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BREAKING THE .wAY‘ FOR FUTURE ~ GENERATIONS.

Vol. IX.--No. 25.-—Wl;ole No. 233.

TWO OR THREE NOVELISTS.

“ Everybody,” it is presumed, has read “ The New Mag-
dalen.” “ All the world ” is more or less interested in George

Eliot. Wilkie Collins and George Eliot are two radically
difl’erIng authors.

Wilkie Collins, in the “New Magdalen,” has startled a
somewhat apathetic society. In Grace Roseberry and
Horace Holmcroft is made clear the prevalent type of that
sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, which passes current
for pure virtue; a sham morality that is dead, like faith
without works; the kind of morality of current value, which
rides in a carriage to church to worship a God who is “no
respecter of persons;” a pretence of piety which holds not
the merit of being even the shadow of the substance. .

We all have free choice of our ideals, no matter what are
the outward bonds and conventional rules. Who wguld not

, prefer to be Mercy Merrick, with her high conceptions of the

good and the true, though fallen into the depths and ragged
edges of shame, remorse and despair, than a. narrow-souled,
petty-minded, conventional machine, such as Grace Rose-
berry is? Such women as she hold the base coin denomi-
nated virtue at a. much higher price than the outcasts
among whom Mercy Merrick fell as among thieves, in that
they succumb in most instances only to the highest bidder in
the matrimonial market, and sell themselves to’ respectability
instead of against it. i’ ,
When Mercy Merrick protests in bitterness of soul that she
is “ tired of hearing of the virtue of women who have never
been tempted,” she unmasks the sham pretensions of all the
Grace Roseberrys in existence. With that sort of adaman-
tine virtue, which is absolutely above suspicion of temptation,
this world has nothing whatever to do. The bloody sweat of
dark Gethsemane falls in vain upon fossilized morality of
that super-Christly stamp. There is no grace in the soul that
has never been tempted. It is counted better to have sinned
and suffered through the divine grace of repentance working

in the heart, than to be impervious to temptation. Any"

Mercy Merrick is farther on the road which leads salvation-
ward than the barren soul which says to her in her penitence

and grand aspiration after a purer life: " Stand aside! I am
holler than thou.”

But is that rare nature portrayed in the character of Julian
Gray the mere coinage of Wilkie Collins’ brain? Or where
did he find the type ? Such a man as Julian Gray would be

/ worth a pilgrimage to find, though he snubbed his bishop and

Whistled opera airs in the street daily. A nature so attuned
to sympathy, with a noble, penitent soul, must have the hem
of his garment touched by the sorrowing sinner. Thank
God for the pure religious faith in human nature that gave
the “ New Magdalen” to the world!

Considering George Eliot with Wilkie Collins, and “ Felix
Holt” in comparison to the “ New Magdalen,” Wilkie Collins
seems a king in very truth by grace of God, while George
Eliot reigns_a queen by acclamation. George Eliot is a rare
woman—no doubt the greatest living novelist; but her books,
after suggesting the rarest possibilities of character, disap-
point the aspiration of the reader who is looking for an ex-
ample above the conventional rule. .

She may be of the Thackeray and Dickens school, which
aims to portray men and women as it finds them, but finding
them altogether too consistent with the author’s cynicism.
But she rather seems to me like an author who possesses a
most iconoclastic_ ideal, which she seeks to fit to prescribed
ideas andprevailing customs. Hence the sense of a great
want somewhere which fills the flattered fancy of the reader,
as page after page lures him on but to be disappointed ‘in the
result. _ . ,

Those writers, who, like Dickens and Thackeray, aim to
paint-every-day men and women, would do better to give us
extravagant ideals, like Bulwer or George Sand, to keep them
from making caricatures of their kind; while those who
possess a rich ideal should be careful to hold the white gar-
ments of their best conceptions out of the dirt of common-
place fallacies.

It is hard to have dear Mr. Pickwick rendered ridiculous

, even upon his best occasions. One must feel a spite toward

_ Thackeray for gettingthat rare old hero and gentleman, Col.

Newcome, a little tipsy one convivial night when the wine
wentround, and then permitting him to get laughed at by a
féol. Though the " fool” got a glass of wine in his bosom for

. H the afiront, still _we__never feel the insu_lt.,atoned for.___

 

NEW“ YORK, MAY 22, 1875.

Reading “ Middlemarch” and “ Felix Holt,” one is pursued
through thevolumes by a phantom of unrest—a shade of dis-
appointment——and at the end one sighs and says, “ What did
George Eliot create those rare possibilities in Dorothy Brook
and the young doctor for ?” “ What did she make Felix Holt
a Radical for?”

When we put down her books we are at aloss to know
where we have been with George Eliot. Reading “ Consuelo”
and the “ Countess of Rudolstadt” one knows one has been
to Utopia with “ George Sand.” Reading the “ New Mag-
dalen ” we feel we have been at the feet of Jesus of Nazareth
with Wfikie Collins.

George Eliot holds a prop under tottering idols, while she
suggests slyly to theinitiated that there will be some rich
developments when the idol does tumble down. She don’t
seem to possess any particular God herself, but she propi-
tiates other people’s Gods. No part of a Catholic herself.
ishe puts the “ Blessed Virgin ” in capitals. A rank icono-
clast in her own life, having personally snubbed Society’s
dearest idol, she nevertheless embitters noble lives in her
books for non-conformity to social edicts. Not sacrificing
herself to conventional Molochs, she yet mercilessly lays out
her heroes and her heroines on the reeking altars. Her round
men and women are for ever in the square places, with the
fiat men and women pointing their loan fingers at them. _

“ George Eliot ” has got material in her heart and brain,
and she has got the,cu5e i-n her own life to give the world a
rare work of future possibilities, built on the facts of the past
and the present. She has made a sham society lower its
turned-up nose at a willful disregard of its most “ sacred ”
rights, and even Mrs. Grundy is “ at home” now to “ George
Eliot.”

Wilkie Collins and Chas. Reade do not display so deep a
cynical insight, so profound an analysis of motives, so search-
ing a sweep of worldly wisdom, but their deep-souled faith
in human nature is more than a match for philosophic
brilliancy. What has been the bitterness of “ George Eliot’s”
life that she has dropped dead sea-apples all through her
pages? I shall continue to read her books, but not in simple
faith that I shall love my kind better for them. But all such
books as the “ New Magdalen ” leave the impression of faith
at the foot of the cross. The true standard of greatness is
after all in the heart. Christ needed not to elucidate prob-
lems in Euclid to enable him to sympathize with sinners.
The one pearl of great price is a heart full of love to one’s
fellow-sinners, and such a heart do we find in the pages of
“Wilkie Collins.” HELEN NASH.

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WHAT IS TRUTH?

This question was asked the Nazarene centuries ago, but as
he did not answer it, we are inclined to think he either could
not, or thought it best to leave it an open question for each
individual to answer for himself. , ,

In all ages of the world there have arisen sects and divisions,
each claiming truth especially revealed to them. If we in-
quire what is truth, they refer us to their God, their Bible
and their creed. The Baptist informs us that truth is a
belief in three Gods in one: faith in the atonement, and
baptism by immersion, and membership in his church.
The Methodist informs us that truth is in his manner and
form of worship. The Presbyterian diifers from his Baptist
and Methodist neighbors in forms and ceremonies, and be-
lieves that sprinkling is the true form of baptism: while the
Quaker informs us that truth consists in silent worship and
the baptism of the Holy Ghost. N ow, amid such confiicting
beliefs, how can truth be arrived at, since each sect diifers in
one of the grand essentials necessa1'.V to constitute a Christian,
and to inherit eternal life. / «

Said a church member to us a few days ago, “ Are you still
a believer in Spiritualism, and an advocate of the Free-Love
doctrine, according to the gospel of “Woodhull? My advice to
you is to make your peace with God; renounce Spiritualism,
and forever reject the false and abominable teachings of a
woman who is turning the world upside down, and who will
call down the wrath of an offended God upon her own soul
and those whom she is leading astray.” We replied, “ Spirit-
ualism is our anchor, our comfort in sorrow, our strength in
life, and our positive knowledge of the future. It is no blind
belief, it’is no delusion, it is an actual verity. We have no
peace to make with God, or need for .a Jewish Savior, who,
boasting of all power, hadaot sufilcientto save hipcselfironi

PRICE TEN onnrs.

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his enemies, the cross, or death. We consider the teachings
of Mrs. Woodhull lofty, consistent, and to live up to them
would make humanity truer and better. We have received
more knowledge and learned higher truths through the noble
little woman you call Woodhull, than from all your Bibles,
churches, or creeds, since the world began. Our advice to
you is, seek truth outside the church. Worship no longer an
unknown God; earn your own heaven, save yourself, and
go without fail and listen to the grand utterances of Mrs.

-Woodhull the first opportunity which presents itself, and

answer to yourself the question, What is Truth ?"

Our sister wished us to return to the church, but, as we had
no desire to be again in leading strings, we concluded to
press on in our inquiries after truth, and the laws governing
us. To this end we asked of the granite rock, the mineral,’
vegetable and animal kingdom, and as our inner life is un-
folded so do we comprehend its truths, lawaand forces.

We interrogated the ocean and her deep rolling anthems
inspiringus with admiration and deepreverence for the rich
and varied truths she so faithfully chanted. We inquired of
the waving forests, the singing birds, the blooming flowers,
and found each struggling to understand and illustrate truth
for itself. But when we come to man, we find him confining
his thinking, reasoning powers within the narrow confines of

a church creed. We find him stultifying his soul’s growth,

limiting his freedom of speech, blindly accepting the sayings
of a salaried priest, who informs him that reason;is carnal:
that he must rest contented with knowing only Jesus; that
truth is within the church and its saving ordinances. Foolish
man thus to trifle with his demanding nature, and sufier
himself to be led into the ditch of damnation, which is
ignorance. T '

In the writings of Dick, the Christian philosopher, we find
that his aspirations, enjoyment and employment upon enter.
ing spirit life would consist in travelling from sun to sun,
from star to star, from system to system, viewing the magn-1-
ficent architecture of worlds piled upon worlds. Spurgeon,
the eminent divine, upon reading Dick’s aspirations, said he
could employ his time during a portion of eternity much
better than that. He said he wished to look five thousand
years at the right hand of Jesus, and five thousand at his left
hand. He would spend ten thousand years in looking at the
right foot, and ten thousand at his left foot, and twenty
thousand at his wounded side. Now, we candidly think,
none will envy him his fifty thousand years of monotonous
gazing at one object. For our part, we would ljke so roam
with Dick through planetary spheres, learning "the customs
and occupations of the difi"erent inhabitants, learning also
of their laws and aspirations. We wouldlike to visit the
various workshops where the ingenious mechanics are em-
ployed; the studio of the artists, the sculptors, and the
grand old masters of music.

