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NEW YORK, DEC. 25,1875.

Pinon TEN CENTS;

The truth. shall make you fl‘ee.—¥Jesus.

In the dag/3 of the voice of the seventh cm;/‘el, the
mg,/stery of God shalt be fine’-shecZ.———St. John the
Divine. _

lVhe;~'e0f I was made Ct mz'm'ster to preach the un-
.sea7'ehctZ’2Ze riches of Christ, and the mystery which
f'5'077'l the 6eg2'mz.z'72.g of the world hath been hid in
God.-~Paii1.

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IS IT STRANGE ?
BY JULIET H. SEVERANCE, M. D.

‘It does not seem at all strange to me when I observe the
d ietetic habits of the peop1e—-not to mention their many other
t1‘:msgress1ons—that every body is sick; that the passions
control the intellect and the moral nature, or that vitiated
blood and weak muscle are everywhere present. Hardly aman
or woman lives in this country whose organism is not
rnadeflup largely from the flesh orifat of some dead animal,
and that too of the most» filthy and diseased kind. Behold
our nice pastry, eaten by almost everybody, made in part
from the scrofulous matter‘ of swine, called lard, which
f‘«1‘0l9s out in the people in boils, erysipelas, scrofula, cancers;
in diseases of the mucous surfaces, catarrhs, lung diseases,
Scrofula of the stomach, lucorrhea, etc., all results of scrofula
in the blood, the very citadel of life, poisoned and filled with
gross impurities causing diseae and suffering.

‘Then, look a_t.the table condiments used so extensively,

nd note their effects. All irritants or stimulants increase
the action of the basilar portion of the brain, stimulating

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combativeness, destructiveness and sensuality, causing them ,

to act unnaturally, and making people manifest the char-

acteristics of the animals upon which they feed. Just in‘

proportion as the action of any portion of brain or body is
increased by artificial means, the action of some other part
is decreaed; therefore, if the propensities are increased to
unnatural activity, the intellectual and moral faculties will
fall so far below their normal standard. Stimulants never
increase the action of the moral faculties; never make people
just, conscientious, or honest; but precisely the reverse.

Men, as a general rule, are more given to stimulation than
are women; and this is one reason why their animal pas-
sions are stronger. In this stimulated condition, they are
abnormal and excitable, rather than strong; are in afevered,
inflammatory condition, and are sometimes uncontrollable.
The consequences are that the tender relations of the sexes
and their instincts are debased to more animal gratification,
instead of exalted to the holy of holies of unitary and mutual
love. I

Then, is it not of the utmost importance that teachers of
morality and a higher manhood, and womanhood, should
commence at the root of the matter and build of such material
as will make the structure sound and beautiful, remembering
that the food which is eaten is transferred into brain, and

I will be manifested in the action of its various organs through

the brain controlling»-every member of the whole body, the
action of which, outwrought in thought and deed, makes up
the lives of individuals. "

If the dietetic habits of the people were for a single gen-
.eration even properly directed, there would be a moral class
of people developed such as the world has never seen; not
manufactured from the decaying carcasses of animals, for
-decay commences as soon as death takes place, nor yet from
vegetable rottenness, which all fermented drinks or food are
really, but from the natural grains and luscious fruits that
-nourish without stimulating, that build in purity and in
"beauty. There has been enough of the transcendental. Let
us now begin at the foundation and teach a practical common-
sense method of living; a kind of life that will be so natural
and pure, and sweetgthat there will be heaven here and now
for us toenjoy, instead of looking far away into futurit-y for
happiness and peace and glory.

 

UNCOVERING THE VATS.
BY WARREN CHASE.
The cesspools of social polution are being exposed in spite
of the efiorts of llbortines, sets, hypocrites and licentious

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husbands with slave victims, and bigots with supple churches.
Henry Ward Beecher, alarmed for his own safety, pushes
away the curtain and calls attention to the school directors
and those who employ teachers in these two cities, and
exposes what is no doubt as true in other cities as in them,
viz., that many female teachers are employed on the express
condition that they surrender the use of their bodies occa-
sionally to the use or abuse of the man who employs them;
and he would no doubt advise that women be selected as
superintendents, to employ teachers, ;_which would be a

/good remedy as far as it goes. There‘ is little doubt that if

the various churches, especially the Catholic, were investi-
gated, a still worse and more debasing state of social cor-
ruption would be found covered up by the hypocrisy of these
institutions. Probably among the Protestants it might be
more generally a voluntary act on the part of the females.
Neither is it probable that the olerkships of various kinds

,«where females are extensively employed are less subject to

these contracts and submissions. In fact, the dependence‘ of
women on men for business and subsistence makes it almost
certain that such results must follow and continue till
woman has her share of the property and the legislation,
and becomes pecuniarily independent.

Some years ago we spent a winter in Washington, D. (7.,
and while there T unusualopportunity of reaching the
under and ‘upper currents of social life; and well advised
as we were before, we then discovered suchhidden corrup-
tionthat it sickened us of public life and its wickedness. At
that time the club rooms where the men got together to
drink, smoke and tell stories. became the places where they
boastedof their conquests over women, and it wa_s there
where poorjliey, having made too free use of wine, exposed
his liaison, and committed the criminal act of revealing
secrets he had no right to mention. His murder put a check
for a time on club-room scandal, but we learned of the boast-
ing there of a U. S. Senator, long since dead, that he had
secured clerkships for seventy women, and had been inti-
mate with every one of them. As he wasanything but
good-looking, or even delicate———hardly decent—-even if the
statement were true, it is not’ probable that one in tent of
the women favored him from choice, but were obliged to
from necessity; but we are inclined to think that it was
rather a boast of his, which would make it a still worse
shame for the Senator, since it would go far to establish the
fact that such practices as he boasted of indulging, were con-
sidered highly honorable and creditable among Congressmen.

We found numerous persons who made no secret of their
intimacy with the opposite sex, and we soon saw that
religious, political and social morality was a. mere sham to
cover up the licentiousness which Was, and still is, ruining
our public men and morals, and will continue to until
woman has equal rights and equal justice, and becomes self-
controlling and independent. Wherever we look,
into or out of our marriage laws, slavery, corruption,
prostitution, disease and death stare due in the face.
Hypocrisy in religion,'lega.lized licentiousness in morals,
falsehood and ignorance in politics, have the ascendancy
among us now; and if we raise a voice against the slavery of
woman that is now maintained chiefly through our marriage
laws robbing her of her property, we are at once accused of
advocating the very -corruption in which our accusers are
indulging and trying to perpetuate. It would seem that
people mighthave some regard for posterity, and try to have
betterlaws and institutions for them; that they might see
that a continuance of the present system of marriage must
continue this system of robbery and slavery; but even most
of our woman’s rights advocates are too blind or too enslaved
to see, or to own if they do see, this fact, and hence sustain
the very institution that is the principal cause of the de-
gradation of woman. Does any one suppose that these
clerks and teachers above referred to, or the thousands of
prostituted wives, would surrender their bodies to prostitu-
tion if they were pecuniarily independent? If so, such per-
sons have not the evidence wehave that the heart of woman
is generally" pure and would be governed only by affection
and attraction, sexually, if left free to do so. We have con-
fidence in the virtue of women, but little in that of men as
society is now constituted; still, under different conditions,
we have no doubt man would rise out of the filth of tobacco,
dissipation and lust, and be a. pure and fitting companion for
woman. For suchresults we have labored and shall continue

to labor while his lasts.

THE ANALOGY IN HARMONIES.

I have just lately had the pleasure of reading in the
WEEKLY for October lli Fourier’s systematically arranged
theory of the accords of social harmonies, and am consider-
ably surprised at the almost exact similarity in its general
features to my own, which I had long ago partly systematized
but never fully perfected, because there did not seem to yet
be a demand sufficient to justify the outlay of thought which
it would require to put it in shape. Now this cause for delay

seems removed, and, as I am a poor scholar in the languages. V

my want of terms to note the forms which love is made to

‘wear makes it come quite opportune to steal a. few from" my.

very much esteemed French friend, and it could almost be
said, something more. But as’ the two will be all the better
understood for the mixing of them together, I trust I may, as
an act of generosity,‘ be exculpated for this presumptive
temerity. Fourier’s scale is bottom side up, and consists of
nine notes instead of eight. This may indicate a natural
minor scale, descending. which perhaps it is. But I shall first
consider the 0 natural, major, which he has squinted at with-
out apparently being able to see its relations clearly. This
is‘ formed of eight notes and seven intervals, which are five
tones and two semi-tones, and is called the diatonic scale,-
These tones correspond to the six mates and their equal num-
ber of shadows or half mates, one of which latter is always
necessary to be takento completethe former, and, vice verse,
to complete another composed wholly of the latter kind, and
called the chromatic scale. In the former scale the soul-mate
is‘ taken as the key-note, or tonic or pivotal sound, or the one
from which a departure is made, and again returned to in

musical and social processes. One half-mate, along with the -

spirit—mate, who is a semi-tone or leading syllable in the first

constitute the two semi-tones, and the other five. mates the
whole tones of that scale. The other scale is perfected by
taking the leading syllable of‘ the first as the third of the
second scale. So neither scale is perfect alone, but one must
be taken always from each scale to fill up all the degrees of
the other. After theseany number of new scales may be

formed by altering the place of the leading syllable by flats

and sharps, the former leading downward and the latter up-
ward. " Now we are ready to sing one of the psalms of life by
the use of the 0 scale written upon the F clef, orbase. Then
we will transpose that by one sharpto get the key of G, when
we will have two parts to "the same tune, corresponding to
male and female in voice and principle, or man and woman.

And now to begin: Do is that concrete form of love, true;

and natural, in which the race began its existence on this
planet, or androgamy, or ajsentiment of fidelity to this simple
form, which is the base of all other loves, or the tonic of the
scale, and means a perfect union of one man and one woman
in one body. (See androgynal in Webster’s Unabridged
Dictionary, and the derivation from two Greek words, which

I cannot write, one signifying man the other woman, in the -

condition as above.) Thus were the original inhabitants of
this earth conditioned, without an unsupplied want, and to
our view contented and happy~—no diseases, no dea.th—for the

soul was prepared for its transition. The body dissolved like i

ice before the fire, and like a puff of steam curled upon the

-air and vanished away out of sight, leaving no residuum to

cumber the ground nor malarious odors to poison the air. A
dead body was a phenomenon _never witnessed by them.
Therefore the idea of death had never yet entered their
minds. Death for them had no sting, nor the grave any
victory till the passions began to work. Then the evil effects
they (the passions) brought with them, brought death into the
world and all our woes: The first passion developed was

hatred, the extreme opposite of love. This produced discon- V

tent, unrest, and a longing for change. This excited the in-
tellect toward examination, and it was thought to be dis-
covered that there was something better than they had yet
found, andthey meant to try experiments and see what
results would follow. _ Thus radicalism formed an element of
society. This necessitated an opposite element-—conservatis_m,

and thus resulted fear, the extreme opposite of desire. So ‘

the human mind was conditioned between contendingforces,

and thus driven along the paths of progress from the goal to .

the haven of its hope. Conservatism was always forbidding
and self-denying, and therefore it planted the t-ree of for-
bidden fruit, or rather the radicals planted the tree. and the
conservatives forbidl eating the fruit thereof. But Eve,_the
most advanced of the radicals, broke over the bounds set, and

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‘WOQDHUL,I.. a CLA.FLIN’s WEEKLY.

