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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 08, no. 20 (October 17, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2041
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-10-17
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: __.4.. PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! BREAKING THE ‘WAY FOR FUTURE“ GENERATIONS. ‘V01. VIII.—-No. 20.--—‘WhOle No. 202., NEW YORK, OCT. 17,1874.f7; 44...... ‘PRICE TEN CENTS. LOANERS BANK OF THE’ CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER) Continental Life Building, 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 C ‘t RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WELMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, No. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per ...
Show more__.4.. PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! BREAKING THE ‘WAY FOR FUTURE“ GENERATIONS. ‘V01. VIII.—-No. 20.--—‘WhOle No. 202., NEW YORK, OCT. 17,1874.f7; 44...... ‘PRICE TEN CENTS. LOANERS BANK OF THE’ CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER) Continental Life Building, 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 C ‘t RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WELMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, No. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. 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CHAPTER XIV.—[Continued.] I may as well inform my younger or foreign readers, that it had been one of the achievements of the Emancipation to abolish the hereditary principle in respect of all offices, ex- cepting only the Crown; and to substitute for it, in the Upper House, a system of election akin to one whic%had been sug- gested so long ago as the Victorian period. y this method any man who had won the conﬁdence of the country at large might, without holding special relations with any particular district, and Without putting himself forward asya candidate, ﬁnd himself elevated to a peerage for life, together with a moderate allowance in money, and the historic preﬁx of lord to his own name, so as not to merge his identity in a new appellation. The number of these lords was, after some ﬂue- tuation, ﬁxed at ﬁve hundred. The Prime Minister of the day had also the power of nominating a certain small per- centage of the ‘peers. The lower chamber——(I mention this that all my readers at least may know the political constitution of this country)- consists of representatives and delegates from various locali- ties. lt rests between a constituency and its members, and depends mainly on the calibre of the latter,whether he should be a representative exercising his own judgment, or a dele- gate recording the opinions of a majority of his constituency. The position of the country in respect of the crown has for some time been very peculiar. Of all the nations of Europe, those only which retained their monarchical institutions were Russia and Great Britain. The rest, after changes and revolutions innumerable, have settled down, apparently for- ever, with constitutions modelled after the American type. Even we did not retain our old forms without a hard strug- gle. That we did retain them was owing partly to the failure of objectors to ﬁnd a substitute free from objection; partly to the admirable manner in which the sovereigns of the Vic- torian dynasty fulﬁlled their royal functions; and partly also to the complete emancipation of the country from dogmas, political as well as religious. Experience having shown the monarchy to work well with us, it was not to be abolished at the dictation of republican dogmatists. It was on the death of the famous queen, whose prolonged grief for the loss of her almost ideal husband has made her the heroine of many a tale and poem as a model of widowed constancy, that the splendor and cost of royalty in this coun- try were reduced within reasonable limits. Her successor, a sensible, frank and genial man, readily fell in with the new tariff, and he and his descendants enacted the part rather of hereditary president than of sovereign until a few genera- tions ago, when the family unfortunately became extinct. Unfortunately, I_ say, not because we have consciously suf- fered any appreciable damage as a people in consequence, but because it is impossible to help regretting the fall of a noble old tree that has for ages made a feature in the land- scape, and braved the storms which have raged round it and us; because, also, we know not what may be in store for us in the future. - ~ But when, through failure of heirs, the dynasty came to an end, something had to be done. What should it be? The country would not hear of sending abroad for a new royal family, and indeed there was no abroad to send to for one, unless we were prepared to accept a scion of Russia, Turkey, or Central Africa. This last was not without its advocates, on the ground that there would be a humorous retribution in placing on the throne of Britain a descendant of the famous Abyssinian monarch who had provoked our ancestors to de- stroy him. All the plans in operation in the rest of the world were dis- cussed and re—discussed, and a good deal of ill-feeling was making itself apparent, when a proposition was made to postpone the discussion of the question for six months, and in the meanwhile to consider the Prime Minister for the time being as invested with the presidential functions of the sove- reign. ’ The interval allowed men’s minds to become quiet, and at the end of the six months, no inconvenience having occurred, and no acceptable suggestion having been made, the Prime WOODHULL, 85 C.LAFLIN’S WEEKLY}: Minister was conﬁrmed in his new functions for another six months. It has thus come about that our conntry has for several generations been in the enjoyment of a government far more republican than any deliberately-formed constitu- tion in the world; for in all other republics there is a presi- dent who isvvirtually irremovable during a ﬁxedterm of oﬂice, whereas our president holds oﬁice onlyvso long as he retains the conﬁdence of the Legislative Chambers. It is true that there was for some time a void in the mind of the nation which nothing seemed able to ﬁll. The spectre of the vacant throne‘ and crown, with piteous forlornness continually appealed to the popular imagination, so powerful do hereditary impressions sometimes become. And it was even feared that in some period of popular excitement a party might be found to make political capital out of the supposed grievance. So, on a happythought, it was deter- mined to place the throne in one of the Chambers immedi- ately behind the place occupied by the Minister-president, with the crown lying on the seat and the national ﬂag sus- pended above it. This combination of the symbols of the monarchy and the nation had the happiest effect in reconcil- ing both royalists and republicans; and the new system of government has been found to work so well that we have allowed it to continue in operation ever since. Being avow- edly only provisional it involves no principle, and therefore no one considers it a point of point of honor to try to ‘upset it on principle. ‘BOOK II. CHAPTER I. Away from the crowded earth, where men teem in such countless millions that solitude and contemplation are no longer possible upon its surface. Away from the sights and sounds of a complex civilization, with its manifold cares and incessant activities, its constant changes and perpetual same- ness. Away from engrossments that occupy the body and clog the soul, and dull the spirit’s perceptions, and hide from man that eternal Ideal from which he sprang and to which he must return. Away into the boundless plains of mid-air, whither none from below can follow, where they only can penetrate in whom the soul is dominant, even they who are from above, denizens of the azure, children of the light, bright actualities of thoughts which the best only among mortals can imagine, which the most gifted cannot translate into words. _ ' V It is verse, not prose, that should tell of such ﬂight into the empyrean; tell how, whenthus Leaving far the world behind, Like him of old, who on the wind Was rapt from earth, and, as he ﬂew, Back his cumb’ring mantle threw; Ancient prejudices all To their native level fall; For selﬁsh thoughts and coward fears Cannot break the bonds of years, Cannot ﬂee time’s narrow reign, And revel on the eternal plain-— Ah, no; only he who sang, as no other of earth’s poets before him or since have sung, could paint the rapture of the ﬂight as young Carol soared aloft upon the billows of the air, winging the blue deep ten thousand fathoms up, and higher yet, his whole being a song and a delight. Leaving, per- chance, the earth wrapped _in the pale, purple evening; re- gaining, as he sped, the golden light of the sunken sun; bath- ing awhile in the silver shower of the moonbeams, and visited all night by troops of starsas they emerged from their hid- ing-places after the departure of their fair queen. Then the dreams that would come, as he lay ﬂoating aloft, poised like an eagle asleep upon its outspread pinions. Dreams! Were they dreams? And was it sleeping or wak- ing that they came to him? I reckon Criss knew not; knew not whether in the body or out of the body; Whether in trance or in reality, when thus mounting as into the seventh heaven, he regained the society of angels and was admitted into the recesses of the invisible world. . N o wonder that even when, as one has sung of the bird of passage, all day long his wings had fanned at that far height the cool, thin atmosphere, and the dark night drew near, he stooped not weary to the land; for then it was that to him, the rapt and kingly youth who loved to hold such commune, his high-born kinsfolk came——came as fair embodied visions and ideas, descending from theyet far rarer atmosphere of the regions where they dwelt, drawn by the force of the sympathies which they ever have with the worshiper of the Ideal. Little do people know what they lose when they clog their minds with preconceptions of the unveriﬁable, and in the positiveness of profound ignorance close them against the teaching of the spirits. So apt in discerning_ the spirits did Criss become, that he could recognize distinctions of gifts and characters as well as of outward form. He, made special friendships, too. There was one angel, tall of stature and thoughtful and steadfast of mien, who conceived a great aﬂection for him, and gave him many details respecting their mode of life. And more "than once Criss was struck by ﬁnding how near is the parallel existing between things celestial and things tar- restrial; and this in respect even of moral characteristics. He was equally surprised to ﬁnd that the inequality of their natures and developments is regarded by them. with favor, inasmuch as it produces a pleasing variety and contributes to the general effect of the spiritual landscape. Even a “bad” angel, as one of a corresponding class would be called on earth, is but an accidental discord in a piece of music, and serves to enrich the general harmony. One of their customs served to remind Criss of the exqui- site art of horticulture. As our, gardeners are in the habit of making even insigniﬁcant ﬂowers eﬁective in producing beauty, by massing a number of them together (no ﬂower is "ugly ”), so angels, who individually lack the qualiﬁcations necessary to secure distinction, gather together, like with like, into separate communities; and this, not through any law imposed upon themfrom without, but through the spon- taneous operation of their own sympathies. He observed, \ also, that however large or prominent any of these sections may be, however convinced of their own surpassing perfec- tions, or even howeverlow in the scale of angelic excellence, they never make it a matter of reproach to any that they d not belong to them. . * “It takes many different kinds of angels to make up heaven,” Criss’s tall friend remarked to him. “Even the lowest and most rudimentary angels have uses which save them from being regarded with contempt byuthe more highly endowed. I perceive thatyou experience a sensation of sur- prise at there being such a class among us. But all things ﬁnite are comparative. We regard as such those who form, or used to form, the bulk of all communities of beings en- dowed with a capacity for intelligence; those in whom the perceptive faculties are not active in proportion to their reﬂective. Their powers of retention exceed their powers of acquisition, so that habit has for them a stronger attrac- tion than progress. They love a mechanical sort of exist- ence, and being devoid of the sanguine and hopeful in their temperaments, and incapable of imagining in the future an ideal of which the past shows them no counterpart, their faculty of memory altogether supersedes their faculty of aspiration. With you, down yonder, this class would claim for itself the title of orthodox, on the strength of its con- formity to a standard derived from an actual past, however defective it be in regard to present needs. But here we recognize as alone entitled to rank as orthodox, those who keep their feelings and perceptions open to the reception of any fresh inﬂuences that may stream in from any part of the universe. Some of our oldest angels have told me that we used once to regard tradition as the test of truth, and that there are places in heaven where the practice still widely prevails; but they are far distant, in regions lying above the darker parts of the earth. With us who inhabit one of the most highly developed of the angelic spheres to think freely, that is, what you used to call heresy, is alone counted as orthodox; not to think at all, or to think subserviently to aught but the actual, is heresy. I .“The traditionalists, however, are valued among us for what they are, not for what they are not. Most of our his- torians who serve to keep alive the memory of antiquity, and so enable us to mark the steps of our progress, come from ' among them. We ﬁnd that the greater the period of time over which our generalizations extend, and the greater the number of facts they comprise the more likely we are to attain a true judgment respecting our relations with the inﬁnite. We _do not ﬁnd, however,- that the recorders of facts are generally the most competent to generalize from them. “ I see you are cogitating over my phrase ‘ oldest angels.’ You think that if there be ages in heaven there must be birth and perhaps death. There are both of these. We call the latter disappearance. All I can tell you about it is this: We . have our time. All ﬁnite beings have their time. It is the’ law of the Supreme. He said in his counsels, ‘I give them up all, reserving to myself one prerogative—Death. They are free to develop their natures to the full extent of their conditions; but all must I submit to a period. There they must trust me.’ . ' “And we do trust Him. When too old to enjoy, or enable others to enjoy; perchance when needed elsewhere, we dis- appear. Thisukeeps us from encumbering our sphere and gives the younger angels a chance. ~ “ What becomes of us on disappearing? Those who remain behind never know. Some have a vague notion that the Supreme puts us into the crucible of his love and remoulds us for a fresh stage of existence. But our ignorance brings us no fear, our love and trust being perfect. We have no cer- tainty of a future. Like you we are phenomena; whether recurrent or not, we know not. Do children, with you,when they fall alsleep in their parent’s arms, wonder whether or where they will'wake? ‘ “ So you thought we had only to will in order to have. In- dolent wishing procures nothing, even in the hightest of the spiritual spheres. We are bound to prove the reality of our desires by our efforts to realize them. ' . I "The sense in which I use the term spirit? When signify- ing an entity, it differs from matter only in degree. In kind it is the same,. or rather they are different stages of the same material. - H “ You ‘wish to know whether we possess aught that is capa- ble of surviving the grosser organism, and becoming re-con- stituted as an individual. A “This is what I said we do not know. It is where we can only trust. Both in kindness and wisdom it is so ordained. ' In kindness, because hope is one of the most precious of pos- sessions, and where all is certainty there is no room for hope. In wisdom, because the imaginative faculty which appertains to all intelligent beings, would, by the certainty of a future state, be called into such intense activity respecting its nature, as to make the present comparatively valueless. The Supreme lives in the N ow as well as the Then. So that to contemn and neglect the present life is to defraud Him and , ourselves also. “Glance to the past history of your own world. Whence have sprung. the vast majority of the evils your own race has experienced? Is it not through regarding as absolutely cer- tain that which ought to be an aspiration and a hope, that man has sacriﬁced the happiness -provided for him in the present life to his fears respecting the future? A “ Well, with us in heaven, as well as with you on earth, the certainty that a future awaits us would operate upon the present more perniciously than an equally strong conviction the other way. The conviction that we exist only in the present world, sooner or later leads to making the very best of that present. We should thus, at least, give the Supreme credit for meaning well by us so long as we existed. But we should not have hope, as under the present arrangement- the may-be. , “ Besides, were our, actions weighed with motives derived from the certainty’ of an hereafter, real morality would be all but impossible." We must love and -follow good for its own sake, otherwise we are not ﬁtted to endure. Change of place. n _ of histall companion. 4 I _ meanness. a er.ArLIn=s wsnxnr. _( ; Oct. 17,3874." works no radical change of mind. If we haveno love of good here, there is no reason to suppose we should have it there. And. if we have it not, how can we desire to perpetuate exist- ences which are devoid of such love ? “ Our abode? That is principally on the conﬁnes of the atmosphere which encircles the earth. It sustains us as the solid surface of the earth sustains you, and as the sea sus- tains your ships. Resting on that, we can raise our heads aloft, and inhale the pure ether of space. Our capacity for physical enjoyment is intense. On the ever-shifting billows of the outer atmosphere we shoot upward or plunge down- ward. In it or on it we swim, and glide, and fly, and die. It is by aiprocess of diving that I am able to penetrate hither to you. Would that I could take you into the far recesses of our world. But your time will come. Thank God, your time will come. At least, it is permitted to hope so. “ Oh, no, we never have accidents to hurt us, at least seri- ously. We are so carefully trained from infancy to obey the laws of our being, that even when we go on excursions into wild and distant regions, we know, as by second nature, what to do or to avoid. “ We have no other law than that with which we are born, the law of sympathy. The ‘springs of all government are ' .w1thin us. They may require developing, but never,coun- teractin g. ” “ Do we never actually do wrong? Well, I can hardly ex- plain. The fact is, we delight in story—books, and we put all our wickedness into them. It is a great safeguard to us, and prevents them from being dull.” _ The latter remarks were made during Criss’s lastascent to the angelic spheres before quitting his minority. _The rest of the conversation had been held at diiferent times. After thus referring to the power of their sympathetic faculties the angel paused, and a roseate hue overspread his whole form, and he seemed to Criss as if about to withdraw from him, but in obedience to what emotion Criss could not divine. Soon he resumed: “ I ought to have considered that my utterances respecting our nature would excite_in you an earnest wish to know more. My perceptions now show me on what your thoughts are dwelling. Your thoughts are pure or I should not be here. It is not forbidden to me to gratify the desire of the pure. “ Learn, then, that next to the Supreme and our own In- most,whereby we come into communion with Him, the most sacred of all things to us is the mystery of the Sex. Its origin is a mystery hidden in the breast of the All-wise. Its method is likewise a mystery. Enough has been revealed to us to show that ﬁnite existences are possible only through Duality. It is the eternal and necessary antidote to selﬁshness. For sex means sympathy, sympathy with likeness in unlikeness. Itself the product of eternal love, it is in‘ its turn the creator and sustainer of love. You, in your manifold contradictions upon earth, once adored the attributes of sex. Then for ages you contemned them, affecting a spirituality which re- garded it as an unhappy accident. Then you blasphemed them by suffering a state of society in which the natural sym- pathies were forced to succumb to conventional exigencies At last you have attained a condition with which we can sympathize, for you have restored the affections to their due pre—eminence as the sole basis of morals. , “ Some day you-will learn to love. With most men love is the product of sex. I believe you more nearly resemble us, with whom sex is the product of love. It may be a hard say- ing for you to comprehend, but we know not, until love has developed it within us, to what sex we shall belong when we love. Unconsciously to ourselves our inner nature deter- mines this according to some law which eludes our power of analysis. For no ﬁnite being can comprehend its own - nature.” ' A Criss noted here that there was something in the tone and aspect of the angel which called forth his own most ardent sympathy, as well as curiosity respecting his visitant’s own precise character and condition. It had never before occur- red to him to question the sex of his friend. Now it struck him there was something that strove for expression; and Criss felt his heart going out toward him in the fulness of K intense sympathy. But he did not speak what he felt. The angel was accustomed to read his thoughts, so that utterance was superﬂuous. ‘ ’ During most of their private interviews his friend had been accompanied by another, a slim strippling of middle height -—a boy-angel, as it seemed to Criss—whose slight and active form was matched by a playfulness of disposition which was wont to ‘exhibit itself in smart repartees and practical jokes upon Criss and his Ariel; and yet whose eyes and voice indi- cated a capacityfor a feeling deeper than seemed compatible with his boyisliness in other respects. It delighted Criss to witness the strong mutual affection subsisting between the two friends, and to watch the gradual and evident development of the younger from mischievous sprite to laughing fairy; and he wondered whether he ever would attain a character grave and sweet and earnest as that Now and again would the look of tender‘ devotion which shone through the lad’s steel-blue eyes, and diffused itself over his merry countenance, sud- denly give place to an outbreak of the wildest spirits, when ' his look would become wholly deﬁant and his voice break into snatches of joyous song, and his -whole bearing become that of a spoilt and wayward child. I Sometimes he would perch himself on the top of Criss’s car, and, pretending to be jealous of him, declare that he would push him back to the earth. At others he would get beneath it, and seek to give it an impulse upward, declaring that Criss must come and stay altogether with them in heaven. Of course, he could only make as though he would move the car, for it is quite out of the power of beings so delicately organized and etherially constituted to exercise a direct and perceptible inﬂuence upon the gross elements cf earth. ’At times he appeared to be really jealous of Criss, once "even leaving them and returning home alone, pouting like a sulky girl. ‘ Criss had noticed that of late his tall friend had‘ become graver and somewhat disrrait, as if pre—occupied and anxious. And on this occasion-there was, as _I have stated, something in his demeanor that strangely excited Criss’s sympathy. The angel detected his feeling and understood it better than Criss himself. “Your sympathy,” he at length said, “has won from me something that I have been longing to utter, but shrank from confessing, even to my own kind. VVith you attractions are of opposites. Yours are marriages of completion. With us, like attracts like. Oursare marriages of intensiﬁcation. I doubt whether that which I shall next tell you will be equally comprehensible to you. I am in the stage in which love is developing my sex. I love and am loved, but neither of us have yet attained assurance which of us will be endowed with masculine, which with feminine, functions. It seems to me that in some way this conversation has hastened the crisis. I have grown bolder since I gave you my conﬁdence; and now I am almost certain that——that—” And here his form and eyes dilated and he gazed intently into space. Then Criss thought he heard a rustling, but he saw nothing. Presently his angel—friend opened wide his arms, and with a bound there enteredinto them another angel of smaller dimensions fuller and more delicate out- lines, with long, ﬂowing hair that seemed to him like the mingling of sunbeams and gold—dust. The face was hidden in the breast of the other as each clasped each, and only a tiny luminous foot appeared beneath the alabastrous skirt; but that foot convinced Criss that his friend need no longer doubt which province of being he was to occupy in the new dispensation upon which he had entered. ' And as Criss gazed at them still clasping each other in blissful trance, the air around became instinct with life, and strains of music reached his ears and those of the new-comer also; for She raised her head from the breast where it had ' been hidden; a face, one glimpse of which told even Criss’s duller because still human faculties that every thrill and pulse of her being appertained to thefeminine. She raised her face and uttered a little cry, half of timidity half of amusement: “We are caught! we are caught! from them?” For even among angels the ﬁrst impulse of love for the one is to conceal itself from the many. But the joy of the angels over a new-found affinity extends far and wide, and is too vivid to be repressed; and so they had sought out these, diving after them to the lower air where they held converse with Criss. And then, surrounded by congratulating friends and" strains of wedding music, the celestial marriage party-—the bride still clasped in her bridegroom’s arms—soared aloft to their own abiding-place and disappeared from Criss‘s sight. But the unutterable fairness of the face of which he had caught a glimpse, remained indelibly impressed upon his memory. It was the face of the boy-angel, as Criss had once deemed him; now by the force of love developed into the woman, and lit up with all the devotion and beauty which constitutes the special appanage of her sex, no matter in what sphere of existence. Oh, where shall we hide CHAPTER I I. Criss ‘determined to spend the last days of his minority with his foster-father. It happened that Bertie was much occupied in‘ carrying out a scheme of immigration for the government of Patagonia; and, induced by tempting offers, large numbers of settlers were leaving Central Africa for the bracing climate and fertile slopes of the Southern Cordilleras. The ill-will beginning to be manifested toward the whites on the African plateau, especially in the districts immedi- ately around the capital and the Bornouse and Sakatos dis- tricts of Central Soudan, contributed also to the movement. Many of the richer class of emigrants adopted the easy and rapid journey aloft and thereby escaped the discomforts and risks of the unwholesome low coast country; but the major- ity, together with all heavy goods were carried by sea, em- barking near the mouth of the river Niger. There was in reality no hardship about the sea journey, excepting to people accustomed to the exquisite ease of air travel. Our ancestors even of a fewgenerations back would have been ﬂlled with envy could they have foreseen the enormous improvements in the construction of ships, which a cheap motive power has enabled us to make. It is difficult for us to realize the fact that people used to traverse the ocean by the aid of the wind alone, or at best impelled by steam produced by the combustion of coal; the stock of this article requisite for a long voyage occupying two-thirds of a vessel’s whole carrying capacity, and the vessel itself riding upon a single keel, at the mercy of every change in the level of the water, and the decks being so low that the waves fre- quently washed over them! What would they have said could they have beheld the huge ferries, rather than ships, in which raised high upon sharp, parallel keels, and propelled by rows of wheels and screws, we_swiftly pass and re-pass the ocean in crowds, scarce knowing by any movement whether it is storm or calm! The sea now has few terrors for voyagers. The danger of ﬁre, indeed, cannot be altogether abolished, though it is re- duced to a minimum. Neither are collisions, either with each other or with -icebergs altogether unknown ; and when these do happen, the tremendous pace at which our vessels move is apt to produce catastrophies which are terrible indeed. In the event to which the course of my narrative now brings me, both these dangers befel a vessel bound from the west coast of Africa to Patagonia, having on board a large party of emigrants. The clash occurred in the mid South Atlantic, and while the two ﬂoating cities were inextricably crushed and entangled together, and their machinery in a state of utter disorganization, a ﬁre broke ou.t and threatened everything with utter destruction. The first act of the authorities on board in such an emer- gency isalways to dispatch a boat to pick up awire of the ﬂoating telegraph and summon aid from the nearest port. Thiswas accordingly done, and then as many of the passen- gers as possible were lowered into the life-boats to await at a safe distance from the banning wreck the arrival of aid. To the dismay of all-nit was found that the boats could not accommodate the entire par_ty, so that several still remained upon the burning vessels. ‘ Among these was an elderly man and his daughter, who had emigrated from the Scotch’ Highlands to the mountain settlement on the slopes of Atlantika, in Soudan, and were now, after some years’ residence there, starting on anew venture in a climate and country more nearly resembling their own. The daughter, a girl of sixteen, had by her marvellous beauty and fascinating vivacity won vast admiration from all on board. To the old she was a warm and glancing sun- beam ; to the young she was a realization of their most ardent dreams of joy and love. ’ The father madea strange contrast with his daughter. He was a hard-featured, tall, saturnine, reserved, unbending man. They stood together now on the edge of the blazing ﬂotilla, watching the receding and overladenboats. On the crowded benches of these was many a young man who, during the brief sojourn at sea, had learnt to regard the fair Scotch lassie with feelings akin to adoration, but in the excitement of the catastrophe had forgotten everything but self-preservation. It must be said on their behalf that the forbidding aspect of the father had kept them all at too great a distance to allow of anything like an intimacy. Pnesently a cry arose from them: “Nannie! we must save Nannie! will pick you up!” _ Na.nnie’s face brightened for a moment, less at the idea of being saved than in pride of conquest. Mechanically she looked up into her father’s face. The grim resolution she read there arrested her impulse to ﬂing herself into the water as bid‘den by her admirers in the boats. And now between those who were for saving Nannie and those who were eager to get further from the burning wrecks, a clamor arose. The old Scotchman made no sign to guide her. The resolution with which she adhered to his side touched him not. The fact was, he loved her not. His was only the self-love of a cold, austere disposition. How such a fair, tender wild ﬂower had ever come to spring upon the bleak mountain-side of a nature like his, was a mystery even to himself. He saw nothing of himself in her; and in his heart he reproached her with being all her m.other’s—that mother who had pined away beneath his chilling inﬂuence, and, after prodhcing three fair and lovely daughters, -was buried in the Highland home, which soon afterward he de- serted for the slopes of Atlantika. One daughter had re- cently diecl; another, the eldest, was married and settled in Africa; and he was now taking this one and all his posses- sions to the new settlements in South America. Untrained by discipline and unregulated by reason, Nan- nie was entirely a creature of impulse. She knew neither fear for herself nor love for her father; but someblind in- stinct made her say to herself: “At least, if he cannot love me, he shall not be ashamed of me.” So in reply to those who bade her jump and be saved, she calmly took her father’s hand and said: “Not alone: I cannot be saved by myself!” Then she whispered to him: "‘ Father, shall we jump? both.” “Do as you please,” was his reply‘ “For myself, I have never in my life accepted a favor from any man, and I am too old to begin now.” ’ ‘ Nannie was terribly perplexed. She had always been ready to accept and eager to serve, and she understood not her father’s disposition. Her attention was drawn from hertperplexity by another shout, differing altogether in character from the last, for there was in it a tone of joyousness. Above the crackling of the ﬂames was heard the sound of a signal exploding at a distance; then another. nearer; and another, so much louder as to indicate that they proceeded from a swift ship of the air and no comparatively slow toiler of the sea. - All listened and looked intently. Presently a tiny aeromo- tive settled down upon the water between the boats and the blazing wreck. Its diminutiveness caused a thrill of disap- pointment in every breast. Adapted but for one or two per- sons, it was evidently incapable of aiding in the present dreadful emergency. But a clear voice arose from it, saying: “Take courage! A ﬂeet of aeromotives will soon be here- _I have outstripped it to give you notice. But I can save one now, at once. Will any one come with me ?” . ‘ It was Christmas Carol who spoke. He had joined Bertie on his last trip with the emigrants, and they were now on their way home together over the Atlantic. The glare of the conflagration had reached them at a vast distance, when high up in the air, whither they had ascended in order to escape the contrary trade winds. Criss was travelling in his aeriel and keeping company with the convoy, when he caught sight of the ﬁre. He only paused to shout to Bertie that it must be a ship that was burning, and that he would hurry on and announce the coming of the rest. I ' In answer to his question, “ Will any one come with me?” there arose once more the cry: “ Nannie! Nannie! save you fair-haired lassie 1” In a moment he had risen from the wateriand was grasping the rail at the edge of the burning deck, against which the remaining passengers were crowded together. There was no need to ask which was Nannie. The looks of all suﬂiciently indicated her, as clad in little beside her long white night- dress and ﬂowing golden hair, she stood mute and trembling by her father’s side. , “ Have a little patience,” said Criss to the poor people, "you will all be taken oil” soon. Come, little one,” he added to Nannie, “ I will take you safely anywhere you wish to go.” Scarce knowing what she did, she took his hand and step- ped into the car, her father being apparently 1300 bewildered to be capable of any decision.‘ . Jump, Nannie, and we I am sure they will save us “Where would you like to ﬁnd her ?” asked Criss of the old man, Ci 3.: 7 _ Cir -..- 7"’,’h‘."‘§”\ , .. Oct. 17, 1874. ,-woonuott a oL.Ari;.inés ‘wanker: ! . 5 “At her sister’s,” was the tardy response. “Very good,” said Criss’; “at her sister’s, wherever that may be, you shall ﬁnd her safe. When the convoy comes, tell the leader that he is to bring you thither as soon as possi- ble. Good-bye!” And amid a ringing» shout he darted aloft bearing Nannie with him. . She, on her side, seemed to partake of the general stupefac- tion. The shouting and the rapidity of the ascent recalled her to consciousness. . “ Oh, my father! my father!" she cried; “do save my father!” — , " Fear not for him, little one,” said Oriss. “See! yonder come the great air-ships, in time to save them all. Their captain is a good, kind man, and will soon bring your father to you——to us——for I shall not leave you until I see you'safe with him.” His voice reassured her as no voice had ever before done; and allayed the beating of her wild and eager heart. “But when and where will that be?” she asked. “At your sister-’s. Did you not hear him say so?” “You are going to take me all that way? and by ourselves too?” A “I do not know where, or how far ‘ all that way ’ may be; but I intend to take you every inch of it, no matter where. By the way, what is your sister’s address?” “ The Elephant Farm, Yolo, Mount Atlantika, Central Africa.” “Very good, then. At the Elephant Farm’, Yolo, Mount _ Atlantika, Central Africa, you will in a few hours have the pleasure of meeting your father.” And glancing at the stars, Criss turned a handle and gave the Ariel an easterly direction. [To be continued] ————-— SOCIALISTIC. WHAT THE MATTER IS. RAVENNA, 0., Aug, 1874. To EDITORS WOODHULL 8: CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY: I have this moment read your article in the WEEKLY of Aug. 15, in. which you give me especial attention. You could not possibly annoy me more than by drawing the inference and making it appear to your readers that I am seeking to appropriate honor for work done, or imagined to have been done, in behalf of the free-love movement. On the other hand, I cherish no feeling in relation to myself so strong as that of dissatisfaction, not to say disgust, that] have not done something worthy of such moderate ability as I possess. If I have ever written a line expressing such a spirit as you attribute to me, I do not know it. There cer- tainly is not a word in the article to which you refer that can be made to mean anything like personal dissatisfaction. That. any considerable number of the many now interested in social freedom should know anything about the feeble eﬁorts of the pioneer workers, is not to be expected. My old associates have often mortiﬁed me by doing me more than justice. It was well enough for them, perhaps, for they had done still less than I, in proportion to their ability. You seem to take it for granted that no one but a conservative or a “ sorehead ” can criticise Mrs. Woodhull. What, then, is “the matter withF. Barry?” It is simply this: Nine-tenths of professed free lovers are half the time talking in favor of absolute freedom, and against marriage and in favor of its a ' ion, and the other half of the time in favor of “true e,” “true monogamy,” or some other mongrel subs r the old infernal system. Now, whether I am right ong, reasonable or unreasonable, I do not acknowledge any one as a free lover who is in favor of “true monogamy,” or “ true polygamy,” or “ true mar- riage,” or “complex marriage,” or any other kind of mar- riage. I have not changed my view of the matter for twenty years, and during that time I have lost no opportunity to oppose any and every other view of the subject. I criticise Victoria 0. Woodhull in the same spirit that I do all the rest of the “loose constructionists.” The otcasion of the article of mine in Hull’s Crucible to which you refer, was this: I presented some resolutions, as . I am in the habit of doing, at our last “ Woman’s Emancipa- tion” meeting (local society). I did not present them for adoption, as I presumed they would be too strong for some of our friends who were absent. We are in the habit of passing resolutions only when they express the general senti- ment of the society. I sent a copy of the resolutions to Moses Hull, and in my private note to him belabored him so severely for being only a “ half-and-half,” “ milk-and-water ” free lover, that he surely would have felt outraged had he not been master of an unusual amount of good sense and good nature. He may have been mad as it was, for he, from motives of revenge or some other motive, oﬂered me the use of his columns. The » result was the article to which_you allude. In that article I criticise Warren Chase,W.F..Iamieson and Victoria C.Wood- hull with about equal severity. The rest of the crowd can ﬂatter themselves that they escaped, because they are of less consequence. Now, as to the animus of that article, I affirm, “on the honor of a gentleman,” that it was precisely thc same as the animus of the resolutions, and the resolutions speak for themselves. For the sake of the “ weaker brethren,” I wish to state dis- tinctly and emphatically that this onslaught has no connec- tion whatever with the opposition to Woodhull 36 C0,, which emanates from other quarters. With scarce an exception, all of those who are opposing her in any way are equally deserving of my condemnation, and most of them a good deal more so. One of them talks glibly of “free marriage!” another ofﬂthe “beauty and harmony of marriage,” and a third tells about his “wife -” as complacently as if such a thing were not disgraceful in a professed free lover. Why, I even Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on the occasion of my affirm- ing, in the Resolution, that it was “less dishonorable to be a. , Warren Chase, ‘W. F. Jamieson, and others. -in the resolutions and in the Crucible article, that all mistress than to be a wife,” emphatically sustained me in the assertion- ' The burden of your article seems to be my claim to the honor of the present success of the free-love movement. Now, with all due respect, I do not propose to submit peace- ably to be disgraced in the eyes of your readers. I respect- fully request you to quote a sentence I ever published that warrants your pretense. ' There is but a single point in your whole article that amounts to anything—the charge of injustice on my part in denying that Victoria C.Woodhull is a free lover. That point I am ready to discuss. ‘Of course I do not pretend that she is not afree lover according to the loose use of that term which prevails-a use of the term which makes free lovers of I admit, the persons referred to talked free love part of the time. This may constitute them free lovers in the estimation of some, but not in mine. The cow must not only give the milk, but she must not kick it over. Your first quotation from the Steinway Hall speech, contained in your second paragraph, is good free-love doctrine; as good as I want; as good as can be found anywhere. But your second quotation from page 19 of that speech is not what I call free love at all. And now, as to my making a false quotation, nothing was further from my intention. I quoted from memory, as my WEEKLY containing the speech had just been loaned to a young man who wanted “to see some of Mrs. Woodhull’s doctrines.” The paper never returned from its proselyting mission-——it suffered martyrdom by ﬁre! I-‘see I have got the word “ compelled” substituted for “ obliged.” I am annoyed by having made even so slight a mistake. We will let it balance your putting that very awkward sentence into my month. And now I cannot possibly see that I have done any injus- tice in my quotation. The whole quotation, as you make it, does not alter the general idea at all, as I can see, or give any different impression. The particulars are unimportant. The word “ only” in the quotation, as’ I made it, shows clearly that the demand was being made for marriage laws of the most liberal character. The whole quotation does not show "anything different. You say: “ He endeavors to make it appear that we favor some sort of legal marriage.” Does not the paragraph you quote tell what kind of “marriage laws” there should be? Will you tell me where the “marriage laws” would come in if there were not “some sort ” of legal marriage? Not a soul that read my article but knew that I was not pretending that Victoria C. Woodhull favored anything but the most liberal form of marriage pos- sible, and that I was berating her for tolerating anything in the shape of marriage! Now, I aflirm that there can be no marriage laws whatever without an infringement of human rights and a violation of the principles of free love. You make another quotation which shows you to advocate “ true marriage,” and then charge me with “ dishonesty ” in trying to show you to be in favor of the other kind. (False marriage shall I call it ?) Now, when you become really aware that there is nothing in this wide world I hate so utterly as I do “true marriage,” you will see that while I may be a fanatic, I had no occasion to be dishonest in the way you intimate. No,no,Victoria C.Woodhull,I charge you with nothing worse: I knoW of nothing worse, believe nothing worse against you than advocating “true marriage.” I will make it still less offensive. I have nothing worse against you than your toleration of “true marriage,” for I have not the slightest doubt that you are at heart and in purpose just as radical as I am, and that you have adopted a loose system of discipline in the free-love church——“ open communion” instead of the “ close communion ” I am so tenacious for, merely from policy. You want numbers; you want present success; you want to circumvent and defeat the popular hypocrites and ﬂunkey Spiritualists, so you take in Warren Chase and W. F. Jamieson, and wink at his disgraceful performance of a public marriage ceremony, and Cephas B. Lynn, who only joined after discovering that you were in favor of only the one monogamic marriage! Now, these are all exceedingly desirable persons if they could only ﬁrst be converted! You quote again, to show that you had recognized previous workers, and say: “All this, however, may be forgetfulness on the part of Mr. Barry.” “ All this” what? Have I ever intimated that you had not made such recognition? 1 de- mand chapter and verse. I simply denied that the Steinway Hall speech was the ﬁrst free-love speech, and I only did this for the sake of aiding my purpose of making war upon mongrel free love. I tell you I_am not jealous of Victoria 0. Woodhull; I am too proud to be, if I were mean and silly enough to be. I am too conceited to want to be anybody else than Francis Barry, or to do anybody else’s work or get in their place, or covet the honor they can by any means win. I believe in Victoria 0. Woodhull and her work, as heartily as I do in Francis Barry and his work, _and, for aught I know or care, hers may be a thousand times more im- portant, if one thing is more important than another. If anybody rejoices with a greater rejoicing than I," on account of the marvelous work Victoria C. Woodhull and Col. Blood have done, all I have to say is that his or her capabilities for joy are very great. The testimonial from the Ravenna Free Lovers which 1 had the honor to pen, contained these words: “ When you sprangxto the front a thrill of joy ran through the heart of every veteran, while thousands are now warm and fast friends of the_ cause who were timid or doubting till you ﬂashed light into their brains and courage into their souls.” I take not a word back. The invitation to acknowledge myself one of the fathers of free-love I gracefully accept, provided it is the pure blood, “ thoroughbred,” free-love baby. If it is a “ cross” with marriage, I care not. how high the “ grade,” I will have nothing to do with it. FRANCIS BARRY. [ooMM;s.N'rs.] , It seems from all that Mr. Barry has to say, that the ques- tion as to what freedom is, is still to be settled; It seems to us that to compel people to be free lovers and to enforce free love as a rule for society, would be equally as offensive _a despotism as the attempted enforcement by law, of mono- gamy. What we claim for the people is the right to man-, age their own aﬁairs in their own way, whether that be after the requirements of monogamy, polygamy, polyandry or free love in any of its degrees. If we cannot have free- dom for individuals then there can be no free love, while to enforce free love would be to have a worse slavery than we have now. ' W e say let those who want to marry or to con- tract do so freely, and those who do not want to do so to act their desires equally as free from restraint. Mr. Barry says precisely the contrary. Which is the advocate of real 4 freedom‘? .1... .1. We are indebted to the N. Y. Independent for the follow- ing rythmical marriage service: Minister. This woman wilt thou have And cherish her for life, Wilt love and comfort her And seek no other wife?- He. This woman I will take That stands beside me now: I’ll find her board and clothes And have no other “ frow.” Minister. And for your husband wilt You take this nice young man, Obey,his slightest wish, And love him all you can? She. I’ll love him all I can, Obey him all I choose: ‘ And when I ask for funds He never must refuse. _Minéster. Then you are man and wife, — And happy may you be; As many be your years As dollars in my fee. VVHAT’S IN A NAME? Dear We.ekly—There seems to be any amount of hair-split- ting among the over-nice moral Dietarians who choose to eat their dyspeptic loaf, unbolted, unleavened and without salt, and to wish to compel the rest of humanity to adopt their tastes. People who, having no principles to suggest or improvement to apply to the work of others, have an abund- ance of time to ﬁnd fault with the technicalities or terms which others use to express in the fewest words and their least offensive sense, the object, aim and character of their projects, and without compelling the reader to the later editions of the Lexicon to learn the signiﬁcance of the same. Somebody, whose temerity causes them to screen their identity behind the initials of “E. E.” “would like to re- quest Addie L. Ballou not to dub her protective union pro- ject with the word Magdalene, so falsely applied by the licen- tious saints of to-day,” etc. E. E. falls so short of compre- hending the meaning and work of a Magdalene’s Protective Union, as to suggest the insigniﬁcant, “ titleof Womens Sexual Rights Protective Union, or W0men’s Equal Rights Association ;” or any thing by which the offensive names and phrases may be avoided. It is generally understood that any name which may best express the business of a. profession, is that which is most significant.‘ Hence the terms offered, have no meaning in connneotion with the work proprosed for an exclusive class. and would be about as comprehensive as a title which some man suggested, which would not only include all classes of women (at their option) but men also. ‘ If there are brave women enough in the ranks of recognized society, who will aiﬁliate with and take these women upon their own level, they have my hearty God bless you. They may aid these women vastly in this work of equaliz- ing, and may get up as many sexual equality leagues as they like, but into this proposed “ Union,” unless they are a part of the profession, they have no right to claim a membership more than have the monopolies aoright to the “ open Sesame” to the Grangers. As this work was not meant to promote sexual privileges of women as women, but to ameliorate the sufferings of a class as professionals, who as such shall be able to place their profession where it belongs--as any othervf‘ necessary” and legitimate business—-on an equality by recognition of its rights to legal and civil protection (whatever is taxable and may, be legalized, is subject to protection). The name given is most appropriate, and no one who sees the depth of the purpose of this project, can for a moment object to names or terms used. It is not to dishonor the women nor to offend them, that the term is still the chosen one, because most appropriate. Sup- pose some “ saints” prefer to “ dub” these women thus and so——what then? ‘Do I propose to move out of their way to seek a softer term? No. But I do mean to make them fear that name, much as they loath and scorn those to whom it is applied, as much as that of La. Commune is feared by the aristocracy of France. And more than this: to drag alike the V name and the victim from the obscurity to which arotten system of prostitution, under cover of virtuous (?) respecta- bility has held them forcenturies, and help their cruciﬁed and prostrate souls and bodies, to where they shall be exalt- ed and beloved for the long suffering of their lives. ' Besides, this is the term most applicable from its associa- tion of the long ago and must carry the ever present reproof in the appellation “let him that is without sin among you be the ﬁrst to cast a stone.” And it is the term most acceptable to themselves, and if they knew the power they hold within their grasp, if once united against the civil powers and the publicsentiment that now oppress them, the terms of com- promise would soon be on the other hand, for even now it is the courtesan that rules the world. , The deliberations set forth in the proposed project were not hastily drawn, nor given without conference with the ‘that man or woman ever undertook to handle. .6 ‘ ' WOODH<ULIJ. 4% CI.Al§‘Lll§l’S WEEKLY. Oct 17, 1.874. Women for whom it proposes protection ;and so far as I have been able to learn susequent to its publication, by communi- cation with them, and asking their criticism and suggestions, there is general approval. I In connection with this I will make a few extracts from a letter yesterday rec.eived from one of the most intelligent and interesting correspondents I have on the subject, if I may judge from correspondence alone. She says: “ l feel quite incapable of writing anything, much less criti- cising any of your articles. The idea I have is, that you are so near right that there is no necessity of amendments. “ .VVhat would be agreeable to one ina reform would not be to others. the same women you are working for will retard your suc- cessgby not helping to advance it. Tr at is, the madames. They are better satisﬁed as they are. They are the power and the inﬂuence that could work much good toward a change if they would do it. The inmates are helpless and de- pendent for their shelter, and dare not revolt against the tyranny of their landladies. What is the most trying ordeal of the prostitute’s professional life, is the unjust, indiscrimi- nate oppression they are subject to from the ofﬁcials and from the largest majority of the madames. This so—called curse of society (still a blessing) is the most difficult matter We know from traditional history it has existed, prospered, and buffeted every impediment, and it never will be suppressed or exter- minated until man’s nature changes, which is little expected and least wished for by the female sex generally. “What we want is a remedy. Areyou aware that more A than half the sporting class of women are terribly illiterate, especially the rnadames ? Is not that a great drawback? Could they all read, write and understand for themselves there would be_ a. great change for the better. They would then unite together and revolt at the impositions they receive from uncouth and far more ignorant men andwomen than themselves. “ Nothing but a humane regulating license protective sys- tem will ever decrease prostitution, and then it will not be in our day that the effects would be marvelous, as for centu- ries things have been going wrong. Nature has been violated, ignorance has predominated and been authority, and it will take much time and untiring eifort to repair the mistakes we have made. A . “In large cities like Chicago and other towns, where ther are so many, the women who are keepers of houses should club together and raise a fund to build a hospital for the sick ones, so long as the city will not, rather than have them go destitute of home and proper treatment; and the city should not extort every extra dollar they have. It is this, and only this, that reduces poor women to the wrecks that they eventually become. The constant draining of their purses by the city authorities is their constant discouragement, and no one to lift them up or encourage them, they aim to end their life as soon as possibe. What record they leave behind them is quite an indifferent subject to them. ‘ “ Don’t think, dear sister, that I do not appreciate and sanction your good and generous impulses toward what are called fallen women, for I do, and long to hug you in my arms, and do so want to do something to help; but while the spirit is strong the ﬂesh is weak. It is bad to have society make such unpardonable outcasts of their sisters who are the safety valves for their virtue. But I for one consider their treatment is only the offspring of pure ignorance, and too contemptible for me to feel one pang or give it a thought. I look for a higher and more worthy Judge to judge me or my fruits.” . The magnitude of the work of woman’s emancipation, and particularly this class of unfortunates, each day impresses me more and more of its importance, till my spirit and busy brain grow so restless in the narrow limit of the feeble capa- bilities of one frail body, and I would earnestly appeal to all womankind to come up to the help of the work. One brave, good man, Rev. E. E‘. Howe, pastor of the Con- gregational Church at Terre Haute, Indiana, has set an ex- ample so worthy in his good work for the Magdalenes, that I wish to herewith give him my open thanks. I trust his ex- ample may be followed by the honest and earnest clergy throughout the land. ADDIE L. BALLOU. MORE TESTIMONY. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., August, 1874. Dear Sister T/'71ctor'£cL—I have been a constant reader of your paper for the last year and am one of your earnest advocates, and in consequhnce have had the ﬁnger of scorn pointed at me, and all the vile epithets hurled at me; but the more I am. persecuted the stronger I grow in the faith and the knowledge of the truth. ~ When I look around me and see the sin and misery caused, as I know they are, by women being held in bondage_sub- ject to unnatural sexual relations, it makes my heart ache for the whole human race, and I thank God and the angels that there is one who dares the world and preaches the naked truth in regard to these relations. I would willingly lay down my life, if need be, to do the good to future generations that you have already done. ' There never was a truer saying than that the agitation of thought is the beginning of wisdom, and there are thousands of women to-day that feel and know the truth, who one year ago were in utter ignorance of the cause of their misery. They knew there were wrongs somewhere, all they needed ' was some one to touch the right chord. When you did this, their hearts all responded in unison to the touch, and one great cry came forth from the suﬁerers-——unnatural sexual re- lations are the cause of them all. I will cite a few instances that came under my observation. One poor creature being obliged to submit to the gratiﬁcation of a. husband’s selﬁsh lust and having unwilling maternity forced upon her no less than ﬁve times, and not having a con- stitution to bear more, sank under it, and they laid her away in the grave at the early age of thirty. The attending physician pronounced her case quick consumption, and the ministers, as all ministers do, said “ God called her, blessed be the name 0‘ One great obstacle for you to combat with is, that the Lord.” Her husband had been trained to the idea that God created man, then saw that it was not good for him to be alone and made woman for his special use or abuse, just as he saw ﬁt, and he took advantage of his teachings to gratify his selﬁsh lust. Another is going, as her physician says, with heart disease and consumption, when she is dying of wedlock. She was brought up in the belief that you must “honor thy father and thy mother” and by so doing she is 'paying the penalty with her life; for her father saw ﬁt to sell her to the highest bidder and she obeyed, when her soul was already wedded to another. She said to me a few days ago, “ I am so glad it is almost over; I have been a faithful wife and mother, but it has been Oh so hard to bear; I would have been so happy in a cottage with the one I loved.” Still another has lived with a drunken husband till she is the mother of seven little ones and the wreck of her former self. Feeling that she must do something or die and leave her dear little ones to the cold charities of a merciless world, or what is still worse, a drunken father, she broke away and is now with her own hands taking the care of her little ones. The ignorant rabble hoot at her as a vile thing saying, “ You took him for better or worse and you ought to stick to your bargain.” ' When will such ignorance be rooted out and replaced with newer, brighter and better thoughts’? In my heart I wish that I had the ability either with pen or voice to help in this mighty work——the redemption of womankind. Yours for the advance of truth and justice, V Mus. MARTHA E. Hunsnn. \ V » STOCKHOLM, N. Y., Aug. 1874.. My Dear Victoria 0. IVoodhull—I desire to express to you my appreciation and approbation of the wisdom and justice of your course. I have been surprised by the criticism upon your position by one of’ the best friends I ever had. But neither you or the cause can ever lose anything by your dealing kindly by all such critics. I never hastily decide‘ upon the position, much less the character, of any man or woman. I have no means of know- ing you fully. It‘ is not necessary that I should; but it is simple justice to you and to myself when I say my conﬁ- dence in you personally has increased continually during the past two or three years. We all have our faults, and much greater faults, no doubt, than we can realize or believe. I try to correct mine, as far as I can see them. I hope and believe you do the same. If you have seen the lndea: of Aug. 6, you will see Mr. Abbott declares me “ahead of” you in the “hideousness” of my philosophy. On one point I have been more 0ﬁ"ensl'vely radical for the past thirty years than you are. In another respect I have been more conservative than Mr. Barry, Mr. Andrews or yourself. While I believed a variety in conjugal relations would prevail in the coming perfection of the race, I said “law was necessary for the lawless,” the selﬁsh and the unjust, and could not see wisdom in offering so’much freedom to our race in their present low, selﬁsh and un- developed condition. But since my hair became much whitened, I have changed much toward your and their posi- tion. While I think I am _ sure the ﬁrst effect of offering so much freedom to men and women in their yet selﬁsh con- dition will be an increase of suffering, it seems not less certain that it must ultimate in still greater good. I confess the arguments are all on your and their side. It was harder. for me than for some of my radical brothers to see it quite right for you to so expose private life. The spirits were largely responsible for this. And nothing in history equals the strength of your defense of it. That has at last mastered my doubts. Mrs. Stowe’s act was worse, with not one-tenth your grounds of defense. I have never condemned either; I only demurred and waited. I wish I could make you realize how much I have enjoyed the great, the more than John Brown power you have brought to bear on the free-love question. I do not always agree with your deﬁnitions of love and lust; but I, Austin Kent, "pronounce you an out-and-out free lover, by all late deﬁni- tidns. And though from the ﬁrstl have sent you all my prayers and all my blessings, I do not believe I have blessed you more,‘ if as much, as you have me. In love, yours, AUSTIN KENT. LAKE HARBOR, Mnsxneon Co., Mich., Aug., 1874. My Dear Mrs. W0odhull——It has not been my privilege to see the names of our old anti-slavery pioneers, who battled the slave power with heroic determination, amid ridicule, scorn and persecution, giving any seeming indorsement to the grand enterprise in which you are so earnestly engaged- iu the exposition of long-established and venerated customs and institutions?-save that of Parker Pilsbury. He does not seem to be at all frightened by the scarecrows of freedom or the sovereignty of the individual. Though I may not grasp the whole of the principlesunderlying your movement, and so not be ready to indorse the whole that you seem to advo- cate, yet I perceive in the course you have pursued for the last two years, enough to convince me that you are doing a grand work for the elevation and redemption of humanity. The ignorance, crimes and miseries resulting from ill- adaptation and consequent want of harmony of the sexes under the forms of matrimony are too abundant in every direction to escape observation. Is it possible there can be too much light shed on the darkness brooding over the wretched conditions of society? rNo, dear sister; my aston- ishment has been that so few of the vanguard in other re- forms have come to the front with you in the mighty struggle for equal rights, social, civil and religious, to all peoples. It was my privilege in times past to mingle with those noble men and women who were battling for the overthrow of chattel slavery in America. Perhaps those now remaining have done their work and given place to others. Yet, I trust, there are some with you in sentiment, if not in words. Our venerated Ilucretia Mott, the ever-warm friend of every good word’ and work, shrinks from no righteous cause, however distasteful to others. When I met you last year at Silver Lake, I became thoroughly convinced that you were armed for the conﬂict, and possessed. adequate energy to carry forward the cause in which you had engaged; that you were not to be daunted or ‘ deterre l by threats or incarcerations, though they were sus- tained by “revered citizens” or United States courts. I know too well the efﬁcacy of such instrumentalities, having, many years since, passed through the ordeal of being pirati- cally captured on the high seas, delivered to the custody of United States ofﬁcers at Key West, thrown into prison with shackled hands and feet, while unable, from sickness, to walk or sit erect; from thence to a United States fort, and thence, guarded by United States troops, to a steamer and tumbled down its hold, beside its boilers, in the month of June and latitude 26. There I was kept six days, still in manacles, and from that infernal pit I was carted to another ﬁlthy prison in Pensacola, and there secured to the floor by a chain weighing more than twenty pounds. Here swarms of ants, mosquitos, cockroaches and mice held high carnival, demanding special attention and nearly the whole remain- ing strength of the old abolitionist. passed "in that condition, and then a United States court decided to put in requisition ﬁnes, imprisonment, the pillory and branding irons to work out the love of freedom and paternity inherent in the heart of the prisoner at the bar, etc. After passing through. such experiences, how can I help sympathizing with you? The above is but a scrap of ex- perience from the life of aCape Cod man of seventy-ﬁve winters, spent in different parts of the globe, who now re- sides among the hemlocks of Michigan. This State, as you well know, is soon to be agitated by the woman’s suffrage question, and we hope it will prove a success. I am aware that your great strength lies in the rectitude of your position, and I trust you will be divinely sustained. _ Yours, for the extermination of all crimes against hu- manity, ‘ A JONATHAN WALKER. [From Common Sense, San Fro.nct'sco.] AH HEA LEA SPEAKS. My attention was called to your paper the other day by an article headed “The People are not True to Themselves.” After reading it I supposed that your journal had changed hands. I thought that I recognized in said article the “ ear- marks ” of my old friend General Amwynn, of the Shop and ’ Senate, and I turned over a page or two thinking I might ﬁnd the continuation of that classic serial the “ China Boy,” but Wasvagreeably surprised to ﬁnd the rest of your paper in ac- cordance with its name. Now, I wish to know why you should lug in my countrymen_ as a direct or indirect cause of your so-called misery? It surely ought to be no sin for my countrywomen to bear the “future workers of America,” as you assert. I see by reports of your physicians (Dr. Allen Lowell) that your native American women are falling be- hind in their contributions to the population of the country, and the Irish and German are so fast becoming American- ized in that respect there is no telling where to draw the line. , ' There might be some excuse for your article if land monopolies were not common in other States, and if railroad magnates did not boast that they carried numerous State Legislatures in their pockets, and if the working population of Massachusetts were not actually more helpless than slaves (see Massachusetts’ Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1871-72), and if crime and poverty were not increasing in exact ratio with your boasted civilization. That the sons of your work- ingmen are becoming hoodlums I d ot deny; and no won- der, when the ﬁrst sentence th ‘“ go their ears is an im- precation on the heads of thei eings for the reason that said “beings” persist in wo for their living at the highest wages they can get from “your own ﬂesh and blood.” That your “ daughters are brought to lives of shame” I cannot deny, but what can I do about it? “A life of shame ’° seegns to be a necessity in your civilization, and our mer- chants, seeing this, have, from time to time, encouraged our unmarried females to come to your country to aid your white prostitutes in keeping society pure,(?) and your mothers and sisters safe from sexual assault in the streets of your mari- time cities (see Lecky and Buckle), but when our young woman come here for the purpose of taking the place of your white prostitutes—and thus elevating (?) them to the plane of marriage—they are taken before your courts on frivolous charges, and are compelled to lie in‘a jail (that is not ﬁt for hogs) to await the decision of your immaculate courts, and perhaps die there, as others have done before them. Now you will please pardon the crudity of this note. If 1 were of your “ own ﬂesh and blood ” I might be able to bet- ter conceal my thoughts under a cloud of ambiguous terms. And, by the way, what authority have you for the inference that your “ ﬂesh and blood” is different in quality from that of the meanest prostitute of my country? and if not. and if all that is is “ matter,” as Prof. Tyndall tells you, why pirate so much about “ﬂesh and blood?” Now, please try again, and tell why your “ people are not true to themselves?” Yours fraternally, 1 AH HEA LEA, Slipper—maker. FROM THE FRYING‘ PAN INTO THE FIRE. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 15, 1874. Truth is never to be found in extremeism. And although it is well enoughto have every phase of thought upon im- portant subjects, sometimes it occurs that even the radical thinkers overstep the bounds of reason in prescribing.reme- dies to prvent ills. Such is our conclusion. upon reading the communication in the WEEKLY of Sept. 19, by J. Irving Ferron, headet “ Rape and Murder.” While we would not impugn the writer’s motives, justice and the cause of social reform demand that such rash and illogical assumption should meet with stinging rebuke from every true man and woman, inside and outside the ranks of reformers. Some of the writer’s positions‘ are undoubtedly correct- viz., that the custom of keeping the laws and uses of the sexual nature a secret from younglpersons is calculated to Four weary months ‘ \ ./”\ 24'‘ i l 2 '1 ~ 2? \. 3: r -3» is :”\ 24-v'\ i; Ocet. I7, 1874. awaken a morbid curiosity in their minds concerning them, and in the endeavor to satisfy this curiosity, brings destruc- tion, swift and terrible, to thousands of youth annually all over the civilized world. But what shall we say when the writer, after asserting that “ this constant desire and thought upon the sexual functions produces an undue development of that portion of the brain which controls these organs,” goes on to convey the idea that these unduly developed functions should be set to work as soon as they begin to show signs of development? Good God! what a remedy! As much as to say that the fruit of a tree should be used as soon as the blossom falls off! Has the man no idea of ripeness or the ﬁtness of things? Does he think that an “ unduly developed” function can be rendered normal and healthy by still further stimulating it? Society does do wrong in ignoring this matter as it does, but We don’t think it would mend the matter much to fol- low Mr. Ferron’s prescription. ' ' Surely this might be called the extreme of homeopathic treatment. The ultimate object of social reform is to bring about the conditions necessary to the production of a better grade of men and women, physically and intellectually. Facts go 1' o prove that the best children are produced by those pa1'ents who have reached maturity and full ripeness in physical development. But Mr. F. thinks that a state of puberty is reached at the age of fourteen and sixteen (the time when the tree of life is merely blooming), and then asserts that persons at that age should be allowed to contract alliances at will, and for longer or shorter periods, to suit the parties. This is monstrous. and were it carried out, would degenerate the race more rapidly than the present social customs. And then the public are to be taxed to support those results of “ undue develop- ment.” We think that society should take steps for the proper care of all who need it. But we as ﬁrmly believe that ‘all children should be born of mature parents who love each other mutually and freely, and it is utterly impossible for children of sixteen to know what real conjugal love means. People should teach their children the uses and relations of sex, and also teach them the fearful consequences of its abuse, and that it should never be abnormally developed by being subjectedto use before it has reached maturity. VVe hope, for the sake of social reform, that Mr. Ferron will prescribe no more remedies for rape and murder until he acquaints himself better with the law of sex and human economy. 0. W. STEWART. . ,.i,. . GOLDWIN SMITH AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE. The August number of the Popular Science Monthly has an article from llIa.c’m/£lla.n’s Zlfagasme, by Prof. Goldwin Smith, on female suffrage. I do not propose to review it, though it is as full of holes as a seive. A sentence, closing the ﬁrst paragraph, suggests some thoughts, and it is to this single point I shall conﬁne myself. The sentence is this: “ The very foundations of society are touched when party tampers with the relation of the sexes.” The professor means, by this, to imply that there should be no changein the govern- mental or social order, so far as sex is concerned, lest dis- order be introduced, and existing institutions be destroyed or essentially modiﬁed. He, therefore, would chain the race to its present condition, and hold us all to the existing order of things, and our posterity as well. The world he would have run in its present grooves forever, forgetting that progress is the law of the race which outgrows institutions as a child does its clothes. But to say nothing of the lessons of history, and leaving its teachings alone, we will look at the matter under a bare common-sense "view. And we start with the proposition that he need have no fears, if the relations of the sexes are as they should be, for it will be impossible to move the foundations of society. If they are based on natural law they will remain as they are. Institutions, however limited or however wide their scope, if natural, in accord with the eternal ﬁtness of things—that is, are based on correct principles——cannot be destroyed. The trouble is that conservatism does not take the trouble to analyze and digest, but because an institution or usage exists, assumes, ipse facto, that it must always exist. It does not recognize the law of development, whose outcome is progress; that what will answer for one generation will not fora subsequent one. There is growth, a juster and truer apprehension of human needs as they develop in the onward and upward sweep of the race. ' Civilization requires at intervals new factors; those of one age expend their power, become ejfete, worn out, and must be discarded. That this is the law, the past abundantly demon- strates, and can be readily discerned when we note the growth of that complex entity we call society. It is in vain, therefore, for the conservatives to withstand the demands of the to-day, or seek to perpetuate old forms, usages, laws or constitutions. The human race cannot be kept in_ the swaddling clothes of infancy, nor dwarfed like the feet of Chinese women. The assertion quoted is an admission that there is some- thing fundamentally wrong, else we would not warn those ,who “ tamper with the relations of the sexes.” Sex is func- tional; male and female each has its sphere and oiﬁce. One is not more important and exalted than the other. Outside of their functions they are absolutely equal, each entitled to verge and room enough to fulﬁll its destiny and exert its proper inﬂuence, to attain all the possibilities enwrapped in the human soul. Life is the outcome of sex; male and female must coalesce to evolve it, and in the degree they coalesce, so will life be more or less perfect. This law runs through all human aﬁairs, and is as applicable to the beget- ting of institutions as of children. This position is axio- matic, else the democracy of souls is a falsity and equality a myth. The logic cannot be escaped, turn whichsoever way the opponents of woman suffrage may, whether essaying argument or pettifogging. Hence it is true “the very foun- dations of society are touched when party tampers with the relations of the sexes,” not their natural, but enforced rela- tions. .- I rejoice that it is so, for I know that when “ the rela- tions of the sexes” shall-be duly recognized, society will be wooDHULL pa oLArLINés .wEE.KL.fr \ improved and individual men and women made better. Our utter ignoring of one sex has provoked disorder and is the caqse of the most grievousof the evils now aﬁlicting‘ the race and barring its progress. Truth will prove stronger than ’Mr. Goldwin Smith, or all others, who, likehim‘, de- clare that woman is-less than human, as they in effect do, who, turning aside from nature, right and law, erect a stand- ard according to the diction of Mosesand Paul. The.old I would not scorn, for it was well in its time. But. I protest‘ against setting it up as an idol the present must worship, for * * * This old world is growing brighterl. Weymay not see its dawn sublime, Yet high hopes make the heart throb lighter. We may be sleeping in the ground, When it awakes the world in wonder; But we have felt it gathering round, . And heard i_ts,,v0ice of loving thunder. « WILLIAM Fosrnn, JR. PROVIDENCE, Aug. 8, 1874. @>-4 " MISCELLANEOUS. TRIFLES. . What! shall one monk, scarce known beyond his cell, Front Rome’s far-reaching bolts, and scorn her frown? Brave Luther answered Yes; that thundcr’s swell Rocked Europe and disarmed the triple crown. Whatever can be known of earth we know, Sneercd Europe’s wise men in their snail-sh ells curled; No, said one man in Genoa, and that “ No,” ' Out 01' the dark, created this new world. 0 Truth, 0 Freedom——how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nurst; What humble hands unbar the gates of morn, Thro’ which the splendors of the new day burst. We stride the river daily at the spring, Nor, in our childish thoughtlessness, forsee What myriad vassal streams shall tribute bring, How like an equal it shall greet the sea. ~ 0 small beginnings, ye are great and strong, Based on a faithful heart and tireless brain! To build the future fair, ye conquer wrong, To earn the crown, and wear it, not in vain. —From Ruskin’: “ Modern Painters.” LABOR NOTES. A SEAMERS’ trades union has been organizedhere. It now numbers some 300 members. ONE of the strongest trades union in the city is that of the blue-stone cutters. It embraces all the persons so employed. STRIKES are in progress among the coal miners of St. Clair county, Ill., and the ironworkers at Newport, Ky. (Gaylord & Co.) About 2,500 men are out. THE Provincial Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry, some ﬁfteen i11 number, have just separated from the order in the United States, forming a separate organization. SHIP-CARPENTERS on the Clyde are feeling the depression of business. VVages have been reduced within a month from 20 to 30 per cent. and a large number are wholly idle. THE Lyons hand-loom weaving is declining. Workmen to the number of 10,000 have moved during the past year to villages in the vicinity. Power looms are also being used to a large extent. . J. GEORGE ECGARIUS, formerly general secretary of the Internationale, and a working tailor, was the London Times’ and New York lVorld’s correspondent at Brussels tothc re- cent lnternutional VVorkingmen’s Congress. THE British-American trades unions have just closed their annual Congress, which was held at Ottawa. The Congress was allowed the use of the Parliament House for their sessions, and adjourned to meet next year at St. Catharine’s. THE miners along the Pan-Handle (West Va.) railroad, who were on strike, have resumed work. A sliding scale has been adopted, ranging, for digging coal, at from three to four cents to the men, on a scale of from six to eight and a half cents received by employer. VVOMEN are extensively employed in the Austrian tele- graph service. They have proved themselves so efficient that the postal service is to be opened to them and the various railroad boards are directed to report on the practicability of employing them in that service. THE statement is made and not denied that proportionately to population and wealth illiteracy is largely on the increase in all the New England factory towns. Fall River is cited as an illustration, it being stated that over one-fourth of the population cannot read or write. THE German cabinet makers have a small but well-organ- ized union, numbering 500 members out of 3,000 operatives. They are very radical in their opinions, and among the fore- most in labor agitaticns. The wood carvers are mostly Germans. Their union is about 200 strong. A NATION'AL Union’ of Workingmen was recently formed in Bristol, England. The objects are to improve the condi- tion of the class named by eﬂorts to increase wages, reduce hours of labor, organize branches, and thereby bring about an exchange of labor, to look after legislation, and to collect and maintain a beneﬁcial fund. A RECENT strike at Bolton, England, was referred to a board of arbitration after an energetic resistance thereto from the employers. The cause was a proposed reduction of wages to the extent of ﬁve per cent. Thirteen thousand operatives went out, and seventy-four mills were closed. Forty-eight others continued running, with 7,000 hands em- ployed. A REGENT lock-out at Belfast, Ireland, lasting six weeks, cost the operatives nearly a million dollars. Public opinion seems to have been against the mill owners, because they at- tempted to force a reduction of wages without due notice. The proposed reduction was ﬁnally halved as to the men and boys. The women, however, were obliged to resume with full reduction. - A “LOOK our ” of iron moulders is in progress at.Hamil- ton, Canada. It appears that an agreement had been .made that a former reduction of ten per cent. should be removed whenever trade became brisk. Theymen having made the demand for this removal and being refused, thoseyin two of the shops struck, and the employers. locked out the Union men in all the other shops. . ALL the leading branches of labor in Great Britain are being made to feel the depression of trade. The coal miners (employers) in N orihumberland are debating areduction of ' I 20 per cent. in wages. In Scotland the miners average only 3s. 6d. per day. The leading iron works In Sheffield and else- where propose a reduction . of 10 per cent. The same tendency is exhibited elsewhere. ' ~ THE bakers have a national union, which recently met in council. The Grand Master, Samuel Stirrat, in hisaddress argued that the prevailing economic schools all fail in repre- senting labor properly. He complained that labor‘ gave eighty per cent. of all it produced toﬂwealth, Of his ‘own trade he asserted that the average journeyman worked from 16 to 18 hours per diem. ’ IN 1873 there were 749 co-operative associations in Great .Britain registered according to law. The large majority are stores. Their capital amounted in 1871 to $10,161,305. These ﬁgures did not include associations of a similar character but larger scope. registered as joint stock companies. The business done during thatyear amounted to $41,022,330,-and the net proﬁt to 27 per cent., or about «$2,776,175. - IN;fhe coal mine districts of England the colliers' villages and cottages belong to the mine owner, and are as a rule let to the miners. A strike of 800 men and boys at Trinsdon, Durham, has for its object the procuring of more and purer water, better drainage and decent necessaries. The parish clergyman urged the strike, and it received public sympathy. Among the men’s demands is one of two pints of water per diem in the pit. This exampie will be followed throughout the coal region—Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Lan- cashire and Staffordshire. A NEW law regulating the labor of women and children goes into effect in Great Britain on the 1st of January ‘next. It is designed, as regards children, to reach evils which arise from their employment in home trades under the direction of parents and guardians. None under nine years are to be so employed. From ten and upward they canvonly be _em- ployed on half time, morning or afternoon, or every" ‘alter- nate day. Their employment -at meal time is forbidden: Au- thority is given for inspection of all buildings, dwellings ‘or factories, and provisions for education are embodied.-—N. Y. Sun. * COMMENTS. , The hundreds of ﬁnanciers are well represented inthe daily presses of the Union. The hundred and ﬁfty thousand lawyers in our country not only run hundreds of presses, but monopolize more than half the seats in the National Legisla- ture. The hundreds of thousands who seek for amusements, from opcra—goers to cock—f1ghters, also have many presses devoted to their service; but the millions of laborers, not ‘only have no daily they can call their own, but are rarely, save on very special occasions, alluded to by the leading presses of our cities. We do not blame such papers as the Hlerald or the Times, the Tribune or the I/lorltl for this, ap- parent neglect; we know that they are conducted, like churches, on business principles; but we do blame the mil- lions of workers for not knowing that their pennies, in mil- lions of hands, are far more powerful than millions of dol- lars in few hands. For this reason we have made this extract from the Sun, in the hope that such workers asdesire to read labor news may know where it is to be found; and_ also where it most assuredly will beifound, when they put enough “marked pennies ” into its till to command such ut- terances. It is far easier for workers in any of our larger- cities to establish a press, or to command a press already es- tablished, than the government of the United States to found and maintain an organ in New York, which some believe to be its presentintention. v THE SUN’s BLESSING.—Sleep16SS people, and there are many in America, should court the sun. The very worst so- poriﬁc is laudanum, and the very best sunshine. ‘Therefore it is very plain. that poor sleepers should pass as many hours in the sunshine, and as few as possible in the shade. _ ' Many women are martyrs, and yet do not know it. They shut the sunshine out of their houses and hearts, they wear vails, they carry parasols, and they do all possible to keep off the su-btlest, and yet most potent inﬂuence which is to give them strength and beauty and cheerfulness. Is it not time to change all this, and to get color and roses-in our pale’ cheeks, strength in our weak backs, and courage in our timid souls? The women of America are pale and delicate; they may be blooming and strong, and the sunlight will be a po tent inﬂuence in their transformation. Will they not try it a year or two and oblige thousands of admirers? LORD BYRON is reported to have said “ that he would rather have an nod from an American than a snuff box from an Em- peror.” THE venerable Rev. Lyman Beecher once told a young minister not to think too much about the tone of his voice, but to be in earnest. “No man,” said Mr. Beecher, “ever cried ﬁre in the wrongtone, when his own house was burn- ing.” ‘ , FATHER CHAUCER was sound on the main question. Wit. ness— . ‘ " "‘ What is better than gold? Jasper. What is better than Jasper? Wisdom. What is better than Wisdom ? Woman. What is better than Woman? Nothing.” ‘ ‘,.s;.~. ,\ s it . WOAODHULL as oLAELIN*s WEEKLY} Oct. 1'7,.1s74. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, - $3 00 One copy for six months, - - - - - - 1 50 Single copies, - - , - - ~ - _- 10 ’ CLUB RATES. V Five copies for one year, - - - - ' $12 00 Ten copies for one year. - - ' - - = 32 00 ' Twenty copies (or more at same rate), - - - 40 00 ’ Six months, - - - - One-half these rates. All communications, business or editorial, must be addressed . ' FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION can nniunn To THE AGENCY on THE AMERICAN rmws O0MPAi2‘_', LON- , non, ENGLAND. One copy for one year, . . . - . . $4 00 One copy for six months, - - — - .1 00 RATES or ADVERTISING. ' Per line (according to location), - - From $1 00 to $2 56 Time, column, and page advertisements by special contract. Special place in advertising columns cannot be permanently given. Advertiser’s bills will be collected from the office of this journal, and must in all cases, bear the signature of Woonnum. & CLAFLIN. Specimen copies sent free. N ewsdealers supplied by the American News Company, No. 121"Nassau street, New York. Woodhull ¢ﬁ C'laﬂ'm’s Weekly, Box 3791, New York City. 0iiice,111 Nassau Street, Room 9. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1874. THE UISTIMATUM. FROM THE SPEECH “ TRIED AS BY FIRE.” . Sexual freedom, then, means the abolition of prostitution botlrin and out of marriage; means the emancipation of woman frgm sexual slavery and her coming into ownership and control of her own body; means the end of her pecuni- ary dependehce upon man, so that she may never even seem- ingly have to procure whatever she may desire or need by sexual favors; means the abrogation of forced pregnancy, of antenatal murder, of undesired children: means the birth of love children only; endowed by every inherited virtue that the highest exaltation can confer at conception, by every inﬂuence for good to be obtained during gestation and by the wisest guidance and instruction on to manhood, in dustrially, intellectually and sexually. p<?:j—_ VICTORIA o. WOOT)HULL’S LECTURE. _ Last evening City Hall contained an audience numbering more than one thousand, including many ladies, to listen to the lecture of Victoria 0. Woodhull. Among the listeners Were many of our prominent citizens. After the lecture a number of gentlemen and ladies visited theante-room and were presented to Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Tennie C. Claﬂ.in.——From the Portland Argus, Oct. 2, 1874. . _..._...___,..+Q OUR LECTURE SEASON. We aie happy to be able to announce to our friends all over the country that we~have returned from our trip to Europe refreshed and strengthened in health, and eager to re-enter the lecture-ﬁeld in defense and advocacy of those truths which, we believe, must ﬁnally be the foundation for the salvation of the world from sorrow and suffering. The intense agitation of the social question through the discus- sion of the’ Beecher-Tilton Scandal has caused the thinking people to ask earnestly, “ What is to take the place of a social sysem which this scandal has shown to be tottering to age and decay ?” One of our principal eﬁorts during the coming season will be satisfactorily_ and rationally to answer this question, and we feel warranted in saying in advance that when it is answered, all the doubts and fears of anarchy and confusion which now occupy the minds of the timorous, will be quickly dispelled, and the most conservative will be willing to acknowledge that it must be a happy change that will bring such aconsummation. Those who desire to effect engagements any where in the United States should make early application, as our routes will be arranged several weeks ahead. . ‘ , ~ . ,. NEwsMEN.——Let our friends everywhere see to it that the Newsmen keep the WEEKLY on their counters, rememblering that one of the largest and most prosperous businesses in London was built up solely through the employment of per- sons to travel the city over, asking for its articles at every store. The WEEKLY is “ returnable ” through the American News Co., so that Newsmen are perfectly safe in ordering a supply from that company, or from any of its agents or cor- respondents in any of the large cities. THE NEW RELIGlON.—UNIVERSAL JUSTICE. ‘ No. III. All kinds of despotism are the same if exercised to"the same degree; each kind interferes to the same extent with the natural rights of individuals. The despotism of party rule, when used against the political equality of its op- ponents, is the same in effect. as that of the despot king; the only difference is in the proportion of the people who suffer from it. When any individual is deprived of any right which is possessed and exercised by other individuals, that deprivation is the result of a despotic use of power; and this is no less true pecuniarily, intellectually and morally than it is politically, although the world does not yet realize fully that there are such things as the despotism of wealth, of in- tellect and of morals. It is the business of universal justice to inquire into all these departments of humanity, and to adjust their inequalities. As the basis of society, we shall ﬁrst examine the condi- tions of wealth, understanding it to here mean the accumu- lated products of labor. At the outset we shall lay down two‘ propositions, the truth of which we shall expect to demonstrate before closing; First, that whoever possesses and uses as his own any more than an average per capita of the aggregate wealth of the world, which he did not produce, is a despot under the law of universal justice; and, second, that every person who by virtue of superior strength or skill has produced more than an average of wealth, which he uses for his own personal advantage, is a despot under the law of universal justice. These are sweeping statements, and will probably invite the criticisms of even the most radical labor reformers; but if have adopted, and to which no one who professes to be a reformer will dare object, we must, accept them and adjust the relation of wealth accordingly. As to the ﬁrst proposition, there will be no diiﬁculty in its acceptance by a very large class of labor reformers. Indeed, its truth has been a motto among them for a long time, though it is probable that its full meaning has been appre- hended by a few only of those who profess it. The general theory has been that each person is justly entitled to possess and use as his own, any and all wealth that he could legally accumulate. The practice of this theory has produced the Astors, the Stewarts and the Vanderbilts of society. Probably neither of the individuals from whom these classes take their names has any wealth in his possession which he did not come into possession of legally, and it is a serious question, even among the radical labor reformers, as to how the accumulations of these classes can rightfully be returned to their original producers. The diﬁiculty in this problem arises from the fact that the whole injustice that is done is not involved in the proposition under consideration. How- ever, we will consider this part of the problem from its own position, leaving the more intricate and insidious injustice to which we refer wholly to the second problem. Divorced from all other issues and relations, the proposi- tion that whatever a person produces is his own,_ to be used as he shall elect, is eminently clear and just. It appeals to the common sense of everybody. Even those who hold vast possessions as their own, which they did not produce, can- not, and generally do not, attempt to deny this as an abstract question of justice; but they frame a variety of theories by which to escape its verdicts of condemnation. This they are obliged to do to justify themslves; but there is really no escape for them by any theory that can be framed, and the near future will hold them to the boldest and most abstract meaning of the proposition. » It does not relieve the situation at all to say that the laws that have been framed by the will of a majority of the people, recognize the right to the possession and use of that which was not personally produced, or that was received by exchange of that which was not personally produced. We are now endeavoring to solve this problem upon the prin- ciples of universal instead of legal justice. The majority of the people may elect to deprive the minority of all rights; may even, and have often, _reduced them to abject slavery, and all by legal means. Hence it must be seen that legality does not necessarily imply justice. And it does not any more imply justice when the possession of wealth is in question, than it does when the possession of political rights is in question. justice with an ineqiiality in political rights; although this has not yet entered into the comprehension of political economists generally. The law pecuniarily may be des- potic in the same way that it may be politically, and in the same degree. ' The accumulated ‘wealth of the world is largely held by a comparatively few individuals. How they have managed to possess themselves of all the net products of the labor of the world is a curious problem. At ﬁrst thought it would seem improbable that a person having by his own labor produced a certain amount of wealth in excess of his needs,’ would permit himself to be deprived of it unjustly; and still more so that all laborers, constituting as they do the mass of mankind, would permit this to be done. It has been done nevertheless; and by such insidious and seem- ingly honest methods that the laborers look on their works in the hand and use of the rich, and wonder how such a transfer has happened. They do not realize that, while they have been straining every muscle at production, these ‘rich men have been straining every mental capacity to they are found to be true’ when tried by the rule which we An inequality in wealth is equally an in- devise means to obtain possession of the results of their toil. They do not realize that the grand talks about in- creased wages or fewer hours for work, are only hues and cries to attract their attention away from the main and vital question. They do not realize that the proposition to re- duce the rate of interest that they are compelled to pay to obtain the funds with which to carry their business over from season to season is a snare to lure them more surely into complete pecuniary subjection. They do not see that the offer to sell them land at low prices is only another way of forcing them to pay for what is already their own. These are, nevertheless, all true, and with various other devices are the methods that have been invented by the “wits of the wise” to deprive labor of its reward, so that those who do not labor may live without begging by word of mouth, or stealing by actually thrusting their hands into tho pockets of the toilers and taking thence their honest possessions. This is what we call legal robbery; but it is none the less robbery because it is done legally. Any law or any custom that can be or is used by one class of persons to obtain what another class of persons has produced, without giving them an equivalent, is a law or custom to make robbery respectable; and whoever uses this law or custom is morally guilty of robbery. It does not matter to the laborer how he is deprived of his works. It is the same to him to have them taken from him by law or custom as it is by the hand of the thief; hence, when they are taken he is robbed. It is true that those who thus acquire what they did not produce may not feel guilty of any wrong, as the thief knows he is guilty; but the wrong is done nevertheless, and the suﬁering must follow in either case alike. A The right or the wrong of an act is in the effect it pro“ duces, and not in the intention which prompts it, the legal rendering of it to the contrary notwithstanding. Therefore we maintain that whoever obtains from another anything whatever, without rendering an equivalent, let it be done by whatsoever means, does that other an injustice, the extent of which is the same under each and every method known to law or custom or to the professional thief. An abstract question might here be raised as to whether the taking of anything from one who had obtained it by any of these unjust methods is really theft. We are aware that professional thieves justify themselves upon the theory that they do no wrong when they take from those who take from others; 25. 6., when anything is taken from one who did not actually produce it or obtain it by equivalent exchange. It is possible that this philosophy contains more truth than the world would be willing to admit; but this is evident under our method of argument: that the two methods-——the taking by law and the stealing by hand—aI'e only diﬁhrent processes of arriving at the same result. Whether one is more to be deprecated than the other,we will leave for those to de- cide who are sticklers for ‘methods rather than for effects; admitting, however, that to.us there is no difference except this: If all the unjust obtaining of property were conﬁned to so—called robbery, the laborers would be, comparatively, in no danger; and further, this, perhaps: that while the extent of so—called theft from actual laborers is so inconsiderable as to be nearly unworthy of consideration, the extent of that which is carried on under cover of law and custom,amounts each year to the total net productions of the whole world- the former, therefore, in actual results, is to the latter as a drop of water is to the ocean. . It is a self-evident proposition that if a person is possessed of any wealth that he did not produce himself or receive through an equitable exchange, he has what belongs of right to another. A Stewart is said to have ﬁfty millions dollars of property. Every dollar of this which is not in land, was the product of some laborer who has been de- prived of his original right of possession without receiving an equivalent, since it must be clear that for this immense wealth it were impossible to render equivalents. Equiva- lents can be rendered to the extent of onc’s own net products only. Whatever more than this is possessed by anybody has been obtained without rendering an equivalent; and if all such possessions, now assured by law and custom, were to be returned to their producers or their heirs, it would re- sult in the redistribution to the people of the accumulated wealth of the world. . But this would not be justice to anybody. The descent, by law, of wealth to heirs is equally an injustice with all other laws that regulate property. So, also, is the giving absolutely by will, of wealth an injustice, because a person cannot rightfully give or will that which is not absolutely his to hold. And if the gift or will be of such property as was actually produced by the person giving or willing, its possession by the person to whom it is transferred is with- out having rendered an equivalent. It must be remembered that it is universal human justice after which we are seek- ing, and it matters not how sacred the czusmm that. it con- demns, we must not shrink from accepting the judgment’. Moreover, we are thus critically examining every possible aspect of the question of property rights, that we may ﬁnally be able to show how they may be adjusted, so that every individual may have exact equity, not legal, but human equity, such as would be consistent among the uni- versal human family. , As we have already said, it is foolishness to treat of justice and at the same time refuse to accede to its demands, let them be as rigorous as they may; and a. pretense to play the Lrole of reform and ignore in practice its plainest teachings ﬁt I" ﬁe: Oct. 17, 1874. ¥ WOODHULL ts CiJAF—L1N’S WEEKLY. ' H g . 9 and precepts. ‘We are after the last truth and complete equity for every human being. If others are lessuniversal than this, let them cling, if they will, to the already sinking ship of self-interest. It is “scuttled,” and those who do not soon escape from its treacherous planks will go down and be lost to the new life which is about to dawn for a regenerated humanity. Policy will no longer be permitted to hold sway. Principles must be constructed into systems and rule the world. If will no longer do to perform the bad that good may come. Like produces like. Bad or unjust means must of necessity ,yield bad or unjust fruit. The right performed will ever yield of good, no matter how much against the present sense it may seem to be. To palliate an ill when a cure is at hand is maliciously to prolong the suf- fering, and this is equally true in every department of life and in every sense whatever. He or she who refuses or de- lays to do the right from any reason whatever, knowing what it is, is not entitled to the name of reformer; and for such to use the name is a pretense merely. We make these severe strictures, because the time is at hand when there must needs be something more than mere talking or writing done. The time for action approaches, and We would have every individual, into whose soul the divine principles of justice have dawned, ready to join in the move- ment which is to grow into the millennium of the people— the whole people. When this time shall come, everything that is not in accord with justice must be abandoned, so that nothing false or politic may ﬁnd a resting-place in the new order of society. We think we have made the ﬁrst of our pro- positions, given above, clear. If we have, to all to whom it appears as just, we appeal for their advocacy and support. If it is not supported by the principles of justice, then we do not see that there is any way out of the present wilder- ness of legal despotism; we do not see that there is any way of escape for the weak of the race from the rapacity of the strong; nor any hope that real freedom, genuine equality and practical -justice will ever be established for humanity; or that the human race can ever be constructed into the V great human family. PARIS, France, Aug. 31, 1874. _ BY PRINCIPLE OR BY LAW—WHICH ? It is not strange that many persons who have been pro- fessedhconverts to the doctrines of freedom should, when they come to reduce its principles to common every-day practice, be occasionally thrown, in nautical terms, upon their beam ends by sudden social gales that they are at all times liable to encounter. Having grasped the theory sen- timentally only, without having their reason convinced, they are, like people who are suddenly converted to religion, liable to back-slide. They cannot imagine that, when they admit the right of freedom——the right of all individuals to regulate their lives for themselves—.