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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 05, no. 21 (April 26, 1873)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1964
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1873-04-26
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: » . \ 11; -- PROGRESS: FREE I UNTRAMMELED LIVESE VJRRREAKINGI WAY 0 FUTURE. GEN:,.:eATioliv‘s.e I Vol. V.——No. 21.-—-Whole No. 125. YORK, APRIL 26, 1878} V —v PRICE’ TEN CENTS. L: H LOANERRRANKI OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL ............. ..... ..... .. $500,000 Subject to increase to...,,_.'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS,‘advances on ‘SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. V » Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @"’ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR- RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. » DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOIINJ. CISCO & SON, ‘Bankers, No. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to check at sight. ' - Interest allowed on Currency Accounts atthe rate of Four per Cent. per annum, ...
Show more» . \ 11; -- PROGRESS: FREE I UNTRAMMELED LIVESE VJRRREAKINGI WAY 0 FUTURE. GEN:,.:eATioliv‘s.e I Vol. V.——No. 21.-—-Whole No. 125. YORK, APRIL 26, 1878} V —v PRICE’ TEN CENTS. L: H LOANERRRANKI OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL ............. ..... ..... .. $500,000 Subject to increase to...,,_.'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS,‘advances on ‘SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. V » Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @"’ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR- RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. » DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOIINJ. CISCO & SON, ‘Bankers, No. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to check at sight. ' - Interest allowed on Currency Accounts atthe rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ' I’ ’ ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent interest. , R Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. O , ' Collections made on all parts of the United States and Canadas. ' HARVEY FISK. A. S. HAITOH. OFFICE OF- RFISKI .& HATCH, BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 Nassau st., N. Y., @° Opposite II S. Sub-T2reas~ury. , We receive the accounts of Banks, Bank- ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest on balances. We make special arrangements for interest on deposits of speciﬁc sums for ﬁxed periods. We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. ' We buy and sell. at current rates, all classes of Government Securit.ies,,an,d the Bonds of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company ;Ja1s’o,‘ Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. We buy and’ sell,’ at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- sion, for cash. A 5 ' 4 Communications and rinquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful ‘attention. FISK ‘dd HATCH. A FIRST-CLASS. "AT A LOW PRICE. .—¢:- The undersigned offer for sale the First Mortgage Seven Per Cent. Gold Bonds of the Syracuse and _Che- nango Valley Railroad, at 95 and accrued interest. This road runs from the City of Syracuse to Smith’s Valley, where it unites with the New York Midland Railroad, thus connecting that city by a direct line of road with the metropolis. ' __ ' _ Its length is 42 miles, its cost about ,$42,000 per mile, and it is mortgaged for less than $12,000 per, mile; the balance of the funds required for its construction hav- ing been raised by subscription to the capital stock. The road approaches completion.‘ It traverses a populous and fertile district of the State, which in- sures it a paying business, and is under the control of gentlemen of high character and ability. Its bonds possess all the requisites of an inviting investment. They are amply secured by a mortgage for less than one-third the value of the property. They pay seven per cent. gold interest. and are oifered ﬁve per cent. below par. The undersigned conﬁdently recommend them to all class of investors. GEORGE OPDYKE & CO., No. 25 Nassau Street; In INVESTORS. To those who wish to REINVEST COUPONS OR DIVIDENDS, and those who wish to INCREASE THEIRJNCOME from means already invested in less proﬁtable securities, we recommend the Seven-Thirty Gold Bbnds of the Northern Paciﬁc .Rai1roadnCom- pany as well secured and unusually productive. The bonds are always convertible at Ten per cent. premium (1.10) into the Company’s Lands, at Market Prices. The rate of interest (seven'and three-‘tenths per cent. gold) is equal now to about 8 1-4 currency —-yielding an income more than one-third greater than U. S. 5-20.9. Gold Checks for the semi-annual in- terest on the Registered Bonds are to the post- .‘ oﬂice address of the 'owne,,r,‘d marketablestocks and bonds are received in ‘exchange for Northern Paciﬁcs ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. . -2 ‘JAY cofoxlsa A RANKING HOUSE or 32 Wall Street, N. Y. thedworld. _ 1 , ‘ Bills of Exchange on the Imperial ‘Bank of London, National Bank of Scotland, Provincial Bank of Ire- land and all their branches. Telegraphic Transfers of money on Europe, San Francisco and the West Indies. ' _ . . Deposit accounts received in either Currency 0‘ Coin, subject to Check at sight, which pass through the Clearing House as if drawn upon any city bank; interest allowed ‘on all daily balances; Certiﬁcates of. Deposit issued bearing interest at current rate; Notes and Drafts collected. State, City and Railroad’ Loans negot-iated. CLEWS, HABICHT 85 00., 11 Old Broad St.. London. BANKING & FINANCIAL. THE ST. JOSEPH DENVER CITY RAIL- ROAD COMPANY ’S FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS Are being absorbed by an _increasing demandfor them. Secured as they are by a iirst mortgage on the Road, Land Grant, Franchise and Equipments, combined in one mortgage, they command at . once a ready - market. , p _ . A Liberal. Sinkipg Fund provided in the Mortgage , Deed must advance the price upon the closing of the loan. Principal and interest payable inconn. Inter- est at eight (8) Per cent. Der annum. Payable semi- nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons. or Régis- tered. I v Price 97}; and accrued interest, inpcurrency, from I 'February 15, 1872. Maps, Circulars, Documents and information fur- nished. , p , . _ _ O Trustees, Farmers‘ Loan and Trust Company of New York. Ca-n now be had through the principal Banks and Bankers throughout thecountry, and from the under- signed who unhesitatinglyrecommend them. O0., Bankers, ‘ A No. 11 Wall Street, New York. AUGUST BELMONT as Co., at Bankers, 19 and 21 NASSAU STREET, Issue Letters of Credit to Travelers, available ‘mall parts of_the World through the V. V . _. MEssRs. DE ROTHSCHI. OLD" AND‘. THEIR CORRESPONDENTS. Also, make telegraphic transfers of money on Cali- toxnisnuronoandliauns . - A V Circular Notes and Letters of Credit for travelers ; C also Commercial Credits issued‘ available throughout annually, free of tax. Principal in thirty years. De-p -TOI.EDO,PEORIA HENRY CLEWS a, CO.,‘ A I I 7* 7 New York Security AND WARSAW RAILWAY, SECOND. MORTGAGE CON- VERTIBLE . 7 PER ' CENT. CURRENCY BONDS. INTEREST WRARRAN1-‘S PAYABLE OCTORER AND APRIL, ' PRINCIPAL 1886. block. By act of reorganization of the Company these bonds are convertible into the First Preferred Shares of the Company, which amounts to only 17,000 shares, and into the Consolidated Bonds (recently negotiated at A,msterdam),o,tf six millions of dollars, which cover the entire ‘line’; of 230 miles of completed road, to gether with all the rolling stock and real property, to the value of more than ten millions of dollars. The road crosses the entire State of Illinois and connect the mammoth iron bridges spanning the Missi s sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. The income of the road for the year will not suiiicient to pay interest on all the bonded indebtedness and dividend on the pro- ’l ferred shares. For terms apply to b A 0 CLARK, DODGE & CO., Corner Wall and William Streets. RAILROAD IRON, FO!R SALE A BY s. W. HOPKINS & CO, 71 BRoA.DWAY. We offer for sale $100,000 of the above bonds in _ NOTICE TO INVESTORS. "W ‘ CHICAGO AND CANADA SOUTHERN. 0 7 percent. Gold Bonds AT 90 AND ACCRUED INTEREST. COUPON AND‘ . REGISTERED. INTEREST PAYABLE IN GOLD. APRIL AND OCTOBER. We. now‘ oﬁer these -Bonds at the above VERYILOW price. THE CANADA SOUTHERN, or Eastern end of this line, ~whose.Bon,ds V:/ere so~g:apidl\y sold last sum- mer, ‘ I S I ‘ Is Now FINISHED, and will be opened for business inconnection with the TOLEDO AND WABASH and other Western Roads, at avery early day. The CHICAGO AND CANADA SOUTHERN, or Western end of this line, is now being rapidly built, and the Company expect it to be ﬁnished during the present year. J I , THIS GREAT TRUNK _ LINE, When, qompleted through, will be of immense advantage to the shipping interests of the Great West, being Level, Straight, and ‘ thirty-three miles Shorter than any other route. Hav- ing connections with all the lines running into Buffalo at the East and Chicago at the West, and under the management, of some of the most experienced rail- oad operators of the country, its success is rendered a. certainty, and its Bonds must be a safe and proﬁtable investment. ‘Itmakes the shortestiand best connec- tions going West, both at Toledo and Detroit, and is the only Seven Per Cent. Bond on any through Trunk line now oifered. Pamphlets "and all information by WINSLCW, LANIER & CO., Bankers, 27 Pine Street. : LEONARD, SHELDON & FOSTER, Bankers, 10 Wall Street. FIRST MORTGAGE 8 PER CENT. BONDS ' or THE 0 V MIIWVAUKEE AND NORTERN ‘ ‘ RAILWAY. . Coupon and registered; Interest June and December. DENOMINATIONS, 1,000s AND 500s. We offer these Bonds for sale at 90 and accrued in- terest, believing them to be a secure as well as aprofit- cable investment. Full particnlars furnished on appli- cat1on.‘*"’ VERMILYE & CO., Nos.I 16 and 18 Nassau Street. O GREENLEAF, NORRIS 8: CO., N o. 66 Exchange Place. WILLIAM H. SEWAEES TRAVELS-. The, , undersigned respectfully announce that they have now ready the order-book containing specimen- pages of the paper, printing, illustrations, engravings, and styles of binding of ' Governor SeWard’s Wonderful J ourney Around the World. f This deeply interesting work was completed at few days before the distinguished t7'avelle1r’s death, and the publishers will spare no pains to make it the most elegantly gotten-up book of traoel ever ,’p?,lb,l’lS7Led§-THE ENeiiAvnNes ALONE COSTING ABOUT $15,000. It is sold only by subscription, and a duly-authorized agent will call for the purpose of giving all an oppor- tunityto subscribe. , “ No copies will be ,sold»f1?omou7' store at any pmce. Nearly 300 Engravings. ‘ D. APPLETON & co., _ \ V , , *Pub.llIs:h,ers;_. 51’-4.9 & 551 BROADWAY, New York. S MRS. C. A. DELAFOLIE, , 60.7.I— Hudson Street, New York, 0 _ Medical and Business clairvoyant. Well known forLhei9.eorrect:dlag‘1i0sis_bf disease and ‘ slellneatlon of character- iversiiiistt A SAFETY, SPEED AND COMFORT. K‘ , NORWICH LINE. ’ ‘ For Boston, Worcester-, Fitcliburg, Groton Junction, Lowell, Lawrence, Nashua, Manchester, Concord, Pal- mer, Brattlcboro, and intersecting points. The new and staunch steamers CITY OF BOSTON, . ; A’ I CITY OF NEW YORK, I, :,.;; , ~ CITY or LAWRENCE'}aiid.' j: ’ 5 1’ , 1,, CITY I OF NORWICH Wil1[1eave—. New York daily (Sundays excepted) at 4 o’clock p. m.,‘from Pier No. 40,‘ North River, foot of Canaland Watts streets. ‘ = ' . ‘ ,0 - For ‘New--IJoiidon,~'\‘and Norwich, their connecting with Express trains for the above points, via Vermont Central. Norwich and Worcester, and _,Boston, Hart- ford Erie”Railroads. I _~. ' _ I C . For througligtickets and rates for freight, apply at the oﬂice, P e1‘ 40, North River.’ ' ' 2:: W.’--F. PARKER, Agent. New Yor ‘, une 7, 1872. v ‘N Estes.-any fort Feinales. A powerful and healthy Magnetizer, who has cured many female complaints by the use of. magnetized paper, willsend the same to an address for 25 cents per sheet, with directions for its use. Address Box 80, Lynn, Mass. ' ' , , Dr. JOSEPH TREAT, " ‘ ' *4 Of Vineland, N. J ., gives THREE LECTURES:' HENRY WARD BEECHER, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, VICTORIA C._wooDiiULI., Risk of Hall and expenses taken, and 25 cents charged for each Lecture-. * Henry Ward Beecher illustrated by twice life-size portrait. Address, care of Weodliull & Claﬂin, 48 Broad st., N. Y., or of J. P. Menduni, 84 Washington st., Boston, Mass., or of J . A. Lant, Editor of the Sun, Toledo, 0. A , LECTUREs RY A Edward II. G. Clark, Of Troy, N. Y. ‘ 1. FISK; OR, THE CRIMES OF OUR COMMERCE. (New Lecture for 1872-3.) 2. THE AMERICAN LECTURE-STAND. 3. OUR COMING REPUBLIC. (Lecture in progress.) TERMS FROM $40 TO $80. .—.._—.. NEWSPAPER NOTICES. Mr. Clark's “AInerican_.,Lecture-stand ” is not only thoughtful and scholarly, but it is popular and enter- taining. He delivers it without reference to his man- uscript, in a clear, pleasant voice, with easy, graceful gestures; An ardent admirer of Phillips and Curtis, his matter and manner constantly suggest these great masters. No ﬁner lecture than the “American Lec- ture-stand” has been delivered in'Alb'any this season, and we heartily commend its author to the lyceums of the country as a speaker. who will not disappoint great expectations.——Albany Journal. I‘ “The American Lecture stand” gave the best of satisfaction. Mr. Clark is a pleasant and attractive speaker, and will always begwarmly welcomed upon the platform in Albany.—Albang/ A1"gus‘.i One of the best lectures given in-Albany this winter. -—Albany Express. * . Undoubtedly one of the ablest productions that have recently been offered to lecture-goers anywhere in this co1mtry.—T1'0y l'Wn'g. lectui-ers.—— Troy Press. , , It certainly meets the requirements of the lecture- going public to as great a degree as any similar effort tpat we remember.—I£ochesler Democrat and 0hront- c e. We are compelled to say it is one of the most inter- esting, instructive and entertaining productions that have recently fallen under our notice.—Bu_17”al0,E;r- press. ’ the verdict of all who 1istened.—Benm'ngton- Free Press._ ‘ V ' Many declare it to be the best: lecture of the course. —Be‘nnéngton Banner. ‘ “ - V Mr. E. H. G. Clark’s lecture is considered the ‘best of the‘ course, except, perhaps,..Carl Schurz‘s.~.Bm. mlngton Uowesjoondent of the fray Press. ‘ ' season.—;S'chuyle7*vllle News. WENDELL PHILLIPS 0N “FISK; OR, THE . CRIMES OF OUR~COM‘M-ERCE." Dear I/"7"lend—~Your lecture on Fisk is happily named and thoroughly,treated._ It was a rare treat to listen to it. You will surely interest your audiences. What better subj ect, could as speaker I -hav.e_.fo.r+ the lyceum than this startling scene and appalling conspiracy which we ‘call your ,“RingsI?»” All’-‘ Europe hangs ‘ breathless over that drama. It is the culminationof all Tocqueville feared forIus.I, To Americans the sub- ject is one of grave—even painful interest. You have treated‘ it skillfully’: made a sketch at once terse and full, rapid, masterly andI.eifective.; sure .to command a profounder interest than themost ,se_nsational_to ic. While it is,ful1:_of suggestionrjor: the thoughttul, it« is brilliant and striking enough to charm the most indif- ferent audience. It will do much to keep the lyceum where it belongs—iustruction and education, as Well as interest and amusement.‘ , > Yours, . 5 I ‘WENDELL PHILLIPS._ EDWARD H. G. CLARK, Troy, N. Y. I Jlosi-IUA‘iir"I~.’lHoI;'I*, ., I. . ,Manu_factu_re_r and Proprietor. , . I Dr. -Hoyt’s Magma Plain; cure, V Ilolt’ s T-Ionic. a. MILFO1t1273l'N’:1*»’lI.*r:v*"”"" “- ~ If necessary the cream of the three rendered in one ‘ " Itlifts Mr. Clark at onceto the ﬁrst rank Iof public 'Un'questionably the best lecture we ever ‘heard, is RIE RAILWAY.~W1nteI' Arrangement of Trains to take effect January 20, 1873., From Chambers-street Depot (for Twenty-third street see note below). I . 9 a. n1;~—Cincinnati and Chicago Day Express. Drawing-room Coaches to Buﬂalo and Sleeping Coaches to destination. 11 a. _in.-—Express~ Mail for Buﬁalo and Niagara Falls. Drawing-room Coaches to Susquehanna and Sleeping Coaches to destination: ress. Sleeping Coaches through to Buffalo, Niagara change. Additional Trains leave for- Port J ervie, 8, 9,411 andj‘11.15 a. m., 4.30 and 7 p. in. Goshen and Middletdwn, *7.30, 3, +8.30, 11 and *11.- 15 a. m., 3230, 4.30 aT"ﬁ'd-"i*+7 p. III. I , Warwick, 8, 11 and *11.15 a. m.,_and 4.30 p.Im. Newburgh, +8.30, 9 and 11 a. m.,, 3.30 and 4.30 p. m. Suffern, +7.30, 8, +8.30, 11 and +11;:15 at. m., 3.30, 5, 6, +6.30, *7 and *11.30 p. In. ‘ '- ‘Rid ewood, Hohokus, Allendale and Ramsey’s, +7.- 30, 8, 8.30, 11, *11.15 a. m., 3.30, 5, 6, +6.30, 7 and *11.- 30 p. ‘m. _ I . _ Paterson, 6.45, +7.30, 8, +8.30, 10, 11, *11.15 a. m., 12 p. m. . . *6.30 p. . Rutherfurd Park and Passaic, 6.45, *7.30, +8.30, 10, 1;1t.18.,mm., 12 noon, *1.45, 3.30, 4, 5.15, 6, *6.30,.8, 10 and . V p. m. . Hillsdale, Hackensack and Way, , 8.15 and +8.45 a. m., 1, 3,‘ 4, 5 and 6 p. m-., and 12 Mid. Spring Valley and Way, 5, 8.15, and +8,45 a. m., 1, 4 and 5 p. m., and +12 Mid. Englewood, 5, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.15, 4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and *7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid. Cresskill, 5, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.15, 5.30, 6.30 and *7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid. Sparkill, 5 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.15, 4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and +7.45 p..m., and +12 Mid. Piermont and Nyack, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.45, 5.30,'6.30 and +7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid. N. B.-—Trains leaving Chambers street on even or half hours, leave Twenty-thi1'd street 15 niinutc-1' earlier . than_above time. __ The 5 a. m., 10 and 11.30 p. m., and 12 Mid. Trains start from Chambers street only. leaving Chambers street on quarter hours, leave ’tI.‘wenty-third street 30 minutes earlier than above ime. , , ,_ Tickets for passage and for apartments in Drawing- room and Sleeping Coaches can be obtained, and orders for the checking and transfer of Baggage may be left at the Company’s o1i_'nces—-241, 529, and 957 Broadway; corner One Hundred and Twenty-ﬁfth street and Third avenue: 2 Court street, Brooklyn: at the Company’s Depots, and of Agents at the principal hotels. * Daily. + Sundays only. *1: Goshen, Sundays only. JNO. N. ABBOTT, General Passenger Agent. JAMlP_‘.SON’_S BOOK! “ THE CLERGY‘ A SOURCE OF DANGER TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.” eon IN THE CONSTITUTION. INFAMY. Full Expose—S’econd Edézfion Just Published, A Volume of 331 Pages. One of the most startling books ever issued from the press. Price, bound in muslin, postage paid, $1.75. Books furnished at Reduced Rates on the Club Plan. CLUB RATES : Three Copies, expressage or postage paid, . . $4 50 Six " “ “ “ . . . 8 50 Ten “ “ “ “ . . . 12 50 Parlor Edition, gilt,i2O cents per vol. extra. AGENCIES. Terms made known on application. Monroe street,'Chicago, Ill. I WHAT THE PRESS SA Y5’ .' . We consider Mr. Jamieson as having done a most useful and needed work in publishing this book. It ought to be read by every one who takes the least in- of the allied questions. It is’ crammed with informa- tion of all kinds bearing on the general issues; and every page bums with intense eameslness.——Free Reli- , _ , . glous Index, Nov. 16, 1872. Not one of the best, but the very best lecture or the A meaty volume, a, remarkable book, Mr. J amieson is singularly calculated to .open'inen’s, eyes and do their souls permanent good.——Banne7' of LZ_(/ht, Oct. 12, o Interesting, valuable and timely. It abounds with important facts. No more important volume has been issued from the press f or many, yed7's.—Boston Investe- gator, Oct. 2, 1872. THE‘ RELIGIOUS PRESSIS SILENT! SIGNIFI- CANT! THE LIBERAL PRESS ISOREJOICING. DR. AMMI BROWN, .3DeI1Itist, , Reinoved to 20 East Twenty-fourtli Street, Near Madison Square. . _., .;. lIXSLAM’S PILE REMEDIES-THE ’ _ : most practical and reliable inforI_na- :_ ,» " gtion in_.,i‘-_e yard to the preventlon and « I I - - "cure of iles is to be found in HAS- ,LM’S TREATISE, just published. It will pay you to get a copy, whether you use our remedies or not. fgitrlybe obtained, free, by addressing FRED. HASLAM ; 0., 37 Park Row, New York. 71;. m. (Daily).-—Cincinnati and Chicago Night Ex-, alls, Cinciiinati, Detroit and Chicago, withoiit-2,’;-_ noon, *1.45, 3.30, 4, 5, 5.15, 6, *6.30, *7, 8, 10 and *1l.30 . Newark, 7.15, *8.45 and 11.30 a. m., and 3.45, 5.15 and V In. N. B.—Trains on the N. R. R. and Newark Branch ' Address all orders, to W. F. JAM1EsoN, 13 and 141‘ teres-t in .the.Christian Amendment .movement, or . any . writes with earnestness and fervor. We commend the " book to the widest possible perusal, believing that it V . , ,,,_ “Kr . HE NATIONAL LINE OF STEAM- SHIPS. ‘ Weekly to Queenstown and Liverpool. Fortnightly to and from London direct. From Piers 44 and 47, North River. To Queenstown and Liverpool: “ Canada,” Webster, Wednesday, Feb. 5,Iat 10 a. in. “ Greece," Thomas, Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 3 p. in. “Egypt,” Grogan,‘ Wednesday, I eb. 19, at 9 a._ m. ~ To London direct: - _ “Helvctia,” Griggs, Tuesday, Jan. 23,1 at 3 p, m. "THESE STEAMSHIPS‘ ARE THE LARG~ EST IN THE TRADE. ‘Cabin Passage. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . $75 and $65, currency. Steerage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “$29, currency. Prepaid Steerage tickets from Liverpool, Queens- town, Londonderry, Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol, or Lon- don, OHEAPER THAN BY ANY OUHER LINE. For further information apply at the Company’s Oiiice, No. 69 Broadway. F. W. J. HURST, Manager. . ~-. HITE STAR LINE. ~ - » For Queenstown and Liverpool, I / Carrying the I UNITED STATES MAIL. New and full—powered steamships. Sailing from New York on Saturday, from Liver- pool on Thursday, calling at Cork Harbor each way Adriatic, Saturday, February 1, 3.00 p. In. Oceanic, Saturday, February 8, at 3.00 p. In. Baltic, Saturday, February 15, at 3.00 p. in. Celtic, Saturday, February 22, at 1.00 p. in. Atlantic, Saturday, March 1, at 3.00 p. in. From the White Star lgotck, Pavonia, Ferry, Jersey I 1 y. Passenger accommodations (for all classes) unrivaled, combining Safety, Speed, and Comfort. Saloons, state-rooms, smoking room, and bath rooms inmidship section, where least motion is felt. Sur- geons and stewardcsses accompany these steamers. Rates—Saloon $80, gold. (For sailingafter 1st of April, $100 gold.) Steerage, $30, currency. Those wishin to_ send for friends from the Old Country can now, 0 tam steerage prepaid certiﬁcates, $30, cur- ‘rency. - Passengers booked to or from all parts of America, Paris, Hamburg, Norway, Sweden, India, Australia, China, &c.‘ . ‘ Drafts from £1 upward. For inspection of" plans and other information, apply at the Company’s oiiices, No. 10Broadway, New York. J . H. SPARKS, Agent. NITED STATES, NEW-ZEALAND 86 AUSTRALIAN MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE. ——’1‘he steainsh' s of this line are appointed to sail from San Francisco for NEW-ZEALAND and AUS- TRALIA, via I-lonoluln, upon MAY 22, 1 SEPT. 1I1, JUNE 19, OCT. 9, _ JULY 17, NOV. 6, AUG. 14, ' DEC. 4, at Noon. For freight and passage, apply to W. H. WEBB. 53 Exchange Place. New York. NLY DIRECT LINE T0 FRANCE. THE GENERAL TRANSATLANTIC COM- PANY’S MAIL STEAMSHIPS BETWEEN NEW YORK AND HAVRE, CALLING AT BREST. The splennid vessels on this favorite. route for the Continent will sail from Pier No. 50, North River, as follows: . “Ville de Paris,” Surmont Saturday, January 28. “Washington,” Roussan, aturday, February 8. “St. Laurent,” Lemarie, Saturday, February 22.- “Pereire,” Danre, Saturday, March 8. Price of passage in goﬁl (including wine) to Brest or avre: First Cabin ....... ..$125 I Second Cabin . . . . . . ..$75. EXCURSION TICKETS AT REDUCED RATES. These steamers do not carry steerage passengers. American travelers oing, to or returning from the Continent of Europe, y taking ‘the steainers of this comforts of crossing the Channel, besides saving time trouble and expense. ‘ ’ GEO. MACKENZIE, Agent, No. 58 Broadway. C. J. OSBOBN. ADDISON CAMMACK. [ OSBORN I 1&1’ CAMMACK, Bankers, No. 34 ERCAD, STREET, STOCKS, STATE BONDS, GOLD AND FED- ERAL SECURITIES, bought and sold on Com- mission. — r DR. S C. s. WEEKS, 1 Dentist, N0. 412 FOURTH AVE, ' Between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets, NEW YORK. .—sau._. TEETH EXTRA OTED 'WITIIO UT PAIJV, by the use of Chemically pure Nitrous Oxide or Laugh- ing Gas. Dr. W. has used it several years, extractinlg teeth for thousands with complete success, anﬂ wit no bad effects in any instance. All operations pertain- ing to Dentistry performed in the most careful and thorough manner at reasonable price. sAM’L BARTON. HENRY ALLEN. ,BART0N_ & ALLEN. Bankers and Brokers, ‘No. 40 BROAD STREET, Stocks, Bonds and Gold bought and sold on com-- mission. _ < NEW YORK" I SAVINGS BANK, 1 Cor. Fourteenth St., SIX PER CENT. INTEREST I mowed. 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Claﬂin . . . . . . . . 2 50 The Principles of Social Freedom. . . . . p. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 25 The Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 “If an offense come out of truth, better is it that the offense come. than that the Truth be concea1ed.”—Jerome. ‘ .———4 INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE. THE I. w. A. , MEETING or THE FEDERAL COUNCIL. On Sunday, the 13th inst., the regular weekly meeting of the Council was held at 129 Spring street, Citizen Madox, Chairman, and Citizen ‘West, Secretary pro tem. The minutes of the meeting of April 6 were read aud ap- proved. Reports from sections being in orderythe General Corres- ponding Secretary reported that he had received from See. 26, Phil., Pa., a brief address, as follows: To THE J URRASIENNE FEDERATION: Brothers——We duly received your circular, addressed to the various Federal Councils of the I. W. A. through the Secre- tary of our Federal Councils of the American. Federation. It is with pleasure that we learn that our brave broth.ers, the workers of Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Eng- land, Portugal, etc., concur in the resolutions adopted by the Congress of St. Imier. We rejoice at this almost universal acceptance ofthe pact of_ federation between regions and nations, and also on the triumph of the principle of auton- omy, which is the safeguard of liberty and the destruction of centralized power. We must not permit a few to establish a despotism in the name of liberty. Let us, then, communicate freely our thoughts upon the means to be employed for the emancipation of the workers of the world, socially, economically and po1itically——that , solidarity which binds all nations together, and makes our in- terests and salvation identical with yours. of solidarity, the Committee for See. 26, J. MILLS, Secretary. The above address was approved. It was reported that the so called General Council, appointed by the I-IagueiCongress, had excomnunicated their constituents for repudiating the action of the Congress, and the “ Bull” of excommunication as published in the International IIerdld of March 29, was read to the Council, but it merely elicited a smile and was unanimously laid upon thetable. . Citizen West reported that the regular weekly meetings of Section 12 had been resumed, and would be continued. Citizen Hubert reported that he had received a letter from Sutton S. Clover, Paola, Kansas, asking for instructions how to proceed in forming a section. The Secretary was duly authorized to furnish the requisite information. Citizen Carsey offered the following resolution: Whereas, the employers of labor have organized for the pur- pose of ﬂooding the‘ country with pauper labor from Europe and Asia to the injury of the labor movement, without cor- responding beneﬁt to the laborers thus imported; there- fore be it I — Resolved, That our Secretary be instructed to notify the several European councils, and request them to use their utmost endeavors to frustrate this scheme of capitalistic monopolists. The resolution elicited much discussion, in which nearly every member of the Council present participated; some of the members saying that the immigration or importation of foreign laborers could not be prevented, and that even if it could be, it is not desirable, since all the evils resulting could be avoided by proper governmental agency in the em- ployment of labor and the distribution of its products as proposed by the Association; and others asserting that until the Government should thus take the initiative, some ame- liorative action wasindispensable and would react beneﬁ- cially upon the working classes. of Europe and America. But ﬁnally the resolution was referred to a committee consisting of Citizens Wes.t,'.Hubert and Carsey, who were instructed to execute. its provisions. With greetings I Citizen Carsey offered the following resolution: Whereas, President ‘Grant, in his inaugural message,‘ fully recognized the principle of one government for allpeoples speaking the same language, and further recommended the substitution of the "State for private individuals in the management of railroads, telegraphs and other means of transportation and communication; therefore, the thanks of this council are due, and arezhereby tendered to President. Grant for thus lending the inﬂuence of his great name and position to further the objects of our Association. ’ . The resolution wag approved and referred to the same com- mittee to which had‘ been referred the;resglut,io.n relating to the emigration or importation of foreign laborers. . ‘Citizen Percival offered the following preamble and reso-‘ lutious : Whereas, By the action of the Government in requiring the payment of custom dues in gold the price of the paper dollar is depreciated, which amounts to an act of partial re- pudiation, and is therefore detrimental to the interests of this coiintry in its exchanges with foreign nations as well as in its home trade. And whereas, by the protection granted to certain productions of this country and the exemption of that of gold, together with the fact that though a paper (1.01- ' _ lar is a promise to pay on the credit of the State, it is practi- cally irredeemable, gold is artiﬁcially lessened in value and actually driven from the country, so that money, which, so to speak, is the oil of commerce or the medium for increasing the rapidity and proﬁt of exchanges and the only use of which is in its circulation, becomes reduced to such a small amount that at the periods of the year when most in demand it rises to a ﬁctitious value, which only helps to enrich the monopolist of capital, encourages a spirit of gambling, and, by fettering the healthy action of trade, reacts unfavorably on the working-classes. Therefore, protesting againstthis pernicious state of ﬁnan- cial suicide, it is Resolved, That we use such means as lie in our power to ventilate this question and agitate for the present to secure a change in payment of certain dues from gold into the paper dollar. Laid over till the next meeting. Citizen Herbert offeredjthe following form of a petition to the city authorities: We, the undersigned, hereby petition the ‘authorities of New York city to buy the gas-works of this city from the present owners, so as to supply the people with gas at cost. The above form of petition was adopted, and Citizen West instructed to have it printed and put in circulation. V A committee appointed at a previous meeting announced‘ that they had issued the following call for a public meeting .to enforce the eight-hour law :, To the Ojﬁcers and Jlfembers of the various Trades 0rgam'za— twlorts in the City and State of New York: You are hereby requested to send two delegates to a Con- vention to be held at Germania Assembly Rooms, Bowery, on Tuesday evening, April 22, 1873, at eight o’clock, having in view the testing and enforcement of. the Eight—hour law in this State. - I 1. The providing of ways and means for theprosecution of all violations of the Eight—hour law in this State. : 2. The framing and laying before the present ‘Legislature a bill providing for the enforcement of the Eight-hour law. Trusting that you will recognize the importance ofholding said convention by sending your delegates, clothing them with power to co-operate both morally and materially, We remain, yours, etc., C. Osborne Ward, George Blair, W. A. Carsey, Hugh McGreggor, John Halbert, T. J. Kingett, G. W. Madox, Committee. By order of Federal Council. All communications may be addressed to . I GEO. BLAIR, Sec. of Committee, 286 Spring street, N. Y. city. Citizen Madox offered the following: Resolved, That a committee from the I. W. A. to co—oper- ate with all other organizations whose objects are the politi- cal, social and humanitarian enfranchisement of the people, be appointed to call a convention on the 4th day of July next to meet in this city for the purpose of organization and the presentation of a platform for political action. ' Citizens Ward, Kingett and Carsey were appointed‘ such committee. ~ ‘ ~ V » Citizen Ward declined to serve, and Citizen ‘West was sub- stituted. ‘ Adjourned. WM. Wrzsr, Secretary pro tem. .__....._..... SCRAPS IN THE STREET AND OFFICE. Said the workman to his landlord: I tell you, said the worker, that this question of labor and capital is brought face to face, and within the next twelve months one or the other must go under, and God pity the rich man when he pits himself against the working-man. Now, said the land- lord, you are a good fellow, and generally sensible, but when you talk about blood and war between labor and capital you don't know what you are saying, and I advise you to hold your tongue and people won’t know you are a fool. Fool, saidthe worker, it is you who is the fool. Why, Billy Se-- ward said, and sent it to the European Government when the rebellion broke out, that it was only a political quarrel and would be settled in three months. I then said Seward was a fool and did not know what: he was saying; that the war could not close till slavery was abolished, and they wanted to hang me on the same rope,they would hanga copperhead. Sir, you are in Seward’s shoes today. This question can be settled only on the principle of justice even if it comes through the cartridge box and ﬁre. Why, says the landlord, the laborer has all he asks for now, eight hours and work if he wants it; but the lazy ones want to divide up the property of the rich, and how»-long would they keep it? in two weeks it would all change hands again—-they would drink it and squander it in Baxter street. Said the worker, it isn’t Baxter street that is agitating this question; you have made Baxter street what it is——born‘a class of thieves in that and nothing else. Baxter street is only the extreme of Wall street, Congress and_the Legis- lature; they are all thieves and nothing else-_’—public pau- pers, beggars er thieves—-made so by your system of G overn- ment. -It is ' themiddle ,classes———the, workillg. classes, the makes iti;ne,cVes;sary tojrob bylaws from the producing class .to.support‘the_se thieves at the vextreme of sagacity, both in Baxter street au¢fFifth avenue. You oan’t always keep the producing classesywho ﬁnd faultéwithp the system which producing class content in giving three-ﬁfths of all they produce to three-tenths of idlers, beggars and thieves. No, sir; these idlers, beggars and thieves, have got to go under before the march of the producing classes——the laborers. COMMUNISM-—THE WAY IT WORKED, AND WHAT IT LED TO4——AR'-I‘ICLE XI. , Inﬁnite diversity instead of “unity” is inevitable,’ espe- cially in the progressive or transitionary stage. Then why not leave every one to regulate his own movements, within. equitable limits, provided we can ﬁnd out-what equity is, and leave the rest to the universal instinct of self-preserva. tion? But what constitutes equity is the greatest question of all. It is the “ unknown quantity” that even algebra has failed to furnish! One thing may be depended on. If all our Wants are supplied that is all we want. Could we not supply each other’s wants without “entangling” ourselves in Communism, and thereby involving ourselves in,intermi— nable conﬂicts and fruitless legislation? Could we not have a central point in each neighborhood where all wants might be made known, and where those wanting employment or who might have anything to dispose of could also make it known, and thus bring the demand and the supply together and adopt the one to the other? But on what principle could we exchange, so that each, and every one could getas much as he gave? Here the idea of labor for labor (ﬁrs-t broached in Europe) presented itself; but hour for hour, in all pursuits, did not seem to promise the equilibrium re- quired, because starved, ragged, insulted and suffering labor would be shunned even more than it is now by every one who could avoid it; and the more respected and more agree- able pursuits would be overcrowded, and conflict between all would continue, and the demand and supply would be thrown out of balance; but as no one would be bound to follow any theory any farther than it best suited him, every one could make any exceptions to the rule that he might/ choose to make. p Estimating the price of everything by the labor there is in it, promised to abolish all speculations on land on clothing, food, fuel, knowledge—on every thing——to convertgtimeinto capital, thereby abolishing the distinctions of rich and poor: to reduce the amount of necessary labor to two or three hours per day, where no one would desire to avoid his share of useful employment. The motive of some to force others to bear their burthens would not exist, and slaveries of all kinds would naturally become extinct. PRINCETON, Mass. J. WARREN, WASHINGTON CITY, D. 0., April 8, 1873.‘ ,WO0DHULL 85 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY: I want to say a. few words through your paper to the work- V ingmen of New York City. If they contemplate striking this year let them turn their families over to the care of the United States Government forthwith, and upon it throw the onus of their support. I think it is absolutely useless to attempt a movement unless some such plan is adopted. Two things would be secured by such a step. In the ﬁx-st place, the desperate resort would show the world that work- ingmen were terribly in earnest; and in the second place, it would bring this fact square into the faces of the American " public. The spectacle of twenty or thirty thousand famﬂies marching over to Fort ‘Hamilton and placing themselves upon the Government would send a thrill of horror through the nation. What could the authorities do but receive them? For my part I deem life in a penitentiary preferable to toiling year in and year out for bread onough to keep the soul and body together. ' Suppose the law does send‘ the hundred thousand’working- ‘ men to prison;iwhat of it? who is the greater loser, the people or the captors? Suppose our families should be obliged to go without food for several days. That would be no new thing! i Think over these matters, men and brethren! S. W. DAVIS. vex PoruLI, vox DEI. HOPE FOR THE PEOPLE. Dear Victoria, Termle and Colonel—-My soul gave 1-,hm,ks . on reading Mr. J oslyn’s letter of acceptance of the Pregi_ dency of the Free Love League. I hope Massachusetts will not bear off the palm in advance of all other States. Why cannot New York have a Free Love League also, with . ag eﬁicient, true men and women as leaders; and, in fact, all the States and towns in the country? People are ready. Is it not time people lived to the inotto: - “ Be what you seem to be, and seem to be what you really are? ” This is what I was trained to, and as I have taken a rebound from Shakerism over to Free Love, I hoist my ﬂag and am true to the motto I have lived by :»“Be what you seem .to be, and seem to be what you really are.” Do not mistake Free Lovers. They are the most fastidious and particular people in the world, and never enter into the sexual relation unless soul meets soul, the man hoping to be more a man and the woman more of a. woman for it. What has passed for virtue in the past will be considered vice in the future, and much that has passed for vice will be considered virtue by intelligent, thinking men and women. S. SHERMAN_ . ’ , GAHANNA. 0.. ‘April z, 1873. Mr‘s. I/Voodhull-—For years I have lamented the sad condi- tion of our race, and have dreaded some of the disasters that must follow as the results of violated law, and have prayed from the depths of my mother soul that some saviour might comejforth and help mankind to rise above the wretched vitiating. tendencies of our age. I ' Those whom we recognize as “ our great minds,” showed . unmistakable evidence of moral weakness; and in the face of a move so stupendous as the overturning of the old fester. mg Sﬁfiial S3’-Stem; aild laying the foundation for a new and I more healthy one. who could prove sufficient for the task: 4 WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. April 26, 1873. \ But, dear Victoria, when I see you rising from the ranks that have suffered most, animated by zeal that nothing short of a painful knowledge of the needs of humanity could en- gender; and felt that the angel world is directing, inspiring and nerving you for every emergency, I took new courage. The prayer of millions, is answered—that great and equal freedom is to be enjoyed by our sons and daughters, and that purity is to ﬂow from freedom, itsown legitimate source. Yours truly, x CARRIE E. MooRE. BRICKSBURGH, February 6, 1873. MRs. VIoToRIA C. WOQDHULL: ’ Maclam—I have watched with considerable anxiety the progress of events since you issued your issue of November 2 date. Whietheriyou will be equal to meet and overcome the formidable opposition arrayed against you remains to be seen. - . I That the cause you have espoused is founded in justice, ‘and is proven by reason and maintained by Scripture will not save you from violence any more than it did Stephen the martyr of Scripture memory. Your opponents are joined to their idols (Idols) and wish to be let alone. I -make no doubt that we may upon some points differ, but in so far as you have shown yourself I the‘ champion of the rights of the down—trodden and suffering I am with you heart and h_and. ' 2 4 I I hope there may be nothing to‘impede the progress of your mission that will prove insurmountable; yet I am anxious for your ‘safety, for there are womenas well as men who ‘would stone you to death, and thereby think they were do—, ing God’s service. They persistently maintain that the WEEKLY advocates promiscuity, prostitution; that you at- tack people high in society who are pure in heart, with false- hood; that you are attempting to beat out the props that hold together society so there shall be no safety for the pure and good, that nobody’s character is safe from venomous shafts, therefore society demands your decapitation. In a word, you are in danger of having your face "set as if for the “ peni- - itentiary. ” Perhaps you don’t think as we do, but if your case goes be- fore a jury, our opinion is you are lost. A jury in your case ‘ will be what is called “packed.” Twelve thousand dollars can easily be raised for such a purpose and even double that if necessary. Inasmuch as you have attacked, or rather chosen high _ ground for puriﬁcation, the giants of wealth, who know they stand upon a slippery foundation, are ready to go all lengths to suppress your paperand thereby save themselves from ex- posure. V n The light has come into the world, and these men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. We , say: “Set high your light, even to the summit of Mount Zion.” “ Blow ye the trumpet in Zion ; sound an alarm in thy holy mountain.” “ You have put your hand to the plow; don’t look back.” . What is obloquy, persecution, prison-bars to the world compared with truth.‘ You have revealed truthto my cer- tain knowledge. If to illustrate your positions your category of ills become exhausted, we can help you to a budget that is truly wonderful, and together accompanied by at least two or three witnesses that cannot be gainsaid. . The truth is mighty and will prevail. If your face is set as if you were going to the penitentiary instead of Jeru- salem, don’t turn back. When your mouth is shut, your hands tied, your liberty lost and you are cruciﬁed, we can ' take a little turn in your line of business although we have no hankering aftercmartyrdom. _ , Why not? Investigation is only a terror to evil-doers. Let me tell you, these sins I arecovered up by sanctimoni- ousness, and high places shall and will be brought to light if necessary. Un.til that is done, rooted out, so that they shall not be pointed out as examples, “ there is no harm to fol- low ;” our work will be like Tupper’s dog, tracking vermin instead of game. -By this we mean that we shall attain no permanent footing worth speaking of. , Yours, etc., JUNIUSa JR- THE RIGHT SORT OF SYMPATHY; OR, THE RE- SULT OF A SINGLE DAY’S WORK. EAsT MIDDLEBROOK, Vermont, April 5, 1873. Dear Mrs. TVooclhull and S'lster——l;resolvedisome time ago- , knowing there was only one copy of your paper coming to .1 this post-oﬁice-—to'devote my ﬁrst leisure day to obtaining subscribers to the WEEKLY, and inclosed please‘ ﬁnd a list of twelve names. I wish the list was much larger, for I_ believe in the theories ‘you advocate; and I think the great masses only need to be enlightened to indorse your views, and'sustain you against such cowardly persecution as you have been subjected to.~ I have felt from the ﬁrst that you were right, and sometimes it has seemed as though I must write and say so to you,and‘then I thought ‘I would . try and send, with my love and sympathy, a more substan- tial comfort, inpthe way of some new subscribers; but for this I should have sent my own name sooner. I believe that throughout the country (and I know in this vicinity) the A truest men a11d noblest women are with you in this great work, heart and soul. Prayers ‘are breathed forth for you,‘ and your success and preservation, from palace and cottage alike, for the inmates of each are equally interested in the solution of this problem. ' God speed you, and all good angels bless and aid you. I hope to communicate with you again, and send more names. I remain faithfully your friend, ONIssA J. N. GILMAN. . . ~ . SOUTH NEWBURY, Ohio, April 6, 1873. I ‘ MRs. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL: “ 5 ‘ ' 5 ' , «Dear Sz'steIr.—The good work goes on, however,.while many are reading your brave, truthful words on social and sexual science. I am astonished that any one objects to your dis- , ussion of the sexual religlons, for at this time nothing is so - . . .. I much needed as angunderstanding of this most important subj ect—-—the one that lies at the basis of all reform. To the better understanding of your principles of freedom, I would urge all dissenters to read J. Stuart Mill on “ Lib- erty.” Many within the circle of my acquaintance have had their doubts changed to an acceptance of your reasoning and conclusions by the reading of this work. Growth in the , aggregate is slow, however, and we have need of patience while we work for a brighter future. Your sister in bonds of truest love, n n 4 J ‘ I A. HOPE WHIPPLE, Q In his sermon before the Unitarian Conference, Rev. Henry Powers said tha “in Brooklyn, when a great scandal lifts its head,” church members" “ declare their readiness to testify,” but “ are not called upon to do so.” The reference, of course, is to the ‘Beecher-Tilton—Bowen scandal. Is it‘ not about time that reverend gentlemen and Christian people- including those of the Plymouth ‘society—abandon' the gingerly method of treating this gross affair? In private, the laity and clergy do not hesitate to say that either Beecher is a hypocrite and a disgrace to the pulpit, or that Bowen, Tilton, and other of Beecher’s intimate friends are abominable liars. Why are not the leaders of opinion equally frank in public? I I I ' — SPARTA, Wisconsin, March 31, 1873. My Sisters Victoria and Tcnnte——For as such I esteem you since the publication, or rather suppression, of your Nov. 2d number of WOODHULL 3t CLAELIN’s VVEEKLY-—I admire your heroism in battling so nobly for free expression of ‘thought,‘yet to me there are some things or ideas in your teachings that I do not admire. But if they are true to you, truth makes you free to publish them; for certainly no one should be abridged for their difference of opinion. If so, where would it end? Only in the enslavement of the weaker to the stronger, mentally as well as physically. ‘ ‘ Christianity, as we have it recorded, preserves the history of the inquisition of the mother churches. She points in agonizing colors to the tortures of the rack, faggot and thumb-screw, and-._to-day stands just as ready (providing they possessed the. power) to apply instruments of more last- ing torture to those who dare protest against their evil prac- tices. The majority of Christians, I suppose, applaud “ H. W. B.,” and that is not to be wondered at when we consider that old David, with all of his debaucheries, is revered as a man after God’s own heart. Adultery out "of the church is a terrible thing, ah! is a heinous sin, but in the church, and “ for Christ’s sake,”-is quite another thing, an.d may result in giving to the world another Solomon. 1 1 Anything, no matter how absurd or ridiculous, if clothed in the garb of sanctity, is easily believed by the orthodox world; but, on the other hand, let an intelligent individual, yes, we willsay, responsible one, undertake to demonstrate from principles ever‘ so reasonable a problem, and they are scouted at once as false and branded by the Christian world as the fruit of some inﬁdel brain‘. Thus it is, has ever been; but the world moves. “ Truth though crushed will rise again,” and may spirits true and noble guide and asssit you (as I have no doubt they do). This is the sincere wish of this one of your admirers for truth’s sake, " MRs. M. J. LEvERIcH. I PROPHETSTOWN, I11., March 1873. VICTORIA WOODHULL: Dear Madam——Your paper, the WOODHULL AND CLAELIN WEEKLY, came to our housewith the Banner of Light, free, until suspended last summer. I did not read the paper with the expectation of believing the social theories you therein advocated. I thought if your.ideas were adopted and carried into execution, what little domestic peace and happiness did exist would be destroyed; and when the paper ceased to visit our household, and I learned of its suspension, I thought it a good thing for the community. But when the paper again made its appearance, November 2, 1872, I read it more carefully, and, I am free to say, with a much better purpose. Your exposition of social crimes in high places ought to meet’ the approbation of all good people. Is it not true, and ‘a recognized axiom, that the more exalted the position the more heinous the crime when committed; and, if what you say of Mr. Beecher is true (and nonevseem to deny it authoritatively), it may justly be. said of him, “ See sin in state, majestically great.” ‘ ' Now conscience chills him, and now passion burns, And atheism and religion take their turns; A very "heathen in his carnal part, Yet stillva jolly good Christian at his heart. I Accept the in.closed, from a friend. A L. B. M. ADRIAN, April 8, 1873. V. C. WOODHULL;. Dear ll/Iaolam‘—One year ago last January, I think it was, Mrs. Charlotte Barbor visited me, and asked me if I had read your WEEKLY, I said no. She said Mrs. W. is an intimate friend of mine, and I will have her send you the WEEKLY_ In about a fortnight it came, and has come ever since, except while you were in prison. I want to send as soon as I can for your photo. I want to look upon your dear face. How I wish‘ I could hear you speak. How I bless you for what you are doing for woman; how I bless you for ventilating thesocial and sexual questions; and, aboveall, how I bless you for giving light, strength and courage to weak souls who need just such an inspiration as you to sustain them, V I send your papersbroadcast wherever ignorance reigns, hoping to induce thought,'and also induce others to sub- ‘scribefor your paper. It is the grandest, paper that/ﬂoats upon the breeze, and must be sustained’. I known I am en- thusiastic‘ in your praise, and I know, too, that too much cannot be said. I rejoice that Laura CuppySmith is your strong, staunch friend. She is dear to me. May ye both be blessed for your deeds of love to the childrenof earth. Yours for truth and justice, MARY’ M. D. SHERMAN. ‘ > [From the Atlantic and Pacific Joarnal] By an oversight we admitted to our coumns in the Atlantic and Pacific Journal, an article grossly reﬂecting on the char-, acter and work of those estimable public-spirited women. Mrs. Victoria Woodhiill‘ and Miss Tennie C. Claﬂin, who, by their exertions in the cause of morality and social purity, are ridding society of concealed cancers and the pharisaical vir- tue that cloaks libidinous vice. With fearless, independent pens, steeped in the bitter gall of persecution, they are hurl- I ing back’ deﬁance at foes who~rejoice in the possession of negative virtues and are the living exponents of that calam- ity of gold which “gilds the straightened forehead of the fool.” In fact these superiorminds which stoop to catch the loftiest thought and deem it scarce deserves their page, may say with strict truth to the majority of their accusers, “Your forehead is too narrow to bear my brand.” No.10 CURRIER BLooK,”0LIvE STREET, LYNN, Mass. Dear I Weekly.—I.am daily in receipt of letters from all parts of the country, letters so kindly expressed, breathing such tender sympathy and encouragement, that I should be un-5 mindful indeed ‘if my heart was not penetrated with a grate- ful sense of these writers’ good will; and I would feign write . to each correspondent expressing, as far as mere words can, the comfort these letters have given me; but as my busy life will not permit this, and these dear friends——-though many of them personally unknown to me——are all readers of our WEEKLY. I trust that as it goes forth this week laden with refreshments for thousands of expectant souls, it will carry a message of gratitude and love to those who have paused from their daily labor to write a word) of recognition to a pilgrim sister. ’ Ever your friend and the willing servant of humanity, LAURA CUPPY SMITH. sooIALIsTIo. We are permitted to make the following extract from a letter written by a somewhat celebrated artist to a friend in this ‘city: \ , “Perhaps it may not be out of placeuhere for me to say that .7 my belief in the tI‘11th_'Of the so-called Beecher-Tilton scan- dal is no little strengthened by the fact that I was made ac- quainted with the facts of the case by a no less valued friend and conﬁdant of my own than of both Beecher and Tilton, before Mrs. Woodhull had printed a word about it’. 0 odtu/In theologtwrn I ’ ’ WOMAN, HOTELS AND THEATRES. The battle has been). fought and won. Two years ago, in the face of public sentiment and the entire press, you made the demand that woman have the entree of hotels and thea- tres, unattendednby male escort—have the same precise right — to go. alone that man has. She is man, and then has the same right. To deny it to her is to stigmatize her, either as vicious, and so requiring a man to stand sponsor for the in- jury she may do, or as not safe, and so needing a man to pro- tect her. To say she is notsafe is to insult man more than her, to say he needs to be responsible for her good conduct is to make himself a laughing-stock. ' But two years ago, these were not axioms. Men said, the press said, even women said, a woman going to theatre or hotel must be in leading—strings, must be tied to a man. And what woman thus humiliated could , ever be noble, ever be great, ever could achieve ‘.9, What woman compelled to sacri- \ J- !l._ HE U‘§"dCD9°E*‘.-33 |—‘mF1|-"CF ﬁce her self-respect, make herself the tail of some kite,‘ could ever round out to‘ humanity, become queenly, regal, worthy of the divinity within, of the destiny before? Till women are_ women, and not men-appurtenances, they are less than nothing, and make all men nothing. But to-day, human beings may be seen making their way to our metropolitan theatres, in the majesty of self-asserting womanhood, by no leash bound to some m-a-n for p-r-o-t-e'-1- t-i-o-n, by no badge of inferiority or slavery branded! And a lady incarnating intellect, soul, business, as she can walk Broadway without a lackey or a claquer, can equally enter St. icholas or Fifth Avenue, commanding for herself re- spect, attention, tender of service. Woman only needs to take to have, not only in this direction, but in all others, even up to Suffrage and the Presidency. Woman is her own cre- ator. . ~ And woman ought to rebuke the audacious assumption - that it is improper for her to go anywhere alone, to church, hotel, theatre, bank, on business, pleasure, by day, by night. Where woman goes, there walks humanity as much as where man goes—humanity with all its right, prerogatives, power of self-protection,-challenge and guarantee of accomplish- ment; yes,‘ destiny goes with woman, and she should believe in it. That is theﬁrst failure in woman, want of aspiration, ambition to do and be; and the next is, want of faith in the realization of that inspiration, want of faith in herself! When the illimitable horizon-«of woman’s eye is ﬁlled With herself, she will be forever incapable of the vision of a man’s appendage! _ ‘ I ~ R And let her know that for all this protection, he expects her to pay the price of being his dependent, parasite, prosti- tute. Then let her make that the great point, to become in- dependent, and to . write him down the P1'0Stit11tea 011 the level with the lowest of her. own sex; though, when all women become independent, there will be no prostitutes of either sex—if men might be; yet they 00111d gain 110 0011‘ sent !‘ ' A I V ‘ = ‘ So, if twc years past have wrought such a change, two years more will see it settled, that the ﬁrst thing is to clear up the greatiquestion of that Sexuality which is the root of the race, the fountain whence, our humanity ﬂows! _And then the day will begin to dawn. J OSEPH TREAT. n_Lnn—4L-L.4;—O- ntvl ar-, nen C are . vir ent url 1 of im- the the may our LI‘l7S uch un- Lte- ‘ site an, life 7 of our ith I13. hat in- 3G- =nd on, um Lde ea- ght ;he ; is ;he nd be rri- te,' al, ‘ill ass ﬂy 11?; .¢,_ nd ulk L V. '*V /6 0 I x April 25, 1873. woonHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. TI-IREATENED ARREST BY THE MAYOR. HE ESTEEMS MY HEARERS LITTLE CHILDREN WHOSE MORALS HE WISHES TO GUARD, BUT THEY WILL GROW UP TO BE MEN AND WOMEN BY’ AND BY, DO NOT BE .AFRAID. DR. SIMON M. LANDIS. Ladies and Gentlemen—I had fully intended to deliver a lecture this Sunday, 8 P. 31., April 13, 1873, at Assembly Buildings, on “ VVoodhull and Beecher, Analyzing Free Love ;” but last evening the Mayor sent a lieutenant of po- lice to my Medical Institute, 13 North Eleventh street, while I was home‘ at my country residence, stating to my assistant that if I should attempt to lecture I would surely be ar- rested. , I . . g . By the pleadings of my wife and daughters I refused to lecture, to avoid anillegal arrest, but were it not for 1ny family, who have already suffered martyrdom on account of my former imprisonment, there would have been no power on earth to have prevented me. from attempting to speak to you. I have deliveredvthis same ‘lecture to, a large audience in New York City. . v 1 I am a Progressive Christian and Naturalist in a scientiﬁc sense, not a follower of Solomon. Jesus Christ was a “Free Lover.” I love everybody, good, bad and indifferent freely, but I dislike their unnatural and anti-Christ ways and habits. _ . _ .. . ~ Next Sunday, 8 P. M., Ivwill preach in my own hall, 13 North Eleventh street, to ladies and gentlemen, by permis- sion of his honor. ‘ We loose $60 by this outrage, but thank God he cannot ' arrest me for curing the sick without drugs; still, this act is also anti-orthodox, and it annoys many persons that I have a large and lucrative-' practice. My 11ovel, entitled “The Social War of 1900; or, The Conspirators and Lovers.” 416 pages. Cloth. Price $1.50, will acquaint you with all my teachings, while it exposes the opposing powers. All my books for sale at my oﬂice. Faithfully, SIMON M. LANDIS, M. D., D. D. April 13, 1873. No. 13 North Eleventh Street, Phila. THE LEAVEN WORKING. ‘ Dear Ladies-—Your excellent paper, fraught with thrilling truths, ﬁnds its way to our home and hearts, weekly elicit- ing admiration and hearty good wishes for its continuance until all bonds are broken and all shackles loosened from the souls and bodies of men and women throughout the measure- less realm of mind and matter. ’ Whatever may befall its editors, one thing is certain, that the little stone cut out of the mountain is destined to ﬁll the whole earth. True men and good women will come to the front and prolong or addeto the key-note that has been struck until harmonic and discordant sounds shall blend in one grand symphony to the tune of universal harmony and per- fect peace and love. I was rejoiced yesterday injlistening to a sermon in Plym- outh Church by your friend Henry Ward Beecher. Your friend! Yes, because his whole sermon throughout reminded me of _the expose, for he took for his text that signiﬁcant passage of Scripture, “Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he reeeiveth.” He expatiated largely upon different pursuits of happiness, and said that a man from his sensual and passional nature seeks happiness and attains it. ’Twas better that it were so than to have no happiness at all. The chastisement afterward would tend to lift him upward in the scale of progress. , The whole tenor of his discourse convinced us of the fact that he intended to go and sin no more; and yet to err was human. But the love of the great Father for erring mortals might be compared to a hen brooding her chickens; the warmth from her body, the shelter from her wings, the constant care and protection for them, gave them life and strength. The idea of total depravity seemed to have no place in his sermon. He believed there were souls languish- ing in prison to-day who were Grod’s viceregents. George Francis Train, for one, I suppose he meant; and when he looked so sorrowful and hopeful, I could but feel that his chastisements by God through the weak lips of woman and also from her pen, were having a salutary effect, and that Beecher should not fall. No, indeed. That great man who can hold spellbound three thousand souls every Sabbath should not fall. N o, no. Man may use all the arts of speech, may charm by kindly words and looks, by promises of abiding, lasting friendship, yet cannot; fall; but woman, who has ‘been educated to look up to man as her protector, her minister; equal almost, in her estimation, to Jesus Christ himself, she being the weaker vessel, trusting and conﬁding, yields her all_ to him unre- servedly, or, in a word, trusts him too far. Ah, she has fallen! Aristocracy closes its doors in her face, while thou- sands, on cushioned seats, with rapture gaze into his noble face to catch each sound, as sermon after sermon is unrolled. Fallen! 0 no, not fallen. Progressing upward, for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth; but society says, Damn the mean woman, she might have known better; kick heriout of the church, out of society, and if she is encemte give her no shel- ter; treat her worse than a brute until an abortion is caused, or she is driven to suicide. Oh! how long, ye ministers of the ever-living gospel, will ye permit such a, state of things to exist? How long before you can respect, tenderly care for and shield from all censure. the lambs of your ﬂock that have lovingly conﬁded inyou? How long before \you can teach from the pulpit that those little immortals, bone of your bone, ﬂesh of your ﬂesh, and spirit of your spirit, havearight to live upon this green earth as well as yourselves, are as virtually the workmanship of a Father’s hands as your chil- dren. born in wedlock, sanctioned by injudicious laws which are the result of cold, calculating intellectuality, possessing none of the tender emotions of woman’s overﬂowing love nature. - . How long shall the angels above seek to impress you in vain, that every child, though it has a premature birth in, this sphere, exists in another, and will haunt you in the land of spirits even then, if not before, with its dwarﬁsh-condi- tion, because you did not stand up boldly in defense‘ of its earth-life, and make. it a respectable thing, to be born pro_p- erly and nurtured tenderly in accordance with love and I all the ﬁner feelings of the soul? Oh, ye ministers called by God to preach, be careful that the sin of omission ‘as well as of commission, is not laid to your charge. Love? Yes, love your neighbor as yourself, and justify not that in‘your— selves whicli you would condemn in another; and may the God of justice continue to chastise man until he shall not merely make long prayers and speeches for fallen Women, but stand up fearlessly before the world and acknowl.edge the cause of their fall, and a willingness-yes, more, a determi- nation-to labor as earnestly to make them respectable as they hayeto crush their downfall. When this millennium shall have come, benedictions bruised hearts as well as upon thosewho now stand in high places. May that time speedily come, is the prayer of one who is devoted to the ause of equality and progress. ' New York City, April 7, 1873. F. A. LOGAN. [For Woodhull & Claﬂinls Weekly] FREE THOUGHTS FOR THE BOND AND FREE. BY A. FREEMAN. N 0. I. While there is a great deal of prudery in regard to all in- telligible discussion of our sexual characteristics and rela- tions, resulting from ignorance and prejudice, persons gen- erally feel an embarrassing reserve in 1 speaking or writing upon this subject. However proper this.may be to a limited extent, it is certain that it is not ncttu/ral, for children do not have it until they are taught by their nurses and mothers how naughty it is to expose certain parts-of their personsor to make any allusion to their sexual organs, after passing the ﬁrst months of absolute babyhood. Even among adults in certain countries this false modesty does not exist. Adam and Eve were not represented as having this ﬁg-leaf shame until after they fell from their primeval purity, so it may be regarded as a fragment of original sin. In Russia, Japan, and even in Mexico, men and women often bathe to- gether in a state of perfect nudity without suspecting its im- propriety. It has been well noted that this mock modesty on a subject so inseparably connected with the functions of life and human well-being is "most prevalent and intense in Christian and Mohammedan countries, and yet sexual vice is known to prevail there in corresponding proportions. This deep-rooted prejudice has been accounted for from the well-known fact that in certain countries, even in compara- tively modern times, phallic worship-—deifying the organs of procreation (sometimes the male and sometimes the female)- has been adopted and extensively practiced. Relics of this superstition can now be examined in a “ secret ” museum at Naples. This view of the subject is ably presented by Dr. gressive book entitled “ Medical Common Sence and Plain Home talk,” which. should be studied by every honest seeker of truth. It is argued that when Jews, Christians and Mohammedans found Pagans worshiping gods in the image of the human sexual organs, they were so shocked at this grotesque form of idolatry that they naturally transferred their repugnance for the images to the original organs them- selves, and thus made odious and covered with dishonor the exquisite workmanship of God’s own inﬁnitely skillful hand. While we would not encourage anything like real indelicacy or vulgarity, we hold that it is no evidence of reﬁnement, or advanced civilization, or moral purity, to be so morbid and silly as to permit men and Women to grow up and live in ab- solute ignoranceof their own persons and of the laws gov- erning the propagation of their own species, for fear of shocking sensibilities originating in prejudice and supersti- tion. A ' A In reality, no one part of the human body is more sacred orless morally pure than another. And it is high time that our eyes were opened to facts as they are, and that we no longer deceive ourselves by assuming that what is not talked and written. about is not thought about, and secretly prac- ticed, in ignorant, but none the less disastrous, violation of everyiphysiological law, until society has been covered with ﬁlth and rottenness, and the very existence of our race im- perilled. We think no independent reasoner can arrive at any other conclusion than that the morbid delicacy cherish- ed by the multitude on all subjects relating to sexual ques- tions, had its origin in religious prejudice and is not justi- ﬁed by the constitution of nature or the dictates of en- lightened reason. And may we not here ﬁnd a suggestive hint as to the origin of the common idea that sexual com- merce, unauthorized by priest or magistrate, is the sin of sins? ‘On what other hypothesis can we account for the fact that the sexual embrace is generally regarded as something obscene—something to be ashamed of, to be covered with darkness and concealed as a quasi crime! In regard to what is called illegal sexual contact,,we are pointed to the deca- logue wherein God is represented as saying through Moses, “Though shalt not commit adultery.” Have we ever fairly considered the question whether this prohibition (admitting its Divine origin) refers exclusively or even mainly to what is called illicit intercourse. between the sexes? Even at the risk of summary martyrdom let us examine this matter. The strict philological meaning of the sword “ adulterate ” is to corrupt, debase, deﬁle, make impure by the admixture of baser materials. In common and legal use the word is restricted to improper, that is illegal, sexual relations between a man and woman—‘—one or both of whom is married to another. person. Yet among the standard au- thors in the best English literature, it is used in a wider sense. Prescott speaks of the “shameless adulteration of Coin,” and the British Encyloepedists call intrusion into a bishoprio “ adultery.” L In the strictness of language, whoever corrupts or makes from the great pulsating heart of humanity _shall fall on - E. B. Foote, of New York, in his most instructive and pro- anything impure is an “ adulterer.” From this it is evident that the Seventh Commandment is not necessarily restricted to sexual irregularities, though either man or woman may adulterate the other—sexually or otherwise. Every student of King James’ English version, of the Bible knows that in the Jewish and Christian scriptures the word is often used to represent the violation of a religious covenant, and is gen- erally used as a generic term to represent any form of un- faithfulness and intemperance. Even Jesus called mere lust adultery, and the well—known assembly of Wesminster Di- vines applied the prohibition in the Seventh Comandment to “ immodest apparel,” “ entangling vows of single life,” “ undue delay of marriage,“ “idleness,” “ gluttony ” and “ drunkennss.” . If we seek to settle the speciﬁc purpose of this command by the conduct of those to whom it was primarily given-the coadjutors and followers of Mo;-3‘es——we must conclude that they did not practically understand adultery to mean em- phatically sexual intercourse without the sanction‘ of mar-- riage. They prohibited marriage outside of their nation. and tribes, as they were fearful their pure blood might be adul- terated, and were very‘anxious to keep their women from being adulterated, so that they had another commandment providing that a woman taken in adultery should be stoned to death! But these lords of creation were as free and easy in their habits in regard to their sexual relations as any mod- ern pulpit orator could possibly desire. Several of these ancient revered citizens were certainly “very much mar- ried,” and some of them made very free with their wives’ maids and other women, without punishment or even re- proof. That was free love with a vengeance, and ought to be ' put into the Constitution of the _United States! It may be that these old libertines anticipated the ingenuous philoso- phy of a modern progressive Frenchman, who recently said tothe writer in the most enthusiastic manner: “ If I have a childby the wife of my servant, I do not adulterate his fam- ily blood; I do hima very great favor—I give him better blood! But if my servant have a child by my wife, he adul- terates my familyblood, and I shoot him and divorce my ..Wife I” That sexual commerce without legal license came to be re- garded as the sin of sins, especially in women, undoubtedly originated in this peculiar Hebrew prejudice. They deemed themselves the peculiar favorites of Heaven——the elect, and were proud and exclusive as a nation; and, in addition to this, entertained certain great expectations of a coming Messiah, who should establish a great kingdom on earth in whichthey were to hold high positions, while other nations were mere dupes and dogs. And hence these Jews were very much afraid of adultery in their blood, and gave great atten- tion to their genealogy, in order to show their connection with the coming Prince. « They seem, however, to have made strange work of it, from the contradictions in their genea- logical tables, and haveffnot scrupled to admit that the Prince (if he was not an impostor) ﬁnally came in a direct line from the murderous David in his adulterous connection with another man’s wife. . I I i We would not justify real sexual adultery, for everybody knows it is a fearfully prevalent sin—-even under sanction of so-called marriage—but we must protest against regarding it as more heinous than all other sins, such as lying, stealing, cheating, deception, gluttony, drunkenness, hypocrisy and fraud. Even the Decalogue condemns “ bearing false wit- ness”——that is common lying——as speciﬁcally as it does theft and murder. It is generally admitted that the Credit Mobil- lier saints sinnedinore deeply by lying than they did in the act for which they were ﬁrst blamed, and independent thinkers everywhere have come to the conclusion that certain individuals involved, either as actors or witnesses, in the re- cent stupendous Brooklyn scandal have sinned more griev- ouslyby their mean, ’ cowardly and deceptive course, than did the central ﬁgure by the acts which he has tacitly con- fessed. s I __.ig. * Vwr SPIRTUALISTIC. A 5 REFORMATORY LECTURES. In view of the determination recently manifested by cer- tain would—be authorities in Spiritualism, and from a‘ sincere desire to promote their expressed purposes to set up a, dis- tinction that will produce a free and a muzzled rostrum, we shall henceforth publish in this list_the names and addresses of such speakers, now before the public and hereafter to ap- pear, aswill accept no engagement to speak, from any com- inittee of I arrangement, with any proviso whatever as to what subject they shall treat, .01‘ regarding the manner in which it shall be treated. A reformatory movement, such as Spiritualism really is, cannot afford so soon to adopt the customs of the Church and falliinto its dotage. On the con- trary, it demands an unﬂinching advocacy of all subjects upon which the spirit world inspires their mediums under the absolute freedom of the advocate. To all those speakers who wish to be understood as being something above the muzzled ox which treads out the corn, this..column.is,noW open: 4 THE WOMEN’S CHORAL UNION.-«Ladies who wish to ﬁt themselves for active and practical work outside of domestic life, and also better understand mental, physical and social science, now have an opportunity by becoming members of the Woman’s Choral Union. The members meet Friday afternoon at 95 Monroe‘ street, Brooklyn. Any‘ girl ﬁfteen years of age, or woman, may become a member by sub- scribing to the principles of the organization and paying the initiatory fee of one dollar, and thereafter an annual fee of one dollar. Ladies desiring to know more of this society can address the President, Mrs. Emily B. Ruggles; or Mrs. . R. W. S.’ Briggs, Corresponding Secretary, 95p.Monroe Street lBrock1yn,Z.N. Y. ' E‘ WOODHl1T”I._-L s cnirrlisrs warms. April 26, 1373., C. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. ' Rev. J. O. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. Mrs. I-LIF. M. Brown, National City. Cal- Annie Denton Cridge, Wellesley, Mass. Warrerf Chase, St. Louis, Mo. A.,Br-iggs Davis, Clinton, Mass. Miss Nellie L. Davis, North Billerca, Mass. Lizzie Doten, Pavilion, 57 Tremont street, Boston, Mass. R. G. Eccles, Andover, Ohio. Mrs. Elvira Hull, Vineland, N. J. Moses Hull, Vineland, N. J. D. W. Hull, Hobart, Ind. Charles Holt, Warren, Pa. , Anthony Higgins, Jersey City, N. J. W. F. J amieson, 139 Monroe street, Chicago, Ill. Miss Jennie Leys, at Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. Mrs. F. A. Logan, Buffalo, N. Y. Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Ct. A. C. Robinson, Lynn, Mass. Mrs. J. H. Stillman, Leverence, Milwaukee, "Wis. Laura. Cuppy Smith, 179 Temple street, New Haven, Ct. M. L. Sherman, Adrian, Mich. _ Dr. H. B. Storer, 107 Hanover street, Boston, Mass. J. H. W. Toohey, Providence, R. I. F. L. H. Willis, Willimantic, Ct. Lois Waisbrooker, Battle Creek, Mich. - Prof. EL Whipple, Clyde, Ohio. J 0 an B. W<)lﬁ’, 510 Pearl street, N. Y. ~ [NorE.—Should any person whose name may be found in this column feel aggrieved thereby, upon notiﬁcation of the same we will hastily make reparation by removing it. ‘Names respectfully so1icited.] i—_—.._=—- TO LOVERS or PURITY EVERYWHERE. “ Do men gather grapes of thorns orﬂgs of ‘shistles Y” A“Can an evil tree bring forth good fruit or a corrupt fountain send forth. pure waters ?" g The continual increase in’ number of criminals, lunatics, paupers, deformed persons, and helpless, wretched human beings, from all classes of society; the increasing tendency as evinced by the dress and literature of the times, and the frequent causes of seduction, suicide, abortion, infanticide, jealousy, and murder; the debilitated, diseased, wretched condition of married women, and the increasing investiga- tion of the causes of these fearful disorders, andfa fearless ap- plication of whatever remedies lie within our reach. We therefore submit the following propositions, held to be true by many noble, philanthropic minds, and ask for them the candid, dispassionate consideration of all lovers of humanity : 1. That according to Divine order, every human person should experience a conscious delight in living, and in per- : . forming -the uses of life; but that the race, by a long course of selﬁsh, sensual, devitalizing indulgence, has lost zest in and relish for the daily blessings and uses of a pure life. 2. That the act by which a human soul is called into exist- ence is a. creative act, designed by the Inﬁnite Creator to people earth and heaven with pure, happy human beings, each soul to be the sublimated essence of the best qualities and happiest conditions of its parents; and that the earthly agents of our Heavenly Father have no right to degrade this high and holy use/to low and selﬁsh purposes. 3. That though ignorance and selﬁshness the human fam- ily have perverted this exalted oﬂice to merely sensual in- dulgence, resulting in a diseased abnormal condition, which physicians and the World in general call “normal appetite,” “ natural propensity,” “ physical necessity,” and, more de- plorable still, resulting in a constant and frightful increase of vicious, depraved and diseased human beings, doomed to infamy and suﬁering by the sins of their parents before they were born, according to the inexorable law, “the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth shall grind.” at. That thus, though the degradation of a holy sacrament, the earth is ﬁlled with violence and crime, and the regions of dispair with lost human souls. 5. The men themselves need all the vital force -which is not demanded for parentage to enable them to perform the mighty material, intellectual and moral labors which, as sons of the Most High, they are called; and that by Wasting their powers in enervating indulgence they sacriﬁce vigor, health, happiness and .the most glorious possibilities of manhood, here',_'and hereafter. ‘ 1 6. That the present condition of the human race impera- tively demands the active exercise’ of the reﬁning, ele- yating, spiritualizing power of pure womanhood, to eradi- cate moral poison, restore spiritual and physical health, and thus to lead humanity to a higher plane of thought and feel- ing, and to richer fountains of perennial joy. '2’. That what the worlds needs is not amere increase of pop- ulation,’ but an improvement in quality, and that any attempt at reformation in the lives and condition of the masses which ignores these vital principles, and neglects to provide proper education on these subjects, mustffail to produce tan- gible or permenent results. , 8. That while under painful and adverse circumstances, woman has demonstrated herself capable of performing a large share of the material, intellectual, social, moral and spiritual work of the .world,.yet far above all other duties and oﬂices, she is especially created, appointed and consecrated, MOTHER or THE HUMAN RACE. ‘ 9. That the one that suffers all the agony, even unto death, that attends the earthly advent of a human soul, who nour- ishes the body with her own life-blood, and guides the ,little ones through the sufferings and perils of infancy should by every law of reason and justice, decide, not from entreaty or compulsion, but from her own divine, motherly intuitions, when she is ready for the grand self-renunciation of true motherhood. _ , 7 110. That the holy office of parentage should only be assum- 1 ed when the husband and wife truly love eachother, and fervently wish for a pure, heaven-endowed child, whom’they_ ‘T can rear for noble uses on earth, and a full, rich, an.geli!c life hereafter. . ‘ 11. That while the mother’s body is the temple of a possi- ble angel, sacred duty to her unborn child should take pre- cedence of all other duties. I 12. ‘That suffering herself to be degraded, while in that holy human race, asin against her own soul and against the -Holy Spirit. 