Dec. 25, 1875.

did eat, and then-, sneakingly and man like, sought to shift the
blame to other shoulders, Eve, like a true soul, ofifered to
reason the case. She had had a fair view of the fruit, and ex-
amined its nature and qualities; it was fair to look upon. She
had an eye to beauty.‘ It was less concealedjand paler in color,
smarter in wit and comelier in manners»-a fruit to be desired
,to make one wise and know good from evil. Now came a
I longand fierce struggle between these two grand divisions to
compel the stand-stills to wake up and hear the voice of
nature speaking to them——to let her progressive principles.
have free course, run, and be glorified This caused them to
let up, and so amend the primary law as to admit of a freer
action in the choice of habitudes and ways of men. And so
God finally yielded the ground, and seeing that it was not
good for man to be alone, hegave him woman to be a help
mate for him. This was libcrty’s first victory. ‘
, . J. B. Hnnsnr.
‘THQRNVILLE, Mich, Nov. 1875. ‘

EXTRACT from Elvira Wheelock Ruggles‘ lecture on Love
its Law and Language, delivered at the Quarterly Meeting
of the Northwestern Association of Spiritualists, Septem-
ber 26th, at Oakfield, Wisconsin. I
The bravest example in this age of this impersonal, hu-

manitarian love, is found in the person and life of a woman,

and that woman is the maligned and misrepresented Vic-

toria Woodhull. ‘Not Joan of Are; not Charlotte Corday;

not Madame Roland, nor any other emblazoned name of his-
tory has won the right, through such devotion to principle,
to laurels one half so fair and beautiful. None other of na-
tu1'e’s high priestesses has won so nobly the meed of praise
the world would give this brave woman, did it dare be true.

With almost superhuman power and equanimity of soul, she_

has met the rude persecution of the people, and amid scoffs
and jeers has planted the banner of freedom in every house-
hold in the land, and thus liberated woman from the most
absolute social and sexual servitude. She, alone, through the
strength of her own grand womanhood has lifted the world
out from the mire of sexual sin and degradation, and given
to humanity the divine pass-words into the penetralia of
peace and purity.

Ah! what a transcendent genius for love must this grand
woman possess, that through such love she can meet the op-
posing millions, and yet come off victor in this grand battle
of ideas. . With the whole Christian and conventional world

11 open antagonism to her principles, she, single handed and
alone has met them with the sword of truth and vanquished
every foe, and to-day she stands gloriously triumphant upon
the lofty mount of transfiguration; for through her inspira-
tions, through her spiritual might, her wonderful power,
her transcendent love, she has redeemed the race by exalt-
ing woman to the divine height of her soul’s sacred sover-
eignty; to her natural queenship in the realm of sex. And
those of you who revile and persecute her, who speak con-
demnatory words of her; who hurl base insinuations against
her name, or who brand her mission as base and profitless,
do not realize that it is her supreme, her surpassing love for
Woman, and for humanity through woman, that has inspired
every word she has so bravely spoken, and every deed she
has so bravely dared, and the least we can do in recompense
for such sacrificial love, is to freely offer the hearty" tributes
of a generous gratitude. , ,

I am no hero worshipper, nor do I make an idol of Victoria
Woodhull. I have little personal knowledge of or acquaint-
ance with her; but I have full, unbounded faith in the exalt-
edness of her purpose and in the beneficence of her mission,
for it is a mission of truth and love, and the unreserved con-
secration of her whole life to the elucidation of these, most
important truths, and to the labors of a love so strong and
all—persistent in behalf of humanity, that each day’s martyr-
dom should win for her the crown of crowns, and the
regal homage of emancipated womanhood the world over.

. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 24=,»l875.
Editors Woodhull &‘Ola.flz'n’s Weekly-—‘We fear we shall not
‘be able to renew for a long time. We have six children tog
clothe and five to feed. The stringency of money matters,
ill health, and other embarrassing circumstances, render it
difficult for us to obtain even a sufficient quantity of the
plainest food. We have been on your subscription list four
years, and feel that it would be a, great trial to do without the
paper. Last winter, having a little money to spare, we sent
you three dollars toward the one thousand for which you
asked. We would be glad to contribute further, but it is
impossible. We write to say, that if you think it worth
while to wait a little longer, before crossing _our names from
your list, we will be extremely grateful. M '
The new Bible exegesisis intenselyinteresting to one of us,
Mrs. Davis. She believes that she Zmows what the new sexual
act must be, and awaits: further revelations with interest.
Our hearts beat in unison with yours in the efibrt for break-
ing the shackles that bind the race. ~ I ' A
- "Your loving friends, , Mr. and 1‘-Jrs. o. H. DAVIS.

My Dear Victor7Za—-Most firmly ‘do I believe in “The
Great Appearing,” and that it is now very near; it seems,
indeed, the only salvation for the race, for the masculine law
of force has so nearly driven love’s tender feet from off the
planet, and the intellectual nature been so highly stimulated
while the aifectional was starved, that all proper mental
equipoise is lost, insanity is on the increase, and must result
in general chaos and destruction,were it not possible to make
conditions through which the wisdom and the loving. kind-
ness of the highest angel spheres may come andjdwell among
us. Through materialization this will be accomplished, and

this “ City of the Plain ” has aforetime been selected for a A

‘great development. Its founder, "Charles K. Landis, was
chosen by the spirit world ~to make straight the paths
for wo1nan’s weary feet, and so prepare the way for
3, new social order, in which love, not force shall rule, and

angels walk and work with mortals, visible and tangible to
all. Now he is in ‘prison, himself avictim to the harsh judg-
ments and condemnations of the Mosaic dispensation under
which the world still agonizes. In these transition times all
forms of mediumship are fearfully intensified by the great
and unaccustomed blending of the earth and spirit spheres,
and to those who seek to know the lessons of the times this
historic tragedy has a most vital interest. In vain will courts
and law~makers con their time-worn books»-for data from
which to judge the case; only a knowledge of the laws of
mediumship will help them’-to understand how his delicately
tuned and mediumistic brain was acted on (in time of great
domestic trouble) by intermediate spirit spheres to carry out
their plans for the defeat of the grea incoming power; the
whole plan was not accomplished, for suicide wason the bill,
and by that failure the whole was lost, and this grand man
of tender heart and wonderful executive ability is spared to
carry out the work he has but just begun—Vineland’s devel-
opment. Bespeaking for his case the consideration of all per-
sons interested in these higher codes of justice of which the
world does not yet take cognizance, I remain, faithfully,
your friend. OLIVIA F. SHEPARD.
VlNELAED, N. J., Dec. 1.

Eds. WeekZy—In view of the general discussion which the
Miller-Strickland civil and conjugal union has caused
through the West, will you permit me, as one of the mem-
bers of the union, to state a few facts and principles which
induced me to take such.-a step. -

Through my own personal situation I was led to see, as I
had never seen before, the outrageous character of our mar-
riage and divorce laws, and that they were undeserving of
respect, to say nothing of obedience. As I wished to form a
conjugal union with a woman I loved, and we couldnot con-
scientiously live a secret sexual life, we decided to take a
stand openly in defiance bf an institution which is degrading
to man and insulting to God.

A few years ago I married a woman I loved. In time that
love died. Vilhat killedgit concerns no person—no court—to
know. Suffice it to say, it was dead, and that was my justi-
fication for separating myself-from her . Love, conjugal at-
traction, constitutes the only warrant for marriage; its death
or absence the only cause for divorce. To"deny this is to
degrade mankind below the brute; for animals never come
together sexually except through the law of attraction." To
bind men and women together without the natural attrac-
tion of love, or to assume to hold them bound when that at-
traction is changed to repulsion, is an-impious disregard and
contempt of the higher law of nature, and for one I prefer to
obey the Supreme Law-giver. Blackstone says, “That the
law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by
God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any
other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries and
and at all times. ‘No human laws are of any validity if con~
trary to this.” ‘ ,

Had the statutes of the State (N. Y.), in which I was a
resident. been framed in harmony with the laws of nature,
and recognized the absence of conjugal attraction as sufli—
cient cause for divorce, I should have respected them and
sought one in due form. But it only admits of one cause,
and that is adultery, and had I grounds for such a complaint
I could never so dishonor my manhood as to drag a woman
I had once taken to my bosom in affection into a court-room
and blast her hopes and prospects in life in order to liberate
myself from her! .

And the case is but little better in ,any other part of the
country. No State will grant divorces for the absence of
love, for repulsion and incompatibility between the parties. I
know that by assuming a residence elsewhere I might, by
means of a shrewd lawyer, a pliant court and virtual perjury
on my part, have obtained a divorce, but in my soul I scorned
to do it. I venture the assertion that not one divorce in
twenty is obtained upon the real cause of separation. The
complaints are trumped up, andlawyers and judges connive
at the fraud and evasion of law.

It is high time this shameless mockery of justice in our
courts was ended. It encourages’ perjury, pays a premium
upon hypocrisy, and at a. rapid rate undermines the virtue
of the people. For .myself, ,I protest against it, and will
brave the consequences. Yours, LEO MILLER.

W HITEWATER, Wis._, Dec. 10, 1875. ‘

 

THE CARELESS VVORD.

If I had known in the morning
How wearily all theday
The words unkind
Wouldtrouble my mind
I said when you went away,
I had been more careful, darling,
Nor given you needless pain;
But we vex “ our own ”
With look and tone _
We may never take back again,
We have careful thoughts for the stranger,
And smiles for the some time guest;
But for “ our own ”
The bitter tone,
Though we love “ our own” the best.
Ah, lips wlth the curve impatient!
Ah, brow with the look of scorn!
’Twere a cruel fate
Were the night too late
To undo the work of morn.

 

THEPHILOSOPHY or LIFE.

The coition of the creative forces through matter produce
organic form. ‘ ‘

Organic function completes form. ~ ~

The completeness of form is the perfection of the in-
dividual-. , .

There are two prominent points for ‘consideration. The
trituration of 'matter through the accretive and assimu-
lative processes of structural growth, and the dependence of

each step or development of life upon that which precedes it
and out of which it is a growth. . 7

But in order to better understand these principles, we will
investigate matter in its so-called inanimate and inorganic
state. To the casual observer, all the elements are crude,
motionless, dead; but if we examine closely, we see a
constant decay or" disintegration of bodies through the
chemical operation of the active forces of life, or a breaking
and wearing down by friction of bodies coming in contact
through some force not inherent in themselves, grinding
and breaking into pieces, so that the life forces can refine
the particles through chemical assimilative processes.

