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PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT: AUNTRAMMELED LIVES!

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BREAKING THE WAY ‘FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIQNS.

Vol. XI.——No. 16.——Wl:o1e No. 276.

NEVV YORK, MAR. 18, 1876.

PRICE TEN CENTS.

In the days of the voice of the seventh cmgel, the
mystery of God shalt be fim'shed.——St. John the
Divine. =

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THE WORK IN THE SOUTH.

Dear Weekly——I am just from Galveston on my way North,

and it is my pleasure to inform your readers, that, most un-
expectedly to myself, I met Victoria in that city. We
were stopping for two days in the same hotel, and 1 had to
regret that fate would have it so that I was compelled to
leave the city in the morning of the day she was to lecture
at night. I have never seen Victoria. on the rostrum, and re-
gard 1t as rather an ill stroke of fortune that deprived me
of the rare opportunity when it was almost within my grasp.
I have not seen her since my return from England. more
than a year ago, when she was almost going through the
valley of the shadow of death, and when she was in the
midst of the fire of persecution thrice heated. She seems in
better health and spirits now, and well she may; for, what
does not often fall to the lot of advanced thinkers, she is
beginning to reap some reward of her efforts . She is coming
into popular recognition all over the country. People are
beginning to I earn that she had a purpose for the benefit of
humanity in her exposure of the Beecher business, and the
developments of that rather mixed affair have had a tend-
ency to establish faith in Victoria Woodhull, despite all the
machinery of Satan set in motion to bolster up Beecher, and
to destroy her.

Few of Mrs. Woodhull’s friends and admirers would have
thought it expedient for her to betake herself and her “ pecu-
liar” views into the South; it would have seemed too much
like bearding the lion inlhis den. But her triumphant course
thus far has proved that Southern chivalry is not dead, and
that receptivity is not swallowed up by prejudice in Southern
intelligence. She has been granted not only respectful hear-
ing wherever she has appeared, but in most instances her
reception has amounted to an ovation, as though the people
have been surprised to find her an earnest, comely woman,
telling them, with her heart upon her lips, plain truths about
themselves in a plain and comprehensive manner.

Especially has she taken the heart of the Southern woman
by storm, for the fact of the inertia ‘of the women of this
section has tended to make the upheaval all the more start-
ling. If the Southern woman has been inactive, she has not
been insensible; and the good seed Victoria is sowing is not
falling upon barren soil here. Mrs. Stanton. to be sure, has
been before her in this fruitful field; but, as l judge from
what women tell me, she had not the courage to speak out to
both sexes; she lectured privately to ladies when she had
her most important sexual truths to utter.

Not so!Vi'ctoria. She knows that any sexual truth concerns
both sexes alike; and as she has no idea of vulgarity in the
matter, and apprehends no necessity for mawkishness, she
speaks what she has to say to both sexes at once, and,
judging from the reports from all the cities of the South
where she has appeared, she has had a fair attendance of both
men and women. Southern women are not given to maw—
kishness to a great extent; they are, after all, much more
independent in manners and less under the petticoat govern-
ment of Mrs. Grundy than their sisters in the North, conse-
quently they have not hung back,f1'_om Victoria’s lectures for
fear Mrs. Grundy would not be there. They have determined
to hear her, and the consequence is they have accepted her
on sight ;_ for they have not heard a word drop from her lips
that was not G-od’s truth, requiring no stretch of faith or
imagination to believe; truth that each womanly soul has
experienced some degree of in her own individual existence

Neither are the men of the South backward in extending
the right hand of fellowship. Their chivalrous sense recog-
nizes the true soul of woman in Victoria ‘Woodhull, and the
innate manhood of the true Southern gentleman is quick to

‘respond. They, too, know the truth she speaks to their per-
verted powers. Men are not so steeped in the debauchery of
ages but theythank the woman, who, for the sake of pure
manhood and womanhood,‘holds.them up a mirror wherein
they can see the inmost part of themselves, “such black and
grained spots as will not leave their tinct.”

While Victoria has it before her to imbue humanity with a.
reverence for itself while she strives to teach the sacred uses
of human functions, now, that she has gained patient hear-
ing, she need not fear of meeting anywhere a less enthusias-
tic welcome than the people of the South have accorded her.
God speed her in the way of truth. ‘HELEN NASH.

REASON, GOODNESS AND FIRMNESS.

The inborn qualities of reason, goodness and firmness are
the fundamental principles of a good mind. Goodness com-i
prehends all virtues . Reason includes many kinds of ability.
Firmness includes energy and courage. These three quali-
ties are conscience, and they are refinements. They are
natural education or self-education. Without them book-
learning would be undigested and useless. They are what
make a good citizen and good voter, even if the person has
no book-learning, and is unableto read. The character is good
and great according to the degree it has of these qualities.
Without goodness there can be no real greatness or ability.
The highest degree of reason, goodness and firmness is a great
mind and noble character—a commander and statesman. In
other words, it is the military character, which is the perfec-
tion of the human mind. Greatness is ability and virtue in
great things. War and statesmanship are the greatest things.
iThe greatest general is the greatest statesman. History pre-
sents great warriors as almost the only persons who have
founded empires, been able lawglvers, and raised nations to
greatness. True warriors are the truest friends to peacef‘
superior to prosperity as they are to adversity. They are least
liable of all men to abuse power or wrongfully assume it.
They are always friends to equality and to the laboring peo-
ple. Heroism’ is the sublimity of goodness.

N 0 man of true military character ever overthrew a good
government or injured the cause of freedom. Julius Caesar
did not. The Roman people had already lost their freedom
through the corruption of luxury and unequal wealth, and the
aristocracy had usurped the political power. Caesar took the
power out of bad hands into his own. His death by the hand
of Brutus was, no doubt, a loss to the Roman people instead
of a benefit. Napoleon Bonaparte had no confidence in re-
publican governments, and there he was right. He abolished
the form of it in France, but maintained equality. With him
merit alone was the only nobility or road to promotion. He
‘thoroughly despised aristocracy. Undoubtedly the absolute
government of such a man would be better than a republic.
Instead of being made Emperor he ought to have abolished
all artificial government and given nature a chance to govern
France. He would have been the greatest benefactor the
world ever knew.

Unmilitary characters, with armies at their command, have
often overthrown republics, usurped the sovereign power and
enslaved the people. Napoleon the Little was the opposite
of a military character. an aristocrat and tyrant by nature.
He destroyed two republics,that of France and that of Mexico.
The kings of Europe are not military characters, and they
keep down their subj acts with large standing armies.. To be
at the head of an army is one thing, to be born a. military
character is another thing-

Previous experience in government affairs is not necessary
to a statesman, nor is book—learning. Cromwell, we know,
had superior abilities as a statesman. He raised England to
a height of greatness that she never saw before nor since. If
he was a great statesman. it follows that he was a great war-
rior. Bonaparte’s ability as a statesman was equal to his
military talents. While at St. Helena he said that his fame
with posterity would rest not on his military achievments
but on the code of laws he drew up for France. His goodness
was ‘equal to his ability, although in some things he was very
unwise. *

Washington was not a military character and statesman-
not a great man-—although an honest one. Winfield Scott was
no general or statesman, and not much of a man. Grant is
no military character or statesman. Wellington was not a
military character nor a good man. In the war of the Rebel-
lion the Union armies had but two genuine commanders
within the knowledge of the writer: General Thomas and
General Isaac J. Stevens. The United States have had but
one President, Andrew Jackson; all the others were without
efficiency in war or peace. Napoleon Bonaparte said that in
all Italy, among a population of eighteen millions, he found
only two men. Victoria 0. Woodhull comes near to being a
military character. Garibaldi is a. true military character.
His nobleness proves it. His enthusiasm of equality and en-
thusiasm of truth prove his nobleness. He is a born enemy
to aristocracy and priestcraft. '

The military character ‘is, extremely rare. It is doubtful
whether more than oneznan in ten millions is one of them.

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Accordingly, very few persons can know and appreciate it, or
distinguish who is one and who is not. The others judge only
by success. People can comprehend only such persons as re’-
semble ‘themselves. The parents of all true military men
were superior persons. The writer of this comprehends it
because he is one of them. His parents were the right kind of
people for it. A chain of remarkable and adverse circum-
stances, beginning in early youth, have alone prevented its
display. These remarks concerning myself are addressed
only to those who are worthy of them. They are only justice.
People judge others according to what they are themselves.
In that way I shall be judged by my readers. Aman’s opinion
of others proves what he is himself. If we should “ see our-
selves as others see us” we should appear to ourselves of
different and contra colors. ‘

All examples in history agree with the decision of reason
that generalship and statesmanship require the same qualities
of mind. ELIPHALET KIMBALL.

OXFORD, N. H.

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WINTER AND WOMAN’S nnnss.

Friends of humanity, philosophers who can reason on a
consistent method of robing the sacred and sensative human
body, speak out your saving truths and lay them on the wings
of the thousand steam—flying newspapers, that the wanting
may catch them at every point. Men and women who are left
sane and sensible amid the demoralizing customs of this
knowing, but sinning age, be brave, if possible, now, for the
need of your counsel and encouragement is great. Every
winter many women contract. diseases that make life a linger-
ing period of misery, by insufficient protection against in-
clemc nt weather. This needless loss of health and happiness
must continue till they are taught that petticoats are but
loads, not protection; that they make exercise so tiresome
that women are indisposed to it in winter; hence those hav-
ing leisure lose force by inaction, and those laboring exhaust
under the double burden of toil. and a. perplexing weight
fastened to their forms, more tedious than any work.

