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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 07, no. 06 (January 10, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2001
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-01-10
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: -LOANER’ AA; +A.,,,..N. "."()<"—$4 .a..,..«.r.....'-.‘ ..-r‘ {rm ‘BREAKING THE‘ ‘WVAYC FUTURE GENERATIONS. A PROGRESS: FREE THOUGHT I. UNTRAMMELED LIVES: Y Vol. VII.-—N_O. 6.‘:—-VVIIOIO 162. NEW YORK, ‘ Jan. 10, .1874. PRICE TEN CENTS. ’ THE ~ , OF, THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER) Continental Life Builiing, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. '~_ ....._.__... '5?’ HI. CA ........................ .. $5oo,0o Subject to increaseto ..................... .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- ] TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. , _ ‘@"° FIVE P-ER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities oﬁered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A- 39- WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. OIsOO & SON, Bankers, I I No. 59 ‘Nail St, New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to check at sight. Int...
Show more-LOANER’ AA; +A.,,,..N. "."()<"—$4 .a..,..«.r.....'-.‘ ..-r‘ {rm ‘BREAKING THE‘ ‘WVAYC FUTURE GENERATIONS. A PROGRESS: FREE THOUGHT I. UNTRAMMELED LIVES: Y Vol. VII.-—N_O. 6.‘:—-VVIIOIO 162. NEW YORK, ‘ Jan. 10, .1874. PRICE TEN CENTS. ’ THE ~ , OF, THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER) Continental Life Builiing, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. '~_ ....._.__... '5?’ HI. CA ........................ .. $5oo,0o Subject to increaseto ..................... .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- ] TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. , _ ‘@"° FIVE P-ER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities oﬁered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A- 39- WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. OIsOO & SON, Bankers, I I No. 59 ‘Nail St, New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ' , ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON Us PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent interest. I Loans negotiated. ‘ , Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on _ commission. ' Collections made on all parts of the United States- ’ V and Oanadas. HARVEY FISK. A. S. HATCH OFFICE or FISK & HATCH, BAINKERS AND DEALERS IN. GO‘VB.P..NMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 Nassau st, N. Y., a§“? Opposite Z7. .3. S’?/1)-Treazmry. We receive the accounts of Banks, Bank- ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest‘ on balances. We make special arrangements for interest on deposiis of speciﬁc sums for ﬁxed periods. ,We make collections on all points in the United,States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Depositavailable in all parts of ‘the ‘ Uni.-on. ~We buy and sell at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company ; also, ,Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. I‘-Veg buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- sion, for cash. ’ Communications and inquiries by mail or will isceive careful attention ‘ . & HATCH, T0 mvssmns. i To those who wishto REINVEST COOBONS OR DIVIDENDs, and those who wish to INCREASE TIIEIRINCOME from means already iuvestedin less proﬁtable securities, we recommend the Seven-:1-‘hirty Gold Bonds of the Northern Paciﬁc Railroad Com.- pany as well secured and unusually productive. The bonds are always convertible at.Ten per cent. premium (1.10) into the Company’s Lands, at Market Prices. The rate of interest (severrand three-tenths per cent. gold) is equal now to about 1-fa! currency —yielding an income more than one-third greater than U. S. 5-203. Gold Checks for the semi-annual in- terest on the Registered Bonds are mailed to the post- oﬁce address of the Owner, All marketable stocks and bonds are received in exchange for Northern Paciﬂcs ON MOST FAVORABLE ‘TERMS. I-JAY GQQKE & $9. A FIRST-CLASS 4 New York Security O AT A LOW PRICE The undersigned oifer for sale the First Mortgage Seven Per Cent. Gold Bonds of the Syracuse and Che- nango Valley Railroad, at 95 and accrued interest. This road runs from the City of Syracuse to Smithis‘ Valley, whereit unites withthe New York Midland Railroad, thus connecting that city by a direct line of ' road with the metropolis. Its length is 42 miles, its cost about $42,000 per mile, and it is mortgaged for less than $12,000 per mile; the balance of the funds required for,,its construction hav- ing been raised by subscription to the capital stock. The road approaches completion. It traverses a populous and fertile district of the State, which in- sures it a paying business, and it is under the control of gentlemen of high character and ability. Its bonds possess all the requisites of an inviting investment. They are amply secured by a mortgage for less than one-third, the value of the property. They pay seven per cent. goldinterestl. and are oﬁered ﬁve per cent. below par. The undersigned conﬁdently recommend them to all class of investors. GEORGE OPDYKE & CCL, No. 3.5; blaster Sheet REMOVAL FROM PARIS,.ILL., TO NEW YORK, THE TRUTOFH-SEEKER, Afearless, outspoken Monthly, devoted to Science, Morals, Free Thought, Liberalism, Sexual Equality, Labor Reform, and whatever tends to elevate and beneﬁt the Human Race; OPPOSED To Sectarianism, Priestcraft, Dogmas, Creeds, Super- stition, Bigotry, Aristocracy, Monopolies, Oppression of all kinds, and everything that burdens or enslaves Mankind mentally or physically. On January 1st, 1874, it will be doubled in size to a A FULL SHEET. ' Terms, $1 per year, dating ,from the enlargement; or 75 cents a year, commencingwith No. 1, and in- cluding the four numbers already~issued. . To each Subscriber will be"5§,1}Iiti‘led.FREE, as a pre- mium, a valuable ﬁfty-cent Book‘, entitled “ CHILDHOOD OF THE WORLD,” by EDWARD CLODD, F. R. A.'S., being a reprint from a late English edition. It gives a succinct and instruc- tive account of Man in the Early Ages, and is admi- rably adapted to the comprehension of young and old. Those friendly to the objects and purposes of THE TRUTH-SEEKER are respectfully requested to give it their support and encouragement. Sample copies free to applicants. Sendione-cent stamp to pay postage. D. M. BENNETT, Editor and Proprietor, aided by a corps of able contributors and correspondents from among the leading mindsof the country. Address Box 1654, New York. BANKING & FINANCIAL. ...?_. THE ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAIL- ROAD -COM'PANY’S FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS Are being absorbed by an increasing demand for them. Secured as they are by a first mortgage on the Road, Land Grant, Franchise and Equipments, combined in one mortgage, they command at once a. ready market. , - , A Liberal Sinking Fund provided in the Mortgage Deed must advance the price upon the closing of the loan. Principal and interest payable in com). Inter- est at eight (8) per cent. per annum. Payable semi- annually, free of tax. Principal in thirty years. De- nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons, or Regis- tered. - Price 97% an accrued interest, in currency, from February 15, 1872. _ . Maps, Circulars, Documents and information fur- nished. ’ V, Trustees. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of. New York. Can now be had throng-hvthe principal Banks and Bankers throughout the country, and_ from. the under- signed who unhesitatingly recommend them. TANNER & '00., Bankers, No. 11 Wall Street, New York. AUG-UST BELMONT an OO., - Bankers, 91 and 21 NASS°AU STREET, Issue Letters of Credit to Travelers, available In all parts of the world through the MESSRS. DE ROTH-SCHILD AND THEIR — CORRESPONDENTS. Also, make telegraphic transfers or , one Gali- garxiia.Emepe and Raven ‘ — RAILROAD IRON, FOR SALE , BY s. W. ‘HOPKINS & co, 71 BROADWAY TOI.EDO,BEORIA WARSAW RAILWAY, SECOND MORTGAGE CON- I VERTIBLE 7 PER CENT. OIIIRENOY BONDS. INTEREST WARRANTS PATABLE OCTOBER AND APRIL, A PRINCIPAL 1886. We offer for sale $100,000 of the above bonds in block. By act of reorganization of the Company these bonds are convertible into the First Preterred Shares of the Company, which amounts to only 17,000 shares, and into the Consolidated, Bends (recently negotiated at Amsterdam) of six minions of dollars, which cover th entire line of 330 miles of completed road, to gether with all the rolling stock and real property, to the value of more than ten millions of dollars. I The road crosses the entire State of Illinois and connect with the mammoth iron bridges spanning the Missi si sippi at Keokuk and I Burlington. The income or the road for the year will net suﬂiclent to pay interest on all the bonded indebtedness and dividend on the pre- A ferrcd shares. ‘. 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A series of Familiar Conversations on the Religion of Humanity, dedicated to the only Superior Being man can ever know, the great but imperfect God, Human- ity, in whose image all other gods were made, and for whose service all other gods exist, and to Whom all the children of men owe Labor, Love and Wor- - ship. Price 75 cents. The ’Ti”@tt7z About Love ;' A Proposed Sexual Morality, based upon the Doc- trine of Evolution, and Recent Discoveries in Med- ical Science. Price $1.50. Any of the" above books sent free by mail upon re- ceipt of price. Address, ASA K. BUTTS & 00., 36 Dey Street, New York. COUNTRY BOARD. ‘ THE 5 iLONG- HILL I-EOU@E (Near Beer’s Mill depot, on the Housatonic Railroad), WOODHULL, & OLA * EoR USE] IN‘ FAMILIES, - I This EAMoUs‘;i . _ 1 V a _ . Table. Sauce, THE ‘BES‘E RELISH Put up in ‘any part ofthe world for Family Use. Can be bought of any First-Class Grocer EW YORK CENTRAL AND HUD- SON RIVER RAILROAD.——Commencing Mon- day, June 23, 1873. Through Trains will leave Grand Central Depot—' _ p “ . 1 50:00 A; M., Chicago and Montreal Express, with drawing-room cars through to Rochester‘ and St. Al- bans. ' _ 0 5 9:00 A. M., Saratoga Special Express. i ' 10:00 A. M., Special Chicago Express, with drawing- room cars to Rochester, Buifalo, &c. 5 10:45 A. M., Northern and Western Express. , 3:40‘ P. M., Special Express for Albany, Troy and Saratoga, commencing Saturday,_ 21st inst. ' 4:00 P. M., Montreal Express, with sleepingcars from New York to St. Albans. 7 :00 P. M., Express, Daily, with sleeping cars for VVatertown and Canandaigua. _ _ 8:30 P. M., Paciﬁc Express, Daily, with sleeping cars from Rochester, Buiialo and «Niagara Falls; also for Chicago, via both L. S. and M. C_. Railroads. * 11 :00 1’. M., Express, with sleeping cars for Troy and Albany. , 2:00 P. M., Hudson train. _ _ 7:00 A. M., and 5:30 P. M., Roughkeepsie trains. 9:10 A. M., 4:15, 6:20 and 7:45 P. M., Peekskill train s. 5:00 P. M., Sing Sing train. _ Tarrytown trains from 30th Street Depot, stopping at all Stations, leave at 6:45, 8:25 and 10:20 A. M., 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 4:40, 5:15, 6:30, 8:00 and 11:30 P. M. Sunday Way Trains—For Tarrytown, from 30th street, at 8:25 A. M., and 1:00 P. M. For Poughkeepsie, from 4th avenue and 42d street Station, 9:10 A. M. _ C. H. KENDRICK, General Passenger Agent. Charles B_racllaugh’s Paper, FlLIN’.S. WEEKLY. uh: MIDDLE-AGED MAN ‘BEING QUT ' of employment, would like a situation. Being a Liberalist and Social Reformer, would prefer a situa- tion with one of similar _Views. _ ‘Address, Thomas Carter, 316 New street, Philadelphia, Pa. , WM. DIBBLEE, LADIES’ HAIR nREssER, 854 BROADWAY, Has removed -from his Store to the FIRST FLOOR, where he will continue to condiict his business in all its branches TWENTY‘-FIVE PER CENT. CHEAPER than heﬁretofore, in consequence of the diﬁereiice in his reii . 1 . CHATELAINE BRAIDS. LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S wies. and everything appertaining to the business will be kept on hand and made to order. ~ DIBBLh,\\NIA for stimulating, JAPONICA for soothing ant. the MAGIC TAR SA VE for promoting the growthoi the hair, constantly on hand. Consultation on diseases of the Scalp, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 A. M. till 3 P. M. Also, his celebrated HARABA ZEIN, or FLESH BEAUTIFIER, the only pure and harm- less preparation ever made for the complexion. No lady should ever be without it. Can be ob taiiied only at ' ’ WM. DIBBLEE’S, 85 Broadway, Up-stairs. SPIRITUALISM. ALL ABOUT eases. R. E siren The Wonderful Medium. in the introduction: “ While making an extended tour through the principal cities of the United States with Mr. Foster, I made it my especial business to in- vite the editors of the principal newspapers and jour- nals to investigate the phenomena as they occurred in Mr. Foster’s presence. Having conﬁdence in the fair- ness and justice of the editorial corps throughout the "country, and believing that they would give truthful accounts of their experiences during the seances, I have in this little pamphlet republished a series of ar- ticles from the leading papers of the Union. The reader must bear in mind that in nearly every case these articles have been written by men who are op- posed to Spiritualism. In some instances, we are com- pelled to say, that on account of the unpopularity of the cause in some quarters, it was deemed inexpedi- ent by the writers to give the more incredible and startling occurrences as they were witnessed. Not- withstanding this, this little volume is put forth with the hope that it may lead persons to investigate these phenomena, who, unbelieving now, may be led to be- lieve in a spiritual life. This accomplished, it will “THE NATIONAL REFORMER.” AGENCY IN AMERICA. A Asa K. Butts & Co. take pleasure in announcing that ‘by recent arrangements with Mr. Bradlaugh they be- come agents in America for the sale of all the Pamph- lets and other Works of ' Brozdtdngh, Ifolyodhe, Watts, And other celebrated English Free-Thinkers. A full supply of which is expected to reach us next month; and are also authorized to receive sub-. sci-iptions for THE NATIONAL REFORMER, A Secular Advocate and Free-Thought Journal. Edited by CHARLES BRADLAUGEI. not go forth in vain.” Price 50 cents, postage free. For sale, wholesale and retail, by COLBY & RICH, at No. 9 Montgomery Place, Boston, Mass. THE ESSAYS READ BY 0. B. Frothinghdan, John Weiss, E. L. Youmdns, ' James Pctrton, I AND OTHERS, Before the meeting of the. tree teligiiis ’ASSt§dl§0ll, Held in Cooper Institute, New York, Oct. 14, 15 & 16. In pamphlet form, 35 cents. (From the Tribune _ The compiler of this work, George C. Bartlett, says ‘ Jan. io, 1874. Publications of Wctlt Whitman, the Greatest of Poets. 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Winanvié: uaoioioos mi snaioeef: l\l0lJ3ISOcl"X:I ‘EIITHEUJEOCINV ,0I.lIIl\lEl'l0s '.hE0‘I0iSAR e T tense 862 Broadway, N. Y.’ - at \ . Jan. 10, 13874-. w‘O0i)HULL a onarnrnis we-nK’r.v.se r gs“ / he re. r ‘ , ;\ %* » ~ P" , The Booksand Speeches of. Victoria 0,. Woodhull and Tennie Claﬂin will hereafter betfurnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices: The Principles of Government, by Victoria 0. Wood- hull- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .; . . . . . . 00 ’ Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claﬂin . . . . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom. . . . . -. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Reformation or Revolution, Which ?. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’ The Elixir of Life; or, Why do we Die ?. . . .. . . . . 25 Three of any of the Speeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 50 imstsat itsrics. C 1. Go to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. ‘4. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your ﬁelds, which is kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James, v. 1. THE MONEY SYSTEM. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15, 1873‘. Editors Weekl/y—~I am a little surprised at the plan you pro- pose for the creation of a ﬁnancial system for the country. I refer to the article in your issue of December 20, entitled, “Industrial Justice,” and “The Money System.” I ﬁnd in the same number an indorsement of a passage from a letter written by Mrs. E. Cady Stanton which increases my sur- W prise. The passage is as follows: “The fewer laws we have the better. This is true alike in the home, the college and the State, for there is a strange perversity in human, nature to do what is forbidden.” . As I understand your system of philosophy, it implies a perpetual outcry for freedom. You are a rebel against the tyranny of law. You assert that society and its individuals are bound down under a despotism of statutes and enact- ments. What you demand is that these shall be taken away; that all artiﬁcial rules shall be abolished, and humanity left free to work out its own character in such acts and relations as its unfettered nature would prescribe and adopt. In this you have strong claims to have reason and right upon your side. No sane person, endoived with average perceptive fac- ulties, can believe that humanity is not self-conservative in a state of freedom; that it needs to have its morals or its economics regulated by law andenforced by authority in order to maintain an existence. Therefore your petition, like mine, is for repeal. Take away the burdensome trammels which the past has accumulated, which were founded origi- nally upon degrading superstitions, which had never. any title to obedience, and which have only served to perpetuate the superstitions in which they originated and the ignorance which is essential to their continuance in authority. But in curious contrast with this, is your scheme for a money system, in which you propose to endow government with the function of creating the circulating money of the country. You advise the repeal of the National Bank law, which is proper, because it was (originally unjust, and be- cause its injustice has brought about this natural and just result in disaster. But you propose to prohibit, or virtually to prohibit—-by the establishment .of a government monop- oly—-all individual banking, either of issue or deposit. In short, you propose to circumscribe the liberty of the citizen, by saying: “ Here is a’ branch of business, a ﬁeld of occupa- tion, a road to gain into which you shall not enter.” Now, in what respect, I beg leave to inquire, is government a safer regulator of the money than it is of the social or the domestic system? Your scheme proposes that government shall be the sole currency manufacturer and money-lender; that it shalﬁ do a general banking business; and, in order that there be money enough to lend and circulate, that it call in its bonds, replacing them with currency—-paying the pub- lic debt in paper, and compelling that paper to enter into the channels of trade as currency. - This letter is written, not to argue the question of ana- tional currency, but to "protest against political limitations to natural human rights and natural activities. Neverthe- less, a plan so startling as that which would ﬂood the coun- try with, say, two and a quarter thousand millions of dollars of inconvertible paper, will justify some examination; Such a plan, in order to lay any claim to acceptance, must assume that the circulating medium so created will never depre- ciate; and how, when it seems to be a law’ of economy that a redundant currency depreciates in proportion to its amount, can depreciation be prevented? Must there not be laws again—-more laws—to forbid the purchase and sale of paper money at less than its face in gold? And when legislation begins in that direction, where can it be expected to end? But as I said, this is aplea for freedom: the mostvalua-I ble af all things, free agency. Freedom is right, itis justice; it always leads in the right direction. If there is any hope of human progress it is in this line of liberty. All movements . for the amelioration of the condition of mankind, whether in whole or in part, that begin with “ Be it enacted,” end in disaster; and there never was a shackle invented, however costly the material or elegant the workmanship, that did not bite and gall and degrade and damage in the sequel. ' ‘ ' MATTHEW WALBRIDGE. [We should be glad to make a lengthy review of this article, but time and space forbid; .moreover, the answer to its criticisms has appeared several times in these col- umns. .The rights of individuals and communities are enjoyed and protected, or ignored and abrogated, in pro- portion as the community remands to individuals those things which of right belong to them, and as it takes -charge of those things that of right belong to organization. It is the failure on the part of our correspondent to rightly distinguish between these two classes of rights, that has led to this criticism. , A common currency is something that belongs to the people as a whole; and this of itself is suﬂicient reason why there should’ be no laws protect- ing individuals in dealing in it; It is a function of ‘the people; but if individuals choose to issue and. receive money, there can be no rightful lawto prevent them; but they must pursue it without the protection of any law. Another reason, perhaps, why the fallacy is possible, is, because there is no distinct recognition that the_govern- ment is or ought to be The People. We have come so generallywto regard government as something outside of the people, that we argue as if it were a power independ- ent of them. This is indeed the fact; but when we dis- - cuss principles we do so from :the standpoint of a re- publican government. In such a government a safe money -—and the only safe money—would be such as we have advocated.] « .._n..,——a WENDELLH PHILLIPS. ~ We extract the following from the lecture of Mr. Phillips, as reported in the New York World of Dec. 14: ' , d< * >15 >l< at :’.< “ :;: America has been for the last seventy years the focus of the world’s interest, and the channel in whichthe world is - moved mainly has been that of material growth. With the single exception of our having worked off the poison of the slave system, the growth of this country for the last seventy years has been material. It has added nothing otherwise to the philosophy of government; it has thrown little or no light on social questions; the last ﬁfty years have shown us‘ material growth such as it is impossible that any other ﬁfty years will ever show. If I were to say that the last seventy- ﬁve years in the world has shown progress such as three centuries previous could not show," and such as it is ‘ex- tremely unlikely that two more centuries will show, I should not overstate the truth, because this lavish development of steam power and telegraph, and the immense development of the co-operative effort of wealth—mould_.ingproduction, facilitating production, cheapening production; these four great elements of material progress have made such an ex- hibition of mental force as it is not at all likely that any two centuries will ever see again. But for these the British government would have ceased to exist at least a generation ago. The next century will show us -social cl: anges not ma- terial in my opinion. Great changes in the relations of capi- tal and labor; great changes in the position of woman; changes in the nature of government, in the relations of church and state—these are to be the prominent facts of the next hundred years. If they come, well. If they do not come, that boy is born to-day who, like Gibbon, when he wrote the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ”——that boy is born to—day who will write the declineand fall of the American Republic. Because to any thoughtful man it is evident that the grasp of associated wealth in an age when the sin of not being rich is only atoned for by the eﬁort to become so; the grasp.of associated wealth of bank and rail- road and manufacturer on legislative independence, on the possibility of individual independence, is so rigid and despotic and inevitable, that unless we evade it by some great social changes it won’t be possible for this great re- public to survive. We see a power inﬁnitely grander than I that of the feudal barons of 500years ago—inﬁnitely more ir- resistible than that.. To—day Mr. Gladstone said, speaking of the Church—the disestablishment of the English Church —-“ We cannot_ trust the Churchbeyond the clasp of the Gov- ernment’s hand; as a rival power wielding £-90,000.000 ster- ling,-it is too grave a charge for the British Government.” £90,000,000—$450,000,000—~too grave a charge to the British Government, three times as strong as ours; and yet one man, the headof the Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. Scott, wields $4.50,000',0O0, and the verysweep of his garments as he -marches east from San Francisco to Philadelphia is more than suﬁicient to" sweep down Legislatures as he goes. I look for no safety-here except in great social changes. I believe that the day is gone by in this country when you can get half a man’s power out of «him on a system of wages; it was possible 200 years ago. Ignorant, short-sighted, narrow- viewed, the dependent laboring class accepted the begt they had offered them, and lived from day to dayand hardly s overlooked themargin of another week ; they were contented with the system. But intelligence, education, responsibility, the ballot, ashare in the‘ government, has dispelled all that content, and unless we have co-operation, unless we have labor taken into a great partnership with capital, laborwill tear capital to pieces. That is in the future. I believe that we at home are to see another great social change, so to speak. God forbid that we should ever return to that de- lusion of specie payments; I do not think that the American. people will ever wander back to those Egyptian ﬂesh-pots; it is a "delusion long since dispelled by the practical expe- rienceof the world. We have the best currency in the world now, and I don’t believe the utmost effort of any mi- nority will ever bring us’ back to the old channel. I hope it. never will. I look forward to a currency double in volume, resting only on the credit of the government—(.app1ause)—- with no check and balance of commodity, wheat or gold, to disturb the natural relation of its volume. I look forward money in this country to the level of Great Britain—-3 per cent,-so as to shut out the necessity for a tariff and deprive wealth of half of its desire of increase, and put within the reach of the masses all the fruits‘ of the earth. To-day the» Englishman puts $1,000,000 in land out of which he gets 3 per cent. in money and 3 per cent. in aristocratic social in- stitutions, and is content; Unless we launch our vessel in the same channel and ﬁght Great Britain with her own weapons we shall go under. ' THE FARMER IN POLITICS. We are indebted to Horace Day for the fbllowing: CHICAGO, December 18, 1873‘. The jjﬁnoig State Farmers’_ Association spent yesterday in the‘.c0nSidera,ti0n of papers on transportation,agriculture 311,1 the creation of weak-hh, varied by the introduction of various resolutions declaring political independence» A1110‘-‘lg , the latter the following evoked great applav-S9; 31101 1095"? in” dicate the spirit of _the gathering. _ We look upon the present system of choosing candidates: through nominating coventions as being one of the funda- mental causes of our political corruption, and believe that it has become a buying, bargaining, bartering and selling sys- tem that every American citizen should be ashamed of, and that it is ﬁt for‘ nothing else but the body-guard of a king. A .yStealing is thieving, whether doneiby persons in the low , walks of life or by high officials, and we demand the utter repeal by Congress of the law known as the SalaryGrab~— entire—Presidential, Congressional, and all. . Whereas, The political parties of the country-have crimi- nally neglected the agricultural interest and shamefully dis-. regarded the rights of the people; therefore, , j ., Resolved, That the farmers cut themselves loose from all party association and rally under a banner broad enough W embrace all in favor of just laws and opposed to monopolies» to corruption, to extravagance, \to the further gift of public lands to railroads and to the creation of uncontrolled mo- nopolies. ? ‘ . To-day the debate on political indeperylence was long and spirited. The Committee on Resolutions reported on the platform the following resolutions, which were adopted: Resolved, That we demand the immediate reform of abuses in the Civil ‘Service, through which the patronage of the government is dispensed as a reward for particular service rather than with regard to the public necessities. Resobved, That we are opposed to a protective tariff’. Resolved, That we deprecate any further grants of public lands or loans of the public credit, and of national, State 01‘ local subscriptions in aid of corporations. Resolved, That we favor the repeal "of our national banking‘ tender currency directly from the Treasury, interchangeable for government bonds bearing the lowest possible rate of in- terest. ‘ 1 Resolved, That the existing railroad legislation of this State should be sustained and enforced until thoroughly tested before. the courts, and that we oppose any legislation by Congress under the plea of regulating commerce between the States, which shall deprive the people of their present. controllinginﬂuence through State legislation. Resolved, That the right of the Legislature to regulate and control the railroadsof the State must be vindicated, estab- lished and maintained as an essential attribute of State gov- ernment, and thatthose holding the doctrine that railroad charters are contracts, in the sense that they are not sub- ject to legislative supervision and control, have no just ap- preciation of the necessary powers and rights of a free gov- ernment, and we will agree to no truce,‘ submit to no com- promise short of complete vindication and the re-establish- ment of the supremacy of the State government in its rights through the Legislature to supervise and control the rail- roads of the State in such manner as the public interest shall demand. « [Firomiflze Worlcmgmcuvs Advocate, Oizicdr/0, 152.] ‘ IDLENESS A;,ND STARVATION. Why is it that we see men and women asking vainly for work when work is the only support of the community? Why is it we see men and women asking for bread, hungry, starv- ing, in the midst of plenty? Why are cold and nakedness prevalent, when both fuel and clothing exist in profusion? Why, too, were those public journals so eloquent when afew hundred laborers struck work because they wereallowed but a pittance of their earnings? How loudly they howled over the crime and folly of the laboring class, in thus Wast- ing the means of the capitalists and their own time, and in, some instancesdemanding a law against such conspiracies. Where is the religious press that descanted so much on the immorality of strikes and the consequent idleness of both capital and labor, protesting that idleness was death to the community? Where is now’ their virtuous‘ ‘indignation against idleness, when millions of men and capital are idle,. at the ‘expense, too, of actual suffering, actual hunger and cold, and aloss to the community incalculable? Do these editors suppose that laborers cannot see this diﬁerence in their treatment of idleness and loss, brought on by laborers and idleness, and/loss brought on by capitalists? Yet one in- volved but few men and but little capital; the other in- volves millions. Not a word is said about the wickedness of those whose knavery or stupidity has caused this enormous evil. When did laborers ever refuse a reduction of wages, if the employers could show it was just, and according to the reduction made on his proﬁts? Journalists, ‘religious journal- ists who could reproach a few laborers who struck work, knowing themselves robbed of their dues, have not a word to say against the authors of this national loss of millions. Thevare chop-fallen and silent as the skull of ‘poor Yorick. Why do they not demand a reason for this enormous loss, V and the punishment of its authors? It is incontestilole that the present ‘trouble is owing either to the blunder or the vknavery of capital. ‘Why, then, should not capital be pun- __ished,_and compelled to sustain the men and women they "to the.re'sult fromthat, that shall bring down -the interestjof ‘ ’ V have deprived of work? I , c . If laborers had been thus guilty, what terrible denuncia- tions l?Y.Q111<1 have been hurled at them, what punishments law, and believe that the government should supply a legal I .1?‘ ,4. A , woonnom. J5 cLArI.IN?s WEEKLY, Jan. 10, 1874. too severe for them?. But they will not even candidly dis- cuss the subject, but attempt to screen the capitalists by transparent humbugs and lying pretences of causes which have no foundation in truth. Do these journalists suppose the laborers too ignorant to know that their present position is not their fault, or that they can be made to suppose it a visitation of God? The laborers know full well it is a visita- tion of stupidity or knavery; that in either case it is the fault of those who pretend to be the controlling power, the brains of the community, and of them only. It seems to be expected in some quarters that laboring men must “accept the situation,” and contente_dly starve, with their wives and children, in the midst of plenty, and that, too, when the National Legislature is debating, yes, actually debating, with an audacity in crime as uncommon . as it is disgraceful, whether they shall return to the treasury the money they took from the people-—money earned and paid by the very class now suffering for food and clothing. Had Congress the reason for theft that they were suﬁering for food or clothing; had they even the pretence for insuffi- cient, inadequate compensation, the case would be different. But every laborer knows that previous to their stealing their pay was fully four times more than they earned; whether their earnings were estimated by the hours they were em- ployed, the hardship of the employment or the beneﬁt to the employes. Had ancient Athens seen such a state of thiigs as nowexists, the government that produced it or suﬂ’ered it to be produced by the knavery or stupidity of its wealthy citizens, would in less time than has now elapsed paid for the crime with their lives. _ The starvation of citizens in the midst of plenty was unknown to the republics of Greece. Is it expected that men, reasoning men, will sit down‘qui- etly and contentedly starve amidst plenty? a plenty ,their own hands have created; a plenty which is dissipated by plundering legislators in luxurious revelry, knowing, as they ‘do, that the present distress resulted from the want of money, insuﬁicient money to do the business of the country; I knowing, too, that the government controls the amount of rmoney, and know’ g further that the government is con- trolled by capital and run in the interest of capital, of men who, many of them, desire to reduce the rate of wages and others to extort 1 per cent. a day for the use of money, or buy up property at half cost. We hope that workingmen now out of employment will make good use of their leisure. There is nothing so discour- aging to labor reformers as the apathy and want of interest in their own welfare, so often manifested by laborers. Often they willhardly go to hear a free lecture on the subject of labor reform, let alone paying the lecturer for his pains. . They will hardly read a book that is given them on the sub- ject, to say nothing of paying for one, yet the capitalist has his lecturers, his writers and his preachers. He pays them. liberally, and they serve him faithfully. Let the’ laborer learn who are his friends and adhere to them. Let them not , neglect the assembling of themselves together; let them draw more closely the bonds of union, mutual trust and reliance, for now more than ever is union needed. In pro- portion as they act together will they be powerful and respected. In proportion as they divide will they bp weak and despised. Let them debate the best means of procedure, the best means of avoiding the tyranny of extortion of cap- ital; the true social condition of men, the various steps to be taken, that the social condition shall be improved. [From the N. Y. Times, Dec. 23, 1873.] THE UNEMPLOYED IN CHICAGO. - DEMONSTRATION BEFORE THE AUT]:‘£ORITIES—~NO MONEY‘ AND NO WORK-BENEVOLENCE TIED WITH RED-TAPE.’ CHICAGO, Dec. 23, 1873. The workingmen ont of employment, to the number of six thousand or eight thousand, assembled at an early, hour this - evening and marched through the streets to the vicinity.of the City Hall, while their special committee was before the Common Council. Speeches were made to the crowd from several stands. Some of the speakers were inclined to give good advice, and counseled forbear.ance on the part of non- laboring classes, but a maj orityhave urged them in ahighly inﬂammatory style. In the meantime the committee entered the council chamber, and when their presence was made known, business was suspended ‘and they were invited to state their grievances. The Chairman of the committee said he came at the earnest request of thousands of suffering poor people to ask the City Fathers bread for the hungry, clothing for the naked, and houses for the homeless. _He said it was not the intention of the vast crowd, whose managerhe was, to make any disturbance, but in the name of humanity, they demanded help. He then presented a series of resolutions adopted at the Sunday meeting. Speeches were made by several Aldermen, and ﬁnally the wishes of the workingmen were referred to the regular Finance Committee, together with the Mayor and a special committee of nine, to deliber- ate in joint session with the working en’s committee. Be- fore the committee retired, Mayor Col in addressed them a few remarks. He had no donbt that there were many suffer- ing_families in the city, and he promised to do all in his power to give them speedy relief. He counseled them to act with moderation, and in conclusion said that while the city wasat the present time out of money, negotiations were pending by which they would be able to raise six to eight hundred thousand dollars before the end of the ‘week. N ot- withstanding the great crowd in the streets there was hardly any noise, and certainly there was no demonstration calcu- lated to terrify our citizens. Perhaps the presence of four hundred Policemen and a battery of artillery had a quieting eﬁect on the procession; ,. It is believed that the end is not yet. Hundreds of men,‘ women and children are suﬁering. The Relief and Aid So- ciety have about $600,000, but it is bound up with red tape. The 13009‘ People will starve while the Relief So- ciety are investigating and reporting. The poor say they are willing to work, but there is no work. They want bread, but they have no money. An endeavor will be made to solve the terrible question to-=morrow. The Joint Committee are to hold a meeting at 2 o’clock. T SOCIALISTIC. rrnr. snrronrmor CHILDREN. Aside from the question of such adaptation between par- ents as will secure healthy. harmonious and beautiful off- spring, by such sexual selection and conduct as is well known to science, there can be no more important question than the support of children. Republican America, ‘with its prudery and shams, might well learn a righteous lesson from monarchial Russia, which erects its foundling hospital, overlooking in architectural proportionsthe palaces of her kings, supported at an annual expenditure of millions of dollars, employing thousands of nurses and teachers, having» constantly under their care tens of thousands of children, in many casesaccompanied by their mothers, and with its doors always open to receive such as apply without question of their previous condition, whether married or single, virtuous or prostituted wives, or the vir- tuous or the prostituted mistresses of honorable /men. , The old barbarism of total infantile depravity as once taught by the churches has nearly passed away, and even the creed-bound are to-day repeating the beautiful benedic- tion enunciated by their master, “ Of such is the kingdom of heaven ;” and the brave woman who advocates that they_be gathered into beautiful harmonic homes, and supported and educated by society, but pleads that these poor suﬂ"ering innocent and out-cast ones shall be gathered from the hells of cellar and garret,’ from cold and hunger, sickness and death into heavens of beauty and goodness, ﬂowers, sun shine and gladness on earth. ‘ - . _ . The indications of present civilizations are toward some such consummation. It is not long since the State has taken upon itself the: education of all its children, furnishing for this purpose beautiful ‘structures, and doing their work so well, that but few, even? if they possess unlimited wealth, can impart to their children‘, in such branches as are taught, and a better education than is afforded in our public schools, not by an infringement of the right of the parents to educate their own children if they so choose, but by offering better schools than the private citizen can afford. In England some provision has already been made for the clothing by the State of such children as aretoo ill clad to attend the school. Individual benevolence is even now in many of our cities erecting and supporting beautiful homes for friendless chil- dren, as well as homes for the aged and inﬁrm of both sexes. These are examples of better social conditions, and prophetic, of what will some day be done for all of- the uncared for. . Perhaps the day will never come in which the good mother, '~ who- has within the intricate sanctities of her own being wooed into life a new birth, desired, and the product of mutual and divinest love, will not care to direct her child into ways of pleasantness and paths of wisdom and love; but to-d ay somebody’s child, without their fault. suffers, and our humanity must go out beyond those of our own house. My child, my sister, or. my brother are becoming to-day terms of world-wide signiﬁcance; and inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of one of these, ye have done it unto the great All-Father and Mother. L. I K. J OSLIN. PLANO, TULARE 00., CAL, 1873. Editors of Woodhull&7 C'laﬂ7In’s Wcekly——I bless God and the good spirits for having thrown into my hands a copy of the proceedings of the Tenth Annual Convention of the American Association of Spiritualists. For sixteen years have I been an avowed Spiritualist, and so little have they done toward remedying the existing evils of society, that I had almost become ashamed of the name. Oh, how I have longed for a tongue of ﬁre, accompanying avoice of thun- der, to burn deep into the brains of the people the very sen- timents and principles that were uttered at that convention upon the social condition of our land! Alas, my organiza- tion prevents me from doing much. I am no public speaker; neither can the Angelsmake me one. J. P. FORD. II . [Reported for the Banner of Light, by John W. Dag/.] THE LOGIC OF HISTORY AS. TO SOCIAL REFORM.——- , , , No, II. I ’iOn Sunday afternoon. November 30, Miss Jennie Leys, inspirational medium. concluded her engagement at Music Hall, Boston, by a lecture which further continued thecon- sideration of the subject named above. As the geologist reviewed the varying strata through which the formation of our planet had been gradually com- passed in the past, so, on the present occasion, the lecturer said, the diﬁering life strata——social, religious and political -—-would be reviewed, by which man had arisen to the height which to-day seemed calling upon him to verify the pro- phetic inspiration: ‘‘a little lower than the angels.” The nations of the past might be considered as strata, and, as the social system was the most important, we only needed to know of the condition of this in each, in order to judge of the other departments among the varying peoples. First, then, in the social state, came the polygamic 1'ela.ti0nShip—-_- one man ruling despotically over many women———in which the entire subjection of woman was clearly pointed out by the expressionhfe-male, indicating a something held in fee by a male. ' Out of this proliﬁc fountain of evil came the - slave system in the family, arbitrary authority in the church, and military despotism in politics/—the climax of this con- dition‘ being but the precursor of its destruction, at least as far as the Western nations were concerned, where monog- amy at last replaced polygamy. The despotism of polygamy then became the monopoly of monogamy—the supremacy of one man over many women being reduced to his tyrannic control over one, In the same course of change, military despotism gave way to money monopoly, and cannon and bayonets retired before specie and bank bills. In the Church the despotic supremacy of one man or set of men over the consciences of. the rest, had received many shattering blows and was thrown into a disturbed state, but monopoly still existed therein some form. a That we were on the eve of another widespread change in all departments of life——social, religious and political-the signs of the times were emphatically declaring. Monogamy, so far from proving to be a fountain of liberty, purity and peace, had been found to be the source from whence sprung all the co-dominant evils which were making this, one of the gloomiest epochs the world had ever seen. Prophetic souls could sense the dark hours to come, when this morning star‘ of freedom, Columbia, would feel the dreadful results of in-- grained,‘unjust monopoly in all the departments of life; and. when the nation’s cherished liberties were ‘trampled in the dust of years of ruins and war, the words now spoken for freedom would be recalled to mind. “ We are working for the near future,” said the speaker; “we would save /you if we could—we cannot; do not think our words too sharp!” In. the next movement toward change for the betterment of human affairs, the process must begin, as it had done in the past, with the great physical centre of ll:‘e——-the family» which was the source from which all other developments were outworked; and amidst multitudinous evidences of corruption equal to those which awoke the wailing of the Jewish prophets, the way was being revealed, and voices _‘ were sounding the coming of a better, purer epoch. And as the coming of Jesus introduced to the Jewish .people..and ﬁnally throughout the Western nations, a new system of so- cial life—-superseding polygamy by monogamy—-so to-day, in this nation, the harbingers of reform, through Spiritualism, the Christ of this generation, were summoning the world to the acceptance of a purer dispensation, and proclaiming the beginning of the end of monogamy and its co-dominant errors. "As surely as God lives,” said the speaker, ‘* the whole economy of life is ordained to reconstruction!” , And why? asks some startled soul, fearful of general dis- ruption.‘ Why! Because monogamy, having the name of‘ an angel of light, has proved to be a demon of darkness to I the world; because monogamy, having its root in slavery, has borne to the world fruits bitter, deforming, corrupting; because monogamy is but disguised polygamy; because mo- nogamy is a failure, a disappointment, a lie! Monogamy was a hypocrite; but God’s grace was no hypocrite, but was descending through the power of the broken law into the depths of the system, and openly demonstrating its living bondage; and His love was calling the long-enslaved to come forth and claim their heritage of purity and peace! With each successive step in advance, woman’s thralldom had been diminished: a woman was enslaved, in polygamy, per- haps to the one-hundredth part of a man—if he had that number ofwives; in monogamy, to one man, whether she possessed his love or not; and the divine promise of the new dispensation was, that progress would go on till the last chain was stricken from her neck. Man in the past had been re- vered as prophet, priest and king, but Spiritualism, coming to this continent, had e_xalted woman to become a second Christ, the proclaimer of a fairer and more peaceful era, an V apocalypse transcending the visioned glories of John at Pat- mos. Love, the sublime veriﬁcation of that apocalypse, could never be attained till woman arose to a recognition of her own selfhood; becoming clothed with freedom in her life’s every condition and department, thus making man more free; becoming immaculate in all her being, thus advancing man to apurity not yet known; having none to make her afraid in her own special realm~—the divine one of mother- hood! Upon woman, to-day, was laid a more sacred and solemn responsibility than any preceding age had ever placed upon her; and she must awaken to the fact, and apply her every power to its correct discharge. The speaker referred to the social corruption now existing in the country, to the cruel and unnecessary death of one—half the children born before they attained the age of ﬁve years; to the prevalence of in- fanticide, murder and the constantly multiplying evils which were afﬂicting the community, and said that it could be physically and psychologically proven that all these terrible conditions came directly from a perverted and polluted sys- tem of monogamy. In view of these awful results of a mis- taken and depraved materiality in man, was not woman, the mother of the race, called upon, as by the voice of God, to a higher and holier plane of life? The disappointed hearts, full of sorrow, and, it niight be, degradation, the pitiful shams called homes, in which souls starved, minds decayed and bodies suffered and even stooped to sin, were dark and solemn indices thatsomething should be done to annihilate this sorrow called life, this shadow called love, this passion and sin called by the holy name of marriage! Thousands of hearts, reading in secret their own life-history, were saying: “Let the light come, if there be any,” andmany more would do so in coming time. The speaker would have it remem- bored that she desired to denounce no one—each soul must act according to its light; but as each age of the world had rec aived more mental and spiritual illumination through the gradual process of human development,.so would the case result as regarded the reception and appreciation of, the present dawning epoch of reform, and the multitudes of earth would yet hail it with joy unspeakable. The light hadcome, and it pointed the way to a true order of adjustment; and where was it to be found? Not in mo- _ nogamy as it was to-day interpreted—the clouding, decep- tive letter, the law so barren of love that love leaps beyond law, and seeks its sustenance outside legal limits; not in’ monogamy, which to-day, disguised by its name, was cloak- ing with its smooth face amultitude of sins abroad and a world of misery at home; not in this marriage system, one half polygamy and one half monogamy, Either revolution, sorrow, or a better form of education must co1ne—and all three would come-—-before this system could pass away, and the true state of social life be received and acknowledged, wherein marriage would no longer be a. state where parties, held together by law, should eat the bitter dust _of hopeless, helpless bondage, but a condition based 119011 the free and harmonious uni_on of two persons; the true marriage would -be monogamic-—the blending of two beings in body, mind and soul, love free and undeﬁled cosecratmg their union. The speaker desired it to be understood that the words spoken meant no impurity either of ﬂesh or $01.1}: but 3 union ‘»_.a.,.;...l~«,~.~<m._._.n.».,l-_._l,l_ .... ,,,,., \ , A, -'tvvT—<wz!Io~r.~,'s;‘-P”/¥’;i.*°q2....2>=eI-'oS=~A‘»*2“-?:,r --.«.=;;,as_« ...—.,.‘.-,-_,';.——.,, Hg ,,,,(j, ,5, ,u_,__/_,A _ A W V _,g ,g., .-,,.-4-3-,, //*'-¢~(.> «-99: ;.:.-»«':ff.‘—-<<:—.»-4Y.lL-.~‘A';-‘>‘-"‘-‘- .r:*‘=— " -..;;(''L. -. 4..:..:a::.;; :-‘- 1-» ?5“‘ .:—;::.{~— . - 4.—,.—-.-.-5.-...,§:a ~"‘!>L—~..>.;-11¢--.: «-.3;-V.-, .« r--< Jan. 10, 1874. woo1).HULi. & OLAFLIN’S WEEKI.‘ X 5 p of independent equals, held together so long as love lasted, ‘but utterly relinquished and. dissolved when love departed, “whether that time involved a duration of six months or mil- lions of years, only these two interested parties having the right to decide as to the continuance of this contract. This state would bring a freedom to Woman,whereby she, in mar- riage as well as out of marriage, should have the right and power to refuse the creative act when undesired, and to repeat it onlyunder such c_onditions as would produce angels and not demons. This right inhered in the very nature of woman, who alone was the rightful sovereign in the realm of maternity—the dictator of those divine procreative.func- tions over which men, under past systems, had usurped the control, and by which step, redolent of selﬁshness, they had ofttimes quenched the love in trusting hearts,who had given up their bodies to them under the man-made law of mar- riage. - The light must come.‘ Spiritualism, thc Bethlehem-star «of a nobler epoch, has; risen upon the social horizon of life- a harbinger of freedom to woman, as well‘ as upon that of theological darkness bringing to the race a demonstrated knowledge of the soul’s victory over death. The lips of wo- men were proclaiming all over the land a nobler gospel than that of Paul, and teaching the grand truth that man alo'ne—.— though he had done nobly all he could-—could never save the world: woman must be allowed to rise to the full stature of a womanhood co-equal with man in all respects. The excel- sior of the coming epoch was freedom, and this time full freedom, individually and socially. It would come in an- swer to the demand, gradually rising all over the world of! to-day, that every individual,whether man or woman. should be free, in the presence of God, to control the functions of the entire being—to walk the path of life untrammeled, save that they infringed not upon the sacred rights of others; the demand for the absolute freedom of every man and woman from what to-day was called marriage, so that no external command of church or -person should have power to unite- lives already joined by love, and no external law have the slightest right to hold any man or womah to such union i when love had departed; such a course of life being a sin not to be wiped out from the nature save through much trib- ulation, either here or in the spirit-world-the unpardona- ble sin against the offspring of such distasteful bondage, against God and against the world, tending to desecrate the higher laws of the soul, which should have the freedom and power to protect both man and woman from the oppression of mere external enactments. The new epoch was to bring with it a freedom in which every soul could rise to a position in which the nature should have the right to accept what was love, but also the sacred right to reject all the world called love, if only so the life could reach the altitude de- manded by that soul; an absolute freedom in marriage for,wo- man——no person. in marriage, or by marriage, having the slight- est right or authority to command any element, function, act or product of her life, save -only as she elected, and love could always win. Such provisions did not exist to-day in the law-—we called the law suﬂicient, and under its stern de- crees love departed. ’ The speaker ‘again stated that these doctrines did not favor or inculcate impurity, but, on the contrary, a higher and holler chastity than earth had ever known. Till men and women could be freed in this way, and be made co- equals in the varied departments of life, the world could not be saved from sin, sorrow, disease and death. I The mo- nopoly of woman in the present system of monogamy must be destroyed before the money and other monopolies affect- ing the race could be overcome. Man not only to-day as- sumed control of woman’s person, but in all the avenues of life he held the female upon the plane of pecuniary disadvan- tage. The speaker then instanced one case in proof, where a,female principal in one of the New'York schools was work- ing for two thousand dollars a year, with the same responsi- bilities placed upon her as the male principals of other schools there who received three thousand dollars-«she, therefore, being obliged to pay to the city the sum of one thousand dollars per year because of the mere accident of sex in being born a woman. Such a state of affairs was a blot upon the escutcheon of this free land. Many young women,‘ looking out upon the turmoil of existence, were prone to consider the wedding ring as the golden Pactolus encircling life, and therefore hastened to its protecting borders only to find, when too late, that marriage was but another name for slavery and degradation. The, in ama- jority of cases, utter failure on the part of husbands to allow to their wives even a small portion of their gains-— earned by the woman equally with the man~—for their per- sonal use, was one of the saddest -features of the present system, leading, as it did, women to outside temptations of which their male partners but little dreamed, and to whose seductions, perhaps, not a few at last might yield. What was the effect produced upon the oﬁspring unfortu- nate enough to be born under these sad, depressing and rc- presssing conditions? Each life-atom, whether of body, mind, or soul, had its own determinate law; to deny it was but to exhibit the egotism of ignorance; and each, under the subtle chemistry of generation, would surely produce results in the child legitimate to the domain of that law. Therefore from the darkened, degraded ‘birth-chamber, where lust and undesired maternity vied with each other in a. strife for supremacy, what wonder is it that a being came forth naturally ﬁtted to rob and even murder his kind in a strife for coveted treasure? With freedomefor woman, in and out of marriage, would come a self-governing power, and then if a woman wished to labor at any employment outside the marriage state, it would not be looked at as something strange, but she could help to bear, if she was so disposed, the pecuniary burden of the household without reproach. The speaker would have the girls of this and coming generations educated to be self- supporting and individually free; and then the spectacle of thousands of men obliged to work from dawn till dark, in a‘ hopeless slaveryof labor, to support thousands of women in idleness and dependence, would give place to one more in accord with the divine provisions of equity for both. The word freedom had an ominous sound to many ears, but the truth was it had never had a right interpretation, but had been subjected to much and varied abuse in its application among the people. It was the great birthright of all, but one-half of the race had been kept out of its pre- rogative concerning it. To-day the world had fastened its gaze upon the lowest form of the question———tha’c of social freedom——unmindful of the sublimer heights, far reaching into the ether of divinity, to which the soul, becoming by development ruler of the entire nature, could ascend. Woman could alone teach the divine signiﬁcance of the term. Promiscuity was characterized by the speaker as an- archy, while the true love-union of one man and one woman was the type of the to be. The dark shapes of crime and lust, the terrible forms of vice, the revelations which to-day made pure hearts blush for their kind, were not the products of the new dispensa- tion, but only the evidence of its presence and deep~r'eacl1— ing power. The angels had stirred the waters of Bethesda, and the world was troubled by the spectacle of what it beheld around thé ’borders of the "pool; but the angels did not bring the shapes which so lacerated the sympathy or complacency of society. » Oh, nol these were the wild fruit- age of monogamy-—they were not the results of social free- dom, but marriage. Baptized in the living waters which the new gospel pointed out for the healing of the nations, these waiting forms would go forth cleansed and made whole. From the prostitution of marriage to lust had come forth natures which, lustful by birth, could never reach a higher position till these inhuman tendencies were remanded to their true place in the economy of life by suﬁering and trial, through which alone the soul could become conqueror of 'the lower nature. Social freedom, comprehending that all must live accord- ing to their peculiar development——abnormal or otherwise— came not to condemn any life, since to do so presupposed the power and right tojudge; and to judge justly, one must occupy the position of the object so adjudged~——a thing im- possible of accomplishment; it rather imitated him of Galilee in saying: “Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.” There were heights and depths in life’s develop- ment, and who should condemn those who had just started in the upward path. Rather we should hail each soul as one ‘ of life’sdivine atoms, allied to the rest by the a11—embracing unity of the Supreme; knowing that beyond us there were more transcendent possibilities tempting us in the upward?‘ path. Souls, however, must be left free to climb, and by the exercise of this right, woman, in the light and glory of the coming epoch, would lead the world back to the lost Eden- that Eden of love and truth which existed in marriage, but claimed no kinship with law. Fenced about by law, the garden of love ran to weeds in the present unreasoning sys- tem, becanse no attempt was made to keep love alive; but when the right,interpretationwas reached, and love was recognized as the maker and master of marriage, the old Eden would be restored, and parentage be a joy and a bless- ing, where now in homes without love it became a bane and a disaster. Then would come the_hour when woman would have the power to say to her beloved: “It is the time ap- pointed:” then would the temple of life be beautiﬁed and protected during that highest work of an immortal——the generating of another immortal, and a deeper signiﬁcance be added to the Scriptural statement that Joseph “ knew her not until she [Mary] had brought forth her ﬁrst-born son.” The lecture closed with a prophetic picture of ‘coming glories for humanity, when development and experience should fit it for their reception. Dear Madam-—I beg to request the privilege of occupying 9. portion of your space with a few comments on the mock- modesty of society, and most prudely that of Great Britain. The oracular nosce te ipsum is practically ignored, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the age of puberty ﬁnds the youth of either sex so ignorant of their functional organ- ism that they are almost sure to become the victims of phys- ical derangement. The separation of the sexes, especially in youth, is an error that eventually produces a morbid degree of contemplation of the other sex, and too fervid sensibility; whereas free mixture with the other sex removes the angu- larities of character generated from separation, or prevents their growth entirely. Thus are modiﬁed the masculine and feminine natures, so as to produce an adaptitude between the sexes which must ultimate in happier unions than now too often take place with those whose heartsghave been pre- vented from pulsating to the stirring emotions of “sexual magnetism,” so ably handled in your periodical a short time since. Parental love, blinded by creed and custom, blights the healthful throbbings of the heart’s tendrils, so to speak, as they stretch forth in search of a mutual embrace———in search of an appreciative and worthy soul in whom to de- light and whom to trulylove. The people here are frightened‘ to be told how they are made. Museums for students‘ are even suppressed; and a short time since Dr. Khan’s museum, in Tichborne street, was robbed of forty of its best wax models, by the society for the suppression of vice. ‘Now, every one must agree that vice ought to be suppressed; but where on earth is the vice connected with the sober study, from models, books and lec- tures, of the human body? The only answer that can be given falls back to the old point which is the cause of most of the Warpings of society-—creed, bigotry, blindness. More than half the world is yet enslaved by an ignorance of N a- ture, and a belief in an incubus which has been set up by the crafty religion-makers to falsify Nature’s free and beautiful domain. Sham modesty exists in many forms. The postulate is es- tablished in Great Britain (I trust not in America), that in respect to sexual diiferences, greater care should be taken with a fema1e’s sensibilities than a malé’s. This is practi- cally upheld in almost every school and throughout society; and to assert the immorality of such a recognition, results -in the truth-speaker becoming the target at which are furiously hurled the anathemas of thousands of simpering sustainers of custom. Though there be a difference made in the nur- ture of the sexes, yet in our museums Apollo is fully repre- sented, while Venus is defective. We ought to get so philos- ophized as to enable us to dash aside all this mockery, and become true men and women; but it will require Spiritual- ism to be a pioneer by way of correcting even the blundering notions of society with respect to materiality. I am, dear madam, yours truly, ANDREW CUTHBERTSON, Spiritual Institution, London, Eng. - . ELKTON, MD., Dec. 7, 1873. Class in-natural history stand up! How many kinds of females of the human animal are there? Three.—Correct. - How are they divided? Into three classes»-torrid, tem- ’ perate and frigid. What are the characteristics of the torrid females? Warm hearts, great souls, grand natures, numerous indiscretions. Whatof the temperate? Good management, worldliness, fruitfulness, respectability. ‘ What are the prominent points of the frigid female? Angularities, stiff necks, straight backs and great virtuous- ness, by means of “ squelching ” all naturalness. They seldom marry, and if they do, breed sinners. Very well. Take your seats; and when next you come up, bring an original essay on the frigid female. _ ESSAY ON THE FRIGID FEMALE. « The frigid female is native of New England, of the “ good old puritan stock,” her ancestors having come over in the Mayﬂower. But she sometimes goes West, in the hope of achieving the chief end of woman, and to “ grow up with the country,” though, dear knows, she needs not to grow up any more, for she never fails in height, however much she may lack in depth. ’_ 4' » The frigid female has not much affinity for the male ani- mal; in fact, the word affinity always disgusts her, for it suggests something naughty. But she can be induced _to marry for a home, 9. because she has a constitutional horror, inherent in all constitutional old maids, of being known as one. Though, were she as much married as a Mor- mon elder, she would still inevitably be an old maid, since being tied to a man don’t make a wife, only in the school of Grundy. Many a hopeless old maid is married, being as barren of marital essence as ever Sahara was of fruitage. Yet the frigid female bears children. Some demon of per- version presides over her birth and endows her with the ca»- pacity to reproduce herself numerously. Still the supply is‘ not equal to the demand; for men who have been addicted to sowing a plentiful crop of wild oats mistake frigidity for virtue, and think they’ve won a prize when a frigid female congeals in their exhausted arms. V Frigidityis at such a premium in the market of respecta- bility, that many a dear little, warm-hearted woman takes the advice of Hamlet to his mother, and assumes the virtue, though she have it not. Virtuous! is written all over the frigid female In white, not scarlet letters, though to the intuitive mind the color is always in the interpretation of the meaning. Virtuousness squeaks in the frigid female’s shoes, exhales from the po- made she uses on her hair to make it slick like her virtue. She never frizzes, nor puffs, nor curls her hair, and to wear it short would be a positive _sign of abandonment! She never, never, never wears a loose wrapper, for none but a loose woman would wear such a loosely-suggesting thing! The frigid female thinks if a man ﬁnds a woman with a loose wrapper on, he ought to lose his coat-tails to ﬂee away, unless, in fact, he be, like most men and ministers of the gospel, rather loose himself. ~ The frigid female sometimes stoops from her high estate to converse with women of whom. she is uninformed as to their , chastity~—she so relieves the tedium of travel in waiting- rooms, on steamboats, in public parlors. She is sure to ask direct questions whether you are a married or a single wo- man, and if you are single, she is a little suspicious, from the cut of your jib, that you ought to be married. One of the species, on reading my last letter in the WEEK- LY, seemed exercised over my assertion that I had dared climb the World’s forbidden heights and taste the fruit of the tree of knowledge. , She wished to know what I understood by the tree of knowledge, or whether, if I used it according ' to the Adamantine interpretation, I was speaking paragon- cally. I told her yes! , She, didn’t seem to understand me, and remarked that some vulgar people mean something awful by the “tree of knowledge;” but as for her, she never thought of such things. I asked her to please give me the beneﬁt of the vir- tuous meaning of the tree of knowledge, for if she never thought anything bad about it, she was not in charity to in- fer that I did. But green suspicion of the chastity of other . women is another characteristic of the frigid female, chastity meaning with them, not all our powers in good attune, holding lawful balance with the rule of nature, but all our faculties paralyzed to put the basic principle of our being out of countenance. ' The frigid female is never‘ unfortunate, according to the accepted meaning of that term applied to women; and she thinks her utter lack of impulse a sign manual of her purity, consequently she is merciless toward her who is tempted of nature and falls. , Recently, an unfortunate girl with a quick apprehension but-no comprehension, was heard to attribute her misfortune to Woodhullism, when, in fact, the Beecher paper is the only one she read before the developments in her case. The only Way I can get revenge upon. her is to ask her if Woodhullism‘ taught her where to procure those devil’s drops she used to commit ante-natal murder. The school of Woodhull! don’t teach her that; but it does teach her that if she is in the way of nature to keep fast hold of the hand of nature, and not employ the infernal Christian outcropping, “the end just;-, ;_ﬁ.es.the means." , ' ,4) ’-established customs of the world. — § oonnutt eggchhrtinrs wshntiﬂ fan. 10, 18742. The frigid female has n.ever any need for drops or poig , She eats her meals and says grace, but never gets fat-—*‘hot even rounded out. She sleeps well in spite of bones, for she never fails to be respectable, though she is jealous of her husband, who is a Christian minister. It would do the soul of a departed Puritan good to see the frigid female walk up the aisle of achurch, unconscious that “virtue is its own re- ward.” ' . The frigid female paves‘ hell with unborn infants’ skulls, and pokes the red-hot ﬁres; and if she don’t go there herself, to be en rapport with her disposition, it will be for the reason “there ain’t no such a place, no howl.” v ‘ » HELEN NASH. ’ wr-=1 SPIRITUALISTIO. THE VILLE DU HAVRE. A SCENE IN THE NEW YORK OEEICE. _ I , NEw Yong, Dec. 1', 1873. At about 10 o’clock, Mr. A. Binenger, a well-known im- porter, rushed into .the oﬁce with a wild, scared face, and _begged to know what information had been received of his wife and daughter. The clerks were unable to tell him any- - thing, and on asking him if he had received any tidings him- self, he replied in a hoarse voice, full of agony, “Yes; my wife is dead. My ‘wife is dead.” He then threw on the counter a cable dispatch, signed by his daughter, and con-‘ taining simply the words: “Alone saved. Going to Paris.” He repeated from time to time, “ My daughter is saved and my wife is dead,” and seemed almost overpowered by his emotion. Once he started up, and said: “Last Mondaynight I was sitting in my parlor, and a vase of ﬂowers, standing where itiwas left by my wife, moved from its place on the mantel-piece while no onewas near it. I said then, ‘ That is a touch of my wife’s hand,’ and they laughed at me; but that was the night she died.”—C'htcago Times. MATERIALIZATION ; Or, the Power of Spirits to Reclothe Themselves tn the Sam- blance of the Flesh——Its Modus Operanclt and the Laws of Spqjrttnotl Chemistry that Unclerlte Successful Operations. The power of spirits to temporarily assume the material form, and become visible to the natural eye of men and women, is patent to many, but how it is produced is as yet a secret, known only to spirits themselves. But as we pur- pose to unfold to the gaze of the world the mysteries of life in the realms of spirit, as far as it is qualiﬁed to make good use of the same, we would say to the Spiritualists and Social Scientists of the day that the laws governing this power are very simple in their operations when once understood. V The power of spirits to reclothe themselves again in the semblance of the flesh is done by a power or force that is found in its latent state in every man and woman’s soul—- viz., the magnetic aura of the soul itself uniting with the electric emanations given off from individuals who have an abundance of phosphorus in their brain-structure, and more or less of the same in their whole nervous system. Aperson desiring to becomeva subject for spirits to re- clothe themselves in material forms before them has» only to comply with the requirements of a set of simple rules and regulations that we will now explain for the good of all who desire to test the matter for themselves, and are willing to sacriﬁce their present enjoyment for the future good of the race of mankind, by taking upon themselves the burdenof living in a world of sin, sorrow and misery contrary to the In the ﬁrst plac, you mfust be obedient to the laws of life in all your physical being-—-in eating only wholesome food in proper quantities and at proper times, devoting a portion of each day to physical exercise, recreation and rest, Blending your magnetic auras and emanations wit} those of the opposite sex, whﬁo are genial to you, in loving kiss, as well as tender caress, and when you have found your true soul-mate, yield, to him or her your entire personality I whenever the circumstances and conditions indicate afull and free interblendingof the magnetic life-currents, or focal- ization, which is the only true marriage. But says one whose soul has not yet got rid of its selﬁsh tendencies, “This is opening the door of enjoyment to the unmarried.” Well, suppose it is, what are you going to do about it? Must souls that cannot ﬁnd true counterparts in earth-life (311 will, ultimately, in spirit life) be wholly cut off from the enjoyments and pleasures that this life aﬁords because they have not found their true mates as counterparts? We tell you nay! ’ _ Q _ But there is this restriction forever defending this condi- tion: only genial souls can blend, and only blended souls can reach that condition of happiness that is harmony or heaven. But to return to the subject of materialization. A society of mated souls dwelling together in harmony? would supply conditions necessary to give spirits the power to materialize themselves at will, and that is just what we intend to do, to bring together a company of men and women who are truly mated, and others who are genial and loving in their natures . and show to the world that the spirit world or heaven has come down on earth. And if we don’t make a “shaking A among the dry bones,” of “old theology,” then our names ‘ are not Galen, Solon, or the beloved John of the Spiritual Congress of Nations. ‘ AN D AT SUNDOWN THEY STONED HER TO DEATH BY CHAS. e. BARCLAY. ' y , Prrrsnnnc, Dec., 1873. Dear ”Weekly=--"We read with disgust and indignation an article published in a Pittsburg paper, taken from the Vir- ginia City Chrontcle, of the stoning to death of a witch. The article referred to does not give a detailed account, but sim- ' "my states the fact. We had hoped that the day for such I It seems not the case, however, and at once‘, seeds was past _ . the question arises,oAre we to have revived such scenes as diSg1.aced,,u1- country in the days of “Salem. witchcraftlfj ' Truly, we have no assurance that such will not be the A case. Religious opinions of to-day tend in that direction more cer- tainly than they do .in any other. The spirit that then prompted the burning of innocent and defenseless women is by no means extinct. Because our mediums have not been burned at the stake is no evidence of the Church becoming more tolerant. Because we are not persecuted and driven out of the country, it argues not that the Church has become less bigoted than it was in former days. Neither is it because the"‘law of the land ” protects us that we are permitted by the Church to worship .God as our Sconyscience dictates; for did the Evangelical Church think it had sumcient numbers to carry on a war of utter extermination, think you the law would restrain them? By no means. But we thank God that Heihas vouchsafed to us suﬁicient numbers to holdithem in check and thus prevent ourselves from being made into bonﬁres, by the light of which they might see to read again their favorite passage, “ Glory, glory unto the most High, and unto us that we have done ‘His will.” The fact that the inclination exists among them is very clearly shown by hundreds of acts. Thus, in the present case of _the stoning to death of the witch; in the persecution and ﬁnal driving out of the country awoman, living not 100 miles from this city, a year or two ago, for the same cause—witch- craft; the persecution of Mrs. Woodhull in New York; also as witnessed by the plan now under consideration by the the God-in-the-Constitution movement. To that conﬁding class ‘of people (of which class there are many) who say that at this advanced period it is impossible for the clergy" to usurp the rights and liberties of the people, we would say, trust them no further than you can see them. Remember that when you entertain them best they become most dangerous; forjthen, by the conﬁdence you i'epose in them, they, by soft w_;ords, lull you to sleep, and waking, you find that you have been robbed of your religious liberties, and that they who tobk them were the clergy in whose arms you permitted yourself to rest for a few moments. Do not let the lessons of the past be lost. Read the history of Christianity, written, as every page of it is, in the blood of millions, shed to establish the faith; and say whether or not you will trust them. They are now, and have been from the days of Constantine, the most dangerous class, because, being well fed and with nothing else to do, or, more properly perhaps, with nothing else that they will do, they spend ‘their time in hatching and planning and carrying out their infernal schemes for the destruction of all those who do not . believe as they do, and the enslavement of all those who do. This has been their history, and in the face of it will we sleep on our arms until we are made the prisoners of the clergy, A the most merciless and relentless of all foes ? _ But yesterday, they stoned to death a poor, helpless woman for being a witch, or if they did not do it, we have no account of their trying to prevent‘ it, and by not so doing sanctioned the act. ‘ If this was done, I ask in all sincerity what assurance have we, did they but _deem themselves strong enough, that to-morrow they will not, in “ church conclave,” declare the Spiritualists witches, and as such at- tempt to exterminate them. And I answer that between high heaven and low hell_we have no assurance except our num- bers. And this being the case, we are, in duty to our God, ourselves and children, called upon to see that the little we have be not stolen from us. Let watches be placed in the towers and upon the outer walls. of Spiritualism. Let the alarm be sounded by every true liberalist in theland, and let us, united as we are in a common cause, force them to guar- antee us our rights and our liberties forever. THERE IS NO DEATH. BY BULWER LYTTON. There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in Heaven’s jeweled crown They shine forevermore. ' There is no death! The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer showers- To golden grain orniellow fruit, Or rainbow-tinted ‘ﬂowers. The granite rocks disorganize To feed; the hungry moss they hear, The forest leaves drink daily life Form out the viewless air. 1 There islno death! The leaves may fall, A The ﬂowers may fade and pass away; They only wait through wintry hours The coming of the May. There is no death! An angel form Walks o’er the earth with silent tread; He hears our best-loved things away, And then we call them “ deadj’ He leaves our hearts all deselatc, He plucks our fairest, sweetest ﬂowers, Transplanted into bliss, they now Adorn immortal bowers. The bird-like voice, whose joyous tones Made glad these scenes of sin and strife, Sings now an everlasting song A Amid the tree of life. And when he sees a smile too bright, Or heart too pure for taint or vice, He bears it to that world of light To dwell in Paradise. Born untothat undying life, They leave us but to come again; With joy we welcome them—-the same, Except in sin and pain. ‘ Andpever near us, thbughr unseen, The dear, immortal spirits tread; For all the bcundless universe Is life——there is nodead. several Churches to persecute the “Oneida Community ;” and_ QUESTION AND ANSWER. The following is reprintedfrom the WEEKLY 22, 1873: " In the Message*Department of the Banner of Light of the 8th inst. there are two important communications from Brigadier—General Charles R. Lowell and Ad,jutant—Genera1‘ Schouler. The first of these contains a special communica- tion to Oscar C. De Wolf, who, during the war, served as surgeon in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry. The deceased Brigadier-General says: ‘ If he will come privately where I can communicate with him, I will ﬁrst satisfy him of‘ my own identity, and then lead him, step by step, to a knowl- edge, a’ positive knowledge, of the truths of modern Spirit- ualism.’ “ This is to the point, and we trustthat Oscar -«C. De VVolf will heed the call of the spirit, and through the medium of the Banner of Light give to the world a full account of the interview. We ask this for the beneﬁt of science and for the instruction of mankind?” of November- VVe are pleased to report an answer to the above as it’ appears in the Banner of Light of Dec. 27: “ In the Banner of Ltght of Nov. 8th appeared a message from Brigadier-General Charles R. Lowell, addressed to Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf, advising him to investigate Spiritualism, which he denominated the ‘ Science of all other sciences.’ My object in calling attention to the above, is to bear witness to the truthfulness, of the entire message. It is another link in the chain of evidence which honest seekers after truth, candid investigators, are ‘ constantly ijeceiving. A few evenings since, Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf attended one of my seances, and Lawyer W. L. May, a friend who accompanied him, in looking over the Banner (after they entered the house,) accidently saw the above-mentioned message, and gave it to Dr. De Wolf to read, which he did, carefully, and declared that the statements therein contained were all correct, and that the characteristics were indeed those of General Lowell. Dr. De Wolf has never investigated,Spirit- ualism, but this message and manifestations witnessed immediately after its perusal, will undoubtedly lead him to thoroughly examine the phenomena.” , ANNIE LORD CHAMBERLAIN. This is to the point, and we shall be glad to hear further from Mr. Oscar C. De Wolf. [From the New York Times, December 23, 1873.] A NUT FOR SPIRITUALISTS. After a lapse of twenty-four years, Rochester promises. to become once more a centre of attraction to investigators of spiritual phenomena. In 1849, what is known as modern Spiritualism may be said to have had its chief start in that historic city. The Fox sisters, after having “ raised ” the spirit of a murdered peddler from the malarious atmosphere of a cellar at Hydesville, Arcadia Township, Wayne County, N. Y., proceeded to Rochester, as they asserted, by spiritual advice, and opened public secnces at Corinthian Hall. A committee of respectable citizens was appointed to inquire as to the nature of certain noises which were heard by the audience, and a report wasirendered to the effect that al- though a thorough inquiry had been instituted, it had been found impossible to discover the source of the noises. This was accepted by thousands of persons at the time as proof positive that the spirits of the departed might, under favor- able conditions, return to earth and do unlimited table- turning, “stamping,” and bell-ringing. The Foxes, having thus cunningly acquired a reputation for wonderful “ medi- umship,” were enabled to visit the principal cities in the country, and to draw a considerable amount of gold into their purses. A few years subsequently, mysterious noises were heard at a house in the vicinity of Rochester, but they were soon forgotten, the curiosity and astonishment pro- duced by the Foxes » elsewhere having proved the greater at- _ traction. But now that the fame of these “ girls ” has been so thoroughly eclipsed by other “ mediums,” the American Spiritualists may ﬁnd it proﬁtable to make use of some “manifestations ” which are said to be at present in full operation at the residence of Mrs. Gascoigne, in the towns- land of Chili, within a short distance of. Corinthian Hall. We have it on the authority of the Rochester Union that Mrs. G-ascoigne, “with her family, consisting of herself, her son, twelve years of age, and several smaller children, have been driven to the very brink of despair by the nightly oc- currences of the most terrible noises during many months.” Some years ago, it appears that the mysterious mansion at Chili became the property of a person, the initial of whose name has only been published by the ‘Union. He made it his residence, and, for a reason which has notgbeen exp1ained,took Mrs. Gascoigne into his service as housekeeper. In this ca- pacity she continued down to about ﬁve or six months ago, when Mr. A. died, leaving her in possession of his effects. Forafew nights after his demise, “the stillness of death V reigned.” Scarcely anentire week had‘ passed, however, when Mrs. Gascoigne’s repose was disturbed by “the famil- iar footsteps” of the deceased. At ﬁrst, she, of course, thought it was fancy, and tried to compose herself to sleep, but it was no use. She distinctly heard the creaking of the door of the room which had formally been occupied by A., and presently she was still further alarmed by the bed-slats, which seemed to yield to the pressure of a human body. Then she heard -what seemed to her like sounds that would be produced by a person engaged in the act of putting on tight boots. As soon as the last stamp was g'iV611 110 the floor I a noise was made asif somebody was ascending the stairs. On the following night the manifestations were more varied. The chairs and tables in the parlor were tossed about freely, and at certain intervals “ a single whistle, of an apparently human voice, shrill "and distinct,” was heard by every per- son in the house. Mrs. Gascoigne adds, "that night after night a little dog which “had belonged to the deceased re- sponds to the whistle in the most eager manner, but never ' gives evidence of seeing anything. To these singular pranks, doubtless lest they should become monotonous, the ‘_‘ ghost” very often adds the more exciting one of snatching the bed.‘ covering with lightning quickness from the almost paralyzed »§‘.—:.,“ Jan.‘ 10, 1374; gwioonnurr & CLAFI.IN’S wEEKLi~r.‘ 1 *7 " body of the twelve—year old Grascoigne. Four men, neigh- bors of the Grascoignes, it seems, have repeatedly undertaken to solve the mystery. One of the number states positively that a form, which in every respect” resembled‘ Mr. A. in the ﬂesh, on one occasion passed before him as he lay upon a lounge. He immediately jumped up, and had just begun to propound anumber of questions, when “the spectre, if such it were, soon disappeared.” Mrs. Gascoigne remains in the house by the advice of counsel,‘ for the purpose of making good her claim. to it in law. Otherwise, she declares she would prefer to gather her children around her, and take shelter in"a barn. , ' . Surely facts like these cannot be allowed to go uninvesti- gated. The peddler’s depressed spirit in the Arcadian cellar, .as material for an “ excitement,” was as nothing compared with the whistles, clothes-snatchings and boot—pullings of this Chili ghost. The opportunity afforded for a revival at Rochester of the scenes of 1849 is decidedly tempting, and we shall be very much surprised if it is not taken advantage of. Moreover, it would be doing a kindly service, to a much- aﬁlictecl family to relieve it of the presence of one of the most trying of annoyances. A REFORMATORY LECTURERS. In view. of the determination recently manifested by certain would—be authorities in Spiritualism, and from a sincere desire to promote their expressed purposes, to set up a distinction that will produce a free and amuzzled rostrum; we shall henceforth publish in this list the names and addresses of such speakers, now before the public and hereafter to ppear, as will accept no engagement to speak from any committee of ' arrangement, with any proviso whatever, as to what subject they shall ‘ treat, or regarding the manner in which it shall be treated. A reforma- tory movement, such as Spiritualism really is, cannot aﬁord so soon to adopt the customs of the Church and fall into its dotage. On the con- trary, it demands an unﬂinching advocacy of all subjects upon which the Spirit world inspires their mediums under the absolute freedom of the advocate. To all those speakers who Wish to be understood as being something above the muzzled ox which treads out the corn, this column is now open: 0. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. J. I. Arnold, Clyde, 0. ‘ J. O. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. Chas. Gr. Barclay, 121 Market st., Allegheny City, Pa. Capt. H. H. Brown, 592 West Chestnut st., Louisville, Ky. Mrs. H. F. M. Brown, National City, Cal. Addie L. Ballou, Terra Haute, Ind. VVarren Chase, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Jennette J, Clark, Montpelier. Vt. Prof. J. H. Cook, Columbus, Kan. A. Briggs Davis, Clinton, Mass. Miss Nellie L. Davis, North Billerica, Mass. Lizzie Doten, Pavilion, 57 Tremont street, Boston, Mass. Mrs. L. E. Drake, Plainwell, Mich. R. G. Eccles, Andover, Ohio. Dr. H. P. Fairﬁeld, Ancora, N. J. James Foran, M. D., Waverly, N. Y. I. P. Greenleaf, 27 Milford ,-street, Boston, Mass. L. A. Grifﬁth, Salado, Bell Co., Texas. Anthony Higgins, Jersey City,'N. J. E. Annie Hinman, West Winsted, Ct. D. W. Hull, Hobart, Ind. Charles Holt, Clinton, N.iY. Mrs. Elvira Hull, Vineland, N. J Moses Hull, Vineland, N. J. R. W. Hume, Hunter’s Point, L. I. W’. F. J amieson, 139 Monroe street, Chicago, Ill. Miss Jennie Leys, 4 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass Cephas B. Lynn, Sturgis, Mich. Mrs. F. A. Logan, Buffalo, N. Y. Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Ct. Dr. Geo. Newcomer, Jackson, Mich. Mrs. L. H. Perkins, Kansas City, Mo. J. H. Randall, Clyde, 0. A. C. Robinson, Lynn, Mass. Wm. Rose, M. D., 102 Murison street, Cleveland, Elvira Wheelock Ruggles, Havana‘, Ill.’ Julia A. B. Seiver, Houston, Florida, Mrs. J. H. Severance, Milwaukee, Wis. C. W. Stewart, Box 1306, J anesville, Wis. ' Laura Cuppy Sinith, Daily Union Office, Detroit, Mich. M. L. Sherman, Adrian, Mich. . ‘ John Brown Smith, Amherst, Mass. Mrs. H. T. Stearns, Corry, Pa. Dr. I. D. Seely, La Porte, Ind. Russell Skinner, Lyle, Minn. Mrs. C. M. Stowe, San Jose, Cal. Dr. H. B. Storer, 137 Harrison avenue, Boston, Mass. H C. W. Stewart, J anesville, Wis. J. H. "W. Tochey, Providence, R. I. F. L. H. Willis, Willimantic, Ct. Lois Waisbrooker, Battle Creek. Mich. Elijah Woodworth, Leslie, Mich. ’ —-——-—-—-—->-49+-4-——--———_.. WHOM SHOULD I PLEASE? Mankind are so diverted into outside life and its perpetual demands on them, that they never get time to inquire into either the probabilities or possibilities that the _whole of this life, the way it is pursued, is not a terrible mistake. If man reﬂected there would have been at least suspicions that some- thing fundamental in the rules and schemes by which the race consents to pursue 1 life is radically wrong. And this conclusion would have been easily conﬁrmed by the con- scious experience of every one from the fact that to turn which way he will, under the appointment of his rules, he is just the same distance from feeling satisﬁed at one point in his 1 legal planisphere that he is in another. Indeed, so acknowledged is this, that all our platitudes, in compliment- ing our theories and hunting consolation‘ for ourselves, re- peat the old song, or some of ‘its ﬁrst cousins, that “ there is rest for us in heaven.” People do not seem to see that the very fact of wanting what they have not, so far as the inmost conscious soul wants a pleasure, is a certain indication that there is a fraud somewhere,-1 through which man is diverted from pursuingflife in the easy naturalness of those ﬁtnesses that always place aresponse to a necessary want, but second to the laughing assurance that stands upon thethreshold to greet. it. We may make apologies foriour faults, to call them by no worse name; but wevmay, at the same time, take‘ note that these apologies do not improve the condition under which these faults stand pledged for repetitions as certain as the successions of day and night. Meanwhile, we have groaned in dismay over our inability to hope for anything better, from which it is easy to see that our difﬁculties are neither in nor of ourselves; for the soul that produced them as a legitimate result could never regret them as a wrong, since its appreciations could have no other rule than its own characteristic qualities. To go beyond thesewould be to go beyond its own depth, and to fail in a judgment where there were no possible reasons for expecting it to have any. . And hence that kind of knowledge in all ages that man would never get without teachers, and those rules he would never attempt to follow as a pleasure,‘are the abstract follies that sport with him at his own expense; for, living as all do under acquired knowledge and abstract rules, they throw away the compensations of a beautiful existence. To repeat this is to be sustained by the experience of the race; for our acquired knowledge has forced us into its shadow, and our rules, re- ligious or governmental, statute or municipal, have but one signiﬁcance, and that is, our obedience at any and every cost. The conscience, proﬁt or pleasure of the individual is never thought of. The claims of abstractions are all we get from) governments and laws. I am not forgetful that the ostensible design of law is to beneﬁt society by tyrannically keeping the individual down. This is only another step from the real interests of the human soul———abstract and ruinous. To attempt to better these rules by improvements would be a new stride in the direction of the craft that has universally beat man. ‘ The soul is spirit substance, and these rules the abstrac- tions that throw it into surface life, where, to make an im- portance of such a life, the soul could never be intelligent‘ enough not to be confounded by the act, simply that it loses itself in glorifying the rule. This is not a play upon words, but the statement of a fact. And the fatal spell of deeming abstract rules important, with here and there an exception, has swamped every well-intentioned individual who has lived upon"; the planet. The f sage of Athens, who lighted a candle to search through its highways and byways to ﬁnd an honest man (one honest with hisrown artless nature) did not see that the only difference between Diogenes and others was, that he lived in the holiest quietby discarding all out- side rules, while all others lived in confusion by justifying them. It was this same easy independent way of living that made Jesus of Nazareth what he was, and marked him to be the certain victim of the rules he disallowed. For “law and order” were as great meddlers then as now, and never less , than tyranny. The very creatures (unseen) who found him bad to manage, and therefore prompted his cruciﬁxion, threw dust in our eyes by claiming him to be essentially better than other men, when it was his soul freedom from embarrassing rules that made him the superior of those who have always been fetter-ed by their ill adaptation, and as a consequence, under the villainous inﬂuences of those unseen powers who invented them. Now to the question, “ Whom shall I please?” It is to be expected that every individual, religiously educated or con- verted to believe in the sacredness of dogmas, will say the great Mogul foisted into a consequence by the ﬂourish of no- tions, while those who have less veneration for mystical ab- stractions, but who have a pet theory (the infamy of ages), would see some important on slit in the foibles that have up-’ set themselves, to which I should consecrate myself, and by this one act lose every interest within myself that justiﬁed the ownership of an intelligent soul. Perhaps mankind do not see the absoluteness of the diﬁculties (never to be over- come) in the substitutionhgof any abstract rule for governing one another, or any supplemental contract for living in har- mony together. For these rules and contracts could only secure even the appearance of being important through the obligation and terror they held over their victims, not by any attraction that should mould ‘a pleasure for itself. If I attempted to please some abstract power whom’ this world calls its God, I should never be able to know when he was pleased. My faith might be put to the strain, but really I am as far from knowing as I am from being the God whom I am trying to please. For all real pleasure is that which speaks within the soul pleased, and never outside of it but by reﬂec— tion. And this will hold equally good in our attempting to please one another, or the subscribing to any rule to please them. Forwhat I mean by a pleasure isvnot that arising from a success or an advantage (as capricious as the varying winds), but that solid soul of worth that originates in sweet content. For just here I am in a mood to mind my own business, and no devil could make me feel it important to invent aplan for regulating somebody’s else, since it is in the absence of all plans that I find myself regulated. Indeed it is just as impossible to originate a law, or rule to please another, as it is to tell whenbthey are pleased. And the only way to be positively certain of this, is to be the one pleased. For just here is the absoluteness of all facts in the matter; that to know a pleasure, is to realize it for myself, We feel a pleasure, and it is just all we know about it. The impress it ‘makes within ourselves" tells its own story. A law may subordinate, but it.can never unite. Even an effort to please another will always fail. We may pity the man who strains himself to be agreeable to us, but we can never love him without becoming the selﬁshness that prizes a sacriﬁce. And this heartless privilege has only been patented for a God.‘ And there is a secret in allthis . that can never be understood, while we are under the in- ﬂuence of abstract rules. Yet, here it is. When we are pleased all the way through, when we live in the" melting music of beautiful satisfactions that stills every disquiet within, we do not regard it difﬁcultto please others. when Weifeel the opposite, do what we may, we cannot realize that any body is pleased with us. And’ this is not ‘four years. from a want of any exertion, or from any indifference on our part, but for lack of cgngeniality. Easy’ artless, and un- aﬂ’ected with ourselves, we are so to others. i _ Again» to the question, “Whom shall I please?" The answer needs no pettifagger, is no tax upon ingenuity '; "for it is sufficiently. transparent to puzzle no one, viz., the only being in a universe who can inform me when he is Pleased- And thatis myself. And this is the o1_1ly'_ ciQ‘I‘tain'W3Yi,(°f pleasing any body besides myself. For, ill,_ atease myself; I am just in the condition to affect others unpleasantly. And toplease myself is to feel that no one ought to feel dis- pleased with me. And just -here is’ the extent of my accountability. For no being has any business to saddle 1303 with the job of pleasing him. For I could never tell where it was accomplished. Let us group the. fairest inferences growing out of this position. If I please myself and 6V01‘_Y body else does the same, the result is that every b0dY 13 pleased, and the world is in harmony. The great sig11ﬂ?‘°ant law" that permeates a laughing universe is that of indivldual happiness or personalharmony. 1 _ " 1' When the individual rounds out in satisfactions too holy - for utterance, the condition of aworld of suclrindividual completeness may not be inaptly illustratediby the grandest picture that ever found its perfection from’ the hand‘of 3- master artist. Where all the lights and shades blend in the most ‘exquisite harmonies, and where the outlines and grouping all inform us that the wbrk could not be bettered. ' ,If each member of the -human family would make it the ﬁrst object to be ‘attained and the last to-be‘ ‘-desired: 170 ﬁnd the harmonies of what they are in stead of worrying them- selves to be what they are not and what they could never appreciate if they attained it, this ‘world would FY9393? 3 ﬁner picture than any ever yet born in an artist’s brain, where each soul would fairly represent in the mingled» wholesome, grand characteristic, that would 60111339 the rarest imagery that ever fondled with the finest tastes‘ of the M human brain. To ﬁnd a happy world is for the individual 170 begin with himself, ‘just where he can realize that something‘ is gained. Any direction from this will end in smoke. ‘For to seek another.-’s good, without realizing my OWE: 00“1d-ibvat stamp me as a meddler. I s s» i . ' , E. WHEELER. AUBURN, Dec. 23d, 1873.. The following three items are taken from the Banner of Light, of Dec. 28, 1873: WOMAN. The governor of Wyoming, in his message to the Terri- , torial Legislature, bears emphatic testimony to the good re- sults of woman suffrage as follows: “The experiment of granting to woman a voice in the government, which was inaugurated for the ﬁrst time in the history of the world by the ﬁrst Legislature of our Territory, has now been tried for I have heretofore taken occasionto express my views in regard to the wisdom and justice of this measure, and my conviction that its adoption has been attended only by good results. Two years more have only served to deepen my conviction that what has been done has been Well done, and that our system of impartial suffrage has been an un- doubted success.” V ‘THE NATIONAL woMEN’s SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, Susan B. Anthony, President, holds its semi-annual Con- vention in Washington,, D. C., on January 15th and 16th, 1874. This Association holds that the Constitution of the ' ‘ United States has already guaranteed suffrage to female as well as ‘male citizens. 1 Under this mild heading the Boston Herald recently gave a statement that three school—girls, ﬁfteen years of age, and of highly-respectable parentage, had been detected ln pur-’ H loining gold rings, perfumery, etc., etc., from the storesof several Chelsea merchants. On being taken) before ‘Justice Bates for legal examination, they confessed, and presented ' 1 the following extraordinary line of defense, viz.: that they "I tools the th'/mgs for to table at the coming fair of the Y otmg’ . ' Mews Christian Association. V , , , - 5 ; Where rests the responsibility for the false: system of ;edu- cation under which these young misses seem to have been reared, by which theft was hoped to have "been pardoned if only its fruits were to be devoted to the “glory of God ?"’ Can the Church or the Young Men’s Christian Association reply? Society has the right to an answer! - ’ , SALT LAKE CITY, U. '_l‘., Dec. 14;,-318’73. I wish to urge attention to and see published a more clear, regular and concise method of giving humanitarian direction to individual and federal representation than has yet been made public, based on the principles of natural growth, as already announced in the WEEKLY. . . , I I hold that school districts, as the smallest political divisions of States, are the local points where the selection of primary representatives by a majority of the citizens "must be made, and then be graduated through township, county, judicial districts, State, National and International Conventionsrby delegates ﬁrst chosen by the people and afteward selected by and from the body of said _deputie_s through their several conventions to the most central COI1g1'6SS 0f,113l3i0nS-. Th11S the people can bar oﬁcious speculators from the political arena, and the several conventions will not be over-crowded, either by members or business, and opportunity will se- cured for meeting. frequently in town, county an'd'S'tate councils to devise and provide means of safety, support and happiness, which cannot be done through a system‘ con- iverging direct from primary to State conventions. I But, for thepurpose of experimental association and the acquisition) of political an_d social inﬂuence, small primary societies or _lodges can be formedwithout regard to legislative divisions. . 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Now, if our club agents will but be active in returning renewals, we shall begin the year under the most favorable circumstances. -—-—-—=-——~>--+Q+-<-—-——-—-———- 1 LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS. _._..—.._.. Victoria 0. VVoodhull’s;1ecture engagemcntspso far as We are now able to announcethem, are as follows: Kansas City, January 3. Lawrence, . . . . .. “ 5. Ernporia or Junction City, . I . j. “ 6. ’ ._ . Topeka, . . . . . ‘ “‘ '7. " Atchison, . . . . » . . “ ‘ 8. ‘N St. Joseph, . . . . “ S9. A . Leavenworth, . . '. . . “ 10. ’ Nebraska City, ' . . .. _ “ 12. Lincoln, . . . . ~ . . “ 13. Omaha, . . . . . . “ 14., a Council Bluffs, _ . . - .. .. A . “e 15. There may be some variation from the above so far as dates are concerned; but friends will be able to learn this from the local press, in which they will be duly announced. In reply to the several inquiries received from St. Louis, we ‘hope soon to be able to announce an early date, for her appearancevthcrc. Preliminary arrangem'ents are now in THE N. Y. “HERALD” SEES IT POLITICALLY ‘ ’ ONLY! . We have frequently said within the past three years that — there are various evidences on every hand, which, if given their proper signiﬁcance would show,that our pro sent systems, politcal, industrial and social, are at their culminating point; and that there must be either sudden and sweeping reformation or else there will be sudden and: sweeping revolution. But when we have written this in the WEEKLY, even the great majority of reformers have seemed to think that we were fanatical on these points, while, when we have said it on the rostrum, the local papers have’ scouted the idea and ridiculed the speaker. , We have always given what appears to us to be valid reasons for our conclusions. Politically we have again and agaln averred that present things must fall because they have ulti— mated everywhere in corruption, fraud and peculation. A return to honesty and purity from such conditions was never known in the history of any nation; even the spasmodic revolution against Tammany and its downfall, only the more certainly foretell the general destruction that is just ahead, since what have the citizens of New York gained thereby? When astructure, let it be of whatever kind, becomes rotten _ ugh and through, the replacing of a few of its worst or ‘evidently bad parts by new material, results in ‘making W whole structure only the worse. New wine put into old bbttles bursts them, and so also does the putting of sound material into the old. ahd rotten political and social struc_- tures, make the general ijottenness only the more perceptible and hastens their decay and downfall. When the Herald permitted the "following editorial to ap- pear, we do not believe its editor took into consideration the extent ofwhat it virtually admits; nor that what it asserts of the political condition is equally as true of both the social and industrial, to say nothing of the religious condition which we realize is about to tumble: ' b . In our lectures through the West, we have said, every proved a failure; it is rotten and ready to fall, and it ought to fall, and it will fall;”'and some of ‘our best friends have thought it had better have been left unsaid, even if it be true. But such is not our method of reform. we should fail in our duty as reformers if we left a single act uncl one, a single word unsaid, that will tend to rouse the people to such a sense of the impending danger as will compel them to look about for some way to avert the calamity and the inevitable anarchy. that will ensue. Therefore, so long as the revolu- tion is stayed, so long shall we continue to urge the people to avert it, and in case of failure, to be prepared for its com- ing, with something to take the place of that which shallrbe swept away. when the structure tumbles. Nor do these facts exist politically to any greater degree than they do socially andsindustrially. . It is equally as true in both these depart- ments, that crime consists in being found out, rather than in the fact of its commission. Everybody knows that men have as little regard for the present social standard of sexual moral- ity as they have for political morality. Nobody pretends’ that men, as a class, do not habitually ignore the marriage law in their sexual practices; and in this class of practices it is becoming no crime to be found out, even, which clearly shows that society has outgrown the present social system and demands by its practices, in stronger terms than any words could make, a system having less restriction and that is better adapted to .the status of mankind. This status will no longer admit of coerced sexual restrictions. . Think of it as they may, the people have outgrown marriage according to present theories, and demand reform; demand that the old clothes, tattered and torn by the wear of many years, be ‘ replaced by larger ones, ﬁtted to their larger growth, to their wider ideas of freedom, and to their more reﬁned and puriﬁed conceptions of proper sexual relations. lndustrially, the same rottenness is not less evident. The practice is to get money. Get it honestly if you cambutlget it in any event; and he who has it is never questioned as to. GENET AND THE DETEC'.l‘IV'ES. “It is part of the general political demoralization of the community that the authorities should not only contemplate roguery with a lenient regard, but that in their "view of ‘society the fundamental distinction between honest men and rogues should be broken down and disappear. If half the officers of the law are found to be dishonest, if oﬂice proves to be only a standpoint from which to operate against the public treasury, it can scarcely happen that the atmosphere of political life should ‘continue pure ;,.or that those who may not be actually thieves should be able to keep themselves so far above their daily associates as to regard them in the only way in which honest men should regard dishonest ones. They who habitually treat as honest men those whom they know to be rogues will lose, the perception of nice phases, and will, sooner or later, treat all other rogues also on the same terms; and thus the authorities will acquirejnhat easy? .3 indifference-of demeanor, that tolerance toward all violators‘ of law that is one of. the worst facts in our. public life. In this way the line is drawn, not between one man and another ——dividing honest from dishonest}-but it is drawn at the threshold of the State Prison or the Penitentiary. One must have passed that line to feel himself out off from the ordinary political fellowship. Astor the offense, the political phi- losophy clearly is that it isjust as innocent to’ steal as not to steal unless one is caught: and even then there is nothing to be greatly regretted unless one is convicted; and if there is still hope for escape between conviction and incarceration, why, it is just as good tq,.19,e,.