This refined matter forms new combinations which are
subject to the same law of change and refinement, and when
sufiiciently reduced and properly combined in element, the
coition of the creative forces in such elements produce or-
ganic vegetable life in its lowest phases. which, by the same
law, prepares the way for higher growth; but here another
‘phase of power is added——organic function by which form is
completed. For what purpose"? The continuance of its
kind as well as the progress and enfoldment of spirit in
matter. So step by step the action of the creative forces
upon matter refine and raise it from its crude inertness
through the varied and endless changes of form from the
minute particle to the planet: from the pulsating cell to the
angelic and godlike endowed spirit. ‘

As matter becomes refined, we notice that forms become
more complex, elaborate, symmetrical and beautiful: also
the higher the scale of being, the more diversified are the
a‘ctivities of its life, which add to its power and knowledge,
and with ennobled aspiration, formated life ever struggles
toward its highest capacity. Again we notice, as forms
become higher endowed, they are less subject to the grosser
manifestations of force; but new agencies supervene, all
potent for the new conditions, and the disintegration goes
on with the same certainty, and.if unrestrained, with in-
creased momentum, the manifestation of force increasing in
subtility as forms reach elaborate perfection. One more
point: that there is no increase or diminution of matter
either in quantity or element, but the most elaborate form
is resolvable into the primal elements‘. Also, that each grade
of life contains all of the elements that have entered into
the growth of life below it, and that in the perfected human
only do we find all the known elements of life and matter:
and as life and matter are indestructible, so their child
human in its perfected state must become immortal—for the
ultimate of» all life is the iudivid ualizatlon of intelligence.

‘ L. M. Ross, 1). M.

A suonr SERMON.
BY DR. H. P. FAIRFTELD.

“ Let brotherly love continue.”

If there is any class of people or reformers who ought to
cultivate and cherish for each other the principles of “ Free
Love,” it is those who profess to believe in a God of universal
love. '

This is the true inference of the great Apostle John.
“ Herein is love,” says he, “ not that we loved God, but that
he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our
sins, or shortcomings in love for each other.”

“Beloved. if God so loved us, how ought we also to love one
another?” Every believer in this Bible sentiment ought to love
freely each other; otherwise -they are a dishonor to the cause
which they profess to maintain. Nothing can be farther re-
moved from “Free Love ” and good—will than to indulge the
passions of envy and jealousy toward each other. Love was
the criterion by which Jesus determined the honesty of re-
formers in his day. “ By this ‘shall all men know that ye are
my disciples, if ye have love to one another.” I believe the
cultivation of this principle promotes human progress and
happiness. It is the strong magnet which attracts and holds
society together.

‘The peace of men and women cannot be permanent unless
love be the ruling principle of life. It gives to all freely, and
lets each one take according’ to his love power; the strong
cannot take more than his share, nor the weak less ; the lofty
cannot overtop the lowly, nor the lowly undersinkthe high;
the great ocean of love flows and penetrates every heart.
' “God is love.” Let us be godlike. ‘

 

‘ SAN Fimncisco, Nov. :26.
Editors Weekly:

I propose, if my articles should meet your approbation, to
communicate my ideas on the money question; but before
entering upon that subject, I wish to call your attention to a
series of articles published in the Alta. C1l'L'f0rm'a, of this
city, on the Samoan Islands, and to one especially, published
in that paper of the 24th inst., wherein it is stated that the
new Premier has .,secured the passage of indissoluble mar-
riage laws, whereas, says the Alta, “heretofore a Samoan
could change his wife a score of times in as many years if
he chose.” The same article advised tailors (since the sump-
tuary laws compel the natives to go clothedlto migrate to
the Islands, as none of the imported ready-made clothing is
large enough to fit the Islanders. It is true the natives of
these Islands, men and women, are the finest specimens of
humanity to be found on the globe. The reason is they are
love children. For the sexual secret, unknown to ninety-
nine in one hundred, in this and other civilized countries, is
familiar to the inhabitants of these and other Istands of the
Pacific Ocean. Another fact regarding the Samoans that

bananas and bread fruit are the most luscious to be found in
the world. God help the poor Islanders since General Grant
and his diminutive protege——whom the Alta is writing up-
has taken charge of them. The Premier, five feet six in his
high-heeled boots, finds small favor with the Guno’s of the
Islands, six feet without stockings, and developed—ye Gods!
Any other than a member‘ of the Young Men’s Christian
Association would as soon thinkof draPiD2.' the Statue Of the
Venus do Medicis. I beg of Mrs. Woodhull to spend next

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summer in an excursion to those Islands, and she will see
the fruits of free—love that these sanctimonious wretches are
striving to crush out, lest it damn their Christian civilization
by comparison. ,

MY FINANCIAL THEORIES.

I shall only be able to state, first, we must demoneti-se gold

and silver. The specie basis delusion is only kept up to fur-.

nish a pretext for giving to capitalists the privilege of issuing
the currency—a privilege that enables bankers to collect
interest on what they owe; for a bank note is an obligation,
and bears upon its face the evidence of debt. The only ex-
cuse for authorizing individuals or corporations to issue cur-
rency has been the supposition that paper currency required
a specie basis, and with this impression, of course only those
who owned the specie could be allowed to issue the currency.
We must abandon the name of paper money. It mystifies us.
The people must learn that this depreciation of the currency
is owing entirely to the specie basis, without which a depreci-
ated currency would be unknown——in fact, could not be con-
ceived, and even if it could be depreciated we should not be
one cent worse off, except that we should require a little
more paper material, and if gold and silver was demonitised
it would make no difference to us whether a dollar meant one
cent or a hundred. The cheapness of production depends
upon the cost of money and nothing else. It is to secure all
the profits of labor to themselves that capitalists insist upon
the specie basis, for that abolished, the fraud of allowing them
to collect interest upon what they owe would be too apparent
to be permitted.

A sensible family would keep all -its members at work, and
when thework was done they would rest. A beneficent Gov-
ernment would not permit some of the members of the com-
munity to starve for want ‘of work, while if the task was
equally divided among all it could easily be performed. It is
time we abandoned this political system that makes slaves,
paupers and millionaires. while their united productions
would enable all to live in palaces and feast like princes.

All our wars and their concomitant conditions, standing
armies and navies,.and the consumption of those who com-
pose them, the waste of war material, even the fires, Ship-

wrecks, pestilence and famines are the penalties of nature’s .

violated laws. In mercy to the living, who would otherwise
starve, myriads upon myriads of human beings must be
annually slaughtered, and, besides. the idlers must also aug-
ment in proportion as the means of production go on increas-
mg.

Class privileges may have been the readiest mode of secur-
ing the evolution of the race, but to perpetuate it will defeat
that purpose. VVe do not propose an equal division of prop-
ery as the enemies of reform charge; we only ask that inter-
est shall be abolished as the only means of securing to the
producers the due reward of their labor.‘ Capital is not, as
capitalists assert, one of the necessary factors of‘ production,
All we need is a currency based upon the credit of the na-
tion. Individual and corporative credit has heretofore‘ been
used for the purpose, while the people, deluded into the be-
lief that it was capital, consented to pay interestlfor its use.

ANTL SHYLCCK.

“ J01-IN HENRY,” said his wife, with a stony severity, 1‘ I
saw you coming out of a saloon this afternoon.” “ Well,
madam,” replied the obdurate John, “ you wouldn’t have me
stay in there,‘would you ?”—_B1ooklyn Argus.

SHAKESPEARE said, “ There is a tide in the affair-s of men,”
but it appears to be pretty much all tied back in the affairs of
women.—~NoWi'stown Herald.

SENATOR DAWES was kicked by another mule a week or two
ago, and had his thigh ibroken. If the mule had kicked
him on the check it would have had its thigh broken.

THE Marquis de Conti, it is stated, recently fell dead while
kissing the hand of a countess, and if it wasn’t a judgment
on him for not taking the lips instead, then there’s no judg-
ment between causes and effects. I ' '

THE women suifragists of New Haven are wrestling with
the question: “ VVho is the superfluous woman?” Of course
we can’t tell, but we know a number of family men in town,
each of whom thinks he has married her.——Norw1'ch Bulletin.

BEECHER has received protection from the mails. Now,
what Jewel (1) of humanity will protect him from the females?

IN Virginia Mr. Allen Hannah has married Miss Hannah
Allen, and now Miss Hannah Allen is Mrs. Hannah Hannah,
and is, perhaps, the only woman in the world whose whole
name can be spelled backward the same- as forward. That’s
what’s the matter with Hannah.—New York Commercial
Advertiser.

MARY (questioning her little brother on the gender of
nouns): “Now, Tommy, what is the feminine of beau?”
Tommy: “Why, arrow, of course.” [Mary feels “an of a,
quiver.’’] ~ _

UNCLE LEVI: “ Now, Sammy, tell me, have you read the
beautiful story of Joseph?” Sam : "‘ Oh! yes, uncle.” Uncle:
“ Well, then, what wrong did they do when they sold their
brother ‘P’, Sam: “ They sold him too cheap, I think.

THE reason why a woman requires ‘a large wallet for the
transportation of a twenty-five cent note is as deeply wrapped
in mystery as the reason why a dog always turns around three
times when he gets up after a nap.

“THERE may be such a thing as love at first sight,” r3-
marked a Detroit girl, as she twisted a “ friz ” around the
curling-iron, “ but I don’t believe in it. There’s Fred; I saw
him a hundred times before I loved him. In fact, I shouldn’t
have fallen in love when I didif his father hadn’t given him

_ that house and lot.”

MRS. ,PART INGTON wants to know why the captain of a ves-
sel can t keep a memorandum of the weight of his anchor, in-
stead of weighing it every time it leaves port.

A CINCINNATI gambler has given a communion set to a

church in that city. He says privately that it is but a small

percentage on what he has won from the pastor and other
members from time to time, at draw poker.

TE other day Sam Bowles went to church in Springfield, '

Mass., and, feeling th_e effects of his severe editorial labors
through theweek, went to napping. By and by he was
awakened by the preacher, who struck the desk and shouted:
“Who shall be able to stand up in the presence of the Lord
on that awful day ??’. And Sam Bowles, rising in his pew, re-
marked: “. Charles Francis Adams is the only man that can
do it, and I nominate him for that position.”— Chicago Ttntes.

“You will observe from this word pater,” said a school-
master to his pupil, “ the great flexibility of the Latin
language. Pater is father; and here we have patmcus, an
uncle; and propatruus, a great-uncle, on the father’s side.
Can you make any such change in our language? Pater
patruus, p1'opat'rmLs—father. Is there any way you can change
father into uncle in English?” “ I don’t think of any,” re-
plied young hopeful, “ unless you can get him to marry your
aunt.” A . E '

AN‘ unknown man about thirty years old is in the practice
of loafing around the -"dental oiiices on Woodward. avenue,
and whenever he sees a victim about to go up stairs he con-
fronts him and asks: “ Got the toothache?" “ Yes——Oh!
blazes! yes!” is the reply. “And you are gcingpto have it
pulled?” “ Y-e-s, I guess so.’ “,That’s right. You’ll think
the whole top of your head is coming off when he pulls! It’s

awful to have a tooth jerked! I wouldn’t have one pulled for

a thousand dollars; but then if you are bent on it go;-ahead.
I’ll see you when you come out, and in case of any accident
I’ll go for a doctor.” And the toothache goes right away then,
and the victim goes right home.——Detro1't Free Press.