—-that they resign all right to criticize or condemn what others may severally choose to do. They forget that when freedom is the rule the only right that an individual has over another is the right to ad- vise and instruct—never to judge and condemn. A freedom that does not grant all this is despotism, and professed social freedoinists who practice any other rule, or follow any other course, are equally despots in their own way with all other despots in other ways. A real social freedomist may choose any rule of life for him or herself, and will not only permit all other individuals to choose their several rules of life, but will aid and protect them to live under them, even though the chosen methods may seem to him or her to be particularly unwise, or even bad. So when a set of persons are formed who profess to be ad- vocates and practicers of free love, but who are eternally meddling with the private lives of others who also claim to be advocates of the same principle, it may be safely set down that they are only sentimentally convinced of the truth of the principle without any intellectual perception of the real meaning and application of the rule; and such people are usually much more despotic in their meddling than are those who have never made any pretense of the accept- . ance of the theories of freedom. For the truth of this it is only requisite that the readers of the WEEKLY observe many whose names have appeared in its pages during the past two years as steadfast and earnest exponents of the doctrines of social freedom, who now, as they travel the country over, seem to make it a special part of their business to propagate slanderous and malicious stories and reports about others who have also been known as prom- inent advocates of the same principles. It would seem that these individuals think that the dispensation of freedom has been committed specially to their charge to be administered as they think that it ought to be; and that there is no such thing as freedom save in following such rules of life as they shall lay down. For our part we prefer the despotism of the Pope, who has abroad and comprehensive knowledge of men and thin gs, {U the despotisni of these individuals who have risen l.ll<>ii.ULil‘.’rl'll_).' into a sort of notoriety upon the waves of po;rlaz- 'i'l‘(3(ff.iUlil that are sweeping over the people, with but little, it‘ any, rial capacity to comprehend or administer aiiytliing. This may appear to be strong language for‘ us to use who stand the uncompromising.advocates of sovereignty and pri vacy; but these individuals show their non-comprehension of the theory of freedom so evidently by their vindictive pursuit of others whom they cannot control, that they invite upon themselves the severest criticism, not for what they do themselves, not for any acts relating to their own lives; but for their unwarrantable interference with the ‘acts and lives of others; and not this only, but that they do this specially to set the prejudices of the people against those others, or to gratify their own malice, and not in any manner or with any purpose to advance the cause which they profess. They are more concerned about persons than about principles, and if any one seems to possess advantages which they do not possess, either as before the public or in the press, they then set themselves about to reduce such an one to their level. We presume to say that the fewer such persons as these that the cause of social freedom ﬁnds in its ranks, the more rapidly will the cause spread and its ranks be recruited. We do not speak thus without realizing fully what we say. We are daily in receipt of letters from places where these persons travel, advising us of the vileness that is spat out and the venom that is expended on our account, and asking why we do not cause the arrest and prosecution of these people for libel. That" our friends are indignant we do not doubt, and that any punishment which might be meted to these busybodies could not be too severe we know right well. But we beg our friends and all real friends to social freedom who are not ours, to remember that we are the earnest advocates of sexual freedom and individual sove- reignty, and that we do not intend to be stung into a denial of these doctrines by stooping to plead guilty or not guilty to any false or malicious stories that may be put aﬂoat by any body. By the demand of freedom for ourselves we claim the right. to have done and to do everything that has been charged—anything that may be charged; but whether we have done any single thing that is charged is nobody’s busi- ness save our own. One thing is certain: we have not in- vaded the rights of any of these self-constituted public pro- secutors, and upon their own pretensions for themselves as the advocates of a “ true freedom,” we deny their assumed jurisdiction over our conduct. V We therefore refuse to plead to their indictments or in any way other than this to notice them; and so far as we are concerned we consign them and their charges to their merited oblivion with the ﬁxed conviction that they will reach it ultimately with the general public. But there is also another objection which we have against resorting to the law for personal defense. We do not be- lieve in law upon these subjects, and we advocate the abro- gation of all laws that in any way follow as a sequence of the denial of the rights of freedom in any direction. We have been urged again and again, and been counselled over and over to prosecute the papers that have charged us with being blackmailers; and we have been tempted, strongly, to do so frequently; but thus far we have only hurled the lie in their faces and deﬁed them to name a person whom we ever attempted to blackmail. This they did do in one in stance; and the next instant- they were compelled to publish a card from the gentleman himself, denying absolutely that there was a shadow of truth in the allegation. And it would be so in every other casewhen they should be driven to cite instances. Mr. Beecher himself has charged us with re- peated attempts to blackmail himself and wife. When the proper time shall come we intend to demand from this rever- end gentleman a denial of this falsehood in as public a manner as it has been made. At the present, with the indictments against Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton for libel to sustain, he has as much on his hands as he can well attend to. We can well afford to wait for our vindication in this matter, as we did afford to wait for it in the case of the original publication of the scandal, when we were pressed upon every hand to attempt to justify ourselves. We think everybody will now admit that we could not have done it half as well ourselves as it has been done by others for us. We believe ﬁrmly in the law of divine compensation, and that every one who has done us a wrong will surely receive his or herreward. Moreover, we believe further, that when any one resorts to the statute law for vindication, he will be less likely to receive it fully from the immutable law of nature. We make no pretension to any degree of perfec tion, but we say that we endeavor to live our own life in our own way, and not at the expense of interference with the lives of others. In so far as we succeed or fail in this, so far do we fail or succeed in living the doctrines which we profess to teach; and so far are we governed by principle and not bylaw. We commend these remarks to the con- sideration of the class of people to whom we have felt called upon to refer, and hope that they may proﬁt by it. We hear them no ill-will; we are sorry only that they are so un- wise as to lay up for themselves such stores of future re- tribution and repentance. They may raise a cloud of dust over us for a time, but’ nothing that they can do can ulti- mately harm ‘us. All permanent harm to ourselves must result from our own acts. Every harm that is intended us by others will result ultimately in our good and to their con- fusion. Hence we advise those who are wishing our de- struction, and through this that of the WEEKLY also, to change their methods of" action if they wish to succeed. ._...__..__.,...+Q THAT NATIONAL CONVENTION. A national convention has been proposed by the N. Y. Herald in order to settle the diﬁiculties yet in the way" of a permanent reconstruction of the Union. Of course the chief of these is the proper deﬁnition of the rights pertain ing to American citizenship. Our Southern brethren and sisters seem unwilling to accept the full results of the changed status of the negro. They do not yet appreciate the diiference between a free American citizen and a slave and it will necessarily be the ﬁrst work of a national con vention, if one should be convened, to enlighten them 0 that important subject. There was a time, at the close 0‘ the war, when the full and entire reconstruction of the Union could have been easily perfected, but that time is past. The abolitionists, under the lead of Garrison and Phillips, did their duty in that crisis. They demanded the establishment of the freedom of the land; in other words, the free use of Southern soil by the ,tillers thereof. In_ deed, they went so far in their platform of 1865 as to dc-‘ mand it for the negro solus, which was a folly that was afterward rectiﬁed by Wendell Phillips in the Anti-Slavery Standard. The admission of the right of the negro to vote was an act of simple justice rendered necessary by policy; but it should have been preceded by securing for him the right to toil in the only way he could toil, namely, upon the land, which had been forfeited to the Union by the War of the Rebellion. To present him simply with a right to- vote, when he stood, as a forlorn petitioner, before Congress, and withholding from him the status of a freeman on the; land, was like presenting a naked beggar with a cravat in- stead of a coat. A cravat freely given under such circum-- stances would be good, but a coat or a pair of pants would}.- be much better. War is a costly business. Had it been eliminated from: the world two centuries ago there would have been no na- tional debts. This to us, who do not believe in Mr. Samuel Wilkeson’s vagaries, would have been an advantage to the people. We do not prefer greenbacks to orbs of gold, and it seems that the parties who delighted in them but a few short years ago, are getting to be of our mind and are now demanding the uncomeatable pewter. But the interest pay- ment of such debts is to us the least-objectionable part of.‘ them. Their demoralizing tendencies are inﬁnitely worse: for all people than anything that can be computed by money. They distract the labor force of the people, re- quire vast additions to top-heavy executive power, multiply national constables in the shape of soldiers, debauch states- men, treble the taxes, and rob the people who labor of four- ﬁfths of the proper proceeds of the work of their hands. But if the HemZd’s statements be correct, of all wars that ever were waged the War of the Rebellion has been the most-costly. Setting aside the tuns of blood and the moun- tains of limbs it demanded from the people, and the terrible waste and destruction of which it was the cause, the money value alone of the slaves emancipated by Abraham Lincoln was aﬁne twice or four times as great as German greed exacted from conquered France. It asserts, and we think , justly, that we were not indebted to national virtue for the Act of Emancipation; that “ we did not free the slaves be- cause we believed in freedom, but because we felt that it was a blow at the war-strength of the Southern Confederacy. If the preservation of the Union had depended upon the maintenance of slavery, Mr. Lincoln would not have issued his proclamation. Emancipation was a ﬁne, a punishment, a military penalty, and as such we must consider it in any method of reconstruction.” We agree with this view of the question, although it takes-: away all the glamour from the "act and disposes of an enor- mous amount of national buncomb. Let us add to it a little: more. The North freed the negro not out of love to him,, or to liberty, but because it was advantageous to itself. or is deemed that it would so prove. This being the case,_the negro owes us no thanks for our share in his emancipation, But, it may be said, we have done more than emancipate him, we have made him an Americon citizen, even as our- selves, except in the matters ef eating, drinking, lodging, traveling and education. In these ‘particulars it must be confessed his American citizenship is discounted by brake- men, Waiters, hotel-keepers and other parties, who yet hold him subject to their individual capr‘-ces. Under these cir- eumstances it is to be hoped that the aforesaid National Con- vention, if there be one, will take his case under considera- tion, and propound laws regulating his position in all of the above most important particulars. I —-———-————-———>-—<®r—-<1———-——————— SHALL WE REPEAL THE USURY LAWS ? The right of money to increase per se, or by interest, is disputed by the highest authorities. Not a few legislators. and many philosophers and ecclesiastics have steadily denied: it from time immemorial. Aristotle declares that “ money’ is properly only a medium of exchange, and that it shouldri: have no legal right to increase except by passing directly.‘ through some form of labor.” It is denounced by Mahomet: - It is thrice; condemned by the laws of Moses, and is absolutely for- in the third and thirtieth chapters of the Koran. bidden by that legislator between Jew and Jew. The ancients. 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 direct interest for money, and not a few of the popes have anathematized it. The law which ﬁrst permitted and secured interest for money in: England, which was passed in 1545, and the foundation.- law on which the system now stands, which was passed in the reign of Elizabeth in 1571, carry their own condemn-a.-v tion on their backs. The Protestant bishops, who in both; instances sternly and unanimously disputed their passage, Were, to ease their consciences, permitted to record on them" their testimony, that the taking of interest for the use of money loaned was “mortal sin.” A The eminent historian, Charles Rollin, calls usury or in- terest “ the most proliﬁc source of human misery; ” and the learned biblical lexicographer Calmet, declares it rests on no law—-natural, human or divine. While no one denies the right of money to increase directly through labor, many dispute the policy of legal- izing its power to increase per 36. It is submitted that by so doing money is invested and armed with a power superior to that of wealth itself, which it was invented to represent and serve. But this position it has held for the last three centuries in Christian nations, so that it may be considered scantioned by time. It is also certain that the present ﬁnancial system has forced the intellectual and productive power of man to the highest pitch of excellence. This would be praiseworthy were it unalloyed; but there are those that assert that it has been dearly purchased by the deterioration of mankind. In Great Britain the army standard has been decreased in the last twenty years; and in Massachusetts more than half the drafted men were found unﬁt to bear arms. So great is this declension that the last census proves it has effected, both in Boston and New York, the natural increase of those communities. In the former the births scarcely exceed the deaths, while in the latter more than a third of the married couples are childless. It is true this sorrowful state of things may proceed from natural causes, but it has also been attributed to the dread- ful results or ﬁnancial pressure upon the people. It is cer- tain that the dead laborer, money, whose power to oppress is capable of almost indeﬁnite extension, demands and re- ceives so large a share of the annual returns of the labors of the community, that enough is not left to satisfy the natural and artiﬁcial requirements of its last-served living com- petitors. ‘ There are a few ideas connected with the very important question which heads this article. If money were not armed with the force of law there would be no necessity to re- strain it with the curb of law. But as yet it does not hold that position. Probably nine-tenths of the voluminous and complicated laws that burden our statute books and our- selves, were enacted to sustain it. Were (what is incorrectly termed) the “credit system ” annihilated (which many be- lieve to be detrimental to morality and dangerous to liberty) and money loaned not recoverable by law, then it would be just to free the money holder from the trammels of the usury laws, and leave in his hands the natural power of op- pression. In such case it may be surmised that money would rarely be loaned. What then? It would be com- pelled to seek righteous increase through one of the ten thousand channels of labor, and in so doing bring the work- ing man face to face with his employer. This is a consum- mation devoutly to be wished. It is true this last remark may seem irrelevant, but the advocates of so great a change as the repeal of the usury laws must stand prepared to answer more than the simple question that heads this article. They will do well also to remember that the only sustenance which direct interest for money receives from professing Christians is to be found in the silence of the Protestant clergy upon the subject. Prudence will naturally prevent many theologians from publicly discussing the question, though usury is a crime more largely testiﬁed against in their sacred book than any other. But assuredly there will be many who will not be so restrained. Let those who agitate this question beware lest, in the sifting examination to which it will be exposed, the repeal of the usury laws should effect as much change in the public opinion upon the subject of money as the repeal of the Missouri compro- mise did upon the subject of slavery. . ———-----—>--401-4—-—-—--— LIGHT FROM THE EAST. Liberalism is becoming the mot d’ordre throughout the ' religious world. Five centuries ago the civilized people of the earth were creed-bound slaves, now they are bursting their bonds all over the globe. In the time of Wicl<liﬁ‘e the great nations of Europe were Catholic, and the laws of the church were the laws of kings as well as of peoples. These laws since. have degenerated in power ‘into “ concordats,” and now these “concordats” in turn have been torn to pieces. The fact is, the Catholicism or Christianity of the past has been destroyed, and Protestantisms, with various titles, under a thousand banners, have taken its place both in Europe and America. Many of these in turn are com- mencing to deny the inspiration of the book on which their systems rest, and are preparing their followers to accept the “ soul freedom ” of the new development of Spiritualism. As with Europe and America, so with the religions of the Asiatic world. Buddha and Brahma seem destined to kiss the dust with Jehovah. In Japan we are told that, by an imperial order, the temples of that country are, for the ﬁrst time, thrown open to women, and the people who so long made Europeans who trafﬁcked with them spit upon the cross previous to trading, now submit to the infliction of European and American missionaries, which are proofs of the decadence of their faith. At the same time in Hindostan, the following modiﬁcation of Brahminism (for the report of ,.which we are indebted to the Golden Age of New York) is taking root in that country, which has so long been scaled from the advances of reform: ‘ The Brahmo Somaj, is the nameof ‘a new but rapidly growing theistic body in India. One of its members, Chun- .10 ' WOODHULL & CL“AFLIN’S WEEKLY. ‘der Mazoomdanrecently preached in a Unitarian church in Manchester, Eng., and gave this account of the body to which he belongs: They were not opposed to Christianity, and much of the doctrine they taught had been joyfully re- ceived from the teachings of Jesus Christ and his apostles. But they received truth from whatever source it came. They received with patriotic veneration the noble and elevating teachings of their Aryan forefathers, which are chanted to this day by the Brahmins on the banks of sacred rivers. They listened to and accepted the pure monotheism preached by Mahomet in the sandy deserts and rocks of Arabia, which taught them to render t9 the one God sole and undivided honor. They studied with reverence the maxims of Con- fucius, and were ever open to receive with respect the dis- coveries of science and the speculations of philosophy. Truth from all these diverse sources they were open individually to teach and to receive, but the "cardinal principles of their creed were simple and universal+the fatherhood of G-od and the brotherhood of all men, and all -tribes and kindreds of men. This creed necessarily forced them into the advocacy of moral and social reform, and engaged them in a. crusade against idolatry, the system of early marriage. the cor- relative institution of suttee or widow burning and the great dividing institution of caste; but the moral and social work was subordinate to their spiritual w ork. From the above it would appear that ChunderMazoomdar is a sort of Brahmin Beecher, who has about as much rever- ence for the text of the Shaster as the latter occasionally exhibits for the text of the Bible. Of course in both in- stances they work as genuine destructive agencies, looked at from orthodox stand-points of either Christianity or Brahminism, and as Spiritualists we wish them success in such labors, for it is manifest that the rotten and decaying vegetation that now cumbers the moral earth must be cleared away before the new seed of Spiritualism can be success- fully sown. -Or-4 FASHION vnasus FAITH Bismarck is a statesman. He is the statesman of Europe. He knows where to strike, and he does strike effectively. He is blood and iron, and in his grand battle with the Ca- tholic Church he meanswork. The undertaking is a stiﬁ job, but he is quite equal to the occasion. The last move he has made is one right to the mark, here it is in a cable telegram of Sept. 24: “BERLIN, Sept. 23, 1874. “The Empress Augusta has called a meeting of delegates- from all the women’s associations of Germany, to be held in this city in October. “The.Queens of Wurtemburg and Saxony, the Grand Duchess of Baden and Princess Alice of Hesse have promised to attend.” * The New York dailies gave the same as an item ofnews without comment. “They did not see anything of import- ance in the movement. We give it as a most deadly and effective blow against the Catholic Church. All churches now, Protestant as well as Catholic, stand on women. Men only tolerate them, women trust them. The Catholic Church is peculiarly hard on women. Pio Nono deplored, in a late brief to Archbishop_Dupanloup, that “ an attempt was now being made to deprive woman of her native modesty, to exhibit her in public,,to turn her asidefrom domestic life and its duties, and to puff her up with false and vain knowledge.” Archbishop Manning has str_ictly forbidden women to sing in the choirs of the churches in his diocese also. If woman may not sing in a church, of course she ought not to sing in any theatre, or lecture in public either. The aboye quoted telegram we take to be Bismarck’s answer to such Catholic pronunciamentos. Under the lead of the Empress of Germany, aided by the Queens of Wurtemburg and Saxony, fashion and the rights of woman take the ﬁeld against Catholicism and the oppres- sion of wonian. It will be—must be—a big‘ ﬁght, but we believe that the German, in the end, will assuredly conquer. There can be no other result, for nothing is more certain than that, in regard to woman and her rights, the world moves. 9»-4--———— MORE STIRPICULTURE. Last week we were indebted to Harperhv Baear for an article on the above subject, this week Henry Reynolds, M. D., takes up the same theme in the Herald of Health for October. We give the conclusion of his dissertation on the text, “the sins of parents are visited on their children: ” “ The great law of like producing like is the fundamental principle of all progress and all improvement in the whole animal kingdom. Without the operation of this law we would have no improved breeds of stock. When. by particu- lar care or effort, we have succeeded in developing a desir- able quality in horses or cattle, then, by judicious selections of the parents, we may go on increasing the prominence of those same desirable qualities in each generation, until the desirable excellence is attained. “It is the same with the human race. The man who has developed his muscular system and become a strong man imparts the same qualities to his offspring in a higher degree than he inherited them, provided that the other parent is also possessed of like qualities. , “ The man who has cultivated and strengthened (not over- worked) his intellectual power, if suitably mated, will have children [we surmise the doctor means beget children——Ed. W’Y.] possessing greater natural abilities than he possessed himself. I/Vhere both parents are possessed of great intel- lectual powers their oﬂ’spring will show a like superiority for generations: that is, until other influences counteract it. By a careful selection of parents the intellectual capacities of families might be surprisingly increased and the genius of the parents might fall as an heir—loom to the children. There are numerous instances of this transmission of genius noticeable in every country. Of the many in our own, we mention only two, the Beecher family and the Adams family. “Improved morality is equally sure of transmission. The highly conscientious and just man and woman will be blessed with children possessing like qualities. And those children if they still further develop the same qualities, and select suitable companions, will still further improve their offspring in this respect. Those Christian principles which are implanted in the heart and mind of'the parents will be propagated to the children, in so far that naturally they will be more prone to lead a right life. Oct. 17, 1374. “ Thus we see that this great law, which, while it necessi- tates the visiting the sins of parents upon the children, is at the same time the great thoroughfare through which the hu- man race may be indeﬁnitely improved and renovated. It is the great avenue of reform and regulation for fallen hu- manity. Let each seek to add his mite to the furtherance of the great and good work.” - There are those who call themselves Spiritualists with whom “ Stirpiculture or the improvement of the human race” is only a side issue, and, by way of a stimulant, we present to their notice this essay by a Christian M. D. There. is, however, one part of it with which we do not concur. We do not believe in orthodox babies, or in the propaga- tion of Christian principles in the natural way. We would venture a wager that we would make a Spiritualist out of the baby of a Protestant bishop, or better still, of a Catholic bishop, for that would be “ a love babe,” and consequently would be likely to be a stronger and healthier subject to experiment upon. Nor are we “ solus” in such an opinidniii Years ago, when Universalism was scouted by the orthodoxza-.i‘ churches, one of its ministers, who was also a farmer, im- ported at considerable expense, a Durham bull. He gave public notice that he did so for the general improvement of the stock of cattle in his neighborhood, and that he should not advance beyond the usual charge made on such occa- sions. Shortly after he encountered a Methodist minister, who had anathematized him and his doctrines, driving his cow into the yard, and could not forbear gently reminding him of former diﬁerences by saying: “Friend Pullman, do you know that Jerry is a Universalist Bull?” “ Certainly,” replied the Methodist, “but I do not pay you for his theo- logical opinions but for his carnal services.” In other words he was not a believer, like ourselves, in the propaga- tion of the peculiar tenets of a credal religion. ———-—-—-—>-+.->-4———--——-— NO MONOPOLY. From the following item from Galignanfs Jllessenger, Sept. 19, it would appear that the articles termed “Sins of the Flesh” are not monopolized by the Protestant clergy: An old Catholic priest in Switzerland is about to follow Father Hyacinthe’s example, abandoning celibacy. St. Ange Lievre, of Bell, in announcing his betrothal to a Protestant lady, says: “ l marry because I wish to remain an honorable man. In the sixteenth century it was a proverbial expression to say ‘ as corrupt as a priest,’ and this might be said today. I marry, therefore, because I wish to get out of the Ultramon- ‘ tane slough.” Duringthe last two years sixty-seven Roman Catholic priests have been convicted of immorality in France and Switzerland. In view of such facts, he says: “It is right time to restore by marriage the good name of the Romish._ priesthood, which the misconduct of too many of its mem- bers has covered with infamy.” But the above sixty-seven Catholic fathers may plead, in excuse, their inability to keep the unnatural law of their Church, which enjoins celibacy on its priesthood; v;hereas Protestant pastors have no plea of the kind to submit to the (A public in mitigation of their delinquencies. —-————a-—+o+—<-—-—-———- HARPER’S BAZAR ON CO-EDUCATION. The effects of the iteration and reiteration of grand truths in sexual questions by advanced Spiritualists are beginning to be felt and appreciated even in the most conservative quarters. Last week a leading article from Ha7'pe«r’3 Baear entitled “Reckless Marriages” was quoted in the WEEKLY almost without comment, so closely did the instructions contained in it agree with the positions taken by this paper on the same subject. This week we are glad to reprint from the same periodical another editorial which, under the head- ing “Boys and Girls,” ably indorses the policy of the non- separation of the sexes in our schools: ' The question of co—education or the education of young men and young women, together in the same institution, was the subject of some very interesting papers at the late meeting of the Educational Association‘ at Detroit. Dr. E. H. Clarke, of Boston, whose little work upon the subject, published last winter, has excited so much attention, re- newed his assertion that the difference of sex, being funda- mental, must be respected in the methods and circumstances of education as everywhere else. And Professor Orton, of the Vassar College for girls, stated the results of four years’ observation in that institution, and Professor Hosmer, his experience in “mixed” colleges. Professor Orton’s experi- ence conﬁrms the general view of Dr. Clarke. Both are in favor of giving women every opportunity of the highest edu- cation that they may desire, but both insist that the differ- ence of sex presents practical difﬁculties to co-education, which no theories and no rhetoric can remove. Professor Orton remarks certain moral and mental characteristics of vcomen, which, in his judgment, necessarily perplex co-edu- tion. Thus, in comparison with boys, he thinks that girls are feverishly impatient; that they are credulous; more ob- serving but less reﬂective; imitative but not inventive; and lacking in perseverance after they leave the school. The competition of a college in which young men are also pupils seems to him a sure source of grave evils; and he describes the aim of Vassar to be the graduation not of future authors, orators, lawyers, preachers or sea captains, but more truly womanly women, better sisters, wives and mothers. Professor Hosmer, speaking to the point which is usually that of chief inquiry upon the subject, says that some trouble in discipline arises at mixed colleges from the difference of sex, as it does in the general discipline of life, in which, how- ever, the sexes seem to have been designed for co-operation, not for separation. Professor I-Iosmer is of opinion that the result of co-education is morally advantageous to both sexes, and that, in view of the cost, a system of separate colleges for the sexes would be disastrous. Dr. Clarke holds that the object of education for both sexes is the same, and that the physiological principle which should guide it is the same, but that the application of this principle to home, social and school life is not the same; the same law, -but diversity of application. The views of all these gentlemen will ‘have great weight, because they are the results of knowledge and thoughtful application. Those of Dr. Clarke and Professor Orton are to be speciﬁcally answered only by equal intelli- gence and candor. It is useless to say that they are opposed to co-education because they are prejudiced. It might be as reasonably said that they are prejudiced because they do not thinkthat girls can compete with boys in athletic sports. f‘. .‘$'\ _ ﬂ‘§_ ' of this they insist that their theories and assertions in regard ' failed in his efl’ort. When woman is in power, mixed ‘one party alone cannot commit the crime of prostitution. \ Oct. 17, 1874. WOODHULL & 0LAFLIN’S WEEKI-.Y.. 11 Nor ought sensible women to feel that either gentleman be- littles the sex because he does not think co—education de- sirable. On the contrary, both think that the higher the education the better; and Dr. Clarke expressly asserts that .as much brain is needed to govern a household as to com- mand a ship. But, upon this subject, as upon many others, We know no better law than liberty. Since the usual objection to co-edu- cation, namely, immorality, is wholy refuted by the experi- ence of Antioch, Oberlin, the Michigan University and other schools, and is as applicable to every country academy as to a. collegemothing can so surely settle the question as experi- ment. For plainly until the experiment is tried, that is un- til there is perfect liberty of choice so far as express regula- tions are concerned, there will be constant doubt and agita- tion. Indeed, the logic of the position of the opponents of equal liberty for women, is curiously and constantly evaded by them. Their argument is, that sex is a ﬁnal fact which determines all the functions that women should discharge in human society. If that be so, there is one way, and only one, of ascertaining what those functions are, namely, a fair ﬁeld of trial. The result then would be conclusive. But instead to these functions shall be accepted as a ﬁnal settlement, and tallvas if they had private and exclusive access to the Divine counsels. The consequence is an endless and unsatisfactory debate. The opponents of liberty do not trust their own as- sertions. If the fact of sex is final, why not trust it? Men are not restrained by law from encroaching upon the func- tions or sphere of women. Why are not Women equally un- restrained? Or again, why should the fact of sex be so con- stantly presented in the cases of women and not in those of men? The discussion is plainly not to be repressed, as is shown in the late article of Professor Groldwin Smith in Mac- mtttaws ilfagaztnc. and that in the late number of the Westminister Review. For the separation of the sexes in our schools we are in- debted to the Catholic Church, which derived the oppres- sion and sequestration of woman legitimately from Judaism. Unquestionably Moses considered “ unlicensed copulation ’> a graver crime in woman than he did in man, though he gave no reason for such a ruling. As long as human beings are such fools as to believe it to be correct, parents of girls will continue to object to mixed schools. The china vase cannot keep company with the iron pot without danger of destruction. The girls, like the‘frogs in “the fable, might justly remark to the boys, “ what is sport to you is death to tq,us.” All the rhetoric in the world will not weigh one straw with most fathers of daughters, who jingle their cash in their pockets and calculate the probable ﬁnancial con- sequences that may attend the experiment of the com- mingling of the sexes in our colleges and schools. New for the costs of the separate system. It makes boys headstrong, tyrannical and brutal, which qualities fructify in their after lives into bloodshed and wars. If renders girls eifeminate, aflecled and deceitful, which evils in their after lives ﬁll the world with hypocrisy, lying and murder, the concomitants of social crimes. It emasculates many of both parties by instigating secret vices. The arbitrary separation of the sexes is contrary to nature. If the tree is not permitted to grow straight it will grow gnarled, knotty and crooked. There is a natural separation of the sexes which is desirable; boys and girls will establish that for themselves. That is natui‘e’s method of repressing pre- cocity. She does not bring the sexes together until the time arrives when they should be brought together. To us copulation is an order of nature. W76 do not specially object to monogamy; when woman is educated up to it she may indoctrinate it. Man cannot. He has tried to do so by laws ecclesiastical and civil, and has miserably schools will prevail, in order to advance the general good. She knows well how to deal with affectional questions. If infractions of the laws of chastity take place in them she will punish both parties equally, not one only, as is the case now. She will tolerate, no female Pariahs unless there are male Pariahs also to stand by their side, for she knows that Man has had his day of power; it is nearly over, and it is well for the world that it is so. There is no better method to herald the advent of the “ new order of ages,” that by the introduction of the co-education of the sexes and the establishment of the doctrine that it is not good for man to be alone either in infancy, childhood, manhood or old age. G»-4 THE HERALD ON BEECHER. It is wondrous strange how rapidly the world is advancing in its comprehension of the principles" involved in the social » problem. The Herald has observed how PlymouthChurch stands by Mr. Beecher, and it hastens to comment upon the fact after the following style: Plymouth Church would sustain Mr. Beecher under any and all circumstances, and thereby were really disciples of the doctrine of free love, the Hemld, together with all other city journals, denounced us in the most unmeasured terms. Now it coolly repeats almost our exact language as its own delib- erate judgment. Does it comprehend what a somersault it‘ has made? Further on in the same article it says that Mr. Beecher will be of even more use to American society for what has occurred. Here it is also tacitly admitted that all that has been charged against Mr. B. is true, and because it is true that he will be a better man. We congratulate the Herald on its right conceptions of the advantages of practi- cal life under the theories of individual sovereignty and social freedom. S 0 NO SECTARIAN APPROPRIATIONS. Credal religions are the greatest curse of the world at the present period. They may have been of service in the past, but enlightened. nations have outgrown their uses, and have lost their faith in them. They now are mere business spec- ulations, not animating principles. ' If J oss worship paid we should be J oss worshipers. Our people only honor Jehovah because Jehovah is rich at present. He is not our true idol; Mammon is our real genuine deity, and Silas Herring is the architect that builds his temples. It is the height of folly as well as intensely mischievous for us, as a people, to cultivate the sectarian shains among us. We have the right to say this, for every one knows that they are not only worthless for good purposes, but all potent for evil. Had they con- demned human slavery previously, there would have been no War of the Rebellion, for that was its real cause, and the Right Reverend Father in God, Major-General Bishop Leonidas Polk, would not have been constrained to change the crozier for the sword ; and nothing can exhibit their potency for evil more than their conduct as regards our Public Schools, which are rightfully beloved by the majority of our people, but which are even now endangered all over the Union by their malignant bickerings. Not content with shifting the ﬁscal burdens of their churches and conventicles upon Spiritualists, Freethinkers, &c., by accepting exemp- tion froin taxation, they are, we are told in the following communication from a valued correspondent, aiming now to absolutely pilfer the treasury chest of the great State of New York by the process described in the following letter: _ WASHINGTON, D. 0., Sept. 29, 1874. . My Dear Weelclg/——Involved in the coming political contest in my native State is one of the most vital principles to the life and prosperity of a free and civilized republic.‘ I allude to the clause in the proposed amendments to the State Constitution, prohibiting the Legislature from appropriating money for sectarian school purposes. » This clause will be wholly and unanimously voted against by the papists, in a very silent and J esuitical manner, under instructions from the priesthood, as I am most reliably informed. It is therefore your duty to sound the alarm, and it is incumbent on you, as the foremost press in progressive reforms, to warn your thou- sands of friends in the “ Empire State ” of this contemplated stab at the liberties of our people and the cause of humanity. Secularists should, in this contest, work in close harmony with our Protestant sectarian opponents, “ shoulder to shoulder,” for the accom- plishment of human disenthrallment from the virus of Romanism and monarchical interposition in our political, civil and religious freedom. Yours truly, J . WEED COREY, Anti-Jehovist. I In our opinion, if the various sects can agree as to the division of the swag, the clause proposed which forbids the appropriation of the public money for sectarian purposes will be omitted. If so, the Catholics will have a right to their full share in such appropriation, in proportion to their numbers. They will be the gainers at the expense of their Protestant neighbors. Of course, any appropriation of pub- lic funds to a special religious denomination is unconstitu- tional, but as Congress itself has set that instrument at deﬁ- ance by hiring chaplains for its own special pleasure and paying them illegally out of the national treasury,we should not be surprised to see the State of New York following so infamous an example. To us the noblest fruit of the war of the Revolution is “the freedom of conscience in religion ” it obtained and aimed to secure for us. Under it our citi- zens, of all sects and classes, have thriven in an unprece- dented manner; under it our public school system has been established and developed, and we can hope for an extension of its benignant operations on no other basis. Let us hope, then, that there are enough enlightened people in our State, of all creeds and beliefs, to prevent the withdrawal of that clause from the proposed amendments to the State Consti- Mr. Beecher has only one tribunal for whose opinion he tution, which forbids the misappropriation of the public need really care, and by that tribunal he has been acquitted. He is to-day stronger in Plymouth Church than at any time in his ministry. Plymouth Church is in the humor that no matter what verdict any jury may return, it will support Mr. Beecher. The victory remains with him, so far as it mate- rially aifects his work and gains. He retains his newspaper, his pulpit, his revenues from the platform, and, as was seen money for sectarian purposes. >——4®>-—< A, SIGN OF THE TIMES. In the Galaxy for October an intensely radical article from by his reception in New England, more than his Old p0pu_ the fertile pen of Junius Henri Brown appears, entitled : larity. This is, to be sure, not all, but it is something to “ The Loadstone of Love” of which the Magnetic Woman is have SaVed fr0II1 the t1lm111t11011S W1‘GCk- H9 can HGVGF be Made the Representative and Exponent. ’ This instructive the Henry Ward Beecher that all Americans once regarded with pride. He surrendered this supreme renown when he and truth-telling article, following others to which it was Signed his name to the letter of c0ntrmO,,_ In the eyes of evidently intended as a sequel and for which they carefully the outside world—we mean the world beyond Plymouth prepared the way, tells a powerful story of the rapid pro- Ch111‘C11—th0 VV1'iting Of l11iS letter was 311 303 Of deg1”fr1d9«ti011 gress of radical ideas and principles relating to the all-ab- as deep as any offense charged against him; and no ingenu- ity has been able to reconcile it with any hypothesis of abso- sorbing problems of the hour among the progressive minds lute and complete innocence of conduct unbecoming a cler- of the age- That this article Shmﬂd aPP‘3ar in one of the gyman. But all of this has beenforgiven, forgotten, con- most popular of the monthlies is a great surprise to many, dolled by Plymouth Oh111‘C11- Tllaibody means ‘50 00Y1t'111116 but that such a paper as the New York limes, and that in its its worship of Henry Ward Beecher. His reception on Fri- day evening and at the Sunday service shows that he,is as Sunday edition, should be found copying extracts from this much the Messiah of the new religion of Sentiment as he article in two different places in the paper, is something has been at any time of his career. ‘ which nobody was prepared to expect. This semi-endorse When we asserted months ago that it was our belief that merit of the views of the writer of the Galaxy by the Times is a signiﬁcant indication of the progress of public senti- ment in regard to the social question, the very essence and key to which is the subject matter of the Gclmvy. These are the quotations: MAGNETIC WOMEN.—In the intellectual as in the physical World, there are natural and artiﬁcial magnets—-these pro- duced by those. Most women are the artiﬁcial, gaining, by culture, adaptation, training, imitation, a portion of what a few women—the natural magnets—liave by. inheritance. Magnetism may be communicated by contact, either material or social; and it often is, without intention or volition. Unless there - be organic opposition, a really magnetic wo- man may impart something of her power to her intimates; -easily when their sympathy is so complete and active as to beget homogeneity. Human magnetism moves in circles; returning in added force to its point of emanation_while youth and vigor last. Fitness dwells in this; for a circle is the form of grace, the symbol of continuity; and magnet- ism is compulsion fairly cloaked aslthe’ continuity of grace. Man catches not a little of his magnetism, when not inhe- rent, from his feminine associates. He is molded, reﬁned, rounded by them through the inﬂuence of that pervading property. He is rarely amiable or interesting who is unac- customed to the society ofwoman. She can convert clown- ishness into complaisance, selﬁshness into benevolence, so serenely and skillfully that he hardly knows he has been translated. ‘Her magnetism daily performs miracles, which, from their commonness, get no credit. Half the success of man with man he owes to the lessons woman has taught him, and, by a strange perversion of justice, by a malignant violation of gratitude, most of his success with woman likewise. That she should‘ give into his hands the weapons he turns against her, and instruct him in their most eﬁ"ective use, reveals the sarcasm of her destiny. This statement of the methods of operations by which magnetism, which is the loadstone of love of the Gala/Jig, is communicated, transfers the problems of love from the domain of artiﬁcial control, by law or otherwise, to that of natural law and natural attraction and repulsion. Where there is attraction there is love. Where there is repulsion there is no love. This view of the subject is also endorsed by the Times in its second quotation, which, instead of heading “The Loadstone of Love,” probably fearing that this would hear too evident a meaning, it entitles “The Human Loadstone.” Of course one has only to inquire what the human loadstone is to answer that it is love. But it was politic in the Times not to so denominate it. Here is the quotation : THE HUMAN LOADS’l‘ONE.—Tl1e magnetic woman, though good-hearted, is often far from good in the conventional sense. She is not opposed to, she is merely above, conven- tionality. Her blood is too warm, her sensibility to quick, to be restrained by abstract proprieties. She seldom thinks of appearances when realities stir her. What she believes at the moment is her religion; what she_elects to do, her law. She is esteemed to be strange; she 1S misunderstood by the ordinary; but those who are near her pronounce her natural and clear to transparency. The impressions she makes are strong and deep, albeit her inﬂuenceis immediate She does not grow, she ﬂashes upon her acquaintances. Be- fore they have been in her society an hour, she seems to be one of their oldest and dearest friends. She may not, prob- ably does not, feel so toward them, for she attracts uncon- sciously, even involuntarily, by the decree of her organiza- tion. She has admirers, praisers, worshipers on every side They follow in her train, strew her path with sincere com- pliments; create soft breezes with kisses cast from loving hands. . She may be handsome or not.‘ She is of the few women whose winning power depencis not on face and ﬁgure. Aman of the finest taste, asked if she were beauti- ful, might honestly reply, “Beautiful?_ Really, I never thought of that.” And this would be the highest commenda- tion he could oﬁer her. Magnetism renders comeliness, grace, elegance, well-nigh superﬂuous by subordinating; them toitself. A woman could exchange charms of person ‘and manner, as commonly reckoned, for magnetism, and be the gainer. Having that, she could afford to let the others go, without feeling their loss. The cestus of Venus, trans- lated by experience, signiﬁes the possession of magnetism. The woman in whom the loadstone lurks is foreordained to triumph over man. She has it in her control to avenge on him her sister’s copious wrongs. Enchantress as she is, he cannot resist her spell, except by_ inspiring her with a pas- sion ﬁercer than his own. This is his amulet, capable of turning what might prove bane to rarest benison. These quotations, however, are by no means the most pointed that are contained in the article, but they indicate the extent to which the Times feltsafe in indorsing its views to theipublic. Indeed, it is a great step to take. to say that the magnetic woman is not good in the 0071/06’nii07t(tl sense, which is tantamount to saying that she is good in the natural sense. That the Times really meant to say this, or, at least, wanted to say it, is evident if we turn back to the original article, which the editor must have read carefully, and ﬁnd such statements as these: The magnetic woman is not -usually the most constant of her sex, and her tendency, when exposed to the influence of her counterparts is to love much and many. She may incline to ﬁckleness by intuition, since the magnetic man in general is more . variable than a quantity in Algebra. Really she does not weary of him; she is not disloyal. It is simply her nature to be affectionately expansive to the members of his kind. What draws her to him is possessed by some others; and, like the poet and philosopher, she seeks unity in mul- tiformity. If he would always stay with her she would not wander. But when he goes and another comes, closely re- sembling him, she gives the stranger welcome as she would’ and does the familiar onihis return. Albeit, not conven- tional,‘she maybe correct. What is she but too broad? What does she more than prefer principle to persons? She is faithful to love if not strictly faithful to lovers.” In this language the writer reaches the pivotal part of his subject, to which he has gracefully worked forward; and from this he as gracefully proceeds to the opposite end. “ True to principle if not to persons ; faithful to love if not to. lovers.” Here is recognized the. really governing rule for love, and it is not diiferent from that which controls gener. ally with men in all other departments -outside. of love. _ A." ‘M ,4 M_:,_.,\‘ M4,. _ A’ .;,,,,,..M.. __,,,.._.,, .,.,.-«._._._,..n.’~‘-c ......, . __ »-~\._,.s.,,_ _/j, _ 12 '» ‘ OWWOQDHULL‘ & CLAFLIENS WEEKLY.‘ J Oct. 17, 1874. This says, virtually, that if one is true to lovers, he or she may not at all times be true to love; by lovers, meaning persons; and by love, principle. Who will dare to say that principle is not to be preferred to persons even in love? It may be said that the question of free love has gone almost by default, when such articles as these can be pre- sented to theqpublio in our most popular and best conducted magazines; and it points to the fact that the next move must ’ be for reconstruction, in which the principles that have been elucidated may be incorporated into a system for society. __._j..._,_4@ RENEwALs or SUnscnn>*rroNs—-V»7e must again remind our subscribers that it is their duty when they receive a bill for the renewal of their subscrptions, to at once forward the amount or else to notify us to stop the WEEKLY. This is a matter of a few moments’ time and should be promptly at—_ tended to in every instance, as a matter of simple justice to arts. . Should any of our subscribers feel unable to remit at once, who still desire the paper, we will continue to send it and give them a few months’ time for the payment, if they will so request. Those who do not care for the WEEKLY longer ‘will please notify us by postal card or request their post- imaster to do so——a courtesy that will cost them but little, but will be appreciated by the publishers. 9 SPIRITUALISTIC. PROCEEDINS OF THE ELEVENTH NATIONAL - CONVENTION OF SPIRITULAISTS, ‘HELD IN PARKER MEMORIAL HALL, BOSTON, ON TUESDAY, VVEDNESDBS AND THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 16, AND 17, 1874. WEDNESDAY——AFTERNOON st-:.ssIoN. W. F. J amieson offered the following resolutions: Resolved—Tha.t the vote of the Convention to not vote be and hereby is rescinded. I Resolved——That this Convention vote upon all resolutions that come before it. One hour was occupied in remarks by the mover, Dr. Storer; Mr. Conway, of Lynn; Chauncey Barnes, A. E. Giles, L. K. Coonley and Daniel W. Hull. The latter offered the foi- llowing: ‘ _ Resolveol~—That when we resolve in this Convention we do not mean we resolve, but that we mean we resolve not to resolve [shouts of laughter] the resolution we resolve; and that we are resolved to prohibit any member from putting himself on record by resolving. [Great applause and long-continued laughteix] Mattie Sawyer gave the ﬁrst regiilar address of the after- noon on " Children’s-Rights.” She said the ﬁrst right be- longing to the child was “ the right to be born,” and those 7 women who, by any means, purposely deny human life an existence are murderers, and denounced in strong, ﬁtting terms the infamy of abortion, and also censured men and women for not becoming fathers and mothers. Her second point was that children have a right to be “made of good material,” requiring parents to be of sound, healthy «constitution, physically, mentally and morally; that they should manifest equal interest in the production of their own species as they do in the breeding of sheep and cattle. Next was “the right to be born under good conditions;” that during gestation the moth er should be surrounded by all the conditions necessary to perfect her mission, so that there should be no malformations, either of the physical structure or moral nature. “Proper training” she classiﬁed as the fourth right of children, which they could not receive in a home where love and harmony were not the governing powers, where the rights of father, mother and child were not fully recognized and accorded to each; and such were not frequently found in her -itinerating life. Often had she thought it would be a god-send to remove the children from the parental roof and place them in the hands of those who knew how to properly train them. She said: “In conclusion, allow me to add, no woman reaches the possibilities of her nature until she becomes a mother. No man unfolds his best life until his father nature is exercised. Oh! my friends, " regard the relations leading to these conditions as the divinest known on earth. You can people the world with angels or , devils. You hold in your grasp the mighty powers by which you may bless or curse generations yet unborn. Away with all, false modesty! Educate yourselves practically. En- deavor to become acquainted with the laws and uses of your being. Glorify your sexhood, until it shall shine a brilliant in the crown of your manhood and womanhood. After having learned the laws of life, be true to them; they will hgllow your love and sanctify the union leading to father- hood and motherhood, until it will truly become the “Holy of Holies.” ' v Prof. D. H. Hamilton recited one of his “rough—shod rhymes ”, on “ Science and Religion.” Moses Hull gave the second regular address, “ Spiritualism, the Culminat-ion of -Prophecy.” [Mr. Hull is about to give his ideas upon this theme in eactenso, through _PIull’s Crucible, and the discourse is emitted by request] VVe give here a sketch of the address of George H. Fuller on the subject of “ Radical Spiritualism :” . “ I come before you to-day for the purpose of speaking upon the subject of V Radical Spiritualism. While all other systems of religion only aiﬁrm Inan’s immortality, spiritualism brings forth the conclusive evidence of it. While Christianity is at all times striving to prepare man for heath, spiritualism unfolds the grand possibilities of (and ‘prepares man for) life. It teaches something more than the — mere act of singing of the ineff-able glories of a higher state .. of existence, of singing hymns to angels and telling them how .»good and beautiful they are. It is not ceaselessly prating . over the golden age, so long since passed and never to return, ,but,it tells us rather to go to work that the millennium, so _,long foretold, may dawn. Neither is it [telling the old, old ...storY of Christ and him cruciﬁed, but instead it invites us to look at the martyrs of to-day; to see the crowns of thorns upon their brows, the crosses upon their backs, and to trace the marks of their bleeding feet as as they ever toil up new Calvaries.” . . , The speaker then went on to prove that Spiritualism met the demands and requirements of the age; that it was based upon science and vitalized by love for all humanity; that it would only overthrow that which was corrupt, false and use- less, and that while destroying the old it was building up a new system under which health, liberty, equality and justice would thrive. ‘ The present slavish condition of woman he then faithfully depicted, and declared “ that the world can never be re- formed until the chains of woman are broken, and she stands with man recognized as his equal.” VVe are sorry that we have not space to give in full the masterly touches with which he represented radical spiritual- ism, and the contrasts he madebetween its excellencies and the short-comin gs of Christianity; the summing up of the diﬁerences between the two, however, are as follows : “ While Christianity teaches us to have faith in God Spiritualism, on the other hand, teaches us to have unbound- ed faith in humanity when untrammeled by priestly dogmas and the intrigues of bigots. Then let us put our trust in humanity, for here we certainly ﬁnd the highest expression of divinity. Here we ﬁnd - unbounded love. Here we see the manifestation of a great sea of thought, whose waves are ever swelling and rolling on, and whose propelling force is derived from the throbbings of the Great One’s heart. " Where once in our social and religious life noxious weeds and foul gases ﬂourished, the future will point to fairest ﬂowers ever blooming, and sweet odors ever ﬁlling all the air with their holy incense. . “ In conclusion, I would say that spiritualism unfolds, panorama-like, the realities of a higher life. We no longer say that we trust we shall meet our friends in a land beyond, and that we hope that all is well; but we know for a certainty, beyond any doubt, that all is well, and that our immortal loved ones are waitin g to- receive us when our earth-work is done. This should be to us an incentive to make us perform the duties of life willingly. “And let us remember that while Christianity, like a coward, hides behind the masks of fable and holds the Bible and the mysteries of godliness as things too sacred for inves- tigation, and stands trembling with fear lest some bold iconoclasts may dash its whole ﬂimsy superstructure into splinters, spiritualism challenges every one to investigate its claims, and holds up to the world nothing but man as sacred. “May we all so season our lives with mercy and justice that when the hour of transition draws high, and but a thiii ﬁlm separates us from the incorruptible glories of a better life, we may hear the angels whisper, ‘ Well done,’ and our souls utter the response, ‘ ’Tis well, ’tis well.’ ” VVEDNESDAY-—-EVENING SESSION. _ The following communication was read by the secretary: To M ass Corwelntrion of Sptrttualtsts, Ltlberaltsts, and other ' Free Thrinlcers, Boston.‘ For several days I have been prostrated by an attack of typhoid pneumonia, and thus debarred the pleasure of meet- ing my friends and coworkers in convention assembled, and, while I realize that the truth we love does not lack noble and eloquent advocates and defenders, I cannot help regreting that I am not permitted to unite with you in the proclama- tion of our principles. Priestcraft and bigotry are not asleep, and they are the foes that threaten us on every side. Wherever free thought seeks to enter as an emancipator, the Christian Church bars its progress and strives to neutralize its power. Already it has a mortgage upon the intellect of young America and would fane keep it in the same abject subjection to priestly authority as that in which it has held for ages the women of this country. It becomes us, there- fore, to resist unﬂinchingly the encroachinents of our com- mon enemy. As radicals, we have only touched the fringe of the social question, and in that ﬁeld a stupendous work re- mains to be accomplished. [Applause] Victoria has made the discussion of this issue possible, and deserves for this act alone our eternal gratitude. [Great applause.] That you will give all needed reforms a place in your deliberations I am well assured. And i1 it would not be deemed impertinent for me to intrude a suggestion with regard to your choice of a president, I would ask that you should, as an act of justice, select a man to ﬁll the position of president of this conven- tion, and that that man should be Warren Chase [applause], one who has consecrated his life to the service of reform in all its branches, and who has always spoken nobly, grandly in defense of woman; who has taken the sting from “ille- gitimacy,” so called, and worn it as a crown [applause], and has done more than any man of this age to lift the curse of prostitution, in and out of marriage, now resting upon my sex. In conclusion, I ask you to think of me as one with you in every conﬂict you wage with ignorance, oppression, super- stition and crime, and, upon this sick bed, I reconsecrate the powers of heart and brain, of spirit and intellect, my whole being, to the service of humanity, and charge my soul to keep my body till my work is done. LAURA CUPPY SMITH. [ro BE CONTINUED.-I CELIBACY. BY w. B‘. JAMIESON. This week I have a few nuts for James M. Peebles to crack. This gentleman circumnavigated the globe. I thought I would mention this fact, as some readers may not have heard of it. I do not know what possible connection it can have with the subject; but as the feat of Brother Peebles travel- ing around the world has been frequently mentioned in con- nection with his lectures, I conclude it must, in some myste- rious manner, bear a relation to my theme. CELIBATES. Perfectly willing am I to join Bro. Peebles’ celibates, if that kind of life is a healthful and consequently happy one. If it possesses advantages over married life, let us all adopt it. Spiritualists profess to be willing to live anything that is good and true. A physician by the name of N apheys, a Christian, there- fore all the more acceptable to Bro. P., says: “Who live longer, the married or the celibatel The answer is the same, seek it in the statistics of what couiitry you Wlll. In France, in England, in Scotland, in the United States, there are, in proportion to their respective number, more than twice as many married men still living at the age of seventy, as single (more exactly 26.9 married to 11.7 un- married. Becquerel). This is alarming odds against the oachelors. Well might the registrar of Scotland say that it alng'8ost means ‘ Marry or die.’ ”—The Transmisstort of Ejfe, p. . ‘ That is hard against Bro. Peebles’ new social order of Shaker-Spiritualists. But the allegations against the pro- posed “Heavenly Order” among Spiritualists are con- tinued: ' “ Vlhich class furnishes the most insane? The celibates. In which is death from delirium tremens more frequent? In the celibates. Who more frequently are suicides? Again, the celibates. These are all statistical truths, and they tell their own story.”—Tr0msmt'ssz'on of Life. “ W00dhullisrn,” my brother, against which you declaim, is as much above such a state——celibacy—as heaven‘; above earth. Ughl Sodomy is horrid. _ v Dr. N apheys mentions a style of living which he terms chaste celibacy, purity of thought, purity of act, that, when attained, does not leave in its pathway vice and crime. But according to the doctor’s statistics, chaste celibacy is a scarce commodity. - . Dr. Napheys is no iconoclast, no inﬁdel, no scoffer at prayer and sneerer at Jesus. His words will doubtless, for these reasons, have peculiar weight and significance with those Spiritualists who are shocked with irreverent letters and speeches. His denunciation of the “ man who scoffs at Christianity” will delight his numerous Christian readers, though what the denunciation has todo with medical science it is not easy to perceive. Spiritualists, the grand truth is coming fully before the people, not to be sneered at as formerly, but to be seriously and profoundly considered. Then a grand revolution for the better must follow, and superstition and religious humbug sink never to rise on‘ the surface again. Fosrnn. Qr—-¢———————- . MISCELLANEOUS. BURNS AND BEECHER. A The following poem was written by Mrs. J . Webb, of Sept- land, sixteen years ago, on the occasion of the appointment of Henry Ward Beecher to lecture at the celebration of Burns’ 100th anniversary, January, 1859: I learn the task has fa’en to you To gie the bard o’ Ayr his due; But use him weel; And keep sweet Charity in view, E’en for the De’il. ' His few sma’ fau’ts ye need us. tell; Folks say 3/e’re no o’er gutd yourself‘ ,' But De’il may care; . Gin yelre but half as good as Rab, We’ll ask nae mair. Then dinna seek to ﬁnd afﬂaw; But o’er his fau’ts a mantle threw, And leave the rest To Him who made and tried the heart; He kens the best. A century hence, an’ wha can tell What may befa.’ yer cannieysell’ Some holy preacher May takl the cudgels up for one Ca'd Harry Beecher. I hae nae doubt ye’d like to ken Wha ’tis that tak’s the auld quill pen To write this rhyme. The knowledge wad be little worth- I’m past my prime. ' But when a lassie, young and fair, I’ve wandered aft by bonnie Ayr Wi’ heartsome glee, E’er fate’s stern mandate sent me forth Far oe’r the sea. Still Scotia’s hills and Scotia’s plains, Her poets and her poet‘s strains To me are dear- A desert spring within my heart--. They claim a tear. _ [From the Earlville Transci/pt.) THE BEECHER-TILTON QUESTION. LETTER FROM MRS. STANTON. We take unusual, yet we think justiﬁable. liberty in giving the following private letter, recently received, to the public. The Beecher-Tilton controversy certainly now belongs to the public, with all the facts and philosophy which may con- tribute to the solution of the private as well as public ques- tions involved. We cannot, therefore, conscientiously With- hold Mrs. Stanton’s very able and Interesting letter from our readers: . “TENAELY, N. J ., August 24, 1874. “Dear Frt'encl—You ask, in a recent letter, my views of the great social earthquake that has recently jarred so many theories and reputations that once stood ﬁrm. ,_ “I have a double interest in this sad page of domestic his- tory: First, because it involves great principles of socia‘.‘;’ ethics; second, because those who have accidentally been forced to illustrate our ignorance. of these principles are among my personal friends. i “ To those who take a surface view of ‘ the scandal’ it is. probably ‘ prurient,’ ‘disgusting,’ ‘nauseating,’ as our reﬁned metropolitan press aﬁects to consider it, although the first news Sought for by the reading public, by gentlemen and ladies alike, has, I presume, during the last two months been ‘ the Plymouth Church investigation.’ This, to my mind, is an evidence, not of a. depraved popular taste, but 0194 vital 55 ‘.1... v.:--.~,. ,. If .. .. Oct. 17,1874. woonnnts a ei..srLis”’s,wnnKn*r. ' 1 ‘13 interest in the social problems that puzzle and perplex the best of us. i ‘ “The true relations of man and woman, the foundations of the family and home, are of more momentous importance than any question of State or church can possibly be. Hence the intense interest roused to every new page of social history, summoning some Darwin, Spencer or Tyndall to a fearless investigation of the sources of our present social evils, and their scientiﬁc remedy. “The true social code, whatever it is, must be the same for both sexes. If. the testimony given. in this case be all true, and it be proven that suchjgmen as Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton ﬁnd the marriage laws of the State of New York too stringent, both being in discordant marriage rela- tions, might it not be well to review the laws, as well as their violations ? “To compel unhappy husbands and wives by law and public sentiment, to live together, and to teach them that it is their religious duty to accept their conditions, whatever they are, produces ever and anon, just such social earthquakes as the one through which we are now passing. K “Whilst the many are eager to discover the facts in this one case, let the few seek for those laws which, if obeyed, would prevent like cases in the future. ' “If all our homes were unroofed, many a husband might be painted in darker colors than Theodore Tilton, and many a wife weaker than his, andmany a man more perplexed and miserable than the ‘ great preacher.’ Hence we have, all alike, a deeper interest in this ‘ scandal’ than the guilt or in- * noccnce of the actors. - “Society has played fast and loose with the religious con- science of woman long" enough, educating her faith in one code of morals and her affections in another, thus leaving her ~ ever liable, in an hour of weakness, to betray the man she fain would save. “The lesson for ‘advanced thinkers’—for such men as Hen- ry Ward Beecher——to learn is, the necessity of teaching the women in their circle of friends, if from no higher motive thain their own protection, the man-philosophy, such as Leckey teaches in his history of morals, if that is the ultima- tum of man’s wisdom. “ In this way only can woman maintain her self-respect and true dignity while living under the same moral code by which man govers himself. To educate woman’s’ conscience in the line with the generally received views of social morals, in the latitude in which she lives, and then tempt her to sin against her conscience and public opinion, is making cowards and hypocrites of men and women on every side. In spite of the various relation in which men and women of all ages have lived and still live, there must be a true condition, and to my mind it seems that might be found with love and equality in a true marriage of one man to one woman. The trouble with the man-philosophy in all these matters is, that the best interests of woman have never entered into the consideration of the whole question. “ What a holocaust of womanhood we have had in this in- ves“tigation. What a football the committee, the lawyers, Mr. Beecher and her husband have made of Elizabeth R. Tilton! What statements and counter-statements they have wrung from her unwilling lips, then, like a withered ﬂower, ‘ the great preacher’ casts her asiée and tells the world ' she thrust her affections on him unsought ’~ the crowning perﬁdy in that bill of impeachment that blackens every one who dared to hear or tell the most astounding scandal of the nineteenth century. ' “In common with the rest of the world, members of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association heard and repeated the scandal, as other men and women did, and, forsooth, Mr. Beecher dubs them ‘ human hyenas ’ and ‘free—lovers,’ though his own sister was one of the number, and who by letters and conversations that through him and his brother were published to the world, is represented as ‘insane," de- liided,’ ‘weak-minded.’ Those who know Mrs. Tilton—her ‘natural diﬁidence, delicacy and reﬁnement——will readily be- lieve her true story, that through months of persuasion and argument her love was sought and sealed. “Bewildc red, racked, tormented, tempest-tossed in the midst of misery and weakness, in her last act on leaving home, and in her statement before the committee, a touch of grand womanhood is revealed after all. In the face of law, gospel, conventionalism, ready to leave her homeforever, she says, ‘Theodore, the end has come; I will never take another step by your side.’ And to her brother, in announc- ing her decision, she said, ‘I have always been treated as a nonentity, a plaything, to be used or let alone at will, but it has always seemed to me I was apwrty not a little concerned.’ “Thus leaving husband, children, home, she went forth to vindicate the man she loved, making his friends her friends, his God her G_od!. With what withering cruelty, then, his words must have fallen on her heart——‘ She thrust her affec- tions on me unsought;~’ though a mutual confession of love is revealed in the course of the investigation, and recognized‘ in the verdict. Those who know Isabella Beecher Hooker must be equally surprised with his treatment of her. Bril- liant, gifted and clear-minded, her excellent advice to her brother, to confess his life and justify it by his theories, which she had heard him many times enunciate, proves her a straight-forward, strong character, but not a ‘free-lover,’ ‘ weak-minded,’ or ‘ insane.‘ “ I have known Mrs. Hooker well enough and long enough to testify that she is neither. But in the clashing of interests, ambition and revenge among -men, mothers, sisters, wives and daughters are readily sacriﬁced to maintain a needed _ point. “ Coming up through four years of the agony and despair Mr. Beecher so pathetically describes, one is surprised to see in him so little sense of justice toward those who, from no‘ fault of their own, became cognizant of the whole sad story. To blacken such character as Susan B. Anthony and Laura Curtis Bul1ard—-Bessie Turner, an unreliable servant, a self- confessed tool for whomsoever mightchoose to use her, is the main witness against Mr. Tilton and his friends who chanced to visit his house. “ Her statement in regard to, Miss Anthony was false, and of me was exaggerated beyond all bounds. She said before the committee that I frequently played chess with Mr. Tilton until three o’clock in the morning: as if she who was never half awake in the daytime could spend her nights in watch- ing. Through all the years of our acquaintance, I played chess once with Mr. Tilton, ﬁnished the game at twelve o’clock and retired, making a note of it the next day in the Revolution, which I was then editing. “ You ask if it is possible for Mr. Beecher to maintain his position in face of the facts. His position will be maintained for him, as he is the soul and centre of three powerful re- ligious rings, as he tells you himself in his statement: “ 1. Plymouth Church. “ 2_., The Chm'stz'cm Union. “ 3. ‘ The Life of Christ.’ “ As church property is not taxed, its bonds, in the hands of the wealthy men of that organization, are valuable, and the bondholders, alive to their ﬁnancial interests, stand around Mr. Beecher, a faithful, protecting band, not loving truth and justice less, but their own pockets more. They are shrewd enough to know that in Mr. Beecher’s downfall their bonds would be of little value. “ Next, the Clwlistmn Union, a dull paper that represents no new thought——in morals, religion or politics-that ﬂoats on the name of Beecher, in spite of Mrs.’ Stowe’s heavy Scripture lessons and Edward Beecher’s theological antiqui- ties. ‘The great preacheir’ seldom gilds its pages with his brightness. If, then, his good name is shadowed, another circle of suffering stockholders would be brought to grief. “ As to the ‘ Life of Christ,’ in the words of one of the fold, that would indeed ‘be blown higher than a kite,’ were the author proved an unworthy shepherd, betraying the flock he was set to watch. I have heard that he was paid $20,000 for that work, before he put pen to paper. Then he ground out one volume, which the English market refused to touch until the second was forthcoming, and thus the whole invest- ment hangs by the eyelids, until Mr. Beecher is whitewashed and sees ﬁt to ﬁnish the work. With such wealthy circles of inﬂuence in Brooklyn and New York, all depending on the vindication of Mr. Beecher’s honor and honesty, you will readily understand the number, strength and activity of his partisans, and the reason why the tone of the metropolitan press differs so widely from that throughout the country. “ Under such circumstances, justice for Mr. Tilton is quite impossible. When the friends of Mr. Beecher thought they had silenced Mr. Moulton, our city press toasted him as a brave, generous, reﬁned gentleman, but as soon as he opened his mouth to tell the whole truth, he became a‘ blackmailer and conspirator. ‘ ’ “ If the secret history of this tragedy is ever brought to light, we -shall Have such revelations _ of diplomacy and hypocrisy in high places, as to open the eyes of the people to the impossibility of securing justice for any one when money can be used against him; “ When a reﬁned gentleman and scholar like Theodore Tilton can be hurled in a day from one of the proudest positions in the country——the able editor of a great journal- and become a target for the jibes and jeers of the nation, without one authenticated accusation of vice or crime against him, all young, men are specially interested in "knowing whether his downfall is the result of a lack of moral rectitude in himself or those who counseled his dethronemcnt. They who try to see Theodore Tilton vindicated, do but maintain the claims of common justice for those who have not the money to buy it. “ I have long known Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton, and visited them frequently in their pleasant homes, and seen them under trying circumstances, and know they are not the base, unreliable men represented in Mr. Beecher’s state- ment. However, when this matter is thoroughly sifted in the civil courts, truth may be made to appear. “ With kind regards, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.” Dear Jl'[adam——All6w me to correct an impression, very prevalent, that to you alone is due the present great social" earthquake which is convulsing the world. Whether this discipline be for evil or good, each one should bear his or her just share of odium or receive the tribute due to bravery. It should be remembered that ﬁve years ago Mrs. H. B. Stowe started this ball, when she dug Byron out of his grave, accusing him of a crime of which thousands of the readers of that most immaculate periodical, the Atlantic Jlfonthly, did not even know the meaning. His poems, which had be- come almost things of the past, were dragged down from the high shelves of book’-cases, and the drama of “Cain,” to which attention had been called, was carefully conned by "the young, and a new meaning given 'to it for those who had read it long years ago. ’ Again, it is to Mrs. Stowe and Miss Beecher we owe the hunting out of the early indiscretions (if such existed) of some of the suffrage ladies, the burden of proof resting on one theological student. . Again, the charges against yourself, industriously circu- lated by these ladies, astonished some by their coarse gross- ness and still more by how such facts could come in their possession, if facts they were. Of course no one would accuse them of malice. It was done simply to throw dis- credit on the New York wing of the suffrage movement———to prove that they were all free lovers. Well, let the pure doc- trine of free love prevail; but save us from free lust—a lust which covets a friend’s wife only to hurl her down into depths darker and deeper than the grave; save us’ from the spirit that spreads scandal in secret whisperlngs and hunts out unproven charges of the.dead and holds them up for the delectation of scandal-mongers, while it implores that this new scandal shall not be brought into the courts, where it is said by Miss Beecher there is so much corruption that justice cannot be obtained. This latter is a: broad charge, but it is to be presumed one ; . that she.can sustain, as she cannot possibly have had any ulterior motive in forestalling the decision of the court. It is to Mrs. Stowe, then, that society owes this discussion of the social question. Her charge of a crime so odious as to curdle the blood of the reader, makes easy the discussion of all other relations, even when they shock all the convention- alisms of the past, and point to a new future, which de- mands entire justice to woman——demands that if odium is’ attached to her it shall be equally shared by man, the ag- gressor; that the pitiful plea that she seduced him to eat. of the fruit of the tree shall be cast aside as worn out and weak. Yours for truth and justice, 0 . X. Y. Z. There is one fact about the Beecher-Tilton scandal which reﬂects discredit on all concerned. When Woodhull and Claﬂinfs Weekly published what, in substance, Tilton, Moul- ton and Carpenter now declare to be true, and what Beecher knew the editors of that journal had some grounds for be- lieving to be true, these ‘chivalrous gentlemen stood coolly by and permitted the editors of that paper to be incarcerated in jail on account of that exposure, neither of them lifting a ﬁnger to even secure bail for them. Upon any code of morals recognized among Christian or civilized heathen, it was infamous in. all these parties to allow the Claﬂin sisters to undergo punishment and ruin for such an utterance as theirs has proved to be.—Lo2/vell Times, Oct. 2, 1874. “THE RESCUE”—~A BIT OF HIS'I‘ORY—-FREE LOVE. Reference, was made in a recent number of the Tzramscmlpt to the absurd claim set up by H. B. Blackwell, husband of Lucy Stone, that he hat “ rescued the woman suffrage cause- from the hands of those free lovers ”-—F'rank Moulton and Theodore Tilton——“ and their associates,” naming Mrs. Wood'- hull, and evidently including Mrs. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony among the “ associates ” of these men. Mr. Black- well mentions the formation of the American ‘Women’s Suf- frage Association as the means by which the “rescue” was accomplished. As remarked heretofore in these columns, the idea of H. B. B. having rescued woman suffrage from the hands of such women-as Mrs. Stantonand Susan Anthony is most absurd, but we propose to examine a little closer the charges, insinuations and claims of H. B. B. in the premises. who formed and controlled the National Woman Suffrage Association were free lovers and Waodhullers, and because “ We” (H. B. B.) “knew them, we helped to rescue the cause from their hands.” That Mr. Moulton and Mrs. Woodhull were two of the parties from whose hands the rescue was made is distinctly asserted by H. B. B. Now, the fact is, Mr. Moulton was never, oﬁcially or otherwise, connected with the National Woman Suffrage Association, or identiﬁed with the woman suifragists in any way. Thus is falsehood number one exposed. At the formation of the National Woman Suffrage Asso- ciation, Mrs. Woodhull was not present—was not even known at that time as a woman suffraglst—nor was she elected to any oﬂicial position in that association. More than this, the question of free love had not at that time been raised or ‘number two exposed. ' - It is doubtful if Mr. Blackwell at that time either “knew” Frank Moulton, or had even. heard of him. This is supposed to be falsehood number three, and an after-thought of “H. B. B.” and his little handful of mutually admiring and ad- mired associates, who, a year afterward, organized the American Suffrage Association, in opposition to the .Na- tional. A ) . — ’ After the organization of the American, how stood the “free love” question as between the two organizations? H. W. Beecher was importuned by Lucy Stone until, to get rid of her, he consented to become the ﬁgure-head of the American Association. «He is now on all hands, outside of Boston and Brooklyn, admitted to have been, theoretically and practi- cally, the most honored and petted, as well as the most con- spicuous of “free lovers in America.” Conspicuous, honored and potted, then and ever since, on the American platform and in oﬁce, was a’ woman who had three living husbands, and another woman who had two. Both these women were favorite speakers at the meetings of the American Associa- tion, and writers for the Wom0m’s J ournal and intimate friends of H. B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone. Even Mrs. Woodhull had only two living husbands, one of whom has since died. Mrs. Stanton never had but one husband, and never wanted more than one so far as is known, and Susan B. Anthony never had any. If she had not been more par- ticular than H. B. B.’s wife, she might have had at least one. Not a single oﬁicial or prominent member or speaker in the National organization was, or is, so far as known, a theoreti- cal or practical “free lover,” as H. B. B. falsely asserts, and so far as either organization is concerned, the American, with Beecher, who has many “ spiritual wives,” as its first President, and several of ' its prominent female members withlmore than one husband 'each.swho are practical, if not theoretical, free lovers, is a thousand fold. more open to the charge than the National. Instead, therefore, of having “rescued ” tl1e.woman’s cause out of the hands of free lovers, as he claims, H. B. B. must have rescued it 7'/nto the hands of the very leaders and exemplars of free love doctrine.-—EarZ- ville Transcript. PLYMOUTH CHURCH MILITANT. At the last session of the Grand Jury of Kings County in Brooklyn criminal indictments for libel were found against Theodore Tilton and Frank D. Moulton, Henry W'ard Beecher being summoned to make the necessary affidavits before that body. The parties were not arrested, being simply notiﬁed to appear and give bail in the sum of $3,000 each. ALE. BURNETT and HELEN NASH have met with great suc- are glad to see that they are so deservedly appreciated. The burden of the charge made by H. B. B. is that those . mooted, by even the clilettantc of Boston. g Thus is falsehood cess in London, as we learn from our English exchanges. We ' 2 ,1 WOODHULL as CLAFﬁIN’S WEEKLY. Oct. 17, 1874. FATE. Why should man struggle early, late, When all he is is ﬁxed by Fate? For everything that comes and goes, Goes, comes at its appointed date. The wind is measured as it blows, The grains of sand have each their weight. Only the fool can say he chose The woman that is now his mate! And so with friends and so with foes, The rising and the falling state, ’Tis idle to support, oppose, To open or to shut the gate. What is we see; but no one knows What was or will be, small or great. Nothing is certain but the close, And that is hid from us by Fate! —R. H. Stoddard, in the Independent. QUESTIONS OF TO—DAY.‘ Religions, Spiritualijsm and Labor-—Causes and Cure of In-’ temperance: Dietetic,» Educational, Religious, Spiritual, Industrial—Past and Future Relations of Religion and Politics—Insanity, Spiritualism and N arcotics——Political Corruption Inevitable to Present Methods of Representation —The Cure. These aresome of the subjects on which I desire to speak where and when circumstances permit. Twenty-ﬁve years’ diligent, and to a large extent original investigation of the problems of this life and their bearings on another have probably enabled me to reach a solution of some of the most important; and the time has arrived when voluntary silence has become sin. Liberalists are now deprived of thirty or forty members of Congress, and a. corresponding proportion of State legisla- tors to which they are entitled, on the axiom that “taxation without representation is tyranny.” I propose to show the modus operandi, the effects and the remedy. By the methods in vogue politics reek with corruption; Liberalists are com- pelled to perform, generation after generation, the labors of Sisyphus; the living of the nineteenth century are chained to the corpse of the dark ages by means of State grants to religious bodies: and nobody knows “ why this is thus.” I can tell them, if given the opportunity. 9 Shall I have it? Personally, I have neither desire nor necessity toqsake the platform; but impression demands expression; I see the wrong and must strike it; I see the right and must work for it; I know that whereof I affirm, and must bear testimony thereto, circumstances permitting. I believe I am treading in no one’s footsteps, but pioneer- ing a path toward results emphatically practical. It re- quires but a determined effort to cleanse the Augean stable of politics at once and forever, and Liberals can do it, when they know how. . And I propose to tell them how. I can at once arrange to speak on any Sunday within twelve hours of Washington. I- may be ‘able to spend one to three months in the East this winter, and perhaps in March or April take a few places in the West en route to my residence in Southern California. Calls will govern details. Particulars on application. Ad- dress Washington, D. C. Liberal papers please copy. ALERED CRIDGE. ZADKIEL Is DEAD.-—Commander Richard James Morrison, of the Royal Navy, died a few weeks ago at a. very advanced age. Under the well-known signature of Zadkiel Tao Sze he had for nearly half a century brought out yearly an astrolo- gical almanac, in which not only he but thousands of other people in England believed, and the income of which pro- duced him a competence. He was a Hebrew scholar and mathematician of excellent acquirements, and as far as pos- sible removed from the vulgar charlatan that ‘many con- sidered him. When Admiral Sir Edward Belcher in a care- less hour called him an imposter, Lieut. Morrison promptly sued him for slander, and brought on the stand as witnesses the late Lord Lytton, the Earl of Wilton. and‘ other persons prominent in the social and literary world. The court found for the plaintiff. It is hard to believe it in this nineteenth .century, but there are, not only in England but in New York as well, a great many cultivated and intelligent men. who lregard astrology as a science as worthy of respect as chemistry or astronomy. SALEM, COLUMBIA Co., Ohio, Aug. 12,1874. EDITORS WEEKLY: . The short communication in your late issue from “An— ‘t'1quitaS,” dated Canaseraga, N. Y., July 19, 1874, touching on the rights and liberties of woman among the ancient Druids in Great Britain, and which was called forth by your publi- cation of the closing remarks of my address on Odd Fellow- ship, has been read by me with considerable interest. The information he gives on this subject as touching the order of Odd Fellows is entirely new to me, and he has my thanks for it. I should like to know whether or not he is a member of the order, and, if he will not inform me, how Ivcan obtain reliable history touching this question of woman’s ancient privileges in the order, etc. There are two principles in par- ticular connected with the order that I feel called upon to help reform, viz. : First, requiring candidates to subscribe . to a belief in Va “ Supreme Being,” and second, the exclusion ofwoman from full membership‘. It seems to me that with the vast membership of this order in the United States, and this membership being, as I think it is, far beyond the aver- age in reformatory and liberal sentiments, there is presented a rare ﬁeld for the accomplishment of glorious results in the cause of woman inside this brotherhood. Who could esti- ‘mate the inﬂuence that would be shed on the public mind by the recognition of the eligibility of woman to full member- ship and equal privileges and responsibilities in this great, benevolent institution? While I am in perfect accord and sympathy with the great, radical minds of this age that are laboring so heroically, with the pen and tongue, through the press and from the rostrum, in this great cause of wOman’s emancipation, and who are determined never to surrender until society recognizes the sanctity of woman’s independ- ence and perfect freedom, and the vital importance to the human race of bringing every available means to bear in the placing of her upon an exalted plane where in the majesty, yea, the divinity -of her true nature and maternity she properly belongs, I also recognize the importance of those reformatory men who happen to be members of these benev- olent institutions, agitating the questions inside their respec- tive orders, in the way of submitting amendments to, or al- terations of their constitutions and laws to the Grand Lodge, etc., which will gradually bring about the desired result so far as these institutions are concerned. Who among the radical Odd Fellows of this country will respond to this ap- peal, and agree to work together for this result? I The suggestions of “ Antiquitas ” open up to me at least a new ﬁeld of resources in the way of argument and defense in the accomplishment of this grand work. Hoping to hear from “Antiquitas ” again over his true name, I remain truly and sincerely yours, CHARLES BONSALL. A CA RNIVOROUS PLANT. A remarkable plant was exhibited to the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, by Dr. Hooker, who gave the inaugural address as President of the biology sec- tion. The address was upon the subject of “carnivorous plants,” and Dr. Hooker explained and demonstrated by ex- periment some extraordinary discoveries of Mr. Darwin. Among other things, says a Liverpool paper, he showed a plant called “Dionial,” the leaves of which were open. A ﬂy was captured and put upon aﬁleaf, which instantly closed and on reopening it was found that the ﬂy was completely dissolved. A bit of beef was afterward consumed in the same way. The leaf was then fed with cheese, which dis- agreed with it horribly and eventually killed it. Dr. Hooker explained that the plant’s action was precisely similar to that of the human stomach. The leaf rejected a piece of wet chalk. Prof. Huxley, in moving a vote of thanks, said these phenomena formed a wonderful problem. The plant has certainly a nervous system of its own.—New York Evangelist. - ———-———-—>—-+Q BUSINESS EDITORIALS. THE Iowa State Association of Spiritualists will hold their sixth annual convention at the Universalist Church in Des Moines, commencing Friday, October 9, at 7% o’clock A. M., and continue over Sunday. ‘ The following speakers are en- gaged: Hon. Warren Chase, R. G. Eccles, Dr. Samuel Max- well, Dr. C. P. Sanford, Mrs. H. Morse, Capt. H. H. Brown, and several others, embracing the different phases of Me- diumship, Materialization, etc. To the Spiritualists wewould say: Come in the unity 'of; the spirit, to strengthen the bonds of peace; come with the bold resolve that ‘our banner of truth shall be carried for- ward, and whatever may be its fate we are ever ready to rally around it; come, reaﬂirm our grand cardinal truth, that man never dies. ‘ To the Christians we say come; you hold thefdoctrine of future life with a trembling and doubting faith—most of you afraid to meet it. Lay aside your prejudice, be just to your- selves. and investigation will show you that good may come from your supposed Nazareth. V To the skeptic we say come; in Spiritualism you will ﬁnd beautiful truths, ignored by your philosophy, yet, when ac- cepted, remove that secret dread, that inward horror of fall- ing into naught. _ Our platform is free to any one having the ability to pre- sent their thoughts and ideas in a respectful manner. A dining hall will be provided with sufﬁcient for all. Friends, having the means convenient to do so, will aid by bringing a well-ﬁlled basket of provisions. EDWIN CATE, President. MRS. J. SWAIN, Secretary. _...__:. C THE VERMONT STATE SPIRITUALIST ASSOCIATION will hold its next Annual Convention at St. J ohnsbury, on Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday, October 16, 1'2’ and 18, 1874. Good speakers will be in attendance. Board at the Avenue House at $1.00 per day. Return checks issued to those who pay full fare one way over the Central Vermont Railroad to attend the Convention. A cordial invitation extended. Per order of Committee, A. E. STANLEY, Sec’y. LEICESTER, Vt., Sept. 21, 1874. LAURA CUPPY SMITH’s engagements are as follows: October, New Bedford,;Mass.; Dec., New Haven, Conn.; January {and March, Boston; February, Salem, Mass. Societies desiring to engage her for the intervening months would do well to apply at once. Address, till further notice, 27 Milford street, Boston, Mass. DR. H. P. FAIREIELD is engaged to speak in Putnam, Conn., during October. Would make other engagements. Address, Greenwich Village, Mass. .. SEWARD MITCHELL desires to inform his correspondents that he has removed from Cornyille, Me., and his present ad- dress is WestLittleton, Mass. THE First Grand Prize Medal was unanimously awarded -to J . W. Bracket, for best piano fortes “ of superior workman- ship, new application of material and improvementsin con- struction,” over all competitors, at the last fair of thei-Massa- chussetts Charitable Mechanic’s Association, held in Boston. Judges: Benjamin J. Lang, John K. Paine, Theodore Chase, Joseph B. Sharland, Charles J . Cepen. Warerooms and ADDIE L. BALLOU Having had quite an extended tour through California, where she has "been greeted by large and enthusiastic and‘- ences, has gone to Oregon for a term of some weeks, after which she will return to the States, about the 1st of Novem- ber. Parties along the route wishing to malfe engagements with her to stop off for one or’ more lectures on her return will please make as early application as possible, to secure time; till middle of ,_Oct., care Box 666, San Francisco; later and for winter engagements, to Terre Haute, Ind. , DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the distinguished magnetic physician heals the sick with surprising success by his Magnetized Powder. Those who are suﬁering from Nervous and Chronic Diseases should not be without it. $1 per box.- Address Vineland, N. J . E. M. Flagg, dentist, 79 West Eleventh street, New York city. Specialty, artiﬁcial dentures. ._._M. 4 DR. L.K. COONLEY has removed from Vineland to Newark N. J. Ofﬁce and residence No. 51 Academy street, where he will treat the sick daily and receive applications to lec- ture Sundays in New Jersey, New York or elsewhere in the vicinity. L. K. COONLEY. _ THE Universal Association of Spiritualists, Primary Coun- cil No. 1 of Illinois, meets every Sunday at 3 :30 P. M., at hall 204 Van Buren street, coI'ner of Franklin, Chicago. Free conference and free seats. ERNEST J. WITHEFORD, Cor. Sec. Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium, may be found at his oﬂice, No. 25 East Twenty-ﬁrst street near Broadway The First Primary Council of Boston. of the U. A. of Spiritualists, have leased the new “Parker Fraternity (lower) Hall,” corner of Berkly and Appleton streets, where they give lectures every Sunday afternoon and evening. I . JOHN HARDY, Cor. Secretary. MAN IN EMBRYO. V We have published in pamphlet form, with the above titlfa, the oration in verse of John A. J ost, which was printed in our N o. 187, of July 4. It makes a pamphlet of twenty pages, and it can be obtained from us here, or from John A. J ost, Ogden, Utah. Price 10 cents per copy. CHAS. H. FOSTER, the renowned Test Medium, can be found at No. 14 West Twenty-fourth street, New York City, ‘ BENJAMIN 85 MARION TODD have removed from Ypsilanti to Port Huron, Mich. Their correspondents will please ad- dress them accordingly. Religion superseded by the Kingdom of Heaven; oﬁicial organ of the Spirit World. Amonthly journal, established. in 1864, to explain and to prove that Spiritualism has pre- pared the way for the second coming of Christ. Thomas Cook, publisher, N 0. 50 Bromﬁeld street, Boston, Mass. D. W. HULL is now in the East, and will answer calls to lecture at any place. Address 871, Washington st., Boston. IMPORTANT To PERSONS WANTING T0 SPEND THE WINTER SOUTH.—A lady and gentleman can be accommodated in the house of a physician, on moderate terms, in one of the most beautiful cities of the South. For particulars inquire at this oﬁice. SARAH E. SOMERBY, Trance Medium and Magnetic Healer, 23 Irving Place, N. Y. C. W. STEWART, the uncompromising young Radical, is re- engaged at Terre Haute, Indiana, for the next three months and will answer calls to lecture on week evenings during that time to allparties who uphold free speech, and have the welfare of humanity at heart here and now. No others need ’ applv @“’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. You who are able add another dollar or more as charity. His address, AUSTIN KENT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44. The legal rate of postage on the WEEKLY, addressed to regular subscribers, is twenty cents per annum, or ﬁve cents per quarter, payable in advance. 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Davis will Speak in San Francisco, Cal., in December; in San Jose, iduring January. Permanent factory: 387’ Washington street, Boston. address, 235 Washington st., Salem, Mass. W. F. J AMIESON is engaged to return to Boston for the ' -«A; WOODHULL 4. C]LAFL1N’S WEEKLY. I 15 314' EAST NINTH STREET, I I NEW "rose: crrri Thislnstitute, organized upon the combined principles of , QLAIRVOYANOE, Makes a specialty of all these diseases, which, by the Medical Faculty, are usually considered incurable. PAZRALYSIS, V SCROFULA, RHEUMATISM, DYSPEPSIA, EPILEPSY, Diseases of the Liver, Spleen and Kidneys, and especially MAGNEi'FI8M arid MEDICINE, Among these may be 1ne_ntione5 7 CHOREA, “ NEURALG-IA, CHRONIC DIARRIICEA, . Bnientus DISEASE, All Diseases Pseculiar to Women. In this last class of complaints some of the most extraordinar stood in the Way of their cure. That terrible foe to human life, GAE? Is also conquered by a very simple, but recently-discovered remedy, y discoveries have recently been made, which surmount the diiﬁculties that have heretofore which by chemical action upon the diseased fungus causes it to separate from the surround- ing parts and to slough off, leaving behind only a healing sore. The peculiar advantage which the practice at this Institution possesses over all others is, that in addition to all the scientiﬁc kno Therapeutics and Remedial Agents, Which the Faculty have, it also has the unerring means of diagnosing diseases through wledge of Medical CLAIRVOYANCE, 9 As well as the Scientiﬁc administration of ANMAL AND SPIRITUAL MAGNETISMY in all their Various forms. The Best Clairvoyants and Magnetic Operators are Always Employed. This combination of remedial means can safely be relied upon to cure ever ter how often the patient aﬁected in chronic form may have failed in obtaining rel all the various methods of cure can be combined. In addition to the cure of disease, -Clairvoyant consultations u y disease that has not already destroyed some vital internal organ. No mat-= ief, he should not despair, but seek it from this, the only Institution where ' pon all kinds of business and upon all forms of social afﬁairs can also be obtained.’ The Very best of reference given to all who desire it, both as to disease and consultations. Reception hours from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Invalids who cannot visit the Institute in person can apply by letter. 3% 'I'es'ti1n.ox1ia.1s., Inﬂammation of the Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels Cured. 3 NEW YORK, July 20, 1870. For several years I have been suffering from an acute disease (inﬂam- mation of the kidneys and upper part of the stomach and bowels), for which I had been treated by several of the most eminent and successful physicians in the vicinity of New York, but without success. My disease seemed to have assumed a chronic form, and I had almost despaired of ever being cured. Hearing of their success in the treatment of all chronic diseases, I determined to try their skill, and I am now thankful that I did, as after the very ﬁrst operation I commenced to improve, and now, after a few weeks, I am well, or nearly so. , , Hoping that this may induce others who need their services to test their skill, I cheerfully give this testimony in their favor, and hope that they may be the means of restoring hundreds of ‘ those suffering as I did to health and Strength. JOHN A. VANZANT. Spring Valley, N. Y. Bright’S Disease of the Kidneys. Cured. . I NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 3,1869. Eight years’ ago I was taken with bleeding from the kidneys, which has continued at intcrvalsever since. All the best physicians did me no ’ good, and ﬁnally gave me up as an incurable case of, B1-ight"s Disease of the.Kidneys. Mytfriends had all lost hope, and I7 ..had also given up, as All letters should be addressed, Medicine Sent to all parts of the world. MAGNETIC HEALING I,NSTITUTE, :3I4iEAST§NINTHf eT., slew res xi, I had become so weak that I could scarcely walk a block. A friend ad- vised me to go to the Magnetic Healing Institute, and see what could he done for me there. . I Went, and after being examined was told I c"o11ld,. be cured only by the strictest Magnetic treatment. The first operation affected me strangely, sending piercing pains through my back aml kid- neys; but I began to improve at once, and now, after one months treat- ment, I have returned to my employment and can \V.‘i.ll{_ several miles without fatigue. I can be seen at 101 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, or at 23 South street, New‘ York. T. P. RIcImEI>soN, Inﬂammation of the Face and Eyes Cured. »i NEW Your: CITY, June 21, 1869. I had been afflicted for several years by a serious inﬂammation of the face, involving the eyes, which were so-bad that at ‘times I could not see at all. One eye I thought entirely destroyed. I tried various remedies and . the most eminent physicians, but could not even get relief, for the most excruciating pain accompanied it. As a last resort I applied at the Mag- netic Healing Institute. . They explained my (liscase and said it could be removed. Though thoroughly skeptical, I -placed myself under treat— ment, and., Strange as it may seem, am now, after six weeks’ treatment, entirely cured; the eye I thought destroyed, is also restored. I consider my case. demonstrates that the mode of treating diseases piractiw. d at the Institute is superior to all others, as I had tried lIllCLl all without beneﬁt. ' ‘ J C)1:I.\I Fox. No. 3 Clinton avenue, near Fletcher street, Brooklyn. ’ 16 WOODUHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Oct. 17,1874. GREAT C TREE. UTE. HORT LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT BY THE OLD ESTABLISHED -AND Popular Route via NIAGARA FALLS SUSPENSION BRIDGE or BUFFALO AND MICHIGAN GEN TRAL AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY? LINE to Detroit and Chicago without change of cars, makin close connection with all Railroads leading out or Chicago to all points in the great West. THROUGH TICKETS to all important towns, a1 1 general information may be obtained at the Company oﬁioe, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New York. Conderiseci Time Table.- _ WESTWERB Fﬁﬂltl MW Yﬁﬁli, Via °Erie & Mich. Central & Great Western R, R’s STATIONS. Express. E;7%:’Ze_3s STATIONS. Empress. Lv 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23:1 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 . “ Susquehanna . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.43 A M “ Binghampton. . . . . . .. 4.40 “ 9.20 “ “ Binghampton. . 3.35 ‘ “ Elmira _ A _ . , ,, 6.30 “ 12.16 A. M. “ Elmira . . . . . .. 5.35 “ % “ Hornellsville... 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ Hornellsville . . . . . ., 7.40 “ “ Buffalo, . . . . .. 12.05 A M. 8.10 “ “ Bu1i“.alo._. . . . . .._ . . . . . . . .. 11.45 “ Express, Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.00 “ 10.00 “ Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 12.27 P. M ———....__.. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . .. 1.10 A M 1.35 P. M. Lv Sus ension Bridge . . . . .. 1.35 “ 9.50 p. In At St. Catherines . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.35 “ 2.00 “ Ar St. atherines . . . . . . . . . .. .00 “ 10.12 “ “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.45 2.55 “ “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ 11.25 “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.53 “ “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.53 ‘ .,,, “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 A M. 5.55 “ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 . m, “ Chatliam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 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 “ 8.10 ‘ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.21 “ “ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . .. 8.55 “ “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ 11.25 P M “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.25 “ 9.27 “ “ Ann Arbor . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . .. 11.00 “ 11.43 “ “ Ann Arbor . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.43 “ $.50 “ “ Jackson... J . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.15 P M. 1.00 A M. “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A M 13.30 “ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.15 “ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 p, ms “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.03 “ AIR ‘ “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . .. AIR 1.25 “ “‘Kalarnazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ LINE. ‘ “Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . .. LINE. 2.35 “ “ r‘~iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.32 P. M 4.40 A. M “ ‘oiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.40 A. M.- 5.00 “ “ New Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 25 ‘ “ New Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . .. 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . $5.230 1:.‘ M 11.50 A M_‘ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a m, Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . .. _8s55 P. M. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . .. 8:55 p m, Ar La,Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ’11.50 1’. M. 7.05 A. M. 'Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A M 7.05 a. m, Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 I’. 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 P. M. V Ar Sedalia . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._ 6.50 A . “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ . “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . .. .. 10.00 “ Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 I’. M. Ar Bismarck . . . , . . . . . . .. 12.01 “ Colu-mbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M. “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 I’. M. “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ar Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. 11- Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P. M. “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 I’. M- “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A. M. “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..'12.50 P. M. “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 “ “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . 8.30 “ Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . 4.45 P. M :: Quincey .. . 9.45 “ “ St. Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.10 A M Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.25 “ . . . “ Atcliison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.10 “ " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon “ Denver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A. M. “ Denver . . . . . . . . . . . _ , , __ Through Sleeping Car lA13rangements 9.15 A. M.—Day Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday)» with Pu1lmau‘s Drawing-Room Cars and connecting at Suspension Bridge with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. m the following day in time to take the morning trains from there. 7.20 P. M.—Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to Chicago without change. arriving there at 8.00 a. m., iving passengers ample time for breakfast and take the morning trains to all points West, Northwest and outhwest. CONNECTIONS OF ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LKTES AND BRANCHES OF Michigan Central & Great Western Railways. At St. Catliariiies, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At lélarrisburg, with branch for Gait, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. . At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk‘ Railway. At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. ‘ At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De troit, Lansing & Lake Michigan R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit & Bay City R. R. Branch Lake S. & M. S. R. R. to Toledo. At Wayne, with Flint & Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc. _ At Ypsilanti, with Detroit, Hillsdale &; Eel River R. Rs, for Manchester, Hillsdale, Banker’s, Waterloo Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and Indianapolis. At Jackson, with Grand River Vallcv Branch, for Eaton Rapids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncia, Pem, . watef, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three Rivers and Cassopolis. Also with Jack, Lansing & Saginaw Branch, for Lansing, Owosso, Saginaw, Weiiovia, Standish, Crawford and intermediate stations. Also with Fort Wayne. Jack & Saginaw R. R. for Jonesville, Waterloo, Furl Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cin. R. R. to Cincinnati. ' At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. R. At Kalamazoo, with South Haven Branch, to G. J unction, South Haven, etc. Also with G. Rapids & In R. R. for Clam Lake afid intermediate stations. Also with Branch of L. S. & M. S. R. R. ‘ At Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw. At Niles, with South Bend Branch. < At New Buﬁalo, with Chicago & Mich. Lake S. R. R. for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pentwater and all intermediate stations. , . At llgcbigan City, with Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago R. R. Also with Louisville, New Albany & Ch cago R. . , - At Lake, with J oliet Branch to J oliet. At Chicago, with all railroads diverging. "‘lurir Pllllillliti” NGWBEADY. It is as.IN’I‘ERES'l.‘ING as any NOVEL. It should be read by every . SPIRITUALIST. Spiritualists, who have skeptical friends, should present them with a copy. And skeptics should read it at once. No intelligent person could have the arrogance to doubt the testimony of the writers of this B O O K about the wonderful doings of the GREAT MEDIUM. There is a direct communication between this world and the next—a fact that all should know- Sixty-ﬁve pages of intensely interesting matter, PRICE, 50 CENTS. 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S. rice . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . .. 25 A new edition of that wonderful book, Dr. D. D. Homes—Incidents in my Life: First Series. With an introduction by Judge Edmonds. The extraordinary incidents, strange gifts and experiences in the career of this remark- able spirit medium——from his humble birth through a series of associations with person- ages distinguished in scientiﬁc and literary circles through out Europe, even to familiar- ity with crowned heads——has surrounded him with an interest of the most powerful character. Cloth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 50 -—- Incidents in my Life——Second Series. All readers of Mr. Home‘s ﬁrst volume will de- sire to peruse further the narrative of “In- cidents ” in his “ Life.” This volume con- tinues the subject to the period of the com- mencement of the Chancery suit of Lyons vs. Home. Cloth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MANNA SERIES. . Original Manna for “ God’s Chosen.” Manna for Jehovah, (B. F. Underwood’s Prayer.) Per doz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . New Life of David, by Chas. Bradlaugh. . . .. 5 Facetize for Frec,Thinkers . . . . . . . 200 Questions without Answers... . .. ADialogue between a Christian ll ss nary and a Chinese Mandarin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Queries Submitted to the Bench of Bishops - by a Weak but Zealous Christian . . . . . . . . . A Search after Heaven and Hell . . . . . . . . . . . .. . New Life of Jonah, by Bradlaugh . . . . . . . . . .. . A Few Words about the Devil, by Chas. Bradlaugh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The New Life of Jacob, by Bradlaugh . . . . .. . Daniel the Dreamer, by A. Elolyoake . . . . . . . . . A Specimen, of the Bible—-Esther; by A. Holyoake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Acts of the Apostles——A Farce; by A. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1874-10-17_08_20