§afe as to be guiltless; for to the ordinary political mind%§t,,e;only valuable feature in guilt- lessness is immunity from the molestation of justice. It is only when a. political magnate really becomes, an inmate of the prison that his glory is gone in the eyes of his former fellows. There is not’ a point of our political system that is not affected by this looseness of thought on points that the people outside of politics regard as corner-stones inthe fabric of life. It is this that makes possible all our public mis- doings from greatest to littlest——from the Louisiana usurpa- tions of the National Executive and the Credit Mobilier down to a common assault in the streets, which cannot be punished if an inﬂuential friend can buttonhole the proper authorities. And with this condition before us everywhere, what a mockery it is for the public to be told that the de- tectives are set to discover Genet! Who and what are the detectives? Are they like the rest of our public function- aries? ’ Are they also what is called ‘human?’ Is not the universal recognition of their character such that no one can for a moment doubt but Genet’s escape, if caught by half the detectives in succession, would be a question of what he had with him?” . I I _ If this be true, what help is there? Evidently the Herald does not go so far as to inquire; perhaps it has never en- tered its mind that any immediate remedy is required. We, however, give warning that--taking things just as they are . _stated to be in this article-—present conditions cannot last another year. Why does not the.I{e¢‘ald draw its conclu- sions from the proposition that “The political philosophy ~clear1y”is, that it is just as innocent to steal as not to steal, unless one is caught; and even then there is not much to be regretted unless one is convicted ‘B7’ In all honesty, can such a condition continue? N 0. ! and the Herald ought to know it—-indeed does know—but it} has not the hardihood to come out and bluntly tell the people that the situation is alarming. It will leave the people to learn‘ this by bitter experience, as‘ it has always been the custom ofgreat jour- nals when any great national disaster is impending. It pre- tends to see only so far as the Genet case is concerned, and as applied to criminal prosecutions of public oﬂicers; while really these are only a part" of the general and sweeping evi- progress. dence that the culminating point is really just at our doors. how he obtained it. So then, the three systems, the politi- cal, the industrial and the sexual, which make up the; pres-; ent social system, are rotten", and ready to fall, and they ought to fall, and they will fall, and nothing can save them. The most that can be done is to prepare wisely for the fu- ture, for that which must come afterward—a system based upon the principles of freedom, equality and justice; not politically merely, but industrially and sexually as well.“ Political freedom, equality and justice are merely so in name if they are not accompanied by industrial and sexual freedom, equality and justice, which, toget_her.,.with the po- litical, make up thessdc'i‘a‘l"triiiity, and which, when evolved in a new social system, will show, with unerring certainty why our present system failed. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION. (Continued. ) If the readers of the WEEKLY were at all surprised at the position of Gerret Smith, as shown by the portion of his lot» ter to the N. Y. Sun,’ published and commented upon in these columns a few weeks ago; what will they be at the sen- timent contained in the following, additional, from that let- ter: - ' . “ The meddling of the State with the schools is an llI1p81" tinence little less than its meddling with the ‘Church. A law- yer, than whom there is no abler in the land and who is as am- inent for integrity as for ability, writes me: ‘I am against -the governmenﬁsbeing permitted to do anything which can be intrusted to individuals under the equal regulation of general laws.‘ But how emphatically should the school be held to be the concern and care of individuals instead of the government. It is not extravagant to say that government is no more entitled to a voice in the school than in the Church. Both are or ought to be religious institutions, and in the one important respect that the average scholar‘ is of a more plastic and docile age than the average attendant on the Church. The school has greatly the advantage of the Church. “ I admit the great importance of having the common school education as well nigh universal as possible. Never- theless it is better that this education should not reach as many than that the hand of government be in it. Nothing serves so much to maintain a manly independent spirit in the people--nothing indeed is so essential to their national life——as the keeping of government within its normal and narrow limits. A people who hang helplessly on govern- ment, and instead of doing /their own work, look to govern- ment to do it for them, make a. usurper of their government and children of themselves. And, just here. let me say that while every work in the department of morals and religion, including especially the training of children, if to be done by the people, the solo work of government is to yield its brute force for the protection of the people.” naturally expect from the wealthy classes under a monarchy; but that a well-informed citizen of a country, that is a re- ‘ public even in name, should hold it,;is something that we cannot comprehend. What is the State, indeed, that it can do anything to be called “ meddling with the schools ” in a country where government pretends to be the people them‘- selves? Perhaps Mr. Smith takes the view that the people are not the government in opposition to our theory; but we admit it is too true as the Practice; and 30 VieVVi11§: argues that there will never be a change of practice to the proper theory. "P But the facts areagainst him if he do this, since whatever may be the practice of the government ‘in regard to other night, that “after a century’s trial, our government has This is purely the aristocratic view, that one which we should . ixasq‘ T’ ‘_’.;fV‘-".-T,;.':’.:-"-«TZ”,',"f-’«r'.?.7:_':4I.‘.»-'1', '17 M, L '17:‘? :, /-g-“T- _,ar"'-'._-.-.2 7.5239 . :£.::-_;;.:}-.1-.. i": .‘ ' .Tan.\l0,l874. VWOODHULL &.cLArL1iv*s wEE_KLv. " «. ‘ "H 9 ;/L: ‘T:-:X.=T4;:aZ‘ .-,r-.'; ,’::7.-.:‘ ;T_*_'.—a-:<E§-;;..y* 51:‘ ~ ‘=7 _<-_ ‘‘ <r-»,-~ r* :.;r‘:: 2: 5} if i x i I ,:4-V1»-r <33;-;..-_ 5,‘. W’-1-_-4;.-J7-, - .;;:;_~ . things, it conforms to the true theory so far as the schools are concerned; the chief thing to be desired, being that the same practice should be inauguratedgin all things else in which the common interests of the people as a whole are involved. , P _ But the idea that the schools and the Church have the same relations to the government, and that onemay as well as the other be placed under its control, is of such a pre- posterous character it scarcely -needs to be alluded to to make its fallacy evident. ‘Before assuming this position Mr. Smith should have considered the relations that ‘exist between religion and education, since it is upon these that _ the Church and schools are based. Mr. Smith, even, will not presume to say that the character of any person as re- gards good or bad citizenship, depends upon what his re- ligion is, because he knows there are many as good citizens as the country boasts, who have no religion at all, and we are not so credulous as to imagine that anybody .will attempt to decide the status of any citizen, by the peculiarity of his religious belief; nor that the real status of the people is severally, as are their religious beliefs; that is to say, citizenship does not consist of different grades, varying according to the numerous systemsof religious wor- ship.. Nevertheless, Mr.“ Smith virtually assumes all this when he says that-the people, through their government, have no more right to meddle with the education of the chil- dren than they have to do the same in their religious train- ing. Again, note the distinction between education and relig- ion. Education is the acquisition of demonstrated knowl- edge, and of the capacity to reason upon facts and theories which involves religion itself; while religion, according to the prevailing and popular acceptance, is a faith in some- thing about which there can be, from its very nature, no demonstration at all. It seems to us simple foolishness to say that the people, as a whole, have the same right to teach the children that their salvation depends’ upon being “dipped” instead of “sprinkled,” that they have to teach them to form letters into words and words into sentences; and we think that Mr. Smith will take the same view of it when he gives a sober, second thought about it. A large amount of the confusion that exists to-day in the thought of the world has its origin in the fact that they who advance theories do so before carrying them out to their logical sequences to see in what they will ultimate, and what is in- volved by them-—-a forcible illustration of which is found in this attempt of Mr. Smith to show that the Church and , schools stand upon the same foundation, and should be reg- ulated by the same means. But still another reason exists why it is utterly impossible that Mr. Smith’s theory can stand a single moment. Relig- ion consists of various systems and forms, any one of which, - enforced by government, could at best receive the support of a very small minority of the people; while education is one for all people, and may consistently be managed as a single system, and receive the active and merited approval of the people as a whole It is a sufficient answer to the loose statements of the" second paragraph to say that everybody who knows any- thing about the philosophic statement of the science of evo- lution, knows that the more individualized _-the members of a society become, the more inter-dependent they also become —that is, the more distinct people become as individuals, the more need there is for deﬁnite and speciﬁc organization; or, to_express it in common terms, the individualization of a, people in speciﬁc trades makes the different branches of trades more dependent upon each other than are a people who are jack-of-all-trades on their own account." Therefore it is not true that a people need to do everything" themselves as individuals that they may “ maintain a manly and inde- pendent spirit”, This was the condition of the world when its individuals knew no higher form of government than resided in the heads of families, and could not be produced today in any civilized country. Indeed, to such manliness and independence civilization is -an impossibility. The highest order of civilization is that which secures most inalienably every individual right, and, at the same time, most thoroughly organizes all individuals. We recommend “ Buckle’s History of Civilization ” to the earnest study of Mr. Gerret Smithibefore he again attempts to write upon the public schools. ' _ A . ———~————>-—+o+—+—————-—— A MODERN DANIEL WHO WOULD COME, TO JUDGMENT. " We are in receipt of several letters from persons in whose intelligence and good sense we have heretofore had consid- able faith, who are asking us to “repent of our evil ways, and by a public confession, ask the pardon of an injured people.” If A we had not had intimation of the source from which all this noise originally emanated, we should cer- tainly think these writers insane; as it is, they are only fool- ish enough to have permitted themselves to be made asses of by the rant and ravings and the falsehoods of a mind upset by disappointed ambition, and which seeks the hypocritical cant of the genuine Pharisee under which to vent his spleen and get his revenge for wrongs which he supposes he has suffered from the manner in which we have felt it our duty to conduct the WEExLv, and the movement, so far as we aﬁect it, for social freedom. but we would kindly suggest to these anxious persons if it would not be well for them to stop a moment and think if they are not just the least bitimpudent in their demands that we do as they insist we‘ ought to do? By what right or authority, we ask, are we impeached; and of what? If they can show us the indictment, and theright to “ﬁnd” it, and the evidence upon which it is based, then we may feel in duty bound to answer to it. But if they imagine that we can be diverted from our work to take notice of the rant, ravings and falsehoods referred to, we are induced.to think they will be mistaken. We have better business to attend to; indeed, we have extralwork to do to replace the sup- port that was weak enough to be led away by this would- be Daniel by _better and more trustworthy material, which will be able to see that it is supporting a principle and not an individual. No! no! we have no time. If we had on all occasions stopped to notice the stings of the venomous wasps that have buzzed about our pathway, during the past two years, social freedom had not been launched upon the world for general discussion, as it now is, and there would have been no “ cause,” about which certain individuals are now shedding tears so plentifully, fearing that we shall “ ruin it;” nor any WEEKLY for disaffected reformers to wrangle over. To those who can afford to wallow in slime and ﬁlth contin-‘ -any one else, we say we wish you joy of your callings; but please excuse us from meddling with the mess. Wheii it shall bp precipitated over us, it will be time for us to cleanse ourselves of any impurities that may stick to us which are offensive. , ' But out of consideration for some good people who have been blinded by the “ outraged virtue” that the leading spirit in this matter so well assumes and wears, we would ask them to pause a moment and look over their own lives and see if there be not something therein of which they should purge themselves before presuming to become our judges and executioners; for, before we shall quietly submit to any compulsory measures we shall defend ourselves, as those who know us know we are able to do, and we have the ammunition with which to do it. We shall not be easily provoked to retaliation, but if ‘we are, we shall strike to hurt. . Finally, we reared and maintained the WEEKLY before we knew or ever heard of any of these persons who are now so alarmed for “the cause,” and without their support; and we haven’t the slightest doubt that we shall be able to continue to maintain it in spite -of the withdrawal of their approval, and in spite of all their underhanded, sneak-thief attempts to stab us in the dark, and in the house of our friends. The very person through whom this revengeful spirit is endeav- oring to dethrone the "WEEKLY, so that a new paper _may rise upon its ruin, never knew the moving spirit until the "WEEKLY resurrected him from the oblivion into which he had previously deservedly fallen. As Parker Pillsbury very wisely remarks: “If such attempts ever succeeded, I have read history to no purpose.” We respectfully ask that our correspondents regarding this matter will excuse us from re- plying personally to their eﬁusions, and acceptthis asa gen- eral answer. As for ourselves, we are off to Kansas to labor for the cause over which they are ﬁghting, in a way which, we think we have a right to suggest, will advance its inter- ests more rapidly than the methods that a certain class have been pursuing for the past two months. At many places where we have been, the letters of this clique have been handed us,,with the inquiry, “Who is Treat?” We reply, we have forgotten; and thus we dismiss the case from our minds, and refuse to be further annoyed by it. --——-——->-—+o»-————-——- POTS AND KETTLES. The Catholic papers have latterly been‘ declaiming against what they term the immoralities of our public schools, and it is for that cause that the latter are specially anathema- tised by the Catholic clergy. While admitting that Pro- testant pastors stand A. 1. in our criminal records as com‘ mitters of sensual crimes, and being more desirous of at; tacking false systems than the individual crimes they gener- ate, it is proposed here to look into the question and see what righ't our Catholic friends have to throw stones at their neighbors in this particular. - ’ L V The increase of the sexual bestialities which disgrace the age we trace to two .causes—First, the barbarous one-sided Mosaic edicts which most unjustly discriminated against woman in regard to sexual aberrations. This atrocity Christian churches have legitimately inherited, and the stern and cruel marriage system added to the ﬁnancial consequences attendant upon the failure of young girlsto walk up to the letter- of society’s law, have intensiﬁed, in their cases, the ancient penalties of the‘ Jews in the time of Moses. It is no wonder that thousands of our young women freely suffer" martyrdom sooner -than discover the conse- quences of an act which a member of the law-making sex ofteniconsiders an honor rather than a crime. The second cause is attributable to the separation of the sexes in earlyyouth, introduced by the Catholic Church and founded upon the celibacy she demanded of her clergy, and in her monasteries and nunnepissgg members of which, in the dark ages, had the main f the education of ‘youth. We are only just beginningwto outgrow that folly, but even now it is a very diﬂicult undertaking to establish We are unableto call to mind any injury that we have done the public that needs to he confessed and repented of, sexes. There are few experienced, teachers who do not ually, and who from association can see nothing but ﬁlth in- successfully a private school open to the admission of both . appreciate the evils of the separate system, but still fewer who care to sacriﬁce their personal interests for the good of A ‘ the public. « ‘ If Catholicism had really succeeded in suppressing the requirements of nature and etherealizing her male and female votaries, there would be somethinglike justice in permitting a prolongation of her system. But Catholicism has done no such thing. .True, she has an admirable method of instituting the “suppressio veri,” when she deems such suppression of unpalatable truths necessary to the well-being of her Church. Three centuries ago when her power was overthrown in ‘England, the public got an inside view of her monasteries and nunneries which was not at all creditable. The following statement of the re- spect the monasteries and nunneries of England is from the pen of the historian Robert Henry, D. D.: “The visitors. having received their commissions and in-. structions, were dispatched into different parts of the king- ing of their approach as possible. They executed their com- missions With zeal and diligence, and made some curious discoveries in almost every house, not much to the honor of its inhabitants. In making these. discoveries they were greatly indebted to the violent factions and animosities against one another and against their superiors. Accounts of their proceedings were transmitted by the visitors to the vicar-general, and contained suﬁicient materials to render the monasteries completely infamous, and the subjects of universal detestation for their gross and absurd superstition and idolatry, their infernal cruelty, their shameful imposi- tions on the credulity of the people, their abandoned, un- natural in/c‘ontinency,— their drunkenness, gluttony, and other vices. Some of the old abbots and friars did not at- tempt to conceal their amours, which they knew to be im- possible. ‘The holy father, the Prior of Maiden-Brad.ley, assured the visitorslthat he had only married six of his sons and one of his daughters out of the goods of his priory as yet; but that several more of his children were now grown. pensation from the Pope permitting him to keep a mistress, and he acquainted them that he took none but young maidens to be his mistresses, the handsomest that he could procure; and. when he was disposed to change he got them good husbands.” . ‘ The fearful consequences of the futile‘ attempt to over- throw the laws of nature, appear at that time to have per- vaded all ranks in the Catholic Church. Even the great Cardinal Wolsey was not free from the charge of gross licentiousness. In one of the articles of accusation brought against him by the House of Peers in 1529 appears the fol- lowing. item : disease, ‘ lues venerea’ (the Latin is ours, fit is in new plain English in the om'gt’nal) broken out upon him in divers places of his body, he came daily to your Grace (old Harry) rowning in your ear and blowing upon your most noble Grace with of your Highness,” etc. when" such institutions underwent public inspection to prove the impolicy and impracticability of effecting the separation of those who, if the Bible be correct,‘ as it is believed to be purpose of a character exactly and diametrically opposite. Neither are modern instances wanting as a set-oﬂ.° against the attack so virulently and persistently made by our Ca- tholic. neighbors against the hnmorality of our public schools. The following, which is taken from the Lansing _Repubh'com of Michigan, proves that everything is not al- ways serene under the separate system: I schools and putting them in priestly schools as, fast as pos-. "sible, and while the-Ifome Jozmml hasbeen scenting “ hot- beds of vice ” and “ dens of sexual immorality ” in the public schools, the most criminal and indecent actions have been going on in a Catholic school in Warren township, Macomb County, about ten miles northeast of Detroit. The Twilrwne of Tuesday gives the particulars. - “It seems that a teacher, selected for his sound Catholi- cism, and of course approved by the priest, has committed a ‘ series ’ of outrages upon young girls between ten and twelve years old, who attended his school. He took them alone and at different times into the church adj oining the school; and, after committing his crimes, held the cruciﬁx before had happened until they were sixteen years old. we do not say in convents, but those who have lived in convents say such things a1'e common enough. This teacher has run away to escape the popular. vengeance, and the Catholic priest advises the people ‘not to make any disturb- ance, but drop the matter.’ We presume the Home Journal would like to have the matter dropped too; but as itihas raised the question of the comparative virtue of public schools and church schools, let it stand up to the rack. , We hope it will stick to the controversy, and relish the truthful, basing sins that spring naturally from superstitious rever- ence for mere‘ men, and dependence on mere men for guidance in morals-—which is the Romish system.” It becomes the WEEKLY, which does not hold sexual um,‘ port of the visitors appointed by Henry the Eighth to in- dom at one time, that the monks might have as little warn— ' which reigned among the monks and nuns, who informed “ up and would soon be marriageable. He produced a dis- 4 “That, knowing himself to have the foul and contagious ‘ his perilous and infective breath, to the marvelous danger - But we need not quote further the histories of the period I in this instance, were especially formed by nature for a — “While the Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit has been i ordering all thechildren of his cliarge out of the public, them and made them swear not to divulge anything that V “ This is the way they do it under priestly managementm ' revelations which are from time to time made of the de-- chastity to be always a. crime, to deseant upon these, mat.-. ,-..__._._...- 0,.‘ ,,____ , L l . _._..,¢l-.,..:......~¢-..-.3-..m_.._.... -. .10 I ‘ woonncm. & cmrtrnés Awnnktfr. am. 10, 1874. tors. The world knows our role. We propose toﬁght bestiality with nature, and believe that it is. the only plan under which the sexual horrors which are decimating man- kind can be mitigated .and extinguished. The other plan has been tried for centuries by the Catholic Church, and we have given an ancient and modern instance of the effects of itssystemf lVhr;1l1er our position in the matter is cor- rect or not let the world judge. In the meantime we are perfectly satisﬁed to behold our Catholic and Protestant fellow-citizens exposing each other’s enormities, and to re- turn our thanks to them for so doing;‘ for in dragging such monstrosities into the light of day, we feel that they are ﬁghting the battle for us. ~ ' A 0+-+---—-—--- WHAT CON STITUTES LEGAL MARRIAGE. BMORE ‘JUDGE DAVIS--SUPREME C0'URT—SPECIAL TERM. “A trial has just been concluded in this Court which set- tles an important point in regard to what may constitute "at legal marriage. The suit was brought by Name Bininger against Abram N. Bininger, as administrator of his brother, ' lately deceased, and was for right of dower in the estate. It appeared from the testimony that the deceased brother lived for eighteen years with the plaintiﬂ’; that they passed as man and wife under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Sonﬁeld, and that their living thus together was unknown to the family of the deceased. Parties with whom they had boarded testiﬁed to their living as man and wife, and various letters .were sub- mitted from the deceased to ‘her, addressed to her as “My dear wife.” Judge Davis held that this evidence was suffi- . cient, and entitled the plaintiff to assume the name of Mr. Bininger and sue as his wife. He ordered a dowry to be given to her from the estate.” ‘ The above, which we clip from the N. Y. I-Iemld of the 27th inst., is only one more indication in the long list al- ready existing pointing to an early solution of the marriage question. The special point made evident by this decision is this: If living together for “ eighteen years,” and having “various letters,” addressed “My dear wife,” constitute legal marriage, then living together any less number of . years, months days or hours, and having any less number of letters of same character, must necessarily,,_,also constitute legal marriage. But the more important part of the case re- mains to be told, which perhaps Judge Davis did not see. If it require the action of two people only, with no inter- ference of law or form, to constitute marriage, it logically follows that by precisely adverse action it can be annulled. Thus, step by step, is the law coming to recognize what ought to have been seen long ago, that marriage at most and at best is only a civil contract, to be taken on or put oﬁ at will by contracting parties. And this is still more evident whenwe remember the recent Chicago decision, “that the ceremony of marriage is not mandatory.” ' If the ceremony is not obligatory, and themere living together of men and women constitute marriage, why the whole, question is solved already when followed to the logical sequence re- ferred to above. All that is now wanting is that the people _ who have manhood and womanhood break loose from the un- necessary. forms whose necessity, even in a legal ,sense,\has passed away, and, as a requirement to respectability, has no longer any force. The sanctity of marriage has departed, and the people are passing from that stage of development to the higher and more perfect condition of The Sanctity of Love, inwhich, being the fulﬁlling of the law, the race as individuals shall ﬁnd perfection. —————-»—+c+—<—-————-—-- AN APPROPRIATE PRESENT.—-'Thel‘e can be a no more ap propriate New Year’s present to a friend than the VVEEKLY for the ensuing year. Read the prospectus in another column’ and then, see if anythingmore beneﬁcial can be imagined than the acquisition of the principles upon which there may be a harmonious society formed of perfected in- dividuals. This is the mission of the WEEKLY. ‘ -————W y—-4—————-——=-' : CHRIST CRITICIZED, The New York Herald, in» its report of last Sunday’s ser- mons, gives us the following sketch of the Rev. 0. B.~ Frothingham’s discourse at Lyric Hall. It handles the great Nazarene pretty freely, and exposes His weak points, but there is no doubt but that the speakerihas far greater respect for the great Jewish reformer than the Pharisees of the day, who, paying absurd reverence to the letter of-His laws, as by themselves interpreted, forget entirely the spirit of His teachings; and who, indeed, have “made His words of none effect, through their manipulations and traditions.” . “Mr. Frothingham, Whose passion as a preacher is select- ing eccentric themes and propounding profoundlyphilosoph- ical conundrums, discoursed yesterday morning upon the * question, ‘ Why Celebrate the Birth of Jesus ?’. After a high- ﬂown introduction, in which he bore his hearers away with the swoop of his magniﬁcent pinions amid the starry splen- xdors‘ of the limitless universe, he descended all at once pre- cipitately, like a balloon that had suddenly collapsed, in to the classic regions‘ of Baxter street. , “ To the denizens in this squalid thoroughfare, this world and humanity, he said, are not a cursed world and a cursed humanity. Having made this bold declaration, with no eﬁ‘ort to prove its truth beyond a poetic allusion to what he calls‘ the spark of our better nature, he announced our Saviour to be conscience, wisdom and truth‘. From this he switched off 130‘ the modern" man, who, he says,.cannot look into the fu- ture without regarding it as ,a better stage of existence than -the present and as’ a time and place for more happiness. jjjrom these premiseshe deduced the fact that there was no I»-. l necessity of a special saviour to come to the world. He did not consider Christ a saviour nor a redeemer. If Christ had glanced at the theology of some of our modern churches it would have been utterly incomprehensible /to Him. Christ could not have believedin total depravity, predestination, the trinity and such like theological absurdities. Men be- lieved in God ages before Christ’s foot touched our planet. The doctrine of God, to us modern men, was an idea that the J udean youth could never have entertained. VVe do not, therefore, celebrate the birth of the bringer of revelations. Do we celebrate the birth of a reformer? Christ was one who would bring people back from the letter of religion to the spirit. Did He abolish the temple?’ Did He abrogate the laws of Moses? Did He preach a truth as broad as-the world? It is doubtful. Christ was a reformer, and a sincere one, for He died for His belief. Was He such a’ reformer as our modern World needs? You can ﬁnd in all His language a word that goes to the heart of man. We modern men have abolished slavery, whereas Christ never spoke a word for its abolition. As to the great woman question, Christ never thought of women otherwise than in their condition of infe- riority. He never said a word to elevate-the condition of woman. ' As to that other great question becoming more and more vital every day——the labor question-—it never occurred. to Christ. What sympathies Jesus might have had with our modern workmen, they did not know. They could not cele- brate the birth of a reformer. Why, then, was the birth of Jesus celebrated? Say because he is the type of a new man. He is not the ideal man, nor the perfect man, for theideal man is in the future and the perfect man is more unreal than a dream. We celebrate the birth of a typical man. Here is one who, standing on -the ;threshold of His manhood, con- scious of great intellectual power, and yet He refuses to make himself rich or famous. If Jesus were living to-day, how long would He escape going to the madhouse? How long would He escape being taken up as a vagrant? ‘How can we fancy Him doing business in Wall street, or being a lawyer? Last of all, how can we conceive of Christ as a politician? His life would be shorter than in Jerusalem. Yet is it not a lovely image? Think of society without fraud or violence or apoliceman! If all men were like Jesus, the learned pro-, fessions would soon be neglected. n ' “In conclusion he dilated” upon the ethics of our present life, quoted the views of Strauss upon Christianity, pro- nounced Mendelssohn, Mozart, Handel and Beethoven, as having contributed something to make life more sweet and beautiful, declared the New Testament to be a splendid dream, andwound up by proclaiming as/a most delightful vision the thought of heaven as a future kingdom and home.” , . The points against modern Christians (or rather people calling themselves. such) are well taken. Just previous to the election of Abraham Lincoln the Protestant churches de- clared that slavery was not mcolum in se-—putting their devil- try in Latin. . As regards the woman question, even in the case of the woman taken in adultery—“ in the very act”-— the Great Reformer was lacking, or He would have asked the Pharisees for the male delinquent also. * But Jesus was a Jew; and, under the Mosaic and Christian dispensations, women have but few rights that men feel bound to respect. ‘@' THE ERA CF REVOLUTIONS. ”' ' Our exchanges inform us that we are now really entering upon a great industrial revolution; but, great and funda- mental as it unquestionably is and will prove to be in its effects, it is but one of a band‘ of reforms which sustain it and will be developed by it; for, indeed, the fountains of the religious, political, industrial and social depths of the civilized world are already broken up, and the wise are anxiously awaiting the physical and moral deluge which such disturbances portend and herald. It is purposed in this article to glance at the present position of the civilized peoples of the globe as regards the matters above speciﬁed, commencing with the religious movement. No one can deny but that the present state of the re- ligious world is chaotic. Pio Nono, the head of by far the largest body of professing Christians, is deprived of his temporal sovereignty, a prisoner in Rome, and Church and State forever effectually severed by the decree of his in ‘ fallibility, which it is beyond the art of even the Jesuits to either modify or annul. But while schisms in consequence are dividing the Catholic Church in Europe, it is making here such progress that the ﬁve largest Protestant sects are compelled, in spite of their differences, to unite under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. for the purposes of mutual encouragement and protection against its inroads, In the meantime, the thinking people stand aghast at witnessing Catholics” in Germany to the ﬁght of the “ New Catholics” of the Congregational Churches in Brooklyn, and asking themselves the question as to why the followers of the Prince of Peace do not cultivate charity and leave to outsiders the ﬁghting business of life? Meanwhile", standing outside of all creeds and basing itself on science, Spiritualism, the foundations of the blood-stained temples of the past,,and working out a plan which shall unite and not sunder the great family of mankind. Neither has it appeared before it was needed, for the peoples everywhere perceivethe use- lessness of pulpits, high-bottomed on the dollar, to prevent wars and tumults, or compete successfully with crimes. A Neither is the political world less broken and disintegrated than the religions. By the overthrow of France and ‘the whilst in the Union we witness the fall and destruction of the party that has ruled the Union during the greater part the battles. of the priesthoods, from the division of the “ Old° latest development of human’ faith, is silently sapping the rise of Germany the old map of Europe is torn into shreds,’ of the present century. Its successor seems destined speedily to follow it, and for the same reasons. The country appears to have lost all conﬁdence in either the Democratic for Republican parties,‘and, for the ﬁrst time, the tillers of the soil appear to be determined to make their voices heard in the halls of legislature. No statesman is there but under- stands that the commingling here of the two great sections of laborers, agricultural and mechanical, portends certain revolution. ‘ I , The ﬁnancial aspect of the times is likewise unstable and changcful._ Our British money system has suffered two paralytic strokes and wiil hardly tide over a third. It is true that, since the wicked. and uneconomic legalization of usury or interest for money, which occurred ﬁrst among Christian nations during the sixteenth century, and which was speedily followed by the institution of the infamous national debt system and its consequent necessary issues of paper money, the power of mammon, based upon the over- stimulated industries of the people, has made itself the master of the ﬁeld. In Great Britain we ﬁnd it omnipotent in the House of Commons (which really less represents the will of the people of England than the lawyers in our, House of Representatives, represent that of the toilers in our republic); it has limited the power of the Crown and overthrown that of the Peers. Here it seems to permeate all orders of society and mould all peoples to its ‘will. Pecuniary success is our national ultimatum, everything else—-nowhere. But, notwithstanding money is daily be- coming more and_ more a paper power, existing only in the to their best interests to unite ﬁrmly to overthrow it, it has no real force to avert its own destruction. It is impossible to overrate the horrors that the accursed legislation of the past three centuries, on the subject of money, has wrought upon civilized mankind. It is no longer the ser- vant but the master, yes, even the god of_a large majority of the peoples. It is the key that unlocks the secret chamber of kings, and the sceptre that sways the halls of legislature. Aided by intemperance, its ally, it rules our cities and makes our vices the road to public promotion. The Su- preme Court at Washington ignores the Constitution and stultiﬁes itself at its bidding, as seen in its reversal of its decision making paper a legal tender in payment of debt (in spite of the Constitution), and it previously compelled the Court of Appeals in this State (N. Y.) to maintain the trade of the liquor seller after the people had condemned it at the polls. It instructs the churches to minister to it at their feasts, and instil vice into youth by the introduction of “wheels of fortune,” lotteries, post oﬁices, grab bags, etc., and gives us now, in placeof the ancient freedom of our sanctuaries, churches built and pews lotted out for gain, or disposed of yearly at.the auction block, as a ﬁtting sacriﬁce to their god, mammon. Its exactions have consequently largely ruled the poor out of our temples, while at the same time its officiating priests in them throw wide open the needle’s-eye gate of heaven not only to camels butto masto- dons. ' ' ‘Surely it is high time that the wealth-producers should combine their forces to write “ Tekel” upon the false, unjust and corrupt money system, which daily robs them of three- ﬁfths of their earnings, and is now starving them in the midst of the plenty their willing hands _have created. Search the records and you will ﬁnd that to it ought to be ascribed the far larger part of the immoralities and crimes that exists among us. Through the luxury and idleness it has introduced among the few, and the poverty and misery to which it has condemned the many, it is sapping our moral- ity, annihilating increase and threatening thetcontinued ex- istence of our people. At no period of the world’s life have atrocities become so alarming and so general as they are. now. Patricide and even matricide, crimes against which the Pagan Romans refused to legislate, as being too horrible to be committed by human beings, are becoming with us every-day occurrences; while other homicides have become so frequent that the N. Y. World, reported 1,314 in that city in one year, or nearly four per day. The philosopher who seeks the cause of this fearful increase of horrors, will ﬁnd that in the majority of instances, it is directly traceable to the infernal pressure ofmoney upon mankind. — It would, however, be incorrect to assert that we have not also beneﬁted by the unnatural and forced enhancement of the volume and power of money, which is the special char- acteristic of the legislation" of the last three centuries. It has stimulated the industrial and scientiﬁc world to unpre- cedented exertions. It has rendered possible the advent of the toiling masses to their full rights. With the enormous men and women to servile toil was oncea necessity. public not based on slave labor on that account. ' But the science and skilled industry of thelnineteenth century has mastered the difficulty. The use .of inanimate agents has now added a thousand fold to the *productive powers of but forestalled. Unprecedented means of communication have been devised and put to use whichhave reduced days to hours anddegrees to furlongs.‘ The marvelous dream of Shakespeare in which the fairy Puck exclaims, “ l’ll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes.” graph". breath of the peoples, and, when they are sufﬁciently awake . requirements of civilization, the degradation of nunibers of’ Neither the Greeks" nor the Romans could introduce are. A man. The markets are over-stocked with goods. The self. . ish demands of the most luxurious are. not only gratiﬁed. , hasbeen, more than veriﬁed by the invention of the tele-, - _ _ (Ian. l0, 1,874. ‘WOODHULL & cprartrnvs wnjirktr. ~ , 11, Hand in hand with the industrial movement is coming in that of social reformwhich is based on the emancipation of woman. Her large claims as a laborer cannot be and are not ignored by laborers. Her right to a voice and a seat in ‘their councils has already been heeded, and she is advancing into the trades and professions with alacrity and power. Her. right to _ recognition as a legal and political unit of equal weight with her helpmate, man, are conceded now in acts which will soon be crystallized into laws. In a state of perfect freedom, the sexes will soon naturally select their - proper spheresof action, from which woman is now and has been from remote antiquity “cabined, cribbed and con- ﬁned” by unjust and partial edicts based on the foolish theology of a past ‘age. But the claims of woman do not monopolize the social revolution of the present time. Emancipation has changed the face of modern society. In removing the slavery which has degraded humanity from time immemorial, we have also removed the foundation of our present industrial system, and it is consequently top- pling to its fall. Witlr it, its adjuncts, religious, political, ﬁnancial and social, must soon crumble into -dust, as sys- tems which have been perhaps useful in their time, but which an educated world has long outgrown. With us, then, the important question should be, are we prepared to institutebther systems in the place of these which are rapidly passing away? Are our masses ready to undertake the task of rebuilding the Republic on a truly democratic and republican basis, with- all its systems con- forming thereto. "We trust they are, and to that end honor the unions and granges which have been established among us. As a means to an end they are worthy of‘ all honor, but when that end is attained we trust there will be no further need of instituting British classiﬁcations in our nation. One law, with no sexual distinctions whatever, is what we demand for all human beings; one language is a necessity in a properly developed community; it is the best consolidation a people can have; and the proofs are extant that one race—the leading race of the future-—is now rapidly being constructed out of the European, African, Asiatic and American elements, among us. In the near future we hope also to dethrone “money,” and put “man” in its , place, writing the latter word so large that all creation shall read it and bless us also for emulating our forefathers in im- proving the condition not only of ourselves but of all the peoples in the world. I if >—'9@>—-4 THE FORMATION OF PRIMARY "COUNCILS. Attention ‘is being called to the plan of organization that vsrasaclopted by the late Chicago Convention, and many in- quiries are made as to themethod of procedure in the forma- tion of Primary Councils. . Very many think it a serious task to attempt to organize under it; but instead of being this, it is so very simple that children even ought to have no diiﬁculty in working by it, The chapters having reference to Primary Councils are as follows: CHAPTER II. ON MEMBERSHIP. . ARTICLE 1. Any person eighteen years of age maybecome a member of any Primary Council of the Universal Associa- tion of Spiritualists by subscribing to the principles of the Association, and paying the regular initiatory fee. ART. 2. Membership shall continue during the pleasure of the member, unless the name be dropped from the rolls by the order of a majority of the Council to which the ’member belongs, for the non-payment of dues, the member having ﬁrst had a month’s notice of such intended action; and no member shall be expelled from this Association for any other cause. S - CHAPTER III. ON PRIMARY COUNCILS. 5 _ 7 ARTICLE 1. A Primary Council may consist of not less than ﬁfteen regularly initiated members. ART. 2. Each Primary Council, upon perfecting its organ- ization by choosing a Recording Secretary, 21. Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer, and sending the same, -with a list of its members, to the Council of the District in which it is located, shall be recognized as a regularly organized Council, and allotted a designation by number. ART. 3. The Primary Councils shall hold regular weekly meetings for the discussion of. or lectures upon the princi I ples of the Association; and whenever possible, shall. organ- ize, maintain and conduct a Children’s Progressive Lyceum as a model system of education, in which ultimately to merge all other systems of education. ' ART. 4. The Primary Councils shall make regular quar- terly reports to District Councils, setting forth their prog- ress, condition and prospects, accompanied by the quar- terly dues and fees hereinafter provided. ' ART. 5. Primary Councils shall exercise control over all matters which specially relate to themselves; always pro- . viding that the principles of the Association shall not be transcended or infringed. ART.‘6. Primary Councils may make propositions to Dis- trict Councils relating to matters concerning the District, and to the National Councils or Universal Congress upon ' subjects of a more general application. CHAPTER XI. ' ARTICLE 1. The President of the American Association of S',)l1‘l.l3'|1aliStS, by and with the consent of the Board of Trus- tees, shall appoint an Advisatory Council of twenty-ﬁve members, which, together with the Trustees, shall constitute a Provisional National Council, which shall have the powers and functions,“ and perform the duties provided for the Na- tional Councils, and which shall hold their ofﬁces until the regular National Councils shall have been duly organized as hereinbefore provided. » C V , ART. 2. Until the regular State or District Councils shall be organized (which they may do whenever there shall be ten or more Primary Councils within the limits of a State or District). the Primary Councils shall make their reports, as herein provided, to the Secretary of the Provisional National Council. M I ‘ From this it will be seen that ﬁfteen persons may assemble anywhere and organize, by choosing oﬁicers and reporting the organization to the Secretary of the Provisional National Council until the State organization is completed. Mr. Jamieson, as Secretary, however, requests, since he is con- tinually in the ﬁeld, that these earlier organizations be for- warded to the President, Victoria C. Woodhull, Box 3,791, New York City, who cheerfully’ proposes to attend to what- ever inquiries may be made in reference to the general or- ganization and to’the reception of and action upon the organized Primary Councils. For the beneﬁt of those who are inquiring, we are happy to inform all, that in Chicago and Boston large councils are already in full operation, and that they will be followed by many others in various cities and towns. -“We would suggest, however, thatthe numerous parties who are waiting for “somebody else to begin "’ should begin tliemselves at once, and thus dissolve the inertia that has existed since the Convention. By active work a large organization can be formed which will make the next annual meeting sucha convention as was never held before in the world- If the friends who are in earnest do only one-half their duty, all this can be; but if their timidity ‘permits them to watch what others do, remaining themselves in a comatose con- dition, the opportunity will go by and the basis of a future organization pass into other and worthier hands. Therefore we say, delay no longer, but at once, get to- gether and form Primary Councils wherever there are a stub- cient number ready for action’, and let us see which State willhave the ﬁrst organization. Where it is proposed to organize, a few copies of the Proceedings of the Convention at Chicago should be procured and the General Plan thor- oughly studied. This book, of nearly 275 pages—price 25 cents——together with answers to whatever inquiries may be made, can be procured on application at this oflice, instead of to the Secretary, who is busily engaged in the'"ﬁeld, whete letters often fail to meet him in season'to insure promt replies. ,®,.<___________ THE NEVV CATHOLIC CHURCH. SCIENTIFIC SERMONS BY STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS, ‘DE GARMO HALL, CORNER OF FOURTEENTH STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE. ' ‘ The following is a condensed and- inadequate report of Mr. Andrews’ discourse, Sunday Morning, December 28, 1873. Your reporter was delayed in arriving and found Mr. An- drews engaged in an exposition of the system of the classiﬁ- cation ofthe sciences by Prof. Louis Elsberg, after having, as appeared, considered that of Ernst Haeckel, of Germany. . _ _ GHIRADINI. Elsberg,‘by carefully collating, rejecting and compiling, has arranged a system ' of classiﬁcation embodying the pro- duct of the present scientiﬁc knowledge. Elsberg recommends the restriction of the suﬁx “ ology” to the various branches of concrete science and the adoption of the termination “ ics” for the abstract. Recognizing the constant intersection of divisions t-akenhfrom different points of view, he would indicate two special kinds of subdivision by calling them Aspectual and Departmental. Each as- pectual subdivision of science is applicable to all departmen- tal divisions and slice verse; for instance, zoology which is a departmental subdivision of physology is divisible into zo- ogeny and zoography; and morphology, which is an as- pectural subdivision of physology is divisible into geo—mor- phology and Meta-geo-morphology. The terms “general” and “special,” applied to a subdivision of science, refer to the consideration of that subdivision either as a whole, or in its parts; and corresponds, says§Elsberg,with what Andrews calls analytical and observational; the former dealing (though not exclusively) with generalizations and principles reason- ed out, and the latter with facts observed. The first grand departmental division of science is into‘ the concrete and ab- stract. Quoting. -Spencer, Elsberg says‘: “ The broadest natural division among the sciences is the division between those which deal with the -abstract relations under which‘! phenomena are presented to us, and those which deal. with the phenomena themselves. Relations, of whatever orders, are nearer akin to one another than they are to any objects. than they are to any relations. Whether, as some hold, space and time are forms of thought; or whether, as I hold myself, they are forms of things, which have become forms of thought through organized and inherited experience of things, it is equally true that space and time are contrasted absolutely with the existences disclosed to us in space and time, and that the sciences which deal exclusivelypwith space and time are separated by the profoundest of all distinctions from the sciences which dealwith the existences that space and time contain; Space is the abstract of all relations of co-existence. Time is the abstract of all relations of sequence. And deal- ing as they do entirely with relations of co—existence and sequence, in their general or special forms, Logic and Mathe- matics form a‘ class of the sciences more widely unlike the rest than any of the rest can be fromone another.” Concrete science, the science of the objects of nature,lis “physics " in the widest sense; but the previous appropria- tion of this word in a limited sense precluding its use, Els- berg suggests dropping the “ i ” out of Physiology and using the word Phys-ology. A - Objects, of whatever orders, are nearer akin to one another '- \ Abstract science or the science of space and time he then divides into departments, Mathematics and Logics. The Concrete includes objects. It is very important clearly to distinguish between the concrete and abstract. The Concrete world isthe‘ world of things, and, as it were, outside of that is the abstract world, the world of relations. When we say 10, 5, 4 and 9, we are not dealing with things, but with pure abstractions; but when we say 5 apples and 10 pears, we are dealing with the concrete, for the mind fastens upon 5 objects; so 5 is in the domain of the ab- stract; apples in the concrete. Spencer makes this difference the foundation of his system of the Classiﬁcation of the Sciences. ourselves to the consideration of the concrete, we perceive that it is‘the same as Nature or Physics; whence we have Pb ys-ology. This is then‘ divided into Phys-ogeny from the Greek gen)y——to beget, and gives answer to the question, “ How came you so?” “l?Iow or what were you before?” and is used to designate development or growth, and relat- ing to time has a temple existence. ’ A r The second division, Physiography, answers the question, “How or what you are ?” On the other hand, or aspect- ualiy, Physology is divided into Hylology, Dynaniology and Morphylogy each and every ,“ology” ‘having its “ ogeny” and “ ography.” Matter and space are inﬁnite, Hylology is Chemistry proper; Dynamology is used for Natural philoso- phy, or physics in its restrictive sense; Morphology is the science of form, and its “ ography ” has been more investi- gated than its “ogeny.” Bio—morphegeny or anatomy has been divided by Eaeckel into ontogeny (the science of the development of “ onta,” v3.e., organic individuals)~—embryol- ogy, and phylogeny (the development of “phyla,” 1'.e., organic stocks or races)—-Paleontology or the science of fossils or organic remains. Considering the principles underlying classiﬁcation, we have as the result, Man and the.VVorld——Anthropology and Cosmology; or Microcosmology and Macrocosmology. Sci- “ once, then, divides between these two extremities, as above shown, into Abstract and Concrete. Setting aside the Ab-' stract, we turn to the physical or concrete. Physology is divided into Biology and Abiology. The preﬁxes in and am are consciously or unconsciously universally recognized as signifying negation; thus mtmerciful, inconstant; but ex- cept to the scholar it is not so generally known that a class of words are similarly modiﬁed by the Alpha prtcattce, the preﬁx “a,” as “ a ”—tom, meaning the mt-cut, etc. _ Haeckel first makes use of this preﬁx “ a ” from the Greek applied to the word bios, signifying life, and from which we have Biology, the Science which treats of life. He ‘preﬁxes the Alpha privative, this, “ a,” and we then have Abiology for the science treating of the concrete world without life. It is sometimes said “there is nothing without life; ” so we may sayfthere is nothing without heat; yet it is not only con- a recognized Freezing Point to our thermometer, above which we say warm and below cold. So in physologic science it is well to recognize as dead or inorganic all outside of ani- mal and vegetable life. Organic and Inorganic refer to the wise named Organismology and Inorganismology. Classiﬁcation going out in all directions like the radii of a circle, we can only get on by conﬁning our attention to it in one direction or upon a single radius. Let that now be the science of life. -Haeckel divides Biology into Zoolog , Vege- tology and Protiotology, making of the latter a sort of scien- tiﬁc waste-basket into which to throw those organic beings which, from their imperfect development, might otherwise give rise to endless and unproﬁtable dispute as to whether they are vegetable or animal. Zoology is subdivided by Els- berg into Vertebratology and Evertebratology?-vertebra meaning (a segment of the)‘ “ back-bone.” ‘In Vertebratology we have the divisions Pulmonatology or _lung-breathing, and Branchiatclogy or gill-breathing "animals. Pulmona- tology gives us Mammalology (animals who suckle their young), Aviology or Ornithology (birds), and Reptilology. The Mammalian Class divides into the Placental, the young being nourished by means of a placenta within the uterus itself; Marsupial, who carry their young in a pouch or bag of the abdomen, like the kangaroo; and the Manon trematous, who more nearly resemble the birds in their pe... culiar formation. Placentalology is divided into Disco-pla... centalology, Zono-placentalology and Villi-placentalology. This latter distinction Mr. Andrews thought rather unfortu- nate, and suggested to the several learned heads engaged in scientiﬁc explorations, who were present, the propriety of basing the distinction upon the position of the mammary -. gland (the milk-bag), and for terms, the use of “lpost-lacteal,” “medio-lac_teal,” and “ pro-lactéal.” The pro—lacteal would then include the Primates, Subprimates and the Prosimiaa (men and monkeys). The primates ‘give us Anthropology (men) and Anthropoidology (the man-apes). Anthropology in its subdivision gives Individuology and Sociology. A Returning to some of the past discriminations, he would say, in view of Morphology, Hylology and Dynamology, that these are really Illimitology. Taken as contrasted with de.-. partmentology, which is ﬁnite or bounded by lines of limita- tion, aspectology is inﬁnite, unlimited. This grand truth hag never hitherto been made to assume its relative place in sci- ence, but at an early day Mr. Andrews, by the aid of Charts hopes to so present‘ the subject, that he who runs may read 1;>r. Elsberg draws largely from, and gives due credit to. Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Ernst Haeckel and Ste- tion, and classiﬁcation itself, down to its latest expres... sion. Haeckel himself, as well as Mr. Andrews, has given in, his very complete .approb,ation_. of E1sberg’s system, as 3, practical guide to the subject. . ' - I —-.————————-p-—+oy-—.+~—.._...T.. LECTURE nneaennnnrs: Excluding, for the present, the abstract and conﬁning venient, but necessary,would we be understood, that we have . same difference as Biology and Abiology, whichl have_0ther-i phen Pearl Andrews; and so brings the science of classiﬁca- _ Those who desire to secure the services of Mrs, W*g.5g},, hull at any time during the coming lecture season should make early application. _ She "expects to makea trig; Wag‘; reaching as far, probably, as Salt Lake City, 3‘ E E l l g ‘i , . x '\ is . - g. WOO_DH‘U.I.L & CLl..AFI.IN”S’WEEKLY. Jan. 10, 1874. / MISCELLANEOUS. l SALEM, OHIO, Dec. 24, 1873. Publishers Woodhull do 0la.ﬂm’.s ,Weekly—I hear of rival papers and rival societies, even outside of the Spiritualist Associations, intended to supplant the ‘WEEKLY. Such, as ‘seems to me, can be forgiven, only on the ground that “ they know not what they do.” Reform history is full of such attempts. But the right always triumphed at last; and the most radical is always found to be most right. ‘ T V We may welcome all new methods, on the platform, or in the press, or in the ﬁeld, unless they turntheir weapons on the old. If one acting thus ever succeeded, I have read the history and philosophy of reform to little purpose. P. P. BALLADS OF THE STREET. A. PANIC ronM—BY BEN BENT. » The Secretary sat in his easy chair, Smoking cigars with the breezy air Of a man for whom life is no wheezy affair, But whose bread is exceedingly well buttered. His head had a desperately knowing shake, Which constantly seemed a suggestion to make As clear to a mind the most opaque As though ’twere a sentence uttered. Not a caller that day by any chance But saw that his forte was pure ﬁnance. You could see by his Double-Eagle glance That gold could neither fall nor advance But he’d have a reason to offer.’ His brand-new neck=cloth (isn’t it strange?) Suggested a recent«‘‘ Stock ” Exchange, And his slightest cough-—so suggestive of ’Chanze~ Mad/e you think of a banker’s coifen. His very breath had a smell of the mint, His broad, full chest, too, seemed to hint Of ample investments doubled by dint Of interest paid to the lender. -By the way he oﬁered his wife a chair (With a sort of a Forty-Four Million air, And a kind of Reserve), he gave the affair The appearance of a Legal Tender. Perhaps it is best not, to mention his name» Though its very ﬂrst syllable spells the aim And object of all ﬁnancial fame, With its bulling and bearing and bickering: And strangely enougha hint’s conveyed “ ' Of his cognomen, in the term wé’ve made For a thing of which he is fond, it is sa.id- We call it ﬁnancial Dick-ering. This Secretary felt satisﬁed quite That his ﬁnancial views were right, And that the nation was at the height _ ~ Of well-deserved prosperity. He had heard of the failure of Kenyon Cox, That Canada Southern had got in a box; And he wondered that people should buy their stocks Of brokers so very unorthodox—- He wondered at their temerity. So long as such ﬁrms kept open books As the righteous Clews and the holy Cookes-— Who feed the clergy in quiet ‘nooks And look with scorn on the Sheridan Shocks Of our wicked city society-— Why should men take risks terriﬁc, Or Hatch the schemes of the Fisks proliﬁc So long as the priestly Northern Paciﬁc Was oifered by Men of Propriety? It wasn’t so strange that he should grieve Just at this moment to receive A telegram dated on Friday eve Announcing—in briefest terms, you perceive—— , That Clews and the Cookes were “bustedg” e’ That the hurly-burly had fairly begun, That the race of fraud and corruption had run lt’s legitimate, natural course, till none Would trust or were ﬁt to be trusted. The banks had suspended-—that is to say . They would certify checks, but wouldn’t pay A cent of their currency notes away To satisfy creditors greedy; And so in this sad condition of things They telegraphed onto the King of Kings, The great P’shah of American rings, To help them out with the “ needy.” For the financiers of Wall street Knew Perfectly well that the Treasury Jew From Massachusetts had still a few Millions of greenbacks hoarded. Some forty-four of ’em stowed away .In the Treasury vaults for a rainy day; And they clamored aloud in their vigorous way, About his Policy -Sordid. So Grant and his affable Secretary Spec to New York both far from merry. The circircumstances were serious, very, For the Nation’s head and his pillow. Clews was a regular Third Term Man,‘ And the head of the Murphy-Hoey clan, And the Cookes did much by the way they ran Their summer hotel on the pious plan, : On the island where droops the willow. So they held a regular big chin-chin At the great Fifth Avenue temperance inn, Where the Commodore over his sugar and gin With a ten-million ante scooped lem ‘m; And laughed at their want of nerve. Calico Clafiin,_‘too, was there (Not she of the curled and scented hair), And smiling Rufus stood on the stair Writing notes to the Powerful Pair To draw-upon the Reserve. ﬁnd Tappen, too, of the Gelatine bank, With hundreds of others of lesser: rank, ' Debating Whether to turn the crank Of the greenback currency mill. These men knew that a million then Would do what couldn’t be done with ten A few days later, you see, and when A river had grown; from the rill. But Taylor and Vail, “ disinterested,” Who “hadn’t a single cent invested,” Wanted to see the thing “legally tested.” They “ didn’t believe it was proper To help a lot of those Wall street fellows ‘ Who had blown up stocks with their big bull bellows, And scraped the bears like violincellos Till they hadn’t left ’em a copper.” Cutting and Work had done their best, And Reverdy Johnson with equal zest, To stem the tide against the rest, But the Fates were sour as acid; And, ﬁnally, Calico Claﬂin swore By all the muslin gods in his store That the Great Financial Interests wore An appearance serene and placid. So the President went to drive in the Park, And presently under the cover of dark He took the Washington train, And Murphy and Olews, who went along, Heard the hum of the Treasury song, And bowed to the Power that can do no wrong, While they buildecl their castles in Spain. TREASURY SONG. 3 Hippity hop. l‘ The panic we’ll- stop, By paying out :_specie_ ﬁve dollars a pop; We’ve four hundred thousand hidden away, And We’ll giveievery man of ’em one cent a day, — {One cent a day, 3 One cent a day, Ths.t"s the way for a Nationgto pay. ("Sliver and gold Silver and gold, With currency bought and for greenbacks sold; But we’ll hold this ravenous crew at bay By‘-Specie Resumption at one cent 9. day, One cent a day, One cent a day, . That’s the way for a Nation to pay. The very next morning a telegram Was handed the Secretary with a salaam By 9. dusky descendant of Father Ham, Along with other letters. From a Massachusetts cobbler it came; It said: “ Stand fast to your little game; Stand fast as Plymouth’s rock and name; New England’s eye is all aﬂame With an honest pride to see you tame To submission these rWa11 street betters.” But when the panic was over and past This Secretary, whose intellect vast Had for a time been overcast With a fog of legal opinions, . Opened his eyes to the palpable fact , That “ the boys ” whose policy he’d attack’d Had weathered the storm, while he now lacked ' The money to pay oﬁ his minions. Then away to the winds went his legal lore; , He declared that the cobbler had waxed a here, And he swung wide open the Treasury door, And scattered the greenbacks ﬂying. To be roasted alive is a terrible fate, So is freezing to death at a rapid rate, But its worse than either to alternate Betwixt the two, and die while you wait To learn which way you are dying. So Wall street swears a tremendous swear, Each sorry bull and each needy bear Vows by the Holy Pokers * That never-,'never so long as they live Will they ever even try to forgive The Secretary who ruined the brokers. ’ «N. Y. World. THE PRESS. . “ The press,” says James Russell ‘Lowell, “ should be a ﬁerce and a terrible mastift‘, with a keen scent for wolves in sheep’s clothing and asses in lions’ skins.” ’ Says Rev. Dr.» Stone, of San Francisco: “ Thenewspaper is more feared to-day in Congressional halls and the ‘high places of corruption and villainy than laws and courts, the stings of conscience and the thunders of Divine wrath. God is a, great way off, and the judgment waits; but the ubiquitous reporter thrusts his sharp gaze into all covert and hidden schemes—an unerring detective. The pestilent spy will tell all he sees——tell it on the housetops; print it for a nation of readers. Good! Give us more of this! Long live the re- porter. Let every public man who meditates a little piece of gainful fraud understand that he is ‘ shadowed ’ at each step by this unbought espionage, and, though he may not be con- verted, he will be restrained.” The crimeof the schoolmaster in a neighboring county, by which a score of girls under the age of fourteen were de- bauched, might be made a text for denouncing Roman Catholic ecclesiastical schools; for this was a Catholic school. But it was a crime for which no sectarianism is responsible, and which is possible, as experience has proved, to any man ‘ . with a vile heart and tempting opportunities, no matter What may be his religious pretensions. It is a. glaring reply to the Roman Catholic objections to free schools——that they V are the nursery of crimes, and that the true Catholic ought to withhold his childlfrom their immoral -inﬂuences. If any- one hears the Catholic bishop or any Catholic priest urging the establishment of the ecclesiastical schools lately ordered in this State, because of the horrible immorality of our public school system, let him retort by asking, and he can do it fairly, what protection the church threw around the eighteen young girls, who, almost within the neighborhood of the Bishop of Detroit, were subjected to the most revolting treatment the foul imagination could conceive of. In what respect is such a school betterthan apublic school? It would not be fair to charge immoralteaching or practice upon ecclesiastical schools because of the one terrible instance that has just come to light. But just now, when the super- stitious are to be frightened into an attempt to overthrow our free, school system by appealing to. their fears for their children’s souls, it is opportune to ask what protection the church can give them which other schools ‘cannot? It is a legitimatequestion, and we hope will be unsparingly put to the enemies of Michigan free schools. If the young lambs must be protected in the fold of the church, let the shep- herds ﬁrst prove that the guardian dogs will not turn out to" be devouring wo1ves.—Detrot't Post. [From the /Saturday glfoming Journal, Port Emma, Mich] What consummate fools some of the opponents of Victoria Woodhull make of themselves. '_ The other day, at Jackson, in this State, Judge Videto caused the arrest of that lady on the charge of selling obscene literature, but when she ap- peared for trial her accuser was found to be absent. At Ann Arbor a crowd of roughs hailing from the University crowded into the hall where she was lecturing, and by their hooting, yelling and indecent remarks, actually forced her ’ to quit speaking and leave the stage. We do not indorse all of Mrs. Woodhull’s doctrines, particularly her views on the social question, but we do think that such conduct on the part of her opposers is outrageous. We are glad to see that ‘it has shamed even the Daily Times of this city into a de- nunciation of their course. But will our neighbor look over his ﬁles and see if he cannot ﬁnd where he published the Detroit Tm'bmie’s comments of her lecture in that city, just on the eve of her lecture here. They were unjust, unfair, full of misrepresentation, and-would naturally incite just such conduct as the Ann Arbor students exhibited and the Times denounces. The Times’ report of her lecture here was just as unfair and spiteful, and would naturally lead to the exhibition of just such disgraceful scenes. We consider it as criminal to excite men to commit outrages as it is to be directly implicated. In this country every one, regardless of sex or condition in‘life, should be allowed to speak their sentiments, either in public or private, without molestation purposely falsify a person’s position, is intolerance of the meanest type, and illy becomes a journal claiming to advo- cate Republican doctrines. +3 [From the Rapids Post] “ Mrs. Woodhull ‘believes that the present laws relating to the marriage relation are outrageously unjust toward women. Although she and Col. Blood have lived together as husband and wife for ten years, and always expect to so live, they will not show these unjust laws suiilcient respect to go through the marriage ceremony they prescribe. She would have no objection to laws controlling the marriage relation if woman was allowed an equal voice in making them. Her own preference, however, is for no law that would under or- dinary circumstances prevent the dissolution of the marriage contract at the will of the parties to that contract. The law of honor among men and women would better regulate this question, she believes, than the law of the statute book. She is not in favor of promiscuity, and appears to honestly be- now prevails under our present one. The Post thinks that if only saints walked this earth, Mrs.Woodhiill’s theories might not be disastrous.” [From the Detroit Commercial Adoe7'tise7', Dec. 20, 1873.] FREE SPEECH AT ANN ARBOR. Victoria Woodhull attempted to deliver a lecture at the Opera House, Ann Arbor, on Monday evening, but was pre- vented by the roughs of the University. These young men are considered gentlemen in some quarters, because their parents are sufﬁciently endowed with funds to make the attempt to cram their pates with knowledge. If their acts on this occasion, as well as upon others, are the results of the knowledge imparted at the State University, that in- stitution might better be abolished. Talk about the dan- gerous classes in the lowerrwalks of life; they, in their ignorance, areless to be feared than these dandy rioters, who have yet to learn that if they do not wish to listen to a lecture themselves, they should refrain from attendance, and peaceably permit those who do wish to hear the lecture listen to it in quiet. , The lecture proposed to be delivered, and the delivery of which was interrupted to such an extent by the hooting, yelling, and indecent remarks of a lot of blackguardsv in good clothes, was the same that Mrs. Woodhull delivered in this city, and yvhich was attentively and quietly listened to by ladies and gentlemen of our own. acquaintance, among others, against whose title to the names ladies and gentle- men, in their truest and purest meaning, there cannot be brought the slightest opposition. The contrast ‘between the audience Mrs. Woodhull addressed in this city and that she attempted to address at Ann Arbor is very marked. While listen to her quietly or leave the hall, the latter could or do neither of these, thereby showing their true nature as bigoted fools and blackguards, putting themselves, with all their education which should teach them better things, on a par with the shoulder-hitters, pimps and other low-lived pests ofour larger cities. This is the view the action of the Ann Arbor students forces upon us, notwithstanding the address they interrupted was one from Mrs. Woodhull. We neither uphold nor denounce Mrs. l/Voodhull, but we claim that many, very many of. the citizens in most places of any size in the country would go to hear her should oppor- tunity offer, and as they elect in this matter their choice should not be interfered with, and is not, we feel certain, by any one who can justly lay claim to the title of good citizen under our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. or hindrance, and to unfairly mirrepresent, prejudge and ' lieve that there wouldpbe less of it under her system than ii the former, even if they could not agree with her, could i it ye... Jan. 10, 1874. I \ woonrIULL db CLAFLIIWS -wn-dr.KI.r. , I L . 13 [From t7ze.N. Y. Herald] CHRISTIANITY IN ITs DOTAGE. There .are many indications that we are approaching a period during which the truce which has so long been pre- served betweenscience and religion will be broken, and that, whatever the result, the ﬁght will be general and severe. Religion thrives, the churches prosper: but in spite of all appearances to the contrary, there is, it must be admitted, a large amount of skepticism widely di1‘1"used among all ranks and classes of the people. The researches of Darwin, the ex- periments of Tyndall and the teachings of Huxley, Carpen- ter and others have done much within the last "ten years to sap thefoundations of religious belief. In these days the apostles of science are men of great ability and learning, and these high qualities‘ are quite equaled by their industry and daring. A fresh illustration of ihe daring of the scientiﬁc teachers was recently furnished in the neighborhood of London. At Sion Hill College it is the custom of the author- ities to invite, from time "to time,’ prominent men to deliver lectures on one or other of the leading questions of the hour. On such occasions the audiences are select, and the clergy are generally well represented. Dr. Carpenter, it appears, some few days ago, was the honored lecturer. The Doctor I is not one of those who have openly broken with the Church; hence, no doubt, the honor and the privilege. The audience was large, composed mainly of leading clergymen and prelates, with a sprinkling of the professors of science. Among the lat- ter was Dr. Tyndall, who is present sometimes where he is not wanted//and who never loses his Opportunity. Dr. Carpenter took for his subject the “ Reign of Law,” a subject which has beenlargcly discussed from the Christian standpoint by the ' Duke of Argyll. The Doctor made short Work of the Duke and his accommodation theories, declaring, to the amaze- ment and alarm of his audience, that nature had never been invaded by anything arbitrary, preternatural or supernatu- - ral; and, as if this was not enough, adding that liturgies, lit- anies, collects and prayers never had inﬂuenced, never could inﬂuence the course of the universe, nor mankind, nor a single individual, in the slightest degree. . A ﬁerce and pro- longed discussion followed, the clergymen loudly protesting against such monstrous heterodoxy. The worst, however, had not yet come. It was Tyndall’s turn now. “ I am speaking,” he ' said, “ to men of education and men of learning——to men who have read history and observed the course of nature—-and I feel constrained to ask you, as gentlemen of culture. whether it is really possible that you can have any belief in the em- cacy of prayer to affect this universe in the slightest degree?” It is not to be wondered at that a motion for adjournment was immediately made, and that the meet- ing somewhat abruptly came to an end. Time was when such language would have sent a man to the stake; but that time has passed; the age of reason has begun to dawn, and the Church, if she is to survive and be a power in the world, must be sustained by reason and sound argument. The clergy must take warning. The enemy is up and ready for battle. There have been giants in the Church in the past, and we have no doubt there are giants in the Church still. They must no longer conceal themselves or remain in- active. It is time for them to confront and confound the foe. THE MYSTERY OF NATURE. BY THEODORE TILToN. The works of God are fair for naught, Unless our eyes, in seeing, See hidden in the thing the thought That animates its being. The outward form is not the whole, But every part is molded - To image forth an inward soul That dimly is unfolded. The shadow, pictured in. the lake By every tree that trembles, Is cast for more than just the sake Of that ‘Which it resembles. The dew falls nightly, not alone Because the meadows need it, But on an errand of its own To human souls that heed it. The stars are lighted in the skies No.5 merely for their shining, But, like the looks of loving eyes, Have meanings worth divining: The waves that moan along the shore, The winds that sigh in blowing, __ ‘ Are sent to teach a mystic lore Which men are wise in knowing. The clouds around the mountain-peak, The rivers in their winding, Have secrets which, to an who seek, Are precious in the ﬁnding. Thus Nature dwells within our reach, But, though we stand so near her, We still interpret half her speech With ‘ears too dull to hear her. Whoever, at the coarsest sound, Still listens for the ﬁnest, Shall hear the noisy world go round To music the divinest. Whoever yearns to see aright‘ Because his heart is tender, Shall catch a glimpse of heavenly light In every earthly splendor. So, since, the universe began, And till it shallbe ended, The soul of Nature, soul of Man, and soul of God are blended! A SUGGESTION TO DRESS REFORMERS. WAUKEGAN, ILL., Dec. 22, 1873. I am rejoiced to read in the WEEKLY a. notice of an anti- fashion convention to .be held in Plimpton Hall, Vineland, New Jersey, on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 20 and 21,1874. I » We «frequently hear the remark that “ the short dress is dying out,” from the fact that many noble women who once adopted it have, for various reasons, laid it aside. There are a few brave women scattered over the country who still adhere to this free, healthy costume; and I think our short- dress army islarger than we suppose. I I suggest that each one of these send her name to Olivia E. Shepard, with what- ever words of encouragement she may be impressed to pen. And I also suggest’ that our brother reformers who are will- ing to encourage their own wives, or sisters, or daughters to appear in public with the short dress will send their names forward also, as we are tired of hearing from fashionables the remark that “men do not admire this costume.” Come, sisters and brothers, let us bid godspeed to the brave, true Women who meet in that convention for the furtherance of ’ this most important work in the glorious cause of freedom. SADA BAILEY. COUNSEL. If thou dost bid thy friend farewell, But for one night, though that farewell may be, Press thou his palm with thine. How canst thou tell I , How far from thee , Fate or caprice may lead his feet I ' Ere that to—morI-ow comes? Men have been known To lightly turn the corner of a street, ‘ ' And days have grown To months, and months to lagging years, Before they looked in loving eves again. Parting at best is underlaid with tears- With tears and pain. Therefore, lest sudden death should come between, Or time or distance, clasp with pressure true The hand of him who gocth forth; unseen Fate goeth too! Yea, find thou always time to say Some earnest word between the Idle talk, Lest with thee henceforth, ever, night and day, - Regret should walk. —- Gwlcry. MORE, BOSTON VIRT UE; Surely the saints are getting demoralized when stealing has become fashionable in the Hub. The latest accounts from that ancient seat of virtue report a fraud on the revenue to the amount of a million and a half dollars. The delinquents are a ﬁrm well known for their attachment to piety and tea. They have attended all the pious meetings to exalt the Hub, and have turned up their eyes until only the yellow was vis- ible in holy horror at the mere mention of ungodly New York. It is very unkind of Norman I-I. Bingham, an uncom- promising special agent, with no affinity for tea and crackers, to seize on the saints’ accounts and expose their little game. What will become of the Hub if saints are to be treated like more sinful Gothamites? .We suggest to the authoritids in Washington that this Bingham should be sent to the Rhine or other foreign parts. He evidently does not know how to distinguish the godly from the sinners. Such a man is evi- dently quite unﬁt to be a special agent, and ought to be got rid of without delay. We sympathize with. the Hub; the pious varnish is all getting rubbed off, and the.pious inhabit- ants are beginning to look morally seedy. Some unkind people, with no respect for appearances, declare that “if we scratch the Hubite we ﬁnd a fraud,” and the present devel- opments of revenue robberies are certainly enough to dam- age seriously even the reputation of the saintly Hub._ IS IT TRUE? 'BY 0. F. SHEPARD.- The resolutions of the recent Emancipation Convention at Ravenna, Ohio, reaﬂirm woman’s basic right to herself, but denounce those movements which insist on herduty to take possession of herself as absurd and contemptible, and as stumbling-blocks in the cause of woman’s emancipation. I think the framers of those resolutions seriously mistook the animus and aims of the reforms to which they allude, and that it is always in view "of woman’s broadest claim to her- self that the laborers in them seek its recognition in their various ﬁelds of work; that without this inspiring faith they could not indeed work at all. As a dress reformer, I do not hesitate to say that I believe woman’s claim to herself will be respected just as soon as she consistently makes it, and that she may assert herright to equality and personal sover- eignty until doomsday without effect, if, by her attire, she continues to perpetuate "and advertise the ineiﬁciency and helplessness which do not attach to her nature, but are a re- sult of the dress. Dress reform knocking at the door of her prison-house asks her to strike of with her own hands the chains which cus- tom, not law, has forged, and walk forth the robust, se1f-sus- taining sovereign which men must of necessity respect and deal justly with. Girls are by nature as vigorous as boys, and there is in the whole catalogue of crimes against the sex none so accursed and inexcusable as that which puts them in clothing which restricts motion, wastes vital power and makes consciousness of appearance such a constant necessity, the care to be pretty such a perplexing and absorbing one as are fatal toall nobler ambitions. ' I If woman has an inalienable right to her lungs and her legs, can she too soon adopt a system of dress which will enable her to breathe rather than pant, and Walk rather than ﬂoun- der? If her right to control motherhood is ‘unquestionable, her duty to make it a healthy one is correspondingly so. A resolute deﬁance of barbaric customs and fashions .would strengthen her grandly to make successful resistance against unjust legal enactments. ‘ Winship would never have liftsditwenty-seven hundred. if \ he had not put to the fullest use each day’s increasing and accumulated strength; and woman will only make her power felt in the world by the persistent use of every item of it which she already has at command. . ‘ Men have always recognized the advantage which the use of pants gives them in throwing all their energies into any trade or business pursuit; and so those who ignorantly sup- pose their happiness is made secure by woman’s weakness and inability to compete with them as an equal. reserve their most bitter sarcasm for those who choose «pants rather than petticoats. ’ v A than that which insists upon woman’s right and duty to the unrestricted development and use of her physical powers, and that to secure such development and make such use possible by a natural system of dress, to take possession of herself. PROTEST FOR 1873, AGAINST TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION AND SOCIAL OPPRESSION wITIIoUT JUSTIFICATION. Again, in spite of my earnest protest, the annual robbery of a government, based on man’s claim to be sole dictator in politics. even to the taxing of woman’s money, has been per- petrated on my property under the threat of seizure. And, baser still, here in a nation boasting of the light of liberty for a century, the same tyranny of sex also usurps sole power’ to control social affairs; and, by legislation, men held pos- session of the persons of all womenwhom they win, by any means, into marriage. I ' 7 As this outrage thrusts its degradation directly on my soul and body as well as through my earnings, I deﬁantly protest against it, and will not socially submit to any law but my consciousness of right. MARY E. T-ILLOTsoN. VINE LAND, N. J. FREE SPEECH. At a regular weekly meeting of Primary Council. No._ 1, of Illinois, of the Universal Association of Spiritualists, held at Union Hall, corner of Clark and Monroe streets, yesterd..ay evening, the following preamble and resolutions were unani- mously adopted: ' Ann Arbor, Mich., (Dec. 15) made ‘an outrageous and unwar- rantable attack on free speech as represented in therperson of Victoria C. .Woodhull; therefore, . Resolved, That their action in so doing (thereby vio- lating the Constitution of the United States) merits the exe- cration and condemnation of all lovers of republican princir-s ples and government, and is a stigma of shame an d disgrace to any civilized community. A ' Resolved, That we will to the utmost of our power, and with our lives, if need be, maintain the right of free speech as guaranteed by the Constitution. H. AUGUSTA WHITE, ‘Cor. Sec. ABOLITION OF CAPITAL AND LABOR.-.NA'l‘URAL . GOVERNMENT. , . Reform of labor is conservative. Reform of society is de- structive. What ‘is needed toward the reforzn of society is the abolishment of labor and capital. Thel}? relations are those of master and slave, and the idea of their adjustment is an absurdity, for there is no justice in them. They can be abolished only by destroying all a:rrti‘ici.al law, for that is the cause of them, as it is of all other social wrongs. government is disorder. Its unavoidable effects are over- grown wealth and suffering poverty, luxury and fashion, ig- norance and priestcraft. Natural government is freedom, equality, fraternity, justice, order, knowledge and happiness ——it is the whole of social science. I What is called “ anarchy” is true order. Everything is al.ways right when nature can take its course. Her healing power pervades alike the ma- terial and the mental or social world. Mankind naturally incline to goodness. If they inclined to evil, they would not make laws to prevent it; and the fact that they make such laws proves they are not necessary. A healthy constitution ‘of society is a spontaneous growth. If human speech can regulate itself without artiﬁcial law. and is good as it is, I under all the bad influences of law-damned society, then of course human actionscan do the same. Un der natural gov- ernment the most virtuous have most inﬂuen_ce; under arti- ﬁcial law the most wealthy have it. All debts would be honestly paid if there was no law to ‘ collect them; It would be free honesty. Legal oaths, by treating everybody as liars and making use of fear, stifle veracity and promote falsehood. Free veracity is what is needed. Natural marriage and an equal chance for women would put an end to prostitution, venereal disease and lust; because the marriage law, with the inferior and helpless con- dition of women, is the cause of them. Esteem is the founda- tion of love. Free love is free esteem._ ‘Without esteem It is lust. The marriage law is free lust. Natural government is /freedom of goodness and restriction of evil. Artiﬁcial government is restriction. of goodness and freedom of evil. In entire freedom from legal restraint, all the virtues are called into use, and the bad traits are inactive. Under arti- ﬁcial government it is the reverse. The expression “liberty and law” is contradictory nonsense. “ Law and order” is another. If nobody claimed to own land, everybodywould occupy what they needed, and nobody would trouble them. Of course, there could be no disputes about land when no. body‘ claimed to own it. It would be the same as it is when a company of men go on the water together in boats to catch . ﬁsh, or on the hills to pick wild berries. ‘Water and wild berries are free, and that prevents the possibility of dis- putes and of monopoly. Roads and bridges would be built spontaneously if there was no law for it. Parents would educate their children at home as they ought to. Natural government would destroy commerce, and it ought to be de. stroyed. Merchants are the poison of society. They intro- - duce luxury and fashion, inequality, dishonesty, aristocracy and crime." _ The merchant princes will be the nobility of this country and govern it, unless the working people unite, take the government into their own hands and then destroy it entirely and forever. The early degeneracy and decay’ I am satisﬁed no more beneﬁcent reform was everbroached WHEREAS, The students of the Michigan 'University, at’ Artiﬁcial I / ./\ 14 I I ,_ w_oonHcLLacI.AELIN’s WEEKLY. Jan. 10, 1874.. '1‘ this Republic has been hastened by commerce. » Under natu- ral government and without/commerce love of money would be almost unknown. Plainness and simplicity would be the style. All ‘would work, and only a little labor would be ne- cessary. Scarcely evera person 'would think of wronging another; but if he did, the whole weight of society would be{ turned against him and force him to do right. Freedom for‘ every one to do what he pleased would be protection to all. The separation of the brain into its dijferent organs ﬁts man for society, and that is government. Statesmanship is ability P1113 170 3- bad Lise. Artiﬁcial government is called a necessary eVi1-« This is nonsense. Nothing evil is necessary. Nothing necessary. is an evil. ’ - . A more foolish oontrivance than representative. govern- ment could not be. It tends necessarily to corruption and , cmonarchy, as in our own country.‘ Representatives cannot and should not be trusted. If the people are foolish enough to want laws, it is their busness to make them and keep the power in their own hands. Nothing could be more im- prudent and fatal than for the people to give up their own _ judgment and the management bf public affairs to a few I men. Even if they were good. men it makes no difference, but the people know little or nothing of the candidates they H vote for. Trial by jury, we all know, is worthless and scan- dalous. Natural government and true democracy is this: when a crime is committed or a wrong attempted, for all — the people of the neighborhood to do what they please about ‘it. The people, by practice, would become good judges and jurors. No people on earth can maintain a republican gov- ernment many years. The fault is not in the people. The people of one co.untry are as capable of it as those of another. Natural government would maintain itself in purity as long as it was natural government. Every person living is ﬁt for natural government, and it rcctiﬁes the con- duct of the worst men. All human contrivances to regulate society ought to be swept away at once‘,"“and nothing “built up” instead. Let Nature do the “ building up,” and then this world will be a “good one. ' Nothing short of this is reform. There is no such thing as carrying destruction too far, nor doing it too suddenly. Insurrection of the working people is order. Society under artiﬁcial government may be compared to an Eh-abitual drunkard. The distress he feels in givingvnp the habit is a necessary means that nature uses to restore his "system to its natural and healthy state. Just so with law- drunken society. The disturbance, and sometimes violence, that would follow from the destruction of artiﬁcal govern- ment would be necessary for the removal of great social kwrongs.‘ Nature’s cures are always sudden and violent. In diseases of the elements, her cures are thunder and lightning, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes. In dieases _ of the human body her cures are" fevers, pain, ‘eruptions, dysentery, vomiting and discharge of blood. The unreason- ing people consider them diseases, when in truth they are not; they are the cure of disease. Society that is thoroughly diseased can only be cured. by abolishing all artiﬁcial law and lettillg S0.I{1al thunder and lightning, hurricanes, earth- quakes, Viplcanoes, fever, pain, eruptions, vomiting, dysen- tery and bleeding have their ‘course. Legislation can never C10 it; the cause cannot be the cure. , Belief in the necessity of artiﬁcial law is lack of reason. It is a traditional prejudice, like belief in hell-ﬁre, which few persons have judgment enough to throw off. On nearly all subjects that require the use of abstract reason, the people in general are in the dark, and their belief is wrong. He was a fool who ﬁrst used the expression, “ What every- body says must be true.” The belief of forty millions of people in the United States is of no weight whatever against the belief of one truly rational persona The belief of such a person‘ is proof, and his assertions are proof. He knows he is‘ right and never changes his belief. Those who need proofs have only to read the history of the last three thousand years. Artiﬁcial government has been the general course of the world, and it has had more than a fair trial. Its _eﬁ‘ects havewalways been a hell. upon earth. Wherever natural government has been in force, it has worked well. That the object of artiﬁcial law -originally was never equality and justice, but power and plunder, is , proved by the fact that monarchy was the ﬁrst government of every people. Inno country has the ﬁrst government been republican. A republic is only monarchy made a little better—-a political Protestantism—-—a step toward natural government. Artiﬁcial government was never established to protect’ the weak. against the strong, because there are no weak ones until» that has made powerful ones. It is entirely inconsistent with the selfvgovernment of the universe, of ._ which man is part.~ The boundless - and eternal universe pronounces against it. ELIPHALET KIMBALL, Orford, N. H. December 20, 1873. ‘ >« MASSING FOR THE ‘FIGHT. The World of December 28 gives anaocount of a meeting held in London, Great Britain, at which an organization was effected which has taken the name of the “National Federation of Associated Employers of Labor.” This, we are told, “is a combination of employers established to » counteract the inﬂuence of trades’ unions.” Sympathizing as we do with the masses, we hail this organizatioii with delight, being convinced that, in the near future, it will be met by a “National Federation of Laborers.” This latter ‘ should embrace all the sons and daughters of toil, and amal- gamate the unions with the g1-angcs. "When such a classi- ﬁcation of mankind can be fully carried out, in our opinion the workers and wealth-creators will be in a position to obtain their rights without ﬁghting for them, for, depend upon it, when the two armies are arranged, on one side the . employers and onthe other the employees, the “National Federation of Associated» Employers of Labor” will ﬁnd it the part of wisdem to surrender without a battle.” BUSINESS EDITORIALS. ANTI-FASHION CCNVENTICN. In View of the alarming in‘d.iﬂ"erenoe of woman to the press- ing demands‘of the hour, and believing it to be the result of her absorption by fashions of dress which are destructive to physical health, mental vigor and moral ‘power; and being convinced that she cannot make a. successful demand for the full equality which Nature bestowed, but man has denied her, until she accumulates péwer by the use of that now within reach; and hoping by discussion and concert of ac- tion to encourage some in the adoption of a natural system of dress——one comporting with all the duties of woman-we invite the lovers of truth to meet in convention in Plum- street Hall, Vineland, New Jersey, on Tuesday and Wednes- day, January 20 and 21, l874.= \ ~ As an important aid to the work proposed, we respectfully urge that every woman who’ can, come to the convention in such costume as will best express her thought of a rational dress for woman. ’ ' -. ~ Mary E. Tillotson, Lucinda S. Wilcox, M. 13., Susan P. Fowler, Ellen Dickinson. Olivia F. Shepard, A./W. M. Bart- lett, M. D. , Friends desiring entertainment will please write either of the above. Names of speakers will be duly announced. MR. MADOX, Of the Internationals, will hold himself ready to lecture be- fore workingmen’s organizations and lyceums throughout the country; subjects, “ This Political Economy of_ the Inter- nationals,” “The Suspension of our Industries———the Cause and Remedy,” “ The Currency and Finance.” Address, ' G. W. lvlnnox, 42 John st., New York City. A » PROCEEDINGS or THE TENTH ANNUAL CoNvENTIoN or THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION or SPIRITUALISTS. 12m, pp. 266. THE ELIXIR or LIEE; on, WHY DO WE D:E? 8vo, pp. 24. An at GR.ow’s OPERA HoUsE, CHICAGO, by VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, September 18, 1873. The above “Report of the Proceedings of the Tenth An- nual Convention of the American Association of Spiritual- ists,” is an accurate and impartial account of what was said and done at the above convention. 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Some could not be at this conven- tion, either for- want of time or means; but now, such of them as may choose to read, can almost imagine that they were there; and though they may not attain whatever there may be in personal presence, in the eye, and the ear, and in soul-communion, yet whatever of principle has been evolved they may well discover and understand ;* and also, as I hope, they may proﬁt thereby.” , Price of the “Proceedings” and’ the “Elixir of Life” 50 cents; or the “Elixir of Life” alone 25 cents. Orders for the same addressed to Woodhull St Claﬁin, P. O. box 3,791, will be promptly ﬁlled. « APPROACHING CONFLICT- The irrepressible issues between universal liberty and des- potism to precipitate a terrible war within five years that will terminate in the overthrow of the American Republic and the establishment of a military dictatorship. ' ‘ Church, State and Capital ape combined, under the leader- ship of the Republican party, to precipitate the conflict that will end in a defeat of their aspirations, and the ultimate triumph of industry, socialismand rationalism. , » The nation is slumberingupon the brink of ruin as uncon- ciously as the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum in that awful moment that preceded the belching forth of Vesu- vius. . ‘ V . ' * The mostastounding foreshadowing of the future destiny of this nation ever issued from the press. ' A book of 250 pages will be sent to any address, post—paid, for $1.50. Liberal terms given to agents. I Address, JOHN WILLCox, 172 and 1% Clark street, Chicago, Ill. DR. L. K. CooNLEY. This active, able, zealous and practical reformer intends to return again to the open ﬁeld. He will answer calls to speak anywhere in the country. N 0 word of ours is needed with - the people in regard to this worker. He hasbeen before the Spiritualistic"_public for twenty years, and’ returns to it now ‘ refreshed and reinvigorated by two years of. fruit growing in Vineland, N. J ., at which place he may for the present be‘ addressed. WARREN CHASE lectures the four Sundays of January in Des Moines, Iowa, where he "may be addressed during the month. He will receive subscriptions for the WEEKLY and for our books or pictures. ORATION delivered before the above-named CONVENTION, ' “ I have seen the report you have published of the doings ’ KURTZ’ RESTAURANTS. I Among the many permanent institutions of the city are the several restaurants of Mr. Fred. Kurtz, located at 23 New st1'cr_=t, 60 Broadway, '76 Maiden lane and at the corner of Fifth avenue and _Ninetieth street. Undoubtedly Kurtz excels all competitors in the conduct of a ﬁrst-class eating- house. Besides beingthoroughly verscdin stocking his store-rooms, he understands just how to please the general palate in the preparation of his dishes. Success is the best test _of merit, especially in this business; and if Kurtz’ merit is to be so tested, he stands pre-eminent over all other caterers. _ Each of the above places will accommodate from one to two hundred persons, and all of them, at almost ‘ any hour of the day, are ﬁlled. Strangers, visitors and residents will ﬁnd Kurtz’ the most satisfactory, as well as cheapest, ﬁrst-class eatingvestablishments in the city; while those who visit Central.Park should not fail to call at the new and elegant retreat at the corner of Ninetieth street and Fifth Avenue. .@ Send Austin Kent one dollar for his book and pam- phlets on Free Love and Marriage. He has been sixteen years physically helpless, conﬁned to his bed and chair, is poor and needs the money. You may be even more bene- ﬁted by reading one of the boldest, deepest, strongest, clear- est and most logical writers. You are hardly well posted on this subject till you have read Mr. Kent. 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M. 8 " Chambers street . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.40 . “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street . . . . . . . .. 7.00 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 “ “ Susquehanna . . . . . . . .. 3.40 P. M. 8.12 I’.‘M. “ Sus uehanna . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.43 A. M. “ Binghampton . . , . . . . _ . . . . , ._ 4.40 “ 9.20 “ “ Bing amptoii . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.35 “ ,“ Elmira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ 12.16 A. M. “. Elmira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 “I Q “ Hornellsville....' .......... .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ H, ellsville . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ “ Buifalo , _ _ . , . _ _ _ _ , . _ , _ . . . .. 12.05‘A. M. 8.10 “ “ B1 l0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . .. 11.45 “ Zrhgpregs, Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.00 “ 10.00 “ Ar Su. cnsion Bridge . . . . .. 12.27 P. M. ———-—-..——.... Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.10 A. M. 1.35 P. M. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 1.35 “ 9.50 p. 110.. Ar St. C-atherines..' . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.35 “ 2.00 “ Ar St. Catherines . . . . . . . . . .. 2.00 “ 10.12 “ “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.45 “ 2.55 “ “ -Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.55 “ 11.20 “ “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.53 “ “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.53 ." “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 A. M. 5.55 “ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55, “ 2.35 11. m. “ Cliatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.55 “ 8.12 “ “ Chatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.12 “ 5.00 “ “ Detroit. . 9 40 “ 10.00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7.00 “ Lv iietroia.IIIIIII.IIfIiIIIIII 940 “ 10.10 “ Lv'Detroit .......... .... ..10.10 “ 3.10 - Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . “ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 “ “ Ypsilanti 10.45 “ 11.25 P. M. “ Ypsilanti 11.25 “ 927 “ “ Ann Ai~b0i-.'.‘.'.°.'.'.’.'.'.IIIIIIL 11.00 “ 11.43 I‘ “ A1lnAl.“bOl.".::::::..::::::1 11.43 “ 950 cc “ Jackson . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . , _ _ , _, 12.15 I’. M. 1.00 A. M. “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. M. 11.30 “ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . .- . . . . . . . . . 1.15 -“ . . . . v “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . .' . . . . . .. .. .. - 12.50 p. In “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.03 “ AIR “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . .. Am 1.25 " “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ LINE . “ Kalamazoo , . . . . . . . . . . . .. LINE. - 2.35, “ “ Niles , . _ . . , . . . . . , . . . . _ _ . , . ,, 4.32 P. M. 4.40 A M “ Niles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.40 A. M. 5.00 “ A’ “ New BuiIalo..' . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 25 “ I “ New Buﬁalo . . . . . . . . . . . .. ' 6.02 “ “ ichigan City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.45 “ 5.45 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . .. 5.45 “ 6.25 “ ' “ Calumet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .7.18 “ 7.47 “ “ Calumet . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.47 “ 8.00 “ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 “ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ _8_.45 “ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 A. M. 11.50 A. M_ Ar Milwa_ukee; . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M.. 5.30 a. n1 Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 P. M. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . .. . 8.55 p. in. Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M. A_r_I_..£l_i2sse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. __7.05 A. M. 7.05 a. In. Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 P. M. Ar St. Paul. . 7.00 A. lV£._ Ar St. Louis.....' . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M.’ Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . 8.15 P. M. Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.40 I’. M. Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M . “ Denisoii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . , . . . . .. 8.00 “ . _“ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ :‘_Galves,ton... “ .. Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , .. 11.00 P. M. A1‘ Bismarck... . . . . . . . . ., 12.01 P. M. “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _. 5.00 A. M, “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M. f‘ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. , Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .._. 8.50 A. M- Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . 7.00 P. M. W‘- “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. “ Omaha..... “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ ' . , “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. "‘ . “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. “ . Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. M‘ Ar Galesburg ..... . . . . . . .. 4.45 P. M. _"—. _" 1“ Quincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15 “ “ Quincey . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.45 " . . “ St. Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ “ St. Joseph ......... 8.10 A. M ... “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.40 P. M “ Kansas City . . . . . . . 9.25 “ “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I1.00 “ ' “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 11.17 “ .... " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.10 “ " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .§ 12.40 noon. .. “ Denver. ., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A. M. .. “ Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Through Sleeping Car‘ Arrangements 9.15 A. M.——Day Express ‘from Jersey City (daily except Sunday), with Pullman’s Drawing-Room Cars, and connectin at Suspension Bridge with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. m, the following c ay in time to take the morning trains from there. 7.20 P. 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Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-01-10_07_06