Science, natural laws, indicate the only remedy for all this
weariness in weights and fetters, all this female debility and
incapacity, all this lack of time and means for culture, art,
and all high use. No standard exists for the form of clothing,
but the form to be clothed. The nearer dress follows the
form, and shows by the easy loosen ess of its fit that comfort
and protection are- the objects sought, and decoration a

ful dress must give full freedom of motion to every limb, full
sway and swell to every limb, muscle and viscera. This can-
not obtain in petticoats and corsets. Their use is unworthy
present knowledge. iThe idea of healthful dress has so far
reached the general mind that truth touching practicality can
be understood without long explanations, and now, as ths
cold season is come, and the more thoughtful of fashion’s
devotees are advising necessary protection before style, let
the truly-informed chime in with facts as to what is whole-
some and adapted to the needs of the best development of
womanhood. Women are awaiting the voice of the press and
the people, many of them anxiously; not all are content in
their physical bondage. An excellent feature of some of the
city papers, the Tribune, for one.is an occasional, article daring
to touch the topic of dress. As no reasonable approval or
defence could be ofiered for recent styles, silence accompanied
the floods of fashion plates. When a few will speak for
women’s and children’s chilled and abused legs, philanthro-
pists will rejoice. These writers advised calf boots and shoes,
flannel drawers and canton ones over them, so that one light
skirt would be enough. They probably see finally that skirts
do little toward warming the body, especially the legs, and
that trowsers or an equivalent is requisite beneath them.
Several extra skirts cannot supply the need of one layer of
fabric fitted to the leg; their size and weight but encumber
and fatigue the poor carriers. Let this ‘be taught; and when
they see that it is a vulgar education as ‘well as awicked
fraud that has curtainedqand crippled the’ beautiful locomo-
tive system, they will findit easy to drop" the shackles and
move forth in grace and grandeur; elasticity of gait will
take the place of heaviness, joy of spirit will supplant sadness,
bloom of health will put to shame skin-destroying paints, and
self-sustaining ability, bless them with something like realized

independence. , . ~ MARY E. TILLOTSON.
VINELAND, Dec. 1875.

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YWOODHULLU as CLAll‘L*IN’S WEEKLY.

FEB. 27th, 1876.
Editor lVee7tly———One of the most rational financial dis-
fserta-tions that I have'yet seen infiprint is that which appeared
‘in a recent number of your paper onthe question. Who pays
the public expenses?” Similar to it was an editorial in the
New York I-Iemld about the same time, headed “the bottom

fact on whiskey. The former demonstrated the serious dis- '

advantages that grow out of an excessively stupid or wil-
fully wicked, or both, financial‘system, while, the latter
exhibited the woful and shameful results of party Vpolicy
and class‘ legislation. To this journal (the Herald) great
credit is due for having done more perhaps than any other
within the last ten years in exposing and denouncing the
wholesale land and money subsidies by Congress to railway
and mail monopolies, and the national "banks, ‘whose system
of business annually absorbs about fifty millions of the
peoples’ money. '

With its party platforms and party measures, created in
the interests of political aspirants, the country for the last
thirty or forty years has been a house divided against
itself, until finally its industries and business interests are
threatened with disaster and general ruin. High tariff and
bank notes on one side, with free trade and specie payments
on the other, have been the cry; and these measures or
principles, with their multifarious offshoots, have all been
descanted upon by public speakers and writers, ad infinitum,
according to their respective party predilections.

Consequently,legislation in Congress and in the State
capitals has been for the interests of the party in the as-
cendent, whatever may have been the actual needs and
requirements of the country at large; the policy having been
in most cases to select men for. this purpose, who, though
unlit either in ability or in moral, and patriotic principles, or
both, were ready and willing to make a. party pledge, and
obey the party behests. ‘Hence have arisen. all the bank,
railway and other monopolies, with Credit Mobilier, whisky,
canal and municipal contract thieves, whose chief object and
aim have been to plunder as much as possible, and perpetuate
party power. Financial essays innumerable have been writ-
ten and published, and meetings have been called and held
at public places like the Cooper Institute. Merchant’s EX-
change, etc., here and elsewhere, at which our so—called
leading and influential men have, discussed this and that
measure relating to the tariff‘ and the currency, and yet they
don’t seem to know that they are only trying to prune the
upper twigs and branches, while the roots of the tree are
being consumed by worms and dryrot.

One morning last winter, when passing up Wall street, I
was met by a fine, intelligent-looking man, who accosted me
with the question, “What building is that?” I informed
him it was the Custom House. He then asked if there
wasn’t an Assay Office somewhere there? I told him Yes,
and where it was. “ Well,” said he, “ they are great institu-
tions, aint they? but they don’t seem to be of much use,
while we out west, in California and thereabouts, produce
fifty millions of gold and silver per annum, sixty or more
millions are drained out of the country in the same time ‘for
the benefit of foreign bondholders.” And with a swing of
his hand as he passed along, he added, “ there must be a stop
put to it before long.” I

And he told no lie. When we abolish national pet banks
and substitute for their. currency redeemable and exportable
government greenbacks; shut down on government subsidies
to railway and other monopolies; legislate a little for the
interest and encouragement of the laboring classes who fur-
nish all the golden eggs, and not so much for making the rich
richer. and the poor poorer, so that enough gold and grain,
cotton and wool may be produced to pay off the national debt
some time or other; spend more money at home for what
may be requisite, and less abroad in the way of fashionable
distinction and aristocratic nonsense; put down all political
sinecures and vampires, and hang all financial as well as
horse thieves, then may we look for an era of renewed con-
fidence and activity in all industrial and commercial in-
terests.

In these days of speculating combinations of middlemen
and ‘forestallers, whose unrelenting exactions even for the
necessaries of life are alike odious and oppressive, sumptuary
laws should be enacted to protect the poor, if no others, from
their rapacious aggressions. - The law of supply and demand
is of no account in such respects. _

Then in order to avoid a recurrence of the savings-bank
swindles which have afflicted the poorer people during the
last few years, proper liabilities and penalties should be im-
posed on all stockholders and officials of such institutions.
History relates, that in China, about three hundred years
ago, a swindling bank failure occurred. The result of it was,
all the ofiicials of the institution were decapitated, and their
heads thrown aside along with their waste and worthless
papers. Since that time, financial failures, with appearances
of fraud, have not been known in that particular country.

The foreign bondholders and our national banks, which
absorb ahundred millions annually of the peoples’ substance,
are two great evils which neither a paper currency nor a. hard
money system can abate; and while our law makers are igno-
rant, selfish and venal, those malefic institutions will continue
to be a drain upon our resources, and an insurmountable
obstacle to our progress. Laws must be passed for the benefit
of the many as well as the few, so that the already rich may
not be specially made richer at the expense of the poor.
And, unless something to this effect shall be accomplished,
it will, indeed, seem as if “a bridle has already been put
into men’s mouths causing them to err. , STYCA.

 

CO—OPERATIVE HOTEL.

I desire to obtain a hotel or suitable house in an accessi-
ble, but not aristocratic, part of the city of New York, to be
operated on the co-operative plan.

,1. The total rent of the hotel is to be levied upon all the
rooms, public and private, according to the location and
quality of the rooms, with five per cent. added to the total
sum. * »

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2. The total rental of the public rooms is to be divided
equally between the private rooms, '

3. The restaurant and laundry is put to eo—operators at cost
price with five per cent. added.

4. There will be no liquors sold on the premises, but cigars
and tobacco may be sold in the restaurant. "

5. The government of the house will be under a master,
who places each department under. its proper superinten-
’dent. I

6. All officers and agents will receive pay for services ren-
dered, nothing for the ofliceor position.

7 The rules for the government of the house will be just
as arbitrary as in any hotel.

8. All outsiders will be charged the usual city prices in the
establishment. 

9. All bills will be paid in advance.’

10. Daily receipts will be cancelled by cheeks, receipt or
vouc_hers with tlietreasurer at a stated hour each day.

11. At the end of each month, all dividends arising from
the five per cent. margin and outside patronage will be di-
vided among the co-operators in proportion to the amount
each one has paid into the establishment. .

12. No party can become a co-operator for a less time than
one month. - *

13. This is not intended to be ‘a money making, but a
money saving, concern.

All parties who can participate in this money saving con-
cern willplease éorrespoiid with G. W. Madox, 29 Broadway,
New York City, and, if an answer is required, enclose stamp.

 

VVINTER.

' It is a chilly day. The sun hath hid

Himself behind the clouds that vail the sky;

There is no beam that warms the frigid fields;

All that which once my gazing eye well pleased,
Looks drear-aye, all the streams that late flowed on
Throughmeadows decked with flowers and rattled oc’r
Their pcbbly beds, coiyigeal and turn to ice.

But just. above my dwelling climbs the smoke,

And forms a haze outspread portending storm.

The glowing flames that heat the fireplace hot,
Scarce warmme; all is chill; the whistling winds
Forewarn that soon the snow will fill the air,

And whiten all the tract that stretches wide.

The forest groans and utters forth such sounds

As tell that winter wields his tyrant rod.

Methinks he now comes forth with hoary head; I
For ’mong the trees I see thick falling round,

Like leaves in autumn, loosened by the wind,

The flakes of snow that dress in white the ground.

Oh, chilling potentate! thy coming stay;

. Do hear my prayer; no more my limbs bcnumb.
Ah, me! how ruthless; sure ’tis that amidst
Bis blustering and storm he hearcth not!

See here the dim horizon that, afore,

The distance arched as far as eye could ken,
Encircles less and less of far-off look.

I hear a sound as if the storm ’s more fierce;

’Tis so; it comes and buries deep in banks

The walls and fence that line the highway side,
And herds and flocks, if chance they be unstsxlled.
Whose lotit is to be abroad such time,.

Must move with wary steps, else lose the way.
See how the sleet blovs s on from drift to drift;
Mark how the lawn appears deep-clad in snow;
What change in landscape scene the storm doth make 1

The Wind, without a. lull, sweeps through the woods;
Anon is heard its roar; then dismal noise

Of creaking branches writhed and tossed in air;
The tall old elm that high o’ertops my cot,
Around whose trunk and limbs the frosts of years
On years have wrapped a garb quite colorless,
Bows down his lofty top, and seems to shake

The snow from off his leafless, pendant boughs.
Before my windows whirl the yellow leaves

That fell from shrub and tree, incopse, or grove.
The storm king regnant, rules in rage the hour,
Full clad in royal robes of icy web,

With locks all powdered o’er with crystal snow 1

Tie winter I lo, all nature hath a mcin

That saddens, and an aspect void of cheer.‘,
But why complain I thus of winter’s looks?
The solar orb shall soon unvail itself,

Effui gent rays again beam brightly forth,

The distant hills once more in sight appear,

The joyful jingling bells dispel the gloom,

And all the town become a gladsome scene I

—Dr. Horace ])7*e.9ser.

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A NEVV OPPONENT TO THE THIRD TERM.

 

For the last year there has been traveling through the
South 2. Dr. J. W. Shiveley, said to be a Worsliipper of the
Sun, alter the order of the old Fire ‘Worshippers, who is a
self-nominated candidate for the succession. If there is not
much method i.n his style, there is, nevertheless, some sound
sense in”his method. VVherever he goes he talks to the
people, and distributes his circulars, from which we extract
the following as a curious evidence of “ truth in the rough:”

PROCLAMATION.

