S. T., Paterson, N. J.—-The stoppage of labor, which
now occurs annually in our cities, is one of the effects of
a false money system, which by it is “ killing the goose
that_ lays the golden eggs.” The disease is becoming
chronic here as it is in England, where every twenty-third
human being is a branded and incarcerated pauper-

Spirmst, Paris, Franee.—-There are many who believe, with
Hugh Miller, that a new wave from the ocean of the ages
is about to roll over our planet, and that -we, who are now
on earth, are but the debris of the last great formation
which culminated in the mammal man. ’ ‘From the broken
and debauched condition of our race, which, in many
civilized countries, is now commencing to retrograde, such
opinion is not unwarranted.

B. B., Houston, Texus.—No laws, either ecclesiastical or civil,
can alter the sexual status of any human being. They
can and do manufacture liars and hypocrites wholesale»
but that is all they can accomplish. In demanding social
freedom for all, the VVEEKLY does not propose to make
human beings celibates, monogamists, polygamists, or
polyandrists, but to make them honest; for that end it

seeks the abrogation of absurd edicts, under the operation -

of which they are now compulsorily demoralized.

Subscriber, Oliieago, I ll. ——It is easy to say “ increase the cir-
culation of the WEEKLY,” and it could, probably, be
accomplished at the cost of principle. In newspapers
“made to sell,” which treat on the questions of the age,
itis as requisite to know what to withhold as what to
publish. The great dailies give the public as much truth
as is consistent with the advancement of their circulations.
Before more can be given it is necessary to instruct the
“public will” to demand more. That is the rule of the
WEEKLY, and at present it performs its duty at the cost of
a limited circulation.

Tom Paine, Cincinnati, 0ln"o.--It is believed that there are a

few Catholics foolish enough to aid the Protestant Y. M. '

C. A. Inquisition in inserting its idols in the Constitution.
Should their many-headed foes succeed in the infamous
attempt, they will get Protestant Catechisms as well as
-Protestant Bibles into the public schools, and,’ in the near
future, forbid the Catholic priesthood to holdland, or to
solemnize marriages. J

J. W. W, Austin, Te:vas.—i-The cause depends on the quality
of the subscribers to the WEEKLY more than on their

- present numbers. It is safe to assert that no other periodi-
cal ever published in the ‘United States could (alas com-
pulsorily) reduce its size one-half without loss of (or even
complaint from) one sub scriber.

Enquirer, Huore de Grace, ]l[ol.——The passage of a Civil
Rights Bill is needed for the unity of the nation, and the
dignity of American citizenship. It is a bitter pill for
Southerners, and it is apparentlyleft to them to choose
whether they will munch it in small pieces or bolt it

ntire. I C

R. P. L., E. Saginaw, Mlcla, takes us to task because we
criticized the “bestial Christianity, which established a
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to (other) Animals
before it had organized one for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children. We do not stand corrected, but submit the
case to our readers. We do not complain of Mr. Bergh
for what he has done for the brute creation, but only assert
that a similar duty for his own species should have pre
ceded it. ‘ ‘

H. A. Beaver, Pa., considers the demand of the New York
Herald for information from the spirits, with regard to
the child Charlie Ross, as pertinent and proper. If it be
so, we claim in reply that the questions we put to the
Gods of the Christians in answer to the same are equally
pertinent and proper. Or, if H. A. pleases, equally pre-
sumptuous and impertinent. When we l1-ave solved the
mystery of the intelligent answers of the rappers, we have
a right to demand further instruction, but not till then.

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BOOK NOTICES.

OUGHT CHRISTIANS rro DEBA.'rE? A pamphlet, 24 pp., pub-
lished and written by W. F. J amieson, No. 9 Montgomery
place, Boston. 