.411.
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[To be published by subscription]
MEROTH THE MAGIAN,
, AN INSPIRATIONAL POEM.
A Tragedy, in Friveqélcts, tllustrating they “Ars Magica ” as
« practiced by the ancient Egrypttans. Scene, llfemphis, Em

404 B. C.
. CONTENTS :

Act I. Scene 1.—A caravansary at Memphis.» 2. A room
in Euclid’s house. 3. Ditto. 4. Atsalon in Merotn’s Palace.
5. The hall of the Magi. This act terminates with the re-
sponse of the oracle:

“ Two victims to the gods the destinies demand V»
Ere Nile's blue waters rise o’er Egypt’s prostrate land;

When in her waves you cast your beauty and your lore,
The pestilence shall cease, the famine leave your shore!”

Act II. Scene 1.--Pentagonal Hall of Divination in Me—
roth’s palace. 2. Ditto. 3. The gardens of Isis by moonlight.
4th and 5th. Ditto.

Act III. Scene 1.——A room in Euclid’s house. 2. A hall in
Meroth’s:Palace. 3. The boudoir of Eudora in E‘uclid’s house.
4. Interior of the Temple of Isis. This act terminates with
the death of Eudora, the heroine of the tragedy, who chooses
the fatal lot—on which the statue of Isis becomes illuminecl
and Meroth points to it, exclaiming:

“ 'I_‘he,,oil’ering is accepted! We are answered!”

Act IV. Scene 1.——The observatory of Meroth’s Palace.
2. A hall in the same; a room in a lodge ‘near the same.
This act terminates with the burning of the Palace of Me-
roth. . »

Act V. Scene 1.—-The Portico of the castle of Arbaces. 2.
The hall of the Magi. 3. ,A road in the suburbs of Memphis.
4.. The interior of thegrand Temple of Osiris. The tragedy
closes with the death of Meroth and the acceptance of the
sacrifice by the Gods . ' '~
“ Now as our beauty and our lore are given, I
May Egypt be once more beloved of Heaven;
All is performed which the just Gods have willed,~
The destinies appeascd,—-the oracle fulfilled.”

To be issued in form Svo, pp. 200, neatly bound in cloth at
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Send age and sex. Address her, Aurora, Kane Co., Ill.

SEWARD MITCHELL has removed from South Exeter,
Maine, to Vineland, N. J ., where all letters and papers for
him should hereafter be addressed.

ALL families and invalids should have Prof. Paine’s short-
hand treatment of disease——a small ,book of forty pages
Sent free on application to him at No, 232 North Ninth street,
Phila, Pa. *

WARREN CHASE will lecture in Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Dec. 15, 16, 17 and 19; in Ogden, Utah, Dec. 23, 24, 25
and 26; and in San Francisco during year 1876. His address
will be Oakland, Cal., after January 1 till further notice.

SEANCES will be given at the Co-operative Home, 308 Third
avenue, as follows. until further notice:

Public Circles on Monday and Thursday evenings at 8
o’clock precisely. Admission 25 cents. ,

Developing Circles for those having mediumistic powers,
will be given on Saturday evenings at 8 o’clock. Admission
50.cents . ' » . . . -

Developing Circles’ for ladiesexclusively will be given on
Wednesday afternoon at 3 c’c1ock. Admission 25 cents.

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Mrs. H. Augusta ‘White and other first-class mediums will
be in attendance at the above Circles, and give poychometri-
cal readingsduring the day time. /

Mas. H. Aneusra WHITE, late Superintendent "of Dawn
Valcour Community, having been developed as a superior
clairvoyant by a band of advanced spirits, will now give
readings at the Co-operative Home, 308 Third avenue. Ad-
vice given on business and social affairs. Hours from 10 to 5.

ANNUAL MEETING or THE N. Y. STATE SPIRITUALIST As-
sooIArIoN.—-The annual meeting of the New York State
Spiritualist Association will be held in Temperance I-lall, Lock-
port, Saturday, January 8,.at 2 o’clock I’. M. in connection
with the Quarterly Convention. Reports of officers, and the
elec_tion of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction
of any other business relating to the interest of the associa-
tion will then and there be attended to. I

.I. 'W. SEAVER, President.

A. C. WOODRTJFB‘, Secretary.

CONVENTION or SPIRITUALISTS AT LOCKPORT, N. Y.——The
first Quarterly Convention of the Spiritualists of Western
New York for the Centennial year will be held in Temper-
ance Hall, southwest corner of Main and Pine streets, in the
city of Lockport, Saturday and Sunday, January 8th and 9th,
commencing at 10 and holding three sessions each day.

A season of unusual interest isanticipated, as able speak-
ers, inspired mediums and harmonial musicians will be in at--
tendance to instruct edify, and cheer with the thrilling
truths relating to this glorious new dispensation.

Our Lockport friends join with the committee in extending
a cordial invitation to all truth-seekers to attend, and will do
what they can to entertain those from abroad.

J. W. SEAVER,
GEo. W. TAYLOR,

Comnittee .
A. E. TILDEN, l

1 THE Northern ‘Wisconsin Spiritual,Conference will hold
ts next Quarterly Meeting in Ripon, Wis., on the 17th, 18th
and 19th of December, 1875. Mrs. Dr. Severance is already
engaged for the occasion. Other prominent speakers will
be in attendance. Let all come up to the work, and not
leave theburthen for the few. The meeting will be called to
order at 2 o’clock P. M., on Friday, the 17th.
ISAAC ORVIS, Pres. Du. J. C. PI-IILLIPS, Scc’y,
Northern Wis. Spiritual Conference.

OMRO, Wl.S., Nov. ‘saith, 1875. '“

THE INDIANAPOLIS SUN.--The leading independent reform
I weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate
of national legal tender paper money (the greenback system)
as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, and the inter
changeable currency bond as against the high gold interest
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THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION or SPIRITUALl'S'I‘S
will hold their Fourteenth Quarterly meeting at Rockford,
llls., on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 14,15 and 16,
18%. commencing on Friday at 10 o’clock A. M, and holding
over Sunday, the 16th. A ,

Speakers engaged, Mrs. H. Morse, of Joliet; Samuel MaX-
well, M. D., of Chicago; Dr. Stewart, of Kendallville, 1nd,;
Dr. Severance, of Milwaukee; E. ;V. Wilson, of Lombard,
Ills. Mrs. Suydam, the Fire Queen, will be present and
pther test mediums.

We expect Prof. Hudson, of Indianapolis, the Sankey of
Spirltualism, to be present and entertain us with song an
music. _ ~ _ «

This will be the opening masswmeeting of a series of meet—
_ ings looking forward to a grand camp-meeting next summer.
The great features ofrthe meeting will be: 1. E . V. Wilson,

day; unequaled. 2. Samuel Maxwell, under control of Dr.
Gordon, a spirit, will answer questions; never beaten. 3,
Prof. Hudson will sing thebest Spiritual songs of the age.
T'ne Professor is far ahead of Sankey or Bliss, the great re.
vivalists. 4. Mrs..Suydam as Fire Queen is the wonder of
theworld-. 5. Dr. Stewart has no equal as a logician; and,
8. Dr. Severance, on How to Live, will be worth a month of
hard study. Let all come up to thisrfeast of good things.

Remember. ouriplatform is free, and that the Spiritualisrn
of Northern Illinois knows no gag law. C I g

‘ DR. 0. J. HOWARD, Pi-ea,

LOMBARD, Ill.., Dec. 4.,"_l8’7”5. E. V. WILSON, See.

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If a man heepeth my saying he shall never see
death.——Jesus. ;
To him that overcometh, I will give to ‘eat of the

_ hidden manna.-—St. John the Divine.

That through death he might destroy him that
had the_ power of death, and deliver them who
through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage.———Paul. -

The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then

peaceable, gentle, easy to _l2e entreated, fitllof mercy
and good fruits, without jaartiality and without hy-
pocrisy.-—-James, iii., 1 7.
'r And these signs shall follow them .' In my name
shall they cast out devils; they shall take up serpents,‘
and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt
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‘NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DEC. 25, 1875.

WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets
of the first series of Bible Articles consisting of fifteen num-
bers of the ‘WEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our
friends should lose no opportunity to bring these articles to
the attention of those whom they can interest. A careful
‘study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand
ing of the great and all-important truth that is yet to be re-
vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be-
fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing first the“
break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its ful.l meridian
splendor. . .

-————-~—-¢>-o«>_-—-—-—--=
THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ;
on, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST.

For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship
him.—-Sr. liinrrnnvv, ii., 2.

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which the WEEKLY islnow devoted. It has been. clearly
shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre-
sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the
earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the

. estabfishment thereby of the universal human family. It

also represents still another and more important trnth Which

{has not yet been introduced, but which, defined in a few

words is God in man reconciling the world unto Himself.‘
‘We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work

I

ALL THINGS CO_MMON.

 

For I mean not that other men should be eased and you burdened, but
by an equality that now, at this time, your abundance may be a supply
for their want that their abundance also may be a supply for your want,

. that there may be equality; as it is written, “He that had gathered

much had nothing over, and he that had gathered little chad =-no lack. "'-

'lI CORINTHIAN, viii, 13-15.

“ And all that believed were together, and had all things common.”-

Acrs, ii. 44.

“ Neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed
was 1115 0WD: but they had all things common.”—IBID iv. 32.

At any time when there are special reasons in any de-

partment of society that attract those who have humani.

tarian instincts, it is proper to call theattention of those
who by either public or by self-constituted authority are
made the guardians of such department, to the causes
from which such reasons rise. Perhaps at no previous time
in the history of the country was there nearly “so much
suffering from poverty and privation by reason of non-
employment among the poor as there is now. Fully one-half
of the unskilled labor of all the large cities is unemployed,
while a large proportion of the skilled labor is engaged
either upon “ short time ” or shorter wages. Nor are these
facts confined‘ to the large cities. In some form and pro-
portion they extend ,to every town in all the country. In
towns, to be sure, individual cases of suffering stand a
better chance for relief from well-to-do neighbors than do
the same in larger places, while in the large cities the in-
habitants of the nextdoor may be starving, and no one be

‘aware of, or care for it. It is almost sickening to read the

accounts gf distress that find their way into the daily
press; and when it, is considered that the cases that come
to the surface are as nothing to those of which no public
notice is ever received, a scene of misery and deprivation
can be conceived, bf such alarming proportions as to make
the hardest hearts, stop and ask, If all this ought to be
permitted in this,la‘nd of plenty ?

