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e : I I BREAKING THE WAY FOR* FUTURE G-ENERATIONS,

Vol. IX.-——No. 12.——VV};ole No. 220.

NEVV YORK, FEB. 20, 1875.

PRICE TEN GEN TS.

T BY AND BY: ‘7
AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE.

BY EDWARD MAITLAND.

B 0 O K . I V 4.
CHAPTER VII I.—Oontinued.

In his care for the remote, whether in time or in space, the
near was not forgotten, and poverty and sickness, which, in
spite of all the advances made by civilization, will still occa-
sionally thrust their ugly heads into view, found in him an
ever ready and sympathetic alleviator. In the early days of
his married life he had hoped to interest Nannie in some of
his local charities, but had been compelled to give up the
idea. Shecould scold people for being bad managers, and,
by something more direct than implication, praise herself;
but her sympathies seemed incapable of the extension neces-
sary to constitute charity. As she could not with any ad-
vantage accompany Criss on his rounds, and resented his
absences, he had gradually withdrawn in a great measure
from making them, leaving his work to be done by deputy——
an office gladly undertaken by the benevolent Bertie.

Of Criss’ wealth and the employment it gave him, Nannie
had long been jealous; but now her jealousy extended itself
to his home occupations, which he carried on in his study.

. Not that she was excluded, from this department, for Criss

delighted in being able to glance from his work to her, as
she sat on the soft carpet playing with the little Zoe; but,
unluckily, it occurred to her one day that‘ he could not be
thinking entirely of her while occupied about other matters.
“Please explain, Nannie,” he said, one day, on her per-
slsting in reproaching him for his engrossment. “ Please
explain exactly what it is you wish of me; for I am really at
my wits’ end to understand. Is it that you wish me to cease
to be a man, engaged in work worthy of a man, and to be-
come a woman, with thoughts for nothing but love?”
“Yes,” said Nannie, stoutly. “I want you to think of
nothing but me——and little Zoe; but not much of her, or you

-will make me jealous of my own child.”

“ Nannie, there was once a poet who wrote to his lady-
love: . v
“ ‘I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.’

What do you think of the sentiment?”

“I should have been jealous of ‘ honor.’ ”

“ You mean for honor, for his honor.”

“ No, I don’t. I mean what I said.”

“ There was another poet, who described a wife of whom
her husbandwas so fond that he could not tear himself from
her side to fulfill the duties to which he was in honor bound.
One night he awoke from his sleep to find her sitting up and

“wmurmuriing, as she reflected over the career and character he

was losing for her sake:
I “ ‘Ah me, I fear me I am no true wife.’

Would you like to be regarded by your husband as being ‘no

‘true wife,’ when you seek to detain him from his duties?”

“ I should have liked that man,” she said. “ Heloved his
wife as a woman ought to be loved. He would have owned
me to be true Woman, if not true wife.” ’

At this moment Criss’ attention was called off by the
sounding of the telegraph signal. Before he was aware what
she was about. Nannie had snatched a heavy ruler from the
table, and rushing to the apparatus, with a tremendous blow
smashed it to pieces.

“ There!” she exclaimed, to Criss. “You may think your-
self fortunate it ‘mas not your head. It may come to that
yet, for your treatment of me.”

Criss had learned the futility of bandying words with her
when such a mood was on her. . Fearing for the safety of the
child, he placed himself between her and it, and summoned
the nurse.

“ G0 at once to Dr. Markwell’s,” he said, when the nurse
arrived, “and give my complinients to him and Mrs. Mark-
well, and say that I shall be much obliged by their allowing
you and the child to stay there until some other arrangement
can be made.”

"And when am I to see it again?” asked Nannie, as the
nurse disappeared, and Criss closed the door after her.

“ Well,” he said, with simulated indifference, “ I should

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think a week or two will probably see you over this attack.
It will be time enough to think about it then.”

And he set himself to examine the mischief done to his
apparaus. ~ 

“I shall go after my child,” exclaimed Nannie, darting
toward the door. ‘

“ You cannot leave theroom.  fastened the door as I let
the nurse out. Your violence suggested the precaution.”

“ I won’t stay in the house to be outraged.”

“N 0 one wishes you to do so.’, But you do not leave it
until you are in your right mind, "and then desire to do so.
It depends entirely on yourself when that may be.”

“ Do you consider me mad, then?”

“ Youforce me to wish sometimes that I did.”

" To wish that I was mad?”

“ Yes; I should then be able to account for your behavior.
I would rather have you mad than bad, heart-broken as it
would make me.” .

“ What does the doctor say about me?”

“ He thinks that whatever you may be at present, you are
endeavoring to drive yourself into insanity.”

“ Isthat Mrs. MarkWell’s opinion, too ?”

“ Slag. says you are no more mad than she is.”

" What, then, does she ascribe my conduct to ?”

“ Uncontrolled willfulness and inordinate vanity.”

“ Nothing else?”

“ Not that I knew of.” ‘K, ‘

“ She is right, so far; but she'omits the principal cause.”

“ May I know it?”

“You do know it. I have told you often.”

“ Tell me again.”

“ Love for you.” ,

“Love for me makes you pain and distress me by such
conduct!”

“I can’t help it.”

“ Nannie, answer truly. Dy you try?”

“I have no time when my feelings move me. You don’t
know_what it is to have feelings.”

“ I know what it is to have feelings for others. You make
me fear that yours are only for yourself. Are you the hap-
pier when you have given way to what you call your feelings,
and made me wretched, and yourself ill and ugly with pas-
sion, and driven your child away—”

“Ugly! me ugly!” And she ran to a mirror and took a
rapid look at herself; and then, finding the survey satisfac-
tory, she rushed close up to Criss, and gazed with the most
exquisite, winning look imaginable into his face, and in a
pleading tone asked:

' “Am I really ugly, Criss dear? I don’t think I am. Do
you?” and putting her arms round him, she clasped him
tightly to her. 

“ Is it, then, because you believe no man can resist you,
that you act in such a way ?” he inquired. “ Believe me,
Nannie, even you may try your power too far. You have-
done much to prove to me that even my, patience is
limited.”

“ Why, what would you do ?"

.“Set you and myself free from a tie that has become a
bondage-” , .

“ Yes, I know that is what you want. But I won’t let you.
I would murderlher and you, and myself, too.”

“ Her! your child?”

“ No, no, the woman you want to get free from me for.”

“ Oh, I see. You prefer that we should continue to be
miserable together than be happy apart.’ ’

“You don’t deny, then, that there is a woman for whom
you wish to give me up. I thought you had some motive for
trying to kill me by your unkindness.”

“ Why should you give me credit for acting from motives
when you deny doing so yourself 2"

“ Why should you care about other women when you have
me ?”

“ It seems to give you great pleasure to think that I do so.”

“I thi’nk it because you can’t help liking women. You
like me too well not to like women.”

“ Oh; and so you would behave better to me if I was less
agreeable to you as a husband!” _

“Yes; it comes so natural to you to be nice with me,
that I cannot help thinking you must have learned it with
others.”

i “I see. I shall have to imitate the example of the knight

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who always clad himself in his armor before caressing his
wife, for fear she should find the process too agreeable.”

“ I know what men are. You don’t deceive me when you
pretend to be thinking only of- my good; You will send me
out of my mind by it, and then you will be sorry.” And she
began to cry.

“ There is one thing, Nannie, that you have never yet got
properly into your understanding——tha.t I took you to be, not
my master, but my mistress. So long as you strive to be

"both, you shall be neither. That is positive and certain. You

have but to choose.”

“ May I choose now?”

“ If you please.”

“ I-——don’t—-—want—to be your—master.”

“ You declare it faithfully, and will not try in future?”

“ Yes,” she said, in a low, penitent voice, gazing down
while she spoke, and taking the measure of her own exquisite
little foot, as, protruded from beneath her dress, it lay clos
alongside of his. '

He was silent awhile, pondering the propriety of giving her
another trial, but feeling that she had not yet really repented
of her recent outrageous behavior.

Finding that he did not speak, she said, coaxingly:

“And you will let baby come back?”

“Certainly, the moment you give me reason to feel sure
you will continue to be good.”

“ I am good now.”

“ For how long?” A

“ Until I am provoked again.”

“That won’t do. The child shall stay away altogether,
rather than grow up to have its character ruined by witness-
ing an evil example set it by its mother.”

“ You will not rob my child of its mother!” she exclaimed,
wildly.

“ On the contrary. I wish to save you to your child.”

“ Are my promises nothing?” she inquired.

I “You are as well able to judge of that as I am. . How have
you kept them hitherto?”

‘ She hung her head, conscious that she had used words as
counters, to be put aside as worthless as soon as her game
was played.

“ I shan’t know what to do all day without my baby,” she
murmured.

“ Yes, we shall miss it dreadfully,” he remarked.

“ You won’t care,” returned Nannie.

“Well, not so much as you, because I can go and see it;
occasionally.” ~

“ So can I,” said Nannie; “ 1 shall go now.”

I “That is quite out of the question.”

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“ Because I have given orders to the contrary.”

“ What do you mean '2”

“Nannie, I had a most terrible shock one day not long ago.

I overheard, when "out walking, some people talking about I

us. One said to the other, ‘ Howls it one sees Mr. Carol about
so little now?’ I dread to tell you the answer; but it may
do you good to know the impression you have produced in
the neighborhood.”

“ I am not afraid. What was it I?”

“ ‘ Oh, poor fellow, he is afraid to leave his mad wife.”

“I don’t believe aword of it,” said Nannie. “ It is nothing
but a story you have made up to excuse yourself for going;
about without me.” “‘

“ So far from that being the case, it is the greatest disapa
pointment to me to find you object so/to everything I have
to do and every person I have to see, that I am compelled to
leave you at home. But where do you imagine that I want
to go without you?” '

“ I know.”

“Will you not enlighten me! Of course, I should not have
told you of that conversation if I considered you mad.”

“It is no matter what you consider me. You likethe I

society of other people. That is enough for me.”

“But not in the same way that I like your society. Life
has many kinks of pleasures and engrossments besides love,
which, by operating as distractions, serve to perpetuate and
intensify love. Foremost among them are the charities and
amenities of social intercourse, friendship and intellectual
converse. I take as much delight in these as ever; but I
have withdrawn from them all in the interests of your hap-
piness.”

“ And quite right, too. It only makes /you despise me 

   

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WOODHULL eh CLAFLlN’S wnnxnr

Feb. 20, 1375.

my ignorance when you go among what you call intellectual
people. As for friends, I don't see what you want with
them when you have got a wife.” "

[To be continued]

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LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 31, 1875.