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-10-17_08_20
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 08, no. 21 (October 24, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2042
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-10-24
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
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See 1” she cried, half hysterically, thrusting out the tiniest white foot from be- neath the scanty dress. , » “ VVell,” said Criss, “so long as we can keep you warm, we need not trouble ourselves about being smart up here. The angels are not particular about dress, and besides they know how to make allowances for poor mortals of earth, so that they will not be affronted.” He saw that the poor child was disposed to whimper over the scantinessof her attire; but the way he took it relieved her vastly. ' I , “I do think,” she said, “that you must be an angel. You don’t laugh at me as any other man would have done. Had it been Frank, I should never have heard the last of it.” “ W'ell,” said Criss, "I do live a good deal in the sky, so perhaps I am on the road towards being one. Probably ‘ Frank ’ would tell you that you do not require such a course to convert you into one also. Is it not so?” Nannie smiled and shook her head. “ Frank is my brother-in—law, and I susrect he knows me too Well to think anything of the sort," she remarked. “I am glad,” resumed Criss, “to ﬁnd you are not timid at traveling this way. Have you ever been aloft before!” “ Oh no! I should have been frightened out of my senses had I known I was going to do it; but it all happened in such a hurry that I forgot to be frightened. 'And—and——somehow, you make one forget one’s fears. Why, I am not even fright- ened at ﬁnding myself all alone up here with a perfect stran- ger, and with only these few things on. I can’t think why it is.” Her artless ways and wondrous beauty delighted Criss. He saw that she was yet more child than woman, though, per- haps, carrying on her childhood somewhat further than usual into the domain of womanhood. He divined in some degree the grounds of her conﬁdence, and he argued from it that she had a true and genuine nature. , i “No one ever thinks of being frightened in heaven,” he said; “and while here you must be an angel in courage, as well as in everything else, including a short allowance of clothing.” ' _ “ Not even of the other-—the——the-—gentlemen angels ?”,she asked, with an arch ‘look, which broke into a smile, and spread like a glory of sunshine over her whole face, till Criss farily gasped at the memory it re called. For she exactly re- sembled the bride-angel of whose face he‘ had caught a ' glimpse at the supreme moment of her rapture. “Why you are the exact image of an angel,” exclaimed Criss. “ No wonder you take so naturally to heaven.” “ Andare you one, too '3” asked Nannie. “ Now that is a point I shall leave you to determine by ex- perience,” said Criss. "But I shall insist on your eating something now, and then lying downeand going to sleep. The angels do not neglect those -duties, I assure you: So, after you have eaten some of these dried fruits and biscuits, and drank a glass of this liquor, I shall expect you to lie down on this couch, and sleep very soundly as long as you can.” * “ And what becomes of you?” she asked. - “ Oh, I have another compartment on the other side of this " panel, which I occupy sometimes. But for to-night I am going to stay up overhead in the rigging, where I have a little nest, and shall not be near enough to disturb you.” ' And he proceeded to feed herwith tender assiduity, yet not so as to excite any sense of strangeness or difference, and shereby throw her back upon herself. I Then he spread some furs for her on the little couch, and bidding her be sure to call him if she wanted anything, he took one of her hands in one of his, and pressed his other hand on her head, and seemed for a few moments to be mur- muring something, as‘ if in blessing or in prayer; while his eyes covered her with a grave and kindly glance, which allayed whatever still remained of tremor at the novelty of her position. , “ Do you think you will sleep well?” he inquired. “Oh, yes, soundly. But--but—” and her look and voice wandered, as if uncertain what it ‘was she wished to say. “ I can guess what you were" thinking of,” said Criss, softly. "You were wishing for the accustomed kiss before going to bed.” . “ Everybody who used to kiss me died long ago,” said Nan- nie. “But Iwas feeling as if I should like to be said good night to properly, for once. Though I am sure I don’t know how you knew it.” 5 Oriss saw that a'spell was working'on her to compel a deep sleep, and that to balk her longing would break it. He wished her to sleep during the swift passage through the keen upper airs, by which he intended to make for the land. “ Give me both your hands, and look straight into my eyes,” he said. “And now tell me, Nannie (you see, I couldn’t help knowing your name, when all those people called it out so loudly——it is the only name of yours I know), tell me, do you trust me entirely?” “ I suppose I must, as I can’t help myself,”'she said, with a look half saucy and half sleepy. V “ Then for being a good girl, and not letting yourself be frightened, I give you this kiss, by way of saying good night ‘ properly,’ and after it you must sleep soundly as long as you can.” I « As he spoke, her head inclined towards him, and he pressed a kiss upon her brow. Then springing upon the rigging, he left her to herself. After a short consultation withhis chart and his compass, and ascertaining his position, he turned his lamp downwards, and glanced at his passenger, and was delighted to see that she was in a profound sleep. CHAPTER III. Knowing the resources within reach of the shipwrecked folks, Criss did not further trouble himself about them. It only required tolerablv ﬁne weather to save them from dis- comfort during the few days it would take for aid to reach them from the nearest port, and such weather they Were likely to have at that season in those seas. ’ The scene of the catastrophe lay about mid-way betwen the two continents; so that the distance he must traverse in order to place Nannie in her sister’s arms, was about thirty degrees of east longitude, and forty-ﬁve of north latitude. At his ordinary speed, this would take him the best part of twenty-four hours; but a pause might be necessary, both for the purpose of obtaining the precise situation of the place of his destination, and to avoid arriving in the night. Besides, Criss had never before carried a passenger of feminine gen- der, and he had avague notion that all such were a kittle sort of cattle. and likely to require things with which he was altogether unprovided, and which were obtainable only on land, and in civilized places. i So, observing that he was in the precise latitude of the Orange River, and that this was also the nearest point of the continent, he determined to make straight for the land, where he would be within reach of anything Nannie might require; and then run northwards to Soudan, keeping be- tween the ﬁfteenth and twentieth parallels of longitude. It was night again when he sighted the coast, and saw the broad silver streak of the great South African stream far be- low him. Nannie had slept the whole day; but now, after a few un- easy movements, she woke, and murmured some words, the meaning of which he could not catch. Then, remembering what had happened, she called to him, a little querulously, he thought, " “ Mr. Angel! are you there?” “All right,” returned Criss, descending to her. “ What a nice long sleep you have had.” i , “ Long! Why, it isn’t day yet. And oh, I am so hungry.” “ You have a rightto be,” said Criss; “for you have slept all night and all day too, until it is night again.” “ And have we been traveling all the time? Have you not been asleep too?” “ Well, you‘ have lost nothing by sleeping so long,” he said; “for we have been traversing the monotonous ocean But now, if you are quite awake, andare not afraid to look out, you will see one of the prettiest sights in the world; for you will see the earth asleep, and the glimmer of lights lines of hills, and ’;railways, and plantations. For we have reached Africa, in its rich and populous districts of the South. See yonder bright cluster of lights; that is the capi- tal——the great city of Orange. To-morrow we shall be going northwards, towards your home; but you must let me know if you want anything likely to" be got in shops, before we go far in that direction, as the white people don’t extend all the way.” ' “ Oh, yes, thank you. I shall like so much to go shopping,” cried Nannie; “ but-——but I have no money I” . “That, I assure; you, is of no consequence,” said Criss, laughing. -“ The Ariel’s_ passengers never feel the want of that. “ Why, Nannie, what is wrong now ?” for she was be- ginning to cry. “ I can’t go shopping like this,” she said piteously, looking at the rough wrapper with whichshe was covered. “One al- ways puts on one’s best things to go shopping in.” “ Well,” said Criss, 5‘ that is a difficulty certainly, as even with that elegant poncho on you, the people would be sure to remark something unusual. It would hardly do for me to leave the Ariel in your charge, while I went shopping for you. But if you really dislike to go to your sister as you are, I will tell you what we can do. I will descend nearly to the earth, over some town, and let down a line with a. message and some money, and they will send up whatever we order,’ without knowing anything at all about us.” on the land, and the sheen of stars in the rivers, and the out-. “ Oh, do; that will be charming, cried Nannie. p “ And even if the things don’t fit, I shall not look quite so foolish when Ipget home. I can’t bear to he laughed at.” I So they journeyed slowly northward, so as not to,be be- yond a white town when morning came, Nannie undertaking in the meantime‘ to make out a list of the things sheﬁwanted. At ﬁrst, on looking down through the aperture provided for that purpose,’Nan.nie, declared that she could see nothing, and that it made her quite giddy. Criss urged her to perse- vere, saying she would soon get used to it, and that she must practice now in order to be his guide when they neared her home. At the same time he let the Ariel approach nearer to the earth. Nannie was delighted when she found she could look down without being giddy. “ Iﬁee everything quite well.” “ It shows,” said Criss, “ what a sedate character yours must be, when you can so easily, get rid of giddiness.” “ They call me 'wz'ld—ca.t, at home, she said, and declare that . I shall never be anything else than giddY- Alia it is Cluim true, I assure you it is. Oh, I am such awicked creature. .There’s no mischief I wouldn’t do, when I am in the mind for it.” . _ -» “But you can be equally good and kind and nice, at other times, to balance it, I am sure.” “ I can do any one a kindness, if I like them. But I am not allowed to like any I should like to like. My father is very strict with me, much more so than he was with _s1s- ters. He says I am diﬁerent from them _ in disposition, though we are not so very much unlike in other ‘ways. If you heard my sister speak, I am sure you would think it was me.” “ Is your sister fair, too.” “Yes, and the loveliest little creature in the world. You will be sure to think me ugly when you have S6611 1161'- Bﬂt she is not so little, after all, when you come to ‘look at her- Only there is something so delicate and fairy-like about all her ways, that one doesn’t see how big she really 13-” “And I suppose she is as happy as a wife and mother, as you hope to be some day?” s “ Oh, Frank dotes on her; more than she deserves, I think- for I don’t see that she is so-smuch better than I am. 7 Are you married?” “ No; I consider myself but as a boy yet. The week after next will be my birthday, when I shall come of age; and I shall be at home with my friends.” _ ‘ _ ‘ “So you will be going away from us almost directly after we arrive. I wish you were not going to see my sister. You won’t think anything of me then.” _ . Morning broke while they were still chattering, for being near Christmas time, it was high summer in those latitudes, and soon the flood of daylight enabled them to see every de- tail of the country beneath and aroundithem, down to its houses and gardens, and tiny irrigated rills, and patches of dark woods; and Nannie said she wished her father had settled in that beautiful country, among people of his own color instead of in the hot, central parts. And then she ex- , , claimed.- “ How surprised Mattie will be to see me. She thought she had got rid of me for ever. I wonder what father will do: whether he will give up his plan of settling in_America, and stay at Yolo.” O;-iss suggested that it would probably depend on the. amount of loss he might have had by the Wreck- “ Oh,” cried Nannie, “ I never thought of that. He had everything he owned in the world with him. And so had L 'md——and-——” And here she broke into an agony of tears. Presently she resumed: “ I have lost all my nice clothes; and perhaps father won’t be able to buy me m0re;‘and Mattie hates my taking hers. She says they are too smart for me. Oh: deal‘! What 511311 I do‘, I‘ dread now going back to her. Of course, we shan’t be able to get anything on the way ﬁt to be seen in. And now I think of it, it will be such fun to arrive with only these- things on. She must let me have some of hers then. She will be so mad. But I know what will reconcile her. She likes beautiful men. ,When she sees you, she will be recon- oiled.” And, full of this last notion, she decided that she would not purchase anything on the way. A . This character, so new to Criss, needed a key, for which, justinow, he had little leisure to seek. But while he was at a loss to harmonize her utterances, he was at no loss to derii e huge satisfaction from the contemplation of her wonderfully mobile and expressive face, through which every variation of thought and mood showed itself in sunniest smiles,—a smile not restricted to the region of the mouth, but which was equally in her eyes and all over her face,—-or a petulant pout. Her intense and thorough vitality produced perpetual motion in her mind, {and a corresponding activity in her body. ~ _ . “ I never could have believed,” she said to Oriss, “ that I could have kept still so long in such a little place as this, without jumping out. I believe it is only because the car itself keeps always moving so fast, that I am able to remain in it.” . . Certainly, the energy and vivacity of every limb and fea- ture did irresistibly indicate that every inch of her "was thoroughly aliv'e, and so Criss told her. V ' “Yes,” she said,‘ complacently. “I am not a log. My grandmother in Scotland used always to call me a restless penn’orth.” Presently she said,’- » “How fond you must be of traveling in the air. I am sure father ‘never tried it, or he would not have called it wicked.” “Is that whyhe hesitated when I eﬁered to take you off the wreck? I thought it- was merely bewilderment and alarm.” , , ' _ . _ , _ “It was partly all of them, I think,” returned Nannie. “ He says it is presumptuous in man to traverse the skies like a bird, as Providence never intended us to do so, or it would’ ‘ -have given us wings.” W * symbolized the ancient worship of Arabia. 4 WOODHULL a oLArL1n*s WEEKLY. Oct. 24, 1874-. “Dear me!” said Criss, “ Do such notions prevail in Scot- land, at this time of day 2” “ Well, not generally, I believe; but father always keeps to ‘the good old paths,” as he calls them, and says he is one of ‘the Remnant,’—though what that is, I am sure I don’t know. And he hates to associate with people who follow modern ways. I never knew him make friends with any- body. He calls himself one of the true old Highland stock, and thinks no one good enough for him. Oh, he is so proud, is my father. I believe it was his pride as much as his jeal- ousy that killed my mother.” , I ' Criss did not care to draw the child out respecting her father’s faults of character, though he felt not a little curious _ to learn the circumstances which had combined to produce such a nature as hers. He was aware that the great burst of free thought with which, about the beginning of the menti- eth century, Scotland had astonished the world, had left, as in England, a small sectionof its people comparatively un- touched. So he only remarked,- “ With such views, it must have gone very much against the grain with your father to leave his home and travel by railway and electric ship.” - “ Oh, no. Why? Everybody has done that for ever so long. it is only the air traveling he thinks wrong.” “ Ah, I understand you to say that he holds it right to use only the bodily faculties with which we are born, and not seek to improve upon them.” “ Well,” she said, evidently perplexed, “ I suppose it is not being used to things that often makes people think them pre- sumptuous and wrong. ' “The earth looks as if it were dropping away below us! What makes it do that?” Nannie’s exclamation was due to the sudden and rapid ascent of the Ariel. For the sun had risen high, and they were entering upon a region where it was necessary to ascend in quest of cooler air. Criss had deflected from his direct course in order to obtain a view of that region so long a mys- tery to the world, which extends from equatorial Africa due south through the centre of the continent, and contains, in- extricably interlaced, the sources of the three great rivers, the Congo, the Zambesi, and the Nile, and of the series of marshes which cover almost the whole of N igritia——a region now known as the headquarters of the greatest of black civi- lizations, and richest of all countries in vegetable and mineral production. Nannie had told Criss at what hour on the morrow she would like to arrive at her sister’s—it was the hour at which she would be likely to ﬁnd her alone—and there was plenty of time to make the detour. So they passed over the moun- tain ranges which stretched far away to the I east and west; and Criss pointed out to her the diverging streams and told her of their ultimate destination, and of the long impenetra- ble mystery of the Nile, and of the famous traveler who, in ages long past, had devoted himself to its discovery, and to the abrogation of the dreadful trade in human beings which had made that fair region a very place of torment for mil- lions of people throughout hundreds of generations. At length they reached avast and busy tract, teeming with rivers and lakes, ﬁelds and factories, railways and electro- ships, and all the other signs which indicate the neighbor- hood of a great capital; and then a large and gorgeous city burst upon their view. . . “ That,” said Criss, “is a city with the name of which you must be familiar. The people of the country call it after a countryman of vours——the traveler to whom I was referring just now--and whom they justly regarded as their deliverer and benefactor, and who holds the ﬁrst place in their sacred calendar. For this is the city of St. Limingstone.” “ Dear me ?” cried Nannie, “ I never knew he was a real man. My father says there never were such people as the saints, but that their names and histories were invented to suit some fancy.” “The same has been said of this one,” replied Criss; “ and the very name has been adduced as a proof of the unreality of his history. For mankind has always regarded stones with superstitious veneration, and from the earlies ages made them objec.ts of worship. The Bible tells of Abraham and Jacob and the Israelites paying respect to stones. The an- cient Greeks represented the earth as re-peopled from stones thrown by Pyrrha and Deucalion after the ﬂood. The founder of the Christian religion wascalled a corner-stone, and the famous church of that denomination was said to be founded upon a stone, for such was the signiﬁcation of Peter’s name. There was also the Caaba, the sacred stone which Not to tire you with too many instances, the great German people ascribe their rise to the Baron von Stein, or Stone, who first drilled. them and made them a nation of soldiers and able to with- stand the French. And now we ﬁnd a living stone the patron saint, deity almost, of all this region of Africa. Yet there is good reason to believe that he was a real man, as probably were some of the others I have named.” It was night when they passed the equator. Criss was now steering straight for the mountain on which N annie’s rela- tions dwelt—Atlantz'ka—which reared its ten thousand feet at a distance of some two hundred miles south of the Bor- house capital on Lake Tchad, the metropolis and centre of the empire of Soudan, or Central Africa. A long stretch of mountain, marsh and desert separated the empire from the more southern communities they had just left, the principal characteristic of the region being its vast system of waters, which ﬁnd their chief outlet through the process of evapora- tion. The continent here is divided mainly into two, great valleys. Through one runs the Nile, which after forcing its way through the Libyan desert, and depositing akingdom on the route, ﬁnds an exit into the Mediterranean. The other, consisting of immense and nearly level alluvial tracts, forms .3 series of vast swamps, through which runs one continuous stream, whose sources lie contiguous to those of the Nile, and whose termination is in Lake Tchad and the great marshy region which there bounds the Sahara. Looking at this region with the eyes of his guardian, Avenil, Criss said to lmself: “ What a country, if only it were properly drained!” Nannie was awake with the dawn, and eagerly straining her eyes to catch sight of the mountain. At ﬁrst she insisted that every hill she saw was Atlantika, so excited did the thought of her return make her. But Criss turned to his own reckonings rather than to her reminiscences of what, from that point of view, she had never beheld, and therefore was unlikely to recognize. 5 Toward noon Nannie’s recognitions and Oriss’s calculations showed symptoms of reconciliation. The ariel ﬂew low as it passed round the eastern side of the mountain toward the northern slope where the settlement" lay. At length the Elephant Farm appeared plainly but a little way off, with, to N annie’s great surprise and disappointment, the wholeof her sister’s family assembled on the lawn, pointing upward and gesticulating as if on the watch for her. “Tell me,” said Criss, “ is the garden wired over, or can we descend into it?” Nannie asked what he meant. “ At home,” he said, “ we have to place strong network fences of wire over any place we wish to keep private from eerialists. If your garden is fenced so, we cannot go down into it.” Nannie declared that she had never heard of such a thing in that country, and that she believed ballooning was not al- lowed or not practiced there. ' “ But look!” she exclaimed, "they see us and expect us, and I wanted to surprise them.” A few moments more and the car touched the ground in the midst of the excited party, and Nannie, stepping-out of it, was embraced by one, who to Criss seemed another Nannie, only a little older and fuller in ﬁgure, so strong was the like- ness between the two sisters. There was the same wealth of golden hair, the same broad, fair brow, the same quick and laughing gray-blue eyes, the same vivacity of glance, the same exquisitely-formed mouth and chin, and clever little nose, the same determined little thumb, lithe ﬁgure and daintily-turned limbs. A ﬁne, pleasant-looking man, the husband, whom Criss al- ready knew as Frank, them came forward and welcomed and thanked Criss, saying he presumed he was the Carol named in the telegram he had received from mid-ocean, and placed in ‘his hands another addressed to him, which proved to be from Bertie. ’ From this he learned that N annie’s father had, with the rest of the passengers, preferred to continue the journey to South America, the Patagonian Government having, on being communicated with from the scene of the wreck, undertaken to provide for them on their arrival, and dispatched a swift vessel to convey them all thither. Bertie added that after landing his own. party of the rescued on the American coast, he should steer homeward to keep his appointment for Christmas Eve with Criss and his fellow-trustees. The message from the old Scotchman to his married daugh- ter was to the effect that he had lost nearly everything except his life, and that as he was too proud to come back to be a burden to his children, he should accept the offers of the Patagonian Government, and do the best he could for him self in South America. If Nannie ever reached them—of which he had great doubts, notwithstanding the high charac- ter Mr. Greathead gave him of the young man Carol for -steadiness and ski1l—he hoped she would not be too great a trouble to them. But he would write at length on reaching his destination, which he hoped to do without further mishap, as a vessel had been dispatched to their aid, and he was not one rash enough to tempt Providence by traveling in a machine so contrary to nature as an air-ship. CHAPTER IV. The European settlements in Soudan, of which that on Mount Atlantika was the chief, while rich and ﬂourishing as communities, were, as regards their civilization, somewhat in arrear of Europe itself. Many fashions, old and discarded elsewhere as the excesses of unpractical enthusiasts, were here still in full vigor. To Criss it was like going back to the times he had read of in history, to ﬁnd women claiming, not merely equality, but identity, with men, in all the affairs of life, political as well as social. Educated in the self-same schools, and on the self-same system as the boys, and taught to have precisely the same contempt for all pomps and vanities,they devoted themselves as equally a matter of course to grave and industriul pur- suits, working in the farm, the factory and the office, on the plow and the locomotive, in the legislature and the police (for the white communities of Soudan enjoyed the privilege of conducting in their own fashion whatever affairs cxclu- sively affected themselves), and would hold a riﬂe and go through military drill, and had no manner of doubt that, if called on, they would exhibit on the battle—ﬁeld a prowess little, if at all, inferior to that of the men. In a state of society in which women cared more to be sensible than ornamental, and men valued them for their uses rather than for their graces, for their robustness rather than their. delicacy and tenderness, and mere esteem had taken the place of love, .and the general aspect of life was gray and sober; the sensation had been one akin to conster- nation which was created by these young Scotch girls, who, from the moment of their arrival, bade resolute deﬁance to all established rules of decorum. At ﬁrst the elders of the community felt strong in the con- viction that they had educated the youth of both sexes far too well for them to suffer from so evil“ an example. ‘But when they saw the effect produced by the wondrous beauty 'of face and form of the new arrivals, their witching ways of scorn or merriment; their reckless abandon of manner and speech; their utter contempt for the useful, and instinctive devotion to the charming, as the one thing need ful or desir- able in their sex;'and saw, too, that even the gravest and most practical of their sons were unable to resist the fasci- nation——they were moved to indignation and wrath, and ceased not to utter warnings against all association with the «‘ witches of At‘an_tika.” - These on their part enjoyed the commotion they were only too conscious of having created. They knew that none could say any harm of them, savie that they were pretty girls, and scorned to be anything else. , Too heedless and untaught, save in the young ways of their own inbred nature, they scarce knew the source of their power, but felt that, some- how, in them a tribute was being paid to womanhood it failed to obtain elsewhere around them, and it was nothing to them if it were paid at the expense of “civilization.” And the whole career of these girls certainly was a veritable triumph of womanhood—wo1nanhood in its simple freshness and genuineness; pure from the hands of nature; wild and untamable in its utter unconsciousness of ill; haughty and proud in its conscious superiority to all arts; and winning and joyous in its wish to please, and its conﬁdence of in- ability to fail to do so, even when making most strenuous efforts to be disagreeable. The father was utterly powerless to comprehend or restrain the exuberant natures of his daughters. As children, there was no garden, wood, or meadow where they would not willfully trespass and stray. As maidens, there was no heart they would not win. and make merry with. As women-—ah, the thought of what they would be as women sometimes ' made him hate the very beauty that served to remind him of the mother his own hardness had done to death. At length some one was found bold enough to seriously wish to marry the elder of the sisters; a man of good repute for sense and substance, the owner of an extensive elephant- nursery and valuable ivory-works—honest, straightforward, good-looking, and highly regarded, even by the father him- self. It was even more astonishing to the latter to ﬁnd his daughter readily accepting the offer, at so low a rate had he estimated her good sense. But his surprise was as nothing compared to that of the whole community when Mattie in- sisted on being married out and out, at once, without any provision for a trial of compatibilities, and without any. of the usual settlements of property on herself separately. When remonstrated with, and told that such conﬁding gen- erosity was a culpable weakness, and a wanton throwing of temptation in a man’s way, she said that she was a woman, and had a right to be weak if she liked; that the other wo- men of the place might turn themselves into men if they chose; but that she believed any true woman knew atrue man when she saw one, and that if she could not trust a man altogether she would not trust him at all; and she did trust Frank Hazeltine. Her loverwould not be outdone in generosity, and accepted her with the same absence of all the usual safeguards and precautions, And so they became man and wife in the sim- ple fashion of old time, when there were no marriage-settle- ments, no separation clauses, no woman’s rights. In short, they took each other for better or for worse, and agreed to swim or sink together. And the only member of her own sex in the wide country round that approved of their con- duct was the rebellious and deﬁant Nannie. It was with a grim satisfaction that the old Scotchman saw his daughter taken off his hands. I He liked Hazeltine, but he was too conﬁdent of Mattie’s powers to plague to consider him a subject for envy. He soon learned to hope that she would plague him, for he conceived a profound distrust of Hazeltine so soon as he realized the fact that his wife loved him. The father felt himself supplanted in his daughter’s aﬂections! His jealousy blazed out afresh when he found that Nannie preferred her sister’s home to her own. Alto- gether, he was so ill at ease that he determined to leave the country. It was not through any wish for Nannie’s company that he took her with him. Indeed, he probably would have left her with the Hazeltines, but the eagerness with which both they and Nannie welcomed the arrangement decided the old man against it. All that Criss saw during his brief sojourn at the Farm was an exquisitely lovely woman retaining in maternity all the charms of girlhood: and an exquisitely lovely girl, not yet matron, and apparently as fancy-free as any young spring- bok of the country, and so given to inconsistent extremes of conduct, so incalculable in her moods that she would hardly bestow upon him a kind look or civil speech, until he went to take leave of her, and then she burst into a ﬂood of pas- sionate tears. Criss was moving away distressed and perplexed at a phenomenon so strange and unexpected. But Nannie darted at him, and declared vehemently that if he said a word to her sister or any one else about her crying, she would kill him ﬁrst and then herself; and that she believed she only cried because she had been so preternaturally good all the time she had been in the Ariel with him, and ever since, that she must make up for it somehow. [To be continued] ~ A REGULAR witch's glen has been foundnear Dubuque, in the rocky declivity bluﬂing on the river half a mile below the city, and_on the track of the Illinois Central. Mysterious noises, airy voices, thrilling shrieks and agonizing moans are heard at night by the watchmen, and they cannot be induced to stay at the switch.-—Sundoy Democrat, N. Y. THE San Francisco Figaro says: We think the laws of the United States might well be strained a little in order to pro- tect the character of such a revered and prominent citizen as Henry Ward Beecher. The Constitution of the United States might be slightly altered in order to meet this extraordinary case. We shan’t have another Beecher in a hundred years. In fact it is doubtful if we shall ever have an H. W. Beecher again. ,The world moves. . A PRIEST, the other day, who was Examining a conﬁrmation class in the south of Ireland, asked. the question, “ What is the sacrament of matrimony ‘P’ A little girl at the head of the class answered, “ ’Tis a state of torment into which sowls enter to prepare them for another and better world.” “Be- ing,” said the priest, “ the answer for purgatory.” “Put her down,” says the curate, “ put her down to the fut of the class.” “Lave her alone,” said the priest; “ for anything you or I know to the contrary, she may be parﬁctly right.” 7'», ‘the rewards of labor. Oct. 24, 1374; woonnom. a oLAr1.1n*s wnnxiirg C 5 SPIRITUALISTIC. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH NATIONAL CONVENTION OF SPIRITULAISTS, HELD IN PARKER MEMORIAL HALL, BOSTON, ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAV, SEPT. 15, 16, AND 17, 1874. VVEDNESD.AY--EVENING SESSION. Poem recitation by Prof. Hamilton. . , Daniel W. Hull said there is a minority who want to vote, and thought the majority should not gag the minority. [Cries of “ order,” “ put him out.”] Chairman—Order! order! no one shall be put out nor gagged. Lois Waisbrooker——The women ought to discuss the ques- tion of children; I am not in favor of giving‘ the children over to the care of the State. Warren Chase—I want to give my assent to these resolu- tions and all the resolutions. I have no objection to any of them. I have said nothing in this convention against them. Isaiah C. Ray made a humorous speech on the subject of “ Children and the State.” Anthony Higgins favored the care and education of chil- dren by the State. E. H. Heywood--I desire to express my gratiﬁcation at the privilege of being in a religious convention that does not seek to divorce religion from life. I am opposed to the resolution.’ No man or woman has a right to go into the nursery business and then put their hands into my venerable friend’s or my pocket to pay the expense of supporting the children. I regret to hear such expressions as I have heard here, that the laborer is to share With whom? The rewards of labor belong to the laborer. Who is entitled to them if not the laborer? J. H. W. Toohey made a few practical suggestions. Augusta Cooper Bristol made the ﬁrst regular address of the evening. g [Most of the parties did not desire their lectures published, as they, like this lady,‘ are in the lecture ﬁeld with addresses, upon which they have bestowed much care, expecting to de- liver them in many plaees.—Secretary.] Hattie Wilson delivered a stirring address. Adjourned. THURSDAY.-—MORNING SESSION. Conference one hour. Special attention was given to the discussion of “ Stirpiculture,” participated in by Messrs. Ray, Atkinson, Moses Hull, Coonley and Cook. Anthony Higgins, chairman of Finance Committee, made a special appeal. seconded by Dr. N. H. Dillingham. Lois Waisbrooker then gave avery able discourse upon the subject, “ What we have, and what we want.” We do not purpose to reprint the text Mrs. Waisbooker took from John Ruskin’s “Ethics of Dark Days,” but rather to extract some of the ﬂashes of inspiration which may be found plentifully scattered throughout the lecture: On Promvlscmiy and Prostitution. “It is urged that we, as free lovers, believe in promiscuity and prostitution, which is utterly false. Promiscuity is “ without the power of choice among the many;” prostitu- tion is also without the power of choice, whether bound to one or the slave of many. Promiscuity is prostitution, but prostitution is not necessarily promiscuity. Nature knows no prostitution but unwilling subjection.” Purity. “ Purity does not consist so much in being monogamists or celibates as it does in using all our powers for the highest good, by learning the law of our own being, and then send- ing the soul-forces of love and wisdom into all the acts of life. There are those who are born kings and queens in the realms of love; natural magnets, giving warmth and life to all within their radii. And there are those who can never feel condemnation from within for a mutual sexual act, whether legal or otherwise.” ' A long dissertation was then given by the lecturer on the case of Henry Ward Beecher, and Victoria 0. ‘Woodhull was complimented by the lecturer for the manner in which she had performed ‘her part in the Brooklyn affair; but we are compelled to hasten to the close of the discourse: “Ignorance and outside pressure may hold people together, but knowledge and freedom are a much stronger tie. When men and women ﬁll each other’s being there is no danger of separation. You cannot pull them apart. If they but par- tially complement each other, then they only belong to each other just so far as they do. “Talk of having social freedom -on the brain! Say that it is a side issue to Spiritualism! Why, it is the question of all questions, because it underlies all. If there were none in the spirit world who have suffered from false social rela- tions; if there were no murderers there, made such by mur- der in the mother’s heart against an unwelcome burden; if there were no thieves there, made such by the mother’s privations; if there were no drunkards there, made such because the mother’s life forces were drained till the starved one took to stimulants to allay the insatiable gnawings thus caused; if these were not there—all there——and many more who were dwarfed and distorted from similar causes, then we-might say that social freedom was a side issue, that it did not belong to Spirit_ualism. “Away with your slime, give us purity; away with the avery of competition, give us the freedomfof co-operation; 9, new heaven and a new earth, in which dwelleth righteous- ness or right conditions-” THU'RSDAY—Ali‘TERNOON SESSION. Conference one hour. Thomas Cook advocated peace principles. Lois Waisbrooker-—Mr. Cook talks about his Christ, but it is a one-sided Christ. . Mr. Cook explained what he meant by Christ. A gentleman, whose name the society did not catch, advo- cated the necessity of more sociability among the sexes. They jointly should be democratic enough to lift up the poor in the dirty streets. Even Christians nowadays have Young Women’s Christian Associations. Is there any way, any sci- ence that tells us how we can ﬁnd a real, true conjugal tie? A telegram was received from Victoria C. Woodhull, Pres- ident of the Universal Association, announcing her return from Europe, which was read. This announcement was-greeted with applause. The following resolution was brieﬂy discussed: “Resolved, That in all countries where so—called Christi- anity prevails, selﬁshness and not liberality is the principle that characterizes the masses; therefore Liberalists, to prove themselves superior to professed Christians, will have to be judged not by their earnest and persistent advocacy of the rights of man, _but by their exempliﬁcations in actual prac- tice. ‘ By their fruitsthey shall be known.’ The following communications were laid upon the Secre- tary’s table: SONG OF WELCOME TO THE BOSTON CONVENTION. 3r sum BAILEY. Come, friends of human brotherhood, whate’er your name or view, Ye souls that love the beauliful, that love the good and true With a grandeur in your purpose; there is work for you to do - Here in Memorial Hall. The “four grand revolutions ” must be dealt with in this hall; The Industrial and Financial, as the body, must not fall; The Social and Religious as the spirit of them all. ~ While truth goes marching on. Yes, the love of human brotherhood it is the angels’ cause; True Spiritism is to live by Nature’s sacred laws; To teach humanitythe truth, we must not sigh or pause Here in Memorial Hall. Work, trust and never falter, for truth will make us free And crown its holy altar; we must willing servants be. Oh, the glory that awaits us, is beautiful to see Here in Memorial Hall. Glory, glory halleluiah, List to the ange1’s call. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 12, 1874. To the Universal Association of Spiritzoalists in Convention assembled : Brothers and sisters of the radical line, all hail! From the throbbing heart of the great West I send you greeting. Although circumstances prevent my being with you to help carry on the good work, yet in spirit and good wishes I am with you, and trust that your counsels will be guided by love and wisdom, so that another grand step may be made in the progress of the ages, and another victory gained over hypocrisy and wrong of every kind. For the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now, asking to be delivered from the bondage of lust and vice, and their attendant misery." And the victims under the throne of social tyranny cry, “ How long, oh Lord, how long? ” ’ And the weeping angels re-echo the cry, “ How long shall these things be?” Out from the bosom of the Inﬁnite the answer comes: “ These things shall be until man becomes more of man, and woman more of woman, and developed to a plane of individuality, where they shall be a law unto themselves.” \ Fear not, brothers, fear not sisters; for the hosts of heaven are with you in your noble work, and it cannot fail. Let the billows roll and the storm rage; the good ship will weather the storm, and land its precious freight of humanity safe on the propitious sh ores of love and purity, at last. Nail the ﬂag to the mast-head, emblazoned with the words, “ Free soil, free speech. free press, free men, free women, and free love.” And with a zeal commensurate with the work, go on conquering and to conquer. ‘In love and liberty, C. W. STEWART. “ Resolved, That the apparently studied misrepresentation of this convention by a portion of the Boston’ press, notably the Boston Herald and Globe, is a shameful prostitution of the simplest principles of truth and justice; and that this re- peated prostitution is a wholesale outrage, not only on the proprieties and decencies of journalism, but upon the rights of a large class of honorable men and women whose only mis- fortune is to differ in opinion with some of their neighbors.” Mr. Giles was in favor of such an expression. Mr. J amieson called attention to the fact that, as the con- vention had voted not to vote on resolutions, it could express no opinion. For one, he would be very glad to have such a resolution passed. But the convention had stultiﬁed itself, tied its own hands. Prof. J . H. W. Toohey, Mrs. Dr. Cutter and E. H. Hey- wood delivered short, interesting addresses, after which the session closed. ’ THURSDAY EVENING‘r—-CLOSING SESSION. Conference one hour. L. K. Coonley in the chair. On mo- tion, the convention reconsidered its action not to vote on resolutions. W. F. J amieson——The press is a. glorious institution, but, like many other good things, may be perverted to bad ends. It is manipulated 'mainly by Christians; narrow-minded, sectarian men are too largely represented in the editorial profession. During ten years the Spiritualists of our country have held annual national meetings, and scarcely one of them that has not been most foully misrepresented by the press. Reporters are sent to our assemblies with the deliberate purpose to be- lie our proceedings and make us_the laughing-stock of man- kind. The reporters are ready to do any kind of dirty work for pay. They have mortgaged their brains for money to‘ buy their daily bread. These penny-a-liners, year after year, have prostituted what little talent they possess in covering Spiritualism and our national gatherings with their ﬁlthy re- ports. We have borne it all so quietly; until last year, at Chicago, scarcely manifesting ordinary indignation; _so meek and gentle were we, so passive and non-resistant, that edi- tor and reporters had come to the conclusion that Spiritual- ists area poor, spiritless, insigniﬁcant class, who have no rights that Christians are boundto respect. These editors and reporters have, accordingly, treated us with the con- tempt and abuse which they supposed we deserved. The manner in which the press have treated this unpopular cause of Spiritualism is an outrage upon decency and justice- [Great applause.] Here is this tuppenny sheet which I hold in my hand—the Boston Herald. It was very particular to‘ let the public know how few attended our ﬁrst session; since Parker Memorial Hall has been ﬁlled with interested listeners, it has been quite reticent about numbers. It is im- possible for the readers of the press to form a just estimate of our meetings by perusing an account of them in the papers. The Herald says: “At the afternoon session. of the free- lovers’ convention, yesterday, the audience consisted of the same sort of people who attended the first day~——antiquated females.” [Laughter.] Think of that! Calling the lovely women [laughter] of these congregations “antiquated females.” The Herald re- porter proves to your minds, that he is no judge of beauty. [Cheers and long-continued laughter.] Look around and satisfy yourselves. There are but few congregations with prettierwomen. Better than beauty, they dare identify themselves with an unpopular cause. [Applause.] Braver women are not found anywhere. This Christion reporter next turns his attention to the gentlemen. He says that the men are in their second child- hood. [Laughter.] Mr. Chairman, I am not in my second childhood—am just in my prime, thank you. [Renewed laughter.] ~ Hon. Warren Chase—I am not in my second childhood. [Great applause.] ' L. K. Coonley—I deny that I am. from the audience, “ Nor I,” “ nor I.”] Mr. J amieson——-The gentlemen speak for themselves. The reporter says there were “ apparently intelligent people who seemed to be ashamed -to be caught in such a crowd.” Such Christians would be ashamed to be found in the society of the apostles. - [App1ause, and cries We all remember the beautiful original poem, recited so eloquently by its fair, authoress, Augusta Cooper Bristol, at one of our sessions. One of the reporters laid his vandal hands on that, and sneeringly said that Longfellow need not fear for his laurels. The authoress,,I think, has no disposition to pluck a single ﬂower from the wreath of fame which -adorns his brow. I cannot help thinking, though, had that poem been given in a Christian convention, how different would have been the tone of the press. It would have gone into ecstacics over it, and eulogized it to the heavens. It is a. notable fact that the press is cowardly. It does not lead public sentiment, it follows, and sometimes at a very long distance. This meeting is an example. The public favor us by packing this beautiful hall to-night. It is about time the press should learn that the American people are getting sick of theological shams. When it does learn that fact, it will not report Christian conventions fawn- ingly, and curs with downright injustice. All we ask is an “ open ﬁeld and a fair ﬁght.” Fair play is all we demand. We have Christianity to thank for the fact that the average editor, however much of a man he may be naturally, as an editor he is a natural-born coward; lays his manhood aside; afraid to say his soul is his own. I say the average editor, which means many honorable exceptions. Can you not see that the American press of this day, is subsidized by the terrible monster, Christianity? This is the reason these edi- tors are the cowards they are. It is called policy for the edi- tor to write one thing, while he believes another. What is called dishonesty in other men is policy with him, shrewd- ness. His brains are for sale to the highest bidder. This pious lying in aid of Christianity is the Christian scrofula of deception and hypocrisy and dishonesty, which permeates the entire press of this country, so that the people know (those who are aware of how the press is bought and sold) they are compelled to read the papers backward if they obtain much truth. This is indeed a shame to them. This press presumes to prate about purity! Every few weeks it publishes sensational accounts reeking with the foul cor- ruptions, the ﬁlthy details of the divorce case of some promi- nent member of the Christian church. Immaculate editors! too holy to read the “ Woodhull paper!” too pure to tell the truth about our convention. It does appear to me that it would be no more than fair for the Christian people, instead of casting stones at their Spirit- ualist neighbors, to set their own houses in order, purify their own lives, talk less about the sancity of the marriage bond, and practice it more, after which they may render themselves atriﬂe less ridiculous in the eyes of a candid public, while engaged, by word and act, in thanking God that they are not as other men are. The narrow, sectarian prejudices of some of the editorial profession blur their vision and blunt their understanding of broad, liberal principles. It is because so many weak and ignorant men occupy the position of j ournal-= ists that the newspaper profession is sinking into utter insig- niﬁcance. [Loud applause] The press, instead of educating the people in a knowledge of the principles of government, is the mere echo of that combination of fanaticism, prej udice and moral cowardice—- “ popular sentiment.” But here, in Boston, it is far in the rear even of popular sentiment. Indeed, the editorial pro- fession, with few exceptions, have had their moral sense so corrupted by a false. public opinion that they do not seem to be ashamed to confess that they daily belie their own con- victions of the truth by believing one thing and writing another. The hypocrisy which debases the man is called policy in the editor, a proof of his fitness to serve the dear public with its allowance of re—lc'e-able mental hash, but care- ~ fully spelling the second syllable of the word “ reliable ” with three letters, 1-i-e. The journalistic profession is nearly as craven as the clerical——nearly as craven, I say, for surely that is putting it low enough. [Laughton] Strangely enough, all the parties to the fraud, the éditors and the people, are per- fectly satisﬁed that they are humbugging each other. The people know that they can depend but little upon the repre... sentations of the press, especially if partisan; and how few and feebly supported are the genuine free papers, inde- pendent of clique or ring! The religious papers are still Worse. The masses encourage and pay for deception, and but A 3 ‘ WOODHULLXE CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Oct 24, 1874. the ‘papers deceive them, especially concerning the operations of any unpopular movement. If there is any such thing as Christian civilization, it is that element which encourages the people to love a lie better than the truth. To so great 311 extent has so_ciety thus been poisoned, that the man or woman who, by voice or pen, lays the fruit of the soul's search- Truth—-before the hungering multitude in its simple natural- ness, is deemed a fool or mad. A revolution of the press is demanded.’ It is inevitable. A new and higher Declaration of Independence than the world has yet seen is the need of the hour-—a “ declaration of independence” from all time- serving expedients in the republic of thought. [Applause] Vifhen that independence is gained, then will we have a free press in fact as in name. The religious and secular press must learn that it can no longer vilify us without rebuke. We know our rights~———we knew what is ourdue; and, for one, I say we should not tamely submit to this Christian insolence. These’ editors may learn when it is too late that Spiritualists and other free thinkersnumber millions, and that the men and women composing these liberal conventions must be respected. Their inﬂuence may yet be felt politically. Amore digniﬁed convention than this, better and deeper thought expressed, the Christians cannot boast. . I For along time we have been looking to see the coming man and Woman; but, as Cephas B. Lynn said last year at A Chicago, we need to look for something else~—the coming re- porter, who dare be honest enough to tell the.truth. [Ap- plause.] . _ Moses Hull——Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot feel to let this question pass to a vote without a few words. We are all more interested in the reasons for the vote thanin the vote itself._ Brother Jamieson has been rather sweeping in his remarks;'he has not even excepted Brother Thomas Cook, the editor of the Kingdom of Heaven, and myself and the Crucible. Very well; we can afford to suffer a little for being caught in bad company. [La'aghter.] But, seriously, the editor is not an aristocrat, a na-bob, set up out of reach of the people. He is under obligation to those to whom he agrees, when he takes his position, to fur- nishnews. His first obligation as a journalist is to furnish the news—-—all the news—for the people. VVhen a journal ignores any convention worthy of notice, it should be called to account. The people should demand newspapers -that give the news——all the news. Second, a paper should not only report what is transpiring, but should give a correct report of passing events. Have they done it? Every member of this audiencewho has seen a paper to-day knows they have not. The Herald acknowledges that it has not given a true report; it says if it reported matters as they were, it would be suppressed for obscenity! Let me here inform the Herald that there isrnot the slightest danger. If those who look after the morals of the city can wink at the Herald’s daily assignation column, coming under the head of “ personals,” and its daily advertisements of speciﬁcs for the purpose of procuring abortions, they can stand anything. Mr. Herald, you can’t turn their stomachs. Come, behold; make the venture! Tell‘ them one truth, and let us see what the re- sult will be. Individually, I long since gave up the idea of ever getting the truth about an unpopular cause in the He1‘ald. There is too much money among our opposers for that. If there is a burning hell, where his Satanic Majesty presides because of his ability to lie, when the editors of the Boston dailies go downthere I apprehend his majesty will arise, make his lowest bow, set out his chair, and say: “ Messrs. Editors, you have beaten me at my own game; please select one of your number to take the chair. [Great applause.] Daniel W. Hull——Mr. President, newspapers are like the old peddler’s ra-zors——they are made to sell. If they had been made to furnish, information to the people they would— not sell. The world demands sensation, scandal and falsehood, ' and a reporter who could not furnish that kind of matter could not make his bread and butter. The Church says: “Report this convention the way we want it reported, and if you dare to tell the truth we will not buy your paper.” Thus,’ they have driven honest men out of the profession, and none but liars can be accepted on reportorial staffs. Some years ago Mrs. Woodhull, for telling thesame story that the papers are now re-publishing, was cast into prison by the Y. M. C. A., backed by the whole press of the country. Then the story was terribly obscene; but now that it is popular there is no obscenity in it. The papers vie with each other in coming to the front. They are always ready with their help when no help is needed. Their cowardice ever keeps them in the rear until the danger is over. These men-—most of them guilty of the same sins, if sins they are- are now bellowing themselves hoarse about Henry Ward Beecher, as if they expected to turn the attention of the public from their own deliuquencies by holding up the de- linquencies of others. Who are thee men anyway? They are a decade behind us, but in another ten years these editors and reporters will grow up to the present standpoint of spiritualism, when they will call attention to the progress the world has made, and ask it to “just look what we editors and reporters have done! Why, we live in an age of social liberty, when the world does not dispute the right of the in- dividual to elect his own social life.” But, at the same time, we Spiritualists (or those who take our places) will have gone on to promulgate some other truths, and these editors will hire a new batch of falsehood mongers to dish up another batch of delectable scandals for the gratiﬁcation of Mother Gr'undy’s morbid palate. While we are making brains for the editors and reporters of the next decade, they would be untrue to the example of their past history if they failed to lie about us. Lying is their element; it is the only thing they know how to do well, and, as reporters are hired for that purpose, it is the only thing we can expect of them. Thomas Cook said (falling on his knees) that he is in his second childhood. [No one disputed it.] The only way he‘ said to have peace was to become as little children. humble and teachable. [Voice in the audience—-“Oh, do getvup from that.”] We must become Christ-like, and seek to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. ‘ W. F. Jamieson—We are not responsible for the eccen- tricities of Christianity which crop out in our conventions. Still, I am heartily glad that our platform is broad enough and strong enough to encourage the widest latitude of ex- pression. We can stand it with the abuse of the press added. I hope we will express;»our vote emphatically. In conclu- sion, I want to say that the Boston reporters do not compre- hend what they hear. They not only willfully misrepresent us, but lack the ability to report. Their pay is undoubtedly small, and first-class talent cannot be expected. In proof of the truth of my words, I read from the Advertiser, which re- ports that we passed a resolution “that communal life, ac- cording to the congenial groupings, furnishes the only proper conditions for the practice of scripture !” [Loud Laughter.] Surely, what have we done that we should be obliged to carry such aload as that? No wonder the reporters thought us obscene; but we have not yet reached that low level. We magnanimously prefer that such‘ Christians as Henry Ward Beecher should “practice scripture.”- [Laughter and great applause.] They understand it by long and patient practice. The resolution which our convention discussed‘ was concern- ing the practice of stirpiculture. It is a word with which the reporter was wholly unacquainted. Probably he never be- fore heard of it. - But here is another evidence of the brilliancy of these re-» porters. This Boston Advertiser says: “ Mattie Sawyer read - an essay on the ‘ Rights of Still-born Infants! ’ ” [Laughter.] I am of the opinion that that reporter was a still-born child —[laughter].—-and it would have been a beneﬁt to the world if he had always kept still. [Applause and laughter.] The convention then gave a vigorous vote in favor of the resolution, with two dissenting votes. [Voice—“They are reporters!” Langhteix] . Collection, $22.15; total contributions, $219; expenses, 35212.63; balance on‘ hand, $6.37. Hon. Warren Chase—In all this iconoclastic war I see the elements of a new dispensation, for which Ihave labored a quarter of a century, and borne my part. However much my friend J amieson and I may differ in some things, it is al- ways in good spirit. Iconoclastic he is, for that is the work which needs to be done. I have found him to be the boldest writer and one of the most fearless speakers in_ the lines of the army of progress. I have promised him, when they call for me with the chariot from above, that I will let him have my mantle, and I know he will worthily wear it. ‘” ' One of the immediate reasons for the corruption of the Boston press is that for months it has been feeding upon the garbage of Plymouth Church. [Laugh_j:er.] Its appetite is keen, and it ﬂourishes by what it feeds upon. The Church of this country has been determined for the last ten years to put down Spiritualism, in which it sees the greatest enemy it ever encountered. It has been determined to putit down by lieing and abuse, even if it had to go down with it, and though the country itself should go to ruin in the conflict. It has called upon the press to help it do its dirty work, for it has money enough to buy the press. Like those of old, the Scribes of the press and Pharisees of the pulpit have united to destroy spiritualism, and unite in con- trolling and suppressing the actions of men and women. They seek to enslave every reformer who holds or utters more liberal sentiments and leads more liberal lives than they. In the great cities the leading press is controlled by the pulpit, and the pulpit and the press are trying to get control of the government in the form of “ God-in-the-Con- stitution,” until there will be either a revolution or we must be crowded out and this country be an institution under the Young Men’s Christian Association, which is nothing more than a mere political machine. If it is here in Boston, it is not in the West. I do not think it is here. It is about time that the liberalists of the whole country were united; about time that we ralliedour forces andunited for defense. There are about ten millions who are liberal and who are with us. I am glad to see friend Mendum, of the staunch old Boston Investigator, here, and that our friends are erecting next to this their Paine Hall. I have been in the ranks of reform so long that it is not necessary for me to speak upon the social freedom question. I never fear to speak‘ my thoughts upon it anywhere, though now social freedom is construed into a defense of Henry Ward Beecher. [Laughter and applause] There are many reforms which need voice and pen. We have robbed the women of the country. Women 0wn~one-half the property of this country, but are" allowed only one-eighth. Woman is robbed of her property, because "men want to prostitute her, crush her with sexual abuse. Anywhere and everywhere our marriage institution is most damning and corrupting. I told my hearers twenty years ago that the people would not always bear this injustice. You have robbed woman of her property, and of course she must seek a livelihood in some way. Every civil right that belongs to us belongs to her. But women cannot have equality of right under your present marriage institution. Underit woman is property. Even in this Beecher-Tilton war, Tilton sues Beecher. For what? Damages to his person? No, damages to his property, his wife. We must remove this whole marriage system, take it out of the way. “ But,” you say, “ would you have no law?” V I say no law] that gives one more than the other; each one must have the same protection against, each other as against a stranger.‘ When two persons live together as man and wife they should put their own contract into writing; then they are protected, and the children are protected. They need not call ina minister to do what they can better do for them- selves. If they want to be divorced, they can divorce them- selves, and not go before the courts and ‘furnish fuel for gossip. I ‘am called a free lover. I care not what they call me. We must” have social freedom, or hundreds, thousands of lives ’will'bA'e’“crush’ed out of our women. [Mr. Chase related an incident; of brutality on part of , a husband against a young wife, and notwithstanding she “ carried one child in herbcdy, the other at the” breast,” he roughly grabbed her by the shoulder “like a mad dog,” because she attended a , spiritual lecture, and ordered her to go home.] He did all that by the authority of the church. That is the he institution of marriage. I have seen hundreds of these cases; hundred of poor, suffering victims under the marriage law. When I know these brutalities exist as I do, I cannot keep still; I must speak, I must. write, I cannot hold my peace. I know this institution of marriage is a tyrannical one, women the sufferers; men bloated with whiskey, satu- rated with tobacco; poor little delicate wives forced into submissson to that which they hate as they do death, and worse. Tell me we must not speak against it! VVhen we do I we ﬁnd the church and the press united against us, and they hope to get the State to unite with them and crush the advo- cates of social freedom out. But there is‘ an invisible power that has worked with me for years, and has been with me in all my trials, unseen, though powerful; it will not be sent back, will not be put down, will remain until we have gained this point of social freedom—freedom for woman, equality for woman, so that she can protect herself ; so that the law as well as the press will defend her. On one side is marriage law, on the other outside prostitution. These are the two channels for woman. Through them you drive hundreds of thousands of your ﬁnest children into the graveyard. That is what you do, and then say: “You shall not talk about it! If you do we will scandalize you in the press.” I am asked if I am a Woodhullite. I am no follower of anybody. Mrs. Woodhull has- told more truths than any other person about this corrupt system. They hired a judge to pettifog the case against her when she was on trial. They tried to break down her character, but never proved a thing against her. You can go to the press and prove anything against her, but come before judge and jury, whose business it is to ﬁnd out all they can, and they cannot impeach her char- acter. Neither money nor the church. could do it. What does it mean ?. You know she has beaten them every time. . She was indicted for obscenity, but when they came to trial the judge turns. to the jury and says: “ Gentlemen of the jury, yon can acquit this lady.” And yet the press has scandal- ized this woman. And why‘? Because she had torn the mask off an old hypocrite in the pulpit. I ask you, once for all, to close your little differences; skeptics, liberalists, all free thinkers, all in favor of right and justice, come together; let us join hands, let us unite our labors, carry on this war with our united strength, and we can save the country from a revolution, and build up this great truth and the Republic into a higher condition than it has yet reached. . [Applause and voice in the audience- “ Amen I ”] ‘ Susie Willis Fletcher gave an address on the “Rights of Man,” which was received with satisfaction. Benjamin Todd made the closing speech on “ Man, an Im- morta1- Being.” In his preliminary remarks he said: “ This convention takes precedence overall that have been held,” which was a general expression. The interest was at fever ' heat when the meeting and the convention were declared ad- journed sine die. THE WISCONSIN CONVENTION. The meeting at Omro,Wis., proved a success, although bad weather prevented a good many from attending. Speakers in attendance: Mrs. Mattie H. Parry, Dr. J. H. Severance, Mrs. R. W. S Briggs and C. W. Stewart. The platform was free for the discussion of all ques- tions of interest, and general. harmony and good feel- ing prevailed. There was a general desire on the part of all to come to a better understanding of existing differences, audit was generally thought that had there been no misrepre- sentations of the matter, there never would have been any ‘ difficulty. Both radicals and conservatives united in repudiating the effort that is made by a few would-be leaders in the West, to prej udic3' societies against speakers by misrepresenting their views, and a general pity was manifested for the im- beoility and pusillanimity of these-parties, but no abuse was indulged in—in fact, we all smile at their] feeble attacks and commiserate their folly. The speeches of the occasion were all clear and forcible. Mrs. Dr. Severance spoke on the necessity of a higher de- gree of culture for the human race, and_ her speeches were characterized by her usual logical and eloquent style. C. W. Stewart dealt with the religious, political and social abuses of the day in his own peculiar manner, so well known by both his friends‘ and enemies. And the rich ﬂoods of eloquent thought from the lips of Mrs. Parry told how deeply she felt interested in the needs of the world’s great family. Her last. lecture on “ The Coming Church ” was the ﬁnest effort we ever heard. Societies should not fail during the coming winter to secure the services of Mrs. Parry. Mrs. Briggs favored the convention with a very ﬁne essay on spiritualism. The next session of the Northern Wisconsin Association will be held at Ripon in January, and with the unanimity of feeling which characterizes the Spiritualists of Wisconsin, and the efficient management of Mr. Potter, of Weyauwega, the president of the association, 3. good time may be anticipated. ' Yours, for radical truth, C. W. STEWART. ’ -——-—~—->—<G»—-4-——__. AN EVANGELICAL DELINQUEN'1.‘.——ThiS ‘world is full of trou- ble. The ‘Rev. Wesley Prettyman, of Marietta, Georgia, has got into a pretty mess. Last week a. couple of policemen arrested the’ preacher and brought him to Atlanta, Where he was charged with defrauding the Post Oﬂice Department of the United States Government,nand thereupon indicted for embezzlement. Prettyman had an eye to business. Besides being a preacher he was the Postmaster of Marietta, thus combining the heavenly avocation of sending petitions to the New J erusalcm with the transmission andpdistribution . of profane communications among sinners. It is to be hoped his meed of punishment will be light, as thecountry can ill afford to lose so admirable a. man. < . . -.A~a>1-a Oct. 24, 1874.. MISCELLANEOUS. JUSTICE. My father left me wealthy When I was very young, Since then I have been healthy And jolly songs have sung. No business cares have troubled, Nor have my hands been soiled; Although my wealth has doubled, I never yet have toiled. In dream last night my father came And stood beside my bed, And made me blush with very ‘shame As thus he calmly said: “What has my son produced on earth To pay for what he’s used‘? The privilege of gentle birth Hath he not much abused? “With privileges duties go, Which justice will enforce, Those who conserve earth’s wealth should know She never shuns her course. What we produce is ours, my boy, All else we hold in trust; And cannot justly use, destroy, _ Or e’en allow to rust." EXCELBIOR. H TRENTON, N. J., July 26, 1874. CURSES TO CHRISTIANITY. [Sunday T'ranscm'pt, Philadelphia, October 11, 1874.] Two scenes were enacted on Sunday last in New York, which, while conﬁned to what is or should be the house of God, has done more to bring religion into disrepute than all the scientiﬁc disquisitiohs of a Tyndall or the ravings of a. Voltaire. Unfortunately these two scenes were equally divided between the two great Churches claiming to be the expounders of Christ’s mission———one Protestant and the other Catholic. Take, ﬁrst, Plymouth Church. On Sunday last that immense building was crowded, as the reporters say, with ﬁve thousand persons, and “there were as many more unable to gain admission.” These people, the majority of them women, came to greet Henry Ward Beecher upon his return from his summer solace. They came to once more glorify and deity their saint,and to transfer_from the worship of the Master the idolatry of the servant; or, perhaps these women came with a much more earthly cwrtost'ty——to look upon the man of sixty-eight years of age whose 'uz'gorous constitution could make him capable‘ of the oﬁense imputed to him. Be‘ that as it may, the church was crowded, and we are informed again by the reporters that the desire on the part of the fe- males to witness this paragon of virile energy was so great that one wife compelled her husband to lift her above the crowd so that she could see the sinner, while a little child in an adjoining pew cried “Le’mme see him, too!” All this while the church was ablaze with decorations. Rare exotics were displayed in profusion, and the little table made from the wood gathered from Mt. Olivet was redolent with ﬂowers. And then came Beecher. Received with applause he approached this table, every ﬁbre of which tells the story of the.Master’s mission, his teachings and his lessons; and standing by it be commenced the services. Fresh from a Grand Jury room, where he had obtained two bills of indict- ment against two citizens, he naturally ignored Christ’s warning to his disciples: “Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him ?-till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee until seven times, but until seventy times seven.” So, also, he put behind him the Divine injunction: “Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there re- memberest that thy brother has aught against thee. leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come an} ojfer thy gift.” With these commands staring him in the face, Beecher came forward once more to adminster consolation to a ﬂock which seems to need more of the physical than the spiritvual to bring them to, that ecstatic condition so well described by “ Elizabeth,” who is the most prominent of the followers of the New Dispensation, and the ﬁrst fruits of the idolatry condemned and punished under the Mosaic Law, but now condoned and rewarded in these latter days by crowded houses to applaud the priest who has set up the modern calf as the object for worship. What wonder then that there should be a crowd at Plymouth to welcome Beecher; what wonder then that a minister, disregarding all the commands of his Master should be received_with applause; what wonder, indeed, that the great public. outside of Plymouth, should calmly review the situation, and as calmly condemn the Great Preacher? The basis of our libel law is, that a publication is likely to lead to a breach of the peace. Beecher, by going‘ before a grand jury, on Saturday, and having indictments found against Tilton and Moulton, virtually admits that he was provoked almost to a breach of the peace, and that instead of being willing to forgive his brother “ until seventy times seven,” he desires to hustle him into jail. For this he ﬁnds an appreciative congregation ready, first, to condone the .crime againsta husband, a wife, a father and a. mother, and next to excuse, his disregard of the Divine command just‘ quoted. But of such is Plymouth. And then we come to St. Bridget. Almost within a stone’s throw of Plymouth Church, there was exhibited another disgraceful scene. A newly-wedded pair, whose names had attraotedlattention throughout the country, were to attend St. Bridget’s and there participate in the celebration of the 3 Mass. It is not necessary to say-, even to a Protestant reader. how sacred is this ceremony in the Catholic Church, how the priests come to the altar fasting, and how reverently the Elements’-are touched, and how signiﬁcant to the Catholic communicant is every vestment and every position taken by . those who assist in the solemgceremony. But to St. Bridget’s on Sunday last the congregation came, not to adore. not even to worship the Host; they came to gratify a female curiosity; to look upon a man and wife, and possibly to do homage to ‘ the newly risen star. As at Plymouth, St. Bi-idget’is was woonHUI.L at CL«A1i‘LIN’S wnnxtr‘ M“ crowded,” at least as imany being excluded as those who gained admission._ Every inch of available space was occu- pied, and, in order to give 'greater eclat to the occasion, a time-honored observance in thechurch was ignored, and theswarm of reporters who came ’to'.d’es‘cribe“the exhibi- tion was admitted! to seats within the sanctuary., Nothing. more offensive to the sincere Catholic _;ca1_1 be conceived of, and yet it was directed, authorized and permitted by Father . Mooney, the celebrant at the Mass.‘ Nay, more. When the turbulent crowd in the church would persist in gratifying party, by mounting the pews to scan ‘each newcomerin order to catch a look at the bride, Father Mooney: rebuked them‘. He reminded them that they werein the house of the- Lord, and should conduct themselves accord'ingl‘y; that they ‘ came to worship, and not to scandalize the faith. .His ad.- r' monition was observed. Shortly afterward.the,b_ridal party entered, andthe grand organ in this house of _God gave forth the strains of the “Wedding March.” Within afbuilding, dedicated to God there was this obeisance tomhumanns, and while the echoes of this triumphant march had'scarcely died Mass celebrated and the vestments removed, Father Mooney gave forth his text. Forgetting that he had ‘already rebuked the members of his congregation, because they had, in their curiosity, ignored the ‘solemnities of the place, he com-i menced his sermon with as gross anoutrage upon the sanc- tity of the church as any that his hearers could be guilty of. “ I wish,” said he, “ to preface my remarks by welcoming to the church aubride and groom whom we all honor.” Nothing more out of place could be conceived, audit indicates that idolatry of persons is not conﬁned to sects. The whole ex- hibition is one that should be brought prominently before the people, so that the full measure of the ‘iniquity can be brought home to these would-be teachers of their ﬂock. Beecher, idolized by his harem, and Mooney, cringing and abasing himself at the foot of the altar, brings us to the con- clusion that the best course for society, for religion and for Christianity is that both shall “ step down and out.” [Again, in same paper :] Some of the church people are endeavoring to have the Zoological Garden closed on Sunday! If it is sinful to look upon the animals in this garden, is it not equally sinful to look upon animals .elsewhere—and even upon men, women and children, as part of God’s creatures? To carry out the absurdity to its logical conclusion, no animal, whether four-legged or two-legged, should be seen by another on the Sabbath. All churches must be closed. as this brings together the greatest aggregation of the two-legged species, and in the household every individual must shut himself or herself up in a. separate room in order to avoid the commission of the heinous offense of looking upon another of God’s creatures. But would it not be better for these church people, now that they have taken charge of beasts, to ﬁrst turn their attention to those in their own fold—Beecher and Glendenning and a host of other blots upon their kind? This, just now, will give them all the employment they need. TEMPTATIONS or GREAT MEN. BY PROF. EDWARD WHIPPLE. It is a trite saying that “a prophet is not without honor save in his own country,” and the adage has its applications to all classes of great men. Commanding talents usually at- tract most attention in localities remote from the scenes where the private life is enacted. We are electriﬁed with the great thoughts and burning words of a. moral hero, and ‘persuade ourselves that he must be a very paragon of purity and goodness. The orator gives us word-pictures of charm- ing sentiment and noble living, until we conclude his own life must be an exempliﬁcation of all he describes. When a book is read which sounds the depths of human emotion and holds up to our gaze the matchless beauty of the ideal, we straightway exalt the author into a. god andworship him in proportion, as his actual life is unknown. All truly great men have powerful natures, both animal and spiritual, and such usually have the greatest inward struggles and deepest private sorrows. That berated animal nature, which chains the spiritual in slavery, isalso that through which the spiritual achieves its greatest triumphs. The man who has a heavy base-brain associated with an equally large top-brain, and has both trained into, not subordination, but adjustment, is the one best qualiﬁed to display positive virtues and bless the world. But in our present civilization, such men are prone to sin. The spiritual in their nature does not co-operate in every struggle. They gravitate to questionable prac;t’ices—sinning and repenting alternately,-——and yet these are the "men of action; the execu- . ﬁve characters by whom the world is moved. If they some- times yield to temptation, yet are they powerful for good, and for the most part noble in their aims. Their actions are mixea, t,11‘e5i1- sympathies generous, their friends enthusiastic, their enemies bitter; yet withal, the chemistry of life will extract more sweet than bitter from their deeds. Give us these characters rather than those passive, do-nothing saints who, are removed alike from the temptation to sin and the capacity for the positive moral virtues. Mr. Beecher is a good, modern example of a powerful nature, in which the animal and spiritual are both well represented. And these two natures do not seem to be well adjusted in the man. “VVhile he would do good, evil is present with him.”, But without his fund of animal impulse, his magazine of material forces, Mr. Beecher could never have accom- plished the mission he has. While without that large physi- cal endowment he might, have been good and without sin, yet that goodness would have simplybeen good for nothing, inasmuch as the furnace would be removed from under the boiler, depriving it of its motive power. It may be a serious question as to which are most at war——-Mr. Beecher’s animal and spiritual nature arrayed against each other, or his whole nature and average convictions arrayed against the conservative public sentiment which he is too“ timid to Yatlthe door of society as it is due to any radical defect in his their curiosity long in ‘advance of the arrival of the ‘bridal, V away, solemn High ‘Mass was celebrated. Noris this all. 4 I take water. '7: own nature. Strong and often turbulent natures subside into sweet and peaceful ways when their environment be- comes adjusted to their “ advanced ideas.” But if we shall ﬁnally be forced to conclude that the defect is mainly in Mr. Beecher and not in society, then we might properly unite with Mr. Weatherbee in saying that——“ What we had supposed was pure mahogany turns out to be pine with a little veneer tng. And then it is a matter of astonishment what service can be got out of pine!” . Fire may be a tyrannical master, but itis a good servant as well, and we cannot dispense with the service it is capable of rendering us when properly controlled. The moral nature, through its connections with the base-brain, conquers circum- stances and achieves progress. Unaided by the base-brain, the loftiest philanthropy folds its hands in the face of diiﬁ:- dulties and asks God to undertake the Work which eﬁicient energy is willing to impose upon itself. When good people feel to rebuke great.men on account of their temptations, they should reﬂect that those temptations are offspring of the same nature which is the parent of numberless blessings. The nature that is powerful for good is also fraught with perils. Instead of trying to get rid of it by cruciﬁxions and repression, the wise man studies its "laws and proper limitations, and rejoices in its service. It is pitiable that so many people should gather their robes of purity aboutthem- selves and thatrk God that they ‘haven’t charactc‘r enough to become like other men! . ’ . — _ There are those who make a virtue of necessity and parade their negative goodness before theworld as though it were positive excellence, declaiming against the peccadillces -of great men, while they lack the capacity in themselves to imi- ta-te either the good or bad deeds of those whom they rnalign. Their deolamation against lechery is the chastity of impo- tence! Their negative goodness never commits sin, becansa — it never commits anything. They are never charged with iniquity for the)same reason they are never praised for good deeds. They challenge no admiration! Theimountains of achievement and the chasms of temptation are alike beyond their reach. . When we rise from the individual to the national point of view, numerous illustrations of the same truth may be found. A nation with small base brain never achieves anything of moment in the race of life. If the Teuton and Anglo-Saxon have been noted for war, cruelty and revenge, they have also been conspicuous for daring projects and Herculean labors, by which barbarism has been conquered, material energies developed, and this rude world made to blossomlike the rose. If wars and strife have come as a consequence of-the animal selﬁshness in man, we also have the blessings of civ- ilized life, which more than compensate the struggles they have cost. What would the old Puritans have accomplished on the cold and barren hills of New England two centuries ago,- combatting the rigors of the climate on the one hand and the savage, foe on the other, without an ample endowment of base—brain? Had they been “ lamb-like ” in disposition, de-. void of animal strength and energy, the Western world to-day would remain a wilderness. Selﬁshness and brutality abound not because of any7radical fault in the material part of human nature, but they exist because that nature is not sufficiently counterparted with the spiritual, which has as yet but a relatively feeble development in man. The present acquisitive instincts of the Yankee is the secret of modern enterprise and dictates these improvements which are re- quired as the foundation of our national superstructure. The constituents of our human nature require a new class- iﬁcation aud a more generous estimate. We are compounded of two factors~—matter and spirit. The ﬁrst should be ele- vated and digniﬁed as an equal and co-partner of spirit. Matter and material forces are just as pure, as exalted, as spirit and spiritual forces. They are opposite faces of the same ultimate mystery, and throughout the universe they ‘are friendly and reciprocal in all their manifestions. We do -not need to be less material, but more spiritual. Neither the animal or spiritual nature in man requires suppressionor ‘subordination, but adjustment and proper direction. — The ‘aim of development is a balance, an equilibrium between the !material and spiritual forces in man. The race that is to be on this planet will be more strongly physical and yet more reﬁned and spiritual than any types of men that have hith- erto existed. Strength and power will co-exist with spirit- ual delicacy and reﬁnement. Our function is not to repress and crucify, but its is to conserve and train into noblest uses all we have. THEY pollution of the rivers in England by sewage and the refuse of factories and mines,_has become a very serious evil, and an effort will be made during the next session of Parlia- ment to secure remedial legislation. The waters are some- times discolored by the discharges from mines to such an ex- tent as to render bathing impossible, and to ruin the salmon spawning beds. Manufacturers complain that their boilers are inj urediby vitriol discharged into the streams from which they The numerous paper mills which pour their refuse into the rivers, poison the water and render it unﬁt for cattle to drink. ,The discharge of sewage matter into the rivers from the towns, has converted many streams which were formerly clear and pellucid into foul sewers. ‘ ALF. BURNETT, the American humorist. has met with great success in London, Eng,., where he opened at Egyptian Hall on Monday evening, Sept. 14, and at once ingratiated himself in the favor of the audience. by the frequent -applause which rewarded his eﬁorts to amuse, and is further’ attested by his re-engagement for a period of six weeks,’ by themanagement of the Egyptian which is one of the most popular halls of this class in the British metropolis. Flattering notices of Mr. Burnett and Miss Helen Nash, the lady "artist who seconds his endeavors to entertain, are published in our exchanges. It is probable that their return to America willbe delayed for is 0021515613: "combat? Possibly his strange course may lie quite as much .p.., 1.‘ able period.-N. Y. 014111037‘-I Evidence of this was afforded . s . ' woonnnnr. is CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY’? Oct. 24, 1874. trains or SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, - ” $3 00 One copy for six months, - - - ~ - - 1 50 v Single copies, - - - -= - - 10 CLUB RATES. Five copies for one year, - - . - $12 00 ' Ten copies for one year. - - - - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more at same rate), - - 40 00 Six months, - - - - - - One-half these rates. All communications, business or editorial, must be addressed ronmcn SUBSCRIPTION I _ cm BE nuns To run AGENCY or run AMERICAN Nnwsbonraiziz, Lon- DON, ENGLAND. One copy for one year, - - - $4 00 One copy for six months, - - - ’ - 3 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING._ Per line (according to location), - j .. From $1 00 to $2 50 Time, column and page advertisements by special contract. 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Reserved seats, seventy-ﬁve cents—to be obtained at the box-oﬁice of the hall, and at Covert’s news depot in the Continental Hotel. —————>—+o»—<——-———— THE ULTIMATUM. mom THE SPEECH “ TRIED AS BY ruin.” Sexual freedom, then, means the abolition of prostitution both in and out of marriage; means the emancipation of woman from sexual slavery and her coming into ownership and control of her own body; means the end of her pecuni- ary dependence upon man, so that she may never even seem- ingly have to procure whatever she may desire or need by sexual favors; means the abrogation of forced pregnancy, of ante-natal murder, of undesired children: means the birth of love children only; endowed by every inherited virtue that the highest exaltation can confer at conception, by every inﬂuence for good to be obtained during gestation and by the wisest guidance and instruction on to manhood, in dustrially, intellectually and sexually. L»-4-G ,_ OUR LECTURE SEASON. We are happy to be able to announce to our friends all over the country that we have returned from our trip to Europe refreshed and strengthened’ in health, and eager to re-enter the lecture-ﬁeld in defense and advocacy of those truths which, we believe, must ﬁnally be the foundation for the salvation of the world from sorrow and suffering. The intense agitation of the social question through the discus- sion ofthe Beecher-Tilton Scandal has caused the thinking people to ask earnestly, “ What is to take the place of a social sysem which this scandal has shown to be tottering to age and decay ?” One of our principal efforts during the coming season will be satisfactorily and rationally to answer this question, and we feel warranted in saying in advance that when it is answered, all the doubts and fears of anarchy and confusion which now occupy the minds of the timorous, will be quickly dispelled, and the most conservative will be. willing to acknowledge that it must be a happy change that will bring such aconsummation. Those who desire to effect engagements any wherein the United States should make early application, as our routes will be arranged several weeks ahead. O>—4—T___.. NEwsMEN.——Let our friends everywhere see to it that the Newsmen keep the WEEKLY on their counters, remembering that one of the largest and ‘most prosperous businesses in London was built up solely through the employment of per- sons to travel the city over,‘ asking for its articles at every store. The WEEKLY is “returnable ” through the American News Co., so that N ewsmen are perfectly safe in ordering a supply from that company, or from any of its agents or cor- respondents in any of the large cities. E THE NEW RELIGION—-UNIVERSAL JUSTICE. No. IV. ~ In the analysis of existing conditions, pecuniary or other- wise, it is necessary constantly to keep in view the fact that we are in pursuit of the means that shall secure to every living person every right conferred by the law ‘of his being. It is necessary to do this, because there are so many selﬁsh interests, customs and laws in existence that now interfere with these rights, that we are at all times liable to be diverted from our object, unless it is persistently and rigidly held in mind. We have said that no matter how sacred the relation, how time-honored the institution, how popular and seem- ingly satisfactory the custom or law, if they stand in the way of justice to any individual whatever they must be ex- punged fr_om the new order of society that is soon to‘ be ushered in. ‘ We say the new order of society, speaking after the man- ner of the times; it is not, however, an exact expression. A new order of society presupposes that something in exist- ence is to he succeeded by something else that is different. In this case it is not so, since there has never yet been any order of society. An order of society implies a common order for all that goes to make.up a common society. It is true that there have been, and that there are various orders in society; but in no sense whatever has there ever been a single order for all the world, nor can there be until such an order is instituted as will admit of the association of every living person upon an equal footing of rights, duties and privileges. The object of these inquiries is to ﬁnd of what such an order must consist, and how it must be constructed. We desired to restate these objects just here, immediately before entering upon the consideration of a proposition, against which, it is probable, there will be arrayed almost universally the prejudices even of those who are accustomed to our methods of argument. These prejudices will be called forth, not so much because the subject involved is so widely different from various relevant propositions, but principally because the matters to be called in question have seldom been agitated. It seems to be so clear upon its face, that what- ever any person has produced by his own labor or talents is his own, absolutely, that it is folly to question it. Never- theless we do question and deny it, and lay to the charge of the general contrary acceptance by the world a very large proportion of the miseries and sufferings of the race; but it needs scarcely more than the statement merely of the prop- osition in another form to make it self-evident to every logical mind. But, before proceeding to this statement, let us go back to where the conclusion of the consideration of the first propo- sition left us. Relieved from the effects of all laws and customs which permit the acquisition of any wealth by any- body without rendering an equivalent, either in labor or in other wealth, mankind would occupy the earth, and be in- dividually possessed of certain powers and capacities for making use of its natural wealth. Each individual would have the right to make such use of his capacities for the pro- duction of wealth, and such use of the wealth produced as he should elect. Those who should be strong and accom- plished in muscle or mind could, of course, accomplish superior results over those who should be Weak and uncultur- ed. It is evident that it would be a question of time only, when there should be an aristocracy of wealth developed, every whit as unjust in its relations as is that which now exists by right of law; and yet no one would have anything that he did not produce, or that he did not receive through an equit- able exchange. To show the injustice of this condition still more forcibly,- let it be supposed that each individual, having the absolute right to the possession and use of his own products, should refuse absolutely to contribute any part of them to the main- tenance of those classes who, from various inabilities, should be entirely, or in part, incapacitated for productive labor. How would theylsubsisl? Could it be said that, not having the capacity to live independent of assistance, that they have no right to live ? Scarcely. Could it be said that there should be general regulations whereby the whole should con- tribute to their support ? No, because it is already proven that there can be no law enacted by which the labors of one may be taken and given to another, or to others. Then how shall the necessary provision be made? I ’ Have these indigent classes the right to be subsisted? Un- doubtedly yes i since they did not create themselves,‘ and since they have no choice in the condition that produced their disabilities. And, if they have this right to live, it is clear that the products of the labor of others must be used by them. We take these classes as the extreme example. We say that a person born a cripple is entitled to live, and to be properly treated, and comfortably supported, and his life made as pleasant and happy as the circumstances will per- mit of his being. If this be true of the entirely helpless, and the principle just and right, is it not clear that the same prin- ciple must apply to all degrees of disability, from the zero to the general medium. And does it not follow as a necessary corollary that the possibilities of those for production who are above the medium standard must be devoted to the maintenance of those who are below the standard ? Nothing can be clearer than this. If every human being were born in exactly the same con- ditions-—possesse,d of precisely the same prospective capa- cities, and those capacities should be equally developed and cultivated-30 that when each person should arrive at mature age, he or she would be equal in all respects, then the opposite to this might be set up. But such is not the case. No two persons are either born, or are developed and cultured under equal conditions, and, therefore, no two persons on arriving at adult age are equally capacitated. To arrive at justice, even pecuniarily then, it is necessary to go behind the fact of production, and inquire into the capacityfor production, and how that capacity is acquired and determined. It is ﬁrst required to learn that the strong man made himself strong, and the weak man himself weak, before we can say that it is just for the former to possess and use his products exclusively, while the latter suffers for the necessities of life. There is something more than mere pecuniary equity involved in the problems of life. Indeed, there can be no such thing as pecuniary justice until justice is established in that which produces wealth; and this leads us to the real question at issue. The only real point to be determined, or the fundamental and vital point, is : Of what, in regard to their capacities, physical, mental and moral, are human beings the result? If this be once solved beyond all doubt, the ﬁrst and an ab- solutely necessary step is taken toward the possibility of constructing an order of society in which justice can be rendered to each individual member. As a general proposi- tion it is true that each individual is in every way a result of the condition of the parents and their surroundings at the time of conception; of the condition and surroundings of the motlicrpduring gestation, and of the circumstances of growth, development and culture. As these are, so willthe individual subject of them be when he shall arrive at adult and responsible age. Nobody can or will attempt to dispute this, and yet almost everybody denies the legitimate deduc- tions to be drawn from it. It is readily admitted that bad parents and worse rearing will make bad men and women; and, at the same time, the same persons who admit this will strenuously insist upon punishing the men and women thus born aiid reared if they behave badly among the people. Could there be anything more self-contradictory or illogical? The conditions which society enforce, and its own ignor- ance, produces a man with murderer stamped upon his face from birth. In the process of time he falls into‘circum- stances where this inherited capacity is called into action, and he kills a fellow man. Society, ignoring the fact that he was made what he is by its own injustices and ignorance, ignominiously strangles him to death on the gallows. We‘ will maintain as against the world that every such person thus barbarously killed suffers for the crimes that society has inﬂicted upon him, and not for any crime that he has com- mitted against society. It is legitimate and it is logical, and no amount of hairsplitting argumentation can make escape from it possible. We have used this extreme illustration out of its regular connection and order, purposely to impress most vividly that the various capacities for producing wealth which in- dividuals possess are in no case to be placed either to their merit or dcmerit. If one is highly gifted by nature and culture, and thereby has double the productive capacity that another has who is less gifted and less cultured, where is the merit of the former or the dcmerit of the latter? Neither has any existence except in the selﬁsh imaginings of people, who have never been roused into a realization of the various injustices that prevail among mankind. It may be objected that this individual is indolent, and wont work, or that that person is careless, and spoils what- ever he attempts, and that such. cases must form exceptions to, if indeed, they do not invalidate, the rule. Such objectors, before .making any such inconsequent and hasty conclusion, must stop and consider that the indolence of the one and the carelessness of the other, which are offered as objections, are a part and parcel of the inherited or_developed ' disabilities of which we have spoken, for the posséssion of neither of which can the individuals possessing them,_b_e held accountable. We must bejconsistent in all these inquiries, and, if we are so, we shall learn that the tendency to idle- ness is just as legitimately aninheritance as is a crippled con- dition of the body or mind. There are people so constituted that nothing but the severest needs will compel them to labor, while others‘ experience a real pleasure in even ex- haustive efforts. Who shall judge between the two classes? Therefore, it will be found, let the subject be Viewed from whatever stand-point, or in regard to whatever condition or relation, that there is no such thing as merit or dcmerit in the differences in capacity for theproduction of material wealth. To conclude otherwise would be no more con- sistent than it would be to say that there is merit and dcmerit among the different grades of fruits upon the same or dif- ferent trees. All fruit is the result of the circumstances of the parent tree, and the external inﬂuences brought to bear upon it during the periods of growth, and when grown and ripened these results inhere. If the inheritance be poisonous, and any individual, or any number of individuals, places it in conditions where this poison is extracted, and it affects him or them, it could not well be said that the fruit is at fault. So it is with individuals. If their parent tree trans- mit poison of any kind to their composition, or if the in- ﬂuences’ born of society in general corrupt or poison them in their growth, and afterward conditions are developed by which this poison or corruption is made to deleteriously affect other individuals, the fault ought not to, and cannot justly be, attributed to the unfortunate individuals who are really the victims in the worst sense of the term of the whole operation. ,, ‘.'f‘,"‘:v--._/K.-‘Z.n., -. 