The above is a. well-‘written lecture, inviting orthodox
Christians to attend to their platform duties. In it the writer
answers the question in the aifirmative, and the design of
the work appears to be to instill the same ideainto the minds
of his orthodox opponents. As he proves the truth of his pow

 

51131.‘-is from the Bible,

the tiers: Will ieithsr have to deny ‘

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twoonnuti. & 0LAI4‘LIN’S IWEEKLY.

that authority or meet their questioner in the argumentative

field,of battle. Should such a result be attained, believing

that he advocates the cause of truth, we wish him success in
the encounter. ‘

THE Room or THE MATTER. Samson, a myth story of the
Sun.‘ A pamphlet: pp. 33. Colby 8t Rich, 9 Montgomery
place, Boston.

This work may be looked upon as an astronomical key to
the Jewish legend of Samson. lt is written in verse, and
will amply repay a careful perusal. Those who believe that
Christianity and Judaism emanated from the star-worship
of the Chaldeans ought to purchase the above, for they will
find in it plenty of reasons given in support of that view of
the subject. ““ C

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INCIDENTS OF THE BEECHER—'I‘lLTON TRIAL.
(From the N. Y. Sun.)
’ THE PUBLIC ALL RIGHT.

The other side brought out the fact that therewas a Mr.’
Dutcher connected with the Continental Insurance Com-
pany, and inferentially that Mr. Mackey had simply been
mistaken. At this there was a burst of applause, confined to
the gallery, but very loud and continuous. This unexpected
demonstration, only to be construed as expressive of favor
toward Mr. Tilion, was so sudden and so enthusiastic as to
astonish everybody. Judge N eilson looked up at the oflend-
ers against decorum with a scowl of displeasure. _

“ This is astounding,” he said, rapping vigorously with the
gavel. “If there is a repetition of this offense the gallery
will be cleared.” ,

No woMEN ADMITTED.

The eating-houses in the neighborhood of the Court House
got the patronage of threeor four hundred hungry people.
‘The blue-vailed woman was among the first to return after
the irftermi.ssion. She had forced herself past the oflicers at
the‘ door, and had started for her old seat, when Judge Neil-
son, who had just returned to the bench, saw her.

“ No ladies are to be admitted,” he said, with stern dignity.

A Thus encouraged in their duty, the oflicers faced the woman
with the manner of desperate courage, and, with lofty dis-
dain, expressed in every flushed feature, she fell back before
superior numbers. Her voice was heard for a moment in the
hall in angry expostulation, and that was the last of her effort
to hear the trial. ‘ I

As somewhat connected with the same, we also insert the
following two items from the N. Y. Sun.

The first is its heading of the prayer mass-meeting held at
Talmage’s Tabernacle on Sunday, Jan. 10, . at which, it is
stated, 1,500 persons attended: \

The Preachers Trying to Resist the Influences of Many
Scandals-—Music by the Inimitable Arbuckle and his Attrac-

tive Cornet.
COMMENTS.

The idea of uniting in prayer the clergy of Brooklyn for
the above purpose is good; but, to our thinking, the band
is incomplete without a fiddler.

The text selected by H. W. Beecher for the subject of his
Sunday evenings discourse, just previous to the commence-
ment of the Beecher-Tilton law suit, was as follows:

“ Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done.
And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey

’ with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and lo, I

must die.” ;~
LITTE SINS.

From this text Mr. Beecher delivered one of his hour talks,
in which his audience were continually drawn toward him
by the old bond of sympathy. His subject was “ Little Sins,”
and J onathan’s sin in eating the honey was used as an ex-
ample from which to draw lessons of wisdom. * * *

Mr. Beecher next touched upon the little sins that so often
mar and often break up marriages. “ Oh,”_said he, *‘ if men
and women lived after marriage as they did before it, what
gardens of Eden would ‘be united along our streets! But
men worship before marriage and they want to rule after it.
Theygive everything before, and want to be paid allthe rest
of their lives by receiving everything. Their little sins of
temper and of judgment are continually blighting men and
women. No man can tell what a priceless treasure is lost
when two natures that have rung together like sweet chimes
are torn apart by these harsh_ attritions. I It is the neglect of
little things that results in this evil. Oh,_the friendships that
have been severed by the constant gnawing, gnawing," gnaw-
ing of little faults! Beware, beware, my hearers, of little
sins! Let us pray.”