13 car Weekly——I am constantly coming across long, eulogis-
tic. leading editorials in the newspapers over the country,

- concerning Dr. E. H. C1arke’s late ebulitions on “Sex and

Education’’‘ and “The Building of the Brain.” The said
leading editorials never fail to lean toward the learned doc-
tor’s side of the question, and to point prophetic finger to
the good time coming when women will settle down to the
truth (?) of his theory, that God Almighty originally in-
tended to draw a radical line of inferiority «between the
sexes, and that inferiority to be all on the feminine side.

There is nothing so tickles the self-esteem of the average
man as to have good a_uthority—Dr. Edward H. Clarke,
for instance—for believing in and asserting his superiority
Dr. Clarke -is the right man in the right
place for the average masculine tdpin his faith to, and his
dogged persistence in his exploded theory is commendable.
There is nothing like knowing you are right and then going
ahead. And there is no doubt the erudite and philosophic
and scientific masculine Clarke has amost frigthful list of

“ female complaints ” to build his ticklish theory out of.
I have no objection to any man dealing mercilessly with the
results of our pernicious social system and holding up the de-
teriorated female of the present to the just criticism, not
to say ridicule, that her dilapidated and forlorn state merits;
but Ida most heartily object to the presumption on the
part of any man that, because nine-tenths of my sex are
hopelessly and repulsively depleted. and exhausted physi-
cally, as the result of ages of stupid misapplication of natural
laws and persistence in suicidal customs, women are conse-
quently incapacitated to compete with men. Fatal results
should lead a thinking mind in search of fatal causes.

If there is aught of sufficient potency to wake the average
female up to a knowledge of herself and functions, it is the
bombastic assumption of such men as Dr. Clarke to fix her in
a cramped and uncomfortable “spear,” according to their
:idea of her needs and capacities. But I’m about hopeless as
to the average woman of to-day, and am well nigh at the
conclusion that she is not worth saving. Were it not for the
helpless unborn, the powerless victims of the "average wo-
man’s stupid and wicked indifference, I’d never again lift my
voice in protest against the shams and abuses of modern so-
ciety of which woman is the chief victim, and through her
the entire race.

Dr. Clarke persists that “ there are times ” when girls are
too sick to study. There’s no use mincing the matter, we
ail knowwhat he means. Reasoning from tl e wretched re-
sults. ’tis the greatest wonder in the world that a girl is ever
fit for any sort of effort, mental or physical. The disadvan-

tage she labors under from tl1e moment her mother makes‘

the fataldiscovery she has given birth to a woman child,
from th_e—I had almost said. devil instead of Lord, for the
uséleviiltseems to preside over female evolution—are such that,
were she not originally created with a constitution ‘flike a
horse,” she would not now be fit even for the “ chief end of
woman ”—-marriage and maternity. What a, joke she is on
maternity! A ghastly, grim, gaunt and hideous joke on the
sweet and sacred ofice of motherhood! And when men gush so
bravely and slop over so fluently about woman in her sphere
as wife and mother, they simply don’t know what they are
talking about; they have only in view a faithful, patient,
self-sacrificing, devoted minister to their lowest needs, and
the majority of them that are husbands are ready to curse
the ease with which their wives slip into their sacred (l)
9*‘ crown of maternity.” They would like their wives to min-

ister unto them without burdening them so often with con-

sequences. And what specimens of a natural (‘?) consequence
the average “true woman” produces? I don’t wonder Dr.
Clarke thinks we are all too sick to study? Now, if he
would only be consistent and say the average womanhood of
the day is not fit to pave that place “ where the fire is not
quenched and the worm dieth not” With infant slkulls, in

_ short, that the best use she can put herself to is to go hang

herself, While he himself puzzles his great brain it little as to

why these things are thus, methlnkfi 116 Would be doing,

the world a service.

This may seem bitter, especially. to the “ so-called delicate
and refined” of my sex. Well, I am bitter! It is quite
enough to make a woman-loving woman bitter to look
around on the heaped-up female weakness and impotence,
and, knowing the cause of all, to contemplate her sex’s utter
indifference and persistent idiocy, and then stumble in the

1 dark against a man like Dr. Clarke who asserts that we are

-periodical invalids, when he should know that ’tis abuse of
her nature alone that has turned woman’s periods, like the
,point of a knife, against her health and happiness.

Let Dr. Clarke be entirely consistent and teach husbands
and fathers that there is one week in every four‘ when their

~wives and daughters need absolute rest and freedom from

care, and see how soon he would have any practical masculine

j followers. ’Tis only because he flatters man’s assumption.

that he is the especial obj ectfof J ehovah’s partia1it_y,without in
the least interfering with his demands on woman (for Dr. C.

only insists that we are too sick once a month to study) that

the learned savant has so many noble tobacco consuming and
whisky absorbing editors on his side, with their double

' leaded editorials.

Any woman of average health, all her functions in as
healthy tone as possible under our false system, knows that
Dr. Clark, don’t know what he is talking about when he
makes his assertions. Give giris the same early start on the
road to health and happiness that boys have ; quit the ever.
lasting, infernal, murderous nonsense about -ia,dy.=_1,i,ke pro-
priety, womanly modesty and feminine gentleness and
delicacy, at least until such time as those terms are not an-
.other name for supreme’ stiipidity, superlative ignorance and
mawkishness, and all sorts of female pomplaints generally;

start a girl out on a righteous, royal road to a knowledge of
herself and her functions; then give her freedom to hold
herself sacred unto her highest knowledge, and not impose
upon her a cursed submission of herself unto an exacting,
domineering, ignorant. lustful man; let her be impressed
from the crown of her head to the sole ‘of her foot that health
——perfect, unbounded, oveflowing healt-h——is the chiefest
charm of womanhood, the truest image of God——in short, that
a woman without health is a disgrace to her sex ; fill her devo-
tional soul with a realization of that canon from the Most
High, that ’tis the worst of crimes to become a wife and
mother without health for her marriage portion and knowl-
edge of herself for her safeguard» against the furious license
of the marriage relation; then take our present false, fatal,
demoralizing social system, turn it, wrong side out that she
may see the inmost part of its uncleanness, its wrongs, its
shams and abuses, its womanly sacrifices on respectable,
sanctified altars of damned custom; women laced, trailed,
braided, pinned, puckered, powdered, puffed, flounced, but-
toned, stufied and legislated to death, after a miserable life

of periodical invalidism ;~—then, from these premises, let her A

reason out a girl’s salvation in the pursuit of life, liberty and
happiness.

Boys could not live in the cramped and stifled atmosphere
that girls breathe‘; ’tis olnly superior stamina that has enabled
womanhood so long to overcome the inroads of cruel customs.
Put boys under the physical restraints that girls are under,
and they would require a stronger rejuvenator than periodicity
to keep them in health and spirits.

Let Dr. Clarke cease to look for his examples of ‘womanhood
and evidences of feminine capacity in a social hot-bed of a
fashionable boarding—scho0l for “ young ladies,” and put his
laboring brain to a better use, getting at the unstable founda-
tion of all the ills female flesh is heir to; let him take the
woman of average health (for, as the world goes, the best of
us are nothing but “ poor critters,”-—’tis the divinel y possible
woman I have in my“.mind’s eye, not the wretched, fashion-
ridden abortions of this day and generation——and the worst
of it is the most of them are utterly powerless to help them-
selves, or reproduce a superior type, which makes the stupid
assertion of bombastic donkeys all the more unendurable).-——I
say, let our Dr. take his samples of endurance from the ranks
of average healthy women and girls, and then see if period-
icity sets them back in the race for brains alongside of boys
and men. Even ‘under all the physical drawbacks, the
average healthy girl or woman is scarce, disturbed in her
nature by its monthly revolution which regulates her tem-
perament.

How much about ourselves could we tell Dr. Edward
H. Clarke that he has never dreamed of 1 And the
main point to make with him is, that we are no more inclined
to be sick once a month than he is inclined to be just in his
conclusions. Just as abuses of their manhood, from age to
age, have operated to make men sexual monstcrs.,,so abuses
have rendered woman’s functional nature all out of tune.
Women do not need Dr. Clarke to tell them what ails them
anymore than men need Dr. Mary Walker to tell them what
is the matter with their manhood, or why they leave so
many suspicious-looking ‘empty bottles of peculiar medicine
in‘ bureau drawers, at hotels all over the couhtry. Come right
down to the matter of transmitted disease, and the “ sins of
the parents,” the average girl will hold her own beside the
average boy; and her brain not suffer more if she studies
during her periods than does the brain of a boy after his
periods of unnatural excitement and abuse. A girl has a
natural outlet for the pent-up, suppressed sins of her parents
in those very periods, while a boy, under the influence of his
abnormal nature and the restraints of our sacred (1) social
system, must crucify nature for relief.

Let Dr. Clarke seek for the causes of all our miseries, in-
stead of building an insane theory of masculine superiority
out of a conglomerated mass of “ female complaints,” result-
ing from male and female stupidity for ages.

HELEN NASH.

 

348 FOURTH ST. (Room 6), San Francisco, Ca].

Dear V'ict0rz'a—I am informed that since my departure for
this coast, some persons have been filling your ears with
assertions of my enmity toward you, and that you now re-
gard me as “ the secret head of the conspiracy to injure you.”

It is certainly very strange that when I left New York for
Detroit last fall, as soon as my back was fairly turned, the
miserable hounds, who are always ready to bark at the heels
of a. supposed foe, instantly began to howl against me; and
now I no sooner leave for this coast than the same is repeated.
Deeds I have thought spoke louder than words. I have‘
never besmeared you with flattery, or acted the part of a,
toady, but I have always ranked among the boldest, and most
outspoken of the defenders, not only of the principles we
hold in common, but of yourself, as their most prominent ad-
vocate. Witness my lecture in Boston; indeed, everywhere
that I have been called to speak, and your enemies have
never even looked to me for recognition, but, on the con-
trary, when ——-—-- was mailing his filthy pamphlet by the
dozen to others, none were sent to me save the solitary
“specimen number;” and when was in Boston he
coupled my name with yours, associating us with every vile
insinuation,and the “ champion of humanity” people have
gone out of their way to cover me with their foul-mouthed
slander. ‘Yet it seems this is not enough, and you must turn
and question a friendship I had deemed fully and truly
proved. The revelation of your sentiments reached me at a
time of severe trial and affliction, and added the last sting to
the agony I endured. I can only say in conclusion that
nothing you could do or say could make me your enemy in
thought, word or deed. We are both fighting against dread-
ful odds, with blsegiing hearts, «impaired health, with, in
short, nothing left us but a grand cause and an indomitable
will. I would not be your enemy, for I am like yourself, a
mother; the work you have done for woman down-trodden
and enslaved, the toy of lust, the jest of the depraved, de-
mands from  earngst co-operation and commands my
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old days of trial, to the night we spent together, you and I
watching '1‘e_nnie while she slept, and questioning what doom
the future had in store for the Colonel in his gloomy prison,
for you, for us; ask yourself could I be true to you then, in‘
the darkest hour, to be false now, when the“'promise of the
dawn illumines the social firmament.‘ On minor points it is
impossible for individualized and strongly marked characters
always to agree, but rest assured, where the “ forlorn hope ”
is needed, I shall be there,’loyal in act, undaunted in will.
Yours always, ’ LAURA Curry Smcnn.