But if the tender hearts are touched by any picture of
distress, they easily excuse themselves from any responsi-
bility upon the plea that it is not their business as indi-
viduals to look after the needs of other individuals; in
short, what is everybodyls business soon becomes nobody’s
business; if a family of children are starved for want of
food or frozen for want of fuel, nobody is to blame ; if a
poor girl, discharged from her situation in which she had
eked out a precarious existence, is forced to submit herself
to be used by some ,honorable member of society to
procure the means to feed her famishing body or to clothe
it from the wintry frosts, it is nobody’s business, except for
the “ high-born ” dames to turn up their noses at her ; or, it
rather than lose her employment she yield to the lecherous
demands of him upon whom she is dependent for every-
thing, what does the -Christian world care for that? It
merely picks up its virtuous clothesiand passes all such
instances by on the other side.

But is it not somebody’s business that in this broad and
fertile country there are more than two millions people now
suffering for the most common necessities of life? Is it not
the business of those who profess to follow the teachings of
Jesus, to whom he said, “ Go sell all thou hast and give to
the poor,” to know something of the misery -to which they
are near neighbors? Jesus taught that none could have
eternal life save such as loved the Lord their God with all
the mind, soul, heart and strength; and their neighbors as
themselves. If the professing Christians of this country were
to be judged by this law, howniany would there be who
could claim eternal life? None, absolutely I For who is
there among them all who dare claim that he loves his
neighbor as well as he does himself ? Not only do Chris-
tians know that this is not done, but if they stop to think
about it for a moment they must see that it cannot be done
in the present system of social organization. -Jesus taught
that whoever is suffering is our neighbor. Then, all who
are suffering now in this country are the neighbors, in a
Christian sense, of all professing Christians.

It has always seemed to us that the various Christian sects
were very unwise in their failure to give attention to the
needs of the poor. The faith that exhibits itself in works is
always the faith that is effectual. Now, if any single sect
of Christians should adopt the teachings of Jesus upon this

point as a part of their religious creed, is it not clear that‘

such sect would soon absorb all the laboring classes and by

4 reason thereof become fghe most numerous and powerful of

all denominations ?\ And by reason of such"it would not only
enlarge numerically, but, as it should increase itsnumbers,
it would also increase its means with which to do good.
The expenditures that it would make to relieve suffering
would be “bread cast upon the waters ”* of humanity that
would “ return after many days ” increased la,rgely.

It is quite impossible under the present systems for those
who are so disposed, to love their neighbors as they do
themselves, because their capacity to do good is limited by
their means with which to do it. Even an Astor could not
long continue to love all whom Jesus made his neighbors
without reducing himself to poverty and want, and becoming
himself a neighbor for others to remember. We say that
under present systems it is next to impossible to live a
Christian life, and the professedly Christian are the most
opposed of all people to any change that would inaugurate
conditions on which it might be possible. VVe have said

often in these columns that through a community of inter-.

ests is the, only possibility of attaining equal and ‘exact

justice. So long as individual industrial competition con-L

tinues, equity between individuals is impossible. Nothing
is clearer than that in competition those who are strong
in most ways must, in the end, over-ride the weak.

Nor are there“ examples wanting to prove all this. If a
hundred people living anywhere in this country can so
organize themselves industrially as to make the doctrine
of equal love for self aud_neighbor possible, then that
hundred have solved the problem for all the rest of the
world. Go ask Oneida if among the number there organ-
ized industrially, there are any who suffer for the common
necessities of life? Ask of the detested Oneida Perfection-
ists, if there are any children there who suffer for food or
for raiment _or shelter‘? Ask if there are’ any labor-
ers there who have been discharged because their
labor was no longer profitable to their employers,
whose families or dependencies are in want or
distress? Ask if there are any pinched-checked and
hollow-eyed women there who are obliged to offer up
their bodies as a living sacrifice to the lusts of man, to gain
the few paltry dollars that are needed to satisfy the demands
of the landlord, or the butcher and grocer; and ask a
thousand other practical questions of every day'j_.life, and firm
the replies let the Christians learn a lesson of brotherly love
from those whom they despise. That Community of less
than three hundred‘ persons has solved the question of
industrial organization. If three hundred people can or-
ganize industrially so that each and every of one its members
shall be secured all the necessities of life at all times, and
under all circumstances, then three thousand persons can do

‘the same thing; and if three thousand can do it, then three

millions, and thirty millions, can also do the same thing;
and we hold that the larger the organization, and the
more varied its industries, the greater ought to be its
success. If it be objected that all people are not fitted to
live a community life, then we reply, if there were no other
organization in which such people could find a place, they
would be obliged to accommodate themselves to the com-
munity. The reason that communities in piece-meal have
been mostly failures is because there were other organiza-
tions into which members could escape, with which their un-
developed natures were more in harmony.

At Oneida there is no such thing known as prostitution
—-no women who live by selling their bodies to whatsoever
buyer. There are no tipplingshops or gambling hells; no
pawn-brokers or money-lenders of the more A respectable
stripe. There is no crime; there are no jails, no alms-houses;
none of the usual accompaniments of the so—called Christian
civilization, because there is nothing there to produce
them. It is the evil systems that produce these fruits. And
most of all, and best of all, there are no women there worn
out by constant child-bearing, and, consequently,’no born
thieves, murderers and adultercrs; none who have the seeds
of hypocrisy, deceit, lying, stealing and all the other vices
bred in them while yet in their mother’s womb. Well may
Christians inquire and learn of Oneida, for while the latter
has all the virtues of the former it has none of its vices.

To be sure these virtues may be said to be rather negations
than otherwise ; but the first step from a bad toward
a better life is to stop doing the things that make a life bad.
This can then be followed by things that are positive and
good. The professedly Christian world, before it can make
any great advances in good, has first got to cease doing the
things by which its vices are generated. In the language of
the beloved disciple, they have got to cease sinning——got to
cease propagating sin, before the__good seed can be‘ sown in
good ground to bear good fruit; and the first step, to say the
very least that ought to be said, the Oneida Perfectionists
have taken toward this by adopting an industrial system in
which none can suffer; in which all are‘ provided, in any
emergency, againstwanting the necessities for physical ex-
istence. In this respect, at least, they have complied with
the practice of the early Christians who sold their posses-
sions and came and laid their prices down at the Apostles’

feet, and, with/‘those who continued together, had all things -

common. ,

But while we call the attention of professing Christians to
these evidences that exist in their very midst, we are well
aware that they will be like the scribes and pharisees of old ;
we know that nothing save a revolution can wake them to
a sense of their own hypocritical pretensions, and that
nothing can avert the doom that is impending over the rotten
institutions that they have erected, and to which they cling
with a tenacity that is born of «the most intolerant selfish-
ness—a selfishness of which they, perhaps, are not conscious,
but one that nevertheless has the same effect upon those over
whom it holds its sceptre as if it were conscious and pre-
meditated. -

If there is any one thing that the Bihl€7; 
clearly and forcibly, any one thing that is more pre-eminent
in the preaching and practice of -the Apostles than any other,
it is this question. of pecuniary or material equality. Jesus
declared so vehemently against the possession of riches that
His disciples inquired, wonderingly : “Who, then, can be
saved ?”
a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of
Heaven,” because to become rich one has got to.,do‘those
things that precludes the possibility of the same love for
the neighbor as for self.

Heaven, cannot be inherited. Those who wish to,,,inherit
this blessing must desire it more than they do or can any

 

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Unless this love is possessed, eter‘- _
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THE ISSUE.

 

We desire our readers to bear constantly in mind, as they
read the criticisms upon what has been termed our “New
Departure” if(but which we rather prefer to call a new
position on a common line of advancement), that we have
no taste for, or disposition to, engage in doubtful disputa-
tions about something that our critics seem to think depends
upon certain interpretations given to the figurative language
of the Bible.» We have endeavored constantly to guard our
readers against this fallacy, and to show that the only im-

\ portance that we attach to the Bible is that we find therein.

set forth allegorically the most momentous truth of which it
is possible for the human mind to conceive; not that we find
the truth itself, the facts, in it, but that a fact and capacity of
human life is there presented in a pen-pictured allegory.

As We have shown by the Bible itself, the allegories of its
first chapters relate to the human body. If its continuation
and ending mean anything——if they they have any relation
to the introduction—if there is any sequence at all between
its beginning and ending—then, throughout, its allegories
and pictures relate to the human body. The temple that
has been destroyed, and which is to be rebuilt, is the same
humanlbody which St. Paul tells us, very distinctly, is the
temple of God. From these few presentations we do not
see how is it possible to escape the conclusion that the body
is the common subject that is typified in the Bible.

Of course we shall not objectto any proffered criticism
upon anything that we may present in our editorials; but
we may venture to inquire how we can be criticised before
it is known what is the objective point which we are aiming
to develop? I

When Morse presented his scheme for an electric tele-
graph, thousands who did not know as much as he did
about the truths involved in it, made assertions and offered
arguments which the establishment of his scheme has re-

futed. So we might be content to hear critics of the new .

facts which have been discovered to us, without reply,

knowing, as we very well do, that when the facts which we
know shall be demonstrated the criticisms cannot stand.
Besides, it is hard to reply to a criticism that does not touch
the central position. A pugilist can ward off a blow that is
directed against him, but if it be struck in a direction that
does not touch him he cannot repel it.

It may be said that if this be so in regard to the truth at

issue now with us we ought to present it clearly enough to"

become an objective point for attack. We should reply to
this : I’ That none of our critics or readers can be more
anxious to have us present the issue than we are ourselves
anxious to present it; but we are prevented from doing, so now

by obstacles that will become evident, even to our severest. ’

critics, when it shall really come. Itmay be possible (We
do not deny that it is) that we may be mistaken about the
truth that is presented in the allegories of the Bible. We
have no method to prove absolutely‘that the writers of the
Bible intended in, the language which they used, to picture
the truth that has been revealed to us in nature; but this
much we can say : that some of those who wrote the Bible
have informed us that this is the case, and we not only be-
lieve them, but all the palpable evidences of the Bible con-
firm us in this belief. '
Should it turn out eventually that the languageof the
Bible has no reference whatever to the truth to which we
refer, that will make no difference in this truth, since its
living will banish misery, disease, crime and death from
the face of the earth, and bring about precisely the same
state of things that are set forth in the Bible. So it will
make very little difference to us whether our ‘critics or
ourselves are right in the respective interpretations of the
allegories of the Bible. But we cannot refrain from asking
our critics why it was necessary to write the Bible in alle-
gorical language if the subject were not of a character that
it was impossible to treat otherwise on account of the vile-
ness of the people’s thoughts and other intolerant bigotry
and superstition; in short, was it not for the same reasons
that prevent us from writing in plain English instead of in
metaphorical language? ’ a
Our informants may be mistaken; they may deceive us;
they may know nothing about it; and we shall take the
foolish and weak position of saying that we know that
they informed truthfully? But this we do know: that the
truth which they say the Bible presents allegorically is a
fact in nature. So, when '0 ur critics say that the Bible
does not mean what we have interpreted it to mean, we
think they might with equal propriety also add, since their
means of knowing one are equal to their means of knowing
the other, that the fact which we know to exist does not
exist. Now, we only claim to know what we have had dem-
onstrated to our consciousness; but we accept the evidence
of those who ought to know the other side, and believe it to
be true. Morse knew as well what could be done with
batteries and wires before the line of telegraphy was estab-
lished between Washington and Baltimore, as he did after-

,_ ward; but he could not convince his opponents by

argument of what he knew. So may we not be able to
convince any by argument; but we shall be willing to let
our critics have all the argument, until the fact shall be
demonstrated which will be as complete a reply to then; as

is the telegraph to-day to those who thirty years ago hooted
at the idea. In the meantime we shall welcome any criti-
cism that is made in good spirit, and print all for

which we can find room, not promising, however, to review

any, except when in so doing we think we may be able to
draw the attention of our readers nearer to _the real issue;
nearer to its recognition and comprehension which we are
anxious that all shall have as quickly as possible.