1 4\1V:— ,_,'~:‘. ~-...,’\ » gusting question of sexuality.” Oct. 24, 1874. , WOGDHULL & CLAFLIN”S WEEKLY. ‘ 9 Hence we hold that we have logically established the truth of our second proposition. To wit, that every person ' who, by virtue of superior strength, or culture, or skill, has produced more than the average amount of wealth, which he’ uses for his personal advantage, is 'a despot under the law of universal human justice; or, to state the matter dif- ferently, every person of whatever degree of capacity for producing wealth is, by the law of universal human justice, entitled to the same amount and kind of physical comfort, and to the same luxuries of life that are enjoyed by every other person. , o»—<——————— SPIRITUALISM AND SCCIALISM. If there is anything in the professions of any of the vari- ous religious divisions of society that is specially illogical and inconsistent it is that phase so prevalent among so-called conservative Spiritualists of the irrelevancy _ of the two questions of Spiritualism and Socialism. They maintain stoutly—aye, bitterly--—that the Sexual question is a side issue to Spiritual ism, and of no importance when compared with Spiritualism per se; and we are denounced in strongest terms, in the most personal resolutions, as “desiring to load Spiritualism with the dis- Sexuality may be disgust- ing to those who indulge in such resolutions and words; but We rejoice to say that, to us, it is the divinest subject for consideration that the present offers to the race. We an- nounce it as axiomatic that those who regard the sexual question as disgusting or obscene are them- selves the subjects of disgusting and obscene sexual conditions or practices; and we want every one who has ever so said and so written, and all those who have so “ resolved,” to understand that we mean them. “ To the pure in heart all things are pure,” is true absolutely, while those who are everlastingly prating about the deprav- ity of those who advocate sexual freedom ‘may as absolutely be set down as impure at heart, at least, in the direction of sex. To disprove the argument that the sexual question is a side issue to Spiritualism, it is requisite only to consider what Spiritualism involves. To say that Spiritualisin con- sists of the fact that spirits communicate merely is the same as it would be to say of telegraphy that electricity communi- cates the thoughts of people. To state that fact only is to announce that such a thing is possible, but electrical science teaches us how to do this perfectly. So must Spiritual science not only teach us how to communicate perfectly, but it must also teach us the conditions requisite in spirits and mortals to make the communications of importance to the happiness of the race. Now one of the most important and serious as well as sor- rowful things that we learn from spirits is the generally im- perfect conditions witli which they entered the spirit life; and that their conditions are to them a perpetual hell, from which they cannot escape across the great gulf to heaven. Not any of the terribly conservative and virtuous Spiritual- ists will attempt to deny this fact, But what does this fact teach us‘? or does it teach nothing? Why,this simply: that the whole energy of this world should be directed to the eﬁort to enter the next in as perfect a condition—as free from the undeveloped condition of humanity——as possible. This lesson requires of the honest and conscientious to inquire into the means to better the general conditions under which the race now passes to spirit life. Looking at the matter from this standpoint, w pm'o7'a', we first look at man as he is about to pass over the boundary. He is then the result, reasoning still a prz'07*z', of his eartll life, with all its surroundings and inﬂuences, internal and external; but this is not all by any means, since this life, since the inﬂuences and circumstances that have attended it, affect the individual subject, for good or ill, as he or she is organized, while organization is almost — wholly a prenatal matter. So, then, if we regard the subject of Spiritualism with any reason at all, we come perforce to the conditions out of which the human organism is evolved. The very ﬁi-st fact, then, that practical Spiritualism should consider, is that ol the birth to the external world of the organism in which the spirit is to be developed toward its spirit-home. If it is desira- ble to have this organism perfect; if the development of the spirit depends at all ‘upon the perfectness or imperfectness of its material habitation, then the subject of greatest moment is the birth of perfect children. Going backward still from this, it cannot be expected that perfect children will be born unless their period of gestation is properly conducted; and backward still to the most important thing of all——since, without it, proper gestation and proper birth and proper growth after birth, cannot "correct its defects——proper con- ditions of conception; and this is wholly a question of the sexual relations. We aﬁirm boldly that to this conclusion every consistent, reasonable Spiritualist must come, while they who deny it are theorists merely, wandering amid the clouds as blindly and foolishly as the most bigoted of the religious sects. In- deed, the bigotry of Spiritualists is a thousand times more to their confusion than is that of the old religionists, because their religious teachings are humanitarian, while those of the latter are exclusive, and that salvation depends upon things entirely separate from the physical body. Spiritualists who discard sexuality as a. side issue occupy the same ground that religionists occupy, since they practically deny that-sa1- vation depends upon physical conditions, while the whole philosophyof Spiritualism teaches directly the reverse of this. Again, those Spiritualists who can see in the sexual ques- tion only a greater opportunity for license,are no less illogical than those to whom we have referred. We affirm that_sex- ual freedom is required in order that the barriers to good acts may be removed—that people may be able to do better than they can now do; not that they may only do worse. Total depravity we believe is not a technical part of the Spiritual theory, and if it is not,,it will not do for Spiritual- ists to hold that the natural tendencies of the human race are toward the bad. If they are not in this direction, a removal of artiﬁcial barriers will permit the people, as a whole, to advance instead of to retreat. There might be instances in sexual freedom where individuals would go from bad to worse; but we want everybody to never forget that under the rule of freedom it would be impossible for men ever to debauch women against their wish and will, as is now I done so widely in marriage. Sexual freedom means that ' mutual ‘consent and desire is a pre- requisite to all sexual intercourse; and where these exist, we should like to have anybody show us where and how there is a natural right to prevent it by law, or to punish it where it occurs. These are vital questions, and arise directly from the rights of individual sovereignty—tl1e right to own and exercise the powers and functions of the body, free from the impertinent interference of third persons and parties; and if the Banner of Light, or any other paper which cares nothing for and conservative ” in reform, can show the world where it or anybody may acquire the right to_ pre- vent, by laws, any “ libertinism or promiscuity ” that would occur by the free consent of both parties, we should like to see the demonstration. It may be a sad thing that people are constructed with passions that submerge the so- called higher capacities; but it would be a still sadder one to have it proven that there exists a power, resident any- where, that has the right to spy over, and to interfere with, the sexual relations of any where mutual consent is their basis. Everybody that pleases to do so may “ﬁle all the caveats ” they please against the “pernicious inﬂuence ” of libertinism and promiscuity. We have never failed to say, in the strongest possible language, that, “ as understood by the masses,” they lead down to death and misery; but what we object to is, making them the subject of law instead of educa- tion; and that is all that any free lover objects to. Nobody ought to object to anybody else being at liberty to advocate their highest conceptions upon any subject for the consider- ation of others; but everybody ought t) object to anybody’s being compelled bylaw to obey anybody’s highest ideas re- lating to sex or to anything else. It is this “ dragooning ” of the people into compulsory observance of that merely le- gal purity and chastity which is entirely divorced from natural conditions to which we object, and everybody else, who has a right conception of individual rights, will also object; not by silent acquiescence, but in tones and words not to be misunderstood. the terms “ radical We are at a loss to understand what the Bomner may mean when it says: “We do not now speak because of ‘ dragoon- ing’ from any source whatever.” ’ Who has been attempt- ing to dragoon the dear, good old Bemzer, that has discarded the discussion of the s icial question almost wholly for a year or more, into speaking upon that subject? and who would have known that any such attempt had been made if it had not “yielded a point,” and given some very salutary words upon this question? It cannot possibly have refer- ence to the WEEKLY when it makes such an unwitting ad- mission. To be sure, we remember having had occasion to call the attention of our readers to the fact that the Banner had spoken emphatically against free love, without the qualiﬁcation which it now adds, and had said that it advo- cated something more stringent in our social relations than marriage even. We thought this so very emphatic that it would be taken as a favor if we were to give it all the currency possible. It is very unkind of the Brenner to ac- cuse us of ‘ ‘ dragooning” it, if it did refer to us when it printed that word. Indeed, we did not mean to attempt to dragoon the very respectably conducted Banner into any decla- ration of social principles, while to hold them is to invite an adverse -public opinion; and ifvit had the slightest doubt about the intention of the article we refer to, we beg it to no longer credit us with any thought other than to’ quote the exact language of the Banner upon the social question, without drawing any conclusion other than what was inevitable from that language. “Te fear, however, that the logic of the Banner will not at all times stand analysis. For instance, in the two columns and a half editorial which it was not dragooned into printing on the social question, after it had been silent for so many months, it says: ‘ “That a great, grand truth underlies the principles advo- cated by Victoria C. Woodhull and her coadjutors none will deny. In fact, there are times when she gives utterance to views which must strike according (?) strings in many hearts who (?) have pondered the sexual question, and have seen the injustice whichfby reason of humcm impeifecttoizs rather than imperfections of the marriage system itself——has attached itself to the wedded state,-as now existing in so- ciety.” _ That the injustice which any system produces can be at- tributed to pits subj ect’s imperfections rather than to the er- rors of the system itself, is a new, a strange and we believe a pernicious doctrine—-one under which all the systems, re- ~city upon the same subject. ligious, political and industrial, of the past would, and all that may come in the future may, be justiﬁed. Were the injustices of Negro Slavery a result of the physical imper- fections of the slaves, or were they inherent in the system it- self? Were the injustices of the Spanish Inquisition a result of the religious imperfections of those who suffered, or did they belong to the Inquisition? Of course, had the negroes been perfectly docile, and had nobody objected to the doc- trines of the Church, no suffering would, in either case, have attended the continued enforcement of those institutions. But, unhappily for the Banneﬂs logic, people in all ages of the world have entertained the idea that they have a right to think for themselves and to labor for themselves; and un- happily, also, for the Bum/ter’s logic, as applied to marriage, people still entertain the idea that they own their own sexual system by a higher and div,iner right than any law can have I that can be framed to deprive them of this ownership; and more are beginning to assert it. We, however, gratefully acknowledge the reference which the Emma? makes to our intentions’ and purposes. Unlike many of its readers, and knowing us perhaps better than most of them, it refuses to join the set who cannot imagine that any one can advocate sexual freedom for any other purpose than because it gives a greater opportunity for license. The truth is, that freedom for people to determine their own sexual relations will forever do away with the possibility of license. Marriage only is license, and when woman is placed‘, industrially, where she will no longer be compelled to barter her sexual favors, either "in marriage or otherwise, for pecu- niary considerations, there will be no such thing as libertin- ism and promiscuity in the only sense in which these terms are a reproach to humanity. There will always be diﬁerent grades of sexual instinct and power; but when persons are left free to adjust their own relations, they will be as hai moni- ously arranged as freedom, religiously, has permitted the different sects to adjust themselves; and the different indi- viduals of the different sects to live together in peace and harmony. The Banner‘ believes that we are moved by these _ motives; and we again gratefully acknowledge this depar- ture from the usual cant of the “ virtuous,” who think the social question a disgusting and obscene subject to discuss. 3 CLERICAL THUNDERBCLTS. There are other clergymen besides Beecher who are given to perpetrating breaches of etiquette from the pulpit, some of whom, perhaps, equal, if they do not rival, this now world-renowned divine in the breadth of their peculiarities. Beecher talks about the blear-eyed Jew, Paul, and of knock- ing tlie bottom out of hell; but hear what Rev. George Dawson, the celebrated English divine, who is now travel- ing in this country lecturing upon “The Wives of Great Men,” recently said in Freemason Hall, London, when he was speaking about a Unitarian Convention. In his re- marks about what Unitarianism needs to give it life he said, among other things it needed nothing so much as “ a little wholesome vulgarity;” and again, of aprominent church in the same city, where the Ten Commandments are printed in large letters upon its walls, that, “ One of the first things the Churches ought to do is to burn those Commandments.” It is also well known that almost the whole of S purgeon’s notoriety comes of his being given to the same kind of de- partures from the well-established rules of religious decorum. In a recent sermon to his own congregation, he is reported to have said: “ And those of you who labor for your live- lihood complain of the high price of mutton, for which you have to pay ten pence per pound, while I offer you the Lamb of God for nothing, andiyou refuse to have it.” Z But something a little more nearly related to our _own pur- poses is reported of another clergyman much nearerhome. The Rev. Mr. Muchmore,in the Presbyterian Church at Nine- teenth and Green streets, Philadelphia, in speaking of the cursesjto Christianity, said: “The worst curse from which Christianity suffers is that arising from the efforts to be re- spectable, and the worst curse of this Church is respect- ability.” Some of the Conservatives among Spiritualists make a terrible hue and cry because we have so much to say about respectability having become a disease among them. To such we recommend the timely words of this fearless divine. We also call attention to a lengthy editorial, which we re- print in another column, from a leading paper of the same >-46-7--< rris ALL A MUDDLEI Under the Catholic regime, which elevates marriage to the dignity of a sacrament, and which does not admit of divorce save on very distinctly speciﬁed grounds, some chance is given to women who are so unwise as to desire to supple- ment the bond of love with the bond of law. We say un- . wise,-for the woman who demands any church’s or any magistrate’s aid to secure her ﬁomcee to herself solus, ex- presses, in so doing, doubts of her power and of his truth- fulness; and the natural result of the expression of such doubts, does, in many instances, only evoke that unfaithful- ness which all marriage laws were invented vainly to pre- vent. But, under Protestant rulings, which take all the shapes of Proteus and are as changeful as the colors of chameleons, woman has little chance of obtaining justice either by love or law. Every one knows that in this coun- try there are-no laws so much dishonored as those "of »mainly for the purpose of circumscribing the personal ' that the defendant pay the plaintiff $50 of the cost of this 10 _ WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Oct. 24, 1874. marriage. It is only ﬁtting that such should be the case. The main reason why such have ever been imposed- in any country and under any form of religion, has been in order to foster invidious distinctions between woman and man, sovereignty of the former. But our intent is, in this article, to show how doctors diﬁer with regard to the signiﬁcation of the same, and to prove how one—seXed and unjust they are as regards their application. We shall base the com- ments We propose to make on the following article which contains the rulings of two judges on the question of woman’s ante-marriage incontinency. It is taken from the N. Y. ’1’inies.' I A “Judge Westbrook. of the Supreme.Court of this-State, sitting at Specia1_Term in Albany on July 9, disposed of the divorce suit of Henry G. Waldron, of Waterford, cs. Martha E. Waldron. Henry was introduced to the young lady in September, 1873, at the house of her mother, and the acquaint- ance subsequently ripened into an engagement. Unpleasant rumors coming to his ears he sought an explanation, and she ﬁnally succeeded in convincing him that the rumors were groundless. The parties were married November 17, and the next day Henry turned to his home, while the new-made bride returned to the residence of her parents in Massachu- setts. The cause of this. sudden separation was explained when on the 2d of February she gave birth to a child. Henry then commenced an action for divorce, on the grounds that the marriage had been procured by.the fraudulent represen- tations on the part of the woman. The matteriwas duly referred, andthe woman herself responded to a subpoena and gave her testimony in the matter. She testiﬁed that for two or three years before she met Waldron she had main- tained an improper» intimacy with one Nelson Crane of Co- hoes. On this showing’ Judge Westbrook granted an order in the following terms: ' “ ‘ On motion of J ohn' H. Atkinson, attorney for plaintiff‘: Ordered, That the marriage between the said plaintiff. Henry- G. Waldron, and the defendant, Martha E. Waldron, was obtained by the fraud of the defendant, and the same is utterly null and void and is hereby dissolved, and the par- ties, plaintiff and defendant, are free from the obligation of marriage with each other. It is further adjudged that the infant child of said parties be committed to defendant, and action.” ’ . . .; It is a well-settled rule of the ecclesiastical law, which has been followed in this country, that ante-nuptial incontinence alone is no gropnd for divorce. In a leading case in Massa- chusetts (3 Allen, 605) Chief Justice Bigelow said: “N o misconception as to the character, fortune, health or temper, however brought about,will supportran allegation of fraud on which a dissolution of the marriage contract, when once executed, can be obtained in a court of justice. Noth- ing can void it which does not amount to a. fraud in the essentialia of the marriage relation. And as mere inconti- nence in a woman prior to her entrance into the marriage contract, not resulting in pregnancy, does not necessarily prevent her from being a faithful wife or from hearing to her husband the pure offspring of his loins, there seems to be no sufficient reason for holding misrepresentation or conceal- ment on the subject of chastity to be such a fraud as to afford a valid ground for declaring a consummated marriage void.” On the other hand the rule applied by Mr. Justice West- brook, that a marriage may be declared.void for ante-nuptial pregnancy of the defendant by a stranger, existing at the time of the marriage with the plaintiff, is sustained in this country by authorities in California and Ohio as well as in Massachusetts. The leading case arose in California, and was decided hy Mr. J sutice Field, now of the Supreme Court of the United States. He declared (13 Calif. R., 87) that the concealment of the ’ defendant’s pregnancy operated as a grave fraud upon her husband, because his contract was with and for her. and referred to no other person,’ much less in- cluded a child of bastard blood,whose birth in wedlock would not only impose burdens upon the plaintiff but also clothe the child with legal rights which the husband could not have. anticipated in marrying,_as he did, in ignorance of the de- fendant’s true condition. According to ‘the same distin- guished Judge, “a woman, to be marriageable, must at the time be able to bear children to her husband, and a repre- sentation to this effect is implied in the very nature of the contract.” There are intimations in the books, however, that a marriage would not be annulled where the husband, knowing of the existence of the unborn child, married under the mistaken impression that it was his own. W’e believe that instances have occurred in this State where the husband has applied to the courts to have the marriage annulled because his wife, previous to marriage, had given birth to an illegitimate child some years before he made her acquaintance. However, no case of the kind is to be found mentioned, or indeed for the law on most subjects connected with marriage, we have long since, with regard to it, arrived at poor Stephen Blackpool’s conclusion——viz., that “ It’s all a muddle!" --———--—i«»-—¢®+—-4———-—-—— A MILD REMONSTRANCE. The ;S§0i'7°iiualist at Work, shorn of half its glory, is now published at Chicago. In deﬁning its position on “The Social Question,” it thus speaks of Victoria C. ‘Woodhull: We never saw Mrs. Woodhull but once. and then only for ﬁve minutes. We never voted for her; “was” her bitter opponent, and “ am ” still her opponent in all her views, per- taining to the social or the sexual relations. We, who are interested in the WEEKLY, are accustomed to meet with attacks of all kinds, and, as we neither ask, nor give quarter, must expect now and then to be roughly treated. But we have a right to object when an innocent person of the name of Lindley Murray is dragged into our own proper quarrel and very cruelly maltreated, if not ab- solutely murdered, as in the foregoing extract. At the same time we are glad that we do not suffer “solus.” In another part of the same article we ﬁnd that the proprietor of the Rah}/io - Philosophical Journal is similarly misused. It appears that Mr. Jones asked Mr. Wilson to deﬁne his posi- tion on the social question. VVe are then told that Mrs. Wilson was present. Turning to Mr. Jones she answered, with a vim, in her voice, saying: “ Yes. llfr. Jones, I think it is high time that you, as well as every other man, deﬁned ‘their’ position on the social questwn. - The article then instructs us that “ Mr. J ones winced sharply under this sharp blow from Farmer Mary,” and we think that if he had any respect for our language he had reason to. exhibit some suffering under the infliction. But probably many of our readers will desire to know the position of the Spiritualist at Work on the social question. Here it is as given by its editor and proprietor: Question N o. 1.—Are you in favor of a community life? We answer, no. We fully believe in the monogamic law of marriage, and the family compact or circle, as the only true social relation. ‘ Question No. 2.—Are you a believer in the promiscuity of the sexes? VVe answer, no, and in all our speeches, revela- tions, or writings you cannot ﬁnd one word warranting this question, or that we advocate promiscuity or sensualism. There is the platform of that paper on the social ques- tion. No community life and no promiscuity of the sexes,’ to those positions the ;S’p:J7"ii'ucilist at Work is pledged. V/Vhat abstruse meaning may lie hidden under the phrase “pro- miscuityof the sexes ” we leave to our readers to determine, but if it signiﬁes that individuals are to change their sexes occasionally, we also shall object to that arrangement. —:———-—>-—<®>—<——.__. THE JUSTICE AND GALLANTRY OF MEN AND THEIR LAWS. We do not know when we have seen an account of a more outrageous proceeding than the following, which we clip from the Albany (N. Y.) Times : INFATUATED WITH CIRCUS PnRroRMEns.‘—Anotl1er ex- ample is given of the manner in which silly young girls are sometimes infatuated by the glitter and tinsel surrounding a circus life. A few days ago the Great Eastern Circus, in its peregrinations about the country. called at the village of Gloversville, Fulton County, N. Y., and two performances were given there. At the evening performance two girls, Mary Smith and Elsie Reid, young daughters of two of the most respectable and wealthy families of the village, visited the show and became infatuated with two of the persons connected with it. The girls found a means of communicat- ing with the objects of their affections, and when the circus departed from Gloversville for other places, it was followed me. few days by the girls. Yesterday it came to this city, ‘and with it came the girls. About two o’clock this morning the girl Reid entered the Adams House with one of the men in the law reports. _ Man, solus, has a diiﬁcult task to perform when he under- takes to make laws for woman. It is so in the instances be- fore us. From them we get the following rulings: 1. Incontinence (with result in futuro) is good cause for divorce. . 2. Incontinence (without result) is not good cause for divorce. ' Here is richness. Let the barren rejoice and be glad, for under man’s law it is-a punishable crime to be proliﬁc. Healthy, child-bearing women, if they marry under certain circumstances, commit a fraud; “mere incontinence,” as Chief Justice Bigelow very properly calls it, in unhealthy impotent women is no cause for divorce. Thus man’s law pays a premium for imbecility. But we take exception to Justice Ficld’s ruling. Under it widows will have to wait nine months previous to re-marry- ing, if “a woman, to be marriageable, must at the time be able to bear children. to her husband,” for we presume that Justice Field’s ruling refers to the present and not to past: time. But‘ what shall we say of the statement that—— “ There are intimations in the (law) ' books, however, that a marriage would not be annulled where the husband, know- A ing of the existence of the unborn child, married under the mistaken impression that it was his own ”——‘except that in such instances man’s law offers a premium for deception. But the WEEKLY iS 3» C0I1S€1’VatiVe paper and does not like preposterous. What did they know about the law which A to dilate upon the follies of the male sex. We are, there makes the gratiﬁcation of a natural passion criminal in Hlfore, glad to compliment the generosity exhibited by man woman, while the men with whom they consort are not and man’s law in the last paragraph. We thank heaven that involved? This legal insult which men thrust in the faces a woman, who has committed the legal crime of having’ had of women ought to sting all womanhood into rebellion, and a child previous to her marriage, can hold a husband by law, for we are told,“no case to the contrary has been hold no further sexual intimacy with men until this in- , ‘ found in the law reports.” We feel grateful to man for this famous -injustice is wiped from ‘the statute books of the ' g‘let up” on the women; as for the, other rulings, vabove- country. I I in question, who, she said, was her husband, and engaged a bed. They were accommodated; and in a few moments the girl Smith, accompanied by another man, entered, said she was from the Eldridge House, _wanted to see her sister, and engaged another bed. _This pair were also accommodated. A third person, whom it is alleged is also connected with the circus, was observed by Mr. Brayton attempting to clandeg- tinely get to the rooms of the parties. Mr. Brayton “smelled a, mice,” ejected the, person from the house, and this morn- ing, as the men declared they were not married to the girls, he allowed them to depart, and, arresting the girls, took them before Justice Clute, on the charge of being common prostitutes. After an examination the Justice committed them to jail for a_further examination, which will take place to-morrow morning. This is done to give time to the rela- tives of the girls to come to this city and reclaim them. If they ‘do not, the girls will probably be sent to the penitan- tiary for one year. “These girls if not reclaimed by their parents will prob- ably be sent to the penticntiary for one year as common prostitutes.” What a text is this upon which to discuss. that phase of the social question which relates to the en- forced ignorance that is maintained in the rear ing and edu- cation of children upon sexual matters! Vlfho is there that imagines that either of these girls had received any instruc- tion at all about their sexual organs and functions? Is it to be supposed for a moment that either of their mothers cvcr informed them of the probable consequences of sexual in- timacy with men? No; the idea that these girls under the rearing that they ought to have had would have sought out these circus performers and have left home and friends, when they-knew’ what it would ultimately end in, is simply women ought to meet and declare solemnly that they will As the men declared that they were not married to these girls they were permitted to depart in peace, while the girls were turned over to the police! That these rascals could thus betray these ignorant girls is proofenough that their story about the girls having sought them out is false; but we suppose when the public excuses such conduct on the part of the popular preacher it must not be expected to con- demn it in circus performers when “ girls thrust their affec- tions upon them unsought.” We are not in favor of mob law under any circumstances, but if there ever was a case where two villains deserved to have been whipped, naked, through the streets, because there was no law to take cog- nizance of their conduct, we think this was one in point. To whatever end these unfortunate girls may come, how- ever, they ought not to be condemned—only to be pitied. The direct responsibility for their disgrace before the-world rests with their mothers, who failed to perform their duties as mothers to them. It is mere than likely, however, that these mothers will spurn them from their doors if they ever attempt to return. In the general sense, however, we ought not to condemn these mothers too severely. Behind them is the great social world which insists upon enforcing just thdse conditions and customs and laws which require that mothers shall rear their daughters in ignorance and refuse to them all knowledge upon sexual matters. When- ever we speak to the public from the rostrum we never fail to call the attention of mothers to these things, nor to warn their daughters of the shoals upon which they are liable to be wrecked. It is safe to say that, had these mothers or these daughters been constant readers of the WEEKLY for the last two years, this terrible calamity had never fallen upon their houses and families. Now, if anybody should be imprisoned on account of this affair, the circus performers and the mothers of the girls are the proper persons. 0 DOG—INTERESTEDNESS. It is good to bﬁmerciful. The bible says—-the merciful man is merciful to his beast, but that is no reason that Chris- tians should stop there. Many a jockey loves his horse, and many a huntsman his hound, and there is no harm in their so doing. The late Thomas Corwin, in a tale he told to the Brooklynites, carried the above idea still further. It was rather smutty, but the brethren and sisters of that city, made no objection to that part of it, and why should the WEEKLY? He said that—-“ a neighbor of his, -who was a nicnomaniac, took a very singular fancy. He believed that he was in the family way. His friends tried to combat the notion, but vainly. At length, a doctor was called in, who, perceiving that it was best to humor his patient, declared “that he was perfectly correct in his surmise, and that he would like to examine him with regard to his condition.” He did so, and then declared that “ he would be conﬁned on the third day of March next.” When the day came, the doctor, who thought it best to be on hand, and had received many letters earnestly reminding him of his duty, -went forth to visit his patient. When about half way, he remembered that he had nothing that would represent a baby, and, seeinga wood- chuck . on his route, he secured it and put it in his pocket. When he arrived, he found everything ready for him, and his patient in bed apparently sufl'ering intense pain. “Be patient be over.” Then, after a while, taking the wood-chuck out of his pocket and placing it in the arms of the afflicted mono- maniac, “ there, Tom,” said he, “I told you it would soon be over, “there is your baby.” The man revived slightly at the words, and, after gazing upon it, replied, “ Well, it is not a very well-formed little one, but it’s mine, Doctor, and I ought to love it.” The Wagon Boy of Ohio, likened the democratic party to the hero of the above story, and “ squat- ter sovereignty” to the baby. We have introduced it here in order to assert that there is no reason why a man should not take a fancy to a wood-chuck if he pleases, Whether he be the mother of it or not. . We are led to these reﬂections, from reading the following report, which appeared in the N. Y. Herald, of Oct. 9, 1874: A novel scene was enacted in theiCourt of Special Sessions yesterday morning. The case of Charles W. Walker, charged with cruelty to a dog in working the same in a cider mill, which has been postponed several times on account of the illness of the defendant, at last came up for disposition. The ﬁrst witness called was James F. Goodridge. He testilied that on the 13th of last month_ he visited the premises corner of Houston street and Broadway, and there saw a dog work- ing what he understood to be a cider mill; that the brute’s neck was abraded and bleeding, and he looked apparently exhausted. The next witness was Recorder Hackett. His Honor said he had seen the dog working; saw him look dis- tressed; his breathing was quick and heavy, his tongue pro- truded, and there were many other appearances of suffering. “ Have you had much experience of dogs?” asked counsel for the defense. ' “ Yes,” replied the Recorder. “I have owned about three hundred, from a. Newfoundland down to a black and tan.” 1 “ And how did you treat them?” “ Well, I played with them, fondled, caressed them, hunted with them, and so forth.” “ And do you think there was any cruelty in the trans- action spoken of ?” “ I think there Was.” Ex-Mayor Hall was next called. He said, in answer to the question, “ Was he a citizen?” that it was a question of law. He had not registered yet, but hoped to before the books were closed. He was not in the older mill, but was on the premises upon which the mill was run; he thought the dog was cruelly treated from the indication of fatigue aud ex- haustion which he saw on the animal as he passed by the place. Ex-Mayor Daniel F. Tiemann was called for the defense. and testiﬁed that the dog could not have been very cruelly treated, as the weight of the dog run the mill, or at least it did so inihivyounger days. Mr. M. P. alker, the pi-isoner’s brother, testified positively Tom,” said the doctor, after examining him, “it will soon ‘ ., ._...-4_..,_,_._.., In A _ ., "Vi ..-------~ --——-~(----. ,) Oct. 24, 1874. woonnutr. a CLAFLIZWS WEEKLY.- 11 that there never was an abrasion upon the dog’s neck under the collar. . The father of the defendant stated_that they had used dog power for over twelve years, and for grinding apples. It was now in general use throughout the. country, and that their dogs were so fond of working the mill thatthey had to keep them chained to prevent them from doing it outside of Working hours. _ _ After the examination of other minor witnesses, the case was submitted to the Court, and VValker was found guilty and ﬁned $2’. - Only consider, a Recorder and two ex-Mayors testifying in the case of a misused dog, and then say if we err in coin- ing the word, “ dog-interestedness,” in order to depict so grand a case of humanity and civilization. True, there is some disagreement in their statements. Recorder" Hackett and ex-Mayor Hall appear to pity the animal; they plead its distressed condition; its manifest misery and its terrible ex- haustion; whilst ex—Mayor Tiemann denies the alleged cruel treatment, and asserts that the dog, considering it was a working animal, led as good a life as such a. dog ought to expect to live. . Unquestionably, the case h.as been brought forward under the auspices of Mr. Bergh, the friend of the lower orders of the animal creation. Vile have no objection to his causing the claims of dogs and horses to be respected, or of hedge- hogs and rattlesnakes, if he pleases to defend them also. We also know that, in one case, he protected an ill-used child, and apologized to the public for so doing, promising, we believe, not so to offend any more. H But inacity where four hundred thousand human beings live sweltering in tenement houses, breeding physical and moral pestilences, and thou- sands of ragged and ill—i’ed children are petitioning for public aid with more than the eloquence of a Cicero, we have a right to object to “ dogology” until their cases are attended to; otherwise, we shall consider them justified in altering the refrain of the old song, and greeting one another in the streets with the words, “ Oh, Kaiser! don’t you want to “ be ” a dorg?” Alas! it is with us now as it was in Judea at the time of the great Nazarene. Our rulers pay tithe of mint, anise and cummin, but neglect the weightier matters of the law, jus- tice, mercy and righteousness. lVe do not say that mercy to inferior animals is not a virtue to be cherished, but we beg for mercy to suffering humanity ﬁrst. In a city whose death-rate is always considerably more than its birth—rate, where over one hundred thousand married couples are child- less, and in which the committals for crime yearly number . one—tenth of its whole population, something else requires the attention of our city magistrates, ofogreater importance than either pigeons, horses, or even dogs. -—-—-——>—4@—r-—-4-——-—————_. PALAVER The New York Grap7Lz'c thus discusses thesocial question. Our readers will perc'eive that it commences with admit- ting that it now “ agitates the community.” Thanks for that, it is a step gained, and an important one. Like 'Themis- tocles, the great Athenian, we say to the public—‘‘ Strike, but hear!” This is the article alluded to: J It is strange how almost every point in the great social question that now agitates the community touches directly 0.1 the cardinal principles of morality. It brings up most of the problems of social ethics for consideration. It puts the marriage relation in a variety of new lights. The position of home in modern society and the duties of husbands and wives are discussed with new zest in all circles. Mr. Tilton’s reply to Beecher raises another topic. He has been severely criticised for forgiving his wife and continuing to live with her. He responds by saying that he knows of only one morality. What is right and pardonable for man is right and pardonable for woman also. A woman should not be con- demned for doing what men do with impunity. This is diametrically opposed to the current opinion of society. It certainly seems unjust, as the prominent advo- cates of woman’s rights have stoutly maintained, to condemn women for sins which men commit with impunity. But it is a question whether the moral standards of the sexes are not different after all, and whether the average sentiment of society is not founded on a sound basis. The typical Woman and the typical man are widely different beings. The passive virtues obtain in the former, the active in the latter. Man represents courage, but woman embodies chastity. The old Roman. virtue represented strength, vigor, honesty, upright- ness—-qualities peculiarly masculine. The traits most ad- mired in woman were purity, gentleness, reﬁnement, grace. Cowardice, meanness, treachery, are unmanly; coarseness and unchastity are unwomanly. The difference in nature creates a diﬁerent ideal and standard of judgment for the two sexes, and explains the difference in theyerdict pro- nounced on their misconduct. Then, too, woman is the cus- todian of home. The lapses of man, however dishonorable to himself, do not necessarily wrong another man or society at large. But the misconduct of a wife may bring a11other’s child into her husband’s home, and thus strike a fatal blow at its integrity. The old instinct which led men to desire the perpetuation of their familes and sacriﬁce everything for the sake of their offspring, impelled them to build every barrier and bulwark they could devise.for the protection and purity of their homes. Everything depended on the honor of the wife. The present feeling, which lays far more stress on the. purity of woman than of man, has its root in the necessity of the case and the reason of things. Any lowering of the moral standard, any loosening of the girdle on wo1nan’s part, would be destructive of home and subversive of civilization. It is a compliment to woman to judge her byahigher stand- ard’ of purity than man. And the friends of the sex will think twice before loweringthe standard. What is wanted is not to judge woman by the lower and looser code of morals that is applied to men, but to lift men up to that plane of purity and moral elevation where they will judge themselves and each other by the highest moral rules. Mr. Tilton showed great kindness and magnanimity in his treatment of an er- ring woman. His conduct does credit to his heart. But the ethics of sentiment do not stand the test of the critical judg- ment. The sober common-sense of mankind, founded on the experience of ages, is essentially sound in its verdicts, and its seeming injustice usually has the sanction of truth.—N. Y. Graphic. Even Christians will reicct the doctrine that there are two moral standards applicable to the different sexes, at least un- til, the new version of the old Bible is issued. As to the compliment the G7'ap7w'o, Well representing man, proﬁers to woman, viz, “to judge her by a higher standard of purity than man,” on the part of wom.an we respectfully decline it. To us it is both unsound and absurd. The sexes rise and fall together. If man is now in a most debased state sexually, it is because he has hounded woman ﬁrst into the pit, and she has dragged him down too. Take 05 the oppression of ridiculous and one-sided laws, and we shall soon see a re- generated social and sexual world. Q .A CASE IN POINT. Elsewhere in this paper is republished. the article from the Gmp7lz'c to which the following communication is an adden- dum. In commenting on it we noted and condemned the false ruling which oppresses women by ‘demanding from her, not a greater moral purity, but a greater degree of un- natural sexual contiuence than it demands from her comple- 1nent—man. The following letter shows that within a week advantage has been taken of the same position, not, we be- lieve, for woman’s beneﬁt, but because it is flattering to the pride and tyranny of man. THE MORAL ESTIMATE. To the Editor of the Daily Graphic: ' ’ It so happened that just after reading the article entitled “The Moral Estimate ” in Saturday’s Daily Graphic, a friend brought jme the account of the Perkins tragedy in Cincin- nati. Mr. Perkins, it will be remembered, says in his state- mept that he himself had been unfaithful to his marriage vow, but that when he found that his wife had done the same thing, of course a separation between them was inevitable. Now my friend expressed great indignation at this, and thought it highly unjust that the man should consider the offense unpardonable in a woman and not unpardonable in himself. ‘But, as the Daily Graphic says, was he not paying the highest possible compliment to the woman? He felt that the slightest stain upon her was a matter of supreme im- portance. He thus placed her on a plane far above his own. , The incident, perhaps, is a trivial one, but it was so apropos of your article that I thought I would write it to you. . Mnncrmnr. There is no law, ‘ecclesiastical or civil, which admits a difference in the degree of "guilt between the husband and the wife, above-quoted, and we defy the clergy or the lawyers to produce one. Judged even by the ruling of the N azarcne, a man guilty of adultery has no right to punish a woman who has offended (if it be an offense) in a similar manner. Woman has no reason to feel grateful “for the “a stain upon her as a matter of extreme importance.” Such a false and shameless discrimination between the sexes in the matter of punishment for similar offenses was never invented in order to confer honor upon woman, but to foster and feed the jealousy and selﬁsh lust of man. In these days women are beginning to be aware ‘of that fact, and do not desire the longer continuance of invidious dis- tinctions bctween women and men with regard to inconti- nence, adultery, prostitution or any other of the sexual aberrations. , _ - ‘I ﬁv--<-——-——o._... VICTORIA C. WOODHULL IN PORTLAND, ME. This famous lady, on the 1st inst, addressed an audience of over a thousand people, in which the best‘ intelligence of the place was represented, in City Hall for the use of which our city officials compelled her to pay twenty’-ﬁve dollars more than the regular price. VVas it because she is a woman? Whether it was or was not, shame on them. Her friends here were pleased to observe the close attention paid to her remarks which occupied an hour and a half of rapid, graceful and earnest delivery, compelling every one, however much they might dissent from her views, to accord her the praise of being a most eloquent speaker as well as a reﬁned and cultured lady. . She handled her subject “The True and False in Society” in a fearless manner, denouncing the false in most scathing terms, and portraying the true in the holiest and most beau- tiful imagery. She gave every one something to ‘think of, and we venture to assert that hundreds left the hall better men and better women, for having listened to this much slandered but irrepressible woman, whose advice every mother will do well to reflect upon and put in practice. Prejudice against her died an easy death in her winning presence, and we prophecy that in the future, Victoria 0. Woodhull will be a welcome and popular speaker whenever she chooses to return to Portland. "Bonny, [The State Sentinel, Trenton, N.J., October 9, 1874.] VVOODHULL AND CLAFLIN. Our sanctum was honored yesterday by a very pleasant visit from Miss Tennis C. Claﬂin, who is in the city to make arrangements for Mrs. Woodhull’s lecture this evening. We were agreeably surprised by the warm, genial manner in wt ich this real lady entertains those with whom she comes in con- tact, and we must confess the hour or so she spent in our sanctum, chatting and laughing in her own peculiar style, was a very pleasant event to us. She is genial, sociable, graceful and easy in her manners, and being highly educated is competent to make every one feel comfortable while in her presence. [The Sunday Press, P}ltladelp7b'i(l, October 11, 1874.] Mrs. Victoria 0. Woodhull and her sister, Miss Tennie C. Claflin, are now honoring ldhiladelphia with a visit. Mrs. VVoodhull comes to deliver a lecture at Horticultural Hall, and Tennis accompanies her in the capacity of business manager. The latter came into our sanctum yesterday in the jauntiest manner and attired in the jauntiest of costumes. She were (among other things) an alpine hat, which she took off as business agents always ‘should, and revealed her Wealth of blonde hair, which was cut short and business-like. After her business concerning Mrs. Woodhull’s lecture had been transacted, we ventured to inquire her opinion respecting the Brooklyn libel suits which have grown out of the Beecher scandal. - highest possible compliment” which treats what is called “Please don’t interview me,” she replied. “ You had . better see Mrs. ‘Woodhull; she can tell you more about it.” “Well,” said we, “ it is all the same; our reporter will call upon her at the hotel.” , Subsequently a reporter saw M rs. Vlfoodhull, when the fol- lowing colloquy ensued: I _ Reporter——Mrs. Woodhull, you are, popularly supposed to be pretty well informed about the Beecher business. What do you think will become of all the libel suits which have grown out of it. Will they be prosecuted? I Mrs. Woodhull—No, not a single one of them. The whole matter will be allows d to blow over after a while. Reporter—Ha If the people of the whole country seem to think Beecher guilty. « Mrs. Woodhull-—Yes, nine-tenths of them, my dear sir, They acknowledge it to themselves. They feel it to be true not admitting it publicly. Reporter—It was reported that you and Miss Claflin were induced ‘to go to Europe last summer in order to be out of the way during the Beecher trial. There was no truth in that, I suppose.- . we were imprisoned for printing the original expose we had the penitentiary staring us in the face. The sureties on our bail-bond were several times frightened into delivering us up, and yet when our position seemed the most hopeless, we could at any time have been released, had the suit against us withdrawn, and been paid $160,000 if we would only have edly made to us. When we refused such a bribe, under such extraordinary circumstances, it is absurd to suppose that any amount of money could silence us afterward. >-(Q , BOOK NOTICE. ‘ “ SOCIAL LIFE; or, a Story for the Times,” is a new book 57 Marion Todd. We understand this is the ﬁrst attempt of the author in dressing her own charming and original thoughts in supposed to give to imaginary life; yet here we would add. “the m.ore pity ’.tis_ ’tis true.” Always radical and keenly sarcastic in her utterances, both as a writer and upon the rostrum, Mrs. Todd here gives her most forcible thought, and with the grace and ease of one used to the business, brings forth all the "closet skeletons of domestic and social life, setting them down before our unwilling gaze in all their naked deformi- ties. All should buy and read it; it is a true picture, painted from real life. It can be forwarded from Port Huron, Mich. at 500. per copy. ‘ L. E. BAILY. A MARION TODD: , Dear Frt'eml—As a whole I like your book, “ Social Life.’ world, yet it blesses by its eager fragrance, some hearts all the better, perhaps, for its unstudied inspirations. The soul of it is generous. Itbelieves in nature and the wise law of mated love. Some of its pictures are very touching, and come to the appreciative reader as the improvization of song from out an Go on with your faith work, starved soul; care little how it is backed, if it is bread that feeds the inner hunger. To many it will be as manna in the desert of our social life. i ’ J. O. BABRET1‘. % SOCIALISTIC. GOD HELP HER. ' conrnrnurnn BY A. c. CLAY. God help the wretch who nightly drags Her life along the dreary ﬂags, In sin, in hunger, and in rags. Gold help her, when the bitter rain ~ Beats on her like a window pane. And almost washes out her stain. God help her, when, with naked feet, A’ She gropes along, and bows to meet, The cruel corner of the street. God help her, when, with tearless eye, She looks into the blackened sky And strikes her breast and asks to die. God help her, wandering to and fro, Without one Christian grace to throw A beam upon her sullied snow. ' Poor child of good and child of ill, Too weak for her misguided will, A SIDE ISSUE. The following article, which is copied from the Weekly Plain Dealer, of Cleveland, Ohio, dis cusses the subject of the late work of Andrew Jackson Davis, termed, “The Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love.” We do not, of course, indorse the views given in it, but rather present it as a solemn warn- ‘ing to all conservative Spiritualists who presume to meddle with delicate social’ questions: “ THE ‘WOODHULL PHILOSOPHY. “ One effect of the Beecher scandal is to call a ﬂock of foul birds out of their gloomy retreats and set them to cawing and ﬂapping over the nauseous morsel, just as crows and vultures are attracted by the carrion carcase. As we unloaded our morning mail to-day, out bounced a small, inoffensive-lookin g volume, bearing the title, “ The Genesis and Ethics of Con- jugal Love,’ by that hoary-headed, "bespectacled old seer, Andrew Jackson Davis, ‘ author of twenty—seven volumes of " Harmonial Philosophy.” ’ We shall expect to become very familiar with_ this sort of stuff from now on, The long- haired set great store by this Beecher scandal. They gloat over it; press it to their lips; hug it to their bosoms; shed. awaydown in their he arts, but many have their reasons for_ Mrs. Woodhull——The story was preposterous. "Why, when A published a retraction of the scandal. The offer was repeat- * the glowing heightened colors which fiction and romance are I Though it seems a hot-bed ﬂower, hurried early into our cold. imprisoned fullnessthat sings all the sweeter outside of rule. ' God help her, she‘s a woman still. - shall or shall not have for dinner. 12 WOGDHULL & CL_AFLIN’;S WEEKLY. Oct. 24, 1874. tears of joy over it. Vifhy? Because somewhere down in ths depths of their ﬂabby consciousness is the idea that it gives consequence and warrant to their ‘ philosophy.’ Every case of scandal which has ‘ a woman at the bottom of it,’ and a distinguished man as a conspicuous party thereto, brings grist to their mill. ‘ Look,’ they say, ‘ here is a couple who believe in, and practice, our system, although affecting to loathe it in every-day life." When the ‘ harmonial philosophy’ has carried the day and is the recognized social code, then adult people will alldo as the Plymouth pastor and the wife of Mr. Tilton are alleged to have done—that is, if they want to. Happy the philosophy whose triumph is the establish- ment of crim. con., adultery, seduction and sexual de- bauchery as amongathe commonplaces and proprieties of society! . _ ‘ '-‘ The Woodhull philosophy, of which Andrew Jackson Davis’ ‘ Conj ugal Love’ is but an exemplar, has its branches and off-shoots,” of course, but free love is its corner-stone. We shall not enter into an exposition of this sweet morsel; but it will do no harm to see what is really aimed at by these seers and social reformers. If we might hope with Slender, in the play, that ‘ upon familiarity will grow more contempt,’ then, indeed, would decent society proﬁt through _the fre- quentexposure of these pestilent doctrines! Philosophers of the free-love school are looking to a social revolution on the marriage question. They hold that it is no more a hus- band’s right to know what his wife’s relations with other men are, than to say what the King of the Cannibal Islands Neither is it the right of the wife to establish any surveillance over the husband in this regard. They say that the marriage relation ‘ as a bond or promise to love another to the end of life, and forego all other loves or passional gratiﬁcations, has outlived its use- fulness.’ They coolly suggest that the system which obtains in the farmer’s economy should be introduced into social aﬁ‘airs—i.e., that children should be raised in accordance with the laws governing the breeding of horses, cattle, pigs and poultry, without reference to the marriage tie. Super- cedure of marriage by some such socialistic theory as this they believe to be as certain as was the downfall of slavery. ‘People,’ they declare, ‘should be allowed to adjust. their love relations precisely as they do their religious affairs, in " complete personal freedom, changing and improving them from time to time according to circumstances.’ In ‘short, to crowd all this social nastiness into a nutshell, it amounts to just this, that men and women should be encouraged and , permitted to emulate the sexual freedom of the beasts of the ﬁeld.” ’ » ' Of course it is incorrect to connect the radical social reform demanded by the WEEKLY with the ameiiorations of the ‘present system proposed in “ The Genesis and Ethics of Con- jugal Love ;” but the world will not recognize any difference between the propositions on the subject made by radical and conservative Spiritualists. Society, like a soldier undergoing a ﬂogging, objects equally to the use of the whip, whether the lashes" be laid on light or heavy. Unless it means war with Tthe world, conservative‘Spiritualism must taboo all questions affecting the regeneration of the race. GAZELLE, N eb., 1874.. Dear WeekZy—Once more let »me thank you and the angel helpers for furnishing the progressive mind with light so clear and food so substantial. We are laboring alone in districts where, judging by the present stupidity and prejudice with which many wrap them- selves about, it must take ages of quiet growth to burst the dumb shell and let the real appreciative soul step forth in true consciousness of its own worth and possibilities. " Oh, Mother Nature! why dost thou permit thy little ones to learn so much folly, so many things to be unlearned through deep suffering and long, hard lessons?” Dear ones, may your course ever be onward and upward as nations wait at your feet; some to love; some to curse; others to determine from your experience whether it is safe to dare be free. There is another class—I shall not presume to give them a name——who, lacking the ability- to reason} fairly and perceive truth for themselves, gather up the garbled ﬁlth and trash of unreliable press and rumor to form their opinions from. How the press again abounds withﬁit! What a desire is manifested to crucify somebody! How principles are forgotten and persons handled! We sympathize with the individuals now arraigned before the public, not be- cause they were more guilty than others perhaps, but, on the contrary, because they are really farther developed and more ready for the change. Let their tongues speak what they may, and their hearts quail ever so fearfully before the scathing ﬁres of pretended respectability and public sentiment which enlightened people already know is a farce and a sham, they know as well as the world outside that a change is needed and will come ;- that custom must yet admit that it is better to live true lives than false ones; that truth is preferable to a lie, and that our future progress and present happiness demand it. We are aware by experience that this is no time for weak joints or faint hearts. Whoever ﬂourishes aWEEKLY now knows this; and we can but say shame upon the pretended progressionist or reformer who, through envy or any other selﬁsh desire, will villainously use their inﬂuence to lie down co-workers, or put a, scum- bling-block in the Way of philosophical investigation of all the ills and wrongs that beset the pathway of sick and suffer- ing mortals. Yours in the cause of truth and right, now and forever, Mrs. L. T. F. DAVIS. Mr. Beecher-——What is charged against you as a crime is essentially the highest eﬁort of virtue that you ever made or could accomplish—a rebellion against the ignorant and unnatural dicta of the society you—we—happen no 11':/e among-—an obedience to the great, high, enduring law of nature! These are not crimes; they are the noblest daring of which a man is capable. Those conventional stupiditiesl What truly great man would not disown them, whether? that man. found himself in the past ages or the present? whether called upon to tolerate the arena of Rome. the bull-rings of Spain, the Smithﬁeld burnings, the J uggernauts, the Hindoo pyres—in short, any of the brutal and unnatural insanities that have prevailed in any age or any country. I need not tell you that it is the characteristic of a little man to be borne away by whatever immense stupidity may pervade his age and nation. The stupidity of shackling two human beings together when just entering life—of compel- ling them to perpetual enslavement of each other -— of accepting or extorting from them a lie that they will con- tinue Lo love each other. and love nothing else, during the term of their natural lives! Well might the noble bard exclaim : ' “ Curious fool, be still, . Is human love the growth of human will?” Society is, indeed, a “curious fool." You saw this gigantic stupidity—you saw another, too, for you are not an unthink- ing slave——that another great law of the Supreme is violated in this unnatural condition forced upon us. You saw that in that especial period of a man’s life approaching the close; it —your immaculate society—-consigns him to barrenness. Nature gifts him with the faculty of procreation for half a lifetime longer than it is accorded to the woman who owns him; and this great, stupid conventionality declares open war with nature, and tells him he must murder this faculty, submit to the law of barrenness in obedience to a woman’s ownership——and at the same time, too, when infancy has tenfold charms for him. . a All these things you knew to be crimes against nature and nature’s God, yet you endorsed them, gave the weight of your genius and your reputation to them. Now your cher- ished serpents uncoil themselves and hiss at you with all their stings, and you must submit to whatever they may inflict on you; because even now, when they aim at your moral life-blocid, you have not the manhood to turn round and help to wring the necks off them. D. 4 “ Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selﬁsh men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse oi‘ daily life, Shall e’er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.” SOCIAL SORROWS. We have not space to record the social miseries constantly recurring; every city, town and village apparently con‘- tributing its weekly quota to swell the amount of the same. To prove our statement to be correct, we give merely the headings of one week’s reports, as furnished by the Illus- trated Police News for Oct. 8. A Heinous Crime——Terrible Success of a Diabolical Plot to Destroy the Evidence of Illegitimacy. The Escaped Nuu~—A Fiend in Female Form Compasses the Deaths of two Innocent Maiden Ladies——Scene: God- stowe, Oxfordshire, England. An Elcpement Extraordinary. Bucks county, Penn.) The Brooklyn Broil——No End to the Interest in the Scandal -——Beecher’s Parishioners insist‘ that he must Vindicato- Tilton’s plans. A Alleged Abduction—An Eastern District Romance. (Brook- ly 11, L. I.) , Wiles of the Wicked—A Devil’s Den in Milwaukee, Wis- consin. (Country girls trapped in an intelligence office to supply houses of prostitution.) ~ Wordsworth says : (Warminster Township, A Remarkable Story from Alabama——Congressman Schloss and his Wife each try to Kill the Husband of their Daughter. An Elopement, and a Bridegroom Convicted of Abduc- tion. (Randolph county, New Jersey.) Tragic Ending of an Adulterous Alliance at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ' A Toledo Girl Arrives Almost at the Matrimonial Altar, When she Changes her Mind and Gives her Lover the Slip. (Ohio.) A Colored Wedding, Interrupted by the Flight of the Bridegroom, who Sends a Four—word Request—~“ Meet me in Hell!” (Mobile, Alabama.) A Depraved Gir1—-A Mother’s Tears and a Daughter’s Shame. (Memphis, Tennessee.) A Prince Consents to a Divorce from his ‘Wife-—-Re-marriage of Both to Other Parties—Subsequent Complications. (St. Petersburg, Russia.) A Pitched Battle Between a Couple of Foolish Females for aMan. (Oldham, England.) Steady Increase . of Insanity in England—The Poorer Classes the Victims. (Sir H. Tuke.) A Dashing Young Widow’s Two Seance——How a Brook- lyn Capitalist got out of a Bad Scrape. (Brooklyn, N. Y.) How a Port Huron Girl ran away from Home and became a Trapeze Performer. (Port Huron, Michigan.) A Felonious Intruder on a Young Lady receives a Warm Welcome from her Father. (Louisville, Kentucky). Almost a Parricide. A Son Stabs his Father Three Times with a J ack-knife. (Milville, New York.) Atrocious Outrage on a School Girl near Albany, Illinois. A Foolish Man Loses his Wife. (Rutland, Vermont.) Story of a Diabolical Murder—A Wife lmplicated in Kill- ing her Husband. (St. Omer, France.) In A Bloody Child Bride. How a Mountain Desperado came to his Death at the Hands of his Brother’s Wife———A Honey- moon in J ail. (Burksville Circuit Court, Kentucky.) A Heinous Crime-‘—A Father Arrested for Abusing his Family——Is Charged with the Seduction of his own Daughter. (Cleveland, Ohio.) Bloody Work in Chicago. A Young Girl nearly Murdered by her Unnatural Stepfather. (Chicago, Illinois.) A Gray—haired Sinner——Sheriﬂ’ Jones Elope with his Dis- charged Maid-of-all-Work. (New Albany, Indiana.) What a Husband Saw under his Bed——A Chief of Police’s Mode of Treating a Wife and her Paramour when Detected. (Green Island, N. Y.) A Lovely Wreck——The Sorrowful Story of the Ruined Life of a Chicago Lady. (Chicago Times.) A Beecherizing Baker. The Matrimonial Troubles of A a Dolu)gh-Thumper in Delaware, Indiana. (Indianapolis J our- na . The above are all to be found in the Illustrated Police News of the 8th of October. ~———————>—~e MISCELLANEOUS. A GOOD SIGN. The liberality of Spiritualism, which recognizes good in all sects, and asserts progression for all human beings, is begin- ning to bear ifs legitimate fruits. The lines of demarkation that were, even at the beginning of this century, so carefully drawn around each petty sect, are melting under its beneﬁ- cent inﬂuence. Not, only sects, but great religions, are pre- paring to come together, as witness the titles of the follow- ing works, written undoubtedly by liberal Christians: “The comparative study of religions is a fruitful theme for books of late. Among recent ones are Dr. J. M. Arnold’s ‘Islam, and Its Relations to Christianity ;’ Dr. Ben1sch’s ‘Judaism Surveyed,” and Rev. R. B. Smith’s .‘Mohammed and Mohammedanism Lectures before the Royal Institution, 1874.’ ”—N. Y. He2*aZd. Fancy a Christian doctor heading 2. work “ Islam, and Its Relations to Christianity ” in the time of the Crusades. Yet it is certain that there are people in this city liberal enough to patronize a Mosque if one was established in Broadway. We have a Joss House in New York, why should we not have a Mufti and a Mosque? Only fancy a Muezzin standing on its cupola, and calling the Wall street sinners three times a day to prayer. Come you speculators and men of means, now is your time, out with your money-bags and supersede Beecher with a Mufti from Constantinople. RELIGIOUS IN TOLERANCE IN BOWMAN VILLE, CANADA. Avery arbitrary exercise of municipal authority for the suppression of free speech recently occurred in Bowmanville. Hon. Vfarren Chase, a prominent American Spiritualist, de- livereda course of lectures in that town on the subject of spiritualism, the tone of which did not please some of the bigoted “orthodox” people who heard him. Anumber of narrow-minded fanatics determined to prevent his lecturing on Sunday, Aug. 30, and accordingly got up a requisition to the Mayor, asking him to refuse the use of the Town Hall for that purpose. That oﬁicial yielded to their request, though he must have known he was exceeding his duty in” so doing, by presuming to set himself up as an authority in re. ligious matters and pronounce as to what creeds shall be tolerated and what proscribed. It is not necessary to be a believer in spirit communion to condemn in the strongest terms the intolerant spirit shown by the requisitionists and the Mayor who complied with their outrageous demand. It is an assault upon the principle of liberty of conscience and O speech, which is one of the proudest heritages of Canadians —an unjust discrimination against a religious body because they are at present few in numbers and weak in inﬂuence, so far as Canada is concerned. As a matter of law, of course no one has an absolute claim for the use of public buildings for Sunday services; but, as a matter of custom, the privi. lege is always granted, in country towns, to denominations having no place of meeting of their own. We are safe in saying that the Bowmanville Town Hall would not have been refused to an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Methodist, or a Presbyterian for the purpose of explaining the tenets of his faith. Then why should it be closed against a Spiritualist lecturer; and who constituted the Mayor of Bowmanvjue a, judge in matters of religious faith, with authority to decide what belief is suﬁiciently orthodox to be encouraged by granting it special privileges denied to others? The action of these Bowmanville bigots is noticable more on account, of the persecuting spirit displayed, than the extent of the in- justice inﬂicted. Men who would descend to such apetty, contemptible course would, if they possessed the power, crush out by persecution those whom they can now only annoy and irritate. They would re-enact the Blue Laws of Connecticut, and drive all independent and liberal minds, who refused to be measured by the Procustes-bed of their narrow souls, out of the country. The time for that sort of thing has gone by. The Mayor of Bowmanville and his abettors in this fanatical proceeding may be very good, pious people according to their lights. The only trouble with them is, they were born about two hundred years too late.——The National, Toronto, Canada. HOROSCOPE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. [Boston Sunday Herald, October 2, 1864.] Reader, our only motive in penning the following! remarks upon our worthy President, is to see how far astrological rules would be borne out in his case with regard to the com- ing election. According to statements made by the Press (and we believe them to be correct), his birth took place February 12, 1809; but we are not in possession of the hour of the day or night when the birth took place, though very often a. tolerably’ .- ’/_Z~! 1,, Q is fr ii i I U , ,_ -. .L.fftA_ :1“-,K.{\’.~ Q Oct. 24, 1874. WOODHULL a CLAFLIN’S»WEEKLY. 13 correct judgment may be formed from one’s stature, com- plexion, etc. Under these circumstances, we are led to the conclusion that the birth must have taken place very early in the morning of that day. From this fact his personal ap- pearance would correspond well with having the celestial sign Sagitarius,rising somewhere during the ﬁrst ﬁve degrees. Hence, the good, benevolent planet Jupiter becomes the ruler of the horoscope. Saturn was just above the ascendant: Venus formed a good aspect with the ascendant. The moon was leaving a sextile of Jupiter, and was within orbs of being in square—-an evil aspect to Mars. The Sun was in good aspect with Mars, and Mercury in good aspect with the eccentric Herschel. Jupiter is the ruler, and the most prominent planet——that is, better digniﬁed than any other planet. Hence. the principal ruler of the disposition and qualities. Jupiter makes him mag- nanimous, faithful, honorably aspiring at high matters. In all actions alover of fair dealings, desiring to beneﬁt all men —-affable in conversation, liberal and hating all sordid action; just, wise, prudent, grateful and virtuous. The place of the Moon in a cardinal point renders the mind eager to manage in public affairs. Fond of distinction, in- genious, acute and capable of great learning, though the Moon’s aspect to Mars makes him sometimes rash and blunt in remarks. The aspect of Herschel makes him very odd, original, eccentric and rather romantic——fond of things out of the track of custom. Inwardly despises many of the out- ward forms of society, and having intense, acute and power- ful feelings, hard to ﬁnd out. Persons born under Jupiter are ever destined to be fortu- nate. We believe that the ﬁnger of God points to Abraham Lincoln as the right man inthe right place to put down this wicked rebellion; and, further, we believe that he will “be elected at the coming election, on the 8th of November next, from the fact that Jupiter, his ruling planet, will be transiting over his ascendant in his own house, astrologically speaking. The transit of the evil planet, Mars, in opposition with his ascendant, plainly shows that the struggle will last until the month of April, 1865, about which time the foes to the Union camp will be compelled to lay down their arms. In Decem- ber of ’64, and again in January, ’65, some deep, base plot will be got up against the person of the President, shown by the transit of Mars; and that planet shows danger by‘ pistol shot or by some infernal machine. During these months more than ordinary caution and watchfulness are highly necessary. We could increase our remarks in regard to the personal danger, but believe that forbearance in this case would be a virtue. THOMAS LISTER. Bosrou, Sept. 29, 1864.. EDUCATIONAL. A controversy, brought about by the rejection of a female student of medicine by the examining board, has brought forth a letter from Prof. Huxley, the "concluding paragraph of which contains the following suggestive language: “We have heard a great deal lately about the physical dis- abilities of women. Some of these alleged impediments, no doubt, are really inherent in their organization, but nine- tenths of them are artiﬁcial—the products of their mode of life. I believe that nothing would tend so effectually to get rid of these creations of idleness, weariness, and that over ‘ stimulation of the emotions ’ which, in plainer spoken days, used to be called wantonness, than a fair share of healthy work directed toward a deﬁnite object, combined with a fair share of healthy play, during the years of adolescence; and those who are best acquainted with the acquirements of an average medical practitioner, will ﬁnd it hardest to believe that the attempt to reach that standard is likely to prove exhausting to an ordinarily intelligent and well-educated young woman.”—Bm'l7£ngton Daily, Iowa. CORRECTION. I deeply regret that a change of a word in my article was made. I did not say “ Sodomy is horrid,” although we can agree that it is; but that was not the word I wrote. I said “ Celibacy is horrid.” Please correct by inserting this note, and oblige Yours truly, W. F. J AMIESON. [On referring to Mr. Jamieson’s manuscript, we ﬁnd the word used was as represented above, and we tender him our apologies for the error.—EDs.] THE SITUATION. Let craven cowards shirk ihe ﬁght, And treachery sneak to dens away; Let guilty falsehood shun the light Of c’en the stars’ remittcnt ray. The brave shall breast the danger nigh; ‘ The innocent unfaltering stand; The faithful lift the banner high That bears the motto: “ Free the Landl” While holy truth, with sinless head Uncovered, to the front shall run; And with her own white hands shall spread Her record to the shining sun.—Bosz5on Index. The adisrcates of the “ New Money System” are opposed to senategr Oameron’s bill on Finance, defeated in the Senate at the leaf; session: g ' Because it would increase the power of the money monopo- lists by loaning more currency to them : Because it would loan this increase without charge, whilst the producers of the wealth of the country are ready to pay at least four per cent. per annum for its use: . Because it would increase the volume of currency ‘without providing a means of absorbing any excess: Because it proposes to issue more money without ﬁxing its value as/the Constitution requires: Because, in a word, it violates, greatly to the injury of the people, the spirit of that portion of the Constitution which requires Congress to coin money only for the use of the Whole people and not for a favored few. The friends of the “New Money System ” want—— That there should be no monopoly in money except by the government for the good of the whole: ' That Congress should authorize the issue of as much money to be loaned on government bonds, or individual wealth backed by the government, as will enable laborers to be paid in legal tender greenbacks for their services——not only those in centres of industry, but those most remote as well—and as much as will enable the traders of the country to buy for cash, so that the difference between cash and credit prices may be saved: ' ' That Congress should create an interchangeable bond to absorb the excess of money, when industry cannot use it, at about four per cent. per annum: ' That Congress should regulate the value of money, and in the only way it can be regulated, viz.—-by ﬁxing the interest, and at a rate not exceeding the annual rate of increase of the wealth of the land. — Papers, hostile as well as friendly, please copy. E. M. DAVIS, President of the Radical Club of Philadelphia. CHICAGO, Sept. 18, 1874. Dear Weekly/—As you are in sympathy with all movements which tend to beneﬁt humanity, I will tell you something about a meeting I attended Sept. 16. It was called to or- ganize a society for the protection of women, and is known as the “Good Samaritan’s Society.” Mr. Haas has donated a commodious house, pleasantly situated, on condition that the society shall be strictly unsectarian. The home is called “The Shelter.” All women who are out of employment can ﬁnd a home there until a situation is procured for them. The class of unfortunate women who are stigmatized as “fallen” women are also welcome, without being questioned in regard to their past life. They can remain at the Shelter until a situation is provided for them to earn an honest living, or they can leave the Home whenever they feel dis- posed. No society has ever been organized on so broad a platform before. It is. strictly unsectarian. Every Sunday afternoon the public are invited to the Shelter to enjoy a season of conversation, when men and women from every. denomination are invited to speak. The meeting on the 16th was largely attended. The praying women turned out in goodly numbers, armed to the teeth with sectarian weapons. When the second article was read, recognizing the father- hood of God, the motherhood of Nature and the brother- hood of man, the captain of the praying band objected to the phrase of “ the motherhood of Nature,” as it was so much like the Spiritualist doctrine. An old lady in the corner cried out in a squeaky voice, “We worshipbut one God; the Bible says nothing about the motherhood of Nature.” I was surrounded by the praying band, and heard these Christian remarks. They called us heathens; said we were worse than prostitutes; that God ought to strike us dumb. They trembled with rage, and one old lady had to be com- pelled to keep the peace, her daughter holding her down by force. But theheathens were calm and earnest; for most of them had passed through the hell that the Christian women were struggling with, and were now ready to work for humanity. The sixth article was to the effect that if any of the inmates desired the services of a priest or parson, they should not be prohibited, but such services should take place in the room of the party so desiring. One of the heathens took this opportunity to say that it was not safe for a lady to have a parson visit her in her dormitory. Silence reigned for a second, and then the religious war raged fear- .fully; but, in spite of the force and ﬁght, the resolutions were adopted, the non-sectarians carrying the day. When the praying women found they could not control, they withdrew from the society in a body, plainly saying, by this act, if we cannot save souls our way, they may go to h——ll. We feel relieved that this bone of contention is re- moved from our midst, and are encouraged to struggle on in the work for humanity. ONE or THE HEATHENS—-L. M. C. 7 PELHAM SQUARE, Brighton, Sussex, England, . Sept. 20, 1874. i My Dear Vt'ctom'a———Some very tender thoughts toward you have passed through my heart and brain this morning, and I desire to tell you that personally I believe I am a truer friend to you than ever. If prayer can avail to help you, then I hope still to aid you. This morning I was looking over your “ Elixir of Life,” in which I see many true statements with regard to the cause of death in our world. I rose from my knees after prayer on your behalf ﬁlled with the strength of that passage: “I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shallnever die.” And remember, whatever we have honestly done, however mis- taken, according to our highest convictions of right at the time, we shall not suffer for, except as the sin of ignorance. When 1 last saw you in New York I expected to have returned ere this, but my life has been brightened here in England. Hoping your excursion may recruit you greatly, believe me with love your faithful friend, MARY HAY. , BLOOMINGTON, IIl., Sept. 26, 1874. Mrs. Wooduhull.-—The freeman of this town are heartily glad to hear of your return in good health and vigor. And we pray as fervently as earnest wishes can pray that you may live one hundred years to be the fearless championcf truth. Our ﬁrst and early love was for the good old Boston Investigator. This love is not in the least diminished, but rather intensiﬁed, by our late and hearty love for WOODHULL AND CLAELIN’s,WEEKLY. _ And now just a word to Liberals everywhere. What does freedom amount to that does not include personal freedom? VVhat is worthy the name of free discussion which excludes discussion upon any subject pertaining to human happiness? And now, freemen of America, as long as we have a paper is’such apaper. Let notices of the WEEKLY be posted in every post office, printed upon the fences, stuck up in the depots and all places of public gathering, until there shall be no person in the land capable of reading but what shall know that there is a paper printed in New York which dares to advocate freely the rights of man. Let no paper lie Tfidle upon your table, but see to it that every member of Con- gress, every State Senator, every county oﬁicial-—in short every thinking man and woman in the land is furnished with a copy. I know of but few scientists who have given the WEEKLY a fair trial but who acknowledge it to be‘ one hun- . dred years ahead of its time. Let us bridge that hundred years by united, vigorous action. Do some still ask what does the WEEKLY teach? This is my answer: 1. Justice, love and truth to woman as a con- dition; good, healthy children, and consequently noble manhood and womanhood as a result. 2. Political purity and economy. 3. Religious common sense. J. I. FERRON. SPIRI'.riIAL.——The course of lectures _just concluded at ‘VVilson’s Hall, Webster City, by Capt. H. H. Brown, State. lecturer of the Iowa Spiritual Association, were delivered in a masterly manner, showing conclusively that he has the- spiritual cause at heart, and labors fondly and diligently in _ its interest. Although we cannot ful.ly coincide with the 0 ‘spiritual philosophy as disseminated by its advocates of to—day, there are argument and manifestations in its favor that are hard to overcome, and we say in this connection that some that were heretofore very skeptical on spiritualism, are now equally unsettled on orthodox questions. The subject on Sunday evening was “ Philosophy of Death,” and Tues- day “Biblical and Modern Spiritualism.” Mr. B. is a. ﬂuent and voluminousspeaker, and handles his themes with ability ‘ second to none. He’ goes to Fort Dodge from here, and we would be glad to welcome him back at any convenient sea- son.—Webster City Argus, Iowa. PASIGRAPHY signiﬁes that universal written language which has so long been dreamed of but never realized. Yet a serious attempt is now being made to introduce it by Dr. Bachmaier, of Munich. He has succeeded in giving numerical equivalents to about ﬁve thousand common words. He also‘ denotes na tions by ‘numbers, and earnestly seeks the estab- lishment of “universalcharacters, by which all the nations of the/world may understand one another’s conceptions, reading out of one common writing their own mother tongue.” The same numbers express the same ideas in all languages. The task looks like a herculean one, and the world will wish the doctor absolute success, without pausing to think of the difﬁculty which may attend the learning of the system after it is perfected. Think of traveling in in Europe, meeting a Turk, and writing on a card 4-40-44- which maybe made to mean “Fork over or ﬁght!” As a language it will come into ﬁne play after the Republic of the World has been inaugurated l—-A.mem'ccm, Journalist. MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY A HUsBAND.—Bur1ington, Vt., came near having a murder Thursday afternoon. ‘T he parties were man and wife, named Henry and Bridget Day, both quiet and of good reputation. The former is an Enlishman about forty years old, while his wife is about twenty-ﬁve years of age. The wife was found, by a policeman, lying on the ﬂoor in a pool of blood, insensible and apparently lifeless . Her sister was with her and handed the officer a hatchet with which she said Henry had struck his wife. Day claims that in the exercise of his authority as a husband he adminis- tered a triﬂing punishment by knocking her down. THE purity of the moral city of San Francisco is tarnished. The Supreme Court has decided that immoral Chinawomen have a right to dwell here. How can we have the face to allow Mr. Johnson to go forth with his views of California and invite people to emigrate to this land of sin? As immor- ality is entirely conﬁned to the Chinese and to the female sex of that race, we may be able to exist, but the dreadful thought haunts us that immorality may spread-—it may spread.——F7Jgaro, San Francisco. MISS CATHERINE BEEOHER, eldest sister of Henry Wa2'd, is afraid her brother won’t have “justice done him in the civil courts.” “Justice” is the Very last thing his friends ought to wish to have dealt out to him. As an attorney once said to his client who was accused of murder, in reply to his question whether he thought he would have justice done him, “I’m afraid not, for I see three menon the jury who are opposed to capital punishmentl”—Earlm'lle (ILL) Trans- cript. SOCIETY has the delirium tremens, and, like that unfortu- nate ecclesiastic, Laocoon, is perpetually unwinding snakes. It drank its full of the wine of sentimentality, got maudlin on the lees, and then took so many morning cock- tails to cure its katzenjammer that delirium tremens came on; its stomach is as weak now as its moral purpose is strong. The fact that it is still unwinding its snakes shows -that it has not yet thoroughly recovered.—N. Y. G1 aphic. -THE “EMOTIONAL INSANITY” PLEA SUPERSEDED. Mr. Thomas Collins, agentleman not unknown to fame, appeared before the “ Big Judge ” in Cincinnati, a few days since, on the charge of striking Billy Patterson with a beer mug. ln reply to the question if he had anything to say Mr. Collins address the court as follows: “I inherit a tendency to sadness——the remains in me’ of- positive hypochondria in my father and grandfather; and in certain moods of reaction the world becomes black and I see very despairingly. If~I were in such a mood to speak as I feel, I should give false colors and exaggerated proportions to everything. The manifestation is in-such contrast to the hopefulness and courage which I experience in ordinary times that none but those intimate with me would suspect which furnishes a medium for thought, no matter how radi- one so full" of 0Ve1‘ﬂ0Wil1g‘ Spirits and eager gladsomeness to cal, see to it that every person in America knows that there have within him 8» 03% Of g100m- .4 14 I . I . WOODHULL dis CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY.‘ Oct. 24, 1874. “My conﬁdential friend, Billy Patterson, understood this, and at times earnestly reproved me for indulging in it. It happened that when in one of my despairing moods I struck my conﬁdential friend, Mr. Billy Patterson, with a beer- mug because he wouldn‘t set ’em up, and with this statement I submit my case.” The “Big Judge” looked at his prisoner over his glasses, under his glasses, then through his glasses, and then without his glasses, and ﬁnally seeing that he had a man of genius to deal with, reserved his decision till some future time. MRS. MAGRUDER HAS PRAYERS. ,, [MAX ADELER.] I happened to call at Magruder’s the other morning on my way down town, and, as I knew them well, I entered the side door without knocking. I was shocked to ﬁnd Mr. Magruder prostrate on the ﬂoor, while Mrs. Magruder sat on his chest and rumbled among his hair as she bumped his head on the boards, and scolded him vigorously. ‘They rose when I came in, and Magruder, as he wiped the blood from his nose, tried to pretend that it was only a joke. But Mrs. Magruder interrupted him: “ Joke! Joke! Ishould think not! I was giving him a dressing down. He wanted to have family prayers before breakfast, and I was determined “to have them after, and as he threw the Bible at me, and hit Mary Jane with the hymn-book, I soused down on him. If I can’t rule this house I’ll know the reason why. Pick up them Scriptures and have prayers! You hear me, Magruder? It’s more trouble regulatin’ the piety of this family than runnin’ a saw-mill. Mary Jane, give your pa’ that hymn- b ock.” WORSHIP OF _GOLD. (A rARoI>Y.) Let us sing the praise of Gold, Blessed treasure! All-extolled! Bringing on its bless ed wings Life to all terrestrial things. Whcresoc’er its light is shed Sorrow lifts its drooping head; And the tears of woe that start, Turn to sunshine in the heart; Gold, divine! All things are thine, Every creature seeks thy shrine; And thy magic spell doth call This fervent joy and praise from all. >-40+-4 ODD3 AND ENDS. THE LAw‘s DELAY.—Fmnk Leslie, of the 17th inst., depicts a New York prisoner making the following pithy reply, on being called on for his defense: “Now you’ve got me, Ye see, J edge, I've bin layin’ nineteen months in the Tombs waltin’ trial, and I railv forgit the circumstances of the case.” VVE request our captious correspondent, who would not credit the man-eating tree of Madagascar, to purchase the N. Y. Gra.p.7m'c of October 9th. It contains drawings of so‘ many carnivorous plants, that we have come to the conclu- sion that cabbages live on mutton. ' , AN eight-hour man, on going home the other evening for his supper, found his wife sitting in her best clothes on the front stoop reading a volume of travels. “ Where is my sup- per?" “I don’t know,” replied the wife; “I began to get your breakfast at 6 o’clock this morning, and my eight hours ended at 2 P. M.” QUEENVVICTCRIA is said to be investigating Spiritualism. On the contrary, the only medium patronized by her son, the Prince of ‘N ales, is said to be the medium of exchange. A CHICAGO reporter has just won his spurs by an article headed, “ Desperate Bloodshed—-—The Murdered Man not Ex- pected to Live?” ' , ’ A EAMILY in Akron, Ohio, has in it avlittle boy about four years old and a little girl about six. They had been caution- ed, in their strife against hen’s eggs, not to take away the nest egg. But one morning the little girl reached the nest ﬁrst, seized an egg and started for the house. Her disap- pointed brother followed, crying: “Mother, mother, Susie’s been and got the egg the old hen measuresby l ” ‘ * _ A GENTLEMAN whose nationality will become apparent in the sequel, and whose profession was the driving of vehicles, being desirous of conciliating a passenger and excusing the stubbornness of his quadruped, remarked, “He has quare ways, yer anner. What wud ye think av a baste that wud do the likes av this? Won day he swallied a half a soverin, an’ all we could get him to give up was sivin-an’-six, all through conthrariness.” A'CITIZE'.\l of Portland was walking down town one morn- ing, when a stranger addressed him: “ Do you know where the Post Office is 1”’ “ Yes,” answered the Portlander, affably, and walked on without further parley. After pro- ceeding for about ten steps he looked back and inquired in his turn: “Why? Do you want to know?” , “No,” replied the victim, with earnestness; and then, the account having been balanced, the two shook hands and gravely walked off. ‘ HERER had a wife who knew how to put things on the table. Scripture says of her: “Blessed above women shall J ael, thewife of "Homer the Kenite, be; he asked water and , She gave him milk; she brought___forth butter in a lordly dish.” >-49 BUSINESS EDITORIALS. THE VERMONT STATE SPIRITUALIS1‘ AssocIATIoN will hold its next Annual Convention at St. J ohnsbury, on Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday, October 16, 17 and 18, 1874.. Good speakers will be in attendance. Board at the Avenue House at $51.00 per day. Return checks issued to those who pay full fare one way over the Central Vermont Railroad to attend the Convention. A cordial invitation extended. Per order of Committee, A A. E. STANLEY, Sec’y. LEICESTER, Vt., Sept. 21, 1874. ADDIE L. BALLOU Having had quite an extended tour through California, where she has been greeted. by large and enthusiastic audi- ences, has gone to Oregon for a term of some weeks, after which she will return to the States, about the 1st of N ovem- ber. Parties along the route wishing to make engagements with her to stop off for one ortmore lectures on her return will please make as early application as possible, to secure time; till middle of ,0ct., care Box 666, San Francisco; later and for winter engagements, to Terre Haute, Ind. _E. M. Flagg, dentist, 79 West Eleventh sneer, New York city. Specialty, artiﬁcial dentures. DR. L.K. COONLEY has removed from Vineland to Newark N. J. Office and residence No. 51 Academy street, where he will treat the sick daily and receive applications to lec- ture Sundays in New Jersey, New York or elsewhere in the vicinity. I L. K. COONLEY. THE Universal Association of Spiritualists, Primary Coun- cil No. 1 of Illinois, meets every Sunday at 3 :30 P. M., at hall 204. Van Buren street, corner of Franklin, Chicago. ' Free conference and free seats. . ERNEST J. YVITHEFORD, Cor. Sec. Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium, may be found at his oﬁcc, No. 25 East Twenty-first street near Broadway . The First Primary Council of Boston. of the U. A. of Spiritualists, have leased the new “Parker Fraternity (lower) Hall,” corner of Berkly and Appleton streets, where they give lectures every Sunday afternoon and evening. JOHN HARDY, Cor. Secretary. CHAS. H. FosTER, the renowned Test Medium, can be found at No. 14. West Twenty-fourth street, New York City, BENJAMIN St MARION TCDD have removed from Ypsilanti to Port Huron, Mich. Their correspondents will please ad- dress them accordingly. Religion superseded by the Kingdom of Heaven; official organ of the Spirit World. Amonthly journal, established in 1864, to explain and to prove that Spiritualism has pre- pared the way for the second coming of Christ. Thomas Cook, publisher, No. 50 Bromﬁeld street, Boston, Mass. D. VV. HULL is now in the East, and will answer calls to lecture at any place. Address 871, Washington st., Boston. IMPORTANT TO PERSONS WANTING To SPEND THE WINTER SOUTH.——A lady and gentleman can be accommodated in the house of a physician, on moderate terms, in one of the most beautiful cities of the South. For particulars inquire at this ofﬁce. SARAH E. SOMERBY, Trance Medium and Magnetic Healer, 23 Irving Place, N. Y. @"°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 ene 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, AUSTIN KENT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44. The legal rate of postage on the WEEKLY, addressed to regular subscribers, is twenty cents per annum, or ﬁve cents per quarter, payable in advance. Subscribers who receive their copies by lcttcr—carriers will please hand the annual or quarterly postage to carriers, taking. their receipts. If any higher rates are demanded, report the facts to the local Postmaster. The postage on copies directed to subscribers in New York city has been prepaid by the publishers. R. W. HUME, Associate Editor of WCCDHULL 8t CI.AELIN’s WEEKLY, is prepared to deliver lectures on Radical Spiritu- alism, and on all the reforms of which it is the base. For further particulars, list of lectures, etc., address box 3,791 New York City. ' - W. F. JAMIESON is engaged to return to Boston for the Sundays of Oct. VVill receive applications for week-evening lectures in vicinity of Boston. Address N 0. 9 Montgomery place, Boston, Mass. Miss Nellie L. Davis will speak in San Francisco, Cal, in December; in San Jose, during January. Permanent address, 2f35_W'asliington st., Salem, Mass. SEWARD MITCHELL desires to inform his correspondents that he has removed from Cornville, Me., and his present, ad- dress is VVestLittleton, Mass. 1 R. P. FELLOWS, the renowned hcaler,who has met with such unbounded success in our principal cities, in casting out devils, in ‘healing the Palsied, the Lame, Deaf and Blind, and, in fact, all known Diseases, is ‘now meeting with the dame. success in healing by his Magnetized Powder, which he will send to any part of the globe on the receipt of $51. The doctor can be addressed at Vineland, N. J. THE PRoeREssIvE SPIRITUAL1sTs of New York have changed their place of meeting. The Conference now assem- and Sixth avenue. At its last meeting a proposition was made by Mr, Farnsworth, suggesting the propriety of holding reg- ular meetings there throughout the day, and engaging speak- ers to instruct the people with regard to Spiritualism in the morning and evenings. We are glad to add. that the idea seemed to meet with general approval. 1 DR. H. P. FAIREIELD is engaged to speak in Putnam, Conn.‘, during October. Would make other engagements. Address, Greenwich Village, Mass. bles every Sunday at 2 P. M. at the Harvard Rooms, 42d street V THE First Grand Prize Medal was unanimously awarded to J. W. Bracket, for best piano fortes “ of superior workman- ship, new application of material. and improvements in con- struction,” cver all competitors, at the last fair of the Massa- chussetts Charitable Mechanic’s Association, held in Boston. Judges: Benjamin J. Lang, John K. Paine, Theodore Chase, Joseph "B. Sharland, Charles J. Capen. ‘Wareroonis and factory: 887 ‘Washington street, Boston. ‘ LAURA CUPPY SMITK’s engagements are as follows: October, New Bedford,jMass.; Dec., New Haven, Conn.; January and March, Boston; February, Salem, Mass. Societies desiring to engage her for the intervening .months would do well to apply at once. Address, till further notice, 2'?’ Milford street, Boston, Mass. [CIRCULAR] BUREAU or CORRESPONDENCE OF THE PANTARCHY. The increasing number of letters of inquiry, addressed to MR. ANDREWS personally, and to others known to be asso- clated with him, in respect to the nature, purposes, progress and prospects of the Pantarchy, suggest the propriety of organizing a branch or bureau of its operations for the ex- press purpose of answering such and similar inquiries, as well as for the relief of the parties so addressed, whose time has, heretofore, been gratuitously given to the writing of replies. ' There are two other kinds of letters sent in a steady cur- rent for many years to the same quarter. The first are letters of inquiry touching social difficulties, and asking for advice or consolation, in the thousand trying conditions in which married and unmarried persons, men and Women, ﬁnd themselves involved. The others are letters asking speciﬁc information, on matters of reform, spiritualism, unitary life, the new language, and the like; and even on avariety of topics, concerning science, business, and miscellaneous sub- jects. . To serve this great want; to organize and economize labor; and to extend this method of giving information into a sys- tematized institution for the use of the whole community‘ this Bureau formed. The aggregate of small fees, will, it is hoped, urnish a means of support to one or several of the wisest and best of the men or women most versed in the social reform, and 111 universological science, and prove of great use to many an_ aching heart and to many an inquiring mind. THE BUREAU or CORRESPONDENCE will undertake to answer ANY QUESTION (admitting of an answer) upon ANY SUBJECT, and in case its efforts are appreciated will takethe necessary steps to enlarge its connections and ‘means of in- formation to that end. In the meantime, if the question is of a kind which the Bureau is unable to answer, the fee will be returned. The fees charged are as follows: For a reply on'postal card to a single inquiry, 10 cents; for a lettcrof advice, informa- tion (more at large), or sympathy and consolation, 25 cents. . In the latter case, the letter of inquiry must contain a stamp, ' for the answer. No increase of charge on account of the diffi- culty of obtaining the information, except in special in- stances, which will be arranged by correspondence. News- papers inserting this circular, can avail themselves of the aid of the Bureau without charge. STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. THEODORA FREEMAN SPENCER, JOIING. ROBINSON. M. D., ASENATH O. MCDONALD, DAVID HOYLE, Address Mrs. A. C. McDonald, Soc. B. C. P., 75 ‘W. 54th St., New York. BOARD or MANAGERS. PROSPECTUS. WOODHULL St CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. [The only paper in the World conducted, absolutely, upon the Principles of a'l7're/3 Press] It advocates a new government in which the people 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 been- titlcd 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 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 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 lndividual 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 111 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 _(,1ty; The National News Co., New York City; The New England News C_o-, B0S17_011a M3SS- 3 The Central News Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ; The ‘Western News Co., Chicago, _Ill. Sample copies, mailed on application, free. ‘ VICT0Ri)A O. VXOODHULL AND TENNIE (3. CLAFLIN, Ed- itors and roprie ors. _ _ . CoL. J. H. BLOOD, Managing Editor. All communications should be addressed WOODEULL St CLAELIN’s WEEKLY, Box 3,791, New York City. Jr'- ,f.. Oct. 24,, 1,874. w,ooDiiU,L~L J5 iCLA'FLlN’S WE’yEKrLY. ‘ I 15 em. sasr as is $TREE"E', NEW rear: ei'rY.i This Institute, organized upon the combined principles of OLAIRVOYANCE, MAGNETISBI e.-iicl MEDreiNE, I Makes a specialty of all those diseases, which, by the Medical Faculty, are usually considered iiicurable. Among these may be in-.=.ntEonec' EARALYSIS, SCROFULA, RHEUMATISM, nYsPni>si.A., EPILEPSY, CHOREA, I NEUn.A.i.ei_a, -CHRONIC DI,..e.??3.‘ il'Ei'.CEA.. Diseases of the Liver, Spleen and Kidneys, and especially - ‘ BRIGrIE[T’S DISEASE, ,A_ll Diseases Peculiar to W‘ Olfxlelll. In this last class of complaints some of the most extraordinary discoveries have recently been made, which surniount the difficulties that ill1l,‘i'9 he1'etofcre ' stood in the way of _their cure. That terrible foe to human life, 2 $ Is also conquered by a very simple, but recently-discovered remedy, which by chemical action upon the diseased fungus causes it to separate from the surround~ ing parts and to slough oif, leaving behind only a healing sore. Th_e peculiar advantage which the practice at this Institution possesses over all others is, that in addition to all the SClGIltlilC.l(1lO\VlB(lgO of Medical Therapeutics and Remedial Agents, which the Faculty have, it also has the unerring means of diagnosing diseases through — CLAIRVOYANCE, Q As well as the scientiﬁc administration of 'ANIl\[AL AND SPIRITUAL MAGNETISM in all their various forms. The Best Clairvoyants and Magnetic Operators are Always Employed. This combination of remedial means can safely be relied upon to cure every disease that has not already destroyed some vital internal organ. No mat= ter how often the 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 consultations upon_all kinds of business and upon all forms of social aﬁairs can also be obtained. Thevery best of reference given to all who desire it, both as to disease and consultations. - Reception hours from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Iiivalids who cannot visit the Institute in person can apply by letter. .l\/Iedicine sent to all parts of the world. 3 J Tegsinnwmi Inﬂammation of the Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels . Cured. 3 New Yomz, July 20, 1870. For several years I have been suffering from an acute disease (inflam- mation of the kidneys and upper part of the stomach and bowels), for ‘ which I had been treated by several of the most eminent and successful physicians in the vicinity of New York, but without success. "My disease ' seemed to have assumed a chronic form, and I had almost despaired of ever being cured. Hearing of their success in the treatment of all chronic diseases, I determined to try their skill, and I am now thankful that I did, as after the very ﬁrst operation I commenced to improve, and now, after a few weeks, I am well, or nearly so. Hoping that this may induce others who need their services to test . ‘-;,hcir skill, I cheerfully give this testimony in their favor, and hope that 1:}; oy may be the means of restoring hundreds of those suffering as Igdid to heal.th and strength. I JOHN A. VANZANT. Spring Valley, N. Y. .—.—._........_.. Briglrds Disease of the Kidneys Cured. _ - I New .YORK CITY, Nov. 3, 1869. Eight" years ago I was takeirwith bleeding from the kidneys, which has continued atintcrvals eversince. All the best physicians did me no ;_v;ood, andvlﬁnally gave me up as an incurable‘ case of Bright"s Disease of the Kidneys. My friends had all lost hope, and I had also given ‘up, as All letters’ should be addressed, _MAG-NE';‘IC HEALING insrrrnrn, :3I4.3E»AST§,N!NTi'i 8'31, YORK : I had become so weak that I could scarcely walk .a block. a A f1‘ie2l'l ad— vised me to go to the Magnetic Healing Institute, and see what could be done for me there. I went, and after being examined was told I could ’ becured only by the strictest Magnetic treatment. _ Therﬁrst operation affected me strangely, sending piercing pains through Il1y,l.')Il-Cl{ and laid» . neys; but I began to improve at once, and now, after one month’s ta-eat~ ment, I have returned to my employment and can walla: several miles without fatigue. I can be seen at 101 Clinton avenue, l_h=«:>ol;lyn, or at 23 South street, New York. T. P. ltieiinanscin. - Inﬂammation of the Face and Ti'yes« Ciirccl. ' NEVV'Y,OR1i Ci'r:.', June 2:, 1869. I had been afliicted for several years by a serious iijiilammatie of the face, involving the eyes, which were so bad that at times I could l’IOl} see at all. One eye I thought entirely destroyed. I triedvarious rein: dies and the most eminent physicians, but could not even get relief, for the most excruciating pain accompanied it. As a last resort I applied at ihe Mag- netic Healing Institute. They explained my disease and said it could be removed. Though thoroughly skeptical, I placed myself nnd; r treat~ merit, and, strange as it may seem, am now, after six weeks? treatment, entirely cured; the eye.I thought destroyed, is also restored. l zonsider my case demonstrates that the modeef treating diseases praetie.-»: «'1 at the Institute is superior to allothers, as I had tried them all withm: beneﬁt. is . ' J ‘Jr; .. Fox. No. 3 Clintonavenue, near Fletcher street, Brooklyn. - ’" doubt the testimony of the writers of this 16 ~ ,WoonHULL as CLAFLIIWS WEEKLY. Oct. 24, 1874. GREAT CE“T AL ROUTE. HORT LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT BY THE OLD ESTABLISHED AN]? Popular Route via NIAGARA FALLS SUSPENSION BRIDGE _or BUFFALO AND MICHIGAN CEN TRAL AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY LINE to Detroit and Chicago without change of cars, makin close connection with all Railroads leading out or Chicago to all points in the great West. THROUGH TICKETS to all important towns, ai 1 general information may be obtained at the Company oﬂice, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), N ew York. Condensed Time Table. li’ESl'lli3B F300! NEW lﬂﬁll, Via Erie & Mich. Central & Great Western R, R’s .~ STATIONS. Express. Ewggfss STATIONS. Empress. Lv 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . .. 6.45 P. M. “ Chambers street . . . . . . . . . . .. .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 “ Susquehanna . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.43 A. M. “ Binghampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.40 “ 9.20 “ “ Binghampton . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.35 “ “ Elmira. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.30 “ 12.16 A. M “ Elmira. . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 35 “ “ Hornellsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ Hornellsville . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ “ Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.05 A. M. 8.10 ‘ “ Buﬁalo._ . . . . . .._ . . . . . . . .. 11.45 “ Empress, Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.00 “ 10.00 ‘ , Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 12.27 P. M. —— Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.10 A5‘ M. 1.35 P;‘ M. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 1.35 “ 9.50 p. in A: St. Catlierines . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 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.‘5 a. m. “ 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 “ 8.10 ' Ar VVayne.._ . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . .. 10.21 ‘: “ Ar Wayne .‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 “ “ Ypsilanti........., . . . . . . . .. 10.45 ‘ 11.25 P. M. “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . .. .. 11.25 “ 9.27 “ “ Ann Arbor . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 “ 11.43 “ “ Ann Arbor..... . 11,43 “ 9.50 “ “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.1 P. M. 1.00 A, M. “ Jackson . 1.00 A. M 13.30 “ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.15 “ “ Marshall... . 12.50 p. mt “ Battle Creek . . . . . .. 2.03 “ AIR. , “ Battle Cree AIR 1.25 “ “ Kalamazoo... .. 2.55 “ LINE “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . .. LINE. 2.35 “ “ «\iles , . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.32 M .40 A M “ riles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.40 A. M. 5.00 “ “ New Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 25 “ “ New Buﬁalo . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.02 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.45 “ 5.45 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . . . . . .. 5.45 “ 6.25 “ “ Caluiiiet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.18 “ 7.47 “ “ Calumet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.47 “ 8.00 “ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 "‘ 8.00 ‘ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.45 “ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . £31231) A_.' M. 11.50 A. M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a in A1‘ Prairie du Chcin . . . . . . . . . .. _B-:55 1'. M. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . .. 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 I’. M. Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A. M. Ar Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M. .. Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.40 P. M. Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M. “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ . “ Galveston .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ “ 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 P. 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 “ “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ San Francisco.... . A 8.30 “ Ar Halesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. M- Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.45 P. M. .. “ Quincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15 “ “ Quincey . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0.45 " . “ St. Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ “ St. Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.10 A. M. . “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.40 P. M. “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.25 “ “ Atchison . . . . . . . . , . .. . . . . . . .. 11.00 “ “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 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 Wilh Pullman‘s Palace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. m the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there. 7.20 P. M.—Night Express from J ersey City (daily), with Pullnian’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to Chicago without change. arriving there at 8.00 a. m., iving passengers ample time for breakfast and take he morning trains toall points West, Northwest and Southwest. CONNECTIONS OF ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF lilicliigan Central & Great Western Railways. At St. Catharlnes, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk Railway. _ At.London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branc for Port Stanley, an daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De troit, Lansin & Lake Michi, an I’. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Al D t it & B Ci , Branch Lakegs. & M. S. R. to Toledo. so 6 m ay W3 K At Wayne, with Flint & Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc. . At Ypsilanti, with Detroit Hillsdale & Eel River R. Rs for Manchester Hill d 1 B k. ’ ‘ Columbia City, N. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1874-10-24_08_21
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-10-24_08_21
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 08, no. 22 (October 31, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2043
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-10-31
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS! “FREE TEIOIIGEITI UNTRAMMELED LIVES: I _.._ BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS- -‘Vol. VIII.—No. 22.—Whole No. 204. NEW YORK, OCT._81, 1874., PRICE TEN CENTS. LOANERS’ BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHA_RTER,) Continental Life Building, 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 oﬁered to our CUSTOMERS. , DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, , No. 59 Wall St., New York. 'Gold and Currency received on deposit subject 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...