13. That wives, who are kept in a perpetual state of tortur- ing‘ anxiety lest they have insured probable motherhood under unfavorable circumswnces, are deprived of the prime conditions of -conjugal happiness and g1ad,';successfu1 mate;-- nityusecurity, and peace. I 14. That the mutual tenderness, devotion, forbearance and love that rendered the period of courtship an ever-remem- bered season of delight-when the presence, voice, smile, or even glance of the beloved one exceeded all other joys, are made an utter wreck in marriage by 'rendering the commu- nion, which should be for a high and holy use, common and unclean. ‘Q’ , 15. Shat if each woman would claim and hold complete ownership of her own body, preserving herself pure from every merely sensual th.ou:ght ‘or approach; permitting her- self to incur the risk of motherhood only when all the condi- tions are favorable for a wise parentage and a pure offspring, there would soon be scarcely a crime left on the calendar, ﬂee from the Eden of the human race. We appeal to all lovers of Purity, Peace and Order to aid us by counsel, suggestion or co-operation, in our work of social puriﬁcation and reform. All communications may be addressed to either the Presi- ington, D. C. The real name and address of the correspondent who de- sires to aid us must be given to insure reply. ' A MUZZLED PRESS. The Christians of this town are full of pious wrath against this iconoclast for what they charge is his shocking subjects announced through the papers from Week to week. A Pro- testant priest was heard to declare that such talk and such announcements ought to be stopped? Two weeks ago the edito1' of the Times cautioned them not to go too far, for it might appear that they were opposing free speech. But alas for the lack of backbone, this Times editor has been brought to his knees. His paper is muzzled. He was threat- ened by Christians with ﬁnancial ruin. He yielded to their demands. Their pious souls are no more to be vexed with announcements in their Saturday evening paper, “The Bible sustains Polygamy, Slavery and Intemperance,” “ The Clergy a Source of Danger to the American Republic,” “The Horri- ble Teachings in modern orthodox Sunday Schools,” “ Jesus ‘ Christ on Marriage and Divorce,” “Science, not Religion, the Demand of the Age,” “ Did God ever write a Book? ” “ The Lord’s Prayer criticised and analyzed,” “ Hanging by God.” Don’t put a comma after ‘ hanging;’ I am opposed to profanity, even in the pulpit or on the rostrum. Put a full stop to it, or nothing. , “ ‘ Shocking ’ Christians and other Conservatives,” etc., etc. Such are the themes which I have chosen for my texts. I am informed by persons who ought to know, that the Christians are “ boiling mad.” One paper here, the Commercial, is still open to our announcements. When I ﬁrst came here, I told the people just what they might expect from me. I laid my platform, broad and free. Several friends came forward and cordially assured me that pleased. Bro. J. H. Haslett, a man of isuch stuff as were anciently manufactured into martyrs, proposed" that I should announce a discussion, and action, upon certain resolutions condemning the United States Govern- ment for unjustly imprisoning Mrs. Victoria C, Wood- hull, Tennie C. Claﬂin and Col. Blood. I perceived at once that this procedure would come into sharp conﬂict with the expressed views of some of the members of the society against Mrs. Woodhull; but the principle of free speech was involved, which I felt mustibe vindicated though it killed the most prosperous society ever organized. ‘ Bro. Haslett is not a public speaker but an enthusiastic worker in every other respect. He said nothing in the course of the heated discussion which followed. As I amthe “ pas- tor. ” (1) I decided to look on while thelaity exercised their in- tellectual powers in nice bits of rhetoric and bursts of elo- quence. Furthermore, I thought if I took no part in speech- making that there would be no just pretext for “ breaking up the society,” threatened by the anti-Woodhullites. While, too, I am exceedingly fond of debate, I deprecate angry dispu- tations; although it is better to have a ﬁrst-class quarrel than no discussion at all. One reason assigned by the Church for discountenancing free discussion is that it leads to quarrel- ing. Spiritualists should learn a‘ lesson. So much for mat- ters in Port Huron. I have some notes for a future letter. A few words in regard to the new feature in the WEEKLY ——the free rostrum list of speakers. It suits me. I have fought the battle of reform on that line for fourteen years. YOUTS ‘E11115’. ’ ' W. E. JAMIESON. EMMA HARDIN GE—BRITTEN—-ADDITION AL TESTI- MON Y. Editors Wbodhull and Claflt'n’s Week?/y-—Some of your prin- ciples, in my judgment, will not bear the test of experience. But believing them, it is your right, your duty, to proclaim them. Sincerity is the only virtue. There is no basis for anything without it. Hypocrisy is contemptible and treach- ery is damnable. Let these of the same faith, who would stab you in the back and elevate themselves through your downfall, be pilloried at once. i Let the truth come out not only about Beecher, but about the hypocrites among Spirit- ualist. And that it may come out I added my testimony to yours inregard to E. H. Britten. I state, for merely sensual purposes, is a crime against the and the serpent Sensuality, with “bruised head,” would . dent or Secretary of Woman’s Club, Box N o. 9, P. 0., Wash-_ I would ﬁnd their platform free enough to say what I . In August, 1870, I met her at the house of Carrie Lewis, in Cleveland. After affecting the most profound regard 501‘ marriage, ..and stating that she could tolerate nothing outside of it, and declaring that lfépiritiialism had no tendency to- ward free’ love, she turned and said: “But between you and me, all the relations I have ever had with men that were Of ‘any worth to me, have been outsidelof marriage and withollii the twaddle of priest or justice.” There are times when silence is crime; where tenderness to an individual is cruelty to a State and treachery to it cause. He who passes counterfeit coin ranks with him Who makes it-. ‘He Who keeps a secret which invokes private in- justice and fraud, is an accessory after the ‘fact. I wash my hands of the guilt of Emma Hardinge-Britten by 'eXI>0SiI1g instead of sharing her sins. - Beecher lent the use of his papers to his sister for the mean- est kind of lying-the most scurrilous abuse of a class of re- formers, better with» all their faults than their vilifyers. Bid or not bid by the spirit world, you had no moral right to withheld the -facts of his life.” If Theodore Tilton thinks that_ he has, than he has occasion to sit again in judgment on his “ own motives” to see if he be an honest man. Be- fore that God, in whose sight all souls are equal, I charge him with criminal complicity with crime. I charge him with defrauding the public of their rights, shielding the guilty at the expense of the innocent, compelling large masses to judge falsely in matters of the gravest import. Let him keep the truth that belongs to the race if he dare, and sink with it dishonored into a coward’s grave; and we who have loved him will mourn another idol fallen, and turn, almost hopeless to ﬁnd one man true to truth and faithful to his race. Mrs. Conant says the spirit world had determined to ex- pose Beecher. Mr. Hale, of the New Creation, three years ago said the same thing, and inserted a cut of a “broken column” in his paper as a symbol of his fall. Two years ago I was told by my spirit guide to give in this testimony as to Emma Hardinge-Britten. Setting about it at once, I was Warned to wait by the word “Hasty” written on the wall of my room, and told there was other testimony to come in ﬁrst. v The occasion came. You gave _in your testimony, and I give mine. In answer to our prayers to the “ sainted dead,” to “ open her book of life so that all may read it as do the angels now.” You have opened it. Nay, she was compelled to open it herself, for there is no other supposition in regard to it compatible with good sense on her part~—to thus parade her private life before those whom she attacks. _ Let Emma Hardingo—Britten understand that she is im- peached by the powers she is professing to serve, while we of this world are but the instruments. Let her and others like her understand that they hold their position, by suiferance. The powers that made them can unm ake them; and they cannot long retain the favor of the world without deserving it. Let them learn to be honest, before they aspire to be great. MARY OVERTON. BERLIN Hnrenrs, 0.. April 8, 1873. JOHN GAGE’S ADDRESS. _ MADE ON HIS OWN BEHALF WHEN ON TRIAL FOR WOOD- ' CHOPPING ON SUNDAY. If the Court pleases: ' Gentlemen of the Jwry—I stand before you this day, in the blaze of the lights of the nineteenth century, chafged as a to be tried for the heinous crime of chopping wood, in my own wood-yard, back of my own house, in Vineland,,New Jersey, in the United States of America, on Sunday, the ninth day of March, A. D. 1873. I deem it my duty, gentlemen, to thank the Court, for being permitted, in this darkened Christian, land to answer for myself this day to the charges preferred by a reverend priest of the Methodist Episcopal order. Therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently. I have lived for three score years and ten in many of the States of this Union and in foreign countries, and this is the ﬁrst time in my. life that I was ever arrested by the laws of my country, or any other country, for any crime whatever; and I know of no ancestor of mine’, no brother or sister,‘ or any of their or my descendants who ever plead guilty, were found guilty or were even arrested for crime. Gentlemen of the Jury, I have not here plead guilty. Sin- ful though I may be, liable to err, as I knowI am, I have not, I cannot feel one twinge of conscience for any wrong or evil done in the premises. I did chop wood on the day before mentioned, called Sunday. I have chopped‘ wood and per- formed other kinds of labor on Sundays ever since I was six years old, and have never felt that I was doing wrong by so doing; and I shall probably continue to do so as long as I shall live. I feel the necessity of daily labor and exercise for my health, strength and comfort. unless the laws of my country should oppress me more than I shall think it my duty to bear. Gentlemen, you know your duty and your right to appeal to the court for any information, and you are sworn to well and truly try the case, and a true verdict ‘give according to the law and evidence; I hope you will do your duty without fear, favor or aﬂ"ection; and if in_your wisdom you ﬁnd me guilty, or the balance of testimony should in your minds be against me, I shall ask for no mercy, but that you declare me guilty. and let the full penalty of the law be executed upon me, even though you may think the law unjust; for an unjust, cruel and oppressive law may remain unnoticed and forgotten for many years on the statute books, until some one shall be found who, to gratify the feelings of his heart, shall attempt tqexecute its penalties upon his brother man. Then is the time for a judge or jury to Stand by the 13W, T611- der judgment according to its tenor and trust to conse- quen ces; and if the law is essentially wicked. the people will see to it that it is repealed. Gentlemen, this statute that tells us what days we may work, and what days we shall not work; what we may do, and what we shall not do, and declares the pains and penal- J"-ties-that shall be visited upon us for disoibedience of its pro- .3 .. ii". . i V6 ist liS X- LI‘S en go to as all in de we ad on , ke 71d ire )1)- vil ure ar- aal ell to he be .re ed .’or ed ne rt, Ln. se- 'ill my lo, al- 1'0- . Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He ~ llish this constitution.” ‘ it would not. You would shrink from it with loathing and April 26, 1873. \VlSlOl1S, is a relic of the dark and ancient ages. It is truethat the Jews, in ancient times, required the observance of their £Sabbath, under pains and penalties; but it is also true that in the early times, when their Sabbath statutes were made, they were a wicked, cruel and revengeful people—-a tribe of the Bedouin Arabs-—who, we may not be surprised, should enact and execute such laws. But when J esusiﬂhritst came into the world, He transgressed and forbade these Sabbath statutes: he went into a corn—ﬁeld with His disciples, and gathered corn; and when the Jews complained that they broke their Sabbath laws, He said unto them-—“ The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” Gentlemen, he attempt to execute this comparatively wild statute by a good and holy man, ‘shows us what we might have reason to expect should wicked men bear sway, and :make and execute lawsfor their town vile purposes; and it Ebehooves all honest and just men to be vigilant, and see that no tyrannical power, no God of vengeance and wrath, be ad- mitted into our laws or constitutions, as some have already tried to do. saying that God was now nowhere to be found in the United States Constitution. The good God that I Worship is already in many parts of our Constitution, and I wish he permeated every line in it; and when I tell you his name, you will all say amen. It is” Truth, Love, Justice, Power——-this is my God. Gentlemen, the complainant in thiscase worships the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,the God of Jacob, and the God of Christians, and mourns because his God does not perme- ate our laws and constitutions. These laws and constitutions of his God, he contends, are contained in the Holy Bible, and that you may know how ﬁrmly you would be obliged to administer justice inmy case here to day, I will read from Exodus 31, 12: M “ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: Ye shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy unto you; every one that deﬁleth it shall surely be put to death, for whosoever Idoeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.” ‘ t Here, gentlemen, is what a priest of the Lord must have commanded you to do did his God rule in this land as of old; but this God, fortunately for me, does not rule in these United States, although an eﬂort was made to smuggle him ‘into the Constitution of New_ Jersey, the enacting clause of which reads as follows: “ We, the people of the State of New J orsey, grateful to hath 30 10118 permitted us to enjoy, and looking to him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations, do ordain and estab- Gentlemen, this Godly beginning to our State Constitu- tion is not suﬂicient to transfer his Sabbath laws to the Jews to the State of New Jersey, however much the priests of this G0d might desire it. Supposing it did, gentlemen; suppos- ing our statutes were as full of this God as the preamble to our Constitution is, and incorporated in it this Book of Exo- dus, with its penalties for the violation of the Sabbath, and you were compelled to render judgment in accordance there- with upon me to—day, would it be a pleasant duty? I know Ehorror. Again, can we believe that in this age of the world any class of men could be found who would execute. such a law. Why not? The men who venerate and revere this God, and this Bible as His holy word, are to—day trying with 311 the power that in them lies to incorporate them in our Con- stitution and laws,- and give them the supremacy over all; and when was the time that a Christian priesthood were not ready and anxious to see that all laws, however cruel, that sustained them were fully executed. Gentlemen, I thank the civilization of the nineteenth cen- tury for keeping as much of this God of vengeance and wrath out.of our constitutions and laws as they have; and I thank them for putting so much of my God (Truth, Love, Justice, Power) into our laws and constitutions, and when the time comes for voting Gods and Bibles into our con- stitutions, whose Gods and Bibles shall we choose——my God or the God of the Christians? . In conclusion, gentlemen, I would say, the statute under which my neighbor and Christian friend expects to convict me, is entitled an Act for Suppressing Vice and Immorality, and reads as follows: “N o traveling, worldly employment or business, ordinary or servile labor or work, either upon land or water (works of necessity and charity excepted) shall be done by any person within this State on the Christian Sab- bath, or ﬁrst day of the week commonly called Sunday.” Now, gentlemen, I rafﬂirm, as before stated,that exercise, traveling, labor, work of some kind, is an absolute necessity for my health and comfort every day, Sundays as much as other days, when I work but little during week days, which is the case as I grow old, and_ especially during this winter, this exercise becomes a stern necessity, and you have this fact in testimony before. you,_and it is for you to say whether a man’s health is one of his necessities. If you believe these statements and this testimony you will honorably acquit me; if not,y0uwi1l ﬁnd me guilty. THE VISIONS. — M CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 20, 1872. ' Monday morning, December 18, 1871, at 4 o’clock, I heard aloud rap on the table to call my attention; then’ I saw a man-—one representing power——dressed in_ white——his hair was white, not with age, but with pmaty-sitting by the table, writing very fast, and on each side of him stood four angels, who seemed dilferent from spirits, they were so pure and white; and their garments were pure white, and lay loose over their shoulders in folds like wings, waiting for their orders; and as fast as the writer ﬁnished apaper he folded it up and gave it to one of the angels. When he had written one for each he arose and addressed them, and away they went with their messages. .Next in order there came four or ﬁve others much like the writer, and with him they all heldha council together. .Next, the scene changed to crystal; and alltogether making a much more beautiful manent in any degree whatever. another room, where a, circle of bright, harmonious beings, consisting of male and female alternately, sitting around a large centre-table, very close together, forming a solid wall (to all appearance) with their bodies, each holding intheir right hand a scroll, and in earnest conversation, and their eyes shining like diamonds with the brilliancy of their thoughts—representing equal rights, individual sovereignty —a harmonious blending all together as of one great whole. Next, President Lincoln came in, and a man and Woman dressed like bride and bridegroom; these Lincoln intro- duced to me as future Presidents of the nation. — During the day Lincoln came again, accompanied by four others who were very much interested in our national affairs, as they had formerly occupied positions in the coun- cil halls of the nation. ’ ‘ The next night, December 19th, Lincoln and the one who did the writing the night before came in and opened all the doors in the house and leftthem open (which is very signiﬁ- cant of itself); then a company came marching in, two and two———male and female-—and formed into a circle as before, with this addition: a beautiful fountain about three feet high was placed on the centre—table, with the bright, spark- ling waters of life ﬂowing from it in every direction, clear as scene than words can express or describe, but conveying a deep meaning which time only can tell. Yours for the whole truth, M. M. CLARK PEARSON. LECTURE BY REV. DR. KERR AT BROWN’S HALL. sU.BJEor-“ THE 1NrInuL’s or run REVOLUTION.” (Last of 0. course on “ Ohm’-stz'an1}ty.”) Rocxroan, I11.. Sunday, March 30, 1873. Following out the ideas enunciated in the lecture of last Sunday evening we ﬁnd the key principle of advancing so- ciety manifested in two collateral forces—-the m0ral,which is changeless, and the intellectual. which is ever active and ad- vancing. The precepts of Jesus Christ, which were moral, remain the same as they were two thousand year ago. Time has neither added to them nor taken from them. Turning. to the intellectual weﬁnd that the movements of mind have been vast and varied, and in the many changes of society ‘the intellectual has always been the only cumulative and permanent force, the moral not being cumulative or per- g The Hebrew economy is an example of this; it represented a moral force only, and, consequently, under the assaults to which itwas subject, it fell entirely and was completely lost forever as a living force. ' On the other hand glance at the classic nations. Their forces were intellectual; and although the peoples have perished their inﬂuence in that direction tended, as much as anything to dispel the darkness of, the middle ages and rouse the minds of men to renewed activity. We ﬁnd on the one hand that the moral in association with ignorance has never failed to be dangerous and destructive; and where this force ruled alone there sprang up the inquisition with its hideous and ingenious persecutions that were used so vigorously to root heresy out of Spain. However, passing into the ‘neigh- boring territory of the Italians, where the intellectual forces had been somewhat developed, more tolerance and broader views of life were entertained, notwithstanding that here was tho centre of the hierarchies and ecclesiasticisms. But it may be asked, if intellectual activity lessens persecutions why was the long and enlightened reign of Queen Elizabeth stained\by so much cruelty and bloodshed? why did this potent sovereign, surrounded by the ablest ministers of the age, suffer such things to darken the otherwise splendid record of her rule? To this we would say that Elizabeth was ﬁghting ior royalty and not religion. battling for the prerogatives of English monarchy, ﬁrmly believing that any one who rose in opposition to her must be struck down. , , As other examples of the two forces under consideration, let us look at the character and policy of the puritan and the pilgrim. The ﬁrst was constantly under harrow, ceaselessly ﬁghting in England for what he believed to be. right? With him the moral held almost undisputed sway, while‘ the intel- lectual was narrowed down and contracted. As a consea quence of this he in his turn became aperseduter when he arose to power. The second, self exiled to Holland, had come in contact with the learning of .the times and become cosmopolitan and tolerant. The puritan was a vixen, ﬁght- to any comer and made him welcome. These present the two collaterals, and in these we see the key principles or dynamics of society. _ In the course of lectures delivered in this hall, we have of- ten come to a crisis in the world’s history where forces that have been held down and smothered for years, have sud- denly burst forth into power, as insurrection against govern- ments and rulers of all kinds, both civil and religious. The cause of these ‘many, crises has been called skepticism. onies occupied the belt of land along the Atlantic. but according to itself. She stood as a lioness - ing stoutly in God’s name, while the pilgrim opened hisarms 3 We put, a bad meaning on the term, but. skepticism that be_- A lieves in broader, bolder and truer standard for humanity _is E R A T U M . the grand moving power of society. Five generations had’ 4 passed since the time Martin Luther and the American col- The king, the ecclesiasticism, and the government wererbeyond the Atlantic, and these had acted as repressing inﬂuences on the advancement of the colonies, but in time they had outgrown these S11DP1‘6SSiI1g forces and become Skeptical 0f *at the same time that they have never loved.” the rights of England,‘ skeptical of the ecclesiasticisms, and thus come forth immediately preceding the revolution a so. ciety ready to assert itself, _not as Irish, English or Scotch, This then was the epitome of that skepticism which produced, independent of its otherwise wonderful signiﬁcation; the’°most non partisan document in ‘ ~ ‘ew- existence, the Declaration of Independence. Let usfora mo- woonnuttectarrrnis WEEKLY. , p 7 ‘\ John Adams stands ﬁrst, a sagacious man of the world, a man who was well acquainted with the various phrases‘ of the human mind, and who considers a moral man, as‘ only half aman. He was a friend of trade, ﬁnance, literature and science, and as such represented the advanced line of civil- ization. Next comes Benjamin Franklin, of’ Pennsylvania, known as wide as Christendom»; a -great thinker, a hard worker.'and above all a believer in fair play for every one. The third one, Thomas J efferson, of Virginia, imbued with the grand principle that men are geverned too much, that the person should be raised, and through him the commun- ity; hewas the author of democratic republicism; and what was the religion of these persons? They were inﬁdels as also were the other leading minds of_ the revolution. But their is another man whose astonishing ability as a writer, broad and comprehensive views of humanity and love of freedom and liberty, made him stand forth. in those times that tried men’s souls as a ‘master spirit. An Englishman, though imbued with democratic principles, a thorough skeptic, yet endowed’ "withja power to write words which burned into brains of kings; words like arrows, winged with ﬁre and pointed with vitriol. This man was a friend of Dr. Rush, and Benjamin Franklin. These men observing the latent power- within him, soon entered into his conﬁdence, persuaded him to cross the Atlantic, and in the revolutionhe proved an im- mense power. Soon a book entitled “Common Sence,” burst upon the world, and this booksevered the last link between England and America. Yes, Thomas Paine was a mighty force while others fainted and trembled. But why dare I mention that outlawed name here in the pulpit, a name, the mere mention of which would make many shudder? Be- cause he was a brilliant and gifted genius from God. Be- cause he dared to question the institutionalism of the times, and think for -himself. Because we are just begining to un- derstand and appreciate him. Thus was skepticism likefthe ax at the ‘ foot of a tree cutting down with blows, that re- sounded through’ the world, suppression, superstition, bigo- try andinstitutionalisms. By such men as Tom Paine was formed a society reliant and independent. In fact the American colonists had set down to keep house for them- selves; according to all the rights of fair play. Believing in constant advancement and the decision of all questions by the people as the result of all these things, we have at the present day new methods of thought which bring out life in its own beauty and brilliant force. The bigoted ideas of the ' past are rapidly being overthrown, and the grand capabili- ties within us are no longer to be held in bondage. We may sometimes err in judgment, but nothing that belongs to 'God and truth can fall. Almost at the ﬁrst the Christian idea began to be lost. But a grand and beautiful develop- ment of thought is now emerging, which. wil be separated from all limitations, and appear broad as the air, free as light, and shall stand radiant in grandeur. — BUFFALO, April 6, 1873. Dem‘ V1Ictom'a,——Though an humble worker and speaker in‘ the great cause of truth, yet I would wish to be enrolled among the list of untrammeled workers, and so proclaim my- self as such to your readers andlto the world at large. Freedom to do the right, Freedom in thought and deed, And though poor human sight May fail aright to read; Yet forth upon the breeze, T1'uth’s banners are unfurled Waving o’er lands and seas, Freedom to the world. , To write my name upon its folds, In gratitude acclaim, They frcedom’s cause uphold, Who love and truth proclaim. - Your helper, BISHOP A. BEADS. We clip the following from a private letter-—one of many of the. same kind: "5 According to Mrs. Conant or her guides, if a man were to be married one hour to a Woman, who afterward ran away from him, it would be his duty to wait patiently until her death lshould extract all the injurious tmagnetisms from his systeln before he dare think of’ approaching another woman. See her lecture at Music Hall. a To believe all her doctrines would make one wish he had never been born. The following resolution was adopted by!‘ the quarterly convention of the Vermont State Spiritualist Association, held in St. Albans, January 17, 18 and 19, 1873: Resolved. That the action of the United States Government in the arrest and imprisonment of Mrs. Victoria C. Wood- hull is an act of unjustiﬁable tyranny and usurpation of power dangerous to the freedom of the press and the freedom of speech, and is an alarming stride toward centralization of power that ‘calls aloud for the most emphatic condemna- tion of every friend of liberty and progress, and that we, as a body of Spiriqualists, hereby enter our protest against the damnable deed. ' ,E. B. HOLDEN,” _ ' A Secretary of the Association. ‘.44. 4 7 tr ' V . PHILADELPHIA, April 12, 1873. VDamlt'ng T/'7Ict0'rz'a.—In'my letter published in the WEEKLY of April 19, it reads, ‘f Did ever anybody hear of such a ,think as forced love? If not, then, all who are free lovers, "and those who declare that they are not frce—l0vers,, declare ‘ I intended :to say, “ If not, then all who love are free—1overs,_” etc. V A Itimay have been my mistake, but will you be so kind as to correct it, for my meaning willbe misunderstood? In haste. Yours, lovingly, " JESSIE GooDELL STEINMETS. r D.o'n’t for-getthat INVALIDS’ HOME in Vine1and,_ N. J. [ment glance at the committee which framed this declaration: {Write to’/Dr.‘ Lucinda s. Wilcox for particulars; v wooD_HULL J5 CLAFLIN’S WEEK-LY?‘ April 26, 1873. _ TERMS OF SUBSCRIRTION. PAYABLE 1N ADVANCE. ,_ One copy for oneiyear, - - - $3 00 ‘One copy for six months, - - - - - . 1 50 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),. - q - - ' - 40 00. Six months, - A - - - - .- 0ne-ha1f these rates. ‘ FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION CAN BE MADE To-TVHE AGENCY on THE AMERICAN NEWs _eoMr-ANY, LoN- ‘ DON, ENGLAND. V One copy for one year, - - - -' - - - $4 00 One copy for six months, - ' - - - - - - 2 00 ' A ' , RATES or ADVERTISING. Per line (according to location), - - From $1 00 to $2 50 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 the paper, and must in all cases, bear the signature of WOODHULL & CLAFIJN. Specimen copies. sent free. Newsdealers supplied -by the American News Company, No. 121 Nassau street, New York. , . - v - All communications, business or editorial, must be addressed Woodhull at 0laﬂin’s Weekly, 48 Broad Street, New York City. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL, 26 1873.,‘ PHOTOGBAPHIC. We recently mentioned the fact of our having procured genuinephotographic likenesses of ourselves--Victoria C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claﬂin and Colonel Blood—toi supply a large expressed demand that has been made almost con- tinuously during the past two years. There are many un- authorized editions ﬂoating about in the country andijbeing sold by various persons. None of these are genuine, except such as have been procured directly fro us, while many of them that we have seen are either burlesques or libels upon our features. We are aware that these ata dollar each are dearer than photographs of imperial size usually are, but we thought our friends would be willing to help us in this way to pay the immense expenses to which we have been put by our numer- ous arrests and coming trials, and we are gratiﬁed by the very liberal responses with which our request has been received; but the amount realized-thus far falls far below what we are obliged to have before we can properly prepare our cases for trial. We can draw nothing from the WEEKLY to meet these demands,\because it requires all that is realized to cover its current expenses, and its existence must not be endangered even to meet these very necessary claims. So we again say to our friends, while you nominally pay‘ one dollareach for our counterfeit presentations, a part of this is really to apply to expenses to which we have been put by the Government in its attempts to ‘‘squelch ’’ the WEEKLY, and that all who respond to the appeal -for this ‘ purpose contribute so much toward this end. ADDENDUM To THE ABOVE. Another way to help. Here are the two books, “Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government,” by Victoria C. Woodhull, price $3.; and “ Constitutional Equality the Right of Woman,” byTennie C. Claﬂin. Price $2 each with a splen- did steel engraving of its author. No man could have writ- ten either book, and perhaps no other woman than the one who in each case did. The bravery, originality, profundity, philosophy, embodied in each book, would make the fame of any man, and ﬁve hundred years hence will make that of each of these women, and would to-day if the world had brains enough to. appreciate. The books are alive; they breathe inspiration and were breathed by it; they sprang from the deep fountain of woman’s love, woman’s suffering, woman’s martyrdom; and they inaugurate the most glorious revolu- tion of all ages. Those two books alone are immortal, and la redeemed race will yetbe proud of them and their authors. And yet, not one in ﬁfty of the readers of the WEEKLY ever saw either book, but actually, not one if posted would con- sent to do without" both. ' But the portraits—-—-they explain the books. They are a study. Those faces stand out in unequaled relief against the world, as well as against each. other in those respects wherein each surpasses the other. ,No such head, face, eye as Tennie’s anywhere; nor,'then, as Victoria’s; but how dif- ferent!‘ Each a terrible power, but how different! Each a tremendous will, yet how different! Each so sad (who can say which sadder?) yet even in that diﬁerentl The greater gravity of the younger , as pathetically rendering woman’s woe as the greater experience of the elder! Victoria has an eye of ﬁre, a spirit; but that great, deep, wonderful eye of Tennie, such insight and clairvoyance as no other can show! Either head alone_ matchless, but neither alone nearly equal to both! Both such athe cause may be proud of; both glo- the price of the two books; the books——-and portraits thrown in; the portraits—and books thrown in. Buy up the whole edition of these" two books within one week after this is published-—that_ is the way to help. That will call out another edition, and that will be bought up in one month, and still the half will not be supplied. Go on, till all are served. A y ‘ Friends of the WEEKLY, friends of this cause, could you allcome to g New York, enter the oﬁ‘ice at 48 Broad-street, ‘ and see for yourselves how sorely these devoted toilers. need succor, these that bear aloft thegrand banner—how crippled they are in their eﬁ“orts——how much less they do even for their journal '_than positively ought to be done, and with what diﬁiculty for lack of means they do that——how they bend to their task all day, and far into the night, even to the small hours, and then, exhausted and pinched by self-denial that is not choice but necessity, on oﬂice lounges lie down, one, two, three, four, with the thought that if you only ‘knew all you would not leave them to feel unsustainedé ' could you see all this and more, of which they will never tell you, your willing hearts would leap to share your plenty with the want that is ﬁghting your battle! J OSEPH. TREAT. TO NEWSMEN AND FRIENDS. - We are‘ glad to be able to inform our friends that the American News Co. is now prepared to ﬁll all orders from its customers, as formerly, for the WEEKLY. The in- quisition which the authorities, located in this city, attempt- ed to establish over the freedom of the press, by their arrest of ourselves and Mr. Train upon the charge of obscenity; and, perhaps, the fear thatiwe had libelled Mr. Beecher have, until now, prevented the Company from supplying its customers. Hundreds of newsmen have, in the meantime, received notice that the Company does not furnish the WEEKLY, and they will now be obliged to renew their orders before they will be ﬁlled. Will our friends everywhere take the trouble to inform their newsmen of this change in the relation of the Company to the WEEKLY. We would alse specially request friends to send us the names of such liberal newsmen as would, in the various cities and towns, be most inclined to deal in the WEEKLY, so that we may take the necessary steps to furnish it to them. ~ __4Q. 4 V wr SEXUALVICE IN CHILDREN—No. 2. We have often said that, so far as we know what the truth is about any subject, we shall declare it; and whether the declaration bring us fame and honor, or, on the con- trary, contumely and detestation, we shall not stop to con- sider. The time has come in the ages when the truth needs to be told about everything in which the interests of human- ity are involved; and in those things of which the truth is not known, we are earnest and honest seekers, let it be what’ it may and lead where it will.‘ — If the truth about any given subject be that which, of all things, is now most despised and derided, that should beno reason for its concealment. On the contrary, judging from the past, the more a given truth is despised in the present, the greater beneﬁt it works for the future; and the more in- sane the 'original enunciators of it are considered, the greater the honor that is sure to be rendered "them in after ages, Thus, the most revered by the present, of all past ages, were in their time the most despised and insane. Therefore, when we are denounced by the press and the pulpit in the most opprobrious manner, having all the vile epithets of which the language is capable hurled at us; when to depravity and insanity the cry of idiocy. is added, we are inspired with great hope that what we are able to do may prove of some good "to the race; and that however insane——- mad even—we are now accounted, that the future will prove us to be ‘really more nearly sane than they who now revile us. . We are led to these reﬁections because we are now dis- cussing a subject which, of all subjects is, under the lead of the Christian Church, the most persistently ignored‘ by the people; and b‘ecause,~whatever truth there is in it of which we are informed, we are determined to speak it out, even in the very faces of those who stand ready again to cast us into prison. For them we do not care. Though" they may have power to kill the body, they have none to kill the soul. We scout them; aye, we defy them; and calmly proceed with the consideration of the curse that is settling down upon all childhood, and which, more. than any other, needs to -be averted. , a , It may be laid down as a rule, that at the" ages ofitwelve, thirteen and fourteen years, youth of both sexes begin to ex- perience the ‘sexual desire; and when they are besieged by vice, at a much! earlier age. N ow it is simply folly; aye, itiis madness, to pretend to think that a desire so utterly beyond the control of reason, when called into action, in the most self-possessed, omen -and women even, who in a measure understand it, will be controlled to best results by those who have been kept in the most profound. ignorance of its nature and uses. The simple presence of the desire suggests the method -of its gratiﬁcation; and is it to be supposed that children are wiser in ' things of which they know nothing, that they should escape the suggested danger, than grown people are, who have no danger to fear? But what has been done to guard or guide this tremendous impulse? Nothing! Absolutely nothing. Neither teach- ers, parents or priests have opened their lips either to instruct or to warn; while the very ;;methods used to shut oﬂ the riously representing Free Love! Andthe two portraits worth means of information create a morbid and utterly in- satiate_ desire to obtain it by stealth. And thus it is that the young, instead of being early supplied with scientiﬁc works treating amply and fully upon the sexual system, are left to the mercy of books gotten up specially to pander to morbid desires, while the fact that the subject is one never to be mentioned, even in the best-regulated families, shuts them off from all hope of rescue. Examine the advertisements glaring youth in the face in many popular journals, stated in such plain terms that none can mistake them! They are not there to catch the custom of the married. No; they are there to prey upon the necessities of the! youth roused to a sense of their danger by their own .appreciation_of the con- dition into which they have been permitted unguarded to ﬂoat. . Go ask -“ The Howard Association” and the dozen other similar institutions in the: country what their experi- ences are, and you will learn that thousands upon thousands ‘ of males, from ﬁfteen to twenty-ﬁve years of age, yearly apply forrelief from the results of this monster vice, while it is well known that multitudes more suifer on in silence, not having the moral courage even to attempt to obtain relief. Of our own knowledge we know that-a large proportion of those who suﬁfer do not dare to speak of it to their parents; but some of them muster courage to seek the advise of a physician, and he usually calms their apprehensionsand prescribes chamomile tea or some other simple nervine or anti-spasmodic; and thus children are led to think they are victims of something‘ for which there is no known cure, and a settled melancholy is liable to take possession of and to car- ry them into a rapid decline. Nevertheless, thousands of dollars are spent annually for theladvertised nostrums, which, if for the present they even alleviate the symptoms, as a rule, only make the disease more ﬁerce when their sedative effects are passed. It is only temporary alleviation at best. There is nothing in the Materia Medica, norgis their any known remedy in medicine, for the pernicious ‘soul-destroying effects of sex- ual vice. It is something so terrible that no root or herb or any combination of them can,” reach it. Being an unnat- ural action of a natural capacity, it is -beyond the realm of natural remedies. It is useless for parents to idly pass the warnings by, with the self-satisﬁed remark that this does not exist ,’_in my family. We tell you that it does exist. We tell you that children who are not the subjects of sexual vice are the exceptions and not the rule; and, moreover, we also tell you that the practice of sexual vice for two years inevitably‘ bring involuntary sexual action, and this is true, whether the vice itself is abandoned or not; but usually the vice deteriorates into this horrible condition which becomes substituted for the vice. . And what is more terrible to contemplate than all else be- sides is, that when once the vice is acquired it can never be abandoned, or if abandonment is attempted the inevitable involuntary action is certain to follow, and from the alarm which the discovery of the effects of the vice creates, the victim is hurled headlong into the despair of an incurable disease. Then quickly follow the long list of symptoms set forth in advertisements to sell medicinal nostrums, the ulti- mate of all of which is impotency or insanity—the unsexed physical and the undone mental. That these things are so cannot be controverted. All that is required to convince anybody is to make the’ necessary investigation; and it is criminal to attempt to shut it out from carrying its convic- tions everywhere to every parent’s soul. This being con- ceded, what is the next ‘step to be taken? There are two, ﬁrst and mainly, prevention; and, secondly,the cure; for notwithstanding the failure of all attempts by roots and herbs, there is a cure, and since it is the only one, it will certainly be adopted when reason and common sense shall assume their proper sway in the government ‘ofthese import- ant things. , S‘ ’ But here we will consider of what prevention consists. There is but one method of prevention, and that is a per- fect understanding of the whole sexual system, its construc- tion, functions and uses, and its capacity for abuses, by chil- dren, before the sexual capacity is developed in them. Side by side with the physical construction of the world the physical construction of the human frame should be the study,,and physiology and hygiene should not stop short of all the uses of the sexual organs. And all this should be taught in every school to both sexes conjointly, so that in early youth children shall not be drawn into the terrible mistake that these organs are indecent, obscene or vul- gar; but, on the contrary, that they may consider their func- tions just as proper subjects for discussion and investigation as those of the stomach are now considered to be. As a writer in a recent number of the WEEKLY said, the _reason why shame is attached to the consideration of sexu- ality, its organs and functions,’ is because, they have been used for excessive pleasure——pleasure that has been no pleas- ure, but mental and physical prostration, as they have been used when there was no sexual afﬁnity. The unnatural use of any faculty will produce an unnatural mental condition, and the unnatural use of amativeness has produced‘ a feeling of shame for the mention of these faculties.” g . Here is the whole philosophy of the present attempt to ig- nore the discussion and investigation of sexual subjects. Whoever professes to, or really does think that they are un- ﬁt for general or public discussion, are, or at some past time have been, the subjects of an unnatural use or abuse of these functions. Those who believe them to be perfectly, proper subjects for common investigation are those who have never been the victims of such use or abuse, or who have --....~,-_~\. ,—- -«—- :- . - ..._\.,,,n... . .*-..-. .. . . <' 5 ‘I ‘i y «%.....-..-......1’. A \-A-k.,;p?:~r.._.._ .- 4‘ .e.«...._-.4./if-._....-.-,. . -. ---,._,,,<\-...\ —-r-«—-:- - - .f. l .. t e..‘.--.~...,..L~ W.-7.‘_..:ﬁ’:~_-..-. »,- - . - .4. April 2e,‘,1e73. WOOIDHULL & CLAFLIN’S WE’EKLY.- . 9 ' passed safely through them and gained the higher order of nature. In children this condition is easily observable. Speak of self-abuse to a subject of it, and they will shrink abashed away, and will never again look the speaker squarely in the face. There is an involuntary consciousness that vice is palpable, that its evidence is carried in the face, which is the fact, to those who know its symptoms. Again is this philosophy illustrated by the mock modesty exhibited by a certain class of young ladies, who think it would be an evi- dence of immodesty not to blush if any reference is made to sexuality in company. Instead of being this, it is the real and the only unmistakable evidence of immodesty. Im- modesty does not consist in external appearance. It is a quality of the heart,iand if Ia‘ person “be impure at heart he or she will be immodest in company. This, too, is the doc- trine of Paul, who said : “ To the pure in heart all things are pure.” Never was there more profound philosophy an- nounced in fewer words than is this, and it would be well if that sentence were emblazoned on the threshhold of every household in the world. ’ The established customs and practices regarding almost everything connected with the sexual question need to be reversed; and in what manner is well illustrated by Fanny Wright’s reply to a clergyman with whom she was convers- ing upon social freedom. ,IIe said toiher, “Then your theory would make it perfectly proper for me to make a sexual proposition to you?” She, entirely unmoved, and without either indignation, as though she had been insulted, or affecting to hide her blushes behind the inevitable hand- kerchief, replied: “Certainly, and equally proper for me to decline it.” It ought at once, and forever, to be settled in the mind of every living being, that it is an impeachment of God and Nature to hold that there is anything immodest in Nature; and to hold that sexual subjects are improper for investiga- tion, discussion and public teaching, is an attempt to im- peach Nature for obscenity. The only obscenity there is, is the unnatural uses to which natural capacities are com- pelled by the denial of their natural use. Thus self-abuse is obscene, and all its effects horrible; but sexual intercourse, where there is legitimate natural desires, is not obsceneﬁ and no pure-minded person can ever conceive it to be so. Indeed, of all the sacred and holy things with which Nature abounds, none is so sacred and holy as that which, in God's highest economy, evolves immortal souls. Then, in the name of that God, in the name of humanity, present and future, let this unhallowed sexual vice which is poisoning the very springs of life, be exposed to the sun- shine of God’s truth, and let it be cured, let the remedy be whatever it may. Let every parent make him or herself fully conversant with all its conditions, and be prepared to instruct children in the true and natural uses of their sexual functions, and thus pave the way ﬁnally to the introduction into all schools of the science of sexuality as a common branch of education. In the meantime let parents closely observe their children, and do everything within their power to save them from the revolting effects of sexual vice, since, until education come, this is the only general means of relief from a curse greater than intemperance or prostitution; from a crime against humanit_v greater than abortion and child-murder, and from a pestilence worse than the cholera or the plague. —-——-—--mHs—an—--—'——— INQUIRIES ABOUT EREEDOM. We are daily in receipt of numerous inquiries regarding the various phases of the social problem, all of which when reduced to their true application are inquiries into the right or wrong of freedom itself. ‘It may be that the question- ers do not see this, or what is still nearer the truth, perhaps, do not see through the mist of their confused ideas to the real question at issue. The ﬁrst question to be decided before any of these collateral questions can be ﬁnally adjudged, is whether freedom or legal restriction is to be the rule. If freedom is admitted, then there is no question at issue, since then it is not anybody’s business what any other (person does, provided anybody is not interfered with; and all there is left to be done is to educate for and grow into higher condi- tions and enjoyments; but if freedom be denied, then we have no relish for the discussion, since argument with per- sons wishing to be despots amounts to nothing—persons “ convinced against their will are of the same opinion still?’ ‘ - , _ But we will select the queries propounded by*one corres- pondent and answer them seriatnm, with the hope that many others will ﬁnd themselves replied to thereby. The corres- pondent says: ‘ “In reading your paper of March 22, pages 11 and 12, I am led to ask the following: I ’ 1st. “ Are you contending for the right of any two per- sons, married or unmarried, to have sexual intercourse, provided both desire it and no one objects?” Anything less than a complete affirmative. in this would not be freedom. It is known to all who have read the WEEK- LY, that we claim for ourselves and accord to everybody else, the absolute right to determine as individuals when I sexual intercourse shall‘ supervene. When this question is argued, the fact that freedom for women is involved, is ap- parently lost sight of. Men have so long dominated over women, in this regard, it seems quite impossible for people to conceive that women can have any deciding power in this question. In a word, it is generally tacitly admitted that man has only to propose and woman to accede. But this is a most egregious error, and men will ﬁnd it to be so when woman shall assert her freedom, when indeed she shall rule supreme in this realm as she shall, and when men shall sue or accept instead of command. We therefore reply speciﬁcally, that we are “ contending for the right of any two persons, whether married or un- married, to have sexual intercourse, provided both desire it and no one objects;” but will everybody please remember, and right here is where almost everybody is pleased to mis- represent us, that we do not hold that all sexual intercourse that may occur under this right would be the highest attain- able condition. While we claim the right to freedom for all conditions, we also claim the right for everybody to at- tain to higher conditions; and we believe the highest condi- tion to which humanity can attain is the perfect union, in- tellectually, morally and sexually S of one man and one woman, which, we claim, is the only perfect marriage. We hold this is the highest sexual condition because we believe ‘there is most happiness to be gained in it, the degree of hap- piness being the standard of perfection. And we shall lose no opportunity to assist the evolvement of humanity toward the possibility of perfect marriage; while at the same time we shall strenuously insist upon the perfect freedom of all people in the conditions in which they are, to enjoy their freedom in their own way so as to secure the most happi- ness; that is, we believe in the rights of those who are in the lower stages of sexual growth as well as those who are for- tunately in more advanced conditions; while it were well if the most perfect of earth would consider that there are con- ditions as far in advance of themselves as they are in advance of others to whom they would deny the right of freedom for love. In an inﬁnitescale none can be highest, but all have the rights of their several positions in the scale. 2d. “If you are (contending for the above right), should the objection of any other avail to prevent it?” Now this depends upon -the character of the objection. To a legal objection, which, we presume, is the only one in ‘question, we reply, No! emphatically. But there may be many cases where an objection “should” prevent it; but never where an objection must prevent it. Compulsion in these matters is entirely inadmissible; but argument, advice and kindly restraint are always admissible. Then, whether they succeed or not, depends upon the strength of the desire and the power of the restraint, and this invokes the ques- tion of duty; but this, again, is something over which the individual has supreme control, since no one can any more command another regarding his duties than he can regard- ing his love. He may instruct, but not command. Hence, if the question is transferred from love to duty, a settlement is still as far removed as before. So then here we are brought back to the same position as in the previous ques- tion: Is freedom right or wrong? settling; which, settles the controversy. ' g r j g . S 3d. “Are you contending for the right to such, inter- course, if merely for pleasure, or do:§Iyou think it should be solely for propagation?” — V r 2 .- Nowhere is involved a very diﬂicult and a very important question—one which requires a calm and elab‘o_rate ‘consid- eration, in order that our position may beifully understood—- that we may notibe misunderstood, and that willful mis- ‘ statement may not be possible; but there is a clearwlsolution 'of it, so clear to us that we believe we shall A be ablelto make it equally so to all earnest and -honest seekers for the truth for its own sake. For those who seek it for selﬁsh motives we cannot speak. In view of all this, we shall defer the presentation of our reply to it, as well as to the several remaining questions, till next week; in the meantime invit- .ing a careful consideration on the part of our questioner of the abstract question of. freedom—.Is freedom or despotism the natural rule in the sexual relations? . -——-————~—>-—+Q>——<-%—i——- ' PERTINENT NOT PERSONAL. . We are glad to be able to inform the A readers’ of the WEEKLY that the resurrected Present Age, now converted in- to the Present Era, is to be an eminently respectable paper. From an editorial under the above heading we glean the fol- lowing items which are indicative of its course. The article evidently was written to inform its correspondents that, fol- lowing the lead ofthe Banner, it will permit no personal articles, pro or can. on Victoria C. VVoodhull. It says, “We have a letter which reflects with severity on one of the most active women in America. The Present Era cannot serve her enemies by denouncing her.” For this we are exceed- ingly ‘sorry, since we would have everybody who writes such articles enabled, by having them printed, to read them some years hence. The Present Era would greatly oblige us if it would permit the appearance of all such articles, even if it also follow the lead of another Spiritual journal, which ad- mits all criticisms against, but none for, Mrs. Woodhull, making the most outrageous misrepresentations of her posi- tions, sayings and doings, and refusing even a simple correc- tion. We congratulate Spiritualists on such journalism, and hope they may be blessed with just all of -it that they can stomach. . But we beg to correct the Present Age on some points in which it has fallen, perhaps unintentionally, into error. The person referred to was not cursed into public notice. If the editor of the Present Age, will remember, it will occur to him that her cursings came only after she became Presi- dent of the American Association of Spiritualists, and that they began with Spiritualists, for all of which she is duly thankful. But this little slip of memory is much more than equaled in kind by what immediately follows it: “For good or ill, the time to crush her and suppress the agitation she exasperates has gone by.” When did the time to crush her go by? Not until every possible power of church, state and press had been dragooned into the service and failed; and yet the Present Era would have it inferred that the appear- ance of severe articles in its columns would effect what all these combined had failed in doing. It is an admirable characteristic to have conﬁdence inVone’s own power; and if . that be the only question at issue to secure the success of the Present Era, it will assuredly succeed. , S _ No! “The short road to reform is not by the exposure of personal faults,” but one of the very best methods tojshorten the usually long road to reform is to tear away the barriers erected by a time-honored custom and hioary-headed bigotry, and erect in their stead the kingdom, of nature, and to de- mand that nature shall be set free, by the removal of all un- _warrantable interferences and despotic restrictions, let them -be of whatever character, or come from whatever source. The “ offensive picture galleries” and “moral deformities” more frequently exist in the minds of the observer than in that of the observed; it might be barely possible even in this case, although the observed forgot that: . “ They have rights who dare maintain them,” And lacked the moral courage to do so. We have not recorded ‘ “the progress of the science of anatomy in dissections on the curb-stones,” nor given our “plaudits to the physiologist for microscopic examination of fungi in the rniddleof the street or at the breakfast table;” but we recorded the progress of social freedom made in Plymouth Church in the columns of the WEELKY, which we forced before no person, either in the street or at the table. We trust the Present Era may in future, for its own sake, be rather moreclear in its comparisons, and not attempt to confound social science with that of.either physiology or anatomy. But had they been good, we diﬁ"e1« with the ’learned journal, since we believe that dissections , ought to be performed before the multitude, and that all that the microscope can disclose regarding fungi, ought to become public knowledge and, perhaps, be discussed even at the breakfast-table. But “they may not torture and destroy a dog, thus to educate and save men.” Oh, no, ’twas terrible to torture and destroy the slaveholder in order to save their slaves. It was terrible to dethrone King George in America in order that we might have political freedom. It was horrible that Luther, Melancthon and Calvin tortured and ‘partially destroyed Popery in order. that we might be able to have convictions and a conscience of our own. Yes"! All these things were terrible, and it is extraordinary how leniently they have come to be regarded by those who have proﬁted by them; and it. is more horrible than all these to dethrone the social despot- ism which is to-day crushing million of souls in damnation and despair, ‘in order that the future may be free from it. Oh, yes, all that is utterlysatanic. At least this is the logic of the lately resurreetedr Present Era. But we must be per- mitted to question the wisdom of this. We have but ljtﬂe conﬁdence in anybody who cannot stand the most analytic dissection and microscopic examination, that science can apply. We believe in relieving the beauties of character, formed in accordance with nature, of all the artiﬁcial shams with -which people invest themselves at the Command bf 3, Pharisaic public opinion, and we have ﬁrm faith that the fu- ture will shortly come to hold the same position—-that of the Present Era, to the contrary, notwithstanding. -——-———->-+9+—<———-—-—:— THE BROOKLYN EAGLE GOES FOR BOWEN’S SCALP. ‘ In the scramble for personal safety, may not the mask in Plymouth Church fall? There are not a few friends of Mr. Beecher who claim that Victoria Woodhull’s Beecher-Tilton Scandal is dead, and that six months more will suﬂice to place Mr. Beecher," as if it had never been made public. But after the dumb spasm of the press upon the subject for a considerable time, the Brooklyn Eagle, from its leyrie on the slope of Brooklyn Heights, fairly screeches at the profound silence that has reigned, and again the apparently smotheredtempest bursts again upon the public with renewed violence, threatening in its furious outslaught, not only to destroy but to fulﬁll; while to be added to this are the sullen mutterings coming in from all parts of the country, because the attempt of the ‘government under the dictation of the Y. M. C. A., was likely to succeed in saving the reputation of a “revered citi- zen.” ~ [From the Brooklyn Eagle, April 12.] If a dozen of the oldest and best-informed citizens of Brooklyn were required to name the man in this community whose character was most vulnerable, ten at least of the twelve would agree in presenting the name of Henry C. Bowen. This man has crawled on to an advanced age, and his whole life is unredeemed by a single act which was not prompted by a sordid motive. At this particular time there are especial reasons why he should shrink from challenging criticism, and especially at the hands of men who live by the profession of journalism, which he and his have done their very best to drag down to the level of a venal trade. It is known in every newspaper office inithese two cities, that Henry C. Bowen is the author of, perhaps, all that is tangible in the slanclers on the life and morals of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher--slanders which have" permeated recently, in one form. or another, every circle of society in these cities. \ Ct" -culated. idiot who bears his name, and on the Bohemians cruciﬁxion and say “Thy will, not mine.” W I . » W‘0¥0D.I~IULL ed ctartrnrsiiwnsntr. . April 26, 1873. _, 4* It is equally well known that, in order to blast the reputa- tion of the pastor whose ministrations he still ostentatiously professes to proﬁt by, Henry C. Bowen was prepared to sub- ject to the world’s pity or scorn, a member of his own house- hold. These slanders have never yet been made public tn all their htdeous enormity, because the press, wtth la -unantmtty and a magnantmtty which rose to the level of chivalry, shrunk . from performing what was, perhaps, tts duty,‘ and saved the worthless Bowen tn order to shield from accusation, even, the character of Mr. Beec-he,r——a man whose intellectual endow- ments area source of common prtde to his countrymen of every party, class and creed. Emboldened by this impunity, this man Bowen has used his feeble newspaper, published in this city—~a newspaper kept alive by fraudulent pretenses to cir- culation and inﬂuence—to bring into public contempt, if possible, the character of a number of Brooklyn’s best known and most respected citizens. No amount of charity——no consideration for the men Bowen has slandered, from Mr. Beecher down, can any longer be expected to shield him from the pillory of public scorn in which he deserves to be placed. We are prepared, of course, to ﬁnd Bowen shuﬁling responsibility on the emas— who are subjected to the degradation of being compelled to lick into shape the inane malignity of “ this successor of his father’s fame,” but we will hold to accountability the monumental slanderer, against whose malice_the ministerial character and the ties of blood afforded "no protection. If in the routine of public affairs the dismissal of a contuma- cious and inefficient employe, leads to the full exposure of a hypocritical sneak, it will result in clearing the local atmos- phere of a cloud of slander, which has_ depressed the spirit of a Christian community, and emboldened the vicious by encouraging them I “ To scorn the best as hypocrites who only hid The deeds the holder spirit plainly did.” This evidently means business. It is keen without being satiric, and clearly is uncompromising. Henry C. Bowen will be forced to the walland made to defend himself or be . run down. The question is, will he quietly sufl‘er death and permit others to go unscathed? We do not believe Henry C. Bowen to be made of Christ stuff. He will not suffer , But what does the Eagle mean? We are not aware of any slanders “ which have recently permeated every circle of society” that had. origin in Mr. Bowen. We have heard many rumors for which Mr, Bowen has the credit of being authority. And that the Eagle refers tothem is patent, be- cause he says it was a member of Mr. Bowen’s own house- hold who is involved. Has the Eagle been made acquainted with the contents of the Woodstock letter, which Mr. Bowen was unwise enough to write to Mr. Tilton? and which a commission of Mr. house, riﬂing it of unwholesome liquors, and supplying in their stead reﬁned communion wine, I suppose. He thinks a minister is “ the noblest work of God,” and counsels them that their calling requires of them to be “ﬁshers of men,” that like a wary angler they must lurk in the bushes, or slip through them on their bellies like a snake, to take captive sinners unawares; enforces his counsels by illustrations from his own experience wherein he was successful in out- witting uncultivated or abusive men. He is a trapper, and all men are game to him. He boasts of it in his goose-talk to his theological goslings——proves_his point by showing the skins of the game he has bagged, as would an Indian. He has studded phrenology, and knows {a man as readily as a ﬁddler does catgut and rosin. Let him look at his forehead and hindhead and he will play on him any tune you like, merry or mournful. And he don’t know that this sort of manage- it, and proved it to be religion? And if lying in wait and ensnaring silly people for their salyation is religion, surely it can’t be irreligious to “take in” so many silly women as are necssary for’one’s own salvation! I think those trappers who set gins for me for my good are more to be dreaded than those who do it for their own. But it is only a question of names; and a trickster labelled missionary or murderer, is a trickster stil. ‘ ‘i H. W. B. is a fool, who doesn’t know enough to be honest. Such are the greatest fools of any. And it is wonderful to me that Mrs. W. should choose,a fool to teach wisdom, and a liar to champion truth. This infatuation puts me more in doubt of her than all things else.~ She seems a person who has espoused truth with a supreme love; and with that sense, of her I have named her my sister in a very high and holy place in my heart. I should be sorry to feel that she loves her pet reform_ more than the truth, that she would at all seek its advancement by intrigue and cunning; and Itrust she knows that a good cause gained by artiﬁce is lost in the gaining. It is the spirit in which we work that is the victory or the defeat. ’ W Yet it would seem that she has been told from an outward and perhaps invisible side what to do, and has regarded that instead of the inward voice. This is always very unsafe and very profane. Or is she, too,\a little hooked by this expert angler-—a little enchanted and bewildered by this juggler— that she ever insists upon his “ great and regal nature,” and gives him credit for. sincerity when he asserts that his fellow- ship with her in the doctrines of social science and his con- scientiousness in his debaucheries, although she knows him to be aliar and a murderer, ready to sacriﬁce her life by false imprisonment—hers, and her sister’s and husband’s— ready to make a mistress perjure herself or to worry the hus- band of that mistress into a premature and dishonorable grave to save his own reputation? Of course, with his ex- acting, amative nature he could not do differently. He is not to be blamed. No one is; not even the roosters here by my window. They do as well as they can, and ‘better than if Beecher’s‘friends decided that Mr. Tilton must give up be- fore he, should receive from Mr. Bowen the money he" claimed as due him? ' And if the Eagle is acquainted with the contents of that letter, as all the said Commissioners are, why will it notin- form we public if it charges the crime of rape, involving Mr. Beecher and a member of Mr. Bowen’s household, as 1.u_n1()1‘_l1a.S it, and thus forever set this terrible matter at rest? It would seem that something remains to be told, since the Eagle says, “ These slanders have never been made pub- lic in all their hideous enormity, because the press, shrunk fyoni‘ performingwhat was, perhaps, its duty.” We have never credited nor given currency to the Bowen scandals, Since their authority to us rested with a single person; and it is . only by the aflirmation of two or more that all this could be established. But if the Eagle have awell-grounded knowl— edge, it may be prepared to,perform its duty and compel the mask that exists somewhere to fall. In the meantime we com- mend the Eagle article to the consideration of those who re- gently have comforted themselves by the hope that the Beecher-Tilton—Bowen Scandal is dead. We predict that it is just beginning to have life. _.._.__~.——:o-o-ax-’————-—-~—— A NEVV VIEW OF THE CASE. That there is something new under the sun is still true, even in regard to the much-discussed Beecher-Tilton case. “ Almost everybody regards it from a different standpoint from everybody else, and when numerous parties set down the views they {severally get of it,‘,they are found to be obser- vations from” different positions‘, exposing different points I‘ and characteristics of ‘the object or objects viewed, and neither of these deny the truth of any other. We had thouolit that every possible change had been rung upon this subj at but the extract which we publish below proves that c ere at fault. , Hm: s letter been an ordinary one; indeed, did it not "bear upon its face the stamp of extraordinary analysis and discernment, and were not penned in such graceful style, we had passed its criticism by, as we are compelled to pass, hundreds by ; but since there is something lll it, above and beyond ordinary criticism, we feel called upon to reply brieﬂy to the several main features it presents : or FROM A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED GONN., MONDAY, H FEB; 10, 1873. Since I heard from you I have been reading Beec,her’s Yale lectures on preaching, which exhibit him to me far more thoroughly than Mrs. W. has. If you will look it through, noticing especially the narrations from his own e)::per1e‘nce, showingthe method and animus of his whole life-work, you will understand l1i.n better thain she does. He gravely in- structs 1,he1nch0a,te,.mVi1iisters that the ideal minister is “a EXTRA they should affect conscience and justify their self-abandon- ment to the pursuit of variety by the demands of their great nature. They would sink then nearer to a level with elo- quent and distinguished preachers! I see in the last VVEEKLY Mrs. W. afﬁrms anew her faith in his ﬁnal arrival at her side, and her content that he should wriggle and twist himself there in his own time and way. It is a strange hallucination that one can attain to heroism through a self-seeking and time-serving spirit. _ So far as I know, it is by forgetting one’s-self ;-bylleaving all and following only truth and beauty that one can become their disciple. Unless one love these with all one’s love, and might, and strength—so absorbingly, all goes for nothing. Behold these august lovers of the soul stand at the door and knock. Their locks are wet with the dews of the night; but I say, “ wait till I see that it is safe for me to let you in.” And do you think that thissin against the Holy Ghost will be forgiven me in this or any world? Nay, verily. _ V G-. Now, what are the points of this letter, which runs so smoothly along from beginning to end that none seem to be presented upon which to lay hold. To us they seem to. be these: ‘ 1st. Is Mr. Beecher wholly bad, even if what is stated in the letter be true? ' * 2d. Has our position been properly appreciated by the writer? and 3d. Has our position in regard to Mr. Beecher, even so early as this, been sustained by the logic of events? Our involuntary correspondent will pardon us if, in re- plying to these propositions which we deduce from his letter, we follow a similar method to his, as though we were pursuing an undivisable subject, since at best to discuss either of the three propositions separately is to discuss them all conjointly. ~- It will be remembered by all who have ever read the Beecher—Tilton article, published in the WEEKLY of No- » vcmber 2, that all our reasons and motives for making it public, as well" as what it was expected would be accom- plished by its publicity, were at length and distinctly set forth. Now, whether the wisdom of our reasons and the purity of our motives have been justified by that which has thus far transpired, so as to be clear to every one, we do not claim, since so important an event may rightly demand a great length of time in which to become justiﬁed by its re- sults, and for this reason we have permitted the rough us, with scarcely an attempt tostay or even rebuke its course. VVe have permitted our foes to malign and our friends to question us, with patienceand resignation, having iustiﬁer of all l}l'llll,g‘.‘s’, would ultimate‘: y speak more potently for us and for lllr. Beecher than we can speak either for our- universal, spiritual burglar,” breaking into every n1an’s selvesor for ‘him. ment and craft is profanity. Bless you, no. Hasn’t‘he tried . entirely, that all other loves arc_as hatred in comparison—it, waves of an aroused public prejudice to sweep rudely over all thctime an interior <:m:1s:cio‘usness that time, the great - But it must be this justiﬁcation by ‘time or otherwise, that will determine for the whole people the wisdom 0f 0m‘ choice of subjects, and with this neither the good nor the bad qualities of Mr. Beecher have anything to do. We had an object to accomplish, which required a subject. VVG choose Mr. Beecher, and it was not whether Mr. Beecher as the individual was this, that or the other, which was the question at all; but the question was whether he was the best subject whom we had at our command to choose. VV6 frankly admit that he was not by any means the only one whom we might have chosen; but we must still hold to; our original choice as the best that could have been made ;-, in a word, we are even more profoundlv imD1‘6SS@d than at’ the time, that V“ of all the centresllof inﬂuence on the great- breaking up an old civilization and ushering in a new one, could have found no such spot for its vantage-ground as Plymouth. Church, no such manfor the hero of the plot 2&9» its reverend pastor, and, it may be, no such heroine as the gentle,cultured and, perhaps, hereafter to be saintcd wife of Plymouth Church’s most distinguished layman,” and W11€t11e1' we are justly open to the criticism of this letter or not de- pends upon the t’ruth or falsityof this proposition; and If this be true, were Mr. Beecher a demon and altogethel‘ 3» very ﬁend incarnate, that could not affect it; but if this be false, were he the incarnation of the spirit of Christ even, it have not yet demonstrated the wisdom of our choice of subjects, it is too early to set up a counter claim that it was either unwise or preposterous. But have not events aheady shown that all, and much. more than we could have expected, has more than justiﬁed the wisdom of our choice? What was it that was demandeclf? VVhy, something that would call the attention of the whole world to the subject of sexual freedom, and compel the whole world to discuss it. Has not all this been done, and done, too, in spite of the utter refusal of almost the entire press to discuss it, notwithstanding a very considerable num- ber of its editors have for two years been in possession of the principal facts of the case? More than ﬁfty of these persons have personally acknowledged-‘this possession to us; but the facts involved are of that character upon which, by com- mon consent, men maintain a masonic silence. Indeed, in sexual morals men are all Freemasons, considering their fcalty to each other in all so—called crimes, excepting only murder and treason, as superior for the demands of. society. In demonstrating this, another important, aye momentous, fact has also come to the surface, which refutes another say- ing that has become almost an axiom: that the press con- trols and represents public opinion. This case, which the press has ignored—or, still more forcibly, condemned—the people have discussed more widely,v.and still discuss the principles involved in it more profoundly than any other- that ever came before the public; in a word, it has brought a question fairly before the people gencral1y,.which the press and the clergy were determined should never have general considera1.;ion, thus proving the people to be greater than both press and pulpit combined. And who, of all men 011 the broad green earth but Henry Ward Beecher, could have been chosen to work such a rev- olution——a revolution which, at this particular period of the world’s history, when a whole press can be subsidized or compelled into silence, while one of- the ﬁrst principles of liberty—a free press—is suppressed and outraged, was de- mandcd, to teach this very press and pulpit their real weak- ness when pitted against the popular or the public good? Hereafter, as ‘a result of this case, the people will lead the press, and the pulpit will be compelled to yield its assumed spiritual dominion to the greater power of public opinion. Thus, not only has a subject, which shall become the healing of the nations, been brought to the consideration of the people, but two despotisms, threatening to become more intolerable than that of .a Henry the V. or a Caligula, have been dethroned, and the people freed in a way that shall be- come patent to them all at no distant day. And now, what of the goodness or the badncss of a char- acter, the importance of which to the public is more than Press and Pulpit? We should be sorry to feel that the pub- lic honor is so degenerate as to make a character that is wholly degencrateits ideal; and whatever may be the judg- ment of individuals, We can never believe that such a thing can occur. We have a profound belief in the goodness of human nature. Whatever way it may have been incrusted by those who have attempted to command it, let that crust be broken, let the soul be reached, there will be found the germs of goodness and purity. . Now, whatever Henry Wa1'd Beecher may seem to be to individuals, none but a great and a good heart could so penetrate that crust of a thousand years, which Christianity has bequeathed to mankind, and so stir the-soul concealed be- neath it in the people, as Henry Ward Beecher. A ~’l‘his must be so, else, whence his power over the people? The power of badness is that of physical force. Not such is the power that is wielded by Henry ‘Ward Beecher. There is, besides the power of physical force, a certain intellectual power, standing, cold and calm in its heartless grandeur, which sometimes moves the world; but nobody whom lcctuall_y—-never touches the heart-—whilc Henry ‘VVard Beecher ,moves the heart, seldom touching the intel- lect. ,, So true is this that merely‘ intellectual persons broad planet, the destiny that shapes our/ends, bent on. V would not remedy the error. Therefore we claim, if events ‘ we know pretends‘ to credit Henry Wa1'61 Beecher witlr this. Besides, this power moves the people intel- 4 4 -April 26, 1373. are his most severe critics, saying he is never known to preach two sermons alike, either in theory, doctrine or phi- losophy, and never to contradict himself less than a half dozen times in each. it . Therefore we repeat, that the power wielded by Henry ‘Ward Beecher over the masses isneither that of brute force 1101‘ yet of a cold intellect, but that it is the power of interior goodness; a power, perhaps, of which Mr. Beecher himself may be in ignorance, and which may not be suspected by those who know him, as they think, best. ' We are therefore, by the inevitable logic of facts, when harmonized with the great plan of divine economy in‘ na- ture, compelled to the belief that all we said of Mr. Beecher as having been in the right, and the great repressive public which would make him wrong, in the;wrong itself, is true, having for its basis the immutable law of-God. It will be remembered that a great man once said: “ E pm’ st’ mauve ;” but the great repressive public said: “No! the sun only moves.” Nevertheless, the laws .. of nature sustained the philosopher. We feel that we know that the later philoso- pher, though compelled by the same great public to save himself from moral death, to declare that the world does not move, still knows in his heart that it does. PLATFORM OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS PARTY- SIXTH PLANK. I “That all public enterprises should be managed for the public use, so as to produce an income that will pay the cost of construction, management and maintenance only.” The question that arises primarily in the consideration of this question is this: “ What are public enterprises? ” We replyin general terms, that alpublic enterprise is anything that is calculated to aﬁect the interest, well-being or condi- tion of the people generally. And this leads to a- still more important question, which really underlies all other questions that relate to tl1c public interest, which is this: Is commun- ism or individualism the law of organization; are public in- terests communal or individual; is competition or co-opera- tion the industrial law A? Now in these questions all the controversies which are now dividing the ra-nks of those looking for industrial jus- tice, are involved. And these, again, bear upon the still more fundamental question: Whether the. interests of hu- manity are universal or individual; whether the people of the world are really a race of brothers and sisters, whose indi- vidual interests are best subserved when the general inter- ests of the whole are most completely maintained, or whether it is every individual for him or herself, at whatever expense to others? Is it individual sovereignty entirely sep- arated from all connection with the general good; or is it the general good to be promoted by the efforts of individuals; is it selﬁshness or universal love that shall be the rule of life! These are vital questions; questions that underlie the very foundations of the human race, and, as basal, have ever been the subject of consideration in some one or other form since historic time began. All prophets, seers and inspired of all ages; all revelations, prophecies and the aims of the great and the good, join in a common reply to these ques- tions, and proclaim it is impossible that self-interest can ex- ist at the expense of the general interest in any highly devel- oped condition of society. Were. any other system to become the ultimate rule, then it would be impossible for equity ever to be inaugurated in the world. But the demand for equity has already gone forth, and it must be answered, and it caninever be answered by a competitive system of industry. A fatal. argument against competition industry is that it makes the attainment of the results ofi ndustry the aim of life, whereas the highest aim of life is something far above men, physical wealth, merging into intellectual and moral posses- sions. To attain these is the highest duty, also the greatest happiness. ,. A Viewing industry from this standpoint, and making it the means to other and better results, there can be no question as to whether or not all public intere‘_sts should be managed for the public use at cost, since it demands it absolutely. Those who oppose this proposition, virtually maintain that Astors, Stewarts, Vanderbilts, etc., are to be the rule of in- dustrial justice, and uphold the right of corporations to levy enormous proﬁts upon the people, by which to increase the wealth of this stockholders. For our part we could never see why any but stockholders and the men of immense wealth should ever oppose the principle ‘of the “ sixth plankz” absolutely everybody, except those referred to are interested in the ‘immediate adoption of its, policy. It is a proposition simply that while all public enterprises that are necessary shall exist, they shall be managed in the interests , of the public instead of for the self-interests of a few indi- viduals. In such management no single interest of labor could possibly be infringed. It would require just as many laboring persons to conduct them, when under the manage- ment of the agent of the people, as are required to do so now, while their pay might be increased by the’ amount of proﬁts that now accrue to their owners. ' Is there any objection to the present management of the postal service? A None! Of all the public enterprises, per- haps, no other is so well managed. 