COMMENTS. ,

As regards the text selected, while some may look upon it
as ominous, we consider it as singularly felicitous and ap-
propriate. In regard to theconcluding paragraph, we would
ask, What but the wretched ecclesiastical and legal chains,
with which foolish mortals have so long vainly striven to
bind this most ethereal of spirits, are the cause of the neglects
and sins of omission which are so much complained of by
the Plymouth pastor? Fiirthermore, does not that alone
justify the hostility of the WEEKKY to our present system

of marriage?

 

LAST week Judge Neilson sternlyl ordered a woman to be
put out of his court who came to hear and see the Beecher-
Tilton trial. Yesterday (Monday, Jan. 11) Mrs. Beecher at-
tended, in company with her husband. To-day the 12th,
we are informed Mrs. Tilton was also admitted. Has Judge
Neilson changed his mind, ordoes he also consider both these
ladies contraband of war? The trial has not progressed be-

yond the opening address of Mr. Tilton’s Counsel.

’BUELING'roN, Iowa.
While reading with mingled feelings of sorrow and disgust

the opinions of James I. Ferron, as ventilated in last week’s.

WEEKLY, I found Mrs. Brow-ning’s lines, “yet love’s pro-
faned and souls are dammed,” so persistently coursing
through my brain that I cannot resist the impulse to reply,
though airing my thoughts through the press is out of my
line, and I generally prefer being taught to teaching, I am a
reader of the WEEKLY, an admirer of Victoria, and gap, gen
srally indgosse the sditsrisls and nest 9%’ the contributions,

but my whole soul rebels at the sensualist who speaks of love
and sexual gratification as one, or aflirms that love is neces-
sarily included in the act even though both parties pave
desire. The’only sentiment worthy the name love, Mr. F.
has well described as, “' a general glow which springs from
the heart.” I

If this is not true of man he has no right to profess the
name of love to one who understands by the word only her
experiences, and these higher experiences (as much above
desire, as heaven is above the orthodox hell) are not the ofl-

spring, of a touch or kiss even, and I cannot imagine that the

young man who allows “the attitude of the loved one” to
excite “desire for sexual relief,” can be capable of any sen-
timent that does not profane the name of love.
the legitimate results of love for the cause, or calling it love’s

own name, seems to me a growing error in reform writers.

If we are to accept this, we have in the future a reign when

every fair flower of sentiment shall be crushed under the

heel of brutal sexuality: heaven save us from such reform!

But when Mr. F. would have us go farther and teach the

children that the pleasure of the society of the opposite sex

may and of right ought to be, supplemented by sexual union,

my whole soul cries, God forbid.

It has been a thought of agony to many a wife that the
power to give sexual pleasure was the only gift that made
her society attractive to her husband: shall we teach our
children that in their intercourse this is to be the grand ulti.
matum ? So much for the sentimental side of the question.
I accept the similie of the tree, as the best to illustrate the
fallacy of the assumption that sexual union promotes either
mental or physical growth, when indulged before maturity.
He (Mr. F.) says of the tree, “there is no damming up of
fluids here,” and Lwould add, no sapping at the roots, if you
would have luxurant ,',foliage, full growth, and perfect fruits
in their time. 3 0*

It is known to every observer that indulgence increases
spermatic secretion, and our best medical authorities affirm
that with “damming gup” as Mr. F. puts it, deathldoes not
begin but that nature} takes care of her own, and by reab-
sorbing this most vital of all fluids builds with it brain, bone
and muscle. ',_, ' "

Again, the spermatic ‘fluid being composed of nearly the
same elements as the brain, can we expect nature to keep
up full brain power, develop bone, muscle and strength of
nerve to complete from your boy in his teens a man up to
the stature and standard of what a man should be, after tap-
ping the tree at the roots? Look about you, Mr. Ferron, at
the precocious sexualy-developed boys of your acquaintance,
let observation tell you if she does or no. See the narrow
heads, leaden eyes, thick sensual lips, shrunken muscles and
diminutive stature; then be careful where you ride your
hobby-horse——sexuality. AFFIA BURNS, M. D.