What is truth? The answer is as bread as the universe.
There can be no absolute truth, for that which may seem as
truth to-day will to morrow assume a broader aspect. As
the mind of man expands he goes out in his longings for
higher truths. He questions causes, searches for laws govern-
ing forces, and thus ishe constantly arriving at truth which
is the soul of things. MARY M. D- SHERMAN.

ADRIAN, Mich., Feb. 16, 1875.

“WHAT IS IT ?"
BY WARREN CHASE. .

‘What is it that makes a man a tyrant over the women 0

his own home, and a gentleman to all women he meets ou t

of it? What is it that makes a man kick his wife out of
doors, and refuse all further intimacy with her after she is
sexually intimate with some other man, while he is con-
stantly seeking, planning, contriving and securing sexuo

intimacy with other men’s wives, and even with females in
houses of ill-fame? What is it that makes a man enraged
with a murderous intent to kill a neighbor who has gained;
the confidence and sexual intimacy of his wife, while he has
done the same thing to that neighbor’s wife? Is there any-
thing rotten in Denmark, or in our marriage system? What

is it that so terribly pollutes a womanlin her intimacy with a _ a

pure man,when§she could not be polluted by sexual intimacy
with the mostloathsome and diseased libertine if he was her

legal husband? Does the statute or church ordinance make A

an act a virtue or a crime by its sanction or condemnation‘?
Is an act in marriage, that pollutes and demoralizes a woman

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cate? Does an act that produces nomoral, physical or spirit-A
ual injury become a virtue with the marriage sanction, and
a horrible and degrading crime without such sanction? Is.
marriage the philos'~phcr's stone that can turn all lust into
love, and all sexunlpollution into a virtue? Is there any
such thing; as rape, adultery. pollution, prostitution, or licen-
tiousnessbetween parties in marriage? VVe believe there is
farnlore than between those not married. If Glendenning
hid been married to Miss Pomeroy, and the same results
and death had followed their intimacy, would there have

, been any crime or wrong? What would have been the

moral status of the parties if Mrs. Tiltonand Beecher

,had been man and wife, or if they had both been

divorced from other parties and free, or both never
married ? Wbuld the actual eflect on the parties have
been any dlii’~:rent. Is it the morals of the "parties, or
the mm~a’e of the public that suffer? What is the moral
status of the public that so eagerly devours every vulgar word
orthought growing out of this scandal? Can such moral stan-
dard be lowered much by free love? If Tilton went “after
strange women, was not Elizabeth as fairly entitled to a bill
of damages as he is against Beecher: or did. she notown him
as he dill, or does, her? If both Tslton and Beecher _Wcm
after “ strange women,” which polluted El‘-zabeth the most.
or did one pollute her and not the other? If she loved and
sought the society of Beecher as much as he did hers, was she
not equally guilty with him and ought she not to payhalf the
flue? "is not Tilton in favor of Woman’s rights?

But to return from these notorious cases to the starting
point. What is it that makes so many menicold, indifferent
and negloctful of their wives and daughters, and so polite,
attentive and accomodating to other women? is it not be-
cause there is ownership fore quality, and lust forlove, in the
man? A lady told us the other day of a clergyman and his
‘wife visiting at her house, and discussing in her parlor the
subject of kissing. She defended it as innocent and harmless;
he and his wife strongly opposed it as dangerous and leading
to moral depravity/. She soon after retired to the dining-
room to look after the supper when he folldwed her,
and putting his arm around her attempted to adopt her
theory on the sly. No, sir, said the lady, step into the parlor
with me and let your wife see you do it and you can kiss me,
but not behind the door nor in the dark can you adopt my
theory, tie l)eggvd her not to expose him. and she did not,
for there were-.~s+-veral in the parlor, and she thought the per-
sonal rebuke sutficieut; but we think he should have had the
full benefit of his conversion before them. Most ministers
who oppose free love in public can be converted, or are con-
verts, in private, and often get snubbed by social reformers,

» whom they mistake as being of their kind. \Ve have had

manv of these parties exposed to us by reliable testimony,
and some who stand as high as Beecher have not fal‘en. be-
cause the charity of parties whom they have sought sexually
has excused them: but they will pass through an open door

‘ soon, and beiseen as they are, and without masks.

GOLD.

It is in the power‘ of every person to produce; some one
thing, some another; it is unchecked, free production and
transmission that is wanted, not more gold. The only pos-
siole way that more gold. coufd benefit mankind would be to
.;.1_ave it found in quantities (opposed by both science and
policy), to make it as cheap as iron, to break the iron rule of
those who now check production and transportation, by hold-
lug ev.- ry other loterestin tribute to the monopoli.-ts of gold.
If all were allowed to produce whatever of value they choose,
whether it should be Wheat or shoes, flowers. statuary or
ornaments, iron, silver or goiéd, food, ciothing or implements,
whichever the nature of their surroundings admitted,a1.-lddo
so ulitrammeled, re-calving-for that production (when stored
in public Warehouses) a certified acknowledgment of the
value of the same (measured by a universal standard made of

some substance vs hich is in itself of no intrinsic value except
as a nwa.-ure of values) to be used as a circulating medium.
This kind of m.one~.y’would relieve the oppression and stagna-
tion at once and everywhere, making universal ‘aplenty. To
have this there is no need of finding and coining the so-
called precious metals; (always difiicukt‘, laborious and
restricted by its very nature and surroundings, therefore

c‘*l‘osen by those who desire to rule), only made so by an ima-

ginary rule iillpwsed by tyrants: oiherthings, as wheatgcotton
or iron, are really of more intrinsic value, and would ileof. far
greater legitilmxts consequence and value, if allowed their
just consideration, than either gold, silver or diamonds. The
Very essence of the devil, and a more torturing hell than can
be imagined. are created by the financial system of to-day,
and its collduclors and managers. ,

Of what value, c~xc::pt-on imaginary one, is the golden pave-
ment of the New Jerusalem, compared with iron “Russ” or

_thc asphaltum. an article as common and cheap as cltyin

some pl..ces, but an article of really more uti.lly and value
than gold. Whisper it not intalath, tell it not in Judea, that
therenre a thousand things that are of more value than gold;
for upon the clay thou tellest thereof, the nameof master and
‘servant must be abandoned, and some new and disgusting
nom~ncVl-ature adopted. fordno one will bow down to us and
obey our slightest behest as now, for all will be equal, each
will have to serve themselves or go unserved. N»! stopll
there is :1 coin lh it can be used. acoin of value untofd. I will

describe it. A N.=.vad.1. julge was lost in the mountains

of Tlvabe. wandered. for (lxys without food and became
delirious. In that c mditicn he was found by alowly, despised

- gqlmw; all heretl Ilili were expended ineud-avorstolead him
"in the direction of hisuhome, to food and water; but in his

‘dell lulu he struggled to go in the wrongdireotiou. to the
desert again. The wretched female savage ran, ran miles, for

"help to bi-i-nz this human being 8110303.‘. "When; she found
_it-fouhi lxel'_h«islm.ndund returned—-thejudgo had wandered
. miles into the desert, sank upon the sand andeexpired. ,

Eventually his remains were recovered by his wlfe; and

7 -ifVl‘ielids,"l:o§.§ether>with his gold watch and valuables that/were
 '~-~ i1p.')n_his person, untouched by these__Wre_t_ches who found the
iiuziaug lhn__.tl’au0FU°1‘ "“11S'.Wu's iound in the possession of this

squaw, the coin mentioned. This poor creature was the pos-T,

sessor of a coin that would beggar an A. '1‘. Stewart. or even.

.a Rothschild, to purchase-—the coin of universal good-will and,

brotherhood; With this coin, when it becomes current. can
be purchased all that the wants of mankind in their sorest
need and distress‘ may require, that cannot be obtained by
the other currency suggested. ' . i
FREDERICK Moutrrox S.d—A.'W.
Los ANGELES, April, 187.3; s

‘WOMAN’S SPHERE.
She was not l'.lrn1‘d for man to rule
\vll.h,sl-m releull ss hand;
She was not form‘d a chattel slave,
To be at his c« mmand;
She was not form’d to be the means
Of bearing down :2. name
Unio an otfsprin g cursed, debased,
, That cause her spirit shame.

She feels her rights, but she is bound

‘ By those whom passions hold;

She knows her claims to earth and heavlu‘;
For this her heart is bold.

She presses through the flood of thought,

» ‘Sarcasm, scorn and ire;

She holds her way uudl-unled, firm,
Enrubed in Love’s attire.

She knows when reason, justice pure,
Sh-all place within each he-art

'.l‘h«-so living truths whiih guardthg sgul, ,
Then slavery will depart.

And Freedom can her cou se pursue,
Sn".-tninher glorious cause,

While Wisdom helps to form anew
’lhc Falhefls lgroken laws.

Then priest or pjriestcraft ne’er can stay
Equality or light, ’
But man shall own and bless the cause
"Which gave to earth new light; ,
And, through her powers for good and right, ’
Life’s burdens" shall decrease;
While ’neaih her influence, ch lste and pure,
Liseasc and crime shall cease. ;
‘ -—lS7za]cer and .5’/zakeress.
THE ORGANIZATION A ND FUNCTION OF THE
BRA IN.

Bvan examination and .t‘:alysis of the human brain. it is
now conceded to be a combination of at least thirty-five
complete and distinct organs, each acting independent of
the rest and exerting power over all in proportion to the
degree of development. The siza of the faculties determine
the measure of their power, and the influence each or several
exert upon the action of the body may be found to depend
upon two primal caus =s. The first. on pre-natal conditions;
the second. on the circumstances surrounding the individual,
exerting an external influence to contract or expand these
organs in-a greater or less degree. - To one of these causes, or
both can be attributed every evil that now exists.

The United fit/ates pays annually sixty millions of dollars
for the discussion of m'ora.l questions, and yet no advocate
of things divine dare make the assertion that the present
unfortunate condition of the race is the direct consequence
of blind ' ignorance and superstition; that a. corlupt and
false social system is covering the divine form of woman
with shame and lgnominv, and exposing the strength of man-
hood to disease and death.

In looking at the propensi‘a.ies incident to various tempera.-
ml-nts, it Will he found, that no one faculty of the brain can
Well be dispeiised with; that each and all are requisite to
the mental and physical needs of mind and body, whim they
furnish the propelling forces of the human mechanism. To
deny the use a (1 exercise of any one of these endowments
is to impulse nature with disorder. They are all good, in so
far as they are equally balanced or bad in proportion to the
extent which they subserve and enslave the rest. AA man
devoid of amativeness is as deficient as the person in whom
there is no venerallon or oonscientiousness. If amativeness
by hereditary trzmsmissiou be so largely developed that the
faculties of the intellect must give place to the exercise of
this passion, he in whom this abnormal propensity exists is
as devoid of perfection as though wanting an arm or an eye.
By the power of attraction he will exercise this proclvity, to
the exclusion of some one or all of the other faculties.