This is a copy of my New Banking System and my New
Declaration of Independence, or bill of Human Rights, which
I propose that we, the sovereign people of these United
States, shall adopt as our campaign platform, for this, our
Centennial Presidential Campaign of 1876; and as one of the
free, independent sovereign people of these United States
of America, I herewith issue this Proclamation to all the
sovereign people, and call upon them to meet in -mass meet-
ings in all the villages, towns and cities, on the first day of
April, 1876, to ratify this Proclamation and my New Banking
System and bill of Human Rights, and appoint delegates to
meet in national convention in Chicago, on the first of June,
or in Philadelphia, on the first of July, to nominate candi-

Mar. is, 1375.

dates for President and Vice-President; and this Proclama-,
tion is unto all the sovereign people—-to the Jews and the

Gentiles, Catholics and the Protestants, Spiritualists, Free

Thinkers and Infidels; the Masons, Odd Fellows, Working

Unions, Mechanics, Farmers and Grangers, all, male and

female, to meet in mass meeting, on the first day of April,

in this, our Centennial year, 1876,-——meet in national conven-

tion to organize the sovereign people’s party, which shall be

called the Universal Brotherhood of the Human Family or

human race. And such it shall be. With the wise Old Shiva

for president and for —— vice—president, victory is ours; and

truth, justice, charity, love and mercy, humanity and honor

bright shall rule and govern, and our new party shall be in

truth, and fact, and deed, a universal brotherhood of the
human family, unto which all the people ofthis earth can
come into brotherhood with the sovereign people of these
United States. Yours respectfully,

J. .W. SHIVELEY.

BILL OF RIGHTS AND NEW BANKING SYSTEM.

Claiming the right of individual sovereignty for myself and
for all the people of these United States of America. male and
female. I herewith ofier myself as a candidate for President
of the United States in 1876 upon the following great fu nda—
mental principles of government: Individual sovereignty,
equal rights, and universal liberty in all things for all per-
sons, male and female. _

And as our fathers claimed in the Declaration of American
Independence: ‘

“ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all persons
have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness,” and to secure these rights governments are insti-
tuted by the people. -

And we _hold that all ‘persons have an equal right to ‘the
land and the water and the air, and to all the good things
that they can gather therefrom by their own toil and labor;
that they are the gifts of the Creator, the God of the Uni-
iverse, unto all. And we hold that no person. nor any com-
bination of persons, company or corporation shall claim or
hold any lauds, only what they can cultivate or use for build-
ing upon, or for manufacturing pursuits. And we hold that
all this hue—and-cry about a specie basis and a specie pay~
ment is all a humbug and a swindle. ’

And we claim and hold that the only way to secure a true
principle of finance that shall never change, never depreciate.
is: Let the government of the people—the Government of
these United States of America—-issue four or five hundred
thousand millions of greenbacks, or one, two. or three billions
of greenbacks, with the right and the power to make and in-
crease it to five or ten billions, if the manufacturing and the
business transactions of the people should call for so much.
And let the Government of the United States issue "United
States bonds to the same amount, with a law and interest at-
tached to them, like the laws of the Medes and the Persians
that never change.

" With a law establishing banking houses in all the towns
and cities, counties and villages throughout the United States,
place the greenbacks and bonds in these banks, and ap—
point agents to transact and do the business of these banks
for the Government and people. and to loan out the green-
backs to all persons who may want them, at an interest of
from  to 4% per cent. on the dollar to all who can give real
estate, houses, and lots as security, or the bonds, and security
of persons that have real estate to give; and all the agents of
these banks must give real estate as security for all the green-
backs and United States bonds placed in their banks.

And any and all persons who get more greenbacks than they
can use in their business or loan out to others at 3% to 4%-
interest, can take them to the banks at any time and exchange
them for the United States bonds, and draw 2% per cent. on
the dollar for the full amount of the bonds, which they can
return to the banks and get grcenbacks for again at any
time. This will give the people plenty of money at all times,
and a cheap and unchanging banking system, and will bring
into the government of the people a sufiicient revenue to pay
all the expenses of the Government, and kill off all the money
rings, and gold corners, and financial explosions and smash-
ups.

The specie basis and the specie payment is all ahumbug
and a swindle that all sane, sound, reasoning minds ought
to be able to see and know to be; such gotten up expressly
for the bulls and the bears of the money rings and money
corners, money gamblers and finance smashers.

. Yours respectfully, Pnor. J. W . SIIIVELEY.

ALEXANDRIA, VA.

BILL OF RIGHTS.

ACADEMY or MUsIo, PHILADELPHIA, N ov. 16th, 187 .

“A New Declaration of Independence of the Equal Rights
and the Individual Sovereignty of all Mank1nd,,male and
female.” By Prof. J. W. Shiveley, of Alexandria. Va.

1. “ We hold these trnths to be self-evident, that all man-
kind ”——male and female——" are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights:
that among these are life, liberty, individual sovereignty,”
and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights gov-
ernments are instituted by mankind, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed. _

And whereas, the land, and the water, and the air, and the
sunshine, and light are the free gifts of our Creator unto all
mankind, male and female;

family, male and female, are, and of right ought to be, free
and individual sovereigns at the age of sixteen, with equal
rights in all things—-in the land, and the water, and the air,
and the sunshine; with equal political and civil rights before
the law and in the courts: and the righ.t to vote and to be
voted for, and to hold ofliice, and the right of free speech, and
a free press, free religion and free love, and the right to work,
and to get and hold property; and the right to love and to
make love, and to enjoy that love with any and all persons
consenting thereunto; the right to choose their own love-
mates and husbands and wives, to marry and make their own
marriage contracts, and the right to dissolve and repudiate
them again, when they do not and cannot findlove and union,
peace, enjoyment, contentment and happiness therein.

3. And whereas, according to the laws of nature and of
nature’s God, woman ever has been, and must ever be, the
mother of all mankind, and of woman, too, and must bear the
pains, and the suffering, and the toil, and the care of mother-
hood; Therefore, be it

Resolved, That all motherhood shall be honorable and re-
spectable, and the child shall be a legitimate child, and heir
of the father and mother thereof, audthe father shall provide
for the mother and the child in their helplessness. and for the
support and the education of the child until the community
or the State, or the child’s majority, shall relieve him there~
from.

4. And whereas, like ever produces like, and the infirmi-
ties. diseases, dissipations, passions and the vices and crimes
of the parents are ever visited upon their children unto the
third and fourth generation. and we may safely say even
unto the tenth and the twelfth generation; .

Therefore, be it resolved, That the fathers and the mother
of our children should be thoroughly educated, and young
and healthy, and good and wise, and temperate in all things;

and that it. is the duty of all parents, 0f_§:1_l communities,

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and of all States, and of all governments, and of the whole
human family, to see that their children are all well provided
for, and all well educated and thoroughly instructed in all
the mysteries of life and health, disease and death, and the
great mystery and love of the sexes; and the time to love
and to make love, and how to select and choose love mates,
husbands and wives, and to marry and make marriage con-

tracts, and the enjoyments, duties and the responsibilities

thereof; and how and when to dissolve and repudiate those
marriage contracts, when union, love, enjoyment, content-
ment. peace and happiness do not come and abide therewith.

5. Andwhereas, according to nature or nature’s laws, we
believe that at the time and age of puberty, say from four-
teen to sixteen years of age, is the proper time to love and

. to make love, and to choose love mates, husbands and wives,

and .to marry and to make marriage contracts;

’ Therefore, be it resolved, That it is the duty of all parents,
and of tall communities and of all States and all govern-
ments, and of the whole human family, to provide all their

young men and young women with homes, and means, and

husbands and wives of their own choosing, and a good trade
or some profession, or a. legitimate honorable business of
some kind, so that all the young men and young women of
the coming ages shall have a fair and an equal start in the
race of life. "

6. And whereas, we believe that the rights,‘duties and
responsibilities claimed and set forth in the above preamble
and resolutions are inalienable rights, duties and responsi-
bilities, and universal, fundamental truths, bright and pure
and spotless as the Sun of Light, and believing that it is in
and through and by these means alone that the human
family, the human race, may be and can be purged and
purified, redeemed and saved from its present degraded,
demoralized. corrupt condition, and from the dissipation,
prostitution, vice and‘ crime, disease, suffering and the un-
timely death of the present day and age; and seeing a bright
and glorious future, and eternal life and health and youth
and happiness and Heaven and Paradise, for the whole
human family, in these inalienable rights, duties and respon-
sibilities,- and great, universal, fundamental truths and
principles being adopted and faithfully carried out, and
lived up to by the whole human family,—

Appealing to the God of the Universe for the rectitude of
our belief and of our acts, we hereunto set our names, our
lives, our fortunes and our sacred honors. So help us, thou

. Sun of Light, our Creator, the God of all Light and of all

Life. and the G-iver of all the good things that we have and
enjoy here in this life upon the face of this. our good old
Mother Earth. PROF. J .,W. SHIVELEY.

W'HO PAYS THE EXPENSES?

Under the above heading appears an article in your paper
issued February 26th, containing so much truth, and at the
same time so much error, that I am constrained to reply
to that part which appears to me an unwarranted assump-
tion, viz: “Is it any wonder, then, that the bond holders
and money lenders are unanimously in favor of retiring the
greenbacks and issuing more national currency? If there
were 9,’51,000,000,000 more national currencyissued, they would
draw from the industrial classes $60,000,000 or more per an-
num as interest, because if this currency were issued the
banks would have to deposit that much in bonds with the
Treasury, on which they would draw $30,000,000 from the
Government, and then they would loan the currency for as
much more.” .

First. I would say from positive knowledge, that the
money lenders and bond holders are not unanimously in
favor of retiring the greenbacks and issuing more national‘
currency. On the contrary, many of them, and I think, a
large majority of the people above referred to, are strenu-
ously opposed to reducing the greenbacks below such a point
as will place them at par with gold. As to‘ the proposition
to increase the currency one billion dollars, I believe that if
our currency, or demand obligations, whether issued by
Government or national banks, should be increased to that

\ figure they would not be worth the paper they were printed

0111.

It is generally conceded by the best financiers in the
country that the national banks have already more currency
than they can profitably, and at the same time safely, float;
as an evidence of this fact, an examination of the report of
the Comptroller of the Currency for the year 1875, shows
that during the last year a great many national banks, from
all parts of the country, have voluntarily thrown up their
charters, sold their bonds and retired their currency, be-
cause there was no longer any profit in keeping the same.