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 07, no. 07 (January 17, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2002
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-01-17
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Show moreBREAKINC}. THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. O Vo1.iV1I.A_No. 7.—-—V_VhOleNO. 168. ‘NEVV YORK, JAN. 17, 1874. PROO-R:Ess: FREE THOUG-I-IT: UNTRAMMELED LIVES! & M — _, PRICE TEN CENTS. , , THE LOAN ER’S BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, I (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,)_ . Conti neutal Life Builiug, 22 N ASSAU STREET, NEW ‘YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I $500 ,00 Subject to increase to. .‘. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances" on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special ‘attention. ~ @ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities oﬂered to our CUSTOMERS. ‘ DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTI1, Vice-President. “JOHN J. CISCO (925 SON, Bankers, NO. A59 Wall St., New York. 1 Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to check at sight. 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Wood- hull .................... ......... .....'.....s3'o0 Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claﬂinr . . . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom ............... .,. 25 Reformation or Revolution, Which ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Elixir of Life; or, Why do we Die ?. . . . . . . . . 25 Three of any of the Speeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 50 INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE.- 1. Go to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. , 4. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your ﬁelds, which is kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have - reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James, v. 1. RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE FEDERAL COUN- CIL OF I. W. A. NEW YORY CITY, December 28, 1873. VVHEREAS, The country is suffering for money to replace the credit destroyed by the suspension of our industries; and ' WHEREAS, The property of the country is mortgaged (real and personal) to one-tenth of the people, who hold not only these securities, but also the money in circulation in the country, and who are driving the business por- tion of the community into bankruptcy, through excessive interest of from 40 to 365 per cent. ; and WHEREAS, The government does not adopt the simple plan ~ of relieving the business of the country, by employing its citizens and paying them in legal tender currency; now, therefore, be it . Resolved, That this Council, in its ofﬁcial capacity, petition Congress to issue, through the sub-treasuries of the large cities, $500,000,000 of legal tender currency, and loan it on real estate security at seven per cent., and thus relieve the people from the usurer’s exorbitant interest, and thereby aid the government to pay its expenses. ’ Resolved, That these resolutions be given to the Asso- ciated Press, and published in Woo1)HULL St CLArLrN‘s VVEEKLY, and a copy forwarded to the President of the United States, and to the Secretary of the Treasury, and Benj. F. Butler, M. C. Attest, WM. A. A. CARSEY, President. G. W. MADOX, Secretary. Also this series of memorials were;adopted by the Federal Council of I. W. A., and ordered that copies be sent to all the sections throughout the country. By order of F. M. C. of I. W. A. . Every‘ person receiving a copy of these memorials is re- quested to circulate them for signatures, and return them V signed to G. W. Madox, Secretary of the “ U. 0. I.,” No. 42 John street, New York ‘city. R MEMORIAL No. 1. To abolish the Senate of the United States, 'and transfer the veto power from the President to the people, the prin- ciple of popular sovereignty, as intended by the authors of the Declaration of Independence. , To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: The undersigned citizens of the United States, believing that the principle of popular sovereignty, enunciated in the Declaration of Independence was thereafter grievously departed from -by the framers of the Constitution of the United States, who, by the terms of that instrument, conferred absolute power upon Congress (subject only to the veto of the President) to “enact laws, grant privileges and appropriate public property without submitting their acts to the people for ratiﬁcation ;” and be- lieving also that the corrupt use of this power threatens the extinguishment of those other popular rights and liberties‘ confessedly guaranteed, and to-day menaces the very life of the nation, do hereby respectfully request 1st. That measures be at once taken to amend the Con- stitution of the United States, so that the Senate, now elected by the Legislatures of the several States, and neither directly nor indirectly representing the ,people, shall be abolished, and the entire legislative power of the nation conﬁded to the House of Representatives, subject only to the veto of the people. And ‘ _ , 2d. That similar measures may be taken to amend the Constitution of the United States, so that all acts. of the National Legislature «(save and‘ except those which may ex- clusively relate to the decorous ‘and efficient transaction of its business) shall be absolutely void until the same shall have been submitted to the citizens of the several States and duly afﬁrmed by a majority thereof. MEMORIAL N o. 2. To prevent pauperism and crime, by authorizing the United States Government to employ labor. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ‘States, in Congress assembled: The undersigned citizens and inhabitants of the United States, believing that all pen- niless, homeles, involuntary idle persons, -‘without regard to nativity or previouscondition, are properly thewwards of the nation, and should not be suﬁered to, roam through the A streets of our towns and cities uvncared for and neglected, do hereby respectfully request: . ‘ That the various branches of useful industry may be insti- tuted by the government in all places where it has jurisdic- 1 tion; that the persons above mentioned, applying therefor, shall receive employment upon equitable principlesof time -and compensation; and that the proﬁts (if any there shall be) of the industries so instituted and conducted, shall be appropriated to the reduction of the taxes assessed upon the citizens of the several States. _ MEMORIAL N o. 3. To repeal the charters of the several Paciﬁc Railroad Com- panies, and_ authorize the government to run the cars on these roads. ' To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United , States in Congress assembled: The undersigned citizens of the United,‘ States, believing that considerations of‘ natural _ equity andipublic policy forbid the appropriationof lands and money belonging to the nation to private citizens, to be used for their own private gain, regardless of the rights of their fellow-citizens, because the professed objects ‘thereof’ are thereby invariably defeated, the‘ general welfare disre- garded, thé’rights of the people set at deﬁance, and legisla- ’ tive, judicial and executive corruption engendered, disgrace- ful alike to legislator, judge and executive officer, do hereby. respectfully request: ._ That the several grants of lands made to the Paciﬁc Rail- road Companies be at once revoked; all indebtedness in- curred for labor, material, etc., ‘discharged; theroads com- pleted, repaired and improved at the public expense; and the entire business of the transportation of merchandise and passengers over theroads transacted by government at rea- sonable rates. MEMORIAL N o. 4. To prohibit the sale of public lands, and provide for their settlement and cultivation. , To the Senate and 'House of Representatives of the Untied States in Congress assembled: The undersigned citizens of the United States, believing that the public lands of the nation should nev,er be converted to the uses of property, and made the subject of trafﬁc and monopoly, as are the products of labor, but that they should be preserved for the use of the actual cultivator, in such a manner as to secure to all who may wish to settle thereon equal opp.ortunities, do hereby I respectfully request: That the further sale of the unoccupied and unimproved public domain be at once prohibited, and that the govern- 3 'ment shall either employ thereon the actual settler and I superintend the cultivation thereof, or dispose of it in lim- ited quantities to actual settlers, and aid such settlers by loans of money, implements of industry and provisions V necessary for immediate use. OGDEN CITY, UTAH, December 25, 1873. MR. G. W. MADOX: , Dear S'tr—After reading the many words and steps of wis- dom as chronicled in WOODHULL St CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY, I venture to take the bonds of mutual or universal justice as the connecting link to draw and bind us together.. I am not one who need feel from necessity the monopolizing oppres- sor’s hand; yet sooner than be the willing servant thereto, I too will try the laboring paupers’ sphere. I cannot here give the whys and wherefores of my present position on the many questions of the hour; suﬂice it to say, I feel to see, hear, speak and work——yes, strike, in defense, if needs must be. Yet, 0 spare this last, if possible. N ow, to be plain, and feminine in expression, Iwill say I admire the steps and expressions of the “I. W. A.,” as un- derstood through the WEEKLY, and would know in full about them in so far as possible. With none other than uni- versal justice can I combine. With me, ’tis down with priests, popes, lawyers, doctors, monopolists, and recognize -only those who build and support the whole human fabric- the laborer. Ihave stood andpbeen reared amidst abund- ance, and seen stealing, robbery—lega1ly so~—carried on in various shades and phases, until I have cried from very shame to know men must bow down to such baseness as to even recognize such unjust legislation as we, the people, are the serfs of to-day. Shall we always be servants of law, or have law to serve us? To be honest to-day is to be a beggar in the streets. To be independent, to be wealthy in worldly goods, is to be as a highway robber, to pounce, prey and take from all that come your way, caring, giving, nothing as a recom- pense therefor other than a promise in shape of paper or coin, either of which is worthless as rags when not suﬂicient to procure the necessities of this life. ' I wish to gain, if possible, all information I need and de- sire. I have started a subscription-list to appeal to Congress that we may have institutions organized throughout this country for the beneﬁt of earth’s noblemen—the laborers of all castes and colors. Now, if there is any information needed that I may become a colaborer in universal justice, ’tis for such I ask, and Iwill forward you what names I can procure to the above-named petition. "I have procured up- ward of twenty names now, and have but just begun. Eternally for justice, FRANK DYGERIV 42 J QHN STREET, N. Y., January 2, 1874. CITIZEN FRANK DYGERT, Ogden, Utah: My Dear Str—Yours of 25th ult. is just at hand. In reply. would say, that the principles of the I. W. A. are as broad as the human race and as deep as justice; therefore all who de- sire to co-operate with thissinstitution, will get together as many persons as will standiupon our platform, and at once organize a section of the I. W. A., "forward, the fact to our Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. H. M.Walton, 222 State street, Brooklyn, N. Y., with ten cents for annual dues from each member of your section, and then we will be happy to have you select a representative, here, or atyour place, who will be in constant correspondence with the Federal Council of I. W. A. of North. America. I publish this, together‘ with , , : WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY7."§ ‘ 3 the most of your letter, through WOODHULL 8t C_LAELrN’s ‘WEEKLY, that not only you may be put into working order with the the head of the order, but that others may at once organize. — — ~ I have but one word to say to those who stand upon our platform, viz. : Organize! Organizell Organize!!! Glad you are securing names. Get as many as possible. We are in correspondence with all parts of the country, and the ball is moving slowly in the ‘right direction. Rest assured of this, that we are not for blood, but for peace, justice and the human race. When you have organized a section of I. W: A., then you may proceed to organize a section of U. 0. I., which is secret in its workings. Work! Organize! Your co-worker, G. W. MADOX. THE VOICE OF THE TIMES. BY cRAs. MA_cKAY. Day unto day utters speech- : Be Wise, 0 ye nations! and hear What yesterday telleth to-day, What today to the morrow will preach, A change cometh over our sphere, ' And the old goeth down to decay. A new light hath‘ dawn’d on the darkness of yore _ And men shall be slaves and oppressors no more. Hark to the throbbing of thought, In the breast of the wakening world: Over land, over sea, it hath come. The serf that was yesterday bought, To-day his deﬁance hath hurl’d, No more in his slavery dumb, And to-morrow will break from the fetters that bind, And lift a boldarm for the rights of mankind. Hark to the voice of the time! The multitude think for themselves, And weigh their conditions, each one. The drudge has a spirit sublime, And whether he hammers or delves, - He reads when his labor is done; He learns, though he groans under penury’s ban That freedom to think is the birthright of man. . _,_,,,, ’ But yesterday thought was conﬁned; To breathe it was peril or death, \ And it sank in the breast where it rose Now, free as the midsummer wind , » It sports its adventurous breath, And round the wide universe goes; The mist and the cloud from its pathway are curl’d And glimpses of glory illumine the World. 9 7 The voice of opinion has grown; ’Twas yesterday changeful and weak, V Like the voice of a boy ere his prime; To-day it has taken the tone Of an orator worthy to speak, \ Who knows the demand of the time, And to-morrow ’twill sound in oppression’s cold ear- Like the trump of the seraph to startle the sphere. Be Wise, 0 ye rulers of earth! And shut not your ears to the voice, And allow it to Warn you in vain; ;,'< :{< :1: :{< The day has a tongue—-aye, the hours utter speech—- Wise, wise will ye be, if ye learn what they teach! ~Labor Reformer. [Washington Dispatch to the St‘. Louis GZobe.] RAPID GROWTH OF THE FARMEB/S MOVEMENT.‘ The weekly circular issued here from the ofﬁce of the Na- tional Grange gives a statement of the number of subordi- nate and State granges, which illustrates in a striking man- ner the rapid" growth of the organization. On Saturday, the date of latest dispatch, the total number of granges was 8,574; the membership being 643,125.. From the 1st to the 22d ult. the number of granges organized was 789. ‘During the last year the number of new granges ‘organized were 6,257, distributed as follows: January, 153; February, 347; March, 666; April, 571; May..696; June, 625; July, 612; Au- gust, 829; September, 919; October, 1,050; November (22) 789. The highest number organized during anymonth of 1872 was 120; the lowest, 54. The following States have as yet no State granges: Ala- bama, 266 subordinate granges; Delaware, none; Florida, 18; Kentucky, 68; Louisiana, 38; Maryland, 14; Maine, 1; -4 Massachusetts, 14; NewJersey, 21; New Hampshire, 9; Vir- ginia, 9. Of Territories, there are Colorado 24 and Washing- ton 5, while Canada has 8 granges. State granges are organized in the following States and Territories, while the number of subordinate granges names are included in each jurisdiction: Arkansas, 93; California, 117; Georgia, 395; Illinois, 748; Indiana, 633; Iowa, 1,833; Kansas, 679; Michigan, 130; Minnesota, 379; Mississippi, 480; Missouri, 1,097 ; Nebraska, 350; New York, 24: North Caro- lina, 120; Ohio, 218; Oregon, 45 ;;Pennsylvania, 48; South Carolina, 190; Tennessee, 229; Texas, 37 ; Vermont, 31; West Virginia, 22; Wisconsin, 251, and in Dakota, 30. The total number of granges inthe South, or rather former slave States, is 2,946. In New England there are but 44 granges organized, and none are found in Connecticut or Rhode Island. Delaware‘ is the only other State without a grange up to date. The order has grown with great rapidity in the former slave States, especially those in the further South. Singularly enough, the order has its largest existence in South Carolina, as far as the South is concerned. No question of color has yet arisen, and it is believed that that matter is easily con- trolled. The largest number of organized granges are found , in Kansas, according to population, while Iowa and Missouri give the largestpercentage of membership. So far the South- ern adhesions, are from_ the small plantation holders, and appear to be a desirable acquisition. 5 1 4. , woonnum. & CLAFIlIN’S WEEKLY. Jan. 17, 1874. THE INTERNATIONAL WORKINGMEN’S ASSOCIA- ‘ TION.’ ' At a recent session of the Federal Council of the Inter- national Workingmen’s Association, held in this city, the ‘ following memorial to the Hon. B. F. Butler was adopted: B. IT‘. BUTLER, M. 0.: . ‘ ‘S7Ir———We woulﬂd respectfully call your attention to a bill reported by Senator Pierce, Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands and Labor, in the last Congress, and laid over under the rules, providing that the United States govern- ment shall provide all citizens of the United States who de- sire to settle on the public lands, with transportation for themselves and families, and also lumber,‘see_ds, tools, food and all other measures for their establishment as farmers on the public lands for the term of one year, the cost of the A same tobe a mortgage on-their farms, payable, with interest at seven per cent., in 7 or 14 years, and a violation of this contract by the emigrant to be a misdemeanor. The passage of this bill would build up the Western States and Terri- tories, and relieve our cities of thousands of strong men, with willing bands, who are now starving in enforced idle- ness while able and willing to work. It is mockery to tell our idle‘laborers who have to struggle day by day for the means, of existence to- go West. If they would they "could not, for they have no means, and are thus compelled to crowd our cities and be idle half the year through inability to better their condition. Giveto the laborer the opportunity to esc'ape from the tenement—house, the ﬁlthy streets’, the slavish life of our cities, and you will receive the thanks and blessings of thousands of poor men, women and children, whose condi- tion to—day is worse than negro slavery ever was. We would call your-attention to the fact that the Canadian government made arrangements with Joseph Arch to give to every Eng- lish laborer who emigrated to Canada 160 acres of land (ﬁve ' acres cleared), a good house, food, seeds, tools and work on the public roads at good wages. Brazil, Australia and other countries do the same for its people. We hope this govern- ment will not refuse to do as much at least for its idle, starv- ing, homeless citizens. I W. A. A. CARSEY, President. G. W. MADOX, Secretary. The foregoing elicited the following reply: BOSTON, Dec. 26, 1873. ‘ Dear St’/r—Your communication containing valuable Sllg. ‘ gestions as to colonization has been received and shall have careful consideration. _ . Accept thanks for the interest in public aﬁairs which die- tates your communication. I am yours, truly, . BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. W. A. A. CARSEY, Esq., No. 42 John street, N. Y. 9 SOCIALISTIO. ‘ A ruogrnsr AGAINST MARRIAGE, READ Air THE CONVENTION or SPIRITUALISTS HELD AT JACKSON, MICI-L, DEC. 12, BY H. J. NEWCOMER, M. 1), Under the new dispensation, we, Drs. Geo. and H. J‘. New- comer, from a legal point of view husband and wife, release each other ,wholly and unreservedly from all claims which the law, as such, givesfeither party over the other. We utter- 1y repudiate and refuse allegiance to any and all man—made laws that assume to hold control ever body or soul of either man or woman. We hold in horror and contempt the pres- ent marriage system, that enslaves women, sanctions prof,-1,1- *tution in itsmost hideous forms, rapes, murder and the transmission of diseases and crimes to future genera,1;j0nS_ We welcome any departure from. the old system of des- potism, and will do what we can to inaugurate in its stead an era of individual freedom. - . Further, we pay just as little respect to divorces as we do to marriage laws. Recognizing the fact, that where the posi- tive and negative forces of the two individual lives do not ohamically assimilate, there is divorce; therefore, we have nothing to ask of legislators or self-constituted‘authorities in matters that concern our personal interests alone. We have got along with entire satisfaction to ourselves, acting upon these principles for the last two years, with, of ofcourse, all due credit to Mrs. Grundy’s oversight. She W111 doubtless elevate her brow and roll up her eyes in horror, at this added evidence Of total d6D1‘3-V1175’; but her facial contor- tions give pain to no one but herself, for we cannot be reach- ed through our sympathies. We object to her having the fem- inine appellation entirely; he is quite as appropriate. We are very sure, as to sex, the old lady is hermaphrodite, and at a loss to knowwhich most becomes her, petticoats or breeches.‘ El As for myself, individually, I have nothing but uncompro- 'mising, war to wage against the institution of marriage as it is. I cannot feel otherwise as long as I see, as I do daily, the abomi- nations it covers with apretended sanctity in the name of law and religion, when the wholeearth is ﬁlled with the wail 7 of agonized hearts in bondage worse than death, and the at- mosphere loaded with the stench of its pestilential exhala- tions. I could give “clinical cases,” asthe profession say, from now till next week this time, of the horrible diseases and miseries, direct results of the beauties of the system, that have come under my observationﬁn the years I have given at- tention to these things; but instead of this or any elabora- tion of the special functions of generation, which would be sep- viceable to the student, I will give a few ideas only, suggestive of ﬁhbughb, on basic principles; hoping that Mrs. Woodhull’s prediction may not prove_ true, that it will never‘ be ne- cessary to lift the curtain and expose to view’ the dark secrets of the respectably married. When the desire was ﬁrst born in me to be -a physician I was lying at 'death’s door from malpractice at the hands of a young man with M. D., attached to-his name, who knew about as much ,of the {oiﬁce of maternity or his duties as obstetrician as a tadpole, and the desire grew into determination in the monthsfollowing that I was obliged to spend in a water—cure to regain my health. A large proportion of the patients, as amatter of - course, were women, and in the multitudes coming and going in that time. net one but was suﬁering from disease of the sexual system,and I presume every man was too, but that I did not have the same opportunitiesfor learning. Though at- tending physicians prohibited patients relating to each other their aches and pains, the atrocities causing these were often communicated from one sympathetic soul to another; and having been behind the scenes more or less in the intervening eighteen years, I can speak‘ advisedly, when I say the same things cannot exist to-day to the same degree, thanks to the few brave women wlzo have emancipated them- selves and made possible the emancipation of all women, just as the stripes from the driver’s whip fell less heavily uponithe bleeding back of the black slave, when those old innovators and agitators began to talk of freedom for the negro.‘ Then my wishes reached no further than to relieve thesewomen, suffering at the hands of men and their own ignorance, placed in the hands of men for medical treatment, to be tortured in many instances by unnecessary examina- tions and exposures. And right here let me tell you in strict conﬁdence, that there are many respectable married women who go to men to be debauched, and are eager for specu- lum examinations and to have pessaries introduced to support the womb who are horriﬁed with the idea of socialfreedom and go into spasms if they hear Woodhull- . ism mentioned. Since then my aspirations have grown and my vision taken a wider scope, and instead of tinkering at symptoms, I pro- pose, with surgeon’s knife,to lay bare the evils that are sapping the foundations of life and making a return to health impos- sible. I may be dubbed quack, if nothing worse, for my heterodoxy, but I assure you I am a “ regular,” lmwever irregular I may speak or act. I believe and know that all the diseases in all their varied forms and manifestations that aﬂlict all humanity, including crimes and insanities, are the direct results of perverted, inverted and misdirected sexu- ality, that have their fountain-head in our present marriage system. This,’ is why I deal blows at marriage: I would direct my efforts at the source of supply. The true physician studies the pathology of his case as well as the symptometol- ogy, and I amentirely convinced that Mrs. VVoodhull’s inves- tigations have’-led her to correct conclusions as expressed in her “ Elixir of Life,” that it is only through the sexual func- tions that the world can be redeemed and the race saved. This subject is occupying the best minds of the profession, as well as the head of this little woman. Prof. Bronson, of New Haven, in an address before a medical convention three years ago, said: “The prevalent belief that the sexual faculty cannot be restrained or directed; that it must always be left to the guidance of senseless instinct; that debauchees, scoundrels, cripples and other incurables should have a right to be represented in the next generation is irrational, not to say monstrous.” And he further adds : “ Our national welfare is in greater peril from reckless breeding than it ever was from rebeldom in arms.” Thoéquestion, “ What shall we do to be saved?” is ascending from earnest hearts all over the land, and it has a deeper signiﬁcance than it ever had before. While the profession are muddling their brains over the how, a woman steps forth and points the way. ’ It will not be gratifying to their self—love or personal inter- , ests. that the people be taught truths in advance of what the profession have; the question of bread and butteris largely involved in this agitation of the social question. ple in more natural relations become healers of each other, the next question’ to settle will be, What shall we do with the doctors? VVhatever the various theories declare as to methods, one truth is potent, stands out clearly deﬁned, and that is, that we must, come back to ﬁrst principles—funda- - mentals. Our theories have all gone to seed on soul salvation. The salvation of what bodies are capable of being saved and generating others that will not need regenerating is the thought of the present. Physiology of reproduction has just begun to unfold its hidden wonders and possibilities—hid- den only because of want of insight. Our teachings on these subjects thus far have been from men, whoserdeclarar tions have been based upon their observations of phenomena from an intellectual standpoint alone. It is eminently ﬁt- ting in this time of the world’s great need, that womau’s keen . intuition, based u-pon knowledge gained from experience, should come to the world’s aid and bring new rev lations in the laws that govern sex, and as highly ﬁtting and proper that she give these truths to the people from the rostrum, the people’s educator. The world’s great need is informed women to teach sexual science; and the time will come when men will not think it beneath their "dignity to sit at the feet of woman and learn wisdom from her lips and be obedient to her commands. The scalpel reveals organs, their location and attachments,- and may claim to, all of nerve and tissue, but not the fact that spirit is generative in a larger sense than the body. It is my opinion that the most far-sighted have caught but faint glimpses of the possibilities that inhere in the cultivated powers of a perfected maternity; nor can they till all re- strictions be removed that prevents full use of her powers in experiment. ' ' , Maternity isdrawn in with the ﬁrst breath of the-female infant, if not before, and is manifest at a year old as the little mother embryo caresses .her ﬁl‘Sl3 doll with wise direction, during the formative period of girl-life. This germ in woman- hood would blossom into beautiful fruitage in a state of free- dom. ’ I , Objectors to social freedom, compare this with the precious young lady of the period, of ten years, conversant with all the methods of preventing conception and pro- ducing abortions! Child-murder comes only from the en- forced state of ownership. When woman assumes her inheri- tance and with it the right, while doing society its highest service, to draw from‘ its resources all the aids to best per- form herwork, she will not Itriﬂe as now with the highest privilege, but instead will tremble with awe in view of the responsibilities of starting on the road "of the eternities an immcrtal,whose destiny is ﬁxed, to an immeasurable extent, by the bias she has given its ante-natal life ;-—-withfa divine consecration she would__ b;;ix_1g all best powers qf_hpgly fwd soul to. the work. ° " ' " . A ‘ If the peo- This can only come from the enlightenment that will re- sult from entire sexual and social freedom. Seeing this, let every lover of his kind lay ax to the root of the old upas tree, marriage, and hurl it root and branch into the oblivion it merits——a relic of the worst form of barbarism that ever cursed the race. ‘Let not conservatives, trembling in fear of losing their respectablity, waste their time and energies in trying to purify and resuscitate the decaying old system: ‘ there is/not vitality enough to bear the amputations, it is seal- ‘ ed all over" with death, and left to itself would fall with the weight of.its own rottenness. VVe would remove it only to make way for something better before the race is any nearer doomed. Austin Kent says in a late number of the Crucible: “ We as radicals will never succeed in this war against des- potism until we ,welcome the harlot to our ranks as the North did the negro; I ask, why not welcome the prostitu te? Do not let us make ourselves ridiculous, as the boys in blue did at the opening of the rebellion, by refusing to ﬁght be- side the nigger. We are all of a color; if there is a shade of difference it is in favor of the public woman. I have far more respect for her than I have for the one who hangs on to the coat-tail of a man she calls husband, because it is so respect- able, and practices what she don’t preach. To men of the same ilk, too, if there were any, I would suggest what may possi- bly be the cause of no male prostitutes; that is, men have not far enough to fall from their normal standard. Let all join hands—prostitutes, married or otherwise-alld heaven only knows how many forms there are that body and soul are subject ‘to. None have any reason for saying» I am whiter than thou! So labor for universal emancipation ; work to make conditions that prostitution will not be a ne- cessity; then it and the evils which are its offspring will vanish like mist before the rising sun. Light is in direct antagonism to the conditions that foster and perpet- uate it; hence the call is light, more light. I THE STREET WALKER. . [Read beforethe Primary Council of Chicago, Dec. 23, at Union Hall.] Out in the night! hurrying past, All in the wild and the pitiless blast, Walks a young maiden, stricken and sad, The world it looks on and calls her “Bad,” And brutcs in human form reel by ' With drunken oath and leering eye-— / Her slight form shivers, shrinks u ith fear, As their hideous curses fall on her ear. Out in the night and out in the snow, Onward and on with her burden of woe! Down past cathedral and sanctiﬁed dome, In allthe grand city, poor soul, she’s no home! Churches,,_O, Churches! who knocks at your door? Not the wretched and hungry, the sinning and poor; Icy and cold gleam the spires of the town, Seeming to shriek,“ Frown her down, frown her down!” Out in the night out in the snow, Onward and on with her burden of woe! Do thoughts of a happy home rise o’er her way‘? Thoughts of an innocent youth far away, Ere the tongue of the tempter had taught her to stray, And turned into darkness the light of her day? _ Ah, yes, she was once the joy and the pride "Of the sunny-faced mother who long ago died. Woe, woe, Christian mother, there’s something amiss, What if your little daughter should e‘er come to this? Out in the ni ,rht and outin the snow, Onward and ouwith her burden of woe! Where are the priests and where are the saints? Have they no car for her lieart-broken plaints‘? No; they’re asleep on their couches of down“, What do they care for the girl on the town. Oui in the night and out in the snow, Onward and on with her burden of woe! Leaving her lair in you low, drunken den, Filled with the fallen ones, women and men; On past the hell-hole where nightly they meet, All those poor out-casts, just from the street, “With a sigh for forgiveness, alast prayer to Heaven, On, on to the river she’s recklessly driven. One splash! thank God shc’s courage to sink Down ’neath the river’s cold, icy brink; Sinking to soar and falling below, All her deep bitterness, sorrow and woe. Down fall the snow-ﬂakes over her face, Vciling her brow with a beauty and grace, Printing a kiss on her bosom of snow,. The only pure kiss since the days long ago. On the cold wave, with a smile on her brow, Floats the abandoned one, happier now; 'Icy and cold gleam the spires of the town, I Seeming to say “ Cast her down, Cast her down!” He, the A11 Father, living and kind, Can see where humanity’s vision is blind; She whom men cursed as a “ strumpet and bawd,” The angels have borne to the gateway of God. HATTIE CARPENTER, 706 VV. Monroe street, Chicago. Under the heading of “ A Happy Couple,” the San Fran- cisco Figcwo sends us the following report. specimen of insane legislation _on the Social Question: “Anastasia Holt brought suit for a divorce against her hus- band, Thomas W. Ilolt, on the ground of cruelty. Thomas ﬁled a complaint against her, allegingintemperance, violence and cruelty to him. -Judge Dvvinelle has decided that it would never do to separate this ‘happy couple, and has de- nied the divorce. ‘ Those whom God hath .l0iUed lJ09-”€__tl1€‘I'16t no man put asunder.’ Now the only resource Mr‘. Holt has, is to keep his wife well supplied with the worst quality of whisky, and in course of time death will divorce these two happy ones. It is sometimes necessary to grants. divorce when one of the parties to the marriage contract is made miserable by the other; but when both desire its dissolution, it would merely encourage ilnmorality to grant their peti- tion. The divorce law, as it is iI1t9I‘PI“6l39d by 311550 D'WiD- eue, g1(y,~,g,,1;,o1, aﬂford m__u9h. 1;el_i.;ei‘i.s married. people whc hens It is a singular ‘ Jan. 17, C1874. _-WOODHUI.L & CLAF‘I.IN°s WEEKLW I r estly agree to differ, and ask the law to dissolve the contract which the law recognized.” If a man and woman can be united on the principle that “ both parties are agreed,” itought to obtain also when both parties are agreed upon an annulment of their contract also. At least, people who are notjustices of the peace have the right so to believe. i THE TEMPLE OF,SOCIALISM.——N 0. II. A true science of society must be based upon three propo- sitions: ° ’ 1st. Human institutions should harmonize with the nature of man, and supply our collective or common wants. Underlying this proposition is the still more general one—— that the social faculties are governed by natural laws. ‘ The proof of the latter will develop as we proceed. The truth of our ﬁrst proposition will be admitted by every one, unless by those who accept the doctrine of total depravity and who believe that the nature of man should be cruciﬁed instead of developed. ' ' Our ﬁrst business is to learn what classes of wants are to be supplied by any and every social organization. To ascer- tain this we must ﬁnd out what are the‘ sources of our Wants, and this leads to proposition 2d. Each want of the individual or of society must arise from or be related to some faculty. That this is a truth, no one can doubt who thinks of the subject for a -moment. Yet, as no socialist has noticed this truth, we must illustrate it brieﬂy, although we have already done so in a previous article. We are led at once to an analysis of the faculties themselves, for these are the factors which produce all social action. What person would expect . to discover and learn the science of chemistry if he did not study carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and other chemical ele- ments? Yet Herbert Spencer has talked a whole year about Sociology in the Popular Science Monthly without once touching these faculties, these elements of all social life. How much longer shall we be humbugged by pretenders to social science, who snuff the dust of history and blow it in our faces, instead of studying the living man and living needs of to-day? Let us exercise our common sense in the matter. “But,” says some one, “this method is so abstruse_ and difficult and new.” Indeed, we answer; is it diﬁicult to understand when we say that because we have a faculty of Reason therefore we have a need of science and a right to know the why and wherefore of things; that because we have Friendship we have also a need of friends: that our In- . tegrity relates us to the principle of justice and makes that a need. of our being; that. Parental love relates us to children and gives us a right in this respect, and so on to the end of the catalogue of twenty-four leading faculties? If this method is not the simplest possible, then we would like to have the simpler one pointed out. How did Lewis and the modern gymnasts devise a system of gymnastics which calls into action and develops every muscle of the body? They did it simply by considering what muscles composedthe body and what motions belonged to each muscle. If they had omitted to note one-third of the muscles, their ‘system would have failed to just that extent. It is equally evident that "in social science we must analyze the faculties /from which our wants spring before we can know whether any proposed institutions are adapted to them. It is very true that this method is a new one. And we have a right to ask if the old method has been or can be suc- cessful. That method consisted in consulting history and experience, and learning what provisions men have made for supplying their social wapts through organizations of all the various kinds. They have tried this method for at least six thousand years, and they point to the United States as its best exempliﬁcation. Now, all thinkers and scientists agree that our faculties consist of three great classes—Intellect, Affection, and Volition. These, in practical life, give rise to knowledge, association, and industry. It is an indisputable truth, that from each of these classes society has common or collective wants, which can only be met by concerted action, or, in other words, by organization. Our government has three departments'—-legislative, judicial, and executive. The legislative department decides what the laws shall be; that isa function of the intellect. The judicial determines when the laws have been transgressed; that, also, is a function of the intellect. And the executive department carries the laws into practice; that is a, function of volition. The govern- ment has two departments to represent the wants of the in- tellect, and one to represent those of volition, while it has none at all to represent aﬁection or the social faculties—the central member of this great trinity. What warrant had the framers of our Constitution for this fatal omission? Sim- ply that the statesmen who preceded them had all made a like mistake! They violated a fundamental law of man’s na- ture and of all organization whatever. If Nature had left the social faculties out when forming the mind, then men never would have associated; we would have had no society at all. Yet even Mrs. Woodhull, inter proposed “ Constitu- tion of the United States of the World,” notwithstanding all of its admirable provisions for reform, still clings to the de- fective trinity of legislative, judicial, and executive depart- ments. ’ A But it may be urged that our government has wisely left the wants of the social class to be supplied by the action of the people themselves. Were it true that they could be an- swered in this way, it would still be a false and abortive method“. Nature has united intellect, affection, and volition- in the constitution of the mind, by one system of laws, and by equally inseparable laws has she united the practical spheres of knowledge, association, and industry, which are their outward expression. So long as weseparate in the con- stitution Of Society what Nature has so ﬁrmly united in the constitution of man, just so long will the structure of soci- ety fail to meet the-wants of humanity, and disappoint our expectations. Besides, it is not true that the people have provided or will provide for this great omission, as we shall see while con- sidering proposition a 3d. Every leading faculty of the mind must be represented. in the structure of society by an officer. This is based upon the universal law that all action in na- ture takes place around central points. Every crystal, every organic cell, every world, and every system, of worlds hasits centre or centres of action. Our government says in theory “ we leave you perfectly free to secure integral culture and harmonic lives if you choose.” But it is not enough that out- ward restraints be removed. Freedom means more than that. It means that there be deﬁnite means and instruments for securing the gratiﬁcation of our wants. Whenever na- ture requires a functionto be ﬁlled, she provides an organ for 'it. She does not say to man ‘.‘ I will leave you free to breathe, but will give you no lungs; you may be free to see, but I will give you no organs of vision.” Can man rise above his own nature, above all law and all sense? . All history testiﬁes that whenever and wherever men have acted together they have had leaders, either“ tacitly or open- ly chosen. The officers of societyshould represent and lead in supplying the wants of society. That this is true, is at once seen by making the opposite proposition, that the offi- cers should lead in supplying what we do not need. Men cannot act in concert without. having a pivot of order, and to. supply this want every society or association‘ elects a Chairman, President or Chief. Societies need common wealth to use, and to supply this want arising from the organ of Acquisition, they choose a Treasurer; they need records, and for this want springing from Memory, they elect a See- retary, Clerk or Recorder. In like manner they have repre- sented Integrity by judges; Destruction, Baseness and De- fence by the army; Feeling by sentinels and a signal corps; Appetite by cooks and suttlers. Every officer represents some faculty. We ﬁnd by a critical examination of every kind of association -or society (including the civil government also), which exists in our present civilization, that there are offi- cers which represent twelve of the leading faculties, while no provision whatever is made for the other twelve. Represented Faculties. , Unrepresented Faculties. Form, Unition. Attention, Filial love, Color, Integrity, Reason, Fraternity, Memory, Self-esteem, Prevision. Reform, V Feeling. Defense,_ Devotion, Philan thropy, Appetite, * Destruction, ‘((101.13 ugal) Serenity, Acquisition, Baseness. Fidelity. Laudation. \ Parental love, N 0 person ever has given or ever can give a reason whythe faculties on the right of this table should not be represented in the social structure as well as thoseon the left. The so- cial wants arising from them are no less imperative and no less universal. We propose to ‘organize a form of society in which each of the twenty-four leading faculties and of the two brain centers shall be represented by an oiﬁcer or leader. We would carry out to its complete and'harn-ionized result that which men have been doing in a partial and discordant way from the earliest times. ARTHUR Mnnron, M. D. ANOTHER ORTHODOX LIE N AILED TO THE CROSS. It .has long since become a settled fact that the trinity in the Godhead is a Catholic lie, made only by the authority of the Catholic Council of Nice, where they made the Christian God conform to the Hindoo Vishnu, who had three faces on one pair of shoulders; so they, by putting Jehovah and Jesus and the Ghost of the latter into-one person, made it conform to the image on the Ganges, and wove Pagan idola- try into Christianitya It was not difficult to do it, since all the persons were imaginary, both in trinity and unity of Godhead. Science has long since, with mathematical cer- tainty, nailed this fable to the Catholic cross, where it will be cruciﬁed with other falsehoods. Next comes the dual unity of two persons made into one by the marriage ceremony of a priest, which usually makes the one, the man, by, so far as it can, extinguishing the wo- man, dropping her paternal name, and, as far as possible, her personality in law and inbusiness transactions. Long and sad experience has proved that the two are never made one. They do not both die at once, as they would if they were one. When the husband murders, the wife is not hanged if he is, as she would have to be” if they were one. When the man gets drunk, she is often sober, which would not be if they were one. When one dies, the other often getsa sec- ond or a third in their place, which could not be if both were one. They often quarrel with each other, which proves they are two and not one. However much they may love each other, they are never one, and never can be, since they are born separately and die separately, and are two souls and bodies forever, if they have existence at all. The wife isnot a relict of the dead husband any more than the husband is a relict of the dead wife. Husband and wife are never one, hence the Church told a lie when she declared it so. The twain are not “ one ﬂesh ” nor one spirit, and hence the individuality of each should be protected the same in marriage as out of it, and the same in person against the partner as against any other person. - / A wife of a clergymanlately told a friend of ours that her husband, by authority of the Bible and its command, com- mitted rape on her, often almost causing her death, and yet she had no legal remedy and no sympathy from her Christian sisters. He insisted that she was his property and must obey. Were they one?‘ Mathematically, this is false; socially, it is false, and in every sense -in which it can be viewed it is. false; and now it is time we had woman fully and fairly and equally repre- sented and protected in the marital relation, and that can best be done by repealing all special laws of marriage and divorce, and putting matrimony into the general law of civil contracts, allowing the parties to make and unmake the con- tract themselves, and then the prospective children will be providedlfor by the mother, and she will not submit to rape nor to unwelcome maternity, as she will have the law to de- fend her person, andthe contract also, if she is wisevin mak- ing it. 7 - . As marriage now is, there-is no provision for the children, and the mother seldom has P0.Vver to limit the number or to prevent undesired maternity, and consequently has more children than she desires. Every day we read of severe or fatal effects of man’s sup-V posed property in woman under the marriage law, which pre- tends to make the two intoone by giving the woman to the man and placing her person in his keeping; and yet we are told there is no need of a Woman’s Emancipation Society, because woman is not enslaved. If ownership is not slavery, we do not know what is. ’ VVe have just read a case in point- A husband and wife quarreled and separated, and had not I lived together for over two years; but the woman had found a man that she loved, and he loved her, and when the legal owner found they were enjoyingthe company of each other, he lay in wait and murdered the man that she loved, and the law, no doubt, will justify‘ him. WARREN CHASE. 9>——<————-—-——— _ SPIRITUALISTIC. [From the 0/li0(ZQ'0 Tribune.] LECTURE OF GERALD MASSEY ON JESUS CHRIST AS A SPIRITUALIST. ~ Gerald Massey, orie of the most popular of English modern poets, delivered a lecture yesterday evening at the West side Opera House, on the corner of Randolph and J efferson streets,before a very full audience. The lecturer was expected to solve a problem in which the bulk of mankind are "deeply interested, viz. : “ Why does not God kill the devil?” but a change of subject was made, and the discourse treated of Jesus Christ from a Spiritualistic pointof view. The lecturer gave the audience a very different Saviour from the one they had been accustomed to, he denying to" the Redeemer the divinity which Christians-invest him with, and characterizing him as a medium. As a proof of Christ’s not possessing God- like powers, he instanced his cry on the cross of “My God, my Godlwhy hast thou forsaken me! ” stating that if he himself had been God, he would not have submitted to the fearful torture 011 the cross. As a proof that Christ was only a spiritual medium, such as are to be found at the , present, day, he spoke of the miracle of the conversion of the water into wine, and said that the answer of Christ to his mother, “ Woman, whatghave I to do with thee, mine hour is not yet come,” was given while he was in communion with the spir- its. The lecturer thought that the twenty years of our Saviour’s life of which no account is given in any of his bi- ographies was spent in learning the mysteries of Spiritual ex- perts, by the means of which he was subsequently enabledhto gain a supremacy over the minds of his disciples. Thelecture was quite interesting, and at times touched upon the verge of eloquence, but the lecturer’s utterance was rather too rapid, and his diction at times too ﬂippant, to allow of a fa- vorable impression being created throughout. SPIRITUALISM IN THE WEST. The advent in California of the wonderful medium, C. H. Foster, has caused quite a revival in Spiritualism. Hun- dreds, who were inclined to believe that their friends who had died were in an entirely different sphere from that which they occupied while alive, have become convinced that they are within speaking distance, and that there is no great gulf ﬁxed between the dead and the living. People who are thus convinced will not make such a fuss about dying. It is. ab- surd that people have not yet got used to ‘dying, when it has _ been going on for so many years. No one has ever f‘ exposed” Foster yet, and all who visit him are convinced that what he does and says, though‘ inexplicable by any ordinarymeans, is simple enough if. it is at once admitted that a man when he gets out of his body does not fly off into illimitable. space, but is still attracted to this earth, and remains round taking considerable‘ interest in the affairs of this life, which he once shared in. People who believe that John Smith, when he dies, becomes an angel and loses all recollection of ever hav5 ing been plain John Smith, cannot imagine‘ his talking through a medium ‘to people who still live. “Those who are convinced that John Smith, when dead, is still John Smith, and still retains an interest in all that pleased him before he shuffled off this mortal coil, think it the mostnatural thing‘ in the world that Mr. Smith should talk to his friends in much the same way as he was accustomed to when alive. Accord~ ing to the old theology, Shakspeare, immediately after his death, lost all his intellectual power and became an angel. Now, an angel is very good, no doubt, very lovable and much to be respected, but we have no revelation concerning the intellectual powers of any angel, save one, and we are told that his brains got him into trouble. Seriously speaking, if we believe that departed spirits retain their individuality, is there anything strange in their being able not to revisit this earth, for perhaps they have never left it, but to com- municate with those whom‘ they love? If this be not true, then Foster must know everybody that anybody else ever knew, and be able to tell all their secrets. It is very lucky that he did not live two hundred years ago, if he thinks long life a blessing.——'S0m Francesco‘ Figaro. = , LAWRENCE, Kansas, Dec.-25, 1873. The following is a specimen of many letters and more ver- bal messages I have received since"the Chicago Convention. This one is from one of the most active and prominent Spiritualists of Illinois; and it is not only like the words of encouragement I get from persons in this life, but the uni- versal expression to me from the spirit world is of the same kind on the social question; and whoever deserts the cause of the spirits, he or she need not look for me to accompany them,'especially on the subject of social freedom, which 1 have advocated for-over twenty years nearly as I do now, viz., to make nodistinction between the sexes in the laws, and make marriage a civil contractby general and "not by special law. WARREN CHASE- MR. WARREN CHASE: A I ; - Dear Str-Excuse this impulsive letter from a stranger. / 1 am prompted to write. you a few Words: of 011681‘, Sympathy» 6 ‘ _ wooDHULL J3 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. flan. 1'7, 1874.. and commendation—yes; admiration, love and esteem‘. Yesterday one of our oldest leading Spiritualists in this place remarked to my query after your health and where- abouts: “ 0, Mr. Chase has ruined‘ himself! He has gone with the Woodhull faction—that abominable clique.” This friend is quite feeble. I had called to see how he was getting along, and thought it best” not to introduce any criticism upon the “ social question ;” but if ever I drew a sigh for our cause, it was then drawn. My heart ached for blind and imi- tative man—thoughtless, unreasoning, conﬁding creature! And while I blush with shame at the intimidation and re- serve of those who have lived to know the truths as enun- ciated by Mrs. Woodhull, I feel impatient, to call it no worse, to see one-half of those calling themselves Spiritualists so ﬁrmly wedded to old orthodox usages, and so tenacious of customs that have proved inadequate to reform and improve the physical and intellectual man. As the germ, so the plant; as the plant. so the fruit. How pure, how simple, how plain! Procreation is as much a legitimate province in Spiritualism as bathing is in higiene. Now, it is refreshing to see that all the barking is being done by the “poodles ”-—not one mas- tiff has the opposition got. Do not be afraid to throw your- self into this breach in the spiritual ranks. The second sober thoughts of the people will extol your efforts and honor that name they now seek to anathematize. The “ reasoning fanatic ” of to-day will be the “ sage ” of to-morrow and the “ saint ” of coming time. _ , Rest assured I read your articles in the WEEKLY and the Banner and other papers with much pleasure, and count it only a questionof time when all intelligent Spiritualists will join you heart and hand. ' Respectfully yours, ‘S. D. G. MICHIGAN STATE SPIRITUAL ASSOCIATION. REPORTOE THE EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING or THE MICHI- GAN STATE SPIRITUAL ASSOCIATION, IN CONVENTION ASSEMBLED. V _ Agreeable to notice, the Convention met in Union Hall, in the City of Jackson, on the 12th ult., E. C. Manchester, Pres- ident, in the chair. . On motion, the usual committees were appointed by the President. . While the committees were arranging business for the con- vention, the time was occupied in short speeches on a variety of subjects. Elijah Woodworth opened the conference upon the religions of the past and present. He said “Ancient Pa- ganism had two administrations, one pertaining to the real and another to the ideal world, but the latter developed only blind idolatry: while Judaism ended in unproﬁtable superstition. The Christian churches combined the two, but with no better results ‘for the development of true knowledge. That a new era has dawned on earth; the spirit world is brought nearer and must be better understood and more fully realized.” ’ Daniel Hull said he had lived more than three score and ten years in experience since he last lectured in Jackson,. but it had served to make him more ﬁrm«in all the present movements of our radical reformers. The social reform being one of the basic principles upon which to establish a free and independent nation, he stood ﬁrm for its advance- ment, asking no quarter and giving none. \ Benjamin Todd said his reputation had been kicked about until he had thrown it away as worthless, but his moral char- acter had passed unscathed, and no man would lay a hand upon it. [Cheers.] The question of socialism is not a side issue. Spiritualism must be broad enough to include all lib- ﬂ Aeral ideas and all progressive movements, or it will fail in its struggle to lay its foundation upon Nature and Nature’s God. Salem witchcraft was only an eﬁort of the spirit world to introduce itself among men. but it had to be abandoned. The world was not ready for it. Spiritualism is too univer- ' sal to ever become a sect. The great contest between Prot- estant sectarianism and Spiritualism and Liberalism, must end in one or the other being driven to the wall, and we be- lieve the victory for Spiritualism is inevitable. [Cheers] Mr. E. Sprague, said _Spiritualism is a high and holy issue. Its object is to improve and spiritualize all that is low, gross and sensual. Thereare none, however degraded and de- based, but have aspirations to become more like the angels or Deity himself. How can we become so, if not through the beautiful teachings set forth in our philosophy? How can we——how can I live a better life? Mrs. L. E. Drake said she did not know as she could answer the brother’s question satisfactorily, butif he could not live a better life, doubtless it was owing to his peculiar organiza- tion. Those who, have not the ‘ higher organs sufficiently 0. developed to control the lower ones, must struggle on, giving the right conditions and applying the remedies nature has provided, and leave time to do its work. Spiritualists have . lived too long in the ideal, talking about the angels and beautiful ﬂowers in the spirit world, to the exclusion of prac- tical work. What we propose to do in the future,’ is to lay hold on the errors of the present, and wherever we ﬁnd an abuse, correct it, whether in politics, religion, domestic life, or anywhere else. Mr. C. D. Grimes" said the only way‘to live right is to live out the Divinity that is within you. N 0 soul but has a germ of God in it; but it must be fostered and not checked, and men should be left to live out their own individualities, and not forced to accept any model or creed. , _ The committees not being ready to report, on motion the Convention adjourned tomeet on Saturday morning at nine o’clock. ‘ MORNING sEssIoN. Meeting called to order by the Presidents, Elijah Woodworlth, in behalf of the committee appointed at the last Annual Convention to visit Spiritual Conventions in other States, made a verbal report. He stated that he found everywhere the cause in a more ﬂourishing condition than he had expected; that all seemed anxious to promote the interests of spiritual truth, but not in proportion to their respective abilities. Those who were most willing to give. had a scanty store from which to draw, and often those who’ had much gavethe least. Notwithstanding such hindrances, he predicted prosperous times ahead." Mr. Todd made a report of the missionary labor during the‘ year. A good number of mass meetings had been held in diﬁerent parts of,the State, all of which had been well re- ceived by the people, and the missionaries kindly and hes- pitably entertained. Though the way was small the prospects were hopeful. Mr. Todd also reported as adelegate of the National Convention at Chicago, recommending the plan of ‘organization there adopted. A _ Mrs. Marion Todd, being the ﬁrst speaker in order, took thevrostrum, and, after reading a poem entitled “ 1 Wish It were Respectable,” spoke for half an hour, in ‘an earnest, logical manner, characteristic of this popular lecturer and writer. ' ‘ Mr. M. L. Sherman, of Adrian, then spoke for ‘half an hour, in which time he spoke of his late arrest on a charge of blas- phemy. He also pictured many of the inconsistencies of the Old Testament and Bible; quoted the passages, one" of which says that anger rests only in the bosom of fools; another, that the Lord is angry with the wicked every day; still another, that if the prophets be deceived, I, the Lord, have deceived them. “ If,” said Sherman, “to call such a being a fool and a liar’is blasphemy, then I am a blasphemer.” Your humble servant then spoke for a short time on the present movements of the united Protestant Churches to amend the Constitution of the United States so as to estab- lish the Jewish Bible as the basis of all law, and Jesus Christ as the king of nations. All seemed ready to give their pro- test against such a movement. - , AFTERNOON SESSION. Meeting called to order at.2 o’clock, by the President. The committee on resolutions reported as follows: Resolved. 1. Tliatwe renew our devotion to the cause of Spiritualism and human progress. honoring all men . and women in holding and advocating their highest convictions upon any and all subjects; and that we earnestly recom- mendorganized efforts on the part of all liberalists in defend- ing the great principles of liberty, regardless of all minor differences. 2 ' 2. That the agitation of the political, religious, social and commercial world, shows plainly that our institutions are rotten to the core. 3. That perfect freedom, united with justice, is the uni- versal panacea for our present ills. . ,4. That proper generation requires the philosophical atten- tion of all, as being of more importance than regeneration. 5. That the only open door out of our social diﬂiculties is the entire abrogation of all merely man-made marriage laws, leaving the sexes free to seek harmonious associations under the laws of nature. 6. That the virtues of life are never pretentious of show; hence that the claim of any Spiritualists by resolutions in‘ a convention to a distinguishable purity, is only the despicable shift of Phariseeism ; and that a covert or avowed refusal to discuss any question of social reform is but apositive evi- dence of cowardice and hypocrisy. 7. That the late course of the Religio-PhilosophicalJournal, in misrepresenting the friends of social freedom, and belying its great principles, meets with our unqualiﬁed disapproba- tion, and that it is unworthy of support in any shape what- ever. 8. That we heartily desire the success of Our Age, and all other journals devoted to the cause of Spiritualism and human progress. Each _resolution was taken separately and}; passed with little or no opposition, save the ﬁfth, which causeda stormy ' debate. An amendment was offered by Dr. Merton, of Battle Creek, deﬁning somewhat the marriage laws as understood by social reformers, and after many remarks, pro and con, was adopted. The motion was then made by Mr. Todd, to recon- sider the amendment, which was carried, and the original resolution was again before the house for discussion. Mr. Merton said the originarresolution was a good one, but the world would not understand it, and hence his de- sire for the amendment. A ., Mi.ss R. Augusta Whiting thought the same, and‘said she wished all such resolutions could be more explicit in their character, thenso many bitter accusations with regard to our social position would cease. A Mr. Todd said he did not care for the curses of the world. He had eversought for truth in every system he felt called upon to investigate, and had long since resolved to speak and act from the standpoint of truth as he saw it, and if the world did not understand it he was not to blame; that the marriage law as it stands to-day is a curse to both the pres- ent and coming generations, and prostitutes many a -feeble woman to the vile abuses of a, debauched and brutal hus- band. [Cheers.]. ” ‘ . s Mrs. Waisbrooker said the world had been cursed long enough by social hells; that the present system of marriage had proved a failure, and the marriage bed was Oftener a couch of pain and suffering than a place of rest; that attrac- tion is the‘ only natural law of marriage. Mrs. Drake said we cannot vote truth up or down; and as we believe thelaws of love and attraction are the only laws that can bind the husband and wife in true marriage, what we want to know is: Can our legislators" make such laws or not? . ~ ‘ -D. W. Hull said he believed that marriage was the grave of love; that he had torn up hislicense to solemnize mar- riage, and will never again be guilty of marrying two by the law as it stands to-day. -. Dr. Spencer said _he believed it right to stand by the laws of this country until better ones could be produced; that as far as he was concerned the marriage law was all right; and if we can get along without the marriage law we can without other laws, and by the abrogation of the marriage law we will lose our inﬂuence in society. I ' - ' Prof. Lyon said he believed the present marriage laiiir det- rimental to the progress of the human race, and -through its oppression the race was physically and morally degener- ating. ’ The hour having arrived for the election of oiﬁcers for the ensuing year, the discussion closed, and the election resulted in the nomination and election of the following ofﬁcers: For President, Mr. E. C. Manchester, of Bedford; for Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Drake, of Plainwell; for Treasurer, Mrs. Mary P. Cummings, of Battle Creek; for Trustees, Frank McAlpine, of Breedsville, Dr. E. VVoodruﬁ', of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Stackholm, of Jackson. On motion, the meeting was adjourned, to meet again at seven o’clock in the evening’. EVENING SESSION. President in the chair. Meeting called to order. The place for the.holding of the Eighth Semi-Annual Convention came up for consideration, and Marshall was agreed upon, and the Semi,-Annual Convention is to convene in that city on the second Friday of June, A. D. 1874, at nine o’clOck P. M. Professor Lyon, of Adrian, gave the lecture for the even- ing, upon the subject, “ The changes that Spiritualism has brought about in twenty-ﬁve years.” He said that spirit communion was not all that Spiritualism had taught us. It has also taught us (the opposition of the numerous geologists notwithstanding) that there is not surface enough upon the face of this earth for the people who will come to live upon it for two hundred years longer. That this globe is hollow ;' that in the future the people who now live upon this globe. will become world builders ;‘ that the teachings of the past had said that science was the handmaid of religion, but now science had got the better of old theology, and would yet bring about wonderful developments. That spirit, being composed of a much ﬁner element than the physical. it could penetrate all grosser matter and devise ways and means to accomplish every reform it deems necessary for the develop- ment of earth and its inhabitants. ' The Convention adjourned, to meet Sunday morning at _ nine o’clock A. M. MORNING SESSION. President in the chair." ~Meeting called to order. A motion was made to use the time" for conference in re- considering resolution ﬂve, which was supported. Another motion was made to lay the reconsideration of the resolution on the table. Carried. ‘ A spiritual conference for half an hour then ensued, every participant talking for or against said resolution, which has evidence of an unwillingness with some that "said resolution should stand approved, or a misunderstanding of the princi- ple involved in thesame, while others seemed to understand the true intent of the resolution, indorsing it wholly, but wished for a reconsideration for the beneﬁt of those who did not, while others seemed determined to carry their point at . all hazards. Conference adjourned. Frank McAlpine, the ﬁrst speaker for the morning, was called forward. He stated he was young in the cause, having belonged only three years; that he was frightened in the ﬁrst Convention he attended at Marshall, and doubtless would have been in this had he not attended other conventions during the intervening time. Hethen took up the authority of the bible, giving the acknowledged fact of Mr. Bell that there are 24,000 errors in it. We have worshiped myths and characters long enough, now let us throw them aside and take up principles instead. - V Miss R. Augusta Whiting, the next speaker, gave a short lecture on ‘_‘ Laying the corner-stone for a religious despot- ism.” The speaker claimed that _the corner-stone was al- ready laid in’America, and all that was lacking was the grand parade, the pomp and show that always follow such events to make it public to the world. Liberty is known only in name. Convention adjourned, to meet at two o’clock P. M. Afternoon session called to order by the President. Lois Waisbrooker gave the ﬁrst lecture, and as we are in- formed said lecture is to be printed in full, we will not at- tempt a synopsis. Benjamin Todd gave the closing lecture for the Conven- tion, subject, “ Freedom vs. Tyranny and Policy.’_’ When, said Mr. Todd, has this nation ever known what it is to be free? When will it? What has its freedom been? Let the martyrs of New England answer! Let Victoria C. Woodhull " in Ludlow-street jail answer! Let George Francis Train an- swer from the ﬁlthy Tombs in New York city. Let M. D. Sherman, who has been tried before the courts for blas- ‘ phemy,_ answer! And the cry will be, “ freedom is still but but a name.” ' N_o individual whose heart and reasoning powers are pad- locked by the superstition of the age, can be a ﬁt character for the inspiration of the angel world. A true reformer can- not use policy. ‘After the announcement that Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull would give her lecture on the subject, “Elixir of Life; or, Why do we Die?” the Convention adjourned sine die. I have thought best not to mention the two lectures of Mrs. Woodhull in the report of the Convention, as it has been somewhat lengthy, and therefore shall prepare an article for publication in regard to Mrs. Woodhull’s lecture on Friday evening and also on Sundayrevening, together with her ar- rest by Judge Videto, and the discharge and protest of the better portion of the citizens of Jackson. V MRS. L. E. DRAKE, Secretary. . [From the N. Y. W0rZd.] SPORADIC CSPOOKS.» % CARNIVAL or DISEMBODIED SPIRITS IN ALL PARTS or THE‘ _ COUNTRY. Like Banquo’s uneasy spirit that would not be laid-like the apparition of Hamlet’s father which indulged a perverted taste for midnight peregrinations amid terrestrial scenes in- stead of passing his hours among celestials, so there are in our day ghosts that persist in wandering in and out of houses inlcnely localities; but Whether, this penchant for making unseemly noises and appearing in places and at times quite improper is the spiritual method of displaying aﬁection, is one of those mooted points which our philosophy has failed. 4' long-suffering and terriﬁed public. .l'an.,l"/', 1874. . to determine. If they would only stop to reflect, if the sober second thought is the correct thing over there, or if a modi- cum of common sense ﬁnds a place in their etherial compo- sition, a decent regard for the opinions of mankind would require a modiﬁcation of the_ decidedly monotonous demon-' strations which, with chronic regularity, they impose upon a If, as some say, we all carry across the border the same passions, habits and tastes as characterize our ﬁnite existence, it is easy to understand what inﬁnite longings such a one as George Francis Train, Susan B.'Anthony, Colonel James Fisk, Jr., and other fel- lows of that ilk, would feel to continue a publicity achieved in mundane circles, accompanied by an insatiable itching of their bright, angelic eyes, to see their names in print. Tak- ing this supposition—which may readily be conceded a rea- sonable onc—-as a logical basis, the entire catalogue of rap- pings, voices down cellar, the clasping of clammy hands in dark rooms, spectral “appearances” and manifold “mani- festations,” too numerous, etc., are readily explained, and the animus of those invisibly so near, and yet from visibilit so far, is at once apparent. , ' ROCHESTER RAPPINGS. Those perturbed spirits in the neighborhood of Rochester are again making night hideous, and just when every one in- terested fondly imagined them quietly meandering about the green pastures of the pale moon (keeping a sharp lookout not to fall into the yawning abyss which is gradually extend- ing along its surface), they suddenly turn up in their old haunts. with a blood-curdling, “Here we are again!” Why Chili, a burg eight miles from Rochester, should be selected, has not been stated, but the omnipresent reporter has been there, the fact has been chronicled in the World, and that ghost, if deserving of public patronage, should now retire and give the one in Oshkosh a fair show. In the house selected by our very thin friend for his carnival, a Mrs. Gas- eoigne took up her residence, several years since, as a house- keeper. “Mr.A.,” as the proprietor himself is designated, shuffled off‘ this mortal coil a few months since, leaving Mrs. Gascoigne, her son, aged twelve, and several smaller ‘chil- dren, the only inhabitants of the house; and shortly after the trouble began. One night as Mrs. Gascoigne was abed with the children up-stairs, she was awakened by the sound of heavy footsteps down-stairs in the room where Mr. A. had slept and died. She got up, and, with the children, thoroughly searched the house, but found nobody. On retiring again, the same sound was heard, and a‘ sleepless night for the occu- pants of the house was -the result. Night after night the same demonstrations continued, varied in such a way as to render them still more alarming. Mrs. Grascoigne is not a woman to be easily disturbed by imaginings of supernatural inﬂuences, yet so regular and persistent were these disturb- ances that she informed some of the neighbors, who very naturally laughed at her. She then besought two men with whom she was acquainted to "pass a night in the house, which they did, and the same hideous demonstrations occurred and baffled all their attempts to unravel the mystery. The men came night after night, and resorted to every means to detect the cause of the unnatural sound. Yet they were re- _ peated, never missing a night, beginning between eleven and twelve o’clock and continuing till about two A. M. The foot- steps, as described by Mrs. Gascoigne, are in perfect imita- tion of the familiar steps of the late Mr. A., and many other sounds of such a character as tends to enforce the belief, against all reason, that they are produced by him. Some- times it appears, by the creaking noise of the slats, as if he were sitting upon the bedside, as he was wont to do in pull- ing on his boots, the stamping of his feet“ being distinctly heard; and he is then heard to walk through the rooms and ‘ascend the stairs. Even the little rat terrier, an old member of the family which sleeps with some of the chil- dren, is aroused nightly, and jumps from the couch to bark at the supposed intruder. All the doors and windows are kept tightly barred, and there is no avenue of escape for any person. Sometimes the moving of chairs and other ponder- able objects is plainly heard, but on immediately going to the locality of their disturbance, they are invariably found in the same position in which they were left. At times a single whistle of an apparent human voice, shrill and distinct, has been heard, to which the dog has promptly responded. This has been kept up for months, and as a dormer resort Mrs. Grascoigne has consulted a,Rochester lawyer. Perhaps she has heard that lawsuits last forever, and so expects to get I a tangible hold upon Mr. A. before the case is terminated in the assizes of eternity. A I BUFFALO WANTS ‘rrs SPIRIT, T00. There is nothing more intense than the rivalry of small towns for pre-eminence in the matter of sensations. No sooner had Rochester got its ghost dressed up in good shape for the public, than Buffalo, with a pride which none can fail to respect, discounted its neighboring city with a supernatural appearance that evinced a remarkable fondness for his old apartments over a stable—-hardly a compliment to his new place of abode. As the story ran, two or three months since, 13. F. Sherman,‘ a popular and well-known citizen of Buffalo, died suddenly from apoplexy or something of that nature. He was agent of the American Express Company, having charge of the transfer freights and the house of the com- pany. He had rooms over the stables of the company, ﬁtted‘ up elegantly. He enjoyed the respect and esteem of the company, and his death was sincerely lamented. The com- pany permitted the widow to keep the ‘rooms.’ Everything passed along as usual after the funeral until two or three weeks since, when Mrs. Sherman one evening was startled at hearing the footsteps of _her husband on the stairs. He walked invisibly into the room, sat upon the bed and pulled off hisboots. She fled in terror from the room, but soon made up her mind that her imagination had conjured up the scare, and she returned to her room. The next evening the thing was repeated, and this time the men in the barn plainly heard the steps of the departed man onithe stairs. Friends were called in who heard the same thing and the noise of his sitting ‘upon the bed and pulling off his boots, Mrs. Sherman at last, thoroughly alarmed, lied. the house, _ fore. 'WOODHULL as oLA»rLIN’s WEEKLY‘. ‘ j J “i E’ and positively refuses to return under any condition. This was the newspaper version, but the iconoclast of the Buffalo C'ommcrct'alAdcert'1'ser knocks the bottom out of that story, by asserting that the only fact stated was the respect and esteem entertained for Mr. Sherman. A simple dream of’ Mrs. Sherman’s gave rise to the remainder of the ﬁction. THE GUINEA HILL GOBLIN. Pottsville, Pa., has a feminine spirit, which has an uncom- fortable habit of crying out, “My God! don’t kill me! I didn’t do it I’.’ to accompaniment of what resembles in sound a pair ofheavy boots stamping upon a human body. And all this, too, just as people happen to be passing at midnight. The men who ﬁrst heard these terriﬁc cries forhelp ran to a neighboring house for assistance, and upon returning they ‘were greeted with a repetition so much more frightful that they effected a Bull Run retreat, tumbling pell-mell down the hill in their excitement. Finally the party returned. Arriving at the house the horrible sound greeted their ears again, but this time they nobly stood their ground,'and the battle was opened by one of the number throwing a stone at the third-story window. In a few moments the window went up, and a hand holding a candle, behind which was "a face as black as Erebus, was seen. The face looked down and said: “ What you want down dar ?” The owner was in- formed that there were spooks in ‘the house, which was a new piece of information to him, and he manifested his cour- age by lying in bed and peeping through an air-hole in the blanket. The house. however, was searched, and as usual there was nothing revealed to the gaze of the suspecting par- ties. Others who were passing the house at midnight state that they distinctly heard the noise, and as this is the house in which Alvina Saylor met her death at the hands of Buck Shultz, there is no reasonable doubt as to the genuineness of the manifestations. A WEIRD BOATMAN. A Detroit paper tells a terrible tale of a boat that was re- cently discovered in that port. There was a man at the stern with the rudder clutched in his hands. Motionless he sat, while the boat drifted nearer and nearer by the action of the waves. Two farmers were driving along the beach and watched the incoming craft. Horrible sight! The man at the rudder was dead! His legs were almost covered with ice as far up as the knees, and the spray had dashed over his , back and shoulders and frozen there.’ No one. could say how long he had been aﬂoat or when death overtook him; but he must have been dead at least three days or more. There was neither mast nor sail to the boat, and there was nothing in but the one oar, showing that the poor fellow had not in- tended along trip anywhere, and that he must have been blown off the shore. He had used his car to keep before the wind, and had died at his post. A CALIFORNIA HOUSE FULL’ or SPIRITS. .The 9‘ Spirit Artists’ House,” as it is called, located near San Francisco, is exciting an uncomfortable degree of excite- ment on. the coast. A private letter to -an Eastern journal says of it: “ The house stands in a retired spot, and was occupied by a spirit artist. Since he left it hasbeen rented by avery ﬁne family—no believer in Spiritualism. Of late" a great many faces and forms are seen on the window. Different counte- nances constantly come and go. Some visitors can see many.‘ while others cannot see any. When we arrived we looked at the windows, and they seemed clear and shadowless. The lady of the house said that if we wished to see anything we must look from the outside. We all went out. and there were the faces.’ We. saw an old gentleman, who appeared to be about seventy years of age. We could see just below his shoulders. He had long white ﬂowing beard, and was per- fect in form. I saw on another pane of ‘glass another elder- ly man’s head, with side whiskers. After gazing at him a minute a little girl" came and leaned, against his cheek. All could see the man’s face, but no one could see the little girl but myself.‘ She seemed as life-like to me as though a child stood there. She would come and go, and sometimes I could distinguish her and sometimes I could not. The lady of the house would go in and pass her hands up and down the" window, and the forms would seem to be in the room and not on the window. It all seemed very strange. This lady has two sons;-young men—~and they make all manner of fun about it,,saying it is all imagination. .The mother told me that one evening, one of her sons was sitting in the room, laughing about it, and there- came two faces on the window right before him. One was a young lady and the other a lit- tle girl. I asked her if they were faces he had ever seen be- She said the young lady’s face was very familiar to many in San Francisco. She remarked that he did not laugh any more about it.” ‘ A SPORTIVE SPOOK IN MISSOURI. As a rule, when Old faces glimmer through the doors, Old footsteps "tread the upper ﬂoors,- it occurs after the sun has fled, withall the accessories of darkness to give additional eclat to the affair. In fact, it has from precedent become dc regieur for the late lamented to make his, her, or its appearance at the witching hour when cemeteries are engaged in performing an act which one W. Shakespeare has vulgarly described in an old book of his as a yawn. But old habits and requirements along with the ten commandments and ancient faiths and creeds, have gone to the dogs, which may satisfactorily account for the heartfelt .earnestnes's and cur-ageous determination with which they “ bay the moon.” There have been skeptics who would not believe their senses—-possibly with valid reasons for‘ doubt- ing—insisting that none but angels from a place the mention of which causes ears polite to burn in antici'pati0I1. W0111d choose the night-time for their coming. No longer can such lay thisfiattering unction to their cowardly consciences, for in Missouri an intangible Samson has made himself manifest in broad daylight. There is nothing of a sneak about him, but with a. soul so big that a body was quite out of the ques- tion. he loafs around on L’-Oms Creek, about twelve miles west of Chamois, in the State mentioned. Delightfully un-A ‘V1 ( orthodox in his visiting hours, so is he in his otherhabits. Instead of coming up to the door of Mr. Rufus Burchard’s ‘Moated Grr'ange,”.,and knocking thereat, he playfully hoists a stone from the yard, and when it is high enough over the roof for his purpose, lets go of it. The result is it drops down, and the family who are quietly at dinner jump up. At least, they did at ﬁrst, supposing some one was fooling them. But they have learned better than that. For he kept up a regular shower of rocks till Mr. Burchard came home, and then he sat down on the rail fence, quite likely to have a laugh as he listened to the stories told of him by the affrighted women and children of the establishment. He took a rest for a few days, until Mr. Burchard went to town to take his seat in the court-room as one of ‘twelve good men and true, and then he paid the lady of the house another call. This time he employed the same unique method of announc- ing his presence as before,land they rushed out to stand in petriﬁed and open-mouthed wonder, .watching the stones lifted by invisible hands, only to come crashing down on their staunch roof-tree. Finally, tired of this, he went into the house, tossed pillows from the beds, sent the clothes af- ter them, and then went to work and folded them all up as neatly as a German chambermaid could have done it, just to let them know he was there. They never offered to help either, but stood around as if they didn’t belong there any- how. Then he gave them a pretty broad hint by opening a dusty Bible at the twentieth chapter of Ezekiel. He kept doing this and many other things till the family was obliged to send to town for the absent husband and father, and upon his return temporary peace was declared. But a few days ago Mrs. Burchard——-who, by the bye, is the second wife of her 1! husband——saw the bed-clothes turned down, and underneath ' was alarge piece of cardboard, on which was reassuringly ‘written, “These things shall continue forever.” It was not in the handwriting of Samson, if the autograph books are to be trusted, but in the chirography of Mrs. Burchard N 0. 1. And so the matter stands to-day, but the end is not yet. A FRIGHTFUL APPARITION IN SALT LAKE. Careful readers of the dispatches in the dailies will recall the recent announcement of the self-destruction of a Utah editor, superinduced by horrible influence of the medium- istic Foster. But this was not all that this spirit-conjuring man accomplished during his brief stay in that Territory, and a Salt Lake bar-room is the scene of a regularlvisitation, before which all those previously related sink into insigniﬁ- canoe. Seven times of a. day and seven times of a night are the peaceful patrons of the place affrighted by the entrance f a ghost which walks up to the bar, demanding, in a voice from the sole of his boots, “ More gin!” And he gets it, for he has a seven-shooter and a bowie, and is a man whom Foster's gibberish drove into the jim-j ams. A BRITISH ADDITION TO THE ABOVE, FROM THE SAME 1 PAPER. A singular circumstance came to light in the Bristol Po- lice Court on Tuesday. Mr. Thomas B. Cumpston and his wife, Mrs. Ann Martha Cumpston, of Virginia Road, Leeds, ' were brought up for being disorderly at the Victoria Hotel and with letting oﬁ ﬁre-arms. It was stated in evidence by the landlady of the hotel, Mrs. Tongue, that the defendants took apartments at the hotel on Monday evening, and re- tired to rest about twelve o’clqck. About four o’clock in the morning she was awoke by loud screams and shouts in their bed-room, succeeded by a report of ﬁre-arms. She went down and found that they had both leaped from their bed- room into the yard below—-a depth of upward of twelve feet —-ﬁiflad then made their way toithe railway station. opposite. _ Mr. T. Harper, thelnightSuperintendent on the Bristol and Exeter Railway, said the parties rushed into his ofﬁce partly dressed, crying out “Murder,” and they were in a terrible ' state of excitement. They told him they had escaped from ‘ a den of rogues and thieves, and they had to defend them- 7 selves. They were under the impression that some one was following them, and they made him search the waiting—room to see there was no one there. Upon his sending for a po- liceman Mr. Cumpston was searched, and a revolver and three knives were found upon him. When asked by the mag- istrate what he had to say in explanation of the matter, Mr, Cumpston, who had an impediment in his speech, said he and his wife had been staying at -Clifton, but, intending‘ to pro- ceed to Western-super-Mare that morning, ighey came down and engaged a room at the Victoria Hotel, being near the. railway station. They were alarmedat about four o’clock in the morning by terrible noises which they could not explain and which frightened them very much, The bed seemed to open and did all sorts of strange things. The floor, too, opened, and they heard voices. They were so terriﬁed that they opened the- bedroom window and leaped out. Mrs. Cumpston also gave her version of the affair. She said they , heard terrible noises aboutgfour o’clock in the morning. The ﬂoor seemed to be giving away. It certainly opened, and her husband fell down some distance, and she tried to get him up. What they said was repeated every time they spoke. Being very much frightened, she asked her husband to ﬁre off his pistol, whichhe did, into the ceiling. The noises continuing, they got out of the window, but she did not know how. When they got outside she asked her husband to ﬁre oﬁ his pistol again. ‘ They then ran up to the railway station. In reply to the bench, the lady said she did not hear the noises so plainly as her husband. Ultimately a Mr. Butt, who had been telegraphed for from Gloucester, at- I tended the Court, and in reply to the/bench said the par- ties occupied a very good position in Leeds. He offered to take proper charge of them if they were handed over to him, which was ultimately done, the defendants being discharged from custody. ‘No explanation can be given of this strange affair, and the belief is, that it was a hallucination on the part of the husband. I ASPASIA, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Hypatia,--what names of ,.women were these that graced the classic era! 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Now, if our club agents willbut be active in returning renewals, we shall ,_,begin the year under the most favorable circumstances. . m_‘_______ V‘? " LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS. - ‘ ~—:m Victoria 0. Woodhull’s lecture engagements, so far as we are now able to announce them, are as follows: Ti?” , . Atchison, 1“ . 8. St. Joseph, “ 9.. ' Leavenworth, “ 10.. Nebraska City,‘ ._ . “ 12." Lincoln, ,. = . . . . . “ 13. Omaha, . .. ; . . “ 14. Council Bluifs, . ,_ . . . . “ 15.. There may be some variation from the above so far as dates are concerned; but friends will be able to learn this from the local press, in which they will be duly announced. In reply to the several inquiries received from St. Louis, we hope soon to be able to announce an early date, for her’ appearance there. Preliminary arrangements are now in progress. ‘ ‘ -2 . INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE. "5’ THE SYSTEM OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. The most powerful system of this country, so far as pecuniary and legislative inﬂuence .is concerned, is the rail- road system. It has now reached to more than sixty thou- sand miles, at a cost of over three billions dol1ars—an im- mense power,,even a dangerous power, when wielded as it virtually is by a few men. This immense power has grown up almost wholly within the past twenty years, and is one of the most conclusive evidences of the almost terriﬁc rapidity with which the country has developed. A few years ago the great West, which now. furnishes yearly many millions of bushels of grain and pounds of meat to the mar- kets of the world, \was wild and desolate of inhabitants. Now there is scarcely a single county in any State east of Kansas and Nebraska that does not have its railroad, fur- nishing easy and rapid access for the disposition of its pro- ducts. Nobody pretends to doubt the beneﬁt to the country gen- erally that railroads have been; but there are many who are beginning to question the manner in which they are con- ducted. Their effect has been, evidently, to do more than any other system to concentrate large wealth in the hands ‘of individuals; and this always is to make a larger number of poor, which is contrary both to the theory of our govern- ment and the spirit of our popular institutions. Moveover, ‘the general interests of the country are at war with concen- trated wealth, because as our industries are now organized it becomes tyrannical and oppressive to labor; and to labor, originally, all advance is due, though as a people we have not yet practically recognized this fact, attributing it rather to the means tl-iro;ugl1 which it has been accomplished. It is the failure to recognize this fact lying back of all wealth, that nowgmakes it possible for the railroad interest, having risen thro,-"ugh labor to its present position, to pre- sume upon it to ‘oppress the laboring interests. And the people have not been altogether able to rise above the benefit that the system has been to the country to the consideration of its true relationslto themselves now.- Theoretically, the railroads are to promote the public interests, and were per- mitted to be built upon this idea. Safeguards were thrown about them by legislators, thoughtlessly ignoring the pos- sibility that the privileges granted them might be abused. The whole purpose was to encouragethem and to put no ‘restrictions upon their power; and this has now become of such extent that the entire country is often seriously affected by their exercise of it. Nothing that has as yet occurred has called such universal attention to the real extent to which the people depend upon railroads as the strike now in operation on the roads controlled by»-the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company in the VVestern States. The re- fusal of a few hundred men to run their locomotives para- lyzed the current business of almost the whole country. People on urgent errands were prevented from reaching their destination, while large quantities of express and mail matter were detained at immense inconvenience and in some instances at great loss to their consignees. Suppose this strike had extended, as it might have done, to all the main trunk railroads, What might not the general as well as in- dividual interests have suffered? Should a case of this kind occur it would at once rouse the people to the neces- sity of such action as would put it out of the power of the railroads to produce a strike; in other words, it would show the people that it will not do to permit a system in which the entire commercial andﬁnancial interests of the country are so seriously involved, to be controlled by those whose individual pecuniary interests are immediately at stake. Outside of all other considerations, these are suﬁicient to demand that the system be conducted in the interests of the people, both as to primary and to ultimate considerations. But there are other and really more vital reasons why the people should have the control of this immense system. In its incipient stage, when there were but few roads which were scarcely prophetic of any future general system, it was not desirable, norperhaps even possible, that the general government should develop its possibilities; but now that it is practically a general system, having virtually a single to be in the control of the people, so that the use for which they were intended cannot be prostituted to mere purposes 1 of gain. Doubtless, originally, the people who embarked ‘ in railroad enterprises were public-spirited persons; but all the later schemes have been undertaken purely for specu--._ ' lative purposes, and have resulted in speculation both in their construction and management. Parallel roads are built having the same termini. The business of one of them will be purposely ruined by its management and all its traﬂic A diverted _to the other. This would increase the latter’s earn- ings and advance the price of its stock. When this r,each_es of the other and competing road is bought, and straightway -the management is. so chan.ged as to throw the business upon the other road, the earnings of which in turn increase and its stocks appreciate in value, while the other decrease 1 proportionately. Thus they operate, at every movement, putting from ten to twentyyper cent. proﬁt upon the stock‘ into their pockets, all of which comes from the uninitiated’; those who are not acquainted With the “bulls and the . .be.ar_s” of Wall street, Where the W1101.6 Itailroad systern of head, its conduct ought, as all other general interests are, ’ a satisfactory point-its holders, the managers, sell it 01.1.17 .an,c,l— ' realize immense proﬁts, with which the deprecia_ted‘stock the éountryjis manipulated -for speculative purposes, and where a few bold speculators can at any time so unsettle the ﬁnancial interests of the country as to produce a period of general distress, such as was inaugurated in September last, and which has resulted so disastrously to the indus- tries of the country, and caused so much suffering among the laboring class, to whom all speculations at last come home for settlement. 1 ' The assumption of the railroads by the people would at .once abolish stock gambling and tend largely to abate the general speculative mania which has been introduced am on g the people through the facility offered for such operations by railroad stocks; while the adoption of a greenback sys- tem of currency would also abolish the Gold Exchange and by so mu_ch more tend to do away with the most terrible enemy with which productive labor has now to contend. This consideration alone is sufficient to demand the restoration of the railroads to the people as a matter of general policy merely, and will, when it comes to be realized, cause the people to wonder why they endured it so long. I But again, and something which appeals directly to the industrial interests. VVhen the business of any road becomes dividend than eight per cent, instead of reducing the pas- senger and freight tariﬂ's the managers “water” the capital stock; in otlierwords, increase it without adding any more real capital to the company. This is done so that the in- creased proﬁts may be absorbed and no more than common dividends be paid. If roads were to pay twenty per cent.’ dividends upon a capital stock of ﬁfty millions the people would growl and make such a noise about the ears of the company that it would be compelled to reduce its rates. To avoid this and to hoodwink the people the stock is doubled to one hundred millions, and only a ten per cent. dividend is paid. The ignorance and stupidity of the people is thus played upon to the tune of millions of dollars every year, and the railroad kings quietly pocket the swindle and laugh at the ignorance that makes it possible for them to practice it, and at the stupidity which asks, “ why it costs so much to transport our crops to market?” In view of all these abuses that have grown out of" the railroad system, ‘as now conducted, what ought to be the verdict of the country regarding it‘? There can be but one common-sense conclusion, and this is that a system which in the hands of private corporations can be used to swindle and deceive the people who are its patrons, should be managed by the people themselves through their paid agent the govern- ment. We might go on and show that it ought to be main- tained from the public treasury rather than by levying du- ties upon passengers and freight ; but the scope of this ar- ticle was not intended to treat upon a condition. of society, depend upon the general welfare of the community. There- fore we leave it at what ought to be done under the present organization of the people, well knowing when this is gained that a further movement having wider -and more general interests in view will then be possible. ———————-——%-4.+—4 WILL THE TRUTH DO ANYBODY ANY HARM? We answer unhesitatingly No! But there are thousands who shrink from hearing an unpalatable fact stated, and thousands more who pretend to think it- obscene to state certain classes of truths. Especially does this hold good of many facts‘ connected with the present sexual condition of the people. If any dare to make public anything that serves to bring the present system of marriage. into con- demnation, an indignant howl goes up from its upholders, who claim that the system is of God and therefore not to be questioned even if. it have its ills. A large part of the Vitu- peration and abuse that isbeing continually hurled at us has V its origin in the fact’ that when we cite any case in marriage that is manifestly wrong we lay it at the door of the in- stitution. We might state the case and receive no abuse, if we would leave marriage out of the indictment. So we are compelled to the conclusion that the so-called Christians are determined to uphold the institution in any-event, let its abuses be ever so apparent. Having come to this conclusion we remember, however, that we have been the recipients of the vilest abuse from the press because we have advocated social freedom, or more properly sexual freedom, more generally denominated free love, when equally as radical and ultra views have been presented in highly respectable and ,very widely cir- culatcd journals in a shape that appeared to us should be more obnoxious than our own. For instance, almost simul- taneously with the Steinway Hall speech--known as the ﬁrst freedom speech—-there appeared a remarkable poem in Harpm-’s Weekly, a journal of ‘civilization, in which free love was advanced in the baldest and boldest manner, and upon a plane that we had never presented it; nevertheless, our speech was condemned everywhere by the press and the clergy, while I1_Tarper’s Weekly was recommended to the reading public as a mostiinstructive print. Ever since then the question has remained unanswered as to whether the Harpers were to be permitted to print free-love poems from the pen’ of the poet laureate of England, while we were to be prosecuted for obscenity for doing nothing more in the WEEI;LY. Or has it come to be known that these things in any other journal than the WEEKLY. are taken as poetry mere1y,,ancl as having no p1‘étC’6iCa1 meaning, while I so large and productive that the proﬁts warrant. a larger when the promotion of the interest of each individual will .__ -?______.,.g._ , \ *1 g.’ __..o,o; ----,-so:-—-— - ;..£.*3....v—. - -....-...,.9‘:»—- -_-~;—-—-.