A STERLING OLD POEM.

Who shalrjndge a man from his manners?
Who shall know him by his dress?

Paupers may be fit for princes,
Princes fit for something less.

Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket
May beclothe the golden ore

‘of the deepest thought and feeling-
Satin vests can do no more.

There are streams of crystal nectar
Ever flowing out of stone;

There are purple beds and golden, _
Hidden, crushed and overthrown.

God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me;

While he values thrones the highest
But as pebbles in the sea.

Man upraised above his fellows,
Oft forgets his fellows then.
Masters—-rulers—lords, remember
That your meanest hinds are men;
Men of labor, men of feeling,
Men of thought and men of fame,
Claiming equal rights to sunshine
In manhood’s ennobling name.

There are foam-embroidered oceans,
There are little wood-clad rills;

There are feeble, inch-high saplings,
There are cedars on the hills.

God, who counts by souls, not stations,
Loves and prospers you and me;

For to Him all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.

Toiling hands alone are builders
Of a nation’s wealth and fame;

Titled laziness is pensioned,
Fed and fattened on the same.

By the sweat of others’ foreheads,
Living only to rejoice;

While the poor man’s outraged freedom
Vainly lifts its feeble voice. ’

Truth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light;
Secret wrongs shall never prosper
While there is a sunny right.
God, whose world-wide voice is singing
_g_ Boundless love to you and me,
Links oppression with its trifies

But as pebbles in the sea.
- -mlndustréal Age.

 

APHRA BE:uN’s RETREAT, }
Jan. 13, 26th year of Hydeville Revelation.

-Dear Vt’ctom'a——A spirit, assuming the female form, was
rehabilitated upon this planet at San Francisco on the fourth
of January, 1875, through the parental mediation of James
and Anna Richardson, living together as avowed free lovers.
In the notice of this birth, published in Common Sense, the
Spiritual journal of this coast, are these words: “ This child
was desired and was deliberately begotten in defiance of
established usagesz” Persons of notable spiritual worth are
the particular parents of this, to them, new-comer. (I desig-

nate them “the particular parents,” to distinguish them ’

from -the general parentage constituted by humanity). Suav-
ity and amenity mark the gentle beauty of Anna’s counte-
nance. .Her eyes, large and violet in hue, are replete with
ingenuous expression. «This plastic negativity of character
is pregnant, however, with a religious firmness that impels
her to the life of a radical reformer, and inspires the uncom-
promising assertion of her iconoclastic opinions. I have had,
in her presence, clairvoyance of psychic imagery of engross-
ing interest. When within the sphere of her magnetism,
panoramic visions of scenes in the French Revolution have
been disclosed to me. I have seen about her, as she entered
my chamber, such spirits as Buzot, Petion, Vergniaud, Bar-
ba-roux, Louvet; have heard ringing shouts of the stirring
triad—-Liberty, Equality, Fraternity-—and have beheld the
presentment of that procession wherein a fleshly and breath-
ing goddess of reason is borne aloft, while religious symbols,
grown vapid and meaningless, are trampled under foot. In
her peculiar psychometric influences upon me, Anna, with
outstretched finger, seems to be sternly pointing to these
pictured memories of this great proletarian eflort; not solely,
as it were, to remind me of the. awful history, but as if re-
verting to her own personal past; as if her inner nature bore
the indelible imprint of a. conspicuous part enacted then. I
have been deeply impressed that a spirit whose valiant action
in this contest against the aristocracy of church and state,
made her “ greater than Brutus,?’ the divine Charlotte Cor-
day animates to-day the physical frame of Anna. Should
this be so, the returning spirit has marked its carnal investi-
ture of this century with the characteristic individuality of
its former existence. Not only in mental and moral attri-
butes, but in physiognomy and person, Anna strikingly
resembles the portraits that we have of this heroine. Her
present love-mate, James Richardson, is of a sensitively
poetic and artistic temperament, recalling that Andre Che-
nier who sang so thrillingly of Charlotte’s heroism, and «fol-
lowed her, after the lapse of a year, to the guillotine.

May it not well be that two such earnest spirits are re-in-
carnated in these typical individuals, to love and work to-
gether for the same great purposes for which they lived and
died in other days. The deadly blow aimed at tyranny, in
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the_same spiritual impulse that now instigates the public
enunciation of free-love principles by Anna Richardson, and
incites in her a life of open protest against the errors of
society. A *

Anna’s first sexual experience was legally sanctioned by
marriage, but inharmony supervening, she left her lawful
master for the more congenial companionship of her present
lover. The spontaneous satisfac tive affection of these two is
an inspiriting witness to the power of freedom in promoting
love, though they are not of that school which believes that
lovers should be wholly absorbed in one another.

These great souls have not hesitated to mark their thorough
adherence to their principles by the public announcement’ of
the coming of this tangible result of their free-love contact;
and have heartily consented to my wish to promulgate,
through your columns, this significant event to sympathetic
thinkers. I .

1 know of many of my sex, claiming a theoretical interest
in free love, and prone to enjoy secretly whatever experience

‘it may bring them, who would not dare to admit publicly
that they permit their liberality of sentiment to determine
their action. I am proud to avow myself a practical free
lover. I believe that the truest life is that which illustrates
in the overt actual, the invisible perfection of the ideal.
By that which is true to me in thought, I regulate my exter-
nal conduct. This inconsonance of mental persuasion and
outward behavior, an interior homage to truth, and an
exoterlo conformity to social superstition, was exemplified

_ in the life of that talented but inconsistent reformer,
Madam Tencin. It is one of the inexplicable anomalies of

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human character that this woman, a worshiper of liberty and ~

one of the originators in France of republican ideas in the
age of Louis XV., while practicing free-love privately,
should not have recognized, like N inon do l’Enclos or Anna
Richardson, the nobleness of boldly leading a‘ life of social
freedom. Through one of her sexual alliances, Madame
Tencin gave birth to D’Alembert, the French Socrates.
Afraid of public opinion. she caused the infant to be placed
upon the steps of a church, where he was found by a gl‘azier’s
wife who reared him. Afterward D’Alcmbert, one of the
greatest intellects, and celebrated, for the constant practice
of the noblest virtues, boasted that he was a child of nature,
born outside of marriage and society, and happy to continue
there, beyond the sphere of its corruption.

Anna Richardson, in the very opposite spirit to that of
Madam Tencin, proudly heralds to the world the coming of
this babe of dissent. This is a noticeable incident in this
period, when womanhood is in the birth-throes of a new
civilization. Let us hope for this infant that she may be-
come an exceptional and representative woman, who, un-
contaminated by the world’s bigotries, will gratefully recall
the propitious circumstances attending her birth, and with
more reason than D’Alembert, exult that she was begotten
under the inspiration of free thought.

I, too, born out of the pale of marriage, -and glorying in my
illegitimacy, am gratulant in annunciating the advent of this
messenger of love and freedom. ‘ '

FRANCES ROsE_MAoKINLEY.

OUR DOOTRINES IN ENGLAND.

The most popular of the satires published in "England as
Christmas books is one styled “ The Coming King,” which
treats of the movements of the present Prince of _Wales.
it the Proprietor of the WEEKLY is thus alluded to:

“ Whene'er a rumor rose against her Grace,
Touching her love for cigarettes and cups;
When it was whispered she did not eschew
The doctrines that Miss-Woodhull had proclaimed
In Jim Fisk’s city, in debased New York.”

The New York Herald, of Jan. 25, instructs us that the
above brochure was rapidly bought up; and, though issued at
one shilling, some of the copies were purchased at the rate of
two gulneas each.

In

——.-.-__—.

A VOICE FROM ENGLIND.

DECEMBER 29, 1874.
Dear Mrs. Woodhull—I feel sure you would be pleased‘ to

hear from one of your devoted adherents here that there are
a few congenial souls who truly sympathize with you in
your noble and God-like work—viz., to eflectually reform
our present state of society, both morally and physically.
I have, through the kindness of a Spiritualist, an old friend
of mine, carefully‘ read some half-dozen copies of your
valuable paper, and am satisfied that it is the only organ,
either in this country or America, which fairly and logically
discusses that falsely-called indelicate though all-important
subject, “ our sexual relations.” .

For the last eight years I have seen quite suficient to prove
to a demonstration that our present so-called marriage sys-

tem is hollow and a sham; _in fact, nothing more nor less

than “legal prostitution.”

Iiam quite aware that some of the most advanced minds of
America oppose the doctrines of free love, making that and
the term free lust to convey the same idea. Now, I firmly
maintain against all opponents that “free love” and “ free
lust ” are not one‘and the same thing; but that, on the con-
trary, they are diametrically opposed to each other. I was
much disappointed to find a charming writer on natural
theology quoting from one of your speeches with the express
intention of confounding you “out of your own mouth.”
He, in substance, writes as follows: “Even Mrs. Woodhull
will allow that a large majority of those who have been
married in the orthodox churches, both in this, country and
America, have no wish whatever gto separate, but are
mutually and lovingly attached to each other.” Now, Ifully
and freely admit that it is quite possible that this may be
true, although, for myself, I am strongly inclined to dispute
it; but-whether it is so or not, I maintain that instead of
that being an argument for upholding our present social
system, it undeniably proves that all those ‘cases which he
refers to are living evidences of the uselessness of our legal,
and of the glorious eifects of a “free love ” marriage.

By far the largest number of our opponents, are quite 11;-

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WOODHULL a GI.AFLIN’S WEEKLY’

competent to give us any information on the subject, for
.many of them profess to be too much disgusted to even pol-
lute their mouths by mentioning the subject. Those people,
by the way, have the unblushing assurance to call themselves
followers of that divine man, Jesus Christ, who said to the
self-righteous Pharisees who desired that the woman taken
in adultery, in the very act, should be stoned, “He that is
without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.”