Within the last Week one of the strongest banks in this
city, at a meeting of their directors, unanimously resolved
to withdraw from circulation one-half of their
entire issue, and the probabilities are that the balance will
be taken in within the coming year.

Second. If the national bank circulation should be in-
creased, wo are told that the taxes would also be increased,
because the banks would have to deposit the same amount of
bonds with the Government, on which they would draw in-

terest.

The fallacy of this kind of reasoning becomes apparent
when we consider the fact that these Government bonds
were not created for the especial accommodation of the na-
tional banks, or for any other holder of the same, but, like
all other evidences of indebtedness, they were given for the
benefit of the debtor. During the war this Government got
out of money; the people,” including «most all capitalists
banks and bankers and particularly savings banks, who held
largely the savings of the poor, came forward and loaned to
the United States Government, taking in exchange the Gov-

ernment promises to pay at a fixed time (or at the pleasure-

of the debtor at any time before maturity), and at a fixed
rate of interest, mostly payable in coin. From time to time

‘ many of these promises, or Government bonds, have changed

hands and have been sold in the open market, as the people
could agree, like all other evidences of debt.

When the national banks went into operation, like other
investors, their managers went into the open market and
bought their bonds at theirpmarket value, and deposited
them with the Treasury as collateral security to their circu-
lation. A

The Government is justly indebted to the holder of its
bonds for their face value and the interest as it becomes
due, consequently it is immaterial whether such interest be
paid to banker, broker, or private individual.

It the national banks derive a bBl.lE3_f_li3 from the Govern-

ment for their charter, or circulation, we should remember
that they pay back to the Government and to the people in
extra taxes fully as much as such benefits are worth, and
many of our best and most practical financiers think a great
deal more, otherwise they would not surrender their national
bank charters and reorganize into State banks, as -they are
doing all over the country. The third and last proposition

which I shall now consider is, “ Let the manufacturers exert .

their influence with Congress to have the national bank act
repealed, and the Government to issue greenbacks enough to
pay ofl the bonded debt and stop the immense interest.”

Before issuing the two billions of greenbacks necessary to
pay oif the bonded debt, let us stop to inquire what are green-
backs ? «

Strictly speaking, greenbacks are paper evidences of in-
debtedness, which the United States Government has forced
the people within the limits of said Government to accept at
par in payment of all debts (except duties on imports and
interest on the public de_bt), contracted prior to the issue of
such greenbacks. Although they have been and are still
received as a iegal tender, yet they have never passed for a
single day at par, except in the paymentof debts contracted
before they were issued. All subsequent contracts have
been made upon a basis of the specie value of greonbacks.

During the late war we have seen gold quoted at a pre-
mium varying from one per cent. to nearly three hundred
per cent. But this is not true. Gold has remained compara-
tively stationary, having fluctuated less than any other
known commodity; and for this very reason gold has been
selected by all nations of the globe as a standard measure of
values or medium of exchange. Greenbacks have fiuctuated
in value during the last twelve years all the way from
ninety-one cents down to thirty-five cents on the dollar;
hence, to attempt to measure values with greenbacks, with
out having a fixed price for the greenbacks in gold or some
other commodity which the world recognizes, is as uncertain
as to attempt to measure land or cloth with a rubber string-
It is a fact acknowledged by the world, that the present dis-
count on our greenbacks is because the United States Gov-

ernment is at present unable to redeem them at par in gold.

By comparing the average‘ price of greenbacks in gold with
the volume of such greenbacks in circulation during the last
twelve years, we find that an increase of the same has always
caused them to be worthless on the dollar, while a decrease
of the greenbacks has always enhanced their value.

To pay off the present bonded indebtedness of the United
States in greenbacks, is simply to ask the present holdersof
said bonds, both at home and abroad, to surrender a Govern-
ment promise to pay at a particular time a specified sum of

money (not paper), with interest, at a specified rate per cent. 7

payable semi-annually in gold, for a paper promise to pay in
paper at no particular time. and without interest, redeema-
ble only in paper promises to pay.

Really, is this anything more or less than simply repudia-

tion? J. W. T.
SYRACUSE, Feb. 2:2, 1876. ‘

BITS OF FUN.

“COURTSHIP is bliss,” said an ardent young man. “Yes,
and matrimony is blister,,’ snarled an old bachelor.

SOME people think Tweed is still in the city. We think
he’s still wherever he is.--Commercial Advertiser.

Ir is said‘ that some people have what is called “spon-
taneity,” and some haven’t; bub n0b0dV ever sat down on a
pincushion yet without manifesting something surprisingly
like it.—Brook:lyn Argus.

A Sr. LOUIS dentist has mysteriously disappeared. He
probably lost his balance and fell in while fixing some St,
Louis girl’s teeth.—Chz'cago Times. .

A DARKEY who was stooping to wash his hands in a creek,
didn’t notice the peculiar actions of a goat just behind him,
so when he scrambled out of the water and was asked how it
happened, he answered, “ I dunno ’zactly; butdpeared ag gf
de shore kinder h’isted and frowed me.”

PIoUs old party—-“And now, Mrs. Stubbins, I’ve one im-
portant question to ask. Does not Satan ofttimes tell you
that you are not a Christian?” Mrs. Stubbins——“ Yes, ’ee do
so.” P. O. P.——“And what say you to him on these occa-
sions?” Mrs. S.—-—“ W611, 1 8337. Whether I be or no, it can't
possibly be none of his business.”—-—Lo‘ndon Fun

“IT is not our fault,” says a Milwaukee editor, “that we
are red—headed and small, and the next time that one of
those overgrown rural roosters in a ball-room reaches down
for our head and suggests that some fellow has lost a rose-
bud out of his buttonhole, there will be trouble.”

BUNNELL, of the Danville Advertiser, has been compelled
to abandon his type-writer and return to the goose quill and
lead pencil. His ideas—the scintillations of genius, so to
speak—flowed so rapidly through the type-writer that they
set the machine on fire; and the insurance men threatened
to treble his rates if he didn’t stop using it.—-Lyons, (N, 17,)
Republican. I

“ BENJAMIN,” shouted Mrs. Toodles to her husband, who
was going out at the gate, “ bring me up five cents worth of
snuff when you come.” “ Snuff, Mrs. Toodles, snuff?” he
ejaculated, as he paused with his hand on the latch; “No,
no, Mrs. Toodles, the times are too hard to admit of such ex-
travagance; you must tickle your nose with a straw when
you want to sneeze.——Fulton Times. '

SCENE in’ a Green Bay, ‘Wisconsin, police court, Justice
Westman presiding. Several gamblers were under examina-
tion, and one Of the Witnesses was questioned about what he
knew of gambling in the saloons in town. Yes, he had seen
gambling going on in most of them. “ Well, one for in-
stance ?" “I. have seen‘ men gambling in the Old York
Saloon.” “ “What were the stakes?” “ They were a horse on

one side and money on the other.” “Well, which won?” I

“J udge.Westman won the horse.” Peremptory command
from the bench——.“-'l.‘here, that will do; this examination is
reaching into too wide a range altogethcfl’. . '

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EDITORIAL’ NOTICES.

WE have received from Mrs. L. M. Heath a prospectus of
the “Potomac Co—operative Colony and Medical University,”
to be located at Free Stone Heights, Prince William County,
Va., but too late for extended notice in this number. We
can say merely now that it is a grand enterprise.

A CONVENTION of the New England Free Love League will
be held in Boston, March 26th and 27th.

Truly YOUTS. <_E. H. HEYWOOD.

 

 

2 THE Spiritualists of Rockford have lately organized (for

lectures, etc., each Sunday) onafree platform. Our cause

seems to be in a very prosperous condition. Our lectures are

attended by crowds of the most intelligent and thinking

people in the city, and our last Convention was the best our.
Society has had in Northern Illinois since it was organized.

Not one word was uttered during the whole Convention‘
against a free platform. They nearly all admit that the

question of most interest to humanity is the Social Question.

Lecturers desiring engagements can address either COL. E.

SMITH, A. H. FISHER, or FRED. H. BARNARD, the Committee

appointed to provide speakers for next six months.

.._.____.

A THE INDIANAPOLIS SUN.——The leading independent reform
weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate
of national legal tender paper money (thegreenback system)
as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, and the-inter
cliangeable currency bond as against the high gold interest
bond. The Sun.has‘a»corps of able corresipndents,
the most eminent political economists of _the age, One page ,
devoted entirely to agriculture. Miscellany of the choicest
selection, adapted to all classes of readers. The latest general
news and market reports. Terms, $1.75 per year, postpaid

Sample copies and terms to agents sent free on appcatiou
Address Indi~anapolis'S1.mCompany. Indianapolis, Ind.

comprisin-

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m.Ed'£t0'rs Weekly-Please ‘announce that I will send copies of
the report of the mass meeting at Cooper Institute, contain-
ing the addresses, resolutions, etc., in full to any friends in
any part of the country who desire to learn our views on
labor and finance, and who will send for them to W. A. A
Oarsey, 402 West Fifty-first street, New York City. A
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AND CO—OPERATIVE .
I ‘ COLON Y’

Having our plans fully perfected, location selected, and
one of the most beautiful and attractive sites secured,—on
which to establish a thoroughly practical school, and
operative colony of advanced and progressive associates-—
we would announce to all who are desirous of co-operating
with us in such an enterprise, that we will send them a cir-
cular containing full information, in regard to plan,
terms, etc., if they will send us name, post
and a postage stamp. -

a 00;"

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Dr. R. P. Fellows’ Great Indian Asthma Remedy. Mrs.
Ellen Dickinson, of Vineland N. J. speaks of it in these
terms. “I have suffered with the Asthma, for thirty years
during which time Ihave tried all known remedies to no
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SPIRITUAL CHURCH or THE Goon SAMARITANS,
ing the J esus Christ principles as their foundation,
at’ the hall in the rear of Charter Oak Hall, San
Cal., Sundays at 11, 2:30, 7 P. M.
cey Barnes and others. I

recogniz-
will meet
Francisco,
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Friends visiting the city are invited to call.

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THE Northern Illinois Association of S
its 15th quarterly meeting in Grow’s Op
Madison street, Chicago, Ill., beginnin
10th, 1876, and ending Sunday evening the 12th--a three days’
meeting. Eminent speakers, singers, and test mediums are
engaged, among whom are Susey M. Johnson, Dr. Juliet I-I.
Severance, Capt. H. H. Brown, and others.