--~———--—;——«-- - « - - II,-\‘ ' ’ ran. :7, i874. ~WOODH'ULL av. CLAFLI-/N’S,WEEKLY'.l do i Q , 9 it is equally well known that we mean business and are uncompromising as to practice? We have frequently said that marriage in which love is absent is worse in its consequences to women than so-called professional prostitution; and the hue and cry has gone out that we advocate prostitution. «We merely mentioned a fact, and-if it be a» fact ought it not to be told? If mar- riage, the divine institution, is more deleterious than pros- titution, is it not enough to condemn it? Prostitution is bad enough, heaven knows; but if there is anything worse I in which the people not only freely indulge, but which Christianity, public opinion and public law uphold, ought it not to be shown up in its true character and the people rescued from its fatal snares? We say, yes; a thousand times yes! But this same Christianity, public opinion and public law exclaim w.itl1 still more emphasis, No! a thou- sand times no! - Let the curse be as black as Erubus no one shall dare to mention it; and if any one dare let her be anathema; and we have been anathema. , But what will the holy ones say when it comes to their knowledge that what we have said as reformers merely is being confirmed by science? And what when this conﬁrma- tion is found in a no less authority than the Popular Science Montltly, and in an article from a no less recognized_ autho- rity in science and philosophy than Herbert Spencer? Turning to the number of this excellent magazine of Oc- tober, 1872, we ﬁnd an article entitled “Diiiiculties of the Social Science,” in which Mr. Spencer shows how given are the people to overstating facts regarding things that are under the ban of public opinion; indeed, if not stating as fact something that has no real existence at all. Thetspecial point in the quotation that we shall make is this: There is a general opinion that prostitution is the most terriﬁc enemy to health that there is in the world, and Mr. Spencer takes the ground that it will not do for him to rely upon the general opinion for data upon which to base a social science; hence he went to the hospitals and the physicians; and here is what one of the most eminent, Mr. Holmes Coote, F. R. C. S., Lecturer on Surgery at St. Barthol- emew’s Hospital, London, England, says: - “ It is a lamentable truth that the troubles which respect- able, hard-working married women undergo are more try- ing to the health and detrimental to the looks than any of the irregularities of the harlot’s career.” ‘ Now, remember, here is an eminent physician and surgeon who says that, so far as health and looks are concerned, any of the irregularities of the harlot’s career are to be pre- ferred to the condition of respectable, hard—working married Women. Should not such an admission consign Dr. Coote, Herbert Spencer and the Popular Science rllonthlg to the eternal damnation of all the virtuous (5?) people in the world, and especially so in view of the fact that for saying far less we have been adjudged too infamous to be permitted to be at large? All of these facts have been long known to the medical profession. Every well-informed physician knows that th‘ree-fourths of. all female sickness is the result of woman’s servile condition in the marriage institution, which in the majority of cases is nothing more and nothing less than a system of license that permits men to prostitute women whenever they feel so inclined, and whether the women consent or not. ‘Think of it as they may, the people sooner or later will awaken to this horrid fact. It will be impossible for the self-styled moral conservatives of society to much longer hold up the hypocritical veil at which reform is now pulling with such desperate ear- nestness; and it will be futile to much longer attempt to force down the unpalatable truth. It is a truth and it won’t be ignored. It stands staring the world squarely in the face, and it will not down; and it is simple foolhardiness to deny that the horrid fact is there. If the case as stated above is true of respectable, hard- working married women, let us ask what is not true of the class of respectable women who do not work at all, who as a class arein worse health than the poorer class. If mar- riage has this eifect upon the latter class what is it butthe curse of marriage that has a worse eﬁoct upon the former class? These are vitalquestions and have got soon to be met and answered. Will the people dare take hold of them and learn their meaning; or will they permit the curse to continue its ravages until the race is totally blotted out,- merely because it is held by Christians that the institution of marriage is the safeguard of society? A pretty safeguard indeed, is this, that is undermining the health of all, the mothers in the world! Out upon such infernal, such damning hypocrisy! Let the worst be known, and then for a remedy. ’ In the name of humanity stand not by and see a terrible scourge pass over the whole race merely because a set of self-elected ministers of God tell you that marriage, as now practiced, is divine and not to be interfered with. - In conclusion,.we will make another assertion, since we ﬁnd our former one so fully conﬁrmed. This one will be more startling than anything that has yet been advanced. The so—called professional prostitutes who never drink and who never permit themselves to become diseased from carelesslness, grind in their mill. She is a songster who will only sing in are the healthiest class of women in the world. If any doubt this, inquire and learn the truth. VVe are well aware that sta- and Cllo- - tistics show that the average life of prostitutes is but four years; but this is not because they are prostitutes, but be- stand that spiritualism and freedom are synonomous terms? cause they debauch themselves by drink and become en- that the glory of spiritualism is its freedom? It is our indi- tirely corruptedby disease which-they might avoid. And vidual liberty that prevents or obstructs our-better organiza- ’ tione Combine’ our e_,1.ements.sen.cl out irrdorsed speakers the world needs to know this fact. Leaving out of the question; these things which kill the body, we reafiirm that the sexual intercourse to which‘ prostitutes submit for money is not so damning in its effects as is that which married women, as a class, en- ure. Now, hereare the facts. What are you going to do with them? Will it be declared that we advocate the sub- stitution of prostitution for marriage? Most likely it will. But we will deny the charge in advance, and repeat that these are the facts which we ﬁnd, and which anybody can ﬁnd who will take the trouble to inquire. . But we will presume to explain the meaning of these things and to say what we do really teach, and we can assure all that it is not prostitution. lVe make the broad and sweeping statement that whenever a woman submits to sexual intercourse that is not desired and thatldoes not ultimate naturally, she is simply committing suicide, and it makes no difference whether this is in or out of marriage. It is not necessary that we attempt to prove that four-ﬁfths of all intercourse in marriage is not desired by women. ‘Every married woman knows this to her sorrow, but she has no choice in the majority of cases except to submit; and here is where the prostitute is not in so degraded a condition as the married woman. She can refuse whom she pleases; the married woman, never—a condition of slavery to which negro slavery was a blessing. Now what we advocate and for which we labor is this: First, woman must be made pecuniarily independent of man for support, so that she shall never have to sell her body either ‘in mar- riage or prostitution to obtain the means and comforts of life; and next, that she shall never be compelled to submit to sexual intercourse by any law or at any time except when it shall be her choice and desire to do so. world call this what they may, it is the demand that we are making for our sex; and so long as God gives us breath, so long shall the demand be sounded wherever our tongue can obtain ahearing, and wherever our pen can ﬁnd readers. slavery that makes her condition worse than the harlot’s. of Amer1ca——of the world! places and under all circumstances, remembering that 4 " They have rights who dare maintain them.” ——————>—+o+—<~——-———- FREE SPEECH AND AFREE PLATFORM. elicited thunders of applause from the audience. liver, are simply impostors, proving themselves, by their ac- ceptance of such limitations, to be self-convicted liars. regulating inspirational medium who will preach to order. to hear what the spirits have to say through the speakers. They do not desire any manipulation of the liberty of the platform. No one doubts but that the New York College of Cardinals issued their card in the Banner of Light with -the best intentions, with an earnest desire to conserve the pro- prieties, and keep Spiritualism en rapport with Society. But it cannot be accomplished. Spiritualism is the grandest re- forming agent the world has ever seen, and every day will -witness the broadening of the gulf that separates its living faith from the dead creeds of the past. It has forced the issues that are now convulsing the nations, and it must ﬁght the battle; it is also certain that it-will eventually conquer. Vain, then, is the effort to bind with threads of tow this female Samson of the platform. Where is the Spiritualist, even including those who signed that melancholy card in the Banner of Light, who does not listen to the inspired ut- terances of Jennie Leys with delight? Where is the Spirit- ualist who ever came away from one of her lectures dissatis- ﬁed? Why do the people like to hear her? Because she is inspired; that’s why! N o outsider who listens to her needs to be told that she is an “inspirational” speaker. He hears it——and he feels that it is so. To fetter her with imbecile reso- lutions would be to serve her as the,Philistines served Sam- son. But she cannot be bound with cords and made to- the wild woods, in the Robinson Hall cage she would pine When will these calling’ themselves Spiritualists under- Let the canting It is understood that Miss Jennie Leys has declined to lec- ture in New York under conditions limiting her right to Free the people and scoffed at their complaints, the British Post- Speech. Last Sunday evening her letter of refusal to sub— oﬁice, through the labors of a series of reformers, has be- mit to such an imposition was read at Robinson Hall, and come the most perfect of the English institutions. England How can might lose its establishment or part with its hereditary people claiming to be Spiritualists make themselves so su- rulers with no lasting pain,ibut its postofﬁce has become premely ridiculous by thus trying to gag the utterances of the common friend of all the people. thevspirit world? Are they so ill-read inthe science of Spirit lingering shadows of the Middle Ages, of palaces’ and ‘ ualism as net to know that their speakers generally cannot be royalty, of caste and prerogative, this institution is wholly muzzled? «They ought to appreciate the fact that any inspi- popular and singularly democratic. rational or trance speakers, who should accept of any restric- classes alike. It ﬁrst oﬁered to the world the example of a tions with regard to the matter they are called upon to de- cheap transmission of knowledge thirty years ago ; it has from a miserable parody on the "College of Cardinals at Chi- cago, and our people will laugh at them. V\7hy? Because they demand instructors who hold their letters of fellowship from spiritual beings. Consequently our people have been fed on good, nourishing mental food, and object to slops, though they may have been blessed by the Pope. If the ing Mrs. C1‘u11dy’s opinion of its excellence; if it is worth- less, Mrs. Grrundy’s indorsement will. not render it palatable to them; * It is a disgrace to the Spiritualist-s of New York that they have not a really free platform to which they can invite lec- aryconsideration, the laborer is worthy of his or her hire. It would be easy to introduce a system which would be’ just, ' "both to the lecturer and the public. A popular lecturer would rather deal with the public than with at committee. Only the less-gifted would prefer the latter sys‘ -‘in. then, a meeting of Spiritualists be called, and _ appointed to hire a hall, and notify approved lee , _ , they can occupy it on these terms: 1. That ten 'ce‘11ts,b_e the price of admission. 2. That the expense of the hall a_nd.ad~ vertising be ﬁrst paid out of the proceeds. plus up to ten dollars be the fee of the lecture_r——all;over that amount to be divided between the lecturer and the commit- tee in charge of the hall. This would be just to the public and just to the lecturer; the public could not lose by the operation, and well-appreciated lecturers would gain more than they do at present, under a system in which the people are not in power to express extra approbation. G>——< GOVERNMENT WORK. To defend the rights of the individual and to point out Sexual floollolll fol‘ Wolllalll Sexual omoallolplatlon from 3 the duties of the individual are parts of the work of the WEEl{LY; but it l1as other tasks ,'to perform, viz.: To mark Call this vile if you please, but it is our demand. And out the sphere of governmental power and to show what Wlloo the Women of tho World attaln to 5‘ Toallzatlon of" their are its duties to the people also. Under the latter head the own condition, the institution of marriage will go down into VVEEKLY has Claimed that the teiegraph, the milroads’ the oiiolllill oblwloll, TooolVlllg the lllllﬂooatlolls of the mllllons ‘ferries and all the means of transit should belheld either by Whom ll? has oooslgnod lo ll"o.S of mlsory With Wllloll more the national or the State governments as the case may de- ls llollllllglll tl1eWol'lo- '50 be placed ll1o0mPal"lSol1- Women mand; and also that the government should control the Rouse Yo and llllnk of those currency of the country, and not farm, out ‘to individuals llllllgsy and boldly take and millﬂtilln Yolll‘ GFoCl'§€lVol1 Tlgllt that great power which maybe and is by them used as an to the use and disposal of‘ your bodies at all times, in all instrument of oppression As steps in the right direction, «far-famed English postal system, and also of the people’s money and life insurance systems, of which it is the parent. To these the British governmental telegraph system is also added. We are indebted to Hcrpeﬂs Weekly for the article, which is from the pen of Eugene Lawrence: “ Once the appanage of a noble family who preyed upon In the midst of the It obeys and serves all forced all othernations to admit the necessity of cheap communication. Europe and America have yielded to its Vvﬁat the Swans of Robinson Han Seem to need is a Se1f_ dictation. The people of all civilized lands owe their cheap postage to English reformers. But not content with But the large majority of the audience, it is believed, prefer “looting nearly 3* billion of letters oonoally all 3 111033 modest rate, with sending out books, pamphlets and news, papers in an almost limitless stream, with its throng of ser-I, vants and officials, its countless appliances d_evoted to the public service; with its ceaseless vigilance in gratifying the, wants or assuaging the complaints ofthose it seeks to serve, its prudent managers have never hesitated year by year to add to its round of duties. The post-oiﬁce has becomephe chief means by which the government can directly pro- mote the general welfare of the nation. It collects debts, and dividends, transmits funds from place to ‘place, opens savings banks for the poor at four thousand postal stations, manages the telegraphic system, insures the lives of all who can pay a small premium, grants annuities, and has taught the people industry and thrift as well as the love of knowl,-. edge. When its powers are enlarged it is difficult to, see why it must not engross a large share of the capital of the country that is not in use, «supply the State with all the money it needs, and the people with a ceaseiess, tide. of in-. formation. - “As the sole manager of the telegraph, the p,ost—oﬂ‘iee has proved singularly successful. The government pm». chased the lines at an, extravagant rate, and was misled by- the owners as to the amount of the returns. Yet with all the disadvantages of an imprudent bargain, the new system promises to be proﬁtable as well as useful. For a small. r-sum, that does not vary with the distan.ce,,.a message may be sent to any part of the‘ kingdom; it may be dropped in a let-ter—box, or left at a postal-station._ The uniformity of _ the rate, like that of p0_s.tage,, has proved a, strong attraction; the messages, according to the last post-oiﬁce report, have increased to 15,,000,_00.@, 01? at the rate of 3,000,000 yearly. .UrL.u.sual a.c.eu_rac;5 is 9btai,_r_led., The press is enlarging its, feast is abundant, our people will partake of it without ask- I turers. Although, with our instructors, money is a second- _ 3. That the sur- A the WEEKLY now presents to its readers a description of the l 10 I W ‘ r WOTODHULLL & OL~AFLIN’S WEEKLY. Y a- Jan. 17, 1874. use of the wires with extraordinary rapidity. The teles graph is constantly becoming a," constant mode of com- munication for all classes; and the avarice of stockholders or the extravagance of directors no longer-impedes the in- tercourse of Englishmen. The charges will no doubt be gradually reduced, and telegraphic communication be made almost as cheap as postal. Nor can it-be long before our own government will be obliged to adopt the popular sys- tem, and enable its people to converse with each other-at any distance at moderate rates, unrestrained by the exac- tions of private monopolies; andthe still wider prospect of an international telegraph is suggested, that may spread cheap thought over the habitable globe. “But the most novel of theuses of the English Post-oﬂice are its double service as the life insurer and«the savings bank of the poor. As a life insurance company it insures lives within a moderate amount, grants annuities, accepts risks. Its life business advances steadily; it has already twenty-seven hundred annuitants; the security is perfect, the rate low, and the people are slowly learning to provide by a safe insurance for the wants of old age or-of their families. Still more _popular and successful has been the. establishment of postal savings banks. More than four thousand of these places of- deposit have been spread over England. They are designed to receive small sums, not under one shilling nor over thirty pounds. A moderate interest is allowed; the money is withdrawn by letter;—the wants of the industrial classes have been carefully observed; and every secluded rural district may now have its savings bank, life insurance‘ company, money order and collecting department, easyluf access and perfectly secure. By the last report‘ of the post-oﬁice it is shown with what readiness theipeople conﬁde their earnings to the State, and how naturally they prefer the faith‘ of the community to that of any private institution. Under the former system of sav- ings banks defalcation was common, and clerks and presi- dents were seldom beyond suspicion. Under the govern- ment plan, I was assured by the comptroller of the depart- ment, that the. whole loss since its creation had been less than £3,000. The old savings banks are gradually passing away. One hundred and seventy have closed their doors and transferred their deposits to the post-ofﬁce. The _num- ber of postal depositors increased last year from 1,300,000 to 1,440,000, or to nearly onetwentieth of the total popula- tion. The whole amount deposited in small sums has risen to £19,000,000. It is proposed to lower the amount to one penny and raise it to a much larger sum than its present limit. Tenderness for the old banks has heretofore pre- vented the government from entering upon an open rivalry with them; but with the advance of the postal facilities there seems no doubt but that the amount deposited will in- crease so rapidly as to form a large part of the national re- sources. The government will employ and make productive the people’s savings. Instead of hoarding their money or lending it to doubtful institutions, it will entrust it to the community. The depositors will escape the constant alarms, the fear of breaking banks, the strange panic that almost annually drives the throng of small depositors to call back their loans only to replace them. In the postal banks they have a certainty that could nowhere else be obtained, In the days of Tweed, in the city of New York, the worst, though least known examples of fraud and cruelty were committed through the defaulting savings banks.’ To trust companies and private institutions thousands owe their poverty and their ruin. England in her Gurneys, and America in her Brooklyn Trust Company or her New York defaulters, have felt the common need of safety. The postal savings banks must soon spread over the New World, and the immense earnings of our people will supply all the wants of an economical rule. France, M. de Malarce tells us in the Revue ales Dem: Mondes, is anxious to profit by the ex- perience of England and imitate its postal banks; and the ,, Englis‘h‘Post-ofﬁce has discovered a new method of binding thelpeople to their goverment and making them zealous , guardians of its honesty.” 0 ' When government controls the distributing and ﬁnancial processes, as it ought, there will be no Stewarts and no Rothschilds. It is a monstrous wrong (proving the folly of our present system of political economy) that one man like A. T. Stewart shall be able in a generation to amass $100,000,000, by distributing goods, when nineteen-twentieths H of the men who manufacture the ﬁnest wares he sells, the Spitalﬁeld weavers, live poor and die in the poorhouse. It is aemelancholy fact, degrading to Christian nations, that the ﬁnancier is the Kaiser of their Kaisers; for those who are behind the scenes well know that two of the most important wars of this century, the Anglo-French and Russian, and the French and Austrian war,’ were eminently Hebrew finan- cial wars. And this unjust and miserably degrading state of affairs must continue until the workers and wealth crea- tors of civilized» nations are suﬂiciently enlightened to do their own distributing and their own banking, through their respective governments. I — THE HOLLOW GLOBE ; OR THE WORLD'S AGI- ‘ TATOR AND RECONCILER. This is the title of a most wonderful work, presented through the organism of M.‘ L. Sherman,’ M. D., and writ- ten by Prof. Wm. F. Lyon. - It treats upon the physical conformation of the earth and kindred subjects. Its four hundred and forty~seven pages are literally packed with original matter, which is intensely interesting and requires deep thought in its perusal. The chapters upon Igneous Theory ; Material and Spiritual -Forces; Inherent Powers; Who are the World Builders? and Vision, are wonderful, and contain ideas never advanced to the world before; in ﬁne, it is, in our opinion, a book which should be in the-hands of every thinking man and woman in the land, for it contains in every sentence com- mon ‘sense and reason; and I; believe, after a careful and candid perusal of it, that no book which was ever given to the world, in ancient or modern days, by inspiration or otherwise, contains so much wisdom and true philosophy as The Hollow Globe.” ’ 1 Its authors have cut entirely loose from the rock-bound shores of old geology, as well as old theology, and have pushed their bark out into deep waters, away from the con- tentions of geological as welljas the ological ignorance; there, in the midst of quiet nature they have laid the foundation fora world,- and have reared thereon a mighty structure, which all of the theological or geological hells can never gainsay or destroy. The superstructure, resting upon their own base, laid in their own lime and mortar, becomes invulnerable to all opposition. “The Hollow Globe” has cleared away from our mind many doubts, opened new avenues of thought, and demonstrated, without a doubt, the truth, that “this earth is a hollow sphere, with a shell of some ‘thirty or forty miles in thickness; that the interior surface is in a more highly-developed condition than the exterior, and is accessible by a circuitous, spirally-formed aperture, which may be found in the unexplored open Polar Sea; and this opening affords easy navigation, by a broad and deep chan- nel leading from one surface to the other, and that the larg- est ships or steamers.:may sail or steam either way with as much facility as they can pass through any other winding or crooked channel.” The authors handle Prof. Denton with ungloved hands with regard to his method of extinguishing volcanoes, which is simply ridiculous and impossible. “ The Hollow Globe 7’ is fairly launched upon the world, and must stand or fall upon its own merits. It has dared to attack and has vigorously maintained its arguments against. theories which seem to be well established, and which " are indorsed by the most eminent scientiﬁc men of the present day; and yet no one can reasonably venture a reply in opposition. - A We cheerfully and urgently recommend “The Hollow Globe” to reﬁecting minds, promising them a rich and varied‘ treat in its perusal, and a safe investment of their money. The books can be had of M. L. Sherman, Adrian, Mich. Retail price, $2. 9+-+——-—-— LET THERE BE LIGHT. Elsewhere, under the heading of “ Sporadic Spooks,” we publish along account of spiritual (but not supernatural) visitations occurring here and in ‘Great Britain. As Spiritu- alists we have had no hand in making the collection, which is extracted from the New York World of the 28th Dec, 1878. The paper quoted, after having long treated Spiritu- alism with scientiﬁc contempt, appears now, like an un- willing witness, or like Hamlet’s guilty uncle, to be forced “‘E’en in the teeth and forehead of its faults _ To give in evidence;” in other words, to be compelled to declare the truth of that which it dares not attempt to account for. Alas; it is not. without allies in this matter. Notwithst‘anding a thousand statements similar to those we have reprinted, the “ savans ” think that they can pooh, pooh the question of spiritual manifestations out of court. In spite of the singular modern attestation of millions of Catholics as to the truth of such expositions, the learned (with a few noble exceptions) de- whatever. It would be well if the scientiﬁc world was willing to maintain a passive position as regards Spiritualism; we do not ask of it that “where it can’t unriddle it will learn to trust; ” that would be too much to expect from it. But we have a right to object to that superciliousness which treats these gravest subjects with ignorant contempt; we have a duty to perform in exposing the arrogance that is not con- tent with refusing to enter the enchanted ground itself, "but seeks to prevent-bolder men and women from exploring it, and in rebuking that perversity that distorts truth rather than acknowledge its inability to analyze or measure it. It is not too much to claim that our second-cl ass mediums know more facts concerning spiritual matters, and are far better acquainted with those sciences that may be termed Y“ spiritual,” than our college professors or our book-learned divines. It is with the spiritual development as it was with the Christian in days of yore. The weak things of the world seem to be selected to confound the mighty, and we believe also that the stone of Spiritualism at present re- jected of the builders, is bound, in the near future, to be- come the head of the corner. —-———-——a-—<e+-<—-—--—--- STRONG ENOUGH FOR THE “WEEKLY.” From a review of Dr. Clarke’s book on “ Sex in Educa- tion,” the fellowing extract is taken. There are only two «words in it with which any fault can be found. They are the words “vicious” and “ depraved,” which we have taken the liberty to print in italics. Possibly the author of the article was a very good Christian, and, as such, felt qualiﬁed to condemn many, very many, men” and women. We neither can nor desire so to do. ‘While believing that A cline to examine and report upon the subject in any Way , the, monegamic is possibly the higher order of social com- munion, we dare not assert its necessity and condemn hun.- dredsof millions of both sexes, whose acts prove that they think otherwise : - “_It is because woman has been excluded from the manage- ment of her health and of her ‘ojfspring, and from responsi- bmtyfor her Mrtue, that she is to-day broken down in health, frivolous in aim and insolvent in honor, so far as she is so at all. The big-brother theory, -according to which every girl has a champion to back up her indiscretions—the' theory of man’s ownership in woman, and his natural protectorate over her——this is one great occasion of Woma.n’s weakness and woman’s degradation. There are bad men, too-—men whose years of education, wherever they may have been spent, were years of vice. ‘ The vices of men,’ says"Mrs.Da11, ’ ‘ imperil the populations of the earth‘ far more than the un- wise studies of women.’ Too true is the pity, but we have never yet had but half of Woman’s strength in the suppres- sion of these vices. Woman, as yet, only has the faculty to frown upon the depraved sister; the vicious brother still enjoys her smiles.” The protectorship of man over woman has been dearly purchased by the latter, as the above states. "In the near future woman will protect herself, and wise communities will guard her when she is performing for the State the worthiest services, viz., those of parturition and gestatior. That we have no public institutions for the care of women bearing and nursing children, nor asylums for neglected little ones worthy of our people, proves that we are neither enlightened nor even Christian. Were wbmen united, things would be soon different in these particulars. Alas! they are not. Some of them, too many at present, “have only the faculty to frown upon their sister.” D It is woman’s hand that runs the knife deepest into her bosom; and, if there be “ depravity -” in the case, the knife-holder not unfrequently monopolizes it. This is a sad state of things, but it must continue until woman wills it shall be otherwise. When her eyes are opened to the effects upon herself of her pres- sent cruel and unjust folly, social order will rise out of chaos, and our present social miseries will pass away. 0 TALL PAY. In these days of ﬁnancial artiﬁcial famine in our cities, there is a melancholy satisfaction in learning that there is one man who has good reasons for rejoicing. We allude to our worthy President. History tells us that Nero ﬁddled while Rome was burning, why should not President Grant feast while the workers in our cities are fasting. _ “ In these days of distress and want among the poor, it is interesting to know that the increased pay of President Grant would support ﬁfty families in all the ordinary com- forts of life, and that his total yearly salary and perquisites, as ﬁgured up last summer by Congressman Willard, of Ver- mont, are equal to an income of two hundred and ﬁfty work- ingmen’s families, supposing that the “heads of those families work steadily in snow. frost, rain and heat the year round, without any chance for relaxation at Long Branch or e1sewhere.”——N . Y. Sun. When will our wealth-producers be able to appreciate the fact that the only platform beams strong enough to bear the weight of the toiling millions are fraternity, equality and justice. Would our people annihilate the‘ wretched distinc- tions in the money payments awarded to our public servants, v they must first annihilate such distinctions among them- selves. There is no valid reason why the mason should re- ceive more for his daily labor than the laborer, or the mechanic more than the agriculturist. The wants of both are similar, and the services of both are equally useful to the community. 0r-4 AN INDICATION. The following is_ extracted from the columns of the N. I’. World for the purpose of showing that the people are be- ginning to comprehend and to accept the doctrines so long advocated by the WEEKLY as regards the duties of gov- ernments: “ The northwestern organ of the administration does not give forth a doubtful sound upon the subject of paternalism. Itsays in a recent article: “ ‘Vifhere, as in this country, the people are the state, the king, the government, there is no danger in paternalism. In union there is strength-——as muchso in the prosecution of great national works as in waging a successful war. One man cannot span the continent with a railway nor build a magniﬁcent cathedral; but a union of many makes these things possible and they are done. A company of private individuals cannot operate vast lines of tele raph at cost, but the nation may do it and should do it. hatever-the people, acting together, can do better than when acting sep- arately, they should not hesitate to undertake. * * *- A government that pgnishes but never helps its citizens will gain neither their gratitude, their love, nor their respect. Paternalism is what the country needs.’ ” Of course we object to the term ‘_‘paternalism.” The we propose to hold over it, in order to keep it within the line of duty, the whip of the “ referendum.” But we have no desire to further limit the power of government, for that which is not potent for ill is also powerless for good. The government should represent and use the power of the peo- ple; it does not do so now, because it is bound up with red- people arenot represented. government is not the father of the people but their servant , , —-that is, it should be so. Lest it should forget its place tape chains, and also because init the better half of our . .1 ll 5. 17?: M.» -«.<:_>;':<.<:4k‘« -...-.2 “-' .4; \ _\r,_.n~ .-:,.3I.-,_...~.«.-=/mo“ ,;.;—.2 -.~;.R/#'.;.,.-;.a--. : C 7-“ Jan. P7’, 187a. W1 wooDHULI. & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. , V 11 BLUEBEARD’S MARCH. If this department of the WEEKLY, which is devoted_ to a recapitulation of the social horrors which permeate modern society has been neglected, it has not been for lack of matter to ﬁll it. In proof of this we present an article of news as printed in the N. Y. Herald, of Dec. 30, which shows that the community are going into the wife-beating business wholesale instead of retail: “THREE WIFE BEATERS IN COURT. “John Heine, John Mathias and .William Boff were arraign- ed on a charge of beating their respective and respectable wives, Catherine Heine, Catherine Mathias and Mary Boil‘. J ustice Flammer, after making some remarks on the nature of the crime and the great prevalence which it is of late ob- . taining, imposed a ﬁne of $10 on each. The wives paid the- ﬁnes after a short conversation with their husbands, in which the latter promised ‘ never to do it again.’ " Three at a time before one Justice, and all convicted. The public will perceive from this item, that, to collect from all parts of the Union, the accounts of the woman and wife beatings, and murdersthat daily occur, would overtax the space that can be devoted to such reports in the WEEKLY, and accept that as an excuse for Your seeming neglect. 9-4--——— THE FORMATION OF PRIMARY COUNCILS. Attention is being called to the plan of organization that was adopted by the late Chicago Convention, and many in- quiries are made as to the method of procedure in the forma- tion of Primary Councils. Very many think it a serious task to attempt to organize under it; butinstead of being this, it is so very simple that children even "ought to have no diﬂilculty in working by it. The chapters having reference to Primary Councils are as follows: . ‘ CHAPTER II. ON MEMBERSHIP. ARTICLE 1. Any person eighteen years of age may become a member of any Primary Council of the Universal Associa- tion of Spiritualists by subscribing to the principles of the Association, and paying the regular initiatory fee. ART. 2. Membership shall continue during the pleasure of the member, unless the name be dropped from the rolls by the order of a majority of the Council to which the member belongs, for the non-payment of dues, the member having ﬁrst had a month’s notice of such intended action; and no member shall be expelled from this Association for any other cause. _ CHAPTER III. ON PRIMARY COUNCILS. ARTICLE 1. A Primary Council may consist of not less than ﬁfteen regularly initiated members. ART. 2. Each Primary Council, upon perfecting its organ- ization by choosing a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer, and sending the same, with alist of its members, to the Council of the District in which it is located, shall be recognized as aregularly organized Council, and allotted a designation by number. ART. 3. The Primary Councils shall hold regular weekly meetings for the discussion of, or lectures upon the princi ples of the Association; and whenever possible. shall organ- ize, maintain and conduct a Children’s Progressive Lyceum as a model system of education, in which ultimately to merge ali other systems of education. ART. 4. The Primary Councils shall make regular quar- terly reports to District Councils, setting forth their prog- ress, condition and prospects, accompanied by the quar- terly dues and fees hereinafter provided. A ART. 5. Primary Councils shall exercise control over all matters which ‘specially relate to themselves; always pro’- viding that the principles of the Association shall not be transcended or infringed. - ART. 6. Primary Councils may make propositions to Dis- trict Councils relating to matters concerning the District, and to the National Councils or Universal Congress upon subjects of a more general application. CHAPTER XI. ‘ ARTICLE 1. The President of the American Association of Spiritualists, by and with the consent of the Board of Trus- tees, shall appoint an Advisatory Council of twenty-ﬁve members, which, together with the Trustees, shall constitute a Provisional National Council, which shall have the powers and functions, and perform the duties provided for the Na- tional Councils, and which shall hold their oﬂicesuntil the regular National Councils shall have been duly organized as hereinbefore provided. ‘ . ART. 2. Until the regular State or District Councils shall be organized (which they may do whenever there shall be ten or more Primary Councils within the limits of a State or District), the Primary Councils shall make their reports, as herein provided, to the Secretary of the Provisional National Council. ' I «From this it will be seen that ﬁfteen persons may assemble anywhere and organize, by choosing oﬁcers and reporting _ the organization to the Secretary of the Provisional National Council until the State organization is completed. Mr. Jamieson, as Secretary, however, requests, since he is con- tinually in the ﬁeld, that these earlier organizations be for- warded to the President, Victoria C. Woodhull, Box 3,791, New York City, who cheerfully proposes to attend to what- ever inquiries may be made in reference to the general or- ganization and to the reception of and action upon the organized Primary Councils, ' Eat the beneﬁt of those Who are inquiring, we are happy toinform all, that in Chicago and Boston large councils are already in full operation, and that they will be followed by many others in various cities andﬂtowns. We woul_d suggest, however, that the numerous parties who are waiting for “somebody else to begin” should begin themselves at once, and thus dissolve the inertia that has existed since the Convention. By active work a large organization can be formed which will make the next annual meeting such a convention as was never held before in the world. . If the friends who are in earnest do only one-half their duty, all this can be; but if their timidity permits them to watch what others do, remaining themselves in a comatose con- dition, the opportunity will go by and the basis of a future organization pass into other and worthier hands. Therefore we say, delay no longer, but at once get to- gether and form Primary Councils wherever there are a suffi- cient number ready for action, and let us see which State will have the ﬁrst organization. Where it is proposed to oughly studied. This book, of nearly 1275 pages-—priCe 25 cents—together with answers to whatever inquiries may be made, can be procured on application at this office, instead of to the Secretary, who is busily engaged in the ﬁeld, whete letters often fail to meet him in season to insure promt replies. ?______»4 We respectfully present the compliments of the season to our readers in the words of the ﬁrst of England’s poets,wor‘ds which to us, and we trust to them also, will seem almost prophetic. ' ' - NEW YEAR BELLS. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. Ring out wild bells to the wild sky, The ﬂying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; ' Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of richand poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying‘ cause, And ancient forms of party‘ strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws; Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my. mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood,’ The civic slander andthe spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. -———-—————>-—¢Q+—4-—————_—-- NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH. DE GARMO HALL, CORNER or FIFTH AVENUE AND no UR- TEENTH STREET--SCIENTIFIC SERMON BY STEPHEN PEARL AMDREWS. Reported by Ghiradini. _ . Mr. Andrews pleasantly alluded to a newspaper article in the Herald of Saturday, January 3d, which he had intended to read but had forgotten to bring. It gave an account of a recent meeting of the scientiﬁc and literary elite of Boston, prominent among whom ﬁgured R. W. Emerson, Wm. R. Alger and Prof. Buchanan, and recalled the recollection of his audience to the presence of several of these distinguished personages, from time _to time among us. One gentleman sent his only less distinguished friend to the speaker, to get his thoughts in a three-hours’ conversation, he would not say with what success, but to his audience he would say that for its full presentation and elaboration he should demand not only close but long and-continuous attention. Introducing a few incidental matters as still further preparatory to the more immediate presentation of his own peculiar theories, which, by the aid of proper charts, he hoped to be able to begin to do on the next Sunday, he would take the opportu- nity to illustrate a little further what he means by orchestra- tion. ‘ Many methods and measures will develop themselves prac- "of the Pantarchy; but the aim of all is to cultivate an effi- cient spirit of co-operation and sympathy. This has hitherto -been almost wholly wanting among reformers. They have been, in fact, very like a bag of crabs, each clawing at the other. This semi-hostile condition has been, however, per- fectly legitimate, the ﬁrst steps in reform being always destructive; but personality being achieved, the time comes to centralize by a co—operation and sympathy, which shall become religion on a higher plane. Nor are reformers wholly at fault in failing to secure ‘this, even after they aspire to it. They have the spirit and aspiration after truth, but it requires the investigations of science to ensure success. Toillustrate by example: The young gentleman, our musician (young Master Benedict), whose pleasant face and skilled ﬁngers "have for a number’ of Weeks shed a benison upon our morning gatherings, though so young, is already a highly-gifted musician, trained for .and fully re-s organize, a few copies of the Proceedings of the Convention. . at Chicago should be procured and the General Plan thor- tically under this head as we proceed with the organization’ solved to devote himself to the teaching of music. Now, we in the spirit of Orchestration should take him to our hearts, make his interest ours, and in every possibly-available way forward his interests as we would our own. This would be, in part, my idea of Orchestration; and, in carrying it out, I hope to make of this rostrum a sort of social and Orchestral brokerage shop. - - A few evenings since, in company with Mr. Charles Brad- laugh, I was called upon to- deﬁne'Orchestration. Mr. B. seized at once upon the idea, and said, while cautiously de- clining to commit himself to any. new system of ideas, that it was the system of Organization to which he had been prac- 'tically brought in his movement in England; that he, for some time past, in his political measures at home, had de- pended wholly upon the power of attraction without formal organization; and as illustrative of the same idea, Mr. Brad- laugh here read from his own paper and organ, the N ational Reformer, published in London, an extract from a’ letter written by himself, which he then handed over to me, and which I will now read to you: _ _ _ Thursday last I attended a reception given to me by Mrs. Sargent, "at which most of the Boston notabilities were pres- ent, and on Saturday, Senator Smith gave me ‘a dinner, at which the Mayor of Boston, the Governor of the’ State of Massachusetts, several of the principal senators, President of the Senate, the Honorable Charles Sumner, Ex-Governor Washburn, William Lloyd Garrison, and other prominent men were present. ‘Senator Joshua B. Smith, is the great example of a slave who has become a Senator of his,State, and who has maintained his position and won the respect of his_fellow-citizens. ' , NOVEMBER 13, "1873. Among the various churches and chapels to which I have paid impartial visits, was the Boston Church of the Disciples, the ofﬁciating minister to which is J. Freeman Clarke, the author of a tract against Atheism, which has been widely circulated in England. Mr. Clarke, who professes not_ to be called greverend; is a Liberal Unitarian, and he somewhat surprised as well as pleased me, by an invitation to visit his Sunday school, lunch with his teachers and address the children. On Sunday last at one o’clock, I foundlmyself at table with a pleasant company, ministered to by Miss Putnam the enthusiastic and amiable conductress of the school, who, at my request, furnished me with the following written statement, which may be interesting to some of my readers, asillustrating a kind of school not very common: The Sunday school connected with the Church of the Dis- ciples is in a great measure composed of poor children. They come to it from all parts of the city, and entirely of their own accord. Nevertheless, it is neither a mission nor a charity school. It is simply a free school, open to any child who chooses to come to it, and the children of the parish come with the others. ' One of its ﬁrst superintendents was John A. Andrew, Gov- til it numbered over three hundred children, boys and girls in about equal numbers- That a good many girls should come to us seems natural enough; but the number of boys who come, boys, too, of an . age and of a class to which the least restraint is usually bur-. densome, was at ﬁrst a matter of surprise to us, as well as pleasure. And yet the explanation is a simple one. [To BE CoNTINUED.] r-—4Q,~—< MISCELLANEOUS. _ VINELAND, N. J ., Dec. 31, 1873. WOCDHULI. 86 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY: G'~reet2'ng—-—lVIay the “ vital spark of heavenly ﬂame,” which keep thy pages .“ all aglow,” ﬁnd in all the year 1874, those congenial combustibles so important in physical and mental life that it may be indeed “ A Happy New Year.” ., I have just returned from a lecturing tour in Bucks Co., Pa. At Carversville, in addition to the great lecture hall of‘ the Champion Liberal Institute, i.Bro. Wm. R. Evans, has ﬁtted up a neat little hall by his residence, where circles and conferences are held and lectures given freely to the people. Bro. Evans’ family and associates are great workers in the different departments of reform, but more particularly in the healthful education of body andmind. Bro. Evans isisat pres- ent‘ sole proprietor of said institute, but would like to have could work together harmoniously for the advancement of accompaniments will accomodate about one hundred board- ers, pupils or invalids, besides the resident teachers and physicians. It is a ﬁne location, ina rich farming country, about two miles from Bull’s Island Depot, ‘on the Belvidere Railroad, some thirty miles from Philadelphia, or twenty miles from Trenton; nearest way from Philadelphia, by North Pennsylvania Railroadto Doylestown, thence by stage seven miles. The reform "school was commenced in September last, and is the outgrowth from an old Presbyterian “ normal,” and promises to do ‘good service in health and social reform, un der the able management of Prof. S. W. Walker, A. M., principal; Maud C. VValker, M. D., physician; Geo. P. Betts, M. D., chemical demonstrator; Mrs. Emma Griswold, musi- cal director. Persons desiring more speciﬁc information should address any one of the parties named. I am told Jennie Leys is to lecture in Philadelphia during January. The New York folks offered her $40 a Sunday if she would not speak on the social question, and she told them $4.00 a day would not muzzle her mouth. And Dr. Child last Sunday, in Philadelphia, said “ their platform was free; and it‘ it should not be so, will leave it.” How about selling the R. P. J. and excluding the WOODHULL & CLAR- LIN’s WEEKLY from the Hall, and signing the condemnation resolution against the Conventions at Vineland and Chicago? the nostrils of Fate news the breath of our God. i Yours truly, A .14.. Kg QQQNLEX, ernor of Massachusetts during the war. At the beginning it ' was a small school, but it grew with marvelous rapidity, un- ' it controled by an association of persons, male or female,who J the true welfare of humanity. The building with its various . Surely, the waves of truth do roll on progressing, as through, V 9.» / ...-'‘.....\s'«.....-44’.'... ..‘:.~. . . -..,...,-....,-er-R1‘ ' - _ very satisfactory. 12 D Y ’ woonnum. _& CLAFLIIN’-S WEEKLY. Jail. 17, 1374. [mm the Independent, St. Johns, J[z'c7L.] THE WOODHULL LECTURE.) The happiest moments of my whole life were those in , which I listened to her who is considered the great shining light of the Woman’s Rights party. In this party there exist three classes, viz. : those who believe in and preach free love; those who believe and practice on the sly, but dare not preach; and those who neither believe, preach or practice. The speaker, Mrs. Victoria 0. Woodhull, believing in the doctrine of free love, is supposed to occupy the ﬁrst and highest sphere, and as those of the lowest sphere become educated up to the proper standpoint, ’tis expected that they will all eventually occupy the one and higher sphere. As for myself, I have always held that a man had a right to love any woman, or as many as he may please. And I can see no reason why any woman-—except my own—may not love any man that shall please her. : ' Y A few of the lower- sphere order of VVoman’s Rights who would be glad to have others -take them as the standard of respectability, asserted that no respectable person would at- tend the lecture of Mrs. VVoodhull. But their prediction proved incorrect, for the audience were highly respectable, observed the best of order, and the receipts at the door were “ Vic.” is a well-built woman and a ﬂuent speaker, but her looks are not near so fascinating as her lan- guage. ’Tis hoped that the ignorant will yet be educated so as to comprehend the great truths by her taught. A . E ’ SIMON. ‘ .PIG.IN THE POT. Young Paddy McShane —sure no lad could be bolder- Coaxed Bid_dy O’Shea to be sharing his lot; And Pat had a lively young pig on his shoulder, And she on her head bore a big iron pot. From the town, just at night—fall, as home they were walking, , ‘(Through a dark, lonely thicket their winding path lay), Biddy sat down the pot, stopped her laughing and talking, Paddy turned round and ax’d her the cause of delay. « “ Och,” said she, “I’m afraid ye’ll beacting un-civil; I’ll not go alone through the thicket wid you; - For, l?addy, avick, you’re as wild as the divil. ' You’ll be kissing and squazing me, that’s what you’ll do.” “ But the pig,” replied Pat, “that I’ve lugged so securely, If loose, back to town like the divil he’d trot.” “ Och, Paddy,” said she, as she looked up demurely, “ Sure, couldn’t ye put the pig underthe pot?”V DECEMBER 29, 1873. You invite criticism. Permit me to make suggestions to . your platform : 1. An educational system, constituting schools of life—— teaching and practicing industry, economy, utility, '6. 6., how to earn a living and use life—just the opposite of the pres- ent. . v I 2. The abolition of all honorary titles of distinction—relics of divine authority and governments--—as Esq., Hon., Rt. Hon., Rev., D. D., LLD., Excellency, etc., placing all upon the same level, and doing away with aristocratic distinc- tions. ' 3. Opposition to the sovereignty of the servant or agent over the master, and therefore the graduating of the salaries of all public servants to the average as determined by the census of the wages among the masters whom they have the -honor to serve-—the average of the master being the mini- mum of the servant; the abolition of class-privileges, per- quisites, sinecures, etc., and with it the corruption in oflice and the reformation of politics—that school of vice and in- iquity... Yours for reform, HANNIBAL, Mo. D. JENKINS. FRANCIS WRIGHT TO VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. Bruce and Noble Sister-—Time is precious, and I do not wish to detain you long or myself either. Yet I accept with pleasure the present opportunity to express to you my warm- est approbation of your great labors. Go on, and spare not the free use of the dissecting knife. Plunge it in to the hilt, that the impurities may have a chance to escape. Angels see the necessity and so do you, and right bravely are you doing‘ your work. Your mission is a noble one, though unpleasant in the extreme, viewed from a personal standpoint. But angels know the secret throbbings of your heart,'and know t is not self-gratiﬁcation: that prompts your labors, but a high resolve to elevate the down-trodden and prostituted ones of earth. ’Tis a gigantic work, for prostitution is every- where. Women prostitute themselves to the shrine of fash- ion; men to money’s shrine. How degrading to the soul of true womanhood and true manhood. You have struck at the root of the evil‘; keep the wound fresh by constant agi- tation until it becomes puriﬁed. You will not want for help. A hostare ready to sustaintheir standard-bearer, and while your feet are treading the thorny path of revolution, bear- ing aloft the banner of equal rights, the angels will weave for thy brow a garland of immortal beauty, and free love for thee will prompt the labor. We are mostlyifree lovers in spirit life and we wish all were in earth life. Success shall crown your efforts, and -Victoria will come off victorious. .Fear not, for the gates of heaven are ajar as well as prison gates. ’ Your sister in love, , FRANCIS WRIGHT. THE BIBLICAL DRAMA. ‘Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times has the following: “ Salvini’s really excellent ‘drama, “Samson,” founded in allits incidents upon a Biblical story, suggests the thought -Is itnot possible to draw further from this source for the stage? Would not the effectof Biblical plays be of incalcu- lable beneﬁt to the stage in attracting to the theatre a class who canionly occasionally now be induced to visit it I? Would , not such patronage raise the standard of our plays and players, in giving managers a new and cultivated taste to which to appeal? ' The stage is all-powerful for good or evil, and it aims naturally to please those who most support it.” We have often thought of this, and even suggested it in print. At the time when. Sunday circus performances were forbidden in San Francisco, we proposed that Scriptural subjects alone should be illustrated in the ring on Sunday. We proposed the ﬂight of the Egyptians, and pursuit by Pharoah- and his hosts, as a splendid ﬁnale to a Sunday cir- cus performance. Then, again, how well the menagerie could be worked into a piece representing the landing of the Ark on Mount Ararat, and the issuing forth of the beasts——in fact this has been done by Barnum. The Bible is full of subjects which might be successfully treated on the dramatic stage. Joseph and Potiphar’s wife would be a. good enough subject for a “ society drama,” which would suit the present day as well as the time in which the parties are supposed to have lived. Joseph mightbe objected to as improbable, but a hideous and comic make-up for Mrs. Potiphar might be suﬁ"1— cient to justify him in the eyes of the audience. Elijah as- cending to heaven in a chariot’ of ﬁre,wou1d be a grand ﬁnale to a spectacular piece. There are, of course, stories in _the Bible which would be improper on the stage. These should not be meddled with. An operatic version of Solomon’s Song might, however, be arranged, the most objectionable passages being cut. The Spirit of the Times being an emi- nently religious paper, we are convinced of the rectitude of its motives in making this suggestion. We enlarge on the subject, with the hope that the biblical drama may spring up in San Francisco, and may receive the support to which it is entitled from the Y. M. O. A. and other devout Christians.- San Francisco Figaro. _ ' I I . MY LOVE. BY GERALD MASSEY. No jeweled beauty is my love, Yet in heri earnest face There’s such a world of tenderness, ' She needs no other grace. - Her smiles and voice around my life In light and music twine, And dear, oh, very dear to me Is this sweet love of mine! Oh joy! to know therein one fond heart Beats ever true to me; It sets mine leaping like a lyre, In sweetest melody. My soul upsprings, a deity! ‘ To hear her voice divine, And dear, oh, very dear to me Is this sweet love bf mine! If ever I have sighed for wealth, ’Twas all for her I trow; , And if I win Fame’s victor-wreath I’ll twine it on her brow. * There may be forms more beautiful, And souls of sunnier shine, But none, oh, none so dear to me As this sweet love of mine! FASHION vs. FREEDOM. Recognizing the fact that this base of “Woman's Free- dom ” is ﬁnancial independence, the WEEKLY hails “ Dress Reform ” as a. means to that end. The following testimony, taken from the columns of theiDa1'ly Graphic, proves that the movement has friends in England as well as here at home: A . “ TROUSERS roR»woMEN—AN ENGLISH eIRL’s vIEws ON THE SUBJECT. “The English/woman’s Domestic M agaetne is addicted to the , discussion of rather startling subjects. ‘ A year or ‘two ago it devoted its attention to ,the subject of whipping young ladies, and proved by its disclosures that the practice was common not only in English families, but in young ladies’ seminaries. More recently, it has published a series of letters from Englishmen upon the question of trousers. It seems that a curious yearning for this garment has seized upon many Englishwomen, who have no sympathy with the woman’s rights movement. The desire for trousers is rather inexplicable, except upon the theory of an extreme attenua- tion, which long trousers can alone be depended upon to conceal at all times and in all circumstances. Nevertheless, there is evidently a large number of English girls who are really anxious to hide the curved lines of beauty with the hideous perpendicularity of the straight-cut, columnar ‘ pan- taloon.’ The following extract from a letter written to the magazine in question by ‘Minnie ’—only fancy so prettily named a girl in broadcloth trousers—-shows the tone of the discussion. Minnie writes: “ ‘ Madam—You make but one objection, I am pleased to ﬁnd, to the revival of the fashion of long trousers for girls, and that isfthe chance of their being splashed. This does not appear to have been considered a drawback in the many years during which they were in fashion. Surely it can hardly be a greater objection now, when the high heels /would keep the trousers further from the ground than for- merly, for shoes and sandals would not be worn in wet weather. I really do not remember that long trousers were so glaringly objectionable on this score when in vogue, and I would suggest that, in their absence, the stockings and boots receive the splashes, which I take to be equally unpleasant in every way. I am pleased that “;Mamma ” likes to see girls somewhat more childishly dressed than they are at present, and that we agree, about the shortness of their skirts. 1 am not insensible to the beauty of color and form in the limbs of. our children which she mentions, and I should be as sorry as herself if those little girls who are young enough to have the legs bare were to hide them by long trousers, for I have distinctly said I did not think quite young children looked well in them; and, in fact, there are few girls underinine, or perhaps ten, to Whom they are suitable; it is when they are I a year or two older that I think them so pretty and becom- ing. Nor do I see why they should be regarded as masculine habiliments; they were certainly not so considered while they were in fashion, which was also a period when the lady’s costume had, not nearly so many hints of the dress of the other sex as it has had of late years. A garment cannot be , otherwise than womanly which is made of and trimmed with ' such feminine priaterials. I am sorry, though not surprised, that “Mamma” does not like girl’s trousers to be visible. I was many letters in your columns favoring my views, including ‘ prepared for adverse expressions of opinion, but I think the adjective “ dowdy ” inappropriate, unless, indeed, they were worn soiled, muddled or 1imp——a state of things no one would tolerate; but if they are beautifully fresh, white and crisp, and stiﬁly starched, so as not to l.ook creased, mamrna may not think them pretty, but they are certainly neat and bright and smart. As Marnma speaks of a daughter of seven- teen, she is perhaps old’ enough to have )WOI'D long trousers herself when a girl, in which case I, doubt if she thought - them masculine, or dowdy, or ugly. I think it probable she was as satisﬁed with her own appearance in them as any young girl of the present time who is nicely dressed in~the fashion of the day. I do not think that girls of twenty or thirty years ago regarded their style of costume with aver- sion. I believe they were as proud of their trousers and their shoes and sandals as their daughters are of their striped and colored stockings, theirhigh-heeled buttoned boots, with the white stitching, and their slippers with bows and buckles. Few ladies under thirty can remember, much less can they have worn, long trousers, for they were rarely seen after 1853, and were, in fact, going out of fashion the previous year, and I take this to bethe reason for Edith Kate’s strong ob- jection to them, for there is always a tendency to speak of obsolete fashions as ugly, particularly on the part of those who are too young to have known anything about them; therefore, as I do notsuppose Edith Kate ever saw any girls dressed in long trousers, she is scarcely qualiﬁed to give an opinion, and I think it probable that the majority of those who really did wear this costume when the girl’s dress was generally, and in-this respect in particular, at its prettiest, viz., from 1848 to 1852, will think as I do; so I hope yet to read others from Caroline, who is silent this month.’ ” Animosi, IOWA, Dec. 30, 1873. Dear lVeekly-—The following is designed only for a certain . class of men,.and when they have read it, they will not need to inquire of any second person if it means them. I have a» friend, a bright-eyed, ‘intelligent, ‘open-hearted little woman as there is_in the State. When but a child, cir- cumstances over which she had no control forced her into the manufacture of cigars. Later in life the same relent- less hand of destiny forced her into the same channel again. But having arrived at the years of discretion, and being an intelligent and conscientious woman, her judgment rebelled against it. But necessity was pressing, and there seemed no ﬁenue of escape. So she reasoned thus: It must be the least of two evils. Besides, if it is right for good men to smoke cigars as a means of personal gratiﬁcation, it must be right for a good woman to make and sell them as a means of living. She. accepted the situation and went bravely to work, hoping to do as much good and as little harm as peg- sible. A gentleman (?) of the class of which I am speaking, hearing of her occupation (which is unusual fora lady in this part of the country), and that she was ‘a Spiritualist, Wood. hullite, Free Lover, etc. (which, I am happy to say, was 3.11 true), called upon her with two sets'of jewelry, and asked her to say which she preferred. Suspecting the situation, she replied that she thought them both very pretty. But he in- sisted that she should designate which she liked the best; whereupon she did so, but added that she did not wish to purchase. , could have them “ cheap.” “ But,” said‘ she, “ I do not wish to purchase; in fact, I do not care for jewelrv;” and added, “Ladies nowadays, or a few of them at least, care for other things more than jewelry.” “ What is it '3” he inquired, aux- iously. “Dresses ?—bonnets ?” “No,” she replied. “Mans hood!” with a snap of her black eyes that sent a shock over him from head to foot, like‘ a wave of electricity, and would have made him blush had such a thing been possible to the species. As it was, he merely looked confounded, as though he did not understand the situation, and passedout. Now, for the benefit of that class of gentlemen, I want to explain a little, or whispera word of advice to them, which is this: _When you hear of a Free Lover, give them a wide berth. If you understood the term Free Love, you would know that they are not the kind of women you are in search of. A WOMAN. [From theﬂaily Union, Darrow] LAURA’S LETTER. THE MESSAGE °CHRIST1VIAS BRINGS. I would fain write something for those to—night who, amid all the preparations for the approaching Christmas, feel themselves forgotten and alone. Perhaps it is because I, too, walk the streets of this busy city, and rarely meet a face that looks into mine with a smile of friendly recognition, that my heart goes out to all G0d’s desolate children, longing to bring to them a thought that shall soothe or bless. I would en- ter every home that death has made desolate, and say to those who, in their bitter bereavement, think that the very sun- shine is cruel, and Christmas cheer and revelry a mockery of their woe. “Be comforted, those for whom you mourn are not- dead, only translated; their emancipated spirits walk beside the crystal waters of the Jasper Sea, or bask in the goldensunlight of a day that knows no night.” i To their enraptured gaze is unfolded the realization of every earthly dream. The student, the poet, the philoso- pher, ﬁnd there the complement of all that their aspirations had forshadowed; the oppressed learn that justice is s ome- thing more thana. name; the friendless ﬁnd a home, the exile a country. There, little children’, “ do always behold the face of the Father,” and when amid these earthly mists more He smilingly and obligingly replied, that she, Jan. 17, 1874. Woo’DHU-LL Ha CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY-. v , 13 . tals record the advent of the Christmas tide, angels look down from heavenly places with sympathy for earthly woe, with compassion for human error, with recognition of earthly longing, and a tender memory of all the ties of love and kindred that bound them to us here. ’ Oh! lonely souls be comforted, make bright your homes, cheerful‘“your ﬁresides, for as surely as your ‘crushed and bleeding hearts lean across the distance that divides the liv- ing from the dead to catch some echo from the voices so long . silent, so surely your solitude is peopled by those who * “ hate the unreasoning awe which waves them oiffrom pos- sible communion,” drawing near to us with an all enduring love. A _ Ivshould like to bring to every abode of poverty a sense of Christmas cheer, ﬁlling the stockings of the little ones to , whom Santa Claus and Kriss Kringle never come. I should en.joy giving a dinner and inviting the crowd that wait upon Mr. Willard every day. All should be made glad, and the old women should revel in the prohibited tea and sugar. The appearance of the guests might create a genuine sensation among the dwellers on Woodward avenue, but if the New Testament is not a ﬁction the man of Galilee would be,there. 1 would gather all the little shivering, half-clad children, whose wistful faces, as they peer through the windows of the Alhambra’ at the array of toys, and other childish treasures there displayed, make my heart ache, and give them a feast without any attendent dragon to molest or make them afraid. And the boys who shout, Free Press, Post and Sunday Union, till they are hoarse on frosty mornings, while their drowsy patrons, oblivious of their efforts, turn over for a prolonged Sunday nap, should not be forgotten, but receive such enter- tainment as became young gentlemen of their marked enter- prise and varied information. I would like to send Santa Clause on a special mission to the. House of Shelter, and from some secluded point of observation watch the pleased surprise that would light up the young Matron’s face to ﬁnd that God had put it into some one’s heart to remember those committed to her care. I would send Kriss Kringle to the Wayne County poor- house. if I thought a ray of warmth or happiness could reach that drear abode. And to every prison should enter some sign or token for each desolate soul in bondage, recallinga bet- ter time when life was not a burden or their name areproach. For one day if no more, the prison walls should disappear in a mist of tender memories and the promise of that time when man’s injustice shall be lost in the mercy of God. Once, not long ago, a young, and dainty maiden, beautiful with all the graces of culture and richly endowed by nature, was asked by a benevolent gentlemen of Auburn, if she would give a reading to the inmates of the State Prison, pro- vided permission could be obtained. This young lady has afforded inﬁnite pleasure to friends and also to impartial critics by her readings, and a brilliant future awaits her, but her heart, unspoiled by present success or anticipated triumph, seconded the petition of her old friend. - Just at the close of the convict’s dinner-hour, a vision ap- peared to them, unexpected, ‘ unheralded; there stood a young girl of eighteen, dainty and sweet, with tender voice and ﬂowing hair, tears in her eyes and heavenly compassion in her heart, her soft cheek ﬂushing and paling, while the faces of her strange audience looked up wonderingly in hers, awed by the presence of a being so pure and yet so gifted, so far removed from the life of horror by which she was sur- rounded, and yet brought so near by reason of divine sym- pathyand love. As she spoke, imparting to the poet’s touching words the pathos of a personal appeal, the prisoners were strangely ‘moved. Many a lip quivered; over faces embittered by cruelty, and some upon which many a tempest of unre- strained passion had left its trace, surged emotions long sup- pressed. Thus, for afew moments she stood among them, an embodied gospel; and as they rose to receive her tearful, pitying farewell, she passed into the outer world. “ I was so sorry for them, mother.” she said, as all trembling with excitement she related her experience at the prison. Yes, fair Florence; and the memory of your sorrow, your gentle voice and youthful grace hath left its impress upon every seared and blighted heart, bringing nearer to each “ Some pure ideal "of a noble life That once seemed possible.” I would fain on Christmas Day sanctify its memory to all those in bonds'by such a tender and sacred Scripture as this young girl uttered in the Auburn State Prison. ' To every “outcast’s ” darkened life I’d carry a hope that should revive the expiring spark of self—respect, whispering to each stricken heart, “ You always may be what you might have been.” ‘ . ' But, alas! I am powerless to redeem from want, or crime, or pain a single soul; and on next Christmas Day, as on every other, the table of Dives will groan beneath the weight of rare and costly viands, while Lazarus will gnaw his mouldy crust unpitied and unknown. ' Men who have watches already will have costly repeaters presented to them,and the poor souls whose only method of ascertaining the ﬂight of time is by an occasional glance at the tower of the City Hall, will go unwatched. The happy possessor of a silver-headed cane will have a gold one be- stowed upon him at once, and decrepit age will hobble along minus a staﬁ‘. I - The children of the rich will over-eat themselves as usual, while those of the poor will go hungry as of yore; and all on Ch.ristmas Day, the anniversary of the birth of Him who was “ a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,” and during His earthly pilgrimage “had not where to lay his head.” Yet Igwill not despair, “ Since good though only thought has life and breath.” I will look in my little girl’s blue eyes and seek to learn some of her simple trust, as she reposes in the glad belief that Christmas will come laden with joy for all. - A i‘ But still my human hands are weak To hold your iron creeds, Against the words ye bid me spealc, My heart within me please. a: “ 0, brothers! if my faith is vain, . If hopes likevthese betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The sure and safer way. ‘ “ And thou, O Lord! by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be, Forgive me if too close I lean My human heart on Thee.” WAVERLY, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1873. ’ Editors of the Weekly——I ask a favor of you at this time to report the proceedings of the Spiritualists of this place. ‘Not having much faith in the ‘communication of spirits out of the ﬂesh, which are to me as airy nothings, I cannot ex- pect to receive as warm treatment as I naturally would if I belonged to them. There is much need of progress if the immaculates in this place could only see it. There are only a few radicals, who keep the society alive. ing, the 26th ult., as I understood,;on the social question, and having read some extracts of her lecture at St. Louis in the WEEKLY, I thought I would have a rich treat; and being invited by some of the more radical to go and hear her, I ventured forth and placed myself among the respectables. There was a ‘respectable audience present, and at‘ the ap- pointed time the speakerstepped to the front and announced that she stood upon a free-platform and the spiritual society would not be responsible for the sentiments she would utter. She stated her subject would be free love. She appeared to be at home 011 that question, and told some truths which have made some of the immaculates squirm, for she couched her truths ‘lnlanguage so plain that they were easily,under- stood. Miss Davis is (in my estimation) a reliable person to lecture on the social as well as the religious questions of the day. ' -‘ ' . She seemed at home on the marriage question, and showed it to be a barbarous institution. Why not give its proper ‘name, and call it legal bondage for woman and legal tyranny for man? . i . Any society—that is, liberal society—could not but be well suited by engaging her to speak on the liberal questions of the day. CHAS. DIeKsoN. IN MEMORIAM OF RICHARD MCDERMOT. “ Poor Dick is dead,” I hear the words again As one hears clods that fall upon the coffin low- A thud, a fnuﬁled sound, and then a sense of pain, As if the dead were hurt that softly slept below. Hehad a weary journey, ending ’mong the blest. His eyelids drooped in rest and closed in sleep; White thin hands folded meekly on his breast. The kingdom gained, why should the living weep. One more is missing from the fraternal band, Another gainedthe blessed shore eternc; One more that by the great white throne shall stand, And newer songs and glorious anthems learn. ”I‘is true, he had not half life’s story told at best; But who can tell what glimpses of the future way Had caught his rifted vision of the heavenly rest, And bore him forward to the gates of clay. The daisy gathers freshness in its lowly bed, ,And new—made graves have sadness in their mold; But -who can mourn the absence of the dead, Whose gain transcends this dual life of old? ‘ Adieu, old friend! -forever done with strife, No more We meet where oft our steps have been; And tho’ we miss the presence of thy daily life, Long in the hearts of all shall be thy memory green. HELEN M. WALTON, Brooklyn, 1873. The Tram Ligue, published simultaneously in Cincinnati, Ohio. and Covington and Newport, Kentucky, has again made its appearance. It comes to us printed in redink. Well, red is a handsome color! Its platform is as follows: 1.‘ Free speech, free press, free thought, liberty, freedom and equal justice to all races‘ of mankind. ‘ . 2. Free Ireland and Free Cuba. 3. Success to strikers! ‘ ’ 4.’ Success to the Grangers! Down with the monopolies and combinations! 5. Woman’s suﬂrage. 6. Prohibition to foreign manufactures. '7. Cotton factories South; woolenlfactories West. 8. Eight-hour labor co-operation. 9. Ballot to boys of eighteen. 0. Presidential term six years. 11. Capital punishment. 12. N o more land grants. 13. Repudiation or Starvation. 14. Reformation or Revolution. . 15. Bread or blood for the starving millions. 16. Free trade-with all nations. 17. Defense of labor against undue legislative oppression for the beneﬁt of capital. 18. A new land system, in which every individual will be entitled to the free use of a proper proportion of the land. . 19. Semi-weekly general newspapers to be published by the government, and sent free to the head of every poor family in the United States. This will educate our nation; and we will not need so many jails, station-houses, prisons and asy- lums. _ _ _ . 20. No more imprisonment of American citizens in the Tombs for quoting the Bible, unless all violators share the same fate. _ » .v 21. N o more imprisonment of brave American women in Lud1ow—street Jails, for daring to‘ expose the debauchery and crimes of “revered citizens.” 22. Free banking. Down with monopoly! 23. Down with taxes! 24.. Down with politicians, andup with the people i » llaivsirsalaiuscstyi As Nellie L. Davis has been lecturing here this month and 1, had engaged the hall to give a free lecture last Friday even- 26. No foreign embassadors. . 27. Penal servitude for briber and bribed. Death to all salary-grabbers by hanging to lamp-posts! 29. Inland and ocean penny postage. , 30. Compulsory education in public schools, some Bible. 31. The religion of Humanity. _ 32. Government postal and money-order telegraph. L 33. Abolish electoral colleges. - . 1 , 34. Death to oﬂiicial thieves through ‘vigilance committees 35. Let Brigham alone. Admit Utah. 36. Cabinet oﬂicer in Congress. 37. Chinese immigration, but not Coolie contracts. 38. Uniﬁcation of North America, or the Continental Re- public. ! 1 V I . _ 39. Taxation of United States securities as other property is taxed, an.d the speedy exchange of United States bonds for United States currency,ithat money may be in the hands 0 the people, to whom it belongs. A 40. General reform in Church, State, government and soci- ety, and strong advocacy of all reform associations. 41. More sympathy, kind words, courage, and willing hearts and helping hands to assist back into the world and society the “fallen” women of our land. 42. N o more false God and “ rerl—tape ” business in the Constitution. other salary-grabbers, and in their stead the election of Mr, George Francis Train to the Presidential chair, as the only person in our land that can get the country out of the dark, deep and mysterious chasm in which it has been plunged, and save our nation from the ruin that it is now so uncon.. sciously slumbering upon the very brink of. ‘ An addition might be suggested to the sixth resolution, to the forty~ﬁrst. With these exceptions we rest satisﬁed with the platform. of the Tram Lvgue, and heartily wish it success. " PROTEST FROM PROVIDENCE. As your readers are aware, the Young Men’s Christian As-‘ sociation of Providence secured the revocation of the license of the Davenport Brothers by the Board of Aldermen. Sub- sequently, at an informal meeting ‘of the liberal element, comprehending Spiritualists and free-thinkers, the follow- ing resolutions were adopted as expressive of the opinions of those present, and as a protest against the unwarranted and arbitrary proceeding: ~ WHEREAS, The Board of Aldermen of the City of Provi- dence, without notice to the parties, has, through ex-paste, Brothers; therefore, M Resolved, That said act, done at the instance of the Young Men’s Christian Association, was a violation of the rights of the Davenports and of the people, subversive of the tradi- tionary and constitutional policy of absolute freedom in all matters of religious concernment, couched in the trenchant expression of the founder of Rhode Island, “ Soul-liberty,” and is an evidence of the tyrannous and sectarian character of the Young Men’s Christian Association. , Resolved, That in view of this and similar acts, notably the attempt to sectarianize‘ the Constitution of the United States by incorporating theological dogmas therein, liberals of all classes are called upon to be vigilant and active in re- sisting the narrow bigotry which animatesthat body, whose " policy is inimical to free thought and progress. Resolved, That the members of the Board of Aldermen who registered the edict of the Young Men’s Christian Ags0_ ciation, are undeserving the conﬁdence and suffrages of free- receive arebuke at the hands of all those who would con... tinue to hold the state independent of priestly and ecclesias- tical control. p - ‘ V Resolved, That inasmuch as history shows a most bloody and tyrannous record in the unchallenged supremacy of pope, priest or dogmatist, we are warned to be vigilant and persistent in resisting the encroachments of ecclesiastical despotism,whet_her coming from Rome or the bank building Christian Association. . We do not propose to rest idle, but shall move on the one- to repeal the law exempting ecclesiastical property from tax“! ation. Wherever such obnoxious statutes exist, a movement should be made for their repeal. Strike at this as well as all other laws and usages tending to a union of Church and State, such as the employment of chaplains in the army and navy and in Congress. Let us be aggressive, for the times demand it. ’ ‘ , WILLIAM Fosrzsn, J R. PROVIDENCE, Dec. 23, 1873. it V Bosrou, J an.‘ 4, 1874, Editors Weekh/——I suppose it is generally known to your readers that the hall, recently erected in»this city in honor of Theodore Parker and known as the “ Parker Memoi-:31 years ago secured free" speech for Mr. Parker, now deny it to Mrs. Woodhull. They received to—day a ﬁtting -rebuke to ham, of New York, whom they had invited ‘to preach their Sunday-morning. discourse. He choose as his subject “ The the second head (truth-speaking) he spoke substantially. as follows: “A great preacher, perhaps the greatest in the of the soul, I would shut and seal my mouth forever after.’ why should he say this? If the doctrine of immortality ,-1;. false in his opinion, why‘ should he not say so? How does he , know that ahetter faith would not#..2:.i?s:c its piece? «av — AKA -.' Vshculii. in less. cut is is 43. The immediate impeachment U. S. Grant and all , viz., a demand for- reciprocity; and an alteration is needed- sectarian inﬂuences, revoked the license of the Davenport‘ men, and if again they are up for public oﬁice they should on Weybosset street, the headquarters of the Young Men’s ' my’s line this winter, by petitions to the General Assembly C Hall,” was ‘lately refused by its owners (the Parker Frater-= _ nity and individuals belonging to it) to Mrs. Woodhull for 3 a lecture on the labor question. The same parties, who thirty _ their cowardly course from the lips of ‘Rev. 0. B. Frothing- ’ soul of truth,” and treatedit under the three heads of truth- I ' seeking, truth-speaking and truth-living in a very masterly ' manner. He spoke exte-mporaneouly, as is his wont. Undezy country, once said ‘If I should be convinced of the mortality, I 14 . WOODHULL It CLAF_LIN’S WEEKLY. Jan. 17, 1874. will it fall because of his disbelief in it? If false, will it stand an hour longer because of his belief in it? Such talk betrays a lack of faith in the truth. See what it leads to. ' It leads’ to attempts to shut up and conceal the truth, to smother inquiry, to stiﬂe investigating committees; not Only‘ this, it leads to shutting up the truth-tellers, to denying them halls, to refusing them audiences.” At this point ap- plause broke Out, followed by a loud hiss. Mr. Frothingham went on: “ I apologize to no one. Let the truth out, regard- . less of consequences? Consequences ? On whom dothe con- sequences fall? On the one who cries ‘ Fire ’ 0I‘s0Il the one who kindles it? On the discoverer of evil or on the deer of it ?” , , I Mr. Frothingham had the courage to rebuke these pseudo- liberals to their face. It was a brave action and one which the occasion loudly called_for. He spoke so eloquently and manfully that the owners of the hall "must, I think, already be ashamed of their course. If they are not, they soon will -be. BENJ. R. TUCKER. «\ - _ PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29, 1873. , Dear Mrs. Woodhull—I hope some one more competent than I am will give you a report of the Spiritualists’ meeting at Lincoln Hall last Sunday, the 28th, in which Jennie Leys and her noble guides launched forth the all-important social question. Before commencing her lecture, the President, Dr. Child, unexpectedly to the large audience, announced that probably Miss Leys, if it was the wish of the society, would be with them a part at least of the coming month, and before the words were fairly out of his mouth the building shook with a hearty applause. Miss ‘Leys then stepped forward, and in explanation of what the President had said, stated that she was engaged to speak for the Association in New . York, ‘but that a day or two ago she had received a letter from their Secretary to the effect that she could fulﬁll the engage- ment if she would come under their terms and rules as pub- lished in their card in the Banner of Light, meaning, of course, that neither she nor her spirit guides must touch upon the social question. When the speaker told the audi- ence that she had sent the Association a reply that she should subscribe to no card, rules or creed, and knew no side issues to eschew, the old hall shook again to the very founda- tionlby the cheering. And when again the President arose and said that when their platform was no longer a free platform he should leave it, the house tottered as though wrought upon by a young earthquake. ' ‘ Isn’t itfunny as well as extremely ridiculous that when Spiritualists believe .-and acknowledge that our best speakers are given words to utter by higher intelligences, that they should insult them by dictating what they may say and what they must not say. ‘ Yours, for out with the truth, S. K. R. A A CORRECTION. Editors of the Weekly—Please allow me space to say that I was misinformed about a new reform journal issued in New York, or announced if not issued, with my name as a con- tributor or corresponding editor. ‘No such paper has been issued I am now told, nor an- nounced, nor will be at present; and hadthere been, my name would not have appeared, as my letter was received- declining such arrangement, and my wishes would have been respected. I do dislike and dread being thus drawn‘ before the public gaze in explanations, or in anything demanding explana- tions, and devoutly hope this may be my last appearance in any such role; and so I hasten to do this deed of seeming justice, and to subscribe, Very truly yours for every good word and work, ' PARKER PILLSBURY. c»—+—————— BUSINESS EDITORIALS. CEPHAS B. LYNN, the able young radical, has been notiﬁed that his services are wanted on the Paciﬁc coast. I-Ie desires - calls at points on the route. We trust that our radical friends in Omaha, Lincoln, Denver, Salt. Lake and other points, will I invite Cephas to lecture to them. His address is Sturgis, Mich. - _1=HvsICAL MEDIUMS. There are many physical test mediums in the Spiritualistic ﬁeld, but we wish in this article to present one who, accord- ing to reports, gives universal satisfaction, both with Spirit- ualists and skeptics. We refer to Mrs. Annie E’. Fay, for- merly of Louisville, Kentucky, assisted by her husband as ‘director of seances. Recently, as we glean from a corre- spondent from Toronto, Canada, they have been giving successful seances in that city; also through Michigan and Indiana. Her dark musical test seances give the greatest and most universal satisfaction, the company being limited. Her; light seances, where the company is not limited, are astounding and marvelous to all present. They intend this 1 'winter and spring to make a tour through the principal cities of the Eastern States, giving their test seances. We speak for them a cordial welcome from friendsand inquirers. In Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati her test musical seances have always been in great demand, seats having to be engaged weeks in advance. For the private dark seance, the Louis- .' ville Couriér. Journal, the Cincinnati Enquirer and Commer- cial sent their reportorial corps night after night, and the verdict of this press was always good. . 4 . Mrs. F.‘ and her husband intend to visit Harrisburg, Pa., Phi'1adelphia,i Baltimore, New York, Newark, Bridgeport, Hartford,‘ New Haven, Springﬁeld and many of our prin- cipal New England and Eastern cities next spring and summer ’We have no doubt that they will leave be- hind them a good record of work well done. Mrs. Fay has already been some years in the ﬁeld, and in some of our American as also Oaneclian cities-St. J ohn’s, Ha1ifax,.=:Tor. Onto, etc.--her name is familiar as household words. We trust, then, that previous success will follow them in the . future, and that their efforts may be the means of comfort to many bleeding hearts and doubting souls. ~ ANTI-FASHION CONVENTION. ing demands of the hour, and believing it to be theresult of physical health, mentafvigor and moral power; and being full equality which Nature bestowed, but man has denied day, January 20 and 21, 1874. i As an important aid to the work proposed, we respectfully dress for woman. A Mary E. Tillotson, Lucinda S. Wilcox, M. D., Susan P. lett, M. D. Friends desiring entertainment will please write either of the above. ‘ Names of speakers will be duly announced. "MR. MADOX, fore workingmen’s organizations and lyceums throughout the country; subjects, The Political Economy of the Inter- nationals,” “The Suspension ofsour Industries——the Cause Fowler, Ellen Dickinson, Olivia F. Shepard, A. w. M. Bart-. 95” and m°S’°1°gi°a1WriterS- _ this subject till you have read Mr. Kent. You who are able add another dollar or more as charity. His address, ADDIE ‘ L. BALLOU. In response to pressing calls from California, this ﬁrm and eloquent exponent of Spiritualism and advocate of all re- forms, expects to start for the‘ Paciﬁc coast about the last of this month, and will make arrangements to speak at impel - tantintermediate poin-ts—Omaha, Lincoln, Ogden and Salt In view of the alarming indifference of woman to the press- L3ke_if the friends desiring Will take steps accordingly. Parties wishing one, two or more lectures from her, can have her absorption by fashions of dress which are destructive to them by applying PI‘0II1l9t1y by letter 3“? TGITG Hall-be. Ind- The Geneva (0.) Jourmil thus speaks of her lectures in convinced that she cannot make a successful demand for the that City: ,,The lectures of Mrs. Addie L. Ballou, given here last her, until she accumulates power by the use of that new Wbeka Were Very 131‘g1y attended by hhebilﬁilehs Of this P1309, within reach; and hoping by discussion and concert of ac- regardless of religious faiths and beliefs. Mrs. Ballou is a tion to encourage some in the adoption of a natural system Very P16333131? Speaker, 9» g00d 61000-bioﬂiﬂha and handles her of d_ress—one comporting with all the duties of wom'an—-we Subjects Very ably and 0193-1‘1ys and We may say. eXh3»l1ShiVe1y invite the lovers of truth to meet in convention in Plum- fI‘0hT1 he!‘ S’03J1dP0ihl7- MOW 50 than any Speaker Of her faith street Hall, Vineland, New Jersey, /on Tuesday and Wednes- We W61‘ h@3v1'd~” Esend Austin Kent one dollar for his book and pam- urge that every woman who can, come to the convention in P1116175 011 Free LOVB and Ma1‘1'i3g6- H6 has been Sixteen such costume as will best express her thought of a rational years PhySi0a11yhe1l319SSa 00hﬁI1ed 170 1115 bed and Chair, is poor and needs the money. You may be even more bene- ﬁted by reading one of the boldest, deepest, strongest, clear- You are hardly well posted on AUSTIN KENT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44. WARREN CHASE lectures the four Sundays of January in Des Moines, Iowa, where he may be addressed during the of th I t , vs , _ . _ month. He will receive subscriptions for the WEEKLY and e n ernationals, will hold himself ready to lecture be- for our books or pictm.es_ A CARI). and Remedy,” “ The Currency and Finance.” organize Sections of the Secret Order of U. 0.‘ I. Address, G. W. MADOX, See. U. 0. I.‘,42 John st., N. Y. City. PROCEEDINGS on THE TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION or THE AMERICAN AssoCIATIoN or SPIRITUALISTS. THE ELIXIR or LIEE; on, WHY DO WE D:E? 8vo, pp. 24. An ORATION delivered before the above—named CONVENTION, at GRow’s OPERA HoUsE, CHICAGO, by VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, September 18, 1873. and done at the above convention. The speeches are pre- sented to the public word for word as-they came to us from the hands of the able reporter employed by the convention. question of “Free Love,” or rather “ Personal Sovereignty,” are worthy of the serious attention not only of all Spiritual- ists but of the community at large. ’ In proof that we have not overstated the merits of the work, we respectfully submit” the generous testimony of Judge Edmund S. Holbrook, who so ably defended the posi- tion of the conservative Spiritualists at the above conven- tion: - “I have seen the report you have published of the doings in saying that, in the publication of such a report, so full, so accurate and impartial as it is, you have done a work worthy of high commendation. Some could not be at this conven- tion, either for want of time or means; but now, such of them as may choose to read, can :almost imagine that they were there; and though they may not attain whatever there may be in personal presence, in the eye, and the ear, and in they may proﬁt thereby.” Price of the “Proceedings” and the “Elixir of Life” 50 cents; or the “Elixir of Life” alone 25 cents. Orders for the same addressed to Woodhull St Claﬂin, P. 0. box 3,791, will be promptly ﬁlled. > s A I APPROACHING CONFLICT- The irrepressible issues between universal liberty and des- potism to precipitate a terrible war within ﬁve years that will terminate in the overthrow of the American Republic and the establishment of a military dictatorship. Church, State and Capital are combined, under the leader- ship of the Republican party, to precipitate the conﬂict that will end in a defeat of their aspirations, and the ultimate triumph ofindustry, socialism and rationalism. The nation is slumbering upon the brink of ruin as uncon- ciously as the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum in that awful moment that preceded the belching forth of Vesu- vius. The most’ astounding foreshadowing of the "future destiny of this nation ever issued from the press. ' A book of 250 pages will be sent to any address, pest—paid, for $1.50. Liberal terms given to agents. Address, ; JOHN WILLGOX, 172 and 17% Clark street, Chicago, Ill. DR. L. K. COONLEY. This active, able, zealous and practical reformer intends to return again to the open ﬁeld. He will answer calls to speak anywhere in the country. No ‘word of ours is needed with the people in regard to this worker. He hasbeen before the Spiritualistic public for twenty years, and returns to. it new refreshed and reinvigorated by two years of fruit growing in Vineland, N. J ., at which place he may for the present be addressed. Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Me .1“; I, _inay be found at his Office, No. 413 Fourth avenue. Applications having repeatedly bcu made to us by many different parties on the subject of st curing for them ‘ra- tional amusement for private ellbO1Lli1l]nleni}S, we beg to notify the public that we have with us an able elocutionist who is desirous of giving evening readings from the poets. We "know he has an almost unlimited repertoire of recita- tions (without book), comprising selections from the ﬁrst English and American classics, together with translations from Swedish, Moorish, Spanish, French, German, and even Persian and Turkish authors. Proprietors and proprie- tresses of houses of amusement and recreation can arrange The 3b0V9 “ReP01‘h Of the P1‘00€6diI1gS Of the Tenth AI1- for evening readings and rec tations by applying to J . F., nualConvent1on of the American Association of Spiritual- care of WQODHULL & 0;; FL1N’s WExrr{LY, P, 0. Box ists,” is an accurate and Impartial account of what was said 3,791, New York. , PROSPECTUS. WOODHULL 8t CLAELIN’s WEEKLY. The erations of the members, on_ bothvsides, discussing the [The only Paper in the World conducted, absolutely’ upon the _ Principles of 0. Free Press.] It advocates a new government in which the people will be their own legislators, and the officials the executors of their win. It advocates, as parts of the new government— A" 1. A new political system in which all persons of adult age will participate. 2. A new land system in which every individual will be en- and Sayings Of the Chi0ﬁ8’0 C0I1Ve11ti0Il. and I take P193-Sure titled to the free use of a proper proportion of the land. ‘ 3. A new industrial system, in which each individual will remain possessed of all his or her productions. 4. A new commercial system. in which “cost,” instead of “demand and supply,” will determine the price of every- thing and abolish the system of proﬁt-making. 5. A new ﬁnancial system, in which the government will soul-communion, yet whatever of principle has been evolved be bhb S011I'06» 011St0di3»11 and transmitter Of 311 m0heya and they may well discover and understand; and also, as I hope, in Which 11S111‘y W111 haye 110 P19456- 6. A new sexual system, in which mutual consent, entirely free from money or any inducement other than love, shall be the governing law, individuals being left to make their own regulations; and in which society, when the individual shall fall, shall be responsible for the proper rearing of children. 7. A new educational system, in which all children born shall have the same advantages of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. All of which will constitute the various parts of a new so- cial order, in which all the human rights of the individual will be associated to form the harmonious organization of the peoples ‘into the grand human family, of ‘which every person in the world will be a member. ' Criticism and Objections specially invited. The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday. Subscription price, $3 per year; $1.50 six months; or 10c. single copy, to be had of any N ewsdealer in the world, who can order it from the following General Agents: ‘ The American News Co., New York City; The New York News Co., New York City; The National News Co., New York City; The New England News Co., Boston, Mass. ; The Central News Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; The Western News Co., Chicago, Ill. Sample copies, mailed on application, free. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL AND TENNIE C. CLAFLIN, Ed- itors and Proprietors. . COL. J H. _BLoOD, Managing Editor. All communications should be addressed . WOODHULL 8t CLArLIN’s WEEKLY, , Box 3,791, New York City. .._____..._. A. BRIGGS DAVIS, Of Fitehburg, Mass., has a new and startling lecture under preparation, and‘ will be _open to engagements to deliver the same on and after the 15th of November prox-Limo. We cheer- fully add that Mr. D. is an able and earnest aC1VQ9fc!ei3e M the principles of the New Dispensation. ‘ax. ., ~,_i=f 7=‘?ha.:j::v—.-- A SN ., if . at rooms moderate. Warrants‘ relief or no charge. 146 -«r--‘rs ' ' WOODHULL & CL AF.LIN’S WEEKLY. 15 Dr. Geo. Newcomer, THE I-IEALER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, HURD BLOCK, JACKSON, MICH. Thirty years’ experience. Examines diseases and sends prescriptions for one month for $3. Has a spe- ciﬁc remedy for CATARRH and THROAT DISEASE. Sends by mail for $2 for four months, and with direc- tions two months. $1. Pile Remedy, $2. Treatments GEO. NEWCOMER, M. D. SOCIAL ritiiiiiioiitl COMMUNITY No. 1. 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Tnnonan TICKETS to all iniportant towns, and general information may be obtained at the Companies‘ , oﬁice, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New York. Ooiidensed Time Table. WESTWARD FROM NEW-YORK, , Via Erie & Mich. Central & Great VV-estern R, R’s.. sTATIoNs. Eacpress. éﬁgﬁss sTATIoNs. Etcpress Lv 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . .. 6,45 P. M. “ Chambers street. . 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street . . . . . . . .. 7.00 “ “ Jersey City.... 9.15 “ 11.15 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 “ “ Susquehanna . 3.40 P. M. 8.12 P. M. “ Sus uehanna . . . . . . . 2.43 A. M. “ Binghampton 4.40 “ 9.20 “ “ Bing iampton..... . . . . . .. 3.35» “ “ Elmira . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ 12.16 A. M. “ Elmira..., . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 “ “ Hornellsvil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ Hornellsville . . . . . . . . . .;. 7.40 “- “ Buﬁalo , , , _ _ , . , _ , , , , _ , _ . _ ., 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ Bu_ ,,_alo.. . . . . . .._ . . . . . . . . .. 11.45 .“ Evpresa. Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.00 “ 10.00 “ Ar Su ensioii Bridge . . . . .. 12.27 P. M. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . , . . ., 1.10 A. M. 1.35 P M. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 1.35 “ 9.50 .p in. Ar St. Catherines . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.35 “ 2.00 “ Ar St. Cathermes . . . . . . . . . .. 2.00 “ 10.12 “ "Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.45 “‘ . 2.55 “ “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 2.55 “ 11.20 “ “ Harrisburg , . . . . . . . . . _ . . . . .. 3.53 “ “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.53 " .... .“ London , , , _ . , , , , , , , __' _ _ _ , _ _. 5.35 A. M. 5.55 “ “ London....' . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a In. “ Chatham._.. . . . . . . . , . . . . . _ ,. 7.55 “ 8.12 “ “ Chatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.12 “ 5.00 “ " Detroit . . . . _ . . . _ . , . , , . . , , , .. 9.40 “ 10.00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., 10.00 “ 7.00 “ Lv Detroit . . . , . _ . , . . . _ , , , , , _ , ,_ 9.40 “ 10.10 “ Lv Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.10 “ 1 8.10 ‘ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . .. 10.21 “ “ Ar Wayne ._ . . , . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 “ “ Ypsilanti , . . . . _ , _ . , , 10.45 “ 11.25 1’. M. “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.25 “ 9.27 “ . “ Ann Arbor , _ , _ _ _ , , , , _ _ _ _ , _ ,_ 11.00 “ 11.43 “ “ Ann Arbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11-43 " 9.50 “ “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.15 P. M. 1.00 A. M. “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. M. 11.30 “ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . , , , . . ._ 1.15 “ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ’ 12.50 p. m “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . 2.03 “ AIR 1 “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . .. AIR 1.25 " “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . _ . _ . . _, 2.55 “ LINE. “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . .. LINE. 2.35 "‘ “ Niles . . _ , , _ , . . , _ _ . , , , , _ _ _ , ,_ 4.32 P. M. 4.40 A. M. “ ‘Niles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.40 A. M. 5.00 “ “ New Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 25 “ “ New _Buﬂalo . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.02 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . _ . _ _ _ , , ., 5.45 “ 5.45 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . . . . . .. 5.45 “ 6.25 " “ Calumet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.18 "‘ 7.47 “ “ Calumet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.47 “ 8.00 “ “ Chicago . . . . , . . . . . . . _ . . , , ., 8.00 “, 8.00 " “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 00 “ 8.45 “ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 A. M; 11:50 A. M_ Ar Milwaukee ............. .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a. in. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 P. M. Ar Prairie du Cheiii..‘ . . . . .. 8.55 p. in Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M. Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M 7.05 a in. Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 P. M. Ar St. Paul . . . . . . ..., . . . . . .. 7.00 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M. Ar Sedalia , _ , , _ _ , _ _ , _ _ , _ _ __ 5,40 1>, in A1‘ Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M. .... “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ ... “ Galveston ._ . . . . . . . . _ _ . . , , 10.45 “ I “ Galveston......... 10.00 “ Ar Bismarck,, , _ , _ , _ , _ ,_ 11.00 P M. Ar Bismarck....,, . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 P. M. “ Columbus _ _ _ , _ , , _ _ _ __ 5,00 A M, “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ .'... . “ Little Rock.. . . . . . , , _ _ _ _ __ 7,30 1» M_ » “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A M- Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P. M. . .. “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P M. “Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A. M. ..; “ Cheyenne.’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 P. M. “ Ogden , , . _ _ , , _ . , _ . _ , , , _ _ _ _ ,, “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 “ “ Sa.I1‘Fl'an(‘,lScO , _ , _ . ,,» _ _ _ , __ “ San Francisco .... . . . . .. 8.30 “ . . Ar (-lalesburg _ _ _ , . _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ __ 5,40 1., 31- Ar Galesburg .. ......... .. 4.45 P. M. “ Quincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15 “ “ Q,uincey.. . .. . 9.45 °“ “ St. Joseph . . . . . .. “ St. Joseph . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.10 A. M. .... “ Kansas City.... . “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.25 “ .... “ Atchison . . . . . .. “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ . ... " Leavenworth. ‘- Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon. “Denver. “Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ...., Through Sleeping the following ’ 7.20 P. M.—Night Express from Jersey City (daily), Chicago without change, arriving there at 8.00 a. m., the morning trains to all points West, Northwest and Car ‘ Arrangements 9.15 A. M.-—Day Express ‘from Jersey City (daily except Sunday), with Pull1_nau’s Drawing-Room, Cars, and connecting at_ Suspension Bridge with Pul1man’s Palace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p,.m_ ay in time to take the morning trains from there. . with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to ving passengers ample time for breakfast anditake outhwest. At St. Catharines,_with Welland Railway, for Port daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. Branch Lake S. & M. S. R. R. to Toledo. / At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. R. At Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw. At Niles, with South Bend Branch. all intermediate stations. cago . At Lake, with J oliet Branch to J oliet. At Chicago, with all railroads diverging. CONNECTIONS OF ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES Michigan Central & Great Western Railways. Colborne. ‘ At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk Railway. At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia.’ Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, and At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De. troit, Lansing & Lake Michigan R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit 35 Baycity 11 R_ At Wayne, with Flint 85 Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc. At Ypsilanti, with Detroit Hillsdale & Eel River R. Rs for Manchester Hillsdale Banker‘. Columbia City, N. Manchester: Denver and Indianapolis.” , ’ ’ 5' Waterloo At Jackson, with Grand River Vallev Branch, for Eaton Rapids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncia Pent -' watef, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three Rivers and Cassoliolis Also with Jack, Lansing & Saginaw Branch, for Lansing, Owosso, Saginaw, Wenoua, Standish, Crawford and intermediate stations. Also with Fort Wayne, Jack 85 Saginaw R. R. for Jonesville, Waterloo Fort Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie .& Cin. R. R. to Cincinnati. " I ' At Kalama 00, with South Haven Bra ch to G. t’ S th H t . Al 'th . R. R. for C'lamZLake and intermediate statlilbns. Also11v%(tll?B1ran(::1i1 of IIVS? 2166112. S. 1?.“ G Rap1'd5&Ind' At New Buﬁalo, with Chicago & Mich. Lake S. R. R; for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pentwater and AIt%M1%chigan City, withlndianapolis, Peru & Chicago R. R. Also with Louisville, New Albany & Cm. CHIROPODAL IN STI T UTE. Corns, Bunions, .Ingrowing Nails, Frosted Feet and Excessive Perspiration, WARTS AND OTHER IJx0E_Es0EN0Es, CURED WITHOUT PAIN BY DR. W. E. RICE, 208 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Corner Fulton Street. BUNIONS, NAILS, ETC., AT MODERATE RATES. receipt of 50 cents. Eleventh street, l’l1i1ad.e1phia_.,Pa,, A v should be made. Vermont U11lV91“9ll?Y. to whom application for circulars A comm Owe if used acrordinq to direotéoiw. Rice’s Com, Bunion and Pile Cure sent by mail on DR. P.‘ J. KOONZ, Dentist, No. 1 GREAT JONES ST., NEAR BROADWAY N Y ORK. Laughing Gas administered for the Painless Extraoa M tion of Teeth. A g 1 ’ "HARDY, TRANCE ‘MEDIUM, 1N0. 4. Concord Square. BOSTON. ._....._ HOURS FROM 9 A. M. To 3.9. M. Terms (for ‘PM’/vote Seances in Regular! .H02¢¥rs):,_$2.00. , . I 9 J; i 16 woouuum. av. CLAFLIN s WEEKLY.- Jan. 17, 1874. JAMIESON’S BOOK! “ TEE CLERGY A SOURCE OF DANGER, TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.”_ eon IN Tim CONSTITUTION. INFAMY. Full Il’rpo.:2e——l%'econ.cl Edition Just Published, A Volume of 331 Pages. _ ‘’ One of the most startling books everissucd from the press. Price, bound in muslin, postage paid, $1.75. :"£1ooks furnished at Reduced’ Rates on the Club Plan. ‘ CLUB RATES: Three Copies, expressagc of postage paid, $4 50 Six 6L It as ‘ 8 Ten ‘ Lt‘ ‘ cc 5: u . Parlor Edition, gilt, all cents per vol. extra. AGENCIES. Terms made known on application.. Address all orders to W. ‘F. JAMIESON, 139 and 141 Monroe street, Chicago, Ill. - WHAT THE Pniasas‘ SA Y5 .- We consider Mr. Jamieson as having done a most useful and needed work in publishing this book. It ought to be read by every one who takes the least in- terest iu the Christian Ainendinent movement, or any of the allied questions. It is crammed with informa- tion of all kinds bearing o-n the general issues; and every page bums with irltense ear72.estue5s.—Free Reli- gious Index, Nov. 16, 1872 A meaty ‘volume, a remarkable book, Mr. Jamieson writes with earnestness and fervor. We commend the book to the widest possible perusal, believing that it is singularly calculated to open i:nen’s eyes and do their souls perinanent good.—Ba7mer of Light, Oct. 12, 1872... A Interesting, valuable and timely. It abounds with important facts. No more important volume has been issued from the prassfor many g/ears.—Bostou Inoesti gator, Oct. 2, 1872. THE RELIGIOUS PRESS IS SILENT! SIGNIF , CANT! THE LIBERAL PRESS IS REJOICING. 9 I Open. THE CRUSADE FAMILY SHIP, A New Incomparable eiornns A DRYER, QLOTEES FRAMES, BARS AND LINES, FRUIT ,DI3.YEB.-AND CHRISTMAS TREE COMBINED. U lsed. A GOOD THING, Patented May 24th, 1870. It is used for wet or dry clothes, in doors or out, stands firm or .will swing and revolve, opens and closes-like an umbrella; with racks made of lath added, is a fruit dryer, and trimmed with evergreens, is a Christmas tree. Send for circular descriptive of it or for the article itself, at any store, or send to ‘the Patentee and Manufacturer. W. LIVINGSTON BROWNE, Shortsville, Ontario County, N. Y. P. S.——Sales Large, and easy. Agents'wa.nted for he article, or territory. Address the Manufacturer, as above, iuclosing stamp. ' , V x Clothes Dryer. Fruit Dryer. ESYCH®lETEY. . Psychometric Readings for persons who send me their handwriting, or who will call. on me in person. Fe $2. Address, 1,114 Callowhjll street, Phila- delphia, Pa., by ‘ J. MURRAY SPEAR. DR. E. WOQDRUFF, otainle Physician. OFFICE AT HIS ROOT, BARK AND HERB STORE, 38 CANAL ST., UP STAIRS, GRANJI ‘ RAPIDS, Mich,‘ Wyhere for thirteen years every description of Acute, Chrome and Private Diseases have been, successfully treated strictly on Botanic principles. . g ’ no POISON USED . . P. 0. Drawer. 2.391- JosiIiUA M. HOLT, Manufacturer and Proprietor S tr. lloyfs lllagnetic Pain tum. I.l.l.“Vdl.?_TQ.l.1i§. Counse. at oﬂice Free" 'Vick’s F1ora1’G11ide for 1 874. ’ Two hundred pages. Five hundred Engravings and Colored Plates. . _ Published quarterly at 25 cents a year. First num- ber for 1874 just issued._ A German edition at same price. , Address, JAMES VIC-K, Rochester, N. Y. T WEN Z Y YEARS’ PR1/1 OTIOE. DR. P]ERI£INS Can be consulted as usual'at his oﬂicc, No. 9 FIFTH 'S’I‘REE’l.‘ (South ' Side), OPPOSITE PUBLIC soUAns, ITANSAS CI TY, ]lIO., Or by mail, box 1,227, on the various symptoms of Pri- vate Diseases. The aﬂlicted will take notice thatl am the only man on the American continent that can care you of Sperinatorrlicea, Loss of Manhood, etc., caused by self abuse or disease. I challenge the combined medical faculty to refute the above statement by suc- cessful competition. The symptoms of disease pro- duced by nightly seminal emissions or by excessive [sexual indulgence, or by self abuse are as follows: Loss of memory, sallow countenance, pains in the back, weakness of limbs, chronic costiveness of the bowels, confused vision, blunted intellect, loss of con- ﬁdence in approaching strangers, great IICIVOIISIIGSS. fetid breath, coiisuinption, parched tongue and ‘fre- quently insanity and death, unless combated by scien- tiﬁc medical aid. Reader, reiiicinber Dr. \:P€1'kl.IlS‘IS the only man that will guarantee to cure youor refund the fee if a cure is not pcrinaiiently madti. Also re- member that I am perznanciitly located at No. 9 Fifth street. S. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1874-01-17_07_07
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-01-17_07_07
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 07, no. 08 (January 24, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2003
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-01-24
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 1!“ .-.«-'5 r P ‘I ROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT 3 ..———-._..._A_ BREAKING THE ‘WAY FOR UNTRAMMELED LIVES: G _._A_.__.. FUTURE GENERATIONS. , .2 I Vol. VII.——No. 8.-—Who1e No. 164. NEVV YORK, JAN. 24, 1874. we:- ... A._.._....._.____.___._.<.._._._.__ -_..._...:.... ~...____.__,....___..._.___.... .4 0 mice TEN CENTS. LOANERES BANK D11 C» A- BARNES, OF THE CITY on NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) 9 Continental Life Builing, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. - CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... $500,000 Subject to increase to ................... .. .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. V Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturersand Merchants will receive special attention. @" FIVE PER CENT. DITEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities oﬂered to our CUSTOMERS. * DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTE, Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, No. 59 Waﬂ...