Then it is said again :- “Let us have true love between the
sexes, not free love!” How absurd; as if it were possible to
conceive of love being true unless it is also free. Shakes-L
peare, that great painter of human nature, beautifully ex-
presses the , “love marriage ” thus: “Let me not to the
marriage of true minds admit im pediment.”-——Sonnet, N O. 95.

Swedenborg, also, in his beautiful treatise on “ Conjugal
Love,” clearly shows that only when the afiections of the
sexes are mutually reciprocated have they a right to sexual
intercourse. I am satisfied in my own mind that our-detest~
able priest-made marriage law is the cause of such alarge
number of falsely-called married men, preferring the society
of other women to that of their wives, or, to write more
correctly, their concubines. Who, I ask, can wonder that so
large a portion of our mothers should give birth to children
physically and mentally deformed——children conceived not
in love but in hate. Oh, it is a sad thing _to know that so
many “ undesired” children are born. Now, all this might
be prevented if sexual impregnation never took place ‘except
at the consent and desire of the female; because if the male,
through any means, compels the woman to submit against
her desire, then I say that he has committed a rape, not-
withstanding that the parsons, “by their oifice,” have through
a bit of legerdemain made them “ one flesh.”

Dear Mrs. Woodhull, you will, I am sure, believe me when
I inform you that both myself and friends are rejoiced to
know that you are in a fair way of recovering from your late
sickness. May the great Father of the universe send you
angel friends to comfort and support you in your great and
noble work. Should you ever be led to visit England, I hope
to have the pleasure of hearing one of your charming ad-
dresses. There are a good number of Spiritualists and
Secularists here, but although they for the most part are free
from the pernicious effects of priestcraft, they seem to lack
sufficient manliness to break away from the conventionalitles
of society. They are fearful of offending that hydra-headed
monster, “public opinion.” The people have been too long
led by the nose. Why longer pay men to do our thinking for
us ? Let us act, act in the living present, fearing the anathema
of neither bibles nor priests. I have read with much pleasure
an able article on free love by that great writer and thinker,
Robert Dale Owen, in your issue of November 28, and
thoroughly indorse it.
on your valuable space, believe me,

Yours fraternally, OHN WATSON.

The following men ‘and women (I don’t like the terms
ladies and gentlemen) have kindly added their names as a
testimony of their appreciation of your great services to
mankind: Bessie Williams, Aaron Franklin, Sophia Frank-
lin, J. W. Chamberlin. "“ I" '

CLYDE, Ohio, J an‘ 20, 1875.

Dear Wealth/—Please accept my tardy mite. How I wish
I could increase it a. thousand-fold! It is said, “ Those whom
the gods love, die young.” I’m sure they must love you, dear
WEEKLY; yet I pray that you may not die, or not, at least,
until you have fully accomplished your grand and glorious
mission. But I do not ‘know that my prayers will be of any
avail, as “the prayers of the wicked availeth nothing;” and
I am very, very wicked, dear WEEKLY——so wicked that pure
and virtuous( ?) Madam Grundyfsometimes almost has spasms
when I come in contact with her, especially if I oifer her my
hand. Now,_ 1 do not blame the oldlady at all for putting
on that “ I am holier than thou” air; for I think she has just
as good a right to view me from her stand»-point as I have to
view her from mine. Yet, with all my deep sinfulness, I
intend to pray with all my might for her and her family (for
she is intensely “ married” and has a large family, and there
is something “queer ” about the whole family, for when
they are not married they want to be, and when they are
they want to be divorced). ~ I intend to pray that the beauti-
fulchild, “ Freedom,” may yet be born in their souls. But,
poor child, I sometimes tremble for it, for fear it might be
strangled in its birth. Yet will I hope and pray; and if the
beauteous child ever does find a, birth-place in their souls,
Iknow that ’they——even they who now affect to scorn and
despise——will then smile upon me as “ radiantly as a May
morning.” '

I have been unable, as yet, to obtain any new subscribers
for you, but my heart is not utterly sick with “hope de-
ferred.” Some of the excuses for not aiding you in this your
hour of need are ludicrous, some disgusting; but the saddest
and most sickening of them all is, Victoriafis extravagance!
Don’t you think the dear soul is’ actually accused of “ putting
up at first-class hotels!” just as though first-class women
shouldn’t put up at first-class hotels. Oh, Shame, where is
thy blush? Now, dear WEEKLY, don’t you think it would
be advisable for Victoria to adopt the “ Uriah Heep ” policy
_._be very “ ’umble,” and put up at third or fourth rate
hotels? It would be such a nice thing for her enemies to
make capital of. The highest honora grateful people could
confer has twice been given to U. S. Grant——and even a
“third term” talked of—for the brave (?) battles he has
fought, the noble (?)‘ victories he has won. But his extrava-
gance is not even thought of by his friends and supporters;
while our brave and beloved Victoria, who has dared to come
out and stand alone———all alOne——fOr the truth’s sake, who has
suffered and sacrificed so much, and who has already fought
a grander battle than U. S. Grant has ever even dreamed of,
must be denounced for “putting up at first-class hotels.”
Again would I ask: Oh, Sh H116, where is thy blush? Just as
though earth itself, much less first-class hotels, afforded any-

" thing too good for one who has done so much for poor

V humanity‘, especially when she earns it herself, and at so

Apologizing for trespassing so much I

i dear a rate, and pays her own bills! Such complaints from

Victoria’s avowed enemies would not be surprising; but

reading of*her paper and the falling of truth-pearls from her
very.lips, I must sayI am sorry and surprised that they have
read andheard to so little purpose. The out-look is fearful,
as our good brother, D. M. Allen, says, when we see the
vast amount of pretension, ignorance and prejudice to be
met and overcome. Yet I am sure we shall win; for does‘
not Victoria lead the way? and have we not that grand old
warrior, staunch and true, Parker Pillsbury, with us? Then
have we not that true friend of woman, that brave and per-
sistent battler for her emancipation, Warren Chase, to ask
questions—-questions that they dare not attempt to answer,
because they well know they cannot, without giving up all
their claims. Thenthere is that glorious Helen Nash, with
many, many others. Yet it is not upon one or all of these
that we, should depend, so much as upon the principle of
freedom itself. ;Oh, I am not at all discouraged; and as
“Helen” says, let there be no turning back because of ig-
norance and persecutions. . 1

Yours, to battle to the best of my ability for the privilege
of blowing my own nose, for the privilege of using every
organ and faculty of my being as seemeth to me best; finally,

yours for all natural rights, Without the interference of

Mother Grundy, Church or State. ‘

HERMIA RUSSELL. »

THE Spiritualists of -West Winfield. N. Y., and vicinity
held a two-days’ meeting in Music Hall, on Saturday and
Sunday, January 2 and 3, 1875. Dr. E. F. Beals called the
meeting to order, and announced the platform free for the
discussion ofspiritualism, humanity and reform. The speak-
ers were, Dr. H. P. Fairfield, of Lynn, Mass., and Prof. C.
D. Farlin, of Watertown, N. Y., and Mrs. S. A. N. Kimball,
of Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y., a clairvoyant and test medium.
The "sessions were well attended, and thespeakers listened!
to with marked attention, showing an appreciative and
thoughtful audience. The fact that the meetings have
caused considerable talk here shows that good seeds were
sown, which we hope will yield abundant harvest. The
conference meetings were entertaining, and the music good;
and, notwithstanding the .i.nclemency of the weather, the
meeting was a success. 8

A clergyman who was present volunteered to tell what he
knew about spiritualism (two weeks later), but chose to do
so in his own pulpit. Dr. Fairfield challenged him to an
open discussion of the subject, which he positively refused to
accept, but invited all to come and hear him. , ‘We conclude
from this that the. leaven is working in the hearts of the
people; yea, even in the hearts of the clergy.

AN ATTENDANT.

UNCOMMON GOOD SENSE.

The following notice of abirth appearsjin No. 34: of Common
Sense, of San Francisco, California. Both the inserters and
publishers of the same deserve to be commended for their
bravery; for more knowledge can be gained from one proven
fact in social and sexual matters, than from a dozen theories.
This is the notice:

“ Born in San Francisco, Jan. 4, 1875, a daughter to James
and Anna-Richardson. During a wedded life of four years,
Mrs. Richardson (then Anna Smith) being in _ delicate
health, lost two young babes, which experience, with other
considerations, induced her to become again mistress of her-
self, as she was prior to marriage. This child, which was de-
sired, and was deliberately begotten in defiance of estab-
lishedsasages, bids fair to live and to be a blessing and a
benefit to its pa-rents.”—-Common Sense, San Francisco, Cal.

 

THE MARRIAGE BOND.
“What God hath joined together let no man put asunder.”

This is a Christian bible injunction. If it is of binding
force, ought not its converse to be equally binding ?——viz.,
hat God hath put asunder let no man join together.

I hold that love, andlove alone, constitutes marriage; that
marriage ;” and universal Christendom, virtually, though
unwittingly, subscribes to this truth, inasmuch as all cere-
monies Or laws for the solemnization and legalizing of mar-
riage are never applied before, but subsequent to the ex-
pressed wish of parties between whom it is understood that
this marriage of love already exists- Again, “ God is love.”

monials. If so, then the existence of mutual love constitutes
the God-joining,while its absence is equal proof of the lack
of such joining. If it is a crime to put asunder those who
are thus joined of God, can it be less a crime to join or hold
together those who, from lack of mutual love, are God-sun-
dered or not joined of God? If, then, the love, or godliness,
forsake the parties, what becomes of the bond? Are they
then ‘joined of this God of love when there is no love to con-
stitute “ the fulfilling of the law?” If in this latter case the

are we not justified in suggesting that they “ beware lest
haply they be found fighting against God,” oragainst love,
which is God, and also the only fulfilling of the law i.c., the
higher law of love. , . -

What less than an act of presumptive ignorance is it to re-
quire finite, changeable beings, such as we are, to promise
that which, from our very nature, we cannot be sure that we
can possibly fulfill? Every separation—except by death-

protest to and against this manifest stupidity! Certainly it
would seem to be time that we began, at least to suspect that
love is not a thing to be commanded, bought, sold or re-
tained bypromises; but depends on qualities possessed by
those we love, by which oiir senses are addressed, and over
whichwe positively have no control. T. LEONARD.
GRAFTON, Mass., _J anuary 15. 1875. -

 

DENMARK is going to abolish the rights of primogeniture
Land all titles to nobility. '

when they come from those who have claimed to enjoy the .

this marriage of love “makes the bond, not the bond the,

and also “Love is the fulfilling of the law”——Bible testi- ,

mundane powers that be assume to continue the legal bond, *

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EXPLANATION.