Let the Spiritualists of the Northwest turn out and make
the Second Grand Centennial Meeting of 1876 a success. Our
platform is free, on which all subjects germain to humanity
may be discussed with due regard to the use of language.

' O. J. HOWARD, President.
E. V. WILsoN, Secretary.

piritualists will hold
era House, 517 West
g On Friday, March '

LOMBARD, Ill., Feb. 10, 1876.

 

WARREN CHASE lectures in Rockford, Ill
22, 23 and 24, or may be addressed ac
spend April and May in Ohio.

IF Mr. A. Gusley, late of Philadelphia, will address Prof.

G-- Vaughan. P05“ ‘Wee. Philadelphia, he will find an ear-
nest friend. '

., March 19‘, 21
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THOMAS COOK will lecture in Michigan and Ohio from
March 15 to April 15. Where public halls are not to be had
he gives parlor conversations. He would like more calls in
both these States, or Northern Indiana. Let all who woiilidi
like to meet and.converse with him upon the subject of 
“ New Departure,” address him immediately at No, 578 13/g»,1},..,_

' waukee avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

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death.—Jesus.

fig him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the
hi en manna.-—-St. John the Divine. ’

That through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver
them who through fear of death were all their life-
time subject to bondage.——Paul.

The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality and without hy-
pocrisy.———James, iii., 17.

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
them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover.—Jesus. 0

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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-

s _ 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 full meridian

splendor.

THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ;
on, THE SIX-POINTED smn IN run EAST.
For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship
him.——S'r. MATTHEW, ii., 2.
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This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of
which the’WEEKLY is now 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
establishment thereby of the universal human family. It
also represents still another and more important truth which
has not yet been introduced, but w/hich,.defined in a few
words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself
We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work

FRADULENT MATERIALIZATIONS.

We have a dozen or more articles which have been received
from time to time since the phenomena of materializations
began to occur, which are called expositions of mediumistic
frauds. We have never published any of them, although
some of them bear the signatures of highly respected and
wholly responsible people; people who would not bear
false witness, and who, with all, are deeply interested in

Spiritual manifestations, and would have been glad to have
given their testimony upon the opposite side in these mat-
ters. We have refrained from taking any position which
might be called one of warfare against any class of
mediums, knowing too well what are the influences under
which all mediums, necessarily, may be brought; for, to be
a medium, in the popular sense, especially to be a public
medium for tests, presupposes a variety of influences and
conditions, against which the individuality of mediums, let
it be as strongly honest as it may, cannot always stand.

It is not necessary to go into detail to show what may be
the inducements to produce manifestations, where they do
not come otherwise. They will suggest themselves to every
Spiritualist, and probably have done so to all of any depth
of mind at all, or of any considerable breadth of under-.
standing and observation. If there is a class of people en-
titledto the enlightened consideration of considerate people,

that class is the so-called mediums. We have always re-
cognized this, and have never, in any way, pursued so-
called frauds. But while we have not done this, when it
was evident that frauds lrad been perpetrated, neither have
we attempted to build up;_or uphold them, as has been true
of some Spiritualists and their journals.

Our personal experience ‘ among mediums, especially

those claiming Amaterializing power, has not been small. It

is true that we have never been to Moravia or to the

“Eddys;” but our experiences outside of them have been

uniformly of one kind, and that not favorable for the

reality of the manifestations. We have not hesitated to

affirm constantly, and we have so stated editorially, that a

fully materialized spirit is as yet an impossibility, because

the conditions in which it is possible to fully materialize do

not yet exist. Materializations are produced by natural

means, under the guidance of law, and we have been shown

what that law is. We do not deny that there have been

partial materializations, say of the hand, face or arm; but

we must confess that we have never seen them occur in the

presence of mediums for so-called materializations, although

we have been frequently invited to see them. We are sorry

to say it, but our regard for the truth compels us to do so,

that, if we have any spirit sight at all, all the manifestations

called materializations, that we havefwitnessed were not

what they purported to be.

We have been led to refer to this matter at the present

time by a communication which we published last week,

signed by Mr. Cadwallader etal. We know Mr. Cadwallader

to be an honest, conscientious man; one who is an earnest

seeker after truth, and who would not lend himself to
anything of this kind if he were _not thoroughly satisfied
that he is right; and neither he nor those with whom his
name appears, was at Terre Haute to expose Mrs. Stewart.

They were there at great expense to themselves to obtain

satisfactory evidence that materializations are a fact. And
their observations were conducted as friends to the medium
and not as “exposers” of frauds.

But for our reason for saying now what, we do, and for
departing from our usual practice regarding mediums. We

were once present at a seance where this same Mrs. Stewart
(or at least‘, we suppose her to be the same, the one to whom
we refer being the Mrs. Stewart for whom Mr. Pence, of
Terre Haute, had for some time vouched, by an offer of
$1,000 to any one who would demonstrate that her material-
izations were fraudulent) was completely‘ exposed, and
where she admitted to the assemblage that her manifesta-
tions were fraudulent. We have been appealed to by
several who were present at that time to make the facts
public, but, for the reason before given, we have never felt
like doing so until now.

This scene occurred during the sessions of the Convention
in Chicago in September, 1873. The room in which Mrs.
Stewart was holding -;_ her seances was in the same block of
buildings in which G1'ow’s Opera House is located. Those
who were managing the seance urged us to attend and
superintend the preparations. We objected and said that
they would be sorry if they pressed us; that we had no wish
to interfere with their arrangements, but if they insisted,
we would do as they wished. There were some forty per-
sons present, many of them well-known names in Spirit-
ualistic circles, and some from Terre Haute, where Mrs.
Stewart is staying, contrary to her promise at that time,_
carrying on her trade. It is not necessary to go into the
details, but, suffice it to say that the seance ended as stated
above, with a complete exposition of its fraudulent char-
acter, and the production to the astonished gaze of all
present of all the paraphanalia with which she had pro-
duced several_difi'erent spirit forms, who were recognized
bysome of those present astheir friends from the spirit
world. If we remember correctly, no form was produced
but what was required by some one as a spirit ‘;friend or
relation. When the fraud had proceeded sufficiently to
make it palpable to all present, the cabinet was upset and
the medium seen plainly personating the last spirit with all

the mechanical appliances that was necessary upon her;

and all those that had been recognized to produce the pre-
ceding spirits also about her. She acknowledged the fraud
and promised faithfully that she would never practice
deception again. Mr. Pence and the other Terre Haute
P9°P1e,Who are keeping her to humbug the public and in-
ducing people to go to the expense of a long journey to pay
her money for what, we have no doubt, are the same mani-
festations that she presented in Chicago, are the responsible
Parties in this business now, because knowing what occurred
at Chicago, it will hardly be good logic for them to say
that, While the Chicago manifestations were fraudulent,
those which she produces now are genuine. In the present
state of this case we do not see how those Spiritualists from
Terre Haute who were present and saw the exposition at
Chicago can any longer be parties to this fraud, which by
their silence they become; nor how they can stand by and
see the promise Mrs. Stewart made them at Chicago, daily
broken. ‘

[Just as we are going to press a letter is received from
one of “ the three,” who now vouch for and defend Mrs.
Stewart, who was at the Chicago ercpose. This letter ac-
knowledges that that was a fraud. We take this OPPO1"
tunity to say that we cannot be intimidated from speaking
on a matter in which we have at last felt it to be a duty to
speak. Having received this letter, we shall have more
to say about this questionable business next week, since
they have felt it to be necessary to resort to such means to
seal our lips. In the meantime, will these who were present-
at Chicago, under whose notice this may fall, please corn-
municate with us]

 

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EDITORIALLY PERSONAL.

 

VVc are obliged this week, to goto press without our usual
editorial matter. The editor—in-chief, still absent in Texas,
though lecturing only occasionally, has failed to send any-
thing; or, if she has not, it has failed to arrive. The managing
editor has been temporarily disabled from duty by a surgical
operationfor an old injury received while in the army, which
could not be longer neglected with impunity. He will
probably be at his post in time for next week’s issue. A
new series of Bible exigeses, more searching and approach-
ing nearer to the vital points than anything /previously
given, will be begun in the next paper, which will also con-
tain reviews of several articles in the present number.
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LIFE-SIZE LITHO GRAPH.

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We are now prepared to fill all orders for life-size litho-
graphs of Victoria C. Woodhull, from the lithographic
establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They
are splendid pictures, both as a work of art and as like-
nesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 X24 inches,
and specially adapted for framing. They will -be sent post-
paid, securely wrapped to guard against damage, to any
address for 50 cents. The common price of lithographs
of this size is $2 ; but we have arranged with the publisher
to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they
can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They
are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who
desires to have a splendid life-size portrait of the Editor-in-
Chief of the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to
the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which
misery, vice and crime shall have no place.

In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms” we
would say that the lithographs may be ordered by express
by the half dozen, dozen, or more at 40 cents, the usual
price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has
occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the
third edition has been delayed, but will be received within
a day or two, when all orders will be filled.—[MANAGING

EDITOR].

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The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we
have prepared a pamphlet edition, which, to meet the
extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, we
will furnish in lots of ten at $1; or more at sarnerate.

THE SPIRITUALIST AT WORK.

 

No. 13 of Vol. II of E. V. Wilson’s paper is on our table.
He has experienced the same. difficulty that all new papers
in reform encounter. He tells frankly what his difficulty is:
llfant of a sufficient number of prompt paying subscribers.
The Spiritualist at Work is a good paper; a, much better

and we should be sorry to have it fail for want of support.
Besides it is getting to be something more than a Spiritualist
at work, after the style of those who declare the social re-
lations not germane to Spiritualism, as will be seen by the
following declaration of faith which we copy from the last
number:

We believe in monogamy, or marriage, but hold that mar-
riage grants no rights to one contracting party not shared by
the other. The husband has no right whatever to coerce sex-
ual relations with his wife, under the marriage contract. The
relation between-husband and wife must be governed by love,
not lust, and whenever a woman holds sexual relations with
her husband against her wish, will and desire, she is guilty of

adultery, and whenever a man consooiates with his wife

paper now than it was when it first made its appearance, .

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against her will, or coerces her into sexual relations, he
should be tried for rape by the laws of the land.

The true marriage, the true family compact, must rest on
the law of love. Children begotten outside of this law are
unnatural results, and in violation of law.