THEOCRATIC THUNDEBS.

The noblest results of the war of the Revolution were the
great advancements made toward the establishment of the
civil and religious freedom of the people. Although neither
were entire or complete, they were the foremost footprints
to governmental perfection that the world had ever wit-
nessed. The steps then taken were in the right direction,
and we are glad to hope that our people are yet pressing
forward in the way then indicated toward the solution of
the communal problem of “ Liberty under Law.”

Our progress toward civil liberty has lately been exem-
plified by the annihilation of slavery in our republic, which
was a British institution our fathers didgnot think it wise
to assail, although they manifestly deplored its existence
among them.‘ That stumbling block has been removed by
us, and absolute male freedom is constitutionally asserted
for all men in the Union. Woman is yet ruled out of her
political rights by custom, and debarred of her personal
rights by law; which latter still regards her as a chattel in
all our courts. But the signs of the times are, that these
evils also are destined soon to fall and pass away.

Probably a greater advance was made by our fathers to-
ward the establishment of religious than of civil freedom.
In theory the Constitution is correct, but in practice it is
very different. The Constitution says: “ Congress shall
make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” of course, this does
not exclude the States from so doing, if they think fit; the
fathers have done all they could to show us the right way;
if we choose to do otherwise, it is our own fault.

Now for our practice. We have not the data at hand,
but it is our belief that at the inauguration of VVashington
as first President the Episcopal Church was not unrepre-
sented. Here was our first departure. Our country, as
George Washington in the Tripolitan treaty justly stated,
recognizes no creed, and is open to all. Since then we
have had, as Chaplains in Congress, members of all Chris-
tian creeds except the greatest, the Catholic, and even a
Jew. Instead of Church and State, we now have “All
Churches and State.” This is an abomination. Either Gods
or men ought to spew it forth with contempt. Better be
worried by an old lion than mumbled to death by his
whelps. The Union must be absolutely free from all re-
ligious proclivities or it must be the slave of them all. The
Y.M.C.A.has done its best to unite the five great Protestant
sects among us. It has originated a system of ecclesiasti-
cal espionage superior to anything ever devised by the
Spanish‘ Inquisition. It is more detrimental to liberty than
ever was that institution. Every American citizen is now
scheduled ecclesiastically and commercially. Real liberty
is dead. Free charity is superseded by insurance societies.
Christianity, what is it? Jointstock companies build
churches on spec, and fill pulpits with men notorious for
their virtues or their vices, as in Brooklyn. No matter;
success is the end. Whether it be attained by the physical
ability of a Beecher or the swearing proclivities of a Tal-
mage is of no consequence. Get on, is the word! If a
Bonze or a Mufti will fill a church there are financiers who
will cheerfully build one. One thing, however, is neces-
sary: Do not attack money. Sink the interview between
Jesus and the rich young man, and do not hint that Dives
was sent to hell, no charge being recorded against him save
that he was a possessor of riches.

It is only polite to do this. You must not offend those
who sustain the Protestant churches. Times are changed
since the day of the Nazarene. The poor followed him.
He limited his preaching to them. It is, different now. You
cannot be saved now under a thousand dollars. Wine and
milkaife sold in the churches at about ten dollars a quart.
This is religion, but it is not Christianity. The rich accept
it, though most of them know it is a bogus article ; but at
the same time they are aware it is the best their money can
purchase. .. L .

However, now, our President has changed all this. He
has flung religion into the political ring, and said: Now,
boys, fight! Accordingly, every day the leading presses of
this city (New York) have discussed pro and con that part
of the President’s Message relating to public education and
the taxation of church property, if not the churches them-
selves. In our opinion, nothing but good can result from
the discussion of those questions, for, it is certain, the
war of creeds can only terminate in the total disruption of
entente cordiale which has so long existed between the
churches and the States.

At present, as far as regards the subject of religions, many
of the acts of Congress are in confiict with the Constitution.
That instrument says : “,Congress shall make no law re-
specting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the

free exercise thereof.” Soldiers and sailors, whose religion

is of the right stripe, may respect Congress for taking care
of their souls by the appointment of chaplains, but no others.
When We consider the deleterious eifect the “ olla podridw’

of chaplains has had upon the members of the two Houses
of Congress, we feel that the balance of our Army and Navy
have reason to remonstrate against such appointments. In
the British navy we have heard that Admiral Nelson’s offi-

, eers complained that the chaplain was a Catholic, and were

answered by that hero, “that he was glad to hear of it, for
he was the first chaplain who ever sailed with him that had
any religion at all.” * ' / I - ,

There is no doubt about the terminationof‘ this re-
ligious war. : We‘ thank the President for introducing it.
Our, Catholic brethren had better go for liberty than-trust to
the tender mercies of bigoted Protestants. They will do
so. At its conclusion, the wisdom of the doctrine. con-
tainedin the Constitution will be fully sustained, and, out
of the jarring of our credal brethren, truth will be elimi-
nated. In the near future, we prophesy that the entire
divorce of the State from the Church will be a fact accom-
plished, and that in truth.neither a State or the General
Government will be permitted by public will to make any
law looking toward “ the establishment of religion, or pro-
hibiting the free exercise thereof.” ‘

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THE DAVID EDGAR FUND.

It may please our readers to know that one-fourth of this ~

fund is already subscribed. we sincerely hope that the
number may be increased to a hundred, and thus show the
widespread interest that is shown in the WEEKLY, as well
as to lighten the subscriptions of those who came first‘ to
the front. Perhaps the time may come when the names
inscribed in this list maystandr forth in something like the
brilliancy that now encircles, with a halo of glory, those
which, a hundred years ago, were affixed to that im-
mortal instrument, the Declaration of Indep_endence.

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‘ANOTHER VICTIM.

The readers of the WEEKLY were awarethat John A.)
Lant, the editor and publisher of the Toledo Sun, was
arrested by the agent of the Society for the Suppression
of Obscenity, for sending obscene literatureithrough the
United States mails. Last week he was tried and convicted,
and is now in Ludlow street jail awaiting sentence. We
did not believe that this suit would be pressed, but it has
been with this result, and undoubtedly the Christian Judge
Benedict, a member we believe of Plymouth Church, will
give {him the full extent of the law, which, it will be re-
membered, the aforesaid agent had increased from one
year’s imprisonment and four hundred dollars fine, to ten
years imprisonment and five thousand dollars fine. Next
week we shall give a full review of Lant’s case, situation
and prospects; meanwhile let his friends be preparing’ to
sign a petition for his pardon. - ’ I

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A PROPOSITION.

To the Friends of I/Voodhull and Claflinfis Weekly: ‘

I have been waiting some time to see if some one more
capable or able than myself would not present some plan in
which I might join by which the publication of the WEEKLY
may be secured beyond peradventure for one year; but
as none. have done so, I do not feel that I can delay any
longer presenting one that seems to me to be practical, and
which will secure the desired result. '

If I understand rightly, the WEEKLY suffers by loss of
subscribers and failures to renew promptly because -its
editors have had the courage and honesty to print. in it
what they have conceived to be important truths, and which,
if they are truths, surely are important; when byfollowin g
a course of policy and catering to prejudice and public
favor they might have gained popularity and support. Now,
to me it would make little difference whether I fully ac
corded with all the ‘views thus expressed or "not. The
principle involved in the utterance of the truth for the
truth’s sake -is one that ought to be sustained wherever found,
and I am sure it is not found in the conduct of reform jour-
nals so "frequently that the question as to which shall be
supported can become 'a matter of choice. , : I

If I understand rightly, also, the editors of the WEEKLY
devote" to its support not only all,the funds that it receives,
but have yearly contributed large sums from their lecture
earnings for thatpurpose, besides giving their own personal
services without recompense. If this be true, and I believe
it has been so stated in the paper editorially, then it is fur-

ther evidence that they have full faith in the work in which ‘
they are engaged, and furnishesperhaps the only known case

in which a paper is at no expense for its editorial conduct.

Moreover, Mrs. Woodhull’s health, upon which success in
the lecture field depends entirely, is very precarious, and",
from my own observation, I believe to be liable any day to
fail her so much that she may be unable to‘ remain in the
field. Should this occur, it would seem almost ‘certain, that
she_would be unable to maintain the WEEKLY. Now, this
I believe would be a disaster which those who are earnestly
devoted to the ’ promulgation of the truth; those who have
some care for the welfare of the race and are not wholly

bound up in their selfishness, ought not, through supineness '

orinaction, to permit under any circumstances. .
I belong to that class which labors with its hands, and
am, therefore, limited in what I can do by the means“ to do
but I have this proposition to make, and I request that it be
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If within three months there shall be ‘found nineteen per-
sons who will signify their willingness to contribute to a
fund to secure the publication of the WEEKEY for one year,

one hundred dollars each, I will be the twentieth, to make I

that fund to two,thousand dollars, which I calculateunder
the most adverse circumstances will secure the end proposed.
Within the year, we are assured by the editors, that develop-
ments will be made which will afterward secure all needed
support in the ordinary way. I for one desire that the year
of grace shall be bridged over, and make the above proposi-
tion for that purpose, and propose when the required hum-
ber of subscribers shall be obtained that the sub-
scription be , paid over to the WEEICLY, an.d
by its editors pledged to its support, to be drawn upon
only as the necessities, of the VVEEKLY demand;
and, for the information of the subscribers, that such ne-
cessities and drafts. be communicated to them at the end of
each month, as the former arise and the latter are made.
Let every reader and friend of the WEEKLY consider this
subject well, and send in their names at once; and should
the number_ who are willing to subscribe reach one hun-
dred or any other number greater than twenty, then the
amount of the subscription shall be reduced proportion-
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THE LECTURE SEASON.

Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennis C. Clafiin will receive
applications to lecture anywhere in the United States.
They will go into the field early, and will fill engagements
in various parts of the country as their regular trip shall
bring them into its respective parts.