It is due to friends in the West to explain why Mrs.
Woodhull did not fill her engagements at Lincoln, Nebraska
City, Omaha, Council Bluffs and Des Moines. She lectured
in the Opera House at Topeka, Kansas, on the evening of
Feb. 1. The hall was very cold which so affected her still
weak lungs that she came nearly breaking down several
times during the evening, and only concluded her address
by the greatest effort which left her prostrated. The fol-
lowing day a terrible storm arose and prevailed all the next
night, the temperature continually growing colder. When
we arrived at Omaha on the morning of the 3d, on our way
to Lincoln, the thermometer indicated twenty degrees_below
zero, the windlblowing a perfect gale. This stinging at1nos-
phere she could not endure a monent; to take it into her
lungs was to strangle her. It would have been madness for
her to have attempted to lecture anywhere, so she wisely
concluded to give up the trip and hasten to a more genial
clime, and wait until the cold spell should break. She will
fill her engagements in Michigan as advertised elsewhere. .

- A‘ A
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TO ALL RADICAL REFORMERS.

The readers of the WEEKLY. are aware. that, under the
pressure of the exigency and contrary to medical advice,
Victoria C. Woodh.ull, about a fortnight since, again essayed
to continue her public ministration on the all-important
reforms demanded by this paper, in the lecture field of the
West. We are sorry—-very sorry—to add, that she has again
returned to the city, having been unable to endure the terri-
bly cold spell that has prevailed all over the country since
the first of February. Under these circumstances, we ap-
peal again to the generosity of the friends of true reform, to
not withhold any pecuniary aid that they can consistently

I extend us in this crisis. Those who are posted on the sub-

ject believe that in a very short period, a path will soon be
opened for the WEEKLY which will make it an established
success. It would be so now, if its so—called Christian foes
did not resort to the most vile and underhand means to cur-
tail its sales in the larger cities of the Union. But, we trust,
in a short time to be able to expose their methods of opera-

A tion,,and we feel sure that the exposition will be sufficient

to terminate all that species of warfare.

The time has been, when the proprietors of this paper had
other methods by which to obtain the funds necessary to
sustain the WEEKLY than by lecturin-g, but of those means
they have been cruelly deprived by the unjust rendering of the
laws of the United States. Our readers know that a petition

I is now before Congress setting forth the same, and asking a

recompense therefor. In early times, although the WEEKLY

‘“ has rarely paid its expenses, the generosity of our subscribers

was never appealed to-. Not only the paper but costly books
on the various reforms were then distributed to reformers as
free almost as air. Neither do we appeal now for aid to the

- WEEKLY as a paper, but as a most needed instrument to,

carry forward the good cause that is dear to all our hearts.
Knowing’ this to be the case,we feel no hesitation in address-
ing all true reformers on the subject, and impressing again
upon them the necessity and duty of lending once more
their cheerful, earnest and generous efforts to keep the flag
of all the great reforms of the age floating, as ever, foremost
in the fight for the rights of woman, and for the Qollsequent
advancement of all the human race.

   

JUST OR UNJUST?

 

We have never objected to, or avoided, but have rather
courted criticism about any act with which we have been
connected. We have a right, however, to insist that a true
basis for criticism be had, and proper use made of all_the
facts that go to make up a case that is criticized. Wewere
recently called before the courts as defendants in a case,
where the judge ruled that a proposed witness for the plain-
tiff was disqualified because the person was an Atheist; and
we have been severely taken to task for permitting it to be
done. It is set down against us as abetting the abridgment
of free speech and individual rights.

Now, this must be fair or unfair according to the circum-
stances under which it occurred. We shall not attempt to
decide the question, but we will present the facts upon
which the decision ought to be based, and let our readers
and others interested judge for themselves, merely request-
ing that each of our critics consider and answer this ques-
tion’ before deciding himself or herself competent to criticize
us: Suppose that you were unjustly accused of murder, and
that your vindication or conviction depended upon the testi-
mony of a person whom you had good reason to suppose
would testify falsely, and whom you knew would testify
against you, would you not make use of any technical legal
points that the law might offer to exclude the testimony of
such a witness?

If you, each and all, say that you would make no attempt
at defense by excluding such testimony, when the lawtgave
the right, then you become competent critics of us in the
case at issue. The principle involved is the same, although‘
whatever this person might have testified to could not have
affected the pointi, at issue in our case, since every incident
relating to it had transpired long before this individual
knew any of the parties to the case. It was impossible that
he could have known anything about the factsupon which
the case rested. The desire that prompted this person to go
upon the witness -’-‘stand was not to testify to any pertinent
fact, but to vomit another mess of filth upon the community

' similar to that upon which he has expended a year’s time in

gathering and vending——libels foul and villainous, many of
which he knew had been denied by the very persons whom
he quoted as his authorities, who, if put upon the stand to
testify, would utterly repudiate and deny all connection
with the allegations. But the allegations have nevertheless
been, with this knowledge in his possession, persistently
repeated, just as if their authority had not been denied by
the alleged authors themselves. A person who will malici-
ously do such an infamy (a clearer case of malice could not
be thought of), which is so much more infamous than a false
oath could be conceived to be, would not hesitate to testify
to anything that might be necessary to make a case
against parties toward wllom lie might be maliciously in-
clined.

Suppose this party had been permitted to testify without
the usual formula, and he had done so falsely, is it not
clear that there would have been no recourse for us? He
could not have been proceeded against for perjury, because
he would not have been under oath, and perjury in the eyes
of the law is testifying falsely under oath, and this person
was fully aware of all this, and, as we believe, would have
used it to have given vent to his malice against us. Hence
we feel entirely justificd in not having permitted this in_
dividual to testify upon such unequal conditions as these,
the opinions of our critics to the contrary notwithstanding-

But to the case. The complaint, in this instance, alleged
that Woodhull, Claflin & Co., in May, 1871, received from
plaintiff four hundred dollars for investment; but that,» in-
stead of investing the sum, it was fraudulently converted to
their own use. Upon this complaint the Court granted or-
ders of arrest. In the trial the Court held that, as the case
was brought in this way, upon orders of arrest, it had to be
decided upon the truth or falsity of the alleged facts upon
which the arrest was asked for. In other words, if the jury
found from the evidence that the money was invested, and
that there was no fraudulent appropriation, then their verdict
must be for the defendants. The defendants proved that the
money was invested and lost, and they proved by complain-
ant’s own witnessesthat she had been so notified at the time
of the loss. As there was no evidence to offset this, of course
the jury found for the defendants.

It is, therefore, established, that we were falsely arrested
and held to bail, and put to any amount of inconvenience
and expense without a shadow of law—just the same as any
malicious person might go and make a similar complaint
against our critics and have them imprisoned and put to the
same inconveniences,illegally.

But now mark the connection between this case and this
would-have-been witness. In his foul printed libels, he re-
fers to a case which is cited as one among many, where it is
alleged that “she” (Mrs. Woodhull) “ swindles women,”
thus: “ and any number of »New York lawyers have been
studying how to collect $400 for another.” Had the case
been a just one, would it have puzzled New York lawyers
to have taken legal steps for its collection? Every one must
see the inconsistency of an affirmative answer.

But a Rhode Island lawyer was hunted out who did study
up a way in which he thought he could collect it. It was
thus: He learned that we contemplated going to Europe,
alsothe steamer, day and hour upon which we proposed to
sail. He then had his client make the necessary aflidavit
lalleging fraud, and obtained the orders of arrest. These, the

oflicer’s were instructed to hold until we were all on board
the ship and it was about to sail, when they were to appear
on the ship and arrest us, and in the evept of our refusing
to pay the demand, then raised to $535, to take us off the
ship and to jail. He probably thought that, rather than be
thus deprived of the voyage and lose our passage, we would
pay the demand whether right or wrong. But he reckoned

without his host. We obtained news of his intentions and .

and defeated them in time to make our voyage as pro-
posed.

And this is the case about which ..:our critics are interest-
ing themselves, because we, being illegally assailed,,saw fit to
use legal means of defense. We can assure them that when-
ever we are illegally assailed through the processes of law,
obtained by improper methods and affidavits, we shall take
whatever means the law offers for defense.

Upon principle we defend the proposition that every per-
son has a right to give testimony, but we also defend the
proposition of the right of any necessary means of defense
against persons who are known to have discarded all princi-
ples, or what amounts to the same, to have sacrificed them
all to further their malicious designs against those who are
defending themselves. The right of self-protection lies at
the base of all other rights, and so long as we are put upon
the defense in such ways as we have been, we shall not sur-
render it, nor ignore any rights that the law may give us to
defeat the malice of our enemies. Let it be remembered
that the evidence excluded in this case could not by any
possibilily have affected the verdict. It was sought to
be given with the hope that some foundation could be estab-
lished for vending malicious libels in a more public manner
than had been previously possible; it was not to better the
case for the plaintiff, but to blacken, if possible, the names
and characters of the defendants. So far as the law is con-
cerned, under which the evidence was excluded, we are
utterly opposed to it, and will do whatever we can to have
it repealed; but we are equally opposed to the law that
makes it possible for one person, by making a false affidavit,
to maliciously obtain the arrest and imprisonment of
another; but we are no more opposed to either of these laws
than we are to that made for the collection of debts, which
‘attempts, by legal methods, to regulate what should be left
to the individuals concerned. We hope and trust that all
these remnants of the ‘barbarous ages may soon go down
together into a common oblivion, and the honor and self-
respect of the people be permitted to become their own
vindication in all the affairs of life. Then there will be no
oaths required of Atheists or others, nor will there be any

loose laws that will permit those who are willing to swear

falsely to vent their spleen by illegally resorting to arrests
and imprisonments to enforce the payment of unjust or
trumped-up claims.

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THE BROOKLYN BATTLE.

In reply to the many who are somewhat acquainted with
the basis of the facts regarding the relations that existed ‘be-
tween Mr. Tilton and myself, and who are insisting that I
shall not rest another moment under the insinuations cast
upon me by him in his evidence of Tuesday of last week,
I ask them to be patient; I am_the one more deeply in-
terested than anybody else, and. if I can afford to wait for
my justification, others can-surely afford to do so with me.
I am aware how indignant many of my friends feel on ac-
count of the slurs cast upon me, and through me upon
the cause of social freedom by Mr. ‘Tilton. But I have
learned that the laws of immutable justice always eventually
bring the truth and the right uppermost; and I can better
afford to let them run their course than to possibly abort
their purposes by attempting to interfere to forestall their
judgment.