[It seems to us that our correspondent’s ideas of sexuality
are based too much upon the supposed fact that it is brutal;
we do not so regard it. If it’ is not brutal, then her argu-
ment falls with the brutality. This question, however, is
the next one that will come up for discussion after freedom
is thoroughly settled, and we hope our correspondent will
discuss it from the standpoint of reason and common sense,
and not from that of prejudice or of time-honored, but base-
less ideas.-ED.] ’

. AURORA, J an. 6, 1875.

. Dear Victoria,-—I am working hard for the WEEKLY. My
plan is to induce those who are able and love social freedom
and like to read the WEEKLY, to give you $5 for its support.
There are a few WEEKLIES sold at the news-rooms to those
who have had the reading of my paper for nothing for a long
time; but those readers will find no peace until they send you
$5. It is a shame that this live paper be allowed to die, be-
cause over-work has nearly killed you. Iweep when I think
of you and the cause you have so nobly served; weep to
think that you must work and suffer while others, slumber,
when if they would take some of the load there would be less
for you to carry. I ambound to you by a thousand ties;
yea, all thoseties that bind you to the WEEKLY. You are
embalmed in my memory. The world. the church and the
money power have tested you, and you have come out of a
furnace white, pure, spotless, as I have known no other wo-
man in America; for you have stood for truth at all hazards,
held up false conditions irrespective of consequences; attack-
ed popular hypocrites; built a firm foundation on which the
’masses can stand; thus showing you a fit pioneer in the cause
of social freedom. All will eventuglly rally under its flag,
for the decaying of the present institutions shows the dawn
of a better day, Yours lovingly, R, M,

EAST CLEVEALND, Jan. 3, 1875.

Sister Vz'ctom'a—1t makes me feel all is not quite right
when the WEEKLY makes its ‘appearance one—half ‘its usual
size. Must it be thus?

I see many propositions to help it out, but fear too many
like myself delay hoping the way may be opened for a more
liberal donation, not thinking, perhaps. it is the rills that
make the brook, the brook the river, etc.

The Bro. M..D., atBelpre, makes afirst-rate proposition, and
to my -mindlacks butone thing. 75. e. : How are the thousands
who are willing to give the interest of the $100 loaned, get the
$100 to loan? Now, I was thinking, would the good brother
loan the WEEKLY the $100 I would be so happy to paya
biggerinterest than he could get for it way down in Belpre,
and thus enjoy the luxury of giving my interest without hav-
ing the $100 to loan. A

As it will take some time to make thearrangement, I here-
with make my first installment of interest to you in advance,
trusting there will be no trouble in our perfecting anar-
rangement in its application.

Sister, may the power of the Highest rest upon and
abide with you, and restore you tojhealth. The world is not
ready to Spare YOU. for there is yet a vast work for you to do.
Go: 011! Fear not; those for you are more than those against

you: God are the angels 199; with you. A. Esters.

This putting .

ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, of Hartford, is President of
the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association for the coming
year, and among the Vice-Presidents are Congressman
Starkweather, of Norwich; Mayor Waller, of New London;
and President Cummings, of "Wesleyan University, at Mid-

Abby—H. Smith, of Glastonbury, and Jim Gallagher, of New
Haven, are on the Executive Committee.

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BUSINESS EDITORIALS.