Show more1!“ .-.«-'5 r P ‘I ROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT 3 ..———-._..._A_ BREAKING THE ‘WAY FOR UNTRAMMELED LIVES: G _._A_.__.. FUTURE GENERATIONS. , .2 I Vol. VII.——No. 8.-—Who1e No. 164. NEVV YORK, JAN. 24, 1874. we:- ... A._.._....._.____.___._.<.._._._.__ -_..._...:.... ~...____.__,....___..._.___.... .4 0 mice TEN CENTS. LOANERES BANK D11 C» A- BARNES, OF THE CITY on NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) 9 Continental Life Builing, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. - CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... $500,000 Subject to increase to ................... .. .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. V Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturersand Merchants will receive special attention. @" FIVE PER CENT. DITEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities oﬂered to our CUSTOMERS. * DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTE, Vice-President. JOHN J. 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We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. , We buy and sell at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bands of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company ; also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons, We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and. Bonds, on C0mmig. sion, for cash. , b . ‘Communications, and inquiries by mail or - world. ea in 1131111113, Chicago, ill. This Institute, organized upon the combined prin- ciples of Magnetism and Medicine, makes a specialty of all those diseases which, by the Medical Faculty, are considered incurable. Among tism, Dyspepsia, Epilepsy, Neuralgia, Chronic Di- arrhoea, Diseases of the Liver, Spleen and Kidneys, and especially all Diseases Peculiar to Women. In this last class of complaints, some of the most extraordinary discoveries have recently been made, which surmount the diﬁiculties that have heretofore stood in the way of their cure. The peculiar advantage which the practice at this Institution possesses over all others is, that in addition to all the scientiﬁc knowledge of Medical Therapeu tics and Remedial Agents which the Faculty have,'it also has the unerring means of diagnosing diseases through ' GLAIRVOYANCE, ) as well as the scientiﬁc administration of ANIMAL and SPIRITUAL MAGNETISM in all their various forms. _ p This combination of remedial means can safely be relied upon to cure every disease that has not already destroyed some vital internal organ. 'No matter how oftenthe patient affected in chronic form may have failed in obtaining relief, he should not despair, but seek it from this, the only Institution Where all the various methods of cure can be combined. ’ In addition to the cure of disease, Clairvoyant con- sultations upon all kinds of business and upon all forms of social aifairs can also be obtained. Sealed letters answered. Reception hours from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Invalids’ who cannot visit the Institute in person can apply by letter. Medicine sent to all parts of the All letters should be addressed Dr. 0. A. BARNES, Healing Institute, 706 W. Monroe Street, Cmcseo, ILL. The -Sexujpai Question The Money Power. How shall this Power be made "to same, instead of ruling’ us : . A Lecture delivered by Lois Waisbrooker, at Jack- son, Mich., Dec. 14, at the Annual Meeting of the State Association of Spiritualists, and published by request. ' V : . ism. “ Sister Lo2',s—-I am glad to see, in the last nuniber of Our Age, the names of so many who desire you to pub- lish your Lecture delivered in Jackson, December 14. Add my name to the list of supplicants. Your ideas upon the money power, how it can be made to serve, ing. The Lecture was deep, logical, argumentative, and should be sent broadcast over the earth. “M. L. SHERMAN, M. D. “ADRIAN, Mica.” - , Price 15 cents single copy; 10 cents if sent by the telegraph, will receive careful attention, & EA'l.‘CH- ' dozen. Sectarianism, Priestcraft, D stition, Bigotry, Aristocracy, lvfonopolies, Oppression of all kinds, and everything that burdens or enslaves Mankind mentally or physically. _ On January 1st, 1874, it will be doubled in size to a these may be mentioned Paralysis, Scrofula, Rheuma- by EDWARD CLODD, instead of ruling us, are grand beyond a mortal’s tell-. 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G0 to, now, ye rich men; weep'and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. 4. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your ﬁelds, which is kept back by fraud, cricth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James, v. 1. EXTRACT FROM THE LECTURE OF “MADOX OF MAIN a,” MADE BEFORE THE WOR;1{II\’GMEl\”S LYCEUM AT coornr. IN- STITUTE. JAN. 3, 1874.—sUBJEor: “THE SUSPENSION or OUR INDUSTRIES, THE CAUSE AND REMEDY.” Mr. Madox showed by statistics thatrailroads, telegraphs and the banking interest owned the wealth of the country, controlled all other interests, owned all the circulating cur- rency, owned the press, the Church, Congress, the Legisla- tures, the Judiciary, the Executive, the social, political, moral and religious statics of the country,and that through the canrice. mistakes or interest of this conserving class, our industries are liable to suspend any time a.nd thus throw the producing class out of work and into consequent want, suffering and'all their concomitants. Here are some of the astounding’ statistics in railroads: Number of miles of railroads completed in the United States up to 1870. . .miles 70,178 Average cost of all the_roads. . .per mile $30,000 ’ Whole cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2,105,340,000 Cost as given by companies . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3,436,G38.749 Or per mile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,970 ‘The excess of stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,331,298,749 Railroad bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,800,000,000 Thus railroads represent . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . 6,‘.Z36,000,00‘0 Which gives cost of railroads per mile on which we pay a traﬁic for transporta- . 88,872 tion pro rata . . . . . . . . . . ., . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. An excess of real cost . . . . . . . . . ..per mile 58,872 The average revenue of railroads per ' annum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400,000,000 Average expense 70 percent. . . . . . . . . . . .. 280,000,000 And 30 per cent proﬁt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .' 120,000,000 N. Y. Central had capital in ’G2 ..... . .. 67,575,039 It has now a capital of . . . . . . L . . . . . . . . . . 104.661,216 Pa. Central had in ’62 a capital of . . . . . .. 13,724,100 It has -now a capital of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40,000,000 Erie railroad had in ’62 total capital of ’ bonds and debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,285,265 Has now about . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., Vanderbilt controls the W. Union Tele- graph and the N. Y. Central railroad, 70,000,000 amounting to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 145,721,316 The New York Central railroad has more than $100,000 per mile of secretly extorted money through excessive tariff now embraced in its represented capital. A There are only two great lines of telegraph in the.country, the “Weste1'n, Union” and “American.” About the year 1858, the ‘Western Union’s capital stock was’$3-85,700, in the following eight years it declared on this stock a. dividend of 817,810,460, which with this and stock it raised the latter in 1860 to $22,013,700. It then purchased the American, which had a capital stock of $3,833,100, and paid that amount and a bonus of $8,000,000 of stock in the West- ern Union as a dividend. Then another small company sprang up as a sort of blackrnailing concern, for which the company paid $7,016,300, making the Western Union ’the exclusive company in the country; having raised its capital stock from $385,700 in ’58, to $41,060,100 in 1870. Our rates of telegraphing are twice as high as G1-eat.Britain’s. We send off annually on an average 10,000,000 messages; Belgium, which owns the tclegraphs, sends off 40,000,000 per annum. Two-thirds of the State of California has been given to railroads and individuals. Sdme of the estates owned by _ single parties are eighty miles in extent. Congress granted to -the Northern Paciﬁc Railroad 25,600 acres per mile, aggregating 58,000,000 acres. ‘ The wealth of the United States in 1850 was. . . . ., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $7,000,000,000 The wealth of the United States in 1860 ' - was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,000,000,000 The ‘late war destroyed . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 9,000,000,000 Still in the 10 years.the wealth rose to. . 30,000,000,000 . In 1864 the bonded credit of the United States sank belo the credit of the.Confederate States 20 per cent. . The town, city, county," state and national debts of our - ..,,s..~u_~ _wooDHULL a CLAF-‘LIN’S wEEKr.r.;s I . 3 country, aggregate three times our assessed value of property in the country, or $45,000,000,000, upon which the people are paying on an average 6 per cent., which is equal to four times the actual increase of the wealth of the country. Can the people stand this? Is there not ‘danger that they will ﬁnally repudiate all debts? » « . One-tenth of the people own everything, seven-tenths pro- duce all the wealth, two-tenths are speculators, licensed theives, pensioned paupers and dishonest Christians. Remedy——Government employ, 73'. e., the people through the the instrument of government employ themselves. , The referend um—-All laws, state and national, submitted to the sovereign people for approval or rejection. Colonization by the government of all persons who desire upon the gov- ernment lands, at the government expense, taking security for such expense on the farms of the colonist. The issue of $l,000,000,000 legal tender currency to be loaned by the gov- ernment at a low rate to the people, taking collateral security in real estate. lThe establishment of Postal Savings Banks instead of our present system, the organization and employ- ment of a great army of agricultural laborers. All railroads, telegraphs, water works, gas works, mines, coal, iron, etc.‘ operated by the government in the interest of the whole people. The abolition of the Senate of the United States, reduction of all salaries, the Legislature of the government reduced to the smallest number that can codify the will of the people into form. VVith these measures there can be no suspension, no rich and no poor. INTERNATIONALS ENDEAVORING To COLONIZE THE roor. or THE ATLANTIC orTiEs. The following letter was adopted as the basis of coloniza- tion by the lnternationals at their session, January 10, 1874: . To the }Ionomble Governors of the States of South Carolt'7w,, Vtrginta, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mzissouri, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia and Alabama .' , — GENTLEMEN——We respectfully call your attention to our meihod of utilizing your waste lands, enriching your States with a wealth-producing class of laborers, and thus beneﬁt. ting ‘the poor in our over—crowded cities. You have in your States millions of acres of land unim- proved and now unproductive, ,We have in the city of New York alone one hundred thousand able-bodied men idle and homeless.‘ Can we not utilize men and lands to the enrich- ment of both? A The men are able and willing to work, but they do not possess the means to emigrate to your States, because they are scarcely able to live from day to day here. lf you, in your official or individual capacity, will aid us in our plan, we will try to solve this labor question. We will organize a colony of from 1,000 to 100,000 men _with their families-.—1aborers and mechanics——to settle in’ any healthful county of your State, if the State will furnish each emigrant with forty acres of good land, transportation, food, seeds, tools, cattle, lumber or tents and other necessaries to settle and cultivate the land. The money and materials ad- vanced to be "a first mortgage on the improvements and goods of the settlers, payable with a low interest in seven years. We would call your attention to the settlement of a colony of Swedes in the County of Aroostock, Maine, at the cost and under the supervision of that State, in the year 1870,, to the beneﬁt of both State and colony. 'We would also say that your State bonds, at a fair inter- est, issued for such a purpose, can be negotiated at or nearly par value. Hoping this will meet with your favorable consideration, we are, gentlemen, yours to command, _ V/Vm. A. A. CARSEY, Pres. Gen. Council of Int’l’s. G. W. MADOX. Secretary. All papers favorable to this enterprise, will please publish this letter. ' By order of Gen. C. of U. 0. I. 9,——4———§._ SOCIALISTIC. PETERSBURG, Va., January 2, 1874. Dear Weekly——If there is one thing above another that strikes me as highly commendable under the sun, it is cour- age, in the face of social racks and thumb-screws, to speak out one’s deepest convictions on the grand question of the incoming era-the Sexual Question. And if such courage strikes me as commendable, it don’t matter two straws how it strikes you, Dick or Harry, or Henry VVard Beecher. thoughts upon that question. Aye! the little ones of tender years, from the irresistible ‘force of overﬂowing nature with- in them, come to conclusions and speculations ere the taste of mother’s milk has been quite forgotten. But so long as the grand aim of social life can be achieved, ‘and all such thoughts and speculations be choked up at the well-spring—kept from the immaculate light of social day, the virgin may consume in her own ﬁre, the young man blunt all his ﬁner sensibilities, destroy the pure zest of manhood by secret indulgences, which are actually fostered the narrow social lines, and all is well; while the thin crust of modern propriety covers the seething ruin, deceiving none but the victims, and not always deceiving them. In God’s name, I ask, ‘what demon was it laid’-all this foun- all the ills that ﬂesh is heir to—-to debauchery and death! , I remember, when a child of eight years, ﬁlled with curi- bsity concerning things that I knew older people had lied to me about. There was a social gathering at my father’s house one night. In the midst of a conversation relating to a lady, not present on account of “ peculiar circumstances,” I, stand- ing at my mother’s knee, ﬁlled with a curiosity that had long been troubling me, asked a simple question in the sim- plest manner my childish tongue could frame, concerning that of any other woman I was used to see. No one will have the temerity to deny, I presume, that even ministers’ sons and deacons’ daughters naturally have dation of ignorance, leading through centuries of growth, to" the above-mentioned lady’s personal appearance‘——so unlike" ' pectability. Arude laugh greetedme from some unwise ones in the company; but my poor mother 1o'oked so shocked, as though , I were a guilty thing, and she bore me off to bed, like N iobe, all tears, for my sensitive, child’s soul had been stung severe- ly, and I was told that “little girls must be seen and not heard.” V - That night I cried myself to s1eep,~with an indeﬁnable sense of grievous Wrong somewhere, but hopelessly puzzled as to the meaning of it all." The next day a neighbor’s daughter, a girl of sixteen, who had been present and listened to my-un- lucky speech, took me out for a. walkand explained to my tender sense the “ sacred mystery ’’ of the origin of being in . such an-unsacrd manner, that for years I regarded my father and mother with a sort of nameless contempt, for my in-_ formant failed to impress me with the sanctifying nature of social law, and the -failure has not improved to this day. Of course, from that time my head was ﬁlled with all sorts of pernicious ideas, that found ample sustenance among my companions, as cruelly let into the knowledge as I had been. As for seeking light from those able to give, the matter had been too vilely presented. And they alone, whose duty it was to educate my striving understanding and set i,b;i,11 1:116 way of purely comprehending the beautiful story of our com- mon nativity, were the ones in whom social prejudice had taken such deep and damnable root that they must needs il- lume the darkness of a youthful mind with a. baleful light, which cast over the sexual subject a hideous vulgarity, shocking to every pure sense. - _ And to-day the world is full of littie ones, coming on to the stage of human action. with understandings guided by the false lights on society’s headlands into the very jaws of de- bauchery and -death. Cursed is the time-serving coward who, seeing the truth that shall redeem the children of men from their sins of ig- . norance, disease’ and death, yet shrinks from taking square in the face all the social spit-balls Mrs. Grundy has to , throw 1 There are plenty dull fools in my devious course, who will “rush in where angels fear to tread,” and actually ask me how an unmarried woman can talk so eloquently upon a theme that most married women vail their faces before. Let their wantonness be their ignorance, or vice versa, only the galled jade will wince; and there are no sneaking, insinuat- ing queries of the whole army of prudes and pedants the free soul need blanch to hear, or pale to answer. There never yet was virtuous conceit but Wore a draggled rag somewhere. “ If there’s a. hole in a’ your coats, Irede ye tent it; A chiel’s amang yetakin’ notes, And faith she’ll prent it.” ' To the awakened soul that has dared shake off‘ the galling chains, and stand transﬁgured in the light of sexual freedom, there is no sight so utterly abject as that of a sexual slave- an immortal spirit holding its earthly body a. cesspool for sexual offal! I stand in the light of freedom, and hold out pleading arms to all such slaves, whether of the legal or illegal type, all over the world, to break their accursed chains and come up higher, even beyond the v Royal Arch, where no man shall dare question awoman’s sexual knowledge—where he ‘shall look higher for her purity than he does atpresent. I stand declared for sexual freedom in this day and hour. I warn all meddling egotists, their puerile pity and maudlin sympathy would be lost on me. So keep your tears, ye Scribes and Pharisees, for the lame, the halt and the blind, victims to the free lust of your sacred marriage laws. And no man is to infer from this that my favors are cheap; they , would cost him more than a house and home, ora. blank check on his banker. His wife or his daughter can aiford to lease their virtue to the highest bidder, under sanction of the law, but not the woman who counts her sexual purity the brightest gem in her crown of womanhood, who would not yield herself, save for love’s sweet emotion, though hell it- self should gape and rain its red-hot ﬁres. . I » The average manhood of to-day is no lure for the gloriﬁed womanhood that breathes the air of freedom; she would spew it from her mouth. So let no wallowing free-luster presume upon a declaration of independence from the lips 0 pen of any woman. The atmosphere of freedom surrounds a woman with inviolate sacredness, which nogman will ap- proach save on hi s knees. I’ve dared talk with many men upon these themes; with ministers, doctors and lawyers, and never yet did I talk with one who failedgfpo honor the flag of freedom under which I ﬁght. ’Tis eize}_gwoman’s mission to walk above the man she honors by herpreference, and lead him up, ‘save where the rotten law has putaher under his feet to be his sexual slave and breed sinners for his lust. I will permit no worn-out wife, old and haggard before her time, neither any suppressed old maid, with sexual famine staring from her hungryifeatures, to question my virtue, for I’ll hold them up apmirror “ wherein they shalllsee the inmost part of them”—“ such black and grained spots as will not 0 leave their tinct.” Virtue is an assumption based upon local law; and my right to my-assumption, based upon my idea of divine law, none shall question with impunity. Here, in the columns of this dear Weekly, I have estab- lished my status, and to it all caviling fools may come to learn, of me. But they shall not ask me impertinent ques- tions, nor pry into my personal aifairs. Let them not forget. the free soul ﬂies high and never lights low. Suffice it, I herein invite all men, who can speak by the card, to meet in convention in the Moon, on her next quarter, to settle whether it is best to relieve the curiosity of all the knaves and fools and hypocrites who are so terribly exercised as to my interpretation of the " tree of knowledge,” whose fruit I , boldly declare l’ve dared to eat‘, and which has not turned to ashes on my lips, nor made drunk my brain so I cannot at all times see the skeleton under the vail of hypocrisy and , deceit worn by all who have taken degrees in modern res- HELEN NASH. liﬁii t “'4 T ‘woonnUL,1.:a CLAFLINVS wsannr. .< Jan.24,18?4. A snonr snnnon.-No. BY DR. H. P. FAIRFIELD. “ Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.”—Eccles. chap. vix. v. i. To say that the social world has existed in a darkened and depraved state; that man has wandered from the “ golden rule,” and has preferred rather to grovel in the corruptions of the ﬂesh, is but to express a truism which is in accordance with the universal testimony of human experience. In the very heart of the social relations there gnaws a re- ligious canker-worm which is undermining the very founda- tions of health, virtue and happiness. The blessings and rights which belong to each individual member. of the family and nation are not enjoyed. Monopoly of the most fearful and crushing nature is exercised by men in all the moral, social and political relations of life. The animal nature of hooking and kicking predominates, and women are thrust out as the weaker sex, or forced to bow in silent submission to their arbitrary authority. The per- nicious clerical teachings of theology have done much to- ward fostering and perpetuating this unholy and unjust state of things. It has been preached and believed" that God was a jealous being, and that man was created in the‘ image of God. It is not strange, then, that we have jealous hus- bands who teach their wives an evil lesson, against ‘them- selves. From the smooth and smiling countenance of the hypocritical priest, down to the sweet and honied words of the lustful deceiver, may be found the fearful poisonous stings of d’eath,which have almost desolated the sanctuary of the social relations. , - Far and wide through the winding avenues of society may be heard the sighs and groans of the oppressed, chained down upon the altar of marriage-a living sacriﬁce to appease the wolﬁsh passions and selﬁsh claims of men. A ' N’ Thus the institutions of marriage have become one great mass of sensuality. They have been the means of repelling the warm, attractive inﬂuences of love which brighten and gladden ~ the sanctuary of the free; they have had a tendency v to weaken and depress, rather than to quicken and strength- on the mental and physical powers of mind and body. In short, they have given to the world a generation of vipers in human form, ‘which seek to charm and allure the innocent and pure,«their tongues deceive, their coils bind and crush the heart. There are family volcanoes and national earthquakes from which we all suffer more than tongue or pen can describe; and now America, this bright spot of freedom’s birthright, is threatened with a despotic ﬂood more terrible than that from which Noah and his family escaped in the ark. There- fore, I would again raise the warning voice at‘ the head of this ‘sermon: “ B.e not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.” . Meditate upon these things. Spiritualism, social reform, social freedom and free love, they are the fruits of the spirit. Let thanksgiving and praise be given to our guardian angels and the laborers who are now gathering and arranging the elements for the reconstruction of the ark of Social Free- dom, which may save the people and the nation from the flood of blood and death. It is a truth which will not be disregarded _or rejected by the searching mind, that the reform which is so much needed on the earth among the children of men is a radical social re- form. The only sure course to be pursued by the reformer of this age is to strike deep to the roots of social and political cor- ruption, and remove the primary causes on which they are dependent. It is a great and almost incomprehensible work which has been commenced in the moral and social world. It is a work which is to melt the icy barrier of jealousy, bigotry andsordidness, which isto breathe new life into the sorrowing and anguish-stricken heart, and which is to reno- -vate the wastes of social life with the streams of love, truth and justice. When the blessings of the near future have been clearly revealed; when the brightness ofthe incoming ages shall have superseded the darkness of all bygone eras; when the beauty and grandeur of social reform has perfected the hu- man race of freedom, then shall the united voice of human- ity acknowledge that the foundations’ of society have been wrong; that the ﬁrst issues of the social economy have been inconsistent with the principles of freedom, love and jus- . .tice. MARLBORO, Mass.,.January 4, 1874. POLYAN DRY IN INDIA. ‘An officer of the Bengal army, in an essay just published in London, describes the practice of polyandry as it exists at this day in one of the hill tribes in India: “ A husband and wife are betrothed, dowries being, exchanged between the . husband and the father of the bride. After marriage, with- out any rites or ceremonies, but with the approval of pa-. rents, and in full cognizance of the_ village community of relatives, the wife accompanies her husband to his own house. Ifthe husband has brothers or very near relatives all living together, they may each, if she and he consent, participate in the right to be considered her husband also, on making up a share of the dowry that has been paid. Younger brothers, as-they grow up to maturity, and other brothers, as they become widowed, may each either take separate wives. or purchase shares in those already in the family. Any degree of complication in wedded life may now be met with; from the sample of the single man living with a single wife, to "c that of a ‘family of’ relatives ’married to a group of wives. All their children are held to be brothers and sisters. In - poor districts severalmen have to be content with one wife between them; but, as women become more numerous, a greater proportion of men are able to procure a "wife apiece." -" JOHN PAUL says, “ When a man walks squarely up to the clergyman who married him three years before, takes him. by he hand;cordi_«ally, and without a word of reproach, inquires after his health, it is useless for any one to maintain that Christian forgiveness is a thing of the past/_’ ON THE TOWN. ‘ 93 BY E. H. STODDARD. The lamps are lighted, the streets are full, For, coming and going, like waves of the sea, Thousands are out ‘on this beautiful night; They jostle each other, but shrink from me? Men hurry by with a stealthy glance, Women pass with their eyescast down; Even the children seem to know The shameless girl of the town! Hated and shunned I walk the street, l:lunting—for what? For my prey, ’tis said; I look at it, though, in a different light, For this nightly shame is my daily brcadi My food, my shelter, the clothes that I wear! Only for this I might starve, or drown; The world has discovered me, what can I do, But live and die on the town? The world is cruel. lt may be right , ‘ To crush the hai-lot;_ but grant it so, — What made her the guilty thing that she is? For she was innocent once, you know. ’Twas love!_ that horrible word says alli She loved a man and blindly believed Hiswows, his kisses, his crocodile tears; Of course the fool was deceived! What had I to gain by a moment"s sin, To wcigh in the scale with my innocent years, My womanly shame, my ruined name, , l%Iy-father‘“s curses, my mother‘s tears? The love of a man! - It wasvjsometliing to give. Was it worth it? The priice was a soul paid down; Did I got a soul, his soul in exchange? 7 Behold me here on the town! ‘ You-r guilt was heavy,” thegiworld will say, “ And heavy, heavy your doom must be; For to pity and pardon wo1i1an‘s fall, Is to set no value on chastity! ‘You undervalue the Virgina’-crown, 5 The spotless honor that make ‘her dear.” But I ought to know what the bauble is worth, When the loss of it brings me here! But pity and pardon? Who are you, To talk of pardon, pity to me? Vfhat I ask is justice, justice, sir! Let both be punished, or both go free. If it be in woman a shameful thing, What is it in man? Now come, he just: (Remember, she falls through her love for him, He, through his selﬁsh lust!) Tell me what is done to the wretch Who tempts and riots in woman’s fall? His father curses, and casts him off? His friends forsake? lie is scorned of all? Not he: his judges are men like himself, 01- thoughtless women, who humor the whim; Young blood "~“ Wild oats ”--“ better hush it up 7." They soon forget it-in him! . o Even his mother, who ought to know The woman-nature, and how it is won, Frames 3.. thousand excuses for him, ' Because, forsooth, the man is her son. You have daughters, madam (he told me so), Fair innocent daughters—“ Woman, what then ?“ Some mother may have 9. sonlike yours; Bid them beware of men. I saw his coach in the street to-day, Dashing along on the sunny side, With a liveried driver on the box; Lolling back in her listless pride, I The wife of his bosom took the air. , She was bought in the mart where hearts are sold; I gave myself away for his love, She sold herself for his gold. He lives, they say, in a princely way, ' Flattered and feasted. One dark night Some devil led me to pass his house; I saw the windows a blaze of light; The music whirled in a maddening round; I heard the fall of the dancers’ feet; Bitter, bitter the thought Iliad ' Standing there in the street. Back to my gaudy den I went, Marched to my room in grim despair, Dried my eyes, painted my cheeks, And ﬁxed a ﬂower or ‘two in my hair! Corks were popping, wine was ﬂowing, I seized a bumper and tossed it down; One must do sdmetliing to kill the time, And ﬁt one’s-self for the town. I meet his boy in the park sometimes, And my heart runs over toward the child; A frank little fellow with fearless eyes, . He smiled at me as his father smiledl I hate the man, but love the boy, For I think what my own, had he lived, would be- Perhaps it is he, coming from the dead—— T3 his father, alas! not to me. But I stand too long in the shadow here, Let me out in the light again; Now for insult, blows perhaps, And, bitterer still, my own disdain. ' I take my place in the crowd of men, Not like the simple women I see: You may cheat them, men, as much as you please, You wear no masks with me! , I know ye! Under your honeyed words There lurks a serpent; your oaths are lies; There is a lustful fire in your hungry hearts, I see it ﬂaming up in your ‘eyes! Cling to them, ladies, and shrink from me, Or rail at my boldness—Well, have you done? Madam, your husband knows me well; Mother, I know your son. » But go your ways, and I’ll go mine: Call me opprobrious names, if you will: The truth is bitter. Think I have lied? “ A harlot?” Yes! but a woman still. God said of old tora. woman like me, i “ ‘Go; sin no more,” or your Bibles lie; Butiyou, you mangle his merciful words .To—“ Go, and sin till you die.” Die! the word has a pleasant sound, ' The sweetest I’ve heard this many a year; It seems to promise an end to pain- Auyway it will end it-here. Suppose I throw myself in the street? Before the horses could trample me down ' Some would-be friend might snatch me up And thrust me back on the town. But look, theriver. From where I stand I can see it, I almost hear it ﬂow; Down on the dark and lonely pier- It is but a step—-I can end my woe. A plunge, a splash, and all will be o’cr, The death black waters will drag me down; God knows where! But no matter where, ‘ So I am oﬁ the town. Dear Dr. G"rasmuck.--Yours, with strictures upon Mrs. Woodhull and the cause she is advocating, has been ‘duly re- ceived. - . Permit me to thank you foi‘ the candor and kindness with which in the main you have stated your views, and at the same time to examine one or two of the positions you assume. You charge Mrs. Woodhull with indecency and fanaticism. I do not know with certainty that I am a cpmpetent judge of these qualities. ‘We so often dispute about terms we do not fully comprehend. Then, too, if I were quite sure that I understood their full meaning, I should not be altogether certain that 1 know the persons to whom they apply. The character of an action depends a good deal upon the motive that inspires it. If we look at history we ﬁndit full of mis- takes that have been made in the use of these terms, which often apply with much greater force to the accusers than to. the accused . To the conservative Jews of his time, Jesus “had a devil and was mad,” which is about as good a deﬁnition of a fanatic as one can get. Butte us of later times it seems plain that it was the Pharisees that “had the devil” and that Jesus was only guilty of telling them some plain truths. The religious conservatives of Athens accused Socrates of “ corrupting the Athenian youth.” But we of this age (I do not know whether it be an “enlightened” one or not) are foolish enough to suppose that Socrates was a lofty and pure- minded philosopher, and about the only one that was teach- ing the youth of his time, any facts or truths worth knowing. Here, you perceive, is a‘ wide difference of opinion in re- gard to fanaticism and fanatics. Which is the right one? When Charles Lamb was one day driving out near the seashorein company with a prudish old maid, the said an- cient maiden called his attention to some little folks that, in a nude condition, were at play in the surf, with the re- mark, “See those naughty little boys!” “ And how do you know they are boys ?”. said Lamb. “ Oh! I know they are!” “ Vi/“ell,” replied Lamb, “ at this distance I don’t know the d13jference.l” So much upon the question of indecency. To which side does it belong? Lamb’s remarks were either highly moral and full of cutting rebuke, or they were simply indecent. How are we to determine? Simply by the motive that we suppose actuated him at the time. If Mrs. Woodhull has depicted in plain language evils and wrongsthat are widespread and deeply rooted, about which both the press and pulpit are dumb, or speak only to de- nounce those who would expose an.d remove them-——if she has attempted to burn into the heart and conscience of the age a sense of the deep wrongs of woman——or if she has pointed out the hidden graves that lie concealed about among the grass and ﬂowers where the children play——why it does not follow that she is “indecent,” or that she “ hath a devil and is mad,” "or that she is guilty of “ corrupting the youth of Athens.” She is simply telling some of the weightiest truths of the age without gloss or varnish, and ﬁghting for the right of all others to utter and to hear them. But Mrs. Woodhull has already gone into history, and like all the other actors that have appeared upon that mighty stage, will be judged "by the motives that are supposed to have inspired her. A , Do you say the subject is one that ought not to be agi- tated? And do you not well remember with what force the friends of Southern slavery used this argument against the Abolitionists ? It is a partof the history of every agitation and revolution the world over and the ages over. Can there be any subject that vitally concerns human life that ought not toibe dis- cussed ina proper spirit? _ ' If the wisest maxim that comes down to us from the past is “ know thyself,” where shall we begin to draw the limit of se1f—knowledge? Shall it be where that knowledge is likely to become most vital and useful? Or shall it be extended and made large enough to include the whole circle of self-scien co and social science? And if Mrs. Woodhull is ﬁghting for the right of man to “know himself ” and all that belongs to him,if.she:is contend- ing for the enlargement of the domain of science, so as to in- clude within it all that really concerns him and his, Why I see nothing in this fact alone that is either “indecent ” or even indelicate, or to cast reproach upon her name and famex For this appears to be the “ head and front of her offending ” —-to have been found guilty of pointing out certain weighty facts, evils, wrongs, that women suffer—facts and abuses long existing in society and increasing in magnitude year by year, for which neither press nor pulpit have found a voice, much less. a-remedy. And this agitation, if allowed to con-, tinue, seems ;ike1y to interfere with the‘ trade of —,the priests and other social conservatives—classes which are always more ready to conserve wrong than to surrender Pl,‘i.Vi1ege.s long enjoyed, but not fjouzndesglin truth or justice; 3 ‘~ _ / 4ﬁ@\¢W% 1'. ~. \/ *-«~\,i ,',§_,‘,,./~~--x. ». We need a marriage regulated by law.” Jan.‘2zl,' 1874. WOODEULL & CL A s" E . trans WEEKLY‘ W C‘ I s And if this happens to her and to all those who hold and advocate similar views with her, that has happened in all ages to those who lead the vanguard in the great army of human progress, to have “ their names cast out as evil,” need we wonder or complain “ as though some strange thing had happened unto us.” ' You ‘are opposed“ to the abolition of marriage, and in favor of one “ regulated by law.” I will quote your own words: “ I have for a long time believed that marriage as a legal act needed amending, so as to place man and woman on an equal footing, but have not believed that‘it should be abolished. So far as this very general statement of thesubject does not contradict itself, it would serve very well to express the views of Mrs. ‘Woodhull herself. She does not desire the abolition of true marriage, but rather to uphold and strengthen it. She believes also in one “regulated by law ”——but a law that regulates it in accord- ance with love and reason; one that protects the person in his or her rights, both in and out of marriage, but does not act the tyrant to hinder or destroy those rights, nor immo- late the individual on the “altar” of some priestly J ugger— naut, under whose wheels are perpetually crushed the souls and bodies of its mangled victims. She emphatically be- lieves in. the enactment of a law “ that shall place men and women on an equal footing,” but at the same time as car- nestly protests that no law in existence does so or can do so, just so long as that law is regarded in the light of an “ insti- tution or sacrament ” whose preservation is of more conse- quence to society than is the conservation of the highest and holiest rights and liberties of human life. . For the spirit and purpose of such an institution is this: That there is something peculiarly divine or sacred in it that renders A. and B. ﬁtted and obliged to live perpetually together when they have once consented to, under this in- stitution or law, no matter how great a mistake A. and B. may be supposed to have made in yielding that consent. So that had A. not chanced to meet with B. at the time he or she entered matrimony, but had proposed to and gained the consent of any one of either C, D, E, F, G or H, and had ‘ married him or her, it would have constituted just as ﬁtting, absolute and binding a union in the one case as in the other. How greatly absurd! Such a law admits the possibility of neither mistakes nor repentance. It takes two persons, who—~—with the purest and best intentions, but in utter ignorance of themselves and each other—~have agreed to live together in the married state, and compels them to continue that relation until love has turned into hatred, and the stronger has gored the weaker one to death.‘ “Until death do them part.” Is it not “ so nominated in the bond?” Alas! how often and sadly is the “ covenant” literally fulﬁlled! The Southern people, before the war that exterminated lead to social anarchy. Onjthe contrar , it would have just the opposite effect. . ' Those angry and indecent controversies that now ﬁll up our courts of law, together with the vast amount of the ﬁlth and garbage of social and domestic life under which our public press groans daily, would forever disappear from view. A similar argument was formerly urged against the abolition of slavery by its friends. The terrible evils thag would afflict society as a result of that benign measure, were—de- picted in the most vivid language. But the only evils this country has ever suffered from the emancipation of the negro were antecedent, not subsequent, to that event. I . V VV-ith the ﬁnal overthrow of that dark remnant of an ig- norant and barbarous past, the negro, as an element of dis- turbance, disappeared forever from our political horizon; Slavery was a forced and unnatural relation between man and man, and like all other relations of a similar nature-, was a fruitful source of agitation and evil to the society in which it existed. But with the removal of the force element in those relations, leaving both parties free. to form such rela- ' tions as they choose, thosegreat evils disappeared. And a similar result would follow the emancipation of woman. Eliminate the element of force that exists in the relations between man and woman, and a like repose and harmony would follow that event in the social and domestic spheres of life. Doctor, allow me here to state the great divine law of per- sonal liberty, as enunciated by one of England’s' ablest thinkers, as it covers this whole controversy and settles it, if we once admit its binding force. “ Every human being has an absolute right to do just as he pleases, provided he does not choose to do anything to interfere with the equal right of every other person to dd the same thing,” This is a self- evident proposition, and as easy of belief as the statement that two and two are four. And yet the failure to practically recognize this simple truth in the relations between the negro and the white races cost us four years of dreadful war, and the expenditure of whole seas of blood and treas- ure. And why? Simply because it conﬂicted with the in- terests and the pride of certain privileged and conservative classes in this country. Shal we re-enact within _a genera- tion the same stupendous folly, by withholding from woman her just and self-evident rights? It is not impossible” that we may. In conclusion, doctor, the whole drift and spirit of the age is against you and the triple relic of a barbarous past, which you deplore but cannot surrender. On the statute books of the nearly forty:States of this Union exist today nearly as many different divorce laws——some of which are very “easy” ones, and all of them are a com- plete departure from the spirit and tenor of the old original law, with its “one cause.” ‘negro slavery, were wont to call it the “peculiar institu- tion.” Cassius M. Clay, with more truth than reverence, used to say that it was “ d~d peculiar!” I fear that in the not-remote future, marriage, as a priestly sacrament, will be , regarded as one of the “peculiar institutions ” of an igno- _ rant past that mankind has done Well to get rid of. Allow me to beg of you not to suppose me to be denounc- ing true marriage. There is a “higher law” that eternally weds man and woman; a law that can never be abolished, though it may be, and is, often sadly interfered with by . man’s vain and foolish attempts to re—enact the laws of God. This law forms the true marriage. It is one of the divine or- dinances of Nature herself, and can no more be abrogated or annulled than it is possible to abolish the sexes, or the sun itself. You are in favor of elevating woman to an equal footing with man, in the marriage relation. Has it never occurred to you how inﬁnitely absurd it would be to attempt to place woman on an equal platform with men, under any one of the Christian laws that ever existed or could exist? the whole spirit of which is such as to place the weaker side of woman’s. physical organism in the complete power of man, and literally holds her there, depriving her of all right of self protection, and clothing him, in addition to his natu- rally superior physical power, with all the force, restraints and penalties of the law, as well as public opinion, to compel obedience to his will and desires. We fail to see any equal footing in all this. It is the equality of master and slave. With the relative physical organisms of man and woman, no legal enactment that deprives her of full freedom as a ra- tional, physical and spiritual being, can ever place her on an equal footing with man, in the marriage relation. You will perhaps say that this full freedom is anarchy, and gives rein. to the base and sensual in human life. I contend, on the contrary, that it is in the spirit of true and rational liberty, and that it will do more, in connection with science, to allay the sexual intoxication of the time, that has grown up under Ctiristian ignorance and cowardice, than all the marriage in- stitutions in Christendom, with all the penal enactments the law/may place around them thrown in! Do you say that I exaggerate the evils I speak of? It is im- possible to exaggerate them; they are simply and literally . unspeakable! The deepest wrongs woman has ever suffered have never appeared in any court of divorce, and fortunately for the well-being of society, her delicate goodness and divine for- titude have never allowed them to appear. Like the heroic Spartan youth who oncecaled thevfoxbeiieath his garments until the animal had eaten out his Vitals rather than sub- ' ~mit tn the disgrace of exposure,'woman draws the Vail of silence over her deepest wrongs and dies rather than com- plain. Doctor, do you imagine that these dumb and inartic- gulate‘ wrongs that woman suﬁers will be permitted by the witnessing heavens to remain forever voiceless? If they had not soon found a human voice to trumpet them forth to the , world, the “very walls” that have so often and soilong borne witness to what human souls can suifer would have '*‘ cried out!" No ;- the repeal of our present marriage laws and the substitution of a more rational system, would not Bills” of the new era of woman’s social emancipation, and mark the advancing sentiment of mankind. They do not indicate as yet the remedy, but they point unerringly to the disease, and when one of them has been discovered the other is usually near at hand. They carry with them a greater signiﬁcance, from the fact that they were not enacted by either the friends of social freedom or’ by Spiritualists, but by the more liberal classes of those who still cling to the old idea. - In several of the States they stopped only a little short of absolute freedom. They feared the results of the law of “perfect ”;liberty,” and failed to knock the fetters from the limbs of {the slave; but they did what seemed‘ to them the next best thing, they made the chain as long as possible. I said, “the social emancipation of woman ” —-it is the social emancipation of man as well. For one end of the chain that binds the slave manacles the limbs of the master. It takes from him the liberty of the tyrant but restores to him the full freedom of a pure, loving and spiritualized man- hood." It converts man and woman into divine equals——kings and queens. Releasing them from the degrading bondage of a of spiritual and immortal love, perpetually expiring yet vol- untarily renewed forever. To hasten forward this mutual and divine destiny of man’ and woman all persons and events in this -mighty age are actively at work, whether intelligently or blindly it matters nix will arise from the ashes and the ruins of the old order of society, will be the mutual product alike of radical and conservative hands. Let each one permit the other to work honestly and earnestly in his own way, and cease to call the other by bad names. For only in this way shall we be able to ﬁnally adjust all these momentous questions by the di- vine law of reason and the enlightened sentiment of man- kind, instead of the dreadful arbitration of the sword-. Fraternally youirs, ' ' S. A. MERRELL, M. D. ‘INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Jan. 1, 1874. I I- AN ADVOCATE OF MATRIMONY. V MARRIAGE AND THE worzcnsrnnsninr. sauce or SEXUALITY —~A FAIR AND VIGOROUS PROGENY OBTAINABLE IN WEDLOCK. ‘ . X ' NEW YORK, December 2”’, 1873. TVoodhull do C10." in -— In your issue of to-day you animadvert very severely on the “ Theory of Modern Mar- riage.” Your editorial on this subject I acknowledge is ably and eloquently written, but you overlook, or rather repu- diate, some points of the highest importance to humanity. As you invite criticism I shall make a few brief comments on these points. A _ i I In the advocacy of your iconoclastic theory of the holy in- stitution of matrimony, you deprive, to a great extent, sex- ual intercourse of one of thechief sources of its enjoyment; namely, sec-resy. Old Solomon, as you can easily verify by ciple of secresy as a component part of its i The adage, “ stolen waters are sweet,” is reference to some of the amatory lucubrations of that prince of libertinism, was quite alive to the importance of this prin- \ These legislative enactments are the “Personal Liberty‘ , V coarse, brutal and barbarous laW,it reunites them in a union ' little. _The beautiful social ediﬁce that like the fabled Phoe- V and quite as applicable to the present state of society in the New World as it was when his amative and serene highness, ~ the aforesaid Solomon, experienced the very acme of reﬁned indulgence by detaining in fond dalliance, at his pleasure, some of the choicest selections of the thousand select and most beautiful daughters of J udea and Canaan, to say noth- ing of his agffaire d’a.mom" with the lovely Queen of Sheba. , Now, how can this secret indulgence be better accom-. , plished than under the present rcmme of this sacredvinstitu- tion of matrimony? This glorious insti_tution pulls the wool over the eyes of the outward world in general, and while the theory of the most immaculate virtue is sustained,-often by the fond and deluded husband, even at the pistol’s mouth, everything that the Utopia of yo11r.Free-Love doctrine prom- - ises can be enjioyed to the fullest extent. and the secresy and hypocrisy which are generally admitted to be the Worcester- shire sauce of sexuality, carefully and jealously maintained. Hence we see that the conditions indispensable for. a fair progeny are not always so defective as your article seems to i suppose. The husbands that are either despised or merely tolerated, frequently become the reputed and happy fathers of the sweet and vigorous" oﬁspring bf their ‘wives and their wives’ lovers. Your system of Free Love would spoil all this. TEUFELSDROKH. VVHENEVER man pays reverence to woman, whenever a man ﬁnds woman purifying, chastening, abashing, strength- I ening him against temptation, shielding him from evil, min- istering to his self-respect, medicining his weariness, pec- pling his solitude, winning him from sordidprizes, enliven- ing his monotonous days with mirth, or fancy, or wit, ﬂash- ing heaven upon his earth and hallowing it for a spiritual fertility, there is the element of true marriage. Whenever woman pays reverence to a man, rejoicing in his strength, and feeling it to be Grod’s agent, conﬁrming her purpose and crowning her power; whenever he reveals himself to her, just, inﬂexible, yet tolerant, merciful, tender and true, his feet on the earth, his head among the stars, helping her to hold her soul steadfast to the right, this is thcessence of marriage. There isneither dependence nor independence, but interdependence. Years cannot weaken its bonds, dis- tance cannot sunder them; it is a love which vanquishes the grave and transﬁgures death itself into life.——Gat'l H amilton. —-————-—->-+o>——< ‘ SPIRITUALISTIC. \ T H E R E . Do any hearts ache there, beyond the peaceful river? Do fond souls wait, with longing in their eyes, For those who come not—-will not come ‘forever-~ For some wild hope whose dawn will never rise? Do any love there still, beyond the silent river, The ones they loved in vain this side its ﬂow‘? . Does the old pain make their heart-strings ache and quiver? E shall go home some day,‘ go home and know. The hill-tops are bright there, beyond the shining river, And the long, glad day, it never turns to night.‘ They must be blcst, indeed, to bear the light forever; Grief longs for darkness to hide its tears from sight." Are tearsturnecl to smiling beyond the blessed river, And mortal pain and passion drowned in its ﬂow? Then all we who sit on its hither bank and shiver, Let us rejoice-—we shall go home and know! ——Louis Oharles Moulton, in Ulurésticm Union. rinsr BOSTON PRIMARY COUNCIL. i I have the pleasure of informing your readers that the above council, which was organized in November, is alive and vigorous. VVe have had regular weekly meetings in pri- vate houses until now. This week we meet in John A. An- drew Hall, No. 5, which we have secured until further no- . ‘ tice for Thursday evening of each week. . We are having real live meetings, and are not to be read out of the ranks by respectables or autocrats. All the differ- ence between us and other associations of Spiritualistsis that they eschew what they please to call side issues, which we adopt and discuss, and their adoption of gags and muzzles, which we discard. V We are contemplating a course of lectures soon. . Yours for humanity, ' Joan HARDY. Peroration of Gerald Massey’s Lecture at Music Hall, Boston, delivered on January 4., 1874, as reported in the Banner of Light: ' “Spiritualism, as I understand it, means a new light of revelation in the world from the old eternal source, and you cannot have a new light-let in without seeing many old ac- ‘ quaintances ‘with a new face! Many aspects of things will change, and some things that we mistook for livingvfaces will ' turn into the sheerest masks of mockery, and whiten with the sweat of dissolution running down them. But no letting in of new light Will change the nature of that which is eter- nally true. It is only falsehood that needs to shrink from I / ‘the transﬁguring touch of light. That needs must shrink and shrivel away. Spiritualism, as I interpret it, means a new life in the world, and new life is not born without pain and partings, and sheddings of old decay.- .But new light and life do not come to impoverish; they come to enrich. Spirit- ualism will prove a mighty iconoclast, but the fetiches and idols it destroys will yield up their concealed treasure of in- nermost truth, as did the statue which was destroyed by Mahmoud. the image-breaker. I The priestly defenders offered him an enormous sum to spare their god, but he re- sisted the bribe and smote with his iron mace. Down fell the - image, and as it -brake, there rolled out a river of pent-up , wealth which had" been hoarded and hidden within it. “And so it will be with Spirltualism and the blows it strikes. It has already proved itself the greatest solvent of dogmas yet known. It is the Truth that sets you free for delicious delights. good as well as for evil. It has acted and is acting like Han- just as true now nibals vinegar on the most stupendous obstacles of progress? V follows : use ~ r ~wooDHUL’L & Cr.ArL1n’s /WEEKLY. Jan. 24, 1874. and an imposture cannot do that. It will ﬁnally break up many-a poor miserable eﬂigy of God to fully reveal the Di- vinity. himself to the unfettered human soul.” , THE CLAY AND THE POTTER." Suppose a lump of senseless clay, ' While in the p'otter’s hands, should say, '“ Now, potter, try on me your skill, And fashion mewhat form you will!” Then, with a master’s cunning art, He molds in shapeeach separate parts; Beneath his ﬁngers’ deft control, He views the ﬁnished, perfect whole-— And says, “ My skill I have essayed, A goodly vessel thou art made; Wouldst thou thy perfect shape retain, The ‘ ﬁery ’ process doth remain." But when within the ovenlaid, All heated, as the potter said, The clay no longer passive lies, But quickly to the potter cries: "‘ Come hither quick, fo r‘pity’s sake, And me from out this oven take! I said I would be fashioned, turned, But did not bargain to be burned.” Obedient to this stern command, The potter reaches forth his hand; A lump of clay all incomplete, . Itfalls down shapeless at his feet. Just such, my child, is thy desire; Thou wouldst be formed, but not by “ ﬁre;" Thou wouldst the perfect image take, The ﬁery ordeal yet forsake. ' Now from this truth a lesson learn. And when the ﬂames around thee burn, Just think. Who knoweth best, I pray, The potter, or the insensate clay? _ Banner Q7‘ Light. _ . New CATHOLIC CHURCH. Dn GARMO HALL, CORNER OF FIFTH AVENUE AND FOUR- TEENTH STREET-——SGIENTI]i‘IC SERMON BY STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. , Reported by Glwradtnt. Our report of the last of these discourses last week was unfortunately interrupted in the middle, owing to the late hour at which the manuscript came to hand. Mr. Andrews was illustrating what he calls Organization by Orchestra- tion, or in the Pantarchal order, and to that end was read- ing an account of Miss Putnam’s Sunday School in Boston, conducted on the same idea, as reported by Charles Brad- laugh to his English organ, and by him supplied, as illustra- tive of this idea, to Mr. Andrews. The account proceeds as In the ﬁrst place, these boys feel that in coming to the school they bind themselves to nothing. They can leave it the instant that they are tired of coming to it, and with no fear of being looked/yup at their homes, or even of being asked the reason of their leaving. When a new boy comes, he tells us his name,.his age and where he lives. That done, he becomes one of us; of‘his home life we know nothing, unless he talks to us about it of his own accord; and we never visit him at his home unless by his express desire. They ﬁnd themselves warmly wel- comed, and it is pleasant to see how soon they, many of them, seem to feel as if the place some way belonged to them, as if it were somehow their -school, and they were of great importance to it. There is no enforced studying of lessons ; those children who prefer to study are put into classes, with other children who prefer it too, but it is no more considered meritorious to like study than not to like it.‘ It is a. question of preference, and I that is all. It is a kind of school most liked by the best teachers, but it would be an impossible school to some teachers, who might, nevertheless, get along well enough in a. Sunday school conducted upon another plan. For it is one thing to teach boys who are sent to school by their parents and to whom lessons are a necessity, and quite another to find yourself face to face with half a dozen boys, all free to come or stay away as they please, and who some- times only accord to ‘you their allegiance after you have proved yourself capable of holding their attention almost in despite of themselves. There are no theological dogmas inculcated in the school, only the simple religious teachings of Christ. ‘ To each teacher entire freedom is left as to management of his own class, the only general idea being that the children must be interested before they can be instructed, and that the making them happy goes a great ‘way toward making them good. . ‘ So in many classes there is a good deal of serious teaching; in others a good deal of story telling; and yet again in others 9, good deal of simple talking. while in the room where the youngest children are, the little ones of from four to six years old, there are blocks and picture books. It is not with the poorer classes alone that the school is in favor. On one occasion Mr. Clarke, seeing a. gentleman in the school who was a stranger to him, and who had been for some time standing quietly and looking on, went up to him and spoke to him. “I have come here,” said the gentleman, “ to ﬁnd out, if I can, what it is that makes my two boys so eager to come to you every Sunday afternoon. I believe in Sunday schools: I have always triedto make them go to one, but when they went it was always with sojmuch reluc- tance, that I came at last. to the conclusion it was best to let the matter alone. But now they tell me they have found‘a ﬁunday school for themselves, and I should ﬁnd it ashard ,to-day to keep them away as I found it formerly to make ,gy,_em.$o ; so I thought I would come round and see for my- self what the secret of the matter is.” “And you have found it?” Mr. Clarke asked him. “ Well,” said the gentleman, “ I must confess to you that when I ﬁrst came in my feeling was that you had very little order and a great deal of noise; but as I have stood here looking on I have discovered that, thoughthere is little discipline there is much harmony, and that yourchildren seem to feel the same conﬁdence and free- dom thai: they would feel in a happy home.” Ongtnother occasion Mr. Clarke was stopped by a poor man in the street: who was also a stranger to him. “You do not know me, sir,” the man said, “.but I seem to khow you, for my children have been going to your school for years; in- deed, your Sunday school has prevented me from moving Out Of t0Wn.’.’ And then, in answer to Mr. Clarke’s surprise he added: “ VVhy, the fact is, when I spoke of moving to the children, they were so wretched at the thought of giving up their Sunday afternoon, that I couldn’t bear to take so much pleasure away from them. So we’ve just stayed on where I we are.” One great source of pleasure to the children is the Sunday-school library. A catalogue is given to each scholar, and they choose for themselvgs the books that they wish to read. Then there is the Christmas festival and the summer pic- nic. We invite the children to the festival just as we should invite the children of our friends to our own house, and the poorer children feel no patronage extended to them. The presents given to them are of the kind that any child would like to have——sleds and skates-and desks and knives. In the month of June there comes the summer picnic. In the early morning, taking with us a band of music, we leave Boston in a steamer hired for the occasion, and, after an hour’s sail down the harbor, we stop at Quincy Point, in Weymouth, a sea-side picniqground. Here there are sum- mer-houses, pagodas, a large pavilion. for dancing, swings, tilts, etc. The boys ﬁnd greatéentertainment in ﬁshing, clam- digging and clam-baking, while the girls busy themselves in collecting flowers and shells. ‘ And after the picnic comes”? the summer vacation, a vaca- tionnot hailed asvacations are usually hailed by children, but whose end is more welcome than its beginning. I may add to Miss Putnarrﬂs notes that I never saw a more happy- looking and cheerful set of children ; and although they were ' very noisy, laughing and talking before I rose to address them, they were as orderly and appreciative while I talked some of the congregation were a little horriﬁed when they knew that Bradlaugh, the inﬁdel, was to speak to the Sun- day-school. children, but Mr. Clarke was ﬁrm, and I am sure I thoroughly enjoyed the visit, and believe that clergymen, teachers and children shared my enjoyment. I - CHAS. BRADLAUGH. Mr. Adams, in the audience, ‘has criticized us somewhat severely, on the ground that Universology seems to lack the power to attract children; this is a natural mistake, but still a mistake. ' spontaneity it cannot arrive at everything at once. So soon as we can attract to ourselves one person endowed like Miss Putnam, and who like her will labor to attract children from a love of the work and not from a painful sense of duty, we shall have that phase of Orchestration and so on ad tnﬁrnituon. , The subject being disposed of as preliminary, the speaker came at length to the immediate subject of his sermon, as still introductory to the Universology aspect of the classiﬁca- tion oi the sciences. He resumed by saying: Unism, Duism, and Trinism, in close relation to the num- bers 1, 2 and 3, are principles ﬁrst pointed out by me. The essential idea was not, however, new, but has vainly strug- gled for utterance through prophet, bard and philosopher. “By no one was the underlying thought more distinctly apprehended than by the German Metaphysician —Schell- ing. Prof. J. B. Stallo. late professor in St. John-’s College, N. Y., has recently published “ General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature,” in which he has reproduced and done justice to the remarkable group of thinkers of Germany, of a half century/ago, introducing then more fully to American readers, and among them‘ Sehelling. , By The Absolute is meant by philosophers, the nature of things or of thing itself, as apart from its conditions. circumstances and relations. Of what is thing, anything whatsoever necessarily composed? What fundamental ideas are involved in the conception of anything whatsoever? Vifhat, in other words, is there in the nature of things which is fundamental and abosolute, as distinguished from what is contingent, conditional or rela- tive? .The‘ notion of the absolute is the point of view from which every System of Philosophy takes its departure. Dif- ferent conceptions at this fountain-head of thinking charac- terise, therefore, the different systems of philosophy. The Absolute is the inherent constitution of thing, of any- thing, and therefore, of everything, and hence Universal law, the underlying law or laws of everything. Thing is again Being. The Greek word for being or thing is on, which has for its plural ontu. (things). Adding to this last otogy to mean science, we have the standard word Ontology, as the name for the Sienceof Thing or Things merely as such, with no further description or designation, the Science of Being, the Science of the Absolute; the Science of Universal laws and principles, the science of those properties which belong equally and inevitably to everything which can be conceived of.‘ Ontology is, therefore, the first philosophy; it is the core andcentre and fountain of philos0PhY- 1'3 is Phi10S0PhY it- self in a-nutshell. « Unism, Duism, and Trinism, are then the three funda- mental principles of Ontolog ; and so of Universology. Everything has in its constitutiona one-like aspect, a two- like aspect, and a three-like aspect-—this last from the union of the other two. Schelling, as rendered by Stallo, says: “ The Symbol of the Absolute is the magnet, one principle manifesting itself as two poles, and still resting in their .midst as their «identity. Divide the magnet; every part of it will be a complete system in itself—two poles and a point of indifference. Just as every part of the magnet is the em to them as if they had all been of mature age. I hear that Our movement being based upon attraction and tire magnet in miniature, so also every individual develop- ment in Nature is a miniature universe.” ‘ The principle here called the indifference point of the mag- net——~the aspect in which the magnet is simply one-is Unism; the principle illustrated in the two-fold polarity is Duism, and the principle of the integral constitution of the magnet from the union of‘ the other two opposite aspects is Trinism ——the two opposite aspects now alluded to not being the two poles, but the point of indifference as one, and the two poles as the other one. Every individual development in the universe, as man in- dividually, as society, as language, etc., being, therefore, a miniature universe, his application to it is the same as to the universe at large—the same ontology, the same three primor- dial principles. We come now, speciﬁcally, to, the consideration of lan- guage. Turning to certain charts upon the wall, illustrative of the Elements of language, Mr. Andrews said the ﬁrst considera- tions here more properly belonged to phonology. which he, many years ago, had the pleasure of introducing, along with. the study of phonography, into the educational system of this country and of the world, now more than twenty years ago. He and his then partner, Mr. A. F. Boyle, had classes—- among them one of 500 school teachers--in Boston, who,'s0 great was their enthusiasm and no other hour being availa- ble, were in the habit of assembling at ﬁve in the morning for instruction in this fascinating science. Comparatively little has been done for the last twenty years in this direc- tion, but gradually and surely phonography has worked its way among reporters to the almost entire exclusion of other systems, and_phonology into the schools to some extent. Now he should go no further into’ those subjects than was necessary to elucidate so much of them as is necessary for the comprehension of their use in Universology. The vocal organs are capable of producing but alimited number of elemental sounds, vowels and consonants. A vowel is a sound made with the mouth open, as O, ah, eh. In the English language our vowels are mixed, especially as to their signs or letters. Thus, what we write as u, and call yew, is in fact a compound of y (as in‘ yell) -ee-oo. For the establishment of a Universal Language, we must elimi- nate this irregularity and begin right, and in this work Mr. Andrews invites his audience to become partners with him as coadjutors and sustainers. But of what necessity is all this? Simply this. To accomplish anything inascientiﬁc way, it is necessary to get at the elements» of the given sub- ject-, and language has its elementology peculiarly well marked. Universology consists in analogy, showing the echo repeating itself again and again through all departments, and we use the elements of language to analogue all sci- ence and all departments of science. One of the primaryoutgrowths of Universology being anew and universal language called Alwato, peculiarly adapted for the conveyance of scientiﬁc knowledge, we shall work pri- marily to understand something of it. So to complete, or more properly to even initiate this new order of investiga- _, tion———the Scientology of the Universe and of Speech-we must discover the meaning which Nature attaches to each Elementary Articulate Sound of the Voice; for if the Ele- ments of Sound are the Analogues or Individual Echoes of the Elements of the Universe itself-—which are the Proto- pragmatic and Abstract Principles of which it is composed, then it follows that each sound of the voice in speech, such as is represented by a letter of the Alphabet, is the Analogue of some Particular First Entity or Governing Principle of Universal being, and that, inversely, that Particular Entity or Principle is the true meaning, by Analogy, of the given Alphabetic Sound; and that the number of such Principles must be measured exactly by the number as they are quali- ﬁed by the nature of the Elementary Sound of the True Universal Alphabet of Language. This, then, is what Universology begins by discovering. It is found and will be progressively demonstrated that every Alphabetic Sound of the Human Voice is Inherently Laden by Nature herself with a Speciﬁc signiﬁcance or meaning; ' that the aggregate of these meanings is at the same time the aggregate of the Fundamental Entities and Principles of the Universe of Matter and Mind; and that hence a Language rightly built from the combinations of these sounds must ex- actly echo to and represent, from the broadest generaliza- tions to the minutest details the Total Universe of Matter and mind, itself built up in parallel development from the , echoings of Corresponding Entities or Principles. Out of this discovery arises therefore logically, and, as it were, inevitably, a new Universal Language, the most won- derful and complete in its structure and powers of which it is possible to conceive, and ‘which must serve as the Vernac- ular of the New, Unitized Humanity, or Great Planetary Nation of the Future. It is, then, the Philosophy and Linguistic Science underly- ing and intimately involved in this New Language through- out which constitutes the Scientology—that is to say, the ex- act presentation—of Linguistic or the general science of lan- guage; and the corresponding Philosophy and Science of the Universe at large is the Scientology of Universology. . The reaction of the Philosophy of the New Scientiﬁc Lan- guage upon the understanding of existing tongues, or upon the_ previous science or sciences of Language, which will constitute the Universological Aspect of Lingual Naturologyz and the similar reaction of Univero- logical Scientology upon the existing sciences, casting them into the mould of its own character, will be the Universolo- gical Aspect of Naturology at large. Finally, the inter- blending and natural modiﬁcation and modulation of the old and new materials of Lingual knowledge and use will con.- stitute the Artology. (See “Primary Synopsis of Universol- ogy and Alwato,” pp. 46-50.) “ The name of the new Scien- tiﬁc Language is Alwato (pronounced Ahl-wah-to), ‘a word derived from the language itself, and meaning Universal Speech (at for All and auto for language).” Vowels may’ be styled open-mouthed sounds, but some- thing more than the open mouth is required to produce them. This something more is furnished. by the passing of the Mg} “)5-:*"~ Jan. 24, 18 74. §;WOODIIULL- & CLAFLIN;’S WEEKLY‘. _ A 7 breath through the larynx, which, like the accorcleon by its edges or vocal chords, so modiﬁes the breath, putting it into vibration and making it sonorous, as to produce sounds. This modiﬁed or vibratory breath receives then a new mod- ulation from the mouth, as a volume of water takes form from the flame of the mill. Consonants are the form in which this vibratory breath is cut off or limited. They go i11 pairs. This is shown in these charts of Prof. J. E. Munson (who is an acknowledged follower of mine in Phonography _ and stands at the head of his profession) by similar charac- ters, the one light, the other heavy; thus 1) is represented by a light, diagonal line from left to right, and b by asimilar one made heavy; wh_ich is in accordance with nature, p being produced by the light out-olfof vocal sound by the lips merely, and b by the same effort of the same lips, reinforced by a vowel-like sound from the larynx, which is the substance of speech, while consonants give it its form. Skilled phonog- raphers omit the vowels in reporting and give only. the skel- eton words made by their consonants. Vowels correspond with the unlimited, unbounded, universal; Consonants with limit or bound. The Latin word for limit is ﬁnis. Conso- nants are ﬁnite, vowels inﬁnite, universal. Vowels femi- nine, consonants masculine. Light consonant sounds repre- sent the abstract, heavy ones the concrete. SERMON DELIVERED BY STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS AT DE GARMO HALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1874. Mr. Andrews has frequently referred to certain large charts in process of construction, by means ‘of which heshould be enabled to elucidate and more clearly present his ideas to his audience. Your reporter was glad to see Sunday morning, on entering the hall,’ one of these immense charts which are to play -so prominent a part in the instruction of the race. But alas for the fallacy of human hopes, your 1-eporter,while stumbling over ics. ogenies, ologies and ographics, has been buoyed up and encouraged by the thought of those forth- coming charts, which, like a beacon, Should shed suchalight upon the pathwa.y as would make all clear and open at last; a royal road, up which we might “ walk and not be weary; run and not faint.” Then, too, the now o’erladened brain might enjoy, when relieved of the iteration and reiteration of an endless whirl of words, we are told are scientiﬁc, but which to feminine apprehension, if science is knowledge, Seem not only unscientiﬁc, but as par excellence best adapted to attain the Frenchily deﬁned objectand end of all language —the disguising of thought. But not yet, and all at once, is th< road made easy. Lines and curves in curious arrangement met our eyes; but what did or could they signify? Possibly we mightvhave puzzled out a meaning, somewhat as savans have puzzled out Egyptian Ileroglypliics or ancient Cuneiforn. characters. But mingled with these lines were letters sig niﬁcantly various in style, and so arranged as to present 2. cabalistic appearance that was perfectly disheartening t. any one not familiar, or willing to become familiar, with tln black art. 'Well, the cabalistic writings of the East haw been to the learned of all ages in some sort a magic candle. round which, even though with scorched wings, they haw delighted to ﬂutter, fondly dreaming that great and wonder- ful. were the mysteries there hidden, if only the key coul< be found to the intricate wards of the lock guarding them. So_now (whether logically or illogically we’ll leave to some analogical‘Universoligist to determine) these two ideas, 01 the dim past and of the “living present,” connecting them- selves in the mind of your reporter, gave the courage l2( make a not quite despairing effort to do her “level best” tl understand the explanation. Mr. Andrews eagerly com- menced, with the air of one fully master of thesituatioi. and conscious of the power and ability to do, not only all. but more than all he had promised. He found himself now, for the ﬁrst time, well provided with the tools and instru- ments requisite——charts, blackboard, pointers and every- thing in perfect order. The work has hitherto been littl. more than the removal of rubbish and the consideration oi the ﬁeld upon which we are to enter. Now, having prepared the ground, we are ready, he said, to lay the foundation. which this morning we begin to do. At the ﬁrst step we an met by the necessity in considering a Universal Science of a Universal Language for the means of representing the idea: to be expressed with simplicity and certainty. So that Uni- versology and Alwato, the language growing out of Uni- versology and deriving its name from the language itself, are inseparable, Every domain of being is but a minor universe. and the principles distributing its relations are precisely th: principles which pervade and formulate the grand universe. or the Whole, even as the principle by and through whicl the greater exists, are analogued in each minor universe 0! domain. Thus, as when classifying the. Sciences we classify the whole Universe, each science being a domain, that part, of the universe with which it especially concerns itself can 1 in turn be classiﬁed, on the same plan, within itself. N ovs if, in this way, we can so classifyhany domain as to show the principles underlying its classiﬁcation, we have not only identiﬁed the smaller with thelarger, but, at the same time. we have achieved tlze key to every other domain~—no locl too large, no look too small, no wards too intricate——we hole the key which unlocks the Inﬁnite Universe. This idea i: new, and peculiar to Universology. Now,‘ if this is true, it one-tenth part of what I am iutimating proves true, then the discovery of Universology is the grandest event of the Ages; and your grandchildren may some day be telling their grand- children that theirgrandfather or grandmother———dwelling with pride on the hour——Was present at De Garmo Hall thi.- blessed morning at the ﬁrst public demonstration of the Sci- ence to a New York audience. In considering language, we ﬁnd vowels its substance; in their nature unlimited, unbounded, _inﬁnite. ' Thus, when we utter the cry, “ ah,”-—the central and most musical of the vowels, the one which gives strongest character to song anc to the Italian language, making it the most musical of lan- guages——the voice loves to linger and dwell on it; it is inﬁ- nite, that is to say, it has in itself no end—-the will or lung: of its producer being the only measure of its continuance. The vowels, which are all such sounds made with the , mouth open, and capable of unlimited continuance, are then A represented on the chart by concentric circles, and accord ‘the will of man can prolong them indeﬁnitely; they are with round forms generally, which are mathematically un- measured. Not so the consonants, as R. 1?, ‘rt. No power of “ cut-offs ” purely in their nature, and mean Limits or Lim- itation. These are represented by the quadrature of» the circle, or by straight—linism, or by cut-offs and limits gener- erally. For convenience sake, merely, the radii on the chart to represent them are brought round to one side of the con- centric circles which represent the vowels.. When they occupy the lower half of the right upper quar- ter of the grand circle, vowels then represent continuity, boundlessness, whether of space, substance, time, etc.; while consonants correspond with its lines and limitations. Again. vowels are in their nature feminine, consonants masculine; and there is between them a constant tendency to unite in the formation of the Syllable, a word which means a fall- together- The sentiment of the mind too is feminine, and so is represented by the vowels; its thought masculine, and represented by the consonants.’ Sentiment is inﬁnite, aspir- ing, boundless, universal. Thought is ﬁniting, ever limiting and deﬁning. Notice herethe repetition, which as we ad- vance we shall see everywhere repeating itself, every- where the masculine and feminine element, and everywhere harmonial variety in their union. I Again, not only every class of sounds, but every individual sound has its inherent signiﬁcance. Thus the voWel—s0und.t' (pi-onounced‘EE as in all modern European languages except the English) is produced in the centre of the mouth, and its inherent signiﬁcance is centre, which in another sense signi- ﬁes “ being,” “ thing,” an “ individual;” thing being but an embodied centre round which we link form, color, density, etc. B is the concrete consonant, represents the dead, the inorganic, including as well what El_s- berg styles “the died; ” v on the other hand being vibratory in its nature, has an inherent signiﬁcance of life. On this inhereﬁt quality, in sounds, the language of Alwato is founded. Taking the dipthong an (ah-oo) to represent the vowels collectively, and preﬁxing the B we have Bau-signifying morgam struct-um, the entire dead, world. Adding io we have Ban-io, meaning the dead world———the mineral or inorganic world. Using v instead, we have Vau-io, the live world; and—-ski (slcec), meaning oloy, or science, we have, substituting it for io,rVau-ski, or «he science of the living world, or Biology, and Bauski is then the science of the dead or inorganic world; or Abiol- gy. In like manner, 1', signifying the centre, or thing, we lave Iski, or the science of things, corresponds to Ontology: nnd E (pronounced a as in-ate) signifying relation or condi- tion, we have Eski, for the science of the relations of things yr of the conditions or environment-—Conditionology. _Iwill resume here in my imxt. Observe, in conclusion, however, that Bau-ski and Van- eki belong to science proper, and that I ski and E ski are pri- narily, subdivisions of Metaphysics or metaphysical sci- +nce——these last belong to the vowel side of n'oun. Science .s masculine, and Philosophy feminine. -—-—-—-————>-4% IS THIS LAW OR THEFT? This WEEKLY is indebted to the Springﬁeld Republican for the ‘following letter and the leading article which follows t. It tells its own story plainly; and the leader which fol- ows it is also well worthy the attention of all the women in the country. It is a practical comment on the villainy off .nan’s legislation in the cases of women: ‘ TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. GLASTONBURY, January 3, 1874. To the Editor of the Rrpublz'ca.n—-The collector called again Yew Year’s day, and I will give you the result. We told rim we were glad to see him-—more so, we thought, than any >f the women; for he was a sensible man, and could see into the injustice of this business more than half the town oﬂi- sers. ‘We had no idea, then, that he had brought an a‘.tach.ment with him to execute it that very day, for he had always be- fore told us we might let the tax be as long as we pleased by paying twelve per cent. interest. But now, he said, the law nust be executed, and as he must take personal property irst, our cows would be driven away at once unless his lill was settled. This came suddenly upon us, and we told ‘rim we were very sorry———more sorry for Mr. K. and his ’amily, who lived in our cottage, than for ourselves, for we lould do without the milk better than they could. We have t ﬁne lot of Alderneys that my sister had raised, every one,‘ for amusement, and cared for, and was much attached to hem. We pleaded hard for a respite till We could speak tgain before the town. We wanted to petition the men, we laid, toxlet us own our land as they owned theirs, and then we would willingly pay our taxes; and how much better it would be to have the money paid freely than to have all this lrouble about it! The town had waited on..\a factory com- pany in the northern part of the place for their taxes for rears, till the company failed, and they lost several thou- sand dollars by it. We had our share of this money to pay; l. larger share, as it appeared by his books, than any other of the inhabitants, and there was no risk in waiting for us to pay. But they were men, and we are women. “Now,” said we, “Mr. A., you would not be willing, per- sonally, to take a woman’s property, because she cannot vote“ to defend it; no other man in town would, though you will tgree together to do it. But numbers can never make it -ight; no reckoning can prove it.” My sister went into the Yard to entreat him to leave two of the cows together (there were eight of them), that one might not be left alone. But she l0l1ld not prevail, and the little thing, the poor man's por tion, has cried ever since. He took seven, for he said cows were low and he wanted enough! The tax now is only $101.39. The next tax comes in March. The cows were taken to a neighbor’s, some little distance, and my sister felt very bad all night, thinking how they might fare, and requested Mr. H., early in the morning, to see to them, for he understands how to manage them bettei ghan any one ever before. Thoneighbors said nothing could i exceed the trouble they had to get them into his yard (for it seems they resisted every way they could), and he would never had it done had be known the circumstances, or that they were to stay over night. He could do nothing with them, and requested Mr. K. to milk them for him. These cows will sometimes be very contrary, when nobody can -manage them but my sister. She will call them all by their names, and as soon as they hear they will come to her upon the gallop. They will follow behind her in single ﬁle, and she can lead them wherever she chooses. VVhen we have had a new tenant they would never, at ﬁrst-,, let him come near them, and she has been ‘obliged to stand at their head, where they could see her, every day, when he milked, for ever so long. ,_ i ’ Yesterday we went to Hartford, seven miles, to see our lawyer, so that neither we northe other side should trans- gress. The sale is to take place next Thursday. ’Tis rather hard, in the depth of winter, for women to be obliged to at- tend an auction sale of their own cows. I will try to give you an account of it. They are to be driven a mile to the sign- post. Our lawyer said there was no need for this severity now, as the tax was perfectly safe. ABBY H. SMITH. [From the same paper.] THE BATTLE OF THE WOMEN. We ask every thoughtful man who has the ballot, and every thoughtless woman who is in the habit of saying she doesn’t want it, to read Abby Smith’s story of the New Year’s call paid her by the tax collector \ of Glastonbury. It is well worth reading, if only for the quaint simplicity of tbe°style. This is a bit of Defoe’s English, ladies and gentlemen. But the matter is still more noteworthy than the manner, and it is to this that we particularly want to direct your atteut‘-OIL In refusing to continue paying heavier taxes year by year than any" other property-owners in Glastonbury, while re- fused a voice in assessing and spending them, Abby Smith and her sister as truly stand for the American l>1’ll10il>lt> 35‘ did the citizens who ripped open the tea-chests in Boston harbor, orthe farmers who leveled their muskets at Concord. And they seem to have very much the same quality of quiet, old-fashioned Yankee grit. too. They are not demonstrative or declarnatory. They don’t shriek or wring their hands, or make a fuss of any sort. They are good—nature itself; but they are also logic itself. and resolution itself, and pluck it- self. They simply stand upon the»-ir rights. Satisﬁed of the strength of their position. they content themselves with op- posing to legalized injustice that passive resistance which is sometimes the hardest of all to overcome. It is rather a ﬁne spectacle when you come to think of it, and withal a very suggestive one. It will not be creditable either to the hearts or heads of the woman-suffrage party if Abby Smith and her sister are. left to stand alone——~to ﬁght this battle of principle unaided. That party numbers in its ranks justly distinguished law- yers; we could mention one or two who live within an hour’s ride of Glastonbury. It also numbers a great many men and women of wealth. Here is a chance for them to prove their faith by their works; they are not likely to have, as they could not well ask, ‘a, better one. And in these matters " chance ” is a synonym for “ duty.” We submit that sub- scribing to the Abby Smith Defense Fund is the ﬁrst busi- ness in order. I >—>4Q-r——<—--——————-— WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? PRQVIDENCE, January 8, 1874. I have just passed on the street a woman at Whom the slow—moving ﬁngeriof scorn is pointed. Men make a jest of her, and men look upon her with contempt. She is of the town, and thereon hangs a tale. I knew her not many years ago—-av ﬂaxen-haired girl, and joyous as a spring bird. She was as pure as the falling snowﬂake, rosy as a cherub, sweet as an angel. But she fell: she was the victim of man’s lust, and the destroyer of her peace, the spoiler of ‘her purity, lost no caste. Maybe herwas a sinner, possibly a saint, after the modern fashion ; whatever he was, he walked erect after his crime; men lifted their hats to honor‘ him, and women smiled on ‘him. Not so his victim. She was thrust down to the plane of infamy, and buried, a living soul, in the dark grave of crushed hopes and unsatisﬁed aspirations. She was every whit as pure as her seducer; but how diﬁerent their ’ fates! Once she met him on the street. Strong as she felt the shame of her condition, she uphraided him, and most truthfully portrayed to him her situation. He culled ' the police, and she was taken into custody, arraigned, and lined as a reveller. The law took vengeance upon her, be- cause she sought -to vindicate herself, and sent her to a cell. Her feelings overpowered her, her soul overﬂowed, and she committed the heinous crime, of rebuking the destroyer of her life‘s happiness. Cowper mournfullv sung of “ man’s inhumanity to man,” but for ages no poet s-ung of man’s inhumanity to woman. No preacher rebuked it; but the victim, by common con- sent, has been more than cruciﬁed’-—cQmpelled to live a living death. Ohl who is responsible? Who is to be ri chargedwith the sin? Alas! that woman, the grandest type of all that is noble inthe wide creation, because in her is incarnated the sublime mystery of maternity, has been the rude sport of man, a prey to his passions and a mere thing to minister to his lusts. It is time the seals of silence were broken, and this whole question of woman’s ‘rights were dis- cussed, especially as they turn upon sex. Let prudes cavﬁ, , cynics crlticiseand the spoilers rave; the discussion will go on; for the essential [justice which is its soul will not be silent until public sentiment "shall appreciate what is com- prehended in the reformsought. Vituperation will fail, bolts and bars will prove no hindrance‘. 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Now, if our club agents will but be active in returning renewals,'we shall begin the year under the most favorable circumstances. ‘ —-———-——4>->40»-«--—--< Lnorunn VENGAGTEMENTS. .__._—__ ' Victoria C. Woodhull’s lecture engagements, so ‘far as we are now able to announce them. are as follows. Les Momes, Iowa, . . .. Jan" 17. Keokuk, “ “ 19. ’ Quincy, Illg, . f “ 20. Gralesburg, “ . ,- . ' ; ‘,‘ 21. Burlington, Iowa, , . ‘ . . “ 22. Jacksonville, lll., . . . . “ 23- Springﬁeld, “ A . . . 3 “ 534. ~——— We would call the attention of State officials and Boards of Irnmigration to the Internationals’ plan of colonizing the unemployed laborers of our great cities upon the unoccu- pied lands of the country,which is published upon the third page of this munber of the WEEKLY. BEGINNING TO SEE THE POINT. » We have sometimes wondered whether the class of per- sons who charge us with advocating promiscuousness and licentiousness are really honest, or whether they are will- fully, maliciously, but pretentiously ignorant. It is so clear to us that there is apalpable distinction between advocating a practice and advocating the right‘ of individuals to that practice, that, as we said, we are at a loss to determine why people do not also see it. One of the prominent ex- , amples of this class’ is a Mr. Barnum, of St. J ohn’s, Mich. At the close of the lecture at that place this individual, rose and announced that on a certain evening he would review our lecture and show that we had advocated promiseuity. Wereplied by calling the attention of the audience to the distinction. above referred to; and asking Mr. B. to re- member when he repliedto us to not commit the error again of charging upon us the advocacy of promiscuity as our theory, when we only advocate the right of freedom for all individuals to be what they shall elect. I We have never left any room for any person with common sense to obtain any other view than this; indeed, upon all occasions we have made the point clear beyond doubt. In the very speech upon which Mr. B. made this charge there is the following very pointed illustration: ' “ Because I advocate the right of freedom for all classes I am charged with advocating promiscuousness; but I can easily and clearly show the utter foolishness and the ab- surdity of that charge. I advocate freedom for religion to be equally enjoyed by the Christian, the Inﬁdel, the Pagan and the Jew; but I am rleither the one nor the other of these; but a Spiritualist. Now, why is it not charged be- cause I advocate‘ this freedom that Iladvocate Christianity, Inﬁdelity, Paganism and Judaism? Simply because I do not. I advocate only Spiritualism, and everybody sees and recognizes this fact. Nevertheless, many; of the same people who would never think of calling me a Pagan because I advocate the rightof the Pagan to be a Pagan, do not hesi- tate to charge me with advocating promiscuousness, because I admit the right of those who are promiscuous by nature to practice promiscuousness if they shall choose and can ﬁnd promiscuous partners.” We have no right to interfere with individuals who may choose to eat foul in preference to sound meat; but we would say to them we think the condition of ' your system that gives you an appetite to wallow in Carrion is of low origin and development, and it would please us to see you grow out of it to that plane that demands fresh, sound and healthy meat. VVc say the same to the promiscuously in. clincd. We do not believe there is that same degree of happiness in the practice of promiscuous sexuality that there is in the full and perfect blending of “ two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” Never- theless, we are willing to admit that the naturally promis. cuous would ﬁnd no happiness in a condition that we feel is not so advanced an one as its antithesis is; while to com. pel the perfectly blended soul, to practice pI‘01nlSCu0usn9SS edged constitutional" right that inheres in every individual, I that he or she has the right to pursue happiness in his or her own way, so long as the. same pursuit by others is not interfered with by it. It is this right for which we battle, and we will continue to do so in spite of venomous and malicious or ignorant tongues until it is acquired. The only waybv which any individual can be assured the exer- cise of his or her own rights is to have the same right as- sured to all other individuals; and this is what freedom means: the granting to every individual by every indi. _vidual the same rights that every individual claims for him- self or herself. . We do not question.Mr. Barnum’s right to be promis- cuous, which we do not think he will attempt to deny that he is, with all the evidence there is staring him in the face; but we do question his right to charge that we advocate that condition for humanity as we advocate Spiritualism for humanity. Perhaps he has at last awakened to the fact before unperceived. VVe think he has, because in his com- munications to the people of St. Johns, in the Independent, we ﬁnd the following language (italics our own): ' promiscuity. (We also claim that her doctrine is n.ot Pa- ganism.) She says she has been charged with advocating promiscuity at the Chicago Convention in September, and brands the persons as liars who made the charge. Well, to the testimony upon the point. I charge that Mrs. Wood- hull did advocate thejright to promiscuity at Chicago.” Yes! and as we have shown by this amended charge, in- cluding the words “right to,” you prove yourself to have been previously one of those liars. You have accepted just what we did say, and that is all that you can now make outof all that you can glean from the speeches and writings of Mrs. VVoodhull; and it is all that anybody else can glean from them- We do advocate the right of the promiscuous by nature to pursue their happiness in promiscuous- ness; but we emphatically deny that promiscuousncss is the doctrine which we advocate for humanity. There are several other points of importance in Mr. Bar- num’s letter in the Independent to which we should be glad himself by admitting the facts, all his arguments based upon his previously false position fall with him. Now, will Mr. Barnum be honest enough to admit that he has gone back on himself, and also that Mrs. Woodhulfs ‘charge of false is revolting beyond thought. It is agnatural and an acknowl- “But she (Mrs. Woodhull) claims that her doctrine is not; to call attention; but having shown that he has overthrown , hood was ‘well founded? We wait to learn if he be the honorable person whom he assumes to be. Will he admit that the ‘advocacy of the right of any person td do a given act is an entirely different thing from advocating the doing of the act? He has changed the form of his charge. Will he now have the moral courage to say that he was wrong in the ﬁrst instance and not longer attempt to make people be- lieve he says the same things now that he said previously: from Mr. Barnum, being willing to admit that hitherto he has not understood the distinctions here pointed out, and that his position was not one of willful malice assumed purposely to misrepresent, meanwhile knowing he was misrepresenting us. “ -——-———-—>-—40r—-4 THE N. Y. “HERALD” AND REVOLUTION. _ It will be remembered by many of our readers that the partisan press, some two years ago, when we first began to make the declaration on the rostrum -that this government was a failure and ought to fall, commented in the severest terms. It said that it was sedition, and that we were public enemies and ought to be suppressed, and that we were exciting the “ ignorant working masses ” to lawless violence. The Herald itself was among the number that joined in the denunciation, while the special Times and other administra- Washington, urged the use of prompt and decisive measures to ‘ ‘ squelch” us. We believed what we stated in the Academy of Music speech, called “The Impending Revo- lution,” and showed the line of argumentation by which we arrived at the belief. It was so clear to us that we felt it needed only to be presented to the people to rouse them to a comprehension of the situation: and so indeed it was all that was required. Since that time a wave of indignant revolt against aristocracy of whatever sort has swept over the country, which, reacting upon the press, has forced from the Herald, the greatest of all modern journals, the fol- lowing language which we ﬁnd in its issue of Dec. 29: “ Surely it is time this government was swept away in the contempt it has so richly earned in every channel of its activity; it is time its place was occupied by one not pluming itself on the philosophic calmness with which it can con- template disgrace.” The Heraldfeels the incoming tide and wisely ranges it- self upon what is to be the prominent as well as the popular side. It sees that the rottenness and corruption of all do- partments of the government has become so palpable that it cannot stand the pressure that will be brought to bear upon it, whcnlthe people generally come to the knowledge it has regarding the tendency of things; and there is hope that it will soon also see and reassert what we have said about the industrial and the social situation. I/Vhen it shall do this then will the “lesser lights ” begin‘ to chime in with the leading star in the journalistic» ﬁrmament and thus hasten on the culmination. _ ‘ Upon every rostrum from which we are speaking through the country we are nightly advancing the same thoughts and showing the inevitable climax at which the Herald has at last arrived. The people, and especially the country journals, know that it stands at the head of independent journals in the country, and that it would not dare to make such a broad assertioneas the one quoted until after mature deliberation, followed by substantial conviction. And when We call attention to it, the journals which are so ready to denounce. us hesitate when they ﬁnd in doing so they also attack this great metropolitan journal. We are indeed very glad to have such an ally in our present campaign; and shall not hesitate to advance it whenever there is anything to be gained by it. .We also congratulate the l?Ie7°ald upon its progress, and hope to be able soon to_ chronicle further ad- vance in still more fundamental directions. But the public is after all ‘left entirely in the dark as to what direction the revolution which the Herald foretels and desires is to take. When it shall come will it be found upon the side of the people and universal justice ; or will it be ranged upon that of the aristocrat and class rule? Does it contem- plate a in name, that one which shall be republican in fact may take its place; or does it look forward to the inauguration of a religious despotism? It is upon these points that the people -now need to be enlightened. It is not enough that the time has come for the old to pass away. All this might occur and the people be losers only. With the announcement of a com- ing change the beginning should not only be pointed out, but the direction in which it should tend should also be indi- cated. It is a despotism now robed in republican costume; is it to be despotism wearing its own colors, or republican vestments covering genuine republicanism? Upon these special points the Herald offers no light. It is to the WEEKLY only that the people can go to ﬁnd these things discussed. No other journal, secular or reformatory, dares to embrace this subject as it now presents itself to the people. It is no longer certain kinds of freedom for certain classes of people. It is an all-sided freedom for all people. Neither is it equality in certain directions only for all people; but it is equally as broad as freedom itself. Nor is it what has passed in law and courts as justice; but it is justice after the order of nature. All of these for all individuals, Moreover, it is still deeper than this even. It is not only all these vital and inherent prin- ciples for every individual; but it is all of them for the use of all individuals as each individual shall determine, Again, we say we await the evidence of manhood and honor ' ion organs, which grind out any tune that is “lined ” from , sweeping away of a government that is republican- --—n; «- 3. ‘l y: l l. 1 Jan. 24,187/4. wponnnnt &,CLAll‘Lihl’S wanarv. 9 which choice shall not only be sanctioned by all, but when jeopardized in anyway, defended by all. This is the spirit of the declaration of independence—the right to the pursuit of happiness secured to each person of the country—- to every man and to every woman as well. It does not mean that men may pursue _their happiness as each may desire,.politica_lly, merely, but it means that they with women included shall pursue happiness politically, in- dustrially, religiously and sexually—togetlier making up the social organization. It means the practice of the theory that has so long been the admirationof the American people, and which has made this government at once the admiration and the destruction of governments of the Old World. It means the inalienable ownership of woman’s body by woman herself and its consecration to maternity and sexuality when and when only she shall elect, and consequently its salvation from the slavery in which it is now held by man, as the holder of what is required to maintain life and to promote its comforts and happiness. And this is the most funda- mental of all questions, and since the coming revolution means this, it also means that the world, has reached that point from which constructive reform is possible. ®+——< WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE -CHILDREN? Those who begin the investigation of the theory of social freedom and follow its propositions one after another, usually close with the above query. They can very easily see how everything else will adjust itself; but the children, they cannot see what is to be done with them. This lack of perception would be rather more consistent, it appears to us, if it were accompanied by the solicitude which would also ask: What is becoming of the children now? They leave it for us to imagine, at least, that there are no children now who are not having all the care, attention and educa- tion that are required to develop them into useful adult life; that there are no children starving, ragged and un- sheltered. If there were not thousands, aye, hundreds of thousands of little ones who had better almost never “have been born than to grow to maturity through the suffering and privation they now endure, it might be consistent with the present undeveloped condition of social science that the above query should arise. But with what there is constantly a before the eyes of the whole people, and especially the in- habitants of the great cities, we are sometimes inclined to think the question a (Ze7'm'e7" resort ’ rather than the last of a well-considered set of objections. The Christian world also professes that the present system is the only one under which children can be properly reared and educated, and that the family as now constituted is the only Cfouiidation upon. which a civilized society can rest securely. This may be all very’ honest, but we fear if it be sogit is also all very ignorant. The present Christian prac- tice is itself a denial of the Christian theory. Multitudes of young swarm in the low dens of all large cities upon whom the light pf a Christian’s countenance never shines; and they grow up in squallor and misery and go afterward to people either our jails‘, almshouses or hospitals of one sort or another. These things are legitimate results of the present social system. We ﬁnd them existing in it, and they cannot be attributed to ‘some other system. Now, we ask society: What is to become of these childreh? and it replies by inaugurating and maintaining an expensive system of criminal jurisprudence with its long official list, and by I building prisons, penitentiaries and other equally damning public institutions. This, -we say, is all the answer that -can be given; and it is all that is given. ‘ ‘ Now, suppose that a somewhat different course were to be followed. Suppose that instead of spending annually millions of dollars to provide these institutions and to appre- hend and convict and to support criminals in them, this money were to be expended on such institutions as the fol- lowing describes: a THE GREAT FRENCH nnnonm AND INDUSTRIAL scnoon. The London News, in a biographical notice of M. de Metz, makes the following references to the admirable institution at Mettray, France, to which he consecrated his life: I “British muniﬁcence replaced the losses caused by the invasion of 1870, when Mettray was looted by the runaways of Chanzy’s army and severely requisitioned by the Prassians. The sightly chalets in which the boys take their repasts, sleep and work in the long winter nights at handicrafts useful to the agriculturist, are adorned with engravings‘ furnished by London pri-ntsellers, English art unions and the late Prince Consort, of whom and the Queen M. de Metz was for a week the guest at Windsor. The royal invitation was ‘sent to him through Mr. Gladstone. To the end of his life, which closed at the age of 79, the object of this gracious attention remembered with pleasure the week he spent at VVindsor. He invariably asked English visitors of good social standing how the Queen was, and if her sons followed in the footsteps of. their father. In speaking of the Prince he once said before me, ‘He was disttngue, well-intentioned, patient and practical, and, like myself, fond of the poor, and fine engravings.’ . , “Under the paternal sway of M. de Metz nearly 3,000 children, all originally belonging to the criminal class, have grown up to be useful members of society. His kind rule was judiciously tempered with mili- tary discipline. The school-masters and Warders, carefully trained in a normal school under the eye of M. de Metz himself, were aided by drill sergeants, a bandrnaster, an old sailor and some retired pompiers. The latter taught the use of ﬁre-pumps, escapeladders and scaling- hooks. This mixture of kindness and discipline has worked wonders. As farm laborers, men reared at Mettray obtain higher wages than any others all along the Loire. Tours was once saved from inundation by M, ‘de Metz’s boys, who also have rescued more cliateaux and farin- -houses thanI now can think of from the ﬂames. . Those taken for the conscription became excellent soldiers, as divers letters of gencralsand Colonels, and photographs of sergeants, corporals and privates, either decorated or showing the military medal, prove. These testimonials and pictorial witnesses are handsomely framed and hung round the tablet of honor, ‘on which the —nam.e.