'Would there be any objection to the "management of a system of telegraphy in connection with the postal system‘? No one can think! of any logical objection outside of that of the owners of pres"- ent telegraphs. .Go a step further and think if I there could be any reasonable ground against the inauguration of v a. magniﬁcent system of public markets to be conducted by the agents of the people for their interest? ,Of all the present ills from which industry suife1's none are so gigantic as the present system of middle-men, hucksters, or dealers in the products of labor; and none that ﬁlch so much annually from purchases. . — Y - ‘ . The great end to be attained is to. permit the producers to have and hold all they produce less only the actual cost of living. In all this producers are interested, and none should be opposed to it except those who desire to live from the labor of others. A . , , I - . A The gradual assumption by the, Government of the. man» agement of public enterprises is the natural road from the present antagonisms of labor and capital interests to a com- munity of perfect interests; to that condition in which all industries will be scientiﬁcally organized and the Whole world reduced to system and order. _..j____,_,o,_‘m.__.._‘____ A HEART-RENDING STORY. We have recently been put in possession of the manuscript containing portions of «the history of the life of Mrs. lication of next week, the ﬁrst chapter of which was intend-. ed for this number, but was pressed over for want of space. This history relates, speciﬁcally however, to her alleged crime of attempting to protect her daughter, who is. the child of a prominent and wealthy citizen of from the man who drugged and seduced her when twelve years of age; to her arrest, imprisonment in the Tombs, and her “ railroading ” to Sing Sing in four days after theiarrest, for ‘four years; her three-years’ residence there, and her pardon, at the solicitation of men and women, high in politicaland social positions at Washington and elsewhere. ‘ INTRODUCTION. I propose giving to your readers in a series‘ of chaptersla full, fair statement of my arrest, trial and conviction, the causes which led to it, and my treatment while in the Tombs and at Sing Sing Prison, hoping by this means to open the eyes of the masses to the fearful wrongs perpetrated in this city and State by the strong and wealthy upon the weak and powerless. I also intend to call attention to the In- spectors of State Prisons for the State of New York, and show how Well they discharge the duties for which they re- ceive the people’s money, the kind of women they appoint for matrons, the quality of food given to the convicts, the sanitary condition of the prisons as to bathing and ventila- tion, the treatment I received from Dr. “ Peter Prime,” the peculiar methods of torture, how Women are killed and how doctor and matron play into each other’s hands, where the viets go, who use the medicine, and where theimoney and ,clothes which the convicts bring in go—a.1l this, and more, I will show up, so that “ they who have eyes can see.” CAROLINE E. VREELAND. It was well for the woman taken in adultery, upon whom the great Nazarene passed judgment, that none of her own sex were present on that interesting occasion. If society in Jerusalem at that period was anything like society in New York, when the decree was rendered, “Let him (or her) who is without sin among you cast the ﬁrst stone at her,” how her sisters would have piled in for the rocks.’ A curious by- stander suggests that, in all probability, the size "of the stones thrown would range in an inverse ratio to the continence of the stone throwers. e UNANSIVERABLE ARGUMENTS. We clip the following arguments, which by :the way are unapproachable by any other kind, from the New York Sun of the 14th inst. They all tell the same story: ' — O Ant/untent N0. 1. ‘John McDermott, of 426 West Fifty-second street, killed his wife at half past 7’ o’clock yesterday morning by 1iepeat.— edly striking her on the head with‘ a. stone hammer. The crime was instigated by jealousy of his cousin, Patrick Ryan. ‘ . I It is not known'that McDermott has habitually beaten his wife, but he seems‘ to have maltreated her until his con- cience troubled him, for on returning home on Saturday night he told herhe was going to church the next Imgrning to make confession, and that he would be a good man here- after. His Wifewas overjoyed at thispromise. ' E , Argumenzf N0. 2. ' Yesterday morning Justice Walsh committed Thomas Moran to answer the charge of Wife murder. On Thursday night, on returning to his home, 28 Portland avenue, Brook- lyn, drunk, he began scolding his wife, Mary. She ran from him and secreted herself in a room on the top ﬂoor; Moran pursued and caught her, and seizing her by the hair dragged her to the stairs and kicked her down. On reaching the basement stairs‘ he pitched her headlong down. Springing on her" he kicked her about the head and body. Dragging her to the back basement hecontinued striking and kicking her. He then choked and threw her across the bed. As he pre- pared to go sheraised her hands_and.said_: “ Moran, you have done it at last.” I On Friday night she died. .. Argument No. 3. On Saturday morning Terence Fitzpat1'ick,'living on the beat his wife. To escape from him‘ she sprang to the win- but the line broke and she fell to the stone area way. When taken up she was unconscious. ,Heriarm and leg were broken. The husband Was arrested. ' V ‘ A9";/umeitt No. 4. UTICA, April .l3.——The wife of Robert Pierce, near Camden, was found ‘dead at her house this morning, having been killed by her husband. A child four years old says she saw her *ather do the deed. The murderer is still-at. large. , l woonnett at cLArLm,=s WEEKLY.- Caroline E. Vreeland, which we shall begin the pub-,, food and clothes charged to the State for the use of the con- ' third floor of 255, Hudson avenue, Brooklyn, attempted to . dow and tried to descend to the pavement on a clothes line, . ,,,,, __, .. .. , ii HARK! FROM THE TOMBS. ..._._.__..u ‘GEO. runners TRAINS rouarrr MONTH IN THE .Nobody Altlowcd to see the Uo7nz°ng Dz'ctdlor—-The President of the Murderers’ Club Removed from Murderers’ R0t0——Bette7- Qucl7°tco*s but Perfect Isolation-I[und7'eds Odlling but’ no one Admt'ltcd—— What Does it all Jlfcdn .9-—Quotdtz'ons from the Bible on the Wdll——Montgome7'y Legion Ohocsc‘ Him Brigadier-G‘eneml—IIm'd at Work on the Pagan Bzble-- Pdtmbtlc Letters and mmcwhwllle Epigmm Replz'es—-—The Re- po7°te7'._0f the W. 0. W. Passes the Baxrricddc with his Secret Poss. ‘ ‘ .-_—..._ THE SEN SATION TRIAL OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. (Note from J. H. B.) , 48 BROAD STREET, April 9, 1873. ‘Dear Mr. Tmt'n-—Congratulations on your narrow escape from assassination. The attempt was dastardly. _,When will the world understand that you. are ﬁre-proof, prison-proof, bullet-proof until your destiny IS ended! _ Another immense broadside in the WEEKLY to—day._ The pillars of the temple are trembling. The Pagan Bible is an army of truth. Why not immortalizc yesterday’s jury 111 eplgram? J. H. B. THE COMING DICTATOR’S EPIGRAM RESPONSE. That’s so. You are right dear J. H. B., They can’t assassinate destiny. When ball canieerashing through the glass, ‘ I stepped aside to let it pass.’ THE. ruinous TRIAL on THE BIBLE. Tuesday, April Eighth, Eighteen Seventy-three, Will be an important day in history. There’s no such case in Tombs, Newgate or Old Baily 011 record like this before Chief Justice Daly. No wonder the counsel, who themselves employed At the prospect of fame, seem overjoyed. To General Chatﬁeld, first in the ﬁeld, Mott, Bell and J ordan, all courteously yield. The judge and the jury assembled at four, The Court was never so crowded before. ~ District-Attorney was prompt in his place, And Hammond came in with his Expert grace. Green was there to report for the Sun. Dana thinks “ Insanity” newspaper fun. Only one paper had heard of the case, And that one only to spit in its face! Wm: Band on trial in this action so sad, Would he think it a joke if the Court found him mad THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. Dana, Bowlers, Waterson, White, Halstead and Reid Elected Grant through Greeley, Murphy and Tweed; ‘ Sam Barlow, Belmont and Sehell put up the game, And now I expose it they call me insane. / When the panic wipes out the national debt, And press and bankers are in bankruptcy swept, The people will see how they were bought and sold At the late election with English gold. As soon as I fully escape the fraud, My Dictatorship they will all applaud. The drought of falsehood requires a shower Of lightning truth through the one-man power. EMBALMING THE JURYMEN. Three were challenged: Thompson, Harris and Scott, And hence these men are already/forgot? P But the.rest will go down to endless fame, As I hereby record each juror’s name: Cardozo, Caswell, Secor, Erith, Hammett, Miles, Roswell, Smith, Hoguet, Carl and Bennett, And Townsend, who won a round of applause By saying “ Train was smarter than the laws.” All the jury warm praises earned: Nine were sworn and three aﬁirmed. They seem a splendid set of men, And act and talk like gentlemen. T-he Church, of course, will be in a fury When they see I have three “ Friends ” on the jury. Nine kissed the Bible with a shameful look; . I never would kiss such an “ obscene ” book. A man indicted for being OBSCENE,” Is tried for ‘_‘ LUNACYI ” What does itmean? Ye hypocrites and swindlers get out of the way; God and the Bible are on trial to-dag/. - GEO. F. TRAIN, (Who cannot be duplicated, living or dead, and hence, when Dictator, ' can do more for the people than the people can do for him). THE Terms (with an assassin‘s bullet-hole in the Centre-street window), April 9, 1873. [From a distinguished A7‘ti$t, Lecturer and Wm'ter.] RooM 53, BIBLE HoUsE, 3 ‘Third Avenue, New York, April 9, 1873. f lily Dem‘ Tra73n—‘-Game to the last. I admire yourpluck. I want to be present at your trial (Tuesday next). JURY: dc lu/nattco inqutrendo. ‘Can I be of service to you as a. Witness? as I did on the stump last fall. I would like (upon oath) to tell the fools who do not know your true Worth what I think of you after ﬁfteen years of acquaintance, and admiration of your honesty, morality and public life of usefulness. of Charities, etc.,’_’ that,‘ “physt'et'ans have ordered that no one visit Mr. Train.” Can this be true? command your friend, W. E. MCMASTER. Dear W. E. McM., Artist, Writer and Essaytst: ' I My friends are uniting far and wide To try and stop this “ insane” tide Against the Chief of people’s cause, A bigot Church and swindling laws. ’Tis not my funeral! I-I ad you moved faster, And struck for Train, good friend McMaster, ll Ion would not wear Tammdnyfs shroud! , _, For the past 100 daysl have defended you in social circles, . I wish to see you,'and am informed at “ Commissioners of, Let me hear from you; and if I can in any way serve you,‘ Last fall, when with that Greeley crowd . , your new quarters. 12 I I WOODHULL as 'CLAFLIN?S WEEKLY. April 26, 1873. V By'a11 means come into the witness stand And help break up the Beecher pirate band! G. F. T., ’ i (The White Elephant of the Graphic). THE Tomas, April 12, 1873. 1 ._M_ AN EXPERT IN ::THE WITNESS’ BOX. . ONE OF THE MEN OFESCIENCE SUBPCENED IN THE WHITEV ELEPHANT CASE. , « V » _ _ NEW YORK,.Apri1_ 3, 1873. MR. GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN: . . _ Dear Sir¥—Allow me tointroduce to you my learned friend, Dr; Edward H. Dixon, of this city, long a resident thereof. You have probably heard of him as th_e,_able‘ editor of the Scalpel, issued‘ for many years in New York. ’ I I am, dear sir, very respectfully, your friend, . _ E. G. HOLLAND. 62 VARIOK STREET. . » EPIGRAM REPLY. » . ~ . I THE Tomes, April 9, 1873. Dear G.’ G. H. and E. H. D.—, Walk in if you have liberty. Now Christians are on the alert, All Pagan friends must be expert. A man who so long has spent Analyzing temperament; _ A man whose mind is all his own, And charities are widely sown, Who, in the Scalpel, at great cost, Developed science so long lost, Who caught a burglar twenty years ago, And sent him to Sing Sing Murderers’ Rovg; The man who wrote the history of crime, Friend Holland is welcome at any time. - ' ‘GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, (Who believes that the lunatic asylums of the country are populated with sane .people under a system of fraud unknown in other parts of the world). ' C A I THE" COURTESIES OF MURDERERS’ ROW. Dear E. S. S.—in acknowledgment of apyramid of ﬂowers. , . G. F. T. EPIGRAM. I love the earth, the sky, the sea, To breathe the air of liberty; . I love the lightning-thunder showers, And worship these beautiful ﬂowers That John has just brought from seventy-tliree— ’ I-Iow kind of you to remember me. * >1: i >’.< ' >z< >x< >z< MALEDICTIONS ON THE RING. ’Tis not my fault I fare so well, G——d d——n their shirking souls to hell! ‘How dare they cram their canting Christian lies "Down your throat and deny you‘ exercise? What right have they to force their prayer Through iron door and deny you air? E/’very prisoner in the Tombs to-day E Ought. to have a room like this over the way. Better die the victim of a noblecause Than submit to all these swindling laws. . These men who cause all our disasters Are all our servants, not our masters. STOKES THE BRAVEST OF THEM ALL. Fisk did not leave the world too soon, You were an individual Commune. Your single-handed vigilance committee Smashed the Ring and saved the city! Have you forgotten Eighteen Fifty-seven, When the devils entered their Wall-street heaven? All was as calm as a summer morn, I When a whirlwind swept oﬁ all their corn. , The smash of the Ohio Life and Trust Was signal for the general “bust.” Butnow the ﬁnancial atmosphere _ Is full of France:and_Robespiere, Revolution, Danton and Mirabeau—— * There’ll be he’ll to pay in Murderers’ Row. THE GUANO CLUB. The dirty suds of theft, and wealth of spoil, As manure enriches a worthless soil, Sticks to. Hank Smith, Murphy, Grant and Tweed As eorruptiondoes to Thurlow Weed. - Will “ Century” expulsion of Lawyer Lane Wipe out, do you'think,~the Sherwood stain That rests on so many counterfeit men Who pass in society for gentlemen? I have written an epigram to Dix. , That may knock down a pile of bricks. All you require, my friend, is time To wipe out what was not a crime. , GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, (Who considers Stokes more worthy of a monument than a gallows.) THE Tomas, midnight, April 10, 1873. CLOSE CONFINEMENT IN THE TOMBS. _ A _ _ _’ I Bnooxmm, April 9, 1873. Dear Mr. Train-—I am very anxiouspto have an interview with you, but it seems impossible to gain access to you in PRAY wHAT Is THE MATTER ? I told Commissioner Bell to-day, that you would like to see me, but Mr. Bell said that Dr. N ealis, had f07‘b%'0l- den your seeing any person, as he, Nealis, was fearful the ex- citement of seeing visitors would injure you and unﬁit you for the trial. * * * Drs. Gurnsey _and the list of doctors sent you are ready to testify that you are sane. Do write Commissioner Bell and the Commission that it is‘ You see that my offense is rank. I send you ten thousand obligations, Go on the stage and teaohthe nations. ‘ Trust to your voice and use your pen, I “ The Tombs ” is open to -clergymen / -You are a woman, you have no rights, Your home is ﬁlled with other lights; Though others break the tie by force, You could not even get divorce.‘ Man is the hunter! woman the game! Man escapes.’ ’tis the woman we blame. Though as pure as the Priestess of Isis, Womeniiiust cater to all our vices. Take my advice, keep out of Murderers’ Row, GO to a nunnery? to anunnery go. . Since I saw you they have changed my rooms; I live in a palace here in the Tombs. Immense crowds of people begin to meet Opposite my windows in Centre street. Last night a new sensation came to pass, Some assassin _ﬁred at me through theglass. The church, the people soon will ﬁnd, . ‘ Have agents of every kind. I ‘ Exposing two thousand years Of slime, You seeis no ordinary crime. . Other murderers only shot their man, I killed the Bible aud exposed the sham. 'What can I do with Commissioner Bell? He would not listen to a voicefrom hell. ' GEO. FRANCIs TRAIN, A 7 (Who does not believe in God or the immortality of the soul, but is positive that people are still being murdered in the Tombs while the preacher prays to us through the iron doors. I THE ToMi3s, April '7, 1873. A LONG ROLL OF WITNESSES. ; LAW OFFICES OF BELL, BARTLETT 8t WILsON, i No. 120 N ASSAU STREET, New York, April 10, 1873. I Dear George Francis Trai'n——-Please send me a copy of the “ Train Ligue” containing the article which is the subject of the charge against you. I have never seen it. The list Of witnesses arranged by the counsel, covers none that are not acquainted with you socially or ﬁnancially, and it was bhought as a mans mind of as much importance as his life or fortune, it was well to take as wide a range as possible. Subpoenas are being attended to. It is diﬁilcult to tell where this thing will end. In haste, truly yours. CLARK BELL. Among those subpoenaed and to be subpoenaed, agreed upon by counsel in the Phelps-HammOnd-Lunatlco-Inqutrem do case, are the following: , ’ V FINANCIAL. Q General John A. Dix, Augustus Kountze, John J. Cisco, A. _ A. Low, Wm. H. Macy, Henry Clews, Henry G. Steb- bins.——Credi't Foncter of America. Commodore Garrison, Moses Taylor. Leonard Jerome. Wm. H. Guion, Oakes Ames, Ben. Halladay, John Duﬁ, Sidney DillOn—Credit Mobilier. DRAMATIC. is “Edwin Booth, Wm. J. Florence, E. A. Sothern (Lord Dun- dreary), John Brougham, Manager Freligh (Bowery Thea- tre), Manager Wood (Wood’s Museum), P. T. Barnum, Dan Bryant, N else Seymour3(Br.yant’s Minstrels). EDITORIAL AND J OURNALISTIC. Chas. A. Dana (Sun),,EditOr Wallace, City Editor Flynn,- Editor Phillips (N. Y. Herald), Manton .Marble, David M. Melliss (N. Y. World), D. G. Croly (Man. Ed. Graphic), E. Crapsey (N. Y. Ti’/mes), Joe Howard (N._ Y. Star), Whitelaw Reid (N. Y. Tr'lbune),!S. R. Wells (Phrenologioal ..T_ou/rnal) . CONGRESSIONAL AND JUDICIAL. Chief Justice Church, Judge Fowler, Judge Fancher and Judge Brady. ' Hon. W. R. Roberts, Hon. Fernando Wood, Hon. Wm. E. Senator Fenton. Gil MEDICAL. Drs. C. C. Schieferdecker, O. Hanlon, E. P. Miller, E. C ,Angel1, Halbrook (Turkish Baths), Parsons (Insane Asylum), ¢ROgers, Sayre, Marcy, White, Guernsey, 23d '_St.,; Guernsey, Jr., 23d St.; Thompson, Kirby, Ruggles, E. H. D.-ixon (Editor Scalpel), Marion Simms, Wm. T. Nealis (Physician at Tombs). « Commissioners Bell, Nicholson and Brennan, also Warden Johnson, (The Tombs), Ex-Alderman John W. Crump, Avenue, CO1. Frank E. Howe and Collector Thomas Murphy. . ’ LETTER_FROM MR. TRAIN TO MR. BELL. THE TOMBS, N Ew YORK, Saturday, April 12. Dear Clark Bell, Esq.—The list of witnesses looks formida- ble, and may open up the whole inside machinery of ‘the Credit Mobilier, which as yet has been untold. A small snowball at the top of the hill is a big thing at the bottom. The Young Men’s Christian Association instructed the Gov- ernment to suppress The Train Ligue. ‘Captain Byrne, Fif- teenth Precinct, has 1,500 copies, which, at the same price that was offered Nichols (the Pagan photographist) last haps you can use your inﬂuence with the Win. E. Dodge- ComstOck-Christian-Combination tolet you have one copy from police headquarters for counsel. 1 A LUNACY COMMISSION FROM BLACKwELL’s ISLAND. Dr. Parsons (from the Lunatic Asylum) has labored with me over two.hours, and I think, in describing to him the coming revolution after the panic, I have succeeded in mak- ing him believe that I am as mad as a March hare. As he is -only in charge of the women’s department, he informs me your express desire that I have permission "to see You about privately that the rules would shut me out of that interest- these matters. E- F- 3- To-MADAM—E. F. E. IN REPLY. ' EPIGRAM. Impossible! I hate murdered God ! Into my cell no one liastrod I Since I sawyouat the court and gate, ’l‘here’s “ no admission " early or late. After tortureithelgallowsiplank, ing part of the establishment. Your speech at Delmonico’s, as President of the Medical Legal Society, was a creditable piece of mosaic work. . _ Please serve notices 011 District Attorney Phelps, Warden Johnson, Wm. E. Dodge and members of the Y. M. C. A.,'for one hundred thousand dollars damages for false arrest and im risonment. _ . cu should see the crowd in Centre street that gathers at [my six o’c1ocl: promenade hour. Nine policemen last night made themselves lively in clearing the street. The man who handled pot, fell in and was drowned. ' . . GEO. FRANCIS TTAIN, The Founder of the Religion of Humanity. THE COMING DICTATOR NEVER BELONGED TO A ‘ CLUB. I " join the Lotos Club, but he says he prefers the Kehoe Club. —-Graph'lc. EPIGRAM. Although they say I get off the track, I never had a Club at my back ; . Never smoke, or chew, Or snuff, or drink, Which Club-nien do much more than they think. Never steal, or cheat, or lie, or sneer, Or fool awaymy time in prayer{ Was never vulgar in language ormien, Though now in the Tombsfor being “ obscene,” Never played soldier, though ’twould appear The "Legion ” has made me “ Brigadier." Never held oiﬁce or cast a vote, Believed in party or turned my coat ; Nor belonged to church though born at the Hub, .But_I owe my life to the Kehoe Club. Boxer, Wrestler, Swimmer, J umpcr and Gymnast. The Tombs, April 11, 1873. NIXON, THE CONDEMNED. ' (Which the Sun declined to publish on account of being crowded.) I * * >2 s: >l< * Reporter.—What do you think of N ixon’s case? _ ‘ M r. Tratn.-That he is as muchyentitled to a stay as Foster was. But what’s the use of giving you my views, you would not put them in. Nixon is poor. ' Reporter.——For that very reason the Sun would be the ﬁrst to do him justice. More poor people read the Sun than all the other papers combined. Here Mr. Train, who thinks epigram, writes epigram, talks epigram, rapidly dictated to the reporter the following EPIGRAM. " AVKIND WORD IN FAVOR OF A STAY. Will you please allow these words to run Through the justice column of the Sun .? The papers for Nixon’s life are howling, How unlike the act of Justice Dowling, Who’ seeing his poverty. with a will Gave his poor wife a hundred-dollar bill. Thanks to the lawyer who has the grace Without a fee to ﬁght his case. Is New York Herald, judge and jury, To lash the bench and bar to fury When he joined our club in Murderers’ Row, The journals sentenced him three months ago. To condemn a man without a trial Is not fair. Who challenges denial ? Robinson, Hon. S. S. Cox, Hon. Senator Conkling, Hon.’ 229 Broadway; Wm, E. McMasters 53 Bible House, 3d , week, would amount to the nice little sum of $37,500. Per-, With one voice they pronounced him thief, I give the lie direct in their teeth. A MAN WHO WORKED. FOR HIS LIVING. Please ask his heart-broken children and wife, How he had to work and struggle for life. He faithfully posted lecturebills for Ine- I believe his statement of the whiﬂietree. Every day he came to my cell For papers, and I believe full well He shot the man in self—defense, As can be shown by evidence." . Why two of his witnesses disowii? ,2 - And why not let his statement be known? So rank, it seems, was his offense They omit the mercy reference. Foster’s friends were rich; hence two year’s stay Was allowed before his judgment day; ' But Nixon must in a few weeks swing, . Because he belongs to the poor man’s ring. He had to work, no matter what the weather, - To keep his starving family together. Can justice make its election sure, With such a gulf between -rich and poor? Are Nixon’s wife and children guilty too? Charity kindly showed what it could do For Mrs. Pfeifer. And it seems at Military Hall On Monday Nixon has a party for them all . , To raise enough, unless he gets a stay, To bury her husband when hung in May. The Rev.,Dr. Stephen Tyng , Will not visit, of course, a man like him. DOWN WITH THE GALLOWS. Rather than live in perpetual war, Why not immediately pass a law That selling firearms is penal offense, And not keep all our lives in suspense? Why not punish him by some other plan? Oh, it is brutal to strangle a man! How much better is a1ife—long example Than seven days’ wonder on which we trample. When Herald calls for Nixon’s death with frantic cry, May not a captain—general shoot a spy? How expect mercy from a foreign state, When goading Dix to hasten Foster’s fate! If O’Kelley dies the only one to blame Is the Herald for trying to bully Spain. Give Nixon a stay; what’ harm to b’e sure—- My sympathies are always with the poor. . GEO. FRANCIs TRAIN, [Who can’t see: why a poor bill-poster, who, from his action after sen- tence, one wouldn’t suppose was game to shoot a cat, shouldn’t have as fair a chance as ‘Foster with his wealthy connections. The fault lies in the authorities not enforcing the law prohibiting the carrying <()f ﬁre-arms. One murder makes a villain (Nixon); a million, a hero Grant).] - - INVITATION FROM. THE LABOR REFORM LEAGUE To ADDRESS ' \ I “ THE MAY CONVENTION. PRINCETON, Mass, April 11, 1873. Dear Mr. Trai’/n-=The third annual Convention of the American Labor Reform League meets in New York: city, tried to stop the freshet on the Mississippi with a white- Dea/r Graphic~——George Francis Train has been invited to A April 56, 1873. WQODHULL &: CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. if I 18 May 4 and 5 (Sunday and Monday). Will you not come in and give us a speech? A Our people will be very glad to see u and hear you. Please reply as early as possible, and oblige Yours truly, . E. H. HEYwooD. P. S.—Hearing that you are out of the Tombs, and not knowing your present address, I send this to the care of Mrs. Woodhull. I ' MR. TRAIN’sEI>IGRAM REPLY To THE LABOR REFORM LEAGUE. THE TOMBS. NEW YORK, April 14, 1873. A DEAR H..HEYWOOD, EsQ.: Would like to meet you the fourth of ~May, But may remain for many a day In the Tombs—a prisoner of State; You see I am in the hands of fate. So long as workmen cringe and cower To God and man, they destroy their power; Hence all conventions, friend Heywood," Will end in smoke and do no good. -All your resolutions will come to grief Until you rally round the people’s Chief. _ v , GEO. FRANcis TRAIN, The Representative . of Twelve Millions Workingmen and Women in America, and Chief of all the Strikers.) CONCENTRATED CHEEK——TRYING TO BORROW MONEY FROM THE MAN THEY HAVE IMPRIS— ONED. , _YoUNG MEN’s CHRISTIAN AssocIATIoN, 2 New York, April 10, 1873. THE BANKRUPTCY or THE YOUNGMULES’ CONCUBINE Asso- CIATION. V - My Dear Sir———From your connection with the Association. I take it for granted that you will be interested in anything contributing to its usefulness. There is a mortgage on the building for $150,000, the interest on which has to be met year by year. It is no easy matter to collect a suﬁcient amount, over the rents and members’ dues, to meet this de- mand, and carry on the work at the central rooms and the branches. , The most far-sighted ﬁnancial friends of the Association favor immediate action for the payment of the full amount of the mortgage; and we have thought it best, before mak- ing an appeal to the public, that an opportunity should be given each member to give according to his , ability toward the accomplishment of this most desirable object. PLEASE,_SIR, GIVE ME A DOLLAR. We do not ask for your subscription on the ground of any beneﬁt you may personally have derived, but in view of the very great advantagesiyoung men, separated from home and friends, are receiving, day by day, from the Association. The number needing brotherly help is augmented every year by thousands of young men from all portions of our own land, the Canadas and the Old World. If the Association would in any due measure meet this in- creased demand, the mortgage must be paid. Many and weighty reasons wi1l_occur to your own mind, also, why this action should not be deferred. I leave this subject with you, asking you to give something. _ There "are few members who‘ could not, by a little self- denial, give a dollar. Many can give largely. Please send an answer before the 1st of May. I am, my dear sir, yours very truly, R. R. MCBURNEY, Secretary. (Epigram reply to a letter from R. R. McBurney, Esq., Secretary Young Men’s Christian Association, received in the Tombs, April 11, soliciting aims to clear oif their mort- gage debt from the man they had incarcerated for over four months for obscenity.) ' E * - EPIGRAM. “ From your connection /” What do you mean? ‘ How dare you use such language “ obscene?" ‘ Why don’t you apply to your Beecher Lord?‘ * I have no connection with the w—-—- house Baud. Young men, you play a dangerous game, When you swear the people’s chief’s insane. Your young mules concubine association, Has already too long disgraced the nation. , Having failed to make Comstock censor of the press, Your begging dodge will not succeed, I guess. One hundred and ﬁfty thousand in debt, No wonder your upper story’s to let. A SUGGESTION." , THE MUSEUM on THE YOUNG MULES" CONCUBINE ‘ASSOCIA- , , TIoN. ‘_- - ' * ‘ We have of photographs, stereoscopic and other pictures, more than 182,000 ;’ obscene books and pamphlets, more than ﬁve tons ; "obscene letter-press in sheets, more than two tons; sheets of impure songs, catalogues, hand-bills, etc., more than 21,000; obscene microscopic watch and knife charms and ﬁnger-rings, more than 5,000; obscene negative plates for printing photographs and stereoscopic views, about _625; obscene engraved steel and copper plates, 350; obscene litho- graphic stones destroyed, 20; obsceneewood-cut engravings, more than 500; stereotype plates for‘ printing obscene books, more than ﬁvetons; obscene transparent playing cards, 5,500 to 6,000; obscene and immoral rubber articles, over 30,000; lead molds for manufacturing rubber goods, twelve sets, or more than 400 pounds; newspapers seized, about 4,600; letters from all parts of the country, ordering these goods, about 15,000; names of dealers in account books seized, about 6,000; list of names in the hands of dealers, that are sold as merchandise, to forward catalogues and cir- 7 culars to, independent of letters and account books, seized, more than 7,000; arrest of dealers since October 9, 1871, over {>0;tpE1blishers,_InanufactuI'e1‘S and dealers dead since March 2145 9 - ' A Y ’ ' There were four publisherson the 2d of last March ; to-day three of these are in their graves, and it is charged by their friends that I worried them to death. Be that as it may, '1 am su/re the world is better without them. ,@ ooMsTooK’s REPORT oN BEHALF or THE ‘Y. M. C. A. To ’ ‘ coNGREss. -- I (Colfax,‘Pomeroy, Wilson, Garfield, Patterson, Select Com- , mittee to look at the pictures.) The holy» members of the Y. M. C. A. are cordially invited . to inspect this collection at Association Hall. Brothers Beecher, Dodge, J essup and,Comstock will explain to the ‘sisters the several diﬁerent articlesjand cartoons. _’ ‘h THE ASSOCIATION HALL BAUDY SALE. Get up a Talmadge wedding auction shop, And sell oﬁ this w——~ house museum by lot; This Congress collection, some ﬁfteen tons, Of obscene prints, lewd books and “ buttered buns.” Each member of your Jesuit Associations, Would want to invest for their female relations. Your “ young men separated from their friends,” Would then keep out of these Christian dens. Comstock and his Beecher secretjpolice, It seems has used up all your greese. Your Bible obscenity; your Comstock canard, Hoists the engineer with his own petard. I have caught you at last with your English lies, Infyour gigantic.Free Trade League in disguise; Your system of saving young men from sin I . Is only a blind for smuggling tin Dodges Evangelical alliance, Press apology, is Christian science. Your association has come to grief, When Francis signs himself a thief‘. GEO. FRANCIS TTAIN, I (Who believes that the Young Men’s Christian Association is a gigantic scheme for defrauding the Government through the customs.) ’ _ THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY. HEADQUARTERS ARMY UNITED‘ STATES, } . WASHINGTON, D. C., April 12, 1873. General Gillem, Modoc Camp, via Yreka, Cal. Your dispatch announcing the terrible loss to the country of General Canby by the perﬁdy of the Modoc band of Indians has been shown to the President, who authorizes me to instruct you to make the attack so strong and persistent that their fate may be commensurate with their crime. You will be fully justified in their utter extermination. , (Signed) W. T. SHERMAN, General. Repeat as copy for General Schoﬁeld, San Erancisco, Cal. EPIGRAM_ REPLY. From the Pagan Pastor of the People’s Church. To the President and his Lieutenant: THE BRUTALITY OF SHERMAN AND GRANT. What! Repeat the massacre of Glencoe To ‘revenge the red man’s treacherous blow! You know your Christian agents lied, Yet you write: “You will be justified In their utter extermination ./ ” . V How you disgrace your Christian station. Slaughter the chiefs if you like, for fun, But what have their wives and children done? You who pardon, for Butler, O’Brien, And represent the House of Zion; You, who open the prison doors Of murderers, swindlers and W In name of humanity beware, Execute this order if you dare! Your brutal slaughter through Chivington Shames the very shade of Washington; And the Piegan massacre of Sheridan Disgraces the very name of man. THE SWINDLE OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMISSION. Hold!’ not so fast; your Christian scribe Has stolen the rations of the Modoc tribe; Remember that this Indian band Is robbed of nearly all its land. You bought their lava bed for the triﬂe Of a jug of rum and an old riﬂe. You deny them justice in the Court, And kill their buffalo for sport. Don’t forget the Pequot taught to kith and kin Run from white man when he smells of Holland gin. The English landed. Need the rest betold? I The New World stretched its red hand to the Old. , Uncas,,Tecumseh and Massasoit Are heroes of many a brave exploit; And when Captain J aok sounds the slogan Of Blackhawk, Powhattan, Phillip, Logan, You chase the red wolf to his lair, To insult him with your canting prayer; And now, for revenge, you have the face To exterminate this mighty race. i “ WHO BROKE THE TREATY? Instead of murder with your bloody crew,- Pay them the sixteen thousand dollars due. For all the blood for years that has been spilled Your agents, not the Indianarshould be killed. Did Captain Jack or did Shack Nasty Jim Ever rob the country by smuggling tin? . You know four hundred troops in Lava Beds Made the attack on jifty~seoen Reds—- That was the force‘,under Captain J ack—- And forty dead, men you carried back. You know the meeting was man to man, , 1 Why didn’t they draw when ﬁght began? Canby, Thomas, Meacham, Riddle and Dwyer, Had ﬁve Indians against them. Why didn’t they fire? THE PEOPLE NOTIFY THE KING. Forty millions against sixty men. God Almighty! where is VVilliam Penn? Down with the army I abolish West Point, The Times and epaulettes are out of joint. Down with the navy I we want a new deal, Soldiers and sailors are in for a steal. Our generals and admirals when abroad, All play the ﬂunkey to the foreign lord. You cold-blooded slayer of men, Your sword is mightier than your pen; Your brutal slaughter in the Ohristian war, Was a Swindle under cover of law; I ‘ Your hand is always red with gore-— Would you like to kill A million more? . You are responsible for our disasters, J You are our servants and not our masters. Recall your order or your head may roll A In the gutter! God bless your bloody soul. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, (Who sides with the Indians against the swindling thieves who rob them.) A ‘ A -A 3 . » A IN THE GOOD TIME COMING. P. S. No more soldiers, politicians, popes; . No more lawyers, priests or hangman’s ropes; No more barnacles or swindling rings; No more God—anointed ‘kings; No more bigots, Beechers, dirt and disease; No more bibles, prayers, churches and ﬂeas; No more heaven of free lunches and lust, Where youloaf all day and swell up and “bust.” ‘Let us have no more swindling Presidents, But obey the stern logic of events. See how much the strikers have lost, Let city furnish gas at cost. THE BREAK—UP OF THE VAFRIENDS CHURCH AND STATE. ‘ ‘ ~ I Bonapartism died at Chizelhurst, ‘ Papal tyranny has seen its worst; Victor Emanuel in ancient Rome Commands the host under St. Peter’s dome. . Supreme to-day over priest and man, . . Is Italian King in the Vatican. The Pope representing monopoly, Has been always opposed to liberty. (I know as many languages as he, In what was he superior to me ?) His Bull against all education ‘ Was enough to damn him with the nation. Ignatius Loyola is under the sod, The death of the Pope is the downfall of God.’ ' _ A ‘ G. F. T. (Who believesin every man being his own God.) The Tombs, April 14, 1873. ' RELATIVES NOT ALLOWED TO SEE THE PAGAN PRISONERS-— SHAME ON THE COMMISSIONERS. ‘ Monday, April 14, 1873. Dear George.—Went this A. M. to get permission to visit you; did not succeed; am so sorry; but send you a basket of bananas, oranges and dates. I hope Ed. told you I was too crushed and sick‘. by the shock I had on being refused to go anywhere; I think much of you, and most tenderly hope you are well. Can I do anything for you? Ever affectionately, - _ AUNT THEO. EPIGRAM. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A BASKET OF FRUIT. A Christian Ladywith a Paga/n Name. . .THE ToMBs, April 14. 1873. Dear T. B. D.- - Oranges, bananas, and “latest dates,” , The kindest friend in these United States,‘ With pleasnnt smiles and gentle words, And’ talk of ﬂowers and song of birds, The namesake of Theodosia Burr, I know full well can never err. Catholics, Protestants, with all their heart, In our family work the Christian part; Why, dear aunty, should you feel blue? Aaron Bur-r was a Pagan tool Four months in the Tombs without air Would make even a Christian swear. EVIL COMMUNICATIONS, AND SO FORTH. This Bastile life begins to make me feel As though I should like to murder and steal; But I am better oif than Grant, With such a kind and loving aunt; "When Foster was hung from Murderers’ Row, I could but think of an ancient beau, Whose Roman ﬁrmness and English skill Did not break your unconquered will. . v What? Permission to see me refuse! Commissioners! shall I light the fuse? A pile of letters came by ocean mail Throwing a wealth of sunshine in my jail. When Willie arrived at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Sue and the boys were waiting for the lightning Train. A G. F. T. (Four months in the Tombs, for quoting God’s holy word.) [From the N ew York Sun, April 14, 1873.] TRAIN’S TRIAL TO,-DAY. A Prisoner with a Pricate falecretary in the Tombs-—-A letter « from District Attorney Phelps—_The Dictator’s Threat. Mr. George P. Bemis, private secretary-in-chief to George Francis Train, who arrived from Omaha on Saturday, has re- ceived permission from the Commissioners of Charities and Correction to be with his chief several hours every day, and yesterday entered upon his duties ‘in the prisoner’s room in the southeastern corner, of the Tombs. Mr. Train reclined on his couch as his private secretary arranged the bundles of epigrams and letters scattered about, placed a ream of clean white paper on a large centre-table, -ﬁlled the great inkstand an.d adjusted ten or twelve trusty pens. Shortly afterward a. batch of lettersand newspapers arrived, and other batches followed in quick succession. "Then the private secretary was set in motion, and as the messengers laden with letters from the coming dictator’s cell trotted‘ out of the sepulchre, a young man from the country gazed wistfully at them, and turning to a policeman asked” “Mister, is this the Post- ofﬁce ?” u . One of» the ﬁrst letters to which Mr. Train dictated a reply was the following: I CITY AND COIINTY or NEW YORK, DISTRICT ATToRNEY’s OEEICE, April 12, 1873. GEORGE FRANcIs TRAIN, ESQ.: Dea/r Sir———I desire through this note to inform you that Dr. Meredith Clymer will. call upon you for an interview. His namestaiids very high among alienists, and he visits you at the suggestion of .Iudge1Daly, in con ection with the in- vestigation now going on before. that magistrate. I have no wish, nor has Dr. Clymer, to do anything surreptitiously, and I therefore frankly notify you of his visit and its object. In regard to the matter in_ your letter, to which you call my particular attention, I can only say that I have made every §eﬂ“ort to have the periods during which parties are conﬁned in the Tombs as short as possible; but there are res- idents in that institution who evince a great unwillingness to leave it. Yours truly, BENJ. K. PHELPS, District Attorney. The preparations for to-day’s trial before Chief Justice Daly are very extensive. ~Mr. Train says that lie has several bombshells toﬁre into the camp of the conspirators, and that they little imagine‘ what he intends to do‘; that he will turn their laughter and so oﬂing into one prolongd howl for mercy. ‘ I V L - I r..- A. A ,-,.,-.. i~reossri.i. cirriiséssrssir. her 25, isia AN Eli-ALDERMAN IN" THE‘ IVITNESS BOX-WIIAT CALIFORNIA ' THINKS OF HIS INSANITY. . R001»: 36, 229 BROADWAY, April 9, 1873. .Dear‘Sir——This rno,rning’s papers inform me that they have ‘a jury to test your sanity or insanity. Allah‘! ' If it is your pleasure, I can testify. I had the honor to ride with you from Omaha to Battle Mountain; met you again at San Francisco; heard you, lecture; rode with you from Sacramento to Battle Mountain, coming back; saw several thousand people see you off from the depot; _know about as well as any one in New York what the people think about George Francis Train on the Paciﬁc Slope. If I can be of ‘any service to do justice, believe me Your ob.’t serv’t, JOHN W. CRUMP. EPIG,RAiVI' ll-EPLY. _ To J. W. C., EX-ALDERMAN2 ‘ \ ’ Bully for you, John W. Crump, You have heard me on the stump On the broad Paciﬁc Slope, Where I had ample scope ' , In showing up Ralston’s Bank, Which made my offense so rank. You saw enough, and so did I To prove that Jones, Stewart and Nye, Sargent, Casserly, Paciﬁc Delegation, Though Customs and Mint were robbing the nation. « ‘ The books, when examined, will record At least a twenty million fraud. G. F. T. (Who struck the ﬁrst pick in the ground to build the U. P. R. R.) THE Tones, April 12, 1873. HARTFORD, Conn. ‘ SHARP CORRESPONDENCE. Come, George, give up making doggerel, and 1 if you will write extravagant things, put them into vigorous prose. your doggerel will kill you yet. It has nearly killed,.me. While your verse is very prosy, your prose, pure, is far bet-. ter; and “for God’s sake”'—if not for that of your fellow- mortals——don’t call that stuff “Epigrams” any more; call sem, :_ga,y, for instance, Oacograms”—from the Greek lculcos. You recollect your classics, don’t you? Pray, do let me see that caption to your verses if you write and publish" any more “Cacograms;” remember—Ah! I see I’ve made an error; I’ve asked‘ you to not “write” any more doggerel, whenI meant not publish. }Vrite as much as you please, but don’t be foolish enoughto publish it. You see that every- pody but me, all the reporters, and that ilk, are mostﬁamused at you, and praise you most, when you make the greatest fool of yourself. But that sort of triﬂing seems to me very unjust; and I trust that you will prefer my plain speaking to their jesting. Good-bye for the time. Yours, truly, W. T. Care Abram Rose, Newsdealer, Hartford, Conn. EPIGRAM REPLY. . DIAMOND CUTS PEPPLES. To care Abram Rose, Hartford, Conn. :, You are a genius, William T.,, Though not akin to our family. The strange crotchets in your quaint brain, Bear no relation to my name. Your luna-caustic in the moon Is only in‘ your nom de plume. Your bonnet is a hive of bees, ,. Made up of scribes and pharisees. Your manhood is evidently dead, The bands are not yet 017‘ your head. Yet I’m so ennuied and bldsé, I rather like your childish way Of treating the universal thought, _ .- Like minnows in a ﬁsh-net caught. You snap and snarl, you bark and bite, But do not think! you only write. ' It is the dust within the Pearl, That makes‘Stephen A., the oyster. While you have the spirit of an earl, Fate makes you act the monk in cloistcr. NO SURRENDER--LIBERTY OR DEATH. Your ideas are only metaphysics, Your shaky schemes arise from phthisies. V Although you had a certain power, I , Of lightning behind your thunder shower Of words and growls above all price, I scorn to take your mean advice. What! surrender after months of fight! Admit that power shall conquer right! Accustomed to mingle with little men, . They have at last controlled your pen. The chief commands the rank and ﬁle, , __ Condense yourthought, improve your style. Come out the valley, ’tis time to charge, And snuff the air on mountain range. ‘ Come out of your narrow unbelief, And climb to the manhood of your chief. CONDENSATION IS POVVER. Your fowling-piece answers for hare and beagle , , It requires therljle to bring the eagle. The shot-gun covers your table with prairie fare, ’Tis the Minnie riﬂe that kills the grizzly bear. Why do you your thoughts so rudely scatter, You have the mind, pray what’s_lhe matter? No trip-hammer in iron ﬂakes ‘ O’er te acre lot undertakes T Its mislshonl But centred in iron mass, ‘ Like truth, forces the stubborn pile to pass. Remember critics never create, How can you reform the Church and State, With pcevish, boyish, school-girl phrase? Friend William! you must mend your ways. Read-my epigrams and improve your mind, My experience leaves you far behind. 1 ‘- Your musty volumes on your classic shelf Your brain has clouded, why not act yourself? Read the WEEKLY and Toledo Sun, ‘ And witness what one live man has done. Dyspepsia sours the noblest, kindest heart, , . And makes the mastiff act the mongrel’s part. EGGTISM SIGNIFIES THE SPIRIT or TEENAGE. _ .Nia.gara’s;Falls and Mountainlloeks, _ ,2”/re lightninds ﬂash, the thunder shocks, The mammoth thought, the ocean storm, Epoch‘ through me of d race unborn] Great men are the milestones of the past, Whercin history has them ever cast. A man who stands out all alone To represent all nature‘s zone. Show me in many thousand years Where such a character appears? Confucius, Bhudda, Zoroastcr, Mahomet, Swendenborg, Moses, Jesus Christ, ncverlet Their light so shine before their fellow-men As to challenge the world through voice and pen. ‘My egotism is light, air, water, land, It is universal, majestic, grand In its immensity. It must physcologize And plant the germ of truth in a world of lies. The very. atinosphere begins to shake with rage, A man is loose.’ It is the spirit of the age! GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, (President of the Murderers’ Club, the Coming Dictator). CELL 56, ‘MURDEr.ERs’ Row, All-Fools’ Day, THE ToMBs, 1873. l ' / COMSTOCK TO BE SENT TO SING SING AND HAM- MOND TO BLOOMINGDALE. NEW Yomz, April, 1873. .To BRIGADIER-GENERAL GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN: 1 he only man who dares unodil the political thieccs; and pre- fers death in the Stone 0'o_17in rather than submit to the slightest blemish to rest upon his own pure name or the noble cause he has espoused. My Dear Fr-ie’nd——Import‘ant legal affairs, and also the loss of my loved ones in the steamer Atlantic, have prevented me from seeing you since Thursday; although I have been deeply engaged, with my able (counsellor. (J. O. Mott), in col- lecting testimony against Hammond and Comstock, which will result in throwing the said Dr. Hammond over the med- ical bar, and sending the unworthy member of the Y. M. C. A. to Sing Sing prison, where he will have the honor of break- ing stones among his superiors and victims whom he has sent there through his treachery and mask of Christianity. I -understand they have removed you against your will to another prison, thereby proving they are afraid of you and the great power coming to your rescue. NO MISSIONARIES ALLOWED TO SEE MR. TRAIN. Mrs. Bishop, with her sir-mon.ths’pass, shut out, waiting at the '4 gate. ~ ' TUESDAY, 11:30. P. S.——Dear Fr'lend—-—Again.all visitors and missionaries are excluded from seeing the prisoners. What is the reason? , Mr. Johnson tells me that you will not see any person ex- cept your counsel. Isthat your order, or is it the Commis- sioner’ s ? ' ',1,’5Counsellor, J. O. Mott, will send for you to come to court this afternoon, therefore please be ready. Iregret not being able to see you, as I have important news for you. I feel thankful you are compelled to remain in your new prison, instead of the damp, cold cell you were in. Please send me an answer to this note.- Tell me if you want anything I can do for you. Believe me your ﬁrm friend, « » . ELEANOR FLETCHER-BISHOP. To Brigadier-General Train. - ' ‘EPIGRAM REPLY. THE CHAMBER or HORRORS. Dear Madam. E. F. J}..- Oh, that Atlantic will make me insane, Never shall we see its like again. Read the epigram sent to my wife In ’l‘hursday’s WEEKLY, of that awful strife. My thoughts so wander to that place I take no interest in my case. ’ Read Heralds report down under the sea Of that spectacle of human misery! Men and women among cases and crates, Tumbled together, the reporter states, Naked and starving, bruised andworn, Fishes were feeding on ﬂesh they had torn! Fishes in boxes. and bodies gorging themselves On maidens and babies, with ghouls and elves; Wliile limbs ﬂoating oif adds to the gloome _ Hundreds of corpses all in one tomb! ALL eoD’s DAM-rHooL-DOM. Looking alive, arms dislocated, Eyes staring, those that were mated; A hundred graveyards turned into one, While the mermaids dance with joy at the fun. Babes sucking mothers—-husband and wife Clasped together, struggling for life; Distended nostrils, mouths gaping, glassy eyes, 'What a brutal God to hear those cries! -- What a loving Saviour" not to prevent The catastrophe which Providence sent! Hell and devils! one chokes for breath To seeilesus enjoy that “ Hill of'Death.” What was his agony on the Cross I ’ Compared with this great national loss? The God that made that gravein the deep, In ghastly horror makes manhood weep. That slipping and surging of cargo and sea Is a picture of Christ’s “obscenity.” Six hundred lives for a tonof coal.’ Mayrman have mercy on'God’s hard soul! , V . , ‘, _ . , GEO. FnANc1s TRAIN, (Who prefers the Asylum to the Tombs; and prefers the Tombs to the miserable cowardice ‘and slavery of the outer world). , , THE Tomss (in the new prison all to myself), April 10, 1873. _ mg. 4’ 7 ‘WF John Wf ,_thej:l3ricklayers", expects to renew the publication of his paper, the N dtioncd ‘Workman, by the 1st of May. I . THE MODERN PREACHER. BY A. GAYLORD SPALDING. 3‘ It seems real handy to put your sermons in ink, and stand , in the newspaper pulpit. Let it be cushioned, and gilded, and fringed, and tasseled for the wor_kingmen——-the women —the common people. In the past it has been different; but come to look at it, it must prove a great economy, and why not try it? The audience is very large and never conﬁned to Sunday. This style of preaching takes ﬁve hundred per cent. less money, and besides it will go ten or twenty times as far. Strange that the ministers should not adopt this method. (By the Way, I must secure a patent on the invention.) It will save the cost of such dead property as meeting-houses and so many sociables, and strawberry, and oyster. and ice- cream festivals to support them, and the high salaries, and the constant annoyance of passing round the begging-box The pith of all discourses should go in the newspaper, mak- ing it the organ of civilization and salvation, and let it be ordained with the signiﬁcant title of Modern Preacher. The old—fashioned preaching is heavy, bungling and rusty with antiquity, and is given out to little knots and sects of people. Of puritanical {and pod-auger type it goes backto the days of Charles II. of England, when human heads were stuck on poles over all that country, just on account of re- ligion. T V I I, therefore, hereby ordain the free newspaper as the Mod- ern Preacher. Won’t it be queer—a minister in the mail bag! And every day all the postmasters will be letting cat out of the bag. But the preacher goes on his way rejoicing and "takes cross-roads and by-roads, straight roads and crooked roads, level roads and hilly roads, sandy roads and muddy roads, rocky roads and stumpy roads, jumping and bumping and thumping in the woods and round. From my present point of lone and serene repose my anxi- ous heart journeys out on the telegraphic wires of thought, through the groves and ﬁelds and farms of the country, peeping into the humble and joyous homes of farmers and workingmen. They take the papers. V What angel women are found in these‘ quiet and‘ happy places for womanly worth and character! New England can’t beat them. They are representative womenof farmers’ households. A world full of such would make a millennium. » This modern preaching is a wonderful improvement on the old. ‘No gloom or doleful warning about death. Salvation consists in living, not dying. Eternity is not beyond, but now. To-morrow is always twenty-four hours ahead, and we never see it till we get there—and then it will be now. So never scare the children about a dreadful far-oﬁ‘ Eternity. Present duty is all we can ever’do,and that is to be honest, kind, brotherly, sisterly, and paddle your own canoe. That is religion, and a slight sprinkling is wanted in politics. Now we return home, The people’s hands are full at the present time with the women as well as the men. Women’s suffrage shines on the mountain’s crest in the distance, and the Land of Promise lies in the valley beyond. ‘ The ballot, the ballot, we hold in our hand- ’Tis Freedom—God-given to all ;’ And women should claim it in every land, To raise them from want and from thrall. . , ,% e, ‘ ~:\-.\« Du. J. E. HOYT, of Chicago, Spirit ltooms, 341 Madison street. " CHICAGO SPIRIT ROOMS , AND‘ ’ “ ELECTRO-MAGNETIC HEALING INSTITUTE‘, 341 West Madison st., Chicago. Public seances every evening at eight o’clock, at which spirit faces appear and are recognized by their friends. Private sittings from 7 A.M. to 8 ,,P.M.,, with the most won- derful and, reliable trance business, clairvoyant, writing, test, physical, healing and developing mediums of the age, who will reveal the past, present and future from the cradle to the grave; will tell of business, marriages, journeys,~law- suits, lost or stolen property,,or anything that you wish to know that can be told. Doctors and {lawyers having difﬁcult, and knotty cases, would do well to consult the spirits of able doctors and lawyers of the spirit world, through the mediums of thislinstitution, who will examine, pre- scribe and cure allldiseases that are curable; without ask- and‘ pains and their causes. I . ' Wanted:-first-class reliable mediumsof every phase. Ad- .‘ ing‘ the patient any questions will describe and tell all aches dress J. .1.1._HQ)'l; 34:1 West Madison street, Chicago. A —;< ti it-=‘-v.» ‘Z317-L» smashes weeeuetiiseirsiiss~ssaais. a... s. L W “TWENTY YEARS’ PRA OTIOE. C.L.Jaii1es’C0li1iiiii. DR. p.;.;....N.. Aim 91911“? P3“19m1= ms of 12,1- medicine, has anything won s(l) jwiilely and so deeply ‘ A t . p , , . . , - t 1 am upon the conﬁdence or man {inc , as this exl:e.*‘.eiit 1 W1 a city or town of England’ Ireland, Wales 0,. Scotland you of Spcrmatorrhma, LOSS of Manhood’ etc” Caused S€1‘1(3S of ycai s, and among most of the iaces oi _ . , , , _ _ . bmed men it has risen hirrlier and higher in their estima- has 3 Vote f01 31<101'111€T1 and t0W11 01110015 111 g01101'9~1' DY self “bub”. °1tg'f§%S’t%'thIe g%%1$:nsg§:t§3fe,S€ Sue- tion, as it has becdnie better known. Its iinilorm Under Mr, Fostervg new act, in England widows and 1g(1}:g%f18flCl(;8;%1;l:1§£tiOn' The symptoms of disease pro; spinsters who pay rates have votes in the election of _ - A ‘O-hl ' 1 emissions or by excessive 0 am 1 s 7 1 cv _ ,1 1 1 -_» « d“°~°‘1 by ms t Y Semma . - 11 - liable protector zwainst them. While adapted to school boards. In Ireland, every woman who pays any sexual indulgence, or by selt abuse are as to ows. -. O - - - ' ‘ " " fdisease and to Ollll"‘(Zllll<ll‘Ull it is _ ' , S In the mildei1oims_o . . _ y ,3 . ‘ sum as poor rate has a vote in the election of poor ﬁggﬁ ‘sgeﬁéggggrgh §ﬁ§§,§§é1%%‘;%§V%§T§sS of the at the same time the most cﬂectuiil remedy that can 7 1 guardians. It is said that the women exercise these bowels‘ confused Vision, hhmted hmehect, loss of Con- be fiéul Ji\.l;cl<i-age rights heartily, and in many cases where saloon-keep- iidence in approa.cning_ strangers, great 1lOfVOll3H(;SS, giegion gwainst 8'1“, (‘mu a'tmC‘kb‘O 1. Omani} ' it [1 915 1'0PT0Se11l3ed the W&1‘ClS Of Cities in 1111111101Pa1 11051‘ fend t.?re1at.h' 9»? 1‘’‘‘,‘,1§f‘,’,‘e’,‘,’§§; Scigﬁ: be kept Tm. hand in every faniily, and indeed as all tions they were ﬁnally defeated by the votes of the Reader-,’reinei1iber. Di; I-‘erkins is are §({1{1)e1111_1e5. i311{3.I3?1i f3°mL§dmt1‘1f ‘’f’t‘;S:h5v 3“ women. In London, as is well known, Mrs. Garrett; the only man that will guarantee to cure you or refund 511011 ‘ 9 111 0V1‘ 9‘ W1‘ 1 15 311 1 0 3 01 “J11- . _ . _ Althouvh settled Consum )t’i0n is thought in; 151111015011. M- 13-, 13 0110 0f the 111081 11S€f111 111011113015 01 $gI§g:1}ftha.;.£1}1§IhS p"e‘§.f,,§,‘jf,‘,§‘,‘}§§‘}i§tc1,§’,e'f1‘£,‘,‘%‘J§L§;0f*i1,Sﬁiifh curable, gtill great numbers oizcases where tlic disn. the school board, and the same is true of Miss Becker, street South Opposite the public square Kansas City, 0350 S09m0<_1 S‘3'5li1_0Cl;11_iW0 D0011 Complfltcly cured‘, in Manchester. The right of suifrage seems to have M0,, andl have-the largest medical rooms in the city. 511111 13110 P61111011‘? 133101091 10 00111111 110111111 by 111‘? . . - . I 1- ' . .~ ' lete is its mastcrv __ _ , , . 1. (H 1 t «t 0,, nothlncr and C’he'rry R6LtO7 at So comp. _ _ V 1 been 00111911011 011 1110 P1”11101P1e that Where W0m011 Pay gfluisalslg.i%%fyné?)h%d;f§,,1_y CP1§Stcg:,§227_ *” over the disorders of the Lungs and Tln oat, that a tax for any Object they Shah have the right to vote KINS K C.t M0 the most obstinate of them yield‘to it. When nptli; Am. women know that itlis ‘beauty, rather than 9 1 \ in the disposition of the funds. America is bound to DR- PER : 3115515 1 Y: _ 2101,; 3%Sghggrllggﬁ§3(21alg§£Y3fS:%%g;1l.l10 Chem 1/ 1 cc- gemua. which all §,"enerations of men have worsh1P“ Singers and Public Speakers ﬁnd great proo I7: ‘,5? _ For Diseases of the Tl~..i'oat and _T_:u.ng.:’., ,1, Can be consulted as usual at his oﬂice, Such as Coughs’ Colds’ ‘N-hooping No.19'FIFTH STREET (South Side), cough, Bronchitis, Asthma, '. T. OPPOSITE PUBLIC SQUARE ’ ' and Consumption. ., WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ED‘ GLAND’ I KANSA S CI TY, M, O . . Probably never before in the whole history of Woman as a voter is an accomplished fact in Eng- or by mail, box 1,227, on the various sympto ' “ ’ 7:7§;".”;,' be as far behind the age on this as she was on Slavery. pod in the sex. Can it be wondered at, then, that 1 r - V tec[;i()‘n‘ﬁ'Q1n it, so much of vvoman’s timeand attention should be . I I V9 31. V‘; III F 31- D‘! Asdtlligrnztg is always relieve’; and often W110“? directed to the means of developing and preserving _ cure yi.. _ _ - p , , DEATH STRUGGLES or THE HOLY 55. VVGS1 33°‘ Street 071;.-..m:l._5m-s islgene.-uh; ciérfd byfzgring the :1;a:1fff;“t*1Y?i VtVf11**C0t“o1**;’(j:ne§f°=tIjginclggff . - - d , terry ectoms in sina an requen‘ oscr. 9 10 11 9 9 . * ' ‘ - INSTITUTION. (B95 F11 th -Avenue and BMW way). So generagy are iitis virtues known that we lice , ally, taniely, eooly; but when they come to speak of A few items taken at random from one day’s exi OFFICE HOURS‘ W tﬁgeliglbﬁgtgﬁzgi fgergugﬁiﬁéglagg IFS}; the charms of a beautiful woman, both theirlanguage 011311395 Of 3 C01111t1'.'YPi1P01'3 9 A‘ M‘ to 1 P‘ M’ & 5 to 7 R 1 ' mainlgained, and their eyes kindle with an enthusiasm which WIFE BEATING shows them to be profoundly, if not, indeed, ridicu- ; i A 9 A \G . 1 ii ‘t.It' 1-tfth t‘lsaa'ty Another case of wife-beating, almost resulting in I. BR. :1) A E E9 S 0(;u:Zm:h0:,n;:,.cCh.Oljhpxi3:) ahd§th1:,«.;1O£:C eihflloy 1111111101, 00C111‘1’ed 141313 night 011 D0SPl0111'35 S1?1'€0t- A every allowable art to become the goddess of that man named O‘Toole pounded his wife over the head APPOINTNIENTS FOR 1873. Fagliﬁevggvigd. %{9'a1I1x?iattz1’E:1I11'%er1%11('d1:3‘137?3111_1‘ ]£)e1:7I‘I911£;' adoration. 1;/mach to the Cohhmy as we may with a pitcher which she refused to take out and ﬁll Elwin In 1st am12d- Rockford Ill.,'3d, 4th, 5th and Ague, Periodical or’ Bilious Fegrer, &_c.,- against the arts employed by women for enhancing with be°1'>1S‘1Yi‘1t°=~' that he had ‘1h'e“‘1Y ‘lmnk t°° m“°h- etii-°is-e’ioit"Vvis. 7th, sin and 9th; M-adisorla Wis.,,11th ; 9«ndf11-idea‘? ‘.111 11119 aﬁ'9°11°11.S,Wh1Ph arise’ their beauty, there still stands the eternal fact, that The blows out her ear in two and made a horrible gash and’ 12:11; V,Vat(31‘t,OVVl1, W_is., 13th, 145th and 15th; Fond o 1,:1'(<)3i1E§)r1S‘II13«1«3»I‘10uS, marsh, 01 nliasmatic the world does not pref 0 1. the Society of an ugly 0“ the heads and the bmte fol lowed them up. With‘ Du Lac’ ., O . . . ~ woman of genius to that of a beauty of less intellect- pmmding her with his ﬁst’ The Woman was taken to ll71gi(il«:eshab 26th and §‘lth; Chicago, lvlattesoii _Housc,' faﬁs ual acquircmciits. ‘ _ the hospital and may not recover. ' 23th, 29th, ’30th and 315E 0f 911011 month durmg the Zinc, nor any other miueraluorpdisonoiis siibstance’ The world has yet allowed no higher mission to , -,, .-.- »ia-. , '_ Vh«' .. . .. . . ,_ _ Mrs. Page, shot by her husband at Vallejolast week, y°‘“' 1a?n1ES°Bihﬁéiiélgaiéifﬁélgxélé gggﬁlsilézly 231 d1 23:0‘ Whatever, it in nowise inyures any patient. The Woman than to be befllltlfllla and 11», Wohm Seem that ' n b ‘z d‘ _ ‘t. f't - 'th 'ed'- . , _ . . is pronounced out of danger. Egg.-\iPully treated. . n3i1.§I,?s,e,‘,,.,';"1,t(‘,{.'§,’1’1‘%},,§§?f,,% §,ggh%hci,Se the ladies Elf ttlie present age are C‘§.1‘l"yl11g ﬁll: M18131. . - ~ - V r ' ‘ ' U '- ‘ ' ' f the wor 0 greater extremes .iaii ever ora A party of Ku-klux, properly disguised, visited a ENCOMILMS FROM THE PRESS. without apaialle ‘in the history of Ague inedicnneﬂ 0 , ‘ . , , , -, 0 ‘d 'ti‘dbth 1. ll t 'e . V I ' ., - widow and her three daughters, near Corydon, a few The Weszfei¥i 3c]zéi1;p2:312;tg;iisn(>J€11Ei1.j of the reléléigél O(;‘.l§lh%'l3ali1i((33a1 (ylreg (’i€nﬁ1(1)1§;‘ti:’H‘L‘te»; Wonienpnow tc(>) fW1l)lOal11t1l‘lLl1.1G hasﬂcleiiileil‘ t-he t‘ll11)Sy h ' ht 5 t l tl f‘ th h d th mos‘ Succcsﬁ u . . . . . ' cases and where other remedies had wholly failed; mama OW“ C U y’ Supp Y ‘O C e mency mg Sauoﬂ °0.{ mm mm e .Ouse gin gave . Fm DR, DAKE.—Tllill3 this SC1011t1ﬁ_0 P11Y51‘31a“ has no Unacclimated persons either resident in or‘ the use of amost delightful toilet article known as I. sound thrashing. They then visited a man residing equal in the W est thougahds W111 a1h,.m___J0m.nay, 9 y , tr 11' tll ‘ ‘h ' . (t' I ):;.1't' . '11 b ‘ -3 ‘ ‘ * v ‘ c ‘ - in the neighborhood and paid him a like eompliment. Beam, ‘ywg, , tezdtfefd l§1ygtalél?]1;‘gth;n511Sg': %$O'Tt11er}"3’<l‘£ft1ily. 0 P10 glad ‘BE1O0.mt oft? 0uth’”t 1,“ 11,1 Ch (:1 as lqtegbief In The g1'01111(1 01001111113111‘?VV?1S111111101"11 b9ha’V101' Of the Live, energetic, liberal men, advertise. Such a man For 1;_iver _C_om;plm'.nts, arising fi'ointorpirl_ity; 0 “(ﬁe 1“ 0‘ 1‘1_S c‘_mn _yh’y EORGE ‘ I H19‘ parties. ‘ is Dr. Dake, who in the last three years has ‘built up of the Liver, it is an excellent remedy, stimulating: A dehcate bedlltlﬁel W1110 5111003168 01113 3'11 111- one of the largest practices of any physician in the the Liver into healthy activity. _ (]_enta,tions, fm-rows, gem-5, removing tan, freckles Look out for 'Mrs. Snyder, of Cleveland; she has ~ west __L0c]go/rd Gazette. For Bilious Disorders and Liver Complaints, it is; and dis C 01 Omﬁ ODS ma im “ts beau, 1_ , . Y _ ' . v . _ ’ _ 11 t d d . . t 1 _, 1 , . p. I .y, c caincss, killed tvso husbands, and 1S roaming around the eoun- pumoiit l_)akeEi1\£. I‘)7.1,u13e1lS:‘(l)l1f111I(l§l. gj1ﬁ33.1l3a§tl;1()gEl31ScS éitiv :11:uf]’i’;%‘;e %1l11re1;’1v"17%e¥é (1)3C’,'1‘:3r‘§’l1‘:‘(§>’§c§1‘:§¥1ayd“e1(‘1":: and softness to the. 5h3_h_ ghhhg the‘ cheeks the try after 3’ thud‘ ' ‘ ?:%,SuC:E,3h'iteSt,ea 1:e‘,11Cth:]h,’h,: we have evél. hhowli Isiregiariadt I:%“1'1Z1ﬁ &Mgg-2 P 1‘30t1015§ appearance of youth and beauty. V ith the assist» “""‘ ?~1‘rr°u1’c‘i’¥h’mrm- ’ V ’ If syphilis be the scourve of God for the punish- PRICE ‘L00 PER BOTTLE \ 011151 0 . 9 ' r Y _ ' 1‘8'01' -1‘ 111 ment of prostitution, I wobnder what relation marriage ‘ ' " ’ $ ‘ . the admlratlon Of men» and The 9'mb1t1°n_°f Wmnenv bears to puerperal fever, :1. far more dangerous disease, S . . _ V than all the arts employed since her creation. equally painful and equally loathsome, of which many / . 1 "*¢—‘ women are now dying in Eau Claire, and proportion- ‘ ' . _‘ . Ladies, beware of Dangerous and Worth- _ , ate numbers throughout the northwest. I heard it said‘, - . . less Imitcttions of George 1!’. LwoZ1'd’s of one of these women that “ she never ought to have 1 “Bloom “of Youth.” 1 . . . ' _ . my n1ar1.1ed,a7 as If society left llel any other alternative,’ South Fourth Street’ imam GENQINE‘ RENDERS THE CQMPLEXION ,1 Of course the authors of this terrible mortality take it ‘ CLEAR, BRILLIANT, AND VBEAUTIFUL; THE SKIN ii 35 Phi1°5°phi°“uy as the doctors? and being young” . “ST .¢ . SOFT AND SMOOTH. This delig-htful Toilet Prepara- men, though their victims were broken-down women, v - § _,' ﬂﬁ mm is used throughout the World. Thousands JV} will soon get more. Nevertheless, they get all the syrn- S3 :23 of testimomms have been sent to the propriethr ' . pathy, their victims being remanded to the orthodox?‘ WILLIAMSBURGH’ N’ Y‘ 5 $ indorsing and recommending the use of this purely ' 1103«Ve11 W131 the m111'dere1’S’ best »wishes- E harmless Toilet preparation. A dangerous Counters Then ﬁh up your glasses Steady! ‘D feit of this article was in circulation; had it not This World is a World of hes; E been stopped, it was calculated to darnagehthc Well- He1.esB ,1 health to the dead ,,h.emh,, . 1 E 55 known reputation of ‘the Genuine Preparation. I ' And hurrah for the next that dies. 1 Has for sale, or to be rented out upon the usual Cir- 9* V H BE PmTI0UL«::-3 131301316 Gtanillne-1 It has the _ __ , culating Library plan, an excellent selection of Supe- ‘The IIOVVE Sevvrng Macliines ggzieofgagizgottle S mm In gags on “.1 " COUNSEL FOR THE AGED. rior Books, of a well-known highly advanced moral - T‘lIE l;‘$1::;‘£‘CT;I11:1;::INE 09. Ladies who are ”careful to obtain the genuine and i-eformatory character. I I ELIAS HOWE JR 1 “Bloom of Youth, will certainly be pleased with When angry Katie stoops to folly, _ 5-. I '1“ the eifeet produced by it. 7 And strives in vain new laws to make; I A 150 “WOODHULL & CLAFLINBS W_EEKLY’” the FOR FAMILIES and MANUFACTURERS. 1 ' ‘ eharm can cheer her Ine1a,nCh0]y, ' ” and other L1b01'a»1 W€8kly_’ _ “ ' A O t . t . ' f N Y k -, ‘ 0,. shield her brothel. from his fate? - phpem , P E, : ohtyne 0 e mos eminen ysicians o ew-V or ‘ -3 xPoa’i'r1oN-,Ui~u’vnR1srLLn, PA , 1867, V I l g,‘ Th 1 h, - H“ Oﬂico Hours.-—8}¢ toris o’clock a. m., and from 23.; to j ; Awarded over Zﬁliglity-‘two gdmpetitors. ‘ ’ D1" 1-'0‘-715 11- SAYRE» e on y Way 16 su 0 cover. 0 hack . «THE HIGHEST PREMIUM ‘ Aft 1 11 ' ‘n’ ‘ th ‘ 1 ' 5 in . _ _ _ j v , h_ m__ dmh,‘ S,,h(h,y5 eXcehthd_ , . er care u y examiin g e ana ysis 0 a ’ And hlde hm Shame flom evely eye‘ THE ONLY C3055 OF THE LEGION C33‘ «; genuine Lai-rd’s “BLOOM or YOUTH,” pronounced, Is to keep quiet under cover, And let the saint’; of Plymouth lie. , the preparation harmless, and free from any ingrea dient injurious to health. «- The Mostiwonderful iscovery . __,_ . y of any Age. INDEPENDENT «TRACT PROF“ 13- MEEKERS . INFALLIBLE CURE FOR THE OPIUM HABIT. 1 . A reliable and painless remedy for the Opium habit. '1 (New-York Herald, April 16, 1870.) .4... .,,_ , .v,". .:c7:rw..-3:... . _ 7 h.omson’s Crown C1-inclines . Are Charming for Li ghtziesa. ..( _.,.-A... ' . T- I1A0lllS0vll’8’(}l‘0VVll C1-inolines ' . Cures without any inconvenience to or interruption of 1 , “ ‘" ” -~“—’77’ ' ' T ' Are Superior for Elasticity. CLINTON: l‘IaSS- . « business. Pamphlets sent free on application. 1 ;5§;'ff’1‘:Io11"l1,At°H1~1I*}41 er Ir11ipeTi6ilﬁDel ~ 1 1 ‘ 1 1 " our 1' ver- ” 2‘ T {"06l;l“;I;al ot the Trench Emp »re),9d.éu1y,‘T867, l(l1 tlielge Thomson’: Crpwn Cirinolinea . . . . 1 ' 2 » . . h M V» ’ Addi ess, H p _ Fabﬂgme de Machines ,» Are unequalled for Durability. r cou re exposaut. - , ‘ E II J . ‘ — . _ ‘ DRULINER 82; CO.. W‘ °‘”’ “ Mh1,1,n,,f,mtu,.er “Sewing Tll0ln§:0l;’:"Fl'0VVl:hC;‘i!l(?1lI;e8, Id . . . . . . . - . - ' ' ' - n The object of this organization is the publication‘ P- 0' Dmwer 11016’ L3‘ P°1te> Ind’ . v M ‘mes’ E\mm°‘ . more w.%]e'l;r§no:,n°§1:’a1:: :11; xggr ’ and _ , _ ' _ _ , , ' ’ / « The Hdwe Sewing Machines are eel b t (if l ’ ~ . and dissemination of radical sentiments from all; the heat work, using 8. much Smiillelc‘ i!ifz:ee<ilcOi?0l‘O?Y2; ' - At wh°1°s“'1° by and perfect Stitch, a ike on both sides of themlgtlcn. Sources . M T l 8a'1l{]lT8$t;h[:l?:i?(lt&ll)%g(l1 T3, DTll;hlflI'l1I(l)S“(T)}Til]:‘1‘e1lIYllly sewing, and THOMSON’ LANGDON & Co" " K h A H E , ‘ Manufacturingofever description, making a b tliful ' 391 Broadway, 7 h ‘ U caged. 8.111‘/([1 will neither rip nor ravel_. ‘ ‘ p ‘ N917 Yorke 172,057.13] Subscmpzfzon _ . _ $0 25 1\[anufaCtu1-er of dﬂixygrrgrm ztiﬁeihggfdagtgegalpgﬁectmn as the best mu- . -. A _ ‘ ‘;r3?:*,- ‘ h h lb Tb’e{)&1'tv§ lasing exztctly alike, if any partneeds to - - W ‘{ S - - _ _ _ 3 — U. ,,,-« e re ace , 18‘ _- - 1 ‘ ' ‘ ’ Ltfﬁ M6Wlb6T87LZ]) - . * 5 . =2 ' - Tl): New Impr<()’£§daF(a‘irfi?l§rl lfggtlicifiebis without ll. rival,‘ ' . _ , and cannot be surpassed,_—-a. Hemmer F H y B. ~d . a Quilter and Guide go with eu.clif'Fam’ily eMezircliiii!em1reeLt; of charge \ Address, - 1 , _ ' , 1 1 9' Buyers of Sewing Mach‘ ies ‘e ..tl C t‘ cl‘ A. H No. I 6 i St‘, to observe the Medallioiiuljleuxdl (ffg,r:?;ll§l1Sy110aVl’18],‘orBl(l‘ql (’l‘rademark)e-mbedediii each Machine. Certain pm--' CLINTON, Mass. *1 Stand Cans and Tanks, of all kinds, for. the Pubic as Howe achinesles ° .01“ ‘mmm°'” °“' Oils, Varnishes, Turpentine, Paint, ‘Putty, SEND FORCIRCULAR. ‘ .._...j POW(le1', &C'.‘ ‘ '_ 311- B. We hfwe Fuller «*2 'B'arn,um’s New Tuck Creas.‘ ‘ ' 2.-"""" ' /, ' gﬁsisrieclvgelt-gulue .and~ baster combined. for .1. _ _ _ _. ~ . - 1 0- ~'“‘_"1~ . . . , VERY DESCRIPTION or scam: 1‘ Those really interested in piactical social - D rugglsts Tin - Ware‘ 1 $1-BLEY '& S'I.00PS, .§£"“II "A'1‘"1'HMt1on. send foi:cataI:§if:A:z::1’clr°cn:1’;:. ' I Q3 v. ' - ‘ - ' s 1 t ‘ n‘1~hwd Scales t the: ark link 1 art" .1 _ . reform should not fail to become con Sheetlron Paris Green’ Gang .HermetiCa].1y_ Vpeiéi eihgeialfgi glpepvivi “mm, M. can ‘E2129. ‘ on up ‘M! for versant with the nature of this institution. . , 7 must be addressed at either of the pony“ 51/ - = N * Full information may be obtained by addressing C.‘ ‘aéhgg %m.1§1:.EO1“1‘I?mt" 'Me3‘t>'Vegetab1eSv 630? %‘,‘,‘;;§§,S°1‘t‘i',“ £1 £(§:il?i?:::%i:I:'«gyt?dfe!ig€g}1=a~ P T I if ‘°wf1='.c:»:!§?.::,°;.;'?';,h - ’ 1. * ' 5 .. ' .-- ' ,1, _ . . -v.‘9'. h_ James’EauC1aire., Wis‘ L e o a, e1 ita, ill and Ointment Boxes. . 5 {,,,,,\.,.,,,;,,375,r,3,,,,,,1 ,,,,.e,,,,' Newhkihweﬁgg . h 1 16 WOODHULL & CLAFLIN_’,S WEEKLY. 0 April 26, 18.7 3. The Friendship -Community. Near Buffalo, Dallas Co., Missouri, has 500 acres of good land, on which its members all live and work to‘- gether, combining all their property and labor for their mutual assistance and support. It is liberal and pro- ressive, and allows equal rights to all its members, oth men and women, in its business aifairs. More members are wanted. ' l The Communist, its monthly paper, will be sent free to all desiring further information. Address ALCAN- DER LONGLEY, as above. r HE NEW YORK LIRERAL CLUB Meets every Friday evening at 8 o’clock, ’ For the discussion of scientiﬁc and other interesting * subjects. Good speaking and entertaining discussions may always be expected. SAFES.9 Marvin & Co.’s are the Best. .:__ 265 BROADWAY. 6 WM. DIBBLEE, LADIES’ HAIR DREssER, 854 BROADWAY, Has removed ‘from his Store to the FIRST FLOOR, where he will continue to conduct his business in all its branches TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. CHEAPER than heretofore, in consequence of the diﬁerence in his rent. CHATELAINE BRAIDS. LADIES’ AND GrENTLEMEN’S WIGS. ‘THE BEST FOR UsE IN FAMILIES, THE FAMOUS HALFORD . LEICESTERSHIRE ,Ta.b1e Sauce, RELISI-I Put up in any part of the world for Family Use. Can be bought of any First—C1ass Grocer Open. I THE CRUSADE FAMILY SHIP, A New Incomparable aa\’v¢1re]'.‘ytl1lIlg appertaining to the business will be kept. ‘K ??and and made to order. V DLBBLL. \®..\IA for stimulatin J APONICA _for soothing am. the MAGIC TAR SA ’vE for promoting the growth OI the hair, constantly on hand. Consultation on diseases of the Scalp, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 A. M. till 3 P. M. Also, his celebrated HARABA ZEIN, or FLESH BEAUTIFIER, the only pure and harm- less preparation ever made _for the complexion. No lady should ever be without it. Can be obtained only at WM. DIBBLEE’S, 854 Broadway, Up-stairs. AMERlO:IEl\T BATH NORTH—EAST CORNER 17th St. 8: Irving Place, Embraces the most comprehensive system of remedial agencies of any like_ institution in this country. In addition to the ~ TURKISH,‘ RUSSIAN, ORIENTAL, SULPIIURETS, _ SULPHUROUSEVAPOR, FUMIGATED, . MEROURIAL, IODINE, ETc., BATHS, ' Treatment by ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM receives special attention." 7' These Baths are select, and given singly, and are 0 administered in such a way as to healthfully adapt themselves to each individual case of either sex. PRICES OF BATHS—-From $1.00 to $3.00. NEW YORK, May, 1872. _ EN TRAN OE’ T0 GENTLEMEMS BA TES’, . ‘ Irving.Place. EN TRAN OE T0 LADIES’ BATES. -. 125 E. 17th Street. PROGRESSIVE llarmonial Gonimunity, Chartered November 25th, 1872. Founded on the principles of the Harmonial Philosophy. Afew more members can now be admitted. Address, inclosing a stamped and directed envelope, to G. W. GORE, Lamoille, Marshall County, Iowa. TITUs at JORDAN, Attorneys &Gounse11ors, 19 INASSAU. STREET, ’ §%%I§FP %omm.l NEW YORK oLoTIIEs DRYER, CLOTIWJS FRAMES, BARS AND LINES, FRUIT DRYER AND CHRISTMAS TREE COMBINED. A GOOD THING, Patented May 24th, 1870. It is used for wet or dry clothes, in doors or out, stands ﬁrm or will swing and revolve, opens and closes like an umbrella; with racks_made of lath added, is a fruit dryer, and trimmed with evergreens, is a Christmas tree.‘ Send for circular descriptive of it or for the ai'_ht/[icle lietseclf, at any store, or send to the nd anu ac urer, - Patentee a w. LIVINGSTON BROWNE, = Shortsville, Ontario County, N. Y. P__S_._.Sa1es Large, and easy. Agents wanted for the article, or territory. Address the Manufacturer, as above, imloséng stamﬂ . I Fruit Dryer. Christmas Tree. A..._.. $50,0[?‘.l Will be distributed this year, to the subscribers for the AMERICAN WORKING PEOPLE, a large quarto, 16 page Monthly, costing but $1 50 per year. It gives a premium to every subscriber, varying from. 25 cents in value up to $2, $5, $10, $20, $13100, $5200, and $500 in Greenbacks, besides Watches, Sewing Machines, Par- lor Organs and numerous other premiums of value. Send for Specimen and.Circulars to VCAPRON & CO., Pittsburgh, Pa. THE LAW OF MARRIAGE, AN EXHAUSTIVE ARGUMENT AGAINST MARRIAGE LEGISLATION, BY C. L. JAMES, Author of “Manual of Transcendental Philosophy.” For sale by the author, post paid, for 25c. ’Add'ress, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. The Grreat Discovery ! CATHARTIC MEDICINE MADE PLEASANT TO THE TASTE AND DEIGHTFUL INVEFFECT. O R V I S ’ Cathartic Compound I Is pleasant to the taste, and will be readily eaten by CHARLES J, MARTIN, Preg, childreii or adéultls. I3 is fi-<1ee1:{ frocilili p(())lS(ﬁ10lgS gr/iugﬁ, _ ispureyve ea e,an unieo er at aric e - J- H- WASHBURM 390- ‘ cines, the dgose need nbt to be increased from con tinued use. _ And it positively cures constipation. The directions accompanying each package. Read the following recommendations : » “ NEW YORK, July 8 1871. “DR. 0RvIs: Dear Sir—Please send me, C. O.’ D., one box such as I had before; and am pleased to say, it has acted ajsra charm with my wge. 0 WE L “ ours, TUN S . BLA K L .” - (This was one of the worst cases of constipation I have ever known.——A. O.) ‘ “BROOKLYN, L. Id Nov. 3, 1871. HOME INSUMNOE t0liIPlNl, No. 135 BROADWAY. Branch Office 586 Sixth Avenue. Capital, — $2,500,000 Assets over 4,000,000 This Company having provided for all its Chicago losses, without borrowing a dollar or disturbing a single Bond and Mortgage, invites the attention of the public to the following certiﬁcate of Hon. -George W. Miller, Superintendent of the Insurance Depart- ment of the State of New York, that the Capital has been restored to the full amount of Two and One-half Millions of Dollars. INsURANoii DEPARTMENT, ALBANY, N. Y.,} ~ Dec., 2'7, 1871. Having,'on the 10th day of November, 1871, made a requisition, directing the officers» of the Home Insur- ance Company, of New York, to require the Stock- “ Dear Sir: Since your Cathartic Me icine was made holders of said Company to pay up the sum of One kn ‘ _ . ‘ Mllllon Five Hundred Thousand Dollars deﬁciency to Stvvilfeiifa tviiliitiiiéiaiidtét 23%-,é§.?“§.§i‘i‘1it: then existing in the Capital of Said Company and sure you I prefer it to all other expedients. Its opera- » , _ _ ’ tion is gentle and wholesome, not enervating the sys- upon due examination made, it appearing that the tem, or leavinga tendency to increased dilﬁculty. It said amount of One Million Five Hundred Thousand g1,.‘:,.a{};,ttt11,: ,?V(1),I$I(:1€£,ii;§’c;:f1gi‘é%i,n‘g),PreBSi°n and mvig‘ Dollars has been duly subscribed and fully paid in, in “Re5PectfuuYl Mm R- 0- MAITLAND-” cash Ihereby certify that the capital of said Compa- It is extensively used by Dr‘ 'F0ster’ of Clifton ny has been fully restored to its original amount of Springs, and many other eminent Physicians. , SPECIAL AGENTS: Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars. Hudnut, Herald Building, Broadway, New _York; D‘. G. Farwell, cor. Amity an Broadway, do.; Mac , cor. 6th avenue and 151th Street, do.; Robt. S. McCur y, 494: Broadway, Albany; J. K. Post & Co., Lane & Paine, and Almy, Osburn House, Rochester, N. Y.; S. E. Samuels, ColumbussO.', Dixon 85 Deidrich, Dayton, In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and aﬂixed myoﬁicial seal on the day and year above W1”itten- GEORGE W MILLER 0.; Briggs, Clifton prings, N. Y. ' _ ’ FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS GENERALLY (L' S‘) Supetmtendenh Price 25 cts. per Package. @"’ Address all Orders, DR. A. ORVIS. Rochester. N. Y. oANoER. J. M. cOMINs, M. D., nor. on OBSTETRICS & DISEASES oil nniiis, Gives special attention to the treatment of CANCER, 0; acll varieties, and is radically curing large numbers 0 em. ’ @"’ Call or address at 143 E. TWENTY-SIXTH STREET, N. Y., From 8 to 9% E. M.; 4 to 61>. M. The Road to Power. SEXUAL .SCIENCE. FREDERICK KURTZ’S DINING ROOMS, KNABE &I C0.’S PIANOS. (ESTABLISHED 1833, BALTIMORE, MD.) 18,000 of these Celebrated Instruments arenowinuse this country and Europe. hey have been awarded 85 Gold and Silver Medals. Every Instrument fully warranted for ﬁve years. . wARERooMs: V 650 Broadway, N. Y., and 69 Washington Street, . Chicago, Ill. J. BAUER & co;, . ’ GENERAL AGENS. Pianos to rent; sold on installments; and old ones taken in exchange. Illustrated atalogues sent on ap- plication. ' I PIMPLES. I will send (free) recipe for my VEGETABLE BALM, removing PIMPLES, BLACK WORMS, BLoToHEs, FREcKLEs, MOTHS, TAN and all Diseases of the Skin, leaving it clear and with a healthy glow. Also, sure process for ﬁne growth of Hair on bald heads or smooth faces. THOS‘. F. CHAPMAN, CHEMIST, P. O. Box 5,128. 197 Broadway, New York. I » A THE _ A . I THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION ' OF THE American» labor I Reform league w:LL‘ BE BLED IN. NEW .)‘CI{K CITE, MAY 4'1‘! 85 5115. PHYSICAL AND MIlNl‘AL_ 1illGllN1l]iATION. A pamphlet of 60 pages, by F. B. Down. Priceless to wives and mothers and such as are tgiiig to be men. Price 500. Ad .ess F; B. DOW , ’ Wellsville, Mo. 23 New St. and 60 Broadway I DR. H. sLADE, (CLAIRVOYAN'l‘,) ' ' NJ. SIMMONS, 210 WEsT FORTY-THIRD STREET, N. Y. OFFICE HOURS FROM 9 A. M. TILL 9 P. M. NOT OPEN SATURDAY. 76 Maiden Lane& ‘I Liberty St. 7 Per Cent Gold Bonds, issued by the Montclair Railway Co. '——-AND--— Guaranteed by New York Midland. The MONTOLAIR is the DIRECT and SHORT LINE 013' THE MIDLAND through New Jersey. Its bonds are ‘ issued on the basis of half cost. ' They are GUARANTEED. .. It is a home road, running DIRECT FROM THE C1TY‘o15- . ' ' , * NEW "YORK, assured of a large business and a ﬁne Mr. Kurtz invites to his warm and comfortably fur— future. THIS BOND OFFERS AN ADVANTAGE OVER ALL nished dining apartments the down-town public, as- $§fTf’$,,‘$§ ﬁ“g§’A‘f§§c.§§?§§, l"Ia‘(IISmIflE‘::(SFINBI?RII?J§s!?. IN suring them that they will always ﬁnd there the We commend it to investors. For sale by choicest viands, served in the most elegant style, the most, carefully-selected brands of wines and liquors, & Co‘) as well as the most prompt attention by accomplished I BANKERS: No. 27 PIN_E_ STREET. AND Particulars hereafter. . . l Walters. - fa. .__-.