THE Sun, formerly published in Toledo, Ohio, has been
removed to Berlin Heights, 0., where it will soon be reg-
ularly issued again. Some racy contributions from Geo.
Francis Train may be expected in its columns.

MRS. F. A. LOGAN and her brother are holding a series
of Spiritualist-ic meetings in Charter Oak Hall, Market st..,_
San Francisco, Cal., every Tuesday evening.

 

WARREN CHASE lectures in Oceola, Iowa, January 10; in
Wiiiterset, Jan. 16 and 17, at quarterly convention of Iowa
State Association; at Cambridge, Iowa, Jan. 24; at Union,
Iowa, Jan. 31. Address Colfax, Iowa, till further notice. ‘

PRor.LIs'rEE, the astrologist, can be consulted at his rooms
No. 329, Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829.

 

. Mus. NELLIE L. DAVIS may be addressed at 235- Washing-
ton St., Salem, Mass.

 

E. J. WITHEFORD, trance and physical medium. Public
seances Thursdays and Sundays at 8 P. M., at 409 W. Madison
street, Chicago, 111.

W. F. JAMIETSON ‘is speaking during the Sundays of this
month in Loomis Temple of Music, New Haven, Conn. He
would prefer calls for February and March, in New York
State. Address at New Haven, Conn.

 

D. S. CADWALLADER will answer calls to deliver his pro-
phetic lecture, entitled, "Monarchy, the Road to a Freer
Republican Government,” before any of the liberal societies
North and East; also, if desired, “The Downfall of Chris-
tianity,” and “From Mormonism to Shakerism.” Please
address him, 525 West Seventh street, Wilmington, Del.

DR. L.K. CooNLEY has removed from Vineland to Newark
N. J. Office and residence No. 53 Academy street, where
he will treat the sick daily and receive applications to lec-
ture Sundays in New Jersey, New York or elsewhere in

the vicinity. _

Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium, may be found at his
ofice, No. 25 East Twenty-first street near Broadway

 

CHAS. H. Fosrnn, the renowned Test Medium, can be
found at No. 14 West Twenty-fourth street, New York City,

AMMI BROWN, D. D. S.—Specialty, operative dentitry and
the care of Children’s teeth. 145 West 44th st.

THOSE who desire admirable dental work can be sure of
obtaining it from Dr. C. S. Weeks, 107 East Twenty-sixth
street. three doors east of Fourth ave. Dr. W. is a careful,
skillful and honest dentist.—‘ED.

REMEMBER that it is by the Erie, Great Western of Canada
and the Michigan\Central Railroads that the most elegant,
commodious and comfortable Pullman Palace Cars are run
through between New York and Chicago—the broad gauge
trucks of the Erie being changed at Suspension Bridge for
narrow ones, and vice ccrsci, both carrying the wide coaches
of the Erie road. These coaches leave New York from de-
pots foot of Chambers and 23d streets at 7 o’clock, P. M.,
daily; and Chicago from the Michigan Central depot at 5‘
o’clock, P. M., daily. Passengers by this route who are going
still further,West arrive in Chicago in the depot of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the most popular
and best patronized of all the routes leading westward from
Chicago. Those who travel this route once will always use
it when convenient, and avoid the transfer discomforts and
annoyances of other less desirable and badly equipped‘
routes. . '

 

THE Iowx STATE ASSOCIATION or ‘SPIRITUALISTS will
hold their first quarterly convention for 1875 at the Court.
House, in Winterset, commencing Saturday, January 16, at
10 o’clock A. M., and continue over Sunday. Warren Chase,
Mrs. H. Morse, Capt. H. H. Brown and other speakers will
be present. Friends coming from a distance will be provided
for as far as possible, and a cordial invitation is extended to
all. EDWIN CATE, President. '

MRS. J. SWAIN, Secretary‘ ‘

The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull"'and
Tennic C. Claflin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, ~
at the following liberal prices :