Show morePROGRESS! “FREE TEIOIIGEITI UNTRAMMELED LIVES: I _.._ BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS- -‘Vol. VIII.—No. 22.—Whole No. 204. NEW YORK, OCT._81, 1874., PRICE TEN CENTS. LOANERS’ BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHA_RTER,) Continental Life Building, 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 oﬁered to our CUSTOMERS. , DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, , No. 59 Wall St., New York. 'Gold and Currency received on deposit subject 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. 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N 0 matter whether he ﬂew high or low; whether he swooped toward earth, so near as to catch the voices of his ellow men; or soared toward heaven, where he was wont to hold sweet intercourse with his spiritual kinsfolk, nothing seemed to him to be the same as it had been before. He felt as an invalid, into whose darkened chamber a single errant sunbeam has forced its way, not to cheer, but to distract. Soon the waters of Lake Tchad opened their wide expanse to his view. The sight recalled him to the fears he had heard utterediiespecting the disturbed political state of the country. He had an idea of descending to the capital to obtain infor- mation, for his new friends, the settlers in Atlantika, were very uneasy on the subject. They considered themselves in danger. 3 On approaching the city, he perceived a commotion. People and troops were in rapid movement. Smoke and ﬂames were rising from some of the principal buildings. In place of descending abonce, he decided to approach only near enough to obtain information of what was going on.‘ On perceiving him the multitude sent up a great cry_. He paused a few score feet over their heads, and let down a cord with a label ap- toward it to examine the phenomenon more closely. The air becomes hotter as he does so, but there is not a ‘breath of = wind to account for the motion of the bil-lows’, which he sees rolling over and over each other as if propelled upward from beneathhim mingles crimson and gold with its blue, ashe has never known the ocean of waters to do, nor even the I i clouds of the air eve-r which he has been wont to ride. He . arrests his downward course, *but the many colored billows = seem to rise toward him. Already he descries their gleams and sprays" shooting past him. ANow the rbillows themselves breathes freely. Ah! It is a mirage of the desert that wel- comes him to the heart of the Sahara. It is impossible to judge ‘how far he is from the ground. He does not suppose that the phenomenon extends to any great height, and having ascertained ‘its nature, he prepares to re- ascend. But a sound catches his cars, a sound of tearing and rending, followed by harsh cries of terror, pain, and despair. Listeningintently, he ascertains that the place from whence the sounds proceed is not stationary, for sometimes‘ it is nearer to him than at others; but in no case many rods from him. While thus listening, and scarcely heeding his machine, he feels beneath him the touch as of soft yielding ground. The Ariel stops ‘erect, and Crisis, standing up inhis car, calls aloud, in English,— A . ' A A A “ Does any one want help!” 9 He pauses and listens, but there is no reply. Again he cries, this time, remembering where he is, in Arabic,- “ If any one wants help, let him speak.” l _ An answer came, rapidly and eagerly; and apparently from one so close to‘ him‘ as to make him look quickly Around. But reply was in the pure’ Arabic spoken by the better classes in Soudan. ‘Criss readily interpreted it. ‘ A “ Say first who offers help. Of what nation?” “‘ English,” replied Criss. ' “ English for certain, and no Bornouse ?” “ An English and a true man, for certain, replied Criss; “ a traveler on the way back to Londoufrom South Africa.” “You speak my language almost too‘ well for me to trust you,” was the response. “Say, how are you traveling?” “ Alone, and in ‘my own car—an electro-magnetic ﬂying machine. But what and wherefore do» you fear?” “ I do not fear. You cannot be Bornouse, for theyknow not the use of suchmachines. A I am a fugitivefrorn the in- surrection, and am injured; and there may be pu'rsuers on my track.” a I ’ There was plenty of light, and the speakers were close together, butithey were still invisible toeach other. Their voices ‘sounded strange and hollow, through the dense and ‘laden air. Criss learnt that the sufferer had fallen while en- deavorin g to cross the Sahara in an old-fashion ed aeromotive, in the use of which he had butlittle skill. He had been badly wounded before, and now was still more crippled by his fall, and by the struggles of the machinery while expending its power. ’ Finding him still reluctant, and‘know1ng the danger a de- sert—storm would have for his apparatus, Criss said, “ You must decide at once.” Either allow me to serve you, or say farewell.” “ I shall perish miserably if left here,” was the answer, in a somewhat pettish tone. . A A “ Can‘ worse befal you through me. whoever I may be ?” asked Criss. A ‘ . “ I will trust you,” answered the voice; “ but how are you to find me?” “Leave that to me,” said Criss; “ but do not stir from pended, bearing the words, “Any mails for Europe?” as was the custom with air-couriers. . A message was sent up, saying that no mails were ready; that there was arevolution in Soudan: that the Emperor had disappeared, and that a large sum was offered for his capture. It was his palace that was in ﬂames. But, the accompanying newspapers would tell all the news, the principal item of which was the establishment of a republic. No further dis- turbance was expected, unless the Emperor should return with a force. The republic meant peace, economy, and fra- ternity. i ‘ , Criss continued his journey re-assured. Soon the vast and fertile alluvial tracts began to give place to patches of sand; the growing temperature of the blasts of hot air which now continually assailed him, told him that he was approaching a region which not even modern skill and enterprise had at- tempted to redeem from its ancient reproach of being the most Aarid and baneful region in the world—the vast and dreaded Sahara, dreariest portion of the dreary waste that stretches from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. It opened upon him now, the sandy ocean of the illimitable desert, whose ceaseless andiburning billowsnone could traverse, save at the risk of being overwhelmed and scorched to death. A curse to itself, and a curse to two continents, whose climate it marred, pitilessly mocking man’s longing for more of the fair earth on which to rear homes for his children, the Sahara bade deﬁance alike to the plow, therailway, and the canal, and seemed even to resent the passage above it of the swift- winged aeromotive of our times ;A for it whirled far aloft columns of fine sand, which blinded the aeronant and clogged the delicate works of his machinery. “Why,” thought Criss, as h_e began to recognize the inﬂuences of this mysterious region, “why did not the subterranean forces of the earth V heave it afew hundred feet higher, and give man another contiiient for his use, or leave it a few hundred feet lower, and give him another sea? Is it as a perpetual challenge to man, to prove hi's impotence or his puissance, that nature has bequeathed him such a legacy ? A Criss has got far within the limits of the dreaded desert, when morning breaks. ‘The night. has been perfectly calm, and the air is clear and free from dust. Fascinated and at- tracted by the place and its reputation, he ﬂies low and leis- urely along. A sea of sand! Surely it must be the watery, ocean itself that rolls beneath him, boiling and bubbling in vast blue billows, as far as the eye can reach. He descends where you are.” I “Alas! I Acannot move any more; for my machine is ex- hausted, and I too am fainting.” - Had there been any holding ground, Criss would have se- cured the Ariel against the chan es of ‘any windthat might arise, and stepped out, holding a tring’ to serve as aclue by which to ﬁnd it again. This being out offthe question, he leaned over and drove a stake as far as he could into the ‘yielding sand, fastened to it one end of a long cord, and then made the Ariel move slowly to the other end of it. During this process, the two men spoke at intervals, in order to ascer-A tain their distance and direction fromeach other. ‘ “ You are going quite’ away from me,” said the stranger, in a feeble and querulous tone, as Criss reached the end ofvhis ‘line. ‘ “I shall soon be nearer,” said Criss, delighted to ﬁnd that the length of his cord was suﬁicient to make so easily appre- ciable a difference in their distance. "‘ I have got my centre and my distance now, and am about to describe a circle with them. Keep quiet, and directly 'the"string catches” you, let me know.” A few moments more, and the manoeuvre was successful. The line caught against the crippled aeromotive, and Criss drawing itin, came close up to’ it. The two men could now see each other distinctly." The’ stranger was a’ﬁne-looking man, apparently of mixed race,’ between ﬁfty and sixty years of age, and richly'd‘res=ed. A “You do not look English,” he remarked, after a keen scrutinyof Criss’s face. A A A A ~ A A “ I believe it is only in blood that I am not English,” said Criss; “ but now let meexamine your wounds ?” ' “Not now, not now. AI want to get further from danger. Can you carry me to a place of safety ?” ' A “ I can carry you, but not your baggage,” said Criss; “but I assure you that you are too far out in the desert to be dis- covered. Nonecould see us if they tried. My lighting upon you is so extraordinary a coincidence that is is not likely to be repeated. It is true, we might telegraph to them, but none can telegraph tons, for none know where we are.” A ‘ A And he insisted upon examining his Wounds. The stranger, who was evidently a man of distinction, and accustomed to exercise authority, could not’rAeApre‘ss an ex- pression of amused surprise at the kindly imperfio.Aus way in ‘A whichthis youth took command.A.of him, and directedhis moAvemeAnAts. A beneath. The red sun rises, and straightway the tossing ocean. are around and above him. He is engulphed, and yet he ‘ nothing was visible through the mist of‘ the mirage. ‘The I “ One leg-broken,” said Criss, “ and one arm; a bad wound in the head, and several bruises on thebody.” A “ Those. are all fromthe fall, said the stranger. “ Flying- machines are prohibited in Soudan. The people are too bar- barous to be trusted with them. I alone possessed one, -an old Aone, which I kept secretly against emergencies, but I have little skill in using it. Yet I thinkAAI‘Ashould have got s’Aafely fin it to‘ the fortress of Ashen, where I have friends, but for ‘the wounds received in the insurrection, which pi-eventecl me from managing it aright. _ But look at my leftiside. j,ustrbe- lowth-e ribs—‘-I feel a hurt there.” . . “A small bullet wound,” said "Criss, examining. the‘ part vindicated; “ but it has ceased to ‘bleed. It is: impossible for ‘me to ﬁnd Asben,.or any other place in,Vthe desert, in this ‘mist. H Even were I toascend, to the clear sky andtalre an :observation, I should inevitably lose the‘ position on‘ coming down again. Besides, in such times theloyalty even of your ‘friends in Ashen may be "dubious. I propose,"therefore',t that you let me takeyou to’ Algiers. I have friendsthere, ofwhom ‘you to any place you choose.” , The stranger‘ assented; but on endeavoring to move into ‘the Ariel, he nearly fainted with pain and weakness. I ‘Criss then administered a cordial. A It was only with considerable diﬂiculty that the change was at length effected. A take?” asked Criss, pointing to the baggage. “ They contain little beside wine and provisions. Ii'hLaivc enough about me to pay any moderate ‘expenses for some ‘little time to come.” " . I ” I ‘ » And he looked wistfully at Criss, as if to divine his disposi- tion respecting the laws ofproperty. A “ There, one or two of thoselittle’ boxes may as well come with us,” he said, carelessly indicating the packages in ques- tion. “ They will not materially add to your burden, audit would be a pity to leave all my little, knick-nacks to be buried in ’the sand.” , ' ’ AA A A A They were ready to start, and Criss looked around him. So intent had they both been upon personal matters, that ‘,they had not observed the change that hadqtaken place. Criss was sumed in the last fewminutes. elevated position onwhich the Ariel was restin_g,-—the sum- mit of a huge sandy r_oller,—happily for the Apresentat rest until the wind should give it afresh impetuson its ever west- ward course toward the Atlantic,—the vast desert lay spread around them, an illimitable ocean, of sand. The spectacle struck vividly upon Criss’s unfamiliar eyes. TherAe,Awas_a make him shudder at its absolute desolat_ene_ss. I H ‘_‘ Surely, surely,” he 'murmured ashe Agazed, “this is not what was meant by the promise that there should be no _m.Q1:e seal Fancy the‘ whole earth thus!” A A A A stranger, who hadnot caught Griss’s words. When they were aloft and on their course, Criss/cold, him his thought. A ‘ A ' A’ A A “You know and can quote our Bible, and yet say you are English? Why, I have always understood that the English "were a nation of inﬂdels, who had bani_shed,the Bible from their land.” - . “ On the contrary,” said Criss, ,“we coiisider no education is true we do not regard it as a Fetich, Atobe adored but not comprehended. Thatwe should call superstition.” A “ Superstition? Ah, yes, you English, I know, lookupon my people as superstitious. VVe,regard,you as irI5eligious.”A . “ Besides, added Criss, “ I believe I have both Hebrew and Greek blood in me. So that I have a manifoldyright to know something of the literature ofthose languages.” “I knew there. was something Eastern inyou themomept saw you,” exclaimedthqe wounded man. “ And I_fe11; them was alink betweenus. ' I, too, ,hav,eA,Hebrew,bl_ood inA me. am descended from-” And here he ,stopped, and ,appeare_Ad to be faintfrom -pain and exhaustion. A “You came across Bornou,” he asked suddenly. ‘.‘ Did you hear what was going on at the capital?” A l Criss told him that he only paused for a moment, to offer appeared. The palace, too, was in ﬂames.”A ‘A‘ Oh, those cursed traitors,” muttered the mgigive; ‘abut I shall be avenged. In vain will theypseek for that which they desire.” A And his faintness came over him again. After another dose of the cordial, he said, “ I am weaker even than I thought. VVhen can we reach a city? .And are you sure Algiers is the best place for me.” , .c Criss told hlm that a few hours more would bring them there, and that it had been famous as a sanitarium ever since the old French occupation. He proposed, too, to place him in thehands of a doctor of whose skill he was well aware, and ‘under the protection of the British Minister, who was a great personal friend of his own. Criss added also that he hirnself would have to proceed almost at once to Engl.an.d, when he had seen him properly cared for. ‘ ‘ A c 5 “You will leave me 1” exclaimed the stranger. ‘‘ W-ill any- I thing induce. you to remain? I can reward. you-indeed!” ' A"‘It isimpossible,” said Criss; “ but if necessary,. I can re- turn, and that soon.” ' “ I dread the intrigues of my enemies, if they learn where States.” ’ , - g:‘_ : 5‘ our. minister is all powerful. Besides, he will do any- thing for me." -. " o“You.speak asiif you were somebody, and had inﬂuence, and were not.a mere courier.” I “ Eve1_'y,Ens1ish~man is s.o.-mebody. Whether he be courier. or the stranger an otutline of his history. ' P“ Whatisrour: age?” ‘ - “ And your name?” Acne is aﬁrst-rate doctor. ‘When you are well, Iwill take “ Is ‘there anything here-of small bulk that you «wish to ‘stagtled at beholding the new aspect, which nature had, as- . The mirage had entirely vanished, and from the somewhat A beauty inAit which hehad not suspected, but of _a,kindAto . A “ Praying? and with your back, to the East?” asked‘ the complete that does not include a knowledge of it. Though. it , to take mails, and that they told him the Emperofr ‘had dis- Iam. 1 have never been friendly with the Mediterranean A not,” replied Criss: “ but I am not a conrierﬁ’ And he gave. . Criss. told him he-we's»s0in.s'h9me to coi1.1P19~t19'hi§ ma:j.onty.¥ ' Criss’s hands. ,4*i . ’ ;W0Ol)HULL & 7‘oLArL1'N's WEEKLY. Oct. 81’ ' / Criss told him. , L. “ Can. there be another of that name?” “ Certainly not,” Criss said, and told him generally how he came to be so called. - He sank back, murmuring, “ Christmas Carol! twenty-one years! Christmas Carol! — Wonderful are the ways of the Almighty 1” >1: ac as * ale 4: =2: vs A little longer, and Criss, enlisting the sympathies of his friends, the Minister and the doctor, had fulﬁlled all his promises to his unfortunate passenger. He then went to , take his leave. The fugitive made no further effort to detain him. but implored a promise that he would return to him if possible; and added— , “I know not whether I_shall recover. My impression is that I shall not. If I do not. I adjure you to observe as a last injunction of thesacred dead, what I am about to say to you You see this small packet. None but you must know of its contents. I will place your name upon it. If the rebellion in Soudan fails, present it to the Emperor. It will win for you whatever consideration is within his power to show. Yet it is not for reward, but as the sacredest duty, that you will do this. ‘Should the rebellion succeed, and the Empire notibe restored, the contents are——— But I will leave directions in writing.” ‘ .. . Criss said he would fulﬁll the injunction to the letter; and the stranger declared himself content. There was that about the youth which inspired a conﬁdence which no protestations could have produced. When he started for London the packet was already entrusted to the\British Minister. The account given him of the patient by the doctor, determined him to ose no time in returning again to Algiers. CHAPTER VI. The time was Christmas-eve; the place, Lord Avenil’s pri- vate rooms in the Triangle. The following morning would see Cries of age, and in possession of his fortune. Avenil and Bertie differed as to the feelings with which their ward would receive the intelligence about to be broken to him. The event proved that they were both right, and both wrong. The old lawyer who had from the ﬁrst been entrusted with the legal part of the business, was present; as also, of course, was Criss, but two days arrived from Algiers. During dinner, Criss recounted his recent adventures. making the wreck and the rescue of Nannie, and the sub- sequentﬁight over the length of Africa. thelmost prominent points. ‘I ‘ _ After dinner they proceeded to business. The lawyer ﬁrst read aloud a brief narrative of the ﬁnding of Criss in the bal- loon on the iceberg. He knew something of this before, but the reference to his probable parents and descent, possessed ' for him an interest that was ever fresh and vivid. He was much touched on learning that the proceeds of the valuables found in the balloon had been regarded as belonging to him- self, the only surviving occupant, and so scrupulousiy hus- banded for his beneﬁt. that the ﬁnder, Bertie, had continued to work hard for his own living, accepting nothing out of Criss’s fortune beyond what had actually been expended on him. a . The particulars of the fortune itself formed the last item. One deduction, the lawyer remarked, might appear large, and doubtless it was so. This was for the item of taxation. But it was not large when they considered the advantage given in return for it, in the shape of perfect protection. The ﬁscal system of the country being based, as it had been, ex- clusively upon realized property, in order to remove, as far as possible, all burdens from industry and earnings, fortunes such as that before ‘them, bore the chief brunt of taxation, If their young friend had included among his studies the history of British Economics, he must know that nothing had tended so much toward the security of property, as the in- troduction of such ameasure. For it reconciled the indus- trial classes, which form the great bulk of the community, to the accumulation by individuals of the gigantic fortunes for which modern times were distinguished. In the foremost ranks of such fortunate individuals he had the great pleasure of reckoning their ward and friend, Mr. Christmas Carol. “ And for fear, he concluded, “. you should think I have made a mistakeuand said thousands when I ought to have said hundreds, and millions when I ought to have said thousands; here are the ﬁgures for you to read yourself. Here, also, in this casket, are some of the smaller jewels which belong to you, for it was not thought necessary or advisable to dispose of the whole of them.” And he placed the document in ' Even Bertie was startled at the total, for though aware of the original amount, he had not thought of the enormous ad- dition which would be made by allowing it to accumulate at compound interest for nearly twenty-one years. Criss took the document mechanically, but did not look at it. _ His eyes were bent upon the ground, as if he were endea- voring by a process of intense cogitation to grasp the whole subject. At length he looked up, and said: ‘“I am very glad indeed to be so rich, and most grateful to you to whom I owe it all. Indeed, I look upon it as a debt. and not as a possession. It is yours far more than mine, and I hold it as a free gift, to be resumed at your pleasure, and spent as you approve. But I want to be your debtor for one kindness more. 1 want no one else to know of it. I feel that it is only by keeping it a profound secret ‘that I can use this wealth as it can best be used.‘ Let me pass through the world known simply as Criss Carol, with a tclerablé independ~ ence, otherwise I feel that both my power and 'my satisfac- ‘tionwill be seriously imperilled.” The old lawyer was the ﬁrst to speak. After looking to- wards Avenl and Bertie, and seeing that neither of them were ready, he s aid, with that bland smile which appears to have been an appanage of lawyers ever since, according to the old legend, the ﬁrst one put his foot into Eden: 9‘ I suspect that the diﬁiculty of keeping your secret will not “been our part so much on your own, my dear YOU-I18 sir. My own impression is that a young man mightas well expect to walk about with Mount Vesuvius under his arm in a. state of eruption, and expectpeople not to notice it, as to keep all this gold hidden from view.” _ “At any rate,” remarked Bertie, “we will do our best to hold our tongues, until you release us; eh, Avenil !” “ Of course, if Criss soberly and seriously insists upon se- crecy,” replied Avenil. “ Butl suspect his is only the natural reluctance every one has to being made the subject of scrutiny and observation while in a position in which he does not yet feel himself at home. A little later I think and hope_he will learn that ‘the mere fact of a man being known to be in the possession ofa great faculty or power for good, and there- fore that great things are expected from him, is calculated to operate admirably as a stimulus. Now I,‘my dear boy, have ventured already to cherish plans for you. Your fortune constitutes an engine of enormous power, socially and politi- cally, if you choose so to apply it. And that power is as vastly increased by its existence being generally known, as the power of capital is increased by credit. For credit is capital plus character. The very reputation of being a young millionaire, with good education, extensive knowledge of the world (at least of the outside of it), and aspirations towards a career of usefulness, would, if applied in channels of which I am cognizant, a.t once secure your election to the lower chamber of the legislature, with the highest place in the land within your reach.” . » ‘ ‘‘All this may come -in time.” said Criss, unable to avoid smiling at his guardian’s inventory of his advantages. “ But I think you will allow that I am yet full young to turn legis- lator.” “ Not a bit too young to begin to learn that or any other business, if you mean to excel in it,” interposed the lawyer. “ But do you not consider,” continued_Criss, “ that the cir- cumstances of my origin impose some obligation upon me ?” ’ “Of what kind?” asked Avenil. _ , “I may have alfather living, and in need of me. These mysterious jewels, too, do they impose np responsibility? It seems to me as not impossible that a sacred duty may reveal itself in connection with them. Your kind care has made it possible for me to redeem them and still be very rich. If I am really of the Holy Stock, and lawful inheritor of royal heirlooms, it is not difficult to imagine duties arising which cannot at present be foreseen.” This speech made Avenil and Bertie’ involuntarily look at each other, for it recalled my grandmother’s remarks at the consultation of many years before. _ Avenil was the ﬁrst to answer him. ' - A n . . “My dear boy,” he said, “ I canquite understand and sym- pathize with your feelings under the circumstances. The sudden accession to an enormous power such as has come into your hands, it sure to suggest, to a man of conscience, the in- currence of corresponding responsibilities, and open a whole new region of possibilities, or rather, impossibilities. Such suggestions as your last seem to me very remote from the category of the practical.” “ As for redeeming the crown diamonds of the Empire of Central Africa,” said Bertie, “ for such you know your jewels‘ now are,——if you want-to do that, the revolution will probably make it easy. But I doubt whether the Emperor would have consented to be bound by his agreement. The superstitious value he attached to their possession would have prevented that. He might, however, be willing to pay handsomely for the privilege of retaining them ; that is, in the event of his remaining Emperor, and being able to do so.” “How would you spend this money?” said Criss, suddenly addressing Avenil. . ,. “ I? On, my dear boy, you know my foible. It has been the same ever since, as a child, I was caughrtputting a ther- mometer into the pepper and the mustard, to ﬁnd out why they burnt my mouth. Experiment is the basis of Science, and Science has for its end the improvement of humanity. I have often held forth to you respecting that which I regard as the Science of Sciences.” “ You mean the relations of capital, labor, and land ?” “Yes, in some measure; but you have never yet, I think learned to see the subject as I do, from a religious point of view.” He said this with a smile; for he knew that it was precisely because of what Criss deemed the lack of the re- ligious element in his character that they had never been in complete accord. , - ' “You see,” he continued, “I prefer the active to the sub- jective or speculative form of the religious sentiment, and regard thinking and working as the chiefest of man’s func- tions. Indeed, for me, the term work in itself means the combination of wishing, willing and acting. It was because you would have capital that I wanted you to have an estate. The mere laborer puts into his land the power only of a single pair of hands, and generally of an undeveloped brain. The capitalist Works it with the accumulated powers of several generations of mind and body in combination. For capital is stored‘-industry. As the coal beds, to which England owed its greatness until their approaching exhaustion led to the dis- covery of something more eiﬁcient, represented millions of years of stored sun-power, so capital represents the accu- mu1a1;ed toil of ages. There is no longer the old antagonism between it and labor. Such antagonism was but the result of bad management, and was as absurd as an Qtagonism between the industry of the past and that of the present-— which, indeed it was. I don’t. quite coincide in the distinc- tion our legal friend here drew just now between property actually realized. and property in process of realization. To tax capital is to tax wages, which are paidout of capital. I differ from him also as to the propriety of making the rich pay nearly all the expenses of government. Because a man is rich, is no reason why he should be robbed, or pay for the protection of his neighbors. But this is not our subject just now. You, my dear Christmas, have in your bands such stored industry as I have described, to an extent absolutely unprecedented for one of your years. If you expend a mil- lion a year, andlet the rest accumulate for another twenty years, as it has already done, your fortune will exceed the ‘previously to the Emancipation. But it is a small matter that there be money in the world. What does matter, is the » the hand that holds it. _ You have the money, and the dis- position to use- it well. My fear is only, that in trying to use it too well; that is, in aiming at the impracticably high, and absolute, you will fail altogether. Aiming at the ideal, you will lose the real.’ The physical good of man must be the basis of the moral. The grand mistake of the ancient world lay in its commencing at the wrong end. It inverted the Pyramid. Placing religion ﬁrst, they proceeded from it to morals, and thence to physics. That is, they built on that of which they knew the least. From the unknown and unknow- able, they inferred the knowable. It _was because their re- ligion, while claiming to be the basis of morals, consisted in assumptions, that it failed to regmerate the world. We moderns, on the contrary, starting from the physical and veriﬁable, make morals the basis of religion. We cannot, as did our forefathers, even imagine a religion divorced from, or antagonistic to morality. We hold it as impossible for the Divine Will to be in conﬂict with the moral law, as with the physical. For us, religion signiﬁes the relation of the part to the whole, as morality is the relation of part to part. We must learn the smaller and nearer lesson ﬁrst. From our duty to the ﬁnite springs the idea of our duty to the inﬁnite. If we care not for that which is within our reach, we are not likely to care for that which lies beyond. The love of the seen must precede and produce the love of the unseen. Mys- ticism is not necessarily insanity. “ You deem me deﬁcient in religious sentiment,” he con- tinued, in a tone verging on solemnity. “ Know, then, that for me, the surface of this earth is as the ﬂoor of heaven, and that my ideal of life is to tread it, as the angels of whom you are wont to dream, with ﬁrm conﬁdence in its capacity to sustain the higher life of all best aspirations; and that the only proof of faith is work. It is by work alone that wishing and willing transmute themselves into deeds. We are pro- ducts of the earth. _ To improve the soil, is to go a long way toward improving the produce. This is the function of capital: that is, of work- Younhave only to ﬁnd an occupa- tion worthy of yourself and your means: and your ﬂoating ideas, now vague and undeﬁned, will gradually arrange them- selves harmoniously and musically around it. _ “ One word more. Do not think I wish 'you to go out of your way to compass some formal eccentric destiny. My meaning is, that you should rather let your future spring out of elements which come naturally in your way. Many a man courts failure, and wins it, by rushing into a position for which he has no natural call or aptitude.” ‘ Rarely in his intercourse with Criss had Avenil indicated so decided an appreciation of the spiritual side of things. .I-Iis present tone excited a lively feeling of satisfaction in the youth’s breast, and he felt as if he had scarcely done justice before to the character of his guardian’s mind, and the school of which he was so distinguished a member. Criss was accus- tomed to hear students of science characterized by his friends among the remnant as irreligious and atheistic. He was glad to have such evidence that the epithets were unmeaning or undeserved. . Bertie then alluded to the event of the morrow, and invited the whole party to spend the day at his cottage on the Surrey Downs. Criss expressed his readiness, and added that he must immediately afterward run over to Algiers, to see the wounded man he had picked up in the desert. “ You certainly seem born for the rescue of folks in trouble,” remarked Avenil. “I suppose some mishap is con- stantly occurring to somebody, and as you are always on the move, you naturally light upon the victims. By the way, I see that this evening's papers give an account of the deposi- tion and ﬂight of the Emperor of Soudan, and mention that he is supposed to have perished in the desert while endeavor- ing to reach Mourzouk or Darfur, and that he must have taken the crown jewels wlth him. That hideous Sahara!” he added, “ itiis even a greater nuisance to our hemisphere than the desert interior of Australia is to that southern «world. But for Africa, I suspect that Europe would have been far more habitable than it is.” “That is exactly what occurred to me at the time,” said Criss. "‘ And I thought it such a pity that all the abundant rivers which belong to it, should carry their waters right away from its centre, instead of ﬂowing through it.” Here the conversation was interrupted by the entry of a- servant, who stated that an aerial parcel-express carrier had brought a package for Mr. Carol to be delivered to" himself only, and for which he must have his receipt. Carol left the room, and returning a few moments after- wards with a small box and an open letter in his hands, he told his friends that he had just learnt the death of the man he had left in Algiers. The letter he had read was from the minister. who wrote that he would ﬁnd within the box a com- munication in Arabic, which the dying man wrote himself, and which, with the other contents of the box, he had as- sured him was of the utmost importance. “ Is there any pledge of secrecy ?” asked Avenil. “None, now that the poor man is dead,” said Criss, “ and I shall be only too glad to let you have as much information as I myself possess.” ' [To be continued.] -——————>-—+a+-4.————_— A man cannot afford to be unfaithful under any circum stances; a man cannot aiford to be mean at any time; a man cannot afford to do less than his best at all times and under all circumstances. N o matter how wrongfully you are placed, and no matter how unjustly you are treated, you cannot, for your own sake, afford to use anything but your better self, nor to render anything but your better service; you cannot aﬂord to cheat a cheater; you cannot afford to lie to a liar; you cannot afford to be mean to a mean man; you cannot afford to do other than deal uprightly with any man, no mat- ter what exigencies may exist between him and you. No man can afford to be anything but a true man, living in his higher nature and acting from the noblest cousideration_.s.-—Henry Nationa1;,Deht.W1;9$e magnitudelsc alarmed. our ancestors Ward Beecher. , , Oct. 31, 1874.. woonnutr. eotartrrvs WEEKHLYE ‘ '3 ‘5 INDUSTRIAL JUsT1oE. 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. FORWARD, MARCH! Can a Republic stand still? Has this Republicmade any perceptible advance within the last two years ? Has the hour of transition come? Where lies the responsibility for the present stagnation in all the industrial pursuits of the country? Is not the head responsible for the conduct of the body? Has any practical eﬂort been made by the govern- mental headof the United States to restore the various in- dustries of the country to their normal condition, and set the tens of thousands of involuntarily idle hands to work to develop the latent resources which abound throughout? Is it from lack of ideality to perceive, and competency to exe- cute a plan for the national development of the nation’s un- told wealth that prevents its present leaders in authority from doing what common sense would dictate to be done to save the people from starving or begging in the public streets, as thousands now are daily doing'in the larger cities through- out tha country? The recent brilliant wed ding at the National Capital, be- tween a daughter of the army’s leader.and one whom his friends denominate a “laboring man ” might leadaforeigner to infer that the laboring people of America live in princely style, Where jewel-crowned and golden-sandaled priests, amid the ﬂutterings of costly silken robes, perform their marriage ceremonies. What mockery of the religion of the humble Nazarene! What insult to the starving and shiver- ing families of the laboring people of America! Is there not some political signiﬁcance in this aping of the grandeur of the European courts? Is it designed to feel the pulse of the American people, preparatory to offering or enforcing upon them a monarchical form of government, corresponding to the third-term feeler, as a step toward empire. Let not Americans forget that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” ' Immediately before the Presidential election of 1872, the Secretary of one of the National Departments, while paid by the nation for national duties, and stumping in the in- terest of his partisan master, gave as a reason that Grant should be re-elected, that the country was in a prosperous condition and all the people employed at remunerative wages. Immediately after the elections the papers an-» nounced: 500 men discharged from one navy-yard, 800 from another, etc., just at the setting in of winter. I was told by one employed in a navy-yard that immediately before the elections they are generally busy there, but afterward com- paratively idle. Has the united States Government sunk so low that the National Departments are prostituted to the personal services of the nation’s leading servants? Are these servants conspiring to become the masters? Where is the Spirit of Liberty which animated our heroic ancestors a century ago, when they arose in the majesty of manhood and shook off the shackles with which their despotic rulers were trying to bind them hand and foot? Are our present na- tional rulers any better than were theirs? Are the liberties of ‘the people greater, or their burdens less severe? Are not the rulers now, as then, seeking their own self-interests, re-- gardless of the rights or comforts of the common people? What is the people’s duty in the premises? Let the people ask themselves the question, and its solution may appear to them. The proposed National Convention of Governors of States if divested of all partisan feelings and interests, might be productive of much good for the people at large, if their united wisdom should prove superior to that of those now nominally occupying the position of a national head. The concentrated wisdom of the nation is evidently needed now, if it never has been before, todevise some practicable Way for the people to emerge from their sterile wilderness of Want, into the promised land of plentyvwhich is clearly Within their reach, under an earnest and competent national leadership. ‘ To make a change from Republican to Democratic rule would be a step backward. To continue the present cor- rupted Republican rule would be dissolution from decay. There is no other cohesive politidal organization for the people to step into. Where then are they to go? What are they to do? Let them withhold their votes and influence for one election from both of the corrupted old parties, and wit- ness the result. The professional politicians Would be so weak that they could not stand alone, and would fall of their weight. In the meantime, the people could be devising means for organizing themselves for self-protection. “ Come out from among them, my people!” They are cor- rupted to the core, and only need a puncturing of their out- side shell to show their rottenness. So long as they can keep their form intact, like an addled egg, they may present an appearance of soundness; but when that form is broken their power is gone. Who knows that the two old parties are not united in their secret upper circles? Like two opposing law- yers, in ﬂeecing their fat clients, they may quarrel at the public barpand quietly divide the spoils ‘between them after the case is decided either way. Would not their shifting movements, from side to side, .at policy’s dictate, ij ustify such a conclusion? - They sell the land’ forever to which only God can give a clear title———the choicest parcels to themselves, their agents and their personal friends; and thus they enable themselves to demand, and with the political power in their hands to collect, usury from the people, which is nothing more nor less than robbery, whether it be one per cent. or a hundred. By issuing bonds, National, State or municipal--and estab- lishing banks which live upon the interest of ‘what they ow —-«their promises to pay--they ﬁll their pockets by taxing the people to pay the interest on these “public debts.” A Let the people unanimously demand a cessation of all sales of public lands forever, and the reversion of lands to the State, for the beneﬁt of the whole people, to whom they be- long, at the deaths of their present holders. The people of the present are not"morally bound to fulﬁll the unjust con» tracts of those of the past, nor have the dead any just right to legislate for the living. Let the dead past bury its dead, and the living look to present vital interests. Let the people organize themselves in their industrial pur- suits, anfl by representation through relative branches and departments and classes of labor. form a national organiza- tion of all the productive interests of the country—the two sexes co-operating in their respective chosen spheres of ac- tion--and let their objective place and time of meeting,- by concentrated repxesentation, be Philadelphia, July‘ 4, 1876. There let the people’s true represeiitatives make their na- tional nominations and be constituted a. Provisional National Government, to direct the productive people of the country in their organizing movements with a view to regaining pos- session of the land, and establishing thereon a permanent national structure, wherein all will be judged and remune- rated according to their works. ' _ To those who shall unjustly cling to that they cannot use, which others need, the hand of force may justly be applied to wrench it from them for its needed use. If the American people would not retrograde and ignobly submit to the loss, in the present century, of the liberty which their heroic ancestors so nobly won in the last, let them awaken from their dream of security, organize them- selves in fraternal and harmonial unityand take my caption for their Watchword: Forward, march! SENIUS. UNITED STATES, October, 1874. DEATH OR FREEDOM. BY GERALD MASSEY. Smitten stones will talk with ﬁery tongues, And the worm, when trodden, will turn; But, cowards, ye cringe to the cruelest wrongs, And answer with never a spurn. Then tor!ur_e, oh, tyrants, the spiritless drove, Columbials helots will bear; There is no hell in their hatred, no God in their love, Nor shame in their dearth‘s despair. For our fathers are praying for pauper-pay, Our mothers with death‘s kiss are white; Our sons are the rich .*r.an’s serfs by day, And our daughters his slaves by night. The tearless are drunk with our tears; have they driven The God of the poor man mad ‘? For we, weary of waiting the help of Heaven, And the battle goes still with the bad. ' Oh, but death for death, and life for life, It were better to take and give, With hand to throat, and knife to knife, Than die out as thousands live ! For our fathers are praying-‘for pauper.pa,y, Our mothers with death’s kiss are white; Our sons are the rich manls serfs by day, And our daughters his slaves by night. When the heart of one half the world does beat Akin to the brave and the true, And the tramp of democracy”s earthquake feet I Goes thrilling the wide world through, , We should not be living in darkness and dust, And dying like slaves in the night; But, big with the might of the inward “ must,” We should battle for freedom and right ! But our fathers are praying for pauper-pay, Our mothers with death’s kiss are white; 0ur"sons are the rich man’s serfs" by day, And our daughters his slaves by night. WHAT IS MONEY? BOSTON, Oct. 9, 1874. To THE EDITOR or WooDHULL & CLAFL'1N’S WEEKLY: A writer objects, on the ninth page of your Oct. 17 number, to the payment of interest on money, and inﬂhis view of the question, has the sympathy of many sincere reformers. To all such I desire to say that what is ordinarily called money has no value, and cannot even exist ‘to any purpose, unless it actually represents and acts as the title to property, which we transfer by its use. We do not borrow money, but property; and on this we willingly pay rent if it is in the form of real estate, which no person would think of using without compensation to the owner. K - If we purchase a house or store ‘and give a note and mort- gage, shall We pay no rent or interest? Or, suppose we pur- chase a store full of merchandise and exchange this forreal estate, shztll wenot pay rent as before? ‘ Let it be constantly kept in mind that all We pay as in- terest on money (so—called) is but rent for the property which we purchase and have the use of. If we pay too much, there is no remedy by legislation, as that wouldbe resented as an interference with our free- dom. Our policy should be to return to the true money standard, and permit each person to create, purchase, sell or consume without attempting any control by legislation. A ‘ ' DAVID WILDER. ANSWERS. ' , We do not admit that gold and silver (the world’s money) has novalue ;_ it. has a value as wealth, but its conferred value has very greatly enhanced its intrinsic value. As money, we do not consider it to be wealth, but the representative of Wealth, and We object to any law conferring upon it greater power than wealth itself possesses. Wealth has the power to increase, but only directly through labor; money has con- ferred upon it the legal power to increase, independent of labor, which is objectionable. If our correspondent desires to treat money as a com- modity,’how does he justify its sole possession of the legal power to increase? Usance, in this State, is limited '60. Seven per cent. It A. loans B one hundred barrels of 1_10u,r,, the law would not justify A in demanding of B one hundred and seven barrels of flour at theend of a year. Yet, if money be simply a commodity, it ought to have no legal advantage over other commodities; that is certain. There is a dilference between paying rent. on a house or V store“. and paying interest on a national debt. Houses and stores decay, and the same is true of all other ventures in labor form, such as stock in railroads, ships, etc. They all constantly employ labor directly, and, in a measure, that may be said to justify increase in thv usances of moneys in.- vested in them. As to simple -money speculations, such as national debts, insurance‘ companies and banks, they have no such plea to make; they live on the labors of others _and return no quid. pro quo for their existence. The WEEKLV advocates a national currency based on the wealth of the people, and recognizable as a legal tender in all the law courts of the country. But it has no objection “ to permit each person to create, purchase, sell or consume” money or any other commodity, with the understanding that V all such exchanges be made on credit, and not requiring the sanction or force of law. Our position simply is, withdraw the law from all money transactions, except where it directly actsin its only proper function—viz., as a medium of ex- change for labor. ‘ . This was the position money held. in Europe three centuries ago. About two centuries since the.Hand—in-Hand-, of Lon- don, the ﬁrst insurance company ever established, sued a party in the Court of King’s Bench, London, for moneys due on his insurance papers. The judges inquired what com-. modities the Hand—in-Hand sold? The lawyers for the plain- tiﬁ‘ answered, ‘,‘ Mental ease and security.” To this the judges replied, “that such commodities were too intangible" to be recognized in his Majesty’s court as worthy of redress,”. and the insurance company was, we think, very justly non- suited. In those days “ value received,” aiiixed to money ex- changes‘ for labor, had a Ineal1iug.—ASSOCIA’.I.‘E Emroa WEEKLY. .__=.m.._ THE DEMOCRACY AWAKENING. There has been of late, undoubtedly, a remarkable awaken- ing among even the most ignorant class in England. The plow-boys and swine-herds——t,he Gurths and Wambas——w'ho formerly stood in awe ‘of my lord and his tenant farmer, have felt the throb of the telegraph and printing—press. These agents of modern‘ civilization have stirred up their intellect and made them feel more like men. Serfs they have been virtually, though not in name; but now theyorganize and demand more wages and privileges. Will not some one write another “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” or, "rather, a Gurth’s. Cabin, to help these men, who are of the stock of Shake- speare, to acquire emancipation? But it may not be needed, for they begin to feel their power and to help themselves. Yes, the Work is going on. Even the leading conservative press —the Thunderer itself—while mildly r.eproving_the agricul- tural laborers for excesses in their organizations and demon- strations, and advising them to be submissive, tells the land- lords and tenant farmers plainly that everything must be done to ameliorate the condition of the workmen. The strikes have resulted disastrously in many cases to the men, at least for the time being, but the moral effect in the end will be good. The movement was-an unexpected and a sur- prising one. It has stimulated thought, diffused intelligence, created a sense of power, and awakened aspirations which cannot be long suppressed. It will be well if the landlords and employers yield from time to time to reasonable. demands. Henceforth the pr,osperity of any country cannot. rest on low or starvation wages. To think it can is to have a. false idea of political economy. The more the means and. well—being of the mass of the people are multiplied the ,more= prosperous a nation becomes. More wants are created; food and manufactures are in greater demand, and every ‘ branch of industry and trade is increased. Another widespread and constantly augmenting movement, calculated to promote the ,material welfare of the working: classes and to raise them in the social scale, is that of ‘co- operative societies andpstores. The workmen saw that each. family buying provisions, clothes and household materials. in small quantities at the ordinary stores or shops as they wanted them, were paying dear for poor articles, and that a host of shopkeepers lived far better than themselves, or got rich 707' this business. They concluded to co-operate, buy at‘ wholesale and sell to each other from the common stock at. wholesale prices, with the cost of management added. They found that they got everything much cheaperand of a better’ quality.‘ What one or two could not do many could. The. aggregated small means of many formed a capital with which. the co-operators could go ‘to the first and best market." From. a small beginning in this way larger and important establish- ments have grown up, some of which have stock and capital to the amount of many hundred thousand dollars.—N. Y. Herald. ' _ ‘ - A EXTRACT from D. L. D. Sheldon’s letter to the N. Y. Herald on the emissions in the platform of I the Liberal Re- formers of the State of New York, Oct. 6, 1874: ' “Though the fundamental right of man is to enjoy the fruits of his labor, it is centralization of his products in the hands of non-producers that creates the political power M which disregards his requirements. Though the laborer and. producer hold,and with unanimity can sway a large majority of the power of ballctation, and without whom We could not. exist, we_have entirely disregarded them in our machine. resolutions, and in the construction of our platform. I will. mention some important omissions: First, we did not even. hint at railroad land thieving nor propose a check to the power of corporate Wealth, which means centralization of capital and monopoly, the terrible, undeniable product of. which is the multiplicity of individual poverty and misery. We said nothing in ‘regard to revenue reforms; nothing about protecting the industrial class from the terrible consev quential effects of non-producing monopolies; nothing in re- gard to the private use-of public funds; nothing about politi- cal primaries, which are the hell gates of all political corrup. 3.. Q» ~ WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. tion; nothing in (regard Etc, reflerring to the people for con- ﬁrmation or condemnation thepinfamous acts passed by legis- 1at-,ju;-e's, bwliérebyfrequired security could not be obtained for the purchase of legislators; nothing, is‘ said in regard to securing equitable adjustment ofofﬁcial accounts; nothing about the oﬂicial‘ useiof publicor private funds for sectarian ~ purposes, when the cities of New York and Brooklyn alone paylannually $12,000,000 for’ sectarian purposes, through the exemption of taxation upon church property in real estate to the: amount of _$340,'000,000—there is no more justice in pay- ing for sectarian religion than for sectarian politics; nothing in regard to the one-term Presidency, nor of electing the President by the people.” _ . [We commend thefhchargesg in the above statement to the thoughtful labor reformers in the country, more especially that one in ,which‘a11u‘sion is made to the much-needed “ ref- erendum,” so long demanded by the WEE_KLY.j , . so SOCIALISTIC. ._.._..___. , MAUDMULLER. , If the discussion of the woman question result in nothing more than an improvement of the health of our American girls, future generations will have much reason to be thank- ful, even after they have forgotten the acrimony and recrimi- nation of the," dispute, and after they have adjusted the intellectual and political status of the ethereal being whom ego_tisti'o‘ma.n_has_ solong bcomplacently looked upon as his lesserselff The body of the American girl is of greater im- portbjance--the Times challenges Elizabeth Cady and Julia Wardﬂto prove the contrary——thebody of the American girl is of great<:r importance than her mind. Who dares dispute it? Howlshall mews scna be without corpora sono _? A girl with a weak, useless,disease-imprisoned body should be christened Euthanasiafand be subjected to cremation at the earliest available opportunity. A , But it is very comforting to ﬁnd that this serious and all- important question of the Ame1_'ican’s girl’s,health is receiv. ing the concentrated Iattention of the anti-women and the women. It is gradually“ri"sing into prominence in the news- papers.” It has longvbeen prominent in the periodical and spasmodical literature of the sweeter sex. The ‘magazines begin totreat it as seriously as they do the currency and the gradual enfranchisement of the Indians. _ Books multiply about‘ it. Dr.*E. H. Clarke suddenly appeared as a sardonic champion in the women’s camp with his “ Sex in Education, or a‘ Fair Chance for the Girls ;” and several months elapsed before the traitor was thoroughly unmasked. His fair chance for the girls consists in advising them to struggle as well as 1»,he‘y“'c‘an with the atom of life which they have received from their beneﬁcent creator; and that to carry out the struggle in such a manner as to keep their purple shells of bodies toge;th'er,*they had better avoid learning the alphabet. At least they should carefully eschew all alphabets but the En- glish. ” But the giantesses have arisen, and they have driven out the doctor ignominiously; those beautiful and clever princesses, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, author of “ Gates Ajar,” and Louisa-Alcott, the queen Little Woman; and Alida C. Avery, the -resident physiciaif‘ of Vassar college-—pursuing the defeated and retreating doctor with brilliant shafts of wit and ‘fact and sarcasm so that there is nothing left of him but his diagnosis. Next comes Mrs. E. B. Duffey, of Philadel- phia; with a diﬁuse but forcible volume on “ No Sex in Edu- ga,tim‘,” and what will be the end of it-—unless it be a robust, blooming girl—-not even the doctors know. But it is time that mankind entered into adeep conspiracy- to ma-keour girls healthy; they become wealthy and wise soon enough. It" is time that all the nonsense about delicate girls‘—was thrown behind us, into the contempt and oblivion which beﬁt such fancy creations. It is time that men and women, parents and teachers and preachers, combined with honesty and decency and modesty and common-sense, to 1-enc1er« every American girl as strong as her brother, or stronger if she can be. It is a slander upon nature and an in- suit to God to reason. and legislate upon the premise that a girl cannot be healthy. Fashion, ignorance and crime have been her destroyers. It is time some systematic method was agreed upon for her recuperation. .. The novelists, mock-theologians and poets-—especially wo- men‘-'—have done their best to deteriorate her physically, and render her the -despicable mental dwarf which has now be- come -the hatred and derision of -the-intelligent" of both sexes.‘ The-only women whom. the Romanists have granted healthy bodies are half-christianized or wholly! savage crea- tuI.es_ . And even when the girls are reﬁned and presumably Christian: and ‘gently: bred, the- poets persist-—especial1y women—-in‘ teaching them habits that would undermine the health -and sap the constitution of the healthiest girl Mother Naturg eveviﬁbore. There’s Maud Muller; it is very well to ' ten. us‘ that ‘on a summer’s day she raked the meadow sweet with hay. But how did she do ‘it? With bare feet ! Does not anybody know that, the girl gmus-ti have caught her death of cold? Even if had»b§eeu"a bright, clear day, shevwould have contracted rheumatism, neuralgia, bronchitiss, for catarrh; but worse tl1an".t-hat. she» stayed "there like a fool till the I rain, on the unrakedﬂclover fell. Whittier was, of course, deceived about her» s‘ubseque'nt career. She was down sick with hay-fever, the~ve'ry-next day, and died; of consumption the following ,,pm,_.‘;,:- By the-~'time the judge ‘had got _a divorce and re- turned tolmarr-y her, he found ﬁve hundred yellow dande- lions‘ growing calmly on her grave'.~ Thercfs Mrs‘. Browning’s u Aurora~L‘eigh;’7 ‘she was accustomed to “brush a’ green ,trail-“across the lawn, with her gown in the dew”-in plain words, bedraggling‘ her skirts, getting her ankles slopping w6t,,.§;f}d_1 c‘oughi.ng'the-‘whole -of the nextnight with croup gnd.mumps'. She used to get -up early, not to catch the imﬁ prudent worm’. but , V _ . v_ " just to sit, , And watch the morning quicken in the gray, And hear the silencccpen. like 9. ﬂower, Leaf after leaf,’?. » N o_ wonder she had“ a melancholy, smile ;’,’ no. wonder she treated Romney so shamefully; no wonder she had epicardi- tus and disturbance of the gastric juice, and pains in her joints: she died of pneumonia. Plenty of similar instances will occur to the reader, which we have not space to quote. There must be a complete revolution, even in fancy and in literature, about the body of the ideal girl before matters intellectual, physical, political or social, begin to set them- selves to rights. Venus must be made to ﬂee before,Diana. The ideal girl must cease to have dark lines under her eyes. She must obtain from nature and fashion a release from that poet’s nickname, Frailty, and insist that the girl of the future shall be christened Robustia. She must abandon slate-pencils and surrender stays. She,’ must wear heavy shoes, warm 3underclothing, walk, . erect, do housework and kitchen-gab dening, eat roast beef, discharge her dressmaker, and chase the hours with ﬂying feet in every possible direction during the day, butwsleep all night. Thou shall We behold- “ The reason ﬁrm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill; ’ A perfect woman, nobly planned." When she has attained these attributes, Dr. Clarke may permit the colleges to educate her to the highest notch. Mary Lee graduated a month ago at the head of a very large class of both sexes from the medical department of the Michi- gan “university, and the reason is that in addition to being the smartest member, she was also the largest and healthiest. Education will not hurt a young woman. having such attri- butes half so much as “that vicious tyrant, Society. Maud Muller, rccuperated, if she choose to be a granger, will know ‘enough to put thick-soled boots on when she’ goes into the meadow; and she can then turn up her nose at the judge, for by that time she will undoubtedly have learned as much law as he.—-Chicago Times. 4 . A SHORT SERMON. If women do not speak out in a way to command a hearing it is their ownfault. They have only themselves to blame. The old feeling is dying out which was once universal, viz. : condemning a woman for making something of herself here or hereafter. _. Paul was not translated for. the ignorant and, I must also think, malicious speech against a woman’s right to be some- thing. He probably has seen. for some eighteen hundred years, the plain facts and the evils he was the cause of bring- ing into practice. Let. every vestige of the old Paul-who never appears to deny or reaﬂirm the detestable doctrines he avowed——and his errors with him vanish, as vanish they must and will if the world keeps on moving. Why, that old Bible standard has not so much value as regards woman’s relation to man, her right to own herself (blessings upon those who have proclaimed this new Saviorl), to speak when and where she will, to wear long or shorthair; as the veriest dime novel of this wiser generation. , u _ _ _ , Has it not been proved that a woman. can draw crowds to hear her in direct competition with the greatest men and coin more money, win -more favor and friends than they. The independent women, generally wear I‘? short ” hair for the reason that it is less tiresome to be natural than to pander to the sickly vanity of men any longer. Women left to themselves are sensible in such matters, revealing the love of the beautiful in their adornment, in the fresh rose or band of silver or jet, and a soft ruche in the néck of a plain dress, when-—when !—they have risen above the necessity of adorn- ing a face or form for men to admire. , “ Gain a heart and toss it away ” is the history of a woman’s life nine times out of ten, if -she allows her brother (?), man (?), to shape it for her and seal her destiny. “ Oh, this weary life,” said a sweet, pale woman to me, who was just recovering from such a “ load” of sorrow as thousands have to bearbefore thcy'learn‘the lesson. She had loved to the entire abnegation of herself in it, and thrown herself away! Reader, do you doubt it? Have you not seen just such an one asC——.— many a time? It is so common an occurrence that instances could be gathered up to make a volume in a brief time. And this --frequency of tragedies in the love relation calls for a “ bugleibﬂst ” as loud as Jamieson ever blew! And if women were wise they.,would take warning. ’ C——’s lover didlfor a time cherishiher and devote him- self in the same exclusive manner to her that he required her to do by him. Hetaught her, step by step, to lean on l1im-—- a broken reed! How the pale pink faded out of her cheeks and the eye lost its brightness in the months of terrible de- jection that followed‘ the desertion! It was the old story. Love, ﬁrst hot, then tepid, then cold—frozen, at length, like the Polar sea." , V _ , He left her a blighted ﬂower; torn, faded, trampled, soiled, with his polluted promises resting upon her like a curse. While they lived that life of dependence on each! other, it was delightful, superb ;, each one of us knows it to be so; and a well- trained, wise life of the aﬁectlons, how sublime! . The ‘dependence, then, is all we have to fear. She‘, the loveliest of women, suffered because of what? Not unfaith- fulness toward him--0, no I ‘ but for the “ divine love” she gave to himinstead of to herself. _ p I Reader, if you thinkthis must be a, Vmisanthropic version of love affairs,’-I trust you‘ will wait‘ to decide fully until the hand-writing’ has been traced upon the wall of your own chamber, as up_9I1,C,——,—’s, and you ‘will trace,,may be, with such pale ﬁngers as ‘I have seen other hands do, these words, “ lVIen_e, ‘mene, tekel.”_. f‘ ‘Weighed, in the balance,!”_ What balance? Your own jud_gme'nt,most p‘rop'e'rly,; that is Wise and high ‘enough to know that you have no right (especially awoman has no right) to give yourself, away, or cling!—I hate the word’!—to the best man living, , 'C—-—_’s lover turned his backupon her and lefther. Pre- cisely so did the Rev. “Arthur,Dimmesda1e” by “,Hest.er Prynne,” in that story of,Hawthorne_’s._“ The Scarlet Letter,” which every man, woman and childshould read, and judge which of thetwain sl1pul_;C,1’.1’_1‘aLV63, been doomed tofw_ear it. Woman 1'; “ First ‘atthe across 2*)" And‘ the “ Scarlet L.,‘a.,r,>,%, stands representative of all her past and of the martyrdom she has endured through the stigma cast upon it! C-—- loved with all truth, with a pure love, so unselﬁsh! 1 ‘She has loved twice, and both lovers have been as gufilty in the end as highway robbers! 1 am in no wise extreme; if I chose to be, I would pull down the tumbling roofs over their heads,‘and bring them now to judgment. But -thelaw of compensation holds good to the endof time. One has lived a godly life, but so inane that he suffers in his " respectable ” hell, like one who has lost his way in the dreary desert, and the terrible stigma of “ hypocrite” cleaves to him like a deadly miasm, drinking up the life of his body and soul. The other needed her spirituality; her very Weakness of body was a benediction on his life, calling his thoughts away from a dull round of care. But, alas! He failed in truth, in wisdom and courage, and sank back powerless at.last to save her or to save himself. These men are now scot—frce. Think of it! It would be a terrible revenge for a white-souled woman to do so cowardly a thing as to blackmail her lover. But what has he not done? Sought and won her heart’s best aﬁections. I would rather that the world become barren of love and sterile as a desert in this respect, than that another woman yield up her soul to the keeping ( ?) of the opposite sex. " There are piles of letters lying there, touched now and then by the delicate ﬁngers, which tell such tales! No wonder that “ blackmailing ” is so frequently done in behalf of love! The wonder is, that the torch ﬁres have’ not been kindled on every spot where a woman has suﬂ’ered through her lovcr’s perﬁdy. What shall I say? I hold her white hands and try 0 point the way. “ Never love!” That is one way. She shudders at hose words. “Never receive a caress, or ﬁnd satisfaction for the great demand of the large, loving nature ?” How terrible! I pity her, and yet I say, “ Never love, or rule that love yourself! Demand yourself, your freedom, your life in your own hands, properly yours, and none of yourself given away in this most damnable of all lotteries, if you would save yourself from destruction.” My sisters, this is a woman’s right, because her-wrongs have nearly all come of loving unselﬁshly, and rising no higher than a dependent thing. Think of this, and put away your “loves ” until you can stand up bravely before the world, and love yourself and God’s truth more than man. Then, and not till then, can you love safely. I who tell you this—-who know what it is to love and be loved, and my heart not" yet crushed, faint or worn out-— know that woman is cursing herself by her lack of expedi- ency in matters of love. The “divine” dwells in it, just as ever, but the curse rests on us because man is strong enough A yet to crush a woman, and spurn, after months and years of her devotion,‘ the tender, clinging creature who has given her smiles, her very soul to him, and then feels the bitter- ness of her lot. _ Rouse yourselves, my sisters, and live for your woman- hood ﬁrst, and then if there be manhood that can bear the test of your new interpretation of a life of love founded upon justice, accept it at arm's length. I CHARLOTTE BARBER. THE TRUE ALTITUDE. HENRY WARD BEECHER AND ELIZABETH TILTON. If the gods take cognizance of our acts. how strange it must seem to them to hear men and ‘women of our earth speak of these two from such an immeasurable height of superiority as “fallen!” » And what barefaced frauds and liars they must know us to be when we seize such an occasion to ﬂaunt abroad in contrast the immaculate whiteness of our own skirts! Are the human sympathies all dead? Is all tenderness and pity gone away forever from mankind ? Even the love of the beautiful and true should make us pause before we condemn two persons whose letters betray the wonderful capacity of such great natures to love and to resist. Wlio cares whether their resistance was effectual in re- straining them from love’s ﬁnal consummation? That they loved with a pure, holy, undying love is evident; and with all the might of my whole nature do I admire the love and pity the su_ﬂ’em'ng of those two great hearts. Henry, Ward Beecher, ‘with . -his brain, was born to be a ruler among men; but his brain, large as it is, would race, had it not been backed by the impassioned generosity betrayed into an act that this world stigmatizes as adul- tery, who can wonder. men and women, everywhere if they, knowing their own proneness to such evil, arenot prepared to say truly, “ I love him more at this moment than ever before.” For my part, I will say that while he seemed a god I ‘admired him; that now, when I feel him to be a being with like passions as my- self, I not only. admire, but love him. It is our sins and our follies, even more than our virtues or the graces of our intel- lects, thatuniteus in this existence. and make us feel the common bondof our humanity.-I That the divinity within Henry Ward Beecher is crossed and marred by the contra- dictions ofhis actual life does‘ not prove him less a god, but more a mom. . I I . V - we that talk so lightly on this subject? guess. the depths of his anguish than we can measure the height of his genius; for his feelings are deep'as'—‘ his aspira- tions are lofty. : I supposehis nature must be true to’itse‘l1f'—f— in another; and that he has no, power to measure the depths of the,-heart of poor humanity as hedoes unless hegoes down with his own heartinto that depth. .v . . ‘ I .- . AS f01»'.E1iZabeth Tilton, I pray the holy spiritsofrredeemedi shemust hold her peace and endure silently. Godipity them have beenineifcctual in rendering such signal service to the I of his great heart. . That such ‘a loving nature may have been v Even, admitting it to be a sin. I ask ‘ Who can-tell what his sufferings have been? I And whoarcl We can no more I that he cannot choose to be strong in one passion: and weak - saintsgto come to gherxand give her comfort'.;. She is a..wom;m ;. ' : Oct. 31, 1374. . I’ both. He does ‘pity them with.-_a pity that ‘to-ldayilows in . unspokenlanguage from ten thousand hearts, suﬂiciently en- larged to shake off the damning prejudices of ‘society, and stand forth panoplied inpure justice and loving generosity. To say that Henry Ward Bee‘cher’s career is ended is to say that his life is ended. And what more ﬁtting end to a great life than its sacriﬁce to a great truth. A truth that nature is proclaiming every h0ur—-THAT LOVE IS li‘REE——that it goes where it is sent; and that bars and bolts, and laws and prom- ises, are ineffectual to control it. , ~ ‘ Why do men who understand these things heap such I-let’ introduction to one another. ‘What an: aibsurdityzl - There is of the man on whom God has forced the mission ‘of illustrat-I esy upon human nature as to write and speak condemnation ing in his own life their well known and well practiced beliefs? The question is just this: whether we choose to‘lie—to turn poltroons to ourselves and human n‘ature4or whether, now that opportunity offers, we will set the seal of manhood and womanhood upon our lives by standing straight up, in the broad light of day, and speaking the truth. _ . HELEN WILMANS BAKER. LOWER LAKE, California. PERSONAL FREEDOM. A SPIRIT COMMUNICATION THROUGH A. 0. _ Experience of others,‘mayb,e taught and-—if the pupil will ——utilized. Education should be such as to enableius to take advantage of accumulated experiences, and_thus avoid the costly method of repeating in each individual case what has been settled long ago"; but when these results of others’ ex- periences are communicated, let ezzch use or ignore them, as he sees ﬁt, provided he keeps within the limits of his own kingdom. It may be that personal freedom would be misused; but it is the only logical alternative to the most, absolute social and religious despotism; the middle conditions must, sooner or later disappear. lts terms may be loosely stated, its application misunderstood and per- 'verted, its conditions uncomprehended, its limitations in- sufficiently deﬁned and inadequately insisted upon; but the deﬁciencies of its advocates and the misrepresentations of its ' enemies affect not the value and practicability of the princi- ple. I External restraint is gradually losing its power; and to replace it we must substitute, by education in its largest sense to old and young, an internal restraint, arising from knowledge and experience, which is far more poteht for good than the external, and not open to the objections of the latter. " The philosophy of the spiritual, which lies at the base of what is called spiritualism, essentially sustains this view by i maintaining, as it does, the superiority in power of the in- ternal, invisible and eternal over the external, visible and ﬂeeting matter, which, at best, is but an imperfect expression of the inward and spiritual. - Such philosophy can but regard coercive methods as imperfect, where not absolutely mis- chievous; and whatever may be the temporary necessities of a social condition wherein people are “ born in sin and con- ceived in iniquity,” we must look to a gradual substitution of the power of love, kindness and intelligence for that of coercion, which is but the raw, bare substitute for cultivation. As the latter is introduced, coercion becomes an imperti- nence. The necessity for coercion, if real, is a reproach to our educational societies, by whatever name designated——schools, churches or halls of science. There would not even be a sup- position of its necessity, werewe born right and raised right. It is because we are not that the necessity is even supposed. When the fact is realized that the amount of coercion believed to be necessary is universally proportioned to the efﬁciency of our educational and social agencies,we have taken a long step to dispensing with it altogether, replacing it by a spontaneity which grows out of culture, not out of ignorance and barbar- ism. To evolve this spontaneity is the work of the advocates of freedom. Let us do it by intelligent generation and intelli- gent relations to each other, regardless of social or spiritual dogmas. ' “DEGRADATION.” The Boston Ilemld of July 1’7th informs its readers in the case of the Rev. Glendenning, that the Rev. scamp undertakes to exonerate himself from the charge of bastardy, by prov- ing that six more of his precious congregation had shared the lady’s favors equally with him. Now, in all kindness of heart, we ask the women of Amer- ica how long will you degrade your sou1s—yes, degrade is the term——by. stooping to bestow favors upon things of that ilk (we should blush to call them men)? We believe in harmo- nious relations between the sexes; we believe that woman should have the broadest freedom, especially as regards her person; and furthermore, we know that when a woman hon- ors one of our sex to that degree wh'erein she surrenders her- self entirely to his manhood for a period, that, as an individ- uality, he belongs back behind the animal kingdom who goes and proclaims the fact from the housetops to save his precious character; for cases innumerable may be cited among the lower orders where the male will stand up‘ for and defend the female with whom he has cohabited. Off with your human garments, most humble follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, and go back where your own words and deeds place you—into the vegetable kingdom !. Perhaps after afew more reincarnations you will be willing to do justice to a human body whenagain nature kindly furnishes you one. In striking contrast to the case we have just presented wa , that of Charles M. Hapgood and Emma Rockwell, who,wheri the storm. burst upon them in its might, chose to.“ abide the shock,” and went to. prison for a deed which in all probabil- ity nine-tenths of those -in the court-room where they were sent.en,ce_d, h.a'..d.be,en guilty thriceto. their once. All honor to the maptyrs I-IaDg0‘0d Rockwell; ” ' _ Quce more we begpof. you, my‘sisters,,to shun all cbwsiarag *as“t1;e Rev. gieaaeiining. aria ,sgsk,so;:;e more worthy obj”ect"_u'p’o'n whom to bestow your love, lest’ ‘others who might seek these relatio’ns,from the purest and holiest motives shall be ﬁlled with loathing and disgust for all of my sex. , FRED. L. Hxtpgarru. [From the New York Hebrew Leader] THE Bmss or MARR'lAGE. , _ K , _, , Time whirls" us along the downhill path of life with._the- velocity of a locomotive, but we have_ one comfort,-_—we,can‘ make’ love on the road. What ._the_ negro preacher", said of Satan may be said of love: “ Whereihe ‘ﬁnds: a weaker place,‘ derei he creeps in.” There is a wai-“’m‘-"corner, even in the coldest heart; and somebody—-if ‘th2ijt‘s‘o‘mebody'can onlybe fouTnd—_was. madeexpressly to ﬁll it.” Thousands of both sexes live ‘and die. unmarried, simply for"«Want of a proper -not a woman nor a man of anyage who might not ﬁnd a suit;- ;by the forms and colnventionalities of this ettiquettish world-_ “ Society” attaches a ball and chain to the natural feelinggs of the heart. The fair girl, with her bosom running over with the purestlovc for a worthy-object, must take as»mu’ch- ‘pains to conceal the factas if it were a deadly sinyand Heaven had not implanted within ouribosoms the tender sparkand bade us “ to loveand be loved.” Is this natural? No, it is artiﬁ- cial. Why. should.’ innumerable marriages be prevented_ by chilling rules and penalties? Nature is modest, but she is not a starched-up prude! Look at the birds. There are no oldbachelors and old maids among them; The hearts that ﬂutter under their feather jackets follow theiinstinlct, of love, and they take to billing and cooing without/the slightest idea that courtship should be a formal affair. Why: should there be forlorn bachelors and disappointed old maids, and lonely widows and widowersamong the unfeathered any more than the feathered bipeds? Oceans of happiness are lost-to both sexes every year, simply because parties who wish to be married are not permitted by etiquette to make the fact known. MARRlED—1;I_(;l‘ MATED. . ' A very prepossessing young woman presented herself. be- the foreman in Fred Olark’s mill. would not live with her husband. That she wanted to keep the child which she held in her arms. She could show no grounds for a divorce, and the attorney advised her to try/to get along and live peaceably with her husband. Thisshe de- clared she never could do and started for the depot. Here her husband presented himself and asked permission to "kiss his child. This the mother at ﬁrst refused, but sheiﬁnally yielded and passed the little one over to its father. No sooner did the man receive his little one than he started off at full speed with the wife and mother in pursuit. She traced her babe to a house in the East Division, and entering asked for her darling. "_The child was given to her, and her expressions of joy maybe imagined. Shortly after the father entered accompanied by an oﬂicer. _ his wife to live with him and let him share in the love of their child, but the woman was immovable. The poor man kissed his wife and babe repeatedly, and renewed his en- treaties to themother.-= His requests were spurned until the oﬁicer stepped in and spoke brieﬂy—“By gad, he“ shall have that child.” And have it he did, for the mother, seeing there was no use to resist, passed over the little innocent and. the ofﬁcer left the trio with something like a prospect of a reconciliation. The case is a singular and a sad one. The woman, for some unknown reason, has taken a dislike to her husband, although he treats her with the utmost kindness and ai’fcction.—St. Paul Dtsjiatch. It is a sad case when the law says ‘a woman’s baby belongs to the man andnot to the mother that bore it; it _is a little‘ north of sad, and verges into injustice and cruelty. But the same villainy which has delivered the mother to the man may ‘well be expected to rob her of her baby also. SOClETY’S INJUSTICE. - the world, that a majority of the race are forced to inordinate extremes for want .of a proper exercise of the natural func- tions. In the necessary result of false social relations, there is no greater evil to answer for than the unavoidable conse- quences of sexual starvation. The world has yet to learn that the desires of "craving" nature, are not the dictates of pure animalism. Amcnable‘ to the physical laws of being, ‘are mind and body. Conformity to these laws must produce harmony; non-conformity, dissolution. There canbe no ab- rogation of this ﬁat in sexual relations. p The Seer argued better than he knew in declaring that ab- stinence engenders maladies. _ Diverted from a speciﬁc vent, the exuberance of nature seeks relief in the manifold methods of selﬂabuse. Mastur- bation, physical degeneration, intemperance and mental de- i pravity are a tithe of the misery entailed on the ‘human fami- ly' through sexual starvation. The fullness of a complete be- ing is provided for in the freedom of cohabitation. Here is the consummate blending of soul. and body. To name the de- sire of the ssexestlust, issimply to renounce the Alpha and omega ofall procreatedlife. , A ' V » . I What commandof modern propriety can prevent men from converting the streets of Aourlcities into thoroughfares of assig- ‘nation. ?. Under our present system,the girl who sells herbody is no‘ less a. public commodity than ﬂour or pork, and from a law ofphysical necessity comes the demand that will have supply. The noticeable increase of prostitution of late" is the outgrowth of general dissatisfaction with present marriage relations. It is needless to evade facts. The majority of men are not given to wedlock, nor will they abjure the use of sex- ual proclivities any the more because society, threatens the ostracism it dares not inﬁict. Under the systems that now. prevail, prostitution is thereforeto increase, and all attempts: at social or legal subjugationpwill end iudefeat. The time is at handito. wipe ‘away all distinctions in sexual commerce. what man c,a'n‘c1aim'a ysocial superiorityito the girl onthe town who1nhe' consorts with ?' Isshe not a minister to the requirements of his nature that are incontestable? ‘Where- fore can he brand her with sexual inferiority? No longer crowd the outcast to the water's edge. She able partnervby using. the proper means. ,Th,e,f,act is that . « infection is smothered, choked down‘, subdued and paralyzed fore the.Court Attorney and stated that she was the wife:of2 That she did not love and I The husband entreated. _ Society with its circumscribed limits has so hedged about whom you are persuaded to renounce ‘is the priestessjof your V » health and happinessn Stand by her, and, .if,‘.you are. not . ,without. nobility,let the odium from immaculate piety fall on you. The pulpit is ever loud in protestations of virtue.==“In~the oilight of recent disclosures they can be accorded no such pre- cedence. How long arewe to be hoodwinked by these clerical hypocrites? The palpable shams of the clergy "are a millustone an out the neck of woman’s emancipationf grinding’wijth’*‘op- pression, converting charity into "opprobrium, and the door to all social recognition. Until priestly dictators are divested of all hollow pretense, it is useless to hope for ' the bettering of human conditions. _ D, G. CHITTENDEN. ; . .OsK'_ALoos'A,_ Iowa, Sept, 1874. ' . V2'ctom'a—How clearly one can see in every aspect of the great social drama the need of reformationsin? onrxcustoms and institutions. In the light ‘of formerithvouightiand educa- tion how poor, how pitiable is ‘human nature when unvailed ; in the light of the new truth, or new 'conceptions of truth, -how beautiful, how enjoyable might _life.;to human beingsjbe. I, too, have been ‘down,’ to the very depths in suifering—,— down to the very death,’in trying to obey and live out ‘man's ideas and laws of marriage. Curses ‘on’ all laws-and in's"t\i‘t-u'- tions under which .such suiferging is possible. ,~La_nguag.e s not strong enough to express my horror of the,institut_ion of marriage,with the present idea and legal enactments. I have a daughter——a bright, beautiful girl. I would rather“ to-day see her thrown before the car of Juggernaut than to see her down together. Out of all this woe and anguish something better must come, else let us end, our isery__at onc_e. May it not.'s01,ne.time.sLb9 that...t1_1ere_is.a rs.a1touch'of kixidness in her own life with it—which, if left to develope, would live to suffer years of agony as she has suffered. i Your Steinway Hall speech on social freedom was the ﬁrst light I ever saw on this question. Since then I have followed you closely, steadily, and never for a moment have I lost faith in you or the truth you are living for, working for, dy- ing for. I » A ‘ ‘ How steadily the band of workers are increasing, I am glad at every new accession, every new name, in this greatest, grandest work of the age. - “Human Nature is better than we. are willing to allow. .‘ Bet. -001118. ‘ ' I do not hold that the monogamic idea ofthe _asso_ciat.io_fnof, the sexes is the highest development; unless as I conceive it. to be, man is but a unit, and not man alone either, but"m/an-‘- and woman; not as individual man or woman,but as‘a-whole. The idea thatfreedom in social or sexual matters,mean, 1i- A cense or looseness or—.excess,_s_eems to me so foreign to,it,—that I_ could not retain the thought a nioment, only .; that I know it is held or pretended to be held, by the opposers of freedom. To be plain, the idea seems to hold that if a man or woman, ‘-believes in sexual freedom, therefore «that man or ‘woman will desire to cohabit with every person. of the 0pp0s_i.t6.';Sex: that they may happen to meet, ‘upon all possible ~ occasions.-.. As well might they argue, that because a person has freedom to eat any kindof food he desires or chooses, therefore that‘ person would eat atall times upon all occasions, and ﬁnally devour all the food he comes in contact with. j ', I Let us have freedom. Let us listen to the voice‘ or nature._ Let it dictate to us, and it will regulate the association of the sexes so easily, so nicely, so well. Light will then spring from the darkness and order come outlof chaos. -’l.‘he‘;beauty of a new earth, a new humanity, will appear in the place of the mass “ without form and void,” that we call society. - - . . - V. E. H. i h BELOIT, Wis. EDITORS or THE WEEKLY: " 1 want to say a few words on that (much-agitated subject, . Free Love. It seems to methat all,-or nearly all,=th‘at write on-‘ the ‘I subject of f.re_e lovetreat it as something that hasI.?ju‘st.‘ Ibsen discovered, and only by the few. .Now, letme just say ‘irlght here, thatzcverybody isgborna free lover. I ~wi~11,admit-. there are very ,1:na,ny——a large majorityof the; inhabitants of the earth——e_specially us ‘flords of .creation,’f that know Inothing, about love, It is all a, bargain and sale with us-—tho same with pa" woman__as with a horse. We go_to,the‘, stable and hire a horse for any hour or week; just so we hire the woman, and there is just as much‘ love inthe one case‘ as “the ‘other; no love about it. ‘TiiG1"'6i'§ no su‘c’h""a thing as mixing free love and free lust any more than there is oil and Water. ‘We love anything that is loveable to us, and oan’t help our- selves ; and we are all just alike in that respect. Lu‘st.,is_what keeps our many houses of prostitution running. .Lo_ve does no such thing. Love always aims to do good; lust to satisfy lth‘e‘passions,'wi_thout thinking or caring whether we vdQ‘7‘h;,ujm, ’ '01. not : }_I'piends,’ go on; you‘are doing great good’; and , jthough I am‘ an old man, I shall do what I can‘ to aid in the; §W0,-k, Hxanrr SAGE. I [From -¢Ite,Azz-nay ion-y Item, Pmm. Oct. 12, 1874.] ' A ‘BEE-HVIVE OF CELEBRITIES. Ii.d1'to'r “All-Day City Item” : I V , ’ . . Nothing more illustrates the cosmopolitan character of, the American peoplethan to witness the extraordinary gather- jngg, which often occur in an American hotel. For example, I_ chanced in the Continental Hotel Saturday ‘evening at d1'm’1‘e'r;’hungry_ and sad ;' my appetite was ’ distracted by the following 'darl1-ng’s'-of the-public scattered‘ about. different 1-,a_,b1;e_s‘:j7F,irst, ‘of. course, n1,_sel.f_-collected majesty. ‘Sat Victo- ria C.~WoodhulL and T¢mm'e C. Clcﬁm; then Gov. Curtin; then Toole, the actor; then Charles Thorne; then Sheridan Shook, the'Uni0n Square marlassr 0f.N6.W...Y0rk» I be1i9_V9.‘r?<ilY,119W a Sqltaiﬂ.‘ man ger; then the eminently famous‘ agent, _of. Toole, the ‘great ’Lo‘ve?jaw' (probably the greatest .man= in America, except hisrmaster); then Stuart Rob:on.;’j_j1;he[n; Alec McClure, drinking bad champagne_to the ghost of Hor- ace Greeley. Wasn’t that a constellation ofvvirtue, genius and beauty? (Signed), J. Town, of Chestnut Hill. led to the hymenial altar. The very term, altar, suggests ~ sacriﬁces. But it is not women alone that are sacriﬁced ’ there, but men as well. Manhood and womanhood both go the mother’s heart,’ as she ‘destroys’ the vital spark——risking , nature’s voice be heard and obeyed, then .harmony,_mus‘tV s l ” - - J ‘WOODHULL 85 CLAFLIN’S wnnxnvg Oct.31,1874. V. this self-evident rule of price, they might have commanded the services of the laborers of the world, perhaps, for centuries longer than they will now be able to command minis or SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE DI ADVANCE. .0 ‘ 53 on THE NEW RELIGION—UNIVERSAL JUSTICE. ' No. V. There are _various other objections that may be raised ‘them? 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Per line (according to location), - 1 - From $1 00 to $2 58 Time, column and page advertisements by special contract. Special place in advertising columns cannot be permanently" given. 'Advertiser’s bills will be collected from the oﬂioe of this journal, and must in all cases, bear the signature of WOODIIULL 85 CLAFLIN. Specimen copies sent free. 7 J - Newsdealers supplied by the American News Company, No. 121 Nassau street, New York. Woodhull as 'oza1zm’s Weekly, . Box 3791, New York City. omce. 1-11 Nassau Street, Room 9. “ The diseases of society can, no more than cor- poreal maladies, be prevented or cured without being spoken about in plain language.”—JoHN STUART MILL. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 1874. IN THE LECTURE FIELD. The editor-in-chief of the WEEKLY, Victoria C. Woodhull, lectured in'Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, to an immense audience, on Friday evening of last week; also in Concert Hall the following evening. On Saturday afternoon she lectured in the latter hall to women, only, upon the necessity to every woman of a complete knowledge of sexual anatomy, physiology, psychology, science and art, male and female, before entering into the relations to which they pertain, so ‘that she may not be subject to the terrible results, now so prevalent, of intercourse carried on in utter ignorance of these things. On Monday and Tuesday she repeated the same lectures in the Grand Opera House, Wilmington, Del.; on Wednesday and Thursday the same in the Academy of H Music, Reading, Pa.; on Friday and Saturday she is to re- peat the same lectures in Fulton Hall, Lancaster, and on Monday and Tuesday of next week the same in Odd "Fel- lows’ Hall, Norristown, Pa. She is then to follow in Easton, Allentown, Scranton, Wilkesbarre, Williamsport, Harris- burg, Pa; Elmira, Oswego, Binghamton, Syracuse, Auburn, Rome, Utica, Watertown, Ogdensburg, Pottsdam, N; Y.; éetc., on dates to be hereafter named. Friends in any part of the country desiring to engage her any time during the season, should make early application, as she is now per- fecting-her route to be engaged every night until May next, and extend as far west as Denver, Col. VICTORIA C." WOODHULL IN PHILADELPHIA. Last evening Horticultural Hall was ﬁlled by a large audi- ence, assembled to listen to a lecture by Victoria C. Wood- .hull on‘ the subject, “ What is True and False, Socially.” Her appearance on the platform was greeted with applause, and throughout the discourse she held the closest attention -of her hearers. I ' The speaker’s easy ﬂow of language, and the earnestness with which she’ advocated her cause, elicitedlfrequent ap- plause from the audience.