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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1873-04-26_05_21
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1873-04-26_05_21
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 05, no. 22 (May 3, 1873)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1965
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1873-05-03
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: LY. .\ PROGRESS! EREE THOiUGH’Jﬂ_§‘! UNTRAMMSELED LIVES: BREAKING THE, WA Y FOR F UTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. V.——No. 22.—Whole No. 126. NEW YORK, MAY 8, 1878. -4 PRICE TEN CENTS. ‘ THE LOANER’S BANK or THE CITY or NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LoANs, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. ' Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special‘ attention. Q‘ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR- RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered 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 ubject to check at sight. A Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the r...
Show moreLY. .\ PROGRESS! EREE THOiUGH’Jﬂ_§‘! UNTRAMMSELED LIVES: BREAKING THE, WA Y FOR F UTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. V.——No. 22.—Whole No. 126. NEW YORK, MAY 8, 1878. -4 PRICE TEN CENTS. ‘ THE LOANER’S BANK or THE CITY or NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LoANs, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. ' Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special‘ attention. Q‘ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR- RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered 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 ubject to check at sight. A Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited’ at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS.- Certiﬂcates of Deposit issued, payable’ on demand, bearing Four per Cent interest. - Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts of the United States and Canadas. HARVEY FISK. A. S. HATCH. OFFICE or FISK & HATCH, BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT’ SECURITIES, No. 5 Nassau st., N. Y., @‘ Opposite U. S. Sub-’_7"reasury. We receive the accounts of Banks, Bank- ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest on balances. We make special arrangements for interest ‘ on deposits of speciﬁc sums for ﬁxed periods. We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of_ Deposit ‘available in all parts of the Union. We buy and sell at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company ; also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- N sion, for cash. Communications and ,,inquiries by mailer telegraph, will receive careful attention. ,1“ FISK & HATCH. A EIRsT§CLAss New York Security AT A Low PRICE. The undersigned offer for sale the First Mortgage Seven Per Cent. Gold Bonds of the Syracuse and Che- nango Valley Railroad, at 95 and accrued interest. This road runs from the City of Syracuse to Smith’s Valley, where it unites with the New York Midland Railroad, thus connecting that city by a direct line of road with the metropolis. ‘ - . Its length is 42 miles, its cost about $42,000 per mile, and it is mortgaged for less than $12,000 per mile-; the balance of the funds required for its construction hav- ing been raised by subscription to the capital stock. The road approaches completion. ‘ It traverses a populous and fertile district of the State, which in- sures it a paying business, and ‘it is under the control of gentlemen of high character and ability. Its bonds possess all the requisites of an inviting investment. They are amply secured by a mortgage for less than one-third the value of the property. They pay seven per cent. gold interest. and are oifered ﬁve per cent. below par, The undersigned conﬁdently recommend them to all class of investors. GEORGE OPDYKE & CO., No. 25 Nassau Street. T0 INVESTORS. To those who ‘wish to REINVEST COUPONS OR DIVIDENDS, and those who wish to INCREASE THEIR_INCOME from means already invested in less proﬁtable securities, we recommend the Seven-Thirty , Gold Bonds of the Northern Paciﬁc Railroad Com- pany as well secured and unusually productive. The bonds are always convertible at Ten per cent. premium (1.10) into the Company’s Lands, at Market Prices. The rate of interest (sevexrand three-tenths per cent. gold) is equal now to about 8 1-4 currency -—yielding an income more than one-third greater than U. S. 5-20.9. Gold Checks for the semi—annual in,- and bonds are received in exchange for Northern Paciﬁcs ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. JAYS GOOKE & 00. i terest on the Registered Bonds are mailed to the‘ post- ' oﬂice address of the owner, All marketable stocks" i_ BANKING HOUSE or HENRY ACLEWS & C0., 1 32 Waﬂ Street, N. Y. Circular Notes and Letters of Credit for travelers ; also Commercial Credits issued available throughwt the world. Bills or Exchange on the Imperial Bank of London, National Bank of Scotland, Provincial Bank of Ire- land and all their branches. Telegraphic Transfers of‘ money on Europe, San Francisco and the West Indies. Deposit accounts received in either Currency 01' Coin, subject to Check at sight, which pass th1‘0ugh the Clearing House as if drawn upon any city bank; interest allowed on all daily balances; Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued bearing interest at current rate; Notes and Drafts collected. State, City and Railroad Loans negotiated. CLEws, HABICHT & co., 11 Old Broad St., London. BANKING & ‘FINANCIAL. —::_ TIIE ST._ JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAIL- ROAD COMPANY ’S 2 FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS Are being absorbed by an increasing demand for them. Secured as they are by a ﬁrst mortgage on the Road, Land Grant, Franchise and Equipments, combined in one mortgage, they command at once a ready market. A Liberal Sinking Fund provided in the Mortgage Deed must advance the price upon the closing of the loan. Principal and interest payable in GOLD. Inter- est at eight (8) per cent. oer annum. Payable semi- Principal in thirty years. De- nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons, or Regis- annually, free of tax. tered. Price 97% and accrued interest, in currency, from February 15, 1872. Maps, Circulars, Documents nished. " York. can now be had through the principal ‘Banks and Bankers throughout the country, and from the under- signed who unhesitatingly recommend them. TANNER & CO., Bankers, No. 11 Wall Street, New York. AUCUsTRELMoNT & Co., Bankers, 19 and 21 NASSAU STREET, Issue Letters of Credit to Travelers, available in all parts of the world through the MESSRS. DE ROTHSCHILD AND THEIR OORRESPONDENTS. Also, make telegraphic transfers of money on Call- tornia, Europe and Havana. ' and information fur- Trustees, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New ToLEDo,PEoRIA wARsAw RAILWAY, SECOND MORTGAGE CON- VERTIBLE 7 "PER I CENT. CURRENCY RoNDs. INTEREsT WARRANTS PAYABLE OCTOBER AND APRIL, 2? PRINCIPAL 1886. We offer for sale $100,000 of the above bonds in block. By act of reorganization of the Company these bonds are convertible into the First Preferred Shares of the Company, which amounts to only 17,000 shares, and into the Consolidated Bonds (recently negotiated. at Amsterdam) of six millions of dollars, which cover 3 the entire line of 230 miles of completed road, to gether with allthe rolling stock and real property, to the value of more than ten millions of_ dollars. The road crosses the entire State of Illinois and connect. with the mammoth iron bridges spanning the Missi s sippi at Keokuk and Burlington.‘ The income of the , road for the year will net suﬂicient to) pay interest on O the bonded indebtedness and dividend on the pre- ferred shares. For terms apply to CLARK, DODGE &_ C0,, Corner Wall and William Streets. RAILROAD IRON, FOR SALE BY s. w. HOPKINS a CO., L « 71BRoADwAY NOTICE TO ._iNvEsToRs_._._ . *oiiieAeo A AND . CANADA soU'rriER:N._ I sides 7 per cent. Gold Bonds AT 90 AND ACCRUED INTEREST. COUPON AND REGISTERED. INTEREST PAYABLE IN GOLD.,,APRIL AND OCTOBER. We now offer these Bonds at the above VERY LOW price. -THE CANADA SOUTHERN, or Eastern end of this line, whose Bonds were so rapidly sold last sum- mer, ' C’ I I l" ' I IS Now r‘iN1s;uED, and will be opened for business in connection with the TOLEDOAND WABASH and other Western Roads, . at avery early day. The CHICAGO AND CANADA SOUTHERN, or Western end of this line, is now being rapidly built, and the Company expect it to be ﬁnished during the present year. u ' 5 THIS , GREAT TRUNK LINE, when completed througl1,_will be of inimenseadvaiitage to the shipping interests of the Great West, being Level, Straight, and thirty-three miles Shorter than any other route. Hav- ing connections with all the lines running into Buffalo at the East and Chicago at the West, and under the management of some of the most experienced rail- oad operators of the country, its success isrendered a certainty, and its Bonds must be a safe and proﬁtable investment. It niakesthe shortest and best connec- tions going West,»both at Toledo and Detroit, and is the only Seven Per Cent. Bond on any through Trunk line now offered. _ Pamphlets and all information by WI:NsLow, LANIER & Co., Bankers, 2'?’ Pine Street. LEONARD, SHELDON St FosTER, _Bankers, 10 Wall Street." FIRST MORTGAGE 8 PER CENT. BONDS on THE ' MILWAUKEE AND NORTERN . RAILWAY. 1 Coupon and registered; Interest June and December. DENOMINATIONS, 1.000s AND 5008. We olfer these Bonds for sale’ at 90 and accrued in- terest, believing them to be a secure as well as aprofit- able investment. Full particulars furnished on appli- cation. ’ VERMILYE 86 CO., - » Nos. 16 and 18 Nassau Street. GREENLEAF, NORRIS & CO..,~ ' No.‘ 00 Exchange Place. WILLIAM 1i.SEW'A.RD’S TRAvELs The undersigned respectfully announce that they have now ready the order-book containing specimen- pages of the paper, printing, illustrations, engravings, and styles of binding of Governor Seward’s Wonderful Journey Around the World. This deeply interesting work was completed dfew ' days before the distinguished tra.veller’s death, and the publishers will spare no pains to make it the most ~ elegantly gotten-up ‘book of travel ever pnoli.shed——'rni1 ENGBAVINGS ALONE COSTING ABOUT $15,000. It is sold‘ only by subscription, and a duly-authorized agent will call for the purpose of giving all an oppor- tunity to subscribe. - . » No czmtes will be sold from our store at any price. Nearly 300 Engravings. D. APPLETGN & co., Publishers, -54.9 .32; -'55 1 BROADWAY, New York. 4 MRS. C. A. DELAFOLIE, 607 Hudson Street, New York, ' lalstlcal and Business tlalrveiaini. . Wei‘ known fol" her correct diaeresis 0;? and delineation at character. A . I ' I ~-WOODHULL &: CLAF_LIN’S. ‘WEEKLY.’ __ _ ENORWICH LINE. I For Boston, Worcester, Fitfchburg, Groton Junction, Lowell, Lawrence,‘ fNashua, Mjaiichesteig Concord, Pal- AFETY, SPEED AND COMFORT. mer,IBrattleboro,:.ai'1d intersec ing points. ‘ Thenew and staunch stea ‘fs ' r Lorrvccir BOISTON TYLOF NEWIYORK, . » ' ._ CITY OF LAWRENCE and ' 1 . ‘ j CITY OF NORWICH Will leave New.'York.da1’_ly :(S_._undays excepted). at 4 o’clock p. m., from~’Pier No. 540,, North River, foot of Canal and Watts,-streets. ’ ‘ « — ' . , ~For New London, and Norwich, their ‘connecting with Expresstrains for the above points, via Vermont Central. Norwich and Worcester, and Boston, Hart- ford and Eric Railroads. For through tickets aiidujates for freight, apply at the oﬂice, Piei‘ 40, North River.. . _ ’ . ‘ ’ ‘ W. F. PARKER, Agent. New York, June ll, 1872. . — 5 9 I Especiallyfei‘ Females. A powerful and healthy Magnetizer, who has cured many "female "complaints by the use of magnetized paper, will’ send the same to any address for 25 cents per sheet, with directions for its use. Address Box .80, Lynn, Mass. 7 Dr. JOSEPH TREAT, HENRY WARD BEECHER, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, VICTORIA C. VVOODHULL, Risk of Hall and expenses taken, and 25 cents charged for each Lecture. If necessary the cream of the three rendered in one Henry Ward Beecher illustrated by twice life-size portrait. ” - - Address, care of Woodhull & Claﬂin, 48 Broad st., N. Y., or of J. P. Menduin, 84 \7VaSlllllgl‘.()l1 st., Boston, li-lass, or of.J. A. Lant, Editor of the Sun, Toledo, 0. LECTURES BY Edward H. ‘G. Clark, Of Troy, N. Y. 1. FISK; OR, THE CRIMES OF OUR COMMERCE. (New Lecture for 1872-3.) 2. THE AMERICAN, LECTURE-STAND. 3. OUR COMING REPUBLIC. (Lecture in progress.) TERMS FROM s40 TO $80. ..._g._. NE\WSPAPER NOTICES. Mr. Clarkls “American Lecture-stand” is not only In thoughtful and scholarly, but it is popular and entcr- - taining. He delivers it without reference to his man- uscript, in a clear, pleasant voice, with easy, graceful gestures. An ardent admirer of Phillips and Curtis, his matter and manner constantly suggest these great masters. No ﬁner lecture than the ‘American Lec- ture-stand” has been delivered in Albany this season, and weheartily commend its author to the lyccums of the country as a speaker who will not disappoint great expectations.—Albany Journal. ‘ “The American Lecture stand” gave the best of satisfaction. Mr. Clark is a pleasant and attractive speaker, and will always be warmly welcomed upon the platform in Albany.-—~Albdny Argus. One of the best lectures given in Albany this winter. —~Albdng/ mpress. ” Undoubtedly one of the ablest productions that have recently been offered ‘to lecture-goers anywhere in this country.—Troy Whig. It lifts Mr. Clark at once to the ﬁrst rank of public lecturers.——— Troy Press.’ - It certainly meets the requirements of the lecture- going public to as great a degree as any similar effort that we remeniber.—Jt’ochester Democrat and Chroni- cle. - ' We are compelled to say it is one of the most inter- esting, instructive and entertaining productions that have recently fallen under our notice.—Bu_z7’al0 Eac- press. _ * Unquestionably the best lecture we ever heard, is the verdict of all who listened.——Benm‘ngton Free Press. . Many declare it to be the best lecture of the course. -—7Benn73ngton Banner. ' Mr. E. H. G. Clark’s lecture is considered the best of ,,the course, except, perhaps, Carl Schurz’s.-—Ben- nlngton Correspondent of the Troy Press. Not one of the best, but the very pest lecture of the season.—-Sclmylervtlle News. ” WENDELL PHILLIPS ON “ FISK ; OR, THE CRIMES OF OUR COMMERCE.” 0 Dear Frlend-Yourlecturc on Fisk is happily named and thoroughly treated. It was a rare treat to listen to it. You will surely interest your audiences. What better subject could a speaker have for the lyceum than this startling scene and appalling conspiracy which we call your “ Rings?” All Europe hancrg breathless over that drama. It is the culmination 31° all T_ocquevi'.lle feared for us. To Americans the sub- Ject Is one of graveg-even‘ painful interest. You have treated it skillfully: made a sketch at once terse and full, rapid. masterly allfl eﬁective; sure to command a profoiinder interest than the most ‘sensational topic. While it is full of suggestion for the thoughtful it is brilliant and striking enough to charm the most indif- ferent audience. It will do much to keep the lyceum where it belongs—-iu~struction and education as well as ‘interest and amusement. ’ OUTS, E EDWARD H. G. CLARK, Troy, NYVYTDELL PmLLIPS' JOSHUA M. HOLT, Manufacturer and Proprietor » Br. lisy'l’s, lhagneilc-Pain Burs, ND Belt’ Vegetable Liver Tonic, RIE _RAIL,WAY.——-"Winter Arrangement of Trains to take effect J anuary:20, 1873, From Chambersstreet Depot (for,Twenty-third street see note bjelo_vv). ‘ , _ V ' ‘ ' 9 a.:_':'1n.—Cinci1inati and Chicago Day Express. Drawing-room Coaches to Buffalo and Sleeping Coaches to destination. 1 ‘ g 11 a‘..1n.——Expr’ess Mail for Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Drawing-room Coaches to Susquehanna and Sleeping Coaches to destination. » ' _ 7 p. on. (Daily),-Cincinnati and Chicago Ni ht Ex- press. Sleeping Coaches through to Buifalo, iagara Falls,. Cincinnati, Detroit and Chicago, without change.- . _. V ' Additional Trains leave for— Goshen and Midglletown, *7.30j 8, +8.30, 11 and ‘F11.-‘ 15 a. m,, 3.30, 4,30 arid fl-‘+7 p. in. ‘ , Warwick, 8, 11 and *11.15 a. m., and 4.30 p. E1. Newburgh, +8.30, 9 and 11 a. m.,I3,30 and 4.30 p. m. ;— Suffern, +7.30, 8, +830, 11 and +1_1;15 a. m., 3.30, 5, '6, +6.30, *7 and *11.30 p. in. V Ridgewood, H0l10k.l1S, Allendale and RaInse.y’s, +7.- 3 30.8.1830, 11,4*11.15 a. m., 3.30, 5, 6, +6.30, 7 and *11.. Newark, v.15, *8.45 and 11.30 a. m., and 3.45, 5.15 and *6.30 p. m. ‘ Rutherfurd Park and Passaic, 6.45, *7-.30, +8.30, 10 i1,1aém., 12 noon, *1.45, 3.30, 4, 5.15, 6, *0.30, 8, 10 and . 0 p. m. - ’ Hillsdale, Hackensack and Way, 5, 8.15 and +8.45 3.. 111., 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 p. m., and 12 Mid. Spring Valley and Way, 5, 8.15, and 'l‘8,45 a. m., 1, 4 and 5 p. m., and*=+12 Mid. Englewood, 5, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m._, 1.30, 3.15, 4.15, 4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and *'7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid. Cresskill, 5, 7.45, +9 and 9.30, a. 111., 1.30, 3.15, 4.15, 5.30, (3.30 and *"a’.45 p. m., and +12 Mid. - Sparkill,.5, 7.45, ‘+9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.15, 4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and +7 .45 p. m., and +12 Mid. — Piermont and Nyack, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a._m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and +’7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid. N. B.——Trains leaving Chambers street on even or half hours, leave Twenty-third street 15 niinuter earlier thanabove time. The 5 a. m., 10 and 11.30 p. m., and 12 Mid. Trains start from Chambers street Only. N. 13,-Trains on the N. R. R. and Newark Branch leaving Chambers street on quarter hours, leave ‘time. Tickets for passage and for apartments in Drawing- room and Sleeping Coaches can be obtained,‘ and orders for the checking and transfer of Baggage may be left at the Company’s otﬁiccs—241, 529, and 957 Broadway; corner One Hundred and Twenty-ﬁfth street and Third avenue: 2 Court street, Brooklyn: at the Company’s Depots, and of Agents at the principal hotels. — * Daily. + Sundays only. *1 Goshen, Sundays only. JNO. N. ABBOTT, General Passenger Agent. JAMlESON’S BOOK! “ TIIE CLERGY A SOURCE OF DANGER TO THE »AMERICAN REPUBLIC.” GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION. INFAMY. Full Eocpo.9e—Second Edltlon_.fust Published, A Volume of 331 Pages. One of the most startling books ever issued from the press. Price, bound in muslin, postage paid, $51.75. Books furnished at Reduced Rates on the Club Plan. CLUB RATES : 9 Three Copies, expressage or postage paid, . ' . $4 50 Six ' “ “ “ “ . . . 8 50 Ten “ “ “ “ . . . 12 50 Parlor Edition, gilt, 20 cents per vol. extra. AGENCIES. Terms made known on application. 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Claﬂin . . . . . . . . 2 50 The Principles of Social’ Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Impending Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25 The Ethics of sexuzu Equality .... . .' .............. .. 25 “ If an offense come out of truth, better is it that‘ the offense come than that the Truthbe concealed.”—Je7"0me. SOCIALISTIC. LETTER TO EDWARD H. G-. CLARK. My Dear S'L'r—Be assured I most thoroughly appreciate your efforts to enlighten the public with reference to the “ Beecher-Tilton Scandal.” To give your utterances weight with the public, you may consider it necessary to counter- feit an aversion to Free Love which you do not feel. How- ever this may be, I shall assume that in your articles that have been copied into WOODHULL & CLArLIN’s WEEKLY, you have expressed your real sentiments. A man is not disgraced who does not understand a subject That you have been mainly occupied with other matters is plainly evident from the fact that your ideas of Free Love are, as yet, strangely “ mixed ;” and from the fact, also, that till re- cently you were (as you state) exceedingly prejudiced against Victoria Woodhull, Freedom’s most honored champion. While genuine Free Lovers are not, on their own account, particularly solicitous that they or their doctrines should be appreciated by the world, yet they owe a duty to humanity; and as the world’s salvation depends upon a correct under- standing and acceptance of the doctrines of Freedom, its advocates are bound to lose no opportunity to explain its na- ture and present its claims. / You say: “ ’Tis easy enough, of course,~for any thoughtful person to perceive that by ‘ social freedom ’ its exponents do _ not mean * * * *, but an individual right to regulate their love, like their worship, without the interference of law.” Very well stated. Pity you could not have “let well enough alone.” But instead of doing so, you go on to make Free Love ridiculous and shameful. It does seem to me that ‘ it is late in the day for a reﬁned and intelligent gentleman, who of course abounds in self-respect, and must have some appreciation of human nature, to confound affectional free- dom with sexual promiscuityl Seriously, is it not time that such talk were left to bigots and blackguards? Free Love is the EMANCIPATION or wonAN—converting her from a slave to an mdtciduarl, having the power to regu- late her love and maternal nature according_ to her own highest attractions and her own best judgment. Now the man who says that this freedom is equivalent to, or will re- sult in, promiscuity, blackguards his own mother! He says to his own sister, or mine, that all she lacks is opportunity to become a prostitute! . » Though woman were pure as an angel, there is no opportu- nity afforded her, under the reign of the present infernal system of morality, to be other than a forced prostitute in ’the marriage bed, or a public prostitute in the street. It-is only when she rises above her surroundings, or is fortu- nately allied to a Free Lover (in character and deed, if not in name)——-a man who reverences her womanhood, and who knows no law or rule of conduct in his relations with her but her happiness and her desire——that any other fate is or can be hers bu.t that of the most complete degradation. But it is not her choice. N o woman is by nature a prostitute. Hell holds no liar so infamous as he who asserts that woman in freedom will give her body to the man Who has not the power to win her love! - , I would not do you injustice. I know you especially dis- claim the idea that Free_Love is synonymous with prostitu- tion. But you go on to draw a picture suﬁiciently disgusting to ﬂatter the fancy of the vilest-bigot. Nothing could be more abhorrent (except the rapacity of the marriage bed) to any-well organized mind than the state of things you picture, -—mothers not knowing the father’s of their children, and children looking to the public for care and support. Be as- sured you could not so completely outi age any reﬁned wo- man’s nature, or so grossly insult her understanding (except by consigning» her to the custody of a marriage owner), as by,in- sinuating that such astate of things could come as the re- sult of woman’s freedom. 7 I know there can be found in plenty natures crude and coarse enough to_advocate almost any theory, but the cause of woman’s emancipation shall not be saddled with any of tliem. All these suggestions are impertinent at best. Until wo- man is free nothing can be decided, and when she ‘is free she will decide for herself. I have concluded for one that by far the more manly course for me, as a man, to pursue, will be . Q to devote my whole energies to the abolition of slavery, and not [waste my time in speculating as to how a woman will dress, or wear her hair, or how many lovers she will have. Whatever she shall be disposed to do, or however she may be gilspcsed to live, yet shall she be free. " ” F “ Do not understand me as seriously objecting to any mere expression of opinion as to what will result from woman’s freedom. And I for one shall not criticise any of these opin- ions, always providing they do not imply anything abhor-” rent to justice. or delicacy. But I do object to confounding Free Love with any theory. It is, indeed, evident that no one of them will be universally adopted, at least for a long time to come. Some - believe in absolute continence. And this may be the true theory. But no matter how true, it is not likelyuto be adopted, unanimously, for’ some time to come. There are, however, tens of thousand of women whose sex- ual natures have been so outraged in marriage that they will not, during their earthly lives, outgrow their deep-seated dis- gust for even the idea of sexuality. Then there" are those who believe that sexual relationships are only legitimate for the purpose of parentage, and these will be divided into ex- clusive and non-exclusive. There is still another class who believe, as fully as any, in freedom, andlyet hold that with the most highly developed love will be wholly given to one object. And yet another class who believe that a select and discriminating variety will obtain. And each of these classes will go on to carry out its own:theory, to say nothing of here and there an individual whose theory and practicegwill not absolutely harmonize. ( VVith one more attempt to set you right I will close; You charge Mrs. Woodhull with advocating adultery as a “ new reform” and a “higher religion.” You may say thatiMrs. Woodhull can speak for herself. I am aware that she has shown some ability in that direction. She is doubtless abundantly able .to defend herself against any and every slander and misrepresentation, but her friends may wish to saveher part of the trouble. , Of course, in the freedom Mrs. Woodhull advocates there can b.e no marriage and of course no adultery. Free Love is something other and more than apatch applied to the rotten old garment of marriage. But when you take her to be a woman who will even excuse deception and hypocrisy, I think you mistake. She has certainly criticised Beecher sharply, and for what? For not coming out and doing “on the square,” open and above board, instead of skulking and hypocritically, what he wanted to do. I do not understand that she is in -favor of his humbugging Mrs. Beecher or Mr. Tilton. ° ’ . In the meantime, please understand that Henry Ward Beecher is not yet a Free Lover. Violating the rules of his church does not constitute him a member of ours. There is but one way to join us, and that is ‘.‘ on profession of faith.” And there is but one way to maintain “ good standing” with us, and that is by always recognizing, theoretically and prac- tically, woman’s absolute right to freedom and individuality. I presume that Mr. Beecher has never been guilty, practi- cally, of the outrages upon woman that characterizﬁﬁthe aver- age married man, but he has thrown his vast inﬂuence in favor of the system that consigns her to degradation and slavery, and of this he must repent and “ bring forth fruits meet for repentance” before. we shall accept and own him. Very respectfully, _ FRANCIS BARRY. RAVENNA, Ohio, March 23, 1873. A TI-IRILLING VOICE FROM CALIFORNIA. SAN FRANCISCO, March, 1873. Dear Vic. and Ten.—I envy you the glory of the martyrdom to which the angels are consecrating you. Your persecution by the enemies of truth quickens the public mind to the re- ceptio_n of the great principles you are advocating. To my sibylline view, dear girls, these incidents of your incarcer- ation and trial, painful as they may be temporarily, have an historic value inappreciable to special apprehen sion. The thinking people of this country are deeply interested in the questions involved in the contest which you are so nobly battling against obscurantism and ‘deviltry; and they will see more clearly, by the facts brought to light therein, how irresistible are the impulses of human nature and how ab- surd are the attempts of societyto restrain them, only mak- ing hypocrites of those who fear its ﬁat, but cannot resist their character. This crisis in the story of the struggle for freedom, in all things, in the broadest expansion of the meaning of theword, will exalt, among the saviours of the race, women, who, like you,’are_bold and brave enough to maintain that these natural impulses are holy, and that it is the false restraiiit, and not the true use of them, that should be branded with the seal of condemnation. A worldly woman, commiserating your situation, said to me: “ It is too bad that they are again in disgrace.” I could not but be disgusted with her pity; for in this mere material perception of your situation there is no apprehen- sion of its deeper signiﬁcance. If there be any disgraceful part in this whole romance of real life in which you are playing the heroines, it is that assumed by the ignorant, who misunderstand you, and the brutal, who persecute you. The reformers, combating deep-seated prejudices and enunciating great truths, must expect the ﬁercest. opposition, the most insigniﬁcant form of which is in the wordy abuse that is heaped upon us. Could our revilers but know with what indifference we regard this verbiage they would have no motive tocontinue their stigmas. VVe are, in truth, like Shadrack and Abednego in the ﬁery furnace—proof against these ﬂames of a senseless censoriousncss. With a knowl- edge of the progress of reform during the centuries, and with minds clairvoyant and spiritually ‘quickened, we know that this dire oppugnancy is but the convulsive grapple of right and wrong: right, as eternal as space; wrong, strongly implanted in man’s selﬁsh nature. How gigantic the con- test; and this ﬁerce shock, the ever-renewed encounter, in which wrong perishes and right vanquishes! Understand- ing this inﬁnite necessity, the lover— of truth ‘can serenely read or listen to the slanderous excoriations of calumniators or submit to any other form of persecution that human malice can inﬂict.,. = To tell you to be of good courage is but to mistake in you apower‘ which you already possess to the ultimate. Your Strong and daring spirits are just ﬁtted to go through this campaign valiantly, airnied with the coxiscieuseass Of 511% gig“ should appertain to a man of the world. niﬁcance of your destinyiand of the sublime work to which you are appointed. The indomitable valor with which you push on, fearlessly in the van of reform, reminds me of the redoubtable Joan of Arc. ' _ ‘ This city is yet as provincial as a village, without its rural or rustic simplicity. In its spiritual sphere, the bowie knife and revolver are yet persistent remainders, though super- seded in the outer life by the more deliberate and calculating in the menaces with which Laura Fair was threatened when she purposed lecturing. In the midst of my labors, also, some of these over-virtuous citizens proposed to adorn me San Francisco, once the home of all license,.reverts now, in outward legislation, to a perverse and sour Puritanism. A man or woman can be here prosecuted for adultery, under a law made, as it would seem, to promote malicious prosecu- tions. To make enactments that cannot be enforced is a barbarism that, it wasto be hoped, was banished from the statute books of this country. ~ A husband or wife are absurdly said to be untrue to each other when, by obedience to the magnetic and psychological laws of the relations of the sexes, they are most faithful to their respective interests. The search for variety in sexual uses is as instinctively natural, healthful and necessary as the search for variety in food. The desire is child of the need, and the only restraint upon it should be respect for the rights of others. It is an impulse of the M3 medtcatrtrc nottu/rcc to recover an exhausted magnetism, and should be rationally obeyed and not ﬁercely repressed. In the interchange of fresh and coincident magnetisms is recuperation, not dissipa- tion. Married couples, unless intellectually accordant in re- gard to these profound laws of sex, become, after long inter- course, repellant batteries, and need a magnetic renewal’ to restore their mutual attraction. They should and will adopt, when this anthropological law is recognized, the remedy sug- gested by nature and science, and seeking for new spirits—- sexual inﬂuences—they will bring back to each other that, of which both have need. * In this gossiping and scandalous town, the only respect and women here, as I have learned from some of its oldest inhabitants, are like the denizens of similar climates in Spain and Italy. They are much given to sub rosa sexual in- triguing, and like monks and nuns, who cover libidinous souls with the pretense of chastity, they have no mercy‘ upon open sinners. A lady, moving in the respectable soci- ety of this city, said to me: “With all your reform ideas you must confess that you are not above the acquisition of material means, when the occasion offers. By an unneces- sary boldness you have recklessly thrown away this oppor- tunity. It is a pity that you have made yourself notorious by proclaiming that freedom in sexuality should be a law of action. There is no such woman on this coast as yourself— so accomplished, fascinating, brilliant and beautiful. Had tiously, discarding your free-love theories publicly, the prac- tice of them in secret would have been remunerative. The sin, in this town, is not in the doing, but in the being dis- covered.” What a comment upon this semblance of virtue, of which society makes an idol! And yet these people who play this double game are but like the ostrich, which thinks to con- ceal its whole body by thrusting its head into the sand. N 0 doubt, fashionable women in N ew_ York are the veriest slaves to this same stupid sham of constitutional virtue, though they have the relief of some artistic and intellectual development; while the women here are as wanting in deli- cacy of taste as they are in any earnestness of thought and purpose. Masculine rule is here exclusive ;‘ and the most of the men are crude and boorish in manners, and fogies in thought. Not even from the conservative view are they tol- erab1e—being without any such breadth of apprehension. as a woman who surpasses them intellectually, these men illus- trate the saying of.Helvetius: that “ All superiority attracts awe and aversion.” ' i I dined one evening with one of the most noted gen- do to every one; and noted with amused attention the alter- nations of interest and perplexity that passed over his coun- , tenance. At times the latter emotion seemed to deepen into positive fear, asif he dreaded that I intended to submit him to inquisitorial tortures should he unwarily let fall any op- position to the_social principles I was elucidating. ,_ could never permit or produce an Aspasia or N inon de titiously tolerated. , Should you think of any possible service I can be to you-, let me know, and I shall most prbmptly devote" myself to it. Affectionately your sister in reform, _ . A Fhancns Rosin MACKINLEY. ‘ “A man hired a room to sleep in, last evening, from Ben- and found it occupied not only by the man but by Ellen'Ca- hill, who was arrested, and to—day sent to the‘ penitentiary for six months. The man, by virtue of his sexfescaped pun- ishment.” _ - ' . [Of course he did. It was not many years ago, nay, not three years ago, that if a woman were brought before a court on any charge, and any sexual irregularity could be made tempt to kill, ‘because she assaulted a man who had drugged and debauched her twelve-year old. daughter, said- to the jury, “ I want you to understand‘ that this’ woman is a pros- convicted and sent to Sing Sing for four‘years[] -———-——-———->-49 cruelty of mammonu The temper of this people is exhibited , with the unbecoming costume of a coat of tar and feathers. V for what is called virtue is for its outward show. The men ' you’ come to this city and moved about quietly and can-, In the presence, of tlemen of this coast. Of course I spoke as freely to him as I‘ San Francisco, so hypocritical, bigoted and anti—esthetical, l’Enclos; although a Skittles or Clara Pearl would be surrep- jamin Cox. In a short time Mr- Cox visited the "apartment ‘ against her, it was enough to convict her." Aye, in this city,‘ a judge, who was to try a womanwho was charged with ,at-“' titute.” -It is scarcely necessary’ that we should say’ she was - 4 if wooDHULL ah CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. May 3, 1873. CATHARINE E. BEECHER DISSECTED. 1. Miss Beecher puts this forth, to help her brother. 2. But she sets out with a double falsehood, to cover up her real‘ intent: “ An emergency involving the delicacy and honor of my sex ”—~no, it is an emergency involving the safety and escape of Henry Ward Beecher——“makes it my duty”—-no, she only skulks behind that word for conceal- ment of purpose. » _ 3. It is an unbearable insult to come before the public in behalf of Mr. Beecher, and not, after so long a time, plead to the charges. 4. She really calls for the very thing from the ﬁrst de- manded, trial on the charges. 5. Yet she resorts to fraud, with intent to deceive, in call- ing on an officer to “prosecute any who circulate aspersions of character which they cannot prove to be true,” instead of calling on “ the person assailed” to do it; for the officer can- not know whether the charges are true, except through the person assailed, and then he is the one to prosecute, but if he dare not or will not, how should the ofﬁcer? All this is to relieve Mr. Beecher of the need to deny, and to screen him inhis present silence! _ ’ 6. Yet, Miss Beecher does what will call out trial, for she accuses Mrs.’ Woodhull of blackmailing in making the charges, and for this libel she will herself be prosecuted. 7. Only, to save herself, from -this prosecution, she dare not after all place the accusation; but like the coward she is, sneaks oﬁ under the double-shuﬂie, that Mrs. Woodhull or others does or do so and so! . 8. “Cruelty and a disgrace to any persons of delicacy and reﬁnement, especially to ladies, to have their names and- character publicly subjected to inquiry as to such practices” —that’s a hypocritical whine if the charges are true! And how about “cruelty and disgrace to ladies,” to be thrown and kept in Ludlow-street Jail. by Henry VVard Beecher? 9. But this coolness and impudence of holding up hands in holy horror at aspersions of character, and turning right round and accusing another of blackmailing! 10. And the brazenness of asking the ladies of the city to secure the enforcement of the law, that is, asking them to protect a man who dare not protect his own innocence! 11. And the audacity of asking clergymen to teach it a vio- lation of the civil law, to “ circulate aspersions of character” which are not even denied! 12. And the amazing hypocrisy and J esuitism of’ twice em- ploying the phrase, “ aspersions of character which they can- not prove to be true,” instead of charges which are true! 13. And the inﬁnite hardihood of the fabrication, ‘‘the officers of law whose duty it is to abate this evil are at hand,” when there are no such officers till Henry Ward Bcecher dare speak and deny! 1 . 14. And Miss Beeoher’s proof of Mrs. Woodhu'll’s insanity» that whole sentence commencing with “For”—-what intel- lect! . ’ 15. And Miss Beecher assuming and asserting, “ all of them models of domestic. purity and virtue,” her brotheralong 1 u with the rest! ’ 16. And her word, all through her communication, only that of one person, against that of another, and as that of one self-‘righteous and unmagnanimous, not so good as that of the other! i 17. The whole an attempt to get up another, and this time an effective, persecution! . _ 18. And the whole, like the course of Henry Ward Beecher himself, a perfect proof of the imposture of that Christianity, which such shameless and endless falsiﬁcation is to up- hold! _ ~19. “Whom the gods would destroy they ﬁrst make mad,” primarily, Henry Ward Beecher, and secondarily, the sister who writes attorney for him! . — » J OSEPH TREAT, M. D. INDICATIVE sTRAws. The life-long bond has just been promulgated as law by the Emperor of Japan. We may now conﬁdently look for an unlimited amount of wife murders and husband poisoning, for which that naturally amiable people will be quite unpre- pared. . , It is well known that during the war, as soon as the Union forces were safely in possession of any slave—holding region, there was a great demand for the marriage ceremony by the late slave population. They, particularly the women, were very anxious to enjoy the respectability so long denied them by the slave code. But it was not long before .the same women were beggingto have the chain broken. They com- plained that they found themselves far worse off than before, the husbands who, before the law interfered, had been kind and tractable, now were indiiferent to their wishes and com- E fort. It was a strange disappointment. “ Now, why cannot all married people live as happily as you do?” I questioned a lady friend whose husband continued to display the delicate consideration and tenderness of a lover to the wife who held her third baby on her knees. (It was as unmistakably present beneath the rough blouse when he was plowing, as it was under the broadcloth suit in which he, as one of a committee, waited on the Governor; and we failed to account for this-exception to the rule.) “ Yes; he does love me and the babies. Sometimes I am al- most surprised at the fullness of his aﬂection myself,” she replied with a happy lovelight in her eyes. “The truth. is, deal‘ ——’ , we are not married. I would not tell any _ one but yourself” (stooping and speaking low), “but I would not risk what would follow possession. It was a bold step on my P3113. but not so bold as marriage would have been. Not -one in a thousand ﬁnds the lover in the husband.” \ [EXTRACT ERoM LETTER.] The other day two gentlemen standing on the steps of a medical college in a neighboring city observed a gentleman and lady passing near them in conversation. ‘ 66 0 you know who they are ?” the ﬁrst gentleman! was moved to inquire, . your article. ‘ Many unsuspecting parents will think you “ I know him. He is Z****, the well—known writer.” “And who is the lady?” ’ “ The lady‘? I never saw her before, but pronounce her his wife. No man dares to speak as rudely as he was speaking then to any other woman than his wife,” - Immanuel Swedenborg declared that while every man and woman should earnestly cherish a desire for a perfect conju- gal love, while waiting for the true mate to appear, they were not censurable if they entered into pure relations with one who was imperfectly allied to them. This is neither variety or promiscuity. ' coRRoBoRATIoN. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 15, 1873. MRs. VICTORIA C. Woo:oHULL: Dear Sister—I take your paper and have just ﬁnished read- ing your editorial’ in the April 19 number, on “ Sexual Vice in Children, N o. 1.” I am so glad» you have written it. I feel relieved of a burden that has weighed me down for several years. ‘ I have practiced in this city of over twenty thousand in- habitants for the past fourteen years, doing principally an oiﬁce business, in the treatment of chronic diseases- As a matter of course, I have been let into the inside secrets re- lating to_ this vice, and upon all private matters which the world at large cannot know; and I must say (although my feelings have become somewhat callous) that I am disgusted with humanity. -All are in the same boat, ﬂoating down stream physically. All classes of society are about on a par, as far as the inroads of sexual vice is concerned. “Ruin” is stamped on all alike. I have seen it; I know it; ‘but what could I do? The world would not believe my statements of facts in my own practice that pour in upon me every day. There was no paper that would have published my state- ments had I made them. Still I have felt the duty resting upon me. No one knows or will know so well and so much as a doctor doing an ofﬁce business. But just in time comes have over-stated the extent of the vice. But you have not. Every word is true to the letter; and in many cases it is much worse than anything you have said. , Some ﬁve years ago my spirit friends. gave me a cure for involuntary emissions. Since then I have treated successfully seven hundred cases. Some had become insane ; some had fallen sickness—ﬁts; some consumption; and others general pros- tration, etc. Oh! my God! what a calendar to look at. All caused by a false delicacy in not informing the youth of our ‘land of the evil which is sure to follow the practice of self- abuse. And what is still,worse, parents are as ignorant as their children, and will not believe the truth when they are told it. I am so tliankful you have broken the ice, and hope you will succeed in arresting the attention of parents to this monster vice. Also, that the inquiry may call out pam- phlets and books that may have a general circulation, for our race is fast vanishing away and other races ﬁlling their places. But the “ dry rot” will soon fasten upon them also, and they will sicken and pine away as ours is doing. N 0 constitution is strong enough to long withstand the eﬁects of sexual vice. Respectfully yours. DR. E. WoonRUEr. VILLAGE ORDINANCE. An Ordinance to provide for the punishment of Common‘ Prostitutes. V Be it ordained by the Council of the Incorporated Village of Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio: SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any female person within the limits of the Incorporated Village of Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio, to have illicit carnal intercourse, as a common prostitute, with any male person; and any fe- male person who shall violate the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be ﬁned in any sum not ex- ceeding ﬁfty dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the borough prison: for the ﬁrst offense not exceeding thirty days; for the second offense not exceding ninety days‘; for the third of- fense not exceeding sixmonths; and for the fourth or any further repetition of the offense not to exceed one year, or shall be both ﬁned and imprisoned as above speciﬁed at the discretion of the Court, and shall pay the costs of prose- cution. . SEC. 2. This Ordinance shall take eﬁect and be in force on and after the‘ 11th day after its publication in the Geneva Times, a weekly newspaper published and of general circula- tion in said village of Geneva, Ohio. _ T. D. LESLIE, Mayor. B. BRETT, Secretary, pro tem. Passed October 18, 1872. There is onelittle circumstance that the Dogberries of Geneva seemed to have overlooked, viz. : That common prostitutes are not the original cause of what is termed the social evil. If the authorities of Geneva really mean re- form they should ﬁrst level their legal artillery at those who manufacture prostitutes. Let them issue an edict command- ing the people of Genevavto serve their male babies in the same way they usually do their male colts, and they may rest assured thatin a few years Geneva will be troubled with very few public prostitutes. As to the effects such ac- tion might have on the future population of Geneva if the children have no greater sense of justice than their fathers have shown in indorsing the above partial and cruel edict, that might be considered advantageous to the future wel- fare of the United States: _ HAMMQNTON, Atlantic 06)., April 12, 1873, My Dear Sister-—I regard the articles in the WEEKLY of March 22 and 29. 1873aS11bJ'60tS-“The Physical Health of Women” and “The Causes of Physical Degeneracy,” ought and must be printed upon the” tablets of every human soul, and their divine principles appreciated, and their fruits brought to something like maturity before righteousness, peace and truth shall reign on earth. _ . ‘ - YOUR HUMAN BROTHER. - - LEBANoN, Me., April 17, 1873. Our Government (Credit Mobilier) arrested two poor friendless females under false pretenses, and put them in the tombs, declaring they could well afford to protect Henry Ward Beecher in living the obscenity of the bible, and persecuted George Francis Train for publishing it, and are for‘ them. Who ever heard of the prosecutors taking up for the defense? Queer times! A hell of a government! Hanging Foster for being crazy, and trying to make Train crazy to get rid of trying him. DANIEL WooD. __4A. 4 % Cr SOCIAL EXPERIENCES. EDITORS “WOODHULL 8: CLAELIN’s WEEKLY:” In your issue of April 12, page 9, you ask for facts relative to the evils of the marriage system. N ow, as regards facts, I am a very “ Gradgrind.” I think they prove to be very “ stubborn things,” standing as they do in every town and hamlet, pointing to the irregularities and injustice of the man—made marriage law. I have, in the course of many years of itinerent life, met many of these. facts; the following is one of them: About thirteen years ago, while lecturing in one of our Western States, I was, for a few weeks, the guest of awealthy farmer. He was a man of considerable intellect and nearly sixty years old. His wife was about the same age. They had married early in life and moved West from New England. The old lady, with much sorrow in her voice and many tears in her eyes, told me how she had loved her husband, as only awoman can love; for Byron well says that- “ Love is of man’s life athing apart, ’Tis won1an‘s whole existence.” . She had toiled early and late to help him gain a home, and borne him thirteen children, four of whom were imbecile, and one did not smile until it was four years old. She said that to save herself from his sexual abuse she had daughter, only to be dragged thence by her husband and forced to submit to his abuse. He broke her arm once with a cart-whip, and often in- ﬂicted blows upon her person. Even when declining years should have made her venerable, she has spent many nights in out-houses and beneath haystacks, hiding from the tyran- ny of him who had promised to love, cherish and protect her. . Although, through her industry and economy quite as much as by his own, he had grown rich, he never gave her money to spend, and only allowed her the poorest and most common wearing apparel. Had this woman not been that man’s legal ‘wife would he have dared to subject her to such abuse? , Arape is nonethe less such because it is perpetrated under sanction ofthe marriage law. I , Outside the marriage relation, women are not subjected to blows with impunity, nor denied some poor recompense slavery. Whatever evils might follow the abolition! of marriage, it would be difficult to adopt a system fraught with greater woe than the present law is endured under. ’ CHARLES HOLT. NEW YORK, April 3, 1873. Madonna Woodhull and Clajlin—I have just risen from the perusal of two books, viz. : “ The Elements of Social Science” (an English work) and “ The Truth About Love,” both of which are written in an excellent spirit, and abound in sug- gestion of the deepest interest. But the thought occurs to me how narrow is the basis of fact upon which all such works rest. N o writer, probably, can either from his own experi- ence or observation add much to the stock ofexisting knowl- edge upon topics in which the facts are so studiously con- cealed as are those relating to social and sexual life. Much of what he writes must necessarily consist of the best guesses he can make, and, as a consequence, abound in im- perfections. . I have long thought it would be an excellent thing if, by some means, the real experience of a great number of men and women could be drawn out, arranged and published, so that we might have more light upon matters in which the wisest are assuredly much in the dark at present. It is the conviction of the writer of this that if the proper person were to take the matter in hand and oﬁer to pay liberally for all the facts which he used, that-one or more volumes of per- sonal experiences might be collected, the value and interest of which it would be difficult to exaggerate. R Yours, pro bono pablico, ‘ J. Q. S. GRAFTON, Mass., March 20, 1873. Mesda/mes Woodhull and Olaﬂin—You receive so many ex- pressions of sympathy, that I feel only like saying that the better I comprehend your position and the situation, the more I wish you godspeed. While I live and am able to read, I shall need your WEEKLY. If a great social revolution is inaugurated, conceding the necessity and having faith in the beneﬁt to society from its triumph, it has occurred to me since reading Mrs. L. C. Smith’s very touchingly related ex- perience, that a continuation by others of theirs, and their publication in an especially assigned department Of the WEEKLY, would be an auxiliary to the cause. and add S0I116- thing to the already thrilling interest with which your paper is freighted. It seems tome that these experiences would do more. to.lo.osen the scales on many a mental eye» than to be printed in letters of gold and set in pictures of silver,” now trying to make him crazy to get out of the trap he set . often in the night ﬂed from his bed to that of her grown-up. for their labor; nor are they compelled to submit to a sexual" dquble the amount of cold logi°- Seth experiences come - '_“"-1.’:-X" ' - 1 May 3, 1873. WOOD'_HULL—& CLAAI-4‘LI'N’S WEEKLY. 5 . home to our business and bosoms, and will ﬁnd more or less response in every honest soul. ., There would be cases in which it would not be prudent or proper to give names, dates or localities; but all such could send you their address as a guarantee of their integrity. What do you think of the idea? From such relations it seems to me that youth and inex- perience could learn much of human nature, of its possi- bilities and its liabilities, that would enable some, at least, to shun the shoals and quicksands on which others have sac- riﬁced a life’s happiness. ‘ Yours in the pursuit of truth and justice, THORNDIKE LEONARD. 4.4 4 r wgrw SPIRTUALISTIC. EXIT EMMA HARDINGE-BRITTEN. SUNDAY, April 13, 1873. ‘ Emma Hardinge gave the closing address of the Boston Music Hall Spiritualists’ course. The lecture had been,_adver— tised as “The Unsolved Problem of Spiritualism,” whatever, ‘from a Spiritualist’s standpoint, that may mean! As a sort of prelude Emma had, in her previous lecture on the same platform, seemingly stepped out of her path in discourse to advert to such as attached themselves to Spiritualism for am- bitious or unworthy motives, who in some fantastic cases, had made it the cloak for idio-syncratic angularities, or the Shiboleth to cover their own. base, bad passions! We beg to be excused just here, for interpolating the remark that Em- ma, like most grandiloquent speakers, having an evident paucity of ideas, is peculiarly addicted to this gassy tautology. We suppose it forms part of the “electrifying eloquence” which received such extravagant praise (ﬂattery) at the re- ’ cent celebration of the 25th anniversary of Modern Spiritu- alism in Boston. Thus advertised and anticipated, Emma stepped forth for a farewell speech upon the sacred rostrum. Boston had gathered there ; “ her beauty and her chivalry,” her spiritual high bon ton, her double reﬁned pharisaic pur- ism and prudery, all in the name of “ Spiritualism ’ unde- ﬁ1ed.” Emma commenced ’ and continued in a strain only more than usually characteristic of her bitterness, envy and malice, denouncing “Free Love” at the outset, as “ repulsive to every instinct of humanity.” Then Emma is silly enough to judge “humanity” by herself! “ Spiritualism had become so committed to this pernicious doctrine, that of its public speakers she almost stood alone in disapproval of its teachings. If Spiritualism would retain « the respect of the community, it must entirely renounce this doctrine; and if she would remain with it, she insisted on this line of demarkation.” B So, so, Emma! then at last thou hast come out with the truth. If Spiritualism would retain the respect of Emma .Hardinge-Britten and the “ community,” it must renounce free love and free speech, and in one word, freedom of opin- ion. — Ah, Emma, we knew thy disease was mortal—we saw Fate’s etcher cutting the stone which should tell to all future ages what thou didst die of, viz. : “ respectability.” Of a truth, that’s what’s the matter with Emma. 4 Emma has said much, written much that will be remem- bered to her honor, but she has, during the last year, uttered a great deal worthy only of a full-ﬂedged bigot of the mas- culine persuasion. It is only in her last few demonstrations that she has egre- giously stultiﬁed herself, or entirely overshot the mark. She would arrogate to herself the sole and selﬁsh glory of a sort of Quixotic martydom in favor of acause she describes as lacking assistance to such an extent that Emma Hardinge— Britten is about to give up the sinking ship, and, in the pres- ence of a thousand skeptics-and a whole world of social and spiritual fossils, propound, with an air of “its all up!” the stupid conundrum, “ Is Spiritualism a failure?” Emma had better join the orthodox church. We transcribe a few of her sentences. Of the one de- nouncing the doctrine of re-incarnation, we have nothing to say. We hope, however, our suave and slow-going brothers of‘the Banner will take the reproof and henceforth deport themselves as becometh submissive boys, since mother Emma has shaken her ﬁnger: _ “ Can we say that Spiritualism has been the restorer of faith ; that its disciples and votaries have been made better men an_d better women? In many things it has. But the ques- tion as a whole must be answered in the negative. There are many causes in our midst, and all on the human side, why Spiritualism has been measurably a failure. One of these is the imperfection of spirit communication. In the early days there were no attempts at self-deception. There were no dark circles then; and all Spiritualists were skep- tics. Now a vast amount of literature has been presented to us in the name of the spirit, and in the name of the spirit we have been asked to accept many new and strange doc- trines. Is it not then obvious that we should take some means of ascertaining whether honored names can be held responsible for these teachings which common sense tells us that they would never countenance? Is it true that the mighty dead have indeed retrograded, and from the other world 001116 back to us with poor poetry, bad grammar and false doctrines? We should be slow to accept these as com- ing from their purported source. Above all we should,care- fully scrutinize all that is given to us in the name of the sacred dead. There is no authority but truth. All truth is capable of demonstration. All that cannot be subjected to this critical test should be rejected. One of the worst features with which Spiritualism is charged is the dark, the baleful doctrine of reincarnation as taught by Allen Kardec, of France. It is a direct contradiction of the surety given us at Rochester, that there is progress in the spirit land. This wild, fantastic doc- trine, which would break up kindred, ties and families, should be rejected. It belongs, as has been said, to the im- perfect nature of spirit communication. Spiritualism does -not come to us to indorse any special form of human ion, but to make better and strengthen all our opinions.” M “ Spiritualism does not come to us- to. indorse any special form of human opinion, but to make better and strengthen all our opinions.” VVhat utter, what unmitigated nonsense is this! We have a suspicion that our Emma makes a side thrust at Theodore Parker in her allusion to the “honored dead.” It is well known that his name is used among those claimed as at the bottom of all this free-love business on the other side. Hence there is but one way out for Emma; that is to deny in toto the reliability of communications. ‘Exit - Emma Hardinge. . Her startling renunciations are not surprising, but many blind ones will fail to see that this hypocritical creature, puffed up with the meanest kind of pride, who follows Spir- itualism no farther than it is capable of ministering to her enormous egotism and cruel ambition, has struck a Judas- like blow at the cause, whose damage, in our opinion, far out- weighs any or all good words she has given it. , The superlative boon, the strong points of Spiritualism, thus far, is that through‘ it millions ‘of souls "no longer Egrope toward the grave and shudder when they think of death, but, as the poet has it, _“ Death seems but a covered way That opens into light, Wherein no blinded child can stray Beyond the Fathers sight.” In view of this one thing, it must take precedence in actual humanitarian value of all the religions of the word. Does Emma Hardinge suppose that even skeptics are satisﬁed with her summing up‘? To ignore so utterly the tremendous demonstrations of Spiritualism is to lay open to the sus- picion of merely exploding powder to scare—a seemingly last desperate eﬁort to save a sinking reputation which has been for months paling in the glory of “ a greater light.” Verily, “ Envy is as cruel as the grave; ” but it also generally digs the grave into which it ignominiously falls. Indeed, on this occasion it seems to have been reserved for Emma to ven- ture the step too far in her pious rage, as will be seen below: “ I wish now to speak of that popuiar doctrine which is identifying itself with Spiritualism over the length and breadth of the land, which proposes to reform all the evils of our social system by the abrogation of the marriage tie. It has been too publicly bruited, too universally admitted that the ‘Spiritualists are the only sect and the only class of per- sons who largely and openly maintain the doctrine, for us to shrink or evade the responsibility of speaking of it. I have searched carefully through the journals of the United States, I have searched earnestly and faithfully through all sects and classes, and have found that vice and sensuality runs riot in every department of life. But I ﬁnd also that it is the Spiritualists alone who put it forth as a faith and present it to the world as a part of their religion.” It seems astounding that Spiritualists with a particle of spirit could sit still under such outrageous stuff. If the speaker had been pelted from the hall with rotten eggs, she could scarcely_have obtained redress. .Viler or more brazen- faced falsehoods have never been uttered by Spirit-ualism’s arch enemies. ' ~ But we must consider who this comes from, and let c/harity have its perfect work. We must remember that “ hell hath no ﬁend compared to a woman scorned.” Emma’s milk of kindness has all been turned to acid and gall, so thattruth or logic is no longer in her. In very deed she shows signs of hallucination, for she avers that “ in looking over a printed list of spiritual speakers, she ﬁnds that all of them accept A the teachings of the free-love doctrine, herself alone stand- ing on me other side! ‘ Where is brother Kates? I-Iad not Emma better apply to brother K. With reference to this ludicrous misconception of Emma’s, aninteresting side scene was enacted at the close of her address. We present the subjoined extract from Em- ma’s speech, not intending any insult to the readers of the WEEKLY; for, of course, no one would dream of attempting to straighten out the snarl, much less attempt to make an argument against, or show how she says “something, and then again she don’t. By this readers will see how utterly she drifts on the sea of logic, without rudder, compass or chart. She don’t believe in compulsory marriage. 0, no; not for her.‘ Emma Hardinge was constrained to concede this little. She knew a thousand tongues would put inconyenient home questions unless she did. She had an inkling of those crash- ing stones that might make bad work with her windows: “ I have nothing to say against those who say that the social evils can be eradicated by the abrogation of the marriage tie; but what I have asked of them, what I have pleaded for and , that for whichl protested against them to high heaven, is that they shall not affirm that Spiritu alismland their doctrine are one and the same thing. [Applause.] I must, although it grieves me to do so, give you my reasons why I insist on this line of demarkation.‘ I know the wrongs that exist in the marriage relation, and I would be the last to say that those who live in hatred, -the one with the other, should be compelled by the force of authority, public opinion or law, to continue to live in this condition; but my views of reform are totally at variance with those of the social reformers, so called. I would begin at the other end, of the marriage tie. I would make marriages better. I would have our young men and young women educated to understand the deep re- sponsibilityof the position they assume. I would have them understand what a high office it is to give birth to a new generation, a new creation. They should remember that their child, which is launched on the great ocean of life, is a spirit that must live forever, and that its weal or woe through countless ages is imprinted on its brow by its parents’ ac- 1 tions. I would thus make marriage more holy, more sancti- ﬁed, a deeper and more solemn responsibility. For the sake of society, the State and the country, I would ask that our own belief should be made the foundation of a holier educa- tion for this tie, and if wrong and unhappy mariages are madethen let the law intervene, and let there be the same V. . decency in the dissolution of the contract as would be ob- served between two merchants. Icannot consent to have my holy religion identiﬁed with this wild and insane attempt at reform which I consider to be the darkest blot that has ever rested upon the hemisphere of social life. I cannot: I will not.” * — . Emma protests that she has never read but one copy of the WEEKLY. Though we are inclinednto think this a white lie, B it certainly helps us to see why she is so deplorably ignorant of what Free Love really is. Again, she says the list of speakers referred to was printed in the Banner of Light. Ow eyes have never seen that glory, and yet we fail not to scan the aforesaid paper diligently and sharply. In closing, Mrs. Britten bid her friends farewell, perhaps for but a season, perhaps forever. She spoke of the grand faith to which the Music-Hall platform was dedicated by Theodore Parker, who founded the noblest theology in the world. It had been the lot of the Spiritualists to succeed him, and she trusted that they would look to it and rescue their faith from the darkness -and error into which it had fallen, and make it as pure and holy as his. At the close of the lecture, Miss Lizzie Doten, who Was in S the balcony, rose and said that the list of speakers referred to by Mrs. Britten was published in WOODHULL St CLAF- LIN’s WEEKLY as the names of those who dared to speak what they believed. Her own name was there, but not by consent; still she claimed‘ the right to teach whatever she believed to be right, whether preached by Emma Hardinge_ Britten or Victoria C. Woodhull. , Mrs. Britten replied that she did not know the list was printed in WooDHULL 8: CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY, a sheet of which she had never seen but one copy, and that was the one which led to its suppression by the United States Gov- ernment, and justly, too, she thought. This copy had been brought to her to show her the true character’ of the chief advocates of this vile doctrine. The list she had seen was printed in the Banner of Light, and with no such qualifying statements as Miss Doten had spoken, but their names were givenas persons who openly countenanced Free Love. And so, exit Emma Hardinge-Britten! And yet it is with a peculiar regret-something like that accompanying‘ the pro- nouncing the word “ gone ”—that we takeour leave of this (once) star of the morning, and submit to see fate’s imps pin the ominous placard “Ichabod ” to those immaculate blue- S111; trailing skirts. And shall we never more witness upon the Spiritual rostrum the affected antics and awful ﬂour- ishes; shall we no more listen to the soaring bombast and high linguistic nothings of this charmer of two, continents ?_ Echo answers “ Nevermore! ” She has cast a whole apron- full of “ cakes to Cerberus ” in this her last effort in the great city of Boston. The old fogies are elated beyond their power to conceal. The dailies of the “Hub”——those piety- struck sheets that set up such a howl and bark against Mrs. Woodhull—eagerly report the lecture at length, and head it, “ Is Spiritualism a failure? ” Rev. Hepworth, of the Modern Athens, ﬁnds more salvation [protection ?] in close com- munion with orthodoxy than in Unitarianism, and drops into L1- the lap of Mo.uer—Churcl1~tc—-getL’oeyoﬁ€I'"the"i~e§aEli‘ of ques- tionable practices, yclypt “ Free Love,” which are after him; so, perchance, Emma Hardinge-Britten, ﬁnding the battle getting too hot and her covering too short all around, has no other alternative but to ﬁght with bad weapons to‘ cover re- treat, and it would not surprise us if she should take refuge at last behind the cemented walls of dogmatism in religion, and conservatism in reform. And so we write, Exit Emma Hardinge—Britten! A. Braces-Davis. REFLECTIONS . p on READING THE REPORT or THE CELEBRATION or THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY or MODERN SPIRITUAL- ISM IN BOSTON. - 1 BY w. F. JAMIESON. " Robert Dale owen is a good thinker, more imitative than . original; a man of genial nature, kind" impulses, love of the marvelous ‘very great, strongly inclined to the worship of personality, of great research, learned, collected, an honest seeker after truth, liberal minded, never ashamed to confess an error. ’ Now, possibly I may be mistaken in some of these items. Notwithstanding my favorable impression of this energetic worker in our cause, I _ experienced the same feeling of dis- sent from some of his remarks‘ at -Music Hall meeting that I do when reading Jonathan Edwards, the Rev. Dr. Tyng or Elder Knapp. 1 i . , Robert Dale Owen has a work to perform of vast magnitude if, in the eternal ﬁtness of things, modern Spiritualism can be dovetailed into Christianity. ~ Says Mr. Owen: , l » “I consider that we may regard Socrates as the morn.ng star in the heavens of Spiritualism.” Very good. V “The sun rose on the world nearly ﬁve centuries later.” Not so good, although quite comforting to the orthodox church. ‘ « “ I know that I shall have dissenters in my audience from what I propose to say, but I regard Christ as the crowning examplar of theSpiritually inspired.” Such a sentence from such a man will help orthodox peo- ple to cling more tenaciously to-their idolatrous Jesus Christ. “I regard Him——I say it with reverence——as the great founder of Spiritualism.” Then, for twenty-ﬁve years, Spiritualists have blunder- ingly asserted that no man founded Spiritualism. Re- peatedly have its advocates declared that modern Spiritual- ism was not established, nor orignated by any person. Who is right? R. D. Owen, or the scores of other more humble Spiritualistic teachers? “ My opinion is that Christ outshone, as the sun and stars; all other moral and Spiritual teachers.” While the fact is he did not introduce a single new moral or Spiritual idea. There is not one of his so-called moral maxims that had not been taught before his time, and many A Worship of ..._..u:'«: : that all would need healing every hour. ' do A . I woonnutt &’OLAF'I.IN?S ‘wE-EKLv. a May 3, -1872. » .1 of them should strive‘ to sink the great Spiritual and moral teachers of ancient times into insigniﬁcance, compared with Jesus Christ, is passing strange, unless we account for it upon what I think must be a law of nature, that in old age the impres- sionsof childhood reassert their sway over the minds of r , some tosuch an extent that the convictions of the most vig- orous portion of life are largely obliterated. R. D. Owen emphasizes the point by saying: “ While due weight may be properly attached to the words of Confucius and Socrates, Plato and Seneca, and all the rest, A I ﬁnd nothing which comes upiin beauty and purity of teach- ingito the ethics of Christ himself!” If that is so’,'let us all turn Christians at once. * But it is not so. , The despised Pagans had better moral teachings than he. Mr. Owen discovers the key-note of Christ’s teach- ings to be =“.1oving justice.” The Pagans hadoccupied that groundhundreds of years before the Christian founder. “ Other religious systems speak highly of love, but of A Christ's system it is the very soul and centre. ‘ Love is the fulﬁlling of the law.’ ” . ~ Butdoes Mr. Owen forget that the same thing was said by Confucius ﬁve hundred years before? " The old Paga.ns are not going to be brushed away so easily. 'Epictetus, Publius Syrus, Xenophon, Yao, Chun, Theognis, Phocyelides, Pythagoras,_Mencius, Thales, and “all the rest,” left noth- ing new ‘for Jesus Christ to say in the science of ethics. This effort of prominent Spiritualists to prop the falling of the Christian world is unavailing. Give me the “ravi11gs ” of George Francis Train in preference to the half-truths of those Spiritualists who have made a halt at the half-way house between Rome and Reason." G. F. T. presses more common sense into one of his epigrams than a Christian Spiritualist can express in an hour’s discourse. I trust he will do what it is needless for me to suggest/—string those golden maxims of Pagan teachers so thickly in his forth- coming “Pagan Bible” that the people may readily per- ceive how sadly they have been imposed upon by Christians and. their ‘apologists. Again and again have I shown my Christian antagonists in the debating arena that there are man); teachings of Jesus Christ that are impractical and im- mora . Says Francis E. Abbott, in last number of Imlecc, “ Because Socrates asserted himself without asserting any divine or human lordship, he stands in one vital respect superior to all the founders of religions. He was self-contained—found the great fountain of power in his own nature, because he kept his own nature fresh and pure by obedience to the universal order.” It is this vastness of moral strength in the pres- ence of evil that gives me my grandest conception of human . character. The graces, the sentiments, the mild attractions, are all lovely, and by no means inconsistent with intensity of moral force; but where this is wanting, nothing can ﬁll the void. The ideal of moral greatness, it [Defence of Socrates] exhibits has such colossal mass, such invincible dignity, such indomitable pride of character, that all the smooth and yielding virtues of the Christian saint [Jesus Christ] seem like thistle—down in comparison. Jesus was. submissive; Socrates was victorious. _Jesus was wounded; Socrates was invulnerable.” _ This places Socrates where he belongs—among stars of the ~~ﬁrst magnitude, leaving the Bethlehem Star to ‘ﬂicker by a borrowed light. [To be continued in our next] «v-'* — ,. ......_.,.___. ,. C THE INDUSTRIAL PnBLI:i The above heading is the name of an industrial organiza- tion intendedfor the accomplishment of social reconstruc- tion. , » Arrangements have been made for a page in the VVooD— HULL 8: CLAFLIN WEEKLY to be used for a time as the organ of said Industrial Public. The pressure of other affairs may for a time prevent the using of a full page each week; but the endeavor will be to accomplish that much so soon as can be made expedient. V The WOODHULL &) CLAFLIN WEEKLY has been chosen for this purpose because we are acquainted with no other paper backed by ..suﬁicient moral courage to permit of the radical utterances that will be necessary in the proposed effort for social reconstruction; and many things may be uttered that the proprietors of the WEEKLY cannot enderse, and- must not be held responsible for. . THE ORIGIN or THE INDUSTRIAL PUBLIC. In the fall or winter of 1851, for about three weeks, the 18th and 19th verses of the 4th chapter of Luke were in my . thoughts as though sounded in my ears, and it ceased not day or night till I had read and understood its application to me. . Angelic Intellig-ences had overshadowed me with their power, anointing me with the spirit of truth and good-will. They had chosen me as a_ messenger of gladness to the poor, of sight _to the blind, of deliverance to the oppressed, of healing to the broken—hearted, and of free salvation to all from all sin and suffering. K i For several years before this occurence, I had frequently been used as a healing medium; and about the same‘ time I proposed the forming of ahealing circle, to a trance medium, who was immediately controlled to speak; and among other A things it was said that the accomplishment of my plan would prevent the acquisition of any further knowledge of law, and cause the forgetting of What had been learned concern- ing it. ’ That this would lead to a continual disregard of law and recurrence -of disease till the race would become so diseased That they did not heal simply for the relief of present suf- fering, but to secure our attention, to the end that they might accomplish better societary arrangements than ha_s yet existed on this earth.