It is an uhjrsci; of no surprise that earth's lllhflbliaflt-8_"l'.BSOI‘t
to methods of systematic self-destruction. ‘ The masses are
brought into this breathing world scarce half made up, un-

finished and deformed. with a superabundance of 3 occipital‘

brain—auim-al propensities "out of all proportion; they must,
perforce ministerto gratification of lust. The conditions

which surround their growth are such as to augment the dis-'

order they have received by birth. Placed in a barren soil,
they maintain relations with mind and matter at variance
with all the laws of unity and order. As the parent hasbut
one incentive, is moved to get wealth, place or reputation, so
the child inheriting the like propensity, will transcend the
order of universal law to conform to special commands and
ullnatural requireinents. We are the products of lust and
avarice, living in a world where acquisitiveness is the bone
of contention. Do you queston why from the marble ofa
giant, we have hewn a pigmy? Out of Wrong conditions is it
possible to produce a lofty species of human life? In sexual
select.ioxi, weignore the law of vital afiinity and think to
escape HaH1I‘e’s exacting penalty. A nation labors with its
physical and moral wrecks. Procreuted at the fountainlhead
in ilhbecllity, born under ashadovv of darkness, and sentforth
in pain, they wander ghostlike here and there, and fill the
earth. Man. created in the image of.his Maker, is the only
contradiction of eternal fitness. . s

A Goethe has said, “* Surely what is best hath found us, or we
Wiusomewhere find the best.” \‘ The best hath_not.A found us‘
yet. though thepdawn ofra. new day is now at hanch Modern

igaocial relations have, beenyfound i_l_ifl.>d(:q'.>]a,I',elt0.' meat: deé‘

lflavlldi 9‘ thetimes. T 23313013013. Bonaparte has said, “Unless

T...}.. withhthnenade it will drag il...‘*O*i blind delusion will no

longer satisfy the soul. Generations to come will divest the
mind of empty shows, and know the truth. “ Untrammeled
thought hath waked the nations. and mankind perceive that

vice is discord, war and misery, that virtue is peace and hep-= 7 T

D. G. Cnrrrnxnan.

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piness and harmony.” ,

LOOK AT THIS!

This gem of the mine, below. which our Christian neighbors
complacently smile upon and wink at as the “ gospel truth."
because it comes under the head of legal marriage, I want
the readers of the WEEKLY to ponder over again, and take

. from it a fresh impetus to fight for freedom for woman; in

other words, for “ sexual emancipation,” if the whole car of
Jugszernaw , in the shape of popular opinion, rides over them
with its banners flying. Read the following:

About thirty years ago, while lecturing in one of the Western States,
I was for a few weeks the guest of a wealthy farmer. He was a man of
considerahlcintcllect and nearly sixty years old. His wife was about
the same age.

The old lady with much sorrow in her voice,‘ and many fears "in her

W eyes, told me how she had loved her husband, as a woman only can love.

she had toiled early and late to help him gain a home and borne him
Ihllteen children, four of whom were imbecile, and one did not smile
until it was four vears old. '

She said that to save herself from his sexual abuse she had often fled
iuthe night from his bed to that of her grown-up daughter, only to be
dc-agged back by her hu-hand, and forced to submit to his demands.
He broke her arm once with a cart-whip, and often in-flicled blow 6 upon
her person. Even when declining years should have made her venera-
ble, she has spent many nights in out-hollet-S and beneath hayst cks,

protect her!

What if the instances of cruelty to the slaves in the South
were not so prevailing as to condemn it for nearly half a.
century? The number was suflicient, even alongside of the
real acts of kindness which the slaves met with many times
from their masters, to curse it at last, and send it to its sure
doom. One “poor old Uncle Tom ” was enough to confiscate
every State in the South, and set on fire at last the con-
science of every man who trod free soil.‘

I never think of Woman-slavery but my whole soul is filled
with its counterpart, negro slavery. The slave-mart, the de-
gradation, the utter helplessness of the negro bears fit com-
parison to the servitude and abjsctness of my own sex under
the rule. and held firmly in the leash. of marriage contracts.
Tell me where is the difference? And tell me again is it less
improbable that war and bloodshed must be the arbiter in
the coming struggle of woman to ‘free herself from bondage?
It will be a socio-religi i-political War, and in it the curse that
rests upon woman will be remanded to the lowest hell of

woman to day has to brave juries and potentates and hell
itself to be virtuous! Out upon a system which conslgns
lust-begotten children to mad-houses and a life-loin: idl av,
through the sexual savagenes of even one such “ husband "
as this man,.who made the night hideous with his orgies!
Prate of intemperance as the “ fatal scourge ” when rape and
child-murder and woman's sufilrimz from man’s licensed
passion stalks unrebuked in our churches and best society!
Vengeance is written on the tablet of my heart for the cures

Think you, ye respectables. did she ever sign for freedom?

munity would have listened a moment to her leaving home,
and asking if there were not a law under which she could
say her sexual nature was her own! T \Vhy, the pulplts would
have been horrified to have her solicit their eloquence to
plead for her. She would have been told. and she knew it,
that “home was the best place for a. wonian, and bearing
children a. Bible injunction, and marriage gave the husband
the right, etc., and Logo home and bear it as well as she
‘could; but help her they could not, for the man was her
husband.” This is the logic in plain facts, and plain words.
Let us have facts. more facts, till they dam up the stream of
oppression, and then burst the flood-gates. and submerge the
whole country in their terrific sweep. Do you think me
‘ horrid” and cruel. you wives, who decorously ,“submit
yourselves unto your husbands,” and have everytriug safe,
smooth and bright for you on the sea of life? What if you
are a happy wife, is not the system accursed which hands
over the most of married women to the insatiable lust and

the animal, and no wish or power to control the virility and
passional demand of their sexual natures? The Bible says:
"Think of thosethat are in bonds as bound with them,” and
[:do! Do you think I would submit to a cruel husband for a
day? No! and you. perhaps, would not; but there are thou...
sands who do, anddare not do otherwise. It is for such that
the angel world has sent Victoria Woodhull, and -yet her own
sex receive her not, and she walks the earth a martyr woman,

of Whom the world is not Worthy."
, CHARLOTTE -BARBER.

“TRUTH.” IS ALWAYS STRANGER THAN
FICTION I

Dea_r‘W'eekly-Still the war goes on! The views which you

utter conc». ruing “ free love,” are read from Maine to Florida,

with di_fi'erent degrees of approbation. his a race for life--

possible abatement to your popularity. Pe_ople—=-—the unthink-=
ing andiccaiiservativemwlll continue to condemn you and your
views. But what car: you for them! Have you not shown,
yourself ‘as a. freethinker, a free-distributor of views which
no other woman in the landh-as tad moral courage to do? If
these viewsprove inconsistent to others, what care you? Let
the war go on! Continue to put forth your doctrines, which
sooner or later, will be read with avidity. You will always
be popular in spite of all the multitude can do to overthrow

‘you from your present position-21 position that has been most;
'nobly" maintained T throughout. iHvlen Nash has already

proved your supporter, and many others will gradually be

lpiralo tlcable ru bbish;

1. '1i‘kc‘*;'our‘spirit 5'-you sealant to enter into "t‘he'woriz‘°jbe£cre

 

 

hiding mm the tyranny of him who had promised to love, cherish and .

human device, from which it sprang. Talk of virtue, whens

that it has heaped on this one woman‘s body and soul. A

Perhaps not," because no good (f?) man or woman in the com- ‘

cruelty of men who happen to hive a larger development of

but youmust have been convinced ere now, that there is no ,

convinced that your doctrines are possible, andinot ims ,

 

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May 22, 11875.

woonnULL gs CLAIl‘LIN’_S WEEKLW I _ K :3

you with ad will and a determination to succeed. Succpessplhas
already crowned your noble lr'fi'uI‘i7z’~l in behalf of our‘ enslaved
wires. The 0t)ll**i'-!‘_\"’ wants a million suchiwomen; and the
the question is asked, “ Why are there not" more of them?"
the answer is, “Because they all lackihe moral courage to
espouse their own cause.” Hundreds of wives. aye thousands

 of them to-day, were they permitted to speak theiroown

ihoughts~——wou1d advocate your cause. Many people are
against you, as you we lknow, e=-speciallyat this time, because
of your connection with the Tilton-Beecher muddle. As
the WEEKLY of May 1, 1875, was put into my hands, the vin-
dication of yourself against the charges made by Woodlev
inipresed me, inasmuch as I knew VVo0'd"l'Fy’s statement to
be false at the time. As you say——and I know it to be true
in each particular-—-.no WEEKLY was published at 44 Broad
street during the summer of 1871-'-illid no WEEKLY was given
to the public between June 23 and Nov. 2.'——-which fact you
can establish beyond a doubt. No other inference can be
drawn from-it, but that the negro Woodley perj ured himself.
Is it possible he was hired to make t.his erroneous statement
knowing it to be false? This is a question which he should
answer, for I call it the grossest blackmail. If people will per-
sist in overstepping the bounds of common honesty and ver-
acity they will eventually only hurt themselves.

.As I said before, continue in your noble work as you have
done, and ‘prosperity will soon smile in your face.
/ Hnxnx Wrscnnsran Mommy. ‘
BOSTON, April 24., 1875. '

LICENSED.
_ BY PROF. J’. B. coox.

Licensed your manhood to barter and sell,
And against jusjce and love to rebel;

The truth to re-j :ct and in darkness to dwell.
Licensed to live by your learning and wit;
ln Church or in Scale in‘ hi.«h places to sit;
For humanily’s good you care not a whit.

Licensed to plot. scheme, plunder and steal,
In ways that are popular, legal, genteel;
Get something for nothing, come woe or come weal.

Licensed by custom, by law or by creed.
_ Naunal growth to stunt or impede,
And. sanction society"s wrongjand miedeed.

Licensed to spoil and to poison the air
By your foil‘ emanations. here, there, everywhere;
Forthe lights of ihexiecent “ a fig “’ you “ don‘t care.”

Licensed some woman’s form to enslave,
And soon lay it low in a premature grave;
There‘s no one to pity, and no power to save.

Licensed your animal self to transmit;
Children, nnioveli and unwelcomed beget,
Full of disease, repulsion, regret.

BROADWAY H ALL.