I decided before the trial began to not interfere in any
manner with its progress. If Mr. Tilton thinks that, with
the rendering of the verdict, this case will be concluded he
will learn his error possibly too late to avert the doom that
he is inviting upon his head. The infinitely greater and
more important part of this case will be undecided when
this trial shall have closed. It is in the verdict that shall
follow the one which this court will render that I am chiefly
concerned. The mere present is nothing when compared
with the infinite future. He may struggle now to make the

shadows he has cast upon my name and fame heavier and .

darker; but when he shall stand unvailed, as stand he shall,
he will blusn as deeply for his present efforts as he now
pretends to for what has passed.

After this trial is closed, I shall have a plain, simple state-
ment of facts to make, in which there is set forth the
truth in detail about all that has occurred since the 22d day
of May, 1871, in which any of the parties to this scandal
were involved. That statement will be all that is required
to confirm the truth or expose the falsity of Mr. Tilton’s
testimony regarding his relationship with -me. Wait pa-
tiently for it as I shall wait to give it.

‘ VICTORIA C. WOODHULL.
VICTORIA C. WOODHULL’S APPOINTMENTS IN
- MICHIGAN.

Kalamazoo, Feb. 12; Grand Rapids, 13th; Big Rapids,
15th- Greenville, 16th ; Ionia, 17th; Lansing, 18th ; Bay
City ’19u1-, East Saginaw, 20th; Flint, 22d; Port Huron,
23d,’ Ypsilanti, 24:11; Battle Creek, 25:11, Jackson, 26th;
Adrian, 27th ; Hillsdale, March 1 ; C01dWater,2d ; Elkhart

(Ind), 3d ; South Bend (Ind), 4th.

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Feb. 20, 1875.

WOODHULL as cLAFLiNrs WEEKLY.       5

WHAT IS TRUTH ?

This is the well-known question that Pilate put to Jesus,
and we are not told that the latter answered it. Yet it is
' the question of questions, of all peoples and of all ages.
When men can fully solve it they will be Gods. But though
in its fullness it is to us unanswerable we can essay partially

to elucidate it. Two presses during the past week have en-V

deavored so to do. The one aflirmatively the other nega-
tively. They are the New York Herald and the Ohristioin
“Union. After we have quoted their remarks pertaining to
the subject, the WEEKLY will discuss the same from the
standpoint of Spiritualism.

Our readers must not expect, however, to be very much en-
lightened upon the abovesubject, for from time immemorial,
men have had, and we suppose will have, very superficial
viewsof the matter. The consequence has been and is, that
they have returned, and probably will return, different an-
swers every time the question is asked. But what they
lack in knowledge they make up in obstinacy and bigotry,
so that at no time and in no civilized (or even savage) com-
munity will the inquirer fail to receive hundreds of absolute
and varying replies to the question. The best of these are
ambiguous if not contradictory, like the definition of God
by the wise ancients, Plato, of Athens, and Archimedes, of

4, Syracuse; the former of whom declared the Deity was “ A

Being whose substance is truth, and whose shadow is light;”
while the latter, being a mathematician, asserted that “ God

is a circle, whose centre is ;everywhere, and whose circum-_

ference is nowhere.”

We do not believe that the moderns have much improved
upon these definitions of the Deity, although there is a grand
mistiness in both answers, which in either is not a blemish
but a beauty. Neither do we think our contemporary, the
New York Herald, has much advanced human knowledge
upon the subject of absolute truth, although we admire the
liberality with which it has presented it to the notice of the
American public. We find under the heading of “ Pulpit
Topics for Today” (Jan. 31) the following passage, to which
we refer: .

Somewhat akin to the first-named topic (“_Limitations of
spiritual Knowledge,” by Dr. Moran) is an inquiry by Dr.
Porteous as to “What is truth, and who possess it ?”_ We
don’t believe that any doctor in the church or out of it can
answer that inquiry except by the monosyllable God. Truth
is too broad, and deep and high to be possessed absolutely by
any man or any set of men, and the most that any of us can
obtain is a small slice of the great loaf. _

There you have it, gentle readers. It is not very satisfac-
tory. But, after reading it, /we can say of it what the Scotch
sailor “ Sandie” said of the owl which he palmed off on his
sweetheart “ Jennie” in lieu of a parrot. She complained
that it was not one of the pretty painted birds she expected
from the East Indies, ‘and her lover replied: “ Why, Jennie,
lass, ye say true, he’s no very beautiful, but look at his een!
see what a power of thocht there is in ’em!” So say we of
the Herald’s definition; it is not very diffuse, but there is a
power of thought in it. . _ .

The second attempt at elucidating what is truth we find
in a letter in the same paper, over the signature of “ William
Coventry H. Waddellff It may be termed an attempt to
answer the question I16gatiV91Ya 50 that by reducing its
dimensions and proving what is not, we may eventually

arrive at a just conclusion as to what is--truth! Here

is the statement ;of the Christian Union as to “ What is not

Truth!” - A

Oh '. tiam. Union. H6313,’ Ward Beecher editor-in-chief
h3:1s‘ti?aba7;:'f1oned ” the doctrine of endless pupishment, be:
cause enlightened Christian feeling declared that it could
not be true,” and that the time can hardly be distant when
it (the church) willwholly reject the doctrine. But the ad-
missions are accompanied by the still more startling exp;-es-
Sions that U: although enlightened Christian feeling ” has
risen to this exalted truth—v_iz., that_ everlasting punishment
.. could not be 1;rue;” that this truth is not in accord with the
letter of Scripture; thus: The ‘appeal from the enlightened
reason and moral sense of mankind to the letter of Scripture
has never been successful, and never can be.

From this we have a right to infer that, in the opinion of
the Christian Union, the Scriptures, or those portions of them
that assert the doctrine of eternal punishment, “could not
be true,” and, consequently, are not the truth. N ow, if an
other credal religions will put what they call “their sacred
Wfitingsn on the same pile. and the world would burn them"
as the housekeeper and the bachelor Samson Carasco did
Don Quixotes’ books on chivalry,‘ we believegthat we should
narrow down considerably the dimensions of the question,
is What is truth ?” Probably; however, it would be as well
not to destroy them, for the Bible, the Veda’s, the Koran,
and all works of similar character, ‘doubtless contain among
their errors many excellencies, which have been, and may
yet be of great benefit to mankind.

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Now for the WEEKLY s definition ;‘ and we mean to come
at it with a, circumbendibus. What is Truth ? Well, in
the first pmce, we do not believe that the truth is an article
that has ever been monopolized. Unless the truth be
u money,” we do not believe that it has ever been restricted
to the.“ seed of Abraham.” To the honest Chinaman it is
Buddha, ; to the honest Hindoo it is Chrishna ; to the honest
Turk it is A1131; ; and to the honest J esusite it is J esus, To
the honest Pagan itwas Jupiter, who was a very good God
in his day ; and ‘to every man—-everywhere-—it is the highest
aspiration ‘of his highest development-—that, to him, is
truth. 0

Oh! when will mankind attend to their earthly duties,
and leave the dwellers in the heavens to form their own
family arrangements, and take care of themselves. Had our

forefathers but done this, what mountains of misery, what
seas of human gore would have been spared to humanity.
But we did not make and do not rule the world. All hu-
man excellencies have been obtained by suffering. This
ever has been the case, and is the case now. Socrates must
drink the hemlock, and J esus‘ must be crucified for the ad-._
vancement of our race now as of yore. The ignorant may
still cry against those who would take ofi‘ them the chains of
the past——-“ Crucify them! Crucify them!”-—-and prefer the
scofier Aristophanes and the robber Barrabas to the real
benefactors of mankind.

“DRAT THAT BOY, BAILEY!” ’

 

The above exclamation can be found in Dickens’ “ Mar-
tin Chuzzlewit.” Bailey, an errand boy mentioned therein,
was noted for his impudence. On one occasion, the writer
tells us, he swaggered into Poll Sweedlepipes’, the barbers,
and throwing himself into a chair commanded the astonish-
ed tonsoi‘ to shave him. Although Bailey had no beard——
not even down on his chin-poor Poll obeyed with fear and
trembling; and Sairey Gamp, the nurse, when she heardjof
the occurrence, uttered the exclamation with which we have
headed this article, viz. 2 “ Drat that boy, Bailey.”

The above scene returned vividly to our memory on read-
ing certain portions of the testimony of Theodore Tilton in
the trial between him and H. W. Beecher. We especially
refer to that memorable picture drawn by Mr. Tilton of his
interview with Henry Ward Beecher, in which he says
he charged the latter with having seduced Mrs. Tilton;
and, more especially, to the concluding part of the same, in
which, according to the Herald, Mr. Tilton asserts that the
Plymouth pastor asked him the following question:

' M1zliyI go once again, and for the last time, and see Eliza-
bet

Under the circumstances, if they be correctly related, we
think that our readers will agree with us that this was about
the “steepest” question that ever was asked; but it is more
than matched by an action attributed to H. W. Beecher by
Mr. Tilton, which obcurred some time after at Mr. Moul-
ton’s house, and we preface it by saying that Mr. Moulton
was very sick at the time, and not expected to live:

I (Theodore Tilton) went to his (Mr. Moulton’s house) one
day and a servant girl came to the door and told me that Mr.
Beecher was up-stairs ; while she was talking Mr.Beecher came
down~stairs and met me in the parlor; he told me that_Frank
was lying at the edge of the grave; he_said, ‘_‘ Frank is very
sick, and I am afraid he will die, and if_ he dies, Theodore,
what will then become of your case and mine? He said to me,
with tears in his eyes, “ Theodore,_ Frank has saved my life,
and I would willingly give my life to save Fra_nk’s;” and
he then put his arms about my shoulders and kissed me on
the forehead; he then departed hastily.

If such a kiss could ever have occurred, for the life of us-we

could not determine how to catalogue.it. ,Was it a pastoral-

salute, or afraternal, or the kiss of “peace. It could not
possibly be a paroxysmal kiss! The only place in which it
would seem right to place it would be to range it with the
lie chronicled by Mr. Moulton, and call it the “kiss sublimet”
But the effort to schedule it is too great for our feeble pow-
ers, we cannot do justice to it. We, therefore, mentally
retreat from the too vast undertaking, and again re-enter
the barber-shop of ‘P011 Sweedlepipes; hide our shortcom-
ings by re-echoing the words of the immortal Sairey Gamp,
and conclude with saying “Drat that boy, Bailey!”

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THAT CHALLENGE.