‘ , That they-(had healed through me, to establish my faith, preparatory to as special work for which they had chosen me’; and that bydegrees thatpower wouldbe mostly with drawn till the specialty was accomplished. A That they had long recognized that there were laws that governed life, health and happiness; that they were not yet understood by any of the inhabitants of this earth, either angelic or carnal; that they knew only what had been ,__harmonize_with its presiding aspirations, and any principle J couched in ‘nearly the same words. Why D. Owen‘ ‘learned by experience in“'th.e flesh; that the desired knowl- edge could be unfolded only through brains suited to the purpose; that my brain development had resulted from an effort on .their part that had extended through four genera- tions, and that success was probable in me; but in order to accomplish what they desired, it was necessary that I accept nothing as by authority; that everything must pass the strictest scrutiny of my judgment; and they assured me that if I would heartily enter with them in this work _they would give the necessary inspiration and guidance to insure its suc- cess. The proposed work was entered into as desired, and much more has been accomplished than was anticipated. ’ Among many other things, it has*been discovered that all possibilities are comprised in one generatively progressive -potency named existence. That all generative progress is governed by an eternally omnipresent law, the requirements of which are the orderly ﬁats of possibility, and not the caprices of any God or Lord, divine or human. ' That according to theirequirements of this law, there are comprised in existence a procedive principle named cause, and a procedurive principle named sequence. That in cause are comprised a centerstantial principle named being, and a circumstantial principle named life. That in sequence are comprised a centerstantial principle name consciousness, and ‘a circumstantial principle named thought. v That in being are comprised a selfhood principle named body, and a spontaneity principle named soul; That in life are comprised a unity principle named form, and an unfoldive principle named experience. That in conciousness are comprised a selfhood principle named perception, and a spontaneity principle named con- ception. _ C — That in thought are comprised a unity principle named re- ﬁection, and an unioldive principle named reason. i That body, soul, form and experience each comprise a sex- ual and a conjugal constituent. ‘ ‘ ' ' That perception,‘ conception, reﬁection and reason each comprise an analytical and a sympathetical constituent. That in each of these sixteen constituents are comprised a materine and a maleine degree of gender. ’ Feminine and masculine’ are improperly used instead of materine and maleine. Feminine is derived from female, which is composed of fee and male, to signify one who is held as a fee, or in fee—simple by a male; and masculine signiﬁes male mastership. The names of these constituents and degrees will be given at some future time when opportunity for explanation offers. That all creative work, so-called, consists in the generative composition of these thirty-two genderic degrees; and crea- tion, so-called, consists in the compounds thus made. That in the generative process there are comprised four generative spheres, by which creation is naturally divided into four worlds, named the stellar, the plant, the zoological and the societary. ‘ That all these degrees are comprised in each of these worlds as coadjutants, but not as codominants. ._.T.11a.t,Qf§2Gdomina11cy there are four harmonic grades, and that in each grade are comprised eight codominating degrees. That in any generative work, only the coadjutants of one harmonic grade can dominate together in harmony, but the rest may harmonize as conserving coadjutants. . i That only the codominants of one grade arrive to domi- nancy in the stellar: 2, in the plant; 3, in the zoological, and 4, in the societary world. That in each of .these worlds, each harmonic grade'indi- cates a harmonic stage of development; and that in each harmonic stage, each dominating degree indicates a generic degree of unfoldment. . . That over the unfoldments of each harmonic stage of the societary world, there presidesia harmonizing aspiration; and over each degree there dominates a principle of develop- ‘ment. That the boundaries of each harmonic stage of society are deﬁned by the harmonizing aspirations; and that the boun- darie of each degree are deﬁned by its dominating principles. That the aspiration for pre—eminence presides over the ﬁrst; for individual rights, over the second; for equal invest- ments, over the third, and for common beneﬁts, over the fourth harmonic stage. ’ That in each of these stages are comprised a grade of compacts, of dispensations, of rule, of commerce, familism, of service, or religion, and of morality. . That each harmonic stage may be appI'0p1'iateIydesignated by its presiding aspiration. C ' _ That in the pre—eminence, or ﬁrst harmonic stage, the principle of despotism, dominates over its compacts; of com- pulsion,over its dispensation; of dictation,over its commerce; of patriarchialism, over its familism; _of chattelism, over its service; of authority, over its religion, and of obedience, over its morality. That in the individual rights, or second harmonic stage, the principle of publicism, dominates over its compacts; of compensation, over its dispensations; of representation, over its rule-; of comparison, over its commerce; of iiidustrialism, over its familism; of competition, over its service; of agree- ment, over its religion, and of honesty, over its morality. That in the equal investment, or third harmonic stage,» * the principle of democracy dominates over its compacts; of co-operation, over its dispensation; of majority, over its rule; of equality, OVer its commerce; of insurance, over its familism; of attraction over its service;of mutuality, over its religion, and of impartiality, over its morality. That in the common beneﬁt, or fourth harmonic stage, the principle of fraternity dominates over its compacts; of com- munism, over its dispensation; of constitutionality, over its rule; of freedom, over its commerce ;T of unity, over its fam- ilism; of gratuity, over its service; of gratitude, over its reli- gion, and of integrity, over its morality. That in each harmonic stage all the dominating principles that does not harmonize with it, cannot dominate under its presidings. , That in each harmonic stage there is a pivotal institution on which its principles are balanced in dominancy, and that on these depend the permanence of all other societary arrangements. g I A That these pivotal institutions are based on personal gen- der. ' That in each stage, the pivotal institution is, in aspiration and principles, a complete model of all its homogeneous 1n- stitutions. That marriage was the pivotal institution of the pre—emi- nence stage. ’ That unalloyed marriage is polygamic. That the pivotal institution of the individual rights’ stage, may appropriately be named Suitage. ' tional stage. « n — That in the first transitional stage, the aspiration and principles of the ﬁrst harmonic stage contend with chaos a11d its concomitants, and that as they came to dominancy, the pre—eminence stage was actuatized. . That in like manner it is and will be in each transi- tional stage, in each the new ascendants contend with the Old incumbents till they are rendered subservient, and harmony prevails. _ That we are now in the second transitional stage, Whereln the aspiration and principles of the individual rights stage are , contending with those of the pre—eminence stage,.a11d thus the aspiration and principles of the ﬁrst are modified by those of the second harmonic stage. That thus modiﬁed the aspiration for prep-eminence becomes class, instead of individual; the despotic principle becomes political instead of autocratic; the compulsory principle be- comes monetary instead of”military; the arbitrary principle becomes party instead of monarchial; the dictatorial princi- ple becomes tradive instead of conquestive; the patriar- chal principle becomes partnership instead of chieftanic ; the chattel principle becomes hireling instead of personal; the authority principle becomes credal instead of absolute; the obedience principle becomes dutiful instead of implicit, and marriage becomes monogamic. instead of polygamic. That individual males instituted polygamic marriage by virtue of their superior compulsory ability, for their individ- ual beneﬁt; and that on it they have built all other individ- ual despotisms. _ That the ﬁrst aspiration for individual rights was,dom1- nantly maleine, and included only male rights, and therefore it was only an aspiration for class pre—eminence. ‘ That the aspiration for male rights led to an attempt for male suitage, which proved only a modiﬁcation of polygamic to monogamic marriage. Monogamic marriage was instituted by the male classfor class beneﬁt, and is therefore a politico-despotic institu- tion. . s » _ That as monogamic marriage is a political compact, it 1S the natural basis of all other politicisms; and that without it,. political despotism, monetary compulsion, party arbitra- tion, tradive dictation, partnership patriarchalism, hireling chattelism, credal authority and dutiful obedience could not have been balanced in dominancy as principles of society. ‘ That only on genuine suitage, where individual rights are secured to all without regard to class, can the principles of the individual rights’ stage.be balanced in dominancy. That all the foments and revolutions of society have resulted from the conﬂicts of the aspiration and principles of the ﬁrst with those of other harmonic stages. That these foments, strifes and revolutions can cease only when unalloyed suitage is substituted for marriage. . That as man instituted marriage by virtue of his superior compulsory ability, so woman will institute suitage by vir- tue of her superior compensative ability; and so man will institute the pivotal institution of the third stage by virtue of his superior co—operative ability, and woman will insti-- tute the pivotal institution of the fourth stage by virtue Of her superior communistic ability. j That so long as womanhood service is conﬁscated by mar- riage, woman cannot be compensatively the superior of man; and that, therefore, she must remain in subjection until she refuses to submit to this, the most pernicious of all possible robberies. That woman, as a class, cannot be delivered from her bondage until she decrees it; and then not until aided by man in organic societary arrangements. That on entering the individual rights’ stage,‘ suitage groups will be organized by the election of representative leaders; and as the patriarchal family was the sequence of marriage groups, so the industrial family will. be the sequence of suitage groups. That the suitage groups can organize the industrial fami:- lies into productive unions by the election of representa- tives to a board ofiproduction. ’ That the boards of production can organize the pI‘0d110tiV6 into commercial unions by the election of representatives to a congress of exchange. A g _ ‘ That the congress -of exchange can organize the commer- cial unions into a universal union by the election of repre- sentatives to a general tribunal. That, thus organized, each individual and group may be credited for all service rendered, and debited for all ser- vice received. Y ‘ That for the balancing of accounts, bills of credit may be rency. That value can be measured by the competitive time stand- ard, as established by bids, onservice to be rendered. That the products of industry can be stored in banks of exchange, where they may be drawn in exchange for bills of credit. I l i Thatthis bank of exchange will provea safe savings bank, where all surplus productions may be deposited to serve as a credit fund, from which credit maybe advanced to children and others in need, to be refunded in service; and for other Lpublic uses or improvements. That preceeding each harmonic stage, there, is atransi— used, of convenient denominations, to serve as a labor cur-' he ‘May!h3,_hl8l73. woonnotta oLAri.i.N’s‘ wiisxtrf. R . 7 That at decarnation the balance due any person may be used as a contingent fund against losses and for public bene- ﬁts, and that thus taxation can be rendered unnecessary, so that no one will need be required to meet more than their own expenses. That with these arrangements money and all monetary currencies will become useless and therefore powerless for the turnfgig of the political mills of State and Church, to grind tf poverty the toilers by whom natural wealth is util- ized sogs to render rich. , That in place of this grinding, complete provision will be made for childhood, womanhood, manhood and angelhood; and thus will be abolished all poverty, sickness, crime and suffering by simple justice. ~ That there is that which is right for each individual, and that the sum of individual rights is the sum of _human ’ rights. That the rights of one may not be as the rights of another, and therefore there are special as well as common rights. That if human rights are sacred, so must be each indi- vidual right ofoevery member of society. That when any claim of right iinperils the rights of any other member. it is prrma facie evidence of error in claim. That all rights are mutual and harmonious, so that the rights of any one cannot interfere with those of any other one; also when one is wronged all must share it. That rights vary according to development and capacity, and that therefore what may be right for any given member at any given time, may be wrong for any other one, or for the same one at any other time; and hence rights are not equal, and cannot be till developments and capacities are equal. The rights of an infant cannot be as the rights of an adult. That the so-called spirit world is composed of human in- telligences, and A may properly be designated the angelic hemisphere, while we, the other half of the sphere, may be designated as the carnal hemisphere, and _that these two hemispheres are comprised in the world of human society. That in the angel hemisphere there exists an organic com- pact in which the aspiration for individual rights ‘presides, and said compact is called the Angelic Public. That very many of the lords and gods of the past have been converted from their aspiration for pre-eminence to the aspiration for individual rights; and that now they be- long to the redeemed throng of the Angelic Public. That the Angelic Public have determined complete rein- carnation by the conjoiiiing of their aspirations and societary arrangements to the carnal hemisphere. That modern spirit manifestations, so-called, were pro- jected by the Angelic Public as a preliminary preparation for said conjunction and reincarnation. That the compact tobe thus accomplished is designated as the Industrial Public. ‘ That the remaining gods and lords are marshaling their hosts to prevent the consummation of this good work. That in the coming contest the opposing gods and lords will be overcome, to the entire destruction of all god craft, lord craft, king -craft and priest craft. That all the gods of the past and present have had their origin in carnal potentates, and ‘are either angelic human intelligences or the ideal fancies of usurping tyrants to serve as an excuse for the monopoly of the earth with the fullness thereof. _, That the requirements of law meet every possible emer- gency, and admit of no salvation by any propitiatory sac- . riﬁce. as ‘ That what is impossible cannot exist, and what is possible can occur only in possible order; and that if we would suc- ceed in reformatory effort we must conform to the order of law and its reqairem-ents. That any eﬁort to actuat2'.2e any principle of society out of its possible order, has, and ever will be, proved abort/lee. S. T. FOWLER, Medium. PRACTICAL OPERATIONS. business. , Thvird. That human rights, individual aiidhcollective, are based on and accord with -capacity and development ; and that societary arrangements should always answer to the right ’ by promoting and not by’ retarding development. Fou/rth. That sociality implies rights, individual and col- lective; that these rights are mutual, and imply both the doing and the receiving of service; also that the rights of each and every member of society should be held sacred by all. Fifth. That the aspiration for_,in dividual pre-eminence has presided over the societary arrangements of the past, and that, therefore, the despotic principles of compact, the com- pulsory principle of dispensation, the arbitrary principle of rule, the dictatorial principle of commerce, the patriarchal principle of familism, the chattel principle of service, the authority principle of religion, and the obedience principle of morality havedominated as its principles. RS1’/rth. That the time has come when the aspiration for in- dividual rights should preside over all societary ar- rangements, so that the publican principle of compact, the compensative principle of dispensation, the representative principle of rule, the comparative principle of commerce, the industrial principle of familism, the competitive princi- ple of service, the agreement principle of religion, and the honesty principle of morality, may dominate as the princi- ples of society. ‘ Seventh. That political compacts, monetary dispensations, party rule, tradive commerce, partnership familism, hireling service, credal religion, and dutiful morality, are only modi- ﬁed extensions of despotic compacts, compulsory dispensa- tions, arbitrary i'ule_, dictatorial commerce, patriarchal fam- ilism, chattel service, authoritative religion and obedientive morality; and that, therefore, they should not be classed as belonging to the individual rights’ stage of societary de- velopment. R V’ ' ‘ Eaghlh. That in the nature of things it is impossiblethat a genuine publicanism exist except on an industrial basis, and where the aspiration for individual rights presides, giving equal advantages to all members of the social compact. CONSTITUTION. ' ARTICLE 1. This compact shall be known as the INDUS- TRTAL PUBLIC. - ART. 2. Every article of this Constitution shall conform to, and in no way contravene, the adopted preamble and declaration of principles. A ART. 3. The Industrial Public shall commence with indus- trial suitage groups, organized by theelection of such indus- -. trial leaders or experts as may be found necessary. ART. 4. Each group shall subscribe to the same preamble, declaration of principles and Constitution. ART. 5 . The reception, the suspension, the reinstatement, and the expulsion of the members of all the groups shall be subject to a two-third vote; except that in case of ex- pulsion, a just settlement of accounts shall be made, so that expeled members shall have all that rightly belongs to them. ART. 0. Each suitage group shall be the centre of an in- dustrial family. ~ ART. 7. In any branch of production the groups may organ- ize the industrial families into productive unions, by the election of representatives to a board of production. ART. 8. In any commercial districts the board of produc- tion may organize the productive unions into commercial unions, by the election of representatives to a congress of exchange. A ART. 9. The congress of exchange may organize the com- mercial unions into a universal union, by the election of representatives to a general tribunal. ART. 10. Each board of production, each congress of ex- change,’a.nd the general tribunal shall organize by the elec- tion of such officers as may befound necessary. - ART. 11., Each group, each board, each congress, and the general umpire may pass such by-laws as are found neces- sary to secure order and efﬁciency in the transaction of ART. 12. All representative persons shall obey the instruc- ART. 22. No, distinction shall be made on account of sex, and children shall not be held as the property of parents. ART. 23. A savings bank shallbe instituted for the deposit 8 of loans, to be used as a fund for public improvements; also ’a fund shall be provided from which to advance credit to children and others in need; and all shall be justly credited for service rendered, and debited for service received. _ ART. 24. The products of industry shall be stored in con- venient localities, and labeled with their full cost as their measure of value, and from these stores, or banks of ex- change, they may be drawn in exchange for bills of credit. * ART. 25. All values shall be measured by the A competitive time standard, and for the balancing of accounts, bills of credit, may be issued of various denominations suited for commercial exchanges. _, M ‘ ART. 26. At the decarnation of any member, the balance of all credit in his or her favor (above liabilities) and all the net proceeds of commerce, shall be held as a public fund from which to amend all losses arising from" the loaning of credit to the needy, or from any accidental occurrence, and the balance may be used for public beneﬁt. . ART. 27. Taxes and ﬁnes may be levied only on the basis of service rendered or damage done. _ 0 ART.. 28. The duties and salaries of representative persons shall be determined byhtheir constituents; and they shall have no functional power beyond or contrary to the instruc- tions of their constituents; and all instructions of import- ance shall be printed or written, and recorded. ART. 29. All properly authorized expenses for common protection or benefit, shall be shared by all recipients. ART. 30. Utilized wealth shall be held sacred to its utilizersh and their assignees; but natural wealth shall be free alike to all as they have need. » ’ ART. 31. Each suitage group, each board of production, eachcongress of exchange, and ‘the general tribunal shall elect a committee of arbitration hefore whom any grievance of any member or members may be brought for settlement. ART. 32. The committee of arbitration in each suitage group, each board of production, each congress of exchange, and the general tribunal, shall have jurisdiction over all disputes between its members; but any dissatisﬁed party or parties in any suit may appeal to a committee of experts, or to a general cemmittee of members, and this appeal shall be ﬁnal as between members. ART. All disputes between any of the groups of any productive union, or between any member and any group, shall be under the jurisdiction of its board of production, and any decision made by the board as between any mem- ber and group shall be ﬁnal, but any case as between groups may be appealed to the congress of exchange, chosen by the commercial union towhich they belong. “ ART. 34. All disputes or grievances that may arise be- tween productive unions" shall be under the jurisdiction of the congress chosen by the commercial union to which they belong, but appeals may be made to the general tribunal, and the general tribunal shall have jurisdiction over all dis- putes between commercial unions, and such suits may be appealed from this tribunal to the groups. ‘ . ART. 35. This ‘constitution may be amended by a two- thirds vote of all the members of all the suitage groups, but a seven-eighths vote shall be required for the amendment of preamble and declaration of principles. BY—LAWS. ARTICLE. 1. This group shall be called the Initiative Group of the Industrial Public. ART. 2. There shall be a regular meeting of this group, to be heldkon the ﬁrst Monday of each month. at 7 }g P. M. ART. 3. Atwo-third vote shall be necessary to transact business. ' ~ ART. 4. These by-laws may be altered or amended by a . vote of two—thirds of the members, provided said amend- ment or amendments be proposed at least one month pre- vious. . ART. 5. The President, ’_Secretary and Treasurer, shall constitute an executive committee to transact such business A large 3»TI1a011Ilt_0f P_I‘0ﬁl3ab16 6II}P10Y111_311t 118-8 been Secured }‘;§;‘,j‘,;",§”§§,§.§ O:l1_h1h1ﬂh;h(;hil:Lhiihe1;7h 1(h)(Ih1hI0OhIi1V:hiof7)ih:)I111h'1h;!.hn?1h thlhif hh1h1e1:Zl1f:(2hlhh ah: ahzhtthhzhldgihthzlhhbhsiness of this group be the by letters patent on important inventions that are held in feiture of Credit ’tO the amount of damage ’dOne b now manufacture O 1. ﬁberized concrete and housebuﬂd-mg W-mhthe hhshhvhiho hhhhhhhh hhh hhhhhshhhhhvh Whhh obedience. ' , h h same material; that in pursuance of this, the group purchase On the lhhh Wednesday 111. Mhhhh’1hhh’h humbhh hf phrh ART. 13. Each representative compact shall refer their the 8170011 Shares held by the‘ membem Of the Long Island hhhh were ghhhhhhh hhhhh Vhhlhhh phhhh of he hhhhhhy’ Wihhh plans to their constituents for approval ° and for aid in thei - Fiberized C01101'eth9hM3D11fﬂ0tuI‘iDg 3115-’B11h11d'1Dhg C0mP-any» Ohh hhy hhhhhhhwhhhhh Oh hhh lhhhhh hhhh hhh parties were accomplishment . , 1 and thus come in possession of the entire ‘stock of said com- ih hohhhhhhhh mhh’ Whhh hhh Object of hhh hhhhhhg Whh hhh ART 14 All voting shall be done in 'ournal and b l. d an I I I V Vealeda fella the_ Orgamzatmn _0f the initiative group of the in ledger: and thesehvoting records shall be generallh :ch(h:s h Rharsolved That said private individual stock be bought on Industrial Pub-lic was accomplished by the election of Chaun- Sible gr illspection and for a Change of Vote by any Ssatis: a credit 0f’ﬁVe years, payable in bins of credit issued by the cey Paul, President; Ruth VV. Sc~f,tt B1-lggs, V1ce—President; ﬂed voter SO that at an times the Fecord may represent I_es_ romp the price to be two hours per. d011aI.__ A Horace N' hhhhhh’ hhhhhhhhy; Ehhh T’ Wells’ Treasurer’ and ent choice. ' ’ h h Resulced That on the basis of the company’s stock, ‘bills of Shhhhh T' Fowler’ Ghhhml Supermhhn.dhhh' A180 the foh ART 153. All representatives and oﬂicers shallobe elected redit mad’ bf’ issued for the Se°“rmg of 3 Working fund lowing prospectus, preamble, declaration and Constitution by aﬁaiority vote’ but a 1;W0_thiI.d Vote Shall be requisite hsaid company’s stock amounting to $250,000), at and after Whhh hhohhhhh to displace or supersede anyhrepresentative person before the following 80116311103 ‘ ' PREAMBLE’ the term has expired for which they‘ were chosen. 40 000 3,1; 10 cents each, giving . . . . . . . . . . . . ., . $4,000 ’ WHEREAS7 We; the ‘tlildefsigllcd, desire to secure attract- ART. 16. A suffrage franchise fee shall be required alike - 407000 “ 15 Q‘‘._ “ .. . . . . . . . . . 0,000 - ive, permanenthomes, a thorough, integral education. the from each member of each group, to be used as an industrial 40:000 “ 20 “ “ ' . . . . . .- . . . . . . . . 8,000 ’ full 3115- Proﬁtable emP10Y111@Dt Of an industrial ability, and or employment fund,-and also as a contingent fund against 40 000 “ 25 . “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10,000 h » all equitable: Orderly 00mm@1'0e f01' 0l11‘S91V‘3S and f0I' 311 1111- individual insolvency; and said fund shall be liable for any 407000 “ I 30 “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000 h manity 3 and 3180 170 P1‘0'0e0l7 011I'S61.V6S and Others fI'0D’-1 the indebtedness to the group in ‘case of the insolvency ofany 40,000" “ 35 “ “ . . . . . . . . 14,000 encroachment of despots and despotisms, individual and po- voter; and any deduction thus made from said fee shall, at 407000. “ 40 V“ . . “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,000 _ litical, whether imposed through monetary or military com- the option of the group, suspend suffrage franchise till com- 40:000 '“ 45 “ “ . . . . . . . . .. 18,000 P1151011; - plete refundment is accomplished, said fee to be 2,000 hours‘ 40,000 “ 50 “ - “_ .. . . . . . . . . . 20,000 Therefore, andofor these purposes, we unite ourselves and service, or its equivalent. ‘.—-——-— -+-""- our efforts by subscribing to this preamble and the herein- ART. 17. Solvency and good standing shall be the test of 36.02000 hours‘ h°108’000 after set forth articles of declared principles and constitu- t V 1 t‘ Suﬁmge franchise’ except Whefe solvency has Occurred by 140,000 hours remaining for future consideration. iona guaran ees. gift or dower, in which case 14 years of age shall be required. Resolved, That the Executive Committeebe authorized to ART. 18. Each group shall elect and maintain at least a dispose of the first 40,000 hours at the terms speciﬁed on the First. To facilitate and regulate human intercour-sehso_tha,t president, a secretary and a treasurer as its executiveoﬂicers. schedule, and on such time of payment as they may deem de" the most happiness may be secured and the least misery ART. 19. N 0 group shall establish —any rule by which less sirable, not less, however, than three years. _ . _ permitted, is the proper object of all societary arrange- than atwo-thirds vote shall decide any business affair. V Resolved, That bills of credit and other obligations of the ments. ' ART. 20. There shall beheld an annual mass convention of group shall be signed by the President and Secretary, and Second. That human happiness Occurs in the ratio of the the Industrial Public on the last Wednesday of March. be sealed with the seal of the group. development of human capacity, and of the adaptations of ART. 21. Membersimay withdraw from the Industrial Pub- All inquiries of general interest will be answered from societary arrangements to capacity and development, indi— he by giving three months’ notice to their group, and all bal— time to time through the WEEKLY-. — .- , vidual and collective; and that misery occurs in the ratio of ance due them on settlement shall, be drawable within one 0 non—c1eve1opment and non-adaptation. , year from withdrawal, unless otherwise provided. DECLARATION. T Address,hC. Paul, President of_ the Initiative Group ofhthe Industrial Public, 280 Fourteenth street, N. Y. 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We request those who send either articles or personal letters intended for publication to write graphically and tersely. The necessity for this will be apparent when we say that we have already in “ our drawer” ‘enough personal communications, full of words of hope, cheer and comfort to ﬁll a dozen papers. Many of them we shall be obligedto pass over. 5th. All letters should close with the signature of the writer in full ; and it should be plainly written. Many let- ters that we receiveare so badly signed that we are obliged to guess at what the writer’s name may be. .__..;Q 4 V Vwv V PHOTOGRAPHIC. We recently mentioned the fact of our having procured genuine photographic likenesses of ourselves——Victoria C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claﬁin and Colonel Blood¢—to‘ supply a large expressed demand that has been made almost con- tinuously during the past two years. There are many un- authorized editions ﬂoating about in the country, and being sold by various persons. None of these are genuine, except such as have been procured directlyfrom us, while many of them that we have seen are either burlesques or libels uponour features. A - We are aware that these at a dollar each are clearer than photographs of imperial size usually are, but we thought our friends would be willing to help us in this way to pay the immense expenses to which we have beenput by our numer- ous arrests and coming trials, and we are gratiﬁed by the very liberal responses with which our request. has been received; but the amount realized thus far falls far below what we are obliged to have before we can properly prepare our cases for trial. We can draw nothing from the WEEKLY to meet these demands, because it requires all that is realized to cover its current expenses, and its existence must .not be endangered even to meet these very necessary claims. So we again say to our friends, while you nominally pay one dollar each’ for —our counterfeit presentations, a part of this is really to apply to expenses to which we have been put by the Government in its attempts to “squelch ” the WEEKLY, and that all who respond to the appeal for this purpose contribute so much toward this end. ' ' A \ A 4 V wr—~ ‘ TO NEWSMEN AND rrunnns. We are glad to be able to inform our friends that the American News Co.‘ is _now prepared to ﬁll all orders from its customers, as formerly, for the WEEKLY. _ The in- quisition which the authorities; located in this city, attempt- ed_ toyestablish over the freedom of the press‘, by their arrest oflourselvesand Mr. Train upon the charge of obscenity; and, perhaps, the fear that wehad libelled Mr. Beecher have, until now, prevented the Company from supplying its customers. Hundreds of newsmen have, in the meantime, received notice that the Company does not furnish the WEEKLY, and they will now be obliged to renew their orders before they will be ﬁlled. Will our friends everywhere "take the trouble to inform their newsmen of this change in the relation of the Company to the WEEKLY. SPECIAL AND IMMEDIATE TO EVERY READER. To every reader of the WEEKLY who is interested in the great questions regarding social reform, that have been launched upon the public for discussion by the various phases of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal, and the several side issues that have grown out of it, we" desire to say, that the "present indications make it almost certain that the culmi- nating point in this great social drama is rapidly approach- ing; indeed what we have been able to present in this and the last issue make it evident that it is just at the door, liable to fall any day. -- It therefore behooves everybody who is interested in the decision of this question to do their utmost to spread the WEEKLY before every radically-inclined mind of which he or she knows. We expect, indeed, that ‘the very next issue of the WEEKLY will alone be worth the price of the entire year's subscription, as was the number of November -2d. Let every reader then decide to send us at least one new subscriber for the WEEKLY to begin with the next issue; and let every one who has made up a club resolve to double it, for the same number. . Let every friend to social freedom devote one day of the coming week to obtaining. new subscribers to the WEEKLY. Do this as a duty that you owe to yourself as well as to the cause, and thus put us in a way to ﬁre a double broadside, which we shall be ready to do very soon. We tell you that no person who has any sympathy with reform can afford to do without the WEEKLY for the re- mainder of this year, and you.who have read it since we came out of jail can readily imagine why. More than all this, it is necessary that you give us this aid at this timewhen renewed efforts are being put forth to crush us and the WEEKLY. We need your assistance more than at any previous time. It may be absolutely neces- sary that we procure a printing oﬁice of,our own, in order to insure the regular issue of the WEEKLY, and this we can- not do unless all our friends remember our weakened con- dition from the various persecutions through which we have passed, and come immediately to our relief. You have all done well, done nobly; but none of you have done as well as you may yet do. Remember that every dollar that comes in to the WEEKLY is used in the VVEEKLY, and that we give all our time to it without price; and that we have not only given. all our time, but all our means, and that we are now compelled to depend upon our friends to maintain what we have builded up for them. A few more well-directed eﬁorts, a few more clubs, a few more renewals, a few more payments of past dues, until the great social bubble, compounded of hypocrisy and coward- ice, shall have been bursted, and the WEEKLY will be on the high road to independence. As yet it is not quite independ- dent. It requires the assistance of its friends, and they will be measured by that which they afford it. Then let your responses be immediate and ample, so that you may say, I have done my duty. We mean this in deepest earnestness, and we hope it may not be passed lightly over by a single person who does not desire to see social reform go backward a hundred years. ' I .4 A r ‘tr WHERE ARE THE LIBERAL NEWSMEN? VVe_ want the name of one or more live newsman in every city, town and village in the country, who will sell the WEEKLY, so that we may take the proper steps to put it be- fore the whole people. Will our friends see that we have them ‘.9 ‘ ‘A 4 r ‘yr TO SUBSCRIBERS. Bills for subscriptions that have expired are now being sent in the papers weekly._ We specially request that all who receive them will reply to them at once. The bills, are made to show what is due up to date, and also a renewal for another year. Thosenwho do not wish to renew will please remit what is now due and order the paper discontinued. Those who wish to renew may either send both these amounts or simply a renewal for one year, or three dollars, upon re- ceivingwhich a‘ receipt for same will be returned. , Again permit us to say, Do not delay doing one or the other of these things immediately. THE PAGAN BIBLE Is now about ready to be distributed. Therefore send in your orders. The proposed ﬁrst edition is alreadynearly exhausted, and if you delay giving orders until after the edition is off the press, you -will be obliged _to wait for the next edition of this most thrilling and sensational book. Price, 25 cents; or $15 per hundred. - REVOLUTION IS RADICALISM PREPARED T - ‘ MEET IT? . E ‘ The cry of revolution is sounding throughout the land, and to us it has a fearful meaning. There is a no less pro- position made than to entirely change our present theory and form of government with a national religion as its - base, which means simply, a religious despotism, as all gov-A ernments have been that were built upon the religious idea of God, having human vicegerents. But this proposition is ﬂauntingly made in the teeth and eyes of radicals, and they do not seem to realize what it means. They do not seem even to understand that this is‘ intended as anything more serious than ‘a huge joke perpe- trated upon the name of liberty. Indeed, this people are drunk with the mere name of liberty, hugging its soulless form to their hearts,vainly imagining that its spirit is not really ﬂed, when a no less threat is made than to remove what the founders of the Government consideredlit chief corner-stone —-—no religious test. This is nothing less than a denial of the freedom of the conscience; nothing less, indeed, than pro- claiming its absolute bondage; for is not Christ, as interpre- ted by his professed vicegerents to be the Lord and ruler over every conscience, notwithstanding, when on earth he utterly refused all such pretences. But his followers have become wiser than hejwas, and to know what is better for the world than he did, and they intend the world shall have it whether it will or no. _ Of course these latter-day pharisees are wise enough to deny all intention of subjugating anybody’s conscience, and they think by this course to not alarm the people until they have thems safely in the trap, when they will not hesitate to use every means it will admit of to convert sinners to salvation; since, will it not be better for the people to be saved even in the midst of the licking ﬂames and the cracking muscles, rather than to incur the torments of an eternal hell- ﬁre, with all its terrors, its sulphurous fumes and pavements of infants’ skulls. It must not be either ignored or forgot- ten, that these are the professions of a God who, from the beginning, knew that He was to create duodecillions of hu- man beings who should suffer eternally in hell—a horrid barbarity which no human demon could have ever invented or eve-nconceived. With such a God as this, made the ideal of the Government, and with men thoroughly imbued with all His demoniacalcapacities, what have radicals to expect, except all the torture that flesh can endure? Yet the revolution they proclaim means just this; and what have those against whom it is directed done, or even thought of doing, to protect themselves? Nothing! Abso- lutely nothing! And this thing may be even at their doors! The plot may be consummated within the coming year. It _ is one of the simplest of things to accomplish it: an amend,- ment proposed and passed in Congress, which of course would be approved by the President and ratiﬁed by three- _ fourths of the State Legislatures. It is folly to say that this is impossible, because it is not impossible; but, on the con- trary,/the Y. M. C. A. already consider it an accomplished fact. Is it to be supposed, with their Jesuitical character, they have been idle regarding whom they have promoted to oiﬁce in the last few years? We tell you nay! Every man who has received a vote of a member of this Association is ready to do its bidding; and when the command shall. be given, they will obey——for Christ’s sake, of course. Remember, not a single part of this programme necessa- rily“ must come before the people. The men already elected can decide it. Nor need the people when the alarm shall come to them, look to the public press for relief. The perfect subjugation or subsidization of this has just been completely illustrated. The thing that can silence any or all of them they have looked quietly upon and witnessed its operation and never a word has been said against it. They did not know that this instance was a trial to test their subscrviency. But it was just that, and it was ‘ clearly demonstrated. - - What! Pretend to have faith in the public press——to take sides with the people against the Government, when the most powerful journals of the metropolis of the country do not expose the damnable things which they know are prac- ticed in Sing _ Sing!—things which they took pains to learn, and were afterward afraid to proclaim, because of the polit- ical connections and power of the persons whom they would have to arraign? They know of horrid barbarities that are meted out to -the inmates of that place—barbarities that would sicken the hearts of the people, even to, read, and yet not one of them has the courage to expose them. Rely upon such cowardice! It were insanity to think of it; and yet the people lie supinely on their backs and permit the religious demons to go forward, making preparations to bind them hand and foot, and make no effort, take no steps to pre - serve their liberty or to protect their lives. Must the cannon thunder at their doors; must the ﬁres be lighted around the stake; must the shrieks of some victim on the rack sound out upon midnight, before the people will awake to the dan- ger by which they are being encompassed? Must the cry, “What shall we do to be saved!” be awaited until it is wrung from the agonized soul at the very presence of that which shall come to destroy? Every instinct of humanity; every pulsation of hearts having the milk of/human kind ness in their cells; every soul that feels the bonds which unite it to a common brotherhood; every mind that shrinks in terror from the contemplation of a God becoming their ruler, who, from the foundation of the world, prepared a ’ burning hell of ﬁre and brimstone in which to roast hi "-15 *3?‘ —\ *3? May :3, 1373. O ~wooD-HULL 85 CL.AFLIN’S_ WEEKLY. - . t 9 children eternally ;-—these, all these, should sound the alarm, and awake. a sleeping world to that which threatens. ’ But this will be a revolution begun by those who will have complete possession of the whole governmental machinery, New-what have the people got with which to oppose this mighty power? Nothing. No organization, no leaders, no nothing. If it were to come this year, they are powerless to lift their hands to stay its consummation. Who shall be the ‘leader around which that resistance may organize, to our knowledge has never even been ‘asked, much less considered. Organization has been talked of, but never as to what its purpose must be when the time shall come. But the people may as well know that organ- ization is needed only to meet and beat back the despotism that these God—in-the-Constitution Y. M. C. A. have pre- pared to impose upon the country——a despotism which they intend to enforce at the point of the bayonet and by the cannon’s mouth, and which will have to ‘be met by similar methods. It means just what the perpetuation of slavery meant, which the people would not accept or believe until it was thundered upon the country from Sumpter. will the people awake to this until roused by its Sumpter bombarded. _ In this connection Mr. Train is doing the country an im- measurable service in proclaiming himself the Coming‘ Dictator, since he sees that just to such a necessity will the people be forced who will not submit to the nationaliza- tion of the demands of the Y. M. C. A., as the people would not submit to the nationalization of the demands of those other Christians who, like these last, based their de- mands upon the “word” of this slaveholding and hell-creating God who is to be injected into the Constitution. We do not say that Mr. Train will be the person who, by right of capacity, should be chosen by the people; but that he pos- sesses courage, honor and ﬁdelity to truth must be patent to all, and none who does not possess all these is ﬁtted to be the head and front of the opposition to this new despotism, in which all the powers of hell "are combined to crush out forever the establishment of individual sovereignty and in- dividual freedom, which, if it succeedgin doing, civiliza- tion goes back a thousand years into the Dark Ages; but if it is itself crushed instead, civilization shoots forward by a thousand years in a single day. In view of all this, we submit that it is time that -those who ;will not submit to the demands of these religious despots, to begin to organize for resistance. In every city, town and hamlet they should come together and consider these things. Each local organization should choose some one to represent it in a State organization; and each State organization some one to represent it in_a National organ- ization; and thus form a national means of defense against a great national danger and perhaps avert a great national calamity. [N0'rE.~—See plan of organization for Spiritualists, pub- lished in another column, the principles of which can be adapted to any national organization by merely changing the name Spiritualists to whatever name is desired.] r—-<Qr4 EXPLANATORY AND ’sUeeEsTIvE. No doubt many of our readers have already made the in- I quiry, Why was the WEEKLY several days} late last week? We will endeavor to explain it, but preface it by saying that they who have read the WEEKLY since the attempt to sup- press it was made, can have no competent conception of the difficulties that have presented themselves at every turn, which we have had to endure and overcome, in order that it might be issued at all. . We presume everybody knows that we have no printing oﬁice, types, presses, etc., of our own, and consequently that we have to hire the composition and presswork done. It will be remembered that when We were arrested everybody that had anything to do with the paper was also arrested, which proceeding has produced such an effect upon the peo- ple whose business it is to do this work that it is with the most extreme difficulty that we get our work done by any body. Everybody has been afraid to do any work on the WEEKLY lest he should be arrested for something it might contain. Under these restrictions it can readily be imagined that we have been prevented from saying very muchthat we otherwise should have said, and ‘that we have had great difﬁculty in saying what we have been able to say. Every paper since November -2d has been critically read by the lawyer of the pressman before he would put the paper to press,“'and several times articles have been objected to on the ground of fears of prosecution for obscenity, which have had to be changed before the printing could proceed. It was just this difficulty which delayed our last issue. The critic said there was so much in it of a questionable character that it was not safe for the printer to print it, con- sequently we were under the necessity of hunting up an- other pressman who was not so fearful, or who did not have so nice scruples about obscenity and blasphemy, or who had not the fear of Comstock,,Dodge‘j& Co., so fully in his eyes: We were ready to go to press as usual at midnight on Wed- nesday, but we did not "get -to press for the reasons named until Friday morning. - So much in explanation. Now as to" the suggestion. Are our readers willing that we shall be subjected to this sort of surveillance , and espionage, andfthey to the liability of a delayed paper every week, merely because we cannot ob- ain our own press upon which to print the WEEKLY; and, Neither . moreover, are they willing, when earnestly seeking the truth about the great questions at issue before the people, to have the}_Y. M. C. A. holda virtual censorship over all that goes into the WEEKLY, forbidding, perhaps, the very things we most want to say, and they to hear? As the matter now stands, we and they are virtually at the mercy of the Y. M. C. A., who may, by the use of a little money, actually sub- sidize all -the pressmen of the city against printing the WEEKLY, as they have some of them, and some of the elec- trotypers against electrotyping the ‘forms of the WEEKLY, and some of the mailing rooms against mailing the WEEKLY. The people outside cannot be aware-of the fearful obsta- cles against which we have continually to contend that we may publish a paper which is fully up to the demands of the times, since if they did they would come to rescue us from the despotism to which we have been obliged to cater, and to the rescue of an outraged free press and speech, by pro- viding us with the necessary material with which to print the WEEKLY, and thus to free us from this, to us, almost in- tolerable subserviency. ‘s We know there are hundreds of people deeply inter- ested in the questions relating to the pfesent social condi- tions who are abundantly able, even as individuals, to relieve us from this tyranny. Some of those most intimately con- nected with us-—the officers of the Victoria League—recent- ly, in a quiet way, presented this matter to our readers in the form of an_ appeal; but we presume those who have responded to it by writing, which many have done, do not know the real necessity it was intended to meet, but we have now frankly stated it, and we hope that there may be inter- est enough among those who can do so to bring them for- ward to the assistance of the only paper in the world which dares to publish what it knows, especially about the social conditions and generally about all other conditions; in a word, which dares to, in the face of the Christian Jesuits who have control of the Government, to publish the truth, let it be what it may and lead where it may. To do this the WEEKLY needs -its types and its press. The question is, shall it have them? Will these who think aﬂirmatively please correspond with us for further informa- tion regarding it. ’ "THE CONDUCT or MoNoPoL1Es. P The conduct of monopolies in thiscountry has come to be a most monstrous affair, leached upon its industries in such a treacherous and beguiling manner as to paralyze the people before they are aware of the real ills they suﬁer. And ' almost every industry has been reduced to subserviency in some form to this monster. We have heretofore treated in these columns of the outrageous operations of joint stock corporations, such as insurance, banking and railroad cor- porations, which, at the expense of the people, pay immense proﬁts to their stockholders in the form of dividends, thereby taxing the industries of the country, hundreds of millions of dollars annually; but we now propose to speak of another outrage upon people, compared to which those are quite endurable; not altogether on account of the enor- mity of the expense that grows out of it, but on account of the shameless disregard of the commonest rules of even the fearfully twisted legal justice now extant. , ' The people might as well come to the realization new as later that theyhave no government and no justice in anything. The functions of government have been usurped by the oﬁicers who were elected to administer them. This is .true of the General Government at Washington, and of every State, and equally true of all corporations having elective oﬂicers. Each and all of them are running their offices en- tirely to their own interests and purposes, and as we said, have already usurped all the rights of the people. There is a Tammany Ring in every political, ﬁnancial and religious organization in the country; and it matters little who are its oﬁicers, theyare all in league against the general people; they are all, singular and collective, an organized aristoc- racy, builded upon and leaching from the people’s rights, and leagued together to convert the Government into a “monarchial despotism. It is the oﬁice-holders in Government and in incorporated companies and the priests in religion against the people,i;who will too late, we fear, awaken to the realities of the situation. ‘The functions of whatever administrative oﬂices, of whatever kind, are administered by their officers so that they reap almost the whole pecuniary bene- ﬁt. A ring (exists within every corporation, controll- ing its operations to its beneﬁt; and so universal -and outrageous has this become that every branch of industry feels its life going away, and can scarcely realize what is the cause. But let us illustrate the cause, and see if it do not give ample explanation which, added to the outrages previously borne by industry, is sufficient to account "for the present almost universal dissatisfaction among producing laborers. Take the railroads of the country. The dividends realized by holders of these stocks, which the people are taxed to maintain, are sufficiently onerous, and ought to satisfy their insatiate greed for gain; but the salariesof the oﬂicials are not suﬁicient to satisfy their greed for gain; hence _they in- augurate schemes by which to subsidize the things. they manage, nominally for stockholders, virtuallyiforv them- selves. , « ‘ P _ _ Purchase a ﬁrst-class ticket from New York to Chicago, which upon its face entitles the holder to a ﬁrst-class pas- sage, and attempt to enter the ﬁrst-class coaches, and an extra two. dollars at day or ﬁve dollars to Chicago is exacted before a seat can be secured. Attempt to escape this out-- - rage by seeking the cars that belong to and are run by the railroad companies, and they will be found so thoroughly uncomfortable, dirty and disagreeable that, for self-protec- tion, the passenger is almost compelled to submit to the ex- tortion of ﬁve dollars additional fare between the two cities. Inquire into this nice arrangement, and it is discovered that the companies own no ﬁrst-class cars, but that the Pullman ‘ Palace Car Company is permitted to stock the railroads with ﬁrst-class - ears and to levy the additional charge upon the passengers for the extra accommodations. Inquire further, and it is also discovered that the Pullman Palace Car Com- pany consists of Mr. Pullman, of Chicago, and the principal oﬁicers—the_ Presidents,Vice-Presidents and Boards of Direc- tors-——of the several railroad companies over whose roads the cars are run. Go to the freight departments and the same sort of manage- ment is discovered: the companies have nocars; they are all in use, or are delayed, or something else, but the “Red,” the “Blue,” or some other line may have accommodations for freight. Apply to them and accommodation is found at about twice or" thrice theregular freight prices. Again, push the in- "quiry, and t1le’sé“‘*“1i::e§” will ‘be-~-found '60 be made up and controlled by the oﬁicersof the roads, tlfougii '1‘i<‘;{F1iil~§tii¢‘,L...1'°.13..“‘ resented by some “ Pullman” outside the corporations. Is it any wonder that a general outcry is being made against rail- road management, when every oﬂicer of the company be- comes a Tweed, and every ring a Tammany to ﬁlch the peo- ple’s money? _ But, strange as it is, the people who complain do not seem to comprehend the diﬂiculty or how to "solve it. It did not matter who ﬁlled the oﬁices of ‘NewYork city; under the same system they would all become Tweeds. not a change of management, or yet a modiﬁcation of taxa- tion that is required; but a radical change of the whole sys- tem. Hence what the Western farmers are demanding, in the reduction of freight charges, will no more than tem- porarily relieve the grievances of which they complain. It is an entire change in the whole system that is needed to permanently cure the ills. Railroads and all other general publicsystems of internal improvements must be taken out of the hands of individuals, and run by the agent of the peo- ple for the public beneﬁt, either at the public cost, or if not this, then at the more cost of maintenance, as the postal system is now conducted, and forever abolish all Palace and Drawing-room cars, and all Red, Blue and other colored freight lines, thus rescuing the great public necessity——the general railroad system of the country——from the hands of oﬁicia .“ rings,” and reducing it to the use and beneﬁt of the public, for whom its existence should alone be permitted. ———,—————>—«o+—-e-———- BEECHER, BOWEN AND TILTON. It will be remembered that last week we republished, from the Brooklyn Eagle of. the 12th, a furious onslaught on Henry ‘C. Bowen, and that we stated our belief that, instead ofjthe scandal having blown over, as is fondly hoped by the friends of Mr. Beecher, it has really but just begun to surge. As if to conﬁrm our opinion, Mr. Bowen, in the Brooklyn Union, retorts on the editor of the Eagle by a still more furious attack than he received, basing a most terriﬁc edito- rial upon a scandal retailed at length in other columns of the same paper. . The substance of the scandal is that Mr. Kinsella, the editor of the Eagle, met a Mrs. Field at a hotel on the Coney Island road, and while they were enjoying a tete-a-tete (.9) in . a private room, they were surprised by Mrs. Kinsella, who gave Mrs. Field a black eye to remember her by, besides taking some of her hair herself as a trophy of the en- counter. - All these facts were presented, very highly colored, in the columns of the Union, by Mr. Bowen, who evidentlygloated» over the quick retribution by which he was able to break the stunning blow/delivered him by Kinsella only a day or so before. Brooklyn" was evidently in a blaze, and a terrible conﬂagration was momentarily expected. It was evident that one of the two parties, Bowen or Kinsella, would be pushed to the wall and killed, or forced to give up the secreals held in his-bosom in sheer self-defense. There could be a no more dangerous quarrel for Mr. Beecher than this one between Bowen and Kinsella; and there. is but little doubt that any quantity of oil was poured upon the “troubled waters”- to quiet them, since the very ‘next day after the terriﬁc scandal in the Union it printed a card from Mrs, Kinsella denying what was plainly to be inferred from the statements of eye witnesses of the renconlre between herself and Mrs. Fold, and hinting that there was/nothing “ wrong” _ between her husband and Mrs. Field. And with this the two papers, the Eagle and the Union, subsided as if to take breath for another set-to. ' . — But there is somebody somewhere whom silence evidently does not suit, since, in the Brooklyn Sunday Press, the most terriﬁc thunderbolt that has yet fallen is let loose, and hore it is : f _ ' A [From the Brooklyn, Sunday P/ress.] TILTON T0 BOWEN. A PERSONAL STATEMENT. The editor of the Golden Age has been many times solicited by friends and challenged by enemies to explain the sud- den sundering of his relations with Mr. Henry 0. Bowen For a long time his only answer to such requests and in- So it is ‘ —..(- ‘ withdrawal 10 wcopnctx. pa, ctxsirizuis witsrx;ir.- May 3, ms. uendoes was the ’si1:ence_which ought’ to shield one’s private affairs from public gossip. But during a recent journey of some thousands of miles through the northwest among people whose familiar acquaintance he had made in former years, and whose good opinion he is still unwilling to lose, he became convinced that a proper sense of self-respect re- quired the publication of the appended letter. It was 7 written within a few hours after the severance of his busi- ness associations with Mr. Bowen, and through a Christian , friend was conveyed to the person to whom it was addressed. So many false stories have been told of the occurrence to which it refers, the write has determined to confront these ﬁctions with the facts: . , _ - _ BROOKLYN, June 1,1871. Mn. HENRY‘C. BownN: , _ , Sc'r——I -received last evening your sudden ‘notices breaking my two contracts, one with the Independent the other with the Broolclyn Union. I/Vith reference_to this act of yours I will make a plain statement of facts. It was during the early part of the rebellion, if I recollect aright, when you V ﬁrst intimated to me that Rev. I-Ienry Ward Beecher had committed acts of adultery for which, if you should expose him, he would be driven from his pulpit. From that" time onward your references to this subject were frequent and always accompanied with the exhibition of deep-seated in.- jury to your heart. . In a letter which you addressed to me C'from“Woodstock, June the 16th, 1863, referring to this sub- ject, you said: “I sometimesfeel that I must break silence; that I mustno longer suffer as a dumb man and be made to bear a load of grief most unjustly. One word from me would make—a rebellion throughout Christendom. I had almost said, and you know it. You have just a bit of the evidence from the great volume in my possession. I am not pursuing - a phantom, but solemnly brooding over an awful reality.” Subsequent to this letter and on frequent intervals, from this till now, you have repeated the statement that you could at any moment expel Henry Ward Beecher from Brooklyn. You have reiterated thesame thing not only to me, but to others. Moreover, during the year just closed your letters on thesubject were marked with more feeling than hereto- fore, and were not unfrequently.coupled with your emphatic declaration, that Mr. Beecher ought .not to. be allowed oc- cupy a public position as a Christian teacher and preacher. On the 25th of December, 1870, at an interview in your house, at which Mr. Oliver Johnson and I were present, you spoke freely and indignantly against Mr. Beecher as an un- safe visitor in the families of his congregation. You alluded by name to a woman, now a widow, whose husband’s death you did not doubt was hastened by his knowledge that Mr. Beecher had maintained with her an improper intimacy. As if to leave no doubt on the minds of either Mr. Johnson or myself, you informed us that Mr. Beecher had made to you a confession of guilt, and had, with tears, implored your for- giveness. . After Mr. Johnson retired from this interview, you related to me the case of awoman, whom you said (as nearly as I can recollect your words) that “ Mr. Beecher took in his arms by force, threw down upon the sofa, accom- plished upon her his deviltry, and left her * _ * ._ * * During your recital of this tale you were ﬁlled with anger toward Mr. Beecher. You said, with terrible emphasis, that he ought not to remain a week longer in his pulpit. You immediately suggested that a demand should be made upon him to quit his sacred office. You volunteered to bear to him such a demand, in the form of an open letter, which you would present to him with your own hand, and you pledged yourself to sustain the -demand which this letter should make, viz. : “ That he should, for reasons which he explicitly knew, immediately cease from his ministry at Plymouth Church and retire from Brooklyn.” The first draft of this ’ letter did not contain the phrase, “for reasons which he ex- plicitly knew,” andthese words, or words to this effect, were incorporated in a second, at your motion. You urged, fur- thermore, very emphatically, that the letter should demand not only Mr. Beecher’s abdication of his -pulpit, but the ces- . sation of his writing for the .Chm’stian Um'onr—a point on which you were overruled. This letter you presented to Mr. Beecher, at Mr. Freeland’s house. Shortly after its presen- tation you sought an interview with me in the editorial office of the Brooklyn Un/ion, during which, with unaccount- . able emotion in your manner, your face, livid with rage, you threatened, with loud voice, that if I ever should inform l\/Ir. .B:eecher of the statements which you made concerning his adultery, or should compel you to adduce the evidence on which you agreed to sustain the demand for Mr. Beecher’s from Brooklyn, you would dgbprive me of my engagement to write for the Independent and to edit the Brooklyn Union ; and that in case I should ever» attempt to enter the ofﬁces of those journals, youwould have me ejected by force. I told you that I should inform Mr. Beecher or anybody else according to the dictates of my judgment, uninﬂuenced by any authority from my employers. You‘ then excitedly retired from my pre- sence. Hardly had your violent words ceased, ringing in my -ears when I received your summarypnotices breaking myicontract with the Independent and Brooklyn Union. - To the foregoing narrative of fact*I have only to add my surprise and regret at the sudden interruption by your own act of what has beenon-my part a faithful service of ﬁf- teen years. ' ‘Truly yours, I » Trrnononn TILTON. .As a sequel to the above letter it should be added that Mr. Bowen, after qharging Mr. Beecher with extraordinary crim- inality; after declaring that the case had been put to him and he had made a “ confession of guilt, imploring forgive- ness with tears,” after instigating a demand that forthwith Mr. Beecher should vacate his ministry; after protesting i that he could and would sustain these demands with com- plete evidence; after acting as the bearer of this demand i11 ” person; after all this he went immediately to Mr. Beecher . in the guise, not of accuser but champion, and pledged to him the protection of his friendship and counsel against the Very . .* True Words omitted are unﬁt '_fo1'pub1icatior..--ED. immediately ' indictment which he himself had inspired, dictated and pre- sented. C g ‘t J In other words, while secretly arranging Mr. Beecher’s de- struction he openly presented himself to his victim as a safe? guard and refuge. In the whole world’s history of treason there is not a darker instance of shameless duplicity and ma- licious craft. The writer, unsuspicious at ﬁrst of the double role which Mr. Bowen was dexterously playing, was ﬁrst made aware of his villainy by the excited conversation above described, followed immediately by the termination of his engagement as a special contributor. to the Independent and as editor’ of the Union, the contracts having been just newly made, and the ink with which they were signed being hardly dry. When a copy of the above letter was laid before Mr. Beecher he indignantly denied, Mr. Bowen’s charges, each and all, and with peculiar anger pronounced the al- leged declaration of guilt amost diabolical lie. With the issue between these two contestants the editor of the Golden Age has nothing to do, except ‘to regret the painful necessity which compels this publication involving their names. A very pretty ﬁght as it stands, truly!\* But it is out at last, that the Woodstock, Vt., letter of Bowen to Tilton, of which we have several times spoken, really exists, or at least did exist u.p to the time of its delivery to Mr. Bowen at the instance of the Commission which was called tosettle the little diﬁcrences between those two persons, of this letter, however, it is said Mr. Tilton preserved a certiﬁed copy. We presume it can scarcely be doubted that Mr. Bowen wrote and that Mr. Tilton received such a letter as is here‘ spoken of. But we are utterly at a loss to account for Mr. Tilton’s making it public just at this time. It certainly is a terrible showing against somebody. Mr. Tilton evidently means it as against Mr. Bowen. But Bowen is Beecher’s “ ﬁrm friend,f’ and so does Tilton. profess to be. Perhaps Mr. Tilton thinks Mr..Beecher’s cause sufﬁciently strong to carry him safely through this as against Mr. Bowen. Upon any other hypothesis it is beyond -our comprehension, and as it is, it is hard to determine at whom this ﬁght is directed. But there is a tangled web of false pretenses in all this that has been woven to distract attention from the vital point at issue. It is not whether Mr. Bowen, Mr. Tilton or Mr. Kin- sella has -done this, that or the other that is the real issue; but it is whether Mr. Beecher did what has been charged against him, and when the smoke of these encounters rises or clears away, back to that will it have to come. All else are “side issues,” and all other issues are “ side issues ” merely. Mr;Tilton charges, and sustains them too, that Mr.Bowen’s transaction throughout this affair has been of the most con- summate and outrageous duplicity; but ought not the maker of such a charge keep his own skirts clear from a like one?‘ And in this connection, while givinglllr. Bowen’s letter, why did he not also give what he learned from the lady in ques- tion? after the case came to his knowledge, and whether or no, when he broached the subject, the lady fainted, and whether or no she admitted it all inadvertently when she had but half recovered from the swoon, in the same manner that he has before stated them to more than one individual. Why has he not made a clean breast of it? Anything less than this is in- justice both to Mr. Beecher and Mr. Bowen. By stating what he knows he can clear one of these persons and convict the other. As it is, both rest under a cloud, and will sorest un- til some one who can and has the courage, clears up all this mystery. - ‘ F ‘ . , Again, why does Mr. Tilton now say that Mr. Beecher indignantly denied Mr. Bowen’s charges of “ the use of force.” ~ Is Mr. Tilton prepared to deny that, upon‘ other occasions, he has given an entirely difI"erent version of this case? Can he now say that he never gave anyother version of it? . In a word, can he now say that the charge was not received by Mr. Beecher with the utmost contempt, and that he conveyed the idea that it was prepos- terous that a woman who had been what the one referred to had been could possibly claim virginity and the loss of it by him, or any other man, through force? Besides, it will be remembered that not long since he said that he had thun- derbolts that, if let loose, would pierce other hearts. What other hearts, pray? Not Mr. Bowen’s, surely; but this let- ter leaves just that tovbe inferred. Are they not, however, the very ones to which this Bowen letter refers? And if so, when justice is done who will be found .clearly in the right, and who evidently in the wrong in this whole affair? As it stands, it may fairly be claimed that no explanation of what we have stated regarding Mr. Beecher can be made, since to attempt to do so is to, expose something so much worse that, all things considered, it is thought better to endure what is than to rush to that which the public knows not of.‘ V But this guerrilla cross—ﬁre between Kinsella, Tilton and Bowen is not all that is to fall upon the ears of the com- munity. In another column will be found a letter from Mr. E. H. G. Clark, of Troy, N. Y., to Geo. Francis Train, by which it appears that the lengthy-written statement of the “ whole case” recently made by Mr. Tilton and by him read to several friends, but which for some reason has been thus far suppressed, will soon appear. Mr. Clark says he stole it. Wonderhow such a theft could have been perpetrated? But since he is to discharge it upon the public we may quietly pass over the manner of its obtainment, and patiently await further developments.’ In the meantime we would advise our friends to again read the November 2d number, and en- deavor to reconcile that and all else that has been developed by the Bowen-Kinsella-Tilton muddle with' what Mr. Be'ccher’s friends claim for him--an entire disconnection with it all—-if they can. Why did he not say whether or no he visited this lady .. TILTON on BEECHER-—WHAT Dons IT MEAN? In the Golden Age, of April 19, Theodore expresses him- self thus freelyregarding Henry Wa1‘d, in noticing his last volume of sermons: ~ 1 C _ “These productions are for those who like them; and ‘the audience is large. But we have ceased to belong to it. In our opinion Mr. Beecher is really as radical as Dr. Chapin, Dr. Bellows, or Dean Stanley; but his sermons do not faith- fully represent their authors advanced thought. . Each suc- cessive Sunday’s effort (reproduced in Monday’s pamphlet) is simply the conventional clinging of his hands to creeds a11d dogmas from which his head and heart are turned almost wholly away. Without meaning to use a dispamgillg phrase, we know not how to characterize this sort of public behavior as anything short of moral insi-ncemty. Certain it is that Mr. Beecher, during a few years 13.21813, has 103‘ the hold over the Orthodox church which he once maintained, and ’ has made no corresponding gain among the Liberal sects. He is an instance of a man who, seeking to SCW6 his life, is losing n‘. Long acknowledged as the most brilliant, popular preacherin the country-—a compliment which no- body, not in any sect, begrudges him, but cheerfully payS—- he is -nevertheless, yearby year, declining in moral weight, not only with the church but in the community at large. To think one thing and say an0ther—to hold one philosophy in public and another in private—to offer one morality to the multitude and keep another for ands self——is a degradation '60 no man so much as to a minister, and a blot upon nothing so much as upon religion. Nevertheless there is so much in these pages showing that Mr. Beecher frequently forgets that he is a priest, and remembers that he is a man, and there are so many happy thoughts shooting like sunbeams through all he says, that he will always remain one of the noble speci- mens of what God can do in making a human being with a plentiful lack of conscience and courage, but with an over- ﬂowing fullness of fancy and wit.” “ Moral insincerity,” “ declining in moral weight,” “to think one thing and say another,” “to hold one philosophy in public and another in private,” “to offer one morality to the multitude and keep another for one’s self,” “ plentiful lack of conscience and courage!” This is plain talk, and we ask what more have we said of the great Plymouth orator, except to give facts to illustrate our points, mainly furnished us by Theodore himself—directly or indirectly? Whatdoes it all mean? 7%.»-4 A PLAN FOR ORGANIZING. We present below a plan for organization which was pre sented to the American Association of Spiritualists at their’ last annual Convention in Boston, and which is now in the hands of a special committee, which was instructed to con- sider what amendments are required to be made to the pres- This committee is composed of some of the ablcst minds in the Association, and “A. E. Newton,who has probably consid- eredthe subject of organization as thoroughly as any one in the country, is its chairman. It may be expected that an in September. ‘ When this plan was offered it was hoped that it would come proniincntly before the Spiritualists of the world in thecolumnsof all the Spiritual journals and have genera consideration, but the source from which it originated prob- ably excluded’ it from this presentation, and, as a conse- quence, lhe subjecthas been discussed not at all. There seems to be rather a general disposition against organization are standing face to face with themost powerful organization in existence, which threatens to compel them to renounce their Spiritualism under the pressure of torture by the stake or the rack. When this plan of organization was presented we realized what was going to be attempted, and saw the ab- solute necessity of unity of action to resist it, but our warn- ing was not heeded. Indeed, we were laughed to scorn be- cause we dared to even hint that religious persecution could ever be inaugurated again in this country. never presumed «that the plan offered was perfect. Indeed, we desired discussion that something better might be evolved. We know that the principles involved are the correct ones; but their elucidation and application must necessarily be faulty. Any original plan for so extensive application as one for general organization requires general consideration and discussion by the general public. , And this one may be adapted to any sort of organization; indeed, when once ‘any organization exists under the princi- ples involved, it may be that one under which all reform may be inaugurated, whether political, social or industrial. For our part, we should prefer some name considered of more general application than Spiritualists, some name ‘under which all may convene, some name that would not exclude ‘any professor and that would include the Materialist and the Pagan, - . With these prefaiory remarks we submit the following, just as it remains in the hands of the committee above re- ferred to, trusting that everybody who sees the impending revolution will feel called upon to discuss thegmethods by {which it must he met: ent Constitution of the Association to make it more efficient. - able report will be made to the next Convention, to be held I on the part of prominentflpiritualists, notwithstanding they We desired that organization should be discussed.‘ We O .,5.-#,,.....;-.,.lI,.,-._.n,,._ 1 , - onstrated. That, being scientiﬁc and demonstrable, pro- its claim is based. In this view, what is legitimately in- ’ being of humanity in everything pertaining to the interests kind to their highest rights, holiest duties and divinest hap- gcluded under the term “Spiritualism,”'or the Religion of ’ by recognizing this in practice, will become the Religion of L x l‘;-‘. :3 3.}. ii’? j ‘gr May 3, 18%’. W0ODHUnh&, 1!! 0LAFLIN$_WEEKLf. , in ii THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION or sPIRITUALIsTs To ALL SPIRITUALISTS AND REEORMERS IN THE WORLD, GREETING: The Spiritualists of the United States of North America, realizing that the fact of communication "between spirits bodied and spirits disembodied is, either by implication or aﬁfirmation, generally conceded by the people, feel that the time has come when, by organized action, they can assume a much more practical, deﬁnite and comprehensive attitude toward the world than heretofore. T/Vith this view they in- Vite earnest‘ consideration for the following presentation, in the hope that itssuggestions may form the basis for a gen- eral plan of action, upon which all humanitarians will be willing to unite in order to secure and advance the general wellfare. . ' The unity of the interests of. the human family is a funda- mental doctrine of Spiritualism-.« It should be practically recognized by an initiation of a plan of action in which all can conscientiously join in a common effort to establish the common good. Although it is not to be presumed that all Spiritualists will think and act alike, it is believed that their various labors may be so guided as to forward the best inter- ests of humanity. The establishment of unity of action will be highly advantageous to us. Efforts made byione section ought not to be neutralized by the action of other sections. In building up the temple of the future there is need of all who desire to render their assistance; but it is evident that it has become necessary to organize the force "employed in its construction. The purposes of life and the principles which underlie them, which are summedup in the harmonious develop.rnent ofthe powers, capacities and sentiments of all individuals, can only be obtained- 1st. By ordaining the right of freedom for every individ- ual, and securing its acknowledgment by every individual. 2d. By presenting to every individual equal opportunities‘. for development, physical, intellectual and moral. 3d. By the maintenance of such orderas shall guanantee to every individual the common enjoyment of the common bounties of nature. If it be objected that to maintain these propositions is an attempt at an arbitrary enforcement of law, it is replied, that all self—evidcnt propositions, all principles and all natu- ral laws are arbitrary, with which there can be no experi- menting except at the cost of a penalty.. Nothing can be more arbitrary than the laws governing mathematics. The science of mathematics is the organization of numbers; the science of government is the organization of society, and the laws governing the latter are not less arbitrary than the laws governing the former. A Therefore, accepting the brotherhood of the human race, it is certain that the foregoing statements are self-evident propositions. Furthermore, it is believed that, reduced to practice, they will realize that progression and order which are the objects of this association, and that therefore it is ex- pedient that they be declared to be the absolute laws of this association. It is also asserted that Spiritualism, being based upon facts susceptible of analysis, is the only religion that can justly be termed “scientiﬁc” or that is capable of being dem- gressive, charitable and universal, it is the only religion that merits the title of “ The Religion of Humanity.” But it cannot be expected that the world will fully recog- nize it as such until it has established the principles on which volved in the Scientiﬁc Religion of Spiritualism? The well- of humanity, here and hereafter; hence it must prove itself to be a living power, a mighty inspiration, leading man- piness. In accepting this combination of theory and practice as the true end and aim of Spiritualism, present arbitrary divi- sions which are now maintained by sectarian theories and practices must be annihilated. The system of religion should include, permeate and overrule all subjects pertain- ing to the moral, intellectual and material welfare of man- kind. All of these are but parts of the grand whole in- Humanity. ‘ I It is therefore a sacred duty for all those who comprehend the grand issue to unite and organize for the purpose of, speedily carrying the principles above enunciated into power and practice.’ I ‘ — - To still more clearly deﬁne our position and. intentions and to set forth the rules by which our action will be gov- erned, the further declaration of principles is made, to wit: 1st. That Spiritualism, having demonstrated spirit life’ communion, has superseded all other systems of religion and all theories of life and immortality. — 2d. That Spiritualism has demonstrated that in the econ- omy of the universe there is -no respect of persons. 3d. That humanity, both in spirit and earth -life, is a Brotherhood, having a common origin and inheriting com- mon interests and a common destiny; and that Spiritualism, Humanity. 4th. That the interests and well-being of "individuals can- . being best maintained when the happiness of, each is most perfectly secured. a r ‘ 5th. That, Humanity beingfa Brotherhood its interests can be best advanced by its erganization as a whole. 6th. That all organizations should be begun upon such principles as will permit them to expand and embrace hu- P manity in one organization. ' 7th. That the natural developinent of the human powers, capacities and sentiments being. the purpose of life, the ob- jects of organization should exclude no method by which it can be advanced. S 8th. That since the purpose of life is to perfect the human being the science of organization consists of the formulation of the laws of life into a perfect system. ’ 9th. That education is the acquisition of knowledge, and that perfect education is the possession of all forms of knowledge, being that which provides for the equal _and harmonious cultivation of the physical, intellectual‘ and moral capacities, and the human instincts and sentiments in all people. ' j 10. That the human capacities, instincts and sentiments develop harmoniously when they are resident in a perfect development,’ is,perfect- physical bodies upon which to begin education. A 11th. That a perfect physical body can only result from perfect conditions of generation, gestation and growth, the primal condition of perfection residing in the functions of generation. I . 12th. That a perfect humanity must consist of perfect in- dividuals, and that any custom or law which arbitrarily maintains conditions, the results of which are imperfect physical beings, is detrimental toithe highest interests of humanity. ‘ _ 13th. That each individual is, by nature, endowed with powers and capacities over which he has the sole jurisdic- tion, but the community, by organization, can rightfully rule applies alike to religious, political, intellectual, social and industrial capacities and wants. 14th. That the earth and its fullness is a free gift to hu- manity, to the use a11d bounty of which every individual has an equal right; and any system which fails to secure this to every individual defeats the intentions of nat"ure-in the cre- ation of man, monopolizes to selﬁsh purposes that which be- longs of right to all. x »' 15th. That to secure the substitution of the foregoing prin- ciples for the present imperfect political, social and indus- trial customs and laws the following plan of organization is proposed: . PLAN OF ORGANIZATION. CONSTITUTION.