The Principles of Government, by Victoria C. Wood-

hull .-.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  O0
‘Constitutional Equality, by Tennis 0. Claflin . . . . . . . . 2 00
The Principles of Social Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Reformation or Revolution, Which ? . . . . . . . , . . , , . . . . 25
The Elixir of Life; or, Why do we Die ‘R, , , . , . . . . 25
The Scare-Crows of Sexual Slavery . . . . . . . .. . , . . . . . . %5
Tried as by Fire; or the True and the False Socially, 25
Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Photographs of V. C. Woodhull, Tennic C. Claflin and

Col. Blood, 500. each, or three for. . . .. . . . . . .. . . 1 00
Three of any of the Speeches 500., or seven for. . . . 1 00

each, of Books, Speeches and Photographs for Q QQ

Oecp
l“3;.i

beral discount to those who buy to sell again,

dletown. Frances Ellen Burr, of Hartford, is Secretary, and" 

 

 

Jan. 23, 1875.

BUREAU OF CORRESPONDENCE
Or THE PANTARCHY.
The increasing number of letters in respect
to. the nature, purposes and prospects of the
Pantarchy, suggests the propriety of organiz-

ing a bureau for the purpose of answering

such and similar inquiries. There are two
other kinds of letters: the first touching
social difficulties, and asking for advice or
consolation; the others asking information
on matters of reform, spiritualism, unitary
life, the new language, and the like.

To serve this great want, THE BUREAU OF
CORRESPONDENCE will undertake to answer
ANY QUESTION (adnttttlng of an answer) upon
ANY SUBJECT. If the question is of a kind
which’ the Bureau is unable to answer, the fee
will be returned.

The fees charged are: For a'reply on post~al_
card to a single inquiry, 10 cents; for a letter
of advice, information, or sympathy and con-
solation, 25 cents. In the latter case, the let-
ter of inquiry must contain a stamp, for the
answer. N ewspapersinserting this circular,
can avail themselves of the aid of the Bureau
without charge.

STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS.

THEODORA FREEMAN SPENCER,
JOHN G. ROBINSON, M. D.,
ASENATH C. MCDONALD,

DAVID HOYLE,

Board of Managers.
Address Mr. David White, Soc. B. C. P., 75

W. 54th St., New York.

PROSPECTUS. A
WOODHULL St 0LArLIN’s WEEKLY.

It advocates a new government in which
the people will be their own legislators, and
the oflicials the executors of their will.

It advocates, as parts of the new govern-
ment— A

1. A new political system in which all per-
sons of adult age will participate. '

2. Anew land system in which every in-
dividual will be entitled to the free use of a
proper proportion of the land.

3. A new industrial system, in which each
individual will remain possessed of all his or
her productions.

4. A. new commercial system in which

“cost,” instead of “demand and supply,”

will determine the price of everything and
abolish the system of profit-making.

5. A new financial system, in which the
government, will be the source, custodian and
-transmitter of money, and in which usury
will have no place.

6. A new sexual system, in which mutual
consent, entirely free from money or any in-
ducement other than love, shall be the govern-
ing law, individuals being left to make their
own regulations; and in which society, when
the individual shall fail, shall be responsible
for the proper rearing of children.

7. A new educational system, in which all

children born shall have the same advantages. —

of physical, industrial, mental and moral cul-
ture, and thus be equally prepared at ma-
turity to enter upon active, responsible and
useful lives. -

All of which will constitute thevarious
parts of a new social order, in which all the
human rights of the individual will be as-
sociated to form the harmonious organization
of the peoples into the grand human family,
of which every person in the world will be a

member.
Criticism and objections specially invited.
The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday.
Subscription price, $3 per year; $1.50 six
months; or 10c. single copy, to be had of any
Newsdealer in the world. who can order it
from the following General Agents:
The American News 00., New York City;
The New York News 00., New York City;
The National News 00., New York City;
The New England News Co., Boston, Mass. ‘;
The Central News 00., Philadelphia, Pa. ;
The ‘Western News Co., Chicago, Ill.
Sample copies, mailed on application, free.
VICTORIA C. WOODHULL 8t TENNIE C
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COL.-J; H. BLOOD, Managing Editor.
All communications should be addressed
WOODHULL St CLArLIN’s WEEKLY,

Box 3 791. New York‘ City.