In H. W. Beecher‘s sermon of April 18 occurs the following
passage: A

“ I am a firm believer in the divinity of Christ,” said Mr.
Beecher, “ but I think there is truth outside that belief. If
my son should say that the grandeur and spirit of the old
church that came down from Christ, and has gone on increas-
ing through all the ages, had so captivated his trust that he
could not find peace outside of its fold, would I think him
hopelessly lost? No, I would take him by the hand, lead him
to some priest in whose faith and truth I could trust, and I
would commit my boy to histeaching. There is truth enough
in that church to bring my boy to he-avcn,‘and We will discuss
diff rences when we get there.” f

Truth cannot be condemned by a just deity, therefore he
who conscientiously denies Christ may be saved; at the same
time the doctrines taught in the Catholic Church are vindi-
cated as substantially correct. If the above positions be
sound what need of a creed? some might say, and we believe
that all must admit that creeds change.’ Five such altera-
tions are recorded in the Bible itself. The faith of Abel;
the advance in the time of Seth, when, we are told, “ men
first began to call on the name of the Lord g" the patriarchal
dispensation, under which all were forbidden “ to eat flesh
with the blood thereof, which is the life thereof;” thelllrlosaic
dispensation with its voluminous laws, and finally, the Chris-
tian ‘dispensation under which some of those laws were
quoted, repudiated and changed.’ “ I ‘

If creeds change it is only proper that churches should also.

- We are, therefore. glad to hail the advance‘made by the

Pastor of Plymouth in the above quotation. His is now a
church whose "doors areopen wide enough to admit all man-
kind. The philosopher Darwin, and. perhaps, Dr. Darwinls re-
spected progenitors, may there find entrance. Tnis iiberality
cannot be attributed to mercenaryinfiuences, as in the case
of the learned‘ Doctor, inasmuch as the entailment may be
said to have been cut 011'. All classes, savage and civilized,
believers in all creeds and in all gods, or conscientious re-I

pudiators of all deities, ought therefore‘ ‘to rejoice iuthe :

charity*e’xhilbit,ed in the above extract. , -

'We’ff,ancy, -however, that ‘orthod'oIxf>Christian.s" will -be apt"
to feel‘ horrified“ on‘ reading *the7above' admissionsby‘ the
Pastor of Plymouth, though to the WEEKLY they appear to
be more in conformity with the charity inculcated by"*the,
great Nazarene than any that can be now found in any other
orthodox church, either Protestant or Catholic. _

WOMAN.—A woman has no more bewitching grace than a

I sweet laugh. It leaps from the heart in a clear, sparkling rill ;
and the heart that hears it feels as ifbathed in an exhilarat-

ing spring. Have You ever pursued an unseen fugitive
through trees,‘ led on by herfairy laugh? VVe are pursuing
that wandering voice to-day. Sometimes it comes to us in
the midst of care or irksome business, and then we turn away
and listen. and hear it ringing through the room like a silver
bell,,with mind. How much we owe that sweet laughl. It

I turns the prose of life into poetry, and flings showers and

sunshine over its darkest hours.

7 IN MEMORIAM.
M In Janesville, Wis.. on the 12:11 of April, was born into
spiritlife, Miss Kate Wheclock, aged 20 years. Our pen can-
not stny itself from wriiing a few words of tribute to the

our home by adoption at the age of seven, she greiv up with
us the sweetest household treasure of,us all, until our love
for her almost exceeded the love for those of closer kin. She
possessed a most rare and lovely character, and it isbut fitting
that we should name some of those intrinsic exceilences, that
she may stand out as a bright example for others to emulate
and follow. During the thirteen years that this sweet girl
was a member of our home, under no provocation whatever
was she ever heard to speak an angry word or give harsh
answers; wasnever heard to complain or express impatience
over trials she had to meet, or obstacles to contend with;
was never heard to severely criticise or speak ill of a human
soul, but with unfailing kindness and charity, always found
a. good side to every body. She was the embodiment s of
truthfulness and goodness, and was remarkable for the
maturity of her womanhood. and the perfect uaturalness of
her life and conduct. She was brave and independent in
spirit, courageous enough to do her own thinking, and to act
in accordance with her own convictions. When Victoria
lectured in this city, she was brave enough to go and hear
her, and to openly express her approval of the lecture, though
her associates assured her it would disgrace her if she did.
She was a firm believer in the glorious ti uths of spin itualism,
and the light of our beautiful faith opened her inner vision
to the realities of spirit life. She always lived in the sphere
of harmony, and music was the chief love of her brief life.
And though for us her voice is stiiled forever, her lips mute.
and her hands chilled beyond the power to touch or to caress.
yet we know that she liveth and loveth still, and that her
exquisite voice brings joy and cheer to the hearts in that
other home circle “ beyond the river,” whither the tides of
time are fast drifting all who loved her. '
From her sister. ELVIRA W_nEELocK RUGGLES.
J ANESVILLE, Wis, April 18, 1875. V

VALCOUR ISLAND. April 19, 1875.

Various rumors having gone to the public in relation to
my imprisonment, brought about by Orren Shipman, I am
induced to state that the whole affair was of much less im-
portance than was at first reported. An imprisonment of
ten" days is a pleasant diversion in one’s life, especially when
the cause of imprisonment is so poorly based as it was in
thisinsianoe. .

Hopingto avert hisinevitable doom in bankruptcy, and be-
lieving that Twas instrumental in bringing that re~uit about
ftvrithe purpose of procuring the property for the community
through the creditors at :3. fair price, Mr. Shipman instituted
a. suit against me in trover, and thrust .i11B into prison. But
in the trial I obtained a verdict of no cause of action and
judgment against the plaintiff for costs. These unpleasant
controversies have enabled our enemies among the secular
press to circulate the ru more that our community has failed,
which is by no means the case, as we will be enabled to show
to the satisfaction of our friends ere long. '

J onx ‘WrLLcox, South Piattsburg, N. Y.

, .‘E'ENNvILLE, Ind.

Woodhull and CIa_fl'£n--Inciosed you will find three dollars
to renew my subscriptionto your valuable paper the VVEEKLY.
P ease accept with it my congratulations on your worthy
efforts in behalf of woman. » i «

God speed the day when wlimen all over the World may see
and know as you do that there is a great, a. pressing need for
each and every one to some boldly forward and claim the
freedom of soul and body which has so long been denied
them:

I am yours for truth, DIANA. VVRIGHT.

SHEFFIELD, Eng, April 15, 1875.
Enrrons WOODHULL st CLAELJNSTWEEKLY:

Dear Fn'ena's--As you so kindly invite every one who has
-well defined ideas on the subject of the natural relations’ of
man and woman, I take the opportunity of contributing my
mite. Iconsider that we have out-grown the present laws
governing the liberties of the sexes, and that a legal or re-
ligious ceremony is utterly useless. 4Hr-re in England the
over-populated condition of 1 rge manufacturing towns is
distressing. The man’s_wages do not keep the family inithe
sheercst necessities, and the woman has a trade at which she
labors while producing children, attending to her house as
best she can; and the conditions of the lower class of Wo1'k~
ing people is worse than that of the plantation negroes before
the -war. The paupers are increasing in number. and the
upper class women are agitating for the ballot, and bid fair
to have it. Great efiort is being made to educate the masses.
The boarding schools are numerous.‘ Compulsory educa-
tion ‘working well. But what can be done to elevate the
middlz—a~ged married women from their wretched condition?

' There is one womanof 35 years who is gainingthe gratitude
of the mothers of the present day by teaching them how to

physiological fact, whichishe ‘has proved ;tobe efficacious
where both parents unite in their -wish-to have no more
family, and this is easily put into practice. Many an over-

do anything to spread the fact in your valuable paper? Surely
every woman should know how to protect herself, and your
WEEKLY is the only paperewhich speaks out plainly and
boldly on these subjects in spite of M.D.’s or D.D'.s. If you
can put the- information in proper form, and give it to the
public, you will only be calling forth gratitude from the suf-
fering thousands who are learning more from you than any
one now before the public how to live happily, purely and
well. ,

Bless you a thousand times for your tract, “ The Elixir of
. Life,” loaned me by a friend. Future generations will, in-
? deed, rise and call you blessed. I would I could send you a
' thousand pounds.

memory of this beloved sister. A cousin, but also a child of _

limit the number of their children by the observance of al

burdened mother has already profited by the idea. Can you

Thanking you agai‘h'”aiid‘ again for being so brave as to
take the stand you have for humanity. and against "Mrs.
Grundy,” I am yours for-all true reform and progress,

JANET SPENoEn,
Stalker Place, Sharron Vale, Sheifield, England.

PRESS El‘-HOES IN‘ THE BEECIIER S(‘ANDAL.
MR. BEECHER CONTRAI)ICTING HI.\l:ELF FLATLY.

Beecher has shown himself to be the most forgetful and
untrustworthy-«witness, measured by the simple rules of com-
mon sense and of law, that has yet testified in the case, un-
less those negroes can be excepted. In a 0:il‘ofullV prepared
written " statement," “he purposely creutvd tho in-pri-‘ssinu
that Mr. Moulton threatened him with a pistol, and thus ex-=
torted from him Mrs. Tiiton’s letter of retraction. ‘ I-Ie swears
on thewitness—stand ihatthe showing of that pistol was purely
accidental, and had nothing to do with the surrender of Mrs,
’l‘ilton’s letter. As a lie is the intent to deceive, Beecher his
lied once on his own testimony. Beecher, in his statenient,
represented*Mou1ton as a blackmailer, and purposely caused
that impression to go abroad. He swears that he did not so
regard him—-all his testimony shows that he did not. and
shows that this theory was merely the trick of lawyers.
He swears that the lawyers forced him tojutter lie number
two. Innocence needs no lawyers tricks. llaving, in eilect,
sworn that he lied in calling Moulton a blackniailer, and
having sworn that he lied in representing that Mouton
threatened him with a pistol, we are prepared to believe that
he has not altogether clung to the truth when he has said he
didn’ t.——C£“r» c’I3n'n ati En qu irer.

MR. BEEOHEn's FRIENDS DISAPPQINTED.

There is a good deal of clisappointnient pervading all
classes that Mr. Beecher has not more clearly explained his
damaging letters; but as they are very ditficuit to explain,
perhaps he did the best he could. And upon ihe whole, it is
safe to say that he did as well as any one could under his
circumstances. ‘We think he has failed to change the

opinions of those who were previously convinced of his guilt,

and the issue still remains unsettled, and probably will thus
remain, whatever shall be the verdict of the jury. We wish
we could give Mr. Beecher a stronger li]dUl'S8i.u6lll» than this,

but we cannot do so conscientiously‘. -.-—f,Rom'tes-tar Democrat. '

There has never existed a man with such a m‘-racuous fa-
cility for throwing open the sluice-gates of .<:u1~‘b. Upon the
slightest provocation he deluges everybody about him with
the flood of his emotion. He makes of every nian's hirt bo-
somapocket handkerchief for his woes, and is undeniably the
champion weeper of the world. What a beautiful and child-
like nature a man must have who spends the major portion
of his time in crying and kissing! A pendulum eternally

oscillating between the extremes of Woo and joy.——1Jo.sto1t__

‘Journal of C ommerce.