Our motto, one woman and one man, under contract to live '

sacredly for each other. All of their acts governed by and
through love, and any condition outside of this is irregular
and ofiensive to good society, to law, love and order. Men
and women, under these conditions, will not have a wife in
one place, a mistress in another, and afiinities in every town
they may happen to be. Let us have a. true marriage under
law, founded on love, and then there will be no need of
divorce courts.

We hope that Mr. Wilson may sometime see that, where
there is law without love, lust is the legitimate result. If
love should be the dominant quality in marriage, then law
should be made dependent upon love; but the present law
andlpractice is precisely the reverse of this, and gives the
husband the legal right to assault the wife, and there is no
law of which she can take advantage to defend herself.

The Spiritualists of the great Northwest should see that
the Spirizzoalist at Work does not faint by the way.

POST OFFICE REFORMS. /
T0 the Editors of the Weelcly :- I ,

Permit me to call the attention of your readers to a letter

on the above subject, copied from the Bayside Ifomet. It

-contains an endorsement of the position taken by the

WEEKLY, and will form a prelude to further reflections I
propose to make on the subject. It is as follows:

“I am a poor man, and have little time to spare for literary
pursuits. I purchase the few periodicals I read at news stores,
and receive none through the public mail. Sometimes, how-
ever, I send letters through the post, and Uncle Sam carries
them for me, charging me, for such service, three cents per
half ounce. I understand that he distributes vast quantities
of matter in printed form, issued weekly or oftener, by petted
publishers and newspaper proprietors, at two cents per pound,
while, for my letters, he demands ninety—six cents, or thirty-
two times more from me than from them for a similar service.
This may seem just to my servants at Washington, but, from
my standpoint, it has a very different aspect, therefore I feel
justified in writing this letter complaining of governmental
partiality in the case above mentioned.

For the life of me I cannot perceive why I, and thousands,
if not millions of poor men like myself, should be assessed
for the benefit of rich publishers; neither can I admit the
immoral claim of Congress to make invidious distinctions in
the mail service between rich and poor American citizens.
and to tax the latter for the benefit of the former. For my-
self, I never pass a large publishing house but I mentally
calculate how many of the bricks of which it is built have
been paid for by the proceeds of the governmental robbery
practiced upon me. And, while I censure Congress for such
wrong doing, I also deplore the meanness of the wealthy
knaves who are willing to accept the results of such legisla-
tivepilferings, and who do not feel called on by their honor
to repel the proffered favor with contempt and scorn. For
surely it would be more excusable for publishers to solicit
aims in the public streets of our cities (for What they would
then obtain from the poor would be gratuitously given) than
to revel, as many of them now do, in luxuries obtained by
such high-handed legal robbery. .

Of course, I shall be set down by unthinking people as an
“ignoramus” for writing this letter. Such will say, “Why,
the man wants to stop the spread of enlightenment among
us;” but I dispute the truth of such statement. I assert, on
the contrary, that now most of our daily papers are engaged
in spreading crime among us, and that their columns are now
largely monopolized by the doings of the idle, vicious and
criminal classes. As to the fancy periodicals, I fail to per-
ceive in them any improvement on the light literature of the
past, and do not hesitate to declare that most of their tales of
fiction tend more to the derangement and demoralization of
society than its improvement. v I admit that, at rare intervals,
such papers publish praiseworthy articles, butI claim that
their general drift is evil, and that their instructions mainly
tend to generate vice and crime among our people. But, were
they all new translations of the Bible instead of ne wspapers.
the excellence of their contents would form no ground of
justification for my oppression, nor sanction the tyrannical
action of Congress in robbing me for the purpose of sending
other peopie’s goods at my expense through the public mails.
I repeat, at my expense, because it. is manifest that my res-
pected relative, Uncle Sam, finding the carrying of goods for
publishers at two cents apound a profitless business, taxes
me three thousand one hundred per cent. more than he does
them, in order to make up the deficit in his exchequer. This
I object to as being reprehensibleboth in its economical and
moral aspects. while politically it is unworthy of longer
toleiation in our Republic.

Yours respectfully,
, PETER POSITIVE.”

I confess I like the directness of Peter's argument, and can
find no inaccuracy in his reasonings. This being so, I propose
to enforce the position he has taken. Out of the primal in-
justice practiced by Congress in making the discrimination
complained of, has sprung of late the system of postal
espionage, instituted by Congress, and committed by it to
the charge of agents of the Y. M. C. A. alias the modern
American Inquisition. By such means the proprietors of the
WEEKLY have been cruelly, and according to the decision of
U. S. Judge Blatchford, illegally deprived of their liberty
and foully wronged and persecuted in mind, body and estate.
By a similar intrigue, utterly unworthy of the dignity of
law, Mr. Lant has since then been arrested, and is now suf-
fering in prison. It is no wonder that thoughtful editors
who respect the liberty of the press and the freedom of the
public mind, are complaining of the high-handed tyranny

-thus exhibited, and that many are speculating as to who is to

be-the next victim our modern Torquemadas will select to
put to the torture. B

Of course these evils have arisen out of the injustice com-
plained of by Peter, viz., the discrimination made by Con-
gress "in the prices for carrying certain kinds of matter
through the public mails.‘ This necessitated inspection, and
on that inspection has been grafted the meanest system of
postal espionage the world has ever witnessed. The true
way -to annihilate it is to destroy the system which gave it
birth, and Peter Positive has exposed the viilainy of the
latter so thoroughly that no words of mine are needed to en-
force that part of the subject of postal reform.

But there is another view to be taken of the matter. About
thirty years ago the penny postal system was introduced in
Great Britain by Rowland Hill. That great reform has since
been accepted and instituted by many-civilized nations, and
has done more to secure the stability of the government of
that nation than fifty Waterloos. Congress has it in its
power to add to the uniformity then established, the further
and grander reform of uniformity of price for all mailed mat-
ter. Monarchicai England did well in advancing as far as it
did;_ it is a country of castes, and could not be expected to
repudiate classifications entirely in its postal arrangements.
But all the reasons which have well proved the correctness of
the calculations of Rowland Hill can be cited in favor of the
further reform here demanded. Added to these it is our
duty to remember that we are a Republic, and that the ad-
mission of the idea of classification among us was an error,
and that its continuation, after our experience, ought now
only to be regarded as a crime. That the oppressed and over-
charged_ citizens among us are mainly the poor and the un-
learned only aggravates the offence Congress has committed
against justice, for such among us especially need the defence
of the laws, and would and will ever obtain. protection from
all our honest legislators. A R. W. HUME.

SAVE THE REPUBLIC.

Nineteen centuries ago a young Jewish mechanic, ignorant,
humble and lowly, yet meditative, sympathetic and earnest
withal, crazed at the sight of his native land. beneath the
Roman heel, maddened by the arrogance of wealth, the
power of mammon, the sickly pallor of virtue’s check, the
death of patriotism, the birth of book-religion, the greed and
tyranny of the priesthood, the rabies of the politician for
plunder, the degradation of woman, the elevation of bad men
to high places, the wine-bibbing, the gluttony, the simony,
the sodomy, the putrid Lazarus and the perfumed Dives,
broke out into that terrific denunciation: Woe unto you,
scribes, pharisees. hypocrites, blasphemers, fanatics, money«
changers, adulterers, evil-workers, worshippers of Mammon,
woe unto you, your hour has come! Better were it for you
that mill-stoneshad been slung. about your necks and ye
cast into the sea! Your hour has come! Ye shall cumber
the earth no more. Alas, it was too late. The lightning oi
his breath fell on gangrene; there was no searing it into life.
There was but one answer to his arguments, that they gave
him—-death. ‘

Mark the result! Out of the womb of that event has
sprung that monster, ecclesiasticism, which, with claws of
iron and nails of steel, has fastened itself upon the white
throat of fair humanity. See what flowed forth when that
spear was withdrawn! The simple Words of peace and love
that this young teacher murmured in the ears of his friends
on the hillocks, under the trees, beneath the clear sky, have
been perverted, twisted, distorted into the mysterious jargon
of litany and introit, credo and doxology, sacrament and ac-
tual presence.

In the name of this earnest, simple—minded Hebrew youth,
who cursed the gorgeous temple, cursed the priesthood,
cursed the prayer—monger, cursed the devotee, cursed the
pomp of Caesar and the power of Rome, in the name of this

lowly shepherd, thisipeasant-preacher, this gentle enthusiast,‘

the world, led on by priest and demagogue, has reared tem-

ples of marble and gold, with painted windows and mosaic ,

floors, built lofty altars, gorgeous with embroidery and golden
fringe, laden with wine cups and images, perfumed with cen-

ser-smoke, and lighted with a thousand tapers! Ay, the ’

world has stripped the sanctuaries of Jove and Apollo of
their flowing robes, their stoles, their palliums, their scarlet
skirts and {purple vestments to wear them in the lowly He-
brew’s name! Aye, more, has robbed the heathen temple of
its tripod, censer, pix and altar-steps, its consecrated oil and
cakes, to daze the eyes of earth’s weak sons and mesh them
ere the spell be broken. All, all, in his name!