—Inqu2'7'er, Phila., Oct. 17, 1874. Horticultural Hall last evening was ﬁlled, the audience being mostly ladies who had assembled there to? hear Victoria C. Woodhull lectureon “ What is True, What~False, Socially.” Her brilliant oratory, ﬁne, impassioned eloquence, sweet-toned voice, dramatic powers and graceful appear- ance fairly entranced the audience, the spell being frequently broken by enthusiastic demonstrations.—Public Record, ,Phila., Saturday, Oct. 17, 1874. ' Victoria 0. Woodhull lectured in Horticultural Hall, last evening, to an immense audience.-——Phila.del,phia Star, ‘Oct. 17, 1874. ‘ formed a very considerable portion of the labor to be per- formed, would necessarily be of the sort which, while not directly applied to production, is still equally as important, since without it, direct production could not progress so rapidly or reach to its greatest value afterward. For instance, the labor that transports the products of two diﬁerently engaged productive communities, is equally asnecessary and entitled» to the same reward as that of the communities themselves. transportation is performed, or rather conducted, in a manner that permits all of the net productions of both communities to remainin the possession of those engaged in the exchange. Thus, given a. community which is engaged in producing breadstuifs,and another indeﬁnitely separated from the for- mer,which is engaged in manufacturing raw materials, the persons whose business it is to exchange their products, pur- chase from each at low prices and sell to each at high prices, so that the result to the communities is, that while each produces its own products largely in excess of its own demands, the whole of this excess is used in purchasing the little that each requires of the other, the excess not con- sumed by either community remaining in the hands of the classes through whom the exchanges are effected. This is what is known as the Middle-Men System, or merchandis-, ing. ‘ This, however, was not the special point to which we in- tended to direct this inquiry. The wages system was the sub- ject next in order. The International platform contains a proposition leveled at this slavery. Whether its constructors placed it in the platform as a ﬁnal statement, or as pointing merely to the solution of the labor problem we do not pro- fess to know. Certain it is, however, that any modiﬁca- tion of the system of wages by law or otherwise, would be a modiﬁcation only of the‘ slavery itself. The fact that _labor can be bought and sold at any price, arbitrary or regulated, or that the hours for labor at a given price may be lengthened or shortened by the impositions or the re- laxation of the employer, when “times are hard” or other- wise,necessarily reduces labor to a slavery. The wages laborer is the wages slave anywhere, everywhere, and under all circun1stances._ Let his or her condition he never so easy, it is still a slavery. To give arbitrarily, any por- tion of any one’s time to another for an arbitrary price, is to be so far enslaved absolutely. The only freedom that is possible for labor is for it to have its own reward; its natural recompense——the necessities, comforts, bounties and luxuries of lifethat are enjoyed generally and equally by all people. This is ‘the ultimatum to which universal human justice leads. So then, when the Internationalist says that » “equal hours and equal compensation” for all kinds of labor, it does not make the complete statement, since to admit that compensation may be paid by one class for the labor of another class is to presuppose a condition of in- equality as the basis of society, which is inadmissible to justice. In -an equal society there can be no caste of this sort. There can be no situations where one class can com- mand the services of another class for hire, and receive for the hire the results of the services rendered. Such a situa- tion is incompatible with, equality, because it presupposes unequal conditions. It can exist only where there is one class of people who have the power to need and command the services of another class, who, from their inequality with the former, need this hire and are compelled to resort to it; in other words, to sell themselves temporarily to obtain what their necessities demand. Hence it may at once be concluded that, in a society where all people are equal, there will be no disposal of the strength or talents of one class to another for hire or for wages. But, says the objector: Is not the person who has devoted years, perhaps, of his lifeto the acquisition of the knowl- edge or skill which is requisite to his profession, to receive a larger compensation, in some form, than the unskilled laborer beside him receives? By no means. Even as labor is now conducted there is no human equity in any such consummation. As an absolute proposition it is true that the hour’s labor of each person, let him or her toll in the meanest way, is equal to that of any other person toilin g in whatsoever way. Justice knows no such term as proﬁt. Expunge this word from the labor vocabulary and the price ofeverything is reduced to its cost. Cost consistsof two things, and two only: First, of consumption of time; and second, where the consumption of time is upon something which is itself the product of labor-—the consumption of ma terial. These are the only elements that enter into the cost of: any article or product. If labor were regulated and the price -of every article of com- merce fixed by this rule even in the present order of society, a much nearer approach to justice would be made than can ever be attained before a still more radical change whether contributed by some relative or fria nd, or whether earned by his own extra exertions in other labor. The justice for him is received by him when, by virtue of these early years of application, he is capacitated to perform the higher orders of labor rather than to apply his strength in the mud and offal of the world. . Is not this clear? If not fully, let us provide a test. It The diﬂgcujty now is that this must be remembered that whatever original capacity a per- son may have, it, not being the result of any act of his own, is not to enter to his merit into the consideration. The en- gineering skill that can plan an East River Bridge, or over- come the difficulties of a Central Pacific Railroad, receives its just reward for the time devoted to its acquisition, in having the capacity to thus apply itself, where, perhaps, had it not been obtained by such early application, its subject might have been compelled to mine the iron for the former, or to blast the rock for the latter, which is now performed by others who were not so ‘fortunate in their youth. And further, to demonstrate the justice of equal compensation for both these kinds of labor, let the engineer be asked if, for the same compensation which the lower order of labor re- ceives, he would not rather perform his own than to ex- change it for the other? This is the test. Those who are ﬁtted for the higher order of labor now perform such labor, not merely because it affords them greater compensation, but because it is their pleasure or preference to do so, even at the same wages which the lower order commands. It must not be understood that when we use the terms higher and lower, and apply them to labor, we do so in any- thing more than a relative sense, in order to distinguish be- tween the various kinds of labor, without entering into their explanation at length. All kinds of labor are equally hon- orable, because all kinds are equally necessary. The night scavengers of the large cities perform a very important serv- ice; and are engaged in that service are entitled to equal respect as are those who enact the laws under which they are employed. The labor that "makes the excavation and hews the stone for an elegant ediﬁce is equally to be honored with that which adoins the dome or vestibules when com- pleted, With admirable paintings. The latter could‘ never be performed unless the former paved the way forits possibility. On analysis, therefore, if there is any preference at all to be given any where, it seems clear that it belongs, by virtue of procedure, to the primary labor. So, whenever we look upon labor in the present construction of society, we ﬁnd injustice in all possible forms. It would seem that the industries had been arranged purposely to illustrate injustice. Nowhere can an individualbe found, either as employer or employee, who is receiving or rendering equity. This. perhaps, ought not to be credited to the individual actors. It is rather the eﬂects of a false system, which, when it was devised, was the highest order of industry that could then be inaugurated. This system has survived, however, until all its inequalities, evils and wrongs are beginning to be understood, even by those who suffer, and its'tenure of existence is made very frail thereby. - . We do not hesitate to assert broadly that the justice which labor is beginning to demand for its votaries can never be attained, except in an order of industry and society where equality shall have an existence in something more than name. None of the demands that are beingmadc by the so—called advocates of reform in labor will ever lead the masses of laborers out of their present Egypt up to the Land of Promise. Ameliorations amount to nothing except to put off the ﬁnal and complete overthrow of wages-slavery. The more stringent the conditions imposed by capital and law, the more speedily will labor be compelled to demand its rightful positio in society. Viewed in this light, all the half-way measures of half-way reformers tend to extend the day of ﬁnal deliverance from slavery to freedom and equali- ty; and the yielding by capitalists of item after item to ap- pease the growing discontent, is a method virtually to lengthen their control over labor, instead of for the purpose of rendering it justice. ’ One thing is certain: If the laboring classes knew really the extent’ to which they are robbed; knew. the length to which superior intellectual acquirements are subsidized to cheat them out of their earnings; comprehended that every- thing that the so-called rich hold and use as their own be- I longs of right to themselves; were acquainted with the methods by which the officers of governments and compa- nies conduct their business ;—in a word, did they know how peculation, fraud and theft run riot among the classes to whom they devote their time and strength, they would not endure it a single ‘day. Well may the industrial oligarchs tremble lest this knowledge come to the laboring masses; well may they yield ﬁrst this crumb of comfort, and next to that peremptory demand, since, if they did not, no one could shall come. Had capitalists been wise in time, and adopted W11 What 9' day might bring f°.1‘iii- L033 Year“ °f suﬁeﬁngs l -1" 1 ma": .'«; ,, ‘I 4: A mi‘: "0: «of what they may Oct. 31, 1374. w‘ooDHULL‘.e CI.AFLIN_’S WEEKLY. A 9 and miseries, of untold horrors and privations, may be reme- died without terrible revenges; but such is not the teaching of the past. Great wrongs have always been righted through great retributions. The institution of negro slavery is a case in point, and one not so far removed, not so different from the cause of the present complaint, as to lose its force. It will be safe to say that, if the industrial oligarchs who, for centuries, have fattened upon the sinews of the masses, do not speedily render an account of their stewardship, a destruction as terrible as that which came upon the slavery oligarchs will certainly be their reward. It is. our province to warn them in time, and to show them a way of escape. For a long time past we have kept a warning, quoted from their own oracle, standing at the head of the WEEKLY, and ought to expect. “ Woe unto ye rich men,” said the apostle James; and we - repeat, “Woe unto ye rich men,” who, by fraud, keep back the just reward of labor, since the time is at ‘hand wherein it shall claim its own in thunder tones. -Beware” lest it be through ﬁre and smoke and blood, and every other means of destruction to which a people, long robbed of their rights, may resort in a quickly-aroused indignation. Let not the evi- dences of civilization that centuries have contributed, to the present be lost in an hour. ' o»—<———————— r _ > To WOMEN wno HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMANITY, PRES- ENT AND FUTURE—PERSONAL GREETING: During these three years in which I have been before the public urging the necessity of sexual reform, though often urged to do so, I have steadily declined to -address women alone; I have always said that there is nothing in the most thorough discussion of any subject that ought not to be listened to, quietly and earnestly, by both men and women. As both sexes are parties to the unnatural and damaging relations that have cursed the world by a race of physically degenerate children, so should they both be students to inquire the way out of these terriﬁc conditions. But wo- men are so frightened at the idea of hearing these matters talked about before the men who have demoralized them so badly, and I have had to guard my speech so carefully, lest those’ who had the courage to come out to hear me should be scared away, that I have ﬁnally concluded to give way to these considerations and include in my lectures one address to women alone in each place I may visit. In doing this , I shall not really depart from the principles by which I have, until now, refused to speak to one sex alone; since the ﬁnal reason that has induced me toa change in this regard, is one that did not exist until recently. , I have made some new discoveries in regard to woman’s sexual powers and maternal functions, which are eminently proper for her to inquire into as a sex, as they relate to her speciﬁcally——to her endowments, over and about which men have no more than an indirect interest, and no paramount right. YVoman, as I have frequently said and written, is rightfully Queen in the domain of sex; and being so, she is the natural sovereign of all that sex im- plies, and she has no right to relinquish her sovereignty by gift or sale to anybody; indeed, it is her special duty to ever maintain and guard it inviolate and sacred, permitting no invasion upon its rights and no intrusion into its sanctities. I have learned what woman has forfeited by an opposite course; and how, through this course, she has really been the “Eve” through whom the ﬁrst transgression came, by- which the whole race has been cursed. She has parted with her birthright for less than a mess of potage, and has voluntarily gone into, and remains in, a slavery with which there was never other slavery to compare. For what slavery is there, or was there ever, to -be compared ‘in its degrada- tion, to that of surrendering to others the control of those functions through whose operations immortal souls are cre- ated? This divine work has been entrusted by Nature and by God to woman; but she has been false to her Go.d and false to Nature——a traitor to a trust conﬁded to her than which there is none equal in magnitude, importance and sacredness in the world. ' I ‘ But in spite of all this trust, in spite of the conﬁdence re- posed in her _by her Creator; in spite of the crown of her womanhood she has ingloriously, ignominously and traitor- ously permitted herself to become the mere servant, the slave, instead of remaining the Queen that she ought to have been, and has consented to the servility of bartering her crown for money and for food; when to have retained her rightful place upon the throne, and to have enforced her rights proud ly,would have been to have had absolute sway over both con- tinually. What by virtue of her functions she «has been en- titled to of right, she has consented to supplicate—for‘by the sacriﬁce of her womanhood. Now all this must be reversed. Woman has got to resume her natural position, and man must gracefully yield up his control and rule over her sexual and maternal functions; or else she must rebel and accept the consequences. Woman must be free; mustbe sovereign again and command the obe- dience of man, and he become a servant wherehe has been lord so long. ' . - But woman has been in slavery for such a length of time that she is in utter ignoraiice, not only of her powers and fuf1ctions,.but, also of what. has resulted from her apostacy. Therefore she must be enlightened; ‘she requires to be in- formed-—to be awakened to a sense of her crime and her responsibility. It is my mission, as far as possible, to do this work, and, in order to reach the hearts of my sex, I am gee ing to speak to them separately, so that I may unhesitatingly pour out my soul’s deepest convictions and show them how, through sorrows, trials and sufferings, these truths have been brought home to me. I shall speak what I have learned through saddest experience; but having come up through that experience with fresh rays of light warming my heart, I should, in turn, be recreant to my mission if I were to neglect to do what I can for the emancipation of my sex as a whole. , _ In brief, then, I propose to show woman how she best may redeem herself, and next the race; ‘show her the secret sands of years, which shall install her sovereign iii the do- main of sex, and which will save her in the future fro in un- desired pregnancy and unwilling child-bearing ; through the realization of which alone can the curse of the race be re- moved; and, that I may do this as widely——to as large a number—i-as possible, I shall speak to them alone, whenever and wherever the opportunity shall permit. The little ex- perience I have already had in this new departure has con- vinced me that I am right in having taken it, and I trust that those of my sex who have any comprehension of the import of what I have to say to women, will rally them together, and, so far as may be, prepare them to make a new Declaration of Independence and a new depa‘rture—-this time in that department of society which is basic and vital. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, —-———>-+o+-<—————-- THE SOCIAL WAR. All the great movements agitated by the WEEKLY-social, religious, ﬁnancial and industrial—keep step to one an- other’s music. The fact is, they are all necessary parts of one grand revolution that is permeating all the civilized na- tions of the globe. To show how deeply they are penetrat- ing and remodelling society, we have only to point to an- other article in this paper in which the Catholic Castelar, the foremost orator in Europe, admits the religious advance of the ages, and to supplement the same with extracts from a leader in Hcwpefs Belem’ of October 24, which, under the heading of “ A Great Concession ”—admits the subject of marriage is agitating society in the following language: “ There is much clamor nowadays about the restraints upon the happiness and‘ the liberty of life, about the fetter that a wedding ring becomes; in short, about the bondage of marriage.” We are glad to perceive that this social war is forcing it- self upon the people and demanding attention from all quarters. It has stormed the press, the pulpit and the stage, and" cannot any longer be ignored. The “ Podsnappian” “ pooh pooh!” and the majesty of digniﬁed silence is no longer available. The position of woman must be con- sidered, and her rights established and secured, before the car of civilization can advance further. The Bazar asks: “ VVhy is it that marriage has become irksomc to the members of this generation" so suddenly that the airrings mark and accepted commonplace once reigned?” We answer this by saying that the world progresses, and the condition of woman has progressedlwith it. In a savage state woman was theipreyof the strongest; in the patriarchal age she was an absolute chattel, having no power whatever except what she could secure by her tact. Laban gave his daughters to Jacob as wages; we are not told that he thought it necessary to\,inquire of Leah and Rachel whether they were agreeable ’ to such a union. Since ‘then woman has passed from the individual power of man into the collective power “of man expressed in laws ecclesiastical and civil, and these laws,’ being man made, arenow becom- ing also objectionable. If “ marriage ” only meant a sexual union between a man and a woman it would not be repre- hensible but natural.‘ But when “ marriage,” aﬁ"ects largely the legal status of a woman, and places her entirely in the power of a man, that alters the case. The WEExLYpro-' claims also that such unions should only endure while the parties love one another, and as love is the most arbitrary, and, in some instances, the most volatile of passions, it is simply folly -to aim to ﬁx it by a legal or ecclesiastical formula. ' That out of such a vaineﬁort innumerable social evils‘ ﬂood the world with misery and crime, and for that reason alone should such miserable and useless attempts be discontinued. That no human being (male or female) is justiﬁed in surrendering their sexual liberty to law, but only ‘to love; and, when love departs, it is necessary for the peace of the world and the well—being of humanity that such unions should be dissolved, whether they have been sanctioned by all the magistrates and all the bishops in the world. '- i E i What we claim for woman is that her individuality shall not be interfered with by the collective power of man as exhibited in the “laws of marriages,” ,ecclesiastical_,and civil. We believe that Blackstone’s remark was correct when he stated that “the very being and existence of the woman was suspended during the marriage;’7 and that Baron Alderson was not wrong in declaring that under our present system “the wife is only the servant of the hus- band; ” and’ we honor Harpeﬂs monthly for November for commenting on those statements thus: I “The fact that there may have been the tenderest rela- tions of aﬁection between wife and husband did not change the fact that she was subject to his will; and to be subject to anotherls will is slavery.” ‘To return topthe article in the After deplering by which she shall be emancipated from her slavery of thou-- with complaints about it where nothing but peaceful re- ' not only here, but in, all other civilized nations. the present sad condition of many married couples, it gives the following as the solution of the difficulty: ‘,‘ Instead, then, of freer divorce laws, making oaths and promises of no acc_ount, we need more stringent views con- cerning the sanctity of marriages and the impregnability of -its bonds and barriers.” ‘ . ‘ ‘ It cannot be that Harpews Ba-ear desires the Protestant world to go back to Rome. and make marriage a sacrament. It talks of the sanctity of an act which all Protestanism holds to be merely a civil contract, and which, in all Pro- tcstant nations may be entered into without sanction of the churches. But if_ we did go back to Rome, would that bind human affections. Surely not. When Rome was under the temporal sway of the Popes, it was said that, ac- cording to its population, there were more illegitimate chil- dren there than in any place else; yet the Catholic Church did whatever it could to render marriages permanent. Then, the Bazar goes on to invade the rights of theyoung in the delicate process of mating. It says: ~ ' “ Youth thinks its instincts better guides than the mature ’ judgmentof guardians; guardians recoil from the responsi- bility of interposing obstacles; friends sympathize with romance; the present alone is thought of; the future is a thing of naught.” It is needless to say that the WEEKLY honors what Harpefs Bazar seems to deplore in the above sentence. If there be one sacred liberty on which the future welfare of the race depends, it is liberty in the choice of a mate; and we commend those guardians and respect their wisdom who decline to interfere with that most sacred human right.’ But the deﬁnition of marriage which terminates the article is a curiosity in its way, being more complicated than the Gordian Knot se'vere_d by Alexander the Great: “ Yet marriage is not only a simple contract between two individuals; it is not only a religious contract, calling heaven to witness and take part; it is a civil contract into which society at large enters, and undefwhich it has rights as the two contracting individuals have; the right, for instance, not to be stained by abuses: the right not to be injured by I paupers and criminals and the ignorant; the _right to claim that what was begun according to law shall be carried out according to law; the right to insist that the majestyiof the law shall maintain itself calm and even-handed, and not give way before vulgar clamor. And we remember that calling black white does not make it white; that to legalize a wrong will not make it intrinsically a right; and that the passage of ordinances saying that in future the betrayal of marriage vows shall be called free divorce will never make it any other than. the original sin that they were passed to pre- evnt.” - - The above complicated mass of absurdities is all Hm-pe7"s » Bazaar can say in favor of the present marriage system. Al- most every statement in it can be controverted. In the ﬁrst place we would say that marriage is even less than a_ civil contract, for if a man lives with a woman and introduces her as his wife, the civil law admits her position and acts upon such statement. Almost if not all Protestants deny that it is a religious contract, and even the Catholic Calmet admits that there is no law in the Bible respecting, nor any account there of, a Jewish marriage in which a priest was called in to perform the ceremony; is to the claims of society they are and ought to be nil in this country in the matter of marriage.‘ In England, it is true, the State has long annulled the ﬁat of the Churchin the matter of pau- pers, for, in their cases, it insists upon sundering those whom the church has united. As to the remainder of the paragraph that is pure “ buncombe,” and does not require, an answer. , On the contrary, how plain is the position of the WEEKLY? All we demand is that the-law shall in all cases recognise woman as an individual as well as man., _ That a union of people of opposite sexes shall be looked upon by the law as any other partnership, dissolvable at the will of either of the partners. That for a woman to hold an unwilling man or a man to hold an unwilling woman by law alone is a monstrosity to be deplored, as aﬁecting the present interest and future well-being of our race. In other words, we demand sexual liberty as the foundation and corner-stone’ of all other liberties. We do not deny that the marriage system by which woman has been placed under communal care was better than the savage individual despotism from which it- partially released her. Two thousand years ago it might have been looked atlas a blessing,'now it is a curse. The reason why it is so is because the world has progressed since the time thebiblical. laws of Moses and Paul on the woman question were written, and, under our present ad- vanced civilization, they are no longer needed and ought to be abrogated for the general good of mankind. ' V —-—~——,—-——>-—-4-Q THE ADVANCE. ' ~ This is a transitional era. Old things are passing away, Quite as great changes are transpiring in Japan and China as have occurred in Europeand America. Not light changes either, A but absolute, fundamental revolutions. Look at the opening of the trade with Japanby America, and the sacking of Pekinby France and Great Britain. Time-honored nations, both, for the ﬁrst time in many centuries, invaded by the footsteps of the foreigner!‘ The ancient policy of both na- tions utterly changed, if not annihilated. Look at Europe, which, in the past decade, has found a new master and re- arranged its political man Italy free, and the Pope at prise" ~ t io_ . oner in the city which has been the temporal key of the Church’s,power since’ the“ time of Charlemagne. Forty millions of serfs changed into ‘Russian freemen, andready to proffer to their thoughtful co-laborers in Europe the free- dom of the soil. England isolated and helpless as a military power, witnessing European convulsions in which she dare not-take part even to protect her own gravcinterests, as in thercase of the spoliation of l)enmark ; while in our own country four millions of chattel slaves have been changed into American citizens, as by the wand of an enchanterji her former ruling power overthrown, and the policy of the nation reversed in many important particulars. I ‘ * ‘But all these portentous changes, every thinking human being knows, are only the commencement of the great‘ movements before mankind. In the destruction of serfdorn ‘ and slavery in both continents, every one feels that the ‘ foundations of the world’s industrialtemple are removed, and the whole‘ superstructure is ready to topple into dust. For the ﬁrst time in the ages, the two great bodies of workers, agricultural and mechanical, are uniting their forces, and, whenever they do unite,they candictate the law. Whilst the workers are thus rising into might’, the powers that oppressed them are disintegrating and disuniting, leaving them to walk freely forward to victory. The partnership of priest and king, sadly handled by the ‘First French Revolu- tion, is now entirely dissolved andsbroken forever by the foolish claim of headship or infallibility by the rfeeblest member of the ﬁrm. As to the ﬁnancier, who has so long been the real rulervof princes, the time is near at hand when “blood and iron Bismarck” will proveto him that in the armed camp of Eu-rope the man with the bayonet is stronger than the man with the purse; while, in‘ our own country, the South andiWest, so long the money‘ serfs of the Eastern money-changers, will soon teach their oppressors that the shameless fraud of the Nati al Banking System, which has nearly doubled the resources of idlers, to the detriment of producers, is destined to fall never to rise again. But these impending changes, though vast, are not ‘com- parable to the threatened upheavals in the social and religious systems — which have so long dominated over mankind. ‘Changes agitating all countries at once, which defy the skill of statesmanship to avert, or even to compute, their effects. The four years’ musket-roll of Satory has only ‘spread Com‘ munism throughout Europe. If the sceptre of that reform has departed from France, we hear of it in Germany, as witness the following late statement from the correspondent of the New_York Herald. Speaking of the German Demo cratic party, he says: “ Those who have conversed with German professors over a quiet pipe assert that French Communism is a mere cracker compared with the mine of explosive thought which the deeply-pondering Teutonic mind is constructing. Nor is there much hope in the mod- eration of parties after a glance at Prince Bismarck’s tables, where the Democrats number 23,908 and the Social Demo- crats 339,738. In other words, out of every ﬁfteen who wish to reform society, there are fourteen who wish to destroy it altogether.” ‘ ' so , i And it maytruly be asserted that _ the same deep, funda- mental demands that distinguish the Germans are penetrat—_ ing and permeating the Unions and Granges of the United States, and also of those of Great Britain. As with indus- trial,'so with the social movement. Thirty years ago it may be said to have commenced in the camp of the‘Abolitionists, in the demand of woman to speak in public; twenty years afterwards she advanced her claim to political equality; now to that she has asserted her right to personal sovereignty, and her claim to rule in the domain of the affections. This reform also, like industrial reform, is shaking the civilized world. It is an entire reversal of theold Mosaic order, which placed man- in power over woman in all cases.‘ As with the Mosaic, so with the more ancient Eastern faiths, on which, in all probability, that of the Hebrews was originally based. But this alteration of the status of woman, which cannot be effected without the overturning of the credal faiths which have latterly so cursed the world with blood- shed and wars, is not the‘ only thing which is effecting the destruction of the worn-out religions which the world _has outgrown. Commerce—which is developing the nations- and science——which is linking them together with bands of iron——cannot tolerate these wretched ereeds, which, in this age, only dehumanize mankind and set nations at enmity with one another. * Hence, opportunely, arises the new development of Spiritualism, which, though only a quarter of a century old, has already established itself on all conti- nents and in all countries, and is marching rapidly forward‘ to victory. - Truly, those who live in this era of development have their work to perform, and, if Spiritualism be indeed the true faith, as we believe it is, let its partizans step out boldly and do their duty in this crisis, well knowing that their own advance bearsexact proportion to that Of the 1111' provement of mankind. Let there be, then, no animosity in their ranks, no bickerings or jealousies, for truly, at this juncture, into their hands are committed the destinies of the human race. ' 0-»--4 THOSE FIG LEAVES. I “ And the eyes of themlbothiwere opened, and.they._kI‘1eWi tﬂaq; theylwereinaked; and they _s_ewed'.ﬁg leaves together, ‘and’ made themselves apronvsﬂ,’ Genesis, chap, 3,,vers,e — The tailoring_.busines,si,then,c0n1l1ié1lCeFu?Y,Q1{¥ ﬁIist;i11ar<e,'r,1ts4.._ if the Bible be atruthful history, has been followedup lively by their descendants ever since. We do not desire $0 533’ of the case. We do not, however, think that they will ‘sue- their faith in this age of the world, because they‘haven’t nical, theyhave, at the same time, been destructiave of. error, I woo1)HULt. ea or."/AFL-IN'—s.»w—EEK_LYr. that Adam and Eve did wrong in covering themselves, or in living together without‘ having beenunited byga priest—¥far from it. And we do not think statesmen do wrong when they meet to hide -their evil doings from the peoples; or gaps 'in the apron s_that cover the nakedness of their churches; as seems to be the'Lcase with the Episcopal Convention,.now holding its meetings in,New York. We look upon all such doings as tribute money paid'by hypocrisy to truth. . Of late, the quantity of ‘ leaves used by the presses and pulpits of the United States for the purpose of hiding the defects of modern society is something enor- '1nous. They are co'nst‘antly‘ piling them on until they appear to be as plentyas the ﬂowers in Plymouth Church, which are there so abundant that the people who sit tojbe ediﬁed by H‘. W. Beecher may be said,like Moses of old, to hear the word-—out of a bush. But as society has any amount of folly and crime to cover, we do not blame editors and par- sons for doing their best under the distressing, circumstances ceed in their efforts. Society, as representedin the religion of gush, stands before the people like Lady Macbeth in the famous scene in which she prates of her crime in her sleep. We fancy we can hear her appeal: “ Out, damned spot l Out, I say ! All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” But we also feel assured that it will be vain. If the Beecher expose has disgusted the people, it has also educated them. Insall itsﬁlthy details they have noted the hideous form of modern society, and have -condemned it. The ﬁg leaves of hypocrisy and cant have been torn away from it, and it stands -revealed before the nations in all its naked horrors. Whatever the churches may do, whatever verdict a Brook- lyn jury may render, whatever may be the results of -the va- rious pending actions, the decision of the masses of the peo- ple will never be overruled; and in it may be read, in char- acters of living light, the doom of modern society, ’ O THE RELIGIOUS WAR. All religions are now at a discount. The world has no vital faith; shams and forms are all it at present possesses. In this country the various sects would fall and perish speedily if they were not conserved by what Henry Clay called the “cohesive power of public plunder.” The large majority of the male sex here only support the various ereeds because they look upon them as great conservative breakwaters, repressing the inﬂowing tides of popular re- forms. They do not believe in or care for their dogmas, but they do credit their power as conservative agencies, ne- cessary in order to sustain the wrongs and oppressions of the peoples. Even the Catholic Church (on which depend all the Protestant-sects for existence) shows no valid sign of vitality. Its two hundred millions of votaries are unable to keep Pio Nono’s sovereignty intact. Men don’t die for anyfaith to die for. They have the forms but not the sub- stance of religion, because, even in the churches themselves, the people have outgrown their ereeds. These doctrines are not only taught by the WEEKLY, but many conservative presses do, not hesitate to proclaim them. Read the follow- ing, which is copied from E_milio Castelar’s contribution in I{mj0er’s Montltly for November: V “But, as the eighteenth century is a revolutionary age, itgnecessarily has all the passion and all the injustice, of revolutions. And its criticism, revolutionary and not his- tjorical, because the eighteenth century‘ ignores everything outside of its aspiration to emaneipate intelligence, and with it :mankind—its criticism is aimed principally at religions.’ In the opinion of a large majority of its thinkers, they are impostures, and more than all, that one founded. by Christ, the nearest and most immediate oppressor of reason. Itfis an age which neglects logic, the dialectic of the de- velopment of an idea and its sequence. It therefore de-' should ever have declared -its independence of itself. E And, in fact, it was necessary to this‘ end to break the harmony between man and nature, which was so beautifully "mania fested in the ancient Grceksland their statues; to combat not merely sensualism, but matter also, and the vivid uni- ve'rse;,to create, by pains, penitence and maceration, a ter- rible struggle with the senses, a human soul within itself, isolated, separated from the world as a being entire, inde- pendent, inﬁnite. , The philosophers of the past century saw nothing in Christianity but the present oppression, and declared against it with a genuine revolutionary fury, which the nineteenth century, essentially humane, severe, impar- tial, the century which has really created history, and which hasdone justice Vito all the manifestations of the human spirit,, cannot comprehend. But these exclusive passions of each age have been valuable to the education of the human » race and the progressive development of its luminous idea]; because, if these exaggerations have for a time been tyran- and society has concluded by returning to its calm impar- tiality, and distributing, in due proportion through all its V i the current of ideas,and entering into its indis- organism, , _, pensablefequilibriumfii - i j ._ , , , There is nothing inthis which we, as Spiritualists, cannot indo_rse., j,‘All_ ereeds have lpeen,,,,né,cessa,ry,in,. the ,iP,3_lS.t,.‘ and, when ‘marina hadfaith in them, it'1iey‘wei-5 useful.‘ “There priests, when they confer for the purpose of _ sewing up the ' ' ideas. tests. revelation. A It cannot understand that the conscience, _i r Oct. 31, 1874. ’ will be conserved in the new development rapidly ris ingin grand majesty over the nations. ‘ Spiritualism is a necessity for the peoples of the earth at the present time, for the progress in science and the claims of fbommerce demand it. Thinking people look back‘ with horror upon the blood- tracks leftin history by all credal religions, most especially by that one of them called Christianity. The very name of it is a falsehood. Ch_rist is ad Hindoo god, grafted on the Nazarene, J esus. uiftealvly, the whole of the world’s faiths are but modiﬁcations of_the'vsta,r..worship of the Chaldeans. To all thinking minds all the deities and their families, all the celestial courts and their angels and demons, are absurd fol- lies. Moses mightjtalk aboutithe “ back parts ” of God in his time, but it will-not do now to depict God to the people. The attributes that inhere even in human deities forbid any human expression oftheir greatness, and priesthoods, whose special province is-to descant upon the same, are only laugh- ing stocks. to men of science and the peoples generally. The word is nowV—-when the civilized world is linked to- gether with ties of iron-—away with those that have so long separated and persecuted the families of men. It is no Won- der that, from Catholicism’ down to Mormonism, they are disintegrating and scattering. All who are wise read the handwriting of fate in their destruction, which grows out of the necessities of the ages. As Emilio’ Castelar says, in his conclusion: - < i _ " — ' - i » “The spirit of" progress entered, therefore, even ‘in those secluded and sacred spots -which appeared to be excepted from the movement, and the renovation of all beings and The saints saw the ﬂuttering of the leaves of their inert books of stone before the wind of ‘the breath of their gressive transformations in the very warmth of their sanctu- aries. These agitations of conscience gave birth to high gives prominence to human dignity there follows of neces- sity an outburst of conscience, freighted with ideas, and erty.” It is easy to trace the steps by which man has arrived at his spiritual liberty in Europe and America during the past six centuries. The ﬁrst movement: against the power of the Catholic Church was the reformationademanded by»Je- rome of Prague, by Hussof Bohemia, and by JohnlWick- lilfe of England. Though these was all overthrown, the principles which animated them lived in their followers. The second hand of reformers were headed by Martin Lu- ther, who ﬁrst proclaimed the right of private judgment. Out of this sprang forth almost immediately a multitude of sects, which exposed to the people the folly of credal reli- gions. The political idea then joined the religious idea in our revolutionary war; ‘for, as a political necessity, it was found requisite to ordain the religious freedom of our peo- ple. The establishment of this grand right has still further broken to pieces the religious sects ‘among us, and paved the way for a still greater developmentaviz. , that of Spiritualism, which is only the logical outcome of the right of private judgment asserted‘ by Martin Luther. In the near future there will be only two parties in the religious war—one will ﬁght under the ﬂag of “ absolute authority,” the otheriunder that of “ absolute freedom.” The watchword of the one will be “ heaven and hell,” of the other “progress and develop- ment,” and none can doubt but that the latter must, unless the worldretrogradcs, eventually be the conqueror. >—+o THAT SAME OLD COON. The Days Doings, of October 17, rejoices over the decline of the French (or whatit calls’ the morbid) drama. It says: ,“ Wesigh for purer air, an atmosphere which shall not be so heavy with theyperfume of indecency, and if our theatri- cal managers will but read aright the silently expressed de- sires of the people, we can conﬁdently count on a revival of good taste and genuine art in theatrical matters.”- , In the same paper appears a full-page illustration of the “ Expulsion of Adam and Eye _from Paradise,” as ‘presented Deluge.” . A glance at the picture shows that if public virtue consists in man being ashamed of looking on woman, it has The above design, as given in_ the Days Doings, reminds us _ of the poet Moore's lines on a similar -spectacle in the Fudge Papers.” Mr. Fudge, in his description of that charming _ city, Paris, tells ustliat when he visited it, the people went to see, at the theatres, , . _ A “ The»Old Testament. done into melodrames nightly,” And furthermore says thatlhe saw one inwhich “ Daniel, the Prophet, bids bold deﬁance '. To Nebuchadnezzar and«al-l his stuifed lions, . While pretty young Israelites danced round the Prophet In very thin clothing, and but little of it.” And this, to us, appears to be the case with the spectacle of, “The Deluge” at Niblo’s Garden. Eve and Adam are there iepresented as coming out of the garden of -Paradise wigthgtheirw ovcrftlieir faces, and -be a correct exhibitvof the scene, as they areeboth nearlyknaked, prudcry will. demand that they should,keep_ them there. To us such exhibitionsare not “objectionable. We _do not Jarss2sf9»_”ari<itétliéis ﬁn. iséxssibathe tosses. W¢.fateto1.d, jin pms naturaltbzts. In theart schools of London, draw- is good in all of them in nearly equal proportions now, that age; they saw the germs of new ideas taking life in pro- . conceptions of human dignity; and whenever knowledge» with this outburst comes perforce another. victory of lib— ‘ to the public at ..Niblo’s_ Garden in the spectacle of “ The, not very greatly advanced upon the “ Black Crook” system. bwelieve. that,.as, a people, we. are sexuallyas virtuous as the ing from naked or nearly naked living models is permitted, ,, 3 I ‘A t i t Oct. -31, 1874. — WOODHULI. av. cL”AFLIN’°s wEEKlL‘r.""t A ill although those schools have pupils of both sexes. Only such I members of society as have depreciated theirbodies by their vices have reason at any time to be ashamed of the human form. No doubt those who are sexually depraved will ﬁnd evil in such expositions, not because it exists in those expo- sitions, but because it is developed in their -own diseased hearts. Any way, human beings will always delight; in ex- positions of male and female beauty, whether they be reli- gious or not. VVe have seen a full page picture of a couple of dashing girls in a pew in a very religious periodical before now, but,- of course, underneath it was written——“ Remem- ber the Sabbath day to keep it holy”—for the purpose of qualifying, in a measure, the exposed limbs of the ladies. We therefore can have no objection to the incoming of the religious sensational drama, though we have a right to ob- ject to the mock modesty and hypocrisy which may accom- pany it. ﬁr-4 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. To the Publ2'c.——Unless we have express permission, we do not feel justiﬁed in giving the names, or even the initials of the names, of our correspondents, but only their places of abode. At the same time, we should be glad to give ’ their names in full, or their initials, when authorized to do SO.—ASSOCIATE EDITOR WEEKLY. O. W. E, 0z'ncz'nna25i, Ohio, defends the manufacture of arms, saying that they are needed for the purposes of self- defense and the security of the nation. ' We are, or claim to be, a civilized people, and must make the law our de- , fense; and, therefore, we object to Recorder" Hackett’s 1 statement, justifying the carrying of a pistol for personal protection. As to him who perverts his mechanical Tgenius by devising a new implement of destruction, we would reward him like the engineer in Hamlet, and have him A “ Hoist with his own petard.” Arnie"-07wn'sz'z'(m, Roclzester, N. Y.-—-There is good in all faiths, and they have all done good service in their day ; but that day was—-yesterday! ’ Divest them of their celestial follies, dethrone their mundane gods, their minor deities, and the ridiculous mummeries with which they worship them, and you will ﬁnd their practical bases not very dissimilar. Statzbian, JV2nom*7t, N. J.—The city of New York is not self-"existing ; its death rate always exceeds its birth—rate ; its extension is not due to its own vitality, but to its human importations from home and abroad. Positieist, Boston, Mass.—Your system is as beautiful as the statue of the Apollo Belvedere, and as cold. It will never be accepted by humanity. In order to move anation or a world, the fulcrum on which the lever rests must be out- side the world. This always has been and always will be the case. Humanity has reaped beneﬁts from all live faiths. Credal religions are only an incubus now, because their vitality has departed, and their vitality has departed because our race has outgrown them. But the spiritual world still rules in human affairs, and without its aid there isno life and no progress. Mec7tam'o, New Yor7t'.—To the VVEEKLY, Fiith Avenues are eye-sores in a city in which the workers who built them have ‘not generally decent cottages in which to live, nor one hall that they can call their own. In ancient Athens, 11 pagan times, the citizens had a white marble theatre‘ which would hold fully thirty thousand people. In it they sometimes gave an audience to foreign ambassadors, sometimes acted plays, and frequently heard orators de- claim. Admission to it was two oboli, or about ﬁve cents, but if a citizen had not that to spare, he could get a magis- trate’s order and go in free. W. M. 1). Boston, ﬂ1aS8.~—~Tl1GWVEEI{LY has ‘never denied the right of any individual to issue money. All it claims is that only the national money should be backed by the force of -communal law. It has no objection to bills of in credit issued by States, cities, corporations or individuals,’ a but itfearlessly asserts that any State law made for the se- . curity or collection of such issues is unconstitutional. For ~ as, in that instrument, States aretforbidden to issue Bills bf Credit, it is manifest that it is equally unconstitutional to make laws for the security and collection of the same when issued byindividuals or corporations. A Senna}, Detroit, Mick.-—The most advanced peopleslhave ad- . mitted the right of theyoung to an equal intellectual start in life by the establishment of Public Schools. The I’VEEr;LY holds that they should also have an equal material start in,life,~and to that end deems it only right that all surplus wealth should revert to the States at the deaths of -the acquirers. Otherwise we shall ‘assuredly create a moneyed aristocracy, which is the meanest and most per- nicious of all aristocracies. I Equal ,Rt:(/7Lt8, Broolclgn, N. 'Y.—The irregularities you com- plain of are artiﬁcial. They are not visible in the general order of nature, but are created by the workings of evil laws. I, V c Into/rncttz'onnl, Wasltmgton, D. 0.:-—VVe agreee with you that the interests of all peoples are one and indivisible, and deem that the best preventative of war among them would be for them to move ﬁnancially to restrict national war ex- penses and so to diminisli the manufacture of arms. . Ante‘-Usu9°2 , Akron, '07w'o, “,is informed that,lin theory, the Catholic Church has never admitted the right of money to ‘ bear any interest. ‘ The comments in the larger Douay ‘ Bible on the texts bearing upon the subject are as strong against the practice of usury, increase or interest as words can make t,l1em. V G. B.,‘8'toolcton, Ill.—~There is no reason why our cities should not be physically and morally as healthy as the country, except that of late city governments have been . pleased to sacriﬁce the rights, of man to the claims of property in them. Tenement-houses were condemned in London three centuries ago, in the time of Queen Eliza- beth. It is a shame that they are tolerated in this new . world. . John 0/tmcwnan, Scwromnento, 0otZ'.—-The four Senators to whom our nation is mainly indebted for the re-introduc- tion into our Union of political male slavery, in the case of the Chinese, are Wilson of Massachusetts, Nye of Nevada, Morton of Indiana and Williams of Oregon. What makes the matter worse, they deseerated the Fourth of July by consummating that atrocity on our national holiday. . . Inquirer‘, lift. Pleasant, Texas.-—One of the best works on . the subject on which youdesire to be posted is Tennie C. Claﬂin’s “ Constitutional Equality aRight of Woman.” For sale at the office of WOODHULL AND CLArLIN’s WEEICLY; price $2.“ We have also a pamphlet, the “ Ethics of Sexual Equality; price 25 cents. Anti-Soldier, Galveston, To:vcos.—~In the matter of military op- pression, the ancient pagans of Rome cannot be compared with modern Christians, or, rather, with the people who usurp that name. In the time of Augustus Caesar there were only 189,000 men required to garrison Europe, the north of Africa and the west of Asia. In the same ‘coun- V tries now there are not less than ﬁve millions of men under arms. Napoleon (the ﬁrst) estimated that every soldier, and the paraphernalia he required, devouredthe labors of three toilers. The German military system, which sub- jects every able man to three years’ military service, s not and cannot be made self—sustaining. In order to live it must occasionallymake predatory excursions, as in the . case of France. Probably Great Britain will be next selected, because it has most money. p——<9»—< BOOK REVIEW. _ PAPA’S _OwN GIRL. 8vo, pp. 54?’, published by John P. J ewett, No. 27’ Clinton Place, New York. This is an excel- eﬂects which may be expected to follow the introduction of many of the various reforms demanded by the age. The tale is simple, is naturally and easily told, and is very fasci- nating. But; we prefer to step aside here and let the author- ess speak for herself. A _ The ﬁrst extract we quote ‘for the beneﬁt of the clergy,who in these days seem to be held by other presses a little below par. We do so in" order to aid those ministers who have tried to cover their‘ erring brethren by a ﬂank movement on the medical faculty. “ Coarse men are wont to scoﬁ at the attraction women ﬁnd in ministers and physicians, expecially women whose social conditions are unfortunate; but’ the solution is very simple: physicians, at least, know more of human nature than other men do. This is true. of course, only of those of the nobler moral type. No others win the conﬁdence of reﬁned women, though their vanity may blind them to the wide difference there is between ordinary and extraordinary conﬁdence; for every physician, if not every priest, receives a certain amount of conﬁdence from the nature of his oﬁice.” In the course of the tale the following conversation occurs on the subject of “ Susie,” a young girl who is with child by Dan, the son of Dr. Forest. The characters in it are Mrs. Forest, Dan’s mother; Miss Marston, a teacher, and Clara, daughter of Dr. Forest, “ Papa’s Own Girl.” Mrs. Forest and Clara knew, but Miss Marston did not know,who was the father of the prospective infant. , “ I do not think,” said Mrs. Forest, “that we can do better than get her a place where she can be quiet; and she is so very deft with her needle and can make herself useful in so many ways, I do not think this will be difficult.” A “This will be to fail her in what she most needs——sympa— thy,” Clara remarked. A - “ My dear Clara,” said Miss Marston, “we cannot sympa- thize with folly, unless we are foolish ourselves. You know the meaning of the word sympathy.” I There was a little too much of the dogmatism of the teacher in this to please Clara, but she showed no displeasure in herlvery calm reply: “ But we can sympathize with suffer ing in all cases.” , _ V , “Yet, even for her good,” replied Mrs. Forest, “ we should show disapprobatidn of her conduct. By being too lenient, it would lead her to hold her act lightly and open the way for its repetition.” ' . , . , ‘,‘ Well, I think, mamma, with all proper deference, that your reasoning is exceedingly weak. Will not one terrible lesson like this be enough for anygirl like Susie? Besides, you forget how many years it musttake before she. can out- live,her love for ———.~—.” Mrs. Forest trembled, but Clara saw the danger her mother dreaded,_and« continued, “ for her be- trayer, and by that time she will become staid and prudent.”_— “ I think myself,” said Miss Marston,’ “ that there is little danger of her repeating her , folly. She has undoubtedly fallen through an ill-directed affection. What sort of a man is her lover and wherp is he?” I .-Mrs. Forest did not dare meet ’ Clara’s eyes during her quick answer: “Oh! it is a young; man in town. He does, not seem to care anythingfor her.” _, ' I 4 x t . » v “I consider himan unprincipledi wretch,” sai “Clara,_‘in-_ . dign-a“i1tl'y. A Her mother’s determination to’,s,(‘,re,e'n.,,Dan looked very ugly in her eyes. “Papa says he efferedhto lent story, written by,Marie Howland. It depicts the good marry her,’ she continued,~addressing Miss ‘Marston, “ but 11 ‘a way that showed he considered it a great sacriﬁce, and she was proud enoughand womanly enough to threw his in- sulting offer back in his teeth. I like her for that,’and‘I think that we ought to protect her right generously. I mean . to help her at all events.” A , “My child!” cried Mrs. Forest, in alarm,“‘you are so im pulsive, so imprudent. You will certainly be talked about.”- ‘ “I don’t think, mamma, that should make any difference when we know we are in the right. I believe the right way is to ﬁnd out what our duty is, andthen to do it openly and fairly.’’, _ ~ . “My dear,”said Miss Marston,".‘ there are very Quixotic ways of doing our duty.” She said this in a cool, decided way, that chafed Clara’s growing heroic mood, and she re- plied bitterly: “I could avoid these ways, I suppose, by mak- ing bibs and baby things in secret and sending them to her anonymously, but I think that would be eontemptible. I "know if such an awful thing should happen to any one of my dear friends, my equals, or to my own sister, I should go to her and comfort her with my sympathy; and if there is any I goodness in doing so for a dear friend, there must be still more virtue in such a course when the object is a poor, friendlcss girl, deprived of all advantagesof education and social culture until she came here.” “Very well reasoned,” said Miss Marston ironically; “ but I am sorryito see thatyou forget how this young person has proﬁted by the advantages for social culture that she has al- ready had in this family.” - Clara’s. eyes fairly ﬂashed, and Mrs. Forest saw that she was sorely tempted to show Miss Marston what social and moral inﬂuence Susie had been under, through one member of the family at least; so she made haste to answer soothingly, almost before the words were out of Miss Marston”s ‘mouth: ‘ “You are so young, my daughter, that it hardly becomes you to seem to know so much more than your elders about what is right and proper. I know your motives are generous, but you must not trust yourself ‘wholly, in such a caseas this. You are wrong in supposing that showing open sympathy with a girl who has fallen from virtue, can do her_any good ; and it certainly may injure you irreparably.” , “Your whole tone, Mainma, is cold and calculating.’ This poor girl is alone, and in an agony of grief such as we have never dreamed of. If helping her to bear up under her bur. den must injure me irreparably, let it do so. I do N am; the favor nor the admiration of the Levites and es, who pass by on the other side. Besides, I do not as alone, I have had the counsel of the clearest head I know nd as noble a heart as ever beat.” Here Clara paused and sighed heavily, almost overcome with a feeling of disappointment that Miss Marston should manifest so little generosity, and one of sorrow also that she had been compelled to express I sentiments that must wound her much loved teacher and friend- As she expected, Miss Marston took refuge in digni ﬁed silence, understanding herself, of course, as included among the Pharisees and Levites. Mrs. Forest remarked that all experience showed the feelings to be dangerous guides; as also were what were loosely called principles; that the only thing that upheld pure morals was religion, and therefore it was the only sure guide. . , . Clara had often seen this making a religious duty an ex- cusefor selﬁshness, and she had a contempt \ or it as natural as was her repulsion to everything dark and ugly. -8119 1-3. plied boldly, “ I hear much about principles and religion and I am compelled to judge them by their fruits. My father, you say, hasno religion. Surely principles are better than religion, if the one leads to helpful sympathy with all ma. fortune, and the other to cold calculation of the effect of. evil .. tongues. I have thought over all the possible results, mamma, and I have decided. I know one who will help Susie openly, :. and without either calculation or shame; and I shallcertainly . follow his example, for Iwill trust my father’s sense of right against the world!” and with this, delivered very dramati- cally and rapidly, Clara left the room. _ 7 - But, whilst the discussion of matters connected with social reform‘ claims the lion’s share of the book, questions connected with ﬁnancial and industrial reforms are not forgotten. ‘A ' very beautiful picture is drawn in it of an -industrial palace, fashioned after that of Monsieur Godin’s in France. The des. cription of the “pouponnat” in it is highly interesting and well worthy of attention. The collective culture of infants and children, and in fact all the reforms advocated loyth-e . VVEEKLY, are, in “ Pa.pa’s Own Girl,” pleasantly and beauti- fullyjllustrated. There is no need to desire for such a work speedy success, for, we understand, it has already attained it; and the near-future willassuredly prove, that, in popular favor, it will take its place between Robinson Crusoe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. ’ . I - ’ E‘ I ' ROMANCE AND REALITY. A lady read the following paragraph in a paper: " “A young wife once cured her husband of a disposition to absent himself from home at nights by providing a ggod din- ner, and saying to him afterward, " George, if you find a sweeter spot than our home describe, it to me.’ and I will rival it if Idie in the attempt.’ A kiss and a few tears com pleted the ‘victory. This lady tried the game on, her husband. He was not‘ melted a bit; he merely said, “Whenpyou can get theboys to comeihere and smoke cigars and talk politics, . and set up, a keg of lager, you can count me in. ‘Ilike the company of theboys, I do.” Our lady saw that sentiment had no effect on him. So she did not throw herself on his neck and hug and wet his paper collar with tears; but She took a saucer and ﬁred’it' at his head, and followed it up with a cup,‘ and ended‘ by slinging a dish o_f strawberries on his shirtlbosom. Since that time he has been an exemplary hus- band. ‘Yet he does seem very anxious for her to visit her dear mother as often as four or ﬁve times a week. FoRGIvENE.ss.—‘.‘ The G_r.r_eat Nazarene carried it so far as. to apply, it to a woman detected in th_e_very agj-, of adultery _ But by a tacit and almost universal consent his disciples in all ages have gone upon the supposition that the a,du1t'e1.y of a wife is not to be condoned.” * W"‘O0DHUL.L & GLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Oct. 31, 1874. MISCELLANEOUS. GLENDENNING ARRATGNED. “ The Presbytery of Jersey City met at ten o’clock, Thurs- day morning, Oct. 8, in the Second Presbyterian Church, on Third street. The ﬁrst business in order was the presenta- tion of the report of the Judicial Committee. The chairman of the committee, Rev. Dr. Imbrie, rose, holding a document in his hand, and read the following report: The Judicial Committee in reference to the case committed to them—viz., the written request of the Rev. John S. Glen- denniiig, a minister of the Presbytery, to the Presbytery for athorough investigation of‘ the charges alleged against his moral character and now current in this community—respect- fully report: » . That after careful examination under oath of "a sufficient number of witnesses among those offering themselves, and the inspection of several oﬂicial documents submitted to the committee, they ﬁnd that enough testimony is adduced to (warrant the Presbytery in undertaking the investigation of the following charges laid against the Rev. John S. Glen- denning, viz. : First Cha.rge.—Seg1uction of and illicit intercourse with an unmarried woman. Second Charge.—Breach of promise of marriage. Third Churge.——Falsehood. Fourth Churge.——Unministerial and unchristianlike con- duct. Inasmuch as the charges to be investigated have excited a strong and widely-spread public interest and a natural de- sire that the trial should be open to the public,the committee would recommend that the Presbytery grant permission to any accredited reporter of the public press to bepresent to take notes; and, also, that the door should be open to as many other persons of the public besides as the room in which the Presbyteryholds its sessions can comfortably ac- commodate, consistent with the" ‘Presbytery’s own con- venience——it being understood that any such persons so ad- mitted shall be subject to exclusion after proof of abusing this privilege. All of which is respectfully submitted. CHARLES K. IMBRIE, DAVID MAGIE, HERMAN C. Rides, CHARLES A. DEWITT, TiTus B. MEIGS,. ROBERT STEWART, ' / Judicial Committee. During the reading of these charges Glendenning appeared to be the most unconcerned of the spectators. V As soon as the charges and speciﬁcations were copied, the Moderator arose and said inasolemn tone: “According to the Book, I now present a copy of the charges to the accused. What is the pleading in this case?” Grendenning, looking steadily at the Moderator, replied ﬁrmly, “Not guilty.” The Moderator rose again, holding a small slip of paper in his hand, and said that the accused desired, in accordance with the report of the Judicial Committee, to select as his counsel. Rev. S. B. Dodd and Rev.‘ Edward Wall. This selection was (agreed to. On motion of Rev. Mr. Dodd, the Rev. C. K. Imbrie and Rev. H. C. Riggs were appointed the prosecuting committee. The Moderator then said : “ The next business is to decide whether this case is to go on immediately or not. What says the accused on this question ?” _ . Rev. Mr. Dodd said that if the Presbytery would take a recess the accused. would be able to answer the question afterward. A recess was then taken till half-past one o’clock. , _ When the Presbytery re-assembled, Rev. Mr. Dodd, for the defense, arose and objected to the charge as being too vague and indeﬁnite, especially in regard to the ﬁrst speciﬁcation of the ﬁrst charge. He demurred to the ﬁrst speciﬁcation of the’ ﬁrst charge, which should have stated the time and place of the alleged seduction. As the charge was set down, no opportunity was afforded the accused to prove an alibi. Dr. Imbrie, for the prosecution, was willing to specify the place of seduction, though he did not deem it necessary, as if the fact that a seduction occurred was proved it was not necessary to prove the time and place. Mr. Dodd then asked that Mr. Grlendenning be allowed to make his statement—-in other words, to enter upon his de- fenseA—-so that both sides of the case should go before the public at. once. ' The Moderator said that if the statement formed a part of the defense this was not the time to introduce it. , Rev. Mr. Edwards observed that it was his ﬁrm conviction the statement proposed could not properly be read at this time. The permission to read it would be a stretch _ of courtesy, and the Presbytery could not extend courtesy to accused men. This was said with such marked emphasis that it brought Glendenning to his feet. On the impulse of the moment he forgot that he was represented by advocates, and he broke out: "I ask no courtesies of this Presbytery. I ask only justice. It was not at my suggestion that the pro- posed statement was oﬂered at this time. In my judgment the proper time to make it would be at the opening of the defense. But I deferred my judgment to that of my counsel, and am prepared‘ to make a statement. The public has prejudged me before the facts have been made known. The press has abused me, yet I have not opened my mouth in my own defense. I know there are men who said that no matter what is the result of this trial they will still believe me guilty. I ask and I expect to receive at your hands a full, fair and impartial hearing.” ’ The Moderator rendered his decision that it would be out of order to permit a statement for the defense to be made at this stage. ' Mr. Dodd then asked for an adjournment until next ‘Wednesday. The Presbytery granted the application. In accordance with the report of the Judicial Committee, which was adopted, the trial will be :1 public 0ne.--N- Y- Herald. A CURSED HOUSE or SLAVERY. SOME REMINISCENCES or THE SI-AVE DEALERS’ INN, IN DELAWARE. A recent journey of the editor of the Eastﬁm Sharemtm from Salisbury to Laurel led him past a famous inn in slavery times, which is located in Sussex county, Delaware near the State line. The house is an old-fashioned country aifair, much dilapidated and entirely deserted, and is said to be haunted. This is the story of it as told by the Shore- mcm: v . _ “Long years ago, before the scream of the steam whistle had invaded this Peninsula, and when, under the old regime, negro buyers traversed it and with yellow gold purchased slaves for the Southern market, this old disused house was a famous inn. Here congregated those who traiﬁcked in hu- man ﬂesh in their journeys up and down the country; and here, in this remote spot, were committed many dark deeds which cried aloud unto heaven and still curse the walls of wood now crumbling to decay. The last and crowning act of blood was the murder of two slaves by those who had them in charge conﬁned here for the night. Since that time, so the tale goes, the house has been haunted; and surely, as we viewed it, with its gaping windows, perforated roof, weather-beaten porch, crumbling walls, surrounded by rank weeds and other noxious growth, we did not wonder that the honest country folk avoid and consider it cursed; for, like Hood’s ‘Ha_unt.ed House,’ everything about it, after one has been told its history, gives token ‘ that this house is haunted.’ ” . ‘ THE “BANNER OF LIGHT” CONVERTED TO ICONOCLASM! ~ . BY W. F. JAMIESON. o Since the Fourth of July I have been “laboring, ” through the WEEKLY, to assistthe Banner to a radical position upon reform.‘ It has been conservative in many'respects, and evinced its dislike of Icoiioclasm. In my article in the WEEKLY of August 15, I took occasion to remind it. I will quote my exactyvords : Science and philosophy both are the most terrible icono- clasts known. Philosophy has ever been the deadly foe to superstition, idolatry, myths, false images. It destroys all these by explaining the phenomena of nature. Science, which means knowledge, has revealed to us the grandeur of the universe and the dign_ity_ of human nature—an important part thereof. ‘In accomplishing this noble work, science has ever been a remorseless image-breaker. I then submitted this dilemma for it to ponder over: If, then, the Banner is scientiﬁc and philosophic (as it is anxious to appear), it is most truly iconoclastic. If it is not iconoclastic, then it is not scientific and philosophic. Several weeks after, in its issue of the 12th of September, in a leading editorial on “ Prof. Tyndail’s Address,” it con- ﬁrms my declaration by saying: A The world owes much to science—-—more than it can as yet formulate in intelligent expression. But it knows how effec- tually science has broken the bonds of superstition, and thus helped to emanctpute humanity from the bigotry of the past tyrants of the soul. Remember, this is what science does; iconoclastic science breaks “ the bonds of superstition,” and liberates humanity. This breaker of images, iconoclasm, which some have sneered at and heaped contempt upon, is at last accepted as the true deliverer of mankind. “ But,” says the careful reader, “ it is not admitt ed by the Banner, is it, that science is an idol-breaker, or, to use the one word, an iconoclast?” I reply, Yes. Here are its words: “ s‘cience is devmolishing the idolatries of superstition.” Again, it says: “What Prof. Tyndall has done, and is still doing, is to break the idols of superstition.” These iconoclastic utterances are all in that one article. I do not complain because the Banner doesnot acknowledge itself beaten in its opposition to iconoclasm. I have no cen- sorious words to employ against it because it does not see proper to admit its indebtedness to my humble self for its sudden change of front; although, without doubt, if I had been a spirit from the “shining shore,” and held’ pre- cisely such a discussion with Bro. Colby, he would have an- nounced himself “Converted by a spirit! Wonderful test!” etc. Yet it is so refreshing, hearty—like, to have a person who is fairlyvanquished in debate admit: “ I was in opposi- tion to you yesterday; I am with you to-day, convinced that you are right and I was wrong.” Such words, though in the form of defeat, have the ring of true bravery. Twelve years ago, when Moses: Hull, then the most eloquent preacher the’ ‘Adventists had in the nation, acknowledged in the presence of witnesses, immediately at the close of my debate with him, that he had “preached his last Adventism,” it revealed a candor in the man—a‘ simple, unaifected love of truth worthy of the gods. I remember that in my article of Aug. _15, I asked why the Banner had so “persistently ignored a. full, frank, free dis- cussion of social science? Its treatment of the question of socialism has been mincing, gingerly.” Now, what next? In its issue of'Oct. 3 it comes toward the front on the social question, ventilating itself through an editorial leader of more than two‘ columns. Its ﬁrst line is that a “forward- moving, irresistible spirit of change is really abroad in the community.” Just awoke, eh? The good old Banner arises from its comfortable nap—it is a successful sleeper——and is running around among reformers rubbing its eyes, exclaim- ing, “Really! really! how things are spinning!” Why, yes, you dear old’ snoozer, there were two women put in jail be- cause they organized a social ball in Plymouth Church about two years ago, whose members have been dancing ever since “all hands’ around 1” We tried to wake you up to let you know why the WEEKLY could not be supplied to your subscribers— the women editors were put in jail. It was bawled into your ear; we shock you; all no use, dead asleep. Now wide awake; good. Who will transfer, smiling Luther, of the Banner, to canvas? Then and now. They would surpass Beecher’s chromo infants—-—two premium daubs for sub-. scribers to the Christian Union. The Banner says: That a great, grand truth underlies the principles advo- cated by Victoria C. Woodhull and her coadjutors, none will deny. In fact there are times when she gives utterance to views which must strike .accordin_g strings inimany hearts Who have pondered the sexual question. Speaks it right out! Says “sexual” and don’t blush! What will the “pure” societies do now? The sexual ques- tion, toiwyhich the ,Banner, alludes, has been by them voted “nasty.” What shall we think of people who .“ pondered” over it? Seriously, the Banner quoted its old ﬁles to show how “ ad- vanced” it was, even as far back as 1857'. Two years ago would have been a good time for reiterating its liberal views on the sexual question. Or has the Banner been waiting, “pondering” ponderously, snooling at its post, when not fast bound in slumber, to ﬁgure which way the sexual cat would jump? The cat has jumped. The Banner has a mission. It is a good “indicator.” Its trumpet gives no “uncertain sound.” It is a signal, not of battle, but of the close of it. Those pure, conservative Spiritualist societies have lost their Banner, which is in close sympathy with Victoria C. Woodhull, and it now confesses it has “pondered” the sexual question ever since 1857'. lt has been a “ social freedomite ” for seventeen years, except- ing the time it Rip Van Wiukled. WOMEN DECORATIVE ARTISTS. I do not propose to argue the vexed question of political economy concerning the degree to which luxury is fhstiﬁed by its distribution of capital among laborers, but it seems very clear that there can be no reason to deplore the free or even lavish expenditures of the wealthy for objects which are not in themselves pernicious. It has been one particularly gratifying incident of the passion for decoration in this coun- try that it has been the means of opening to women beautiful and congenial employments. Miss Jekyl, who was one of the ﬁrst to take up this kind of work, attracted the attention of Mr. Leighton, Mme. Bodichon, and other artists by her big} ly artistic embroidery, and has since extended her work to repousse or ornamental brass-work, especially sconces, and many other things. She has, I hear, acquired not only dis- tinction but wealth by her skill, some specimens of which are exhibited in the International Exhibition at South[Kensington-- this year. There also may be seen the work of other ladies who have followed in her footsteps, some of the ﬁnest being by a Miss Leslie, a relative of the celebrated artist of that name." Indeed, there has now been established in Sloane street a school for embroidery, which has succeeded in teach- ing and giving employment to a number of gentlewomen who had been reduced in circumstances. Miss Philott, whose paintings have often graced the walls of exhibitions, and have gained the interest of Mr. Ruskin, has of late been painting beautiful ﬁgures and ﬂowers on plaques, which, when the col- ors are burned in by Minton. make ornaments that are eagerly sought for. A Miss Coleman has also gained great eminence for this kii-idof work. Miss Levin, the young daughter of a Well—known artist, has displayed much skill in designing and painting pots, etc., with Greek or Pompeian ﬁgures. Many of these ladies have begun by undertaking such work as this for personal friends, but have pretty generally found that the circle of those who desire such things is very large, and that their art is held in increasing esteem among cultivated people. It is even probable that the old plan which our great-grand- mothers had of learning embroidery will be revived in more important forms, and, with the painting of china, be taught as something more than the accomplishment it was once thought—Harper’s Magazine. THE FIRST MODERN FLYING MAN. If the fabulous stories of antiquity could be credited, it might be believed that a method of navigating the air was known to the ancients. The aeronautic ﬂight of the Cretan philosopher and the luckless fate of his son in the Icarian Sea, is a tale well known to all school-boys. Strab'o tells of apeople of Scythia who had a method of elevating them- selves in the air by means of smoke, although he does not mention in what manner, or whether by the intervention of any mechanical contrivance. Roger Bacon alludes to a ﬂy- ing machine, although he confesses that he has not seen it, and seems to have known little of it beyond the inventor’s name. The ﬁrst historical ﬂying experiment was made in Scotland, by an Italian friar, whom James IV. had made Prior of Tongland. The man, who was a great favorite of the King, from his presumed scientiﬁc attainments, and his supposed success in alchemy, was commonly believed to be in league with “Auld Hornie.” Thinking that he had dis- covered a method of ﬂying through the air, the Prior ap- pointed a certain day, in 1510, for an aerial ascension, and invited the King and his court to witness the feat. At the appointed time the Italian, bedccked with an enormous pair of wings, ascended one of the battlements of Stirling Castle, and in the presence of King James and his court spread his plumes and vaulted ‘into the air. Unfortunately for the Prior’s reputation, the experiment was a complete failure. Amid. the laughter and derision of the whole assembly the would-be aeronaut came tumbling headlong down, and although ‘manure-heap luckily saved his neck, his thigh- bone was: roken. As is invariably the case, the hapless ex- perimeititalist had an excuse for his non-success; it was to be attributed, he asserted, to the fact that his wings included some feathers from common fowls instead of having been all from eagles and other noble birds.———Ohumbers’ Journal. , I ' “DAWN VALCOUR COMMUNITY.” __Box 13, WIN'oosKI, Vt., Oct. 12, 1874. Dear Mrs. Woodhull—knowing that a report of the failure of this enterprise is being circulated, I write to tell you that the report is entirely false. The Community is already organized and in working order, and circulars containing our plan of organization and important particulars in regard to the property are almost ready for the press. Never before have our prospects been so bright or our success so sure as now. Should you have room, we shall be very glad if you will publish this in the WEEKLY. Mr. Willcox joins me in this request. Very truly yours, ‘ H. AUGUSTA WHITE, Secretary. PERI: HYACINTHE seems to agree with Mr. Disraeli as to the coming of a great war. In a speech he delivered at Ge- neva lately he said, “he saw in the horizon war raising its hideous head-international war, civil war, religious war." ,' -X. Oct. 31, 1874. WOODHULL & CDAFLIN’S WEEKLY. "O A 13 ROUGH THOUGHTS FOR HONEST PEOPLE. BY STRAFFAN MILLS. Was it the devil at war with God _ That trained up man in his customs odd-- Rude, vicious Mangaby? (1) With manus agd pedals to scratch the sod- To catch impresssions—a pulpy clod- Fearing to stray from the paths he trod- Mere memiesc baby ? (2) When these two powers Creation tried, Did some of the new made step aside, With instinct imitative; Whispering into each gaping sconce That some were fashioned for mere response, . And one in ‘a thousand ecapes being dunce, The residue imitative ? V" This seems the case In language and race, Law, manners, and godly fancies. ' What is good, what is bad, Wise, foolish or mad, The ideal mid-wife, Miss Nancies Will approve or condemn In edict or hymn, 3 And they call this “ Progressive advances." ’Wise professors who save or kill, Practice on human material still; Fannie or Annie, Jack or J ill—— Preying or praying, Doing or saying—— Use them for paying up life’s little bill ! They, homelessly straying, Hark to his braying; He “lives in the mansion-house under the bill.” It was no God, but a devil designed That fraud and folly be combined, And special ignorance, easy to ﬁnd, Should blend in political faction; Trained together, like pigs in a pen, (3) Weaned from honor and suckled on gin, Brained—-Ah, no, they were brainless when The owner and driver called them men- Whose body and soul and action Were matters of trade, but ready then For murder or detraction 1 Oh, there’s a live vote In that laborer’s coat I Take it; he never knew how to think; The fellow is poor, Stick him down in a sewer, But first give him whisky to drink. There’s Billy and Bob Swapping votes for a job To that dandiﬁed chap with gold watch in his fob. Backed by such as these They can do as they please- Work them to death and live at their ease. These are the knaves Who cry: “ Let us have slaves," Or we’ll sink you in debt, and furrow with graves The land you and me Have sworn to keep free, Now oath-bound to self and their partisan braves. Base human parrots, who In cellars and garrets grew—— Mere echo’s of speech without thought or brain- Happy small-favor men, ‘ Mire in their ﬁlthy den, Till their boss, Ali-Baba, needs them again l Woe to the Commonwealth Where base oﬂicial stealth " Saps out the nation’s health—— Fratricides grasping the bludgeons of Cain! Undera nation’s ban, Cursed be the partisan- Man, leaguing foe to man, warring with God ! Cursed be the learned knave Training the stupid slave To the falsecreeds he gave—word-catching clod ! Cursed be the man of type, Blowing his party pipe Like the swamp—sucking snipe, beak in the mire; Kindly his vision kens Sweets of these fever fens; Crime he calls virtue, and Truth is or liar,’ I Ah, needless is it to bully the poor, Or curse the prejudiced, ignorant boor, Who seldom dare think, But make old habits part of their creed, And the ghosts of their buried race and breed Still live in their lives, and mark each deed Of folly or drink! ' Aiding the foe in his vicious greed, Taxing themselves for their enemy’s need, Cursing their kind, yet willing to bleed On lunacy’s brink. ‘k- If the master, with cunning words of praise, Will ﬂatter their whims on festival days, They’l1 pour along in his wicked ways Like suds in a sink. ’ Oh, that reason their sunken souls would raise And teach them to think I _NOTES.—(1) “ Vicious Momgaby,” a white-eyed monkey, with “manus and pedals”--hands and feet; an animal of great imitative powers, ﬁtto take rank with some of our low politicians. The mangaby is blest with the want of speech, with which they are cursed, and so are more michev- ous than the monkey. ' _ (2) “ Mermesc,” an old Saxoh word meaning merely human. (3 “ Trained like pigs in/a pen.”—Ca.n any thinking man look at the little Tom, Dick and Harry associations in our city-—the trained curs that bark or bite at their master’s bidding——masters who command a broom- brigade in the scavenger guards, run a junk store, or mix the poisonous compounds in a gin mill, train these memzescs to vote for him or his ac- complice—can any man look at these without feeling bitterly how few of such are worthy to be called men, or how few of those enjoying the privilege of freemen are worthy of having a vote 1’ ‘ PORTLAND, Oct. 12th, 1874. 4 Woodhull db Clajlt'n—Friends, I have found out what it goats per night tombs City Hallto any one who will not one dorse Mrs. Woodhull. Albert Colby has advertised to give a. lecture in City Hall in opposition to Spiritualism, and he told me that the Mayor charged him thirty-ﬁve dollars for the Hall for one evening. Mrs. Woodh-ul] paid*sevenl;y-ﬁve dollars for the same hall to the same Mayor. Hence she paid forty dollars taboo-money. “Religious people! Sure and blessed above, whereevery orchard is o’er-run with gods I”. - J. M. Tom). MATERIALIZATION. Mr. J. M. Peebles, an enthusiastic,Spiritualist, delivered an addressin the San Francisco Minstrel Hall.S:1nday evening, relating a. three days’ experience with the “ Eddy Brothers ?’ in Vermont, whose manifestations are now being subjected to an investigation by Col. H. S. Alcott, as detailed from time to time in the Daily Graphic. Mr. Peebles said that on the second evening of his visit eight spirits materialized and walked the stage. Mayﬂower, a spirit girl, who announced several days before that she was about making a trip to the moon, related the details of her journey, and improvised a poem on the inhabitants of the moon. The spirits conversed ﬂuently in French, German and Russian with the investiga- tors, of whom there, were many. Miss Honto, the material- ized spirit cf an Indian girl, has been subjected to various ful electric battery from Brooklyn, and turned the full power of it on the spirit. Honto stood the test admirably, neither wincing nor shrinking from a force that would have prostrated the strongest man” She was weighed on two separate occasions on a. Fairbanks’ scale. The ﬁrst time she tipped the beam at 88 pounds, and the second at 65 pounds, proving that she can change her material weight at will. The spirits affirmed that within a year or two they would be able todappear as public lecturers, and, after the deli very of an oration, to vanish from the stage in full view of the audience.—N. Y. Uaily Graphic.’ - [From the N. Y. Daily Graphic] A SUGGESTION FROM THE ON EIDA COMMUNITY. We are all very rough interested in the reports you are pub- lishing of investigations of spiritualistic phenomena, both in Vermont and Philadelphia. There is one point which seems especially important, namely, the power which the spirits exhibit of dematerializing such material objects as pearl cros- ses, gold rings, calla lily, &c., ’U'ld6 Robert Dale 0 wen’s account in the Daily Graphic of the 3d inst. In the case of the calla lily, the dematerialization seems to have been performed without injuring the organic structure of the vegetable life, for it was again materialized, and appeared in its ﬁrst con- dition apparently. Can the same thing be done with animal life? If your agent in Vermont could manage to get a ma- terialized spirit to vanish from before his eyes in a lighted room,,holding in its hand some small living animal, say a canary bird, and afterward re-materialize it; and if the bird should, after its resurrection, hop about, sing, chirp, etc., a . good many people would be bold enough to believe that the same thing could be done with a baby. How would that effect ordinary physical death? If the investigations of your agent are not yet concluded, would it not be desirable to un- dertake some such tests‘? Very truly yours, F. W. S. Office of Oneida Community, Oneida, N. Y., Oct. 5. _ VOLTAIRE’S LAWSUIT. Voltaire was a good-hearted man as well as a great author. Here is one of the many pleasant anecdotes told of him: When he bought of the President de Broses the chateau in which he lived, it was found that in the measurement of the land there was comprised a. strip belonging to a. farmer named John Panissot, who went to Voltaire to claim his property. The latter would have listened favorably to his demand if he had not been warned that, right or wrong, many farmers sur- rounding his new purchase were prepared to bring a. similar request. Desiring to cut short what he believed to be a pretence, Voltaire rejected the claim, and was arraigned at- the tribunal of Gex, where, defended by alawyer, doubtless better than his cause, he non-suited the pl,aintiﬁ‘,- and was pronounced the owner of the disputed land. But Panissot determined to appeal from an unjust sen. tence. As he wanted money for the purpose, he conceived the plan to apply to him against whom he was conducting the suit; and accordingly went to Voltaire’s residence, and asked for an interview, which was accorded. “Ah! it is you, Panissot? What brings you here?” “ My conﬁdence in your uprightness; for I come to beg you to lend me money enough to prbsecute my appeal to the court of Dijon from the sentence pronounced at Grex.” “What! do you think that I shall consent to furnish you with arms to ﬁght me," with rods to chastise me ?” “Yes, Monsieur Voltaire, a great man like you, whose works are full of generous sentiments, will understand my conﬁdence in him in this case!” “ But, Panissot, you are attacking my property.”_ “N o, sir, I am reclaiming my own. You doubtless prefer justice to a. small bit of land which adds nothing to your for. tune, but which lessons my property very much.” Voltaire, surprised at a conﬁdence which honored him, as well as the ﬁrm language of the farmer. acceded to his request, and lent him three hundred francs. The case, carried to the tribunal of Dijon, was lost by Voltaire, who was obliged to grant to Panissot the land he claimed. When the latter came to return the sum borrowed, Voltaire said to him, “Keep it, it will serve to pay the expenses of the first trial at Gex, which you unjustly lost.”—Boston Investigator. BEECHER’S BOBTAIL FLUSH. _A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial writes as follows: . . Not far from me lives an intelligent negro lad, who is con- sidered an orﬁcle in the society in which he moves. His em- ployment is servant at a club-house, where he has picked up quite a knowledge of the an.i,us_gments of the White folks, and special tests by Col. Alcott, who last week obtained a power-' Called upon by his colored friends to explain the Beecher matter, he said : “ You see, it’s jis like a game e’ draw. Beecher, it was his blind; everybody took a hand. Miss Woodhull she makes de fuss play; den dis man Bacon he come in. When Bacon come in Massa Tilton follow, ’cos he had a good han.’ Massa Moulton he follered in, ’cos he thought Tilton was a-goin’ to be robbed—dropped in kinder quiet like. Den de small fry, them fellérs with ‘deuces and trays, they come in, ’cos it looked like a good pot. Massa. Beecher pick up his hand an’ he ﬁnd a fow (four) ﬂush. Bein’ his blind, he think he play smart and raise ’em all out—so he raise ’em‘the limit. Dey all pass out ’cept Tilton and Moulton. Tilton he draw one card, two par, nines and sixes, and don’t better ’em. Moul- ton he draw two . cards to free aces and take in a par jacks. Beecher he draw one.card. Tilton he feel kinder weak on de bluff, so he jes follers wid a white chip. Beecher he don’t look at his han’ ’tall, but jest go right back do limit. Tilton he feel kinder weak den. He feel he can beat Beecher, but he tink Moulton kin beat Beecher too, but he ’fraid Moulton get skeered and pass out. Finally Tilton he call, kinder hes- itatin’ like, and den Moulton he jes bounce Beecher. Dat kinder startle Beecher, and he look at his han’ He draw a club to fo’ hearts, and got nuﬁn but bobtail ﬂush. Massa Beeecher can’t play bluff wid dem fellers. Dey eat him up blood raw.” THE DRESS REFORM. BY J. 11. cook. Forthirty years I have been an advocate for such a dress for women as is dictated by common sense, decency and physiology. Until lately, I had despaired of seeing, in my life, public opinion awakened to the importance of this re- form. I now rejoice to be informed that through the pens and tongues of such heroic and indefatigable spirits as Mary E. Tillotson and Omll‘. Shepherd, our forces may be concen- trated and greatly augmented for the freedom of woman’s body as well as her mind. “A sound mind -in a. sound body ” must be preceded by a. free mind in a. free body. I am glad that for several years of my life I have lived with a woman who had the sense and moral courage to wear a dress that would permit her to breathe and move as easily and freely as I do, although it has often been against her pocket and respectability. . To me it issad and disgusting to see a woman’s “human form divine” burdened, “cabined, cribbed, conﬁned,” till “the frantic soul runs to each avenue and shrieks for help, but bricks in vain.” A fashionable and intelligent lady who had been an invalid for several years, employed skillful physicians and taken many quack nostrums, at last, in despair, sent for an honest and unpre- tending doctor. He sat looking in silence at her, and she, shallI take ?” “ You must take————’’ , “ What shall I take?” “You ,mu»t take——-” “Do tell, doctor.” “You-——must— take—-oﬁ‘——your——-corsets!” If all physicians were as honest and frank how much suffering would be avoided, and how woman would dress as nature dictates, one-half of her miseries and pains would be avoided and future generations vastly improved. I do not expect that the advocates of popular theology and the devotees of fashion will ever try to dress woman as though she had a spirit to be developed in her body; but it does seem as though Spiritualists and social reformers ought to know enough, and feel enough, for suffer- ing woman to open their eyes to this much-needed reform and carry it along with others. Often have I lamented to see spiritual mediums dresseda. la modepand viola.ti‘ng continu- ally the truths and laws they taught in their lectures. I told one of the most brilliant and wonderful speaking mediums eighteen years ago that she was daily committing suicide by her fashionable dressing and other violations of nature. In about one year her friends consigned her long-abused body spirit world. The'Spiritual ranks are full of cases of a mp;-e or less sim_ilar character. I have even knownsome Spiritualc ists to shun and treat with coldness a woman who wore a, short dress. We are ‘apt to looks down on the female rag- pickers in our city streets; but they are far more decent with their scanty skirts than those ladies on the side-wall: who mop up tobacco-spittle and other ﬁlth, without charge, with their costly and fashionable skirts spread out for gau- tlemen to step or spit on. Oh splendid, fashionable nasti- ness! Oh, but “ We may as well be out of the world as out; of the fashion.” Well, then, be in fashion, and you W111 soon be out of the world, and miserable and useless while you are in it. Oh, man,.it is within your power to greatly facilitate the progress of the dress reform. Will you use that power? _ DEXTER, Me., Sept. 26, 1874, Editors Weelclg/—Pcrmit me to say that we have had the pleasure not long since of listening to the very eﬁicient and popular lecturer, Mrs. Nellie L. Davis. This well known lady made her third annual tour to ‘our village in July last, and was welcomed by a goodly audience ‘in both afternoon and evening. The subjects of her discourses were, in the afternoon, “New Occasions Teach .New Duties;;” in the evening, “ What is Truth?” Her remarks were listened to very atten tiveiy, and the elucidation of the theories she ad- vocated as regards free love and its principles, had a ten. dency to draw the closest attention from and to deeply interest her hearers. Mrs. Davis is an able and eloquent; speaker, and is endowed with all the qualiﬁcations that make listened to her last lecture. ' J, H_ s_ HAMILTON, N. Y., Sept. 28. Editors We ekly-—The Central N. Y. Association of Spiritu- alists, closed its session yesterday. This association is known for its orthodox and conservative tendencies. However though many of the prominent radicals absented themselves, thg keeps himself generally well posted on the events of the day. ‘ his han,’ an’ bet white chip. Moulton he know Beecher on“ expecting some prescription to swallow said, “Doctor, what’ many lives would be saved. I hesitate not to say that if. to the grave, and her spirit was forced, prematurely, to the‘ a ﬁrst-class orator, and we sincerely trust that we have not- WOODHULL. dr CLAF-~LIN’,S WEEKLY Oct. 31, 1874. ses_sion wa a decided success and w_e1l sustained throughout Elmore Sharpe, an able young lawyer of Chenango, came to the defense of social’r'ef_orm. ‘with a little vigorous English that made men stare. It seemed fora time, that the carefully prepared feast ofthe conservatives would be tipped over, but after a slight bluster the equilibrium was restored. ‘ There were several able speakers present, but none of those ven- tured to throw a stone at the champion of social reform. ' I ' WM. MADDEN. From the Sunday Press, PIn'ladelphi'a, Pa..] POLITICAL GOSSIP. , SHAKESPEARE ADAPTED TO THE TIMES. The quality of bribery is deep stained; It droppeth from a hand;behind the door Into the. yoter’s palm. It is twice dirty: It dirts both him that gives and him that takes. ’Tis basest in the-gbasest, and becomes Low blacklegs more than servants of the State. ' Those Swindlers show the forcebf venal power, « The attribute to trick and roguery, Whereby ’tis managed that a bad horse wins; ‘But bribery is below their knavish “lay.” It is the vilest of dishonestthings; It is the attribute of the Ring itself; And other creatures most like Ringsters show When bribery smothers conscience. Therefore, you Whose conscience takes the fee, consider this- That in the cause of just reform, you all Should lose your franchise: we do dislike bribery; And that dislike doth cause us to oppose The re-election ofxohe Mann. FRANK MOULTON SPEAKS A KIND YVORD FOR VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. In a recent interview with Mr. Moulton, this is what he said to a newspaper man about Victoria C. Woodhull: “There is nothingin my rfagnily, to fear. My wife is a broad-minded, self"-preserving woman, able to take care of herself. We accept life on the theory of human imperfec- tion." Iiwas struck with the unexpected modesty of Mrs. W'oodhull, and said: ‘Emma, I want you to take a look at that woman and tell me what you think of her.’ We treated her with the courtesy the case required, and, by placing her under a. higher motive than had generally been imputed to her, that of mercy» and sacriﬁce, we had the scandal sup- pressed for a year and a half. We abandoned her only when we found that there was an adverse inﬂuence we could not verreach_.:_’_ "‘ “ Whatvwas that?” , “The wanton persecution she had suﬂ’ered—driven out of’ hotels and boarding-houses—and besides there was at her elbow old Stephen Pearl Andrews, pushing her on to prove society falsely constructed. Two ladies of the Beecher family, Mrs.‘ Stowe one of them,- in the Civristian Union, grossly abused Mrs. Woodhull. I never heard her utter an‘ i nmodest word, and if I could tolerate Mr. Beecher in my f tmily afterwhat I knew of him, why not Mrs. Woodhull? The Woodhull experience was a mere episode to us. Mrs. VVoodhull admired Theodore, who did not reciprocate, and Beecher admired Mrs. Woodhull. The public have always had the wrong end of this scandal.”-—PolL'ce News. ‘ COMMENTS. “The wrong end of this scandal!” Why could not Mr. Moulton have given the whole truth in regard to this episode 11 the history of the scandal, instead of subscribing to the miserable pretexts of Messrs. Beecher and Tilton? We can, however, afford to wait, for the truth will come and put to shame all who have sought to evade it by their falsities and equivocations. BEECHER had only 400 people to hear him lecture at W3- burn, Mass., Monday night- THE Chicago Advance says that a ‘well-known theological professor in Chicago pronounces Tilton’s last statement a pa- per “worthy of Demosthenes.” S V REV. H. W. BEECHER lectured at Boston on “Compulsory Education.” The audience was very thin and there was no enthusiasm.—W75tn€S8- A PERSON who represented that he was a. clergyman pre- sented himself at the ofﬁce of a prominent real estate ﬁrm in Boston one day this week, and asked if the ﬁrm would give him a list of all the farms offered for sale and owned by widows. The query naturally arose Whether he wanted to- buy a widow or marry a farm. A A- 4 r wr BUSINESS "EDITQRIALS. MRS. MURR, Clairvoyant, Business and Healing Medium, cures all diseases by the laying-on of. hands. Also, magnetic, positive and negative pills guaranteed to cure any disease. Seances ﬁfty cents. Mrs. Murr, 428 -Nineteenth street, Phila. DR. CHAUNCEY BARNES, the great Reformer, is stumping the country with the “ Healing Balm for the Nation,” the most important lecture ever given, to inaugurate a new form of government. Subject: “ Clear the Political Track, all office-seekers and otﬁce-holders under the Government of the United States of ~ America, for the -coming man is. on the march toward the head of your nation, with a new form of government in 1876. He will show how we can have lands and homes for all the poor invAmerica; also how we can settle all troubles with the black, red and white races, and how the National debt can -be paid within eight or ten years. Come one, come all! Lovers of truth,~rich and poor,_laborers, come forth! .Woman’s rights, temperance, Spiritualism, its true mission, and all other Reforms.” Look out for him, and give him a hearing. A ,WARREN CHASE will lecture in Ottumwa, Iowa, October. 25th, and in Cairo, .Ill., the ﬁve Sundays of November. He. conference and free seats. ADDIE L."13ALLoU where she has been greeted by large and enthusiastic audi- ences, has gone to Oregon for a term of some weeks, after which she will return to the States, about the 1st of Novem- ber. Parties along the route wishing to make engagements ' with her to stop off for one or more lectures on her return will please make as early application as possible, to secure" time; till middle of _Oct., care Box 666, San Francisco; later and for winter engagements, to Terre Haute, Ind. E. M. Flagg, dentist, 79 West Eleventh street, New York city. Specialty, artiﬁcial dentures. DR. L.K. CooNI.EY has removed from Vineland to Newark N. J. Office and residence No. 51 Academy street, where he will treat the sick daily and receive applications to lec- ture Sundays in New Jersey, New York or elsewhere in the vicinity. I . L. K. CooNLEY. THE Universal Association of Spiritualists, Primary Coun- cil N o. 1 of Illinois, meets every Sunday at 3 :30 P. M., at hall 2304 Van Buren street, corner of Franklin, Chicago. Free ERNEST J. WITHEEORD, Cor. Sec. _ Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium, may be found at his oﬂice, No. 25 East Twenty-ﬁrst street near Broadway The First,Primary Council of Boston. of the U-. A. of Spiritualists, have leased the new “Parker Fraternity (lower) Hall,” corner of Berkly and Appleton streets, where they give lectures every Sunday afternoon and evening. JOHN HARDY, Cor. Secretary. CHAS. H. FOSTER, the renowned Test Medium, can be found at N o. 14 West Twenty-fourth street, New York City, BENJAMIN & MARION TODD have removed from Ypsilanti to Port Huron, Mich. Their correspondents will please ad- dress them accordingly. Religion superseded by the Kingdom of Heaven; official organ of the Spirit World. Amonthfy journal, established in 1864, to explain and to prove that Spiritualism has pre- pared the way for the second coming of Christ. Thomas Cook, publisher, No. 50 Bromﬁeld street, Boston, Mass. D. W. HULL is now in the East, and will answer calls to lecture at any place. Address 871, Washington st., Boston. IMPORTANT To PERSONS WANTING To SPEND THE WINTER SOUTH.—A lady and gentleman can be accommodated in the house of a. physician, on moderate terms, in one of the most beautiful cities of the South. For particulars inquire at this oﬂice. SARAH E. SOMERBY, Trance Medium and Magnetic Healer, 23 Irving Place, N. Y. ’ @°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- ﬁtedby 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, AUSTIN KENT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44. The legal rate of postage on the WEEKLY, addressed to regular subscribers, is twenty cents per annum, or ﬁve cents per quarter, payable in advance. Subscribers who receive their copies by letter-carriers will please hand the annual or quarterly postage to carriers, taking their receipts. If any ‘higher rates» are demanded, report the facts to the local Postmaster. The postage on copies directed to subscribers ‘in New York city has been prepaid by the publishers. R. W. HUME, Associate Editor of‘ WOODHULL St CLAELIN’s WEEKLY, is prepared to deliver lectures on Radical Spiritu- alism, and on all the reforms of whichit is the base. For further particulars, list of lectures, etc.,i address box 3,791 New York City.‘ W. F. JAMIESON is engaged to return to Boston for the Sundays of Oct.‘ Will receive applications for week-evening lectures in vicinity of Boston. Address N o. 9 Montgomery fplace, Boston, Mass. " A I ‘ Miss Nellie L. Davis will speak in San Francisco, Cal., in December; in San Jose, during January. Permanent address, 235 Wasliiiigton stl, Salem,,Mass. SEWARD MITCHELL desires to inform his COI‘I'QSpiIld;_6I1l3S that he has removed from Cornville, Me., and his present ad- dress is WestLittleton, Mass. A A DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the renowned healer,who has met with such unbounded success in our principal cities, in casting out devils, in healing the Palsied, the Lathe, Deaf and Blind, "and, in fact, all known Diseases, is -now meeting with the same success in healing by his Magnetized Powder, which he will send to any part of the globe on the receipt of $1. The doctor can be addressed at Vineland, N. J. ' THE PROGRESSIVE SPIRITUALISTS of New York have changed their place of meeting. The Conference now assem- bles every Sunday at 2 P. M. at the Harvard Rooms, 42d street and Sixth avenue. At its last meeting a proposition was made by Mr, Farnsworth, suggesting the propriety of holding reg- ular meetings there throughout the day,‘ and engaging speak- ers to instruct the people with regard to Spiritualisrn in the morning and evenings. We are glad to add that the idea seemed to meet with general approval. DR. H. P. FAIRFIELD is engaged to speak’in Putnam, willreceivesubscriptions for the W E.EKI.aY- ' " = "re Address, Greenwich Village, Mass. Conn., during October. Would-m-akie other engagements. Having had quite an extended, tour through California, 1 THE First Grand Prize Meda was unanimously awarded to J. W. Bracket, for best. piano fortes ‘~‘ of superior workman- ship,‘ new application of material and improvements‘ in con- struction,” over all competitors, at the last fair of the Massa- chussetts Charitable Mechanic’s Association, held in Boston. Judges: Benjamin J.’Lang, John K. Paine, Theodore Chase, Joseph B. Sharland, Charles J. Capen. ‘Warerooms and factory: 387 Washington street, Boston. LAURA CUPPY SMITH’s. engagements are as follows: October, New Bedford, Mass.; Dec., New Haven, Conn.; January and March, Boston; February, Salem, Mass. Societies desiring to engage her for the intervening months would do well to apply at once. 27 Milford street, Boston, Mass. [CIRCULAR] BUREAU OF CORRESPONDENCE . OE THE PANTARCHY. ' The increasing number of letters of inquiry, addressed to MR. ANDREWS personally, and to others known to be asso- ciated with him, in respect to the nature, purposes, progress and prospects of the Pantarohy, suggest the propriety of organizing a branch or bureau of its operations for the ex- press purpose of answering such and similar inquiries, as well as for the relief of the parties so addressed, whose time has, heretofore, been gratuitously given to the _writing of replies. - There are two other kinds of letters sent in a steady cur- rent for many years to the same quarter. The ﬁrst are letters ’ of inquiry touching social diﬁiculties, and asking for advice or consolation, in the thousand trying conditions in which married and unmarried persons, men and women, ﬁnd themselves involved. The others are letters, asking speciﬁc information, on matters of reform, spiritualism, unitary life, the new language, and the like; and even on avariety of topics, concerning science, business, and miscellaneous sub- jects. ' To serve this great want; to organize and economize labor; and to extend this method of, giving information into a sys- tematized institution. for the use of the whole community‘ this Bureau formed. ” The aggregate of. small fees, will, it is hoped, urnish a. means of support to one or several of the wisest and best of the men or women most versed in the social reform, and in universological science, and prove of great use to many an aching heart and to many an inquiring mind; THE BUREAU or CORRESPONDENCE will undertake to ' answer ANY QUESTION (ddmt'ttt'ng of an answer) upon ANY" SUBJECT, and in case its eﬁorts are appreciated will take the necessary steps to enlarge its connections and means of in- formation to that end. In the meantime, if the question is of a kind which the Bureau is unable to answer, the fee will be returned. A The fees charged are as follows : For a reply on postal card to a single inquiry, 10 cents; for a letter of advice, informa- tion (more at large), or sympathy and consolation, 25 cents. In the latter case, the letter of inquiry must contain a stamp, for the answer. N 0 increase of charge on account of the diffi- culty of obtaining the information, except in, special in- stances, which will be arranged by correspondence. News- papers inserting this circular, can avail themselves of the aid of the Bureau without charge. , A STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. THEODORA FREEMAN SPENCER, ‘ JOHN G. ROBINSON. M.-D., , ASENATH C. MCDO‘NALD, BOARD OF MANAGERS‘ DAVID HoYLE, . Address Mrs. A. C. McDonald, Soc. B. C. P., .75 ‘V. 54th St., New York. PROSPECTUS. J WOODHULL 8: CLAFLIN’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 people will be their own legislators, and the oiiicials 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 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 fail, shall be responsible for theproper rearing‘ of children. 7. A new educational system, in which all children born shall have the same advantages of physical, 1 industrial, mental and moral/cultur e, and thus be equally-prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsibleand useful lives. All of which will constitute the yarious 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 willbe ‘a member. ‘ ‘ I‘ ‘ I ‘ " ' lCriticism*and objections specially invited. The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday. Subscription price, $3 per year; $51.50 six months; or 10c.. single COPY,’ to be ad of any N ewsdealer in the world, W11 can order it from the following General Agents: I 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 ‘iV.esternINews Co.,. Chicago, Ill. Sample copies, mailed on application, free. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL AND TENNIE C. CLAELIN, Ed- itors and Proprietors. ‘ _ COL. J. H. BLooD,*Managing Editor. All..communi,cations-should be addressed WooDi=IU1.L 8: CI.AELIN’s WEEIILY, I Y ‘ ‘“'Box‘3,791,' New Yorkﬂity. Address, till further notice, I Oct.31,l874./. _ I W-OOIDHULL J6 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. ‘ A A I15 } MAGNETIC HEALING \_,3i4 EAST i\ii|\ITH STREET, Ii\IAEAw YCSRK CITY; ~ I A I I A A Ie A ‘ 11,. { . A This Institute, organized upon the combined principles of I I A I l I 4;’ I , CLAIRVOYANGE, A ,1 V A s A ‘ I MEDICINE, . E Makes a specialty of all those diseases, Which, byythe Medical Faculty, are usually considered incurab‘le. Among these maybe mentioneﬁ I l 5: PARALYSIS, A . A A I A I I A A I A A I A I I I a A ASCROFUILA, I e n I A I ‘ I I I . A RHEUMATISM, " A A A DYSPEPSIA, A A I , I I EPILEPSY, , ‘ V A I CHOREA, . _' I A I / I NEURALAGIA, 1 A ‘ CHRONIC DIARRI-I Diseases of the Liver, “Spleen and ‘Kidneys, and especially I N I I A BRIG]EE[T’S DISEASE, . A h 4 A. . . A A 7 AND A p h All I)isea,ses Peculietr to I W" ozmeri. I I In 7' _ In this last class of complaints some of the most extraordinary discoveries have recently been made, which surmount the diﬂiculties that have heretofore stood in. the way of their cure. That terrible foe to human life, . ~ GANGER» I Is also conquered by a very simple, but recently-discovered remedy, ingparts and to slough oﬁ, leaving behind only a healing sore. J The peculiar advantage which the practice at this Institution possesses over all others is, tha Therapeutics and Remedial.Agents, Which the Faculty have, it also has the unerring means of diagn Whiohby chemical action upon the diseased fungus causes it ‘to separate from the surround+ t in addition to all the scientiﬁc knowledge of Medical osing diseases through . ' V . . A CLAIRVAOYANCE,‘ ' i 9 As well as the scientiﬁc administration of ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL MAGNETISM’ in all their‘ various forms. The Best Olairvoyants and Magnetic Operators‘ are Always Employed} I I This combination of remedial means can safely be relied upon to cure every disease that hasnot already destroyed some vital‘ internal organ. N o mat=- ter how often the patient affected in chronic_form may have failed in obtaining relief, he‘ should not despair, but seek it from this, the only Institution where An ‘all the various methods of cure can be combined. A A I I I ' . I /6 In addition to the cureof disease, Clairvoyant consultations upon all kinds of business and u 2 ' I The very best oflreference given to all who desire it, both as to disease and consultations. pon all forms of ‘social aﬂairs cangalso be obtained. 5 Reception l_iours,.fro_m 9AIA..M. to 9 P. M. I ' V A A A ' A Invalids Who cAani1Qt visit the Institute in. person can apply by letter. Medicine sent to all parts of the world. V A I I it I I I I I I 7 I All letters should be addressed, a I MAc+NEr_r-1o:’HEAL1NG INSTIVTUTE, ‘ I 9 I ] ’ . A A A :3|A4iEAAs'r§NiN1'H s1-., new man ’ Testimonials- I Inﬂammation of the Kidneys, Stomach (B70-virels I I had become so weak that I could scarcely Walk a block. A friend ad- . _A . Cured, A . vised me to go to the Magnetic Healing Institiite, and see what" could be p 3 A , J’ .-. NEW YORK, July 20, 1870 A gone fog meIth1ere%h,I tW_eIt1t, .after being examined was told I could I ' ~ ' ' . . . I . ' e cure on e s 1'10 es . a netic treat e t. Th ﬁ t ‘at’ For several years I have been‘,su1f‘ermg from an acute dlseafse Qnﬁam‘ affected me sltraiigely, sending piegicing pains Ltlhilough ndy II:Gl{O§1fl32lll(1l(()IE mation of the kidneys and upper part of thestomach and bowels), for .neyS; but Ipbegahn to improve at Once’ andvnow’ after one monthas t,.eat_A Ii Whlch Ihafllbeen '°_1'e_l3Jt_ea-by S9V91‘a1IQf the “$053 emmem’ and Sllccfissful ' ment, I have returned to my employment and can Awalklseveral miles" I ’ Physicians 1“ the Vlmnlty of New ;YA°17k> but Wlthout iS“°0<?SS- IMY _d1S9IaS9 without Ifatigue. I I can be seen at 101 Clinto-n avenue, Brooklyn oi-at seemed to have -assumed a chronic for;m,~andII had almost despaired’ of 2 3 south Street, New York ~ ' V ,_ AA . HT‘, AR -ARIOHAAR_DS”0N ever being cured. Hearing of theiryisuccfess in the treatment of all chronic . I‘ I _ -A I . ’ I I ' pg: diseases, AI determined to trythe1_I‘I.Sk.111,;3»T1d I am; ngvvjthankful that :_I . . I I I ..___...... did, as after the very pﬁrsvt 0pe¥’&t1Q11 commenced to irnprov‘e,vand now, ‘ ' - ”*‘I‘;Ay after a few weeks,_I am .w'el~l,I‘ory nearly so. A . A, ,. I_ ‘I . A . p - V I y A3,; A .Hoping thatA.Ath1S may 1nc1u_ce Aoth_AersA wh_o nee<A1 their services to test Inﬂammation-of the Face and Eyes Cured. I ‘ 1 their skill, I. cheerfully; give this testimony in their favor,Iand hope that I I — I I I N A YA, Ar__ i J . . _ II shay may be Athe.mAea’nAs_.:ofA Irestoring hundreds of those suﬁering as I did _ A V ,: A, AA __ A . I EW” ‘7.I"~‘—‘_‘* ‘TY: ‘me 9_1»’1.859- ’ IA t0Ih$a1t11 3»I1Ad _StA1'A€_‘¢1i1gth-j,‘ AA‘ V I II 1; " _; :-JOHN -A-.iVA;nzIaN1a__.. I I had beenaiiiicted for several years by a, serious inﬂammation of the I _ 3 «A . ‘Spring Vauey, N; Y_I - _ . -A . I I -I I I ‘I ~ I fa_ce,~;involving.theeyes,Which were so bad that at times I could Anotsee at - .' . . 1 A A , _ . _ .. I. , a}lrlé One ‘eye'II'tho_ugh_tAentireily destroyed. Itried vari'ous.remedies and I . E A’ 54 ‘ ‘ ‘ ” ' ‘ — I I t I—mostI eminent physicians, utIcou‘ld’not even”_'get’i‘elief, for ‘the? most A‘ I “ ‘ " V A _ ' eXC1‘u_eia_-ti~ng_p,ain' ,accoiii_panied it.: As a last resort I applied at the l\/Iag— I I A ‘ _ _ ’ netic Healing AInsItAitute.A.. . They explained my disease .andfsa-id it could be . I ' I ‘ Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys Cured. removecl-“Though t‘1}°1‘0ush1y Skel5§’1C.A31s’!I p1a¢e.J;mysIe1f.r3z1de-xv trea-*- . I i 9 IA -«~- _ U A A A AI::g,_A_ ,, N Y AC, A N A \ A ment, and, sti«aI1g’€} as it «!I1E:‘uy‘S€€Il1,.ELI11.1‘_lOW, after six. wagksI. treatment, I A S ‘ . . .4 AA .A I. ..~. 4-“ EW---I_ ORK’ ITYs' A ?V.- 3: 1869: entirely’ cured’;I_,th*e eye I thought destroyed, is also _re‘_stored. 'I'cjonsi;'der _. Eight years ago I was taken_with bleeding from the kidneys, which A my case demonstrates that theinode of treating diseasespracticed at the » . ’ M \ E has continued at intervals ever since. All the best physicians did me no ' Insatitute is superior to all others, as I had tried them all with out beneﬁt. A ' ' A‘ good, and ﬁnally gave me up as anincurable case of Bi-ight"s Disease of ‘ 3 I 1 I A A I f‘. . _ ' . A A JIo.Ei\' Fox. , ' I { t-heKidneysA.* MI friends had all lost ho e, and I had also iven u , as N o. 3 Clinton avenue, near 1Fletcher' street Brookl n... ‘ ' -* ‘ ( _ A W M Y i P V 8' _ P p : Y A A i A 3*‘ Al I‘ _._A,l jil IA 16 WAOODHU/LL ck CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY‘. ~ Oct. 81,1874. GREAT CENTRALROUTE. HORT LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT BY THE OLD ESTABLISHED AN]? Popular Route via NIAGARA FALLS SUSPENSION BRIDGE or BUFFALO AND MICHIGAN CEN TRAL AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY LINE to Detroit and Chicago without change of cars, makin close connection with all Railroadsleading out oi Chicago to all points in the great West. THROUGH TICKETS to all important towns, aii I general information may be obtained at the Company ’ oﬂice, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard streei), New York. I Condensed 7 Time Table. I WESTWARD FBUM NEW YORK, 0 Via Erie & Mich. Central & Great Western R, R’s STATIONS. Express. 8s STATIONS. Empress. Lv 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 A M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . 6.45 P. M u “ Chambers street . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.40 “ 10.45 .,.,‘_f “ C.hamber_s street. . . . . . . 7.00 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 “ “ Susquehanna . 3.40 P . 8.12 P. M. “ Susquehanna . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.43 A M “ Binghampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.40 “ 9.20 ‘.‘ “ Binghampton . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.35 “ “ Elmira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ 12.16 A. M.‘ “ Elmira . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 “ “ ornellsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ ornellsville . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ , “ Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ BufEalo._..._...._ . . . . . . . .. 11.45 “ Express Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.00 “ 10.00 “ Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 12.27 P. M — Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.10 A. M. 1.35 P M. Lv Suspension Bridge .. . 1.35 “ 9.50 p, 11: Ar St. Catherines . . . . . . .. . .. . .. 1.35 “ 2.00 “ Ar St. Catherines . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 “ 10.12 “ “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.45 “ 2.55 “ “ Ham_il1o_n . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55. “ 11.20 “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ‘ 3.53 “ “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.53 ‘ .._ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 A. M. 5.05 :‘ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a.‘ m. “ 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 “ 8.10 " Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.21 “ Ar Wayne ., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 “ “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.4 “ 11.25 P “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1125 “ 9.2-7 “ “ 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 13.30 ~“ “ Marshall... 1.15 “ “ Marshall . . . . .. . 12.50 p. ms “ Battle Creek. . 2.03 “ AIR “ Battle Creek.. AIR 1.25 “ “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ LINE “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . .. . LINE. 2.35 “ “ ‘A iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 4.32 P. M 4.40 A M “ Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.40 A. M 5.00 “ “ New Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 25- “ “ New Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . .. 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 . . . . . . . . . . ;3.30 .3‘ M. 11.60 A M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 530 a in Ar Prairie du Chcin . . . . . . . . . .. 855 P. M. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . .. 8.55 p m Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 711.50 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 Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M. . . “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ . “ Galveston .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . . . 10.00 “ Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 11.00 P M. Ar Bismarck.. . . . . . . 12.01 P. M. “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A M. “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P 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 “ “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ San Francisco ....... -. 8.30 “ . Ar 4-‘alcsburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. 11- Ar Galesburg . . . . . . Q. . . . . .. 4.45 P. M. “ 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 . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 “ “ Atchisoii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ " Leavenwortl1...v ........... .. 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 ay in time to take the merniiig trains from there. 7.20 P. M.—-Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to Chicago without change, arriving there at 8.00 a. m.. 'ving passengers ample time for breakfast and take" he morning trains to all points West, Northwest and outhwest. 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Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-10-31_08_22
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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 08, no. 23 (November 7, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2044
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-11-07
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT I UNTRAMMELEDJLIVEE2 “BREAKING THE war FOELLITFUTURE GENERATIONS. .3. , will receive special attention. ' misroiunns. Vol. VIII.—NO. ——WLOl'e No NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 1874, PRICE TEN CENTS. LOANEBS BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER _STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 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 E‘ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on‘CUl?t RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOIIN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, No. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject 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. V ALL CH...
Show morePROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT I UNTRAMMELEDJLIVEE2 “BREAKING THE war FOELLITFUTURE GENERATIONS. .3. , will receive special attention. ' misroiunns. Vol. VIII.—NO. ——WLOl'e No NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 1874, PRICE TEN CENTS. LOANEBS BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER _STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 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 E‘ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on‘CUl?t RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOIIN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, No. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject 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. 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Chicago ought “to feel proud of it.” The Largest and ﬁﬂandsomest Paper for Young People.” THE _Young Folks’ Rural, A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY JOURNAL TERMS: $1.50 per Year; $1 in Clubs of Four or More. A ram or BEAUTIFUL BERLIN. Cnnoiuos, MOUNTED AND vmmsnnn, sENT 1-osrram AS A GIFT ~T0 nvnnr Ynnanxasuiiscumnn. The Young Folks‘ Rural is a novelty among publi- ‘ cations for Young Peop1e—entirely a “ new idea,” and different from any other in style and character. Six- teen pages and sixty-four»columns—the largest news- paper in Chicago! ' WHAT “ THEY SAY ._” [From the Chicago Evening Post.] “H. N. F. Lewis, Esq., the well-known publisher of Mr. Lewis I [From the Letter of a Western Mother .] “The Young Folks’ Rural is just what our dear children need. Altogether it is a noble enterprise, and will do an untold amount of good. It.is the ‘ parents’ assistant,’ and all t ' ' thanking you.” [From a School Teacher] and amusement of in pupils. when the Young SPECIMEN NUMBERS SEN1 FREE. H. 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Before he had translated the ﬁrs sentence, his hand dropped, and he exclaimed,—~ ' “ It was the Emperor himself l” “What!” cried Avenil, Bertie. and the lawyer together; “ the fugitive whom you rescued, the man who has sent you that packet? Open it, open it at once! It was he who bought your jewels !” “ See for yourselves,” said Criss, “ while I readihis letter.” With eager hands—for, grave men though they were, the singularity of the coincidence was enough to disturb their gravity—they opened the box. More eagerly yet they opened the casket which it contained. a golden one, with a diadem in a monogram on the outside. They then removed some layers of cotton; when, in superb and serene beauty, like the sun surrounded by his planets, a. magniﬁcent diamond was re- vealed, with a. number of smaller ones attached to it in an oval setting. Then Avenil read the inscrip tion, which was in Arabic, and ran thus :—’ “ The Talisman of Solomon and crown jewels of Theodorus, Emperor of Soudan.” A second compartment contained a number of other jewels of remarkable size and beauty; and beneath this, at the bot- tom of _ the casket, was the duplicate of the bill of sale and covenant to restore them to the agents or representatives of Christmas Carol, at the same price at which they had been bought, should the demand bemade Within one year of the said Christmas Carol attaining the age of twenty-one. “ Here are more millions for you,” said Avenil, handing him the casket. “ But pray what says his unhappy Majesty in his letter? Did he know that you were the Christmas Carol named here, and does he make you a present of them?” “ You shall hear it,” returned Criss, and he read thus, translating as he went on: “ Theodorus, Emperor of Abyssinia and Soudan, now dying at Algiers of wounds received from dastard rebels and traitors, to the young Englishman, Israelite, and Greek, Christmas Carol. V _ , “But for the aid of thy hand, my bones would now be whitening; the Sahara. But for the true spirit in thine eyes, my jewels, the sacred Talisman of Solomon, the cherished or- naments of my crown, and ancient heir-looms of my family, would now be lying beneath the sands of the desert, hidden forever from the eye of man. So many dangers and chances have they survived since the day when they gleamed upon the diadem of my ancestor Solomon, that it is no impiety’ to suppose that the Divine Framer of Destiny reserves them for further glories. But it is not vouchsafed to me to know what the future will bring forth. “How they ﬁrst came into your hands I know not; per- chancayou received them from him by whom many years ago they were sacrilegiously rapt away from the kingdom, even from my Uncle, to whom as Regent in my minority their guardianship was intrusted. Exiled from the country, he roamed the world, and then settled in Damascus, where he dwelt long. But when I sought him there, he had mysteri- ously dissappeared. He was of the elder branch, but illegiti- mate Mine alone is the line of the rightful sovereign. “ I leave a Son, sole heir to my throne and crown. Should he become Emperor, these gems would be his, save for the right which you possess of re-purchasing them. I need not say ‘ Deal kindly by him, as you have dealt by his father!’ for you will do so. And to you doing so, and asking what you will, he‘ will grant the half of his kingdom, even to the turning of the Sahara into a smiling garden, as one of our proverbs hath it. “Should he not come into his imperial rights. "you may serve him better than by restoring to him the gems. knows but that in serving him you will be serving. your own blood. Your lineaments, as well‘ as your connection with these J ewels, indicate you as not far removed from .our royal race.» But of this I know nought. Wonderful .are-the ways 01-’ F116 Almighty. Peace be.Wi1§h. you. jFarewell." ' ,.. i - future. - over—soul. Who ‘ WO0DH’ULL &:-CLAFLINVS WEE_KLY.d “ CHAPTER VII. The conversation at Bertie’s next day turned much upon Criss’s recent adventures. His guardians were chieﬂy struck by his apparent indifference to the wealth of which he found himself possessed, and his pre-occupation by the idea of re- ~ sponsibility imposed upon him by his position. It was as if he had lost his independence, instead of gaining it. bybeing so rich. He was much affected, too, by the strangeness and nature of the coincidence that thus, on the eve of his birth- day, revealed. a clue to the mystery of his birth. . “You willtake an interest now,” remarked Avenil to him, “in watching the telegrams to learn the progress of‘ political events in Central" Africa. Should the Emperor’s son succeed in recovering the throne, he will be ready to accord a warm. welcome to the rescuer of his father. the restorer of his crown- jewels, and a possible blood-relation. But you must not let him.detain you. from us as a new-found friend from whom he cannot part.” . “ You think there are parts of the world where capital can be more usefully" employed than in Central Africa?" re- mark ed Criss, with an arch smile, the meaning of which Ave- nil was at‘ no loss to interpretand appropriate. “ Employ it,” he said, “ upon Racesvwhose capacity for a high civilization renders them worthy of preservation. It is not in tropical Africa that such can subsist.” _ “I suspect you are more than half of the opinion I found ex- pressed somewhere, that the tropics are a mistake altogether,” returned Criss; “ and,would_have preferred that the land of the earth, instead of running north and south, had been placed east and west, in broad belts, and conﬁned to the tem- perate zone, with the sea occupying all the polar and equator- ial spaces.” -, . V . i _ “ It is possible that it was so once,” replied Avenil. The present conﬁguration of the continents indicatesthe action of strong currents setting continuously in one direction, parallel and not transversely to their coasts, just as would occur were the earth to revolve from north to south instead of from west to east—” . q “ Come. come!” exclaimed Bertie. “ we“wou’t waste to-day upon serious talk. Here are a number of guests to whom you must pay attention, some ofthem your old school—fellows, Criss ; and all your tribe, Avenil.” , _ It was a happy evening, for Crlss was much beloved, and all rejoiced in his accession to man’s estate and a. position of affluence; though of the extent of the latter none but his guardians had any conception. Together with the respectand affection which Cries inspired, there was mingled a. certain sentiment of curiosity and wonderment. All with whom he came into contact felt that he was not completely of them or their kind. but had alife apart, and into which they could not enter. He was to them as a stranger, who arrives and takes up‘his abode in a new country, having spent his pre- vious life amid scenes and associations altogetherunknown to his newneighbors. Of these he learns the outward ways, and adopts the outward speech and garb and manners; but they all the time feel that his mind is ﬁlled with memories. altogether foreign to his present surroundings, and to which they have no clue.‘ However much they may admire and be- lieve in him, they yet never feel that he sympathizes entirely with them. If that which they see of his character does not inspire themiwith respect for its quality or power, their very ignorance of him in the past produces mistrustof him for the If their estimate be favorable, the sense of mystery about him serves to engender a certain amount, of awe. Sug- gesting the unknown, he suggests also the inﬁnite. Respect- ing one, whose life and conversation was known to be so much in the unfamiliar heavens as Criss’s, curiosity ran strong to see how he would fulﬁll his part on earth. He was evidently not of the brood of the commonplace, who so readily become aufait of the small technicalities of life. The light that shone from him had its source within, and it rested not on the trivial. The best painters of thetime despaired of. rendering‘ the translucent envelope of his body through which his lu- minous soul shone forth. - . Avenil’s dominant feeling respecting such a. temperament was one of apprehension. One of his reasons for urging Criss to practical work was founded in his alarmlest the very sensi- tiveness of his organization should work its own ruin. Steady occupation he held to be the best cure for .a tendency to the He hailed the recent incidents.in..C.riS.s7g career, chieﬂy for the effect they might have in drawinghim to the practical. For the same reason he would have hailed his mar- , riage, even with an inferior nature. In his eyes Cries was made of the stuff that has afforded martyrs to the cross and theistake : that is, the stuff of which enthusiasts for an idea are I-made; and to Avenil such enthusiasm was the offspring of a taint of insanity. . The party at Ariel Cottage included the Bishop of the dio- cese, who‘, as chief inspector of the National Schools of the ‘ district, had long known Crlss, and knowing him, had always loved him. Another also of Criss’s ecclesiastical friends, the Dean of St. Paul’s, was present. His festival in the Metro- politan Cathedral had taken place in the morning, and Criss had attended it. For he was strongly’ attached to. St. Paul’s, which, standing in the dense and busy heart of the great city, was in its ﬁnished perfection, for him as for all enthusiastic citizens, a monumentof the ﬁnal overthrow of the sectarian spirit in these isles, and of the triumph of the sentiment of citizenship and humanity over that of church and creed. It was to Crlss alone of aerialists that the Dean had given per- mission to alight and rest on the summit of his church. In the evening the whole party adjourned to the Cathedral on the Downs, a noble ediﬁce belonging to the period of the district had once been divided. , These, sharing the general enthusiasm of the nation on shaking off the yoke of mediaevalr ism, at ﬁnding that the widest cultivation of their intellect-. ual and affectional faculities . was not incompatible with the exercise of the religious sentiment, and that the religious sentiment .itself is a. living,» and: not anuliistorical. affection,-—. brought theproperty whichthey possessed as separa-teand " 3 hostile sects, and cast it into the lap of the Establishment, to ‘be ' expended in converting that ancient organization into a 'National institution for promoting the general welfare, «moral, intellectual, and spiritual,'of the entire nation. V I ‘ Brought up, as I was, in the narrowsectarianism of the preciate the blessedness of the change which our country then underwent. Accustomed as most of usare to it, we haveneed to be careful students of history to realize the _difference be- tween England torn and rent by theological and ecclesiastical divisions, and England in the enjoyment of unanimity of sen— . timent, even where opinions differ. What a contrast there is between the feelings with which I contemplate the harsh ex- clusiveness wherein my own youth was instructed to restrict and conﬁne itself to the narrowest and most revolting cou- ceptions of the Universe, and the sentiments. evoked by this ‘broad, genial, capacious ediﬁce about which are entwined" the hearts of all the surrounding dwellers, from their earliest youth to their latest age. I The Bishop himsel_f,——I have since made his acquaintance,’ the warm feelings which clustered around his cathedral. He comprised the feeding of the lambs of his ﬂock as well as the tending of the sheep. The steadiness with which he. main- tained the rational character ‘of the teaching given, both in conﬁdence of all parents. Holding fast to the doctrine, that it is the function of education to make boys and girls into good and capable men and women, and at the ‘same time to develop their respective individualities, his administration has been notable for its success in producing valuable citizens; An illustration of his width of spirit is to be found in his an inscription as a. decoration to the Cathedral :-'-“All sects abandon, ye who enter here.” . In no spirit of perfunctionary routine, but thoroughly con- amore, did the good Bishop perform what he undertook. The ancient festival of Christmas was one in which he had special delight. Taking as a model the old-fashioned Oratorio which we derive from our ancestors of the seventeenth or eighteenth century, he, loved to found on it some musical service, which while representing objectively the season of the year, yet possessed an esoteric signiﬁcance for those who were capable of perceiving it. But what that signiﬁcance should be, he dic- tated to none. It was for Science to ascertain and ﬁx phe- nomena. lt was for Art to represent them; and for Nature, and the individual soul to settle their interpretation between them. Thus only, he held, could God speak freely to man. These services were sung by an admirable choir, which he had selected from among all ages and classes, of both sexes, in the neighborhood. And most enthusiastically did they on the occasions in question. , _ It was a. model Christmas-day for the climate. The snow had fallen at intervals, and a thin layer now covered the ground. When, toward nine o’clock, the party started from Bertie’s for the Cathedral, the wind had fallen, the sky was-clear, and the stars shone out their brightest. As they passed by villa and garden, the trees and shrubs crackled and glistened in the frost. The bells rang out a joyous peal. The whole district was on the alert, Everybody was going to the Oratorio. It was known that the Bishop had requested the formed. This added to the interest. , . The service of the evening was prefaced by the Bishop with c a brief address, ratheri colloquial than formal; and there were not wanting those among Bertie’s party who fancied that it bn the pulpit. - ~ . . -. . After a few hearty words of ‘welcome; the ‘Bishop said he should revert to the old ecclesiasticalcustom of taking a sen- tence from the ancient sacred book of Christendom, as the key-note of liis remarks. That sentence was, “ These Three are One ;” a sentence which, though well known-to be ungen- . ine, was not, therefore, necessarily untrue. The object of all right reverence, he said, is a compound object, of which each constituent is distinct and complete in itself, and yet in- capable of being detached from the others. Nations, as well as individuals, in seeking to effect such -detachment, had" in- . Qvariably degraded their religion to a kind of polytheism, and the degeneration of their faithhad involved that of them- selves. The Greeks worshiped Beauty, ‘ﬁnding their ideal dience to God, but ignoring a human criterion imagined a sa deityiindependent of a moral law._ We o.urselves, again»? were too liable to give the supremacy to the_Useful. But the Holy Trinity of the excellencies could not thus be divided. ano Goodness without Beauty. Each individual present prob- ably felt drawn more toward some of these sacred elements than toward the others. ,-The most" fortunate were ‘those for whom all three possessed’ an equal attraction. The great- est advance man had ever‘ made was when he erected his in- deemed to excel all others. in the possession of them. Man’s adopt the ideal recognized and insisted upon by men. The » transatlantic poet-sage struck a key-note when helsaid,r-—i- ' . “An honest‘God’s\the noblest work of man.” "-“ -— . It was true that the ‘ideal had not- always since been main. tained. It had oft been by thenations cruciﬁed, andvburied, the sun, whose rising from the depths of winter and darkness,— ,keep it down. The greate'st;relapse had 'been~wlien*men,- fancying that truth was a thing to be kept;hern.1etisally 9'“ ‘l \-..;_.‘ .,«:,’. orthodox “ Remncmt,” and only recently made a partaker‘ or H‘ the Emancipation, I can better than most of my readers, ' ap-‘ S and learned to regret his death,—came,in for his full share ‘of A . fulﬁlled the ideal of 21. Bishop of the period, whose functions ~ the schools and the churches of his diocese, won the highest V choice of a motto when one of his parishioners desired to add H enter into the spirit of their task, and flock to the Cathedral V choir to observe strict secrecy respecting the piece to be per- _ possessed a greater capacity than usual for personal’ applica-= _ . tion. During its delivery the vast building was wrapped in . gloom, the only light visible being that which directed its rays in physical humanity. The Jews aimed at goodness or obe-, There is no Beauty without Use; no Usewithout Goodness ;" stinctive love of Beauty, Gocdnessandc; Use, into .,a, ‘religion, . and resolved to accord .his best reverence.t0..:One,whomhel instinct had then proved too strong for the priesthoods; ‘ and in order to retainitheir inﬂuence,-.-these had to give up. _ . their deities, whic'h_.were..b.ut caricatures ofhumanity, and Emancipation. It was mainly-built and endowed from; the proceeds of the sale of a number of churches and chapels be.- longing to the varioussects into whichtheqpopulation of the _ and relegated to the lowermost parts of the earth ;'~ but’ like» they were now metto celebrate, it had been impossible to’ ; "_[ zwoonnuttason ~.- ,. ArL1Nm,wEaKLr- Nov. "7, 1874. as in a bottle, instead of requiring free light and air‘ to keep it sweet and wholesome, mistook‘ Ohurchiantty for Christianity, and made religion once more a set of opinions and a profession for'a_Caste. _. It must ever be so when we submit the sentiments, whose essence is" spontaneousness and ﬂexibility, to be devitalized and crystallized by professional formalists. Now that we have ﬁnally got rid of these, we ﬁnd an inﬁnitely freer and fuller recognition of all that was good and true in the old systems, inasmuch as we accept it for its own sake. “For ourselves,” the Bishop concluded, “let us strive to be Greeks, in our love of that which is beautiful; Hebrews, in our allegiance to di- vine goodness; and ‘Englishman, in" our devotion to that which is Useful and True. And if, perchance, any of us here present be conscious of possessing exceptional powers and ad- vantages, let us not waste ourselves and them in the search for exceptional opportunities whereon to employ them. As, in the domain of knowledge, the fact that lies nearest -to us. the fact of our own existence, must ever be the starting-point" for all excursions toward truths which are more remote; so, in the domain of action, the duties which lie immediately around us, and spring out of our circumstances and nature, are those to which we should ﬁrst" devote ourselves, trusting to Providence to ﬁnd others, should such be_ desirable. His- tory shows that it was only when England abandoned her useless attempts to convert savages to our own commercial and theological beliefs, and directed her whole undivided en- ergies to the improvement of her own social and mental con- dition, that she became the true missionary—the missionary who can point to the happy effects of his principles in his own case as an argument for their propagation.” ’ The Cantata to be sung on that occasion was a‘ hymn of the year, the words of which were the work. of a well-esteemed young member of that congregation, who ﬁrst saw the light on that day twenty-one years ago. “ You will, I am sure,” added the Bishop, “join me in the wish that, as is his _verse, so may his and our lives be : a Christ- mas Carol and a song of praise, and a standard of Beauty Goodness and Usefulness. And may we succeed in so closely assimilating our real to our ideal, that the subjective shall become for us the objective, and faithfully reﬂect within us the universe that lies without us. Far be it from me to dic- tate to any; but for myself, I may say that the ever-recurring phenomena of the system of which we are a part, are in a striking correspondence with the phenomena of my own -heart. Like the sun, whose renascence, as I have said, we this day celebrate, the ideal toward which Iwould fain strive, though always suffering and dying within me, is also always rising and ascending: oft obscured by the clouds and mists of doubt and diﬁiculty, and oft again shining out with a bright- ness and warmth that draws me up perforce toward it.” Criss’s amazement at the Bishop’s announcement was su- preme. He turned for an explanation to Bertie, who sat by him. * “My dear boy,” I have to askyour pardon. I found the ver- ses some time ago,- and showed them to the Bishop. He begged them of me. Idid not know he would use them in this way. Considering his eagerness, and his regard for you, I am inclined to praise him for the very delicate way in which he brought in your name. Only your own friends would de- tect the allusion.” ~ “I ‘do not mind that,” said-Criss; “ but I had forgotten all about the piece. It was a mere boyish production, and far from ﬁnished; and if I remember right, I never felt quite sure that some of the lines were altogether new, though I never succeeded in tracing them.” . As he spoke there came welling through the darkness from the choir, at the far end of the chancel, in a low, wailing reci- tative, this lament for the departure of summer and approach of winter: ’ ' ' Earth wrapped in gloom No light, no heat, No fruits, no ﬂowers; But storm and snow - In all our bowers. The Lord of life sinks low Toward the tomb. . ,, . The effect of this was weird in the extreme. A perceptible shiver ran. through the whole vast congregation. Then a rich contralto voice was heard singing the plaintive verses begin- ning,— ' . V Where is our laughter ﬂed? _ to which a tenor responded in strains exciting tohope,-— Yon moon derives her light from him; ‘ Perchande ’tis we are turned away: Perchance he visitsyother lands, And, timely, hither back will stray, With rays nor cold nor dim. No need to think our Lord is’ dead, Because sleep’s pillow claims his head. But to the eye of sense there is as yet no ground for hope_ Despair still strives for utterance, and ﬁnds it at the mouth of the bass, who now breaks forth into the expression of doubt, beginning,-— ‘ ‘ Declined so low, Mid storm and snow, Wilt ever rise again? ‘ A sentiment to which the chorus seems to participate, for it now indulges in the soft minor air, beginning with—- When the lamp of life burns low; _ and suddenly changing into the major with the bold aria,——- The wintry dragon claims his prey. The sun now pausing in his downward career, the watchers are speechless with anxiety. Is the king of day still able, in this his hour of weakness, to contend successfully with the baleful powers of darkness? During this period of doubt, the music alone is heard, in low and ﬁtful strains of alternate hope and fear. When the last moment of the Solstice arrives, the music is hushed, and the intense stillness broken by V a soprano voice singing the lovely air,‘-——. - ‘ A - Week in the cradle of the year. Then suddenly the whole strength of the, chorus joins in singing the bravura- ' » ’ Baﬁied winter hie thee hence. At this juncture the cathedral growslighter, in correspond- ence with the period represented; and the music changes its character so as to indicate the sun’s growth in heightand strength, as the days increasein length, until the arrival of the spring equinox. Then once again comes in an interval of doubt. Will he maintain the ground gained from the powers of darkness, or recede once more toward the horizen? This fear is expressed in the song :— ' Balanced the scales of dayvand night. But the sun still goes on his upward way, and so the entire chorus and orchestra, together with the grand organ, break forth into pecans of tumultuous joy, as the king of heaven as- cends triumphant into the sky, revealing the kingdom of heaven, or summer, and showering down gifts on men, in food and raiment, mirth and love and marriage—blessing; and the whole concludes with the J ubilate,— Great God of Nature, Hail! By Thee sustained we live. Not once hast Thou appeared for all, And left us then To fail and fall: ._ But year by year Thy presence shows, In Winter’s ‘snows, In summer’s sun, In life and death, In joy and grief, _ That thou, and we, and all, are one: We the parts and Thou the Whole, We the body, Thou the soul: That Thou art All, and else is none! - ‘ ‘Talking with the Bishop afterward, Criss said that if he were to re-write it now, he would say a good word for winter; for that even cold and darkness have their uses, and were not unmixed evils, if evils at all. “ Then you would have just spoilt it for our purpose,” re- plied the Bishop with a smile. “A devil of some sort is a dramatic‘necessity.’’ / i BOOK IIl.—CHAPTER I. The insurrection in Soudan, and the ﬂight of the Emperor, caused great consternation in Palestine. The millionaires of Jerusalem had largely invested their wealth in loans to the Government, and mortgages on the rich cotton, sugar, shea- butter, ivory, and spice estates of Central Africa. It was their money that constructed that vast work, the Red Sea and Cen- tral African Plateau Railway, by which a main share of the products of the continent were brought to their markets. The greater portion of the National Debt of the country was ow- ing to them; and, in fact, the Emperor of Soudan was in a great degree their own creation. Cut off by the sandy ocean of the Sahara from contact with the mature civilizations of the North, and accessible only by Abyssinia and the Red Sea, the population which had been combined into -a nation and converted from Islamism to Christianity, under the vigorous dynasty to which Theodorus belonged, werestill in too.rudi- mentary a stage to be able to make a change in their form of government without imminent danger to their general stabil- ity as a nation. Their conversion to Christianity from Islam- ism, while facilitating their intercourse with the J ews, had still left them a superstitious people. But one of the forms taken by their superstition—-to which allusion has already been made, namely, their veneration for the descendants of S01- omon, and inheritors of his talismanic gems——tended to stim- ulate conﬁdence in the minds of capitalists as exercising a conservative inﬂuence. They might not be altogether favor- arable to the Jews themselves as such or to those sections of Christendom which traced their religious descent to the stock of David; but it was considered impossible that it should re- volt against the heirs of the blood and crown of Solomon. So, when the thorough ness and extent of the revolution was demonstrated by the appearance ofthe Emperor’s son as a fugitive in Jerusalem, immediately after the arrival of the intelligence of his father's deposition and ﬂight, the capital- ists of Palestine saw nothing but repudiation, conﬁscation and loss staring them in the face. There were, moreover, most alarming rumors respecting the situation of the white settlers in Soudan, the insurgents being believed to be hostile . to the presence of independent foreign communities in their country. It is by virtue of their wealth, and not of their courage or armaments, that the Jews of Palestine have maintained the sway which has rendered their recent history so remarkable. Whatever the project resolved upon, they have but to ﬁnd the money, and there are plenty of others to ﬁnd the method and the means of execution. Thus, without a soldier or sailor of their own, they avenge themselves by contract upon peoples who, being as yet too barbarous to acknowledge the solidarity of nations, and join the confederated civilizations of the world, venture to outrage their interests or their honor. It does not come within the functions of the ‘Grand Coun- cil of European States to interfere in disputes between one of its own members and a nation lying outside it. But, as be- tween its own members, it holds, happily, far too high a sense of its duties to allow even‘ the mighty Jewish inﬂuence to in- terfere with its strict impartiality. It is only when a. clear case of willful and outrageous wrong is made out, that it al- lows the resort to force, and the employment of the military forces of the Confederacy. The moral sense of the rest of the world is thus an effective counterpoise to the tendency manifested by the capitalists of Palestine to make interest dominate over right. For a. mem- ber of the Confederacy to make war upon a fellow-member’ without such permission, rightly entails a forfeiture of the protection of the Confederacy; and lays the offending mem- ber open to retribution, as an individual who, in a civilized ' country, takes the law into his own hands. Attthe time of which I am writing, it was fortunate for at least one of the peoplesneighboring on the Jews that they were both under the jurisdiction of the Confederacy. _For it needed such restraint to keep the ancient enmity of theJews to the Egyptians from breaking out into ﬁerce expression and violence. The Empire of Central Africa lay outside, and was equally hostile to Egypt; but its alliance with Palestine made it too strong to be molested by that country; while on its federacy from wantonly attacking one of its members. ‘ Its peculiar geographical position, too, made it practically instead of a monarchy, it could have deﬁed attack from all quarters whatsoever. But its political system was not adapt- ed to the present state of the world. The advance of science has rendered the person of a sovereign too easily assailable for a monarchical regime to enjoy the same security as that of a republic. When the public credit of a country depends upon the sta- bility of its institutions, and those institutions are summed up in and represented by a single individual, it is clear that the invention of ﬂying vessels, which can at any moment swoop down with an armed squadron upon any spot of the earth, and carry off any individual, be he private citizen or emperor, must deprive the system of personal government of any element of permanence. Even under the ancient “ constitutional monarchies” the‘ liability of the sovereign to seizure_ by death rendered it ne-- cessary to postulate for him a ﬁctional immortality, as was: exempliﬁed in the saying, “ the king never dies.” But lia-~ bility to the seizure by balloon is another matter. With their’ sovereign rapt away by an aerial force, and his whereabouts; beyond their ken, it would be impossible for a people to de-- termine whether the throne was vacant or not. It is true that, to some extent, the evil provides its owns remedy; for it is possible to employ’ an aerial guard to ward. off or avenge an aerial outrage. But experience has too fully‘ manifested the danger of entrusting such a product of ad-« vanced science to a people civilized'enough only to abuse the- power it confers on them. Life in Central Africa was intol- erable until the Jews insisted on the dependent empire pro- hibiting the practice of aerialism within its limits; and the Emperor faithfully and diligently carried out the injunction, forbidding even the white settlers to have recourse to it. The only exception was made in favorvof transient post-cour‘- iers, who, as they could not be prevented from passing over‘ the land, were permitted to call for mails. The bulk of the: population resented the restriction, and it served to inﬂame: the dislike they already bore to the Jews for the hard terms of the money bargains they had made with them. , The long-smouldering dissatisfaction was brought to a crisis» when the Emperor resolutely vetoed an act passed by his legislature for repudiating the public debt conditionally on the Jews refusing to lower the interest by one half. The- Emperor, though sympathizing with his people, dared not do otherwise; for not only was he a man of high integrity, and sagacity enough to know the ultimate costliness of a policy of repudiation-, but the known unﬂinching ﬁrmness of the Jews in avenging an injury to their interests involved severe and inevitable punishment, There were not wanting rumors of swift and secret vengeance inﬂicted by their aerial agents on their recalcitrant debtors. On this occasion, when it was found, on assaulting the royal palace in Bornou, that Jews were credited with having a hand in the work. It was not the ﬁrst time that the jewels had disappeared, as we know by their being found in the baloon which descended on the iceberg at the birth of Christmas Carol. The unhappy Emperor himself has told us how that disappearance was ef- fected. But even he was ignorant of the circumstances at- tending their descent into the volcano of Kilauea. ‘ [To be continued.] --—————~—->—<Q+—-<——-———-—— EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS. FREDERICK LOCKER. I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, Andone ﬁne day a fine young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass, She did not make the least objection! Thinks I, “ Ah! When I can talk I’ll tell mamma ”- And that’s my earliest recollection. —N. Y. World. A BOSTON deacon made a sad mistakefthe other night. Riding home in a horse car, he was accosted by a friend with: “Ah, deacon, getting home rather late, eh?” “ Well, yes,” replied the deacon, “ ’tis a little late, but I have attended a prayer and conference meeting over in Chelsea this evening, and the interest was prolonged.” Just then he inadvertently removed his hat, possibly to relieve his conscience, when two theatre checks fell out on the ﬂoor. It is needless to add that Jones andthe deacon pass without speaking now. How THEY Lovr: FISH.—-A young gentleman in this city gives us the following conversation, which he overheard be- tween two colored citizens as he was returning from prayer meeting: “ Sam, does you know Jonah?” “ Jonah, what Jonah?” “ Why, Jonah that swallowed de whale——don’t you know him? “ Why, damn his big-moufed soul, was he from Firginny '3” “ Of course he was from Firginny.” “ Well, do Firginians always was hell for ﬁsh._”—From the Marysvillc Bulletin. AN approaching revolution in bonnets is announced by the Paris correspondent of a London trade journal, who states that there are to be real bonnets once more—-bonnets with brims, crowns, strings, and perhaps curtains. THEY tried "to kill a book agent in Omaha last week. He was robbed, thrown into the river, knocked off the. cars, tossed from ahigh. bridge into the river again, and in two hours he was around with an illustrated Bible, trying to get a subscription out of the attacking party. own part it was restrained by a wholesome dread of the Con- ’ inacc_essible, either by sea or land. Had it been a republic , both the Emperor anddthe crown jewels had disappeared, the- Nov. '7, 1874. (EWOODHULL & CLAFL.IN’S WEEKLY; 5 INDUSTRIAL I JUSTICE. 1.. Go to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. 42. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your ﬁelds, whichis kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have heaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James, v. 1. .°SHALL CORPORATIONS BE OUR MASTERS OR ' SERVANTS? Savages dwell in small, isolated communities. Subsisting ‘:‘by the hunt and chase, they have but little unity of interest wvith other tribes, and neither have nor desire facilities for iinter-communication. Civilization teaches that the ever «distinctive natural endowments of individuals, that the ever waried products of diverse climes. are all essential to the ;most perfect development of the human race. The knowl- .edge of this mutual individual inter-dependence tends to unite large numbers under one form of government, the prosperity of which depends upon the facilities which its snembers possess for personal intercourse; upon the rapidity and accuracy with which their unhindered thoughts can be -transmitted, and upon the ease and cheapness with which the results of their physical labor can be interchanged. ‘Therefore, the most advanced nations not only remove every :impediment to the outwork of individuality, but encourage :to the utmost all efforts which tend to bring into the subjec- :tion of mankind the occult forces of nature. The present century bears witness to many triumphs of ‘mind over matter; many forces once unknowninow yield to us their faithful service, enlarging, extending. increasing the facilities by which the outwork of one clime is made to bless .-all other portions of the world; and with each new accession . to these instrumentalities of earth distribution has come a richer draught of blessing to humanity. To-day the beneﬁts :ﬂowing from this enlarged area of freedom have given to us a _greater consciousness of our mutual inter-dependence, of the impossibility of one quarter of the globe receiving a great ~ blessing and not imparting it to the rest, or that another section should become desolated without the shadow of its gloom falling upon others. In this growth of civilization, no greater. or more efficacious agent exists than railways, while their management thor- oughly exempliﬁes the spirit which controls this age of cor- porations- = Railways, constructed and controlled solely at the behest ._of capital, with an eye single to its remuneration, have be- come to humanity, by the great over-rulings of Providence, its great servitor, and as such they must submit to the die- tates of the popular will, enlightened by the intelligence of the age, and this regardless of the claims of their legal I owners. Impossible as this may appear to those who look simply at ‘the vast -inﬂuence which combinations of capitalists exert in our legislative halls, who go not beyond the rate which zavarice may for a season extort for the use of these channels of intercourse, who ignore the effect which such extortion produces upon the customers of these corporations; it is nevertheless-true that the ultimate success of every business conception rests entirely upon its economic utility to the human race. ’ ‘ Yet the great mass of the giant enterprises of the age ‘totally ignore a fundamental principle of equity—that every obligation before it can justly have a money value must rep- resent wisely directed :_-labor employed at an equitable rate. That-all schemes which, attempt to earn interest on water- ed stock, or discounted bonds are frauds upon humanity; that combinations of roads which increase their joint capital zunder pretence of equalizing value, or which, through the de- ‘vice of funded earnings, add to their interest-bearing prin- cipal are as really robbing our race as the feudal barons when they plundered the stranger passing their castles, or as the slave—master when he received the fruit of another’s toil without returning a due equivalent cannot be dis- proved by even the schemers themselves. For long years the feudal lord accepted the homage of hereditary vassals, and dwelt securely in his rocky stronghold, sallying forth when opportunity offered to fatten upon the spoils of unprotected Wanderers, or enfeebled neighbors. For years the slave- master received the labor of human souls wit hcut returning any proper. compensation therefor, and _frequently used his legal power to dispose of the person of a slave, regardless of the injustice inflicted upon a fellow-being. For weary ages avariciousness created and enforced laws that rendered pos- sible these infamous violations of equity; but at last the day dawned when retributive justice gave to the down-trodden the joys of personal freedom. It was not the uprising of the oppressed that wrought deliverance, for the slave. scarcely stretched out his hand to have the fetters stricken off. ‘It was a ﬁat of Divine justice! It was the author of all life giving the created their innate right, the liberty of action. Once more avariciousness, under the garb of capital, re- enacts the oppressions of feudality and slavery. The money power of to-day passes laws which bestow vast stretches of land as a bonus to railways, and thus the earth, the free in- heritance of humanity, becomes the property of a, few. A money value is attached, and interest demanded for its use, while the necessities of an ever increasing race are made the occasion of a still higher price for its occupation, until now in some localities it requires a large proportion of one’s toil to obtain suﬁcient of this earth—the free gift to the mass- for a habitation. Were it possible to sever the air-—that other unpurchased gift of the Inﬁnite——from the individual, and apportion it only to those able to purchase, there is no question but that avariciousness would speedily enact laws for its legal control — _—laws with a due penalty attached—-forbidding any one to breathe without ﬁrst paying the price demanded, as is now required for that other equal necessity of human life, the soil. , ' But the inexorable law of compensation has been gather- ing, and now is rapidly uniting the elements which shall for ever bury this thralldom of capital as thoroughly as it has swept away the oppression of feudalism, and the inhumanity of slavery. ' t — Money kings are already trembling for the security of their possessions. They know not where to invest with safety. -“They fear the outworking of labor through its secret leagues. They behold with undeﬁned dread the aggressive acts of the Grangers. Evermore the phantom of loss haunts their sleeping hours, while the gods they worship are power- loss to contend with the unknown forces everywhere rising for their destruction. , Thus must ‘it ever be when might, regardless of justice, ignores the inheritance of ignorance and feebleness; when law, the strength of all, elevates the few above the mass. When authoritydisregards the welfare of humanity, then the author of life incites to action the elements of relief that ever await the bidding of the Inﬁnite. C. BRINTON. WHO ARE ‘THE RICH, BY AMELIA v. rnrrr. While passing by a princely door I heard the whisper, “ she is poor.” They judged it from my faded shawl, They saw the outside——that was all. . My heart replied, “ Have you not love For all on earth and Him above? In air, and sky, and all around Have you not joy and comfort found? Does any own more than do you The ﬂower’s fragrance, and its hue?" ' To whom it not to you belong The wild-bird and its gladsome song? And whom can its free music ﬁll With any purer,-deeper thrill? Are truth and honor, peace and rest Dearer to any human breast? Does not your heart feel deep delight In all that‘s beautiful and bright? Then you’re not poor. Of all the store - That men may gain of golden ore, They own but just that little part _ With which they cheered some human heart. Beyond the gates, gold has no boast. And they’re rich, who love the most.” —Tlze Worlcingman, Pattwille, Pa. "NEW YORK GRANGERS IN COUNCIL. EXTRACTS FROM THE srnncn or HORACE H. DAY. . I come up to address you, brethren, under a sense of great oppression as I survey the whole ﬁeld and contemplate the sad picture of the destruction, devastation, crime, misery and demoralization everywhere visible to those who can see. I have watched the steady course of our decay, andhave long seen its real cause, and for over eight years have labored with my tongue and pen and means to arouse and awaken the American [people to the consequent danger. At last the evil has culminated, and now we are reaping the fruits of our folly and wickedness. And now -I do not see how it is possi- ble to escape a frightful and terrible war. One by one come forth elements of power for good and for evil, each marshal- ling upon one side or upon another, until the whole horizon is black with omens, and the patriot may see on every side the out—working of justice and truth against and over tyr- anny. The thoughtful, intelligent man cannot fail to see many strange changes in the programme before the right power takes its place and goes out to the world as the vital- izing force of truth. justice and equity, in which will be recognized the supreme will of God. Look abroad, my friends—Watch the progress of events—and you will ‘see the whole world is passing through stages of development in the same ratio‘ out of selﬁshness through the ﬁres of adversity, . into a united and common interest, in which alone can come safety and permanent peace and prosperity. * * * I say to you here, now, and hope it will go out to the world just as I say it, British gold is the tide which is making" the gulf so wide and deep between the nation’s head and«heart— 15. e., Capital and L_abor——that nothing but a revolution can save you; and when I say capital and labor, I mean in every branch and in all directions far and wide, where the equiva- lent and exchange of every department of trade and com- merce there is one steady power separating the nation from its safeguard; in fact removing the soil which nourishes and casting to the winds of wild speculation all that has made us a government and a nation. * What more suicidal than the inducement offered by our ﬁnancial men to foreign capitalists? It is the old story of the fast children returning to the parent who has quietly let them run their race, and at last drawn them in with their gains, to look back repentfully upon their folly. Alas,-too late! Europe has America, or rather the United States, just as surely within her grasp, under our present position, as England has Scotland and the Canadas. They know our weak- ness; it needed not forts and batteries along our sea-coast or Northern frontier; the worst, most dangerous enemies could steal in in softly-cushioned state-rooms of “merchant steamers,” and seat themselves in the bank, editorial and railroad offices and parlors, and from these direct the whole machinery of our government. We have quietly accepted these and now they can smile at. our boasting; they have played out the string while we chose to ﬂy the kite, knowing’ that they could wind us up and in at will when at a dizzy height, and take also our property and franchises at a moiety of their true value. In our puny, demagogue wisdom we have thought the world would do us homage. M “ We can live within ourselves shut out from all the rest of the world on our resources,” said we, boastingly. Well, coun- ' trymen, that was true once, and then it was our glory. Alas! it is not ‘true to-day, and it is vain to talk with the enemy now in control. With a divided country, threatened with a war of races. with dissatisﬁed Indians taking up the hatchet against us—the South oppressed and weakened with—nay, I will not draw the whole picture, it will be visible all too soon. .Who can take in the situation and not feel sad and oppressed with the contemplation of the "certain doom from which now there is no escape? One corner of the curtain open showing the poor planter crushed,a. wanderer withhome despoiled, his former servants now his masters revelling in the waste, is atype of what will be the condition of the rich who now revel in purple and ﬁne linen at the North, utterly oblivious to every thought of the suffering so long endured by the sober, honest, worthy toiler, whose wrath alas is treasured up against the day of God’s own appointment. I have long since looked with amazement at the lassitude and stupor which has overshadowed the people of this age. I don’t wonder what the result will be. Alas, I know it is ‘now apparent on every side. You are here assembled to-day, the people in council, outside of all the corrupt political par- ties, because you see and. feel it. I have often said that edu- cated by suifering the people would yet arise and emerge from the pending doom. Is_it indeed ‘too late ? That is the question you ask. While it is not for me to dispel all hope, I see and know our national government is manipulated and run to promote foreign in-= ' terests; the money, the bone and sinew of war, is theirs. Who can deny this? - What say the Grangers of the great State of New York to- ' day? Willthey not shout aloud in the ears of the shylocks and enemies of humanity—-we tell you the day of retribution and restitution shall as surely come as can the voice of suﬁ'er- ing reach the throne of the great God himself. Tyrants, be- ware! the people shall yet interpret the will of God and jus- tice shall be done. Let this echo réverberate through the , land—justice to labor. Speak out, friends of humanity; be ‘ no longer misled or deceived by the syren voice and song of peace; be faithful. stand one by the other. and never ﬂinch in the hottestof the ﬁght. . The Shylocks, whose pound of ﬁesh is in their bond, are unscrupulously insolent when they dare—cowardly, begging and cringing when they fear. One of their powerful organs of the press proffers a national convention, the more effectu- ally to stiﬂe the voice of our Southern brethren, whom they have driven to despair. In their suffering Shylocks begin to see the signiﬁcant power in which danger is born. . Another great aristocratic organ of wealth——the New York J oumal of Oommerce——comes to us with the followihg confes- sion: ' “ The condition and prospects of trade are subjects of uni- versal concern. The promises of the earlier months of the year have not been kept, and the present outlook into the future gives but little relief. There is no panic; no ﬁnancial crises; no scarcity of money, food or clothing; no general sickness; no apprehension of war; no fear of rebellion; no political excitement; no sweeping conﬂagration; no desc- lating storm or inundation; in short, no menacing hand is lifted in any direction. Why, then, should there not be a bustle of activity on every side? Why are not our thorough- fares thronged with moving produce and merchandise, and our ships, canal-boats and railroad cars ﬁlled with_,outward. and inward freights? Why is not every willing hand actively employed at remunerative wages and the homes of the laborer ﬁlled with plenty and peace ? It is worse than idle to deceive ourselves. There is no wide—spread’and substantial prosper- ity. We can ﬁnd no class of manufacturers, merchants, agriculturalists, artisans or common laborers who are stead- ily earning a proﬁt or have full and contented ‘employment. _ A Every device or shift by which money is made or a stipend gained seems to be temporary, and hence all business aﬁairs are very much unsettled.” . iWhat more signiﬁcant, what so unanswerable a condemna- tion does this picture give of all this so-called respectable press has published for ten years past. >s ‘>2: . * >1: 2: _ e: * as If you, my friends, will read McCullough’s late letter, which British capital is now spreading over the country, in connectionwith the Republican party platform of Ohio, and at the same time, as part of the whole plan, Grant’s Veto Message, and more especially his sudden prcnunciamiento, nominally in correspondence with Jones but improvised for this only occasion, and put all these with Grant’s last ukase from TLong Branch, to say nothing of that from West Virginia, you may fully understand not only the mission of Jay Cook’s British partner in this country, but you can,con- template the nature of his impudent intermeddling with our politics at this time, and the outline of”the programme will be clear; how Grant is to be forced into the White House for a third term, backed as he is and will'be by British gold. McCullough, meantime, supplies the leading argument, and dexterously avoids all allusion to the rate of interest upon - money. - t ' All men know, and 'Hugh McCullough better than any other, that the rate of interest upon money is the whole'ques- tion and the point of all others to be met, and at this time most needs proper ventilation. He is here, as you will ﬁnd, in part to turn that grist into British mills, virtually driving the small ﬁsh into the mouths of the great ones. Hugh Mc- Cullough and his confederates here and abroad have several axes to grind, and we most unhesitatingly tell him that this time his schemes are too transparent to admit of any mistake. Foreign inﬂuence and British gold are dangerous; this is not the only Republic which will have been overt_hrown_by it; and thinking men in America are no longer ready to accept his line of argument. Our duty to-day is most plain, and is-against all such insidious attempts to weaken and de- stroy our basis of commerce "and the foundation of our na- tion’s safety. 'Mr. McCullough and Jay Cooke and all their confederates are well known to be traders and close schem- ers, and our duty is to warn the people to get as far away from them as possible. . * . * * * *. Now perhaps I have spoken what you care not to hear, while you expected from me an argument upon ﬁnance in its relation to farming industry. I crave your pardon if I have disappointed you. l have felt it unnecessary to enter upon the details to prove the correctness of our premise: when we _ask for ample, currency with which to effect our exchanges; and that this currency should, like our national bonds, be basedupon the faith and resources of the Whole nation. I will, however, read a short extract from an argu- ment made in 1865: , ’ -' ‘ 3 § .wooi)??HULi. is ici.Ai-*1.in9's wfs:is:n’1.7'r. Nov. '7, 1874. " “" The ‘specie basis" system ”may,-with great propriety; be‘ called an’1'gnusfa.tuus. It has the same relation to our actual condition" as the apexbears to the base of a pyramid. * * * How easy-‘it is to say that ‘paper currency should be con- verted into coin. i , A And how utterly absurd it is to attempt the invention of a system by which such a conversion shall be made possible. Whatwe desire and absolutely need are such radical changes as .shall ’make real values the basis of our system. Mr; McCullough, in discussing our paper currency, weakly and childishly says it should not, on the one hand, by being over- issued, encourage extravagance and speculation and give, as at present, an unreliable valuation to property; nor, on the other, by being’ reduced below the proper» standard, interrupt business or unsettle values. “‘ Unsettle values 1” Real values are absolute; they do not depend upon their gold, silver or paper representatives. A bushel of corn affords" a. certain amount of nourishment, whether its nominal price be ﬁfty or one hundred and ﬁfty cents. The real value of the commodity is not changed, and all the ﬁnancial arrangements of all the civilized world are powerless to effect that change. The distinction‘ between real wealth and its representative in currency seemed never to have engaged the attention of Mr. McCullough. And his own reports would tend very strongly to induce his readers to believethat he is incapable of making the distinction. Does»Mr.. McCullough know that real values act upon gold andsilver with irresistible power? ' The man who possesses his corn, his beef and his pork, the produce of his own industry, is absolutely independent of the representatives and worshipers of gold who congregate in Wall street, and when the hungry millions’ of the old world demand food, the producer and holder of that food can absolutely ‘ﬁx the terms on which he will exchange it for representative values. * - *1‘ * * * We all have work to do; our country and popular govern- mentis to be saved from the desperate attempt now making to subvert our institutions. In this work. there are needed many faithful soldiers; some to close the solid ranks, others in the work of sapping and mining, and others, too, in the ﬁeld as scouts. In the directing my efforts to-day, if I am not exactly in line, I am too experienced a soldier not to realize the important service of a scout in the order of the advance guard; and if the general army is kept posted, and the enemy’s stealthy approach over’ a new road is properly heralded, even a single shot from the post of the look-out Will, I trust, be found a service and a useful warning in time. RADICAL RESOLUTIONS. At the regular stated meeting of the Radical Club of Philadelphia, Mr. E. M. Davis, its president, read the follow- ing views of,Mr.VSears on the money question: First. AProperty——not gold only———is the basis of money. Let us have unitary money, representing all property—gold included. Second. To make coin the legal tender is to force values to the coin standard. The coin standard is an artiﬁcial stand- ard, artfully designed to maintain the power of class levies uponindustry. It is a. means of converting production and exchange into a lottery business, with the winnings accruing to the coin managers. Let only representative money be legal tender, and let the laws making coin such tender be re. pealed. ' ‘ , Third. The right of monetary issueis a sovereign right, to beheld and maintained by the people for the common beneﬁt. To delegate this right to private corporations is to surrender a central attribute of sovereignty; is conferring upon a subordinate irresponsible power, plenary dominion I over industry and commerce, and is void of constitutional sanction.’ Let the National Bank Act be repealed and the Commonwealth be the sole issuer of money.’ V Fourth. Public debt held abroad drains our resources. Its holders do not contribute to the public expense,’ and it is a source of danger in crises at home or abroad. If heldat ' home its liquidation will not exhaust our resources nor en- danger our industries, and its holders can be made to bear their"share of public expense. Let the optional payment bonds be paid off, ‘and in their stead issue currency and cur- rency bonds, interchangeable with each other on demand. ’ Such interchange will be perpetual redemption and payment The currency not to be ""' promise to pay ” currency, but cer- tiﬁcates of the ownership of property——representati.ve legal- tender money; the bonds, of $25 and multiples thereof, to V bear interest not exceeding 3.65 per cent. a year, represent- " ing the yearly increase of property and the cost of issue and management. Fifth. Contraction of the currency and in deﬁnite expansion "of the bond debt is the policy of the money monopolists. ‘ Let thevolume of currency be determined by the demand’ for its use, the same as the property it rcpt-esents.—Th<. 1’-‘ln3ZadeZphz'a, Inquirer. ' , LSPECIE PAYMENT. IT is about time a full and complete expose of the world’s ﬁnancial swindle upon the toiling millions should be made. To do this it is only necessary to state a few axiomatic points. Out of these all intelligent persons can and will comprehend the situation at a glance. By conﬁning the world’s aggregate volume of money to what may be made by all nations severally stamping their seal or insignia upon what bullion they may possess, and by declaring “Ila t0'b9 the 0111)’ lawful money and legal tender of said nations, the ﬁrst point in the “specie payments” policy is gained! _ V Now, if bullion were so plenty that each nation could make all the money it needed by stamping its insignia upon a. cube of ten inches square, instead of upon a. few grains as now, and make that their unit of money, and could make as many dollars as they could by stamping their seals upon paper, . will any sane person say this “ specie payments ” would have the force it now does 2‘ No, indeed! , Theylchoose bullion now because they know the very scar- , .for coin. (Selling bonds for coin is the method “ specie-pay- ' All this age and all the next can pay, and so on through all ‘hend us, we will ﬁnd a power far superior to this money city of it will lea‘v'e'the* aggregate of what money can. thus be made so far short of the aggregate demand for it, that it Will enable those who hold what there is to charge any price for it which they may think those who need it are or may become able to pay. So the capacity of a nation to pay is the measurement of the amount demanded of that nation when selling her bonds on the money markets of theworld ing nations” have ever elected to get money in an emergency, and is a part of that policy itself.) /. The result of said policy upon the nations following it to this time is an ‘aggregate debt of $23,000,060,000, whose annual interest requires about the aggregate coin of all of said nations; and this interest is the stake the advocates of “specie payments” play for——the same as the labor of the slaveswas what slaveholders maintained slavery for. While the latter could manipulate public opinion to give and secure them a legal right to work the slave, and appropriate his la- bor, they were willing to support Republican Government and no longer. Just so now with: capitalists, while they can have a legal right, backed by a public opinion approving it, to take the labor of the -millions requiredto gather up the world’s coin annually into their coffers they are wililng to support the Republic, but no longer. The late contest, brought on by the slaveholders to gain their point, whereinit was claimed that there were but four hundred millions of dollars involved, may indicate what effort capitalists who hold in bonds é$23,000,000,000 whose aggregate interest.