It is evident that a serious inroad has been made on the
defense, and unless he recovers the ground gained by the
adroit and masterly tactics of Mr. Fullerton, his friends r ill
have reaon to look forward ‘to the result with anxizty. To
one in his position, where evcrythimr 5* Pfllds “P011 W9 3315'
isfactnriness of explanations, forgetting is confessing.—Ncw
York Graphic.

.Whatevei- verdict the jury may render in the case will not
efl:“>:»ct the verdict of the country at large, which will he. that
free love thrives in the atmosphere of I’ly1nouth.—.Newa.ik‘
Ad-certi'sw.

Plymouth Church has, by its pettifogging conduct in the
case, written its name in eternal infamy. The world will
stand aghast at the proclaimed immorality of these latter»-
day saints.——Southwes£. ' 4

>-4%»-4—

CLX PPINGS.

A nREssiu'-A.KER‘sapprentice speaks of her cross—eyed lover '

as the fellow whose ooks are out bias. -

A 0I'.0sE’observer says that the words which ladies are fun did
W est of are the first and last words.

A NEWSPAPER biographer trying to say his subject “ was
hardly able to bearthe demise of his wife.” W38 H1368 by W6
inexorable printer to say, “’ wear the chemise of his wife.”

1:1: is said that the new postal cards are to be made of mate-‘« ‘
rial that will protect the secrets of the writers-at least they ”

are to be in, violet. “

Two Irishman traveling on the Baltimore and Ohio’ rail-
road track came to a mile post, when one of them. said:
“Tread aisy, Pat; here lies a man 108 years old——-hi.s name
was Miles from Baltimore.” 9

“ ‘Now let us talk about your business a‘r”l"aii's,” said a ("on~= .
necticut girl to syoung fellow after he bai proposed mar: iage,

to her in a long address filled with expressions V of passionate
love.
SHE‘s a regular coquette, is Miss Pacific Mail. Do you

notice how she jilts her first love for her second, and do11’t~ -

consult Pa-na’-Ma on the subject, either?
OLD—EAsHIoNEi)- lady: “Mr. Editor, please to print me a.

piece ,again_st- the foolish fashion which the women have of, »_
pinning their./veils clcsely about their. faces.”;, -Ed»i_-tor:..-

“ Never, madam! When we pitched, into their bustles and

panniers they got their backs up higher than ever. . If we now I I
[fly at their faces it will avail nothing. Fashion, madame, is
an impregnabie fortress, whether you attack in front or in ’

therear, and woman is its commander.”

THIS is how Mary Kyle Dallas says it feels: “ Take a man
and pin three or four large tableclotlis about him. fastened
back with elastic and looped up with ribbons: drag all his

own hair to the middle of his head and tie it tight, and hair» '

pin on about five pounds of other hair and a big bow of rib-
bon. Keep the front locks on pins all night and let them

tickle his eyes all day; pinch his waist into a corset,-and give - .
him gloves a size too small, and shoes ditto, and a hat that » ,
will not stayion without torturing elastic, and a trill to tickle‘

his chin, and a little lace veil to blind his eyes whenever‘ he

goes out to walk, and he will know what-wo.man"s dress is.” ‘

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wnar IS THE KINGDOM or con?

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power-.wI. Cornu-
2nIA1~zs,iv. 20. \

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you ?--IBID, 111. 16.

“Seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto
you.--S'r.. LUKE, xii. 31. ‘

Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom,
when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority; then shall the
Son himself be subject, that God may be all in all. --I. Conxnrnmns, xv.
Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage-supper of the
Lamb.--Rnvni..u:roivs, xxx. 9.

. THE KINGDOM.

The kingdom is _a significant expression. It is fixed,
definite. It is not a: kingdom to be somewhere, some time,
and of whatsoever character; but it is the kingdom of which
sort there can be a single one only——that one for which all
look forward as a more perfect condition for mankind in
the future; that place, condition or existence into which all
people are to be gathered ultimately. All are aware that

the chief feature of religious efiort has , ever been to so pre-

pare the people for death, that at the coming, at some in-
definite time in the future, of the great day of judgment and
resurrection, they should receive the sentence——“ Well
done,” “ enter in." But science having established the fact
that a condition of suspended existence for the soul is an
utter impossibility, we have been compelled to look for some
other method in which this great day of the Lord is to
come than that usually accepted by ,-the‘ Church, which
method must be inaccordance with the now well-estab-
lished doctrine of general evolution, by which all other
things in the universe are developed. ~ "

Such an" investigation as this indicates would have been
‘impossible, except as a matter of theory, until within the
advent of modern Spiritualism. The facts connected with
its development, fraught as they are with the most tremen-
dous interests of humanity, have not only made this investi-
gation possible, but have actually led the way in which it is
to be made. If a time come when two spheres of existence,
always before separated by a great gulf fixed between them,
begin ‘to communicate with each other, and then to apil
preach and to appear to each other, the fact of development
toward a common point, or of progress toward a given
centre, is thereby revealed. So when Spiritual communion
so far advanced that the presence of spirit bodies became
known to the material senses, it was patent that the two ex-

. “great gulf” had become narrowed, and nearly, if not

quite, spanned.

N ow, here was a fact upon which to base a proposition.
What did or does it mean? Look back to the diagram of
the two triangles, and there see in the culmination of their
two apexes the reply-—a coming together, a unity, a reunion
of what had been separated. It should be borne in mind
that this diagram does not represent distances and separa-
tions of space or direction, but distances and separations by
virtue of different degrees of growth; difierent states of
development. Persons going from the earth to the spirit‘
sphere, are as far away from full development, or from the
ultimate condition in that sphere as they were in the one
left;/and they must approach it by growth in the same way
as do those still remaining in the earth sphere. It seems
that this must be evident to everybody who considersrthe
question; indeed, that it is self-evident. I

I L THEIR CULMINATION. ‘

But this brings‘ with it the necessity of accepting. another
fact which has scarcely ever entered into the thoughts, and
never into the creeds, of man. If by progress it is possible
for those in and those out of the flesh to arrive at the same
condition, then the existence in which both shall exist when
it is attained must be the same. To a certain degree this
fact is illustrated by the present existence. There are various
conditions in this life—-—some low and material, others high
and spiritual—the difference between which being a result of
the difierent degrees of actual development, and this deter-
mines absolutely the materiality or the etheriality of every
human organization. This same line of development, ‘car-
ried forward to the ultimate, must of necessity take the in-
dividual to that point of spirituality, or ethereality, or re-
finement, or purified materiality, over which the spirit exer-

earth sphere are developing into this condition, those in the
spirit sphere are also developing toward the same condition
from an opposite direction; that is, while mortals are becom-
ing materially spiritualized, spirits are bccomihg spiritually
materialized, while to be materially spiritualized and spirit-
ually materialized are one and the same thing; they are the
perfect harmonization and blending of the two natures of
man. Resurrection or materialization is the term used to
indicate the arrival of spirits at this ‘condition, and spiritual-

‘ ization that of mortals. The understanding of {these two

opposite methods of arriving at the same condition reveals
another mystery that has been concealed in the sayings of
Jesus. He said that by certain methods of life, that is by
understanding and living the whole truth——being led by the
spirit of truth indicated by Him as a perfect belief in Him-
self——neople should never taste of death, meaning, unmis-
takably, physical death; or, in other words, their bodies
should never see corruption, should grow into the immortal
state without passing through death and the resurrection.
Nothing can be clearer than that He taught these two
modes of development. He said, St. Luke xx., 34 and 36:
“They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that
world, and the resurrection of the dead, cannot die any
mo;-e,” The doctrine of evolution says, that they who grow
into the perfected material state, and they who materialize
from the spirit state, cannot die any) more.

St. Paul’s teachings were also very explicit upon these
points. He said that death is an enemy to man which is to
be‘ destroyed; in fact that it is “the last enemy that shall be
destroyed ;” and that,“ when this corruptible shall have put
on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortali-
ty, then cleathpis swallowed up in victory;” that is, is de-
stroyed. He also taught that there is no immortality ex-
cept through the resurrection. He said: If in this (the earth)
life only, we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most
miserable; for if there be no resurrection, then is Christ not
risen, and if Christ be not risen, then they that are dead are
lost. So here again is found a perfect harmony between the
two methods of knowledge-that of spiritual comprehension
and of intellectual investigation; or that of prophecy and of
science, which two methods, when blended into unity, cor-
respond to the unity and blending of the earthly and the
spiritual, and naturally accompany them; in other words,
spiritual comprehension and prophecy are the methods by
which the spirit receives and gives; while intellectual inves-
tigation and scientific research are the methods by which-
the uninspired‘ mind learns and teaches. In this again
—-in the fact that the truth about the final condition of man,
is beginning to be discovered by both methods-—is the evi-
dence of the near approach of that condition—+the discovery
being its J ohn-the-Baptist, while the culmination will be the
Christ itself. . ' -

, THE Invo NATURES, . _

Man, everywhere, is conscious that within him there are
two confiicting forces, and that out of the struggle be-
tween them, comes the government of this life. These two
forces are the Spiritual and the Material——the inner and the
outer—-and the standard of life is determined by the domi-
nance of one or the other of these. . Stated by the theory of
evolution, their action may be formulated‘ asfollgws: At
birth, each person inherits certain qualities and capacities of
“body and mind with which he begins the journey of life
Which is peaceable, quiet and joyous; or. stormy, irritable
and miserable, in "the exact ratio “of the harmony or the
discord between these two natures. The-material (in biblical
terms called the carnal) nature has its exemplification in the

istenccs were not widely separate; was evident that the

beasts. Their life represents _the harmonious and\natural_
condition. They have natural appetites and passions belong-

cises absolute control.. At the same time that those in the -

ing wholly to the material, which when adequately sup-
plied, they are perfectly satisfied. They live on, finally de-
caying and dying as if in accord with the highest purposes
of their nature, rather than by any conflict within ‘them, as
is the case with man who dies of disease, this deathbeing
the triumph of the material forces in the struggle between
them and the spiritual, or between the two natures; al

disease in man being a result of this warfare for the

supremacy.

(Paul, in reasoning upon these natures, said: “ If I do
that which I would-not, it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me. I see-a law in. my members (body)
warring’ against the law of my mind.” Here again is found
still further evidence of the same general truth of which we
are treating. The degree’ of subjection to the law of the
body determines the status of the individual; demonstrates,
how far along the line of evolution he has progressed from
the base line of humanity toward brotherhood, where there

is no longer any confiict between the law of the body and j

that of the spirit. The development from one to the other,
being the Spiritual conflict by which the body is brought
into harmony with the spirit, and this conflict being nothing
more or less than the natural progress of the individual ac-
cording-to the law of evolution, which carries him forward
and upward from the conditions in which he is born to-
ward the point of complete harmony within himself, when
and where only he can be in harmony with his brothers, the
human family. From this it will be seen that general har-
harmony or brotherhood must come as a result of the bar-
monization of the individuals of whom the brotherhood
consists. In other words, there must be brothers before
there can be a brotherhood, but when tlrere shall be
brothers, then there will be a brotherhood.