- CHAPTER I. ON ORGANIZATION. This Association shall be known as j “ The Universal Association of Spiritualists.” 1st. The Primary Councils, consisting of the various pri- mary organized bodies of Spiritualists everywhere. 2d. The District Councils, consisting of deiegates from the several primary councils within the limits of diﬁerent States, Departments, or Districts. , ' I 8d. The National Councils, consisting of delegates from the several District Councils of the several Nations; and 4th. The Universal Congress, consisting of representatives from the several National Councils; A CHAPTER II. ON MEMBERSHIP. ARTICLE I, Any person eighteen years of age may become a member of any Primary Council of The Univeral Associa- tion of Spiritualists by subscribing to the principles of the Association, and paying the regular initiatoryfee. ART. 2. Membership shall continue during the pleasure of the member, unless the name be dropped from the rolls by the order of a majority of the Council to which the member belongs, for the non—payment of dues, the member having ﬁrst had a month’s noticeof such intended action; and no member shall be expelled from this Association for any other cause. ‘ CHAPTER III. ON PRIMARY COUNCILS. ARTICLE 1. A Primary Council may consist of not less than ﬁfteen regularly initiated members. ART. 2. Each Primary Council, upon perfecting its organ- ization by choosing a Recording Secretary, at Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer, and sending the same with “a listof its members to the Council of the District in which it is lo‘ cated, shall be recognized as a regularly organized Council, and allotted a designation by number. ART. 3. The Primary Councils shall hold regular weekly meetings for the discussion of, or lectures upon, the princi- ples of the Association; and whenever possible" shall organ- ize, maintain and conduct a Children’s Progressive Lyceum as a model system of education, in which ultimately to merge all other systems of education. ART. 4. The Primary Councils shall make regular quar- terly___reports to District Councils, setting forth their progress, condition and prospects, accompanied by the quarterly dues and fees hereinafter provided. » — I _ ART. 5. Primary Councils shall exercise control over all not be separated from-that of humanity, the ‘interests of all body; and that the ﬁrst object to be sought, as a basis for limit that jurisdiction for the protection -of society; and this viding that principles of the Association shall not be transcended or iniiiringed. , ART. 6. Primary Councils may make propositions to Dis- trict Councils relationg to matters concerning the District; and to the National Councils or Universal Congress upon subjects of a more general application. , CHAPTER IV. on DIsTRIcT COUNCILS. ’ ARTICLE 1'. District Councils shall consist of delegates Primary Council of two hundred and ﬁfty members or less being entitled to one delegate, and to ‘an additional delegate for every fractional two hundred and ﬁfty members, who shall hold their ofﬁces for one year and until their successors are duly chosen, unless sooner recalled by the Primary Coun- cils. ART. 2. District Councils shall hold regular quarterly ses- sions at the. largest cities within the Districts, beginning on the second Mondays in January, April, July and October. And upon perfecting their organizations by electing Record-‘ ing Secretaries, Corresponding Secretaries and Treasurers, who shall reside in the said cities and constitute the Execu- tive Committees, and such other oﬁicers as may be necessary and forwarding the same to the National Councils, t ogether with a consolidated report of H the Primary Councils within their several jurisdictions, they shall be recognized as regu- larly organized District Councils, with "full authority to ad- minister the affairs of the Association within their several ju- risdictions. L I I ART. 3. District Councils shall make regular quarterly re- ports to the National Councils of the progress, condition ' and prospects of the Association within their several limits, together with the dues , and fees hereinafter provided; and shall keep such records of -Primary Councils and the mem- bers of each as shall show the condition of the Association. ART. 4. All propositions received by District Councils upon matters relating to their respective Districts, shall be referred by them to the several Primary Councils within their limits, each of which shall make a return of the number of _ affirmative and negative votes; and if it be found that a ma- -jority of the members voting favor the proposition, it shall be considered as adopted, otherwise -it shall be considered as rejected, and the proposition in the same or other form shall not again receive consideration during the current year. I ' ART. 5. All propositions received by District Councﬁs, having a National or universal application, shall, if approv- ed bythe Council, be forwarded to the National Council. mattersrelating to the Association, and forward their propo- sitions to the National Councils. CHAPTER V. ON NATIONAL COUNCIDS. ARTICLE 1. National Councils shall consist of delegates’ chosen from among themselves by the District Councils of the several nations, each District Council of ﬁfty members « or less be entitled to one delegate, and to an additional delegate for every fractional ﬁfty members, who shall hold their ofﬁces for one yearand until their successors are duly appointed, unless sooner recalled by the District Council. ART. 2. /National Councils shall hold -regular quarterly sessions in the largest city within the nation, beginning on the ﬁrst Mondays in February, May, August and November, and shall remain in session until the present business is dis- posed of. U I ART. 3. The permanent organizations of National Coun- cils shall consist of Presidents, who shall be known as Pres- ident of the —¥ Division of The Universal Association of Spiritualists, Recording Secretaries, Corresponding Secre- taries and Treasurers, who, with the exception of the Presi- dents, shall preside in the said cities, and, together with the Presidents, form the Executive Committees; andsuch other additional officers as shall be necessary to administer the aﬁairs of the Association within their respective jurisdic- tions. - . ART. 4. All propositions received by National Councils from District Councils, and all propositions originating in I the Councils, shall be referred through the District Councils to the Primary Councils for approval or disapproval; and if it be found that a majority of members -voting approve, then the proposition shall be considered as adopted, ‘otherwise it shall be considered as rejected; and the proposition in the same or any other form shall not again receive consideration within the current year. ‘ ART. 5. The National Councils shall, on "the receipt of lists of members with the initiatory fees from District Councils, return blank cards of membership, signed by the President and Treasurer, which shall, by the District Councils, be forwarded to the several Primary Councils for distribution to the members. ' ART. 6. When members are dropped from the rolls, cards of membership held by them shall be returned to the Pri- mary Councils. C’ ART. '7. Any person holding a card of membership shall beentitled to visit and speak in any Primary Council, and to vote on propositions relating tothe District, when in his or her District; and on propositions relating to the na: tion when outside of the District; and on universal proposi = matters which specially relate to themselves; a1ways_'pro-ttions when outside of the nation. chosen bythe Primary Councils from among themselves, each ’ to conduct_the affairs of the Association within the Districts, ‘ ART. 6. District Councils may take the initative in any i lportionto the respective numbers of their members. "12 € WOODHULL & CL*AFLI,N’S W-EEKLY. May 3, 1873. CHAPTER VI. ON THE ‘UNIVERSAL CONGRESS. J ARTICLE 1. The Universal Congress shall consist of twen- ty-ﬁve representatives,’chosen by the several National Coun- cils, the number from each bearing the same proportion to the whole number as the number of members of the Associ- ation in each nation bear to the whole number of members in all nations. . I ART. 2. The Universal Congress shall convene in the country entitled to the largest number of members, by the concerted action of the National Councils of the several na- tions; and shall originate propositions regarding its 0Wl1,d11- ties, which, when approved by the majority of all the mem- , . . . _ 1 d _ _ hem of the Assoclatlon Votmg’ sha 1 be hel to be adOpted_ assembled shall appoint ‘a Provisional National Council for N North America, consisting of twenty-ﬁve members, which CHAPTER VII. ON PROPAGANDA. ARTICLE 1. The National Councils shall, at the close of each quarterly session, appoint a time and place for holding National Mass Conventions, which shall make their own or- ganizations, but at which the Executive Committees shall report .the proceedings of their Councils at the last ses- sions, which reports sh all be open for discussion as the first . proceedings of the Conventions after their organizations, af- ter which the Conventions shall proceed with their own or- ders of business. _ ' . ’ ART. 2. The ﬁrst Mass Conventions shall be held at the capitals of the Associations in the several nations; and at the same place thereafter once every year; but the remaining three annual conventions jmay be held at such other places as the interests of the Association may appoint. ART. 3. In like manner to the National Councils "shall District Councils -hold regular quarterly Mass Conventions, at such places within their several Districts as shall best pro- mote the interests of the ‘Association. ’ ART. 4. The National Councils, as soon as it is possible, shall, at the national capitals, at the expense of the Associa- tion, publish newspapers, which shall be oﬁicial organs of l P the Association, including the Children’s Progressive Lyce- ums; and for this purpose may appoint editors and publish- ers to conduct the same, who shall hold their oiﬁce during the pleasure of the Councils. These papers shall be, editori- ally, impersonal, and their columns open to the impartial discussion of all subjects, the editing of which shall be pro- scriptive to no subject or writer. ART. 5. The said organs shall be made regular .weekly is- sues at the — earliest possible time, and shall be furnished in bulk to the several District Councils or to their order, in pro- The paper shall also be issued at a ﬁxed price to persons not members of the Association, and to the news companies for general sale. ART. 6. The National Councils shall, as soon as possible, establish a General Publishing Department for the publica- tion of such books, pamphlets and documents upon the principles of the Association . as shall be approved by the Councils. ART. 7. The National Councils shall also organize a Leo- ture Bureau as soon as the ﬁnances of the Association shall permit, and shall keep before the public as many of the best speakers as possible, endeavoring to make it a source of proﬁt, instead of an expense, to the cause. CHAPTER VIII. ON FINANCE. ARTICLE I. Each person before becoming a member of this Association shall pay to the Treasurer of the Primary ‘ Council, for the use of the National Councils, an initiatory fee of one dollar, and regularly thereafter quarterly dues of‘ twenty-ﬁve cents, which fees and dues shall be regularly,for- warded through the Treasurers of tbe District Councils to the Treasurers of the National Councils, at the end of each quarter at the time of making their respective quarterly re- ports, as hereinbefore provided. , ' ART. 2. The Primary Councils shall, as bodies, be respon- sible to the District Councils, and the District Councils to the National Councils for the full and regular payment of the above-provided fees and dues. ART. 3. The Treasurers of National Councils shall make -regular Oﬁicial exhibits of all receipts and expenditures of money, which, for the information of the Association, shall be published weekly in the organs of the Association. A ART. 4. The Treasurers of this Association shall make no paymentof any demand for money unless it shall ﬁrst have been duly audited as provided by the several Councils. ’ CHAPTER IX. -ON JURISDICTION AND ADMINISTRATION. Each Council of this Association shall, within its limit, have full jurisdiction over all matters relating to the Associ- ation; and any question which may arise as to the adminis- tration of its affairs shall be decided by Councils without referring them to the members of the Primary Councils; and may make such rules and regulations, for government and order, -as may be best adapted , to the local conditions, always providing that the principles of the Association shall be preserved intact. ‘ —"""*_ o ,..._,.... T CHAPTER X. ON HONORARY MEMBERsHIP. As it is impossible under our present arbitrary and une- qual distributions of wealth to conduct the materialaﬁairs of this Association upon the principle of individual pecu- in September, 1870. niary equality, resort may be made to methods for raising revenues, other than the equal assessment of all members; such as the conferment of Honorary Membership in such manner as may-be devised by the Councils, the issue of Cer- tiﬁcates of Indebtedness or Bonds, or such other methods as may be deemed expedient and possible under the various local conditions. But all distinctions thus conferred shall cease when the principles of the Association‘ shall become practically formulated through the organizations of the peo- ples rendering further aid of that kind unnecessary. CHAPTER XI. ON PRovIsIoNAL CoUNCILs. The American Association of Spiritualists in Convention shall have the same functions and perform the same duties as are provided for the National Councils, and hold their oﬁices until the regular National Council shall have been duly organized as hereinbefore provided. CHAPTER XII. ON AMENDMENTs. This Constitution may be amended as proposed by any member or Council of the Association, when the amendment shall have received the approval of a majority of all members. of the Association voting. .13. A % wv LOOK ON THIS; “I did not know the list was printed in WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’s WEEKLY, a sheet of which she had never seen but one copy, and that the one which led to its suppression by the United States Government, and justly, too, she thought. This copy had been brought to ‘her to show the true character of the chief advocates of this vile doctrine.” —E’mmd Hardinge-Britten in Music Hall, Boston, April, 1870; AND THEN ON THIS. “ I have the most profound regard for marriage, and will- tolerate nothing outside of it; but, between you and me, all the relations I have ever had with men that were of any worth to me have been outside of marriage and without the twaddle of priest or justice.”-.——E’mma Hardinge in Olevelcmd, QUERY : Are these two persons the same. individual. MALE MISCHIEF-MAKERS. The Young Men’s Christian Association is true to its sex, but there cannot be much charity in an organization that rules out half of the human family. From the advertise- ments we give which appear to be issued by authority- v1z.: Y WANTED—The Young Men ’s Christian Association requests merchants, bankers, manufacturers and business men gen- erally, who are in need of book-keepers, entry clerks, sales- men, office clerks, copyists, oiﬁce boys, porters, etc., to make application, etc. » All who are in want of copyists, mechanics, laborers, por- ters, ofﬁce boys, or any kind of male labor, are requested to apply Saturdays and Sundays, General Secretary of the Bowery Branch of the Y. M. C. A. It would seem to be desirious also of limiting its labors of love to the masculine gender. To us it seems to be veritably a Protestant mockery rather than a Christian institution. The only thing that appears to be lacking in‘ the Y. M. C. A., in order to fraternize it with its brethren of the dark ages, is a ﬁtting patron saint. Even this discrepancy ap- pears to have been obviated latterly. From the action of some of its leaders in the Credit Mobiler aﬁair, and from the easy morality of Messrs. Phelps, Dodge & Co. in the revenue matter,'which has lately been compromised by a pay- ment of $271,000 to Uncle Sam, it would seem that the Y.‘ M. C. A. had established a right in a patron. After such exhibitions of its real character, the public would be justi- ﬁed in dubbing it—“ The Noble Order of the Monks of St. Mammon.” A4‘ A ‘f CWFV PHELPS, DODGE 80 CO. OFFICIAL DENIAL OF THE TRUTH OF THEIR STATEMENT. WASHINGTON, April 19.—Senator Boutwell, who was at the Treasury Department to-day, emphatically contradicted the recent statement of Phelps, Dodge 86 Co., that the sum of $271,000 was forced_'out‘_of them by way of compromise in their ‘recent difficulty with the Department. .He said when the charges of fraud wercbrought against that ﬁrm they ﬁled a statement at the Treasury asserting their innocence, and oﬁering to pay the $271,000. Mr. Boutwell, who was -then Secretary of the Treasury, declined‘ to receive the money, and notiﬁed the ﬁrm that the courts were open, and if they Were’innocent of the charges they should go into court and prove their innocence. Upon this notiﬁcation they with- drew the assertion of their innocence, and it was then their olfer to compromise was entertained. The Department in no case accepts money of any party charged who claims to be inno- cent, being allowed by law to compromise with offenders only after guilt is admitted, and it was on this distinct un- derstanding that the compromise with Phelps, Dodge & Co., was made. Mr. Boutwell says that never while he was at the head of the Treasury Department was any compromise made with persons who claimed to be innocent; ‘ . Comment is superﬂuous. We hope the Y. M.» C. A. will now be satisﬁed with their dodge (Dodge) that he is just as good as any of therest of them and no worse. We would advise them to get the Vice-president up here to whitewash- them just a little. They surely must be above reproach; perhaps, even like Caesars wife and the pastor of Plymouth Church, abooe suspicion. _>—-40% HARK! FROM THE TOMBS. The Startling Attempt to Ooerthrow the American Republic- The Bible on Trial before Chief Justice Daly—The Ancient and Honorable Society of the Owls;Docto*rs, Lawyers and Judges made the Laughing-Stock of the N ation by an Alleged Lunatic-—Fifty-six Columns of the Weekly Un/rolled Before the Astonished Jury (See April 5, 12, 19, 26)——The Su7"r'e'nde9" of the New York Press to the “Coming Dictator ”——The most Rema/rkable Victory of one Man over Church and State ever Recorded——The End of the Beginning—An Age of _I Events. * It is scarcely six months since our arrest on the 2d of No- vember, but what an age weghave all lived since then. Mr. Train said to us in Ludlow Jail, “Don’t you feel the Revolu- tion in the air? ” We feel it now. It ﬂoats over the people. The clouds are passing away. Poverty occasions thought. The panic predicted has arrived. The strange prophecies. one after the other, are being fulﬁlled. The immense sale of the WEEKLY, published and printed under the eyes of a secret police more powerful than the Government, tells its own story. We should have been in Sing Sing and Mr. Train in the asylum long since, but for fear of the people. But daylight at last. Our reporter succeeded in getting a pile more of epigrams. They speak for themselves. PHILADELPHIA AFTER THE DE LUNATICO INQUIRENDO COM- MISSION. . _ (Telegram) PHILADELPHIA, April 16. To GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN,‘ at Judge Daly’s Court, New York: _ Hammond pronounces you insane for two reasons. First. Because you said Greeley was poisoned. ‘Second, For a thousand dollar fee. C. T. BLOOD. . 224 South street. EPIGRAM REPLY To C. T. B., PHILADELPHIA. Of course your telegram is right, Hammond drew a thousand at sight For his fee to prove Scannell sane, While to make me insane he got the same. Of course, I shall prove these doctor “ experts” Divide their stealings with the legal squirts. But has it not come to a fearful pass To see poor Hammond prove himself an ass? ’Tis a salvage case of proﬁt and loss, Between Phelps and Hammond a pitch and toss. Those the gods love they ﬁrst make dam-phools, When Beeclzews round look outfor your tools. . — ‘ GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, (Who believes that all these “ obscene ” bills at Albany and Congress, and all these obscen_e arrests by the Young Mules Concubine Associa- tion are got up to prevent the exposure of the Woodhull-Beecher-Tib ton Scandal, and try and Checkmate this “insanity” ﬁasco.) THE Tomas, New York, April 17, 1873. PHOTO’S OF THE COMING DICTATOR. NOTE FROM MR. NICHOLS To MR. TRAIN. .. 735 BROADWAY, New York, April 16, 1873. To BRIG.—('}EN. GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, THE TOMBSZ Dear Sir—’I‘here is a great rush for your photO’s. My own business crowds me so I cannot get them off fast enough. Sarony is the best artist in America, and can throw oﬂ’ hun- dreds of thousands as easy as I can thousands. If you will give Sarony a sitting, I can attend to the sale, believing that I can make arrangements with him that will be mutually satisfactory. I am satisﬁed that one in forty of the popula- tion will want the photo of the Coming Dictator, and a mil- lion copies would make things brisk. Very truly yours, k The Publisher of the Train Ligue. MR. TRArN’s REPLY. THE ToMBs, New York, April 17,1873. To JOHN WESLEY NICHOLS, EsQ., The Pagan Artist, 735 Broadway, New York: Dewr Sir—Sarony has for many years asked me for a sit- ting, and Once I promised him that I would do so; but the fact is, ﬁve hundred sittings in diiferent cities and different parts of the world has made me sick of seeing my own face. — It is unusual to hear one artist speak so highly of another. But if you think, as you say, that you can sell A MILLION PHoTo’s, the loss that you must have sustained, in arrest, imprisonment and annoyance in publishing the Train Ligue, say nothing of having your cases smashed "so often at the Broadway door. would inﬂuence me in giving Sarony a sit- ting, providing your arrangement with him would accrue to your Own advantage. The money test is the guarantee of success. I think, myself, there will be an immense sale, and am willing to undergo the tortureif it will put stamps in_ your purse. GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, The Coming Dictator. P. S.—Please give my kind regards to Mr. Sarony. It is not yet decided whether these photo’s will be taken in the Tombs, the Asylum or at your gallery. G. F. T.- STAND BY THE GUNS—BIDE YOUR TIME. NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., April 17, 1873. MR. TRAIN: , ‘ Dear Sir——Thanks for the Toledo Sun. I have written Chatﬁeld a letter about your outrageous detention in the Tombs. I have known Mr. Chatﬁeld well for about 35 years ——-am very glad you have got him for counsel; he 18 one of u s -—he_is sound on the question. Bide your time, bide your time! , Patience is is a patriots-duty; ‘:«'-:...~:.-;:-.,*: 2.2 « . '1; t .:g, . May 3, .1373. WOODHULL av. CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. . is is Rashness, is a cowards crime; Bide your time, bide your time. p ‘ GEO. W. LOYD. HoN. Gno. F. TRAIN. MR. TRAIN’s REPLY. . . EPIGRAM. Dea/r Geo. W. Loyd, Esq.-——That’s’so,; I have at last chased the animal to his hole. ENGLAND;S DOWNFALL CAT LAST. Anvil is ready, the metal aglow There’s hope for us all in Murderers’ Row, Though so long tortured in a death-pit jail, Truth is mighty, and justice must prevail. Hume, Gibbon, Rousseau, Tom Paine and Voltaire Were only trimmers; Inﬁdels beware! “Investigator,” “Index” and “Banner of Light,” A. Jackson Davis, Mendum, Abbot, White Are only:English agents in disguise, WHO ARE THE CoNsi>IRAToRs? To scatter far and wide their English lies. Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Gerret Smith, And Women suffrage was an English myth. Stantons, Stones, Howes and gentle Annie D. Received inspiration from over the sea; Thus England’s church made everything Subserve their tin-smuggling, free-trade Ring. And yet they all are obliged to agree, The people are all in the boat with me; So in order my character to stain, The church decrees thatI am “insane.” At last the great mistake has been made, . Ring down the curtain! the farce is played! , GEORGE FRANois TRAIN, (The only man in America who represents the manhood and the honesty of the poor). THE Tomas, April 20, 1873. AN INFAMOUS RECORD IN THE WAR DEPART- MENT. ' APRIL 16, 1873. MR. TRAIN: _Dedr Str—-They dare not try you, and are perpetrating this outrageous idea of insanity to save their skirts. The ﬁrst doctor I do not know, but the second, Dr. Hammond, is, I believe, the worthy (_?) Surgeon General that disgraced him- self and his office during our country’s sore trials in the early part ofthe “_war of.the rebellion.” The tomb should have be.en,,h1S Testlﬂg-Place long ago, at the cost of a “ drum-head trial and a minnie ball to carry out the decision ofthe court._ Suoh_a man for testimony as an expert? Damnable! Hoping this letter may reach you, I remain, yours most truly. DR. E. STERLING, _ Cleveland, Ohio. MR. TRA1N’s REPLY. ' » THE ToMi3s, April 20, 1873. To Dr. E. Sterlzng, Cleveland: \ EPIGRAM. Thank you, Doctor.» Hammond’s career No doubt has cost the nation dear. Government scratching in Stanton‘s dirt Made the “Surgeon” a clever “ expert." His “ insane” longings for ﬁlthy liicre Make him “ expert” in “ poker” and “ euchre.” He escaped the penitentiary, To swear his superiors wild and crazy. . Could he have in the Tombs a few months spent, He might have been cured of embezzlement. A cross between the Scribe and Pharisee, He swears to a lie for his thousand fee, The “ expert" concern of Hammond and Cross Is the last dodge of the fugitive “Boss.” I caught them to-day, disgusting Judge Daly On the sanity of the Virgin Mary. GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, (Who has g_ot all the religious and political skunks in the country in a box trap, where the people can punch them to their heart’s content.) HON. JAS. M. SCOVEL ON THE DE LUNATICO IN- QUIRENDO COMMISSION. (Telegram.) TRENTON, N. J ., April 16. To Geo. Frdncts Trcttn, tn the Tombs, New York: I admire your pluck. You are not as crazy as the Credit Mobilier Congressmen. ; JAs. M. SoovEL. MR. TRAiN’s EPIGRAM REPLY. (Another Counsellor to the Front.) THE TOMBS, NEW YORK, April 17, 1873. Hon. J. M. Scovel, Trenton: Please see Clark Bell, number twenty Nassau. The time the Court already has spent on This case, shows how I have cornered the law. They say you and I are somewhat alike, That both of us gas and both of us strike. We gas and strike, but on different plan; I polish the crowd, you knock down a man. That Tom. Scott charter you were sure to mar, When you taught the Senators how to span. Many thanks for suggestions some time ago, Hdbeas corpus from Murderers’ Row; But as the joke has already begun, ‘ Why not come over and enjoy the fun? INSANITY BEFORE ELECTION. -Call at Nassau and get your subpoena, You know all about my insane demeanor Before election, in the time I spent In trying to save you as President. Why not go into the box and explain That Greeley visit when I was insane. The Credit Mobilier Congressmen, In their drunken Congressional W61. Tried to prove that they were gentlemen, By adding a lie to general steal. At Saint Nich., you must remember, Our talk in October and November, Where I put forth my startling prophecy. And you obtained that crowd of votes for me. The dictator’s banner I shall shortly plant, So jump in, friend Scovel, and ﬂoat with the tide. Vottngfor Greeley was vottngfor Grant, ,You know how the Belmont Hell-hounds have lied. GEo. FRANcIs TRAIN, (Who would have been elected President had Mr. Greeley carried out the Scovel-Cochrane plan of changing candidates.) 3 NEW JERSEY TO THE. FRONT. LOADING THE CANNON FOR THE EXPERTS. Dear Mr. Tra.tn—Why not recall Hammond and ask him: 1st. Do you judge of insanity by analogy? _ _ 2d. Was Louis Napoleon insane when imprisoned in the Castle of Ham? 3d. Did he become Emperor of France? 4th. Is not‘ one of the strongest evidences of insanity a lack of the powerof recurrence to a former subject of conver- sation? ' jects of discussion). 6th. Do you consider Bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,'insane because he shows his fear of a coming revolution, a “ bloody war between labor and capital,” by praying to God to peace- ably obvert it? Did you receive my railroad letter last week? * W. W. BENNETT, Jersey City. MR. TR_A1N’s REPLY." EPIGRAM. Dear W. W. Bennett, J. C. :‘ A MAN’s MIND PUT UP AT AUCTION. Yes;' your railroad letter hit the mark. Wait. The strikers soon will ﬁre the spark. Now liberty‘s sun strikes on the dial, Bishops admit the church is on trial. Hammond consents to act as a tool, , And play the “ expert” as Beecher’s fool. To save the Bible on the insane cry, A thousand dollarsfor a single lie. SOME MORE “INSANE” KUSSES. From “ insane" life of Napoleon the First, To that “insane” death at Chizelhurst. Austerlitz, Moscow and Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was “insane” too. Boulogne, Strasburg, Paris, Sedan, Proves Louis Napoleon an “insane man." The “‘ insane ” fear of old Bishop Purcell, Of losing his fee at entrance of hell Makes him yell and bay and howl at the moon When any one speaks of the French Commune. The sword andipistol, rtjle and pike, Must organize a general strike. . GEO. FRANc1s TRAIN, . (Who is not so far ahead of the people as is supposed). THE Tomas, April 19, 1873. THE COMING CRASH. Reporter.——Do you really think the panic you predicted in your Wall-street speech and your interviews, published in the WEELKY and the Sun, is upon us? ’ Mr. Trdtn.——Yes; it is knocking at the door. Have we not shipped in gold and silver $750,000,000 in ﬁfteen years ? Does it look large to you? Well, let me tell you that it only amounts to ﬁfteen months’ importation of foreign trash ! Our gold interest on National, State, city and corporation bonds abroad amounts to $150,000,000 per annum, and with only $70,000,000 in the country, it shows we cannot pay our inter- est for sin; months. We exported alone $72,000,000 on last year, or $15,000,000 more than we produced. This I have ex- plained on a thousand platforms, and hence I am on trial for insanity, as the court does not wish to declare the Bible ob- scene. ‘ Reporter.—What is the result of all this? LIGHTING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS. candle at both ends. Living beyond your means. (Remem- ber Micauber’s ﬁgures.) Giving notes to pay interest on borrowed money can only result one way. Europe has two thousand millions of our securities, much of which is on call. Probably five hundred millions of accommodation is now bridging the Atlantic. Notice some of the ﬁnancial writers say ﬁfteen millions. (That’s only last weeh’s '0'/mportations.) But I tell you there are $500,000,000 sight to ninety day bills not got a third of that. Jay Cooke’s checks on demand are not gold. The Congressmen stole their million and a. half just in time, by bribing Grant with one hundred thousand dollars to sign the bill that night. Bismarck eats up $2,000,- 000 bullion a week, $100,000,000 a year, and will so continue while changing his currency until he uses up the $1,000,- 000,000 received from France. That smashes our debt, and our debt will knock the $4,000,000,000 debt of England in console, and then down goes the. combined $20,000,000,000 debts of Europe, and the people drefree. Richardson is in the English Ring to bankrupt the nation; otherwise, how do you account with this $750,000,000 of liabilities (legal tenders, bank notes, etc.), he is selling $6,000,000 gold this month when he has only $60,000,000 left? 0 Reporter.—How do you carry. all these ﬁgures, Mr. Train, in your head? » J _ Mr. Tratn.—Asking District Attorney-General Phelps and Surgeon-General Hammond, they will probably tell you it is “ emotional tnsa.nt'ty.” When I was in Frankfort the other day theyshowed me a list of swindles as long as your arm. THE DEFAULTING BONDS IN FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE. Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,700,000 Des Moines Valley Railroad. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7,000,000 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia... .. . . . . . . . .. 3,500,000 Fort Wayne, Muncie, and Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,800,000 Georgia Aid Bonds (Brunswick and Albany) . . . . . .. 3,880,000 Peninsular (Michigan) . . . . . . ., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘ 1,800,000 Port Royal; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .; . . . . . . ., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2,500,000 Rockford, Rock Island, and St. Louis‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,000,000 Oregon and California Railroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10,950,000 Total..........................................$45,130,000 This does not include the Fremont Five-Million Swindle, and about ﬁfty millions more not yet made known. Reporter.—Will the failures,.do you think, equal last year’s tables? A _ Mr. Tratn.-—Last year’s failures were a bagate11e——about equal to two months’ iniportations. ” 5th. Has Mr. Train the power to “ recur '3” (to former sub-' Mr. Trat'n.—Panic, bankruptcy, revolution. Lighting the ' aﬂoat. How far will Boutwell’s $70,000,000 go? But he has ’ I ‘THE FAILURES. , In 1861 there were 6,993 mercantile bankruptcies, with lia- bilities to the amount of $207,210,000. Last year’s failures numbered 4,089; liabilities, $121,056,000. 1 Year. Failures. Ltabtltttes. 1868 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..2,608 $63,774,000 1869 ...................................... .. 2,799 75,054,000 1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,551 88,242,000 1871. . . .v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,915 88,222,000 1872 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,089 121,056,000 The failures of 1872 were nearly 1,000 fewer in number than those of the disastrous year of 1857, when 4,932 business houses went under, with $291,750,000 of liabilities. The ﬁrst thing you will see is, the Bank of England will jump up its rate Thursday next to 5 per cent., then 6, 7, 8, 9, to 10 per cent, and down comes the House of Cobs. Reporter.-Then gold will go to fabulous ﬁgures? THE REMEDY. Mr. Trdtn.—-It does not follow, by any means; a short act of Congress (immediate special session) abolishing specie payments, or paying "interest on bonds tn grecnbucks, and duties at Customs in greenbdcks, reduces gold to iron, cot- ton, porh or other merchandi-se. That was my platform for the people. . The ﬁve conventions—Columbus, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Louisville——Were all specie pay- ments; mine was greenbacks. . (To Clark Bell, Esq., in reply to his letter asking Mr. Train if he was insane, as reported by “experts,” and if there are any of his acquaintances similarly suifering.) DEDICATED TO CHIEF-JUSTICE DALY.. THE “LUNATIo” WRITES AN EPIGRAM ON MADMEN As A TEsT QUESTION ON HIS INSANITY. Thank you, District-Attorney Phelps, And all your rtng~bound legal whelps.’ Thank you for stealing in my jail To threaten me with Bloomingdale. MADNESS AMONG THE ANCIENTS. Demosthenes was mad, and Cicero, When saving Athens from a foreign foe; Leonidas, the brave, was mad, alas! At meeting Xerxes at the Spartan pass. Pericles was mad, when dwelling on His genius in the Parthenon. Columbus was mad as the Spanish Queen, To cross the ocean before the age of steam. Gallelio was mad about the Earth and Sun, Almost as mad as Washington! Franklin was mad when he drew, at sight, The lightning from heaven with a kite. ‘ »Morse was mad when he did aspire To make it talk along an iron wire. Field was mad and so unstable To dream about an Ocean cable! ' THE MADMEN or EUROPE. England was mad when insulting our ﬂag With speeches of Mason and Slidell brag; But sane when buying the Pirate Loan, And cheering America’s dying groan! ' Perry was mad for days and hours: Wenie met the enemy and they are ours.” Bosquet showed he, too, was insane: A « I ’m in the Maldkoﬂ’, and shall there remain." Lawrence was mad when, on dying lip, He shouted, “ Don’t give up the ship! ” Nelson was mad about his star, ' Till after Nile and Trafalgar. Wellington was mad when in retreat He made his victory more complete. Napoleon was mad in Ham for treason; The throne of France restored his reason. The Greeleys were sane for many a generation , Till Horace accepted Engldnd’s nomination. ALL THE DEVILS ARE MAD. Watt was mad—what‘could he mean To draw from a kettle the power of steam? _ Stephenson was mad to send the mail By locomotive o’er an iron rail; Fulton was mad when, with his river boat, He proved that steam a world could ﬂoat, Maury was mad when the world was railing About his Ocean Circle sailing; And Newton was the maddest of them all, To found a system on an apple‘s fall! For fear the press shall call me sane, I’ll hold my grip on England’s jugular vein, And not forget these days in Bastile spent, To prove my madness when Pre 'tdent. Let “ Ste Semper Tyrdnnts " be the Commune cry, Delenda est Britannia.’ Do or die.’ Those the Devils hate they,/lrst make bad,‘ Those the Gods love theyﬁrst made mad. Hell’s Satanic sneer: are changed to gladness, men there is method in the madness.’ ’ ' . ‘GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, President of the Murderers‘ Club, Chef de la. Commune at Liguc du Mide, and the one free LUNATIG in forty millions of sANE slaves.) THE Tomas, Cell 56, Murderers’ Row, March 8, 1873. c. - OHIO BLAZIN G WITH THE RELIGION OF HU. , MANITY. THE CALUMNIATION or “rRrA1>Us,” THE GOD or PLYMOUTH I CHURCH. ' I TROY, April 5. is as marked as thatbump’ of “ insanity." I want to “boy. row alittle head” ofiyou. ’ e The Beecher-Comstock conspiracy culminated in the at- tempt to shut you up in a lunatic asylum. ’Tis the biggest and worst fraud of the age. When Dr. Hammond gave his decision I promised Beecher, Bowen and Comstock that it would not save them. (You saw the letter in the Press.) It been in their camp. Mrs. Woodhull has painted some, but she is right in the main. I have stolen Tilton’s “ true story,” (and know all that he pretends. You said in the Sun: “Writer My Dear Mr. Tratn——They tell me your executive capacity C was no bombast. The spies of God (my God, not theirs) have . ’> .14 A w:o<oiDH»ULL a CLAF”LIl\T’_S WEEYKLY. May! 3, 1873'. . one more article and break’ Beecher.” I’ve tried if Ply- mouth Church can bear it;- the 7“ worship of Priapus” will becomethe religion of Brooklyn. I THE BOMBSHELL THA’lZ‘»DES’l_‘B.0YED'THE HYPOCRITES. I’.ve reviewed the case from the beginning; built up the whole plot of the Y. M. C. A. and the Courts, with the press for lackey. Ijve treated you, in so many words, as “the one greatly saneemind in ew York” during -Comstockis “virtual Inob,’—’ and since. ,I’ve let out the entire reins of my indignation and contempt. But the meat is too strong for any newspaper not in my complete control- I’ve got to issue one paper of my own, as you have done With. the. Liane- ’Twill-» be out presently; abloody “ thunderbolt,” and 1711?? Beecher-Tilton Scandal will have no more sleep, orthe Lord is dead and the devil owns the United States. So much you won’t obj ect_ to knowing‘ even by way of encouragement just now, though your pluck is a shoulder of Atlas. ' But my point is this: You’ve had experience with the Ligue, and can tell me the quickest way to get my lightning into the faces of the people—-thesharpest means of circulating the paper. It won’-t interfere,_of course, with anything of yours; its strictly in my line. If the country once knows the facts and then holds you in the asylum, I shall join the “ com- mune ’.’ and preach the dagger and the torch. 'VVhat do you think of the immortality of the soul? ' Yours‘ for justice or trouble, G. CLARK. MR. TRAIN ’S EPIGRAM REPLY. (To Ed. H. G." Clark, of Troy, ‘the Dissector of Beecher and ' ' Cutter up of Tilton:) , EPIGRAM. TI-IE DOWNFALL or BEECHER. The tricks that a.re vain and ways that are dark, _ In Beecher have well been shown up by Clark. Your caustic pen was bound to handle ‘ This Woodhull, Beecher, Tilton Scandal. Jesus the lowly and Christ the meek, Whoever witnessed such Godlike check.’ Every Sunday and Friday prayer, This jolly oldcock makes sisters stare. . But when you look into his haggard face, You see that he hasnearly run his race. His Credit Mobilier style don‘t pay, I Why don’t he own up, kneel down and pray. How much better he would feel in heaven, To know his amours were all forgiven. .. Davenport, Southwick and the Co tnstock crew, ’While watching the court.are awfully blue. They begin to feel their Godlike loss, Since I nailed their Beecher to the cross. Tliethorns, the cross, the nails, the spear, The love—the scorn~the Torture——fear. Out of the priests this fraud was begat, What was Christ more than Madam Surat? THE EVANGELICAL DODGE OF THE YOUNG BIULES CONCUBINE ’ ASSOCIATION. The Dodge of the dodgers is out at last- Two dollars a line, a three-column blast; A canting, whining, Puritan tale, I-low Boutwell kept them out of jail. They commenced by lying, treating with contempt The charges alleged, saying they were exempt” From all the prison ills and customs fraud, On account of their devotion to the Lord / First the country rang with the Christian crime, Till they bought the press with piteous whine. Cards came out from lawyers arcl friends, Pronouncing it false. Then the ﬁrm sends A check to prove that they all had lied,‘ And this very check they all denied! Then to explain-"this lie more cash is spcnt- They are either _r/uilty or innocent. GUILTY OR NOT GrUILTY—TI-IE SHAME OF THE GOVERNBIENT. If guiltz , Boutwell ought to be reached: The Secretary should be impeached. If innocent, would they have paid a cent? Do they divide up with the President‘? This Pharisee house have made it worse, In a paid letter their crime to rehearse. "The Chamber of Commerce, in sad disgrace, Should make its President resign his place. Thomas N. Dudley and B. G. Jayne, And Noah Davis ! hide your heads for shame; You join the fraud when you compromise, And thus indorse these Phelps-Dodge lies. This evangelical alliance For many years has bid deﬁance To honor, justice,'law and truth, To rob the revenue, forsooth! Ask American captains at Liverpool About this -man Dudley and his smuggling school BOU_T‘WELL GIVES THE LIE TO DODGE. Of land sharks that the sailors rob, If he put up this Phelps, James Dodge! A quarter of a million dollars spent Is a hell of a pile if innocent! 1 , ~ His three-column defense is much too thin- The Puritan kuss, the smuggler of tin; He may write the press, and pray and whine, ‘But adrnits the guilt when he pays the fine. If only “ a three thousand dollar fraud,” As Judge Davis says, why ilid they record Two hundred and seventy thousand with a check Unless to rescue their credit from wreck? ’ , Now comes Boutwell with his courtly grace, And strikes the smuggler square in the face. This time the arrow'diI'ect is sent; “ He never condones when innocent.” I mention this case as Dodge and Beecher ‘Sleep together, andare Comstock’s teacher. Claﬂin, J essup, Stewart, Bowen & Co. Have struck the revenue a smuggler’s blow. ‘ Their praying system has shut the eyes Of the entire land with their dam~phool lies. ' THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL-A QUESTION ANSWERED.‘ Let immortality, the Christian sham, _Go down to purgatory in epigram. Why the present for the future sell— , For some strange phantom, heaven or hell? ' ‘When iiarpiscss an mas awll um. Why after these graveyard visions run? Immortality is a decoy _ To deprive a man of earthly joy. Why struggle on in this endless strife, ' In misery for a future life? « ., Why not be happy now, who wants to wait And take his chances in a ghostly state; Must we live in the dark in the hope of light, Is this world the tail of the future kite? When here and now in the midst of men, Why be other where and other when? GOD ‘WENT BACK ON CHRIST. Explain if you can the sun’s light and heat, Immortality is a Christian cheat! , The Church sings. over its Woodcock and sherry, “ Soul, let us eat, drink and be merry.” , Men have been dying some thousands of year Yet none of the dead come back, it appears. When a man dieth shall he live again, Asks the old Cl-Ialdean. Was he too “insane?” THREE CHEERS FOR THE, HONEST CARPENTER. K Dix murdered Foster according to law, ‘ As Pilate did Christ by the rules of law. This body of ours is only a clod, Jesus died as a man—not as a God. “ My God! My God! why forsaketh Thou me,” God went back on His'Beloved Son, you see. \ ]3razillia‘n tries to learn the song of bird, That brings the messages he has heard From; spirit land ! Millions are crying, ~ The world’s air is breath of the dying. By pestilence and war to the grave are swept Millions of lives, while millions have wept For Christ, who never earned, they say, When carpenter, more than sixpence a day. A future life must be a new creation, Entirely another combination. Who knows that this seventh commandment strife, ﬂfcanz.‘ sexual intercourse in married life. 0./lrislian life is an ulccrating sore, Each newborn child is rotten at the core. - ' Scrofula, syphilis and masturbation . Is the Christian method of procreation. Love is a word that is all the fashion, But is nothing but a stud—h0rse passion. — GEO. FnANcIs TRAIN, (Who considers the time has arrived to write what people think, ' and who uses no language not in the Bible.) ‘ THE Torres, April 21, 1873. THE CAT COMING OUT OF THE BAG. P. S.—Monday: Daylight is breaking, the storm disappears, Beecher will soon he tried by his peers, The ﬁrm of Gainmon, Dickens and Quilp, Tilton, Bowen, Kinsella and Philp, Independent, Union, Eagle and Press Have got themselves ‘in a hell of a mess. Bowen and Beecher are friends till they die, All is lovely and the go_ose hangs high. This Tilton letter about his pastor Will roll/the Woodhull Scandal faster. Can mills of truth much longer blind, This Plymouth Congregation grind. While Bowen and Beecher coddle the Lord, Both are engaged in some revenue fraud. G. F. T. WITH A BUNCH OF FLOWERS. , BOSTON, April 15, 1873. » T1-IE POEM OF DEATH. Dear llfr. Train—I send you a handful of fresh ﬂowers cut this morning, the geraniums from my own bushes. I hope you will get them before they wither. They are ﬁlled with the intense radicalism which pervades our apart- ments. , _ ’ , . . - Your poem upon the Atlantic horror is the grandest which will ever be written. It is vividly descriptive. You carry us to the spot. We see the storm; the terrible resistance to death; the terrible struggle for life. Will the Christians call it Providence? , Oh! these same Christians would stone you to death and call it God’s will. _ , Be strong ; you will yet «be recognized as the nation’s chief. VVith best wishes, - _ N. H. MARSHALL, G. F. TRAIN, Coming Dictator. (Epigram acknowledgment for a basket of beautiful flowers expressed from Boston by a lady who believes in the com- » ing Dictator :) _' ' EPIGRAM. How very kind, my dear Madam Marshall, , To send me, from the place where I was born, _ These lovely ﬂowers; I am so partial To Nature. ‘As fresh as spring-day Inorn They came. It was thoughtful for you to send. This kind remembrance through your Boston friend. Wilder should rally the stamps at the Hub, And send Toledo a radical club. Your united energies should be hurled Round the boldest paper in all the world. To anticipate is a woman"s, forte. Iwore some of the buds to—day in court. What a fearful mistake the church has made; No wonder the preachers are sore afraid. Boston needs shaking to its rotten’ base The moment I show up this Beecher case. In all our land, including New York city, Is there another such a church banditti ? My obscene Bible has exposed the lie, God is a fraud and must prepare to die! GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, , and is too obscene to be left round loosein the house.) THE Tomas, NEW YORK, April 20, 1873. B V ‘ J‘ A #, urﬁ To those who have recently ordered “The Ethics of not received them, we would say the. last edition is ex- hausted, but anotlierwill shortly be issued when all orders ',accrUJ3Cl Willi??? illléflé (Who believes the Bible was started for immoralpurposes, Z Social Equality” and “The Impending Puevolution,” and NELLIE L‘. ,DAVIS. On Sunday, March 30, at Plum-street Hall, Vineland, N. J ., at the close of Miss Nellie Davis’ course of lectures, the fol- lowing resolutions were presented and unanimously adopted by the audience. » . Resolved, That the brave, outspoken and practical truths which we have listened to for the past month from our young acter, grasping the live issues of the day and presenting them in a vivid and startling manner calculated to lead to broader charities and nobler lives. " . ’ Resolved, That we cordially recommend Miss Nelliie Davis to all societies which are desirous of listening to , “ naked truths,” which, a_c,tualiz‘ed, will reconstruct on a loftier basis our present imperfect civilization. -—?———>~+9>—.4—--—————- ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC J o URNAL.—This enterprising eight-page advertising sheet has already reached No. 27 of its fourth volume, and has the largest circulation of any free paper in the United States. It improves with every issue, and is now an interesting sheet as well as a thorough busi- ness medium, which shows that Mr. C. H. ass knows how ' to publish a paper and make it “pay.” It is circulated over the Baltimore and Ohio, Burlington and Quincy and Union vellers along these lines. It is also sent to the chief hotels for circulation among their guests. It depends, of course, on advertisements, and when it is known that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad alone has agreed to circulate 10,000 copies, it is likely to get them. The reading columns are ﬁlled with good readable articles and items, and all the advertisements are strictly respectable; and, we might say, as one of the results of a huge railway monopoly we have a monopoly newspaper called the Atlantic and Pacific Journal, which is circulated on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and con- necting lines. It is a handsome eight-paged paper, tinted, and is given away to those who travel over the roads indi- cated. In a “word of explanation” the Journal says: “But as we have the exclusive right of circulating our periodical over the largest extent of the United States under the patronage of the corporation controlling dominion _over the largest chain of railroads in the world, we should not be se avaricious as to grumble because a few industrious persons scrape about for an honest living among the corners.” It is stated that the Catholic element was represented in , the “God-in—the—Constitution” Convention lately held in Cooper Institute, N. Y. This is an impolitic proceeding on the part of the followers of Pio Nono. Should the Y. M. C. A. succeed in their attempt, nothing is more certain than that, after the ﬁrst victory, the next cﬁort of the ﬁve popu- lar Protestant sects would be the annihilation of Catholicisin in this Republic. . . ~———«n9-«as»-—-— CHICAGO SPIRIT ROOMS - AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC HEALING INSTITUTE, 341 West Madison st., Chicago. 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THE PAGAN BIBLE: OR, THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY. THE OFFICIALS TO BE INDICTED FOR MURDER. THE PRESIDENT or THE MURDERERS’ CLUB. FROM THE TOMBS TO THE ASYLUM. Commune! f"The Chamber of Horrors; or, the Tortures of the Damned in the Tombs.” "A thrilling book of startling epigrams on the downfall of Christianity. By a Pagan Preacher; written in his fourteenth Bastile by the coming Dictator. A bombshell among the churches; exposing the great Grant-Tweed Republican Ring fraud and the subsidized Press, giving names and amounts; secret history Credit Mobilier; Beech-cr, Tilton, Colfax, Dodge ;" obscene Y. M. C. Ass. Conspiracy. A ‘ ' l/l/'orh'i'7ig17icn./ Pay no James.’ Start the battle! Grind your arcs! The only thing to some the nation Is i'mmcdz’a_le rcpudi'ali'on. Down with the Party! Smash up the Ring! White up, people! Death to Kings! ONE MILLION COPIES ,WILL BE PRINTED! Agents VVanlcd from all ooer the United States. CAN MAKE ’TwENT¥:-EIVE DOLLARS A DAY. Beck. sent by Mail——Retail Price, Twenty-ﬁve Cents; or, Fifteen Dollars a hundred, C. O. ‘D. Remit your Stamps forthe Greatest Book since the World Began to WOQDHULL, CLAFLIN 8; 00., 48 Broad street,‘ New Yuri. friend, Miss Nellie L. Davis, are revolutiohary in their char- g and Central Paciﬁc Railways, gratuitously, among the tra- , George Francis Train in He1l!——Blood or bread! Vive la . J1-'1 as ‘S3,. 1873. W o;o D H;U LL _.a_ AF L I N.’ s E,-E,K,L Y. .15 0. L.Ja.ines’co1umn. WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ENGLAND. Woman as a voter is an accomplished fact in Eng- land. Every woman who occupies a dwelling in any city ortown of England, Ireland, Wales or Scotland has a vote for aldernien and town oﬂicers in general. Under Mr. Foster’s new act, in England widows and spinsters who pay rates have votes in the election of school boards. In Ireland, everywoman who pays any sum as poor rate has a vote in the election of poor giiardiaiis. It is said that the women exercise these rights heartily, and in many cases where saloon-keep- ers represented the wards of cities in municipal posi- tions they were ﬁnally defeated by the votes of the women. In London, as is well known, Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M. D., is one of the most useful members.of -the school board, and the same is true of Miss Becker, in Manchester. The right of suffrage seems to have been conferred on the principle that where women pay a tax for any object they shall have the right to vote in the disposition of the funds. America is bound to be as far behind the age on this as she wasoii slavery. DEATH STRUGGLES OF THE HOLY INSTITUTION. A few items taken at random from’ one day’s ex changes of a country paper: ' WIFE BEATING. Another case of wife-beating, almost resulting in murder, occurred last night on Dcsplaines street. A man named O’Toole pounded his wife over the head with apitcher which she refused to take out and fill with beer, saying that he had already drank too much. The blows cut her’ ear in two and made a horrible gash on the head, and the brute followed them up with pounding her with his fist. The woman was taken to the hospital and may not recover. Mrs. Page, shot by her husband at Vallejo last week, is pron oiniced out of danger. A party of Ku-klux, properly disguised, visited a widow and her three daughters, near Corydoii, a few nights ago, took them from the house and gave them a sound thrashing. They then visited a man residing in the neighborhood and paid him a like eonipliniciit-. The ground of complaint was immoral behavior of the parties. Look out for Mrs. Snyder, of Cleveland; she has killed two husbands, and is roaming around the coun- try after a third. If syphilis be the scourge of God for the punish- ment of prostitution, I wonder what relation marriage bears to puerperal fever, a far more dangerous disease, equally painful‘ and equally loathsome, of which many women are now dying in Eau Claire, and proportion- ate numbers throughout the northwest. I heard it said of one of these Women that “ she never ought to have married,” as if society left her any other alternative. Of course the authors. of this terrible mortality take it as philosophically as the doctors, and being young men, though their victims were broken-down women, will soon get more. Nevertheless, they get all the sym- pathy, their victims being remaiided to the orthodox heaven with the murderers’ best wishes. ‘ Then ﬁll up your glasses steady! This world is a world of lies; Here’s a health to the dead already, And hurrah for the next that dies. COUNSEL FOR THE AGED. When angry Katie stoops to folly, And strives in vain new laws to make; What charm can cheer her melancholy, Or shield her brother from his fate? The only way his guilt to— cover, And hide his shame from every eye, Is to keep quiet under cover, And let the saints of Plymouth lie. iiinsrsiinsiir Timer SOCIETY. CLINTON,’ Mass, The object of this organization is the publication ~-and dissemination of radical sen'time_nts from all V sources. Y'ect7'lg/ Sttbscriptiovt - I ,, $0 25 Life Jl:l'cmbe7’s7tz'p - -‘ - . 5 ()0 Address, A. BRIGGS -DAVIS, CLINTON, Mass. __-._..._. FLA Those really interested in practical social ' reform should not fail t0 139001119 0011- versant with the nature of this institution. , Full information may be obtained by addressing 0. Es James Eft11Q1.3.ir6a Wis» r‘ 3‘ l" O ' ; TWs7ivrr'rEAR[s* PRACTICE’? ’ DR. PERKINS Can be consulted as usual at his oﬂice, No. 9 FIFTH STREET (South, Side), ' OPPOSITE PUBLIC SQUARE, _ KANSAS CITY, M O..‘ or by mail, box 1,227, on the various symptoms of Pri- vate Diseases. The afliicted will take notice that I am the only man on the American continent that can cure you of Spermatorrhoea, Loss of Manhood, etc., caused by self abuse or d‘sease. I challenge the combined medical faculty to refute the above statement by suc- cessful competition. The symptoms of disease pro- duced by nightly seminal emissions or by excessive sexual indulgence, or by self abuse are as follows: Loss of memory, sallow coiiiiteiiaiice, pains in. the” back, weakness of limbs, chronic-costiveiiess of the bowels, confused vision, blunted intellect, loss of con- ﬁdence in approaching straiigers, great nervousness, fetid breath. consumption, parchec tongue. and _fre- qucntly insanity and death, unless coiiibated by _sciei_i- tilic medical aid. Reader, remember Dr. Perkins is the only man that will guarantee to cure you or refund the fee if a cure is not perniaiieiitly. made. Also re- member that I am permanently located at No. 9 Fifth street, south, opposite the publi_c sqiiare, Kansas City, Mo., and I have the largest medical rooms in the city. Call and see me; a friendly chat costs you nothing, and all is strictly conﬁdential. Post box 1,227. DR. PERKINS, Kansas City, Mo. VVIVI. VVIJITE, M.,D., 56 West 83d Street (-Bet. Fifth Avenue and Broadway). ’ OFFICE HOURS: 9A. M.to1P. M. &5t07P. M. WDR. DAKE’S APPOINTMENTS FOR .1873. Elgin, Ill., 1st and 2d; Rockford, 111., 3d, 4th, and 6th; Beloit, Wis., 7th, 8th_ and 9th;l\I&-Cl1l30n,yW1b.,‘11th and 12th; Watertown, VVis., 13th, 14th and lath; iioiid Du Lac, 16th and 17th; Oshkosh, 18th, 19th and 29th; Ripoii, 21st and 22d; _Whitewater, 24th and 20th; W aukesha, 26th and 27th; Chicago, Matteson _Housc, 25th 29th 30th and 31st of each month during the year’. Oliiccs, principal hotels in each city. Chronic complaints incident to both sexes exclusively and suc- cessfully treated. ENCOMIUMS FROM _THE PRESS. most successful physicians in the United States. Du. DAKE.—That. this scientiﬁc physician has no equal in the West thousands will an'irin.——Jom"na£, _ Bcloit, l'Vi.9. ' Live, energetic, liberal men, advertise. Such a man is Dr. Dake, who in the last three years has built up one of the largest practices of any physician in the VVest.—Loc/t;/‘om Gazette. — Duinont C. Dake, M. D., is having great success in this city. He is active, whole souled, in fact, one of the “ whitest” gentlemen we have ever known. BROOKLYN PROGRESSIVE LIBRARY 179 South Fourth Street, WILLIAMSBURGH, N . Y. Has for sale,.or to be rented out upon the usual Cir- -,ulating_Library plan, an excellent selection of Supe- -ior Books, of a well—known highly advanced moral ind reformatory character. Also “WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY,” the “BANNER OF LIGHT ” and other Liberal Weekly Papers. .Oﬂice Hours.—8,i§ to 12 o’clock a. m., and from 2% to 0’clock p. m., daily, Sundays excepted. The Most Wonderful Discovery of any Age. PROF. D. MEEKER’S INFALLIBLE CURE FOR THE OPIUM HABOIT. A reliable and painless remedy for the Opium habit. business. Pamphlets sent free on application. Address, H. DRULINER 8t CO.. V P. 0. Drawer 1,016, La Porte, Ind." NATHANIEL Brass, Manufacturer of G A No. l6l Waterpst, New York. Stand Cans and Tanks, of all kinds, for Oils, Varnishes, Turpentine, Paint, Putty, Powdoer, &c. Druggists’ Tin Ware. S'l_ieet-Iron Paris Green Cans, Hermetically ialing Cans fOl'.F1‘Llit, Meat, Vegetables, &(3. LSeSeda, Seidlitz, Pill and Oiiitiiieiit Boxes, _ 3 The W/’es"tern Rum! speaks of Dr. Dake as one of the A.yer’s {Clierry Peeteral, For Diseases of‘ the Throat and Lungs, -such as Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Consuinptioii. Probably never before in the whole liistoi-y’ol' »medic-inc, has an ytliing won so widely and so (leeply upon the coiitideiice of iiiaiikind, as this exceheiit remedy for pulmonary coiiiplaints. Tlirougli a long series ofycars, and among most of the races of men it has risen higher and higher in their estnna tion, as it has become better known. Its iuiilbrm cliaracter and power to cure the varioiis affections of the lungs and throat, have made it kn owii as :1 re- iiable protector against them. While adapted to milder forms of disease and to young children, it is at the same time the most 'eﬂ‘ectu:.il remedy that can be given for incipient consumption, and the dan- gerous altectioiis of the throat and lungs. As a pro- vision against sudden attaeks of Group, it should _ be kept on hand in every family, and indeed as all are sometimes subject to colds and coughs, all should be provided with this antidote for them. Although settled. Con.sumpt'ton is thought in- curable, still great iiunibcrs of cases where the dis: . ease seemed settled, have been completely cured, and the patient restored to sound health by the Che-m'y Pesto-ral. S0 complete is its mastery over the disorders of the Lungs and Throat, that the most obstinate of them yield to it. When noth- ing else could reach them, under the Cherry Peed coral they subside and disappear. , Séngcrs and Publ"e Speakers ﬁnd great pro teetion from it. - Asthma is always relieve4.‘. and often wholly cured by it. Bronchitis is generally cured by taking the .6'hcrry I’C(?l‘.01'(5l _iii sinal and frequent doses. So generally are its virtues known that we need not publish the certiﬁcates of them here, or do mofe tlian assure the public that its qualities are fully maintained. Ayers Ague Cure, For _Fever and Ague, Intermittent Fever, Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Periodical or Bilious Fever, &.c., and indeed all the affections which arise fro_ni- malarious, marsh, or miasmatic poisons. ' As its name implies, it does Cure, and does not fail. Containing neither Arsenic, Quiuine, Bismuth, Zinc, nor any other mineral or poisonous substance whatever, i_t in ii owise injures any patieiit. The number and iniportan ce of its cures in the ague dis- tricts, are literally beyond account, and we believe without a parallel in the history of Anne medicine. Our pride is gratified by the acknowledgnients we receive of the radical cures effected in obstinate cases, and where other remedies had wholly failed. Unacclimated persons, either resident in, or travelling tlirough miasmatic localities, will be pro- tected by taking the AGUE CURE daily. For Liver C'0mp£mZ—nts, arising from torpidity of the Liver, it is an excellent remedy, stimulating the Liver into healthy activity. For Bilions Disordersand Liver Complaints, it is an excellent remedy, producing niany truly rc- markable cures, where other medicines had failed. Prepared by DR. J. C. AYER & CO., Practical and Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Mass., and sols‘. all round the world. PRICE, $1.00 PER BOTTLE. Cures without any inconvenience to or interruption of SS Q s e s 2. P 5 Lﬁ E g. E .-. 5'4 ‘Oil The IICTVVIL‘ Sewing l\/Iacliiries , MANUFACTURED BY_ TIIE IHQSVE NIIACIIIRYE C9» —-ELIAS HOWE, -IR.,— K FOR FAMILIES and MANUFACTURERS THE GrREAT PRIZE: Exrcsiriox UNXVEREELLE, PARIS, 1867, Awardecl over Eighty~‘two Competitors. THE HIGVIEIEST PREMIUi\/I. THE ONLY CROSS OF THE LEGION OF given to Atishicnu Sizwiiwa MAGBINWI, per Imperial De cree,pubiished iii the “ Moiiitcur Unlvcrsel ” (()tﬁ('i3,l -Journal of the Ireiicli Empire), Qdiuly, 1867, in these , . words : Fnbricate dc Machines coudre exposaiit. Emu Hows,Jn. Manufacturer of Sewing Machines, Exhibitor V The Howe Sewing lﬁachines are celebrated‘ for doing the best~work, using (I. much smaller needle for H2“: same. thread than any other inucliine. ‘*1 via They a-readnptcclto all kinds of Family sewing, um! ‘ .Maiiu1“actui'lngofevei' description, Illaklllffﬂ. be tiful and perfect Stitch, aike on both sides of the tic". sewed. and wl l_l neither rip nor revel. ' ‘ l_‘Jvery_Machiiie sns iienr perfection us the best mu- Lhiueryin the we dean make it. , '3 - _ ., The arts being exactly alike, if any part needs to be rep aced, the operatorenn ieplnce it , The New Improved Family Macliiiie is without a rival,‘ _ and cannot be s_urpassed,—a Hei_nmer, Feller, Braider, Quilter and Guide go with each Fa'mil‘y Machiiiejfree of charge . ,\ , ,;-.. *3’:--' Buyersof Sewing Macliines are earnestly Cautioned‘ to observe the Medallioii }lead of Elias llowe, Jr., (Trademai'k)embeded in each Machine. Certain par- ties have taken advnnta eofztsimilarity ofiinme, and other equally dislioiiest devices to foist imitations on the Public as Howe Macliines. “ ‘ SEND FOR CIRCULAR. N. B. We have Fuller «EL Bax-riuin’s New Tuck Creas-‘ eieind self-sewer o_i;self-guide and buster combined. for ail Sewing l\'lll’3hi1l€S. . g . _, SIBLEY & ‘ST OOPS, Sole a ents for Peniisylvaiiia, New Jersey, Delaware and West irginin, to whom all applications for Agencies must be adxlrcssc-d at either of_ the following 111595; No. 23 South Eighth street, Philadel_pliia.. ( ,{ _y','gf.p§[ Oﬁice); ‘No, 4 aiut Clair street. .P3‘F.l_5‘Bl.‘1l_iI"g- P izezgyia trash. or 926 greed street. Liettark. blew Jere,‘-., ‘ ALL women know that it is beauty, rather than genius, which all generations of men have worship- ped in the sex. Can it be wondered at, thrii, that so much of V.-'omaii’s time and attention should be directed to the means of developiiig and preserving that beauty? \Vomcii know too, that ivlicn men speak of the intellect of women, they speak critic- ally, tamcly, eooly; but when they come to s‘~,:eal; of the charms of a beautiful woman, bol.li tlici; laiiguzigc and their eyes kindle with an cntliusiasm which shows them to be profoundly, if not, indeed; ridicu- lously in earnest. It is part of the l'lEllil1‘2l.l sagacity of women to perceive all this, and l.ll(3l‘(,*l'(}-l_‘C cinploy every allowable art to become the goddess of that adoration. Preach to the contrary as we may against the arts employed by wonicn for cnliancing their beauty, there still stands the eternal fact, that the world does not prefer the society of an ugly woman of genius to that of a beauty of less intellect- ual acquireincnts. ‘ The world has yet allowed’ no liigliei' mission to woman than to be beautiful, and it would seem that the ladies of the present age are carrying this idea of the worlcl to greater extremes than cvei','fer all women now to whom nature has denied the talis- nianic power of beauty, supply the deﬁciency by the use of a most deliglitful toilet article known as the “Bloom of Youth,” which has lately been in- troduced into this country by Gnoron W. LAIRD. A delicate beautiﬁcr which" snioothcs out_ all in- dentations, furrows, scars, removing tan, freckles and discoloiations, and imparts beauty, clcarness, and softness to the skin. giving checks the appearance of youth and beauty. With the assist- ance of this new American trick of a lady’s toilet, female beauty is destined to play a larger part in the admiration of men, and the ambition of women, than all the arts employed since her creation. ..?$._._. Ladies, beware of Dangerous and WortIt- less .117!/l'.»t(1/t'l'.O’l/L.S‘ of George }V. Lai'ro£’3 “Bloom of Youth.” ' E¥E§“’TnE GENUINE nnnnuns ‘Tun COMPLEXION CLEAR, BRILLIANT, AND BEAUTIFUL; THE SKIN Sour AND Siuoorn. This delightful 'l‘oilct_I?rc_para- tion is used throughout the world. Thousands of testimonials have been sent to the proprietor, A indorsing and recommending the use of this purely harmless Toilet preparation. dangerous Counter- feit of this article was in circulation; had it not been stopped, it was calculated to damage the well- known reputation of the Genuine Preparation. BE PARTICULAR to ask for the Genuine. It has the name G. W. LAIRD stamped in glass on the back of each bott.le. ~ - Ladies who are careful to obtain the genuine “Bloom of Youth,” will certainly be pleased with the effect produced by it. ' One of the most eminent Physicians of New-York City, ' , Dr. LOUIS A. SAYRE, - After caifefully -examining the analysis of ‘the it genuine Laird's “BLOOM on You're,” pronounced. the preparation harmless, and free from any ingre dient injurious to health. (New-York zremzd, April16,1870.) . . Pu g, 3 I Ca-Vinomsonhi Crown Crinoiinlen Are Charming for Lightiiesn. Thomson’: ‘Crown Criuolinvs , '- . Are Superior for Elasticity. hon'Is‘o'n’l CI'oiwn .(‘rI‘i-IIIORVOII-OW - .- ~ _ Are unequalled for Durability. bemoan’: Crown Criliolines-, O . Ilia wor 1,, are the best in the world, and more W defy liii6'vV1Yl.liaii' "a"ii‘y”ot-h'é'i-‘;“‘ At wholesale by ‘ ' THOMSON, LANGDONO 6: Co.'," 391 Broadway, I New York. iiowns tr suns VERY DESCRIPTION 0!‘ SCALE wnnuun yo in! j (oBlId'R‘{llInléA’l:sll'f1C!X?l.‘hs9l]d#§0l"' C2:;l0g\_1‘€nl|lJd"‘clPl'c|)If|l; n~a. caeaoqexm 2113. en pg 3 o smug, (st :11: 63353’. I _ ’ g . ’ , > EOWB SCALE 6.0.. {‘ '-' S Fury ﬂeet. lieu! Perm * I For the discussion of scientiﬁc and other interesting ’ sub’ Marvin & C0.’s are the Best. the growth 01 the hair, constantly on hand. 16. WOODHULL & OLAFLIN“’S WEEKLY. May 3, 1873. 0 I I The Friendship Community Near Buﬁalo, Dallas Co., Missouri, has 500 acres of good land, on which its members all live and work to- gether combining all their property and labor for their mutua assistance and support. It is liberal and pro- ressive, and allows equal rights to all its members, oth‘ men and women, in its business affairs. More members are wanted. . The Communist, its monthly paper, will be sent free to all desiring further information. Address ALCAN~ DER LONGLEY, as above. VIHE NEW YORK LIBERAL CLUB Meets every Friday evening at 8 o’clock, gects. — \ Good speaking and entertaining discussions may always be expected. . SALFES. ..__.—_ .___—__ 265 BROADWAY. WM. DIBBLEE, LADIES’ HAIR DRESSER, 854 BROADWAY, Has removed from his Store to the FIRST FLOOR, - ‘ d t h‘ b ' ' 11 §‘{§‘?.i?..‘.‘§u‘.§§‘3r‘i‘é’§I‘3i“%w°z?1‘%1‘%?§ his clSENl‘~‘i“8x‘§‘E“A‘%1i’R Iron, USE IN FAMILIES, ' THE FAMOUS HALFORD LEICESTERSHIRE Table Sauce, R E L Is PI THE BEST. Put up in any part:of the world for Family Use. _ Can be bought of any First-‘Class Grocer Open. lose than heretofore, in consequence of the diiferencein his rent. CHATELAINE BRAIDS. LADIES’ AND GENTL_EMEN’S WIGS. gas: everything appertaining to the business will be I kept ‘n hand and made to order. DIBBLL.\.“»:_\IA for stimulatin , JAPONICA for soothing ant the MAGIC TAR SA VE for promoting Consultation‘ on diseases of the Scalp, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 A. M. till 3 P. M. Also, his celebrated HARABA i ZEIN, or FLESH BEAUTIFIER, the only pure and harm- less preparation ever _made _for the com lexion. No lady should ever be without it. Can be tamed only at WM. DIBBLEE’S, ‘ " . 854 Broadway, Upstairs. AMERICXN BATH NORTILEAST CORNER 17th St. &; Irving Place, Embraces the most comprehensive system of remedial agencies of any like institution in this country. In addition to the . TURKISH, RUSSIAN, ORIENTAL, SULPHURETS, SULPHUROUSZVAPOR, FUMIGATED, ‘ ‘ MERCURIAL, , ” IODINE, ETC., BATHS, Treatment by ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM receives special attention. These Baths are select, and given singly, and are administered in such a way as to healthfully adapt themselves to each individual case of either sex. PRICES OF BATHS—~From $1.00 to $3.00. NEW YORK, May, 1872. ' ENTRANCE To GENTLEMENHS’ BA THS, _~ _ ' Irving Place.’ ENTRANCE T0 LADIES’ BA TESS - ' 125 E. 17th Street. 1 CIIARLES H. Fosrnn, TEST MEDIUM, 16 EAST TWELFTH STREET. TITUS & JORDAN, Attorneys &: Counsellors, 19 NASSAU STIIDIIT, §§§'I.3(3I'3i:r%i1'1i‘riiir1I€§i’onDAN.l’ LNEW YORK- THE CRUSADE FAMILY SHIP, A New Incomparable CLOTHES DRYER, CLOTHES FRAMES, BARS AND LINES, FRUIT DRYER AND CHRISTMAS TREE COMBINED. A GOOD THING,'Patentcd May 24th, 1870. It is used for wet or dry clothes, in’ doors or out, stands ﬁrm or will swing and revolve, opens and closes like an umbrella; with racks_made of lath added, is a fruit dryer, and trimmed with evergreens, isa Christmas tree._ Send for circular descriptive of it or for the article itself, at any store, or send to the Patentee and Manufacturer. W. LIVINGSTON BROWNE, Shortsville, Ontario County, N. Y. P. S.—-Sales Large, and easy. Agents wanted for the article, or territory. Address the Manufacturer, as above, incloséng Siam}?- Clothes Dryer. . Fruit»Dryer. Christmas Tree. KNABE & c0'.’s PIANOS. (ESTABLISHED 1833, BALTIMORE, MD.) 18,000 of these Celebrated Instruments arenowin use this country and‘Europe.‘ hey have been awarded 85 Gold and Silver Medals. Every Instrument fully warranted for ﬁve years. wAniiRooMs: ' ~ 650 Broadway, N. Y., and 69 Washington. Street, Chicago, Ill. J. BAUER & CO., . GENERAL AGENS. Pianos to rent; sold on installments; and old ones ‘taken in exchange. Illustrated atalogues sent on ap- plication. ‘ PIMPLE S- I will send (free) recipe for my VEGETABLE BALM, removing PIMPLES, BLACK Worms, BLOTCHES, FRECKLES,__MOTHS, TAN and all Diseases of the Skin, leaving it clear and with a healthy glow. Also, sure process for ﬁne growth of Hair on bald heads or smooth faces. THOS. F. CHAPMAN, CnEMrsT, P. O. Box 5,128. 197 Broadway, New York. . THE ,, THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE American labor Reform league I'{'J.L BE, HLED IN NEW ECHK :'.’.‘.Y,-MAY 4TH & 5m. Particulars hereafter. ’ EOME INSllltlNllll COMPANY, No. 135 BROADWAY. . Branch Office 535 Sixth Avenue. Capital, - $2,500,000 Assets over 4,000,000 .____ This Company having provided for all its Chicago losses, without borrowing a dollar ordisturbing a single Bond and Mortgage, invites the attention of the publicto the following certiﬁcate of Hon. George W. Miller,‘ Superintendent of the Insurance Depart- ment of the State of New_York, that the Capital has been restored to the full amount of Two and One-half . Millions of Dollars. CHARLES J. MARTIN, Pres. J. H. WASHLBURN, Sec. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, ALBANY, N. Y.,} Dec., 27, 1871. Having, on the 10th day of November, 1871, made a requisition, directing the oﬂicers of the Home Insur- ance Company, of New York, to require the‘Stock- holders of said Company to pay up the sum of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars deﬁciency then existing in the‘ Capital of said Company, and upon due examination made, it appearing that the said amount of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars has been duly subscribed and fully paid in,‘in cash, I hereby certify that the capital of said Compa ny has been fully restored to its original amount of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and alﬁxed my oﬂicial seal on the day and year above written. I GEORGE W. MILLER, Superintendent. -(L. S.) FREDERICK KURTZ’S DINING ROOMS, 23 New St. and 60 Broadway 76 Maiden Lan_e& I Liberty St. Mr. Kurtz invites to his warm and comfortably fur- nished dining apartments the down-town /public, as- suring ‘them that they will always ﬁnd there the . choicest viands, served in the'most elegant style, the most carefully-selected brands of wines and liquors, as well as the most prompt attention by accomplished lwaiters. . 4. .$5U,0ll0 Will be distributed this year, to the subscribers for the AMERIC WORKING PEOPLE, a large quarto, 16 page Mo hly, costing but 1 50 per year. It gives a premium to ever subscribe , varying from 25 cents in value up to $2, 5,»$10, $20, 100, $200, and $500 in Greenbacks, besides Watches, ewing Machines, Par- lor Organs and numerous other premiums of value. Send for Specimen and Circulars to A CAPRON & CO., - Pittsburgh, Pa. THE LAW OF MARRIAGE, - AN EXHAUSTIVE ARGUMENT AGAINST MARRIAGE LEGISLATION, ' BY 0. L. JAMES,‘ Author of “Manual of Transcendental Philosophy.” For sale by the author, post paid, for 25c. Address, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. The Great Discovery ! O CATHARTIC MEDICINE MADE PLEASANT TO THE TAISITE AND DEIGETFUL EFFECT. DR. ORVIS’ Cathartic Compound Is leasant to the taste, and will be readily eaten by _chi dren or adults. It is free from poisonous dru s, is purely ve etablc, and, unlike other Cathartic Me i- €ines,d the os:: ndeed not to llie increased from tcon inue use. 11 it positive y cures constipa ion. The directions accompanying each package. Read the following recommendations: “ NEW YORK, July 8, 1871. “DR. ORVISZ Dear Sir——Please send me, C. 0. D., one box such as I had before; and am pleased to say, it has acted“ajs(_a charm witIl‘1§v'ifIe.BLACKWELL “ _ ours, . . (This was one of the worst cases of constipation I have ever known.——A. O.) , “BROOKLYN, L. I. Nov. 3, 1871. “Dear Sir: Since your Cathartic Medicine was made known to me, 1 have used it, and it only, in my family, to obviate the evil it is intended to remedy; and I as- sure you I prefer it to all other expedients. Its opera- tion is gentle and wholesome, not enervating the sys- tem, or leaving a tendency to increased diﬂiculty. It _clears the complexion, relieves oppression and Invig- orates the whole physical economy. . “Respectfully, Mrs. R. C. MAITLAND.” It is extensively used by Dr. Foster, of Clifton Springs, and many other eminent Physicians. SPECIAL AGENTS: Hudnut, Herald Buildin , Broadway, New York; D. G. Farwell, cor. Amity an Broadway, do.; Macy, cor. 6th avenue and 14th Street, do.; Robt. S. McCurdy, 494 Broadway, Albany; J. K. Post & C0,, Lane & Paine, and Almy, Osburn House, Rochester, N. Y.; S. E.‘ Samuels, Columbus 0.; Dixon & Deidrich, Dayton, 0.; Briggs, Clifton Springs, N. Y. FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS GENERALLY Price 25‘cts. per Package. T Address all Orders, DR. A. ORVIS. Rochester. N. Y. CANCER. J. M. ooMINs, M. D., Moi. oi OBSTETRICS & DISEASES Ol‘ MMALIS, Gives special attention to the treatment of CANCER, of all varieties, and is radically curing large numb"érs o em. @°‘ Call or address at 143 E. TWENTY-SIXTH STREET, N. Y., From8to 9% E. M.; 4 to6r. M. ; The Road to Power. SEXUAL SCIENCE, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ltEG]lNIlltATION. A pamphlet of 60 pages, by F. B. Down. Priceless to wives and mothers, and such as are trying to be men. Price 500. Address F. B. DOWD, Wellsville, Mo. DR. TH. SLADE, (cLAIRVoYANT,) AND 4 J. SIMMONS, 210 WEST FORTY-THIRD’ STREET, N. Y. ._.j.. OFFICE HOURS FROM 9 A. M. TILL 9 P. M. NOT OPEN SATURDAY; MIDLAND llIllSl‘ MORTGAGE '2’ Per Cent Gold Bonds, Issued by the Montclair Railway Co. ._...AND_ . Guaranteed by N6W_YOI‘k Midland. The ’MONTOLAIR is the DIRDOT and SHORT LINE or- THE MIDLAND through New Jersey. Its bonds are issued on the basis of alf cost. They are GUARANTEED. It is a home road, running DIRECT FROM Trix: CITY'oIr NEW Yonx, assured of a. large business and a ﬁne future. THIS BOND OFFERS AN ADVANTAGE OVER ALL THE OTHER MIDLAND Frnsr MORTGAGE BoNDs, ﬁt TnAT,'wITiI EQUAL SECURITY, IT IS Lnss IN LRICE. ' We commend it to investors. For sale by’ Allen, Stephens &: 00., , BANKERS, No. 27 PINE STREET. -
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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1873-05-03_05_22
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1873-05-03_05_22
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 05, no. 23 (May 10, 1873)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1966
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1873-05-10
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS ! FREE T~i:—i:oUtG4I-I'i;i Vol. V.-—No. 23.—Whole No. 12?. THE ‘ LOANER’S BANK on THE CITY on NEW yonk, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) Continental Life Builing, 22. NASSAU "STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . ........ .... $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. ' Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR- RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities oﬂered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, No. 59 VVall St_., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to check at sight. _ Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIV...