$ 9f deserving youths are inscr bed in the 5‘€1l991-room» ‘ I Since the invention of photography, avery suggestive gallery has been framed at Mettray. It shows the boy as he entered, and the man he had become when the time came for him to go out and seek a livelihood. The change from the crawling caterpillar to the soaring butterﬂy is hardly more striking than the alteration of the "ill-conditioned demoral- ized cub into the self-helpful humanized adult. During a visit to Met- tray I was struck with the pains taken by the, good director in trying to inculcate a sentiment of honor and personal dignity. Theft was treated asa venial sin, compared to lying; ~ and a bold lie was held to be less im- moral than prevarication. A sneak could not stand worse in an English school than among the juveniles at Mettray. Good conduct was encouraged and public spirit fostered by the ingenious system of individual and‘ cor- porate rewards. Each ‘ family’--that is to say, body of thirty inhabit- ing a chalet——was rewarded in the person of its elected chief or ‘ eldest brother.’ On Sunday the family earning the greatest number of good marks in the course of the week was allowed to take for its ensign, when marching in the ﬁeld, the flag of honor. Prizes were awarded and pun- ishments meted out by M. de Metz at the Sunday-morningﬁcourt. He wore on those occasions his judge"s robes, and acted with as much gravity and conscientious Cil'Cl1L1SpOQl,,lO11 as if presiding at an assize tribunal. Having carefully studied the character of each, he knew how to admonish, or, as he said himself of Wesley, to ﬁnd where the spark lay and fan it into a ﬂame. Nobody was brought up for punishment who had not ﬁrst passed a day in the Salle dc Reflexion—a kind of lock- up hung round with moral engravings, where the director visited the culprit and endeavored to reason' or persuade him into repentance and good resolutions. Before the boys turned in for the night they were allowed each to pass a few minutes in the chapel. Near the door a ‘ restitution box’ invited any one who had pilfered in the course of the day to case his conscience by throwing into it the stolen objects. One morning I saw the result of this silent ,»appeal to the inner monitor. A penknife, an apple, several pieces of copper money, alump of smug- gled tobacco, a packet of licorice stolen from the village grocer, and an obscene song, obtained, it would be hard to say how or where. M. de Metz told me he. had more trouble in reforming the lymphatic than the energetic ruiiian. When once the latter got into a straight groove he was able to remain; but the sluggish nature was liable to relapse if left to itself or placed within the reach of bad inﬂuences. This good and great reformer found that nutritive victuals were conducive to self-re- liance. Hard work was demanded of all susceptible of enduring it. But two excellent repasts, with a goblet of pure wine at each, and in the middle of the day a lump of bread, rewarded exertions in ﬁelds, cow- house, dairy and workshops. Mettray has the appearance of a Moravian settlement, but in nowise of a penitentiary. The farm buildings, dairy, bakehouse, laundry, are models of neatness and intelligent management. ders, Fven in the small cities in the country it is-no un- common thing for physicians to have a half-dozen applica- tions a day to procure abortions; and if the world knew the real extent to which this practice has grown, it might well ask: How long can this thing last and the race continue? It is not so much the number of abortions that are com- mitted, although. this is large enough to be a matter of seri- ous moment, as it is the fact that a woman upon whom abor- tions are committed soon becomes incapable of bearing a child. And this is the danger that threatens American women. And yet these same women cry out, “We don’t want the social question discussed; ” and‘ the doctors who aid this infamy reiterate the cry, while the preachers and editors do as mucliimore in their lines to stifle discussion on this all-important subject. ’ I I In the name of heaven, then, if for nothing except to re- adopt some suitable educational system for our rising gen- eration.’ It is not so much matter what becomes of the pres- ent generation; but let us have a better one to succeed it. This can be accomplished in no way so well as to place the children, as soon susceptible of education, completely" under the charge of that portion of. the mothers who are by nature constituted for this work; and as the growth in years goes on, let every child, whether of rich or poor parents, acquire a thorough knowledge of some proﬁtable calling; and all children be equally educated. Such a system as this would soon make a community of people who could make practical our present theory of equality—cquality all- sided and ‘just, such as has been perhaps seldom even dreamed of by most radical reformers. Such a system can obtain, however, only when the people are lifted out of their present chaotic and anarcliial condition into an organ- ized humanity; into a Human Brotlierliood, such as is con- templated in the teachings of the Nazarene. o In early summer the kitchen garden is delightful to see and to walk in. Apart from what goes to furnish the refectories with fruit and vegeta- bles, more than an acre is distributed into allotments for good conduct prizes. Its produce is the property of the boys to whom it is allowed. One hard winter, M. de Metz related to me, 20 juveniles spontaneously sent the proceeds of their patches, which they had been a long time hoarding up, to a starving family in the neighborhood. I doubt if it was so much the consequence of the Mettray system as of the happy per- sonal inﬂuence of the director.” Imagine for a moment what might be the condition of our country twenty-five years hence if the government were to provide such institutions and put into-them all the needy, unprovided and suffering classes of children all over the country! Is not this a subject on which the people—the public—-are interested, and being interested, is it not clear, as we have heretofore argued against the theory of Gerrit Smith, that the people’s servant, the government, has a right to meddle with it? Alms Houses in which the occu- pants are denominated paupers, and charitable institu- tions in which all personal self-respect must be crushed out, can never make honest and honorable men and women. If this result be what should be sought regarding the now de- graded classes, they must ﬁrst of all be placed amid such surroundings as will allow them to respect themselves. It is to the honorable and not to the vicious in humanity to ‘whom appeal must be made, and no better practical illustra- tion could possibly be had than the above quotation affords. Again,_rising from this sort" of discipline for the special and needy classes, let us ask if it were not inﬁnitely better for all classes than that which obtains to-day, and upon whom such stress is placed by the sticklers for present cus- toms? Ilow much better off are many of the children of the so-called respectable classes than are those whom we have been considering, except, perhaps, it may be in mere physical comfort ‘? lVhat a school is that for children where the parents continually wrangle, as in thousands of instances they do ; or, again, where one or the other, and especially the mother, is _ cross, irritable, and even vicious in her government ? Ask the question seriously, readers, and en- deavor to learn what proportion of present households are ﬁt places in which to rear children who are to form the coni- ing millennium ! Nor is it the fault of the parents. It is not every person who is constituted to have the care of children. If all were‘ so constituted there would be thousands of other necessary activities which would suffer, as much as children now sufi'er._ But no one will question the inherent right of all persons to have children, unless physically or mentally incapacitated. It is the system,‘ then, that makes every man and woman, the governors of children, that is at fault. A proper system of education for children would put them under the guidance and guardian care of that portion of the community who are by nature ﬁtted to have such im portant trusts. One of the greatest objections -that women raise against bearing children, and that one which perhaps more than any other causes so much murder of ‘unborn children, is that to have them is to make a slave of the mother. A woman who conceives and bears children regularly after marriage, and is compelled to have charge of them all, is a slave in reality, at least during the whole term of lier child-bearing’ period; and in this sense every woman. who does not .turn the care over to some one, is more or less a slave as she has more or less children. A proper system, which would place those in charge of children who are ﬁtted to have it, would. result not only in increased beneﬁt to such children as es- cape ante-natal death, but it would tend greatly to decrease the desire on the part of wives to commit this class of mur- THE PUBLIC SCHOOL WAR. Not only in the United States, but in almost every civilized country this war is raging. The attitude of the Catholic Church, the opponent of government or State legislation, varies with the circumstances under which it is waged. In New York, Dr. Mcéllynn demands secular education, in Ireland, Cardinal Cullen condemns it. The Catholic Church, under its head, claims to be infallible, which of these posi- tions is correct, or are they both infallibilities? But the Catholic Cliurclr is not without an ally in this war against the R’s. Gerrit Smith, the tinie-lionored fabolitioiiist and reformer, has entered the ﬁeld to sustain ixs positions. The Irislt World of the 13th December devotes its ﬁrst page to an elucidation of the subject, both by pencil and pen. In the former the people are represented as being driven into a Protestant cliurchby the bayonet, while their children are depicted asbeing clubbed into a scliool-house by policemen. On the foreground of the cartoon is drawn the cesspool of bigotry, with Hwrpefs lVe¢r'cly in -the form of a serpent, wallowing within it. To the right Gerrit Smith is repre- sented in full length, holding in his hands a scroll, with the following legend printed upon it: ' “The meddling of the State with the schools is an im- pertinence little less than its meddling with the Cliui-eh. When the Roman Catholics of Ireland were compelled to support the English Church in addition to their own, all Americans.sympathized with_ them. But is notgthe oppres- sion of our Roman Catholics the same in principle as was that? Government can no more help the cause of education than it can the cause ‘of religion. It is no more its work to bring all the children of the locality into the same schoo 1, than all the religionists of the locality into the same Church. “(Signed) ' GERRIT SMITH.” In this statement the public can perceive that Grerrit Smith takes the highest ground against public school educa- tion, viz.: that the education of children is an individual matter, and that the community, as a community,-has no right to interfere therein. The Roman Catholic paper, the Irish World, does not sustain him in that position; _Its long article on the subject commences with the admission that “ Every child born into the world has a right to receive an education;” an important point, on which Grerrit Smith does not seem to be concerned; but, nevertheless, it is a very interesting one to all enlightened communities. With Grerrit Smith, whether a child receive an education or not, is merely a parental affair, or at best a matter of charity; the State or nation having no duty to perform in the affair; The Irish World and ourselves agree to differ with him on that important subject, holding tliecommunity to be a highly- interested party. Itis a question with many able philan- thropists -and economists whether, in Christian nations, children’s rights ought to be bounded by education ? Whether every child "born into the world has not only a right to public instruction but to proper food, clothing and shelter also. We indorse these claims, and, should our Catholic contemporary think differently, we will publish its disclaimer and endeavor to defend the Christianity, charity and economy of the position we have enunciated. ' The next question is: “ Who has the natural right to in- struct the child? On the answer to ‘this Gerrit Smith and the‘ Irz's7L lV0rld appear to-agree. They reply, "‘ The pa. ren .,_” But they do not substantially agree, forif the ques- tion be put in the negative form, it will expose a difference ~ between them. Let us alter it thus: “ Has the parent 2. righ ‘ not’ to instruct the child‘? ” - Grerrit Smith, the philosopher, says: “Yes! or let its instruction depend on elemosynary lieve the worn-out mothers of the country, let the people , 10 l , woo:oHULL J: cLArLIN*s WEEKLY. Jan. 24, 1874.‘ charity;” which experience proves amounts to neglect. The Irish World answers “ N o! It is the parent’s imperative duty to attend to the instruction of the child.” But, to quote the words of the paper speciﬁed: “ Suppose the parent should be so besotted as to abandon the child to its own truant will? In that case the State should hand over the child to the denomination in which the child was born. But, if this denomination should fail to discharge this duty? Then the State is justiﬁed in taking the child into its own hands, and giving it a secular and entirely non-sectarian education.” Viewed from a Catholic standpoint, this seems a cruel piece of business. The argument would read thus: If the parent be a Catholic it is this duty to attend to his child’s educatioii-, but, if" the parent beia schismatic, and he ne- glects his duty, his child should be handed ‘over to the schismatics with whom he worships; if they also decline to interfere in the matter, the heretics of the State will be justified in claiming it and consigning it to utter perdition. In opposition to this rather uncharitable arrangement of our contemporary, and to the still harsher impenetrability of Gerrit Smith, we assert that human beings have ‘_‘col- lective” as well as individual duties toward their progeny, and that, in the matter of education, the former, if it does not supersede, should well complement the latter. We claim the “ our children ” are the most valuable of all products, and assert that sound economy demands that the most care- ful attention ought to be paid by our governments-national and State——to their physical, intellectual and moral cultiva- tion. We object to the ‘individual system advocated by Gerrit Smith and the Irish World, and assert that the family system is a selﬁsh system, inconsistent even with Chris- tianity. That it “ cabins, cribs, conﬁnes” the teachings of the great Nazarene, who, in his mundane fundamental doc- trine did not command a man to love his “ brother” as him- self, but his “ neighbor,” thus refusing to limit, by a family tie, the charity he taught to mankind. The culture of the family system among us is objectionable for other reasons also; every educator knows that partial parents are not the best superintendents of "the education of their own children, and, as a rule, with but few exceptions, the latter are more frequently reprehended for parental faults than for errors originating in themselves. But our main objection to such individualization is ‘ that it conﬁrms and continues the British system of classiﬁcation among us, in lieu of which we hold it to be the duty of the community to see that our young men and our young women start, in the race of life, under equal material and intellectual conditions. If proper institutions, worthy of our people, were established for the asylums for mothers and the rearing of children, it is be- lieved that the progeny of the rich would by them be bene- ﬁtted quite as much as the children of the poor. But it is not proposed that so great an advance should be brought about by compulsion. The only force -that ought to be or can be used to effect it is the power of love. Let the nation or State collectively take an affectionate interest in its little ones, and in their mothers also. Is it un- spiritual, unchristian, or even anti-catholic to remind peoples of their duties in this particular? Though the philanthropist (?), Gerrit Smith, is obdurate, the Irish World confesses that the State has a duty in the matter of educa- tion, which has been quoted. The difference between us and that periodical is, the Catholic paper places the State at the end of the list, we, at the head of it. The public school system, we admit, is only in its infancy. It is very incom- plete and needs further development. Even as it is it is inﬁnitely preferable to the individual system of the past, whose chief record, in the particular’ of the education of the young, is one of duties most miserably neglected. Lastly, as regards religious aspects of the question. From the trouble that has grown of them, a Turk might fancy that Christians had (previous to the public school war) wholly neglected the religious training of youth. But is this so? Is not the religious instruction of youth one of the purposes for which clergymen are appointed? It is esti- mated that the clerical force of the nation is more numerous and morecostly than‘ the scholastic- There are as many moral as intellectual instructors among us. If the latter do their duty there is no reason why any child should be ne- glected. The schools are open daily, why not the churches also? If the public, instead of insisting that the Bible should be opened daily in the schools, would insist that it should be opened daily in the churches instead, for the ecclesiastical instruction of their respective communicants, things would go on smoothly, and there need not be any further trouble in the matter. But it is unreasonable and unjust to compel our public school teachers to'perform duties which specially pertain to clergymen. This is more especially the case when we consider the singular jealousies which exist in the public mind on the subject of religion. Under the circumstances, clergymen, instead of demanding, would be justiﬁed in rejecting the intrusion of school teachers into the peculiar domain of the churches. ' A. BRIGGS DAVIS, Of Fitchburg, Mass, has a new and startling lecture under preparation, and will be open to engagements to deliver the same on and after the 15th of November proximo. We cheer- fully add that Mr. D. is an able and earnest advocate of the principles of the New Dispensation. ” MACGREGOR LAW. For years past the best idea of law that the public authori- ties of the most populous city of the United States have, is “ that it is a beggarlybattle periodically indulged in between criminals and policemen.” In New York, What is called “justice” is vindicated spasmodically by a series of raids upon the miserable and the vicious. The last of these oc- curred on Sunday evening, December 28. On that occasion some three hundred United States citizens, among them many simple, innocent shop girls, were ruthlessly seized and barbarously hurried oﬁ to the police stations, for the grave crime of dancing en the evening of that Sunday. on the Monday following, they were publicly driven through the streets, as malefactors to the Tombs prison, by the police. Arriving there, they were sentenced, imprisoned and ﬁned by Judge Bixby, who probably believes that, under the Constitution, the people have no religious liberty which he,’ as a New York Justice of the Peace, is bound to respect. Even that peerless ally‘ of New York law, the immaculate Days’ Doings newspaper, refuses fully to sustain the role of its friends, the New York police, in this shamelessly cruel piece of business. After devoting a couple of columns to patching up their miserable work, it comes to the following conclusions: , . “ It is a shame that, while those formidable enemies of society, the rich and pow rful owners and patrons of the gambling houses with which New York swarms, are never seized by their boon companion» the police, and marched, in broad‘. daylight, down the. chief thorough- fares of the cit_y, to be jibed andipelted ‘nyamob of idle loafers, such treatment is reserved for the poor wgork-girl, guilty of the heinous crime ofdancing on the Sunday evening,,5. Justive sh rulcl be done with com- plere impartiality. It should also be invested with dignity and a char- acter ot judicial calmness, equally-‘removed from the tolerance of vice and the sensational humbug of ‘raiding.’ If the law were ﬁrmly and justly enforced, there would be no cause, as there is no excuse, for the last exploit of the police.” ‘It is to be hoped that the city judges and the police au- thorities of New York city will hear and heed the above excellent advice. “ Respect the virtuous counsel of the Dayle Doings, gentlemen of the bar, the bench and the baton. Do not scoff at the instructor but heed the instructions. Remember that our city is very deep down in the scale of virtue, it is on the furthest. end of the primary class in the school ofpublic morality, as its records prove. We must therefore not be squeamish as to the source from whence we learn our duties," for, verily, the people of our metro- politan city. as regards vice and misery, are somewhat in the condition of ll/Iilton’s Satan, they cannot plumb the depths of their legal and social degradation. Well, there- fore, may they say with that arch’-ﬁend- “ Which way I turn is hell ;' myself am hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening todevour me, opens wide; To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.” And, verily, the scale-holder, who dispenses real justice, has meted out its proper sentence to this misgoverned and debauched city; for, although only three‘ centuries old, New York is already in its decay. With a death-rate always one- third, and occasionally more than one-half greater than its birth-rate, it would soon cease to be, did it not, vampire- like, prolong its melancholy existence by sucking the human life-blood from its neighbors around it. —————--——~>—<0 I-IURRAH F03 BUDDHA. Believing that, in these times of city starvation, brought about by the ﬁnancial rascality and incompetence of our money lords, the people inhabiting our great centres, wor- shipers of Jehovah, t_crming themselves Christians, might like to hear something of the way in which the worshipers of Buddha, the benighted heathens of Japan, at present treat their poor, we have taken the liberty of making an extract from a communication in the New York Times, giving us an account" of the poorhouse at Osaka, in J apan—- a city "more than half as populous as New York. Particular attention is called to the fact that it is only since Japan has been open to foreigners that begging has been considered criminal; and that, subsequent to that again, our noble poor- house system has been introduced to the Japanese. The knowledge they have acquired from communication with Christian nations does not seem to have been much needed, when there are only 180 paupers in a city of 500,000 in- habitants. But we refrain at present from commenting, and present the article to our readers: - Y A JAPANESE wonnuousn. A correspondent of the Hiego News gives the following account of the manner in which the Japanese dispose of their poor. He says: “ One chilly day last November, armed with an order to view, I trudged toward the military suburb, which liesto the southward of the Castle of Osaka. After some wandering to\ and fro in that out-of-the-way region, I alighted upon the object of my search, situated in a street known as the Kitakiu- hoji-machi. The building itself, a shabby-looking structure, hidden from the passers-by by alofty wooden fence, I learned had beenbuilt some three years previously, but had only recently beenoccupied by its present inmates. The name by which it was known was the ‘Hin-in,’ meaning literally the poorhouse. Just within the principal gate was a small office, where I had to present my credentials, and go through as much ceremony as if I had been visiting _a State prison, rather than a I charitable institution. Passing an inclosed space ﬁlled with sprouting sticks, which, on a closer inspection, turned out to be mulberry cuttings, I reached at last the place where the beggars had got to, and a very queer place it was. Imagine half a dozen of very narrow streets, bordered uy rows of one-storied houses, or rather huts, not unlike, with their coarsely- plastered walls and unpainted wood-work, the rows of shanties which a railway contractor runs up near a tunnelis mouth for the temporary use of his navvies. 01.’ these small, one-roomed. houses there were no less Being friendless, they were locked up for the night, and,, than 240. Besides these there -were several feeding-rooms, weaving- sheds and other workshops, all similar in appearance to the dwelling- houses outwardly, but inwardly, of course, of much greater length. A guide was sent with me from the princ pal oﬁice, and from him I learned that when the Osaka government had resolved to clear the streets of beggars, they proceeded in the following manner: First, all of the fra- " Lernity who belonged to other parts of the -country were packed oﬁ to their proper districts. Then those of the Osaka beggars who had got relatives who could afford to keep them, were sent to their friends.’ The remainder were compelled to go into the Hin-in. The able-bodied men were sent out to work at dredging, or work of a similar nature. under charge of oﬁicers; at night they returned to the Him in, where one of the diminutive huts was allotted to each ﬁve of them—-the women being also placed ﬁve in each tenement. On the occasion of my visit there were in all 180 men, women and children, eighty-ﬁve of whom were adult men, inhabiting the poorhouse. Every one was free to leave whenever he‘ or she could give satisfactory proof that they could earn an honest living outside. There were but ﬁfteen women inmates. These, together with some young lads, I found were being taught trades, some of them weaving and some of the boys paper-making, but all on the premises. There were but few children, and these were receiving the elements of 9. plain Japanese education. One thing pleased me, as showing that some consideration was shown for the comfort of even these poor outcasts; all the inhabited houses had matted ﬂoors, and, as is universally the case in Japan, even among the very poorest classes, the interiors had a clean, well-swept appearance. In one of the weaving-.~heds——therc were three of them——I found some weavers from Kioto, engaged in teaching their craft to some of the ex-beggars. One of the latter, a boy, had only been one month under tuition; he, like all beginners, was set to work atapiece of coarse white cotton ‘cloth. The looms were of the same ingenious construction as those which were to be seen at the last Kioto Exhibition, all wood, string and bamboo, those used by the pupils being, however, of a very simple character. Some pieces of satin were shown me whichhad been made on the premises by the Kioto men. The weaving school, Iwas told, had only been opened some two or three months. Silk winding and spinning were also being taught, the ﬁfteen . bobbin spinning frames, as of old, being set in motion by means of a basketful of stones and awindlass. I was agreeably surprised to ﬁnd how clean and healthy, as well as cheerful and contented, all the pupils ap- peared to be. With the horde of oﬁicial parasites which infest this as every other public department in\this country, there is little fear of the outside weavers having to complain of being undersold by the govern- ment, as tradesmen in England complain of the mat-making, etc., in English prisons. When I lift; the llin-in it was with the impression that the thing was too good to last-—few, if any, of these imitations of foreign institutions, more especially hgspittls and schools, ppssessing lasting vitality unless they are under oreign supervision. few of the old beggars, preferring a life of freedom and a handful of rice to the regular living and semi captivity of the Hin-in. took to hawking. One old blind man, who for some years used to rub his forehead in the dust on the Kidsugawa Concession Bridge, now is led about to sell live sparrows; for, by a most perverse superstition, many Japanese believe that by purchasing and releasing a caged bird they do an act that is pleasing to the hotoke, the Buddhist gods, and are accumulating a store of merit which is placed to their credit in heaven’s great ledger. Other beggars may be seen occasionally seated upon the bridges with stores of small eefs, shell-ﬁsh, or infant tortoises. These the would-be virtuous buy and throw into the adjacent stream, from similar interested motives to those of the setter-free of birds. Of course it is to be presumed that the more educated natives see through the fallacy of this pseudo-humanity, b which the buyer of the captive creatures actually encoura e b a, pi'rem.um the capturers to continue their evil practices.” g y This entire description of a Japanese poorhouse ought to be most interesting to the workers in populous “ Christian” (’?) cities similar in size to Osaka. Think of it, “ 240 small, one-roomed houses” for paupers, ye four hundred thousand happy Christians sweltering and festering in moral and physical pollution in the over-crowded tenement-houses of New York.j Consider that the floors of these were matted (Japgnese carpeting) for paupers; that consideration was shown by these benighted heathen for the comforts of their poor, and that their interiors had "a neat, well-swept appear- ., ance. Do not for a moment think that city governments are not in power to prevent the sad condition of humanity in Christian (?) cities. In Queen Elizabeth’s time, three cen- turies ago, the building of tenment-houses was forbidden in London, as being an innovation contrary to the physical and moral health of the people of that city. Consider well another statement, and in your minds compare it with the pauper statistics of Christian (?) cities. Only one hundred and eighty paupers in a city of ﬁve hundred thousand in- liabitants; and as with the cities, so with the whole territory of Japan. By the latest census taken in England, it was found that one human being in every twenty-three in- dividuals in that island was an absolute, imprisoned “union” pauper; by the latest census taken in Japan, it was found that the cripples, beggars and paupers of that coun- try, ~ taken together, amounted to only one in every four hundred and eighty-seven individuals composing the com- munity. The great medium of Judea, the Nazarene of Bethlehem, tells us to judge of a tree by its fruits. ' Well, we have presented the fruits, now compare them with such as we have to offer to the Japanese on the subject of public charity. Examine them and say candidly, Are we not jus- tiﬁed in the heading we have selected for this article? Hurrah for Buddha! » We have a great respect for the Japanese, and think it was wise in them to endeavor to save their people from Chris- tian (?) pollution. We object to any of our Christian Phari- sees (alias missionaries) being sent there to make them (as the Nazarene said of their prototypes) ten-fold more the chil- dren of hell than themselves. We object to our Bibles being sent to them, because they must have a better one of, their own. We perceive, even in the poorhouse just established in Osaka after our system, a departure from their ancient charity which the. Japanese will be likely to rue in-the near future. We like the idea of the old blind man, and wish we were in Osaka that we might buy a. bird of him and set itufree; and we honor the poor old beggar for his love of liberty. He is of the stuff‘ that heroes are made of. One word more. Our readers will perceive from the notes of interrogatioh after the word Christian, that we dis- pute the right of the masses using it to the title. The doc- trines of the Nazarene are charity personiﬁed; the modems /; -A “‘ gut , i l l l l‘. l. I l l l l l l l l ), A. Jan. 24, 1874. ‘woonnunr. & oLiA€irL1iN's WEEKLY.’ ‘ 11 who profess to believe in him leave charity out. Even almsgiving is now by the churches ruled to be an abomina- tion. The Christian (?) who wrotethe article quoted states, in the last sentence, that he thinks‘ that “the purchase of birds only encourages the beggars, who are the sellers, to continue in their evil practices.” This is genuine modern Christianity. It is business. Modern Christians (with a very few noble exceptions) have about as good an idea of real charity as a blind man has of scarlet. When their neighbors ask them for bread, they do not give them a stone, but a “ticket for soup,” which amounts to about the same thing. Well, they will tell us that they have supplemented ancient charities with insurance companies, and that kind of thing. They have reduced it to a business. We do not be- lieve in the improvement. We say with the Nazarene, “ Give to him‘ that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.” This was the method in Japan. It is very poor economy, but beggars like it. We object to the. British pauper-manufacturing system now es- tablished among us. It might do for aristocratic England, but is foreign to the genius of republican America. Above all things, we need some Japanese missionaries among us to instruct our people upon the question of pauperism. Once more, “Hurrah for Buddha l >——+Q¢—<-——————-———- SCIENTISTS TO THE FRONT. The case of Miss Bonney, of Canawaugus, has called forth much discussion in the papers throughout the country. The facts are as follows: Miss Bonney was a Spiritualist, a me- dium, who predicted that at a certain time, which she speci- ﬁed, she would go into a trance. The Rochester Adeertzlwr describes the event thus: ' “ One evening, about four weeks ago, without other warning than what had been given from time to time, after a day spent at her usual vocations, Miss Bonney robed herself for the night and told the family that the event she had been so long predicting had arrived. She lay down upon the bed, and in fourhoursthe breath left the body, the heart stopped beating, the pulse ceased throbbing and (it is claimed) she has lain in that condition up to the present time, without a particle of food or drop of water, without motion and without animation. She occupies a sleeping apartment adjoining and communicating with a common sit- ting room, in which a ﬁre is kept night and day. And yet there are no signs of decomposition, and no organic changes that would necessarily follow in case of death.” Scientists would do well to remark this last statement. Of course, the body of Miss Bonney had not been put on ice, as is the custom with corpses, and yet in four weeks decompo- sition had not set in, although there was a ﬁre in the next room. We call upon men of science to account for this sin- gularity; and, further, direct their attention to the fact that Miss Bonney speciﬁed the time for the commencement of her trance, a thing not usual with patients in cases of catalepsy. As the correspondence of the N. Y. Sim throws a further light upon the subject it is also subjoined: “ A curious instance of credulity has recently been exhibited in Cane- waugus, near the town of Avon, in this State. A young woman of the name of Bonney, a Spiritualist, living in the house of a. Mr, L. O. Pres- ton. became impressed with the conviction that her spirit was to leave her body for a time and then return, and she succeeded in convincing several of her friends that this phenomenon would actually occur. She was very sanguine that her expectations would be realized, and pre- dicted that during her spiritis absence certain manifestations, such as the ringing of a bell and the shaking of the house, would take place. Her friends were particularly requested not to handle her re mains, and above all not to bury them during the period of suspended animation. She complained of no illness, but on the 10th of November announced that the time had come for her departure, and after tea took to her bed, where she remained calmly conversing with several friends until midnight. Mr. and Mrs. Preston saw her several times between that hour and two o’clock. At the latter hour Miss Bonney exclaimed, ‘Oh, this is glorious,’ and ceased to breathe. There was no struggle nor evidence of pain. Of course the friends of the young woman mar- veiled greatly atthis fulﬁllment of her prediction, which gave them faith to believe that in due time her spirit would return "to its earthly habitation. In this expectation, however, they were doomed to disap- pointment. Although Miss Boiiney’s remains were kept unburied ac- cording to her desire from the 10th of November until Monday last, her spirit has never reappeared. On the last mentioned day a coroner’s in- quest was held on the lifeless body, which of course.was.ii1 a state of decomposition, and her death was ollicially established. At the in- quest Miss Bl nney‘s brother-in-law protested against any_ post-mo7't,em examination, avowing his belief that the spirit would yet return to ani- mate the decaying body, and several witnesses testilied that the house had been violently shaken, as had been predicted, and that the clear note of a bell had been heard on several occasions, although there was no bell about the house except the door-bell. The Buffalo C’our2'er says that so far as the physicians were able to determine the various organs of the body showed that at the time of death they were in a sound and healthy condition, and no cause of death could be found.” If this be “a curious instance of credulity,” as the Sam - terms it, it is the duty of our medical scientists to account for the fact. Let them remember that the life of a human being has been lost to society for the chimera, if it be a chimera. Above all, let them take note of the circuiiistances surrounding the case, and give us their solution. of the same. answer was, ‘ She is dead.’ I then asked, ‘ Will you call her spirit and tell her that I wish to, communicate with her? ’ After a silence of about ﬁfteen minutes the medium stated that the spirit of Miss Bonny was present and ready to answer any question. I then asked, ‘ Why did you not come back and reanimate your body as you promised to?’ To which she replied, ‘ At any time during the ﬁrst six weeks after my de- parture I could have readily returned and raised the.body. But at the end of that time I had not accomplished all I wished to. Accordingly Ithought best to remain away one week more. At the end of the seventh week I didrelurn, but after many ineﬁectual attempts to re- animate my body’ I was ﬁnally obliged to abandon the undertaking. Please communicate with my friends at Avon and tell them to bury the body.’ This closed her communication, and after asking her several other questions in hopes to glean more of the particulars, she only feebly replied, ‘ I am too much exhausted.’ ” It is hardly to be expected’ that this simpld solution of the mystery will be accepted by the medical faculty; Spiritual- written we are informed by the Syracuse Stamlotrcl that: “A coroner’s inquest has been begun, and every effort is being made to discover the cause of her death. Yesterday the inquest commenced. the skin had come off, the usual blisters of decomposition appearing. from decomposition. The heart was also badly decayed, although it as of abortion or of any kindred diiﬁculty were wholly unfounded’, and in was prepared for the coffin and orders given by the coroner for its(burial. the body showed that at the time of death they were in a sound and healthy condition. and no cause of death could be found. The stomach has been sent to Buffalo for chemical analysis.” WEEKLY. .__..____.....s.Q DR. GEO. NEWCOMER organized the ﬁrstispiritual circle in Harrisburg, Pa., where among his converts were Dr. Barr and David Crouse, who have continued in the work ever since 1852. The Dr. practiced medicine and healing by laying on of hands with .marked success, in Meadville, Pa., for ﬁfteen years, and been located in Jackson, Mich. We learned while there a few weeks ago that he has achieved great success as a true physician and healer, and is considered" the best in that city. The Dr. has written some of the some practical poems of our day—rich in thought and clearly expressed. He is the picture of health, and We had the pleasure of ex- pei'iencing the invigorating power of the magnetism which flows from his hands while we were the guest of Mr. Smith, the genial proprietor of the Hurd House, who we count among our many kind friends in Jackson that we shall ever hear in pleasurable remembrance. ———-——--—>-—+9>-4-———--,--- THE U. S. CONSTITUTION VERSUS THE N. Y. POLICE COMMISSIONERS. As we are going to press, accounts have come to us that (this day, Tuesday, January 13) a collision has occurred be- tween the workers and the police of the city of New York. Although the former have been dispersed (some say with great brutality by the police) there has been one captain of the police killed and his sergeant struck down with a ham- mer. The character and the condition of those who did it are thus described in the Telegram : “The laborers, poorly clad and shivering in the cold, were gathered together in little knots, smoking _short pipes and quietly discussing the situation.” Further on it says: “ The men looked too sickly and hungry» to take any active part against the police.” The ditﬁculty arose from the action of.the New York police authorities. They determined to prevent the people from assembling in Tompkins square, and issued orders to that effect. Although Union square is utterly unsuited to such an assemblage, the police determined they should as- semble there, or nowhere. Every New Yorker knows that Tompkins square, being graveled and not swarded, is the more ﬁtting place for such an assemblage, and the working people of New York knew that they had a constitutional right to assemble. The police authorities thought differ- It may be interesting to them to learn that a Spiritualist has already been be-foi'e,tl.xem in the field of exploration, but it is hardly to be expected that they will rest satisﬁed with the I simple statement,of the ‘spirit of our departed sister. It is taken from the columns of the Binghamton Rept./.Z2Zz'con, being a letter from a Spiritualist to the editor of that paper: “Having noticed in your daily of yesterday an article from ‘En- quirer,’ under the head of ‘ Question to Spiritualists,’ and agreeing with the writer of that article that the ‘Avon case’ is one of much import- ently, hence the collision"; but probably the end is not yet. The WEEKLY is no advocate of rioting and bloodshed. Il)S:pl‘OpI‘letOl‘S have warned and are warning the authorities of their duties in this ’terrible ﬁnancial crisis, for whose effects the working classes are not responsible, although of it they are the victims. But while the VVEKKLY deprecates tumults, it_is well aware that, when other methods fail, nature seine- times puriﬁes. the airwith a tornado. But, though. the ance to, ‘ Splritualists.’ I hasten to reply, after malzing Dr0Pei' iiivestiga- VVEEKLY would accomplish 8‘ revolution by more peaceful mus, on reading the article last evening, I repaired, about eight methods, it will never fail to stand up sternly to the front o’clock, to the residence of a well-known medium in this city, and in- in demanding, even at the price of blood, the constitutional formed lzer that I wislicd to. communicate with some well-informed spirit. Ihad no diﬁiculiy in raising the spirit of Rulolf. The spirit of rights of allthe citizens of the United States, prominent Ruloﬁ having p,,0pC,.1y W,,,.,.e., for his presence my ﬁm question was among which are the right of assemblage and the right to D. l . , . , , A . i In Miss Bonney, now or lately of Avon, N. Y,, dead or alive? ’ Thg I bear arms. well as the lungs preserved the original shape enough to show that no disease was present. The stomach was next reached, and was so far gone that on lifting it up to place it in a jar a portion of it fell off, allow- ing a very little of its contents to escape. Proceeding further the doc- fact it was an impossibility. Having ﬁnished the examination the body LET IT BE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. In another column will be found thewprospectus of a new eclectic journal soon to be established in the city of Wash- ington, D. C., entitled the Spirit of Common Sense, which is to be uncompromisingly devoted to all salutary measures of reform and progress that in any wise tend to the enlighten‘ ment, freedom, fraternization, prosperity, felicity and gen- eral advancement of mankind. ' This new journal is to be edited by 001. Andrew J. Rog- ers, of the city of Washington, D. C., who, having passed. through the ordeals of the social and political furnace,‘ is doubtless well qualiﬁed for the arduous duties of indepen- dent, progressive journalism. A The propositions laid down in the prospectus are salutary, strong and to the point, covering the whole ground of the ists, however, are likely to credit it. Since the above was the needed reforms thmllghouli eV‘3rY department Of the so‘ cial structure. The editor sets out on the hypothesis thatgthe fundament- al principles of sociology are necessarily based upon the The body and limbs were mottled, purple and yellow. In many places Sovereignty of the individual Without regard to Sex or caste ; and that the fuller the personal freedom the more substan- Upon turning the body over, the limbs readily yielded to the efforts tial and felicitous the social union, from the family altar in- made to straighten them out, and the surgeons began their work of dis- elusive, throughout everydepartment of the social govern- section. Opening the body the lungs werefound almost entirely gone ments of mankind; and argues that the sovereignty of the constituent is essential to a government of the people, by the people, for the people; and very correctly suggests that a popular or social government cannot be better than the ma- journal is the common cause of all reformers and progres- sionists. .Therefore, let, the Spirit of Common Sense be 8., MISCELLANEOUS. In conclusion, we would add, that if we hear from the Mrs. Woodhull—-I am personally unaequainted with you, scientiﬁc world any further elucidation of this most singular but I ha-V6 been an earnest? P621591‘ 0f 70111‘ Paper for over a case, it will be given to our readers in the columns of the Y 931‘: and I must 333’ that I01‘ 1'5m8"9 Of ideas and 01039» 0"!" rect reasoning upon the various reforms of which it treats, it exceeds, in my view, any paper that I have access to. I cannot indorse all that I read in the WEEKLY, but it affords me much food for thought. I recognize among your con- and commune in “good fellowship.” Their souls I seerare still “marching on.” I feel that Icannot be in bad com- pany while I have such worthy companions. Oh, liberty,‘ thou birthright of every soul, how have thy defenders and worshipers been compelled to contend, to struggle with the powers of darkness, for every step they have taken toward aftelward in Cleveland: 0- For the P353 W70 Years he has thy holy temple. As far back as we can gaze into the dim past, we see scattered along their path inventions for their torture. The scourge, the rack, the dungeon, the gallows and the martyr’s stake; then, nearest of all, our country drenched with the blood of her own sons, and all for thy sake. But, standing over the graves of our countrymen, we are ready to again pledge ourlfealty to the sacred truths of freedom. Every true heart still responds to the sentiment, “Give me liberty or give me death.” But I too would say, courage, brave friends, the cross is lighter than it was, and the goal is nearer won. I would also add my tea. timony, Mrs. VVoodhull, to the importance of the work in which you are engaged. Rejoice that you are counted vvor-‘ thy to be made the standard-bearer in this just cause of woman’s emancipation. .«Be faithful to the high trust, and in due time you shall reap your reward. All reformers have had to “learn to labor and to wait.” I religion. If there are those who will persist in deﬁning it to mean free lust, the blame cannot certainly be found in the word. but must be looked for somewhere else. I cannot see why the affectional nature may not just as safely be trusted with freedom as the religious nature, and for the same reasons. Indeed, free worship and free love must ever remain twin sisters, since neither are subject to our own or another’s will. Both alike require right and true .conditions; where these are lacking, no bond, or oath, or covenant can bind or hold them. The time was,,not long since, when 311 those who were not safely inclosed in some church and‘ bound fast to a creed, were considered lost souls. The “ evil one,” who was going about “like a roaring lion, seeking whom he might devour,” would surely make them his prey Many who now smile at the folly of that idea are still horri- ﬁed at the thought of unbinding the heart from legal re- straints. They seem to imagine that if the legal bolts and fetters of wedlock should by any possible decree be sud- denly unriveted, every woman except herself would become a prostitute, and every man except himself would leave his home, rush at ‘once into sensuality and animalism, and ter- rible times would ensue. Thus the stale old story of conse- quences is again rehashed and presented to us. I would ask such troubled ones if vice and corruption are restrained from ﬂooding our land only by legalstatutes? If marital integ.. rity and devotion are kept revolving in their proper orbits only by the strong arm of our laws? ' If so, let, us cease talking about the “divinity of human nature,” and accept -at once the doctrine of total depravity; and the orthodox hell must be a sure thing. I, for one, con- fess to no such fears. I have more faith in the good results of a practical application of individual sovereignty in this direction. The pure in heart would still see God, in their highest ideal of true marriage, and would continue to wor. ship Him there in spirit and truth. All true laws exist in the very nature and ﬁtness of things, and are, therefore. immutable. If we are to work out our own salvation, we must do so by ﬁnding out and obeying these laws. All legal enactments that are not in harmony with these laws should be pronounced by an intelligent peo- terial of which it is constituted is capacited to make it, but ‘ tors found the bowels and kidneys in anormal condition, though of m_usb ne°eSS%“”i1Y graduate Well by the nftellecmlal’ Indus" course affected by decomposition, equally with the other parts of the W131 and ethlcal advancement of the Constltuencyv body. The liver was a mere spongy substance. Over the stomach and B1117 13118 best We 0311 53)’ f01‘ilIh9 Present? is to Comm-and the bowels was a deposit of adipose tissue two and one-half inches in thick- prospectus to the careful perusal of our readers, who, we ness. Further‘ examination proved that the rumors which had been cir- oping, W111 not fail to observe that the cause of the new culated in regard to the probability of the deceased dying from the effects strongly encouraged with all that is needful to its ﬁnancial I So far as the physicians were able to determine the various organs of and literary §uc°esS' tributors the names of many bold and able veterans in our ‘in Is one of our co-workers in the cause of reform. He 136“? aDti-S1aVePYWa1”f«“~f6- I am happy ’00 meet them again To me Free Love is just as pure and chaste a word as free , _Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue. '\ '12 Aiwoonnurn as oLArpLINfs WEEKLY. ple as null and voidv We have solved the religious problem by this rule. Suppose we try our social institutions M by this searching analysis, would an explosion ensue? Then I should hope we might be puriﬁed, if “.so as by ﬁre.” ‘ ~ Yours for truth and freedom, ' Mus. H. A. RICHARDSON. UN IVERSOLOGY. The following is a very simple and comprehensive state- ment of the nature of the new science’ of Universology, of which I had barely heard before I came to new York, but which I ﬁnd is occupying the attention of many thoughtful ‘mindsyhere, being the main subject of a series of Scientiﬁc Sermons, to which the public are invited, every Sunday morning at half-past 10 o’clock, at De Garmo Hall, corner of The following state- ment was prepared by request for one of the forthcoming _ Encyclopedias, and has been procured as a favorfor publica- tion in the Truth See her in advance of its appearance else- where.-—[ED. Truth Seel~cer.] Universology is what claims to be the discovery, by Stephen Pearl Andrews, of New York, of a deﬁnite Universal Science, embracing the classiﬁcation of the Sciences, as among them- selves, and of all the detailswithin the Special Sciences, as a concatenated evolution from a single set of Primordial Laws and Principles. The Three Principles upon which all others rest,‘ and from which they are derived, are denominated ‘Ur-.ism, Duism and Trinism, and have a distinct relation to the numbers One, Two and Three. The whole system, be- ginning here, in the ﬁrst and simplest of mathematical dis- criminations, holds throughout, a mathematical character, making of the Mathematics a middle—ground between Meta- physical and Physical considerations. It is thus, in a sense, a revival, but at the same time, an immense expansion of the Pythagorean doctrine of the Signiﬁcance of Numbers. ‘ But Universology goes over from Numbers to Forms or Shapes, and from these to Sounds, and establishes a parallel and.corresp;ondent‘ial evolution in "all Spheres’ of Being. Hence, there arises in the domain of Form a pure abstract Morphology (or Science of Form), counterparting and com- pleting the empirical or observational Morphology of Hackel and the naturalists generally; and in the department of Sound, the discovery is made that each vowel and consonant is laden with an inherent meaning, from which fact arises the conception of a new Universal and Scientiﬁc Language, which Mr. Andrews denomin-ates Alwato- (Ahl-wah—t-o), a name derived from the language itself, and _which signiﬁes the alZ—spcech—tht'ng, meaning the Universal Language. ‘ The All-sided Philosophy which stands connected with Universology, Mr. Andrews calls Integralism, and the prac- tical organization of human affairs to grow out of these broad theoretical views he denoniinates The Pantarchy—-as a sort of Universal lnstitute of Humanity, founded on Science. He has already procured a legal charter for a University—— “The Normal University of the Pantarchy,” located under Act of Congress at Washingtori; and is engaged in further elaborating these ideas, and in founding a School of Phi- osophy and a propaganda based upon them. He is quoted as authority, along with Comte, Spencer and I-Iaeckel, in Dr. Louis Elsberg’s recent “Classiﬁcation of the Sciences,” which has in turnireceived the high encomiums of Haeckel. ~——-/Truth Seeker. , A PI-IILADELPHIA, Jan. 4, 1874. [Lines suggested by reading a poem, entitled “ Where.are we Drifting?” in the VVEEKLY of J an. 3: Whither are we drifting? V I seem far out at sea, And the great social question Is what most puzzles me. When I ﬁrst took up your paper, To look its pages oler, I thought a thing so vile I-Iad nc’er been seen before. i I read, and then I pondered, i , And then I read again, Then to myself I wondered ‘V . ' If I was-not insane. ‘ I espoused the cause of woman, And would have her understand ‘ And obey the laws of Nature Between herself and man. And I whispered very softly, For I dared not speak aloud, “ Victoria Woodhull’s WEEKLY Is the messenger of Go( .” Let it speak in tones of thunder, Let it reach from sea to sea, Till the people cease to wonder That awoman dare be free. ——S. W. C." THE CLERGrY—SO MILD! BY W. F. JAMIESON. «: In Clyde, Ohio, where I am now halting, in the genial home of B. O. and Nellie Brigham, there is a Methodist parson by the name of S. L. Youtree, who, in his sermon on Sunday, December 28, said of disbelivers of the Bible: “They are an injury and an evil, one of the greatest evils with which a community can be cursed. Theyought to be put in a peni- tentiary for life‘, and-if lqhadi the power I would put them there.” In the same sermon the preacher discoursed upon 66 Charity.” It had created no little indignation among the People of Clyde. Even Christians condemn such a senti- ment. But why should Christians condemn it ? It is the essence of Christianity. .If the Christians’ God can -consign millions ' of beings to the cracking ﬂames of hell-ﬁre, is there anything more horrible in the proposition to put inﬁdels where they will I do the least harm? Rev. S. L. Youtree does but express the logic of Christianity when he says he would put disbelievers ‘in prison. The old spirit of persecution, which inheres in Christianity, is smoldering'—not extinguished. As did the American slave power, so will Christianity grasp new terri- tory, secure more power in America, grow more dictatorial. Not until it has done much mischief will it give its death-kick. One thing which greatly emboldens Christianity in its at- tacks upon liberty is the half-deprecating, half-apolo- getical tone of the mass of Free Thinkers when speaking or writing of the accursed system. Though the language is va- Jan. 24, 1874. rious the apology is unmistakablc._ “Be not too severe in strictures upon. Christianity.” “ It has done much good, and there are people still who need it.” “You mean sectarian- ism not pure Christianity when you denounce the Church. do you not ?” t For myself. I answer: 1. Christianity stands in the’ place of slavery. It is worse than body bondage. It binds—en- slaves-—the mind. 12. Kingdoms have done much good, and there are those who think they need them. It can. even be said of tyranny itself, that‘ it has done much good: not- withstanding, every genuine republican or democrat labors for the overthrow of kingdoms and the destruction of tyran- ny. \3. To say,~,~pure Christianity is one thing and sectarian another is only true in the sense that the greater includes the lesser. Christianity is the sum of all sectarianism, just as slavery is the sum of all villainies. . Pure slavery and pure Christianity are twins. ' There is a class of reformers, sincere, no doubt, who are fearful of extremes—extreme people and extreme measures. Their satisfaction with themselves consists in occupying a “middle-ground,” shunning extremes. They forget that their middle—ground was once a battle-ﬁeld at the extreme front. The middle-ground of to-day was the ground occu- pied by the extremist of yesterday. Middle—ground reformers are usually the ready apologists for decaying institutions, and think the tumble-down structures ought to cumbe‘i'\the ground in consideration of the fancied good they have done. I once knew a liberal editor to remonstrate with me for my irreverent ‘remarks and taunts carelessly hurled at the clergy. I ventured to criticise a toast given at a university dinner: “The Clergy—always the True Friends of Educa- tion.” The Rev. Dr. Pitkin, of Detroit, Mich., responded. He thought it was “ impudence ” to advise him to speak in favor of the clergy. True, doctor; true. Seriously, he thought the clergy true friends of education. The kind of education which they favpr has lately been fully and beau- tifully exempliﬁedin Ann Arbor, Mich. “Dr. Pitkin sug- gested,” saidthe Detroit Tribune, “that one feature of university education should I be to trainup genuine men of high order, who should alike be credits to the institution, to themselves and to society.” This toasting and specching took place in this same Chris- tian Ann Arbor last summer at the University dinner. Those students have been saturated with Christianity. Prayerand religious instruction culminated in the disgrace-» ful, riotous, ﬁendish acts of a few weeks ago on the occasion of Mrs. VVoodhull’s lecture. Those’ young gentlemen (i?) were the natural fruit of Christian teaching. Wheii my friend, Judge McCracken, of Detroit, proposed last winter to have suchteaching discontinued, the clergy and their satellites were horriﬁed. In my judgment, the issue is: Either the perpetuity of the Republic or the destruction of Christianity. 7 Mus. SwIssHELM claims that the educated Indians who re- turn to their tribes become vagabonds. “I-Iole-in-the-day permitted his son and heir to be taught in a mission school at St. Paul, where he became a good English scholar and dandy. Government built him a six-room frame cottage, which his tribe ﬁnally burned, but in which he lived, many years of elegant leisure with his six wives, who used to raise a crop of corn and other vegetables, weave mats, and keep my lord comfortable. He always had plenty of money given him by the government, and when he traveled he went in style; would attend church in St. Paul with the most aris- tocratic lady on his arm, sit in the front pew, and dine with the governor. On his last visit to Washington he got $10,000 and a seventh wife, and was more than ever the pet of the government and people that now propose to drive the Mor- mons out of Utah for having more wives than one.”-Em- change. [From Our Age] SAGINAW, Nov. 29, 1873. S’£sterLo'£s-—Please publish the following corrections to my little speech before the Chicago Convention, at GrroW’s Hall, September 18th, 1873, as there are several mistakes in said speech, made, as I think, either in printing or reporting—— and you know how the absence sometimes of a word alters the sense of a sentence. Still I do not wonder at the mis- takes in my speech, as I was limited to ﬁve minutes, and that, too, just at the time the people of the Convention were as- sembling, and the noise and confusion attending such agath- ering. It was not strange if the reporter did not catch every word as it was uttered. The ﬁrst mistake was where it ‘alludes-to my having been pleased and instructed by the beautiful thoughts I heard from the progressive minds it should. have been. It was reported “progressive men.” Now this was a greatmistake, inasmuch as the best speeches were made by the women speakers. Another mistake "was where it is reported I said, “ Every- thing on God’s earth was good and pure and holy.” I might have said i-': should be, and I wish I’ could say it was, or is now, but it is so far from the fact, or so far from what I do believe, that I am not conscious‘ of having uttered such a sentiment. There are other mistakes, butthey are trivial. I will only say that in making this little speech, it wasthe mauguramjon of my coming out as_ a “ Radical Spiritualist.” It was a sea- son in my life_’s history never to be forgotten; for-when I arose to speak the ﬁrst «time for freedom, in every sense of the word, the last link in the old, rusty, conservative chain the term, and think it means the affection of their own cor-. rupt and diseased minds, free lust. “Thus endeth the first lesson.” SARAH S. PENOYER. A . VINELANI), Dec. 17, 1873. Dear Weekly-—-Have just looked over the last number of that immaculate sheet, the Rel/igio-Phoolo’sm'ﬁcal Jourrlal, and am -so overcome with admiration I just feel like drop- ping into line and having a little meeting all by myself and passing a few whereas resolutions; and so I do here and now resolve, Whereas, we ain’t half thankful enough for the choice tit- bits Picked up by the R. P. J., out of which roses and lilies are made to bloom, whose fragrant odoriferousness ascends up to the third heaven of immaculate purity and self~right- eous sanctiﬁcation; and we would beg and beseech our brother to not desist, but to continue on in the path he has chosen and so heartily enjoys; and we do so hope the “Reli- gio ” will succeed in scratching up a fair share of ‘that noto- riety which properly belongs to all -high-toned instruments, lovely. We are likewise resolved to believe that whereas the healing advertisements contained in that wonderful journal are worth their weight in gold (not to mention the greenbacks thrown in), showing. like straws, which way the wind blows. And we are still more resolved that our heart shall go out in busting tenderness toward those “ ﬂuttering birds,” whose delicate constitutions were so cruelly wounded at the late Chicago Convention. May their faint pipings, as set to music in the R. P. J ., be heard untilitheir drooping feathers should‘ be plumed for higher ﬂights into the realm of resolves and whereases. and little bits of ‘Wood shallbe thoroughly skimmed out the Spiritualistio kettle until nothing but the pure lickher re-‘ mains. I am still more so resolved to petition all treasurers, with a particle of “Good” P Ping out of their nature, to send in. their resigned ofﬁcial papers to each successive convention, that their names may become both “ Good ” and great in the land, and the widows rise up and smile down upon them. Finally and lastly, I am most ﬁrmly resolved, the sympa- thetic oil of consolation poured out by our Philadelphia friends shall be allowed to heal the slight injury done our society by the “overcome ”-ing process it was subjected to at our late Convention. And we trust our" friends will find us good as Good can be (or anybody else) when they next come to visit and fraternize with us in convention assembled. _I—Ioping your readers will not be displeased with our good. resolutions, I am as ever, i E. J. IN DIVIDUALITY. The following selections are taken from the lecture of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, entitled “A Plea for Individuality,” and delivered at Chicago, Dec. 21, 1873.‘ ton Ivwestigator : - “ In my judgment every human being should take a road of his own. Every mind should be true to itself: should think, investigate and conclude for itself. This is a duty alike incumbent upon pauper and prince; every soul should repel dictation and tyranny, no matter from what source they come—fi~om earth or heaven, from men or gods. Be- sides, every traveler upon this vast plain should give to every other traveler his best idea as to the road that should be taken. Each is entitled to the honest opinion of all, and there isbut one way to get an honest opinion upon any sub- ject whatever: the person giving the opinion should be free from fear. The merchant must not fear to lose his custom, the doctor his practice, nor the preacher his pulpit; there can be no advance without liberty. Suppression of honest inquiry is retrogression and must end i ii intellectual night. The tendency of orthodox religion to-day is toward mental slavery and barbarism; not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows that a majority of his congregation think otherwise; he knows that every mem- ber of his church stands guard over his brain, with a creed like a club in his hand; he knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory in which stands a hired cul- prit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.” religious question. The sexual‘ horrors of the age may be largely ascribed to the fact that no latitude is allowed to in- dividuality in our present system : ligious convictions? Is any such thing popular? Do we not know that there are no two persons alike in the whole world? No two trees, no two leaves, no two aiiythings that are alike? Inﬁnite diversity is the law. Religion tries to force all minds into one mold; knowing that all cannot believe, the church endeavors to make all say that they believe. She longs for the unity of hypocrisy, and detests the splehdid diversity of individuality and freedom. Nearly all stand in great ‘horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to am nihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up’ his intellectual freedom is the living colﬁn of his dead soul. In this sense, every church is a cem-= etery and every creed an epitaph.” . I A Every part of the lecture is admirable, but we have not room for more than its peroration: . “ Surely every human being ought to‘attain to the dignity of the unit ; I surely it is worth something to be ‘one,’ and to was broken, and from that moment Igfelt that I could come forth from that rostrum a free woman, possessing, unfetter- ed, my soul free. Thanks be to God and my angel friends for the priceless boon. Though the coarse and low—minded may have imputed wrong motives to me in expressing myself as I did,‘I know the majority of the most intelligent and re- ﬁned minds ‘at that Convention understood the purity of my thoughts, in proclaiming publicly I was a free lover, meaning by that, to me, love is the most divine and sacred attribute of the human soul, and it should be free in its expression. But alas! ‘too few understand the true and pure meaning of Without counting you. ” “ Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of‘ thought, at least you are without a chain; that you have ti: o right to explore all heights and all depths; that there are no walls and no fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred cor- ners in all the vast expanse of thought; that your intellect owes no allegiance to any being human or divine; that you hold in fee all, upon no condition and by no sense whatever ;. that in the world of mind you are relieved from all personal. dictation and from the insolent tyranny of majorities.” * the harmony of which is sweet and pure and altogether . Another resolution is, that all the‘Hulls, Published by the Bose The following remarks apply to the “ social,” as well as the . “ It is desirable that all should be exactlyalike in their re— I feel that the census of the iiniverse would not be complete; ha." 4‘ ha.’ Q‘; Jan. 24, I874. "Surely it is worth something to feel that there are no priests, no popes, no parties," no governments, no kings, no gods to whom your intellect can be compelled to pay a re- luctant homage.” ._ ' “ Surely it is a joy ' to know that all the creed iniquity of bigotry can devise no prison, no look, no cell. in which for one instant to conﬁne a thought; that ideas cannot be dislo- cated by racks, nor crushed in iron boots, nor burned with fire.” “Surely it is sublime to think that the brain isacastle and that within its curious bastions and winding halls the soul in spite of all worlds and all beings is the supreme sov- ereign of itself.” THE ANTI-FASHION CONVENTION. VINELAND, January 8, 1874. ' I On behalf of the coming convention, I wish to return thanks for the generous expressions of interest in its objects already received, and to solicit more of the same. Without question, the most alarming feature of the times is the moral turpitude of women who, while they recognize the pernicious ‘ eﬁects of Woman’s Dress, persistently hold to their allegi ance to Fashion, and give the weight of their words, as well as example, to discourage others from rebelling against it. It was in the hope of reaching and rousing the consciences of such, and of doing something toward inspiring the timid and reas- suring the weakto move right on in the path of rectitude,in the matter of Dress, while there is yet moral stamina enough left in the sex to make action for principle possible, that the convention was called. ' Wnil.e we welcome to a participation in its proceedings those who propose gradual and ameliorating changes only, we shall demand for woman as a right, and insist as a duty, that she dress as healthfully and freely as she is convinced she ought, even though it necessitates the abandonment of all styles and materials hitherto used by woman. A most startling and convincing proof that we have not moved a moment too soon, has come to us in the form of a. remarkable document from the “ Dress Committee” of The Woinai1’s Club, Boston. After a most admirable summing up of the woes entailed on the sex by bad dressing"-after confessing that the present dress is “ that of the harem transported into the workshop, the market, the modern household, and the school ;” that it is “ the chief cause of the excessive agonies of childbirth, the frequent death which it entails, and the inferior children to whom enfeebled moth- ers give birth ;” that it violates every law of health, econo-‘ my, comfort, morality and beauty, and that “the evil can never be done away till women emerge from this vast, sway- ing, undeﬁned and indefinable mass of drapery, into the shape which God gave to His human beings, clothed simply and serviceably as men are clothed/’~the committee report that “we women of this century must deem it best to at- tempt no marked alterations.” When the number, social po- sition and culture of the Women whom that report repre- sents, are takeninto consideration, together with the en- lightenment on the subject under disc/ussion which they manifest; the strength of conviction frankly expressed, and their unequaled facilities for carrying on any reform, cli- maxed by their deliberate resolution to reject the true and persist in the false methods. of dress, I doubt if the nine- teenth century will record any parallel crime! Let all truth- loving people rouse to a sense of the perils which threaten. the race, if such duplicity with wrong is not earnestly met with prompt and vigorous action for the right. If fashion has so vitiated the native integrity of woman as that she is incapable of an effort to free herself from it after she is convinced of its wickedness, where can we look for moral stamina for the race? And what but Fashion could have so paralyzed the moral energies of our Boston friends as that they voluntarily abandon to the “ far future ” one of the most philanthropic reforms of the age, and nearly the only one in which statute 1aw'does_ not interfere! Never was so noble a cause so ignobly betrayed, their only justi- iication being that moderate sinfulness in the matter of dress would secure them the company of larger numbers than en- tire righteousness would do! , Vfhere were Credit Mobilier and Tammany frauds begot- ten but under the hearts of women who bent every purpose ' of life to the overruling desire to be fashionable? ‘What im- press of truth can be made on the child while the mother is victim to the falseness and feebleness which fashion necessi- tates? The people can and must be made to see these things. Let not the magnitude and profound importance of the work proposed deter, but rather inspire us with courage to make a beginning, or rather to renew the work so nobly begun in the past. ‘ . ~ Through the twenty—four intervening years a few conse- crated souls have remained loyal to the truth first received, and in the fact that they have been able to do so in spite of such opposition as no other reformers have had to encoun- tcr in this generation, lies our hope for the future. Lefti- ness of aim, ﬁrmness of purpose, staunch moral integrity, , faith in the practicability of principle, all these are yet pos- sible to the race, and must be sacredly cherished and sedu- lously inculcated by all who desire to see it blossom in all the glad Beauty of Truth. Come’ then to our convention all who can: help us to turn our faces squarely away from the deplorable practice of hurtful methods of dress, and reso- lutely toward the lofty ideals we aim to make real; and let those who cannot attend, but whose hearts are with us, send their encouraging word by letter. » OLIVIA F. SHEPARD. As anindication that we have the car of the public ‘as to the necessity for the change we advocate, we republish the following article from one of our exchanges, entitled SOCIAL DOCTRINES. “Truth is mighty and will prevail” is -an old and tried adage, and it has nothing tofear from the fullest and the freest discussion and investigation. Hum-an society is far from perfect, and all anxiously await the millennial days, but their coming will not be hastened by the repression of ‘ 5 woofDnULL as (fLAFLlN’S wsnxtr, .« unpopular discussion. None can grasp but a part of any truth, or, in other words, no two are able to see any fact in " exactly the same light. Various evils undeniably afiiict the body politic, and divers remedies are suggested, «ngne of which are likely to prove the desired panacea. As social questions are assuming great prominence and many evils are apparent, it is not strange that the remedies suggested -should be numerous and divers; but the result of the active and conﬂicting discussions going on cannot be other than the elimination of truth; therefore, however unpopular their opinions may be,we cannot but feel like encouraging any and all, who, though misguided, it may be‘, are yet earnestly seek- ing the way for relief of suffering humanity and the redress of wrongs. The spirit of persecution, however, is so preva- lent thatit requires great courage for any to oppose existing customs and advocate a different way. Thus it has ever been, anddoubtless will be for ages to come. Society pro- gresses, however; and instead of breaking would-be reform- ers on the wheel, burning them at the stake or exhausting human ingenuity in methods of torture, civilized society has fallen back on social ostracism as the penalty for all who dare suggest radical changes in religion, politics ‘ or social customs. A case in point is that of Mrs. Woodhull and her assistants, who have been ostracised andimprisoned. It is . probable that there. are very few of her way of thinking, yet if she is sincere she has unquestionably as much right to her belief and to the unrestricted expression of it as though ‘she represented the sentiments avowed by the majority of mod- ern society. We are far, very far from subscribing to her doctrines, yet we cannot but feel that she is entitled to a dispassionate hearing, and if any of her propositions are truths, they are entitled to candid consideration. ‘When an individual proves himself or herself to be thoroughly in ear- nest and «actuated by other than sordid notions, common sense at least would suggest a consideration of reasons and motives and misrepresentations should be banished. Every new idea, every new theory has had to contend with the prejudice and ignorance of those who are wedded to the old way and are opposed to any change,whatever the future bene- ‘ ﬁts might be. ‘We all remember the hostility encountered by those who labored for the abolition of human slavery. The opposition was unreasoning and determined, but had to give way at last, and now every one believes in freedom. in the- ory at least, and rejoices in the application of the principles of our declaration of independence. 5 For our part we believe that every one is entitled to a fair “ and candid hearing, and if good can be derived from their theories, let them be accepted, if not let them be discarded; the truth cannot suffer in a fair conflict with error, for it is the truth that humanitydesires and has been striving for ages. Because Mrs. Woodhull advocates freedom in love, or free love, it does not by any means follow‘ that she means promiscuity. In fact, it is not fair to claim that she means the worse rendering when she expressly claims that she means the better. Is it not worth the while to consider whether from her standpoint, a large proportion of society do not seem to be practicing the worse while claiming theoretically a belief in purity of life and conduct? Having seen so much of the evil of life, is it not possible she goes to the other ex- treme in her endeavor to destroy what seems to her the cause of so much misery? Were there no tyrants, and did all practice in accordance with their reputed professions, then indeed could she be set,-down as a mistaken iconoclast, now, however, she has some truth on her side. Society is far from perfect, and injustice and immorality are too prevalent. These facts cannot be disguised, and future ages will worship at the shrine of the one who shall succeed in showing the better way. Freedom is the soul’s aspiration. For freedom our fathers fought and died, but they left us a precious legacy to be transmitted, untarnished, to future generations. If any slavery exists, let it be stricken down, that this may be in‘ all respects a free country. Let the idea of the ownership of one human being by another, in any respect, be completely abolished, that all may be truly free, in reality as well as in name. Let vice and hypocrisy be unmasked and true virtue be crowned with laurels. Let those who profess one thing and practice another, he un- masked, that all may receive their just reward. The truth, the right, has nothing to fear from the most thorough inves- tigation and discussion, but the wrong has; therefore let there be no false modesty about examining into the founda- tions of our customs and beliefs, no mawkish sentimentality, but an earnest endeavor to maintain the truth, and a fear- lessness in making known our honest convictions whatever may be the result.-— Westﬁeld News Letter, rlfass. Whatever may have been expected of Mrs. Woodhull last Wednesday evening, we venture to assert was totally differ- ent from what we actually received, and those who, through curiosity, an expectation of something rich, aireal desire to hear the speaker, or because theyhad nothing else to do, were present, were very pleasantly‘ or unpleasantly disap- pointed. Though we cannot indorse the principles which ‘underlie her whole public life, nor the motives which prompt her actions, we must give Mrs. Woodhull the credit of hav- ing told a great many plain, wholesome truths, and of an apparent effort to open the eyes of society to the corruption which exists within it, by presenting some startling statis- tics. As a speaker, Mrs. Woodhull has few equals-rivaling if not surpassing any female lecturer in the ﬁeld. Her lan- guage is well chosen, plain and impressive, with which none can help being pleased, though listening under protest.—— South Bend. (Ind) Weekly Union. ‘Mus. WooDHULL’s LECTURE.-—The lecture of‘ this cele- brated female at Costa’s opera house, on the 7th inst., was well attended. The audience embraced the most learned, cultivated and reﬁned members of society, from among the professions of our own city, Lawrence, Leavenworth and elsewhere, who seemed well pleased with what they had heard. Had her lecture been fairly understood, or the public mind disabused of her newspaper notoriety, the wives of many of those who listened to her remarkable lecture would‘ / . mom/Jealth. vs have been present to judge of plain and valid truths sh enumerated as underlying the whole system upon which rests our social structiiria. She was applauded,.as we thought, not for the witticism‘ of her points, but from the fact of her argument being forcible and convincing. This celebrated socialist and reformer somehow or other, as she stood there dressed in plain black, with flushed face, gleaming eye, locks partly disheveled, upraised arm and quivering under the ﬁre of her own rhapsody, reminded us of the great Rachel in some of those tragic or fervid passages in which the dominating powers of her nature and genius were displayed in their highest effects. She seemed atmo- ments like one possessed, and the eloquencewhich poured from her lips in reckless torrents swept through the souls of thosepresent in a way which caused them to burst every new and then into uproarious enthusiasm. - Herlittle daughter recited a poem previous to her mother’ appearing, and the beauty and pathos of the language was a ﬁtting introduction to her mother’s discourse.—Topeko Com- ® BUSINESS EDITORIALS. _ R. G». ECCLES. Scientiﬁc, Social and Religious Lecturer and Debateir. Farmington, Ohio, January 20th to 25th; Windsor, Ohio, January flilth to 30th: Thompson, Ohio, January 31st to Feb~ ruary tith; Townville, Penn., February 5th to 10th. Febru- ary, March and April engagements, time not yet determined. NOTICES on THE PRESS. Mr. Eccles is a Scotchman by birth, with a ﬁnished educa-, tion. lie is a fluent talker, a ﬁne orator, very courteous and jgentlemanly, has excellent argumentative ability, is calm and self-possessed, and cannot be thrdwn off his guard; understands his subject thoroughly; and, taken all in all, is‘ acknowledged by friend and foe to be the ablest man of ‘his age they ever met.—~Eddym'lle (Iowa) Advertiser. . ‘We have heard Mr. Eccles. and would advise all our read~ ers to embrace the opportunity that will be afforded them to receive a rich, eloquent, intellectual treat.—I—’leu.santo'rt (Kcm.) Independent Observer. 9 R. G. Eccles has been delivering a course of lectures to crowd ed houses in this place. He is an eloquent speaker, and his discourses excited much interest. He delivered his farewell discourse last Sunday "evening. The house was crowded to overﬂowing on the occasion, many not being able to effect an entrance. Mr. Eccles is considered by his many friends in this section one of the most eloquent and able advocates of the Spiritual Philosophy in the country. -—Amlm)er (Ohio) Enterprise. , J I SUBJnc'rs.——The uses of crime. True Religion. The true mission of Jesus. The Clergy, enemies of our Republic. Is death an eternal sleep? Which is the true God, Jehovah or the Serpent 5? God created by Man. The harmony of all re- ligions. Aplea for our criminals. Labor vs. Capital. Lib- erty and Equal Rights. The unseen world and the laws of reciprocity. Man’s past and future. Social, Religious and Scientiﬁc Topics, etc., etc. - RESOLUTIONS.~—-That the Bible and Koran are on a par a s revelations from God. That Spiritualists and Free Thinker s are the true followers of Jesus. That primitive Christianity and Modern Spiritualism are identical. , That noiman takes the Bible as a guide, while many use it as a shield of crime . That Modern Christianity is contrary to the spirit and genius of the teachings of the New Testament. That consciousness exists when the physical body is dead. That Spirits can, have, and do communicate with the inhabitants of earth. That the Christian’s Devil is the true God and Creator. Engagements solicited in all parts of the Union. Address, R. G. Eccrns, Tenth Street, Kansas City,_Mo. SPIRIT OF COMMON SENSE. ' We are proceeding to establish, and shall, on the 24th day of January, 1874, commence, in this city, the ‘publication of a weekly literary eclectic journal" of reform and progress, entitled The Spi-Mt of Common Sense, of eight pages~—intend- ing, in due, time, to double this number-—iu which we pro- pose to take up and earnestly discuss allmatters in any wise concerning the welfare of the people. Inherently ‘claiming for ourself the sovereignty of the in- dividualiin all the relations, privileges and duties of life, save as all are bound one to the other, all to one and one to all by the reciprocity of Nature’s fraternal law, we shall ac- cord individual sovereignty to all others, without regard to sex or caste. The prime order of life is, and must ever be, individual and social progress in all that tends to the muniﬁcent ad- ,vanc_ement of mankind; and in the order of this advance- ment there underlies a natural union of interest which, through general enlightenment, is ultimately to fraternize and inter-associate all peoples.‘ And this progress is ever necessarily accelerated by individual liberty; for the fuller the personal freedom the stronger must be the individual sovereignty; and consequently, with proper education, the purer and more inspiring the social union, from the family altar inclusive, throughout every department of the govern- ment of mankind. _ ’ ' In dealing with the body politic, weshall proceed upon the hypothesis that a popular government cannot be better than -the material of which it is constituted is capacitated to make it. but necessarily graduates itself by the industrial, intel- lectual and ethical advancement of the constituency. What we want is a government of the people, by the peo- ple, for the people, upon such equitable principles as neces- sarily reciprocally guarantee equal rights and privileges throughout the entire constituency. As yet we have not, as a government, attained this democracy. But the signs of the times clearly forcshadow that such is our destiny. And though history fails to give us a precedent ‘of a pure democ- racy having ever hitherto existednve find the prophetic min- ; Present engagements: Alliance, Ohio, January 15th to 19th; ’ g, 2 14 I 1 ° WOODHULL & CL.AFLIN’S WEEKLY. /Jan. 24, 1874. iature popular government in and of the well developed individual, wherein all the members of the organic being constitutea government of the members, by the members, for the members, under reciprocal rule. While our popular government is not perfect, it is never- theless the best that the conditions will eﬁectuate. In order to its advancement the constituency must be improved. All things improve by culture. The viviﬁc germ of perfection latently dwells within the entity, ever seeking unfoldment. In order to its success, all the members_must have the fullest seasonable culture. *—This cannot be had by class education; for, thereby some of the members, and often the best con- stituent members, are sadly neglected. This broods social incongruity; incongruity leads to dissention; dissentionto derangement, often culminating in conflict. If we would fully develope one of the communistical fraternity we must/ alike cultivate all acc_ording to their respective natural ca- pacities, otherwise we shall fail to have any rise entirely above the social incongruity. As the rule applies to the community, so does it to the in- dividual memberthereof, who cannot -attain physical, intel- lectual or ethical harmony if any one or more of the faculties are neglected. . Hence the culture should embrace all"the members, developing each according to the duties of its oﬁice in harmony with the leading beneﬁcent faculty, through which all the members co-operate, one with the other, for the common harmonial advancement of the entire organism. It is through such universal harmonial development that the soul, through its inspirational communion with the Om- nicient mind of minds, is able to supersede the animal of our nature and unfold our nobler attributes, and continually extend our intellectual ramiﬁcations, and thence rise above all stagnating social restraints and nobly live the life of LOVE in TRUTH. . And to these ends, among other measures, we shall ear- nestly advocate, - L 1. The speedy renovation of the Constitution, so simplify- ing and explicitly framing the same that it will stand forth the indisputable text-book for all fundamental rules of action pertinent to popular government; effectually estab- lishing the rights of the States permanently within the Union of the United States; and extending the right of suffrage to every adult constituent, to whom it inherently inalienably belongs, without regard to sex or caste; and providing for the election of the President and Vice-President directly by the people; and rendering the President ineligible to a suc- cessive term. ' - 2. That the General G overnment shall establish and enforce some universal school system whereby every minor shall acquire the most liberal education, not only in the funda- mental principles, but in the higher literature, ethics and the sciences, it is possible for the mind to receive, with due consideration forthe physical development, strictly ex- cluding all religious text-books from the schools.‘ 3. The abolition of capital punishment and the degrading prison-house, and in their stead the erection of salutary reformatory-institutions, wherein offenders shall be con- ﬁned according to the measure of moral derangement, as wards of the government, and made self-sustainingby pro- ductive industry; and in the meantime, required to devote certain portions of each day to such intellectual and scientiﬁc culture as will ensure the speediest ethical regeneration necessaryto the wards’ return to the reciprocal beneﬁts and duties of society. 4. The disenthrallment of labor, and the provision by the General Government, of some industrial system through which every unemployed person may, at any time, ﬁnd pro- ductive employment at equitable wages. 5. Internal improvements, and as far as need be, through the General Government, to the extent of the fullest develop- ment of the agricultural, manufacturing, mineral, trans- porting and other resources the industry of the country is capable of effectuating, upon terms that will give the in- dustry the full value of their labor. 6. Such equitable distribution of the lands as will secure a homestead to every adult constituent of the government. Such renovation of the ﬁnancial system as will give a. stable elastic currency, issued directly by the government, which shall always be receivable in payment of all dues to the government; and so equally distributed, at the lowest equitable rate of interest, as to perpetually sustain the in- . dustry of the country. 9. A postal telegraph system and apostal savings bank. 10. Cheap, safe, quick and comfortable transportation, with railroads and canals connecting all sections as needed by the people; and as shall’ become practical, equitably placing the railroads, canals and other public transportation under the control of the government for the beneﬁt of the people inlicommon. ‘ 11. Free trade, and the general improvement of our com- merce and marine carrying facilities. 12. The conversion of the Indians intoicitizens of the United States, with like privileges and responsibilities of other citizens. . V — 13. The amicable settlement of all disputes between nations by arbitration, and a more extended fraternal intercourse with foreign peoples. , 14. The encouragement of‘ the emig1‘aU0I1 of foreigners to our country, and the earliest practical i1&t11ra1iZ9vtiQD- \\OO- 15. The extension of the government as s1la’;,““*“'....come ne- _ cessary for the "benign advancement of civilization. ' . , ANDREW J. Roenns, Editor, etc. COMMON SENsE PUBLISHING Co., P. O. Box No. 372. Wasnmeron, D. 0., ‘Dec. 15, 1873.‘ The First Primary Council of Boston, of the Universal As- sociation of Spiritualists, meets every Thursday evening, at John A. Andrew Hall, room No. 5. Seats free. JOHN HARDY, Cor. Sec’y. Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Me \; ; ,may be "found athis oﬁice, No. 413 Fourth avenue, . her absorption by fashions of dress which are destructive to tion of the conservative Spiritualists at the above conven- . refreshed and reinvigorated by two years of fruit growingin ANTLFASHION CONVENTION. In view of the alarming indifference of woman to the press- ing demands of ‘the hour, and believing it to be the result of physical health, mental vigor and moral power; and being convinced that she cannot make a successful demand for the full equality which Nature bestowed. but man has denied her, until she accumulates power by the use of that now within reach; and hoping by‘ discussion and concert of ac- tion to encourage some in the ‘adoption of a natural system of dress——one comporting with all the duties of woman—we invite the lovers of truth to meet in convention in Plum- street Hall, Vineland, New Jersey, on Tuesday and Wednes- day, J auuary 20 and 21, 1874. ’ ' - , As an important aid to the work proposed, we respectfully urge that every woman who can, come to the convention in such costume as will best express her thought of a rational dress for woman. - 1 ‘ Mary E. Tillotson, Lucinda S. Wilcox, M. D., Susan P. Fowler, Ellen Dickinson, Olivia F. Shepard, A. W. M. Bart- lett, M. D. Friends desiring entertainment will please write eitherof the above. Names of speakers will be duly announced. MR. MADOX, Of the Internationals, will hold himself ready to lecture be- fore workingmen’s organizations and lyceums throughout the country; subjects, ‘‘ The Political Economy of the Inter- nationals,” “The Suspension of our Industries——the Cause and Remedy,“ “ The Currency and Finance.” He will also organize Sections of the‘Secr‘et Order of U. 0. I. Address, G. W. Mancx, See. U. I.,42 John st., N. Y. City. PROCEEDINGS or THE TENTIEANNUAL CONVENTION or THE ._AMEnIcAN Assocmrron or SPIRITUALISTS. 12m, pp. 266. THE ELIXIR or LIFE; OR, WHY DO WE D111? 8vo, pp. 24. An ORATION delivered before the above-named” CONVENTION, at GRow’s OPERA ,HoUsE, CHICAGO, by VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, September 18, 1873. The above “Report of the Proceedings of the Tenth An- nual Convention of the American Association of Spiritual- ists,” is an accurate and impartial account of what was said and done at the above convention. The speeches are pre- sented to the public word for word as they came to us from the hands of the able reporter employed by the convention. The orations of the members, on ‘both sides,.discussing the question of “ Free Love,” or rather " Personal Sovereignty,” are worthy of the serious attention not only of all Spiritual- ists but of the community at large. § In proof that we have not overstated the merits of the work, we respectfully submit the generous testimony of Judge.Edmund S. Holbrook, who so ably defended the posi- tlon : “I have seen the report you have published of the doings and sayings of the Chicago Convention, and I take pleasure in saying that, in the publication of such a report, so full, so accurate and impartial as it is, you have done a work worthy of high commendation. Some could not be at this conven- tion, either for want of time or means; but now, such of them as may choose to read, can almost imagine that they were there; and though they may not attain whatever there may be in personal presence, in the eye, and the ear, and in soul-communion, yet whatever of principle has been evolved they may well discover and understand; and also, as I hope, they may proﬁt thereby.” Price of the “Proceedings” and the “Elixir of Life” 50 cents; or the “ Elixir of Life” alone 25 cents. Orders for the same addressed to Woodhull 56 Claﬂin, P. 0. box 3,791, will be promptly ﬁlled. APPROACHING CON FLICT-- The irrepressible issues”between universal liberty and des- potism to precipitate a terrible war within five years that will terminate in the overthrow of the American Republic and the establishment of a military dictatorship. . ; Church, State and Capital are combined, under the leader- ship of the Republican party, to precipitate the conﬂict that will end in a defeat of their aspirations, and the ultimate triumph of industry, socialism and rationalism. The nation is slumbering upon the brink of ruin as uncon- ciously as the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum in that- awful moment that preceded the belching forth of Vesu- vius. ' The most astounding foreshadowing of the future destiny of this nation ever issued from the press. - A book of 250 pages will be sent to any address, post-paid, for $1.50. Liberal terms given to agents. Address, J onn W1LLcox, 172 and 174 Clark street, Chicago, Ill. DR. L. K. COONLEYI This active, able, zealous and practical reformer intends to return again to the open ﬁeld. He will answer calls to speak anywhere in the country. No word of ours is needed with the people in regard to this worker. He hasbeen before the Spiritualistic public for twenty years, and returns to it now Vineland, N. J ., at which place he may for the present he addressed. CEPHAS B. LYNN, the able young radical, has been notiﬁed that his services are wanted on the Paciﬁc coast. He desires calls at points on the route. We trust that our radical friends in Omaha, Lincoln, Denver, Salt Lake and other points, will ADDIE L.~BALLOU. . In response to pressing calls from California, this ﬁrm and eloquent exponantbf Spiritualism and advocate of all re- forms, expects to start for the Paciﬁc coast about the last of this month, and will make arrangements to speak at impo1'- . tant intermediate poin.ts—Omaha, Lincoln, Ogden and Salt Lake—if the friends desiring will take steps accordingly. Parties wishing one, two or more lectures from her, can have them by applying promptly by letter at Terre Haute, Ind. The Geneva (0.) J ournul thus speaks of her lectures in that city: ‘ ,, The lectures of Mrs. Addie L. Ballou, given here last. week, were very largly attended by the citizens of this place, regardless of religious faiths and beliefs. Mrs. Ballou is a very pleasant speaker, a good elocutionist, and handles her subjects very ably and clearly, and we may say, exhaustively from her standpoint. More so than any speaker of her faith A weever heard.” @Send Austin Kent one dollar for his book and pam- years physically helpless, conﬁned to his bed and chair, i5 poor and needs the money. You may be even more bene- ﬁted by reading one of the boldest, deepest, strongest, clear- est and most logical writers. You are hardly well posted on this subject till you have read Mr. Kent. You who are able add another dollar or more as charity. His address, A.USTIN'KENT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44. WARREN CHASE lectures the four Sundays of January in Des Moines, Iowa, where he may be addressed during the month. He will receive subscriptions for the WEEKLY and for our books or pictures. A CARI). Applications having repeatedly 1200: made to us by many different parties on the subject of st, caring for them ra- tional amusement for private eiitclwinments, we beg to notify the public that we have with us an able elocutionist who is desirous of giving evening read ings from the poets. We know he has an almost unlimited repertoire of recita- tions (without book), comprising selections from the ﬁrst English and American classics, together with translations from Swedish, Moorish, Spanish, French, German, and even tresses of houses of amusement and recreation can arrange for evening readings and rec tations by applying to J. F.. 3,791, New York. » PROSPECTUS. WOODEULL 8; CLAFI.IN’S WEEKLY. [The only Paper in the World conducted, absolutely, upon the Principles. of a Free Press.) It advocates a new government in which the peopl will be their own legislators, and the officials the executors of their will. ‘ It advocates, as parts of the new government- 1. A new political system in which all persons of adult age will participate. 2. A new land system in which every individual will be en- titled to the free use of a proper proportion of the land. ’ 3. A new industrial system, in which each individual will remain possessed of all his or her productions. 4. A new commercial system in which “cost,” instead of “demand and supply,” will determine the price of every- thing and abolish the system of proﬁt-making. 5. A new ﬁnancial system, in which the government will be the source, custodian and transmitter of all money, and in which usury will have no place. 6. A new sexual system, in which mutual consent, entirely free from money or any inducement other than love, shall be the governing law, individuals being left to make their own regulations; and in which society, when the individual shall A fail, shall be responsible for the proper rearing of children. '7. A new educational system, in which all children born shall have the same advantages of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon ‘active, responsible and useful lives. All of which will constitute the various parts of a new so- cial order, in which all the human rights of the individual will be associated to form the harmonious organization of the peoples into the grand human family, of which ‘every person in the world will be a member. ‘ Criticism and objections specially invited. The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday. 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M. 1.35 . in Ar St. Catherines . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.35 “ 2.00 “ *‘ Hamilton . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.45 “ 2.55 “ “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.53. “ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 A M. 5.55 “ “ Chatham....: . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.55 ‘8.12 “ " Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.40 “ 10.00 “ Lv Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.40 “ 10.10 “ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._. 10.21 “ “ “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ 11.25 P. M. “ Ann Arbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 “ 11.43 “ “ Jackson ................... .. 12.15 P. M. 1.00 A. “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 1.15 “ “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . 2.03 “ AIR. “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ - LINE. “ Piles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.32 P. M. 4.4; A. M “. New Buifalo . . . . . .. 5 25 “ . .. “ Michigan City..... 5.45 “ 5.45 “ “ alumet . . . . . . . .. 7.18 “ 7.47 “ “Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 ‘ Ar Milwaukee ............... .. :».30 A. M. 11.50 A. m_ Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 55 P M. .. .. Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I1.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M. Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 615 P. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.40 P. M “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Galveston .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . .. .. 11.00 P. M. “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M. “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . 7.30 P. M. Ar Burlington... . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. M- “ maha . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. “Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . .. » '- "Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ar Halesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A M “ Quincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15 “ “ St. Joseph ................. .. .00 “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ‘ “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ‘- Leavenworth .............. .. “ Denver. _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. sTATIoNs. E11?}77”€.5'S. _. .__...._...... Lv 2371 Street, N. Y . . . . . . .. 6.45 1'. M. “ Chambers street. . . .. . .. . 7.00 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 “ “ Susqﬁiehanna . . . . . . . 2.43 A. M. “ Bing ampton . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.35 “ “ Elmira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 “ % ‘ I‘IOTIlellSVlllle . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ . “ Buifalo ...\ . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.45 “ Egrpmgg, Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 12.27 P. M. —————....._... . Lv Sus ension Bridge . . . . .. 1.35 “ 9.50 p. in, Ar St. atherines . . . . . . . . . .. 2.00 “ 10.13 “ “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ 11.20 “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.53 ‘ _ , _ _ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2,35 3 m, :: Chatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.12 “ 5,00 Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7.00 H Lv Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.10 “ 3,10 5 Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 4‘ “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.25 “ 9.27 “' “ Ann Arbor . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.43 “ 9,50 -6 “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 A M. 11.30 “ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 173.50 p. m “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . .. AIR .25 " “Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . .. LINE. 2.35 “ “ r Iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 440 A. M 5.00 6‘ “ New Buﬂfalo . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.02 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . . . . . .. 5.45 “ 6.25 “ “ Calumet ..... . . . . . . . . . .. 7.47 “ 8 00 “ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 “ 8,45 “ A_r_Milwaukee Ar_Prai'rie du Ch:3:lIl. ”' Ar La Crosse . . . . . . XFSI. PEEK .A;1‘_§_l3._l49illS. . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ar Scdalia... “ Denison .. .. .. . “ Galveston . . . . _ 10.00 “ Ar Bismarck . . , . . . . . . . ..:. 12.01 “, Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ - :‘__l.iitle Rock..~ . . . . . . . . . .. Ar Burlington .... ...... .. 7.001» M. :1 Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A M. .. .. Cheyenne..... 12.50 P M. “ O den . . . , . . . . . . . .. 5.30 “ “ San Francisco . M._ . . . . .. 8.30 “ Ar Galeshurg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.45 P M :‘ uincey . . . . . .. . 9.45 " . ‘ St. Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.10 A M “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . .. i 9.25 “ .... “ Atchison 11.17 “ _.. 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Mr. Lewis lost by the fire one of the most complete and valuable printing and publishing estab- lishments in the West, and ' also his residence and household goods. Yet he comes to the surface again with unabated ardor, re-establishes himself at No. 407 West Madison street, where he has gathered new ma- terial for his business, and from which point he has already issued the ﬁrst number (since the ﬁre) of the Western Rural, the same size and in the same form as previous to the ﬁery storm. Nobody would imagine, on glancing at the neat, artistic head and well-ﬁlled pages of the Rural that anything uncomfortably warm or specially disastrous had. ever happened to it. Suc- cess to Lewis and his excellent Rural. Chicago ought to feel proud of it.” , The Largest and Handsomest Paper for Young People.” ‘ THE 9 . You rig Pol as u ral, A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OE‘ COUNTRY AND CITY. TERMS: $1.50 per Year; $1‘tn Clubs of Fou/r,__o*r More. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1874-01-24_07_08
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-01-24_07_08
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 07, no. 09 (January 31, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2004
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-01-31
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: i 12>ROGrREssz FREE THOUGHT! UI\‘rTRAMMEL:ED LIVES: » A BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. , i ,. , V01. VII.———No. 9.——Who1eNo. 165:. >» . THE LOANER S BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @“’ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTR. Vice-President. JOHN J. OIsoO & SON, ‘Bankers, \ No. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit nbject to check at sight. , Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of ...