The first seven of their subjects form a regular course‘,

and are a clear and comprehensive argument, establishing

beyond refutation the new Biblical Revelations, and cover
the whole grounds of the Sealed Mystery.

Applications for the course, or for single lectures, may be
made to their P. O. Box 3,791, N. Y. ity, where all letters
should be addressed that are not otherwise specially ordered.

Mrs. Woodhull will speak in Woonsockct, R. I., Doc.
1'7; Willimantic, Conn., Dee.18:, Hartford, Conn., Dec." 20;
New Britain, Conn ., Dec. 21; Wate1'bury, Conn, Dec. 253;

‘West Meridcn, Dec. 23; New Haven, Conn, Dec. 24, If

any change in dates is made it will be announced in the

local papers.
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MRS. WOODHULL IN THE FIELD.
COMMENTS on THE Pnnss. ‘

[From the Erie (Pa.) Observer, Dec. 2.]
WOODI-IULL AND CLAFLIN.

The noted sisters, Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennis C.
Claflin, paid our city a. visit on_Saturday, and treated the
_public to their views upon social questions, in Music Hall
in the evening. The doors were opened at half-past seven
-o'clock, and the audience kept coming in until about half-
'.past eight.__ Mrs. Woodhull was neatly dressed in black,
rm,ade,- her worst enemies would have been obliged to con-
ifess. a very lady-like appearance. She spoke for an hour and
:a halfiu a voluble and ofl’-hand style, which drew applause
:from her hearers. Mrs. Woodhull is one of the best female
speakers in the country—far exceeding, in her ability to
«entertain an audience, the famous Anna Dickinson, and
lhaving greatly the advantage over her in personal presence.

Mrs Woodhull’s idea seems to be that all unions between
the sexes should be based on love, and that every other form
of sexual association is the basest pollution. She denounced
women who marry for the mere sake of being married, or
who sell themselves for money, as worse than prostitutes.
No children born _out of love, she said, would be perfect:
the inmates of our Insane asylums and penitentiaries are the
=;ofi’spri-ng of those who _had no affection for each other. She
nnade use of language, in enforcing her ideas, that would be
«deemed shocking in society, but which she said was only
rendered wicked by the thoughts of those who heard it. In

_ the course of her lecture she rapped the preachers severely,

and the press came in for its full share of her gall and worm-
wood. One of her most loudly applauded hits was when she
said that there_were five hundred women in the City who
were almost dying to be present, but didn’t dare tocome for
fear of society. I , I ’
[Here followed ‘a ieiigtliy digest of the lecture, closing;
thus :] I » i /
Mrs. Woodhull is an earnest ‘woman, who believes she has
a mission to accomplish. The sisters will return here in
February, having been assured, so they say, two hundred
dollars by “ some of our most prominenticitizens."’ While in,
-the city the party were obj acts‘ of general curiosity wherever
lthey went, and a considerable cro wd Watched their departure

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on hfon-day. Tfoey were accompanied by their mother and a
pretty young daughter, who acted as ticket agent.

[From the Syracuse (N.Y.) Standard, Nov. 4, 1875.]
MRS. WCCDHULI.-’s LECTURE LAST EVENING.

Looking back two or three years ago to the audience which
greeted Mrs. "Woodhull in Wieting Opera House, and then
looking in at Shakespearef-Iall last evening, one is forced
to think that there has been a change somewhere. Last
evening Sha.kespear_e Ilall was filled by an audience which
listened with interest to the speaker, They evidently were
not all drawn by curiosity, if we may judge from the ap-
plause, though many were undoubtedly attracted by curi-
osity. ’

This lecture and its management seem to have been en-
tirely in female hands. The night before the lecture Miss
Tennie C. Claflin appears as the avomt courier and general
business manager. A pleasant—faced, extremely talkative
lady, with a slight lisp. drops into the newspaper offices,
buttonlloles the reporters in a thoroughly business-like way,
pays her hills like a man, denounces Tilton. gives a sly hit at
Beeclier, and goes out, having left the impression behind
that she knows the world. Last evening she solditickets in
the box office with the same case until the hour for the lee-
ture. At the door we give up our tickets to Miss Victoria
C. Woodhull, .Ir., daughter of the lecturess, who bears an
unmistakable resemblance to her mother. She is a.widc-
awake young lady of fourteen, who will hoe her own row in
the world without question. i '

At eight o’clock, or sliortly after, Miss Tennie Claflin
appears unexpectedly on the stage, and without preface,
glides into reading a poem in an agreeable manner. Mrs.

, Woodhull then enters and walks majestically to the front of

the platform, and in a musical voice read the following text:

“ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the
spirit of God dwelleth in you ?”—1 Corinthians iii, 16.

(Here followed a lengthy digest of the lecture, ending thus_:)

She held the close attention of her audience ‘throughout,
proving herself a3 mistress of oratory, and many of her
points were strongly applauded.‘

[The Daily (Syracu'se,_ N. Y.) Courier, Saturday, Dec. 4, 1875.]

VICTORIA C. woo_§DHULL——soCIAL EREEDoM’s CHAMPION———
VICTORIA C.’S; APPEAL——A PEEP INTO FUTURITY AND
WHAT wE woUL:D BELEIOLD THERE IF MRS. WOODHULL
SWAYED THE WORLD.

A Syracuse audience had an opportunity last evening, in
Shakespeare Hall, of hearing the remarkable Victoria C.
Woodhu1l—t-he wonderful, the great, V\’oodhull. The house
was filled with an intelligent audience of ladies and gentle-
men about equally divided.

Soon after eight o’clock Miss Claflin came from behind the
scenes and recited in a pleasant way a selection about “ ever
will justice be done.” -

[Herc followed a two-column report of the lecture, closing
thusz]

She called attention to a statement in one of Herbert
Spencer’s articles in a magazine, which she said was be-
yond’. anything that she had ever said. It was this: "It is
a lamentable truth that the troubles which respectable,
hard-working married women undergo are more trying to
the health and detrimental to the looks than any of the har-
lot’s career.” What a commentary is this on the so-called

sacred institution of marriage from the pen of the acknow1- .

edged leader of the scientific and philosophic world, but yet
I am denounced, she said, ‘because I am doing everything in
my power to bring about a better state of things for this
class of women.

But she is willing to wait for her justification. Indeed she
said it hadalready begun to come. Where three years ago
there was never a word upon these subjects printed in the
papers, scarcely an important paperor magazine can now
be found in which it is not discussed in some form. More-
over, some of the oldest and most popular papers and maga-
zines are now advocating substantially the same thingthat
she advocates, the only difference being that they have not
got the moral courage yet to show how the desired results are
to be obtained, while this is a task from which she never
shrinks.

Such was the general tenor of the lecture of Victoria
Woodhull last evening. Whatever may be the opinion of

‘ Mrs. VVO0Clhllll’S doctrines, it must be conceded that she is

an extraordinary woman, and there is a. peculiar fascina-
tion in her intense emotional nature, her utter and reck-
less devotion to an idea, her eager and passionate advocacy
of her cause. Her eyes flash with enthusiasm. She trem-
bles with excitement as she talks. Her care—w0rn face
lights up in a wonderful manner, and her lips quiver with
emotion. She_ is a strange, wonderful woman, and one can-
not leave her presence after an hours’ talkrwithout a more
kindly feeling for her. She was plainly dressed in a black
silk dress, demi—train, lace veil suspended over her shoulders.
Her hair was combed plainly back from her intelligent
face. She at once showed a perfect familiarity with What
she was talking about. H-or manner was easy, her gestures
graceful, her voice strong, her articulation perfect, and the
the expression of her face when she got warmed up
to her subject grew spiritual. Nobody who sees her can
doubt that she is not only earnest but honest in all she
says; indeed her purpose: seems to be based on a deep-seated
religious enthusiasm. If she should appear here again, as
‘we hope she may, no halt would be too large for her.

Those who arrived earliest at the hall were met at the
entrance by a pretty girl attired in black, with a jaunty
felt hat set on abundance of blonde tresses, who took tick-
ets. This was Victoria Woodhull, Jun ., the picture of her
mother, and the future exponent] of the social emancipa-
tion of women. Miss Woodhull is fourteen years of age,
with a pair of gypsy-like dark blue eyes, which seem to
dare you on, a comely form, and being the daughter of her
mother, is endowed with an exceedingly handsome face.
She officiated at her post with due modesty and a strict
business manner. Our reporter stopped a moment in the
lobby and peeped through the aperture in the ticket office.
There could be seen the busy fingers and pleasant features
of Miss Tennis 0. Clafiin, who was handling the cash and
pasteboards like a veteran ticket-seller. These ladies are
business to the core-in fact they are a corps of business

_ ladies.

Qilrom the Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 6th.)
VICTORIA WOODHULL.

Corinthian Hall was filled Saturday evening with a large
and attentive audience to hear Victoria C. W=0odhull. Tennie
C. Ciaflin presided’ at the box—oflice. and Mrs. Woodhull’s
daughter, Victoria, a sprightly young lady, took tickets a
portion of the time. '

’ Shortly after 8 o’clock Mrs. ‘Woodhull appeared before her
audience plainly arrayed in black dress with no ornaments.
She excited the interest of her hearers by her first sentence,
and held their undivided attention to the end.

_ L[I-Iere followed a lengthy digest of the lecture, closing
thusz] ~ ‘
The press throughout the country commends Mrs. Wood-

'hull’s lecture and speaks in the -highest terms of her oratory.

There is a growing conviction that she means what she says,
and her ability to say it is developing rapidly. And as an
agent it may be sa1d that Miss Claflln has no superior. Her

good looks do not interfere a whit with her success, her con-
versational powers are remarkable, and she is finely developed
in “ business ” from the crown of her head to the suppositious
soles of her boots. The concern is the most nobby and novel
one that travels, and so far as one may judge from surface
indications it deserves success . It shows, at all events, that
Women can travel and “ manage” as well as the other sex,
and that their money need not necessarily find its way in
every instance into the pockets of covetous and perhaps ras-
cally male agents. That much for a couple of women who,
whatever’ else may be said of them, have more of pluck and

endurance and do more hard work than any hundred men »

who might be picked up in a day’s journey‘.

* (From the Evening Express, Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 6,18% )
VICTORIA WOODHULL.

Victoria C. ‘Woodhull lectured in Corinthian Hall Saturday
evening. The hall was filled with an intelilgentaudience.
Miss Tennis 0. Clafiin, sister to the lecturer, transacted the
busines in the ticket office, and Mrs. VVoodhull’s daughter
took the tickets at the door. That Mrs. VVoodhull is a woman
of ability no one will deny. Her “persuasive eloquence” con-
vinced her hearers that she “ means business ” in the reitera-
tion of her social theories. She is convinced that editors are
becoming more inteligent. high minded and unprejudiced.
Her appearance Saturday evening was in her favor . She has
a fairly-shaped countenance, and bright, intelligent eyes.
She was neatly attired in plain. black silk. and wore about
her shoulders a lace scarf. She discards jewels altogether.
Her address occupied about one hour and one half, and was
listened to with the closest attention. She spoke rapidly, and
appeared as if it was difficult to keep pace with her thoughts.