Alas, poor, lowly humble shepherd, thy pastoral is lost for-
ever! But thou,:Rome, joy and curse of the world, shalt
drain the cup to its bitterest dregs, for “Peter, get thee be-
hind me, Satan, thou art an offence unto me i” * * *
And now. citizen of the Republic, take Freedom’s encyclo-
pedia, and turn to its firstietters. Ah. 0, that stands for
concord! Bend your head, for we are on holy ground now!
Hark! Did you not hear those musket-shots ? There, listen !
Did you not hear that cry: “Liberty or Death !” Look, eight
of them stagger, reel and fall dead! Who are they? Patriots,
citizen, patriots! Their names,.citizen politician? Go cleanse
your month before you speak their ‘names, for you swore
falsely this morning to save a few dollars taxes. Your lips
are not clean enough to pronounce their names. Aye, citizen-
politician, there were patriots in those days. Not honest and
pure as the world goes, but as the world ought to go, and did
go, then. They were.men who loved their country, not be-
cause they held office or had contracts, but because they were

the fllowers on Freedom’s heather and had their roots

struck deep in the sacred soil. They were true patriots, pure
in their families, pure in their townships, pure in their legis-
latures, ready, willing, happy to face death for freedom’s
sake, even as the politicians now face the penetentiary for
mammon’s sake. But mark the-change. The patriots are
dead; the politicians live. Corruption, greed and fraud stalk
about in our midst. Men begin the week with credo prayer
and commandment, and end it with peculation, embezzlement
and defaulting. Save the Republic! Churchism and politics
are the two ,mill-stones, between which , it is about

to fall. The government is by the ‘worst. Character ,

and intelligence go for naught. Public morality is
tuberculous, its breath is fetid. The poor clerk, the starve-
ling employe, the white-lipped sewing girl, give of their
very marrow to grease the chariot wheels of ‘their masters.
The church’s maw, ostrich-like, knows no difierence between
pure and impure givers, when the gift is large enough to
gorge it. It can digest and grow fat on the conscience-money
of the public plunderer. The_churches and politicians go
hand in hand . They dare not rebuke the rum—seller, as they

dared not rebuke the slave-holder. They dare not fulminate I

against the brothel and gambling-hell, lest the bolt fall upon
the heads of communicants and voters. The “ mother
church,” ogress—iike, devours her own children. The “ ring
and caucus.” in the name of freedom,rob the citizen of his
dearest rights. Babylonian mystery lets the body rot, while
it mutters abracadabra for the safety of the soul! Thus
these two manifestations of emotional power, to wit: the cry
of outraged, humanity that fell from the lips of the young
Hebrew, on the one hand, and the soft, sweet adieux of far-
mers and merchants to their wives and children, as they
stepped from their door-siiis—to die ;—-thus, I say, these two
gigatfticthrobs of humanity’s great‘ heart, that should have
set the world in a flow of light and liberty, have shrouded it
in doubt and gloom, plunged it into the lethargic dream of

a senseless hereafter, and debauched the purity of the town-
ship meeting-house and common school. ,Men read their
prayers from books. Churchism is triumphant. Money, not

morals, is the badge of honor within these beautiful temples

where song and musicjdelight the ear, and gaud and tinsel feast
the eye; where the priest stands upon the altar-steps and needs
but the fillet about his brow to cry out: “Hail, Jove, king
of gods and men!” I

The caucus has throttled the township . To avow love for
one’s country is to be jeered at. Putridity imagines putrid-
ity. Men sell their votes and—-live. Save the Republic!
Women, earnest and industrious workers, are robbed by the
tax-gatherer, defrauded by their employers, wronged by the
State, thrust out by those “with sin.” Churchism, non-
producing, inert, sponge-like, cephalopod, absorbent. is fed
by the State, nurtured on public funds. God is an expense
to the orphan and widow. They pay toll on a road that the
young Hebrew meant shouldibe free. The priest declares
that God dislikes “ black skins,” and forthwith the “ colored

an” takes a back seat in the temple, and waits for the
“second table” on communion days! Rum and politics
both smell alike. The gambling—hell, brothel and police-
station are a trinity—-three in one. Save the Republic! The
press follows the rabble, as the dog his master, by the smell
of-his feet. “One line, first page, $2 50;” “second page,
$1 50.”

Journalism has become “impersonal,” for the writers are
owned by corporations. The scholar parts with his glorious
“ ego,” and wears the slave-garb of “ we,” to serve his master
in. Men of intellect and refinement slaver over the man gy,
dirty oretins—ruling spirits of the caucus, ward and bar-
room-and though they sicken when the drivel cools, yet
must genius befoul itself to live. Men and women sneer at
the sacred ofiice of “ school teacher.” Butter, cheese, oil and
pork ennoble those who handle them, while the avocation
of preceptor shuts out the incumbent from Dives’ villa.
Save the Republic 1»

Bank notes, hair dye and diamonds elevate to the gentry.
There is nothing genuine save vulgarity; there is nothing
unadulterated save ignorance. All is "tinsel, veneer and
stucco. Five dollars buys an escutcheon that cost five cen-
turies of virtue, bravery and honor! Save the Republic!

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MRS. VVOODHULLIN THE FIELD.

COMMENTS on THE rnnss.
(From the Daily Picayune, N. 0., Feb. 21, 1876.)
V THE SOCIAL PROBLEM.
Last night Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull made her first ap-
pearance before a New Orleans audience at St. Patrick’s
Hall. Owing to a fire which had occurred across the street,

and the impediment offered to traveling for some time, the.

audience was not as large as it would otherwise doubtless
have been. Notwithstanding this, there must have been
some fifteen hundred persons present, about two hundred of
whom were ladies-young, middle-aged and old. It was a
decidedly intellectual aadience, and the professions, partic-
ularly, were all generously represented.

At 8:15 Mrs. Woodhull stepped upon the platform, and
her appearance was the signal for a unanimous burst of
applause’ She was arrayed in a handsome brown silk dress,
with a trail, which lent a certain grace to a naturally easy
and dignified demeanor. , T

After a few words of an introductory character, she gave
out the text of her discourse.

Text from I. Corinthians, iii. chapter, 16th and 17th verses;

“ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the

spirit of God dwelleth in you.

“ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God
destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”

Her voice was of that clear, musical, ringing sort, born of
native power and high cultivation; but it was evident from
the first that it could not fill the compass of the vast hall.

In her lecture she first treated of the ethnical constitution
of Americans, and the result to ensue from the merging of
many nationalities into one. She then proceeded to elabo-
rate upon those themes of social interest developed in her

interview with the 1-‘icctyune reporter on last Wednesday,

first stating her opinion of the world and its practices at the
present day, then treating of the duties of parents toward
their children, the conditions on which marriage should be
contracted, wherein she would exact’ an equal amount of
purity from both the contracting parties, and closing‘ with
an explanation of a personal nature. “

Her speech was very rapid, but distinct, and every word
was well rounded and articulated. Her gestures were few

and easy, and her face would betimes light up with that

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Mar. 18, 1876.

fiery energy which sparkled in her eyes. The interruptions
were few, for the audience paid rapt attention throughout,
and only at times would they break out into applause,
which, when they did, was unanimous and “long drawn
out.” . ,

At 9:30 Mrs. Woodhull retired from the platform laden
with offerings of flowers, and amid a general expression of
enthusiasm.

(Frbm the N ew Orleans Republican, Feb. 21,1876.)
MRS. wooDHULL’s LECTURE.

This lady has succeeded in attracting a good deal of interest
in the minds of all classes of thinking citizens. Aside from
the novelty of seeing a woman on the rostrum, or appearing
before a New Orleans public as the champion of an idea, or
the witness of great truths, there is a sort of magnetic charm
in the perfectly easy manners, the earnestness bordering on
enthusiasm, and the great self-possession of the remarkable
lady who fills the public eye for the moment. The truths
which Mrs. Woodhull illustrates are as old as the garden of
Eden. She holds up amirror in which very many of the poor
struggling integers of humanity see anything but compli-
mentary refiections of themselves. We may admit her facts
to be true, and address ourselves to the inquiry, is her pro-
posed remedy—the intelligence of women——adequate for the
great evil. And, to pursue it further, is the high condition of
intelligence which she demands for all the mothers in Amer-
ica, for the whole world, in fact, feasible, or even possible?
None who heard her on Sunday night, at St. Patrick’s Hall,
can doubt she is thoroughly 3. good, womanly woman, with a
heart full of love for her species, and a most intelligent ap-
preciation of everything that is beautiful in human love and
in the true religion of the heart.

She speaks with great fluency and apparently with case.
It is next to impossible for a skillful stenographer to keep up
with her, though the gist of her remarks is easy to retain in
the memory.

(From the N ew Orleans Bulletin, Feb. 22, 1876.)

Notwithstanding the fact that a fire occurred opposite St.
Patrick's Hall, Sunday night, just before the hour adver-
tised for the opening of Mrs. VVoodhull’s lecture, a large and
respectable audience attended to listen to the progressive
views e: that lady. Not only gentlemen attended, but the
fair sex was well represented, fully one-fourth of the crowd
being ladies.

After some little delay, on account of the fire, Mrs. V. C.
Woodhull entered, and taking a position near the centre of
the stage, read her text. ,

In her exordium she called the attention of her hearers to
the fact that neither in written history nor tradition hasthe
conduct and action of the human race been such as to leave
upon the mind of an impartial reader the impression that
any people ever gave evidence that the body was regarded
in a light as sacred as the book of Divine inspiration in-
tended.

Following this, Mrs. Woodhull with much power and
grace of diction, alluded to many other interesting ques-
tions of society, being frequently interrupted by the ap-
plause of her listeners. ,

She leaves for Galveston this morning, where she intends
to lecture also.

(From the N. 0., Times, Feb. 21, 1876.)
Alarge audience, one-fourth of which was composed of
ladies. assembled at St. Patrick’s Hall last evening, to hear
M,.s_ Vim-,o1~'1a.C. Woodhull.

 

(From the Galveston (’Iea;as) News, Feb. 28, 1876.)

The announcement that Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull was to
lecture in this citylwas suffioient to set every one agog, and
develope the greatest amount of curiosity and comment as
to the character of the entertainment.

Sunday evening, the appointed time for the first appear-
anoo of this distinguished lady, the Opera House was com-
pletely filled in the parquette and parquettecircle, while
numbers were obliged to seek seats in the circle in the second
ti(g;0mpt1y at eight o’olock the curtain rolled up, disclosing
the set drawing—room scene, and immediately thereafter
Mrs. Woodhull made her appearance, having in her hand a
small morocco bound copy of the New Testament. Her cos-
tume was rich and ‘fashionable, though not in the extreme,
while her hair was gathered in a simple knot behind, in
which was fastened a white rose. After a most flattering
and enthusiastic greeting from the audience, which the
lady acknowledged by merely bowing, she opened the Tes-
tament, and in low, reverent tones, read her text from I.
Corinthians, third chapter, sixteenth and seventeenth verses.

Beginning in a low earnest tone, Mrs. Woodhull gradually
became infused with her subject until her words rang out
like hailstones on a roof, and carrying her audience along
with her shefiwon repeated and hearty, applause as the telling
points were made. At the conclusion of the lecture a large
number of the gentlemen who had ladies with them took
them on the stage and were introduced to Mrs. Woodhull,
thanking her for the fearless manner in which she spoke her
convictions,‘ and for the new light she had thrown on them.