THE TWO TRIAINGLES.

The two triangles represent the spirit -and the earth
sphere; and their coming together represents the union of
the two in one. The union of two making one, let it be in
whatevc1“departmen.t of nature, is the natural marriage; is
the union of the two sexes; is the uniting of the positive
(the male) with the negative (the female). This coming ‘to-
getherwthis marriage——of the two spheres, will not be dif-
ferent in kind from the general marriage. Indeed, it will
be the first complete and inseparable union‘ ever formed, be-
cause the opposites thus brought together will be the first
perfected spiritual and material types of being——the

spiritual standing for the positive or the masculine, and the .

material for the negative or the feminine sides of life. That

is to say, when there shalftbe a spirit perfected materially, .

and a. person in the form perfected spiritually, then there
will be a marriage of-them, which will forever unite the
two worlds into one; which will represent the two processes
by which immortality is attained, and which will spread

until the whole world shall be saved finally and absolutely, ‘L
salvation meaning immortality and nothing else; and im- ‘

mortality meaning the power over death; or becoming
superior to "death as was J csus, exemplified by his rising
from the dead.

The spirit or the person having attained the immortal con-
dition is répresented by the complete union or coming to-
gether of the two triangles, or the double triangle. In such

an one the /spirit sphere is represented perfectly blended in ’

the material sphere, and this condition is the kingdom of

heaven. The kingdom of heaven then is the immortal con- '

dition, to have which is to have salvation. Having this key
with which to solve the otherwise meaningless passages of
the Bible, its significance becomes clear. Death is the great
and final enemy which is to be overcome. Having been
brought into the world by the efiort inherent in man to dis-
cover the hidden mysteries of the universe, it has been an
universal inheritance in the language of the Bible, or
as a legitimate and ' necessary result of which in the
language of evolution. For this desire for knowledge
man has struggled and suffered through the centuries,
but is to be finally restored to the original condition of
harmony and happiness. He has run the gamut from that
condition through all the harmonies and discords of the
scale, to repeat its harmonies (speaking in musical terms) in
the higher octave. He has ascended from the plane where

the individual was at harmony with himself in the purely ‘A

material sense, as the -brutes are harmonious, and has

struggled all theway up between the influence of the law of ‘ _
the carnal and that of the spiritual, ‘to finally reach the place

where these two become one, adding to the gl'ory and beauty

of the outward form, the diviner symphonies of the internal]

spirit, which having subdued;  things unto himself sur-

renders the conquered kingdom up to the Father, ‘so. that He’ ”

may be all in all. This spirit is the Christ that the Father
hath sent into the world that through him all might be saved-
who suffers on the cross of afliliction, dies and is finally raised
from the dead to become the fruits of the resurrection and
to inhabit the kingdom-of God,_where the tree and the river
of -life shall feed his people eternally.

l “ THE STAR or BETHLEHEM.

When Jesus was born the star in the East guided the wise

men to the spot where the young child lay. He wasthe .

star in the east that had arisen to become a light unto the

"whole wo1Td. He was the first perfected man, who by

virtue of the purity of his birth, inherited the kingdom from
the beginning. He was the perfect man physically, and the
perfect man spiritually. He represented both the earth and
the spirit sphere, and was, therefore, the first and as yet the
only begotten Son of God, and by being such became, the

 

 

i I have had a marked‘ effect upon the issue of this case?

(our criminal jurisprudence and practice.
, system is clefly wrong and in opposition to justice.

hfaylfi 2, .1875.

WOODHUALL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. H5

Saviour of the World; because every one who enters into
the Kingdom, and becomes a son of God, havingbeen born
as‘Jesus was born of the spirit, must go in by the same way
-—by the same door——by which he went in who, in this birth,
is made the elder brother; to all who shall follow. The
diagram to represent the Son of God—-the Christ--is the fol-
lowing: J I

     

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which is the double triangle or the six cornered star——-the
star of Bethlehem. It is the two triangles grown together-—
the two worlds permeating each other, utterly, in a per-
fected blending, or, in the language of the Ancients; it is
the living Lord. Jesus is so far the only individual who is
represented by this star. Standing, as it does, for the unity

of the spiritual and material, none can come within its

sacred light until their material natures become subject com-
pletely to the rule of the spirit, and when this comes then
they to whom it comes are no longer subject to the law, but
to grace, to whom all things are lawful, and to whom all
power-is committed. Such are they who are of the Kingdom
of Heaven, having become the sons and daughters of God.

LESSONS OF THE BEECHER TRIAL.

The desperate struggle between Mr. Tilton and Mr. Beecher,
now in its fifth month, has demonstrated at least one thing
conclusively. We are aware that our people have always
considered their system of court-practice so nearly perfect
that it is not susceptible of improvement. It is our opinion,
however, that this is a delusion, and perhaps one of the
worst ones from which we suffer. It is a most singular fact,
connected with our institutions, that the people hug to their
breast many, even-barbarous, customs, thinking them to be
perfection in their kind, and one of these is our administra-
tion of t j ustice. 1 -

Everybody knows, in the first instance, that the real truth
newer is told from the witness-stand. Especially is this true
of the Beecher trial. Witnesses, before being permitted to
testify, are sworn to “ tell the truth-, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth,” but they no more than take the
stand and begin to exhibit their evidence, than they are
compelled to break their oaths by the objections of lawyers
and the rulings of Courts. How can a witness tell the whole
truth ‘unless permitted to go on in his own way to tell his
whole story? Take Mr. Henry C. Bowen as an illustration‘:
Suppose that he "had been allowed to read and explain the
writing known as the “ Woodstock letter;” can any one
doubt that facts [would have been developed which would
Here
was a letter in which Mr. Bowen made the most serious
charges against Mr. Beecher. It was this letter that led to
the confidences between Mr. Bowen and Mr. Tilton, and
these again that led to the writing by the latter of the letter
demanding Mr. Beecher’s*retirem‘ént from Plymouth Church,
of which Mr, Bowen was the bearer." This interview has
been made a subject of investigation in the trial, and a part
of Mr. Beecher’s defense rests upon this interview between
himself and Mr. Bowen. Now that the facts which led to
that interview are ruled out, the whole truth about it can
never be learned by the jury. Their admission would also
have explained clearly the reasons for the c_onduct_ of Mr.
Bowen at that time, which now stands inexplicable.

But there is another side to all this. The above illustrates
a. point where the suppression of, a -part’ of the facts results
in keeping back a part of the truth, which in this case it
mayibe assumed was favorable to -Mr. Beecher. But there
is another kind -of suppression that operates just the reverse
of this. A fact, standing by itself, may be frequently so
modified by antecedent or subsequent _events, ‘or by both, as
to be entirely changed in its bearing. If-cut» off from these,
itmay mean a great deal more than it would connected with
them. Thus an act‘ may be stated, but the reasons that led
to it suppressed. So, in either of these cases, the whole
truth is not told; indeed the witness is not permitted to tell
it, although. he is required, before beginning to testify, to
make oath that he will do so. It seems to us that these
practices should be remedied, and that witnesses should be
allowed and required to tell all they know in the -ifirst
instance, and should then he cross-examined to test the cor-

-rectness of their stories.

And, this leads to still another serious defect in our methods
of administering justice, which is more forciblyillustrated in
A Here the, entire
The

public is made the _ prosecutor, and is represented- by an

3'

attorney, styled the prosecuting attorney. These oflicials
proceed almost universally upon the theory that they are to
secure the conviction and not the acquittal of those who are
brought before them and charged with crime. Indeed, this is
the result of their practice, since they endeavor by every
possible mode to Hippress such testimony as is favorable to
the defendant.
crimes of which they are not guilty, and sufler the disgrace
of imprisonment unjustly on this very account. Especially
is this true of the many poor persons, to defend whom pro-
perly requires the expenditure of large sums of money, which
they do not have, while pitted against them are the whole
power and wealth of the State, besides, frequently, the influ-
ence and wealth of those who suppose they have been injured
by the defendants.‘

It is not a too severe criticism of this practice to brand it
as barbarous, simply, and as utterly unworthy of, and a dis-
grace to, the enlightenment of this day and age. All trials
for all causes, especially all trials for criminal causes, should
be conducted purposely to arrive at the truth. I There should

. not be two sides to any case. All trials should be conducted

by the attorney for the public, whose duty should be not to
secure convictions, butto establish the facts. If his eflorts
lean to either side, they should lean to that of the persons on
trial, because, being charged with crime, the influence of
public opinion is against them in its effect upon the jury.

It is clear that an immense revolution would be effected
were all our court proceedings based upon these principles
of public justice. At least, if it must be considered that
there are two sides’ before a court in an inquiry into any
cause, civil or criminal, they should both be represented by
a public oflicer, and not by private counsel on one side. If
it is held" that a person is innocent until found guilty, then
he should have the same means and equal opportunities to
establish his innocence as those used against him have to
establish his guilt. Not to have these is to have entirely
unequal conditions between the contesting parties. Even in
civil cases trials before courts and juries would be diminished
fully one half if people were required to bring their causes
for action before a public tribunal to be adjudicated wholly
by public oflicials. Private counselors are the real cause of
the larger part of civil actions. They live from their prac-
tice, and they induce their clients to bring actions when
they know they have no case, or, having a case, that they
have no competent proof.

When we look over the country, and see the great num- I

ber of lawyers, courts and court oflicials, and then calculate
the expenditure necessary to support them, a sum total is
presented entirely beyond common acceptance. Some years
ago the costs of _civil actions in one of the Western States
were calculated and compared with the amount of judgments
recovered, when the balance was largely against the latter.
’We have no doubt the same would prove true everywhere.
It seems to us that this is a sweeping condemnation of the
wholesystem, because, if true, it then costs the public more
to support their courts than is recovered by their practice.

ZioURNALisT1o HONOR.

 

It is the almost universal custom among editors in this
country to say whatever they please derogatory to, or in
abuse of, any dew and unpopular doctrine, and to refuse to
print any and all replies or defenses. Some weeksago the
Sun contained a lengthy editorial of this class from which
we selected a single paragraph, and made, as we thought, a
very temperate reply. Of course it was not printed, nor
did we expect that it would be. The Sam can publish long
dissertations, characterizing the morality and tendency of
free love, giving its own ideas of it, but it cannot afford to
publish a plain statement of it as it is held by its advocates
to be, which shows clearly that i.t is endeavoring to cover
up the real issue, and by so doing to keep women under
the control of legal and slave love; or, in other words, sub-
servient to man, sexually. The following is the communi-
cation referred to: S '

WHAT is THE LOGICAL INFERENCE?