‘ requires the world’s coin annually, will make to reinstate and perpetuate this “specie payment” policy. The affirmation that coin is the only “ honest money” may be placed by the side of the oft-repeated’ declaration that slavery “was divine.” What we desire is, to let the light of truth shine in upon this hoary-headed swindle of the millions to enrich the capitalists of the world, which can be done/only in a republic, where the masses can be made to comprehend the whole question. Theﬁrst point we need to attack is that of the relative values of coin and paper money. It is a common, if, indeed not a universal saying, that coin is possessed of greater value than paper, because it costs more. And as if they wished coin to beymade of the greatest possible value, each nation, in electing the method of furnishing themselves with funds costing the largest possible sum, has chosen to issueits bonds on interest and sell them on the money markets of the world for coin. Capitalists, in determining the value of said bonds, have had only to consider how much such nation could pay annually, and this governed the amount bid for such bonds. time, would be the “largest cost,” and of course would give the greatest valuevto the coin. Any intelligent person can see that if bullion could be had in sufficient quantity to enable each nation to make its own money, that the very abundance of coi, by the inevitable laws which give rise to all values, would destroy, overcome, or neutralize the value of it, exactly the same as is now claimed would be the result were our nation to make her money by stamping her seal or insignia upon paper. But as gold cannot be had in such large amount, therefore money cannot be made of it in excess of the demand for it; and this fact enables capitalists to command any price for it they may be satisﬁed the nation in need may be able to pay. So that the capacity to pay will be the measure of value of the bonds of the nation in need. - This makes good the declaration that the greatest possible cost gives the largest value; and the results of the actual practical workings of this policy shows what any intelligent person could see must come of it—to wit, all the nations have involved themselves in a debt, about equal to, if not beyond, their ability to pay. So they pay all this generation can, and thentransmit the balance for payment to the coming genera- tions. ‘ Now,if we can only succeed in making mankind compre- power of the world. Then what is now paid over to capitalists as interest will be kept by the millions whose money it is, with which they can educate their children and enable them to fully comprehend the situation, which will make them masters of it. - Yours, W. HOPKINS. >—<07—-< SPIRITUALISTIC. THE MISSION OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM. WHAT wn ASK IN ITS NAME. Delivered before the ninth annual meeting of the Connecticut Asso- ciation of Spiritualists, held Sept. 26 and 27 at New Haven, Ct. To a proper understanding of the above is due the efficiency of the efforts that we make as Spiritualists and as lovers of humanity. i _ I have long been convinced that but a few of the many have as yet comprehended a tithe of the change that is to be wrought by the movement known as modern Spiritualism. There are a few, however, who realize that the old cannot be‘ patched; that all pertaining thereto are but parts of a system which is becoming rotten with its own ripeness. We see that the present system is so inferior to that which must take its place, that one might as well try to build a railroad upon a common wagon track as to try to construct the new system of society upon any portion of the present system, so far as the form is concerned. . The good will remain——wil1 be increased———but the form must be changed. Church, State, commercial systems, ﬁnancial systems, legal marriage, land monopoly, all must go; the present order be so changed that‘ not one stone shall be left upon another. , . When modern Spirtualism was inaugurated, it promised great things, but what has it accomplished? Much, very much, you say. True, but if .we stop now we shall be like those who. commencing to build, have dug the cellar and then left it open to the rains of heaven and a trap t6 the be- nighted traveler. Better not to have commenced. From theﬁrst inception of this movement, it has been con _ stantly aﬁirmed that the work to be accomplished was the complete overthrow of the present order of things, and the establishment of a new system of society, both upon the earth and in the spirit. spheres. In a word, the new heavens and the new earth, in which dwelleth righteousness or right conditions, are to be ushered in by this movement; and we must be so ready for the changes that are to come that we can ﬁx our eyes, not upon the changes themselves, but upon the results which are to accrue therefrom. L The destroyer, the disorganizer, has been at work upon the old, so perforating its walls and its foundations that the superstructure must fall; and at the same time the builders have laid the foundation of the new. But we cannot tarry atthe foundation. If Spiritualism has a purpose, and that purpose the redemption of humanity, there is, there can be, no side issues; and those who think that we go outside of Spiritualism because we do not happen to conﬁne ourselves to the phenomena or the philosophy of said phenomena have not yet learned how large Spiritualism is. , As the atmosphere presses upon all parts of the earth, so is the spirit (world pressing upon every portion of the structure called society. The spirit which prompts the resistance of the laborer against the encroachments of capital, is a part of the movement, because there are those upon the other shore who have suffered in the same manner while here and they remember those in bonds as being bound with them. This being true—the spirit which is prompting the laborer to action, moving upon his head and heart, causing him to resist, even unto blood if needs be——this is as much a part of the work of modern spiritualism, as is the developing circle and the work of the spirit artist. And the social question——this, too, gathers its life and ﬁre from the spirit world, and is a part of the mission of modern spiritualism. The creative forces of being must have a hear-- mg. The prostitute, the libertine, the abused wife, the. lone souls, whose wrongs have blighted life itself, whose poverty- stricken spirits have wailed out their agony with their de- parted breath, these, all these, are upon the other shore, with the effects of their false conditions here visible in every feature. _ But they are awakening to the causes which produced such sad results in their earth lives, and they demand a hearing in order, that said causes may be removed from the path of the coming generations. They demand this and will have it, too, though all the ignorant and vicious in the world oppose. ' That there is much of good in the world we well know, but while the multitudes fondly imagine that this good is secured to us through certain institutions, those who look beneath the surface see that it is in spite of said institutions. Take that of marriage, for instance. Why, what would society be without marriage? exclaims one. Society without marriage! Who talks of such a thing? No one that I have heard. Such a question shows plainer than aught else could, that legal marriage is a curse and ought to be abolished, for it shows that law overrides love—supercedes, takes its place; shows that people are regarded as married who hate each other, if law-sanctioned authority has pronounced them man and wife; while those who love, those whose mutual at- traction is so strong that they come together in spite of law or priest or the educational protests of their own souls——such natural marriage is repudiated because man-made law has not set its seal thereon. Love is the basis of natural marriage, but legal marriage can have almost any basis that can be named. All the beauty, all the blessing,/that exists under the legal marriage tie, comes from the love which makes it a natural marriage also; and the wretchedness, the degradation comes from marriage without love. . Let us have a marriage that cannot be counterfeited. It is the government stamp upon marriage that makes counter- feiting possible, and it is only the money part of it—the property questionwwhich makes the government stamp necessary. . Virtue, truth, justiceand purity have no more relation to legal enactments than has the air we breathe. Eachdepends upon its own inherent conditions, and human enactments cannot regulate one more than it can the other. The present ' standard of virtue is legality. It is a false standard, and so long as we retain it we cannot have virtue as a prevailing element in society. Virtue—purity—for its own sake, and not for the law’s sake, is the doctrine we teach. This is what the angel World demands; it is a part of the work of modern spiritualism; is What we ask in its name. But we are told that we are advocating sensuality; that ‘we are seeking to let down the bars that shut us from un- restrained gratiﬁcation. Well, as you are so fearful that vice should prevail at the expense of virtue, suppose that we look at the results‘ of the present system of sexual life. ‘ One hundred thousand prostitutes inthese United States —those who are openly known as such ;. and many count a much greater number in this class. But does this open record cover the ground? N ot at all. Count those who secretly sell "themselves to a. favored few; add those who marry for wealth or position (respectable prostitutes these); range them all in the line where they belong, and then count your prostitutps. Thirty millions spent annually on prosti- tution in New York city! so the "statistics say. But does this cover the amount paid to physicians in the hope of being cured of disease thus contracted? Not at all. Does it cover the bill of the abortionist? N ot at all. My God! the more I investigate this subject, the more I am convinced that there is_ but one way out of these terrible conditions, and that is through absolute freedom for woman; the entire control of the maternal functions given into her hands, and a support guaranteed to her by man as a sex, instead of as an individual; in other words, that all men shall be pledged to the support of all mothers and all children. A recent writer says of illegitimate children (so-called): “ Let men feel that they are to be held responsible for ille- gitimate children, and that for any desertion or neglect which -gr‘ .’7_/ «V I Inigg .. -.4”; ._ K x.-- Nov. 7, 1874. drives a mother to murder her child, he shall be counted equally g_uilty; for there is no other remedy that will reach the case.” But we say that the only remedy is a new order of society, in which there can be no illegitimate children. Under the present system of society, woman has no right to the use of her sex outside of legal marriage, and, as a _‘ wife, she is expected to,do her duty. Yea, it is counted her duty to yield her person, though he who is called her liege lord has made himself utterly repulsive to her. But when men come to understand the law of their own being, they will as soon think of taking ﬁre into their bosoms as an unwilling woman; and the element set free through false sexual relations is a miasmicgcloud, which not only shuts heaven’s light from the soul, but it ascends even to the spirit spheres, blinding and strangling those purer ones who attempt to approach from thence; and yet we are told that spiritualism has nothing to do with this question! Do you say that these relations are not ﬁt subjects for public discussion? Then we are not ﬁt subjects to appear in public, for we are all the result of said relations. Our wel- fare in this life, and, to a certain extent, in the next, de- pends upon the fact as to whether these relations are proper or improper, not according to a legal, but a natural standard. But the property question and the legal marriage question belong together. There is wealth enough and there is love enough in the world for each and for all, and we have no more right to appropriate that which we cannot use in one department of life than we have in another. A We demand, therefore, as Spiritualists, and in the name of the spirit world, that all monopoly shall cease. We de- mand that all shall labor, and that none be forced by want to desperate deeds. We demand that one or dozens of men shall no longer possess hundreds of millions, while millions of human beings, both men and women are suffering from actual want. We demand that one child shall not be born heir’ to mil- lions, while scores andhundreds are born to wretchedness and rags. ' , . In a word, we demand an entire change in all this, and much more; demand it in the name of modern Spiritualism; claim it as the work that the spirit world intends to accom- plish through this movement; and assert that if we fail in this then Spiritualism is a failure so far as its real purpose is concerned. V Twenty-six years have passed since the insigniﬁcant rap startled the world, and are we yet ready for the question?» Shall we gird on our armor, or shall we ﬂee in this trial hour? What is it that we ask, that you should shrink? Simply the establishment of righteousness, or right condi- tions upon earth. _ . Physicians concede that there would be no such thing as sexual disease. did woman never suomit unwillingly to the sexual embrace. We propose to place the love relations entirely under the control of woman; to see to it that she is freed from the pressure of the money power, and we know that under such conditions she will never submit to a loathed embrace. And this is only one of the many evils that Spiritualism proposes to remove. Think for a moment of a state of society where every child is born of love and born to a competence; of a condition of society where all labor enough for health and none to wearisome excess; where .none are tortured by cold or hunger or the fear of it; think of garrets and cellars emptied of their toiling occupants, who have left them for comfortable abodes. Think of all this and much more, and then tell me if the mission of Spiritualism is not a glorious one; tell me if we do not honor it when we say that it has no side issues. Do you shrink and decry the conﬂict that must come? Can it be expected that the spirit world can usher in so great an event as the second birth- of heaven a.nd earth without the shedding of blood——without travail pangs? Is not the result to be secured worth all that it will cost? if Will you withhold your sympathy, your means, from those who are ready to die, if need be, in this struggle? Will you help us, or will you stand idle by, or by opposing show that you have notgrown to a comprehension of this movement——of the needs of this hour? We await youranswer. LOUIS WAISBROOKER. THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS A. OF S. » The ninth quarterly meeting of the N. I. A. of S., at Chicago, was a grand success. Speakers present: Dr. P. B. Randolph, E.» V. Wilson, Mrs. J. H. Severance, M. D., Mrs. L. E. Drake, Cephas B.~Lynn, C. W. Stewart and others. A free platform for all important subjects was, as usual, main- tained. ' The new constitution was adopted and established, accord-. ing to the statutes of Illinois, and the N. I. A. of S. is aﬁxed fact. ~ .- I p A better understanding of the social question was obtained ' bynthose attending than ever before, owing to the forcible speeches of Dr. Severance and Mrs. Drake on that subject.. Much good will result from this meeting. . C. W. STEWART. S 0 MISCELLANEOUS. WHAT is THE SIGNIFICANCE or AN ABSTRACT MORAL LAW? ’ Man seems to have come into existence under such con- ditions as utterly to disallow him any use of his brain. Hence, instead of estimating being from what he knows of it, he ﬁxes a value upon it from just what he don’t know. Start- ing with the climax of all absurdities, that himself exists with no rights but conceded ones, it is not a marvel that he should join in the general’ raid against all rights in others. Instead of looking upon himself as part and parcel of the great whole, possessing co-ordinate rights and powers with each and every other individual being, he appears to imagine that he exists a kind of ,tenan_t—at-will, and whether he shall be sanded. out or continue to exist depends upoathe cowardly wooDHULL .32; CL_AFLIN’S WEEKLY and abject life that he leads here; and this attitude isso general that in no one instance has man represented the ‘nobleness of his nature or the grandeur of (‘his being. The task of ' sustaining something that is to‘ tower above himself and claim his homage has actually forced man to bee. nobody, and the very best developments we —h'av"e'u'pon this earth go to demonstrate this fact.. Tl1"ere.is. a‘ treachery here at work to absorb the individual in abstractions and hold his atten- tion there lest he should know something where it would be of interest personally to himself. For instance, when the moral law was sprung upon the race (for sprung. it was)'the life, character, manners and general deportment of the indi- vidual were put into the care and keeping oftevery otherindi- vidual, without so much as allowing the personal owner the right of saying whether himself was suited or not, or even feeling out of sorts with the misﬁt of the thing. And the plea for this wouldbe that himself, being interested, would not be a safe judge.’ This is modest! Who shall bring me a supper of that which would outrage all conceivable decency, as was meanly forced upon the Prophet Ezekiel, and when my nose turns up and my stomach heaves tell me‘ that lam too interested to be a safe judge of what is best for me in the eating line? But this is a triﬂe when compared with the universal ruin brought on the race ‘by an abstract code of laws. There it is, like the dial of some old town clock, with no machinery to work it, hands of which hold one eternal ﬁxedness to point out the time, way and place of all human manners by one rigid, dry and uniform rule, and thatywhere no one is a safe judge to read and construe it for himself. Now, what do we mean by an abstract code of morals? Why, simply something just contrary to every /instinctive feeling of the human soul. For if this were not “a fact it would not need to be written. Hence it means.’ that my life shall tally with an abstract rule unlike myself, and as various in its phases as are the observers in their interpretation of it. It is the justiﬁcation of all possible meddling in my soul- interests by everybody, while it would refuse me the right of being a partner in any decisions that might be made concern- ing me. Questioning, with the mock gravity of a puffed-up censor, my right to live in conformity with my own instinct. ive feelings of a beautiful and desirable life, it makes per- sonal life everywhere everybody’s business but the oils pos- sessing it. I who only can tell when life suits me must be dumb, even while my laughing soul fairly throbs with its frcighted glories of a satisﬁed existence, and at every beating pulse my being glows with exquisite delight. This moral code licenses the very menial who lives to splice out an un- happy life to call me down’ from the joys that my inmost soul tells me are my own. A moral code ! VVhy, every hound thatpruns the streets may bark at me under its divme sanction. If man had not been educated out of the native dignity of his soul he would spurn as an effrontery not to be forgiven any interference with himself, from high or low, in any re- spect. But through the medium of this false teaching all that impresses him has made him feel abasements too degrad- ing for a dog whose misfortune it happened to be to kill sheep. Vlhy, the very signiﬁcance of setting up a code of abstract morals, and teaching its importance, is, that the human soul is utterly destitute of moral sense. And if this were true, this abstraction could not endow it with any. I do not care who got up this code, it would be none the less infamous for having the name of a God attached to it. The ﬁrst and only design of getting up an abstract law, was to‘ throw the human soul off‘ its centre, andthereby to render it weak and pusillanimouss Man swerved from his central base, where all that is grand and beautiful comes to pay him the homage of a mutual smile, but never ﬁnds him at home, must be somewhere crawling in the dirt to elevate an ab? straction and demonstrating his abjection and cowardice. This code, that virtually gives the character, deportment and acts of the individual into the custody ofoutside authorities, slew him of Nazareth for disregarding it, gave the fatal poison to Socrates, drove the Moors out of Spain by ﬁre and fagot, chased the Waldenses through the valleys of Pied- mont, and has murdered every man in whose death the pub- he claims to be interested for its own security. And yet these are the smallest of its infamies; for if there is an indi- vidual on this earth, or ever has been, with whose life it claims not a right to meddle, I do not know in what age of this world that soul happened to live. In the outset it robbed man of the sovereign right to himself; in doing which it took both his conscious strength and self-respect away, and all by villainv. When I consent that another may govern me (I care not under what rule) or even to question my sole right to myself in any particular, I have as little idea of any responsibility to myself as I have of snuﬂing the moon with pair of tongs. So insuiferably outrageous to me is this scandalous claim of a foreign code on man, that my consent to discuss it ‘is margined with the shadow of littleness. It seems that I am ‘descending to the common infamy of elevating an abstraction over the imperishable man, by join- ing in the general piracy against himthat has always played to eifept his ruin. There is an intense excitement going on just now, in which every fool and donkey seems to take an interest. And this, too, over an affair that should not have been whispered around the hearthstone of the next-door neighbor;-yet the terrible “Oh, my!” is in every gaping month, just as if it was a “solemn duty” for every one to meddle with that which was none of their business. Herein is developed the diabolical character of the moral code. It in some way makes everybody a liar and slanderer, and, what is wo1'se,‘a babbler of what, by no necessity, ought to awaken the ﬁrst attention of any one not directly concerned. — ~ .I have said this moral code made everybody a weakness. Mark it, the love of popularity and a great soul never traveled hand-in-hand. There is no use of talking of the ability of a man for doing good who is smitten with such a leprosy. I can excuse a man for loving a woman, but never for‘-‘ forgetting the instinctive greatness of his own being [enough #0 sanction; its justiﬁcation by others. « . Oh, -this V011 3 teaching him to honor and obey this infernal shadow of ' ‘Q ?' uuteering or feeling obliged to worry about everybody else is horrible business. - When Diogenes requested Alexander to “ stand out of his sunshine,”-he gave point to this beautiful sentiment: “ Dare not to cast your shadow over a man.” When I consent to be ruled by an abstract code, I say to every one: “Put your own interpretation on that law and come at me just when You feel it your pleasure.” This terrible temptation affords a sorry employment for everybody a devil can manage. And here is just the reason why people are to-day, and have been in all past ages, in ﬁdgets to set each other right. Why, I have seen a man so drunk that he had to hold himself up by the fence, while he actually wept over an associate not half "as bad oﬁ as himself. ! These busy-bodies never seem to be concerned for the hap- piness of another, whether the soul reaps its momentary joys or not. Oh! no.“ But the Church of Christ is suffering; nations are losing their prestige; human souls are crawling out from beneath the rubbish of ages, and everybody is panic-stricken. Just as if a Christian were any better than a Hindoo, whose life should produce as much happiness for his use as did the man of religious mummeries. Every man or woman, who holds a concocted title to a piece of land, a horse or a cow will contest any interference with this abstract ownership; but men and women who hold imperishable rights in existence will cravenly submit to be nosed about by an abstract code of morals that will justify every poison- ous serpent that crawls in blowing the virus of spite in their faces. Why, those who are abject enough for this need not talk of morals, for self-respect, the ﬁrst letter in the beautiful alphabet of soul-worth, is gone. How misledvis man; for this code has taught him to love the opinions of others more than his own happiness, the coat more than the body that wears it, popularity more than the hidden glories of an in- destructible soul. Who seeks to save his life at such a price shall lose it. Do people comprehend that the uncorrupted man will never think of morals as a question with which his holiest wants are connected? Every yearning feeling from the in- most depths of the soul is for happiness. A happy soulhurts nobody. Every one else may be feared. ‘ . It would be a sorry thing if I must run the gauntlet i every, direction to please every self-appointed questioner in regard to my proprieties, while my unutterably happy soul unostentatiously breathes its simple justiﬁcations in the almost immediate presence of a smiling universe, without one dream of a sneaking fault-ﬁnder within the bounds of its extended realms. The being who could teach me what was right and proper might be insane enough to think he could eat my dinner with an equal benefit to my physical being that teaching should be to my spiritual, since it is justly supposable that beneﬁts come to me in each case. The conception that right’ is foreign and repulsive to man (and this is the gist of all preaching and teaching, from the cold, heartless lunch of the Ten Commandments down to the stupid threat of some ignorant old granny) is as wild as the supposition that the farther ,a man gets from himself, the nearer a good man he is; and the more unlike himself he is, the better he will feel. When man was swindled into the abandoﬂcnt of hap- piness as the sole pursuit and highest want of his being for an abstract code of morals, he put it into the power of every- body to abuse him if they should so elect. And the irre- concilable differences of man with man to-day will demon- strate that these advantages have not been neglected. This code has never told man. what ailed him; but it has freely licensed every man to make a patient of every other man, iipon whom to exercise his skill in doctoiing. Hence every man and woman who can pick flaws in character and turn up their noses at a hearsay, as if the ark of safety was being jostled, are qualiﬁed to prescribe for the ailment. But, im- fortunately, the doctors are all wanting in the ﬁrst requisite for even a hope _of success; and that is, they do not know what ails the patt'ent—-a common failing with medicine-mongers. If they comprehended that he wanted to be let alone, the patient would get well. - Man need have no conﬂict with his fellow-man; for man is not bad. The simple puzzle is, he does -not know how to be good. Everybody tells him how. Preacher, teach‘er,'book and newspaper, and every volunteer meddler in thefvi11ain- ous business; and what these do is to helpon the confusion that upsets him in the outset, while the diﬂ"er_ence between such a man and his teachers is that they lack his modesty. And just here it will be seen that the entire race, doctors [teachers] as well as patients, are as impersonal as men. on a chess-board, in the management of almost equally skillful players. From time longago a meddlingclass of spir-itskin theunseen. have played a deep gamete out off consc'iou'sSasso- ciation with clear oneswho love us ‘and who are fnegver from our midst; and to do this, these spirits have beenzforcedgto decentralize the soul of man by throwing him under anab- stract law as his rule of ‘right, where they could set every dog upon him that they could make ugly enough to. growl. The object of it all is to keep the mind. oppressed, worried, con- fused and misled. Here is the secret of all the bewildering and wearying cares under which we are forc,ed’to pursue life, conﬂicting and competing with each other at eve‘ry'tii'rn, and all so unnecessary, only as so ‘many means’ for keeping man in a state of unrest, in which this class of ‘spirits’ can hold the management of him. For only.when the :soul’is still enough to hear an angel whisper can dear ones make _us conscious that they are near. These are not the noisy, pretentious spirits, who cut a swell in issuing commands‘ and-giv‘i.n:guin- -structions, but those whoseihearts fairly _—,q,uiver_.with.,the sweets of freighted glories, with which they ever linger in our midst. at man for errors in belief, when all the errors there ever were and ever can be are those that will not allow alife to; be congenial "with its owner." It was aﬁcunning move to get man to lose sight of his instinctive love -of hapPiness,.-andforce him by terrors to confess a code. of abstract morals that would place him under foreign authority,‘ where ‘-everybody:-'.:was elected to meddle in geverybodyfsgaffairsrbut hisown. Where happiness is the measure of life, the rule and _the.compensa- tions are uniformly the same. E‘. WHEELER. AUBURN,-J.u1y 2?,’187g. = .. V - I s , This, preachers know nothing about, but-go battering: away I woo-DEULL .1.-. CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY} Nov. '7, 8'14. 5 ;, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. . PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, - _ $3 00 One copy for six months, - - - . - ~ — 1 50 Single copies, - - - - — - T 10 ' onus RATES. Five copies for one year, - ' - - - $12 00 Ten copies for one year, _, - V - - . . 22 00 Twenty copies (or more at same rate), - - - 40 00 Six months, - - '-- - - - One-half these rates. 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FROM THE SPEECH “ TRIED AS BY FIRE.” Sexual freedom, then, means the abolition of prostitution both in and out of marriage; means the emancipation of woman from sexual slavery and her coming into ownership and control of her own body; means the end of her pecuni- ary dependence upon man, so that she may never even seem- ingly have to procure whatever she may desire or need by sexual favors; means the abrogation of forced pregnancy, of antenatal murder, of undesired children: means the birth of love children only; endowed by every inherited virtue that the highest exaltation can confer at conception, by every inﬂuence for good to be obtained during gestation and by the wisest guidance and instruction on to manhood, in dustrially, intellectually and sexually. 0-—<—.—-- Al\§, UNWITTING INDORSEMENT. The Dawn Valcour Community ought to pass a vote of thanks to the New York Herald for the magniﬁcent and gratuitous whole page advertisement-- it gave to them_ on Tuesday, October 27th. As Free-lovers and well-wishers to all who strive to advance the cause of sexual liberty, we feel grateful for this public notice from the foremost daily paper. in the Union. We accept it as a popular admission of the great advance of the doctrines so long promulgated in the WEEKLY, and gauge with it the strength of the cause of sexual freedom in the hearts of the masses of this Republic. —-—-———>—+o>—-o-—-—————- THE .NEW RELI(}ION—UNIVERSAL JUSTICE. No. VI. C In‘ the previous ﬁve articles we have considered of the various material, or rather pecuniary or wealth relations that exist among the several classes of society. After a- careful analysis of those relations we have found that they arelnot based in human equity, and, consequently, before the race can obtain justice, that all these arrangements have got to be changed. It is true that we have notyet inquired of what these changes should consist; or how they are to be brought about. We have simply shown that there must be change, by proving that almost, if not quite, everything that is ac- cepted now as honest and right, legally, even by those who. suffer from the injustice, is a fraud upon the intelligence of the working classes, and morally a crime as much as legal theft. is crime. I 1 But, before we can attempt to discuss what should take the place of that which is, industrially, it will be necessary to investigate the principles upon which our moral and intel- lectual structures are based and conducted, so that, if they be found as false and unjust as those are which we have analyzed, they too may be provided for in the new organiza- tion. Beside, our industrial system, andnthe ﬁnancial and commercial which grow out of it, we have the systems of criminal jurisprudence and of common law, which Were inaugurated and are maintained to control, remedy or punish I the lapses from legal right which are supposed to be under the guidance of our moral natures. The theory upon which this system is based is, that to punish severely by personal suffering or otherwise, is’ to reform the actor, and to deter others from performing similar acts. That this theory is utterly fallacious, is transparent when the causes of human action are investigated. These actions are governed by pre- cisely the same laws that govern motion in all other’depart- - becomes the subject of the act that is performed. There never was a motion that was not the result of this law, and there is no distinction in this regard between movements in the material -world and in man. Every act performed by every human being is a result of some moving power, im- pulse or force, directed‘ upon the part ofthe individual by which the movement is produced: ‘i That there are different kinds of force is readily admitted; but this does not invalidate or in the least weaken the state- ment.~ If a-tree is struck by lightning, and destroyed, it is a forcible illustration of the law as stated. If one person strike another, and kill him, it is also a forcible illustration , of the same law~—the law of force applied to matter. To cause the lightning to kill a tree it is requisite that there should be the necessary force existing, and, then, that that force should be directed upon the tree. To cause one per- son to kill another‘ requires the same prerequisites, and no others; and the same is true of every so-called crime. Those who hold to the long-since exploded doctrine of free-will, will reject this theory of human action; but to deny it is to maintain, constructively, that all human action is. the direct result of absolute choice upon the part of humanity; the mere statement of which is so palpably absurd as to be its own refutation. “ But to make this still more clear, let us consider speciﬁ- cally what it is that constitutes murder. In the ﬁrst place, there must be the person to commit the murder, and the person tobe murdered. There must exist in the murderer the capacity to do the deed. Nobody can deny this, since to say that a person can perform something for which he does not possess the capacity is to state an _evident absurdity. We .then have the person with thecapacity which, if called out, can take the life of another. Is it not clear~so clear as to be self-evident——that all else that is required after this is the inciting power; and is it not also clear, if the capacity is never called into exercise, that the. murder of which the person is capable, will never be committed. Nothing can be more evident.- Now, suppose that there is a person who is known to have a capacity to kill another, but because this capacity is never acted upon he never murders; is this failure to perform Is it to be said that this person, though having the capacity to murder, has always refrained from its exercise? Mani- festly, No! So, on the contrary, neither can it be said, logically, that another person, possessing the same capacity, whichis acted upon, and a murder is committed, is to be the absolute cause, and alone responsible for the deed. The most that can be said of :the two is that the former was never subjected to the inﬂuence of which the latter was the victim, though had he been, he, too, would have committed the same crime. This is so clear to us that it seems super- ﬂuous to add further argument. Man is a chemical compound, materially, intellectually and morally. If it were possible that there could be two persons in whose entire composition there should be abso- lutely the same proportion of the same kind of elementary principles, then there would be two people absolutely alike; and these persons, if exposed to the same inﬂuences would always perform the same deeds. We are aware that these are bold positions, and calculated, when understood, to de- stroy the theory of human personal responsibility—the most terrible foe to humanity the world has ever known; but we are after the truth, and wherever this lies we are determined to go in the search. This truth we have found and we pro- claim it in its broadest terms. We assert that it would be no less preposterous, in view of the justice of the act, to attempt to punish. the earthquake for swallowing up a city than it is to hang or otherwise punish a person for taking the life of another. And to make it more pointed still, we would sayfthat, if each of a jury which brings in a verdict of guilty of murder, and the judge who pronounces the sen- tence of death, had been in the same position in which the murderer was when he committed the deed, having the same capacities, they would each have done the same thing for which they condemn their brother man. Could there be any greater condemnation of the theory of punishment of any kind, for crime of any sort? No ! The law to which we have referred in the case of murder holds good in all other kinds of crime. Let these be whatever they may, there must be the capacity and the incentive or . the motor power, and the results will be similar in all cases» Nor -would it weaken the factshould it be said that aperson ought to withstand the incentive to do any of these things, since if he had the capacity (which he did not obtain by any will or cgnsent of his own) and the external inﬂuence (which he did not create) isbrouglit to bear upon him, how can he resist performing the deed? To show the inconsistency and the fallaciousness of this position, we have only to consider that like condi- tions, under like circumstances, will always produce like effects; and that this is as true when applied to the actions of men and women, as it is when applied to the compound- ing of materials or to the production of colors, with this ‘qualiﬁcation when the subject is a human being: That he or she had no choice in the materials and capacities of which they are compounded, and no choice in the composition of their environing inﬂuences, and consequently that they can- not be responsible for the results that these inﬂuences pro- duce when acting upon their organization. ments of nature. Wherever motion takes place it is the ._result of some power or force applied to some object, which If these things be so (and to us there is no logical pscape from them), where shallwe look for better conditions for the -5. what he is capable of performing to be placed to his credit?’ race? When humanity comes to consider this matter in this i light, its attention will involuntarily turn in the right direc- tion. We answer that there can be but one method by which the detrimental actions of the race can be avoided; but this consists of two parts: First, that there should be no more children‘ born under circumstances of conception and gestation that transmit to them the capacities to do the deeds that it is desirable to have prevented; and second, thatthe inﬂuences that call these capacities into action when possessed, ought to be changed or replaced by others which will not result in calling these bad capacities into action. In this view of the subject, which is the only rational one that can be taken,‘ the prevention of crime is something that belongs to the community to do in which its abatement is V desired, and as a corollary to this—that when crime is not prevented it is to be attributed to the community in which 7 it occurs, and not to the hapless individual who is its sub- ject._ , We say that the community is responsible, because it is to it, as a whole, that the conditions which produce the tenden- cies to, and the capacities for, crime, and the general or special inﬂuences which at the time induce it, are to be attributed; the individual actors being no more responsible than is the cannon ball which wrecks a vessel. To the objection that will be raised, that indi duals have the choice in these matters, and consequently t at they are responsible for what they choose to do, we reply that what-, ever choice, if it may be called a choice, any one may make as between several present alternatives, it will be that which the very conditions of capacity and inﬂuences, to which we have already referred, make inevitable. Choice under" such circumstances is nothing more or less than an illustration of what these capacities and tendencies arc, and in no way conceivable of an absolute decision of the mind of the indi- vidual utterly divorced from them. The mind in this case is like the strings of a piano—the tone that is given is de- termined by the tension of the string that is struck. There- are circumstances in which it is impossible for those under these inﬂuences not to laugh. It is not the choice of the-. personsthat they do this. They cannot help it-, they could not if the penalty were death. transform the scene to one of murder, and almost everybody will say “ he” ought to be hanged. Such is the consistency of human justice. It is evident, therefore, that, in a new order of society, im which human justice regarding all things is to be the rule; in which effects of whatever kind are to be attributed to their real causes, the present system of criminal jurispru-. dence and of common law will have no place. In such an order all human actions, whether the best or the worst, will be assigned to their true positions, and be placed not to the merit of the individual when the former, nor to the demcrit of the actor when the latter. When such a rule obtains, punishment for any act will not be known. The most that can be done in case of bad capacities that are liable to en- counter bad inﬂuences, will be to surround the unhappy possessor of the capacities with such other inﬂuences as wil1 make it impossible that his inherited tendencies to vicious- ness should ever be called into action. So, then, when this matter is carefully analyzed it comes out that, as in the case of our industries, the very reverse of what has so long been so generally accepted as right and‘ good and honest, is precisely the contrary.——that those who have been accounted as criminals, and punished as such, have been the unhappy victims of illy-conceived and worse executed functions of society. The conclusion cannot be escaped that justice re- quires that every person now imprisoned for any pretended crime oughtto be set atliberty at once; or his imprisonment, as punishment, instantly changed into restraint for protec- tion to others, and education for the individual. We should not lose sight of the fact, however, that a very large proportion of so-called crime is induced by the in- jpstices that exist in the possession of the products of in- dustry. Abolish from the calendars of crime all those cases that may be, perhaps, assigned to this cause, and there would be left only those which came from such inherited ten- dencies as would make their commission inevitable. To cure ‘ crime, then,we repeat that two objects must be sought: First, the removal of the causes that induce it where the capacity ex- ists; and second,the placing of maternity under such enlight- ened control, that no more children shall be born inheriting the capacity for crime. Let half the effort be given in these directions for one generation that there is given now to detect andvpunish crime, and all tendencies to commit bad. . deeds, and-inﬂuences to induce them, would be for ever cured. 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"woonnunnss GLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. . , . 9~ “OPPOSED TO ALL HER SOCIAL VIEWS.” Thus saith the editor of a new Spiritual paper, or, to put it in his own words,changed'merely to make them intelligible, it read, thus: “ We never saw Mrs. Woodhull but once, and then for only a few minutes. We never voted for her; we were her bitter opponent then, and are still opposed to all her views about the social and sexual relations.” I Now, let us write this “ opponent” down, so that the rec- ord will stand in bold relief to his utter future confusion: People who do not - want to get upon the record unpleasantly should be careful about inviting others to write unpleasant biographies of them. We venture to predict that when this person wrote the above, he wrote in utter ignorance of what he was really saying; and that,when . what he has really said is shown him, as we intend to show him now, he would rather have never had a paper in which to express his views unbridled by a wiser head than his, than that it should have played him such a scurvy trick asthis. , ' These are Mrs. Woodhull’s views of the social and sexual relations; to which he says he was and is bitterly I opposed: ~ 1. She teaches where a man and a woman consort as hus- band and wife,when,if they were not married and the woman, having control of her sexual organs (which control she loses by being married),would refuse to submit to the act; that such is unnatural intercourse, and consequently prostitution. The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. 2. She teaches when a husband forces a wife against her will, as thousands do, to submit to him sexually, that it is rape. ‘ - ‘ The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. 3. She teaches that women should not be compelled, either by custom, usage, public opinion or law, to consort with men whom they do not love. _ The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. 4. She teaches that no woman should ever submit to the sexual act when she is unwilling to accept its possible con- sequences. - The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. 5. She teaches that women should never become pregnant with or bear children whom they do not desire The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. A 6. She teaches that when women cease submitting to un- desired intercourse , and bearing unwished-for children, that misery, vice and crime will have received their death blow. _ . - The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. 7. She ‘teaches that mothers have almost supreme control over children. in their Wombs to make them good or bad, and that what is needed next to woman’s emancipation from undesired intercourse, pregnancy and undesired children, - is an enlightened sense of conception, generation and ges- tation. The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. 8. She teaches that no woman should ever be forced into circumstances where she may, even seemingly, feel obliged to pay with her sexual favors, either in or out of marriage, for a support. ' The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. 9. She teaches that the sexual act is the divinest in the whole range of the universe, and that it should never be degraded from its high estate. . The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. L10. She teaches that women" should, always be free .to choose the fathers of their children. ‘” , The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view and teaches, consequently, that somebody else than their mothers should chose the fathers of children. ll. She teaches that it is better for women to bear perfect children by different men than to bear imperfect children by one man. _ The gentle W, is bitterly opposed to this view. I _ 12. She teaches that both sexes should have a. thorough education in sexual matters before entering upon their practice. _ The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. 18. She teaches that woman is, by nature, queen in all sexual matters, that her sexual functions belong inalienably to her, and that she has no right to permit another to as- sume the sovereignty over them; and again, that when she has seemingly done so as in marriage, she has really not resigned ‘them,’ since they belong to her‘ by a higher right than any that can ever be ‘obtained byany transfer, bargain or sale. » “ The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. 14. She teaches that women ought to come together, and, in the most solemn manner, declare that they will never again submit to undesired intercourse, either for money or ‘ for a home; and that they will never bear children whom they do not want. The gentle W. is bitterly opposed to this view. To all these views he has declared publicly, and written by his own hand, so .that he is committed past retreat, that he is bitterly opposed. “ We still oppose all her sexual and social views,” says the gentle W. These are her social and sexual views, and the gentle W. is opposed to them bitterly. Whatever other’ views than these she holds are logical deductions from them. If there are any views charged " against ‘her that are inconsistent with these they are falsely charged, and shedeﬁes the world to support such charges by proofs. When the gentle W. wrote that sentence he sealed his death warrant as a reformer, and announced to the world that he is the supporter of all the infernal and damnable things by which woman is now enslaved. We wish him joy of his declarations of faith, but would advise him in the future to consider the meaning of words before he publishes them to the world. All people are not so dull or thick-headed as to blindly accept the simplicity, not to say the foolishness, of those who, if they were not ludicrous in their “denials with an oath,” might be considered as strug- gling vainly to escape some fearful calamity. We also commend the lesson that we have been called to teach the gentle W. to all those conservative Spiritualists who know so much more about the views and the acts of the Editor of the WEEKLY than she does herself, and who have taken it upon themselves unsolicited to become their sponsors and god-fathers to the public. ' —-——-———--+—+o A SERIOUS MATTER . - . We sometimes wonder whether Spiritualists, as a class, have any competent conception of the real meaning of the present aspect of. spiritualism; or whether they look upon the recent widespread discussion of its phenomena by the most inﬂuential of the newspapers of the great cities- notably the New York Sun, Times and G-mp7t'z'c—-as a matter of course merely, having no speciﬁc indications. We fear that the class of Spiritua1i.sts who regard spiritualism as a phenomenal fact, from which no conclusions are to be drawn or deduced other than that spirits exist, and, under proper circumstances, do communicate‘, look upon the cir- cumstance referred to in the latter light. Being convinced that death is not annihilation, they rest upon that fact satis- -ﬁed, while the vice and miseries of the world are letalone to’ run rampant through the race. But to that other class of Spiritualists, who accept the phenomena as a direct incentive to active efforts directed to preparation to enter upon eternallife, this aspect of their cause presents altogether a different picture. What is this life upon earth——at most, an average of thirty-three and a third years—with all its vicissitudes and trials, compared to that endless life in spirit, with what We have been shown by spirits, may be its beatitudes and bliss lasting forever? How anybody can believe in the spirit-life and not pour all his or her energies into channels for reforming and making the world better, is an anomaly which is utterly incompre- hensible to us. It is the all-potent incentive, forcing us to ask in every direction for information as to how the body—— the earth—house of the spirit——can be made perfect, so that the inhabitant may live happily and grow perfectly. Beside this there is no other question of the slightest importance, relatively speaking. The people everywhere spend their money freely to procure the best architects, and study; every variety of architecture so that they may have comfortable and beautiful houses in which the body may dwell. All this is right——is as it should be. Our homes should be so beautiful that they would meet every desire" of our interior natures for beauty. But how can a. deformed or diseased physical body be made contented, happy and useful in any habitation, let it be ever so smagniﬁcent? Common sense tells everybody ﬁrst to look after a proper physical home for the spirit; and when this is secured, it will be competent to look for the most perfect surroundings for the body——those in which all theyearnings of its master can be satisﬁed. But what does the latest form of spiritual phenomena mean? It is termed» “ materialization;” but this is a newly- coined word, meaning the same that other words mean that have been in use for ages. Materialization is the reappear- ance of the spirit in an earthly form. What is this more than, or wherein does it differ from, the doctrine of the resurrection——a doctrine as old as the history of the race? If there is any truth whatever in any of the various supposi- tions of materialization, then this truth means" that the day of the resurrection isapproaching. Not that single day of twenty-four hours, in which God by voice shall call forth those who have done good "to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of damnation, but a period, an age, in which this is to be done by the voice of God working in natural ways and by natural laws. There is a germ of truth in every doctrine that persists in the minds of the race age after age. From time immemorial an idea of some form of resurrection has found place in the minds of alarge proportion of-‘the race, each individual, perhaps, having it in some diﬁerent form; but it was, and is, resurrection at last~—the reappearance of the spirit re- habilitated in garments of ﬂesh. Accepting this idea and applying that of the phenomena of materialization, it is easy to conclude really what the resurrection means, and how it is to come about. So, then, Spiritualists and all others who believe that there has been or that there may be amaterialization of a single spirit for the space of a single second, must necessarily be- lieve that when there are proper and perfect conditions the reappearance may be permanent, because materialization is not undertaken by spirits merely to satisfy mortals that spirit existence is a fact; it is to bring about great and radical changes in affairs and their manner of conduct "in both spheres; it is to bring to earth the government of heaven; it is to make humanity like the angels in heaven, who neither marry nor are given in marriage; and finally to unite hea.ven_and earth in the millennium. - What are the conditions requisite to materialization?’ A Clearly, a suﬂicient quantity of spiritualized and. reﬁnedi matter out of which to constitute the new body. If there.- were enough of this now in existence in such localities as to» be commanded and attracted by the spirit wishing to reappear,,, then the resurrection would be complete at once and for all. time; but there is no perfectly spiritualized matter, or not: enough in any given locality,‘ to construct even a single» body; or at least there is in no single place all the elements; required in the needed state of purity to do this. Our bodies cannot exist without each of the necessary" component parts; so cannot the resurrection take place for a single body unless it have each of the spiritually reﬁned. elements in its proper proportions. This proposition brings us to the key to the whole mystery. A human body cannot be born except through the sexual union of a male and female: This is the method by which all human bodies are created; and so it must be by some co—relative method that spiritual bodies must be born. Christ is reported to have said to Nicodemus that “ye must he born 'again,’,’ before entering the kingdom of heaven. one must enter into his mother’s womb and be born again, as at ﬁrst, but he meant a spiritual birth; a. birth of the; spirit by the resurrection of the body. Now the bodies of men and women are constantly throw» ing oﬁ‘ emanations that are good ‘or bad in proportion as; their bodies are perfect or imperfect. The spiritual atmos-. phere is constituted out of these elements, but they cannot; be used by spirits until they are blended by the perfected: unity of the sexes; that is, until there have been perfectly" blended elements exhaled by the perfected‘ blending of the». sexes in the same form and manner required to create a hu-. man form. There are many people—rn=en and women——who. will understand what we mean——those who when coming in. physical or nearly into physical contact, have felt the mag-. . netic thrills tinglelin every nerve of their bodies. This is. magnetic unity; and what is magnetic unity except sexual! unity? This it is, and nothing more and nothing less; and; only those persons should have sexual commerce between». whom these conditions exist; and when there is no sexual: commerce except where there is this magnetic: unity exist» ing naturally in the persons themselves before there is sex-- ual contact, then there will be a spiritualized aura exhaled: into the atmosphere which the spirits can coinnraenzd and in, which they can be resurrected. A I In this view of the case it can be readily inferred‘ ‘Whywe, are so persistent in the advocacy of free love——that there should be no sexual commerce except where there is a. p,m. vious all—absorbing love; such a love only being possible when the magnetic conditions to which We have, referred} are present. The unwise may laugh, the bigot may scout, and the ignorant hoot and cry out “free love” until the. latest day; but all this will not interfere with the fullest de- velopment and consideration of the truths to which in this ar- ticle we have barely hinted. Behind these truths there lies-. "the whole philosophy and science of the resurrection. We-, are willing to bide our time for justiﬁcation. What the spirit: world has given to us to declare we have declared boldly;-. and whatever may hereafter be given us shall also be as. boldly declared, and we will meet the jeers and the hoots and the cries of the ignorant and the foolish, with a calm. ness and content that come alone from an undying faith in the truth of what we have uttered. .___.?,.._¢Q+_.._ THE MUNDANE TRINITY. Science, Art and Labor are the true trinity, the real magi.-H cians of the present era. The beneﬁts arising from their happy union are so many and so various that they appear to us to. be the distinguishing characteristics of the present cen. tury. If we critically examine the annals of the past we shall ﬁnd that a large proportion of the evils which then a,f.. ﬂicted the human family were brought about by the sepam. .tion of the scientiﬁc thinkers'from. the laboring artisan per. . formers of their conceptions. Nor need it awake our won. der that the acting producers, notwithstanding their general degradation into service under, compulsion, should yet fee} more keenly their galling mental fetters, and, seeking ‘every opportunity of freeing themselves from the ‘same, be con. stantly warring against their less numerous, ‘but ‘more en... lightened adversaries. - ' We ﬁnd, on examination of the pages of history, that in Egypt, Greece and Rome, the learned always endeavored to shroud their knowledge from the gaze of the uninitiated though laborious public. It was this that‘ gave rise to the celebrated mysteries of Mithra, Isis and Eleusis, and it is this whichlmay be read in the Latin terms yet used in some law courts, or seen in the rich labels ‘on the decorated bottles in the stores of our apothecaries. Thus the tragedies of the past have degenerated into the farces of the present, and ‘those things which were used to terrify the serfs of an earlier time now only serve to awaken smiles on the faces of’ the more intelligent workers of the present era. But the genius of man, fettered and classiﬁed as it has been in past ages, has now thrown off 'its yoke, and appears to, ' have selected the -new continent for the arena on which to display its extraordinary powers, which frequently astonish those who have witnessed the earlier wonders of its modern performances. And though it may not now exhibit itself so grand in design as the Hall of..Karnac, so vast in speculation as the scholar of Socrates, or so dazzling in splendor as the .; He did not mean that I _ point of view. lessons of the very highest order. 10- Y ' triumphs of the Cmsars, yet it is not less effective, and cer- tainly more useful, in endeavoring to ameliorate the condi- tion of the human family, in the more practicable and cer- tainly not less sublime attempt at subduing the powers of nature herself, and rendering them tributary to the comfort, peace and happiness of mankind. To the unthinking reader this comparison of the the labors of the present and the past, and the claim of su- periority ‘for the former, may appear somewhat strained; but, could we reanimate an ancient citizen of Thebes, Athens or Rome, we think we could point out in our modern “ Go- :shen,” sufficient to convince him that the praises_we have awarded were not even proportionate to the beneﬁts confer- red on us by the happy union of Science, Art and La_bor which now digniﬁes the civilized parts of the globe. i If a philosopher, what would be his joy at beholding the literary treasures of the world comprised, we had almost said, in many of our principal libraries. The teachings of Confu- cius, Zoroaster and Mohamined, together with the maxims of Solomon and the purer doctrines of J esus—the scientiﬁc researches of the wise of all ages and countries, from Thales of Miletus to Tyndall of England-—_—the garlands of poesy, from the magniﬁcent epic of Job to the thousand and one lucubrationsof the dreamers of to-day——and all these specu- lations within the reach of those who, in former times, would have been termed clients, serfs or slaves. What would he say on beholding the products of nature and art, in all their various forms, collected from all climes, domi- nions and seas? The rich offerings of the leviathans of the poles, with the brilliant lustre of the insects of the line; chaste and elegant wares, the delicate productions of reﬁne- mentand civilization, mingled with the tusk of the elephant and the plume of the ostrich, the trophies of the spear of the barbarian. Every zone, every country, nay, almost every port, paying to us its annual tribute for Your use, comfort, ‘or adornment, The above picture i s not too highly colored; the simple truth alone beggars description. Do we not frequently be- hold the products of three continents at the breakfast table of a_mechanic? Ware from Europe, tea from Asia, and sugar from America ! The very cotton that covers it has, it is not improbable, been grown in one continent, manufac- tui,/ed into cloth in- another, and again returned in its ﬁnished state to adorn the table of one of the truly noble producers of the present age. If these facts are not wonders, it isonly because they are common. To one unacquainted with the mighty results achieved by the close union of theory and practice which distinguishes our era, they would almost ap- pear to be miracles. . ‘ Butthe unio n of Science,§Art and Labor also confers bene- ﬁts upon the world which should be considered from a moral Commerce, extended commerce, which is one of gts results, is daily inculcating upon the masses moral We now begin to per- ceive the strong links of afﬁnity with which all mankind are connected,to compare the several inhabitants of the earth, to w o. o n H l1.L.L. at or. AF Li nvs W E..EK.L,Y.. SECRECY IN SEXUAL AFFAIRS. Sexual crimes are probably the most terrific and the most numerous of all the woes which aﬂlict humanity. They are not to be computed by those which are exposed, for those, though numerous and ghastly, are but a tithe of the real numbers committed, mostof which are hidden from the surveillance of the public and the press. It is no wonder that this is so. From childhood to old age secrecy in sexual. aﬁairs has been the order of the day, and the only instruc- tion that children gain on such subjects is surreptitiously obtained from the expositions of nature around them. This fatal secrecy, it is the belief of the WEEKLY, does not repress precocity, but stimulates it. What is the use of lying to children, when, in the wordsof Lear, “ The wren goes to ’t., and the small gilded ﬂy Does lecher in my sight!” Yet still, under the old monkisli educational regime, the sexes must be kept apart, and not_be instructed in regard to their duties to themselves, a far more important branch of education to our _youtlis than their duties to their neighbors. Is it any wonder that the terrible secrecy, which treats sexual knowledge as a crime, thus commenced in childhood, often distorts the whole lives of human beings? To many of our young men and women to love one another appears to be a crime. They must meet by stealth, and hide the knowledge of their affection from the world.’ Is this natural or artiﬁcial? We believe it to be the latter, though three- fourths of the lighter literature of the day may condemn our decision. After marriage the same secrecy frequently forbids that proper intercourse between husband and wife which would redound to the beneﬁt of both parties. What was criminal in youth, in many instances remains criminal then, and the world is cursed with abortions in consequence. But the worst consequences that occur from this fatal secrecy are those which follow in the wake of what may be termed connubial crimes. A broken promise to a woman is looked upon as nothing, but a broken promise to a man means social and sometimes physical death. Setting aside infractions of connubial vows on the part of woman, the mere suspicion is often fatal. A proud man will not divulge such doubt, and a proud woman will scorn to clear it if divulged. "A word of truth would dispel the storm, but neither party will speak it——they have been taught other- perfection from the party implicated. ' This one-sided claim, which is neither based upon eccle- siastical or civil law, for even Moses does not make a sexual difference in the punishment of adultery, though modern society does, is well exhibited in a most ‘tragic event that lately occurred in Ohio. The Oapital thus discusses the same under the false heading of “Free Love;” we assert it ought rather _to be termed “Female Slavery ”: A horrible illustration of this horrible practice is exciting Cincinnati at this time. A wife of only four years was found. one morning in her abode, with her dead child in her arms, and her own life ﬂowing awayapparently through a frightful‘ wound in her throat. When the strangers caine——for none correct the errors of prejudice, to impart and to receive in- struction, and to appreciateand proﬁt by the advances of all countries, whether material, artistic or scientiﬁc, which com- merce places within our reach, and which the art of printing communicates to all. The lines of demarkation with which bigotry and superstition have so long succeeded in section- izing the earth,are rapidly becoming obliterated,and we begin now to feel that the ties of mutual conﬁdence conferred by nations on one another in the way of exchanges of commerce or. the familiar intercourse of trade, are more eﬁicient guards of the peace and security of the peoples than the pratings of self-interested religionists or coasts bristling with fortiﬁca- _ tions. It must be observed, however, that these vast accessions to the power, glory and happiness of mankind are only praiseworthy when they are used to secure the comforts and forward the interests of -the m'asses of the peoples, Mighty ‘ as they are, they are all liable to be monopolized and abused, and in proportion to the blessings they ought to confer will be the magnitude of the evils resulting from them if they are permitted to pass out of the full control of the public. The same potent instrument which can expose hypocrisy ’ and drag haughty culprits to the bar of public justice, may be used, and, we are grieved to add, too often is, to be- tray the popular cause and give aid to the -oppressors. The magic forces which have aided us to annihilate time and space may be employed for the purposes of destruction, and the commerce’, of which we have boasted, may become the unrighteous instrument for defrauding the defenceless and vvafting to the hearth of the purer barbarian the pestilential vices of civilization. ~ We sincerely trust, however, that these giant powers which we possess and wield may not be so perverted, or, if any of them be so now, may be reclaimed and used legiti mately in the interests of the masses whose labors have pro- duced them. Then this close union of Science, Art and Labor will indeed be, and will continue to be, productive of good only to mankind. Then the rapid accessions we have made (and are making) of new theories in science and -new principles in the arts, carried into effect by the higher edu- cation of the laboring masses, in order to aid the force and eﬁect the designs of man, will distinguish the present ‘pe- tried’ as the dawn of a day of ‘ gigantic improvements and in- yentidns, whose meridian‘ sun will eclipse with itshalo the glories 9£_,,e,1l;9rswi ages else approachedher-and brought skillful surgeons. she beg- ged piteously to be permitted to die; and when the wound was sewed up and dressed, tore it open with her ﬁngers. ‘And one wants her to die, for her beautiful li.ttle girl, only three years of age, heronly child, was murdered by the same hands that sought her own life; so that to live must be a punish- ment too terrible to contemplate. She had no story to tell save that she had broken the glass from the mantel clock, and with a fragment had killed her child. ‘ v . Think of the soul’s anguish that could drive a mother to that deed. She had no complaint other than a remonstrance at the efforts made to save her own life. 4" ' Think of it, indeed! . A mother slaying her child and her- self——and for what? But we hear of that from her hiisbancl; the wife makes no sign: And this morning the husband, insteadof going to a re- tired spot and hanging himself like a gentleman, is out in print with his story, that probably is far from history. He says that he, when youngybecame infatuated with a woman of the town-and married her. He strove“ hard to reclaim his wife and failed. An elderly ggentlemanhhis partner, won her to himself, and the indignant husband ordered bothaway. All the while he -labored to make his wife true to himself he was.fo1lowing,_he admits,,the same course" of,-life that he con- demned in her, and argues ingeniously that she could not complain of this, for she knew ‘what he was : before he mar- ried her. One naturally asks why he complains of her, as he had the same knowledge of her weaknes_s before matrimony. Of whom should the Oapiml ask the above question—of the church? That would recognize noidifference in the guilt of the above_ parties.‘ Of the civil law? _ That would return -the same answer. Society alone, which, leprous with debauchery, stands above both the churcliand t_11e.,laW,. virtually puts in a plea for the man. But whatis the woman’s punishment, should‘ it even result in her death, "to society?’ She had been a female prostitute, and society draws a broad black line between them and male prostitutes- With society it is a greater crime to sell sin for bread than to purchase it for pleasure,- and the more corrupt thesociety the sterner the punishment it awards to such female trans- gressors. But we continue from the Ocqqita-Z .- This is. an evil thereligious world ignores, "because its knowledge is not considered respectable. Christ _s teachlllgs have lost immensely through this same ‘respectability. I doubt whether the Saviour and his twelve apostles would» be received to-day in good Christian society. I sometimes wonder how it will be arranged in that otherand better world, to gain which we are’ such devout church members. I _supposc_tl_ie respectable people will have a sort of diplomatlc ££,u1131‘Y,1H heaven, where they can sit and not be coiitaininated by the lowerdclasses, to which the tent-makers and ﬁshermen-be.- longe. .. .' __._j., » This great evil, that grows and swells until it invades even Plymouth Chi’:ir‘cl1',is' an ’e‘vi1'that‘ allrespectableChristianity; I has ceased. to struggle With. It shuts its aristocratic was wise. It is suﬂicient that the old inonkish system demands, Nov. ,7, 1374. and_lets on to believe that it don’t exist. In the meantime, a wife, appa.ren_tly reﬁned and full of womanly feeling, lies by her dead child prayingefor death. Had Jesus lived and were he the pastor of a fashionable city church at the present period, it is safe to say that Mary Magdalene would never have had the chance to get con- verted. But is society sexually purer now than it was in his time? VVe doubt it. VVe believe that there‘ is l‘.‘.\)l‘€ sexual crime in New York now than in Jerusalem then, and of a lower order. All that society demands is a discreet secrecy in such cases, and that is the reason that, in the Beecher case, the speaking the truth respecting it has offended it so deeply. It is natural it should be so, for, in sexual ail’airs, man has been taught to dissemble from his youth. ———-:——>-49»-—< DIVORCE IN THE EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH. The New York Ifemld, of Oct. 17, reports the following brand-new canon on the subject of divorce. We have re- published it as we propose to make a few comments on the same for’ the beneﬁt, of the social tinkers who are at work. upon it. Some important documents were laid before the House of Deputies yesterday. The most signiﬁcant is the canon on divorce. It is as follows: “ SECTION 1.—If any persons be joined together other than as God’s Word doth allow, their marriage is unlawful. “ SEO. 2.—No minister of this Church shall solemnize matrimony in any case where th re is a divorced wife or husband of either party still livi g, and where the decree was obtained for some cause arising after marriage; but this canon shall not be held to apply to the innocent party in a divorce for the cause of adultery, or to parties once divorced seeking to be united again. “ SEC. 3.——No minister of this Church shall‘ present for conﬁrmation or administer the holy sacraments to any per- son divorced for any cause arising after marriage and married to another, in violation of this canon, during the lifetime of such divorced wife or husband; but this prohibition shall not extend to the innocent party when the divorce has been for the cause of adultery, nor to any penitent person in em- tremis. “ SEC. 4.»—Questions touching the facts of any case-arising under this canon shall be referred to the bishop of the diocese or missionary district, or, if there be a Vacancy in the episco- pate, then to some bishop designated by the Standing Com- mittee, who shall thereupon make inquiry by a commissary or otherwise, and deliver his godly judgment in the premises. “ SEC. 5.—'1‘his canon, so far as it atﬁxes penalties, does not apply to cases occurring before its taking effect, according to Canon iv., Title 4. . ON SECTION 1.~—There is no account in what is called God’s Word as to the way in which marriages should be conducted,’ nor is the subject of how marriages should be conducted treated of in the Pentateuch. From that we have the right to infer that Moses did not think the services of a priest necessary on such occasions. In Saxon times we are told the bride and groom, with their friends, went into the church and plighted their troths on the altar, and the priest blessed them at the vestibule of the church as they passed out occupy the position of the Catholic Church in the matter of marriage. As to the re—marriage of parties who have once been divorced, it only renders the whole ceremony ridiculous. SEC. No. 3 is like unto the former-—‘—the Episcopal Church would use power but there is not strength enough in the ‘bow. There is a delicacy of touchin taking off the Church’s condemnation from “ penitent persons in e:ct7°emz's,” which is both instructive and amusing. SEO. No. 4 very considerably tones down the affair, and makes the ecclesiastical punishment of divorced parties a very problematical one. SEC. No. 5 crowns the whole by making the punishment of what it deems moral crimes hinge upon the time of their commission, which, though applicable and commendable in statute law, can hardly be considered admissible in cases of infractions of ecclesiastical or moral law. - ————>—<o+—<~——————— THE CHICAGO SCRIMMAGE, _ For the past decade there have been two parties in the ﬁeld demanding the right of suffrage for women. They are ican Woman’s Suffrage Association. Th'e‘former hails from New York, the latter from Boston; the former, which is the elder, has done, and is doing, good service, under the leadership of Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony. The latter has convened, annually, cavorted, talked and amused itself, under no p_ai-ticular leadership, for it does not need any. i The G7“ctp7LZ'6«,SayS- that “ though -the National Association is’ ;the older, the American is the more spunky and spiteful of the two.” This is a cruel observation, and we reprint it for the animadversion of our readers. Although we hold the demand for political liberty by the National Woinan’s Suffrage Association to be only a ‘step- ping stone to the greater right of personal sovereignty asserted by the WEEKLY for all women, still wehonor those brave women who have enlisted for that war and mean to stand to their colors. We do not, however, believe that they will nationally obtain even that “ Sebastopol” until “ personal sovereignty,” the Malakoif whichcommands it, is captured, and thatais the reason why the VVEEKLY is so per- sistent in attacking the latter stronghold. We may be in error, but we cannot see much gain in investing slaves with the right of the franchise, nor can we deem much good would, r.es_,ulttherefrom, were woman, admitted to political liberty under our present social system. Under present .QirCE}1}Sta.nC§_S,, there are reasons’ why such admission might prore a loss, instead of a great and much-néede‘d gain; SEC. No. 2.—~It is vain for the Episcopal Church to aim to the National Woman's Suffrage Association and the Amer— A 3%.»- Nov. ‘Z, 1874. liVOODHUD_L. e cLAFL1n*s W‘El§:KL:Y”.: ~ ' ’11 : As to the dainty dames and doughty ehevaliersof the Boston clique, we never expected much good to grow out of their movement. We are, therefore, not disappointed at learning that M1's. Flynt has apparently captured it and used it for the purpose of advertising her goods. This seems a sorry termination for a party that opened its campaign by “ requesting,” for it could hardly be termed “ demanding,” the right of suffrage; but to those wl1o are within its pale it is a very natural one. The curiosity was, that it ever ‘ ‘ screwed its courage to the sticking place ” to ask for it at all! In the words of Hotspur, one wonders what could have moved “ such a dish of skimmed milk with so honor- able an ‘action 1” ,- ~ Of late it appears that there has been a battle royal be- tween the above two parties, and the New York Daily Graphic of October 19th thus describes the same under the heading of the BATTLE or THE AMAZONS. Some of the women who want to vote are just now show- ing their proﬁciency for the franchise by a ﬁght. There are two women suffrage organizations which hate each other heartily and are d iing their best to demolish each other, and if there is not a‘ funeral pretty soon it will notbe the fault of the fair ﬁghters on either side. The National Association is the older but the American is the more spunky and spiteful of the two. It is headed by Lucy Stone and her husband, backed by acoterie of suffragists whose headquarters are in Boston. This Stone-Blackwell party claim that they are the simon-pure variety, and it was through their efforts that the movement was rescued from the leprous hands of free lovers like Moulton and the Woodhull, Mrs. Stanton and Miss An- thony. Some Western member of the National Association responds that Moulton was never a member of the associa- tion, Mrs. Woodhull did not join it till after the Stone-Black- well secession, and that the free love questionhad not been raised at that time, Mrs. Woodhull had only two husbands livin_g and one of them has since died ; while one of the con- spicuous and honored and potted women on the platform of the other party had three husbands all living at one time, and another rejoiced in two. Mrs. Stanton was never a free lover and never had but one husband, and as for Miss An- thony she never had so much as one husband, though ‘_‘ if she had not been more particular than Mr. -Blackwell's wife She might have had at least one.” The ﬁrst President of this Stone-Blackwell party was Henry Ward Beecher, who just at the present time has the unenviable reputation of being the leading free lover in America, and he stands accused of living down to his free love doctrines much better than he has lived up to the other articles of his creed. This Western Amazon has rather too much muscle for her Eastern assailants, and has hurled her javelins with skillful hand into the weak places of their armor. She evidently knows all about it. It would seem that a party of which Beecher waspresident had better not accuse its rival. of free love proclivities. If the Blackwell woman and Stone man are discreet they will read Mrs. Hooker’s letter and ponder well what it meaneth before accusing anybody of free love. That letter explains a good deal. It is the key to more than one. situation. And considering what the American people have had to endure the past year from the supposed free love practices of their ﬁrst president, it would seem that the fewer stones the Stone-Blackwells throw the safer their glass house will be. . This war of the Amazons is petty and pitiable enough. But it shows the hopeless plight into which the old woman’s rights party is placed.. It is hopelessly compromised before the public. Some of its leaders are under a cloud and others have had their day and said their say, and the weary world waits to waive them a kindly farewell from public notice. The whole movement has degenerated into a petty personal quarrel, and nobody cares for the persons engaged in the quarrel. The agitation was well. It called public attention to the need of important legal, social and industrial reforms. It broke down old barriers and restrictions that the changes of society had made oppressive. But it was the outbirth of a sentimentalism that weakened it from the first and ﬁnally demoralized it altogether. Since the above was written both parties have called meet- C ings at Chicago. The ﬁrst was convened by Miss Anthony and met to discuss the old subject; the second, under the nameof “ The Woman’s Congress of Chicago,” we are told carefully eliminated the “ suffrage question ” from their list ofvsubjects, and consequently ought to secure (and has ob- tained) honorable mention from the press generally, and will doubtless receive the applause of all the conservative ele- ments in the country. Among the papers presented to it were the following: ' Miss Frances ‘Power Cobbe 011 “Finance;” on “Physical Education of Girls,” by Mrs. E. Doughty; on “Dress Re- form,” by Mrs. E. M. Steele; on “What Careers of Practical Science are Open to Woman,” by Miss Ellen N. Swallow, "of the Boston School of Technicology; on the “ Physical Train- ing of Girls,” two papers, by Mrs. Hastings and Miss Part- ridge; “How to Combine Intellectual Culture with House- hold Cares and Duties,” by Mrs. Perkins; “ The Value of the Natural Sciences in the Education of Women,” by Miss M. E. Murfeldt, of St. Louis. . But our readers will get a better knowledge of the work- ings of this curious reform movement from an extract from the debate on “dress reform,” which is given in the New York Daily Grapltic of Oct. 21. We omit part of the open- ing address of Mrs. Flynt, of Boston, which was long, and in -which she ably described the wares she had patented for the good of the community, somewhat after the style of another dealer in dry goods we have heard of, named John Gilpin, of whom the poet says : is That though on pleasure he was bent, He had a frugal mind,” But we pass the advertisement and give only the practical conclusion of the speech, which was a statement that though the speaker (Mrs. Flynt) weighed 200 pounds— Since she had left off corsets she could run up three ﬂights of stairs, mount .a step-ladder like a child, and was a thor- oughly healthy, agile, active woman, even a preceding in- ﬂammatory rheumatism having been wholly overcome.‘ Mrs. Livermorehere suggested that most short, fat women were much annoyed by a pufﬁness below the waist-line, which was not only ungraceful buttroublesome. Mrs. Flynt attributed it all to corsets and the ordinary style of dressing, and proved how in her easy-ﬁtting dress she could sit down . without drawing a. wrap around her to conceal her form. and did not require bunching overskirts for -a similar purpose. She said she had been asked by her customers :- “ But, Mrs. Flynt, what becomes of the linesof beauty?” and‘ then she described how. every fashionable woman" liked to go‘ in at the Waist-hue and puif out above and below it. She said she told these people that when women were tortured by their clothes she considered that all lines of beauty were gone. Then, amid much applause, she walked briskly up and down the platform to show how active she was with her 200 pounds of ﬂesh. and how easily all her garments ﬁtted. Therefore she would have nothing to do with corsets. Here Mrs. Liver- more arose and said she wished to ask Mrs. Flynt what she was to do when, after an enormous strain upon her system, she had come upon the platform with an all-gone feeling. There is not a woman living who doesn't know what that is. She was forced to assume corsets sometimes as a remedial agent.. She could not rest, with her Work to do, and she could not stand without this extraneous support. She seemed to have no stomach at all. Some lady suggested a little wine for the stomach’s sake. Mrs. Livermore replied that after fainting four times upon the platform one day, her physician had said that she must take wine and egg. She did so. The ﬁrst hour she felt very high and lofty. She could not talk fast or ﬂuently enough. Everything was at a very exalted attitude. At the end of that time’ the reaction came, and she not only wanted to die, but considered suicide at Christian duty. Corsets seemed to be her only help for the all-gone feeling. . Mrs. Flynt said that a little warm milk and water sweet- ened was her tonic, and she talked all day on that stimulant from eight in the morning till evening. Then Mrs. Dr. Blake arose (she whose shadow, it is said, the suffering soldiers used to kiss, and dubbed her the Cairo angel), and said that when such times came, it was Nature’s demand for rest for an over-taxed system. It might be necessary to prop a falling wall, but safety demanded that as speedily as possible the props should be removed and the wall rebuilt or repaired, and it was so with the corsets. They seemed to sustsin the falling system, but each time they were applied, even as -a remedial agent, they weakened the _muscles, and made it more difficult to repair the failing" strength. Nature’s protests must be attended to, or the one who failed to heed her warnings must suffer for his folly or necessity. Therefore one should mend the wall, not prop it. Do not pile one wrong upon another wrong, was her con- clusion. _ Here Mrs. Vibbard, of Massachussetts, spokeﬁand said that those who took off their corsets andsulfered with the all-gone feeling should make their husbands manipulate their bodies until they felt strong and a reaction took place. Some unkind member asked what those women were to do who had no husbands to rub them down, but her question was not answered. It was evident that ‘there was the rub. _We confess that we should have liked to have used the scissors on the" above extract and cut from it the - “ common- sense” speech of Mrs. Dr. Blake, which alone redeems it from being utterly ridiculous. In “making such assertion we do not, however, include the letter from Mrs. Jane Swiss- helm read at the close of the debates, which criticises the “ Flynt Reform,” and concludes as follows : Now, there can be no genuine dress-reform with low- necked dresses, and all attempts to support clothing on the shoulders, and leave thembare, must be failures until two and two cease to be four. Mrs. Flynt throws up her own arm to show that the joint is free, but we must not forget that she is a capital saleswoman, advertising her goods, and that her as- sertions do not change the laws of gravity. Another deﬁ- ciency in her underwear is that it does not dispose of the present trouble of doubling garments over the lower part of the body. Still another is the multiplying of button-holes, and altogether it seems to me to be quite inferior to the plans shown by Mrs. Dr. Salford Blake, who has no patent, and is simply working to make the world better than she found it. The real fact of the matter is that the question of the right of ‘woman to the “ suffrage ” has been fought and won. Although women do not vbte, every one knows that as per- sons, and as American citizens, both the Declaration of In- (‘dependence and the Constitution admit their claim to the right of suffrage, the former asserting that “ all just govern- ments rest upon such right,” and the latter demanding that members of the House of Represtatatives be elected by majorities of the “ people” in the several States. It now re- mains for the opponents of the demand to prove the negative by the exposition, from either of those great State papers, of an absolute law forbidding the political equality of woman and restricting the remarks quoted above to the male seX only. Until they do so the battle is virtually won, although knaves and tyrants may unjustly, illegally and unconsti- tutionally prevent its proper results. It is for these reasons that the suffrage question has not of late been treated of by the WEEKLY. It is for these reasons that we take no stock in what the New York G?/=ap7n'c terms the “Battle of the Amazons.” As for the Boston clique we think it has done well in retiring from the ﬁeld and engaging in more suitable‘ and less arduous undertakings. It will continue to do as it has done, via: amuse itself and in- jure no one by its prattling. As to the National Suﬁirage Association, that is, and always has been, honest, and means war against man.’s political injustice. One of its great lead- ers, Miss Anthony, may be justiﬁed in stopping there,tbut there are many in its ranks whoknow they ought to rise in their demands. To such we would say, come 11p higher, and for the love of justice, of honor and of humanity, join with "us in the great demand for i_ndividual sovereignty, the only permanent base upon which can be built any of the reforms now demanded by the human race. -.-—-«-————s»-6£+—-4-m-—..w. THE RIGHT WAY. . Workingmen in this country are the last people that ought tb complain of bad legislation or corrupt legislators. They have t

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