From the Houston (Te:ca8) Age. March 2. 1876.
MRS. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL-

There was a large audience of ladies and gentlemen at the
Opera House last night, to listen to the dis course of Mrs.
Woodhull upon social science. , She came upon the stage with
a Bible in her hand, and dressed in an elegant velvet cos-
tume, which set 011*‘ to £19313‘ advantizge her tall and command-
ing figure. ' She took her usual text from First Corinthians,
and began speaking in a low, nervous, and exceedingly rapid
manner, upon the ethnological phase of the world. Gliding
out of this, her voice, gathering in strength, broke forth into
periods ofigreat oratorical power, freighted with a magnetism

of earnestnessyand depth of feeling which captivated her au— r

ditory, and bore it along with her to the close of her remarks.
She claims that the source of all crime and of all human im-
perfections, both mental and moral, is to be found in the pros-
titution of the body from unloving sexual intercouse. That
marriage without love is simply prostitution. She favors
marriage based upon mutual affinity, expressed in perfect
love. She denounced marriages of convenience as the gravest
sins against God and nature. She sanctifies the human body
as being the “temple of God," which no man or woman should
dare profane. She urged that man should be as pure as

. woman. That young men should have the same moral test

applied to them when seeking marriage as is now applied to
young women . She depicted the duties and responsibilities
of maternity, and portrayed its sacredness in colors of
astounding impressiveness.

She spoke on in the same nervous, rapid manner for more
than an hour and a half, without pausing for the applause
which ever and anon broke forth spontaneously from the
audience in response to her telling hits. We rarely ever be-
held an assemblage of any kind so completely under‘ the
influence of a speaker. Men andlladies were to be seen
brushing the tears from their eyes as the pathos of this
strange woman went home to their hearts, linking them
together in that chain of common sympathy whose weird
spell no individual present could successfully resist if they
would. Many of the most thoughtful, intelligent and prom-
inent citizens of Houston were present to hear Mrs. Wood-
hull, and the unanimous voice of these attested that they
discovered nothing to condemn in what she said, but on the
contrary, much to commend. _ *

At the close of the lecture, a lady advanced along the dress
circle and threw a bouquet upon the stage, which thoroughly
interpreted the feeling of the entire auditory. Instead of
leaving the Opera house, as is usual when an entertainment
closes, the crowd seemed inclined to move toward the stage,
and many did so either to be introduced to Mrs. Woodhull,
or to purchase a number. of pamphlets which were exposed
for sale at the right of ‘the rostrum. If we had been told
that such a scene as was there witnessed, could have been
possible in a Southern city, with Mrs. Woodhull as the cen-
tral figure, we would have failed to realize it. It was won-
derful, overwhelming and astounding to the last degree, and
actual presence was necessary to fully appreciate it.

Mrs. W. announced that she would remain and lecture
again to—night, and we have no doubt the Opera House
will be crammed to its utmost capacity. We can assure our
citizens that they will hear nothing to offend ears polite,
and hope that at least every young man in Houston will go
and profit by the severe lesson of morality which Mrs. Wood-
hull inculcates. VVe are confident that none who may go
will condemn us for giving them this advice.

 

T R U T H .
ro MRS. WOODIIULL BY AN HUMBLE AmnRER, wno FORMED A HIGH

OPINION or HER‘ SOCIAL wonrn AFTER HEARING mm LECTURE
LAST NIGHT.

Oh, my mother, can you love me,
Can you call me darling boy,

In your prayers to God above me,
Can you claim in me a joy,

Since I havefrom virtue wandered
Far into the swamp of shame?

Since I have my moments squandered,
Doing deeds of awful name?

Since my life I’ve prostituted,
Reeling on destruction’s shore ?

Since my soul seems so polluted
To be lost forevermore ?

Can you speak, in love sincerest,
To me words of tenderness ?

Can you fondly call me dearest,
And me to your bosoni press ?

Yes, I know you can, my mother,
For your love is blindly strong;
Can my check with kisses cover,
Tho’ there burns the blush of wrong;
Even now you think me shameless,
The’ I’m deeply steeped in sin;
Yes, you look on me as blameless,
Tho’ 1’ve long disgraceful been.

011, you never, never knew me,
Tho’ confessed to be your child;
And I feel you should but rue me,
When you know I’ve been so wild;
When you know that I’vc committed
Acts of sins I blush to tell;
When you know my soul is fitted
‘ Better for degraded hell.

Yes, to you I’ve been a stranger,
Traveling down the path of shame,

With my soul in darkest danger
Of a hell-tormenting flame;

But hereafter, darlingmother,
Every thing I dare to do,

(Nay, to you, if 10 no other),
l’il reveal it all to you.

Now I see the shameful error,
That I long have slumbered ln,
And I shrink abashed with terror
At the burthen of my sin;
Stranger to my darling mother!
She who nurtured, gave me birth!
Oh, it is enough to smother,
To destroy all social worth!

True, the adage that is olden,
Truth will not remain concealed;
And the one is glorious golden,
That is being now revealed.
Hear the workers, God will bless them,
Give them health and make, them strong,
Bid them onward, onward press them,
To destroy this social wrong.
HOUSTON, March 2, 1876. '

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A committee of gentlemen from Galvestomrwaited upon
Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull at the Hutchins House,on yester-
day, and invited her to repeat her lecture in Galveston,
assuring her a purse of five hundred dollars.—Houston
(Texas) Age.

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0 O N T E N T S .
Preface; Explanation; Cllntroductioni; Address to the
e .

rgy.
Chap. 1.-—-Rival Claims of the Saviors.

Cap. 2.——Messianic Prophecies.

Chap. 3.—Prophecies by the figure of a Serpent._

Chap. 4.—Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of
the Gods.

Chap. 5.—Virg'in Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.’

Chap. 6.——Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s
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Savior.

Chap. 8.——The Twenty-fifth of December the Birthday
of the Gods. _

Chap. 9.—Titles of the Saviors.

Chap. 10.——The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble

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Chap. 11.—~Christ’s Genealogy.

Chap. 12.—The World's Saviors saved from Destruc-
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Chap._13.——The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1-

vinit .

Chap. 1):i.~The’ Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World.

Chap. 15.——The Saviorsare real Personages.

Chap. 16.—Sixteen Saviors Crucified.

Chap. 17.——The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci—
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Chap. 18.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell.

Chap. 19.——Resurrection of the Saviors.

Chap 20.—-Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav-

Cii§if'21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe
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Chal1?gT‘3r2.-—The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin.

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Heathen Origin. _ _

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and the Holy Ghost. « _ .

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Chal;.°gS.~—Anointing with Oil of Oriental _Origin.

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Chap. 36.—Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine

of the Divine Incarnation. _ _ .

Chap. 37.—Physiologica.1_ Absurdities of the Doctrine
of the Divine Incarnation, _ _ _

Chap. 38.——A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus
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ChapI:l§9.—The Scriptural View of Chri_st’s_Divinity.

Chap. 40.-—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus

’ Ch ' t.

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ChaoI:1i2.—Christ as a Spiritual Medium. '

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Chap. 44.-—Th‘e Moral Lessons of Religious History.

Chap. 45.—Conclusion and Review.

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STATIONS. Express. Ejlgglzzgg STATIONS. F/’.v197‘@-98
«I Y 330 10 4' I M Lv 230 Street N Y I Sig? 11
Ly 23;lStreet 1. . . . . .   . A. M. .5 . . - 9 -  - - -
" Chambers’sti'ee’t . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.4.0 “ 10.45 “  Chambers street . . . . . . . .. 7.00 2‘
“ Jcrscv Citv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 g
“ llornellsville .............. .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ Hornellsville .......... .. 7.40 “_ Etvpress.
1‘ Buffalo ................. .. 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ Bu1falo._. .... .._ ........ .. 11.45 ~- ———.._..
liv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.10 A. M. 1.35 I’ M. Lv Suspension Bridge .. .  1.35 “ 9.50 p. In
A‘ Hamilton ............   2.45 :: 2.55 :2 Ar Hamilton .............. .. 2.55 3 11.20 “
‘ London..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 5.55 “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a m.

" Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.40 “ 10.00 “ Detroit ................ ..10.00 7.00

“ Jackson . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . .. 12.15 P. M. 1.00 A. M “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. D1. 11 ‘30 ‘*

“ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 " “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . .  8.00 “ 845 p in

I\~1-WiIIilwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . , . .. . 5.30 A M. 11.50 A. M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. H. 5.30 a. m.

II>1flI"I'ILl1‘l_E3—aI1 Cheifii .8.55 1‘. M. .  Ar Prairie du Cheiii . . . . . . . .  , 8 55 p. in

I(TCz{7Ii'osst:...I . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 I’. M. 7 05 A M Ar LaCrosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. '11. 705 a. in
X}  iilffii ..................  0.15 1-. M. Ar St. Paul ......  ..... .. 7.00 A L
Ar St. l.o‘uis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. £_ ..
T--‘ " . . . . . . . .  . . . . . .. 5.40 . .  Ar Scdalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.501;. M. 
A33  ................ .. 8.00 P“M  “ Denison .............. .. 8.00 “ ..
“ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “  “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 
.\r Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 I’. M  Ar Bismarck...... . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 P. M. 
 Columbus ................ .. 5.00 1.1.1.  3 Columbus ......  boo “ 
“ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M. Llttle ROCK - - - - - - - - - . - - -- 
is in 1" . ............. .. 8.50 1.. M  Ar Burlington ............ .. 7.01:9. it
""(lI‘Ill‘Z3.I.I1.‘“tg:L.O.I.l ............... .. 11.00 1-. M  “ Omaha ................ .. 7.45 A. M.
.« (j[1eygnne__ _ , _ , _ ,_,., .   Cheyenne..... . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 1:.‘ M .
I‘ Ogden _ _ _ . . ‘ _ . _ _ _ , _ _ _ , ,_ “ 0gdeI1...._ . . . . . . - . . - . ..  “ o
“ San Francisco ........... ..  San Francisco ....... .. 8.30 .
 H1llCSlTlI'°‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. 111-  Ar Galesburg .............. .. 4.45 P: M. 
-- Quincy..°. ................ .. 11.15 “  :: Qu1_ncey.... .......... .. 0.45 *5 
-: St. Jose ll ................ .. 10.00 “ .. “ St-Joseph; ----------- -- , ,-, 31- -
1‘ Ktlllslls ity .............. .. 10.40 1». M. ...1 “ Kansas City ........... .. ,1-25 “ 
“ Atcl1is0ii...{ .............. .. 11.00 “  , Atchison .............. .. 1.1.17 
-- l.cavcriworth .....  12.10 “  “Leavenworth .......... .. 12.40 noon. 
_“ DCllVel‘., . . . . . . . . . e . - . . . . u ..  A. M. ....)§_ “ Denv€r~' - = - - - - --0 - - - - -o ‘Ito --- 

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AL London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an
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, General Manager. General Passenger Ag’t.

cussion of the institution of Property——its .

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