Show morePROGRESS ! FREE T~i:—i:oUtG4I-I'i;i Vol. V.-—No. 23.—Whole No. 12?. THE ‘ LOANER’S BANK on THE CITY on NEW yonk, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) Continental Life Builing, 22. NASSAU "STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . ........ .... $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. ' Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR- RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities oﬂered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, No. 59 VVall St_., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to check at sight. _ Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent interest. Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts of the United States and Canadas. HARVEY FISK. A. S. HATCH. OFFICE OF FISK & HATCH, BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 Nassau st., N. Y., @ Opposite U. S. Sub-Treasury. We receive thetaccounts of'Banks, Bank- ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest on balances. We make special arrangements for interest on deposits of speciﬁc sums for ﬁxed periods. _ ,We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. We buy and sell at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company ; also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons." We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- sion, for cash. Communications a.nd,.inquiries by mail or , telegrap 1, will receive careful attsntien. FEE}; S; ¥ii§t"§‘§?§i A FIRST-CLASS New York Security AT A Low PRICE. —-.:_—u The undersigned offer for sale the First Mortgage Seven Per Cent. Gold Bonds of the Syracuse and Che- nango Valley Railroad, at 95 and accrued interest. 0 This road runs from the City of Syracuse to-Smith’s Valley, where it unites with the New York Midland Railroad, thus connecting that city by a direct line of road with the metropolis. - Its length is 42 miles, its cost about $42,000 per mile, and it is mortgaged for less than $12,000 per mile; the balance of the funds required for its construction hav- ing been raised by subscription to the capital stock. The road approaches completion. It traverses a populous and fertile district of the State, which in- sures it a paying business, and it is under the control of gentlemen of high character and ability. Its bonds possess all the requisites of an inviting investment. They are amply secured by a mortgage for less than one-third the value of the property. They pay seven per cent. gold interest. and are offered ﬁve per cent. below par. The undersigned conﬁdently recommend them to all class of investors. GEORGE OPDYKE & CO., Q No. 25 Nassau_Street. To INVESTORS. a To those who wish to REINVEST COUPONS OR DIVIDENDS, _and those who wish to INCREASE THEIR_INCOME from means already invested in less proﬁtable securities, we recommend the Seven-Thirty Gold Bonds ‘of the Northern Paciﬁc Railroad Com- . pany as Well secured and unusually productive. The bonds are always convertible at Ten per cent. premium (1.10) into the Company’s Lands, at Market Prices.‘ The rate of interest (seven'and three-tenths per cent.gold) is equal now to about 8 1-4 currency —yielding an income more than one-third greater than U. S. 5-20.9. Gold Checks for the semi—annual in- terest on the Registered Bonds are mailed to the post- oﬁice address of the owner, All marketable _stocks and bonds are received in exchange for Northern Paciﬁcs ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. my score a co. BRLAKING THE WA FOR 1‘ NEWUYORK, "MAY 10, 1878. UNTRAMMELED LIVESE a UTURE GEN;Rnr1oNs. *—v PRICE rnN.CnNrs. ; BANKING HOUSE OF HENRY; CLEWS &. Co, 0 32 with Street, N. Y. Circular Notes and Letters of Credit for travelers ; also Commercial Credits issued available throughout the world. A - ~ Bills of Exchange on the Imperial Bank of London, National Bank of Scotland, Provincial Bank of Ira- land and all their branches.” V Telegraphic Transfers of money on Europe, San Francisco and the West Indies. H Deposit accounts received in either Currency 01‘ Coin, subject to Check at sight. which Pass thr°“Eh the Clearing House asif drawn upon any city bank; interest allowed on all daily balances; Certiﬁcates Of Deposit issued bearing interest at current rate; Notes and Drafts collected. State, City and Railroad Loans negotiated. CLEWS, HABICHT at CC., , 11 Old Broad St.-, ‘_L€1‘rfdb'n.‘ i , BANKING EINANCCIACL. ROAD COMPANTS FIRST MORTCrACrE- BONDS Secured as they are by a ﬁrst mortgage on the Road, Land Grant, Franchise and Equipments, combined in one mortgage, they command at once a ready market. ‘ ~ - A Liberal‘ Sinking Fund provided in the Mortgage Deed must advance the price upon the closing of the loan. Principal and interest payable in GOLD. Inter- est at eight (8) per cent. per annum. Payable semi- annually, free of tax. Principal in thirty years. Do- nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons, or Regis- tered. Brice 97% and accrued interest, in currency, from February 15, 1872. — . ‘ Maps, Circulars, Documents and information fur- nished. I Trustees, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York. _ Can now be had through the principal Banks and Bankers throughout the country, and from the under- signed who unhesitatingly recommend them.- TANNER & CO., Bankers,- No. 11 Wall Street, New York. AUGUST BELMONT & CO., I Bankers, 19 and 21 NASSAU STREET, Issue Letters of Credit to Travelers, available in all parts of the world through the Mnssns. DE ROTHSCHILD Ann THEIR CORRESFONDENTS. u.._. ﬁres. stresses‘ stress; THE ST.- JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAIL- Are being absorbed by an increasing demand for them- alga. mike tsisssenhis tssrisisrg at testis; as ToLEDo,1>EoRIA SECOND‘ MORTGAGE CCN. VERTIBLE. 7 , PER CENT. CURRENCY BONDS. INTEREST VVARRANTS PAYABLE PRINCIPAL 1886. We offer forsale $100,000 of the above bonds in block. By act of reorganization of the Company these bonds are convertible into the First ‘Preferred Shares 0f t119 C0mP&I1y, which amounts to only 17,000 shares, and into the Consolidated Bonds (recently negotiated at Amsterdam) of six millions of ' dollars, which cover the entire line of 230 miles of completed road, to gether with all the rolling stock and real property, to the value of more than ten millions of dollars. The road crosses the entire State of Illinois and connect with the mammoth iron bridges spanningtlie Missi s sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. The income of the road for the year will not suillcicnt to pay interest on ferred shares. For terms apply to CLARK, "Done E (€47 Co, Corner Wall and William Streets. RAILROAD - IRON, I FOR SALE BY s. w. ,HOPKINS & C0,, it 33?‘ it svt-if WARSAW’ RAILWAY, ‘ all the bonded indebtedness and dividend on the pre- ' and will be opened for business connectionﬂwith the tunity to subscribe. MRS. o.7A. DELAFOLIIE, WOODHULL & CLAFLI_N’S WEEKLY. May"10, 1873. £5 NOTICE TO INVESTORS. CHICAGO AND A CANADA . SOUTHERN’ 5,llii,UUU 7 percent. Gold Bonds AT 90 AND ACCRUED INTEREST. COUPON AND REGISTERED. INTEREST PAYABLE IN GOLD. APRIL AND OCTOBER. We now offer these Bonds at the above VERY LOW price. THE CANADA SOUTHERN, or Eastern end of this line, whose Bonds were so rapidly sold last sum- mer, ’ IS NOW E1NisHED, TOLEDO AND WABASH and other Western Roads, at a very early day. The CHICAGO AND CANADA SOUTHERN, or Western end of this line, is now being rapidly built, and the Company expect it to be ﬁnished during the present year. _ THIS GREAT TRUNK LINE, when completed through, will be of immense advantage to the shipping interests of the Great West, being Level, Straight, and thirty-three miles Shorter than anyvother route. Hav- ing connections with all the lines running into Buffalo at the East and Chicago at the West, and under the management of some of the most experienced rail- oad operators of the country, its success is rendered a certainty, and its Bonds must be a safe and proﬁtable investment. It makes the shortest and best connec- tions going West, both at Toledo and Detroit, and is the only Seven Per Cent. Bond on any through Trunk line now offered. Pamphlets and all information by WINsLOw, LANIER & CO., Bankers, 27 Pine Street. LEONARD, SHELDON & FosTER, Bankers, 10 Wall Street. FIRST MORTGAGE 8 PER CENT. BONDS OF THE ‘ MILWAUKEE AND N ORTERN ,,_D‘ATT.TK2'A."S[..,.-... ' ' " ’ 2-. - '*~*~ « .Lv_L.A..L.I.J VI 4.14.- Coupon and registered; Interest June and December. DENOMIN ATION S, 1,0G0s AND 500s. , We oﬁer these Bonds for sale at 90 and accrued in- terest, believing them to be a secure as well as aproﬁt- able investment. Full particnlars furnished on appli- cation. _ VERMILYE. & CO., Nos. 16 and 18’ Nassau Street. GREENLEAF, NORRIS a oo., » ' ,No. 66 Exchange Plac‘e.J WILLIAM H. SEWAB.D’S o,TRAVELS The undersigned respectfully announce that they have now ready the order-book containing specimen- pages of the paper, printing, illustrations, engravings, and styles of binding of Governor. Seward’s ~_ Wonderful Journey Around the World. ‘ This deeply interesting work was completed a few days before the distinguished e‘/raoellews death, and the publishers will spare no pains to make it the most elegantly gotten-up book of travel ever publ7'.shed——THE ENGBAVENGS ALONE OOSTING ABOUT $15,000. It is sold only by subscription, and a duly-authorized agent will call for the purpose of giving all an oppor- No copies will be sold from our store at any pmce. Nearly»300 Engravings. D. APPLETGN dc CO” ‘Pu bl ishers, 54.9 &; 55 1 BROADWAY, New Yorli. 607 Hudson Street, New York, isieiisal and Business tisirvuysni. AFETY, - SPEED. AND COMFORT. ' NORWICH LINE. ' For Boston, Worcester, Fitchburg, Groton Junction, Lowell, Lawrence, Nashua,=aMancl1ester, ‘Concord, Pal- a mer, Brattleboro, and intersectmg points. The new and staunch steamers CITY OF BOSTON, « CI Y OF NEW YORK, _ _ CITY OF LAW ENCE, and ‘ CITY 0 NORWICH Will leave New York daily (Sundays excepted) at 4 o?clock p. m., from Pier No. 40, North River, foot of Canal and Watts streets. * ‘ For New London, and Norwich, their connectin with Express trains for the above points, via .Vermon Central. Norwich and Worcester, and Boston,1Hart— ford and Eric Railroads. V ' For through tickets and rates for freight, apply at the oﬂice, Pier 40, North River. — ' W. F. PARKER, Agent. New York, June 7, 1872. » Especially» for Females. O _A powerful and healthy Magnetizer, who has cured many female complaints by the use of magnetized paper, will send the same to any address for 25 cents per sheet, with directions for its use. Address Box 80, Lynn, Mass. Dr. JOSEPH TREAT, HENRY WARD BEECHER, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, VICTORIA C. WOODEIULL, Risk of Hall and expenses taken, and 25 cents charged for each Lecture. ' - If necessary the cream of the three rendered in one Henry Ward Beecher illustrated by twice life-size portrait. , Address, care of Woodhull & Claﬂin, 48 Broad st., N. Y., or of J. P. Mendum, 84 Washington st., Boston, Mass, or of J . A. Laut, Editor of the Sun, Toledo, 0. LECTURES BY Edward H. G, Clark, Of Troy, N. Y. 1. FISK; OR, THE CRIMES OF OUR COMMERCE. (N ew.Lecture for 1872-8.) 2. THE AMERICAN LECTURE-STAND. ' 3. OUR COMING REPUBLIC. (Lecture in progress.) -.—..—.—— TERMS FROM $40_TO $80. .j—.. NEWSPAPER NOTICES. Mr. Clark’s “American Lecture-stand” is not only thoughtful and scholarly, but it is popular and enter- taining. He delivers it without reference to his man- uscript, in a clear, pleasant voice, with easy, graceful ' gdstures. -An ardent aduiirer of Phillips and Curtis, his matter and manner constantly suggest those great masters. No ﬁner ture-stand” has been delivered in Albany this season, and we heartily commend its author to the lyceums of the country as a speaker who will not disappoint great expectations.—.Albany Journal. “The American Lecture stand” gave the best of satisfaction. Mr. Clark is _a pleasant and attractive speaker, and will always be warmly welcomed upon the platform in Albany.——Alba7ty Argus. One of the best lectures given in Albany this winter. —Albauy Express. - Undoubtedly one of the ablest productions that have recently been Oﬂered to lecture-goers anywhere in this country.—-T7'o3/ Whig. It lifts Mr. Clark at once to the ﬁrst rank of public lecturers.—-Troy Press. A ~ It certainly meets the requirements of the lecture- going public to as great a degree as any similar eﬁort tgiat we remember.——Rochester Democrat and Ohraml c e. We are compelled to say it is one of the most inter- esting, instructive and entertaining productions that have recently fallen under our notice.—Buﬁ‘alo Ex- press. .- _ I Unquestionably the best lecture we ever heard, is the verdict of all who listened.-Berm.lngton Free Press. 2 5 Many declare it to be the best lecture of the course. ——-Beam/mgton Banner. of the course, except, erhaps, Carl Schurz’s.——Beu- ntgtgton Oorrespotzdent o the Tray Press. Not one of the best, but the very best lecture of the season.—Schug/lerotlle Zvews. WENDELL PHILLIPS ON “FISK; OR, THE CRIMES OF OUR COMMERCE.” Dear Frteud—Your lecture on Fisk is happily named and thoroughly treated. It was a rare treat to listen to it. You will surely interest your audiences. What better subject could a speaker have for the lyceum ‘than this startling scene and appalling conspiracy which we call your “ Rings? ” All Europe hangs breathless over that drama. It is the culmination Of all Tocqueville feared for us. To Americans the sub- ject is one of grave——even painful interest. You have treated it skillfully: made a sketch at once terse and full, rapid, masterly and eﬂective; sure to command a profounder interest than themost sensational to ic. brilliant and striking enough to charm the most indif- ferent audience. It will do_ much to- keep the lyceum where it belongs—iu»struct1on and education, as well as interest and amusement. Yours, ‘ WENDELL PHILLIPS. EDWARD H. G. CLARK, Troy, N. Y. JOSHUA M. HOLT, Manufacturer and Proprietor AND ' I1clt’s Vegetable Liver Tonic. _ Well known for her correct diagnosis of disease and Eziiizessiiii-%n— ‘-1? 5 masses, is. a. lecture than the “American Lec-- Mr. E. H. G. C-lark’s lecture is considered the best‘ While it is fullof suggestion for the thoughtful, tis . Br. iisyi’s Magnetic Pain Cure, RIE RAILWAY.———Winter Arrangement of Trains to ‘take effect January 20, 18’73,_ From Chambers—street Depot (for Twenty-third street see note below). ' 9 a. m.—Cincinnati and Chicago. Da Drawing-room Coaches to Buffalo and Coaches to destination. 11 a. m.—Express Mail for Buffalo and Niagara Express. Sleeping Sleeping Coaches to destinati n. '7 p. m. (Daily).-—Cincinnati and Chica 0 Night Ex- ress. Sleeping Coaches through to Bu alo, Niagara alls, Cincinnati, Detroit and Chicago, without change. “ . Additional Trains leave fOr— Port.Jervie, 8, 9, 11 and *11.15 a. m., 4.30 and 7 p. m. -Goshen and Middletown, *7.30, 8, +8.30, 11 and *11.— 15 a. m., 3.30, 4.30 dffd *+"f p. m. _ Warwick, 8, 11 and *11.15 a. m., and 4.30 p. in. Newbui-gh,‘+8.30, 9 and 11 a. m., 3.30 and 4.30 p. m. Suifern, +7.30, 8, ‘r830, 11 and 111.15 a. m.', 3.30, 5, 6, 1.6.30, *7 and *11.30 p. m. Rid ewood I-Iohokus, Allendale and Ramsey’s, +7.- 8, 8.30, 11, *11.15 a. m., 3.30, 5, 6, +6.30, 7 and *11.— p. m. , Paterson, 6.45, 137.30, 8, 18.30, 10, 11, *11.15 a. m., 12 noon, *1.45, 3.30, 4, 5, 5.15, 6, *6.3 , * , 8, 10 and *11.30 p. m. - Newark, 7.15, *8.45 and 11.30 a. m., and 3.45, 5.15 and *6.30 p. m. * Rutherfurd Park and Passaic, 6,45, *Z«.30, +8.30, 10 11 a. m., 12 noon, *1.45, 3.30, 4, 5.15, 6, *‘6.30, 8, 10 and 1.30 p. m. ' , Hillsdale, Hackensack and Way, 5, 8.15 and -18.45 a. m., 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 p. m., and 12 Mid. Spring Valley and Way, 5, 8.15, and 18,45 a. m., 1, 4 and 5 p. m., and 112 Mid. Englewood, 5, 7.45,vi9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.39, 3.15, 4.15, 4.45, .30, 6.30 and *7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid. Cresskill, 5, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.15, 5.30, 6.30 and *7.45 p. m., and +12 Mid. Sparkill, 5, 745, 1'9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.15, 4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and +7.45 p. m., and 112 Mid. i Piermont and Nyack, 7.45, +9 and 9.30 a. m., 1.30, 3.15, 4.45, 5.30, 6.30 and +7.45 p. m., and 1'12 Mid. half hours, leave Twenty-third street 15 minutcr earlier than above time. The 5 a. m., 10 and 11.30 p. m., and 12 Mid. Trains start from Chambers street only. N. B.~Trains on the N. R. R. and Newark Branch leaving Chambers» street on quarter hours, leave Twenty-third street 30 minutes earlier than above time. room and Slee ing Coaches can be obtained, and orders for the c ecking and transfer of Baggage may be let at the Company’s oﬂiccs—241, 529, and 957 Broa way; corner One Hundred and Twenty-ﬁfth street and Third avenue: 2 Court street, Brooklyn: at flheé (1lompany’s Depots, and of Agents at the principal o e s. — * Daily. 1' Sundays only. *1 Goshen, Sundays only. JNO. N. ABBOTT, General Passenger Agent. DJAMIESONS BOOK! “ THE CLERGY A SOURCE OF DANGER TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.” GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION. INFAMY. Full Ea:pose—Second Edition Just Published, A Volume ‘ of 331 Pages. One of the most startling books ever issued from the press. Price, bound in muslin, postage paid, $1.75. Books furnished at Reduced Rates on the Club Plan. Parlor Edition, gilt, 20 cents per vol, extra. AGENCIES. , Terms made known on application. Address all or ers to W. F. JAMLEsoN, 139 and 141 Monroe street, 0 icago, Ill. WHAT THE PRESS’ SA 1715’ .' We consider Mr. Jamieson as having done. a most useful and needed work in publishing this book. It ought to be read by every one who takes the least in- terest in the Christian Amendment movement, or any of the allied questions. It is crammed with informa- tion of all kinds bearing on the general issues; and every a e burns with intense earnestuess.—Free Belt- gtous ft ea‘, Nov. 16, 1872. .. A meaty volume, a remarkable book, Mr. J amieson writes with earnestness and fervor. We commend the book to the widest . ossible perusal, believing that it is singularly calcula ed to open men’s eyes and do their souls permanent good.——Ba7me7' of I/tght, Oct. 12, Interesting, valuable and timely. It abounds with important facts. No more lmportant volume has been issued from the press for many 2/ea7"s.~—B0ston Invests- gatm-, Oct. 2, 1872. _ THE RELIGIOUS PRESS IS SILENT! — CANT l s1eNIE1- VTHE LIBERAL PRESS IS REJOICING. DR. O AMMI BRIOWNO, Dentist, . Removed to 20 East Twenty-fourth Street, Near Madison Square. _, HASLAM’S PILE REMEDIES-—-THE most practical and reliable informa- , tion in re aid to the prevention and .. cure of iles is to be found in HAS- LAM TREATISE, just published. It will pay you to get a copy, whether you use our remedies or not. Ma be obtained, free, by addressing FRED. HAsLA.u a 0;.-9., 3’? Park Row, New York. 1 .. .». - 0 Falls. - —Draw‘lng-room Coac_ ‘s to Susquehanna and p N. B.--Trains leaving Chambers street on even or. 7 Tickets for passage and for apartments in Drawing- _ , CLUB RATES : Three Copies, expressage or postage paid, . . $4 50 Six I‘ £5 £6 (E ' . . 8 Ten “ “ ‘ “ “ . 12 50 — _ HITE STAR LINE. For Qucenstown and Liverpool, . Carrying the _ UNITED STATES MAIL.’ .New and" full—powered steamships. pool on Thursday, calling at Cork Harbor each way , Adriatic, Saturday, February 1, 3.00 p. m. Oceanic Saturday, February 8, at 3.00 p. m. Baltic, Saturday, February 15, at 3.00 p. m. Celtic, Saturday, February 22, at 1.00 p. m. Atlantic, Saturday,.March 1, at,3.00 p. m. From the White Star lgotck, Pavonia Ferry, Jersey 1 y. Passenger accommodations (for all classes) unrivaled, combining Safety, Speed, and Comfort. Saloons, staterooms, smoking I’OOl1’1,'al1(Ib£1‘Lh rooms in rnidship section, where least motion IS felt. Sur- geons and stewardesses accompany these steamers. —Rates—-Saloon $80, gold. (For sailing after 1st of April, $100 gold.) Steerage, $30, currency. Those wishin to send for friends from the Old Country can rency. Passengers booked to or from all parts of America, ‘Paris, Hamburg, Norway, Sweden, India, Australia, p China, &c. Drafts from £1 upward. For inspection of plans and other information, a ply at the Company’s, oﬂices, No. 10 Broadway, ew York. ‘ ’ J. H. SPARKS, Agent. NITED STATES NEW—ZEALAND & AUSTRALIAN MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE. —-The steamships of this line are appointed to sail from San Francisco for NEW-ZEALAND and AUS- TRALIA, via Honoluln, upon MAY 22, - | SEPT. 11, ii» I 9’ ov. 6, AUG.-14,’ i DEC, 4, at Noon. Fordfreight and passage, apply to . W. H. WEBB, 53 Exchange Place. New York. 13' NLY DIRECT LINE T0 FRANCE. THE_ GENERAL TRANSATLANTIC COM- PANY’S MAIL STEAM SHIPS BETWEEN NEW YORK AND HAVRE, CALLING AT BREST. The splennid vessels on this favorite route for the Continent will sail from Pier No. 50, North River, as follows: . A "‘ Ville de Paris,” Surmont, Saturday, January 28. “Washington,” Roussan, Saturday, February 8. “ St. Laurent,” Lemarie, Saturday, February 22. “Pereire,” Danre, Saturday, March 8. Price of passage in gold (including wine) to Brest or Havre: First Cabin . . . . . . . ..$125 I Second Cabin . . . . . . ..$'?5. EXCURSION TICKETS AT REDUCED RATES. These steamers do not carry steeragc passengers. American travelers going to or returning from the Continent of Europe, by taking the steamers of this ine, avoid both transit by English railway and the dis- comforts of crossing the Channel, besides saving time trouble and expense. GEO. M CKENZIE, Agent, NO. 58 Broadway. 0. J. OSBORN. ADDISON CAMMACK. OSBORN & CAMMACK, Bankers, NO. 31 BROAD STREET, STOCKS, STATE BONDS, GOLD AND FED- ERAL SECURITIES, bought and sold on Com- mission. COUNTRY BOARD. THE LONG HILL HOUSE (Near B'eer"s Mill depot, on the Housatonic Railroad) , ‘ Sta miles f7’om,B'/tdgeport, Conn. Address, C. S. MIDDLEBROOK, Box 778. Bridgeport, Conn. ANNA M. MEIXSEL, DAVID S. CADVVALLADER, MAGNETIC H-EALERS, ‘ 1,114 CA_LLOWH1LL STREET, OFFICE HoURs, 9to 11 A. 1u.,4to 61>. M. PSYCHOMETRIC EXAMINATION OF DISEASE CORRECTLY MADE FROM A LOOK OF HAIR. DR. O. s. WEEKS, Dentist, No. .412 FOURTH AVE, Between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets NEW YORK. ‘ TEETH EXTRA UTED WITH OUT PAIJV, by the use of Chemically (pure Nitrous Oxide or Laugh- ing Gas. Dr. W. has use it several years, extracting teeth for thousands with complete success, and with no bad effects in any instance. All operations pertain- ing to Dentistry performed in the most careful and thorough manner at reasonable price. sAM’L BARTON. BARTON a ALLEN, Bankers and Brokers, N0. 40 BROAD STREET, Stocks, Bonds and Gold bought and sold on com- mission. HENRY ALLEN. NEW YORK , SAVINGS BANK, EIGHTH AVENUE, Cor. Fourteenth St., SIX PER CENT. INTEREST 11 d 11 sums from $5.to $5 000. Deposits 3.§oV§eon°.§- ahefore August 1 Will draw interest from August 1. Assets, $2.4$?33.30.3-05 -— Surplus. Sailing from New York on Saturday, from Livcr- _ now 0 tain steerage prepaid certiﬁcates, $30, cur- _ PHILADELPHIA. A -r A- .21’ A ;A..e}'~°e?«'° x - _. _ ,,.,,. . ;uI"‘.’Z:‘.‘—>n 2 . 7 railroad and water. , The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. JWoodhull and Tennie C. Claﬁin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, ‘at the following. liberal prices: The Principles of Government, by Victoria C. Wood- hull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $3 00 Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claﬂin. .. . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Impending Revolution . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25 The Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . .". . . . . . . . . . . 25 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, erieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of_ the Lord. ' Gel. Ep. James v. 1-4. INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE. —« .j.._... AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT. A meeting that may prove to be of the utmost import to the industries of the United States is called at the Astor House, in this city. The great and ever increasing demands of the railroads of the country has forced the people who suffer to come together for the purpose of considering the means of relief. Our position’ on this question is well known. There can be no competent relief until, like the letters of the people, their products are transported by their general agent, the Government. Temporary alleviations may be sought, and even obtained, but the very relief fouud in that way will only the more surely point out the necessity for a radical change in the whole system. All this, how- ever, will have to be learned through experience by those who are not prepared to take radical steps. The following is the call to which reference is made: TO THE PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS OF THE UNITED STATES. “All Rights not delegated to the Government in the Constitu- tion itself, are reserved to the People.” You are respectfully requested to meet at the Astor I House, in New York city, on the 6th day of May, 1873, and there to form an Association, the object of which shall be to promote by co-operation, the interests of Producers and Consumers; also for the purpose of considering what can and should be done to reduce the cost of transportation by The corrupting inﬂuences of our railroads upon our repre- sentatives should be a question for your consideration. The voting away of our homestead lands by Congress to railroad corporations should receive your careful attention, so that in the future we may have no more Credit Mobilier transac- tions to repent of. That railroads should be taught that they are the servants of the people instead of their masters. That whenever a railroad corporation is convicted of having violated its charter privileges, the State in which the viola- tion occurs should take possession of the -road and manage that it for the beneﬁt of the State. The enaction of law will enable any citizen to call upon the Attorney-General of the State and institute proceedings against any railroad corpor- , ation for any neglect on the part of the corporationto per- form its duty to the public. The costs to be paid out of the State Treasury. ; We are all either Producers or Consumers, and as such mutually interested. Let all Commercial ‘bodies, all Farm- ers’ organizations, all Eastern and Western Manufacturers, and all Merchants unite in this great work. The Senate Committee on “Transportation Routes” have expressed their approval of the meeting and promised to be present if possible in person, or by delegates, and have offered the following resolution: Resolved, That, with a view of facilitating their investiga- tions, the select committee on transportation routes to the seaboard respectfully request that the State Governments, I Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce, Railroad and Canal Companies and other corporations and persons en- gaged or interested in the subject of transportation, will furnish to said committee such facts and statistics relating to internal_ or external commerce of the United States as may be in their possession or are conveniently accessible. Respectfully submitted, - Hon. W. C. Flagg, Moro, Ill., Pres’t State Farmers’ Associ- ation. ‘ S, M. Smith, Sec’y Illinois State Farmers’ Association. R. H. Ferguson, Troy, N. Y. ’ J. B. Sargent, New Haven. Morford 86 Trubee, Bridgeport, Conn. J. B. Phinney, Champaign, Ill. 7John A. Coleman, Boston, Mass. Cheeney Ames, Oswego, N. Y. W. M. Burwell, New Orleans. F. Chaffee, -Rutland, Vt. . M. Kingman,‘President; E. P. Weatherby, Secretary; Col. Lewis A. Thomas, Committee of the Dubuque Board of Trade, Iowa. T. D. Foulke 86 Bro., Sidney, Ill. W. S- Wood, Coshocton, Ohio. , M. V. Wood, Elmwood, Neb. A And thousands of others in the Western and Eastern States, lwoonn-Urine CLAFLIN,’S”‘WEE-KL~Y.l . 1 3 Another call, of a more general character, but looking still further in the same direction as the above, for indus- trial justice, has been determined upon by the representa- tives of, several of the organized labor movements, which may have an important bearing on the politics of the near future, as follows: - CALL FOR A POLITICAL CONVENTION. WHAT Ann THE PROPER ISSUES FOR A NEW NATIONAL , POLITICAL PARTY. I I ‘ At no time in the history of political parties in'this country have they been so disorganized as they are now. N eitherof the great parties have any living issues, which appeal to the public heart. All political questions of the past are held in common by members of both parties. The great political public is ready and waiting to be molded“ to new issues. The question is: What shall the issues be ? Capitalists and producers ﬁnd themselves every day near. ing the point of actual antagonism. All kinds of industry are languishing under the increasing demands of capital in the hands of non-producing classes. The poor become poorer and more numerous, and the rich richer and fewer in num- ber every year, all the country over. In the great West the agricultural interest is standing mce to face with the oppres- sive railroad monopolists, and-its representatives are com- bining to free themselves from their clutches’; while in the East, the continued strikes of the various trades to secure something approaching industrial justice and the close com- bination of those who deny it, are rapidly developing pas- sions that must soon burst into open strife.’ In view of all this and of the danger that impends from the lack of preparation on the part of the industrial public whose ' interests are at stake, we, the undersigned of the people, without regard to any distinction whatever, agree to meet in open Convention on Friday, July 4, 187 3, at Cooper Institute, New York city, to consider the necessary methods by which to secure the rights of all citizens, inalienably to them; to substitute individual sovereignty (rightly under- stood) for the present political ioligarchy; industrial justice for the despotism of monopoly, and social equality for the rule of caste. / . Now is the time for action. The leaders of the once pow- erful Democratic party are wrangling among themselves as to the best method for its respectable burial; and the lead- ers of the still more -powerful Republican party are rapidly dropping into their political graves, rotten with corruption; while peculation holds high revel in all oﬂlces from the vil- lage postmaster to the President of the United States. And we solicit for this call therespectful attention of all journalists in the country who have the interests of the peo- ple at,heart, rather than those of the various despotisms which are gradually but surely absorbing“ the rights of the people; and we call upon them to publish it to the whole country and range themselves upon the the side of the “ low- er millions ” as opposed to the “ upper tens.” ' THE INTERNATIONALE. THE EMIGRATION on IMPORTATION or FOREIGN LABOR. A meeting of the American Federal Council, held on the 13th of April, referred a resolution relating to the above subject to a committee consisting of Citizens West, Hubert and Courcey. They met and assigned the duty‘ of preparing an address or circular letter to the European Federations to Citizen Hubert. That citizen reported the following letter, which was approved by his colleagues, adopted by the Coun- oil and ordered to be published in WOODEULL 8t CLArLrN’s WEEKLY. WILLIAM Wnsr, Rec. Sec. American Federal Council. — NEW Yonx, April 27, 1873. The North American Federal Council to all the European Federations of the I. W. A., Greeting: C'ompanions——We call your especial attention to the fact that last year the employers of this city formed an associa- tion to successfully crush any attempt on the part of em- ployes to ameliorate their already too miserable condition by means of strikes, the only weapon of defense in their power. . ’ This employer’s association has authorized agents in dif- ferent parts of Europe and Asia, having especial duties to engage poor working people of either sex to come to these United States of America to work for certain employers at certain salaries, representing to them that such are very high and that they can save one-half of them. This is simply deception and the most glaring falsehood on their part. It is impossible, nowadays, for working people to save any of their wages in this country. g i g * §tThe real object in hiring these deceived poor Europeans and Chinese to come here is to overload the supply of hands in this market, so that employers can make them those who may be on strike. . 7 Such has already been done here in sugar reﬁneries and in the gas works of the New York Gas Company of this city, and in. other manufacturing establishments. A few months ago, this" winter, shiploads of half-starved, half-naked, unfortunate Italians landed at this port, a large number of them had to’ be sheltered and fed as paupers at the city expense on an island called “ Blackwell’s.” Two weeks ago the gas stokers of the New York Gas Company struck for shorter hours of laber—nam_ely, eight hours for a day’s work, the legal day’s work of this country. The city police authorities, whose servility can be bought with the golden calf, supplied the monopolist gas company with a large number of‘ these unfortunate Italians from Blackwell’s Island with the intent and purpose to defeat the aim of the strikers, in ﬂagrant violation of the laws and constitution of this country. The strikers were shamefully and violently assaulted in the streets by the so-called protectors of our lives and liberty~—the police force of this free New York! The poor Italians, being unaccustomed to the work, were badly hurt and burned; several were beaten with clubs by {policemen hired to protect them, on their attempt to escape compete with those here, or make them take the place of‘ 3 from the place, which was a genuine ‘hell to them! It has been asserted that two of them were carried away dead- _r :hard labor, exhaustion and ill-treatment had been the cause of their death. This conclusively demonstratesjto you as well as to us that I Gapitalists are unscrupulous and grasping all over the world. They buy, by any means, legislators to make laws to protect their interests; and if some laws exist on the statute book which conﬂict with them, they hire legal assassins to use armed brutal force to violate them in the name of order! Although, personally, they wouldgnot soil their ungloved ﬁngers by touohinga potato (they are too gentlemanly reﬁned to do such a vulgar thing), yet they do not. stop. atthe idea of shedding the bloodof honest, hard-working people who have the manly courage to demand their rights. ' Newspapers sometimes help those bloodthirsty vampires in their race for that red ﬂuid. The self-called respectable New York Herald, speaking of the gas strikers, said: They should be treated as outlaws. As for us, we have no doubts in our own minds as to who should be the outlaws between the gas strikers, on the one hand, or the New York writer of the article referred to, on the other. . As a natural consequence, the men on strike entertain feelings which are anything but fraternal toward the un- fortunates who take their place at the work, and division results from this in the ranks of the working class, favoring the object of thepcapitalists, which is cheap competitive labor at any cost: that is to say, if it cost the death of any number of workers. There are more in Europe ready to fall in. . , ' ' The European agents often engage people to work at agri- culture on virgin land, representing to them that it can be got for little or nothing, and that in a few years they will enjoy the comforts of wealth in this country. This is mis- representation. Unless a man possess $1,000 cash, we advise him to not believe such golden promises. ,Without this amount let him expect to endure misery, suffering and de- ception to his heart’s content. Good farming lands along railroad lines cannot be got for less than $15 to $50 per acre. It is in the hands, of speculators or belongs to the railroad company (just as bad), which charge high prices for trans- porting produces on their roads, allowing no living proﬁt to the unfortunate farmer nor to the consumers of his products. We therefore cannot too much impress you with the neces- sity on your part of preventing emigrants, hired or engaged beforehand, from coming to this country as such, and with- . out ﬁnancial means of their own, whenever you can do so, as they will be ill-treated by their new employers, who laid ’ the snares for them; and they would not meet with good feelings on the part of those whose places they are intended to ﬁll. Let any come freely, without anyengagement with any pretended benefactors. If any are mechanics, let them join a society of their own trade as soon as they arrive here; they will have friendship and protection. — On behalf of the F. C. B. Hnnnnnr, General Foreign Cor. Sec. 6772i COMMUNILSM-—THE war Arr WORKED AND WHAT IT LED TO. ARTICLE XII. .. I perceived that when everything should be priced by its labor costs,’ every consumer would become interested in reducing the costs of his own supplies; and in doing this for himself, he‘would~be doing it for all consumers. Thus all would be working for instead of against each other! and the greatest problem of the greatest statesmen (the harmonizing of the interests of the individual with the interests of the public) would come about naturally, as we now co-operate in ‘ sustaining railroads, not by organizations or compacts, but by each following his own interests. Destructive competition would be changed into abeneﬁ- cent regulator of prices, and property would ultimately be- come so abundant that, like water in a river, or spontaneous fruits, prices would be”wholly or mostly abandoned, and the highest and noblest aims of Communists would be reached without communism, without organizations, without consti- tutions or pledges, and without any legislation in conﬂic- tion with the natural and “inalienable” individualities of men and things! i’ I , Overwhelmed with astonishment and bewildered with the newness and immense magnitude of the subject, I began to doubt my own sanity, and to fear that perhaps our late dis- appointment had disqualiﬁed me for judging soundly. Day after day I retired to the woods outside of the town, to ponder, and detect, if possible, some lurking error in my "reasoning; but the closer I criticised, the more I was con- ﬁrmed. I attempted to get the criticisms of some of the friends, but~I_soon perceived that the ideas were so new that old words would not convey them to other minds; but that, like a new machine, it must be seen in operation in order to_ be understood. I therefore concluded to return to Cincin- nati and commence a -family store, wherein my compensa- tion, instead of the ordinary proﬁts, should be measured, like mechanism or agriculture, by the labor performed- measured by the time employed. I resolved if this failed, undertrial, I would abandon all idea of reform, and keep a commonfamily store; but if it worked to my satisfaction, and sustained itself under criticism, I would wind up the store,’ and commence the forming of new villages where the new ideas couldbe applied to all the affairs of social life. , The storewas kept three years, with the most entire satis- faction to myself, as well as to all who took any part in it. It was then wound up, with the view of starting new vil- lages.‘ Unavoidable circumstances delayed these attempts to three years, when the ﬁrst wascommenced. This was abandoned after two years,.in consequence of the extraordi- nary sickliness of the locality. Two others have been laid out and settled—a particular historical account and the minute workings of which are now ready for the press, in a work entitled “True Civilization,” Part III. Price, 25 cents Lper number of 4:8 12mo pages. Address, J osrsn Wannnn, Princeton, Mass, \ woonnfcrt &»OLAFI.IN’S WEEKLY. May 10, 1873. REVOLUTION—BLO0DY on BLOODLESS? '9 . FARMINGTON, Michigan, April 12. _ It seems that the train is laid and ﬁred, and I send this ex- tinguisher to prevent, if possible, the explosion. g Seriously, human nature is much the same in all parts of ‘ the world~—the same in New‘York as in Paris. Train refers approvingly to the French Revolution, and says it destroyed in three days the despotism of six centu- ries; and he recommends, if I mistake not, a repetition of that bit of Paris history in New York. _ He gives too muchheed to the taunt that ‘he is danger- ous only in words, and he seems too anxious to prove that he is some on his muscle. No one who knows him believes him any sort__of a coward, but he should not be so hasty to call to the aid of the highest form of resistance, the lowest form of all—physical resistance. Except in rare cases, the latter com- pletely destroys the former, instead of assisting it. We should allow the enemy a complete monopoly of all the horrors and outrages incident» to the revolution. See how they are killing, themselves at every splurge. But once let us outdo them; in barbarity and give them lease of life of a hundred years, and then radicals will be shot with impunity in N ew York eighty years hence, as communists are now in Paris. We have but to horrify mankind with our barbarities and the chief priest and rulers will have things all their own way indeﬁnitely. Willithe Chief allow another George» to change the order of command from _ “ Kill the kussesl shoot them down!” to “Steady, boys; steady?” _ John Brown’s defeat was his success, and his death immor- tality. He held human life more sacred than warriors usually do, and his “ boys” never got beyond his control. George Francis Train is in prison for murder—for murder- ing Mr. Obscenity—and he is proud of it, as he has a right to be. But should we ”“ boys” obey the command of the Chief and murder some bundle of humanity and get into prison we could not be proud ofit, nor command the approval of our consciences nor the sympathies of the people. So long as we are allowed to tell the naked truth we can afford to grant the enemy all he can gain by a wanton destruction of human life. It is already telling against him fearfully. Does Mr. Train say it is easy forme, while enjoying sun- -shine a11d air, to prescribe his course for him while dying in the death-damp of the Tombs? I feel that I ought to apolo- gize, but I can say, without boasting, that I had rather be murdered than to take the life of any human being, provided the loss of my life would result in more good than the loss of his. But Mr. Train says halls and the press are shut against us so that we cannot tell the naked truth. I answer they will be open to us as soon as the people demand it, and they will demand it sooner if we hold our temper than they will if we boil over with rage and dye our hands in human blood. 3 GEORGE Ronnnrs. mi .4 r~ r SPIRTUALISTIC. “ If an offense come out of truth, better is it that the offense come ' than that the Truth be concealed.”—Je7"omc. "WORSHIP AND FEAR. A Mr. LEBANON, N. Y. We would not for the world ‘be irreverent. No consider- ' ation would induce us to; but our venerable head against public sentiment——sentiment based upon ‘a well-deﬁned re- ligious principle. Above and before us we _ ﬁnd much to reverence; some-_ thing to adore; nothing to worship; nothing to fear. We have our part to act; there is a divinity that stirs within us, placed there for the express purpose of law- givers and judges. . ‘ . In strict accord with the high court of equity within, what have we to be afraid of? Gods will not hurt us; devils cannot; their jurisdiction is outside of law, to scourge truants back to their duty; a police, a necessity, growing out of the unﬁnished condition of humanity. — ‘ . VVhen humanity as a whole shall have been got up in good shape, neither devils, nor other police will be necdfu1— they may be otherwise employed. Fear and worship are twins, both of the masculine persua- sion; guilt is the mother, cowardice the father of the two bantlings. He that sins against the divinity within fears of course, especially if he means to keep on sinning; he fears, and goes to worshiping some strange god, to coax, or bribe him to protect the sniveling culprit from the divinity with- in. PB-ENTISS. A SPIRIT FACE. ‘ N o. 1’_ArLAN'rIo STREET, LYNN, Mass., % _ April 21, 1873. Dear .T/"£ctom7cL—No trouble as anticipated; on the con- trary, a unanimous» call for me to occupy the desk here on the ﬁrst, second and last Sundays in May, our Sister Emma having thrown up in disgust her two Sundays here. Mr. Lord Harris of this place has one of your pictures; your hat is thrown carelessly on a stand, and you arelleaning and looking away off with such a sad, prophetic gaze, so’ soul—full, so inspired. Oh-l Victoria, why cannot I have this picture, it is almost best of all? and ‘have you not noticed the strange phenomena connected with it? It was ﬁrst ob- served bya medium at Mr. Harris’s. There appears in our house a face with long beard, one arm stretched out toward you, the hand holding a small wreath or crown, as if in the act of coronation. ’ I went to Worcester recently, and Mrs. Jacobs said: “We have a picture of Victoria with a spirit face and outstretched arm on it,and the hand holds a crown or wreath toward , her,” conclusive evidence that we in Lynn did not imagine it. It is far clearer than the faces on the Ellsworth photo- graph so much talked of. . LAURA CUPPY SMITH. [We. did discover upon -the photograph indicated what seemed to us to be a spirit face, arm and hand with a wreatli. \We made the strictest examination into the ;n.:;.t§_:er at the and cciuld, find clue to its cause, certainly we had no thought of it when we sat for the picture; but we did not choose to make any mention of the phenomenon, since it might have been_ misunderstood; but now that others have discovered it without having had their attention called to it, ‘we feel at liberty to say that we have the photos for any who may want them. As likenesses they arevnot as good, perhaps, as others having the head and ~ bust instead of the whole length ﬁgure shown; but some mayvdesire to have them in preference on account of the singular face upon them.] —._._._- THEODORE PARKER ON THE PRESENT SITUATION. The opposition to new and progressive views, and the hos- tility to those who proclaim them, are correctly illustrated in the following account, written by Theodore Parker, of himself and his experiences: ' As fast as I found a new truth I preached it, to gladden other hearts in my parish and elsewhere, when I spoke in the pulpits of my friends. The neighboring ministers be- came familiar with my opinions and my practice, butseldom ‘ uttered a reproach. At length, on the 19th of May, 1841, at the ordination of Mr. Shackford, a thoughtful and.promis- ing young man, at South Boston, I preached a “ Discourse of the transient and permanent in Christianity.” The Trini- tarian ministers who were present joined in a public protest; a great outcry was raised against the sermon and its author. ' Theological and commercial newspapers rung with animad- version against its wickedness. “Unbeliever,” “ Inﬁdel,” “Atheist,” were the titles bestowed on me by my brothers in the Christian ministry. A venerable minister, who heard the report in an adjoining county, printed his letter in one of the most widely circulated journals in New England, called on the Attorney-General to prosecute, grand jury to indict, and the judge to sentence me to three years’ conﬁne- ment in the State prison for blasphemy! _ I printed the sermon, but no bookseller in Boston would put his name to the title-page; Unitarian ministers had ' been ready with their advice. The Swedenborgian printers volunteered the protection of their names. The little pam- phlet was thus. published, sold and vehemently denounced. Most of my clerical friends fell off; some would not speak to me in the street, and refused; to take me by the hand. In their public meetings they left their sofas or benches when I sat down, and withdrew from me as Jews from contact with a leper. In a few months most of my former minis- terial coadjutors forsook me, and there were only six who would allow me to enter their pulpits. But yet, one Uni- tarian minister, Rev. John L. Russell, though a stranger till then, presently came and offered me his help in my time of need! The controlling men of the denomination determined “This young man must be silenced I” The Unitarian peri- odicals were shut against me and my friends—the public must not read what I wrote. Attempts were secretly madeito alienate my little con- gregation and expel me from my obscure station at West Rox- bury. But I had not gone to war without counting the cost. Iwell knew beforehand what awaited me, and had deter- mined to ﬁght the battle through, and never thought of Yielding or being silenced. I told my opponents the only man who could “ put me down” was myself, and I trusted I should do nothing to bring about the result. If thrust out Of my own pulpit I made up my mind to lecture from city to city, from town to town, from village to village——nay, if need were, from house to house, well assured that I should not thus go over the hamlets of New England till something was come. But the little society came generously to my support and defense, giving me the heartiest sympathy, and oﬁered me all the indulgence in their power. Some minis- ters and generous-minded laymen stood up on my side, and preached or wrote in defense of free thought and free speech, even in the pulpit. Friendly persons, both men and women,. wrote me letters to cheer and encourage, also to'warn—this against fear, that against excess and violence. Some of them , never gave me their names.——E93tmct from Ms Bz'ogmphy. THE SCIENCE or SrIEIrUALIsM.—Two lectures on “The Phenomenal and Scientiﬁc Aspects of Spiritualism” have been_delivered in the Opera Theatre at the Crystal Palace, by Dr. George Sexton, M. A., M. D., LL. D. The ﬁrst of these lectures was given on Wednesday, and the last one yes- terday. Mr. Benjamin Coleman, of Upper Norwood, pre- sided on both occasions. In the ﬁrst lecture Dr. Sexton divided" the phenomena of Spiritualism into ﬁve sections, namely: 1. Movements of ponderable objects and rapping noises. 2. Intelligent answers to questions. 3. Psycological phenomena of the nature of trance and‘ clairvoyance, in which the organism of the sensitive or medium is more im- mediately acted upon. 4. Direct action of spirits, as in spirit voices and direct spirit writing. 5. The appearance of spirits to many persons at the same time. The lecturer re- viewed the objections of Dr. Carpenter and others to Spirit- ualism, and said that they were utterly incompetent to ex- plain the great majority of the manifestations; -he also stated that the spiritual theory alone met all the facts. At the lec- ture yesterday Dr. Sexton gave further information about spiritual. phenomena, and expounded the views of Bishop Berkeley and other philosophers as to the nature of matter and spirit. Both lectures were largely attended, and at the close of each several questions were put by several gentle- men present. Spiritualism had done to the world, and he asked whether the spirits had ever done anything useful, such as revealing the names of great murderers or great forgers. Dr. Sexton replied that crimes had often been revealed by spirit agency, but that if spirits, as a general rule, returned to earth to act as policemen, or to teach people how to get money, he should hold them in contempt. Their chief mission was to demon- strate to man in this materialistic age the reality of a life beyond the grave, and ‘to teach men to live here that they may be happy hereafter. It also, he said, proved that the loved ones gone before are not altogether cut oil’ from com- rnrxnisstigzs Wimtheizi ;fri,.e:1g_:1s, ..:;»C1 it robs death at all One inquirer wished to know what good‘ its terrors. At the close of the lecture yesterday\a warm vote of thanks was given to Dr. Sexton unanimously.——Da'éZy Telegraph (London, Eng.), April 8, 1873. 7 [We understand that Dr. Sexton is to visit this country during the next four months] . THE NEW DISPENSATION. BY ANNIE E. HIGBY. The New Dispensation came down‘ in the morn, All gleaming with light and with glory, And found the old world wrapped up in the dark, And crooning the old, old story. There was slavery ﬂaunting its banners on high, The gibbet erected, the dungeon- And monarchies gilding their palaces bright- With the toil of the starving workmen. There was churches like palaces, pile upon pile, With millions in sculpture and steeple, Surrounded with beggars in sorrow and want— All for the churches, but nought for the people. There was millions in prisons with iron-bound doors, And miles upon miles of dark alleys and dens, Where children are trained up in darkness and sin, To ﬁll these expensive and sad prison pens. . Right thrust aside by the thirst after power, * . Of those who would fain teach the strongest arm rules, And ignorance fed by designing usur-pers- The children of darkness are pliable tools. There was woman enslaved, by her strong brother bound, ’l‘o serve on the altars that burn on the ground, By ignorance, error, by dark powers hemmed in, Bringing forth children in sorrow and sin. ‘There were stages and ﬂat-boats, no telegraph lines, No railroads, no stcamboats, no sewing machines, , With death to improvement the old world was rife, With slaves, tyrants and dungeons, the fagot and knife. Then out with the old world and in with the new, Hurrah for progression, the good and the true, Let the rights that are equal for all be the cry, And humamty’s banner be run up on high. The New Dispensation comes down in the morn, All gleaming with light and with glory, And ﬁnds the old world groping round in the dark, And crooning the old, old story. And ﬁnds the old world wrapped up in the dark, And crooning the old, old story. DESPICABLE JOURNALISM. _ TERRE Hams, Ind., April 21, 1873. ‘ Mesdames Woodhull & Cla_ﬁm——By request of several mem- bers of this Society, I send you the inclosed, which was de- clined publication in R. P. Journal, in reply to George WV. Kates’ letter in last issue. Please make disposal of the same according to your pleas- ure, and oblige yours, etc., ADDIE L. BALLOU. THAT MASS CONVENTION. BRO. S. S. JoNEs— Though I have long felt the growing demand for some more deﬁnite and systematic basis of co-operation in behalf of the advancement of Spiritualism, and have known that in order to inaugurate that needed system of work, that the ﬁrst measures to be taken were such interchange of advice and of plans as could only best be considered and compared by a mass meeting of the full representation of all the people interested, I must in truth saythat this call of Bro. Kates’ did not quite elicit any full conﬁdence in the outset, nor is it yet quite satisfactorily explained to that effect. Because of my doubts in regard to the completeness of the embodiment of sentiments it contained, I was reluctant in giving indorsement by adding my name to its list of callers until recently receiving a letter fromBro.Kates relative to the same, and to which I replied at some length, stating as brieﬂy as possible my position and the considerations ofvmy willing- ness to join him in the call. In reply, Bro. Kates indorsed the expressions of my letter, stating he should publish the same, with comments, in the R. P. Journal, to which I readily gave consent, supposing he would give it in full, else I should have objected, lest in “ cutting ” extracts I might be, as I now ﬁnd myself, misunderstood. Let it be distinctly understood that though not prepared to indorse the sentiments of our sister Woodhull upon one given issue, there never shall be a straw laid in the way of her freedom by myself; and though not approving (to my- self) of her peculiar views on the Social question, let me re- peat an unwritten sentence in my letter to Bro. Kates: “ I believe her to be morally far superior to many of her ac- cusers.” . However, be this as it may, the question of her appearance or attendance and participancy at the Concinnati Conven- tion is one that will not touch the question of her character or her belief here nor there. A mass convention is for the’ whole people; and as I will also repeat from my letter, “Mrs. Woodhull is as justly entitled to as fair a representation” as would be Judge Edmonds, E. D. Owens, S. S. Jones or Bro. Kates. What is the cause of demurring in consequence of the action of the American Association of Spiritualists and their election of Mrs. Woodhull as the President of that Assem- bly? Was it not because, as it is claimed, the mass of Spiritualists were not represented? Whose fault was it that they were not? Shall the people stay at home and refuse their co-operation or their opposition by ballot and inﬂuence, and then grumble at the action of those who choose to take the responsibility into their own hands? _It may seem to some justiﬁable to refuse to recognize that Association as being the representative body of Spiritualists; but wherefore? ‘Is it not the only organized body that has met as such, annually, since the ﬁrst call convention at Chi- Gage? have not d.issatisﬁ,e$116¥1iﬂ-Sell‘Ziilueziee 3 ,6, .._,.3..,:~s,:--,~,§;7., ,~,@a?»T.-.e.«;-«iv»-rs-=??._,f=7*~*r_>: . 7., ..- :,,;;;... . ‘L . May 10, 1873. vvovooxicm. .2. (3LAFLiNiS WEii.KL”Y‘. ' I ~ 5 struggled with persistent effort against such measures as _they felt might be detrimental to the cause? We have duties on ~ these points, and are all in a measure responsible for the re- sults of our own negligence. ‘ ' ‘ The present organization must and will stand before the recognition of the world as the National Association until it is disorganized or another and stronger one takes the place it occupies. As such Mrs. Woodhull stands its President, and any failures from preference or prejudice to recognize the same only reﬂects to our weakness in the estimate of all observers, and as such, more that "all others, should she be g expected and solicited to attend and counsel. Suppose she, ‘ as,President, may have said some objectionable things of Spiritualits, that should not govern our own obligations of demeanor as Spiritualists toward her. Besides, suppose she should fail to recognize, on behalf of her Association, the coming deliberations of the Cincinnati Convention, what will be the result? Why, she will call her own Convention directly, and possibly at Cincinnati, Chicago, or Cleveland, ' and, failing to recognize, must stand at antipathy with As- sociation No. 2, and a division will be the inevitable conse- quence. Are we ready for this? What we want is less dis- sention and more co-operation. Do not misjudge Mrs. Wood- hull. She is an enthusiast, yet there is no need of any appre- hension in regard to her want of decorum should she favor that Convention with her presence. Should her party or her special friends prove to be in the majority, in case there were a full attendance, one of two things is clear: either that the deliberations of the Association that made her its leader were in accordance with the people at large; or that the ma- jority of the people’s (Spiritualists’) representatives were agreeable to her doctrines or favorable to her pre—eminenc_e. Let a candid and unbiased purpose bring together the at- tendants of this forthcomingimass meeting, and if we cannot W agree upon this and that, we will meet every issue with the dignity becoming Spiritualists, and be fearless in regard to ‘ the decisions we are required to make, and be prepared to meet any contingency of opposition should it come. Then, for myself, I would advise an indeﬁnite postponement. Let us not mi. ‘ I! “respectability”-—the word is growing hateful to me. We will command honor and respect, if Worthy of it, in time, ,f, and what our lives will not command we don't deserve. As _ to placing only such in the van as leaders, or as shall give to if our “ ofﬁcial posi'tions, or heads,” only such as bring to them with capacity a respect of the people at large, let us be brave and honest enough to judge the motives of the party good, ‘ and their capacity in wisdom and goodness paramount to " any pseudo respect that may accrue from the prejudices of the masses. Remembering that no one now pre-eminent among our numbers but has, in some time past or present, run the gauntlet of prejudice, and, though worthy of the conﬁdence of the people, Were scorned until, through patient endurances and ﬁdelity to principle, they have risen tri- umphantly and proudly above the accusations of their foes. That the great social problem is, and is to be, the great question under discussion among all Spiritualists not ex- cluded, for some time to come, and with every thinker, I’ am well aware. We cannot dare treat it longer in silence. -Who shall work out the best salvation and remedy of this cause of so much misery, remains in the proof of the future. Till then let us guard against too hastily denouncing one who has nobly braved so much for what she feels to be the right side of the question. Respectfully, &c. ADDIE L. BALLOU. ——some a few months after birth, others born dead, and , others of permature birth——asks: “ When does the spirit or I soul enter the body? at birth or before birth?” She need not—be troubled with the opinions of such as say of those of ‘, premature birth, “They are nothing, because they have no souls.” Though there is little revealed, directly, on this 5 point, we would place a light" estimate on ‘the common sense of. any theologian that would doubt these infants hav- ing souls. VVe are conﬁdent that those who are guilty of the 5: “ murder of the innocents" will ﬁnd that such have souls which will be terrible witnesses against them in the day of j udgment.—Rel1'gt'oas Telescope. MISS NELLIE L. DAVIS. CORNVILLE, Me., March 6, 1873. Dear lVeekly—I{nowi1Ig your willingness to do. justice to every brave worker, I wish to call your attention to this heroic soul, who is doing a grand work as a lecturer in the ’ great battle between truth and error. i quite extensively in Maine last year, giving very great satis- factionto all but conservatives and old fogies. Although but twenty—ﬁve years of age, she stands in the very front ranks in this great battle for human rights. She can truly be said to be a radical of the radicals; brave, fear- cause. . Of all the lecturers that ever came to this State, no one has ever equaled her in intense earnestness in the spread of truth. Grammatical in every word, perfect in pronunciation and eloquent in the most beautiful sense ofeloquence, she carries her hearers up to a sublime height by the grand truths she utters. Toknow the real value of this noble worker she must be heard. ' ‘ - But what I wish more particularly to call the attention of you and your numerous readers to is Miss Davis’ earnest ad- vocacy of the doctrine of Equal Rights in the past year, and now her avowal of the pure ‘and elevating doctrines of Free Love. Soon after Mrs. Woodhull’s nomination by the Equal Rights party as candidate for the Presidency, she authorized the writer of this to say to Mrs. Woodhull that she was with her heart and soul, and ready to take the stump whenever called for. In a letter received from her this day, she says: “ I am standing on the rock of ages, a fully pledged Wood- . hullite.” “ I shall be found following where Victoria C. ’ Woodhull dares to lead.” “Glorious white soul! come like , _§;, 2:. dream of a Womanhood as much beyond her age as Christ’s -_.3e.«—‘....,_,,_~,A_.,,;-.-:,_-,.~..: “ ‘ . . ‘ ' ‘"3 3‘ 1 .. ,, vi r’ forfeit a hair’s breadth of principle for the sake of winning‘ THE SOULS OF INFANTS.——A mother who has lost children ' Miss Davis lectured- less and bold; never ﬂinching, especially in an unpopular . manhood was beyond his age; she standing a head and shoulders above the average womanhood. of her age.” “I want her and the public to know that I am ready to speak on the question of Free Love anywhere and everywhere.” Dear Sister Woodhull, I want you and all the noble work- ers all over the country to know that in the vocabulary of Nellie L. Davis there is no such word as “policy.” While speaking in New Bedford this Winter, the President of the Society of Spiritualists attempted to stop any 'refer— ence to Mrs. Woodhull, when Miss Davis boldly stepped for- ward and said, “When a womanis persecuted, as M1-s.Wood- hull is, I shall plead her cause, come what will or cost What it may.” . « . A more unselﬁsh workerin the cause of humanity is not to be found anywhere than Miss Davis. Another grand‘ trait in this little woman is, when she enters your family, every moment will be spent either in work or reading. In the full- est sense of- the word she is a worker. . . Friends, if you want a ﬁrst—class speaker, one who will give you your money’s worth and a great deal more, send for Nellie L. Davis. SEWARD MIrcIInLL. LIBERALISM IN DETROIT. The lecture season of the past three months, under the adminstrations of W. F. Jamison, Cyphas B. Lynn and N. Frank White, has been a very successful and highly sat- isfactory one. Living truths, rather than fossilized anti- quity, have been told to large and appreciative audiences. The exercises in the afternoon of March 31 were very instruc- tive andentertaining; C. B. Stebbins addressed the meeting at some length. The social party in the evening was a com plete success, there being over eight hundred persons pres- ent. Cyphus B. Lynn is with us this month. Last Sunday he opened the way fora series of radical lectures; made some very’ ﬁne points upon the live issues of the day, which were loudly applauded by the audience, and administered some severe criticisms upon the authorities and the Y. M. C. A., in their recent endeavor to suppress free speech and‘ press, and the uncalled—for‘ arrest and "imprisonment of prominent reformatory men and women. He says: “ Should the Conservators here attempt the Apollo Hall newspaptorial excommunication, he will stand by the WEEKLY and its agent.” Also: “Please write to Woodhull and Claﬂin and request ' them to place my name among the list of independent speakers ” Thus our cause moves on. There is frequent inquiry as to when Mrs. Woodhull will be here. Hope to hear her and the Naked Truth soon. DETROIT, Mich., April 8, 1873. P. P. FIELD, M. D. A SPIRIT BABY.—Mrs. M. H. Burnham, the bright New York correspondent of the Missouri Republican, concludes a recent letter with this: “ There’s a school—marm down East who has a phantom scholar, you’ve all heard about.‘ But a Southern lady was in this city last week who has a spirit baby. Four months ago she lost a. child of ﬁve months, she is a delicate, fragile creature, and the loss of her baby nearly killed her. Four day’s after the little creature’s death and just at dusk, she became aware of something pulling at her dress, and there was her little baby back upon her bosom. From that time to this the baby comes back to be nursed as the evening shadows fall. She cannot see it, but she feels its little hands paddling about, as a baby’s will, and those around her can see her dress dissarranged, her collar pulled and the indentations on her bosom made by the invisible ﬁngers of the spirit baby. Her physician is staggered. There is no alteration in her physical condition; everything goes on as if she was nourishing a living child. The lady is not a Spiritualist, is excessively reﬁned and aristocratic, and she shrinks from making the phenomenon public, but every night she cradles in her arms her intangible baby. She feels its unseen mouth warm against her, and she bends with bit- ter tears above the invisible little visitant. It is not a ‘de- sirable possession, and I should advise her to wean it as soon as possible.-Albcmy Ecemng Journal, April 11. THE New Jersey State Asssciationof Spiritualists and Friends of Progress will hold their Second ‘Quarterly Con- vention in Franklin Hall, corner of Montgomery and War- ren streets, Jersey City, on Saturday and Sunday, May 10 and 11. The meetings will open at 10 A. M., 2 and 7 P. M. each day. The morning and afternoon sessions will be de- voted to conference and short addresses, the evening to lec- tures. First-class speakers have been engaged for the occa- sion. Meetings will be public, and everybody invited to at- tend. Platform free, in order.- ‘The officers and executive committee are requested to meet early to arrange for the services. b By order: D. J. Srmvsnnnv. 793 BROAD Srnnnr, Newark, N. J. . INDIANA STATE CONVENTION. The seventh annual convention of the Indiana State As- sociation of Spiritualists, will be held at Dr. Pence’s Hall in the city of Terre Haute, Ind., commencing Friday, June 13, 1873, at half-past ten o’clock A. M., and continue in ses- ,sion over Sunday. I ' The business will be conducted by delegates snd members in attendance. Each local Society of Spiritualists within the State will be entitled to three delegates and one addi- tional delegate for each ten members over twenty. Good, speakers will be in attendance. All friends of the cause are invited. . . The friends at Terre Haute will do all they can to iighten the expenses of those in attendance. . Not least amongthe attractions offered will be two resident mediums for physical manifestations. By order of the Board of Trustees. Attest, , * INDIANAPOLIS, April, 1873. , [Friendlypapers please copy.) J. B. BUELL, Secy. THIS IS ALL. BY ALICE CARY. Trying, trying—always trying, Falling down to save a fall. Llving by the dint of dying, This is all! Giving, giving.-always giving, Gathering just abroad to cast. A Dying by the dint of living - At the last! Sighing, s1niling‘—smiling, sighing, Sun in shade and shade in sun.‘ Dying, living-—living, dying, Both in one. Hoping, in our very fearing, Striving hard against our strifez. Drifting in the stead of steering— This is life! Seeming to believe in seeming, Half disproving to approve, Knowing that We dream, in dreaming— This is Love! Being in our weakness stronger, ‘ Living where‘ there is no breath, Feeling harm can harm no lenge1’% This is death! REFORMATORY LECTURERS. In view.of the determination recently manifested by certain would—be authorities in Spiritualism, and from a sincere desire to promote their expressed purposes, to set up a distinction that will produce a free and amuzzled rostrum; we shall henceforth publish in this list the names and addresses of such speakers, now before the public and hereafter to appear, as will accept no engagement to speak from .any committee of arrangement, with any proviso Whatever, as to what subject they shall treat, or regarding the manner in which it shall be treated. A reforma- tory movement, such as Spiritualisrn really is, cannot afford so soon to adopt the customs of the Church and fall into its dotage. On the con- trary, it demands an unﬂinching advocacy of all subjects upon which the Spirit world inspires their mediums under the absolute freedom of the advocate. To all those speakers who wish to be’unde1-stood as being something above the muzzled ox which treads out the corn, this column is now open: . ' 0. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. Rev. J. O. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. Mrs. H. F. M. Brown, National City, Cal. Annie Denton Cridg_e, Wellesley, Mass. Warren Chase, St. Louis, Mo. A. Briggs Davis, Clinton, Mass. Miss Nellie L. Davis, North Billerca, Mass. Lizzie Doten, Pavilion, 57 Tremont street, Boston, Mass. R. G. Eccles, Andover, Ohio. ' Mrs. Elvira Hull, Vineland, N. J. Moses Hull, Vineland, N. J. D. W. Hull, ‘Hobart, Ind. Charles Holt, VVarren, Pit. Anthony‘ Higgins, Jersey City, N. J. W. F. Jamieson',.139 Monroe street, Chicago, ill. Miss Jennie Leys, 4 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. Mrs. F. ‘A. Logan, Buffalo, N. Y. ' Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Ct. /I A. C. Robinson, Lynn, Mass. Mrs. J. H. Severance, Milwaukee, VVis. - Laura Cuppy Smith, No. 1 Atlantic street, Lynn, Mass. M. L. Sherman, Adrian, Mich. ” ' Mrs. H. F. Stearns, Corry, Pa. Dr. H. B. Storer, 107 Hanover street, Boston, Mass. J. H. VV. Toohey, Providence, R. I. F. L. H. Willis, Willimantic, Ct. Lois Waisbrooker, Battle Creek, Mich. Prof. E. Whipple, Clyde, Ohio. J’o‘3n B. Wolff, 510 Pearl street, N; Y. [N0'rE.—Should any person whose name may be found in this column feel aggrieved thereby, upon notiﬁcation of the same we_will hastily make reparation by removing it. Names respectfully solicited.] WARREN, Pa., April 12, 1878. MRS. VVOODHULL 8t MIss CLAFLIN: Dear Fm'ends—I notice you have done me the honor to put my name among the independent speakers, for which accept my thanks. _ I shall do what I can with tongue‘ and pen for free speech and reform. . Fraternally thine, CHARES HOLT, ..._.......... owns, 0., April 8, 1873. D60/I‘ lVee7cly—In view of your manifest determination to i publish the list of names only of such persons as vvill‘a.ccept no engagement without absolute freedom, etc., I will ask you to enter my name on what I consider the roll of honor. In many years of professional life I have unﬁinchingly ad- vocated the freedom and independence of woman as a neces- sity to human progress, and I shall advocate social freedom for her until I climbthe golden stair, »Words‘ cannot express how much I think of the VVEEKLY. May it live. Respectfully, ‘J. I. ARNOLD, M. D. - _ J ANESVILLE, Wis., April 7, 1873. ‘ Dear Mrs. vVoo0lhull—I desire that my name may stand in the list of speakers who are not for sale, and upon whose mouths no embargo can be placed. ' . This is no time for quibbling over minor differeiices. A great crisis is at hand, politically, theologically and ‘socially, and I believe that those who place themselves in the front of the battle should receive the credit due them. Once I was prejudiced against you, but I now see you in a diﬁerent light. » Yours truly, » O’. W. Srnwxnr. L z.__.—. CLYDE, Ohio, April 9, 1873. Mesdames Woodhull and C‘lajl'ln—I am a constant reader of the WEEKLY, and a good share- of my time is devoted to lec- turing on Spiritualism in its broadest sense. To me it em- bodies all general subjects that relate to the welfare of hu- manity, and I do not propose tobe muzzled by any society as to what subjects I speak upon, or how I may treat them. » - I am for the truth and the “ Naked Truth” every time around. So put my name in your list. Yours for the right, J. H. RANDALL, , Permanent a‘ddress—-Clyde, Ohio. A . political and I ~ time. woonnnti. a C"LAFLiN’S, wEEKLr. I "May 10, 1873. SOCIALISTIC. FREE Tnoucnrse FOR THE BOND AND FREE. BY A. FREEMAN. No. II. , Dare we honestly consider whether sexual commerce with- out the sanction of law is a wrong per so-—in itself a sin? There are many persons who seemto think that the sexual act is essentially» carnal, and should never be allowed except for purposes of procreation; and not even then, though hal- lowed by marriage, by persons who would be eminently holy and pure. This false assumption is based’ upon the old pa- gan-philosophy,_that’ sin essentially inheres to the human body, that ﬂesh and blood are tainted with moral evil. The Apostle Paul could not even shake oﬁ this prejudice he got from the Grecian philosophy, as taught four centuries before. he Was born, and seemed to think it was “not good for a man to touch a woman” unless he found the animal passion such a " burning” ﬁre that he could not possibly endure it! The Romish church attempted to act upon this same heathen principle, and some of the early ecclesiastical fathers did not believe in the rightfulness ,of sexual intercourse even though sanctiﬁed by their own priestly invention of the sac rament of marriage. St. Jerome, the author of the “Latin vulgate”——the version of the Scriptures now in use among Romanists--acknowledged that marriage was instituted by God at- ﬁrst, but claimed that Christ and Mary had conse- crated virginity, and it "was commonly held by the church fathers of the fourth century that marriage was the fruit of original sin, and that if a man had not fallen, God would have provided some other way to perpetuate the human race! Under such teachings husbands and wives often forsook each other as moral monsters to avoid the vile _leprosy of sexual contamination. Wives lived what they called virgin lives and husbands anticipated modern Shakerism in’ their sexual continence. When it was. found impossible to enforce upon the masses these absurd pagan notions against the unmis- takable teachings of nature, it was determined, at least, to keep clergypfree from the deﬁlement of woman, and hence perpetualcelibacy was enjoined npon them; with what re- sult, history too well attests. The grossest sensuality and the most unbridled licentiousness characterized the priestly profession, so that they had to be prohibited by imperial law from “ visiting the houses of widows and virgins!” Chastity almost became an obsolete virtue, and in the tenth‘ century an Italian Bishop pronounced all priests licentious, and the altar boys all bastards! (See Dr. Foote’s quotations from Lecky and others in “ Plain Home Talk.’_’) Thus history shows that all attempts to improve upon natural religion has been demoralizing, and all legislation upon the relations of the sexes, whether ecclesiastical or civil, has always made matters worse. Enlightened’ reason and "human intuition and consciou/sness—the divine in man———im— press every unbiased mind with the irresistible and ineradi- cable conviction that there is no moral quality, good or evil, essentially attaching to the more physical contact of the sex- ual any more than of the other organs of men and women. The mere mouthingof a ceremony by priest or magistrate armed with legal license cannot make sexual commerce mor- ally right where the inexorable laws of nature make it wrong The man who forces his sexual service upon a reluctant or unwilling woman, though she may be called by the State and the Church his wife, is not only morally guilty of adultery but of rape! ‘ c Circumstances and conditions too subtle, too reﬁned, too elevated and pure,.too spiritual "to be recognized by external written law, whether ecclesiastical or civil, determine when it is right or wrong for a man and woman to have sexual knowledge of each other. Dr. Franklin deﬁned adultery to be sexal intercourse without love); and if we were tovdeﬁne sexual chastity we should say it consists in the voluntary mutual and‘ temperate satisfaction (with due regard to the rights of others, and with an intelligent conformity to physi_ ologioal laws) of those desires or appetites which are natural to all healthy adult human beings, with or without the license of law, civil or ecclesiastical. ’ . If this be treason, make the most ofitl If this be free love, its ultimate universal triumph is only a question of The divine in the free human soul pronounces this eternal and axiomatic truth, and when the world is more en- lightened and less governed, there will be more real virtue and less debauchery and hypocrisy. Are we to infer from this that it is right for men and women to indulge in a pra- miscuous or general sexual commerce? No! A thousand times 1101 Nothing is more unnatural, and therefore nothing more wrong or physically and morally debasing. Are we tgld thatalarge class of persons have such strong animal passions that they will deem these views as a justiﬁcation of their licentiousness? Well, are they not already licentlous? Have the opposite views, taught/for centuries and inforced by pains and penalties, restrained or reformed them? These sons and daughters of humanity are ignorant and need know1_ edge. They are diseased and need medicine. They are themselves, mostly, the involuntary progeny of a, debased and licentious parentage. They inherited these burning animal passions, and then ignorantly cherished theminto abnormal growth. “ Their fathers have eaten sour ‘grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” . “ The iniquities of the fathers have been vis- ited upon their children,” by the immutable workings of a natural‘ law. Society is thus getting more rotten every day,“ and Priest, and Levite, and Pharisee cry out, “ Crucify,” to those who have courage , and honesty enough touncover the corruption. There are ﬁlthy and beastly amative practices, 110W P1’0V-3-16111‘: in New York, that no one has ever yet dared to mention in the public papers, and to describe which our language is 1300 P001‘, so that new words have to be “coined” forltne purpose-’ Insteagd of more law to bind men, we want more liberators to free them, and then to lovingly instruct them in the right way. Instead of creaking to men in the hum—drum cant of the orthodox P111?