To the Editor of the Su-n»—In_ the Sun of this morning I find
the following in an editorial entitled “ The Road Toward
Free Love :” *

Theire really is only one logical result of breaking down
the rigid restraints which the experience and custom of _de-
cent society impose, and Victoria Woodhull has reached it~
and planted‘ herself on the unsavory conclusion. For her

audacity in following up her premises’ so 10 belly. and will- ‘

ingly accepting the conclusion, she _so far eserves a much
higher respect than those who enjoyed the loose practices
yet dared not consort withher in their ultimation. If a re‘-
ligious and spiritual excuse can be found for promiscuous

kissing,"s'o also a like warrant may be reasoned out, or"

rather, in the Brooklyn language, felt out, for what such
kissing is apt and pretty sure to lead to. ’

Whatever may be the “logical result” at which this
hints, there can be no doubt about the logical inference that
is conveyed. While thanking you for the personal refer-
ence, I must beg ‘to dispute your inference, and I do this in
behalf of my sex, against the innate purity and virtue of
whom this inference is directed. You say, virtually, that if
free love were the rule of society, that promiscuous-
ness would follow as the “logical result.” With this
I take distinct issue, and aflirm that such a ‘result
is not possible of woman’s nature. The practice
of free love would be its substitution "for the slave-
love that now exists. It would relieve the world of all the
commerce that is now enforced against the will of woman,
and of all, unwilling child-bearing that spreads misery, vice

Doubtless many persons are convic‘.ed of j

and crime broadcast over the world. Those who can see
in the advocacy of free-love a greater scope for debauchery
only, do not see the issue at all for which its advocates con-
tend. This class of people, however, do not insult these
advocates‘ only, but also universal -womanhood; since,‘ they
say, in substance, that if free love werethe rule, woman
would be less pure, less virtuous than now. I)o the op-
posers of free love ever stop to, think that purity and virtue
are innate in the individual, and not a result of the ob-
servance of a law; that they are natural, and not legal
qualities? ?’_

I undertake to maintain that a free and independent
womanhood would never marry for a home or position, or
sell itself in prostitution; and I lay this before the conscience
of every pure woman, and ask eachto hear me out in it,
and by so doing defend themselves against this attack made
upon all women. -

The difficulty now is that woman is virtually compelled ,

to barter her sex in distasteful marriage, when the other
kind does not‘ present itself in time, or else in prostitution
for support. I venture to say that not one woman in a
hunidred—-nay, not one in a thousand — would endure un-
desired comnierce if all women were equally protected and
supported as Jesus taught, in brotherly and sisterly love,
having all things common. This is the Christian doctrine,
although it is fashionable to follow it in theory only, now-
adays.

Of course, so long as the teachings of Jesus are repudiated
and competition is the rule of society, woman being denied
her equal part within the same, she must and will revenge
herself upon society by sacrificing her innate sense of virtue
and purity to obtain her equal share of the supports of life;
but once let her assume an equal position with man, and no
such vicarious course would be even seemingly necessary
for her to follow.

Iii conclusion, I commend these questions to mothers,
wives and daughters: Do you see if there were no slave-love
in the world that you would be happier, purer and more
virtuous than you can possibly be while your love is con-

trolled bylaw or custom or any other thing? And do you

not also see that all love must be free; while that which
purports to be love, which is not free, is not love but lust?
 VICTORIA C. Wooi)nuLL.
50 Bnoxn smear, N. Y., April 19, 1875.

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THE BEECHER TRIAL.

 

The evidence in this case is very nearly completed. The
rebutting testimony will probably be ended to-day——Tuesday
—after which the sur-rebuttal, which will necessarily be

brief, will be offered, and then will come the great efiforts of I

the lawyers. It is understood that Mr. Evarts will sum up
for Mr. Beecher so far as to fully review the evidence and place

it properly before the jury, while General Porter will descant

upon the personal portion, the position, relation, and influ.
once’ of Mr. Beecher. Mr. Beach, it is also understood, will
do the whole of Mr. Tilton’s case. The most brilliant efforts
of which each of these eminent men is capable may be ex-
pected on this occasion.

Since our last issue there have been some unexpected de-
nouements, which may have important bearings upon the
result. -Mr. Tilton, very unexpectedly, called Mr. Bowen,
who testified to some facts about the delivery of the original
letter from Tilton to Beecher, which were flat contradictions
of Mr. Beecher. Mr. Tilton also called Mrs. Woodhull and
Colonel Blood, --who, after being in attendance for four days,
upon each of which it was expected that they would be
placed upon the stand, were dismissed without being
called to testify. In rebuttal there is but little scope for.
testimony, as it can be confined to special points from which
the cross-examination cannot depart. It is difficult, perhaps,

to determine the reasons that operated first to call, and after- -

ward to dismiss them; but, doubtless, it was considered that
their testimony would be damaging to both si ies.

But having being dismissed by the plaintiff without ex-
amination, Mrs. Woodhull is now subpcened by the defend-
ant to appear and produce “ all letters, books, papers and
documents, in any way relating to any matter. of. difference
between Mr. Tilton and Beecher.” In-our opinion, Mr. Til-
ton having opened the door for conflicting testimony by put-

tingMr. Bowengupon the stand, without knowing exactly ‘= W"

what his evidence would be, committed a sad blunder by"

gave notice to the defendant that he. was fearful, and the de-
fendant has taken advantage of this to call us_ himself._ I V

Could we have gone upon the -stand and toldthe‘ whole
story as we know it, there would have been some satisfac-
tion; but to be put upon the stand when there is‘ no oppor-
tunity to testify to anything save what the party calling may
desire, is a limitation at once annoying and most unsatisfac-
tory. We shall see. -

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, THE RIGHT SPIRIT .

 

In the Irzfslt World for April 17 there is an able and ex-
haustive editorlal of four columns, entitled “Worldliness
of the Church,” in which it is manifestly shown that the
true spirit of Christianity-—thc simplicity of early Christians
——is ignored by the Church, and that pomp, form and cere-
mony have taken its place—-the spirit has departed, leaving
nothing but empty form. We excerpt’ the following to
show the general drift of the article:

 

 

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woonnutt. a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY.

wail rm Erninzence, Cardinal McC mkcy, introduce among:

us the old world st; In and fashion ‘I’ It would seem this isto 1

be. immediately after the fact of his elevation to that dig-
nity was made known. 9. pair of spleiidl-’i black horses and a
magnificent coach bearing his coat-of-arms were ordered for
him. '1 he costwas: ‘

Coach ..............  .................... ..a3.oeo:'

Two horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 72,000

Harness . . . . ..— .......... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 500
Total . . . . . . . . . . . .......... . . $5,500

Five thousand five hundred dollars for a parade equipagel
As much as a poor workingman, at $10 a week, could make
in eleven years. And the average ‘workingman at that same
has to feed a wife and four or five children and try to keep
the landlorrlha sheriff from the door, too. Well. if in all this
the simple faithful have_not.hing to gain, “society,” at least,
will have some cause to rejoice. '

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“DAWN VALCOTZR COMMUNITY.”

To Mr Rnsraorun AND ESTEEMED FRIENDS, ‘VICTORIA.
TENNIE AND COL. BLOOD:

I end you our new circular, containing my invitation and
offer of all these beautiful lands as aifree gift for a com-
munitylsuccess and for reconstruction. Please read Mrs.
Shipman’s history of the past failure and you will know the
plain, honest truth. My statement in the circular is vir-
tually an offer to you for this great work, so that the world
may have a. community of the right stamp. Without reserve
I offer the estates. and hope you will count them your home,
and grant your efficient aid and control. I ,

Believing the course you advocate is on the side of virtue,
honesty and truth, I appeal to you. Will you give these'Vob-
jects and aims your personal attention. Will you be our
pillar of strength against wrong and to favor the right. 1_
will answer questions and cheerfully give information.

 I am very truly-yours, URBEN SHIPMAN,
‘ Box 0. S., Wincoski, Vermont.
COMMENTS.

It will be seen from this proposition that Mr. Sliiprnan is
apparently in earnest in his desire to have a. community
formed upon his property, since he now proposes to give it
unconditionally for that purpose.‘ It is not our place to
judge of the right or the wrong of the movement that has
failed. Undoubtedly there was misunderstanding on both
sides.’ This Offer of Mr. Shipman goes a great way, how-
ever, to establish his honesty of purpose, let the misunder-
standing be what it may. ~We have a well-founded convic-
tion that Mr. Shipman’s desire to have his property used for
community purposes will be gratified, though he may have
to wait awhile patiently for sucha consummation.

-15 A
7 gr

HOME TALK.
BY J. H. NOYES.

-We are making a great present to the world at great cost
to ourselves, and that present is, the liberty to think and
speak about marriage as about other subjects. Hitherto.
:marriage has been considered beyond the reach of discussion ;
it has not been allowable to think that there could; be any
serious wrong in it. There has been. the same kind of feeling
about its sacredness that there is in the Old countries about
kings. And what is curious, this idea. of the unapproachable
sacredness of marriage is kept up in full force among people
who are practically dislcyai to it. How many do we know
that are fighting behind the fortifications of that institution,
firing away at us’ with ammunition belonging to it, and yet,
practically, are utterly disloyal to ma.rriage--more so than
we are. ’ . .

The really good object of marriage may bestated as the
productionof family blessings. There is a certain amount or
courting. kissing, embracing, amatory conversation, sexual
intercourse, begetting, bearing, nursing and educating chil~
dren, all of which come under the general head of family

-blessings. I "accept it as the natural, legitimate business of

human» nature to produce these blessings. ,But the question

.’_is, how to produce them of the very best ‘quality, and in the

greatest" quantity. Can they be best produced by families in
pa.irs,£ or by larger partnerships? We will -assume that in
each case theobject is the same, and that the estimation and
appreciation of the object is the same ;‘ and then the simple,
practical question remains, which is the best way to secure
this object; by dotting the world over with little families
consistingof pairs, oriby larger associations?

Perhaps there has not been experiment enough in larger
associations to settle the question; but people assume that it
is to be done in pairs. I consider that as unwise as it would
be to say that all the business in New York city must be done
in firms ofgtwo.' As- human. happiness depends in at great
measure on these family blessings, I believe that a vastly
greater amount of happiness could be producedby large cor-
porations, than by individual pairs. The world must have
liberty to test this question; it must have liberty to try all

sorts ‘of families, and not be confined, to what may be called ,

the one-horse family. Itis just suclra problem as that of the
railroads.“ We ‘have gotibeyond thinking that a’ one-horse
wagon is all we can ride in ziwe A have conveyances nowadays
which will carry six,or"s'ev'en’ hundred. people at once; and

the world must certainly have liberty to find out which com- .

binations-are bet for producing family blessings.