Show morei 12>ROGrREssz FREE THOUGHT! UI\‘rTRAMMEL:ED LIVES: » A BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. , i ,. , V01. VII.———No. 9.——Who1eNo. 165:. >» . THE LOANER S BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @“’ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTR. Vice-President. JOHN J. OIsoO & SON, ‘Bankers, \ No. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit nbject to check at sight. , Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED, ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent interest. Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made ‘\on all parts of the United States and Canadas. HARVEY FISK. A. s. Rnrron - OFFICE 013' EIsK & HATOH, ‘BANKERS AND DEALERS IN f GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 Nassau st., N.‘Y., @ Opposite ’U. S. Sub-Treasury. We receive theaccounts of Banks, Bank- - ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest on balances. VVe make special arrangements for interest on deposits of speciﬁc sums for ﬁxed periods. We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. . We buy and sell at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company ; also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- sion, for cash. Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention. 1 rise: a EATCE, ’ . seeeas;ss:e Asa sane vb >- ~... NEW YORK, ;_. ~ JAN. .81, 1874. Dr. 0. A. BARNES, llaair 1131111113, 706 Ll/V. MONROE STREET Chicago, in. This Institute, organized uponthe, combined prin- ciples of Magnetism and Medicine, makes a specialty of alllhose diseases which, by the Medical Faculty, are considered incurable. Among these maybe mentioned Paralysis, Scroiula, Rheuma- tism, Dyspepsia, Epilepsy, Neuralgia, Chronic Di- arrhoea, Diseases of the Live“, Spleen and Kidneys, and especially all Diseases Peculiar to Women. In this last class of complaints, some of the most extraordinary discoveries have recently been made, which surmount the diﬂicultics that have heretofore stood in the way of their cure. _ The peculiar advantage which the practice at this . Institution possesses over all others is,that in addition to all the scientiﬁc knowledge of Medical Thcr.-xpeu tics and Remedial Agents which the Faculty have, it also has the unerring means of diagnosing diseases through CLAIRVOYANCE, as well as the scientiﬁc administration of ANIMAL and SPIRITUAL MAGNETISM in all their various‘ forms. This combination of remedial means can safely be relied upon to cure every disease that has not already destroyed some vital internal organ. No matter how Often the patient affected in chronic form may have failed in obtaining ‘relief. he should not despair, but seek it from 1his, the only Institution where all th various methods of cure can be combined. ‘ t In addition to the cure of disease, Clairvoyant con- sultations upon all kinds of business and upon all‘ forms of social affairs can also be obtained. Sealed letters answered. Reception hours from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Invalids who cannot visit the Institute in person can apply by letter. Medicine sent to all parts of the world. I All letters should be addressed Dr. C. A. BARNES, Healing Institute, 706 W. Monroe Street, ‘ CHICAGO, ILL. The Serra tuesiitn The Money Power. How shall ﬂvis Power be. made to S67"D6, inszfead of 9’ult'ng us : A Lecture delivered by Lois Waisbrooker, at J ack- son, Mich, Dec. 14, at the Annual Meeting of the State Association of Spiritualists, and published by request. ' “ Sister Lois-—I am glad to see, in the last number of Our Age, the names of so many who desire you to pub- lish your Lecture delivered in Jackson, December 14. Add my name to the list of supplicants. Your ideas upon the money power, how it can be made to serve, instead of ruling us, are grand beyond a mortal’s tell- ing. The Lecture was deep, logical, argumentative," and should be sent broadcast over the earth. “M. L. SHERMAN, M. D. ,“ ADRIAN, M1011." vPrice. 15 can copy: 10 cents if.seng by the dozen. ‘ 'T‘ssu6v.E‘ FROM PARIS, ILL., TO NEW YORK, Tl-li Inﬁll-setter, A fearless, outspoken Monthly, devoted; to Science, Morals, Free Thought, Liberalism, Sexual Equality, Labor Reform, and whatever tends to elevate and beneiit the Human Race; . OPPOSED TO Sectarianism, Priestcraft, Dogmas. Q1'e€dS, Sl1l9,31" stition, Bigotry, Aristocracy, Monopolies, OP/l31“3i351°“ of all kinds, and everything that burdens or ens aves liianleind mentally or physically. O ‘ — On January 1st, 1874-, it will be doubled in size to a A FULL SHEET. Terms, $1 per year dating ‘from _the enlargement; or 75 cents a year, c’Ommen’c1ng with N0. 1; and 1”‘ cluding the four numbers already issued. ~ To each Subscriber will he mailed_EREE, as a pre- mium, avalu-able ﬁfty‘-cent Book, entitled "‘ CHILDHOOD OF THE WORLD,” by EDWARD CLODD, F. R. S., being a reprint from a late English editron._ It gives a succinct and_instruc- tiveaccount of Man in the Early Ages, and IS admi- rably adapted to the comprehension of young and old. Those friendly to the objects and purposes or. THE TRUTH-SEEKEE are respectfully requested to given their support and encouragement. Sample copies free to applicants. Send one-cent stamp to pay postage. .' 1). M. BENNETT, Editor and Proprietor, aided by ‘a. corps of able contributors and correspondents from among the leading minds of the country. Address Box 1654, New York. BANKING & FINANCIAL. A THE ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAIL- ROAD COMPANY ’S FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS Are being absorbed by an increasing demand for them. \ Secured as they are by a first mortgage on the Road, Land Grant, Franchise and Equipments, combined in one mortgage, they command at once a ready market. A Liberal Sinking Fund provided‘ in the Mortgage Deed must advance the price upon the closing of the loan. Principal and interest payable in com). Inter- eat; at eight (8) per cent. per annum. ‘Payable. semi- annually, free of tax. Principal in thirty years. De- nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons, or Regis- tered. / Price 97,14 an accrued interest, in currency, from February 15, 1872. . Maps, Circulars, Documents and nished. 'I‘ruste,es, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York. Can now be had ‘through the principal Banks and information fur- Bankers throughout the country, and from the under-. signed who unhesitatingly recommend them. TANNER & co., Bankers, No. 11 Wall Street, New York. AUGUST BELMONT & CO, ,:B&IIlK@,I‘S, 191 and 21 NAssAU sTREET, Issue Letters, of Credit to Travelers, available 111 all parts of the world through the MESSRS. DE ROTHSCHILJ) AND 'I.HEIR OORRESPONDENTS. . Also.re.alzete1e,r;rran1ae teenagers at srsisstssreas and saves . “ 3 /. /. PRICE TEN CENTS. FRAIIROAD IRON, EOE sALE BY s. W. HOPKINS & CO-., M71 BROADWAY TOLEDO,rEo:it.i‘..A WARSAW RAILw'ri;r,, SECOND MORTGAGE CON.- VERTIBLE '7 PER, OENT. OURRENEY ReNDs. INTEREST f,WARRANTS‘ PAYABLE OOTOBER AND APRIL, PRINCIPAL 1886, block. By act of reorganization of the Company these bonds are convertible into the First Preferred Shares of the Company, which amounts to only 17,000 shares, and into the Consolidated Bonds. (recently negotiated at Amsterdam) of six millions of dollars, which cover tn entire line of‘ ‘:50 miles of completed road, to the value of more than ten millions of dollars. The road crosses the entire State of Illinois and connect I with the mammoth iron bridges spanning the M551 5 sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. The income of the road for the year will net suﬂicient to pay interest on ferred shares. For terms apply g A Chaise, contra a e., we sense. A ‘ ' 1» —.—-M" ‘ -av" We oife/r for sale $1oo,ooo_ of the above bonds in I gether with ‘allthe rolling stock and real property, to . all the bonded hidebtednéss and "dividend on the pres‘ "N .._. .9 ‘ V 7 ‘,5 v.1«»,n" 27 _ / , " INOODHULL J5 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. ’ Jan. 31, 1874. The spit-iaiai Mystery ,7 “The Ngv eta,” Is in its third thousand, and revolutionizing human thought on Spiritualism. It will be mailed for 60 cents. I It contains what can nowhere else on earth be found. Address, . Kate V. corson, Toledo, Ohio. THE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY, Cedarvale, Howard 00., Kansas, Desire correspondence with persons wishing for a Community home. , Address (inclosing stamp) J. G. 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New York. DENTAL Norioa. , Address, DR. AMMwIwBRO‘VVN,, HAS REMOVED To I25 West Fortyvseeond St, Between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, NENV YOEJIK. ’ ’ Call and see me; afriendly chat costs you nothing, TWENI )7 YEARS’ PEA OTIUE. , Liberalist and Social Reformer, would prefer a situa- tiou with one _of similar _views. . Address, Thomas Carter, 316 New street, Philadelphia, Pa. DR. PERKINS Can be consulted as usualat his oﬂice, , MIDDLE-AGED MAN BEING OUT of employment, would like a situation. , Being a NO. 9. FIFTH STREET (South Side), OPPOSITE PUBLIC SQUARE, KANSAS CITY, MO.,. , Orby mail, box 1,227, on the various symptoms of Pri- vate Diseases. The afflicted will take notice that I am the only man on the American continent that can cure you of Spermatorrhoea, Loss of Manhood, etc., caused by self abuse or disease. I challenge the combined medical faculty to refute the above statement by suc- cessful eoinpetition. The symptoms ‘Of disease pro- duced by nightly seminal emissions or by excessive sexual indulgence, or by self abuse are as follows: Loss of memory, sallow countenance, pains in the back, weakness of limbs, chronic costiveness of the bowels, confused vision, blunted intellect, loss of con- ﬁdence in approaching strangers, great nervousness, fetid breath, consumption, parched tongue and fre- quently insanity and death, unless combated by scien- tiﬁc medical aid. Reader, remember Dr. Perkins is theonly man that will guarantee to cure you or refund the fee if a cure is not permanently made. Also re- member that I am permanently located at No. 9 Fifth street. S. S., Opposite the public square, Kansas City M0,, and I have the largest medical rooms in the city. and all is strictly conﬁdential. Post box, 1,227. DR. PERKINS, Kansas City. Mo. EW YORK CENTRAL AND HUD- SON RIVER RAILROAD.-Commeneing Mon- day, J une 23, 1873. Through Trains will leave Grand Central Depot—— . »' _ 8:00 A. 1\(., Chicago and Montreal EXpl‘eSS,‘,Wil',h drawing-room cars through to Rochester and St. Al- bans. ' ‘ 9:00 A. M., Saratdga Special Express. 10:00 A. 181., Special Chicago Express, with drawing- room cars to Rochester, Buifalo, &c. 10:45 A. M., Northern and Western Express. 3:40 P. M., Special Express for Albany, Troy and Saratoga, commencing Saturday, 21st inst. , 4 :00 P. M., Montreal Express,‘ with sleeping cars from New York to St. Albans. _ _ , 7:00 1*. 11., Express, Daily, with sleeping cars for. Watertown and Canandaigua. . ' 8:30 P. M., Paciﬁc Express, Daily, with sleeping cars from Rochester, Buifalo and Niagara Falls; also for Chicago, via both L. S. and M. C, Railroads. 11 :00 1’. M., Express, with sleeping cars for Troy and Albany. _ 2:00 P. 11., Hudson train. _ _ 7:00 A. M., and 5:30 P. M. ,\Poughkeepsie trains. - 9:10 A. M., 4:15, 6:20 and 7:45 P. M., Peekskill trains. 5:00 1». 11., Sing Sing train. 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M. till 3 P. M. ‘ Also, his celebrated ‘ HARABA ZEIN, or FLESH BEAUTIFIER, the only pure and harm- less preparation ever _made for the complexion. No lady should ever be without it. Can be obtained only at WM. DIBBLEEPS, 85 Broadway, Up-stairs. Publications of 7’VoLlt_ IVhétmom, the Greottestof Poets. LEA$VES OF GRASS. New Edition. 504pp. . 3 -. AS A ‘STRONG BIRD ON PINIONS FREE. Just ~ out. '75 cents. ’ DEMOCRATIC VISTAS. '75 cents. Also a few copies of John Burroughs’ NOTES’ ON‘ WALT WHITMAN AS POETAND PERSON, $1. Address A. K. BUTTS & CO., 36 Dey st., New York. AGENTS WANTED For our Radical and Reform Publications. Great in- ducements. Catalogues sent on application, with stamp to pay postage. Political Essay. Prose, ASA K. BUTTS & C0,, 36 Dey st., New York. THE‘ ‘ "‘,Victor” S. lii. Co.’s NEW’ SEVVING MACHINE 6% Runs very Easy. Ruins very Fast, Rurrsvery Still. HAS A NEW SHUTTLE sr7PER.ioR T O 1" ALL OTHERS. G Deﬁes Competition. SP»-IRITUALHISM. 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I Vz'etoM'a.-I have spent a large portion of my life, and the , best part of it, in lecturing and writing on various reforms, ' commencing half a century ago, when to utter a word against priestcraft or churchcraft was considered blasphemy and sacrilege; but, amidst threats of imprisonments, mobs and assassination, I kept on, single-handed and alone, deal- ing as plainly with the clergy and churches and all popular errors and abuses as do the most radical of reformers in the present day. For the last six years I have done but little in a public way; have seldom had time to write a page, or the means. to spare for postage. , I wish now to say a few things to the public, and shall offer them to your paper. I have read your paper several months, and heartily agree with you in all you have said about the corruption of the State and National Governments, and rascality and unﬁt- ness of most of that class of men who make and pretend to execute the laws. I also agree with you in what you say about the slavery and abuse of women by their husbands, and the corruptions in social life, but whether you point to the proper remedy, is a question I am not able to decide, but shall not quarrel with you until I am able to point out a bet- ter way. Emma Hardinge, in her criticisms of you some time ago, agreed with you in your views regarding the rottenness and corruption that everywhere exists, admired your courage, boldness and independence in proclaiming the truth, but dis- agreed with you in toto as to the remedy you recommend for the social evils, but she never hinted at anything better; and this has been the case with nearly all your opponents. None pretend to deny the truth of what yousay about the preva- lent corruptions, but turn to and curse you with all their powers, without attempting to tell you of a better way. Why can they not be calm and‘ candid, and reason with you till the true remedy is found, and then all unite like a band of brothers and sisters and apply it? VVhy do they denounce you,’ call you everything vile and low, pour out their spite in lies and imprisonments, and still not tell you of some better way to accomplish what you are aiming at? I wish now to urge on you the necessity of saying more in favor of the landless workers of our nation. Nature has spread out the earth for the use of all her children, and all have as good a right to land from which to draw their sub- sistence as they have to sun, light, air or water, and no State or nation _ can be really prosperous and happy until all within its borders possess homes of their own. Yet our government, while it declares that all have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, grasps all the soil from which alone life can be supported, then turns every young . man into the street at twenty-one years of age, takes his head and makesit a penal oﬁense for him to gather up a bundle of sticks for a ﬁre to preserve life. This is just where the government places its subjects, and if they have not fathers to aid them, and can ﬁnd no one that can make a proﬁt out of their strength ‘by hiring them, they must beg, steal or starve. Our government has given millions of acres of land to see- tarian schools and colleges- that send out clerical and other human leeches and vampires to feast and fatten on the life- blood (Sf landless workers; and millions of acres more to railroads, besides selling large tracts to speculators at low "rates, giving those drones the power to live on the products of the workers. There are thousands and thousands now out of employment in all our manufacturing districts,'and in a state bordering on starvation, who, /had land always been free, would have become independent cultivators beyond the reach of want. - What we want is for government to stop giving land to cor- ! porations of all kinds, and to reserve it as the birthright in- heritance of the people, giving to every landless person, male or female, as much as they need for cultivation, and no more, and enact a law that no man shall here-after acquire or come in any way into the legal possession of more land than he can cultivate. If we had such a law, the largetracts now owned w AwooDH‘ULL ha} éLArlLiN’s WEEKLY. by individuals would eventually be squandered by spend- thrift" heirs, and divided up into small lots, and the landless would stand a better chance to acquire homes. Some years ago, when the great famine in Ireland swept off so many thousands by starvation, there had been food enough raised in Ireland tk at very year for the support of all, but the best of everything had to go to England to pay the rich landowners for the use of land. Nothing was left for the Irish but potatoes, and that crop being cut off by the rot, the people starved in thousands. Had theyowned the land . they cultivated,,that famine neverwould have been heard of. The management of the land in this country is leading di- rectly to the same results, and woe to the children of all who do not unite in a demand for justice, for’ it is but justice for all: government to see that all their subjects have a chance to secure homes. * Yours, J. HACKER. I TO. THE PI0NEER:S*-GLREETING'. 7 BEDFORD ROAD, CLAPHAM RISE, LONDON, S. ‘W., ENGLAND, January 1, 1874. I turn with disgust from the records of carnage by Greek- ﬁre and stink-pot heroes; of mercenary soldiers in gaudy livery slaughtering the villagers of Africa; of the hireling troops of trained murderers sent to clear the way for English , "trading and cheateries. And I turn to you, brothers and sis- ters——pioneers of peace and good—will. I turn with loathing from the daily reports of the vile and cruel intrigues of courts ; from the corruption of St. Stephens, Versailles, Madrid, Berlin, Washington——and I greet you, brothers and sisters‘, messengers of the people. _ Inasmuch as you are good, you are God, and your voice is the voice of God. ’ You.war against slavery, against the Jewish impositions and usurpations; against the subjection of men and women to the J ew-god, gold. \ Gold-hired women (called wives), parsons, pews, lawyers (called legislators), judges, soldiers. Gold-bought licenses to be married and buried. Gold-bought licenses to dig and plow the land of our birth. Gold-bought licenses to retain our birthrights-—to make use of our heritage. I greet you, /sisters and brothers, as you wage war with the irnpious traders in license. Heroes and martyrs! I greet you lovingly! ‘ ' K Who shall forbid the sun to shine, the winds to blow, the earth to revolve, the inﬁnite universe to fulﬁll its mission? What parson or lawyer shall make laws or sell licenses for these? Yet they pretend to manufacture laws for the people, and they sell licenses to work and wed! Damn the sordid mongers, the soulless usurers who would sell freedom by the inch, our birthrights and heritage for gold! The infamous devils trample love under foot as they rush too and fro in their idiotic strife for gold. A As if gold could be an equivalent for a,?.moment’s love! ‘As if gold could purchase our inalienable heritage and birthright from us! _ As if gold could purchase a righteous title to exclusive ownership of the earth! As if men could make laws! As if gold could bribe God! As if gold were greater than the earth—greater than God or the people! V ' Sisters and brothers, Igreet you as you war against sub- jection to mammon. 1 esteem you more than all the liveried kings, generals, admirals, bishops, lawyers and legislators. I esteem you even morethan I do the signers of your old Declaration of Independence or your stars and stripes. I esteem you as I esteem Christ the hero and martyr——the Communist. ' Sisters and brothers! Each man and woman has special powers and failings, and both should be respected. Our rights are equal, but our duties are as different as our powers. \Ve must be respecters of persons. g I ’ Heroes and martyrs! I-Ieralders of the Commune o ,.- neace on earth and good will among mankind, I greet youlovingly, frankly, boldly, hopefully, fraternally. . WILLIAM HARRISON RILEY. ___.__ KEEP THE BALL ROLLING. Editors Weekly—I am glad to see that the subject of com- munal life is still being considered, and hope" it may be agi- tated through your columns till enough earnest souls are drawn together to make practical’the grand ideal which I am happy to know came not to me alone, as was soon proved ' by the numerous correspondence I received from warm- hearted sympathising friends, made such by aﬁnity of ideas. lndeed, so numerous was the correspondence, that in my then weak state of health I could not answer a tithe of it; but I shall ever feel grateful for their kind words of cheer and sympathy in an hour so much needed, when I feared 1 stood alone, and there were none who would appreciate what to me seemed so beautiful. ~ ‘ V That itis the true order of social life I am satisﬁed. and when the world has once entered upon it, they will wonder how they ever lived. in‘ the present narrow conﬁnes of sel- ﬁshness. * I ADELAIDE COMSTOCK. I ,---—-—————->—+9>—< SOCIALISTIC. A MINISTERIAL BRUTE. “ Theworst case of brutality upon the part of a father that we have been called upon to chronicle is that of an old man, a minister of the gospel, and who lives near the line- of the counties of Muhlenburg an.d McLean, his residence being in the former county. This old man, who has heretofore borne a good character among his brethren, been long- winded in the pulpitand vociferous in. prayer, is the father ’ of a handsome daughter, to whom a young gentleman in the neighborhood a few weeks since made proposals of marriage. (We suppress his name because of his entire ignorance of the nature of the case). This young man is of a good family and the owner of some property, but from some cause of which she had the sole right to be judge, he was utterly repugnant to her fancy, or her idea of a ‘husband. The old man, how- ever, was anxiousthat she should receive his proposals‘, and from her own statements, after repeated persuasions to this effect, all of whichishe answered in the negative, he gathered a horse-whip and forced her to take her dress from her fair young shoulders, which he then lacerated with. cruel blows from the. whip until she promised to accept this man as her companion for life, which she accordingly did that evening, knowing that the old villain had taken a seat near the door to hear that she made good her promise. As the preparations for the wedding progressed, twice did this daughter implore mercy of her inhuman father, but just so often did she have neighborhood, informing him of her troubles. He, with sev- 3 eral others, went that “night to her rescue, and carried her » to Greenville, where she threw herself upon the mercies of the court. A gentleman in high standing promptly executed ‘bond and was appointed her guardian.” The above, which I clip from a Western paper, is only one of many instances which might be cited as showing / that the minister of the period is much like other men. The public at large have no adequate idea of the number of min- isterial delinquencies constantly occurring. ‘ Having had ac- cess daily to a large number of papers from all parts of ‘the countr ‘, I, myself, have been somewhat astonished to ﬁnd so_much “depravity” among “the cloth.” The truth is, all his prayers and pious words. Vlfih him, as with the rest of the world, it is a question ofrbread and butter, as evi- denced by the avidity with which they will respond to the The delinquencies comprise‘ moral obliquities of all kinds, not the least being such as border on lust, if not its direct in- spiration. This phase of vice is nothing new, but has been inhonstant practice! all along. Cases of lust are constantly cropping out, and, what is singular, the fellows don’t lose caste; Why, a few years ago, a Methodist minister in this city became much too intimate with a number of the females of his congregation. There was a little breeze, but no essen- tial ‘measureswere taken to silence him. He was permitted to slide away, and ﬁnally was made consul to a British port, where he is now. the Church bawls “Free Love!” when an attempt is made to put things on their proper basis. Verily, the days when men “ strain at gnats and swallow camels” are not passed. \ VVILLIAM Fosrnn, JR‘. PROVIDENCE, January 10, 1874. HYMN FOR THE NEW YEAR. BY JAMES LAIDLAW. Spirit of Universal Love, _ That cloth in all things work and move, V For this New Year we live to see, _‘We render thanks and praise to thee. Oh, Love! Thou new, blest name for Go K The hu.man‘heart’s thy best abode. Sacred, purifying ﬂame, VVe worship thy most holy name. With gratitude our hearts inspire, Immortal source of sweet desire. Oh’, Love! Thou newblest name for God, The human heart’s thy best abode. Parent of beauty! Gracious Dove! Celestial, pure and perfect Love! Thou art the way, the truth, the life; Thy power alone can conquer strife. Oh, Love! Thounew, blest name for God. The human heart’s thy best abode. Soul-sustaining tenderness,’ Let thy peaceful, calm impress Like the evening dews descend, And with our human spirits blend. Oh, Love! Thou new, blest name for God, he human heartfs thy best abode. Source of wisdom, source of good, I Let thy blest beatitude Bring peace and joy and harmony, And to our thoughts give sweet employ. Oh, Love! Thou new, blest name for God, The human hearts thy best abode. ‘Ambition, envy, sweep away, Keep us beneath thy constant sway; That we thy mighty power may prove To conquer selﬁshness by love. Thou holiest, purest name for God, The human heart’s thy best abode. Oh, Love! Thy kingdom is the soul, Thy crown is prudent self-control. Wisdom, it is thy beacon light, Thy fount of pleasure and delight. , Oh, Love! Thou new, blest name for God, The human heart’s thy best abode. Spirit divine! Thou’rt everywhere, As universal as the air; . In buds that burst, in winds thatblow, In rippling waterls tinkling flow; But the true heart’s thy best abode, Thou noblest, new, blest name for God. I The steady and untiriiig beat _ or thy great heart all things repeat; I We see thy ﬂowing waves extend Through ranks of being without end. The crawlingworm beneath the sod, Oh, Love! Thy beauty blends with eta’. Thine endless, golden, winding stair Is grand, and glorious, and fair; the wounds upon her fair shoulders again laid open with the ‘ lash. The evening before the one appointed for the wed- ding, she contrived to convey a note to a gentleman in the the minister is no better than the average of pe_ople, with" “ call of the Lord ” when there is’ a bigger salary in the case. A . Thus it goes. The “saints” plow with the heife‘rs:l”m§".Kd . 1 Jan. 31, 1874.’ A rising and descending light ‘VVhose scale is vast and infinite; But the true heart’s thy best abode, , Thou highest, noblest 1.211.110 for God! ‘ Angel ofLifc! smn we deny Thy heavenly auihr:-nticity, Because, forsooth, in dens of shame, Men oft blaspheme thy precious ‘name. No, Level ’l‘heir hearzﬁs thy blest abode—.- Should be—thou purest name for God! Oh, Love! Thou art the vestibule Unto the temple of the soul; That glorious temple, fair and free, ‘ Where all are worshipers of thee. Oh, Love! Thou art the heavenly road That leads to that divine abode. Happy are they, and only they , Who walk thy glorious, broad high-way; For those who journey from thy light Journey "toward eternal night. Oh, Love! Thou new, blest name for God, The human heart’s thy best abode. Thou radiant daughter of the skies, Child of immortal harmonies, Oh, let tl1y ‘will on earth be done, Thy glowing chariot wheels run on I Baptize our souls beneath thy ﬂood, Thou burning breath and soul of Godi Thy government shall ne’cr decay, , . Thy kingdom never pass away, i ‘ While tinieis eternal tide shall roll; ’ Thy power shall subjugateithc soul. Oh, Love! Thou new, blest name for God, 1 Our Earth shall yet be thine abode. Then, Love, thy temple grand shall be Built on the mount of Liberty; ~ And then shall Earth lift up her voice * To heaven, and say, Rejoice! Rejoice! For then shall Love be understood, Tobe the highest human good. MARRIAGE. Mrs. I/Voodhull—I suppose if I was in the habit of doing as others do, I should commence with “Dear Siste_r;” but to me the term seems superﬂuous and even invidious, as I have learned that a person or a-society willcall you “sister” or “ brother ” so long as you do not disagree with them, or are willing to sip out of their little cup of truth; but the moment you attempt to drink at the fountain the endearing term is immediately withheld. Again, if there never was a person. that under the circumstances could have acted any differ- ently. from what they did, then are not all equally entitled to the endearing appellation? In the WEEKLY of December 27, under the heading “What is the Theory of Modern Marriage?” it reads: “\Ve have never yet been able to drive any of the defenders of the in- stitution of modern marriage down to the propositions upon which they pretend that it rests, and which removed, society would be plunged into anarchy and confusion; or to deﬁne the special purposes for which they so imperatively demand its continuance,” etc. Again :‘ “ So, then, to come to the real question at issue, we will inquire, For what do people marry?” And then, “There is no use of attempting to an- swer this in any general and superﬁcial manner,” etc. Driven to the wall they (women) will be compelled to admit that they marry to have sexual relations and to bear children, and for this only.” Now, from the manner in which this question is put, it may be answered in different ways. If it had read, “ For what should people marry!” it would to me have appeared more deﬁnite; and from the wording of the answer given I infer thiswas the sense intended. One of your correspondents writes, _f‘ Marriage is mar- riage.” Good! When a man says, “My wife,” when a wo- mon says, .“,My husband,” does it not imply mutual posses- sion?’ Now how do they come to own this title? Is it not by the most natural process in the world! Surely it is more blessed to give than to "receive. Well, when a woman offers herself toa man—perhaps not by words but by actions which speak louder than words——-offers herself, all that she has, all V that she is~.—-in a word, to be his wife, the man accepts this woman which he loves onijust’ one condition, that of the most exquisite selﬁshness, that she should accept him for her hus- band. By what authorityis this title conferred? Is it not by virtue of that God-given faculty which causes each to leave ‘father and mother and all the sacred associations of childhood and home, and cleave ‘each to the other in the Willing bonds of conjugal love and affection? That faculty whose language has been beautifully expressed by a poet in “ these lines: “ Oh, had we some bright Little isle of our own, In a blue summer’s ocean Far off and alone; I/Vhere the leaf never dies / In the still, blooming bowers, And the bee banquets on ‘ Through a whole year of ﬂowers. Where the sun loves to pause, With so fond a delay, That the night only seems To draw vail o’er the day. . Where to feel that we are, ‘ And to know that we are, ‘ Is worth the best joy That life elsewhere can give. Where with souls ever ardent, And pure as the elime, ‘ We’d love as they loved, In that first golden time," Whdb 330d IVES ilhllfi joined i302,'8i3h.e§ ghould any may} 31: ' Site is its? _ i?:!.l;x;«‘r)if%l*s who 1 the press, for thousands upon thousands to read. be doing their whole duty when they entirely ignore and eschew any of the divinely-appointed faculties of the race, and especially one that is of so much consequence to mankind as this faculty of “union for life,” love of one; this faculty without which there would never have been a conjugal union on earth? Has the great Creator made a. mistake? Let a boy or girl havethis faculty large and amativeness comparatively small, and they will not willingly allow one of the opposite sex ever to give them a kiss. Ignorance says, “ That boy never’ll get married; he's too afraid of the girls. That girl never’ll get married; she’s too shy of the boys,”\ not once imagining that it is this very law of m.arr'i-age that prevents their famili- arity, nor yet that these are the very ones most likely to get married. , _ 1 . Is not the decadence of this faculty in the people greatly to be deplored? Let us for one moment consider the change if all men and all women could have this faculty cultivated, predominant“. Not one man but would desire and seek la. wife ;‘ not one woman but would desire and seek a husband; and each having found, not one woman desiring any other man, not one man desiring any other woman. No Fisks shot; no Stokeses tried for murder. All other things being equal, is not such a consummation to be devoutly wished? I I have written of none of the general causes‘ for which people do marry. but have conﬁned myself to this single faculty, because this law of marriage recognizes no general or superﬁcial causes. It is entirely blind to them. I It carries its possessor gladly from the luxuries of the mansion to the toil-and privations of the cabin; from the ease and safety of land to the perils and dangers of accompanying those who go down to the sea in ships and do business on the mighty deep, and through the trackless forests with the adventurous explorer. Now, does-the marriage law of the land, founded on this faculty, have anything to do with side issues? Dees it question the parties about having children or not having children? VVhat is this really but a publishment to the world, perhaps through the aid of alpriest, perhaps not, that each in the other has found their eeiijugal mate? If they have de- ceived each other, where is the fault? The lawbelieves them true until they prove themselves false. I would like to refer all persons interested in this subject to the history of two individuals contained in the Old Testa- ment. First, that of» Joseph as servant in Potiphar’s house (Genesis, chap. 39) and his marriage with Asenath. Second, that of Ammon, the kings son (II. Sam., 13). Let any woman ask herself which of these two characters she would choose for a. companion, and why she would choose one rather than the other; why she would choose one whose intensest love would not endure trial an hour, or why she would choose one whose love would last a lifetime—yea, more? Has human nature changed? Did Napoleon transfer his affection for Josephine when by proxy he ma.rrt'ed the Austrian princess? Did Josephine change hers when she signed that instrument of separation? VVhen the storms of adversity lowered over the pathway of the ambitious husband, which would ﬂy to the rescue? Does any one imagine that this affection that, unabated, endures the storms of life will not survive the calmsof death? L. R. E. V A NEW? CATECHISM. No. 1. What is aggravating? A human cat and dog tied to each Other. What is misery, slavery, degradation and humiliation? Intellect chained. to stupidity. , What istlze culmination of degradation, misery and suffer- ing? Married life. _ H What isa devil? The god who joined them together. VVhat is hell? A discordant family. I What are imps? Vice generated into human beings. What is crime‘? Effects of incarnated propensity. What is regeneration? An affort to straighten a crooked tree. , A What are evil causes? Ill-assorted marriages. What are sad effects? Vice generated into ﬂesh, blood and bone. , What are ultimates? Prisons and the gallows. “That are Sunday-school teachers? N urserymen. VVhat are preachers? Orchardists,istriving to graft a ﬁg into a wild thorn, honey locust or slippery elm. When is satan going about seeking whom he may devour? When he is hungering for more palatable food than he usu- ally gets. - ' Why is satan pictured with hoofsand horns? Because he requires to be armed both offensive and defensive, to meet the company he ﬁnds. \D. JENKINS. SOCIAL EVILS. EAs'r‘DoRsnr, Jan. 12, 1874. Wbodhull and 0.la.ﬂt'u’s WeeIcly—In looking over my old diaries to-day I found in one dated 1867, the following article entitled Social evils. You may do with it as you see fit; may God and the angels guide you in your glorious work. Atrue friend. A V i A. L. VVA11‘. “ In the Banner of L2'ght for Dec. 14, 1867, is an article under the head of Social Evils. It is a good article, and I wish that evey lover of humanity could read it. I wish especia.lly_that every orthodox minister could read it. Possibly some of them could be led to see that Sabbath breaking, unbelief, dancing, non-attendance upon Church services, prayer-meet- ings, etc., are not the great crying sins of this generation. “The people are tired of hearing sermons upon these threadbare, worn-out and falsely presented subjects. Why not, Christian ministers, treat your congregations for once to a discourse upon these real and actual sins? Why not talk to "those of them who are husbands and fathers, after this wise: ‘Brethren, everybody in this world has their faults. There is a good deal of evil and a good deal of good in everybody’s heart. But every one has a peculiarly beset- ting sin; a sin by which they are easily -tempted and led away. Now I believe, brethren, that the peculiar bcsetting Oi: we of its .t*%8?%ss=d% mi time at n WOODHULL &cLArLIi~xés WEEKLY. congregation, is, too frequent indulgence of the sexual pro- pensity in lawful wedlock. I do not charge many of you with inﬁdelity to your wives, but I do say that many of you are shortening the days of your eompanions—whom you have vowed before heaven and earth to love, cherish and protect——by too great an indulgence of this propensity. I dis- like to say anything that may appear harsh or unkind, or that is calculated to wound the feelings, but Ilam commanded to speak the whole truth, whether men will bear or forbear. I believe that there are thousands and tens of thousands of men who are killing their wives in the wayI have mentioned, ‘ just as surely and truly, and many of them as criminally, as if one should open a. vein upon his wife’s arm and extract daily therefrom a certain quantity of blood. All men who are conscious—and there are many such—that they. are thus killing their wives by inches, are just as guilty before God as if they took their lives by some other direct process.’ “It will probably be a long time before ministers will be brave enough, and free enough to their convictions, to speak such plain, homely, truthful, terrible Words as these. But the time will come when some onewill dare to talk thus. “ No great wrong was ever righted without plainly spoken words directed right at the root of the evil. No great revolu- tion was ever performed silently, and in the dark. “ Abuse of the sexual propensity——a propensity just as pure and holy, and as proper to be understood and talked about as any other propensity God has given us~—in various ways is the giant sin of our day, and leads directly and indirectly toimore misery and unhappiness that any other evil that can be named. ' “A good deal has been written of late upon the sin of abor- tion, and women are most sorely condemned for this truly terrible and unnatural manner for the prevention of off- spring. Buthow many abortions, think you, would be com- mitted, if husbands and those who are not husbands never had sexual intercourse without ‘consulting and honestly abiding by the wishes of the opposite sex? Here lies the worst of the matter. God has given woman a nature loving, conﬁding, dependent, tolerant of abuse——and men, thousands and millions of them, are low enough in the scale of being to take advantage of these God-given and beautiful charac- teristics of woman, and entail upon her the cares, pains, trials and responsibilities of maternity, without consulting her wishes, any more than if she had not the slightest inter- est in the matter. Well and truly has Henry Ward Beecher said, ‘ There is a. great deal of the animal about man yet.’ “ Now-I do not believe that women are angels. But as far as regards the matter under consideration, I believe she is ~ a. great deal purer and better than our own sex. _ Foeticism is a, crime. I have no apologies for it. But man is most to blame. What is the cure? VVhat is the remedy for this degradation, this deﬁlement, this leprosy of uncleanliness, with which our race is afflicted! In a few words it is this: All men, all women who are working for the good of human- ity, must learn this important lesson, and then teach it and preach it, viz. : The true road to the restoration of the soul to God is through the restoration of the body to purity. Let every man and woman and child seek to so live thattheir bodies may become a ﬁt temple for the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, and the great work is accomplished.” ' » ' “PHYSICIAN.” MOSES, ETC. FARMINGTON, Mich., Jan. 11, 1874. When Moses “ spoke his piece,” Mrs. Grundy acknowl- edged herself “inadequate to _ the occasion.” However, people quite generally signiﬁed their disapprobation; some in proper and temperate terms, and some in terms like the following: “When a man’s brains get so large as to endanger society, it is a pity that some one could not be found to‘blow them out.” “ That beastly monster, Moses Hull.” “She is just as bad as he; hanging would be too good‘ for her.” If all of Hull?s critics were as fulliof the murder spirit as some are, hewould not have to “ want to be a martyr” long. Some men have ﬁve or six dead wives. It is a wonder that Moses Hull had not been one of these men. Neither they nor their wives are “beastly monsters,” but they are victims of ignorance and of rules and regulations more arbitrary and cruel than any that obtain among beasts. [Some chance readers of the VYEEKLY may need this explanation: I do not believe that beasts have better rules and regulations than it is possible for human beings to adopt.] When we are about to conclude that Moses Hull is totally depraved, let us re- member that his wife still lives, notwithstanding some overly- good people think the earth is deﬁlcd by her presence. Soon after Moses said his say, the Battle Creek correspon- dent of the Detroit Tribune said in substance that when Moses quit the Adventists to join. the Spiritualists the for- mer were exceedingly wroth, and now that he had revealed his true character, , Wthe Spiritualists would be wrathy, too.‘ The correspondent ‘ventured this prediction: “Mrs. Hull, being a sensitive and sensible woman, will doubtless repu- diate Moses and his free-love nonsense.” Failing to “repu- diate,” she must now be set down as the exact opposite of sensitive and sensible——a transition moresudden and sur- prising than any mentioned by Darwin. Men alone make the laws by which a wean is hanged; but when ‘~‘ hanging is too good for her,” women pronounce and execute the severer penalty, the social anathema. Every now and then some drunkenwretch murders some woman because she will not remain his slave for life. A man jury merely acquits him, but woman crowns him a hero. Man’s inhumanity to man‘ is tender mercy compared to woman’s inhumanity to woman. Mrs. Grundy is forever asserting that every woman who does not toe her chalk mark is a pros- titute; and the vworld has decreed that prostitutes have no rights that the immaculate are bound to respect. ‘ For cruelty, the treatment of prostitutes by respectables A reminds me of the plan the Chinese are said to have of throw- ing living infants into charnel vaults. And. agasiﬂg ii? -”£'6}11i111d7S, me the old—fashioned hell. ’ A “ Bar in the deep where d3;!‘1§ﬂ9Ss,(lWGll§'<e iiilm laid in iw,en~or Sfiirl, pier, 3. ‘yr -...!l ’. ,__ L};-v*--~ Jan. 31,1874. Justice has built a dreadful hell, And laid the stores of vengeance there. “ Eternal plagues and heavy chains, Tormenting racks and ﬁery coals, And darts to inﬂict immortal pains Dyed in the blood of damned souls.” The good but ensnared and abandoned girl is placed in the same category with ‘the “ aged sinner ’.’¢- “ Behold the aged sinner goes, Laden with guilt and heavy woes, Down to the regions of the dead, ” With endless curses on his head. “ Tempests of angry ﬁre shall roll To blast the rebel worm, And beat upon the naked soul In one eternal storm.” . And that is just what Mrs. Grundy is doing to prostitutes and to every woman that she impales upon her spit. If ever I am uncharitable, may it be in denunciation of the uncharitable, but—— . \ V “ Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, Nor deal damnation round the land U” each I=judge Thy foe.” GEORGE ROBERTS. MATRIMONIAL WRECKS. BY WARREN CHASE. Every street in our large cities and every highway in the country is lined with the strewn fragments of matrimonial wrecks, and yet we are warned to keep our unholy tongues silent and our pens still on the causes of these broken frag- ments, while priest and lawyer, hypocrite and libertine con- iinue to increase the supply of heart-broken, head-broken and health-broken remnants of inharmonial sexual relations. The ﬁrst object that attracts our.« attention is the swarms of physically, morally and spiritually diseased and deformed children, mostly undesired and unwelcome, that are forced into life, and many luckily into death,‘ through the gate of marriage; and we must not even propose to lessen these by giving the woman power to refuse to bear them, except at the risk of being branded by every lustful tyrant’ with .:the most obnoxious terms his vulgar vocabulary can furnish. The people are called upon to defend the holy institution that practices them, and assured by the wise, blind guides that soon as the legal slavery is abolished the swarm of un- welcome children will be increased, and they, the honest men, will be taxed to support them, utterly ignoring the fact that woman will no longer be a slave but be by law or society protected against such lustful tyrants as new force her into maternity, recklessly and against her choice and health. Well do we know that the present system of mar- riage laws give three times the license for children out of wedlock that social freedom would, yet four-ﬁfths of these miserable specimens are born in the legalized institution, and most of them are christened by a Christian church that cannot save them from the hell they inherited. The next class of fragments that attracts our attention is the numerous tombstones that record the early deaths of young wives and mothers, who often follow each other to the num- ber of three or four from the same husband’s fatal embrace, and if we seek the cause we usually ﬁnd a man of coarse, sensual, but vigorous physical structure, who almost in- variably sought the very opposite (to be sure that he had got a pure wife), and thus sent the delicate ﬂowers of affection to the graveyard to make room for another, often looked out before the black bandage is taken oﬁ the hat. No voice of warning is suﬁicient to keep these delicate forms out of such arms of deathly gripe, so long as marriage is the only market for which girls are raised, and the only destiny they can look to for a home or a decent funeral, and the only place where the natural, maternal yearning of the female heart can be satisﬁed without disgrace, abuse and abandonment. A sad picture this from the graveyard, reader. , “Muse and ponder on this half-eifaced, inscription." The next group that attracts our attention is the multitude of separated and still living parties, whose testimony goes to show that God did not put together those the priests marry inxhis name and order to live together till death sepa- rates them and their poor souls be set free once more to volunteer in future unions. or reject them at will with no more tyrant law to bind “the gentle to the ‘savage mind where love abhors the sight.” Let the separated speak of. ,matrimony. There are witnesses enough now of that class: some having tried it several times can give double testimony._ Read the legal trials for separation and the contests for the children, and then tell us why the parties, who are alone the interested, should not have the legal power to separate in- stead of carrying it to courts and feeing lawyers and judges. The next sad picture that meets our gaze is the living and standing monuments of matrimonial infelicity and discord —~-teaiudropping, heart-broken, health-broken, vow-broken, sorrow-stricken wives of fretful and tyrannical husbands, bearing unwelcome children biennially, half of which drop into the grave in childhood, and half of the other half not fit to raise~—curses to themselves and to society——ﬁre—scathed with paternal heritage of tobacc0,’s nerve-curse that poisoned both mother and child; washing, cooking,’ scrubbing, or, Worse still. gossiping. tatling. prying and scolding along the line of life, while the “lord and master” is prattling with other females or speculating with the “ bulls and bears,” or, better still, plowing and planting with the cattle and hogs. Poor, sad-hearted mortals! love died the next year after marriage and .waits beyond the grave for resurrection. But passion and power lived‘ on in the golden bondage that proved a. galling chain of iron. Not all marriages are such, says a defender of the institution. Well do I know it, and the exceptions are worthy of note, for they are the oases in the matrimonial desert -that would not" be destroyed by social freedom nor by cultivating the whole. social globe with a better product. It is interesting to hear the lordly tyrants 9‘ the 1“-3‘? Washed Portion of this class dilate on the sensual r vvocnncm. a (‘§i.«At‘LIN"S vV"'EEKi.ﬂ_. A " character of the advocates of social freedom and danger of moral destruction by the freedom of woman from sexual bondage and social slavery. These are the wise conservators of virtue and moral purity, backed by a class of hypocrites who live double lives——one for the public and the other in private with their paramours. We know scores of this latter class among Spiritualists, nearly every one of whom is harping and carping in public and private about the abominations of Moses Hull and the horrible doctrines of \VVoodhullism, like the thief with hispockets full of stolen goods running with the crowd crying lustily, “ Stop thief, stop thief.” They are well known to the angels, and their masks will be taken off so that the honest and deceived multitude will know them as they are. They are barking lustily at Moses Hull now, and it reminds us.of the dogs in I-Iudibras—— “ Soon a wonder came to light, ‘ Which showed the rogues they lied. The man recovered from the bite, The dog it was that died.” One more class andlwe leave the picture. The heart- \ _broken, soul yearning, unmarried and unmated. A specimen of these will suffice for the female side of our picture. Many V years ago we made the acquaintance of an ardent and affec- tionate maid of over forty, whose wealth and education, we know, must have brought her many offers of marriage, and we asked the reason she was single, and she told us that an elder sister tried it, and still lived in wealth and luxury, but a heart-broken and sickly mother, often for months unable to leave her room, and as she told her sister the reason and her experience, she warned her with the frightful picture. That kept her out of the snare; and as she spent much time in the house of this sister she was obliged to ﬁght and bolt that husband from her own person. MARRIAGE GONE TO snnn. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, delivered her nineteenth lecture in Denver, Colorado. She says, that at present, polygamy is principally fed by the foreign element, Swedes and Danes. Many times wives are thrown aside and a new one taken, sim- ply for the work she can perform as dairy—ni'aid, housekeeper orcook. It is cheaper than paying as well as boarding help. Polygamous husbands are widely distributed. Brigham Young has one wife in Provo, ﬁfty miles south of Salt Lake, and another in St.George, three hundred and ﬁfty miles away. Many of the wives of apostles provide for themselves,and some support their husbands; the four wives of a bishop sustain ing that divine by washing and house-cleaning. Husbands dis- criminate in the treatment of their women. Mary Ann An- gel, Brigham’s first wife, lives in retirement and neglect, while Amelia, his favorite has, every luxury and indulgence, and lives ina palace which cost $100,000. Neglected wives, learn to hate their husbands, and their children sympathize with them. A little girl said one day to‘ her mother: “Mamfna, I do wish God had made men enough, so that every little girl could have a father to love her.” Mormons sometimes marry their sisters, a bishop married his brother’s daughter; another wedded six of his neices, and there was an instance where mother, daughter and grandmother were married to one man. Mrs. Young’s picture of polygamy is certainly not an amiable one.~—Day’s Doings. I WHOM no GREAT MEN MARRY? W"omen, of course. But they show the same diversity of taste that is seen in the lower ranks, and on the whole make worse mistakes. They, however, generally show the same sense in choosing wives that they show in managing other people’s affairs, whether it be good or bad. John Howard, the great philanthropist, married his nurse. She was alto- gether beneath him in social life and intellectual capacity, and beside this, was ﬁfty-two years old, while he was but twenty-ﬁve, He would not take N o for an answer, and they were married, and lived happily together until her death, which occurred two years afterward. Peter the Great, of Russia, married a peasant girl. She made an excellent wife and a sagacious empress. Humboldt married a poor girl be- cause he loved her. Of course they were happy. Shakespeare loved and Wedded a farmer’s daughter. She was faithful to her vow, but we can hardly say the same of the great bard himself. Like most of the great poets, heshowed too little discrimination in bestowing his affection on the other sex. Byron married Miss Millbank to get her money to pay his debts. It turned out a bad shift. Robert Burns married a farm-girl, with whom he fell in love while they worked to- gether in the plow-field. -He, too, was irregular in his life, and committed the most serious mistakes in conducting his domestic affairs. Milton married the daughter of a country squire, but lived with her only a short time. He was an aus- tere, exacting, literary recluse,while she was arosy, romping country lass, who could not endure the restraints put upon her, and so they separated. Subsequently, however, she re- turned, and they lived tolerabl y happy. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were cousins, and about the only example in the long line of English monarchs wherein the marital vows were sacredly observed and sincere aﬁection existed. VVash- ington married a widow with two children. It is enough to say of her that she was -worthy of him, and that they lived as married folks should, in perfect harmony. John Adams married the daughter of a Presbyterian clergyman- Her father objected on account of John being a lawyer; he had a bad opinion of the morals of the profession. General Sher- man married the daughter of Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, whe was a member of General Taylor’s cabinet. This alone would have been a good start in life for any young man.—.Ewchangc. I WISH IT WERE RESPECTABLE. I wish it were respectable for men and women to be true to themselves, and live according to Natur-e’s laws; to think, speak and act for themselves, in spite of books, false education, hollow society, and the arbitrary rules of salaried priests, who are supported by the ill-gotten gains of the rich and the hard earnings of the poor. - I Wish it were respectable for women. to learn the laws of fix their life and «being; to learn that Nature made them right, and that infringement upon her laws b‘rings its sure pen- alty. , I wish itwere respectable for women to town themselves after, as well as before, marriage, and to underst-anidingly realize‘ that man has no right to rob her of that freedom which naturallybelongs to her, and which she, as an indi- vidual, sentient being, ought to demand and claim. I wish Saint Custom and his wife Propriety were both dead and buried, then children could be taught to sing Pro- gression’s notes without fear; they could be taughtin our common schools the laws of Nature and destiny; they could capacities and power of attainments in the future. I wish it were respectable for every man and woman to so understand themselves that they could be a law unto themselves; then, I opine, there would be less hypocrisyiand rascality in high places; less chains forged to perpetuate slavery, social and political. I wish it were respectable for men to behave themselves, and allow woman to speak her honest sentiments, upon a public rostrum, withoutbeing hissed at, and ﬁnally grossly insulted and obliged to retire, as in the case of Victoria C. Woodhull, at Ann Arbor, not long since. I wish it were respectable for such men, whose souls are as mean as those who disgraced themselves and the uni- versity to which they belonged, to be marked and ignbred by every justice—loving citizen in the world. . Talk of freedom! ’Tis but a name, and weak at that! I wish. it were respectable for manto respect and honor his brother man, however he‘ may honestly “diﬁer-in opinions and in the manner of expression, and not cause the arrest soul is above such an act, and, in ﬁne, could not blaspheme, ‘because he is a law unto himself. I wish it were respectable to lay aside books, however time-honored and sacred they may be, and reason upon all things; reason upon Nature, the formation of the earth, the philosophy of life, the science of death, the constant and eternal progression of all things. I wish it were respectable to love all days alike, and not compel theilittle ones to attend Sunday school, and cram down their mental throats stories which their common sense rebels at, as impossible, and, if they question its truth, are hushed with, "You must believe, and not question God’s Holy Word.” Out upon such teachings! Away with them! and let the young be taught that they have a right to all truth in heaven or earth; and that no power can limit or bind the mind, as it soars for light, truth and knowledge. It claims that right, and when the world learns that it is respectable to be wise, they will lay aside their masks, and learn from themselves, and stand upon their real true worth as individuals. -», i M. L. D. SHERMAN. Annixn, Mich., January 9, 1874. MAG-DALEN’S PROTECTIVE UNION PROJECT. Dear Weekly-—The wholeindustrial world seems bent. on revolution, protection, equal recognition and justice to each particular branch of labor, interest and traiﬁc. Every oc- cupation’ seems to be on a strike. To, promote the interests of each particular vocation, each class resolves itself into a protective association or fraternity, which in many cases unite for more general protection and the promotion of the whole labor fraternity. J - But with all the leagues, industrial associations, protective unions, etc., etc., there are still monopolies and there is still injustice somewhere. The very existence of these protective bodies is a sufficient voucher to the fact that somebody con- siders himself aggrieved. .Whatever is a legitimate occupation is and will be looked upon as worthy of protection. Hence the honest world must look with admiration and approval upon any system which has the intent to alleviate the wrongs, dissipate the disad- vantages and exalt the method by which the producer and furnisher of every supply may be best able to meet the de- mands of the consumer and purchaser, without stultif/ying cupation would of necessity encompass him. In the protection of individual rights, which may base their legitimacy either "upon the acknowledgment by law and license, or by custom and popular demand, so popular as to have become universal almost, neither the law governing nor the prejudices opposing have any right to discriminate between the advantages to be gained by the purchaser and the abuses’ that may obtain through excess of the purchase. So long as license is granted to the liquor dealer, so long will it be a legitimate business to deal out poison to the pur- chaser, and so long will it be the duty of the government that accepts its revenue taxes as its recognition of the legiti- vendee. . Therefore we have not at this time the desire to slay either the one or the other, since it must be a fact too eminently recognized, that whether it be a wrong to purchase or a wrong to sell, there isdemand, and that is the regulation of the sale. To stop the evil is to prohibit not the purchase nor the sale, but the deInand—:—the appetite. The same may be said in regard to the regulation of the Social evil as is argued in relation to the liquor traffic, and both should base their “regulations” (if evils can ever be- come regulated so as to become tolerated vices or negative virtues) upon the suppression or decrease of the demand, and it is in behalf of the Magdalen class whose rights have been violated and whose individual interest has been out- raged, not alone by popular prejudices but by the divine (?)‘ ordinances of the law and the patrons of their profession, the law-makers, the officials of the law’s enforcement, that I would plead. ‘ ‘ ~ ’ / , There is no one profession, business or occupation in the world so largely patronized and sustained by public dignita- ries-—from priestly pulpit, presidential and judicial benches, to petty constabulary oﬁicials and police purloiners--that is \ be taught the inﬁnite depths of their own spiritswof their A‘ of an honest inﬁdel upon the charge of blasphemy, whose ' or debasing the individual beyond the limit or drift, his oc-, macy of the traﬁic, to protect the vender as ‘well as the . 6 j _ I gwoonnuttsga. ULAFLIISWS WEEKLY. Jan. 31, 1874. A as wantonly encroached upon by trespass and unjust laws as that of the professional Magdalen.‘ A I ~ Men confess their sex so wanton as tomake the existence of the brothel a 1”‘ necessity,” inorder to better insure pro- tection and safety to the “respectable ” wives, sisters and daughters of the men requiring the “ necessity.” Men who are willing to make such a graceful acknowledg- ment in compliment to themselves, should be as willing to pay tribute of respect to the institutions that save their own families from sexual pillage, and be as ready to protect Mag- dalens from the outrages of unjust laws, as they are to screen a brother from the exposure of his “little irregularities.” Since they will not do this, the prostitute women must do what they can to protect themselves. , The brothel system has resolved itself into -a traffic so ex- tensive. as to meet with the same consideration of competi- tion that all other schemes of women have had to meet at the hands of men. Yet how seldom do we ﬁnd either the male keeper of the bagnio or the man prostitute arraigned before the police court to answer to charges that are criminating women constantly‘ for the same oﬁense. ‘Nhen a city treasury gets low of funds, and the aldermanic gullet needs l7.'qm'd—at'£ng, it requires only a suggestion to the faithful ( ?_) watch-dogs of social safety, and who, belted and clubbed, are a section of the official “ring,”'to arouse awhole district of “necessary evils” from their slumbers, and, half- clad, rush them to the stations -to await trial. Breaikfastless and shivering with terror and consciousness of conviction, it is all the same to them whether they plead guilty or not guilty. There is a ﬁne to pay or the bridewell or workhouse in prospect. The police and justices know their customers so well as to be able to measure their purses by the run of patronage they have had; and graduate their ﬁnes to the full- est extent of their abilityto pay. The lobby sharks, professional vultures (who live off‘ the speculations of such generosity and their winning bets), who are as ever present at police courts as reporters and lawyers, are prompt to catch the signiﬁcance of an exorbitant ﬁne that cannot be met, and they offer, for a consideration of ‘perhaps double the amount, to pay the ﬁnes, and so the \ money goes into the pocket of the fat oﬁcer, , while the woman goes to her haunt of desolation to wait till the wheel of. circumstances brings around the oﬁice-holder to her door, who, “ for value received,” pays back again a fraction of the . previous ﬁne which avirtuous court and a virtuous people required him to exact qf the outlawed. women. And this system of “pulling” the houses of professional‘ prostitutes resolves itself into such repetitions as this, till . there is little left but the scantiest outﬁt in the rooms of the harlot, who knows not how to protect herself from the ag- gressions that arepracticed upon her, nor the possible road from her present ills to a better position. Both are to her seem- ing impossibilities, and she chooses rather to bear the ills she has than to ﬂy to others that she knows not of. Since society is so bitter and discriminatory in regard to receiving these prostitutes in its iniinaculate midst, and offering them recognition and support in more choice and honored vocations, and since it is for the security of society’s chaste women and to the necessities of society’s wisest men I that these women become subject, it is time their voice ' should be raised unitedly against outrages continually made upon their liberties, their property and their persons. Let these women know their power in the land and once strike together for justice, and society will be made to feel the blow. I They should form themselves into a Magdalen Protective Union,and be ready to stand by each other in de- fense of each other and their own’ interest. If the Magdalens in the country were to unite, form them- selvesinto a combined organization with the determination to resist such contemptible injustice as is daily thrust upon them by arrests made for no other purpose than to rob them, and unjust taxation when they are arrested and ﬁned; and were they to stand up and demand proofs of the charges and insist on the equal answer and commitment of their male associates, and resist to the utmost any crimination without proper testimony, theywould soon changethe tide of oppres- sion at least a little from pursuit Of them- And again, when the social evil is said to be regulated by j the license system, let them insist on the registry of the ‘men prostitutes who visit them, and let, each hostess keep a book of record and each visitors name be placed ‘upon its ‘pages each occasion of his visit. No doubt this new order of things would reveal some astounding facts and perhaps oc- casion some dissent among the men. But then they might not be ashamed to let it .be known that they are patrons of institutions their votes and influence have made legal—oh 1101 Again, it might be urged by the Magdalens themselves that this system would effectually break up their business. Well, to such as are in earnest in§their protest and disgust for the business and their longing to get away from it, I would say you can well afford to lose your present vocation if by the less an equality is recognized and a better vocation con- sequently ready for your a008l3t‘&ﬂ03- . Still, thereare other reasons that oifer themselves as more ’ objectionable to the trafﬁc than seems apparent by the bare suggestions preceding. Said a Magdalen in answer to a query the other day: “' Why, the times are fearfully hard upon us now, and getting worse all the time. You may not know it, but the facts are, the respectable married women are takingour custom away from us. They don’t even patronize the assignation houses as they used to, for every one who inclines makes it convenient to- receive her guests at home.” _ Had these Magdalens have felt assured of the co-operative ‘ strength and sympathy of women of position in society in the furtherance of their protective interests, they had long ago deﬁed the mob rule of these pseudo maintainers of the A public peace and good morals. And. right here I want to say , to my unfortunate sisterhood, that there is already 3 noble band of women who have pledged themselves to aid them in such a proposed protective union. M The Magdalens, too,. are, so far as consulted, ready to unite, and there is a determination and zeal manifested in their willingness to co-operate that means success. As also there is a ﬁxed decision on the part of the women outside to work for their protection under the laws that now so un- justly oppressthem. if The work of emancipation meets always with a tide of op- position, but the wheel of justice and the right never turns backward on its axis. The work of woman’s emancipation does not pause to take breath nor look back when it over- takes a prostitute. By and by I hope to ‘be able to more fully report progress. Meantime the co-operation by sug- gestion, sympathy or assistance in the work, either from the Magdalens themselves or women brave enough outside their lists to favor the movement, is solicited. Already letters that would touch the sympathy and excite the admiration of the most prejudiced have drifted intomy hands from_the women in whose behalf the work has been inaugurated. * Address Addie L. Ballou, Terre Haute, lnd. MARRIED, BUT NOT A WIFE. BY MICHAEL SCANLON. Oh, pity the woman sold—- Sold unto death in life—— Wedded to lust and gold- , Married, but not a wife! . Think of the wild unrest * When the sleepless passions rave, With her head on her husband’s breast ’ And her heart in her lover’s grave. Under the starlight—old, Sweet, dim lights of love- The mystic story was told—— First told in heaven above- Told in the passionate sighs, The low, rich music of love—— ‘ Told by the souliin the eyes- Told by the voice of the dove. Oh, the ecstatic night, Which wrapped as in a dream, With its dim and delicate light, And the drowsy croon of the stream! Why did they ever awake From love’s delicious sleep? , One proud heart to break, The other to live and weep‘! Love has no eyes to see, No watchful ear to hear; Age, with its aches and dree. Has the eyes and ears of fear; And thus the stolen hours t Were missed, and the reveling thieves Were caught in their nuptial bowcrs, In thebliss of the dewy eVes./ She to her altar-doom, ,yVedded to age and place; , E, He td a bloody tomb—— ‘” Child of a plebeian race! Behold her in pallor stand, And pity the social slave, Her hand in her husband’s hand, Her heart in her lover’s grave! Oh, hoary wisdom which weighs Hot blood in your icy marts, Filling yourxwaning days With the ‘grief of broken hearts! Love is but merchandise, A thing to be bought and sold, And the wounded spirit that dies You change into godly gold. Oh, that insatiate things Can waste up the springs of youth! That age, with its sunless wings, Can shroud all the hopes of youth! For love lives only when free, - Dies in a golden cage, And youth is a headlong sea, That breaks on the rocks of age. Sold in the social mart; Wedded to death in life; Acting the woman’s part In “ Marriage without a Wife !” Yet pity the wild unrest, When the sleepless passions rave, With her head on her husband’s breast And her heart in her lover’s grave! THE WIFE MARKET. A raw REMARKS BY A WOMAN. “We ladies had a discussion the other evening, and of course it was about marriage. I contended that of all places, a ball-room was the worst to seek a wife in. Only take an unbiassed view of a modern ba1l—room, where one sex dresses in sober colors, and in such a purely conventional way that the coat, waistcoat and pantaloons of any one man would serve perfectly well for every other of his size, while the other sex displays all the colors of the rainbow, and every one of the richer toilets an amount of study, expense and time that only the initiated can possibly comprehend. Now what does the wise observer understand by such a spectacle? Simply that women are tricked out for sale, while the men are /buyers, who carry their attractions in their purses or in their bank accounts. The question of modesty or immodesty is idle enough; so also is that of morality, for whatever is the general custom will always be moral in the eyes of the majority.”—Day’s Doings, N. Y. {SENSIBLE ADVICE. , V ' i FAIRHAVEN, Mass., January 5, 1874. Dear Weekly--I am an old man, but wish to tell my story. Years gone by, in the city of New Bedford, famous for its business in the whale ﬁshery, a certain young Whaling captain married ‘a beautiful girl, and after the honeymoon was over he embarked on one of those long voyages Of Years your faithful friend. in length. He returned again to the one he loved so dear; but alas, how changed his condition. She to whom he had given his heart and his affections, had been untrue to him. What a sad dilemmal. VVhat course to take he did not know, but concluded he would consult the owner of the ship, the being a’ man of sound /sense and good’ judgment. “ Well,” said the old man, “if you are very sure that in your long ab- sense you have kept yourself pure, I advise you to leave her; ‘ otherwise I advise you to return again to your wife.” It is needless to say he ‘took the latter course. J ONA. Mosnnn. ‘=‘“:~===-,-*-+*‘®*“* ' /in EQUALITY. I Dear WeekZy~I- feel that I confer a favor on the intelli- gent men and women who look eagerly each week for the advent of your paper, by sending you a portion of an ad- dress delivered in behalf of the High School Alumni, of which she is a member, by Miss Margaret F. Buchanan, upon the occasion of the presentation to the Board of Education of the portrait of Professor Cheney, who so bravely fought _ the battle and won the victory which resulted in the admis- sion of girls, upon equal terms with boys, to this institution —-the doors of which had been closed upon them during I the ﬁrst four years of its existence. , Miss Buchanan is a native of Detroit, and is a living refu- tation of the adage, that “a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.” This lady is now employed upon the Chicago Times, and is one of the most brilliant of it corps of able writers. Her address upon the occasion in question evinces schol- arship, breadth of thought and clearness of perception; but those who read it will of course lose the charm of manner, and the magnetic effect of voice and presence which accom- panied its utterance. . I should have sent you the whole address, but, knowing that your pages are already crowded, I felt that that_ portion which referred to the presentation and to reminiscences of mere local interest might be omitted, leavinggonly that which has a universal application, and, therefore, cannot fail to in- terest those who are watching anxiously for all indications of growth among intelligent and cultured women reputedv conservative. ‘ Miss Buchanan simply reiterates opinions long since euun- ciated by her sisters East and West, but then every radical thought that has found expression in this country, upon in- vestigation, proves to be only the echo of that which furnish- ed the bigotry of a preceding age with a martyr, and the reiteration in this instance is so classic and abounds with allusions to women whose names, though gracing the pages of history, have rarely if ever been cited as illustrations of the validity and justice of our claims, that I cannot but feel that it deserves to be preserved in ‘the paper whose weekly visit I hail with such genuine pleasure. I am surrounded by the most rigid conservatism. The few persons in this city who are supposed to be tolerant of pro- gressive‘ thought, only tolerate it, and I could not be more completely isolated from those with whose views I sympa- thize if I lived in New Zealand, and I should enjoy advan- tages of climate that I do not possess here. Those, however, who still hold me in remembrance may be assured that every pulse of my heart beatstrue to the principles I have so long advocated, and that in my temporary exile I take diligent note of the signs of the times, and am, as of yore, their and LAURA Curry SMITH. DETROIT, Jan. 5, 1874. ‘ The following is an extract from the address alluded to above, and delivered on the evening of January 3d, by Miss Margaret F. Buchanan, before the Board of Education of the Detroit High School: The school was then, as I am sure it has continued to be, singularly free from petty jealousies, from those contempti- ble distinctions which poverty and riches, social position, sex, nationalty and religion create inpresumably higher and clearer spheres. No laurel ‘was ever earned by any student of the High School in those days whom all the rest would not have been delighted to crown. The boys will quickly re- spondmto the assertion that the girls made as proﬁtable a use of its course of study as they have done, and have reflected as much lustre on the institution. Two of these girls snatched the honors of Vassar College from hundreds of young ladies trained in Eastern houses where Latin and Greek lie like soap around the house. Another became a teacher of French and German in this school, and is now assisting in the civil- izing of a principality of pedantic young savages at Ann Arbor. A fourth, Hattie Goodell, had achieved an enviable reputation in the art school at Philadelphia, when the palette fell from her hands into those of death. A few dozen have entered that crowded thoroughfare of the sex, teach- ing, and are heroically wearing away for a few hundred a year without the right to strike. One is now engaged in the medical schools of the Continent, acquiring that superior skill and knowledge which will enable her to return to the city where her father paid heavy taxes, and accept in exchange the cowardly snub of the local medical society. The largest number have entered that ﬁrst, last, highest and noblest profession of woman, motherhood; and the ruddy-checked children, born of their strength and intelligence, will be taught the lesson which too many of the sons of the last generation failed to acquire, namely, that their mothers are their fathers’ intellectual peers. If the intellectual ‘equality of men and women were now undisputed; if,in its debate, prejudice and supP0S€d ‘Wadi- tion were not offered in place of reason and argument; if woman’s labor were not still reckoned less valuable than man’s, with no regard for the skill, the education and the necessities of the former, or the igI101'3i110e and 130131 degra- dation of the latter; if all the means of livelihood were open to men and women on equal terms ; if a large portion of the best element in the ‘community did not look upon the , ctwovman movement” with timid apprehension or open alarm»; if the Church, blindto its own history, deaf to the most eloquent voices from its great universities and deepest / I. 1-‘-4‘ - Fur» ,1 l 3. l xi 3 «Jan. 31, 1874. :§WOO.DHULL &.\CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY, , ‘ 7 . cloisters, did not misconceive what women desire, its obtuse’ ministers ‘confusing terms and spreading over the whole body of virtuous, aspiring women theiinauseous odium en- gendered by a few bold and wicked of the sex; if the women in the teachers’ profession were not shamefully underpaid, and those in law and medicine escaped patronizinglpity and malicious sneer, it would be unnecessary for me to answer the key-note of thought which this occasion irresistibly sug- gests. But I would surely be ungrateful for the privileges of these class-rooms, and a coward in the picket—guard of my sex if, fearing the misjudgment of pious censorswho daily disclaim a parody on Christianity, and who use the potenti- alities of the religious ofﬁce for the enforcement of their private opinions as authorized doctrine, if I failed to declare to-night calmly, and with the utmost respect for those who dissent from us, what I know to be the opinion of the gradu- ates of the school concerning the grievously misunderstood question of “ woman’s rights.” , We conceive them to be essentially three: The right to equal education; the right to unrestricted labor in all the professions and occupations for which they ﬁt themselves’; the right to the same pay as men ‘for the same service rendered. Do these demands shock morality? Is danger lurking in them, waiting to assail the marriage tie and disrupt domes- tic peace? Will the children born of mothers holding these principles be more brutal or less modest than those of women who cannot read or write, or of that other class who are per- mitted to attain the rudiments and Whodevote their leisure to slander and malignity and society vices? VVill paying "a woman the same sum of money as a man for doing the same work, in the same way, in the same length of time, shock God’s sense of justice? If a man receive $1,500 a year as principal of a school, and a woman be appointed to the place and the work, will the foundations of the universe cry out in pain that chaos will come back if she be paid $1,500? What is there in these three demands—equal education, unre- stricted labor, equal pay~——which is not in accord with human reason, with moral equity, with Christianity? What human being outside an insane asylum dare, deny them? None, say we all to-night! But to-morrow, when some woman applies for the privilege of studying medicine, some cautious man will warn her through the press or from the pulpit, and when she answers, that God made the human body, that it is the temple of the Holy Ghost, that all things are pure to the pure, and the shame be to him who evil thinks, he will loftiiy decline to continue the correspondence on the ground that his opponent is a woman, that he does not like to be hard on the weak, and that he is a gentleman of the old school! , These gentlemen of the old school would not like to have their sisters study medicine, or practice at the bar. They always have something to say about their sisters when they want to keep women out of diversiﬁed occupations, and by bringing their sisters to the fore they fancy the argument is clinched, These dogmatic shepherds forget that their sisters are comfortably provided for, while there are many Women who have no brothers to provide for them in any manner, and who prefer to earn their bread rather than accept it as a public or private gift. Let these fortunate gentlemen of the old school continue to provide for their sisters in eleemosy- nary ease and the luxury of the collection plate; but let the gentlemen of the new school qualify other people’s sisters to take care of themselves, and do it through better agencies than scrubbing ﬂoors or supplying institutions of sin, or starving in the crammed and famished ranks of sewing- woinen. Horace Greeley fought the woman suifragists so per- sistently and quixotically that he would not permit Elizabeth Cady Stanton to be so called in the New York Tribune, but invariably alluded to her in the presumably subordinate role of Mrs. Henry W. Stanton. But he understood this question of labor thoroughly, and said: “ N 0 amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy or benevolence will render the con- dition of our working-women what it should be so long as the kitchen and the needle are substantially their only re- sources.” There is a curious insect which furnishes a Wonderful pre- sentiment of the nice, dainty, successful woman gossip. It is the colcopteron or whirligig. The nice, dainty gossip is rarely “caught,” nor is the Whirligig. It has several pairs of eyes, some directed up, some down, so that, ﬂoating along the surface, it sees the ﬁsh which menaces it from the depths, and the bird that threatens to swoop down upon it. It pi- rouettes hither and thither, sparkling like diamonds, seeing everything above, everything below, and is too agile for de- ’ tection. Each of us knows several pretty whiligigs, especially around the churches. The woman the gentleman of the old school prefers a sister is the litellula or Oregon ﬂy. Origi- 113113’ it 18 311 ignoble larva, slimy andcovered with mud, , wiggling on marine bottom. - That is the typical savage wo- man, the Spartan helot, an Eastern concubine. A chivalric gentleman of the old school would not have such a woman in his society; so the litellula mounts an aquatic plant, casts oh its slimy gown, spreads irridescent wings of gauze and ﬂies away, a » pretty, graceful, good-for-nothing butterﬂy—the “ sister” of the gentleman of the old school. He forgets that the new creature is only the old with its dress changed; that his peaceful, graceful, genteel lady is but the metamorphosed slave of Greece, the sullied Vestal of the empire, the brutal ‘ woman of Goth, the degraded drudge who, in Germany, is yoked with a donkey to the plow, both driven by a whip in the husband’s hands, who prefers his wife in the 1a,va form, Another class of men prefer beautiful, silent women, worthy of exhibition on certain occasions, and wholly incapable of saying anything. Another class ramble into horticulture, and seek their favorite ladies, like Tennyson, in a. garden. Here is Walter Savage Lander, assuring himself that “wo- men, like plants, ﬁnd their softness and tenderness in the shade.” Dothe Sisters of Charity and Mercy, onthe blaz- ing. Crashing battle-ﬁeld, derive their softness from the shade? Many of these are bronzed like Crimean veterans- the browner the tenderer. It would be delightful for women if they were all blossoming vines, twined around sturdyand maJ'6Sti0 03ék_S.“0ak and vine lovingly branching out together Alas, we are not vines; you are not oaks! Life is not a met- aphor! VVe all have to travel the high road of activity, fac- ing the sun, blinded by the dust, elbowed and pushed by the crowd, drenched by the rain! She is the tenderest woman who can bear the greatest tempests without yielding. To be tender is something else than to be frail! An Englishman, who was a jurist when he wrote of law and less than a man when he talked of woman, says, “A woman’s noblest station is retreat.” The Shah of Persia, on his recent visit to the noble lord’s country, slapped the noble lord’s-spirit on the shoulder, and practically indorsed the opinion by oﬂering $30,000 for three women to decorate his retreat at Teheran. lt was a Frenchman who exclaimed: “To describe woman the pen. should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper be dried with dust gathered from the wings of a butterﬂy.” Think of describing Susan B. Anthony that way! “The empire of woman,” writes another Frenchman in fact, if not in country, “is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. , Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.” Ah, the real Woman, the woman whom God intended to be by the side of man during the morning, the noon, the night of his existence, to be his equal, his love, his wife, is not the woman of heathen Greece, or the grovel- ing grub of later degradation, is not the gaudy insect nor the Frcnchman’s passionate plaything. The real woman is as di- vine—the product of the same divinity in heart and brain and soul—as he. She has to bear equallythe toil of life, the heat and burden of the day; and they who would deprive her of any means whereby she may bear the burden better, are rob- bers and pirates! . The highest education makes man no- blest; so does it make woman. The most practical education makes man usefulest; so does it make woman. The ’ﬁnest education makes man tenderest; so does it make Woman, Whauever contributes to the intellectual greatness, the moral worth of the one, enlarges the intellect and beautiﬁes the character of the other. ' ‘ But the prevalent idea that this demand for the equal ed- ucation of men and women is a new one—a revolutionary demand—is the most absurd of the unreasonable notions connected with this question. The demand is for a revival, not for a novelty; for restoration, not for revolution. Lioba, a nun of the eighth century, taught civil and canon law, the- ology and philosophy, with the admiration and indorsement of the bishops. Hildegarde, a German abbess of Bingen-on- the-Rhine‘, was called the Saint Bernard of women, on ac- count of her sanctity and eloquence. Women studied in the great Catholic university schools of the Middle Ages, side by 'side with men; yet hands are raised in detestation over the inroad of women at Ann Arbor. Not only did girls study in these university schools, but women held professorships there. Novella D’Andrea taught canon law, in the Univers- ity of Bologna for ten years. Her father was the eminent canonist, and she succeeded to the chair. _ In 1579 Christina Pasani was professor of jurisprudence there. Lauro Bassi, whose profound scholarship obtained the university degree of doctor of laws, was appointed professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, in 1732, and taught in the Univers- ity of Rome, as well as in that of Bologna. laymen and good women lament aloud about heresy, and novelty, and revolution, when women apply for admission to Oxford and Cambridge! What terror is there not, what con. tumely, what astonishment, when women sit under the same clinical lectures with men! Did the world ever hear of any- thing so frightful? It certainly did, for French, Italian and German girls studied medicine in the University of Bologna, side by side with them, and women, as well as men, gave the medical lectures! One of the most distinguished doctors and lecturers on anatomy was Anna Morandi, who, ﬁrst a stu- dent, was named to the professor’s chair in 1760. Her learn- ing and fame were not limited to one city. She was invited to Milan, to London, to St. Petersburg. This University of Bologna, like the cotemporaries, was a Papal institution, di- rectly under the guidance of Roman Catholic prelates. It was founded in the ﬁfth century, and restored by Charm- magne, and held so high aplace in Europe that 10,000 stu- dents were in attendance at one time. In it was established the ﬁrst school for the dissection of the human body, and many. of the women who practiced medicine in France in the fourteenth century must have been its graduates. Its benches and professors’ chairs were not ﬁlled at long inter- vals, and for a brief period by women—theY were there un. interruptedly from the twelfth century to the nineteenth. And it is called novel and dangerous for women to seek what the sex had for over 700 years! When Cardinal Mezzo- fanti, the greatest linguist of his age, died, a woman, Matilda Tamborina, was found most competent to succeed him. It is to be understood, also, that during the centuries when wo- men were students and professors in the whole range of sci- ence, sacred and profane, these Universities of Rome, Bo- logna and Genoa were under the absolute control, political as well as religious, of the Papacy. Yet Roman Catholic clergymeneverywhere insist on the necessity of frivolous education of girls as the only kind ﬁt for them, and Game. lics who entertain contrary opinions are called upon to de- fend themselves. Statues are erected to the memory of we- men professors of botany in Bologna and Genoa; and sculp- ture and painting were taught by the sisters Givani, and by Propezia di Rossi and Maretta Robusti. 