She took her text from Corinthians:

“ Know ye‘ not that ye are the temple of God, and that the
spirit of God dwelleth in you ?”

[.Here followed a lengthy digest of the lecture :]

-[ From the Coon'me7'cl'ctl Advertiser, Bufifalo, N. _Y’., Dec. 6, ’75.]

VICTORIA C. WOODHULL.

Despite the rain, St. James Hall was filled, both up-stairs‘
and down, last evening, the attraction being alecture by
Victoria C. Woodhull. Among the audience were many
staid and sober marriedmen. who would, without doubt,
have relished the lecture highly had it not been for the ab-
sence of their wives, whom they were compelled, through
stress of weather, to leave at home. The lecture was one
which very few women possess the peculiar ability and bold-
ness to deliver. Nevertheless it was one-which is entirely

proper for every one to hear ;- indeed, which every one ought

to be the better for hearing.

[From the Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier, Dec. 6, 1875.]
' VICTORIA WOODHULL. --

. Victoria 0. Woodhull lectured at St. James’ Hall last
evening on “The True and the False Socially;” and, not-
withstanding the very Fdisagreaeble weather, the hall was
filled with a highly intelligent audience. With such audiences
as that of last evening, through an entire season, it must be
evident to the most casual observer that “ advanced ideas,"
when advocated boldly, are sometimes pecuniarily profitable.
Mrs. Woodhull has been roundly abused; but the American
people are the mostqgenerous people in the world, and the
feeling is gaining that she has been misrepresented and has
been made to suffer unnecessarily. Mrs. Woodhull brings a
persuasive eloquence, a fiery energy and an earnestness
whose genu‘inenes_s cannot be questioned. She is a woman
of great ability, and states her views with singular clearness
and force. ‘
Her appearance last evening, as she stepped upon the stage,

.was that of an intelligent woman, with a finely chiseled face, V

an intellectual forehead, and ajpair of eyes all her own. At
first she delivered her argument in a sort of mechanical.
way, but as she proceeded with the discussion she grew
earnest and impassioned. Her language took on the im-
petuosity of a mountain torrent, and her ideas chased each
other with lightning fee,t. She indulged but little in rhetori-
cal flourish and flights of fancy she did not attempt. Her
business was too serious for these things, and every moment
seemed freighted with responsibility to her. She overflowed
with her subject, and struggled bravely to keep pace with
her thought. After the first quarter of an hour it was a
veritable oratorial storm, succeeding to a sort of intellectual"
calm; and her plea with the world to think as she did was
as vehement and passionate as if dooms-day was at hand
and the world remained unregenerate. Her attitude and
bearing, and the rapid utterances of thought, feeling, indig-
nation, pity and despair, were those of a rhapsodist; and
the sincerity‘ of the woman was convincingly manifest.
There was nothing melo-dramatic about her manner; there
were no premeditated climaxes; no regular recurrence of
finely rounded periods; no oratorical clap -trap whatever.
What she had to say she said in her own way and with. a
spontaniety, eager energy and accuracy of emphasis really
refreshing. She is a social iconoclast and tears down with a
fury that seems born of inspiration; but can she build up
as well as she would destroy? ‘We think not; but we con-
tent ourselves with giving her credit for honesty of purpose
and oratorical talents unequaled by any lady to whom we
have ever listened.

[Here follows a lengthy digest of the lecture, ending thus :]

We have but faintly indicated the scope of the lecture,
which was at once a vigorous arraignment of society for
many of its numerous offenses and a plea for reform as Mrs.
Woodhull understands. The lecturer was frequently api-
plauded with a. will, and when she retired from the stage the
demonstration was as enthusiastic as any orator or actor
could desire. ‘

.—‘®>-4‘

PERSONAL.

The address of Mattie Strickland and Leo Miller—two
persons who dare to defy the legal attempt of the-commu-
nity to license comm crce between the sexes—is Whitewater,
Wisconsin. May we not trust that there are brave hearts
enough among the readers of the WEEKLY to show them that

their moral, courage is appreciated. VVe call attention to Mr. _

Miller’s communication in another column.

 

THE false shame which fears to be detected in honest

manual employment; which shrinks from exposing to the

world a necessary and honorable economy; which blushes
more deeply for a shabby attire than for a mean action, and
which dreads the sneer of the world -,lII1OI'8 thanthe upbrai d
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WASHINGTON bar-tender, loq-' “ Cold ‘weather, this morn-

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New York, August 25, 1875.
Wakefield Earth ‘Closet Co.——GEN'rs:—After more
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. Emporium, Pa., August 81st, 1875.

* "5 * It has been a great convenience to my
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,W. J. CI-IAIGER, M. D.

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P. S.«—The ladies would part with any piece of fur-
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Walrefiel<l~Earlh Closet Co.—-We have used one of

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_ A. MC ELEOY WYLIE, .
Pastor of I’resbyterian.Church, Nyack, N. Y.

New York,*Sept. 1st, 1875. '

Having used Earth Closets for some years and know-
ing their great superiority for household purposes over
the oidinary appliances for similar ends, I can cor
dially commend those of the Wakefield. Company to_
the practical consideration of people who have sani-
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Ed. Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated.

From Our Home Hygienic Institute of I’ ansville, N.
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We have used several of your Earth Closets in and
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freedom from smell, and non-liability to get out of re

pair, they are unsiirpassed.
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JAMEs H; JACKSON, Secretary.

From D. R. Locke (Nasby), Editor Toledo Blade.
1 New York, Sept. 1st, 1875.

I have used one of your best Wakefield Closets for
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Yours respectfully, D. R. LOCKE.

We have similar letters from the following, among
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DR. SAMUEL LYNES, Norwalk, Conn.

JOHN P. THOMAS, Supt. of the Carolina Military In-
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REV. J. B. DRURY, Ghent, N. Y.

GEO. W. CHARLOTTE, Proprii tor Atlantic Hotel,
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‘ID? A. C. VAN Errs, “ Valley House,” Binghamton,
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F. A. SOULE, Passaic, N. J.
A. S. Losnn, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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Detroit ;

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Tnuotron Tio_KETs to all important towns, azil general information may be obtained at the Compa:.~.y’.~:
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Condensed Time Table’.
NESTWAHB FREE NEW YURK. .
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STATIONS. Express. ggggfw STATIONS. E'.7f3,7?7‘G88.
Lv 23:1 Street, N. Y . . . . .   8.30 A M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . .. 6.45 P. M. 0%,;

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

“ Jersev Citv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . .  7.20 “ _

“ Iloriiellsville . . . .  . . . . . . .  8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ Hornellsville . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ E’.r.~:T.i.~r.

“ Buflialo . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . .. 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ Bu.fEalo._. . . . . .._ . . . . . . . . .. 11.45 :‘ --

Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.10 A M. 1.35 P. M. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 1.35 ‘ 9.50 p. In

A: Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . .   2.45 “ 2.55 “ Ar Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 " 11.20 “

“ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5.35 “ 5.55 “ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a. In.

‘ “ Dct.roit.. . .  9.40 “ 10.00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7.00 ‘

N ._Tac1;son.... .. . . .  12.15 P. M. 1.00 A M. “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. M. 13.30 ‘

“ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 ‘ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.45 P 171

Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 5.30 A; M. 11.50 A. M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a in

Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 P. M. .. .. Ar Prairie du Chein. . . . ;. ..  . 8-55 P- 1“-

/11‘ La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A M '7-05 8- m.

Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6.15 P. M. 1‘ Ar St. Paul . . . . . . ... . . . . . .. 7.00 A M

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

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

‘‘ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . = “ . “ Denison ......  . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 

“ Galveston .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ . “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “  A

Ar Bismarck ...... . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. Ar Bism-arck..... . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 P. M. 

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

“ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 I’. M. “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .

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

"‘ Omaha . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. . “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A. M. . .

" Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  . , “ Cheyenne .............. .. 12.50 r. ..

“ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  . “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.30 “ ..

“ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . ..  “ San Francisco ....... . . 8.30 “

."[r Holesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. M A1‘ Galesburg  . . . . . . . . .. 4.45 P. M.  .

“ Quincy . . . . . .  . . . . . . . .  11.15 “ “ Quincey . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.45 “' 

“ St. Joseph...... .. . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ .. “ St. Joseph .....  . . . . .. 8.10 A. M. 

“ i{ausas_City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.40 P. M.  _; “ Kansas City ........... .. 9.25 “ ;...-

“ At.chisen........  . . . . . . .. 11.00 “  ; “ Atchlsoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ 
‘- Leavenwortll ....  ...... .. 12.10 “  " Leavenworth .......... .. 12.40 noon. 
“Denver.  7.0QA.M  “Denver . . . . . . . . . .   

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ii Through? ‘Sleeping

Car Arrangements

0.15 A.I'.1.——.Day Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday). with Pu1lman’s Drawing-Room Cars

and connc_ctin§>'.at_ Suspension Bridge with _.Pullman’s Pa
. the following day in time to take the morning trains from there.

ace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. in

7.20 P. M,---Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to
Chicago without change, arriving there at 8.00 a. m., ‘ving passengers ample time for breakfast and take
the nioming trains to all points ,'West, Northwest and ‘southwest.

CQNNECTIONS OF ERIE ‘RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF

Michigan. Central a Great Western Railways.

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

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

At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. _

At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Godericli 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 Dc

troit, Lansing & Lake Michigan R. R. to Howard and intermediate Stations-

iiranch Lake S. & M. S. R. . to Toledo.

Also Detroit & Bay City it. .5‘

At Wayne, with Flint & Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc.

At Ypsilanti, with Detroit, Hillsdale & Eel River _R. Rs, for Manchester, Billsdale, Banker’s, Waterloo
Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and Indianapolis. 7 ' v

At Jackson, with Grand River Vallev Branch, for Eaton Rapids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncia, Pent

water, and all intermediate-stations.
Also with Jack, Lansing &- Sagin
and intermediate stations.

Also, with Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three Rivers and Cassopolis
aw Branch, for Lansing, Owosso, Saginaw, Wenona, Standish, Crawfon
Also with Fort Wayne, Jack At Saginaw R. R. for Jonesville, Waterloo, Far‘

Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cin. R. R. to Cincinnati.

5 At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. R.

A Kalamazoo, with South Haven Branch, to 21.5% u‘ivii::tt£iloé1;aSIl%1it%fIiIJav§n&e£E:

R R. for Clam Lake and intermediate stations.
,-‘it Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw.
At Niles, with South Bend Branch.

Also with G. Rapids -5.? In 71.
R. R.

At New Buflalo, with Chicago (St Mich. Lake S. R. R. for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegen, Pentwater am;

all intermediate stations.

At Michigan City, with Indianapolis, Pem'&' China; an Also with Louisville. New Albany «E3 Chi»

cage R. B.
At Lake, with Joliet Branch to J oliet.
At Chicago, with all railroads diverging.

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