We. are presenting the world with that liberty at our own
cost—-the liberty to think, try exper/iments,_and discuss this
great subject of the production of family blessings, without
any holy horror of new inventions. Vfe shall have to stand
and take thethrashing of the whole world in this matter un-
till we get that liberty and can present it to mankind. Every
malicious.whips_ter can get up and give us a castigaticn f.or
heresy, corruption, licentiousness and all that sort of thing.
But we will notbe discouraged; we shall have this liberty,’
andshall give‘ it to the world. It cost Paul a great deal more
than we shall lose, to present to the Gentile world the liberty
of the gospel.and.of being saved from Judaism. He had to
be whipped and stonedrfor daring to give the world the lib-
‘erty to believe in Christ.-==-Oneida. Circular.

BLOOMINGTON. January 24. 1875.

I am sorry that my articles upon children's rights disgust-
ed a few of your correspondents. I never read the honest
thoughts of any reformer with disgust. If a person sincerely
believes in anything, they have the right to advocate their
doctrines through pulpit, press and rostrum, and the only
weapons we should use against them should be by means of
free speech and free press. 2 ,

Thevteachers of the United States, who represent advanced
ideas, have unanimously adopted the Kindergarten method
of instruction as the true method of developing the youth.
But the sum and substance of the Kindergarten system is to
give intelligent answers to all quéstions prompted by nature.
But how shall we get at nature in its purity? Let us suppose
a. case under this system: One of my critics is given charge

of 500 children in their infancy. She has assistants enough

to see that all their wants, food and raiment, are furnished
by thegovernment whence they came. She is to give them
purely scientific knowledge, and no social. political or reli-
gious rules are to be made until there is an absolute necessity
for them. She is to give them a full knowledge of every part
of their bodies. One part is not to be called clean and
a.nother*unclean, but every part is to be considered beauti-
ful and good for the purposes for which it was created.
Everything goes well. They master the rudiments of their
education. Hereditary weakness is partially corrected by a
thorough system of gymnastics, and hereditary dishonesty
by mutual trust and love of justice. They have passed into
-their teens, full of life, joy and happiness. The modest
teacher has thus far been able to discharge her duties with-
out " disgust.” But now ;a. change comes over her proteges.
The young masters begin to show unmistakable signs of man-
hood, and the misses are not slow to reciprocate. Only one
of two courses is now open to the prudent teacher. She
must stamp out all this spontaniety of affection; brand all
sexual instincts as infamoiis, and enaci the legal rigmarole of
license, marriage and divorce, or else she must allow Nature
to take her Own course, and meet diificulties as they arise.
What; would some of these diificulties be? First, probably,
rape. From the nature of the case, there is no crime against
‘woman, as Woman, except rape. And this, we apprehend,
would n.Ot prevail after a race of people had been properly
generated. But wherever it did take place it should be pun-
ished by the most stringent penalties. The second difiiculty
would probably be :1. too rapid inciease in the population.
Now, when we look at the vast uncultivated regions of South
America, Africa, Australia, and our Own country, when we
think of the tons of produce hoarded from year to year to be
speculated upon, we can easily see that the reason of squalor,
destitution and want is not that there is not enough in the
world, or that there are more than can be provided for, but
because the necessaries of life are barbarously kept from the
poor and recklessly squandered by the rich. I I

It would be well, however, under the circumstances. for
the difiident teacher, upon the occasion of the first birth, to
gather her large family around her and give them some
specific rulesand wholesome ad vice how to keep the popula-
tion within easy means of support. reminding them that they
are to be self-sustaining after reaching the years or accounts-
bility. These rules for checking the too rapid increase in
population should exclude any practice which would have a
tendency to weaken either parents or offspri-ng.

I will now notice more specifically some points in the un-
salacious doctor’s criticism : “ My soul rebels against the idea
of love and sexual gratification being considered as one.”
And yet she never knew of mutual love between man and
woman that did not result in sexual gratification where legal
hindrances and Madam Grundy did not prevent it. “The
tree must not be sapped at the roots if you would. have per-

fect fruit in their time.” I do not wish to make the chaste ,

doctor blush,‘but I must show her how the tree of youth is
sapped, girdled and scorched at the present time. Not one
young man in ten but what is guilty of 'maturbation before
reaching his fifteenth year. ' Added to this are buggary,
sodomy, etc. The young ladies are a shade better, but still
had enough. Now, I propose in the place of these ruinous,
unnatural practices, which now disgrace our youth, to sub-
stitute a moderate, natural, healthful. use of their sexual
Organs. J. I. F. I

, Amnxnmm, New York. April 25, 1375.

llfy dear and calolavnt Siste'r-—-Igam glad every day that I live

to see the banner of social freedom wave, and thatawoman’s
hand lifted it to the breeze, and that she planted the stafl in
the hearts of fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, sons
and daughters of earth. ' M ' V
Whatv though, they -bleed, L agonize and i die. . Have not-
hearts bled, hopes been crushed,‘an‘d «countless millions of

lives been laid upon their burning altar of legalized selfishness
these thousands of yearmand woman not permitted to pro- '
test; mothersdaily compelledrby law to witness the nailing ~-

of their sons to the cross,an.d thcprostituting and ravishing of
their daughters, till the smoke of their consuming life fills the

atmosphere through all the grades ofhuman life! I prayGOd.»

the tocsin may ’:,not._cease its-trumpet tones, till every child of
earthpsliali knoiwfthe wayof life. i

-- Yours truly, ' Mes. A. E." l3RowNE. I

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WESTWAHD mum NEWGYDRK,
Via Erie. & Mich. Central '& Great Western R, R’s

   
 
 

s'rA'r1oNs. Eitpress Eggfiss STATIONS. Empress. _
Lv 231: Street, N.   3.30 A. m. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23:1 Street, N. Y ...... .. 6.45 1». 1:‘.

" Chambers street ....  8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street 7.00 ‘

1*‘ Jersey City ............... .. 9.15 3 11.15 3 1: Jersey Cit .....IIII'.IIII 7.20 “

«- ’§.‘.’i5r‘;‘r’.‘.‘””“’.'".":.":::::::: 13:32 .. .. 333 « « r’%.‘.’.€r‘.‘.‘r‘3.‘*" “ """  {£2 3 .....E””"’.'.*’.L'
Lv Susi)'ension"Brldge; ...... .. 1.10 . M. 1:35 P. M. Lv Suspension-Brldg'e::f.::: 1:35 “ 9.50 . in
A! Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.45 “ 2.55 “ Ar Hamilton .............. .. 2.55 " 11.20 “

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

“ Detro1t..._ ................ .. 9.40 10.00 “ “ Detroit ................ .. 10.00 “ 7.00 ‘

:: .(I3at.l(iks(vn ..............  13.53 am 31680 A. M.  réslckson ............... ..  A. M 13.30 “

cago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . ‘ icago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . “ 8.45 p in

Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .‘ [-930 A M. 11.50 A. M, Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A M 530 a n1

Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . .' . .  _ 8-55 1» M . .. Ar Prairie du Chcin . . . . . . ..  8.55 p m

Ar‘La Crossc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 11.50 P M. 7.05 A. M Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7.05 a In

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

Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A M Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M.

A: Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.40 r. in Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M. ..

“ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ ..

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

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

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

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

Ar Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. no  . Ar Burlington ............ .. 7.00 P.» M.

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

‘: ghayenne ......... ..   ghciyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 1:.‘ M.

. 0 I I I - I O I‘ '' coo c o - o o o Q Q o O - Q n o - cl - on

_ “ S§n er3~1r'ra.'rié1s'r-Jr‘. . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. “ SagneFni-ancisco ....... ..  " "
Ar Halesburg ................ .. 6.40 A M Ar Galesburg .............. .. 4.45 P M .

“ uincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15 “ . “ uincey . . . . . . . . , . . . . .. 9.45 “

-“ St. Jose ii .....  ........ .. 10.00 “ “ t. Joseph..... ....... .. 8.10 A. M ..
“ Kansas ity .............. .. 10.40 . M. “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.25 “ ..
“ At,chison,..,.... ,...  11.00 “ “ Atchison .............. .. 11.17, “ 
:1 Ifieavenworth .............. ..  A‘  Ifieavenworth .......... .. 12.40 noon. 
’ enver. .. ............... .. . M enver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  _,

Through Sleeping Car Arrangements

9.15 A. M.--Day Express from Jersey City (daily excegt Sunday), with Pullznan’s Drawing-Room Cars
and connectin at_ Suspension Bridge With Pullman’s P ace Sleeping Cars, arriving. at Chicago 8.00 p. m
the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there. A

7.202. M.»-Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullma.n’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs throu h to

Cihioago without change arriving there at 8.00 a. m., 'ving passengers am le tim f b akf t t k
the morning trains toall points West, Northwest and outhwest. P 6 or re as an , a e

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CONNECTIONS OF ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF

Michigan Central & Great Western Railways.

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

At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover.
At Harrisburg, with brarzch i'or.Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations.

At Paris, with G. W. R branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk Railway.

At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an
daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. _
At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De
. it, Lansing & Lake Michi an R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit & Bay City R. R.
panch Lake S. «St M. S. R. . to Toledo.  _ .
At Wayne, with Flint & Pei-e M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc. -
At Ypsilanti, with Detroit Hillsdale & Eel River R. Rs for Mancheste Hill (1 1 B nk- "
Columbia City, N. Manchester: Denver and Indianapolis. , V I’ S» a e’ a er S’ Waterloo
At Jackson with Grand River Vallev Branch for Eaton Rapids, Charlotte Grand Ra id N i P -
water, and all intermediate stations. Also, with’Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three Riv?ersS’anc%3.:§opgIlli1s1.
Also with Jack, Lansing & Saginaw Branch, for Lansing, Owosso, Saginav? Wenoua,_Standlsh, Crawford
ayne, and Fort Wayne, M€ll1:?ew&lt1(§iII|:0fi‘3 %())’I1Cel,I1‘(:.[3f,I(1:IlIaI‘.?. Saginaw Re R or JoneBv1ue' Waterloo’ Fm
At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. R.

A Kalamazoo, with South Haven Branch, to G. Junction, South Haven, etc. Also with G. Rapids & Ind.
13 R. for Clam Lake and intermediate stations. Also with Branch of L. S. & M. R. R.
At Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw.
At Niles, with South Bend Branch.

At New Bufialo, with Chicago & Mich. Lake 8. R. R. for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pentwater and
all intermediate stations.

At Michigan City, with Indianapolis, Peru & Onion: 3. 3. Also with Louisville, New Albany 85 Chi-

__cagoR.R. ,

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

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