1 How shall we forget that illustrious woman and’ saint, Catherine of Sumia, the noblest of the many Catherines who tread the boards of history! She was not only a jurist, but a. diplomat; not only a canonist, but a politician. For her, public services in these capacities, the Church was .131-0.,‘ Popes summoned her to their counsel. She was the legate of Gregory XI. to negotiate and accept foundly grateful. the surrender of the rebellious city of Avignon. During the schism which followed the election of Pope Urban VL, she paciﬁed Christendom. And in civil and political success in her learning and courageand eloquence, the\Church has con- ferred upon her the highest earthly reward—canonization. Surely I have already sustained my seemingly ill-founded assertion, that the demand for Women’s highest education _ Only 150 years have passed—-she is forgotten; and English clergymen and’ ——for the enlargement of her sphere“-—is a revival, not an in- novation. The proofs can be freely extended; my remarks must not be. Let me sum it all——history, common sense, Christianity——in a single sentence: The sphere of» woman is the ﬁeld wherein she can best use her faculties. » ’ ln my allusions to the Board of Education, whose presi- dent. superintendent and leading members so honor the positions they hold, I do not desire to be partial or uncandid. Corporate bodies are only representativ_e. They cannot be radical in policy [or ﬁnal jurisdiction. , They must be exactly what public sentiment permits, and it is public sen- timent,~not the Board of Education, that needs reform. It is their sworn duty to obtain the best labor that the market aﬁords for the least price that will buy it. There arejso few proﬁtable occupations open to the young women of Detroit that they ﬂock like sheep into the teacher’s profession, and if the board reduce the ﬁrst yearfs salary to‘ $100 they will still have more teachers than places-. ’ The unanswerable complaint which may he made, is that when the board buys skill it does not pay the same rates to a woman as to a man for it. It compels her -to deduct 25.to 50 per cent., because God made her a woma, A but will tolerate no corresponding deﬁ- cit " in class resu 1 "and school discipline. The board may allege that they merely buy the cheapest; the truth is, they buy the best, and are bound to buy the best; then they play Shylock with its necessities.,%The ballot, in my judgment, is only a means to an end. ‘Most women are undoubtedly gladito be» rid of it‘ on one day in the year, and that election day. They are glad to be free from the responsibility of electing the worst men to the best places; of exercising the sublime function of an American citizen for a park alder- man. ' But, wink at‘ it as we.will, I am forced to the convic- tion that if women voted, the persons who administer pub- lic service would be chosen upon the principle that work is to be paid for and sex is not to be mulcted in damages. Al- ready in many of the States women are legally entitled to to hold theoiﬁces for which they are peculiarly ﬁtted; and under your admirable new constitution they are eligible to school pinspectorship. The places now ﬁlled upon the board by incompetent men will ultimately be ﬁlled, let the oracles say what they may, by competent women. When that time comes, and may Providence speed it, the balance of wages will be readjusted. Then male principals will not be voted $1,800 and the female principal $800; Both will re- ceive the $1,800; and the election of women on the board will do more to hasten. this simple and long-delayed justice than years of unorganized wordy warfare and thespasmodic perpetration of,ridicu1ous revolts. What, if, after the adop- of the new constitution, men will not elect competent wo- men to the board? One step at atime, and the best foot for- ward! If, after the adoption of the new constitution, when women may legally hold these places, men will not elect them, then I see but one alternative. Women must step down from their pedestal, take up their burden, do their duty them- selves, since menwill not do it for them, and vote. EDUCATE THE LITTLE ONES. . FARMINGTON, Minn., J an. 1, 1874. A grand and glorious work you are doing with your voice and pen. Many hungry souls read your WEEKLY and are ﬁlled with the bread of life. What a glorious cause you have undertaken and what a mighty work is going on for the truth and the emancipation of the humanﬁsoul! Would there were more Victories in the ﬁeld; but alas! we stand back trembling with fear of what we do not know, and;instinctive- ly shrink from some shadow we have carried with us from childhood. This last idea teaches usqwe must educate the ‘little ones, throw around them such inﬂuences as will imbue them with the truth. ’ Why is it that reformers have so long neglected this their - ﬁrst duty? Yes, we have lyceums; but you will ﬁnd they are only echos of the old school system. You will ﬁnd the same would—be respectable spirit creepingin there; they are afraid they will lose themselves or their land-marks. We want radical reform’ schools for our children: we can bend the twig but n/6t the tree. ’ i Yours for progress and truth, , Mas. FANNIE E. Ramon. A CLODHOPPER AND GRANGER ON THE SITUA- TION- . i For two years Ihave been a reader of the WEEKLY, and am fully satisﬁed that the majority of Mrs. Woodhullfs op- ponents need a thorough cold-water treatment of the organ of self-esteem, all being purely too selﬁsh _and narrow- minded. Any one that accepts the doctrine of universal progression must accept her teachings, whether they accord .. with our politics or religion. Change is inevitable in all things, so all might as well march on to the end. 0 I am not a public man at all, but I’ am satisﬁed that my- ’ opportunities for observing the manners and customs of modern society has been equal to the majority of persons. Living in two quarters of the globe, and working in all grades ofisociety, from the yard-stick. and scales to the factory and the plow, on railroads ,,and ,in the bowels of the earth; and for thirty-five years I have been a constant reader of the most radical publications of the age. After summing up, if I speak the truth I must admit that Mrs. Woodhull’ gives as much truth and sound practical sense as the majority of writers and speakers, ‘and no other? man or woman with a thinking brain ‘but what will say the same, and condemn as follows: Our Rotten Government and all its Branches; the Marriage Rigmarole; the ,Modern System of ‘Night-sparking; Night Recreations of .,all kinds; Priesthood an_d,Churches; the Medical Fraternity; those Hornets the Lawyers; Taxation Mucldle; "' and“ lastly and ;_above all, the- present manner of talking and jesting upon the.’ organs of gener- c ation. Who with a spark of genuine love in them would . repeat the Goarse Jests that are bandied around how among all classes of society? r~ I V ‘ . , _ . Before athing can be treated aright it must be reverenced and worshiped. 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Those who__interested themselvesayear ago in getting them up, and who thus rendered usso valuable" a service, will put us and all friends of: human progress under -additional obligations by again interesting themselves about the renewals, and in adding new names to the lists of last year. So far the WEEKLY has suffered less from the panic than almost any 1 other paper of which we have any knowledge. Some secu- lar Weeklies have fallen oﬁ one-half in the last six months; p but the WEEKLY holds its own, has even gained in regular subscriptions since the panic set in. Now, if our club agents will but be active in returning renewals, we shall begin the year under the most favorable circumstances.‘ 4; A r 1wr-w LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS. ~._..-.—___. Victoria C. Woodhull has been engaged to deliver lectures I in the cities named below, on the dates speciﬁed. We would request our readers in the vicinity of these places to apprize their friends of this opportunity of hearing her: -- Jacksonville, Ill.,, ’. . - . . Jan. 23. Springﬁeld, “ ._ . . . f‘ V 24. . Decatur, ‘ ‘ . . - L . “ 26. Bloomington, “ .- ., .' . “ 27. Peoria, 2 “ . . . . . ‘ “ _ 28. Freeport, ‘S “ . . . - “ 29- Dubuque, iowa, . . ./’ . : “ 30. Davenport, _“ , , 1 1 _ , ‘.‘ 31. Janesville, Wis.,~ , . . . . Feb. ‘ 3. Madison, “ , , ‘ I. ,, “ 4. Ira Crosse, , “ 1 ,. , I ., , . “ 5. "Winona, Minn., . ., . ' . “ 6. Eaul, -“ , . ' , . , “ '7. Te: £3. Claﬂin accompanies Mrs. Woodhull, and will make appointments to lecture at places contiguous to the route given above. A ' ~~.z1 THE EVOLUTION Oll‘ THOUGHT. The theory of evolution as opposed to that of special crea- tion has become the generally accepted idea of the World, especially in its more advanced intellectual circles. There are too many evidences on every hand to permit the thought- ful mind to believe that, for every different order of nature, there has been a special creative decree proceeding from a general creative centre; While the accumulative facts of science, are positive demonstration that nature in all her parts has observed a regular order of progressive develop- ment. In other Words thescientiﬁc attainments of man neg- ative /the proposition of the religionszof the past which have been based upon the idea of a personal God; and if they do anything, rather go to substantiate the materialistic theory that God and Nature are one and the same, or at least that He is the life of Nature—the force everywhere found in matter. But this again in reality conﬁrms the most im- portant of all the religiousideas—that God is omnipotent and omnipresent—Which He could be, only as the life-principle, the interior motor power of the World—everyWhere present and all powerful, which ideas are entirely incompatible With that of a personal God residing at some given place in - the universe. Following, a prion’, the evidences deduced by scientiﬁc investigation into the orders of growth or development, the inquirer arrives at a time when matter existed in ele- mental form, Whcnthere were no two of the recognized primal elements combined, or else when all matter was a . common element ﬁlling space_“‘Witl1out form and void.” It should" be distinctly borne ini, mind that to this conclusion only can the scientiﬁcx mind arrive; and also that scientiﬁc V investigation is every day becoming a matter of ' greater im- portance and of more general zlcccptance. Where Was God at this era of the universe? Clearly, everywhere present and all-powerful, Working todevelop Wll3.t:n0W is from What then Was. Still there is nothing more now either of matter or spirit, or power, "or God, if you Will, than there was then. The difference between then and now is this: the power that resided in the-elements at that time has, through a long process of rearrangement arfd readjustment, produced the various material forms of the present, but added nothing to the sum total of matter or power. What Was, still is, diﬁer- ing in form and arrangement only. , 1 The theory of material evolution is founded upon these propositions. Indeed, were it not for them there‘ could be no scientiﬁc solution of creation; there could be no material science Whatever.; no recognized ﬁrst principles; no biology; no psychology; no sociology. It is, however, a well estab- lished and generally recognized fact that there is a source of life, and it is come to be equally as Well established and recognized, that there is also a science of society; that society evolves according to laws ﬁxed and eternal in the very constitution of nature itself, and that all the seeming A discord and anarchy among the peoples of thelworld are natural and necessary results of the processes of develop- ment, of growth. ’ » But along with all these facts which ‘scientiﬁc investiga- tion has discovered to the world of mind, there follows a certain series of corrollaries of which there has been but little, if anything, ever Written or said; and this is in regard to science itself. If all the subjects of scientiﬁc analysis are themselves subjects of the law of evolution, so also the several sciences based/upon the law of evolution are also subject to , the law. In other Words, thought itself is subject to the law of evolution; and the ‘systematiz/ed thought of to-day, the science of the present, is just as necessarily a result of the doctrine of evolution as is the material universe; indeed, it is the inevitable accom- panyment of . its evolution, and with each succeeding step in material progress, ﬁnding higher and more complex ex- pressions in mind. , But from What has the highly reﬁned and complex thought of the present developed? Clearly from the ele- mental principles that existed when Matter was “Without form and void.” There has been nothing new created any more in the realm of ideas than in the universe of matter; therefore, as the physical World is the result of a long-contin- ued process of rearrangement and readjustment of the pri- mary elements of ‘matter, so also is the mental universe the result of thesame processes among the elements of thought; and thus the civilization of the World has kept exact pace with the evolution of its material forms, and thus it will ever . do the same. - S L - There is a lesson to be drawn from these facts, however, which the religious world will be as slow and as unwilling to accept as it has been to adopt the theory of material evo- lution in opposition to that of a special creation. The “Whatever is, is right” theory is anatural corollary to that of natural evolution, because, not anything can be conceived of that is not the necessary result of the causes and circum- stances out of which it grew; and this is equally as true of all thought and action in individuals as it is of all phenom- ena and forms inNature. , The search after God, then, is the same thing as the search for the scientiﬁc solution of the facts which are found in matter"; indeed, to find one is also to ﬁnd the other. What and where is Grod,*is answered Whenever a manner in which - matter is evolved is discovered. God is the spirit, the force residing in matter, everywhere present, and suﬁiciently powerful to-forever carry it forward from lower to higher and higher gradation. God, then, as conceived of, in con- } tradistinction to Nature, is the element in Naturethat evolves in thought; and as the highest forms of matter are the nearest to perfection in form, so also are the highest forms of thought the nearest to God, who is the Whole. In this scnsefit is easy to conceive that'God is “ the same yesterday, to-day and forever,” since, scientiﬁcally, He is no more or no less now than When all the elements, both of matter and thought, were in their original, primal condition. Conceive of matter as having evolved from that chaotic condition, and it has ' been virtually conceived that What is known as God has also evolved from the same condition, because all there was of Him was, though concealed, the moving force of matter, from which thought, now systematized as civiliza- tion, has evolved. _ , In thisgview of the affairs of the World the logical mind «must at once see that every new thought that is born into the realm of mind, and every new movement of reform that is born of such thought, is inevitable, because it is the re- sult of the action of ﬁxed and immutable laws acting in natural methods through the various channels of matter and mind. It is as Wise to denounce new mcthodsnof thought as it would be to do the same by improved methods of matter; nevertheless the World almost invariably encourages and welcomes the latter, While it as invariably tramples the for- mer under its iron heels, ‘and endeavors to destroy it, prefer- ring to remain in the enj oymcnt of the present rather than to trust to that which must be, as the scientist and philoso- pher knows, ncarer perfected fruit. ’ /There is also in this view of things the utmost encourage- ment for the most advanced ideas of the World. Their promulgators and advocates may rest assured that the latest form which thought assumes is the highest in the order of evolution. Moreover, it must be known that the latest births in the realm of mind could no more have been, until all that have preceded it,wcre, than the last and highest example of form could have been without all its antecedent causes. And as corollary to this, that the oldest are the crudcst ideas, and inasmuch as they contain the fewest and worst arranged elements of thought, they will be the ﬁrst to crumble before the weight of advancing civilization. If these things are so, which they must be, else the theory of evolution altogether is false, it is easy to understand Why civilization advances rapidly or slowlyin proportion to the degree of general association among the people having dif- ferent ideas. It is the combination, rearrangement or read- justment of the thoughts held by various people that pro- duces the more advanced ideas. It is also easy to see why it is that progress in thought is so slow among those people who associate only with those holding similar views, and why it is so rapid among people who listen to and read the- ories and ideas different from their own} It is nearly a nat- ural impossibillty for several different ideas of the same thing to be brought together in comparison, Without there being, as a result, some modiﬁcation of the views of the per- sons severally holding them. Hence theiwisdom of socie- ties cngaging speakers who are known to hold opposite or diﬁerent, or new and not-understood ideas. No person can presume to have attained all the knowledge there is to be had; and hence, for any person to assume that another whom they do not understand, is advocating error, is only exhibiting his or her own ignorance. So also is the method generally adopted by Spiritualists, of engaging different speakers for limited periods, much to be preferred to that of “settled teachers,” because the people have the beneﬁt of the attainments of various, rather than of single individuals. That this transient method is rapidly coming in vogue is another evidence still of the increasing rapiditywith which civilization is evolving; While the consideration of similar ideas simultaneously by large bodies of the people speak in unmistakable language that the Brotherhood of Man, in something more than a theoretical sense, is soon to be recog- nized by the morc advanced civilizations of the world; fol- lowing which, again, will come a universal government, or one organization for all the peoples and races. , But to return to the subject of the evolution of thought: When it shall come (as it must) to be generally recognized, that civilization is a subject of evolution, the new and high developments of thought will receive the kindest and tender- est care of the people, such as they now give to the highest developments of all things, except to ideas and society itself; and thus will civilization roll onward, not only with an ever- increasing volume of power, but also with an ever—accclcr- ating rapidity. H 0+-4 _MRS. W0 ODHUL'L’S SPEECHES. THE ELIXIR or LIFE; on, WHY no WE Dirt ?——The extra- ordinary demand for this pamphlet has already consumed two large editions; but another is now ready, and all de- mands for it Will be promptly supplied. Single copies, twenty-ﬁve cents, or six for a dollar. Beside this, We also have on hand Mrs. Woodhull’s latest speech, “Reformation or Revolution, Which? or, Behind the Political and Social Scenes,” which has created a most profound sensation Wherever it has been delivered: price, ' the same as above. We have also a supply of “The Prin- ciples of Social Freedom,” the original Steinway Hall speech, the introduction to the present social agitation, and the “ Scarecrows of Sexual Slavery.” L Three of any, or any three, of these speeches will be sent, postage paid, for ﬁfty - cents. Send for them for yourselves and friends. and Oil“ culatei them among the opposition, and especially procure their reading by all ministers and doctors in your region. ‘.V.,' we» . - "‘~r‘.$*~ wk . .‘r__ .- Jan. 31, 1874. WOODHULL as CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. r . 9 WHAT IS THE ISSUE ? We are often asked, in our travels through the country, “What are you ﬁghting so desperately for?” In the claim forisocial, or rather sexual, freedom, most people can see only a claim for sexual license. That so many are in this condition is a strong argument for the, doctrine of the total, natural depravity of human nature, held by the dost-7"z'7m7J9°esi of old theology. When it is assumed that the inauguration of freedom in the social relations will result in a general downward tendency among the people in their sexual moral- ity, it is to assume that there is in the people a natural down- ward tendency, inherent in mankind. These wise ones who do this do not, however, appear to realize that their assump- tions have any effect, except so far as men are concerned. They hold that the women will be the same nonentities in the new condition that they are in the present marriage rela- tion, without the power, if they have the right, to any voice in the matter. But the women of the country ought to hurl this insinuation back in the teeth of its enunciators; and We do so hurl it, because it assumes, virtually, that the sexual relations belong to men wholly, or else that Women, having obtained freedom, will naturally go to the bad; ‘or again, that women now are only restrained fro_m descending to the lowest sexual depths of debauchery, by the restraints of the law, while men, who now exercise the same freedom, will only descend lower than they are, on account of the delete- rious inﬂuences of women upon them. Again we hurl the base insinuation in the teeth ofthese pharisaical men, and ask the women who tacitly assent to their position for once to rise a few degrees in their woman- hood and resent the insult. We not only repulse this assault upon the honor of women, but we return the charge and declare that the vileness which these male dictators pretend to see coming to women in freedom has existence only in themselves. The drunken man thinks he knows that all persons except himself are drunk. The licentious man , thinks every person, and especially every woman, to be as licentious and as debauched sexually as he is himself; while those who are really pure in heart, see purity of soul in all, rather than whatever debauchery that may attach to them. We said that objectors to sexual freedom for women pre- tend to see in it only demoralization for the community from women having acquired what men already possess. They do not see beyond the more question of the freedom to do - badly; in their philosophy there is no place in freedom for women to become better. They affect‘ not to believe that there is to be any release from slavery for women. Their short-sightedness does not permit them to perceive that with a change from sexual slavery to sexual ‘freedom there must also come a change in the circumstances that have reduced Women to this slavery. The only place there is in the pres- ent social arrangements for women, is to be related’ sexu- ally with men, either i11 or out of marriage‘. In other words, women are sexual slaves whether as wives or otherwise. If wives think they. are not sexual slaves, let them refuse to acquiesce in the demands of their husbands, and most wo- menwill be at once convinced. Indeed, refusal is “ a cause” for divorce. What, then, is marriage, except sexual license‘? Everything that men and women can do, except to have sexual relations, they may do without marriage, and still be “respectable.” Strip marriage of everything that does not ‘belong legitimately to it, and what except sexuality is left‘? Nothing! ' We repeat again then, that in the present social order, women. are virtual sexual slaves whether married or not, and we are ﬁghting for her emancipation from this condi- tion. We protest against any and all law that in any sense, nay, that may even be construed to give to men any power over the bodies of women to which they do not » give willing assent. We claim for our sex that as individu- als they shall own and control the use of their own bodies, and that they shall never be, even seemingly or think they ought to be, compelled to submit to sexual intercourse when not desired by them. The opponents of sexual freedom often say -that we would debase the sexual relations to the level" of the-brutes. They make only a slight mistake in terms. Brutes is good, But instead of debasing them to the level of animals, we would elevate them to their plane. Among animals it is the female who always determines the sexual association. Indeed, so sexually pure (and by purity we mean natural- ness) are the male animals, that they seldom have the sexual desire unless it be excited or called forth by a corresponding . desire in the female. This is what we mean by sexual affin- ity. This is the true and the natural sexual relation. It should first exist in the female, while the emanations proceeding from her should awaken a response in the male to whom she is sexually related, and to no other. If there were no sex- uality in the world except that existing under these con- ditions, who is there who would even dare to assert that’ there could be any debauchery?—and who would dare to V contend that such conditions should not be the subjects of common controversy? Who would dare to assume that there could be anything obscene or vulgar attaching to such controversy? ~ It is to a no less purity than this that sexual freedom tends. The animals run together promiscuously, and they are never debauched, because the female is free. They herd and rest together, andno revolting scenes are enacted. So also should men and women become so sexually puri- ﬂed that they may herd and rest together and never think of exual relations unless there are the same conditions presen t that are their foundation among the “ brutes.” A ' ‘SW8 contend for freedom for women so that they may be sexually pure, and in being so, that they may compel if not induce men to be the same. Were female animals‘ tied to the males by any such arrangements as those by which women are made dependent upon men, the same debauchery and licentiousness would soon pollute the animal kingdom that now debases men and women. As compared with animals, women are the powerless subjects upon whom men vent their morbid, desires, and through them are compelled to unwilling maternityor else to foetal murder, which is so rapidly becoming the rule among wives that it threatens to depopulate the earth; and which have such deleterious effects upon the children that are unfortunate enough to survive the attempts at murder, that one-half of all who are born have not the vigor to endure’ more than ﬁve ycars——a com- mentary on our social system. that reduces it to a horrible tragedy, and stamps many a mother’s_brow with the brand of Cain. - . lTh7erefore we are ﬁghting for freedom for woman: ﬁrst of all that she may become an individual; and secondly, that she may never become unwillingly e7wz7e-ate; and thus re- duced to the necessity of child-murder or else of bearing an undesired child to curse both herself and the world. And we call upon the mothers, in the name of a common humanity to rouse themselves from their present lethargy, and to once and forever throw off the yoke of unwilling motherhood. We do not care what extremes may be necessary to success, since any extreme is not too far if it secure sexual freedom for women. Ifwomen could once be made to realize their real condition, we do not see how they could help instant, rebellion.’ It is this duty‘ that they owe to themselves and ’ to the future generations, that they ﬁrmly take the stand that they will never more be sexual slaves, submitting against their wills, against their natures and desires to the sexual demands which marriage endows men with the right -to enforce, and for which woman has no redress except through open rebellion and consequent social ostracism. The present marriage relations are the only ones known that give a man the right to debauch a woman against her will. Opponents may say that the law does not give that right to men, but we say although it does not 111 so many words, its only possible practical ope7"atz'on or interpretation is that it does give it, and the practice under it conﬁrms this view. A I We wish, ﬁnally, to assure men that we are not ﬁghting for sexual freedom for women at all in order that they may have their present ﬁeld of license extended; but that woman may come into the ownership and into the right to give or to withhold the use of her own body, so that she may at least have an opportunity to become sexually pure, which she cannot so long as these rights are denied her. And when men say that in freedom women will become more debauched, we say they lie; and __when women assert the same of their sex, as sometimes they do, we would say: Shame on you that you can hold your sister’s virtues in so low esteem. Vile claim that in freedom only can women be redeemed from the condition of prostituted womanhood . in which she now wallows; and only in such redemption can the world ﬁnd salvation. ‘ O->——<—--——-———-—- Sunsonrnn FOR THE WEEKLY, even if the panic has drained your small means. This condition has been brought about by our false systems of government——ﬁnance, taxation and internal improvements. It is one of the special mis-A sions of the WEEKLY to explode the fallacies and to advo- cate better systems. Read the prospectus in another col- umn, and compare a system based upon its propositions with this one that has culminated in the anarchy and con- fusion that reigns in the country now—-politically, ﬁnan- cially, socially. The WEEKLY is devoted to practical meas- ures of reform, and to the elucidation of the principles upon which they must be’ based; and is, therefore, the most im- portant journal published for the merely political reformer; while, besides this, it teaches the married how to remain mated, the children how to avoid the shoals of sexual-vice, and parents how to produce better children; which can be found in no other journal in the world. THE CONDUCT OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. In our lectures we speak nightly of the disgrace to the country arising from the conduct of the various institutions that society has inaugurated in which to hide its own abortions, or pretendedly to punish and care for the unfor- . tunate. In this list is included States. prisons, penitentiaries, county and cityjails, and all the hospitals or asylums for the insane, and the indigent, and the idiotic. The social system in vogue has made these institutions, as society pre- tends to think, necessary. Indeed, they are an indispensable accompaniment of the system. It cannot exist without pro- ducing large numbers of inmates for all these various places of accommodation, for whom it can provide no other pos- sible place and carry out into practice the theory upon which it is founded. A A These institutions exist, and they are all well ﬁlled. The public seems to imagine that with their building and the provisions which have ﬁlled, and which keep them well; ﬁlled, their duty ends. . They seldom if ever stop to think of the condition of the unfortunate people whom they have. and sisters in Christ, and assume that those in whose charge they are entrusted are doing their duty; are faitl-ifully per- forming their duty as the paid servants of the public; are forgetting that it is not the officials who have the special charge of these classes who are responsible to them for the treatment, but themselves,’ whom these officials represent merely; and if there were to be such an absurd thing as .a future general judgment day, in which so many people——- Christians—pretend to believe, the responsibility \’vould have to be borne by the people and not by their agents. From time to time there are disclosures made about these institutions which are so disgraceful that the people will not believe there is another possible instance, and that “this But let us assure these people that the conditions that only occasionally come to the surface are the rule for all institu- tions and not the exceptions. And the following telegram is not, from our own knowledge, over the average for horror and barbarity: Mnnrnrs-1>oonHoUsE. MEMPHIS, Jan. 8. The report of the Grand Jury Criminal Court to Judge Fellippin, ma<-le to-day, has created considerable excitement. They found the poorhouse and in some instances the patients are;with loathsome diseases in rooms with healthy ones. . The food given is neither good or sufficient in quau tity, while a. total disregard of association of the sexes exist, and an. idiotic female who had been an inmate for ﬁve years was found in a state of pregnancy; that the inmates, without regard to sex,’ were kicked , cuffed and whipped with a knotted bull whip and beaten like oxen by Dr. G. G. Hogan and his assistant, Henry A. G1-adley; and, in conclusion, state that the manner in which the poorhouse is governed is a disgrace to the county. Let the people wake up to what is going on in their midst, and go through these institutions and see if these things are not so. They are foul blotches, and are a standing, living, damning impeachment against a :system that makes such things possible and necessary. *'i**~**‘f“”“.‘"' _ PERSONAL. We desire to return our sincere thanks for»the many kind letters that are constantly coming to hand. But our friends who write them will please "remember that we are now /in theﬁeld, speaking every night upon the subject nearest the heart of every real reformer; and traveling every day to reach the next appointment, and consequently that we have little or no time to spend, as has been our wont, and as it would be our pleasure to now do, to make personal replies. We desire, however, that the streams of affection and cheer that ﬂow _in upon us shall continue, so that from them we may gain the strength that is requisite to prosecute the campaign vigorously. - 2 1 ........_*_...,,_¢g. RIGHT ABOUT FACE. For the past eight centuries, or since Charlemagne con- ﬁrmed the Pope in the possession of Rome, the Catholic Church has been.the ally of the kings and princes of Europe. Since the declaration of the “Infallibility of the Pope,” things have changed. Now there is war between the Kaiser of Germany and the Fisherman of the Vatican.‘ Thirty years ago a Republican Catholic paper like the Irish World could not have lived, now the claim made by it, that the Catholic Church favors democratic State rule, ﬁnds more than a hundred thousand subscribers of the ancient faith. This vers, the great Parisian ultramontane organ, the advocate of the divine right of kings, has suspended publication. Is this it. Does it mean that Pio Nono accepts the situation, by thus acknowledging thatlthe old ﬁrm of Priest and King, which has ruled Europe the past eight centuries, has dis- solved partnership forever? There is no doubt that hence- forth with the Catholic Church, in. State affairs, democracy will be the order of the day. The freedom of the land, for the land belongs to St. Peter, will be decreed. . Interest for money (and the legalization thereof), the base of our present ﬁnancial system, will be condemned, and Communism, in- stituted by the ﬁrst, will be indorsed by the last incumbent of the papal chair at Rome. 1 - —-'--—-————~t-40»-4 FAITH snown in FIGURES. .amna.a— Prof. A. I. Schem, in his “Statistics of the World,” lately published in London and New York, gives ‘us the fol- lowing ﬁgures on the religious proclivities of the people of America and Europe. In North and South America, out of a population of 84,500,000,’ 47,000,000 are Catholics and 30,- 000,000 are Protestants. This leaves 7,500,000 Spiritualists, Freethinkers, etc., in both continents. In Europe, out of a population of 301,000,000, 147,000,000 are Catholics, 71,800,- 000 are Protestants, and . 70,200,000 are adherents of the Creek Church. etc., in all Europe, to what Mr. Montague Tigg would call the ridiculously small ﬁgure of 2,000,000. . Harper's Weekly calls the wcrk from» which the above-quoted extract is taken, “A valuable table of the -statistics of Christianity.” faith. The philosopher who can swallow the above ﬁgures can take in Jonah, whale and all,‘ consigned to them. They forget that they are their brothers , _. one ”‘ is undoubtedly either malicious or greatly over-stated. A to be ahospital and insane asylum combined, wherein sick and well, , sane and insane, blacksand whites, all mixed together indiscriminately, day (Tuesday, Jan. 20,) the ocean cable instructs us that L’Uni ‘I the Pop.e’s answer to the Kaiser of Germany’? It looks like i. This limits the Spiritualists, Freethinkers, ‘ Well, it is valuable—to Christians who have very strong , , contended for in Taylor’s “ Diegesis.” 10 t —— WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Jan. 31, 18,74. LIFTING THE VAIL OF SPIRITUALISM. The following picture of a Buddhist temple from “W. H. Seward’s Travels Around the World,” is presented to the readers of the WEEKLY, and their attention is specially called to the italicised passages therein, on which some comments are made, illustrating the Spiritualistic view of human religion: A “Leaving the“Ocean Banner’ (the Buddhist Temple of Honan, in ‘ Canton), we visited the ‘ Temple of the Flowery Forest.’ Its pantheon contains images not only of gods of whom the Greeks and Romans never dreamed, but of more gods than they ever worshiped. Think of five hundred colossal wooden ﬁgures, of all complexions, black, white and red, with distorted features and limbs, and dressed in purple, crim- son and gold, sitting in close order around the walls of a saloon equal to the largest in the British Museum. These are the guardian genii of China. Each is a deiﬁed apostle or saint of the religion. These ﬁgures were presented to the monastery by one of the Emperors, and perhaps all were carved by one artist. If he failed to impart a natural human expression to any among them, it must be admitted in his favor that, in their hideous distortions, no two are alike. We were kindly received by the monks. The abbot, a man of reverend mien, wears purple, a cap which might be mistaken. for C6 mttre, and a step?” in the shape of (Z crazier. ‘ As We came in advance of the evening service, they entertained us in the spacious court with delicious tea and dried fruits. The brethren showed by their conversation a vague knowledge of foreign countries. They feared that the disasters which have befallen France might en- courage Russian aggressionagainst China. They understood something of the great civil war in the United States, and rejoiced in its results. “While we were thus engaged a group of ladies, exquisitely dressed, and having the least of all feet, came into the courtaccompanied by many children.‘ This party was followed by a retinue of well-dressed servants, bearing large ornamented paper boxes, ﬁlled with votive offer- ings, paper shoes, fans, hats, etc. They were waiting until the mid- night hour, to burn these offerings in incense for the repose and cheer of deceased ancestors. Although the women made no mirthful demon- stration, they were animated and cheerful, seeming to regard the cere- mony in which they were engaged rather asa festal than a funereal one. I They made no advances to us, but showed much delight with the caresses we bestowed on their pretty children. At the service the monks‘ kindly seated Mr. Seward on a woodenbench, the only thing of the kind in the temple, in a good position to see the ceremony. The hall of worship is sixty feet square, with a lofty ceil- ing. In its centre, a gigantic, triple-carved statue, in a sitting posture, ’ . representing Buddha in his three ‘ states ’——the face looking to the left, symbolic of oblivion, or the past; that looking forward, expressive of activity, the present ,' the third, looking to the right, contemplation, or the f'zlture. The ‘Flowery 17’0rest,’ then, is a temple dedicated to at re- ligion older than our own, which presents, in a vague and misty way, two of the principles of the Christian Church ,' one, the ézteamaliort of the Su- preme ,' the other his presentation in three persons, one and indioiséble. Are these analogies merely accidental coincidences, or are they different outgrowths of the same innate ideas; or are they shadowy forms of a common revelation‘? The service consisted in a solemn, measured and devotional intonation of a long and varied liturgy; ‘ Occasionally a bell tinkled to indicate a change in the order of the prayers. At this sound the monks prostrated themselves and brought their foreheads to the ground. At other times they changed their postures toward the triune image, or walked in solemn procession around it, keeping time to a muffled drum and gong. Offerings are made of wheat, rice and millet. These being deemed now consecrated, they were, at the conclusion of the ceremony, conveyed in a tripod and scattered over the paved court of the temple, that they might be gathered by the fowls of the air, and to be saved from human profanation. The temple contains a very fine Dagoba of white marble, built over a relic of a former incarnate Buddha. Its pedestal, a lower story, is ornamented with various allegorical tab- lets, on which Buddha is represented here on a dragon,'there on a lion, and elsewhere on other animals. Heathen deities, as we come among them, seem to us to be rather impersonations of ideal conditions of human existence than spiritual conceptions of a superior order of be- ings.” A This last remark is ‘applicable .to the conceptions of deity formed by the votaries of all religions, Christianity included. There never could be a more man-like deity than the Jewish Jehovah. He is pleased, angry and jealous as the case may require. True, the Jews did not picture or model his effigy. Their testament asserted no man had ever seen him, save Moses, and he was permitted to see only “his back parts.” yiancy, “the back parts of Omnipotence,” what an idea?- To the Spiritualist the Deity is “ all face.” But there are two points in this description to which we ask special attention. First, the characteristics of the dress of the Buddhist priests, “The mitre ‘and the crozier.” Second, the foundation of the two most important prin- ciples of the Christian Church, the incarnation and the trinity, attributed, and rightly, to the far older religion of Buddha, presenting, as they do in both instances, the unity of the faith. of humanity in the forms of religion, so ably It is well that, not only here but in other countries, the world is breaking ground against the credal religions of the past, which latterly have proved only sources of misery to the peoples of the globe. There/_is no doubt but that in their day they had their, uses, but the world has outgrown the need of them, and the consequence is, that Buddhism, Brahminism, Mohammedanism and Christianity are becoming things of the past, and are falling into ruins. There is no doubt also, that there are good, vivifying principles under- lying -all these faiths, which will not die but be absorbed in the later development of Spiritualism, which is fast rising in ‘all civilized communities. Men, nations, races and re- ligions, history proves to us, are subject to the inevitable laws of rise, progress and decay, and were our. mental grasp sufficiently far-reaching, we should doubtless ﬁnd that worlds and universes (as we comprehend the latter word) were subject to similar mutations. Should we grieve over such things?‘ Surely not. Our ge- ologists have shown us nature’s methods: in f the grand, pro- cessions of the ages, which they have.~d_isc,ov‘ere‘d' and ex- _ pounded. Shall we mourn that Christianity -has degenerated from the pure teachings of its founder to be a thing of hy- ~ pocrisy, of ceremonies, and of traditions? Surely not. It only shows us that ittis disintegrating in order to give place . to a better formation. Of course, in the giant changes and lrevolutions now looming up in grand majesty over all peo- ples, there will be convulsions. The clouds are already blackening the moral sky, and the lightnings of popular commotion are beginning to flash, and the thunders of pop- ular condemnation commencing to roll. Like Milton’s storm, the heavens are closing over us: “ As when two black clouds, With heaven’s artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian, then stand front to front, Hovering a/ space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air.” But after the storm, what then? Why, as in the natural world, the fetid atmosphere, the lurid heavens and the with- ered herbage are replaced by purer air, bright skies and re‘- joicing trees and ﬂowers; so, after the moral tornado which is upon us, let us hope that the rule of hypocrisy and im- morality, the merciless bickerings and brutalities of credal faiths and the degradation of woman and the masses, will be exchanged for the rule of truth and virtue, a simple trust based on scientiﬁc facts pointing us to the better develop- ment of our race; the ordainment of the ‘right of individual sovereignty, and the establishment of equality, fraternity and justice among all the peoples of the earth. __._.__..___,._.4Q.,_..¢___:______ PHOTOGRAPHS—-PRICES REDUCED. \ We have been able to make arrangements by which we can now offer our photographs——Victoria C. Woodhull’s, Tennie C. Claﬁin’s and Col; J. H. Blood’s~—at ﬁfty cents each, or three for a dollar. Thanking the many friends who "heretofore aided us in our lawsuits by purchasing at the former high rates, we trust that others who desired the pho- tographs but who did not feel able to procure them, may avail themselves of the present opportunity, and thus assist us to maintain the cause in which we have enlisted in another season scarcely less perilous than was that through which the former assistance carried us. Send for the Photos for yourselves and friends. >-«Q SHYLOCK SKINNED. The question of‘ abrogating all laws regulating the rate of interest for money has been of late carried in the afﬁrmative in several of the States. As the recorded opinions of all our Secretaries of the Treasury, from the time of McCullough to the present period, favors such legislation, it will do no harm to air the subj ecta little in the columns of the WEEKLY. A superﬁcial View of the question might lead the public to indorse the claim of money to increase itself by interest, simple or compound, at any rates which may be agreed upon between the parties interested; yet history teaches us that almost all civilized nations, ancient and modern, have found it expedient by law to limit simple, and in many cases to absolutely forbid compound, interest. The right of money to increase per se, or by interest, is in itself disputed by many authorities. Not a few legislators, and many philosophers and ecclesiastics, have steadily denied it. Aristotle declares that “ money is properly only a me- dium of exchange for labor, and‘ that it has no right or claim to increase except by passing directly through some form of labor. That it is the representative of wealth, and ought not to have conferred on it a power superior to that which it was invented to represent.” It is thrice condemned by the laws of Moses, and absolutely forbidden by that legis- lator between Jew and Jew. It is denounced by Mohammed in the third and thirtieth chapters of the Koran. The ancient Roman Republic forbade it in the four hundred and eleventh year of the City of Rome; The doctrines, of the Catholic Church are utterly opposed to any interest for money, and not a few of the Popes have anathematized it as a sin next to theft. The edict (for it does not merit the name of law) on which our modern money system rests, was passed in England in the reign of Elizabeth, in the year 1571. A similar edict had been passed previously by old Harry the Eighth, in 1545, but it was annulled by his successor, Edward the Sixth. In both instances the Protestant bishops, who a sat in the House of Peers, were, to ease their consciences, permitted to brand both these bills, legalizing ten per cent. usury, as “mortal sins.” The eminent Catholic historian, Charles Rollin, calls usury or interest “the most proliﬁc source of human misery;” and the learned biblical lexi- cographer, Calmet, declares it rests on no real law-—natural, human or divine. , Admitting the right of money to increase directly through labor, the WEEKLY disputes the policy of legalizing its power to increase by interest, or per se. By such legislation money is armed and invested with a power superior to that of “wealth ” itself, which it was invented merely to represent and to serve. But this position it has attained and held for the past three-centuries. Previous to the sixteenth century it was universally condemned in Europe, and usurers or interest-takers. were severely punished by laws ecclesiastical and civil. But, notwithstanding the manifest villainy of such legislation, the institution of usury or interest has not been without its compensating beneﬁts to mankind. It is certain that‘our present ﬁnancial system, which places labor under the heels of money, has forced the intellectual and scientiﬁc powcrsbf the few to the highest pitch of excellence. This would be. praiseworthy were it _unalloyed;i but, alas! it has been dearly purchased by the deterioration of the masses of mankind. I In Great Britain the army standard has been decreased twice inthe last twenty years; and in,Mas,sa- chusetts, during the war of the rebellion, more than half the drafted men were found unﬁt to bear arms. So great is this declension that the last census proves it to have affected, more especially in the cities, the natural increase of com- munities. In New York the annual deaths always very largely exceed the births, and nearly one-third of the married couples are childless. It is true that this sorrowful state of things appears to proceed from what may be termed natural causes, but really it ought to be attributed to the dreadful results of ﬁnancial pressure upon the people. It is certain that the dead laborer, money, whose power to oppress is capable of indeﬁnite extension, and which power has been most unscrupulously extended, demands and receives so great a share of the annual returns of the proceeds of the labors of the workers, that enough is not left to satisfy the bare needs of its last-served living competitors. Laborers are only beginning to perceive how deeply their interests are affected by false ﬁnancial legislation. If money were not armed with the power of law, there would be no need of restraining it with ,the curb of usury laws. The proper way is to deprive it both of the power and the curb. Except when money is used as a medium of exchange for labor, and is balanced by a labor equivalent, it ought to have no status in any court of law. Two centuries ago the ﬁrst marine insurance company, the “ Hand-in-Hand ”p of London, sued a party for debt. The case was tried in the Court of Kings Bench, in that city. The judges questioned the plaintiffs as to what equivalents they had rendered for the moneys claimed. The plaintiffs’ attorneys answered, “Mental ease and security.” They were non-suited, on the ground that “mental ease and security were too intangible commodities to be recognized as equivalents by the court.’ In the old mercantile forms, before so many patent ways. of robbing the public for a living were instituted, there was a mighty meaning hidden in the two simple words demanded in all such forms, viz. : “value received.” VVhen our Secretaries of the Treasury come before the people, as they have done for the past twelve years, demand- ing the withdrawal of the usury laws of the several States, the laborers should couple that demand with the abrogation of all laws enforcing the claims of usurers, and second it. There is no reason why the people’s law should be the poo- dle—dog of the ﬁnancier. Consider the cost of the legislation in favor of “money.” Probably ni-ne—tenths of the volumi- nous and complicated laws which burden our statute books and ourselves were enacted to protect and sustain it. Were (what is incorrectly termed) the “credit system” annihilated, and loaned money not recoverable by law, then it would be just to free the money-loaner: from the trammels of usury lawsand leave in his hands the natural power of oppression. In such case it might be surmised that money would rarely be loaned. What then? It would be compelled to seek direct increase through one of the ten thousand channels of labor, and in so doing would destroy middlemen, and bring” workers face to face with their employers. Labor would only have to pay A, instead of paying A, B, C and D, as is too often now the case. This is a consummation devoutly to be wished. This last statement may seem to be irrele- vant, but the advocates of so great a change as the repeal of the usury laws must be prepared to face all the consequen- . ces of their motion. They will do well also to remember that the only thing which sustains usury or interest for money, outside of the counting-room of the trader and ﬁnan- cier, is the “silence” not the consent of the Protestant clergy. Prudence naturally prevents many of our theolo- gians from discussing the question, though all of them know that usury or interest is a crime more largely testified against in the Bible than any other. But probably there are some who will not be so restrained. Let, then, those who agitate, this question beware, lest in the siftingexamination to which it will be exposed, the repeal of the usury laws should effect as great a change in popular opinion on ‘the subject of “ money,” as the repeal of the Missouri Compromise effected among us on the subject of “slavery.” —-———---9-40»-4 OUR PRESENT SOCIAL CONDITION. The present state of the marriage market is thus ruefully depicted under the ominous heading of “Wives at Dis- count” in Harpers’ Bazaar. It is, indeed, a sad description of the grievous condition ingwhich the upper ranks of society ﬁnd themselves, under the melancholy legal monogamic sys- tem to which they are sacriﬁced. After deploring the - scarcity of “marrying men,” as they are termed, the article continues thus: “The blessed instincts, old"as human nature, of love and ﬁdelity, of fatherhood and motherhood, of family and home, are just as strong and as steadfast at the root of the human heart to-day as when it first sprung from thelove of the Father of all. Yet the world beholds the unnatural sight of women arraying themselves in the garniture of fashion to de- light the eyes of men, and of men refusing to be delighted; of large companies of women congregating for pleasure, and of men refusing to join them; instead, going off alone to seek happiness in their own way and by themselves. Now we all know that it is natural for men and W0- men to seek pleasure in each other‘s society. If they do otherwise, it is because some abnormal condition has arisen between themto keep them apart. Marriage in youth, formerly the rule, is fast becoming the excep -' .tion.- Once a young man’s first ambition was to begin life with a wife and home. Together they Worked to earn a competency, to educate their children, and to go up and down the hill of life together. To-day our country towns and villages are emptied of young men, who have gone forth into the great world to seek their fortunes. _ These same towns and villages. are crowded with unmarried women, growing old, aimless, joylessand alone. Our cities swarm with young and middle- aged men, more or less successful in every avenue of life, who slowly, by degrees, have-‘given up the, idea of marriage altogether. Many of these are stereotyped attendants upon fashionable ladies, chronic “ soci- ,~u. Jan. 31, 1874. woonn,ULL & C"LA‘j‘FLlN"S WEEKLY- ’ ~ 11 . ety men.” Many more are social Bohemians. More and more men and women are seeking their pleasures, their pursuits, their lives,‘ apart. It is unnatural; being unnatural, the causes which produce such a state of of affairs must be unhealthy and reprehensible. Are women in no wise to blame? We think that they are. To a certain extent a mutual an- tagonism has grown up between the sexes. It springs from over-asser- tion and selﬁshness in both. It can have no power ‘L0 destroy ultimately their eternal relation. But it has power to alienate their faith in and mutual dependence on each other. Many “advancec ” women forget that there can be no true progress, save in the company of, not in opposi- tion to, men. Fashionable women forget that in ten thousand cases their extravagant display and exorbitant demands so alarm the very men whom they seek to please, that they make marriage and home with them im- possible. Thousands of men have come to believe that marriage to a woman means only afat banker’s book, a great house, cquipage, splen- dor, extravagance, money. Thus they say if they cannot have what their hearts call love in marriage, they will have what they can get out- side of it. Many of them become ravening wolves, stealing and feasting upon the lambsof society. Theypturn into triﬁcrs o\rglibertines, accord- ing to their natures. They makeiand unmake unhallowed transient re- lations. They infest boarding-houses, lodgings and clubs, and go down into lonely, homeless, buttonless old age. All this because wives are at a discount.” This is a melancholy and painful description of the pres- ent state of the sexual relations of upper-tendom. It fortiﬁes the WEEKLY in its determination to change it. Vlfhefi men and women hate one another, as the above article speciﬁes, for it declares that “ a mutual antagonism has grown up between the sexes,” surely it is not wrong to endeavor to remove such antipathy, and counsel them to love one another. To that end the WEEKLY has endeavored to point out “the causes which produce such a sad state of affairs,” agreeing fully with the Baear that “they are unhealthy and reprehensible.” For this act, the proprietors of the WEEKLY and many other true women, and men also, have long braved the world’s reproach, but they intend to continue to brave it, feeling assured that the work theyare engaged in is one necessary to the welfare, if not to the continued duration, of civilized humanity; if the term “civilized ” can rightly be applied to so melancholy a condition of human existence as that drawn by the Baear. I 0 VICTORIA c.woonHULL IN THE iwE’s“T'. [From the St. Joseph (£310.) Herald, Jan. 10.] VICTORIA WOODHULL. A LARGE AUDIENCE IN TooTLE’s OPERA HoUsE—A STRONG, RADICAL AND SENSIBLE PROTEST AGAINST THE sHAMs or THE DAY. I Tootle’s Opera House was well ﬁlled last night with citi- zens of St. Joseph and vicinity, who were attracted thither by the fame of the lecturer, Victoria C. Woodhull. The au- dience was composed of our most solid and sensible citizens, every one of whom,we venture to assert, was most agreeably disappointed. Let us say, in the I outset, that the lecture was oneof the most vigorous, sensible, though radi- cal protests against the shams of the nineteenth century ever listened to by a St. Joseph audience. Not a word was ut- tered during the hour and a half of Mrs. Woodhull’s lecture that every man and woman in the nation could not have lis- tened to with the utmost propriety and with undeniable proﬁt. Those who expected to be shocked were egregiously disappointed. , We saw several lawyers and citizens in the dress-circle from Andrew, Platte and Holt counties, while our own city contributed its full quota of bankers and solid men, whose faces are rarely seen in that locality. At precisely o’clock, the young daughter of Mrs.Wood- ‘ hull appeared upon the stage, and withremarkably clear and distinct enunciation recited a poem of considerable length, which was very well received. I Immediately afterward, Mrs. Woodhull appeared, and was greeted with applause. Mrs. Woodhull is a “good looking ” lady, decidedly, but not one. of the namby-pamby painted beauties of whom poets sing and gay young clerks delight- edly dream. She is natural, self-possessed and earnest. Her face is good looking because it is an earnest and intelligent one, and such countenances are so rare among the hot-house plants of our time as to be an interesting study to observing men and wompn. Her remarks upon the present federal system were exceedingly bitter, and when she poured hot shot into the President, Congress and the men in office throughout the nation, the democrats present were wild with delight; but when she stated that no good could be ac- complished by a political change, “ for a change of men would be simply a change in thieves,” we noticed that our conserva- tive friends were very quiet, a few blowing their noses and looking red in the face, and the rest of them looking de- murely up into the gallery to see who was meant. She charged the President and each member of the Cabinet with pretty much everything that Democratic papers have charged in their most insane attack; but she declared that they were legitimately exhibiting the natural results of a rotten system of government. She said that the oﬂice holders so manipu- lated monetary affairs in 1872, that. had Jesus Christ been running against Ulysses S. Grant, the man of sorrows would have been defeated.” Her protest against the spurious religion of the clay was‘ ‘positively terriﬁc. Said she: “ What would your Christians of this generation say if Christ were to come among you, walk through the streets with ragged, dirty, barefooted chil- dren clinging to him, visiting greasy ﬁshermen, harlots and sinners, and the miserable and poverty-stricken people of your cities? Worild they fall down and worship him? Would they adore him? No! If he attempted to walk into one of their lofty and magniﬁcent temples of prayer and praise, they would send for a policeman and put him out.”, He said, “ Suﬁer little children to come unto me,” but the lec- turer opined that he wouldebe forced to say, “SufferZegal ' children only to come,” if he’ met the requirements of the , strait-laced Christians of this time. . She arraigned the church for nearly all the evils of the hour; for no President or other prominent ofiicer could be elected but by the aid of the church; he must have the inﬂu- ence of the members. She charged that women were the cement that held the churches together—poor, loving souls, who probably have no love or comfort at home, turn -intothe churches for companionship, love and sympathy, and the ministers are often compelled to furnish spiritual and phys- ical consolation to these weaklings of the ﬂock. She had been in a jail, and had seen women standing in the water up to their ankles all night long, and this, too, under the shadow of one of the largest churches, and in the sound of the prayers of those devout Christians. ' She earnestly entreated every woman to observe the old Greek motto, “Know thyself 1” She insisted that there must be truth and knowledge between mothers and their offspring, and thus would crime, prostitution and misery be avoided. Her remarks on this topic were very forcible, and her strictures upon that false modesty or delicacy which prevents parents from preparing their children for the battle of life before them, were not only timely and truthful, but known to be so by every person present. women to enable her to go on with the reform [she has en- tered upon. Large numbers of the audience purchased copies of her speeches, which were for sale in pamphlet form, and many subscribed for WOODHULL 8t CLAELIN’s WEEKLY. As a lecturer, Mrs. Woodhull is a success. We do not at- tempt even a sketch of her remarks. She is an excellent elocutionist, gesturing mainly with her eyes and head, occa- sionally stamping out a sentence and punctuating it with a nervous shake of the knowledge-box_;.and she tells more plain truth in one lecture than our citizens will be apt to hear elsewhere in a lifetime. Her lecture was pronounced by all who heard it oneof the ablest and best which has been delivered here. We know that many men and women were deterred from attending last evening lest she should say something which they would blush to hear. Mrs. Woodhull told the truth about such people. Only a weak mind blushes. to hear the truth when uttered in decent English. The strong mind, the clear, vigorous intellect looks Nature squarely in the face, and recognizes truth as something especially adapted to its wants. . [From the St. Joseph, Ma, Gazette, Jan. 10.]. AN INTERVIEW WITH THIS SINGULAR WOMAN—HER LECTURE LAST NIGHT. Say what you please of the subject of this article, she is a woman of power, and cannot be ignored. She “ will not down,” and thecommon-sense method would be to meet her squarely, full in the face. All efforts to ‘suppress her have proved abortive, and have only tended to increase her noto- riety. She is an ocean bay alive with the stir of whales, and whoever attempts her capture is sure to get splashed. \ Yesterday we called upon Mrs. VV.§ at the Paciﬁc Hotel, and was received by her in an easy and vivacious manner. Conversation at once turned upon national topics, and she manifested a perfect familiarity with every question of im- portance now agitating the American people. The impres- She closed with an appeal for aid from earnest menancl . sion quite frequently entertained that she has concentrated , plause and intense satisfaction among the juniors at this dig at their governors, who, they thought, were served about right] , ‘ We hardly need repeat that her doctrines on this subject are the most radical of the radical--Free Love in its broad- est sense; which, however, does not mean promiscuousness, as many people seem to insist that it should. The present system of legal marriage is the object of her special attack, and she charges upon the legal violations. of and outrages against love, committed under cover of legal matrimony, the major portion .of the unchasteness, misery. and pollution existing outside of it. As a lecturer, Mrs. Woodhull is a. decided success.‘ She is possessed of a ﬁne voice, and when she paces the platform and stamps out her terriﬁc sentences, the audience are elec- triﬁedup to the highestpitch. Mrs. Woodhull lectures again to—night, on “The Social Question,” and the house will be packed from pit to ceiling. [From the Leacem/no/th (Kan) Daily Oommercial of January 11.] THE SOCIAL EVIL HANDLED UPON THE ROSTRUM-—VICTORIA MAKES SOME STRANGETHINGS PUBLIC. Last evening, as per announcement, Mrs. Victoria C.Wood- hull delivered a lecture at the Opera House. There was a very large audience indeed in attendance. The ﬁrst part of the lecture dealt with the subject of po- litical reform, and among what was said by the speaker there was a great deal that might be highly comndended. Mrs. Woodhull told a great many truths concerning the male prostitutes, whom she_ insistedshould be punished equally with the females. and concerning public men, whom she accused of being largely the supporters of bawds and of infamous houses. ' ' ~ Mrs. Woodhull is about thirty-four years of age, but seen at aydistance she looksyounger. She is of medium height and rather slight, although by no means scrawny; has a good form, erect and ﬁrm; her features are regular and of the aquiline type; eyes dark-blue and very expressive, and when in speaking she gets thoroughly roused,‘they are flashingly excited in conversation or speaking to an audience there comes a flush upon her checks which is of the hectic order; her hair, which is alight brown, is worn short, and carelessly arranged; her forehead is high and broad, and her, whcle head and face indicate more than ordinary intellectual and mental power. Physically, she looks a superior woman. Mentally, she seems to be such. ' MISCELI.ANE‘CUS. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. I A PARODY 0N W. W. sToEY’s “ CLEOPATRA ."' CANTO I. I am dying, Antony, dying For my panther of the Nile; My heart is hot with passion For the gloryof thy smile. about all her information and ideas in a lecture or-two, and relies for reputation upon these studied efforts, is entirely erroneous. She is ready at all times toidefend ‘herself against attack at any point. And not only that, but she constantly acts upon the aggressive, and although she listens respectfully she can but illy conceal the innate’ force that apparently longs for expression in words. The intense activity of her brain is remarkable. She is a woman of culture and large experience. ~ It were useless to give the details of her lecture last night. The ‘woman is evidently’ in earnest, and is endowed with tragic strength and wonderful ﬂuency. I [From the Daily Times, Leavenworth, Kan, January 11, 1874.] HOW SHE LAID DOWN THE DOCTRINE AT THE OPERA HOUSE LAsT NIGHT. he The Opera House was well ﬁlledilast night with an audi- ence attracted there by the name and fame of Victoria C. Woodhull. Previous to the appearance of Mrs. Woodhull, her daughter appeared and delivered a lengthy poem on the “ Coming Crisis,” which was well received. Then the veritable Woodhull herself, manuscript in hand, walked gracefully from the side scenes on the left of the stage, and commenced her lecture. For the ﬁrst half hour, politics was the inspiring theme, and the principles and propositions laid down were fearful to contemplate. In words delivered with terrible emphasis’, she hurled blow after blow at the present system of govern- ment, and cast many a slur at the administration. The re- ligious fanatics received a dose which was not easily swal- lowed. The money kings and railroad autocrats received her ‘blessing in a “way not to be misunderstood. Siashing right and left, she cut to ‘pieces and held up to public view the corrupt rings and upholders of oppression all over the country. But the political part of her lecture was as nothing when she struck the topic of social reform. Throw- torrent of eloquent and impassioned words. Nothing can describe the terrible earnestness with which she hurled back the taunts and jeers with which she has been so abundantly favored of late. ‘ A ’ She earnestly entreated every woman to observe the old Greek motto, “ Know thyself.” She insisted that there must spring, and thus would crime, prostitution and misery be avoided. Her remarks on this topic were very forcible, and r her strictures upon that false modestygor delicacy which prevents parents from preparing their children for the bat- tle of life before them, were not only timely and truthful, but known to be so by every person present. ‘She told wives that there were 2,500,000 prostitutes in the land, supported by two and a half millionsof men—not the young men, for they have not money enough to support themselves [ap- plause by the elderly portion of the audience], but the hoary- headed old villains, husbands and fathers. .[Thunderous ap- Red blood is rushing madly From heart to ﬁnger tips, And Ilong to feel thee pressing Fierce kisses on my lips. Ah! how well do lrcmember, ' As spicy gales divine, _ When thy tawny beard swept o’er me, Like odors of rich wine! ‘ The hot air was thick with incense, As the crimson setting sun H Smote on the air of evening ‘ When the azure day was done. In the heat of passion slaying, Glad, glorious was thy smile, As you wound your arms around me, Like the serpent of the Nile; The white lotus breathing o’er us, Wild poppies all blood red, The creamy, perfumed lily, Made sweet our nuptial bed. The tall and feathery palm tree Spread its green mat ’bove our head, And we slept the sleep of infants Whom mother-arms oerspread. The wild, ﬂeet steeds of Araby Rushed swift, unheeded by. All their trackless footstepslﬁlling With amber dust the sky. What cared we for the rushing Of mighty, swift simoom, Or cimeter of Moorish band That golden afternoon. ing aside her manuscript, ‘she launched forth in a perfect - be truth and knowledge between mothers and their oﬁ‘- - The wild herds of the Tartar / Might roam till evening glooms, Unconsciously we slept and dreamed, ’Mid ambient perfumes. CANTO II. Now the level, sanded desert Our twin so/uls far divide, _ 1 , V Yet the ancient Roman galley Floats on the sluggish tide. Then come to me, my panther, Come swifter than the wind, And fieeter thanzthe ﬁery steed, Come/to" your cub, of Ind. Let us spjor‘t:in ‘darkest jungle, 0’er tint6.d:‘sands_.far roam; ‘ In dusky shade-_of Tamerisk Seek out the parrot’s home. ‘Now, my pantheifbold and fearless, Come hold me with your “claws, ' ' All passionate limbs enfold I 7 In your saffrcni, velvétvpawsi ‘ ' l S“ A V ‘ Maythe hush, bland airs of evening — - - ~ With love our hearts infuse, . Cooling our blood at midnight, “ [In softest Paphlan_dews,. , -I The; distant Orientsmilqing, eloquent. She is rather inclined to paleness except when S , A I A vvo,o,nnoLL a CI.A’1?‘LI,N’S vvnnrrtr. jan. 31, 1874. Her attar of roses sweep Over our bosoms, enthrilling "The dreams of ravishing sleep. ’ The vision is frenzy, ’_tis madness. Where lingers my Antony, say? Ye gods, if longer he tarry, I will his Octavia slay. Unmoor me the swiftest galley, On, on to the (Roman States; Go tell my well-starred warriors The queen, Cleopatra, waits. Unbind me these golden tresses, And hand me the robe of state, Quickly man me the-trusty barges—— I seek for my panther mate. ,- Loose from its bondage my ensign, Let its crimson folds overus fall; Float it over the starry crescent That hangs by the casemate wall.‘ CANTO III. From old Egypt send my heralds, Tell them Cleopatra waits, With her mighty armed warriors, , Outside the city gates. ' V Bid them open wide the portals, Let her look on tower and dome; Cleopatra seeks her Antony ’ Amid the ﬂames of Rome. Minions, have my words no meaning? I date the wisdom of fate To ﬁnd my Antony‘s wooing Is made in the Roman State; That he dailies with pale Octavia,’ Forgetful ofﬂkingdom and crown, Or wars with the base-hearted Caesar, And ﬁnds but a world’s renown. Hush! Read but the cruel story, '1‘hat over the desert ﬂew; How all was lost in the battle- Himself my Antony slew. Then let not the cruel triumvir Dare his memory to deﬁle, I Or mock the matchless splendor Of our loves beside the Nile. The dark Roman legion’s banner . Now ﬂoats above his head, Ah! no more the Senates triumph, For my Antoriy is dead. Then take down my satin ensign. And befurl .my silken sail; For the ﬂinty heart of Caesar ( Has made my life to fail. List, my tawny Indianbeauty, Now go seek the fatal asp; . Let me hold its rainbow collars Within my nerveless grasp. My fading Egypt, long farewell, The Styx breaks on my view; ,I come, my glorious Antony, Rome, Egypt, gods, adieu! CANTO iv. A wail comes o’er the desert, Echoing adown the Nile, 0’ertoppin g tower and «citadel, Sweeping o’er rank and ﬁle. ’.Tis a shout, but not of battle, From tent to Delta green, _ ' And old E ypt’s well-scarred warriors VVeep for their lovely queen. Robe her in royal purple, From looms of Tyrian dye, , On her slender molded ankles White silver sandals tie. With seed pearl thickly broider The satins of her bed; And to old Tiberls shore proclaim, Our peerless queen is dead. Lay her golden, jeweled tiara On her amber-tinted hair, To glint, like morning sunshine, The thick palatial air. How paled her glorious beauty, As glistening iceberg cold; ‘ White lips, all mute and motionless As Egypt’s sphynx of old. - ‘ Now let the Roman chariots In martial line deﬁle; All heads bowed down like bulrush / Beside the aﬂiuent Nile; The leagured hosts of Caesar, Hot with victorious lusts, May trail beside the pale dead queen Their eagles in the dust. But let no royal pageant, No warriors gather round, For the blood-red ﬂag of Egypt No other queen has found. Grim; dusky, Moorish minions To‘ Rome the passage bars; Have scattered Cleopatrgvs hosts Remote as beltless stars. ~ BROOKLYN, Dec. 10, 1873. * .._.—__.- To the Editor of the Weeklyl—-I have seen the report you have published of the doingsand sayings of the Chicago Con- vention, and I take pleasure in saying that in the publication of such areport, so full, so accurate and impartial as it is, you have done a work worthy of high commendation. Some ould not be at that /Convention either for want of time or ‘means; butnow such of them asmay choose ‘to read can al- most imagine that they werethere; and though they may not attain whatever there may be in personal presence-—in the eye and the ear, and in soul-communion»-yet whatever of principle has been evolved, they may well discover and understand, and also, as 1 hope, they may proﬁt/thereby. But I discover some things in your editorials pertaining 139 that Convention, and particularly in the issue of October 18, V \ H,»-. while discoursing upon “hypocrisy,” so much at variance with the truth, and so unjust to the persons involved, and especially your humble servant, that I consider they should not be passed unnoticed. You say, “ I/Ve may learn that they [the minority] are in favor of being right in principlebut wrong in practice.”_ “ They each and all said it [the resolu- tion] was not true—even going so far as to ‘defend hypocrisy in the abstract.” * * * “ Those who have bad princi- ples, and who live them, thus become examples of warning I to the world, instead of examples for justice, as Judge Hol- brook argued.” “All his arguments were based upon the old theologicalidea of the depravity of human nature, which makes the race inclined to follow after the base instead of after the good.” ' . V Now Ihave this to say (and I propose to say it with due deference), that all this, so far as any fact is set forth con- cerning me, is exceedingly false, of which the proof is very clear, as I will attempt to show. _ i The words of Article 9 referred to are these: “That hypocrisy is the most dangerous element of the pres_ent civilization, and the individuals who profess one system of morals and practice another are the most dangerous class of society.” a ‘o - It may be remarked that the latter clause deﬁnes what is meant by theword. hypocrisy in the ﬁrst clause; and the air of the resolution (in itself quite, or essentially, abstract) is directed to those who maintain a high order of principles, according to their own view, and yet practice what they condemn—more particularly those who condemn, or affect to condemn, before the world the principles of social freedom and yet practice them. Now, my methods of proof that the assertions made con- cerning me are very false, are twofold. The one ‘is, that in tuitionally, axiomatically, it is self-evident truth that I did not say that I “was in favor of jbeing right in principle but wrong in practice ”—the short (if which is, that -I “ was in favor of being wrong in practice,” and thatl “have not argued for those who have bad principles and who live them as examples for practice.” Youi.-have said further that “ my arguments were based upon the old theological idea of the depravity of human nature.” You may give what force you choose to your statement; and, as you do, I present to ‘you this dilemma. I should be very sorry to think that there were any of your readers that would not ﬁnd intuitionally, as a self-evident truth, that I never “ was in favor of being right in principle but wrong in practice,” or in “favorof being wrong in practice,” or “defended hypocrisy in the abstract,” and that I have “ argued for those who have bad principles and who live them as examples for practice.” Now, if they do so ﬁnd against me, I submit that they ﬁnd that theological dogma of human depravity very true as to myself; and if they do not so ﬁnd as to myself, then they must ﬁnd it true of the one that has asserted, or would assert, such things of me without the most positive proof. My other method is to refer to the record that you have made of what I said——a part of which, at the risk of. being tedious, Iwill quote: “I do not go for hypocrisy by any means. I do not advocate that a man is justiﬁed in advo- cating good principles and then practicing evil. It is right that he should teach good principles and follow them.” * * “ Precept goes as far as example. Teach by your precept and teach by your example,” etc., etc. , Without repeating more I will call‘ attention to the fact that I was contending against the exact truthfulness bf the proposition that hypocrisy, so deﬁned, was the most dan- gerous; or, that is to say aﬂirmatively, that the man that is wrong in his principles and his teachings and wrong in prac- tice is more dangerous than the man who is right in his principles and his teachings, but yet wrong in his practice, and would do more injury to individuals and to society. Now, let me ask in all candor, is there, anything I have said or done in all this that justifies you in placing me before the world in the attitude, either as a reasoner or a moralist, that you have? - Now, right here, as confessions are called for lately, it may perhaps be in order to confess to‘ a certain triﬂing peccadillo solely within my own knowledge, though others may have had strong suspicions of it. I called the above proposition -——“ to be right in principle and wrong in practice is better than to be wrong in principle and practice both”—-as “an ‘aphorism in scienc e and truth——a‘ self-evident truth;” “the sentiment of common sense,” etc. As a self-evident propo- sition no argument could make it more evident, and those who were not convinced, from an intuitional point of view, that the sum of two quantities, two errors, was greater than one alone, and “a portion greater than the one minus the ' other, could not be convinced by argument; and so. as much for the fun of the thing as otherwise, I brieﬂy aired the solecism for the amusement of those who‘ had not made so great an investment in fanaticism that they could not see the point; and the gross misuse of the superlative adjective most, where but the positive or the comparative could find its proper place. ‘Whatever of penance, 1 ought to endure for all this, I will endeavor to submit to without complaint. I am prompted to remark here in this connection, for the purpose of more fully meeting this effort to place certain ones in a false position, that Mr. Chase, on taking up the re- frain, fell, in some degree, into the same error, either wit- tingly or unwittingly. Much that he said was well enough, as that the hypocrisy of the age should be condemned; but in so far as his remarks were based upon the supposed idea that any mere advocating the propriety of believing one the- ory and practicing another, he was imputing false premises and falselogic to somebody, and hence in error. The true logician meets his opponent, and either confronts his pre- mises, as he states them for himself, or his conclusions there- from. In logic, it is “ one of the most damnable things ex- tant,” in this or any age, to misrepresent the position of your opponent. Who is there that cannot, before his own coterie of admiring and trusting friends, beat his adversary, if he will only be permitted to set up his premises for him, and set them up so that they are ready to fall. Even the “veriest one—horse-preacher can do that, To say that you should not , . ?‘-‘hi’.-:.‘§£7s2!*a’»‘.:fc>.~‘.t:%:»°. . -' " ' " ' ,“it is one of the 1and—marks of progression.” practice what your conscience condemns is but an aphor- ism in the matter of morals; but to maintain that the advo- cacy of the right with the strength and willingness of the spirit, though failing to practice it through the weakness of the ﬂesh, is worse than both to advocate and practice the wrong. Now to this Shakespeare would say, ‘* Oh, most lame and impotent conclusion.” When Mr. Chase says, “In the name of God, put up a proposition that will draw out the devil that lurks in every man and woman,” I think every true Spiritualist will say Amen, and will also lament that such a proposition had not been put up in the_ ﬁrst instance, and been kept up till the present time; and’ their idea no doubt is, that if it had been done, and had been effectual, as it might have been, Spiritualism to-day would have been like the “ eagle towering in his pride of flight,” and not like the duck waddling along with drooping feathers after a storm. If Shalsespeare says (as he gives him credit for): “Who one thing think and another tell, My soul abhors as the gates of hell,” He must have said, for his head was level, His soul abhorred as the very devil Him who was wrong in every part, Both in the head and in the heart; Corrupt in principle and deed, His sins accordant to his creed; . So boldly recreant to all good, As not to claim it when he could; And never give the honor due Of feigned resemblance to the true; And as the devil is worse than hell, As all our reverend preachers tell (And surely they must lgiow full well), Then I am right, and Chase is wrong, Which is the inference of my song; ‘ And Willie Shakespeare nails it doubly strong. One of the speakers of the minority, a gentleman of great modesty and good sense, somewhat dazed in the presence of so many intellectual ladies, (as why should he not be ‘B3 rather misconceiving for the moment the practical meaning of the word hypocrisy, as it was up for discussion, gave to it the position that it occupies as an evidence of the advance of so- ciety from barbarism to civilization, from a low to a higher, from the wrong to the right. As such in its primitive sense, hypocrisy. is truly an evidence of growing virtue. When public sentiment becomeszso strong against hitherto unre- strained crime that murder no longer stalks abroad at noon- day as heretofore, but conceals itself and withdraws to dark places and secret methods, then the right is gaining ground, and this hypocrisy is the evidence and the measure of it; and so on with every crime and every wrong to the end of the calendar. Hence it is true in this sense, as it was said, that “hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue,” and In this sense there is no limit that can be prescribed to it. The politeness of those people in convention, while discussing and condemn- ing, would be an affront to the rude barbarian for his con- cealment. One might suggest that the resolution itself is by- pocritical, if hypercriticism in other people’s hypocrisy be- comes the rage. It is more or less than it reads and is in- tendedto be so. Hypocrisy is pronounced to be, or is ad- mitted to be, an “element of the present civilization.” Then you make it a constituent and a cause of civilization. If we have in fact a civilization, can sucha dangerous thing occupy so high a place in forming it? Is it not rather as I have in- timated, a land-mark only of our progression and not an ele- ment? Then “the professing one system of morals and practi- cing another.” Have we different systems, and what are they? Why not name them fully, so that we can vote understand- ingly? And is one system better than and variant from an- other? If not, how does it appear that there is so much danger? And if one is better than the other, suppose one advocates the worst and practices the best, is it still danger- ous? Therefore, the Free-Love Convention pronounces its actingchairman. the veteran Coonley, the most dangerous man in the world—for he declared publicly to the Conven- tion that he advocated social freedom and practiced monog- amy. This effort to dignify hypocrisy with a superhuman greatness, and then to overcome it by a hypocritical resolu- tion, abstract, general pointless, and so far as its meaning can be guessed, not true in our mathematics, logic or morals, will have the same practical effect as the resolutions of those certain ones that we have read of, at least in poetry, who “resolved and re-resolved and did the same.” But this communication is getting to be too lengthy, and yet I must notice a little further on in the editorial, that you say, “The solution of the action of the minority in opposing, cloak to the ‘lives, which they live.” Is this thrust in the dark worthy the professed gospel of social freedom and its lead

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