ALL families and invalids should have
Prof. Paine’s shorthand treatment of disease
—a small book of forty pages. Sent free on
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MADOX, of Maine, the eloquent and logical
radical, and editor of the Internafrlonal, after
many solicitations has consented to take the

lecture field, and now holds himself ready to

speak on the following questions--viz. :]“ How
to Feed, Clothe and Shelter the Idle Wealth
Producers of our Country;’’ “Money, What
is it? and its Functions;” “ The Currency of
our Country, and who should Vitalize it;’-’
“ Our Cities, States and National Debts; How
to Pay them, or shall we Repudiate ?” Ad-
dress Madox, of Maine, 29 Broadway, New
York city.

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L 23d St eet N. Y. . . . .  .. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 236. Street, N. Y . . . . . . .. 6.45 P. M.
6*? Chamliershtreet . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street . . . . . . . .. .00 ‘ Q

“ Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..      e1T1e1'B0YuC11’fi’1 . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  

“ ' ............. .. . . orne sv e . . . . . . . . . . .. .

“  ............. .. 12.05 A. M 3.10 “ “ BufEalo._. ............. .. 11.45 “ Ewmfi.
Lv Suspension Bridge.  1.10 A2‘ 1.35 1:.‘ M. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 1.35 “ 9,50 p_ 11.

Au Hamilton ............ ..  2.45 “ 2.55 “  Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55  11.20 “

1‘ London ................... .. 5.35 “ 5.55 “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 ‘ 235 a, m_

“ Detroit......... . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.40 10.00 “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7,00 1

“ Jackson . . . . . . .  12.15 P2‘)! 1.00 A M 2 Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. M 1:30 4‘

“ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 8.00 Chicago . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8,45 p, m;

Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ..  A_._ M. 11.50 A M. Ar Milwaukee. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A M 5.30 a. in.

Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. ’8a_55 1». M.  Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . .   8.55 p. in.

Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.50 P. M. 7.05 A M. Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . .  7,05 A M. 7.05 a, m,

Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 P. M. Ar St. Paul . . . . . . ... . . . . . .. 7.00 A. M.

Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . .  8.15 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 PXM. ,

Ar Sedalia . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . .. 5.40 P. M. Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M. 

“ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . . .. 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ ,

“ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . .. . 10.00 “ ,

Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . ..  .. 11.00 P. M. . Ar Bismarck... . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 . 

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

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

Ar Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. M- . Ar Burlington .' . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P M ,

“ Omaha . . . . . .  ........... .. 11.00 P. M- . .. “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A M ,

“ Cheyenne . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . ..   “ Cheyenne .........  12.50 I’ M. , ,

“ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  ' . “ 0 den . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 “ , ,

“ San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . “ San Francisco ....... . . 8.30 " _ , ,,

. 6.40 . A G l b  . . . . . . . . . . .. . ’
A: Gszzms-.-.  .. ......  5 3.5.23’: ............ .. 3:1“. :2 “ _::-
“ St. Joseph...... . 10.00 “ “ t. Joseph..... . . . . . . . .. 8.10 A. M. 

“ Kansas City . . . . . ..  10.40 P. M “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.25 “ 

“ Atchison...... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 “ :‘ Atchison . . . . .  . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ ,,

"' Leavenworth . . . .  . . . . . . .. 12.10 “ ' Leavenworth . . . .  12.40 noon. 

“Denver.  . . . . .. 7.00A M . “ Denver . . . . . .   1

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