Every one admired the bold challenge of the Brooklyn"

Pastor to all people to bring forward all that‘each and every
one of them knew that militated against his character; but,
if the following extract, taken from the Hamid of Jan. 30,
be correct, “ a change has come over the spirit of his
dream.” We do not assert . this to be the case ourselves,
but present to our readers the testimony we have quoted on
the subject : ‘

The Brooklyn public has been partly aware of Mr. Beech-
er’s desire, through his counsel, to keep Tilton_ off the stand.
There was no opinion in favor of Tilton testifying or going
to the wall. A great many people thought he ought to speak,
because the issue was between himself and one other person.
Even Mr. Beecher’s partisans wondered what reason or pol-
icy existed in favor of Theodore’s enforced silence. .-

Henry Ward Beecher may well find from the comments
of the Herald and Sun, and other important dailies, that
something more will be required in his case than merely an
adroitly won legal acquittal. If the statements of Messrs.
Moulton and Tilton be false and slanderous they must be
proved to be so to the satisfaction of the public; if, on the
contrary, they be proved truthful and correct, a simple liai-
son will be but one in along list of crimes charged against
H. W. Beecher. It is our belief that the ‘public is deter-
mined to know the truth of the affair which has so long agi-
tated society. It will not submit to be hoodwinked by any
subterfuges, legal or otherwise, and any compromising will
condemn all parties concerned.

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INFALLIBILITY.

The New York Herald, of Jan. 30, contains a special tele-
gram giving a synopsis of the pamphlet of 100 pages just is-
sued by Archbishop Manning in reply to Mr. Gladstone on
the subject of papal infallibility. It commences. with the
statement that——- ‘

He [Archbishop Manning] maintains that the Vatican de-V
crees have not changed the conditions of civil allegiance.

The allegiance of Catholics is as undivided as that of any,

other Christians. Questions of conscience alone coulddivide
iftbpghe recent decrees have not extended the power of the

From this we learn that “ questions of conscience” can
divide allegiance. It is important to potentates, then, to
inquire who is to decide as to what are “questions of con-
science.” The WEEKLY maintains that, of late, the Pope
has rendered opinions on such subjects freely ; and further-
more, that to Catholics, there is no appeal from his decisions.
We are next told that-—

The Ecumenical Council in no way touched the relations
of Church and State. Its decrees merely declared doctrines
‘Which were already matters of faith. '

Infallibility might have been previously a matter of faith,

now, however, it is likely to become a matter of practice,

which to temporal rulers is objectionable. V

The Pope cannot, therefore, either by virtue of these de-
crees or his supreme authority. make any claim upon his
adherents of a nature to impair the integrity of their civil
allegiance. To impair civil allegiance’ would be contrary to
that law. The spiritualauthority of the Church was indirect
in its operation on temporal affairs. A Q

Where does Archbishop Manning obtain authorityto
limit the power of an infallible Pope, as he does in the first
sentence? What Catholic could rebuke the head of his

* church should he do an act contrary to divine law. Inter-

dicts have impaired and would impair civil allegiance, and
yet they have been freely used by many Popes, and are not
indirect in their operations. But, to continue-

It [spiritual authority] indirectly condemns and declares
not binding such temporal laws as deviate from the lawof
God, and therefore impede the attainments of salvation. In
regard to the supposition advanced in an argument, that the
Pope might attempt to depose the Queen of England, the
writer remarks that, as the Queen is wholly withdrawn from
the Catholic Church, every condition is wanting which would
render such deposition justifiable.

Here again the Pope claims power to judge what temporal
laws deviate from the law of God, and he exercised that
power in the matter of our Public Schools. As regards the
Queen question, policy at present may dictate forbearance ;
but, if policy dictated otherwise,‘how then ? Again,

The Archbishop declares that the European Powers have

entered into a systematic conspiracy againstthe Church, and
warns them that they are thereby wrecking themselves.

This we believe, andit inaugurates in Europe the religious
revolution treated of by the WEEKLY. The clay pots refuse,
and wisely, to keep company with the iron pot. A fallible
Monarch can hardly be expected to welcome an infallible
Pope in his dominions. We assert it is good for the peoples
that the old firm of “king and priest” are not likely to dis-
solve partnership without fighting, and that out of their dis-
sensions will arise bothitemporal and spiritual liberty for the
masses of Europe.

In conclusion, he says Mr. Gladstone’s pamphlet invites
Catholics to rebel against divine authority and “encourage
"schism, heresy and deadly sin.”

In these days the words———“ schism, heresy, and deadly.

sin ’,’—frighten none but weak minds. The Church of Rome
has shown of late no courtesy to the Anglican Church. Ac-
cording’ to the latter, Archbishop Manning himself is a
criminal, and is guilty of the spiritual “act of adultery ” in
introducing himself in the diocese of the Anglican Bishop
of London. Other Catholic noblemen of England, as well
as Lord Acton, will have to choose sides in the matter, for
a, mixed allegiance must be offensive both to the Queen and
the Pope. -

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ANSWERS TO OORRESPONDENTS.

 18., Toronto, 0anctdci.——We are not certain who was the
author of the poem you allude to, but think that it was
A the production of Herrick.

B. T., Brooklyn, N. Y_.—We cannot instruct you as to H. W.
Beecher’s present position with regard to eternal punish-
ment. His creedfwritten, it is said, by himself, affirms
it, but his paper, the Uliristicin Union, denies it, as you
will perceive by an extract given in one of this week’s
leaders. U .

R-. E, Galveston, Texas.‘—-To loan money at any interest
whatever was held to be a crime, and was punishable both
by ecclesiastical and civil law in every nation in Europe
until the sixteenth century. Our present money system,
which is based on the legalization of usury, is but little
more than three centuries old. . T

M, 6’. W.—The conversation you allude to took place be-
tween the two poets Sylvester and rare Ben Jonson in

the time-of Elizabeth. They challenged each other to ‘

make rhymes to their own names, and the former began
thus: A '
I, Sylvester,
M Kissed your sister ! T
To which the latter, not admiring the statement, replied:

I, Ben Jonson, ‘
Kissed your wife!

“That doesn’t rhyme,” said Sylvester; “I know it,” re- A

plied rare Ben, “but it’s quite true, __nevertheless, and
truth is better than poetry.”

8. .31., Cincinnati, 07iio.——We teach our young men how to
bear arms, and how to use them. He who thinks that the

dumb tools they misuse will not demand living food in the’
To cultivate the spirit of war is .to

near future is a fool.
breed war. . «-

Spiritualist, Jersey Oitg/, N. J.-—The phenomena, which are”.

.~ the base of the new development, are needed; the rain.

 

 

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which is already arising out _of the same will remodel the
civilized world. S

M. R. 8., 0ht'eago,,1Zt.—-—The revolutions demanded by the
people of all classes are marching together, both here and
in Europe; industrial, financial, religious and social. They
are all component parts of one grand whole.

Jerry Thompson, N. Y.—-We cannottell you by what‘au-

' thority the ton of coal has been shortened 224 lbs. in
weight. The constitution Says: “Congress shall fix the
standard of weights and measures;” and, in our opinion,

it is the duty of the Attorney General to See that you are
not defrauded in measure.

H. R. M, Paterson, N. J."-—Chastity has long been com-
plimented by the poets. Shakespeare treats of it in
Coriolanus. That hero terms Valeria. ‘

The noble sister of Publicola,

The moon of Rome. Chaste as the icicle,

That’s curded by the frostgfrom purest snow,

And hangs on Dian’s temple!
But some think, to use a French proverb, “the game is
not worth the candle.” The only men who have the right
to honor chastity in women are Catholic priests and
shaking Quakers.

Economist, Sctrcttoga, N. Y.—The moral condition of the
city of New York is exhibited in the list of births and
deaths, published weekly by the Herald. The latter

’ always far outnumber the former, proving that the city

is naturally damned. 5 ‘

 

WOODHULL a. OLAFLIN’S WEEKLY.

concerning the formation of a committee; that Mrs. Tilton
had gone down to the committee at Mr. Ovington’s house;
that previous to the assembling of the committee he (Gen.
Tracy) had instructed her what to say and how to say it; put
the questions to her that she might make no blunder in
answering them; that when she came before the committee
she astonished and impressed all of them with her eloquent
allusions to her pastor and to her husband; that she had
denied everything, that there had been any wrong between
herself and Mr. Beecher, or that there had been any proposal
of wrong by him toward her, or that there was any ground
for the scandal. And Gen. Tracy, in making the narration,
wept. [Laughter.] 'He said he never had witnessed such a
spectacle in his life. “Now,” said he, “if you take the right
advantage of‘ Mrs. Tilton’s appearance before this committee,
and of the tender hearts of those gentlemen toward all the
parties in the case, and particularly toward you,” meaning
myself, “ now is an opportunity to suppress the scandal for-
ever. It is the woman’s right to deny it; let her deny it and
stand on her denial now. Co-operate with that denial, it
can be made a success.” Gen. Tracy’s representations to me
made a great impression on my mind. I said if there is any
chance to save Elizabeth’s name and fame and blot out the
scandal, heaven knows I shall be glad to co-operate with it.

‘ -—N. Y. Sun.

COMMENTS. .
This is hard on General Tracy. Both Mr. Moulton and
Mr. Tilton have paid their compliments to him. Consider-
ing his position as Mr. Beecher’s counsel, it looks as if the
sheep weregworrying the dog.

[From the Brooklyn Argus.]_
THURSDAY, FEB. 4.
REMINISCENCES 013' MR. TILTON.

Mr. Sherman here read two articles in question, from the
Golden Age. The first article was taken from the Hearth
and Home. and referred to Mr. Tilton. commencing with a
reference to him as a. young man of golden hair, who sprang

Hopeful, Toronto, C’otnada.———You must not judge the WEEKLY

- by the number of its subscribers. When Gideon went
forth against the Midianites he commanded 32,000 men.
He reduced it to 300, keeping only those in it who lapped
the water in drinking. It is so with the WEEKLY; it has
had a larger number of subscribers, but those it has now
will never turn their backs. They will die before they
will surrender. We believe they are all lappers, men and
women, and that there is not one poltroon among tli’em.

B. W. R., San Francisco, 0al.—‘We do not take any stock
in the millennium. Establish one, and in a century the
world would putrefy with rottenness. The troubling of the
waters has ever been necessary to its health, is now, and,
in our opinion, ever will be. I

J. 12., Los Angelos, 0ctl.—The Senate resolution against the
naturalization of Chinamen was an unmitigated villainy,
falsifying our contract in thetreaty we had just previously

’ concluded with China, and contrary to the genius of our
Republic.

Inquirer, Detroit, Mich.--The Civil Rights bill must be made
a law; until it is established, the republicanism, or, if you
please, democracy of the Union, is the greatest farce the
world ever saw. — S V “

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INCID ENTS OF THE TILTON-BEEOHER TRIAL.
' MONDAY, FEB. 1, 1875. , —
Some of the New York dailies will kill Henry Ward

Beecher before the termination of the trial, that is, if it be

possible to slay him with printer’s ink. According to the
Evening Telegram, this is the last report of his state of
health: 1*

“ The appearance of Beecher’s face was a study as Tilton
cured out the full story of his wife’s connection with
eecher. All round his neck and behind his ears was the
blood red glow of apoplexy. His lips were pale and his eyes
were a strong, unearthly look.’’ I

We, however, warn our readers that he has been reported

, to be in a similar condition for some time; but he turns up

at Plymouth Church every Sunday with the regularity of a
‘t ”H llclock. . f  5 A ’
O1 y-. el _ TUESDAY,_FEB._ 2.
. TILToN’s GENEALOGICAL, RESEARCHES.
(From the N. Y. Sun.) , _

Q.‘ State what occurred at that interview. A. Mr. Beecher
came. to my house one morning," about the first or second
,week,_yes, certainly, the second week in February, 1871. He
had come in pursuance of a request which*I had sent to him
through Mr. Moulton. I had told Mr. Moulton that I wanted
to see Mr. Beecher at my house. Mr. Beecher came in the
morning while I was at breakfast. I rose from the table,

(met him in the parlor, and told him to go up stairs into. my
study. He immediately -went up and I followed him.
closed the door behind me, and after he took his seat I said .
to him, “ 1 have called you hither, sir, in order_ that you may
remove, if you can, a shadow from the future life of the little
boy Ralph.‘ His mother has assigned to me a date at which
your criminal intimacy with her began. This little boy was
born a. few months after that. If the date which his mother
has given is correct, it will save a dishonor attaching to his
name. I want you to tell me, as before God, whether or not
that date is right. I want, if possible, to shield‘ him, but I
want more than that to know the truth-tell me the truth.
He -told me on his word of honor as before God that the date
which «Mrs. Tilton had assigned was the correct date. At
that moment Mrs. Tilton herself, who had followed me up-
stairs, came into the room, and when I stated to her the
point of conversation, she burst into tears, and asseverated,
as she had onceor twice done before, that the date which she
had given was correct.

Q. State whether in that conversation that morning in
your study, the date was named, and if so, who named it?
A. Mr. Beecher asked me what date Elizabeth had named.
I told him that Elizabeth had named as the date at which ‘
their criminal intimacy began Oct. 10, 1868. He replied that
he hadtno faculty for dates, and had made no record, but
he believed in his soul that she had_ told me the truth. He
said a few other things on that occasion which I trust I shall
not be requested to reproduce here, since. a proper delicacy
would forbid their utterance.

COMMENTS.

C,»

into early favor, writing double-leaded leaders, and singing
songs and uttering sparkling wit; as one who succeeded to
the vacant chair of Mr. Beecher, and who, in his opinion,‘
more than filled it, and as being a man of more than ordinary
abilities to please children.. In connection with this thought,

Mr. Shearman here read Mr. Tilton’s Poem, which com-
mences “ Baby by, here’s a fly; let us catch him, you and I,”

856., very much to the amusement of those in the courtroom.

He also read Mr. Tilton’s production entitled “ The Lay-
man’s Confession of Faith.” Mr. Tilton’s reply to the article
from the‘ Hearth and Home characterized it as a satire

speaking -of him as one dead. —

His opinion on marriage and divorce were the same as
when he first formed them in college days. He concluded
he had a right to vindicate Mrs. Woodhull’s right to express
her opinions in a free land, and accepts that right with
pride. He was acquainted with a number of eminent men
and women, noted for their liberality of sentiment. Among
them, Lucretia Mott, Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, Laura
Curtis Bullard, and he considered Victoria Woodhull the
peer of any one among them. He was called a Spiritualist.
Well, so was President Lincoln. There are more Spiritual-
ists than Methodists, and he considered that he had suflicient
skill to write; a life of Bishop Simpson from a Methodist
point of view, or a life of Elder Evans from a Shaker point of
view, just as well as he had written a life of Victoria C.
Woodhull from a spiritualistic point of view. He acknowl-
edges that he is 93 Communist, but is a Communist in the
best sense of the word. The atrocities in Paris were not the
fault of the Commune, but the fault of Versailles. He says:

“ In conclusion, let me add that I have never been a con-
tributor to Hearth and Home, but if you will give a letter
from me room in your columns, I will gladly write y u one,
and give a. full and explicit exposition of my view on the sub-

jects spoken of.

Very truly yours, THEODORE TILTON.
Friday was consumed in reading the letters of Mr. and
Mrs. Tilton to each other, prior to 1871.

MRS. WOODHULL IN KANSAS.
[From the Leavenworth Commercial, J an. 31, 1875.]
“ THE DESTINY on THE RE1=URITIo.”

Last night Mrs. Victoria Woodhull spoke at the Opera
House, to a good audience-—a gathering of intelligent people
who wanted to hear what the woman had to say and how she
said it. In the dress circle we noticed a large number of.
ladies who were intensely interested in what the speaker had
to offer. For an hour the audience were held by the eloquent
words, eloquently spoken. Mrs. Woodhull was evidently in

point.

(From the Commonwealth, Topeka, Kane. Feb. 2, 1875.)

VICTORIA C. WOODHULI4-HER LECTURE AT THE OPERA
HOUSE LAST NIGHT.

Amuch larger audience greeted this famous social icono-
clast at her second appearance last evening than on the occa-
sion of her first coming a year ago. Whatever may be said
of this woman, her rhetorical talents are unquestioned, and
she certainly does not permit any one in her audience to
doze. The lecture was preceded by readings from Macbeth.
Her remedy for crime and her method of abolishing physi-
cians and legislators‘ at one fell blow may be comprehended
in the word stirpiculture: the improvement of the race by
the application of the doctrine of natural selection to the
human family. She repudiated the notion that free love, as
she advocated it, meant promiscuity, and maintained that
the inevitable result would be to prevent promiscuity, which
was the curse of society now. She was for free love, as dis-
tinguished from enforced lust, maintaining that, in it was
only to be found the true dignity of a matrimony whose only
basis was, or could be, love. ~

All this was illustrated and enforced by eloquence and
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the audience was that, manger her rather embarrassing
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7'. A new educational system, in which all
children born shall have the same advantages
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GREAT CENTRAL ROUTE.

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Via Erie & Mich. Central & Great‘ W estern R, R’s
STATIONS. Eivpress. Efiggfss s'rA'rroNs. Etcpress
t t N.’ Y ....... .  8.30 A M. 10.45 A M. Ly 23d Street N. 6.45 1». III.
L3.’ (2}:I1%.I§1l§§l?S,St1'eet .......... .. 8:40 3 -10.45 :: 5 Chambers street ......  7.00 ::
“ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  “  “ “ .]T3e3'1sIe)ernC1t_y1 . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  “ -
§3%.‘.’t"t“.‘1’l.‘i“.‘“.". '''' '.('1'.‘.":::::::: 1313:. M. tgg ;M L‘; 1;i31gE1g(1,<]>1:f'?.f’I.5I;(Ii:_:::::::; ttitg ;« ?’::_’’’‘‘’“°
6 ' Bige . . . . . . . .. . M . . _- ion ri ge . . . . .. . ‘ . p
A‘: I§:i'1:1i)iIIbErIi0.I.1...1:.   2.45 “ 2.55   Hamilton ..........  2.55 “ 11.20 “

..- London _ _ , , , _ _ . . . . . .. 5.35 “ 5.55 ‘ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a m.

.c Det,0it________ , _ _ , _ _ _ _ _, 9,40 “ 10,00 ‘ “ Detroit . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7.00

II Jackson ____  .......... .. 12.15 12. M 1.00 A. M “ Jackson.... 1.00 A M 13.30 “

“ Chicago ...............  ‘8.00 “ 3.00 ~- Chicago ..... .. .. 8.00 “ 3.45 p m.
A, ilwaukee ............ ..- agfiso A; M. 11.50 A. M. Ar Milwaukee. ........... .. 11.50 A. m. 5.30 a in
A1’, a-Hie du Chem _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , .. ‘.8755 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.
 0.15 1». M. Ar St. Paul .....  ..... .. 7.00 A. M.

 8,15 ,4, M, Ar St._Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M.

: _ , _ , _ , , . . . . .. 5.40 P. M.  Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M. 

Ac}. ]S):;1,?£,a,'1'_'_' __________________ _. 3,00 “   Denison . . . . . . . . .  8.00 “ . ,

“ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 "‘  Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ .

' 1; ,,,,,,,,,, .  , 11.00 P. M  Ar Bismarck..  . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 P. M. 
1 ‘F g(l)II]I£I)(I1B ................ .. 5.00 A. M.  “ Columbus ........  6.30 “ ,

H Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 r. M.  “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 

_1- _ . _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ ,, 8,550 A, 31-  Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P. M .,

A‘? (]I1uI.1r8.1fi184g.t.(iI.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M.  “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A. M. ..

u Cheyenne _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ , , . . . . ..  “ Cheye-nne...; . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 P. M .

.1 Ogden _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ __  “ Ogdei1...._ . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 “ , .

“ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . ..  “ San'Francisco ....... .. t 8.30 “ .

b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A M  Ar Ga.lesburg..... . . . . . . . . .. 4.45 P M _ ,

A‘? (}1?II)’l:yu.rE‘. .......  . . . . . . .. 11.15 “  “ Q.11111C9Y » - - - - - - - . - . .- 9.45 “ 

" . Jose h .....  ........ ..10.00 “ “ St.Joseph..... . . . . . . . .. 8.10 A M ._

“ Kansas ity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.40 P.‘ M. “ Kansas Crty . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.25 “ 

u Atch_iSon._.____‘_____._____I1,O0 “ _,_, “ Al3(‘.h1SOI1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..1I.17 “ ...

‘- Leavenworth. . “  " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon. 

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

:Th’rough. Sleeping Car Arrangements

_ _ ,_D Express from Jersey City (daily exce t Sunday}, with Pullman's Drawing-Room Cars
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CONNECTIONS OF ERIERAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF

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A150 ‘with Jack, Lansing & Saginaw Branch, for Lansingéowosso, Saginaw, Wen0Il&,.StaDdlSI1, Crawford
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