“ M00“ b9i’13“1’°m .J again,” we must teach them how to have children born right at ﬁrst. ~ Instead of Young Men’s Christian Associations to persecute poor women who dare to tell the truth, we need ‘fvPhysiological Associations ” for young men, and young women too, to teach them a knowledge of themselves.) In- stead of an effete,.dogmatic theology founded upon Pagan philosophy and Hebrew superstition, we must have the eter- nal laws of social science properly promulgated. The world needs teachers not preachers. Is this “free love?” ‘Love must be free——is freedom. There can be. no bond love. What is compulsory never can be a virtue. Instruct men, treat them as free, moral beings—our brothers-—and do not attempt to force them and watch them, but trust them and help them to help themselves. Multitudes who are ﬁlled with prejudices and are alarmed at the mere mention of social freedom,'do not comprehend the ﬁrst principles of true society, but persist in misunderstanding and Amis- representing those who are laboring at immense sac- riﬁce for the goodof our race, applying .to them the most odious epithets, while some of us know that -those very agi- tators and true reformers breathe an atmosphere so pure, and occupy a plane so elevated, and really carry a standard of sexual purity so high, because free, that their caluminators cannot appreciate them or even see them in the true light. True “free lovers” are not opposed to true marriage, but believe in it as nature’s divine institution, and look forward with joy and hope to the time when true monogamic mar- riage shall be universal, and the word “ divorce” shall be marked “ obsolete ”‘ in the lexicons of the world. Let us labor and wait. - ' « WOODHULL AND BEECHER. BY AUSTIN KENT. N o intelligent and unbiased person who has read WOOD- HULL 56 CLAFLIN’S «WEEKLY since the ﬁrst of November last, and watched the course of Mr. Beecher and his friends, can doubt that Mrs. Woodhull’s revelations were substan- tially true. It is equally clear that the Beechers had no right to take offense at her expose. I am surprised that they and the public did not_see this at once. Mrs. W. was in the wake of a great—-a Beecher~example. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s charges against Lord Byron and his sister were more infamous; and her reasons for making them public were nothing in comparison. I am sure Henry_Ward did not ‘publicly censure his sister for that act. Mrs. Stowe wrote of the dead, who could not defend themselves; -~Mrs. VVoodhull wrote of the living, who could, and gave them every chance to do it when she gave the names’ of four witnesses, who are each Mr. Beecher’s peers in moral honesty—in veracity.- I said: “ Mrs. Stowe’s motives may have been good.” I believe Mrs. Woodhull’s motives were -good, in her less offensive act. Is it possible that Mr.,Beech-er and his sister, foreseeing that the case of the ﬁrst must come out to the public, thought to prepare a bed of a great and honored name to case his coming fall? I cannot believe, and so do not assert it. ‘ . I neither justify nor'condemn Mr. Beecher’s long silence touching those charges. But when he did allude to them, to do it by calling Mrs. Woodhull “a nameless animal,” only injured himself. I will hope the papers mis-report him. In any case, he has met his equal in mental and moral power. The reader may credit this power to Demosthenes, Parker, or to Mrs. Woodhull, as he chooses. Every move of Mr. Beecher’s professed friends has only darkened his case. ’ Persecution of Mrs. W. was bad policy, and wicked. Mr. Beecher has now made himself more or less responsible for even a worse crime than Mrs. W. has ever charged him——-an effort to stop free speech and to crush a free press. There are thousands who can forgive his con- jugal irregularities, but who can never forgive his consent- ing to the action of those Protestant J esuits—-the Y. M. C. A, His good words for mental freedom have forever lost their power. I am sorry; for this I mourn. Most of the effort to defend and sustain Mr. Beecher over those charges has been only bravado. “Raising his salary» will not essentially help his case in the nation. I think it doesprove that he is a suitable pastor for the moneyedimaj or- ity of Plymouth Church. Iwould not be uncharitable to that church. Possibly the “marriage” festival between.Mr_ Beecher and his church meant more than was generally un- derstood by the public.‘ If so,,may the gods give them all moral courage to come out as the Oneidians do; and, if they will cast in their property with their persons, I will defend to the death, if need be, their rights to live their “complex marriage.” - _ So far, the churches have generally seemed to vie with each other in an effort to sustain Mr. Beecher over that eat. pose. Let no one be deceived by this into the idea that it is safe for a poor man or an anti-churchman to follow such an example. To—day, money is the ﬁrst person in'the Trinity of the orthodox God; money is the modern Christian’s God, Such a life is considered a disgrace to Inﬁdels and Spiritual- ists. The ancient Pharisees were the rich, orthodox and popu- lar church. Jesus denounced them, calling them “whited sepulchres,” “hypocrites,” “‘ a generation of vipers,” “ chil- dren of the devil ;” and said “ harlots ” would enter heaven before them. For this they cruciﬁed him. John Brown went to a Virginia gallows for the slave. lvlen called both in- sane———“ mad.” By the wisdomof the gods, both were more than justified.’ If Jesus was now on earth, our anti-Christ- ian churcheseincluding Plymouth——-would ﬁnd it necessary to send him to the Tombs or Ludlow Jail. George Francis Train is wasting away in the Tombs, with common murder- ers, for sending out (“obscene ”) extracts from the Bible. It is clearethat the churches are determined to commit sui- cide. ing they should I" g . . a For a time, the churches may seem to prevail over the Woodhulls and Trains, as slavery seemed to triumph over John Brown. But truth over error-—-honesty over dishon- esty—-is ever “ marching on.” ' Inﬁdels, Spiritualists and Free Religionists are will- I What a truly great, good and wise man would have not done. — — On the ﬁrst reading of the WEEKLY of November 2, it was clear to every common—sense mind that Mrs. Woodhull and her sister were really insane, or that her charges were mainly true. ‘ Moulton, Mr. Tilton, Mrs. Stanton, ’Mrs. Davis, or even M1“. Beeche'r——which the entire press was ready to circulate—— ‘ would have killed the whole thing, and Mrs. Woodhull’s in- ﬁuence for harm with it, There was no need of arresting or meddling with her; it was better and wiser not to. On the other hand (those charges beingsubstantially true), for Mr. Beecher or Plymouth Church to hope, by any means, to long break or even much lessen the force of the blow, was abso- lute insanity—was real madness. As well cause the waters of Niagara to run up stream. This did not come suddenly upon Mr. Beecher. Then why was he not prepared more wisely to meet it, unless “ whom the gods intend to destroy, they first make _mad.?” Had the whole thing been planned by the Liberals they could not more effectually have aided the Liberal cause. Persecuting women will never become popular in America. ‘ Mr. B. and the Y. M. C. A. are very Samsons in pulling down the Christian churches. I a Brother and sister Spiritualists, think what you must of Mrs. Woodhull. But I tell you she has represented free speech and a free press in chains. , And you who designedly and from choice ignored her while in that jail and in these chains, will yet, and justly, drain the cup from which she was forced to drink. And. I charge you, when mental freedom is fully secured, do not say, as the churches do touching the freeing of the slaves, “we did it.” Your course will never do it. Peter could say, when the Great Reformer was before Pilate, “ G-—d d—n him, I do not know him.” (The Book says “ Peter began to curse and to swear.”) Then he sheds a tear, and aspires to be chief among His Apostles. The Peters can never do much to reform the world; they may make a good foundation for despotism. ' I STOCKHOLM, N. Y., March 18, 1873. _ [From the Sandusky Register, March~19.] DOES MRS. WOODHULL RULE THE NATION? - BERIJIN HEIGHTS, March 11, 1872. Editor Regz'ster—-VVill you and your readers pardon‘ the pre- posterous proposition and bear with me while I answer the question in the affirmative. Ideas, not men, govern; men are but instruments and effects. One need not sit in a presi- dential chair to rule a State. John Brown’s throne was /the scaﬁold. ‘ Greeley’s body lies moldering in the grave, but his soul still speaksfrom -the Tmlnme. Victoria Woodhull to- day, better than any other person, represents the tendencies of the hour, and is consequently prophetically, if not liter- ally, the leader of America. Hold, and let me prove it by speciﬁcation. Victoria leads the Free Lovers, the Free Lovers lead the Spiritualists, the Spiritualists lead the Inﬁdels and Liberal Christians, the Liberal Christians lead the Orthodox and Conservatives gen- erally, and they are all tending toward her extreme state- ments of social law. That she leads the Free Lovers—the raw recruits~will be admitted. That she leads the Spirit- A ualists is attested by the logic of the situation. She is the twice chosen head of their national organization. Not that she represents all in a special sense, but majorities rule with them, and there is no reason for their overlooking the “ few but conspicuous ” patriots, the shining exceptions among them, except that they are exceptions to the common faith, and therefore unpopular. If we go back to precedents we ﬁndthe predecessor of — Mrs. W. in the spiritual headship, a pure—blooded R. R. R. (Radical Ready Relief) in the person of H. H. M. Brown, a » warm supporter of the present incumbent. And of the spirit- ual papers there is only one that theoretically opposes her doctrine, while the great “ American Spiritualist ” fell so desperately in love with the incendiary WEEKLY as to die through the ardor of the embrace. Spiritualism is thus fully Committed to the great Agitator, and Liberal Ohristianity,as represented by Tilton and Beecher, forms the next link. The one is the chosen head of the Radical wing of the woman suffragists, and the other of the Christian Conservativeﬂwin g. That Mrs. W. leads or has led Tilton, no one who has read ‘ his biography of her will doubt. She also leads Beecher in all but open avowal of principles. The silence of the differ- ent witnesses cited by Mrs. W., the attitude of Mr. Tilton, settles the fact that there is a fearful something at the bot- tom of it. The man who never shrunk from expressing his convictions before would not stand paralyzed in the presence of such charges, when a simple denial, certiﬁed by allparties cited as witnesses would crush the woman at once. Till this is done the statement of Mrs. Woodhull that he is a timid disciples of theirs, must hold good. If Christianity would have the “ ungodly” thinkﬂotherwise let them unite with the Advance and Mrs. Woodhull in demanding an investigation. And the status or motive of the accuser is not the thing at issue. Whether ambition for vulgar display, or revenge for the lampoons of the Christian Union, and the “ obscene” cuts of the illustrated story, “My Wife and I” (written as the A author claims to show the difﬁculties that her set of radicals had to meet with from the undiscriminating public in class- ing them with the " illuminate”), or a desire to make money by blackmailing——whether any- or all these were the cause, is not the ﬁrst question. Are the charges true is the issue that must be met, and till it is met, fairly and squarely, Ply- mouth Church may indorse, and the A Christian Press and Young Men’s Christian Association follow suit, they only divide the responsibility and share his fate without avert- ing it. ‘ She commands the spiritual militia—-three to eleven millions they claim-—while all the solid men among them, who have sought to hold her to her “ sphere” by clasping hands across her telegraphic lines, have succeeded in being lifted from Atheir moorings, as so much “inertia. overcome,” so much Had the ﬁrst been true, ﬁve words from Mr. ' As the case stands, Woodhull is master of the situation. . uJI—~IScrwH‘I \a 5-» ‘¢lJ""3L|v' I W W 1 U4! KU Ilkuww xv u-1 up-nTu«.I ,_.. . \VLV‘ILUFD r—wuJ\|uvv:1. ‘Sp - May 10, 1873. 3. WOODHULI. 83 oLArLIN°s wssntr. - r 7 ballast to her balloon, so many tail-tags to her “celestial kite.” Mr. Editor, perhaps you don’t know it, but I’m a medium! T The spirit of Father Abraham is upon me, and hitjor miss, I must tell a story. When a boy I was one day breaking a pair of very young steers. Seized with a ﬁt of curiosity, laudable in its inception, but fatal in its termination, I‘ yoked them at one end before unyoking them at the other, by tiei.ng their tails together. I thought that if the knot held a and the tension became unbearable, their brute instinct would teach them to stop pulling, but to my surprise, the more it hurt, the more these calves pulled and bellowed! And before I could gather my wits to apply the Alexandrian solvent, the line parted, and one of them went down to his; tory as the “ stump-tailed steer,” whose extreme taking off remains a mystery to my father to this day. Now, it seems to me that some of our Spiritual brethren in their frantic attempts to disengage themselves from unsavory entangle- ments use their legs, lungs and wind with about as much judgment in the adaptation of means to ends as these calves used. I beg pardon. Little things are sanctiﬁed in the great whole by the dignity of use- ‘That I never stick a ﬂy except to point a moral. Mrs. Woodhull has a mission and a commission no one can doubt who sees how admirably her chariot wheels adjust themselves to the grooves of the times. Mr. Editor, let me call attention to the fact that in adver- tising Mr. Tuttle’s “works” through his last communication, you failed to give their price! Let us know how many vol- umes he has written and how he sells them by the pound, and how much they all weigh. How could one know the just amount of considerationto give his arguments Without these prior facts for date? -A word to “Caesar.” You say, “ were I a minister I should like such material as Berlin furnishes for a church.” Now why not be a minister and gather the unhoused multitude in to hear you! “Aspiration proves ability,” and such mater- ial would prefer perhaps a priest of the Melchisadic order. Try it. Berlin has enterprise. The pastor of the “ First Baptist Church of Berlin Heights,” failing to reach Henry Ward Beecher by letter with his Macedonian cry, went to Toledo to meet him “face to face ” and urge the_ﬁtness of his coming. He reports that he had the same success that Moses» had in meeting God on a time. But he has faith that if he could get his letter to him, he would come this time. And so have I. He’s ticketed for Berlin Heights, “ stop over ” where he will! And it is in nowise certain whether his pres- ent position on the'road is more due to the arguments of Andrews, the facinations of Woodhull or the presistent will of the erratic deacon. ’ The active, agressive, cumulative forces support Mrs. Wood- hull. The dormant conservatives are plastic to her touch, ﬁghting her with words, but giving in constantly to her de- mands. The Church,Aemasculate of Christian vigor, energetic only in usurpation, has left the citadel of social life a pray to all manner of outlaws; and ambitious to lose what little’ power it still has, is laying violent hands on political prerog- atives and plotting to overthrow the liberties of the people, by enforcing on others their own goodless forms. Our loose system (?) of divorce is simply free love legalized. And if it is right in principle, the same principle will compel the acceptance of Victoria’s last plank. Jesus Christ, Horace Greeley and the Catholic churches denying the premise, es- cape the ultimate, making society the unit, they preserve it by ruling out divorce as the devil’s entering wedge. R. D. Owen, Victoria Woodhull and Hudson Tuttle make the in- dividual the unit and the State Legislatures, from Connecti- cut to Indiana, proceed to legislate for the omnipotent inte- ger--by getting out of his way. The most far-sighted of American statesmen said thirty years since, in grappling with Andrews, the incipient “ Pan- tarch :” “ Your principles are loose and disorderly. They open the ﬂood-gates of . vice; and discord, disintegration and wretchedness will follow in their wake !” “Your principles,” replied Andrews (I quote from mem- ory), “if you are a Protestant, are the same as mine, and tend logically to my position. Reject the premise or accept the result. I appeal to the spirit of the age.” And the spirit of the age lit on the banner of Andrews. He who spoke for peace and home and family lies in the dust, while the genius of disintegration, in the form of a woman, stands perched upon his grave, and with bony ﬁnger points to the annhilation of marriage——-the ﬁnal proposition of Protestant- ism. . What then ‘R When we have “reasoned to the end,” when we take the last step practically that we long since took the- oretically, when the initiatory blends in the ﬁnal, when the gathering momentum brings the ship of state to the open jaws of the maelstrom, and our natural religion lands us in a natu- ral hell—what then? Shall we hug the sulphurous ﬂames and say, “this must be good for me got here logically!” Or shall we postulate and say, that must be bad “logic” which leads to such results? And if we agree on getting out of hellsome way, then what way ? ‘ ’ ’ It is in good reason, Mr. Editor, that you and your cor- respondents are questioning the countenance of Old Rome. The days of protesting as an avocation are nearly over. If Protestantism can do nothing but play the Ishmaelite, she ‘had better go home to her mother. ‘And she will. Behind the need lies a must, mathematical, historical, imperative, No nation long tolerated anarchy“! N 0 law, mob law and the iron heel follow in quick and painful transition. We have reached the ﬁrst stage, no principle (but lawless individual) death (moral), on the pale horse! Hell follows after; then hell’s regulator! The Almighty American——I—has one al- ternative. To adjust himself or be adjusted: to unite with his equal, and become, as we, or fall into line under a despot and have a little of the I’s taken outof him by a greater L Just now he is ‘‘ damning” the prostitute” as vigorously as she once damned the “nigger.” The time came when the nigger damned him,-and he was compelled to choose between the negro as equal, or Napoleon as master. i Our social Mexico is already made, and our religious Bona- parte stands ready. The pompous I aforesaid can reconize the woman in the “prostitute” and marry her for life as an equal in all respects, orhe can keep on’ damning her till she damn him. This is the “ prostitute’s” hour. The next is the woman’s or the Popes. Which? VINDEX. A REPLY TO “ s." I A writer in the WEEKLY of April 19, presents substanti- ally the same view as the above, and as-bearing on both com- munications, the following exceedingly simple propositions are submitted: , V 1. A man may be very good.in a great many directions, and yet just as bad in as many more- This is not only a pos- sibility in nature, but it is also a fact, patent to our percep- tion every day of our lives. ' 2. Every particle of our trouble with Mr. Beecher, has grown of the fact of his being so good in many respects, for if he had not been he could not have so harmed us. N 0 bad clergyman, none but one who had commended himself to the public as pro-eminently good, good almost universally, could ever have had the {influence to carry this high-handed out- the rights of the _whole people of America! Does that not come home like a ﬂash? 8. Mr. Beecher in eﬁect, is :all this of evil that is repre- sented, yes, and more. 7 4. Yet this does not prove that he should not some day be a great leader in our cause", nor that, as an -inevitable neces- sity, he will not be. While Henry Ward Beecher lives he will lead, and sway the world as almost no other can. The only question is, in what direction? On whose side? In other words the question is, What is going to become of Henry Ward Beecher? This man who has been almost unequaled, even to doing all this—what of him for these ten or twenty years to come? Hegnever will go back and satisfy the blue religionists, for them he never has satisﬁed. He never will be restored to stand well where he has stood, for that, after all this, is simply out of the question. He must, and he will ‘ go ahead——nothing else is possible to ‘him. He will teach and defend freedom—just what we are doing. Then he will not need to lie, nor do such evil, for he has only done all now be- cause he has needed to. In other words, he will be a. better man, and woe to those who object! And then his mighty power and unequaled advocacy will make him a great leader, such a leader as we all shall be glad of, one to win multitudes over to our faith, for, all of us together, weshall not win men too fast. Shall we? A great leader, then, not necessarily the leader. Victoria C. Woodhull and the rest remain! But if Henry Ward Beecher could lead them, they would be the ﬁrst to say, Amen—for the cause sake they would say it—ob- livious of all this injury he had done them in the past, so nobly they would say it! But, in that sense, Henry Ward Beecher can never lead, for he never has—pilots have always preceded him. . ' V W 5. “ But Mr. Beecher is sensual!” That is his business, and that of the women electing his caress. What right have you » to sit in judgment on his or their nature, more than they on yours? But if Mr. Beecher is sensual, freedom is the only thing that can cure him. Make all free, make it a question of universal choice, with mutual love‘ conditioning that choice, and the two things-—experience and love-—will reﬁne any man, of grossness, elevate him to a higher plane. 6. That is the ﬁrst great principle of all, Freedom, on which at all hazards, and in every possible case, we are to insist, as never, no, never working evil, but ‘always and forcvermore, only good. And this is the real question to be discussed; if you believe in Freedom, you accept all -else; if you» do not ac- cept all else, you do not believe in Freedom. 7 J osnrn TREAT. THE MAIN ISSUE. Dear Sistcrs—In the exercise of a privilege or right belong- ing to all men alike, whether learned or unlearned, if only capable of uttering words easy to be understood, or prompted by a sense of duty that may not, innocently, be shunned—— for one or other of these reasons, cr a combination of all, I feel constrained justnow to say something more or less to, at or about the “ reverend citizen," “Plymouth Church divine,” or “ Pet of Brooklyn”-—Hem‘y Ward Beecher. Pre-eminently learned and talented, or at least univer- sally, almost, so estimated—-and good, pre-eminently, so esti- mated also by some——.standing fearfully and proudly above all of his peers, upon the very pinnacle ‘of the temple of latter-day saintly fame—-—idolized and worshiped as no other man is or has been, save the one he calls Lord or Divine Master and Redeemer, and whose ambassador (the clerical term) he has the impudence to pretend to be, in the face of facts that give the lie to his assumptions. 1, notwithstand- ing, ﬁnd this gentleman (?) publicly arraigned as an ADUL- TERER! and as silent under the arraignment as if entirely above the reach of his accusers, and vauntingly demanding acquittal because of a reputation for sanctity or purity, now known, or believed to be, as falsely as hypocritically ac- quired. _ _ But, about the most marvelous element of the whole affair, however, seems to be the singular and simultaneous unanimity with which the, almost, entire press of the coun- try—-secular, religious and- inﬁdel———have _disavowed and ignored it; and when noticing’ the subject at all, doing so only with the evident design of protecting Beecher against reproach or condemnation, and of shamelessly villifying his accusers. . g Thus far the success of their effort has been rather ap- parent than real, and controlled, probably, by an instinctive dread that each and all may or will be involved in a like ex- posure ere the demands of universal justice can be satisﬁed. And thus will it be in the end. V '_ Your correspondent, dear Sisters, is not inimical to the “REVERED CITIZEN ” in any personal sense; but he does heartily despise the character he manifests and the spirit he represents, be they natural or inspired, and claims the right, H as good. and large as his'cw.n. to decide upon the guilt or rage against the WEEKLY, Woodhull, Claﬂin' and Blood, and I innocence of any party, including himself, upon evidence, either direct, positive or circumstantial. in this case at least, to summon a competent gwitness to the stand, to the end /that there maybe no possible misjudg- ment, and therefore he calls upon you, Henry Wand Beecher! What say you? Are you guilty or not guilty, as charged in “ the Beecher-Tilton Scandal” paper? And you“ have no more right to ignore the question, nor have the legal powers the right to allow it, or you to escape arraignment upon the charge, than in the case of any other criminal. You are a professed minister of the gospel, and whether such or not, you are,‘like every other man charged with the commission of crime, amenable to public law, neither your calling nor your elevated position in that calling affording_any reasons for ex- emption to you from such amenability, rather do they con- stitute an aggravation of your offense and the greater reason why you should be COMPELLED to show your hand. I The same law that says thou shalt not kill says also thou shalt not commit adultery, and you, are as fully bound to answer for your violationof law in the one case as the mur- derer is in the other. If not, why not? There is a law which forbids the publication of obscene literature, etc., and a law, too, forbidding such acts as con- stitute the basis for such publications. Now, I wish to know why the vigilant Comstock should not_ be required to drag to light the actors of the obscene acts as well as the describersof such acts? Is it because the crime of describ- ing an act is greater’ than that of its commission? can be convicted, my reply is that many a man has been hung upon ctrcwnstantial evidence not stronger than can be produced against HIM. Besides, all of his late acts read like confessions of guilt. ‘ Let’ the proper public law officers do their duty, and with the-assistance alone of that Protestant Jesuit, Comst-ock, we shall soon touch‘ the bottom of fact in this matter. At least so thinksoyour fervent friend and brother, . S. SOCIAL EXPERIENCES. ....._.-u—— The MURDER or mnocnnrs. One-half of all the children born, and in some sections of our country more than this proportion, die before they reach their tenth year. The marriages that produce this disease, suffering and deathiin children are legalized and Christianized. The State-house and the church sanction such unions and such births, but neither can put aside moral laws. Temperamental adaptation -must exist between the parents or they will utterly fail in begetting and giving birth to healthy children. If one or the other of parents are diseased they will still produce healthier children gthan can healthy parents who are not adapted. ' Such adaptations and temperaments are fundamental and constitutional,.the parties to such false unions cannot create adesired adaptation in their present relations. Nothing remains for _ them but sexual abstinence, separation, or sickness and death for themselves and their children. Brothers and sisters could no more violate the principles of perfect sexual union than do many of the married to-day.» The one would be legal 0'/ncest while the other is ‘Tn01"al«'2'/nce,9t, , ‘ EXAMPLES. . _ Mr. and Mrs. B--—— have been the parents of twelve legm; mate children, all but three have died, and these three en- ‘j oy but indifferent health, while the Parents are healthy but not adapted. _ ' ' Mrs. M-—-— has within the last twenty-ﬁve years made some eight or ten unsuccessful attempts to give birth to living children. They were all either born dead or born with such conditions as to insure death in a few weeks. The parents were legally married and are healthy. Instances of this kind are all about us in “good society.” Happinegs begets happiness. Parents happy in their Sexual, magnetic and spiritual relations will give tothe world joyous, healthy and spiritual children. Should we not reverse the old saw, “ be good and you will be haPPYa” and Put it thus, “be . happy and you W111 be good.” , Institutions are binding the sexes in unhappiness; better be happy ifthe church and the State sink. L1 K- Josnm. wisnmeuzou, April 16, 1873. ' 1‘/[esclames-——You have devoted a column in your WEEKLY to the exposure of matrimonial inﬁlieities and invite con- tributions. I therefore take the liberty of referring you to a case, which by reason of the -illustrious character of the person most seriously concerned, will point your moral about as perfectly as any that ever occurred in all the tide of time. Read the 11th and 19th chapters of “Lamon’s Life of Lin. coln,” and you will see the gentlest hearted ‘man of his age chained to a Woman as coarse as she was ilnperious, and in his ceaseless writhings and torments you may trace some of the horrors which inevitably attend the Operations of the unnatural system called “ marriage.” V By the way,_ this great man declared in favor of female suffrage as far back as 1836. (See Lamon’s Life, p. 186.) Yours truly, — TRUTH. THE PAGAN BIBLE Is. now about ready to be distributed. Therefore send in exhausted, and if you delay giving orders until after the edition is. off the press, you will be obliged to wait for the next edition’ of this most thrilling and sensational book, Price, 25 cents; or $15 per hundred. LET marriage, €911“-1113 nlarrlagev be always regarded as honorable, but never let womanhood be dishonored byhav- mg marriage presented as a specula-t1o1_1,_a trade, a means or expedient for obtaining a home, a position, a support. Let and Woman then in single or married life will always be true to herself and to all around her, in being true to the divine image impressed on. her soul.-—.Ewchcmga . Notwithstanding this claimed right, however, he prefers, If it be said that there is no evidence by which Beecher A your orders. The proposedﬂiﬁrst edition is already nearly - marriage and womanhood ever receive the honor due them,’ 4 s. I t‘ t ' and, perhaps, the fear that we had libelled Mr. Beecher ' gyeat questions regarding social reform, that havetbeen wooDHULLa eLAELrN’s wEEKLYs_ TERIVIS OF SUBSCBLIPTIONL PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, - - - $3 00 One copy for six months, - - - - - - 1 50 ‘ Single copies, - - - - - - - - - 10 A 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. 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We are glad to be able to inform our friends. that "the American News Co. is now prepared to ﬁll all orders from its customers, as formerly, for the WEEKLY. The in- quisition which the authorities, located in this city, attempt- ed to establish over the freedom of the press, by their arrest of ourselves and Mr. Train ‘upon the charge of obscenity; have, until now, prevented the Company from supplying its customers. Hundreds of newsmen have, in the meantime, received notice that the Company does not furnish the VVEEKLY, and they will now be obliged to renew theirorders before they will be ﬁlled. Will our friends everywhere take the trouble to inform their newsmen of this change in the relation ofthe Company to the WEEKLY. -———-?——>——40y—-4 SPECIAL AND IMMEDIATE TO EVERY READER. To every reader of the WEEKLY who is interested in the launched upon the public for discussion by the various issues that have grown out of it, we desire to say,’that the present indications make it almost certain that the culmi- ing; indeed what we have been able to present in this and the last issue make it evident that it is just at the door, liable to fall any day. It therefore behooves everybody who is interested in the decision of this question to do their utmost to spread the WEEKLY before every radically-inclined mind of which he or she knows. We expect, indeed, that the very next issue year’s subscription, as was the number of November 2d. Let every" reader then decide to send us at least one new subscriber for the WEEKLY. to begin with the next issue; and let every one who has made up a club resolve to double it, for the same number. Let every friend to social freedom devote one day of the coming week to obtaining new subscribers to the WEEKLY. Do this as a duty that you owe to yourself as well as to the cause, and thus put us in a way to ﬁre a double broadside, which we shall be ready to do very‘ soon. We tell you that no person who has any sympathy with reform can aﬁord to do without the WEEKLY for the re- mainder of this year, and you who have read _it since we came out of jail can readily imagine why. More thanﬁall this, it is necessary that you give us this aid at this time when renewed efforts are being put forth to crush us and the WEEKLY. Weneed your assistance more than at any previous time. It may be absolutely neces- sary that we procure a printing office of our own, in order to insure the regular issue of the WEEKLY, and this ‘we can- not do unless all our friends remember our weakened con- dition from the various persecutions through which we have passed, and come immediately to our relief. You have all done well, done nobly; but none of you have done as well as you may yet do. Remember that every dollar that comes in to the .. WEEKLY is used in the WEEKLY, and that we give all our time to it without price; and that we have not only given all our time, but all our means, and that we are now compelled to depend upon our friends to maintain what we have builded up for them. , A few more well-directed eﬁorts, a few more clubs, a few more renewals, a few more payments of past dues, until the great social bubble, compounded of hypocrisy and coward- ice, shall have been bursted, and the WEEKLY will be on the high road to independence. As yet it is not quite independ- dent. It requires the assistance of its friends,’ and they will be measured by that which they afford it. Then let your responses be immediate/and ample, so that you may say, I have done my duty. We mean this in deepest earnestness, and We hope it may not be passed lightly over by a single person who does not desire to see social reform go backward a hundred years. i PREMIUMS TO CLUBS. In a short time we intend to present the most magniﬁcent schedule of premiums for new subscribers and clubs that was ever offered, as an introduction to which we now present the following: For every subscription (from one to four) received we will send the WEEKLY one year and one of the dollar photo- graphs. For every club of ﬁve subscribers——ﬁfteen dollars—ﬁve copy of “Constitutional Equality,” a right of woman, by Tennie C. Claﬁin, price $2.00. For every club of ‘ten subscribers~—thirty dollars—ten copies of the VVEEKLY, ten photographs and one copy each of “ The Principles of Government,” by Victoria C. Wood- hull, price $3; and “Constitutional Equality” (each book containing steel-plate engraving of the author). _ ' For every club of twenty subscribers—siXty dollars—twenty copies of the WEEKLY one year, forty photographs and two copies each of “The Principles of Government” and “ Con- stitutional Equality.” , Forcvery club of thirty or more subscribers, accompanied by three dollars for each subscriber, thirty copies of the WEEKLY one year, ninety photographs and one each of the books—-“The Principles of Government” and “Constitu- tional Equality”——for every ten subscribers; and For a club of’ ﬁfty subscribers~—one hundred and,ﬁfty dollars~—ﬁfty copies’ of the WEEKLY one year, ﬁfty photo- graphs, a set _of _the books and a Wheeler & Wilson Sewing. Machine. . . . ——~—--¢4»a-———- NATIONAL WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE , ASSOCIATION O CONVENTION. ' ' .___._.._ This Association-—Susan B. Anthony, president; Matilda Joslyn Gage, chairman ex-com1nittee——are to hold a con-. vention in Apollo Hall, Tuesday, May 6, the twenty-ﬁfth anniversary of Woman Suffrage. As speakers, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mathilda. Anncke, Rev. Olympia Brown, A. J. Dunniway, Laura de Force Gordon, Belva A. Lockwood, Elizabeth A. Merriwether, Lavina C. Dundore, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Phebe Cozzens, Catherine A. P. Stebbins, Paulina W. Davis, Mary Godbe, Martha C. Wright, Helen M. Barnard, Maria V Mott Davis, Ellen C. Sargent, "Elizabeth S. Bladen, Lucinda Chandler, Jane Graham Jones and Mary F. Davis are e_Xpected——an array of talent sufficient to convince the world of the ‘justice and phases of the_. Beecher-Tilton Scandal, and the several side the right of impartial suffrage. nating point in this great social drama is rapidly appro'ach- ’ of the WEEKLY will alone be worth the price of the entire , copies of the VVEEKLY one year, ﬁve photographs and one May 10, 1873. INATTENTION TO LETTERS. No doubt many of our friends who write to us expect an- swers to their letters, which they do not get; but will they please remember that we have an immense labor, all of which ' i we are compelled to perform ourselves. All the work of this large paper is done by us—-something which we will venture to ‘ say is not true of any equal number of people upon any other journal of its size. This; together with other arduous duties, keeps us daily from the early hours of every morning until one and sometime two o’clock the next morn- ing to conclude. When this is considered will ourfriends wonder that we leave any possible letter unanswered ? When they shall work as hard and as long outside, in adding to the circulation of the VVEEKLY, as we now labor inside to make them proﬁtable weekly visits, we shall be able to em- ploy a conﬁdential clerk to answer all of that class of letters which now remains unanswered. > - A O>—4 KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE. That the Government which has become nothing less than an agent of the Y. M. C.A. God-in-the-Constitution Christians (Pagans rather), makes use of every means within its power to suppress the circulation of the WEEKLY. One of the latest dodges is that of postmasters in various places who re- fuse to deliver packages of the WEEKLY to newsmen unless they pay the postage, notwithstanding it is already paid by us at the post-office here, and the package is stamped as paid by the post-oﬂice oﬁicials. Formerly, postmasters who did not like the WEEKLY, were in the habit of sending the pa- pers back to us as having been refused by subscribers, whose names would be erased from our list. Soon, however, they would complain to us for not sending the paper, when the kind oﬂices of the postmaster become evident. IVe presume that thousands of the WEEKLY have been destroyed by post- masters, and we have hadto bear the blame of irregularity when we have done. everything in our power to secure regularity. All these things point to the necessity .for.the success of the Equal Rights Party, which means equality for all and jus- tice for all. A 4 V ‘wv V JOSEPH HOAG’S VISION. In the year 1803 Joseph Hoag had a vision under circum- stances which mark it as among the great prophecies. From this we make the following extracts : “ Then it (dissention) entered politics throughout the United States, and did not stop until it produced a civil war. An abundance of human blood was shed. In the course of the conﬂict the Southern States lost their power, and slavery was annihilated within their borders. “Then a monarchal power arose, took the government of the United States- and established a national religion, and made all societies tributary to its support. I saw the prop. erty of ‘The Friends’ taken to a large amount, and I was much amazed; but I heard avoice proclaim, "This power « shall not always stand; but write it, I will chastize my church until it returns to its faithfulness.’ ” Readthis and then see if, in view of the very remarkable fulﬁllment of the prophecy about slavery and the late war, it is not fair to infer that the attempt to establish a national religion and the Empire is not one and the same thing, con- templated by one and the same set——-the Y. M. C; A. God-in the-Constitution Pagans. ' __..Q4 7 wvw A VVORD TO CRITICS OF SOCIAL FREEDOM. It is well known to every body that, if ‘there is any thing at which we are rejoiced more than any other, it is the plea- sure of enticing critics to reply, in the columns of the Weekly/, to’ our argument for Social Freedom. But they all ﬁght shy of doing just that, and steal away into the columns of a journal in which theyare securely entrenched from all harm behind the editorial ﬁat of “Nothing from us in favor of -- Victoria Woodhull in these-columns.” . Some time ago we attempted to make a reasonable appeal I to that -editor, and in the kindest manner to appease his ire, but instead of accomplishing our purpose, he made a brutal reply, wholly ignoring the points of our letter, and told a series of lies outrageous enough to shame the Christian Devil himsclf.- It was not necessary forus to write him down as a falsiﬁer, since every. body knew, and his best friends ad- mitted, thathe had lied. ‘ Since that time scarcely a week has passed without ﬁnd- ing in the columns of his paper some article either of out- rageous and gratuitous abuse or some professed criticism on Social Freedom, to each and all of which, replies—when essayed as they have been in many instances—-have been re- fused. This has come to be so generally known, that we hold it to be cowardly to write articles against us in that journal, and as dishonest and insincere on the part of that journal to print them. ‘It is a nice thing for these champions of the present social despotism and damnation to build up these “men of straw,” and stand them "up for the public to gaze upon, where they know no one can enter to tip them over and show them to be only straw. But we now publicly invite these “ Falstaffs” to come out into an open ﬁeld, and we assure them they will get hit, or at least ﬁred at. Say, now, brave champions of present conditions and fees to woInan’s freedom, dare you it is shown to be by the above statement. ._.Ma.y 10, 18%’. _ Q wooninum a cLAi.~x.m%s WEEKLY. , . -9 "‘D,ﬂ\ -... show your faces in an open ﬁeld ?—-or will you still skulk, Bushwhacker style, into an impenetrable fortress, and from . thence hurl your mud-balls ? _ 44. A V TW‘ MORALITY AT “A PREMIUM. Our sister city up the river has been blessed by a visit _ from Christ’s obscene representative of this city, the man of many names. It is wonderful to behold the yearnings of soul that this personage has for the morality of this coun- try. Whenever he sees danger threatening to under- mine the morals of the community, thither he Wends his way and issues his decrees, and straightway every one not having the fear of the God-in-the-Constitution Y. M. C. A. on them comes to grief. When we regard the God-like qualities of this latter-day Christ, we are compelled to in- ‘ quire: Was not this man also born of a virgin having never known carnal passion—that horrible demon which, accord- ing to the latter-day Pharisees, curses all humanity? This terrible curse is so prevalent and so under the ban of these God representatives, that we wonder they do not go to Con- gress and get that immaculate body to pass a law to suppress it. We presume they will do this shortly, and force human- ity to that condition wherein no more mortals shall be born except of virgins, or within the pale of the church. - But this Albany visit of Christian charity developed some strange things about this same church. An Albany paper giving an account of his Christ-like doings says: “The letters found in this city yesterday are of the vilest character. One of them came from a minister in Georgia, who was in conﬁdential correspondence with one of ‘ our renowned doctors,’ and whobelieved that he could ﬁnd ready sale for a large quantity of goods famong the members of his congregation.” ~ _ I But this is all for Christ’s sake, you know. VVe wonder that this agent of his should have let this secret out of his “conundrum bag,” in which so many similar things are hid away from public gaze. But, like Dodge’s tin, these things will sometimes leak out even from Beardsley’s keep- ing. The question is': How many preachers and congrega- tions does this great wholesale dealer in obscene literature supply on the sly, for Christ’s sake, to show the elect how terribly the “ damned” world is fallen. But the appetite for obscenity on the part of the clergy is not all in which they excel, as the following from the New York Sun would seem to indicate—all for Christ’s sake, of course; but how stupid of the courts not to view it in that light: - A CLERGYMAN CONVICTED or SWINDLING.-—BOS’l.‘ON, April 24.—In the Superior Criminal Court to-day, John Hutchin- son was convicted of swindling the sexton of St. Paul’s Church, Boston, out of about $1,800, through a pretended business copartnership. Hutchinson is a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. -:——--———>—<-Or-4———-—-———— HOW LONG: WILL THE PEOPLE SUBMIT TO THIS? To THE EDITOR on THE SUN: Sir—-The relation of some facts concerning the workings of I certain detective concerns in this vicinity, may not prove uninteresting. One of the most extensive of these concerns —“ agencies ” they are called——claims in its printed circulars to be in no way connected with or controlled by any munici- pal corporation cr Government authority. But it has fre- quently performed work for prominent officers of the Post.- oﬂice Department in connection with the same, free of charge, and received as a" return copies of letters passing through the mails, and which must of course have been opened, copied and fresealed by the said oﬂicials; thus showing that almost any, if not all, letters—of whatever nature, however sacred the contents, however important and private, or how- ever important their speedy transmission to their destina- tion—-may be opened in ‘violation of the postal laws, their contents in a measure published, and the letters detained to a perhaps damaging extent, simply by this detective concern of “high moral principles ” representing to the proper par- ties in the Post-office that the contents would lead to the prevention or detection of crime. , That such a state of affairs can exist at the present day in a civilized country, and in times of peace, appears incredi- ble; but that such has been the case within a very short time can, if necessary, be proven by numerous instances. It is not probable that a community can be subjected to a greater indignity than this; but this is not all. Telegrams in peaceful times are supposed to be as sacred as the mails; but I am ‘prepared to state positively that numerous in- stances have occurred where this same detective concern has -been favored by the oiﬁeers and agents of a certain telegraph company with the contents of telegrams of different descrip- tions—business, family, and general—which they had no more right to divulge than a Post—olﬁce employe-has to vio- late the sanctity of the mails. TRUTH. It will be almost impossible for the people generally to be- lieve that freedom in this country has so nearly departed as Well may the question be raised: Is there any such thing as liberty left the people, when their private correspondence is subjected in the Post-oiiice to the surveillance and espionage of a des- - picable representative of a still more despicable organization. It is not diﬁicult to conjecture that this representative is the obscene jaekal of many aliases, or that the organization is the Grod—in-the—Constitution Y. M. C. A., whose President not only stands before the country charged with fraud by the late Secretary of the Treasury, but by him also Charged with the attempt _to squirm himself out of the position ‘ into which his greed for gain had led him. If this be the 6 head, what ‘must the other parts be?_. Pretty men these are, to be sure, to violate the private letters of the people, under . the pretense of detecting crime! Had they not better cleanse themselves—-cast the beams out of their own eyes before en- deavoring to see if people more honest than they, have not motes in their eyes? , I I But really, are the people ready to submit to such infamy as this fcreshadows? Are theywilling that their letters, deposited in the post-oﬁices, and containing their most secret and sacred thoughts, shall be liable to be seized by this fellow of keen ,scent, for obscenity, and subjected to the scrutiny of his in- decently inclined eyes? This is a despotism that would not be tolerated a single day under any monarchy in the world; and yet American freemen suffer it every day and every hour, and have not the courage to even speak against it. Have we become a race of dogs, that we may be worse than kicked and cuffed by such hypocrites? For our part we are disgusted with the very name of Government, when its func- tions can be prostituted by such wretches to serve their own vile imaginings, and none too soon can come that which shall sweep them clear from the earth. Revolution is the watchword and death alike to all despotismjand to all des- pots. s >—40r—4 THE THUNDERBOLT. A CARD. Early nextjweek I shall issue a paper called the Thunder- bolt. It will tear open the “Beecher-Tilton Scandal.” It will arraign every great socialforce that has entered into the late national conspiracy to hide the sins of Henry Ward Beecher. The paper will be largely occupied by an article of myown, prompted and impelled by the highest and most patriotic motives. But word is sent to me that» Mr. A. J. Comstock (of “ obscene literature ”) is preparing to suppress my article. I trust this information is false. Bigots will consider the Thunderbolt a wicked paper, but there is not money enough on the globe to pay me for writing a line of obscene literature. Not only that, but the very charge is so repulsive to me that I would rather be tried for murder ,' and I give" Mr. Comstock my word as a. gentleman that I shall en- deavor to gratify my choice in this respect, if he should make one of his illegal descents upon my person, character and properity. This course, if no other, will bring the Beecher- Bowen-Comstock conspiracy to a head, and will again secure free speech and a free press in the United States. EDWARD H. G. CLARK. TROY, N. Y., April 26, 187 3. —Troy Whig. [N ow, Comstock, Beardsley, or whatever your name may be, here is a man, a gentleman, who deﬁes you. Will you have the courage to pursue him; or doesthat only stand by you in the case of women? Oh, brave fellow! Here 1s an opportunity to test your metal. Here is . at man backed, as you know, by a dozen of the most eminent men of the coun- try. Try your obscenity dodge with them, and see what will come of it. For once you will tread on people whom the courts will not dare to treat as they have dared to treat women. Y. M. C. A., and you, Comstock, their obscene dog, let us tell you your infamous race is run. If you don’t believe it, try it. That’s all.] - 4‘; 4 y ‘wr-V THE MONSTER SCANDAL IN PLYMOUTH CHURCH. THE RUMBLINGS Pnncnnnie THE EARTHQUAKE.-This scandal can no longer justly be called the Beecher-Tilton Scan- dal, because it has merged into something immensely diﬁ’erent from what such a. title indicates. Neither is it, s_trictly speaking, a Beecher-Bowen Scandal, nor yet that with Proc- tor added, but the whole church—Plymouth Church-—is in- volved; and therefore it has now become the ‘Plymouth Church Scandal, and will hereafter rightly be so considered, as what follows clearly shows: In our resume of the aﬁair, last week, it will be remem- bered that we called attention to the attempt made inevery direction to distract the public thought away from the real issue—-as to the truth or falsity of the charges preferred against Mr. Beecher. That policy has been most strenuous- ly adhered tosince; and if the public is to judge of the case from the presentation, ostensibly made by the press of Brooklyn, it must decide that Mr. Beecher is not in’ the question at all, and that no one has any score to settle ex- cept Henry C. Bowen; ~ . I Now, while "we are no special admirer of this person, we cannot refrain‘from exposing the shallow pretense that he is the only one who is involved in this controversy; nor from such a summing up of the case as shall put it in its true po-. sition before at least the readers of the WEEKLY. - But we must premise even this by another showing which, more clearly than anything else, demonstrates the insincer- ity, the dishonesty and the duplicity of almost everybody who has touched this case since our issue of Nov. 2d, which ﬁrst brought it to public notice. Almost the entire press of these two cities, and notably that portion of it that speaks most now, has lost no opportunity to belabor us with epi- thcts for having exposed the fact that Mr. Beecherhas been for many years apractical believer in the theories of social freedom, but guilty of no crime except that of hypocrisy and moral cowardice. We have been denominated .as “In- famous,” “ Ghouls,” “ Vampires,” “She Devils” and every other name extant in the language; but not a single abusive word is hurled at Mr. Tilton, through whom the inﬁnitely worse accusation of rape, which, next to murder, by the made. Nor can this infamy be evaded by saying that Mr. Tilton did not invent or originate this charge, but that that belongs to Mr. Bowen, since, neither did we invent or orig- inate any portion of the charges which formed the basis for the only charge made by us against Mr. Beecher. We only did just what Mr. Tilton has done—give publicity to already existing charges. But the press makes this distinction, be- tween the two parts of the case—it makes us Devils and Mr. Tilton only a man—and we can think of no reason for it other than because we are women——the usual reason upon which male domination bases itself. It will be remembered that last week we printed and com» mented upon a letter written by Mr. Tilton to Mr. Bowen, in which he (Tilton) resumes the various statements of his (Bowen) regarding Mr. Beecher. Mr. Bowen, in the Union, denied ever having received such a letter. But the Brook- lyn Press, of Sunday, the 27th ultimo, nails this to the wall in the following article : [From the Brooklyn Sunday Press] The End Approaches——Bowen-Beecher Scandal—Ejfects of the Press Ea:p0se—Bowen’s Expulsion from Plymouth Church Demanded—Indignation of the Congregation——-Will He Re- sign ? ‘ The expose of Bowen’s slanders, published in last Sunday’s issue of the Press, has aroused a storm of indignation and re- sentment which the old bankrupt will ﬁnd impossible to weather. The hour of retribution has come, and this creature, who has so long cast an odium upon Christianity and dis- graced the church in which he reared his hypocritical head, must now retire from the community which his presence contaminates. ‘ _ . ' ' Said a venerable deacon to one of the Press" reporters :. “ I am glad thatthe matter has come to a point where the villainy of one man and the complete innocence of another can be made plain to the community. - Mr. Beecher is a ﬁne man, and the Press has done him jan‘, inestimable service in exposing what it knows of one of the vilest slanders that was ever concocted by a hypocrite.” ‘ " ‘ “ Are you prepared to vote for his expulsion?” the re- porter asked. ' A “ I am, most emphatically,”‘answered the deacon. “I do not see what other course is left for us to pursue. Some of our members, however, are favorable to the idea of allowing him’ to resign. As for myself, I believe that Christian forbear- ance has long since ceased to be a virtue. Ifavor expul- sion.” I Reporter.—Have your .members taken any action in the case yet? ’ Deacon.——Well, I don’t like to answer that question. Of course, you can see for yourself that they are all talking about it. I will say this much, however, that is, that what- ever is done will be done privately. The result will be an- nounced to the "public, -and I have no doubt at all, sir (with emphasis), will be entirely satisfactory to all good people who ‘detest the propagators of scandals. I An impression seemed to prevail, in certain-_ quarters, that Mr. Theodore Tilton was responsible for the publication of his suppressed editorial in the Press last Sunday. When it; was explained that he did not even know that it was in the possession of this journal, until it appeared in print, hi 3 name was dropped. It is understood on good authority that a meeting of the officers of Plymouth Church will be held this evening for the Pl-1I'P0S6 Of deciding upon the policy to be pursued in refer- ence to ‘Bowen. There is every reason to believe that he will be offered one of two alternatives, ,viz.—resignation or expul. S1011. - Mr. Tilton was called upon by a reporter who endeavored to get his views on the scandal. ~ ‘ Said he, “I have nothing to say, and cannot be inter... viewed.” He called attention to the typographical error which made it appear that his letter to Henry 0. Bowen was written on. June 1, 1871, when it was really penned on J anu- ary 1, the day after leaving the Union. This letter was in- tended to appear in the Golden Age on the Saturday that Mr. Tilton’s suit against Bowen was withdrawn. In the New _ York Star of Monday morning last, an inter- view between Bowen and a reporter was published. In this interview Bowen is made to say that this letter of Tilton’s was “ never sent to him.” . _ Miserable equivocatorl Wretched liar! Theodore Tilton’s ‘letter was conveyed to him by Frank Moulton, a chivalrous’ gentleman, whose word Henrv C. Bowon will not dare to dis- pute. Hemmed in on every side by his accusers; confronted at every turn by the monumental lies which he himself has builded, no avenue of escape "seems open to this degraded and fallen ‘man. As yet the columns of his paper have not contained even an attempt at a defense of its editor’s mis- belief. Reeking with ‘ ﬁlthy personalities which have no bearing whatever upon the grave subject now agitating the public mind, the attitude of_ his organ seems proof . positive of his guilt. _He is the owner of a palatial mansion at Wood- stock, Conn. Is it not about time that the old man took a. trip to the country? s , , The people of Brooklyn have not yet forgottenthe tradi- tions and customs of theirforefathers. Liquid tar is plen- tiful, feathers are by no means scarce, and substitutes for rails are near at hand. ' WE MUST HAVE AN ANSWER? In yesterday’s Union there were four columns of vituper- ation aimed at Thomas Kinsella, but not a word in reference to the Beecher Scandal. What has Henry,Bowen to say to our charges? What has he tcsay to the indignant -words of his brethren of the church? There can-be 110 successful dodg- ing of the main issue at stake. The abuse‘ of afellow journal- ist is no answer to the indictment which we have drawn. We are prepared to prove our charges. Dare Henry C. Bowen deny them? - _. Can it be that he is a_ self—confessed slanderer? Can it be that a confession of his guilt, signed by his own hand, wet statutes, is the most infamous of the whole list of crimes, is “with his own guilty gems, hangs suspended like the sword of ~ ~«»-4 "W A "Q“";”“:‘*’;""“<i‘**=¥..s.é;:.\;_,;.«§‘A-u‘»:::2/a4;.;a.':'<v......--;-;.- . .- _.~_1,..,...._.. - . .. ._,-_. -Damocles-.—trembl'lng, ready to fall -upon his defenseless head? ' make all the charges against Mr. Beecher that Mr. Tilton vpersons-—-Tilton, Moulton and Bowen. It must be known - the Beecher Scandal, but he is understood to have said that ~ Beecher spoke, he (Bowen) would be at liberty to establish ,Ward Beecher with the gravest possible offenses, and by ‘which he is shown to have agreed ‘to meet Mr. Beecher in ‘s 10 p I » woonunii.acLArLin?sjwEnni.r.i as - I It is therefore to be accepted as ﬁnal, that Mr. Bowen did write ‘Mr. Tilton the Woodstock letter, and that he did alleges of him; and there can be no doubt, his denial to the contrary notwithstanding, that Mr. Bowen received the letterwritten to him by Mr. Tilton and delivered by Mr. Moulton, whom wehave always regarded as holdingpthe key to the whole‘ matter. But this knowledge cannot be conﬁned to‘ those three to Mr Beecher,‘ and has been thoroughly canvassed among them all. And this consideration brings us back to the original point—-the Woodstock letter and what immediately grew out of it. And as this is clearly elucidated in articles in the Eagle of the 20th ultimo, we call special attention to them as follows: ' C THE BEECHER SLANDER-. ' Mr. Bowen, after ﬁnishing his religious efforts in the oﬁce of the Independent yesterday, sought his home in Brooklyn late in the evening, with the air of a martyr to some secret sorrow. His otherwise ﬁne, open countenance was clouded with grief, and his graceful form seemed bent as by an in- visible incubus; He did not care to talk much to any one on “he wished Mr. Beecher would speak,” as that would relieve him, Mr. Bowen, of a burden which he is now made, he says, unjustly to bear. The exact signiﬁcance of this remark neither Mr. Bowen nor his son cared to explain, but as there were only two names used in the conversation that called it out the conclusion forced upon the hearer was that the odium would pass from the sacred person of Bowen to that of Mr. Beecher. They are, according to the letters, the only two parties immediately concerned, and they are concerned in this way, either Bowen lies or Mr. Beecher is guilty. What Mr. Bowen evidently‘ meant to imply was that if Mr. the truth of his slanderous allegations. Of course, reason- able men will look upon this declaration of the local Chad- band simply as another thread in the garment of infamy which is destined to enfold him, but the unthinking may possibly be imposed upon by it, and in view of that fact duty would seem to suggest to Mr. Beecher and his friends the propriety of clearing up the entire matter and leaving Bowen to receive at the hands of an indignant community thaticorn and loathing contempt which his actions so justly meri . COLLECTOR FREELAND INCBERVIEWED. The readers of the Eagle will remember that Mr. Henry C. Bowen, after making slanderous charges against Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in the presence of Mr. Theodore Tilton and Mr. Oliver Johnson, of the Tribune, agreed to deliver to Mr. Beecher, in the house of Collector Freeland, an open letter demanding his resignation as pastor of Plymouth Church,. and cessation of his journalistic efforts for the C'hrL'st2'an Union. In order that thefaots concerning that meeting might be, if possible, ascertained, an Eagle reporter visite_d the house of Collector Freeland last night. ’l‘hc old gentle~ man was at home and received the reporter with that quiet courtesy which has so long been characteristic of him, but before much conversation had been indulged in it became quite apparent that general silence had been enjoined by some one upon all of the parties immediately concerned. The old gentleman was evidently sorry that his name should have been in anyway connected with the matter, and expressed regret that any meeting in his house should be regarded as of public interest. The conversation which took place pertinent to the slander, was as follows :. Reporter:-Mr. Collector, you have doubtless read the let- ters recently published in the Eagle, in which Mr. Henry C. Bowen,,editor of the Union, proprietor of the Independent, and ex-deacon of Plymouth Church, charges the Rev. Henry your house and demand his resignation. - C'oll.ector.——-I am astonished that you should have come to gee me on such asubj ect ; my policyis peace——peace and good will to all men, and I don’t see what good would be done by my talking on this subject. _ _ fa';ep0-l”le’r'.-,—I called upon you here 1n preference to your place of business, because the matter under consideration 1s a domestic not a business affair. Collector.——Well,, understand me, am not annoyed at your Ealling, but at the idea of having this matter brought up. I had hoped that thelast had been heard about it. _ . _Rep0rter.———-I came here with no idea of interviewingyou on the slander, that I am sure your good sense and good heart would keep you clear of; but 1 desired to ask Whether, to your knowledge, Mr. Bowen _had, as he promised, delivered the open letter demanding Mr. Beecher’s withdrawal from Plymoutlapulplt, or whether in this, as innmany other things, ’“ c has lie . ' I ’ , 11 Collector.——.Th ere, I don’t want to answer that question. What good will it do? They are both neighbors of mine; the diiﬁculty isall settled, and I want to see it remain set- tled. . . rceporter.-«The Eagle took this view of the matter: Here is, probably, the most _ab_ominab_le slander ever started against any public man;..it 1S working like a subtle power through the whole social system; it is doing damage to Chris. tianity not only in B1“0_0k1YTl, but: as the slanderer himself recognizes, all over (/hristendom. N ow_ one link 111 the chain of evidence against the accuser,_,and in favor of the man whom we all honor, can be supplied by Collector Freeland; W111 he supply it? The Eagle believed you would, and*there- fore I called. a _ _ . Collector (with tears of sorrow inhis eyes).—~I can’t say anything on the subject. Reporter.-‘If the story of the meeting is false you would not be contributing in any way to the spread‘ of the slander by saying so. Now the only question I want answered is this: Did Henry C. Bowen and Mr. Beecher meet here under the circumstances described ?; Collector.—-My dear S11‘, as I told you before, I am for peace -—peace at all t1me,_and I _don’t want to say anything on the subject. I believe in forg1veness—forg1vcness to my worst enemies, and so believing don’t_feel at liberty to speak. Re'porter.——,You are not more interested in the fair fame of Mr. Beecher than the Engle _1S; We believe him innocent; we believe this whole story against him _.is a villainous slander that should be throttled and trampled in the dust. . ~ Collector (rather exc1tedly_).—I_t will be ;..it will be upset; rest assured ofthat-. The right is bound to come uppermost. Reporter.—But you don’t care to state what you know in order to bring it up. . _ Collector (the old gentleman again looked at the Eagle re- porter v1s;1th tears in his eyes and answered).——As a Christian I canno . This ended the interview. - From this it‘ Wm be 86611 that Mr. Bowen did meet Mr. Beecher at thehouse and in the presence of Mr. Freeland, and it cannot, from the conduct of Mr. F., be anything less than preposterous to cven_attempt to harmonize Mr. Beecheigs entire disconnectionwith the charges with the unwillingness of Mr. F. to make the required "denial. Silence regarding‘ the matter, if such an imprebable thing were possible, may divide the responsibility between the two B.’s; but no 'rea- in soning mind will be able to accept Mr. Bowen’s mission to BeeclIei', and his subsequent action, and to believe there was no foundation for the charges upon which Bowen demanded Mr. Beecher’s resignation. And this view of the case becomes still more a palpable when it is remembered that these things occurred years ago. The Woodstock letter was written 1868, and the interview with Mr. Beecher followed soon afterward; but Mr. Tilton’s letter to Mr. Bowen, which was originally prepared to be published in The Golden Age, was not written until after the quarrel between Bowen and Tilton, in June, 18’71——eight years later. How are we to get over this long period of utter quiet on this matter, and account for its breaking out afresh at that late day, and believe. it had no foundation? I All that time Hr. Bowen, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Freeland and M1‘. Tilton were members of and constant attendants at ‘Plymouth Church. * — ‘ Now, just here arise several important questions. Why, about this time, did Mr. Tilton cease his worship at the shrine of_ Mr. Beecher? Certainly not because Mr. Bowen, eight years previously, charged him with rape, since that should have had an earlier effect. And that his absence was botlrsudden and conspicuous may be justly inferred from the eagerness of Mr. Beecherto be relieved of something by Mr. Tilton’s resignation, which was desired. But we may pass this for the present, trusting to the future to disentangle all the knotty points in this now monster ‘muddle. But this question, however, presents itself, and is pertinent now: Why did Mr. Bowen demand as the price of his payment to Mr. Tilton what was justly his due, the return to him of this same Bloodstock letter; and why was a commission of Mr. Beecher’s friends called to arbitrate the case, when it had already been brought before the Courts? VVas there a fear that all this matter would come out in Court, and in such a way that it could not be controlled? Evidently. But why should Mr. Beecher’s friends have constituted the Commis- sion? Evidently, again,’ because his interests were at St"ake_ But when some of the persons who composed this com- mission, known friends of Mr. Beecher, are found giving, bail for Mr. Bowen when he is sued by Mr. Field for libel, it seems a strange contradiction, utterly beyond explanation. These persons saw and read Mr. Bowen’s ‘Woodstock letter, and are aware of the merits of the controversy between him and Mr. Tilton. How, then, can they, as friends of Mr. Beecher, become the sureties for Mr. Bowen‘? Christian forgiveness, even in Plymouth Church, does not extend to that length of charity, else, then, there is no sin, and the Church either falls to the ground a mass of magniﬁ- cent ruins, or bursts like a bubble having no soul, since if next to the most heinous of all crimes—.-—rape—may- be either committed or charged, which is equally heinous, if untrue, with impunity, where is the use for law or penalty ; where is there judgment or recompense. Perhaps, however, there is an "explanation of all this; and when we remember a recent Friday evenings saying of Mr. Beecher, we may plausibly conclude that we have the key to it. In speaking of friends, when in need, he said in sub- stance: “ If he were in any great difficulty which required staunch friendship that could not be alienated, he knew of ﬁfty men in his congregation upon whom he could rely.” This is equal to saying that _it made no difference what his difficulty might be, he knew of ﬁfty members of his congre- gation who, from equally great trouble, would feel bound to stand by and protect him, and therefore he could conﬁ- dently rely upon them to stand by him. And are they not doing it grandly in this great difficulty in which Mr. Beecher’ is now precipitated? He did not make an idle boast. -In- deed, it seems thathe might have included every member of Plymouth Church, since none of them have eveniasked—- are these things so? And it is not now a “nameless animal that, in its own peculiar way, has covered him with a pecu- liar odor,f,’ but one of the shining lights of Plymouth Church, who, on extraordinary public occasions, weeps upon Mr. Beecher’s neck. ' ’ ‘ And this marks another and a grander departure in the new social order than that which we have already claimed as applied to sexual morality as follows; “The scene which Plymouth Church has enacted has been one of the most magnanimous ever manifested. Its members have said to Mr. Beecher: VVhether these allegations are true or false, we do not feel bound to inquire. VVe believe in you, Henry Ward Beecher, and we abide in that belief.”—From the Speech “ The Naked Trnt .” A 7 » But now they have gone a step beyond all this even, and by their non-action say: Whatever you may have done ;what- ever crime, even murder, that you may have committed, we do not feel bound to inquire. We only know that the party murdered does not appear against you, and that is suﬂicient for us. We will not pretend to sit in judgment ‘over you. We cannot tell what may have causedyou to do this, that or -tl1e other. We didnot create you, nor you yourself ; there- fore neither we nor you are responsible for whatever act you T may have committed. -All that we as consistent people can do ‘is to stand by you as an individual, and though we may not approve of all you do, as a rule for our own conduct, nevertheless we have no-power to sit in judgment over you ; and if we doﬂnot approve of what your inherited capacities, education and surrounding circumstances make inevitable in youraction, we must endeavor to surround you by diﬁerent circumstances, so that different results may flow. In a word, We are not wiser than your Creator that we should. essay to May; 10, 18*23._c through your organization, since we have neither the power, capacity or right to do anything of the kind. Logically, this is what Plymouth Church says to its Pastor in refusing or neglecting to cause an investigation into the charges which are admitted to have been made against him by Henry C. Bowen. And this thesis or system of ethics has been diligently advocated by Mr. Beecher upon almost every recent occasion in which he has spoken publicly. In 111% last Sunday evenings discourse he was peculiarly earnest 111 his advocacy of this system: “ No one should go —b€l0k '90 even inquire into the sins of the past.” “There were sepulchres where men buried things. These places were Aceldam-as, Grolgothas——ghastly with bones. Men had noeright to cherish these loathsome and sepulchral mem- ories, or to make them obstructions to a newlife. The way forward, even to a thief on a’ cross, was the right W‘<1Y- _N° man had a right to make such use of the past as should bring up spectres to the conscience and blur the common Sense- It was not well to dwell on one’s sinfulness. It was wrong to look back on the sins of youth, of manhood. of later life, and take the eﬁiluvia that came from them as a. means of g1‘?We- "When men repented once, their sins should drift back. Slllks and be forgotten. The old sins of Christian men——wherS were they? God said, “I will remember them no more. And if God had forgotten them, what right had any man to remember them and rake them up ? Every man knew that every man was a sinner. Let these things, then, be for- gotten, and man’s life be forward. Let the wrongs done go down and be buried. Men should not walk with the gibber- ing ghosts of the past. They were bad company. There were none who deserved more sympathy than those who had been born deformed. Their lot was the hardest of all-«obliged to wear a body which attracted the eye, and If it did not excite positive mirth or disgust, at any rate called forth pity. It was assuredly a dreadful fate—to stand outside the ring of happy, joyful children; to be-out Off from the vigorous sports of youth; to be shut out from the fascinating circles of manhood. ‘The malformed man or woman must be very strong mentally, indeed, to -grow UP under such circumstances and not feel soured by them. But it was the duty of such not to look back ; they Were not to repine and say, “ Oh, that I had had such a chance as so-and-so.” Would repining tears water a dwarf and make him grow? They must let the past go. Their life lay be- fore them. You could not tell from the rough, 1ll—shapen oyster how beautiful the pearl was that lay within. lh_e poorest, lamest, most diseased, most wretched, had this sec1ﬁ3tbof”God with them. “ It doth not yet appear what ye sha e. ways be, will not refrain, however, from asking, Why docs Mr. Beecher preach such a system of morals just at this para ticular juncture, which is so entirely different from that ad- vocated no more than six months since ? Is it Mr. Beecher who desires grace ?——or is it Mr. Bowen for whom he asks it ? Is it possible that it can make any difference with ‘so great a man as Mr. Beecher is on all hands admitted to be, as to whose ox it is that is gored? And the public which asks these questions is not altogether without the right to do so, since, as Mr. Tilton so pertinently said in a recent editorial in the Golden Age: “ To think one thing and say another- to hold one philosophy in public and another in private_—5 to offer one morality to the multitude and to keep another for one’s self——is a degradation to no man so much as to a minister.” This is what we denominated as hypocritical and cowardly in Henry Ward Beecher; and now Mr. Tilton rc- peats our indictment, and adds to the same a “ plentifullack, of conscience.” And the great public will not hesitate to ask, What say you, Henry Ward Beecher, to this second in- dictment upon the same charges; are you guilty or not? Nor what say you, Plymouth Church, to the charges; does Mr. Beecher practice, one thing and preach quite another? And if so, we say, will you, Plymouth Church, still osten- sibly insist upon the continuance of a system 'of morals to which yourselves do not conform, but which almost Compels your pastor to remain the coward and the hypocrite, in. ‘stead of openly and at once coming up to the magnanimous theories advocated by Mr. Beecher in his recent ‘sermons, and thus permit him and you to seem to be what in reality you are—-the advance guard of the new social dispensation? and thus range alongside of those already in the great con- .ﬂict for individual freedom and individual responsibility. In view of all this, we feel constrained to recall the. judg- ment to which we arrived in the ‘original article which has led the way to the almost terriﬁc stride made in the direc- tion of human rights: ‘ “The age is pregnant with great events, and this may be the very one which shall be,‘ as it were, the crack of doom t 3 our old and wcrn—out and hypocritical and false social insti- tutions. When the few ﬁrst waves of public indignation shall have broken over him, when the nine days’ wonder and the astonished clamor of Mrs. Grundy shall have done their worst, and when the pious ejaculations of the sanctimonious shall have been expended and he ﬁnds that he still lives, and that there_ are brave souls who stand by him, he will, I be..\ lieve, rise in his power and might and utter the whole truth. ture a work a huifdred times greater than all he has accom- plished in the past. I believe, as I have said, a wise Provi- dence, or as I term it and believe it to be, the conscious and well-calculated interference of the Spirit World, has forecast and prepared these very events as a part of thedramaof this great social revolution.” THE BOVVEN~BEECHER BUSINESS. WHY PLYMOUTH CHURCH sHoU_LD TAKE ACTION. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle—I admire the courage of “Proven,” and almost believe him to be justiﬁed in his verdict. He‘ does not stand alone. Thousands, tens of thousands think as he does. Can they be blamed? No, verily. Dark as the character is which the Eagle has drawn of Henry C. Bowen, it is beyond the belief of any man that [one so acute as he rmuld imagine» Still more give utterance to, dictate to you regarding what -manifestations may occur ‘ The great Public, meddlesome and intrusive ‘as it will al-. I believe I see clearly and prophetically for him in the fu- ' to May 10, 1873. woonHULL & oLAELIN=s WEEKLY. ll Q calumnies so vile Without having some foundation for them." Whence 110w this reticence on his and Mr. Beecher’s part? Did they both at the memorable meeting at Mr. Freeland’s , house take an oath of secrecy? If they did it cannot avail -- A them. The public demand and will have the truth no mat- ” ter on whom the “thunderbolt” may fall. There is some- , thing to tell, let it be told. Ministers and laymen must here ,5 ' be brushed .aside. Dearer than either is purity and truth. The silence of Mr. Freeland is signiﬁcant; what does it im- '- A ply? It implies that guilt riotsnot alone in the pew. Is -’ this a harsh estimate? By no means. If it hurts any one, no matter who, he has the --power, if he will exerciseit, of re- versing the judgment and ﬁxing the criminality on the slan- derer. It is little to the credit of Mr. Beecher, if he is inno- cent, as we hope he is, that he should have retained in'his church so gigantic a defamer; and it is just as little to the credit of Mr. Bowen, if what he said is true, that he should have covered up so foul a crime. Looked at in any way it shrouds in disgrace the discipline of Plymouth Church, and ‘ proclaims to the world that wealth on the one hand and posi- tion on the other led to what might be expected in a politi- cal club, but never to dream of seeing enacted in a Christian society. The duty lying on Plymouth Church isimperative. They cannot shrink from it without casting aside the laws which bind them as a church of Christ. The eyes not alone I of this city, but of the country, are upon them. ' The Eagle has carried the news of this scandal far and wide. It can no longer be kept in darkness. The broad light of day must unfold to men’s eager gaze the truth or falsehood of laymen or priest, so that. punishment may descend on the wrong doer. And here it is right to say that however soon the church takes action, they will deserve no credit for that action. The credit lies with the press. [WHAT PRESS ?] The motive, therefore, of the churchiis not a pure one. When action is taken—if taken at all——fear, not purity, will be the motive. This must not be concealed. Credit must not be given where no credit is due, and if this seems severe to Plymouth Church the severity is self-inflicted, and if bitter may prove whole- some. There is but one road to }travel in this matter-——the royal road of honesty and sincerity. ‘ With these purity can be preserved; without them evil may be tolerated, and guilt go unpunished. Let the members of Plymouth Church open their eyes to the ground on which they stand, let them ask, and if necessary demand, a fearless examination. This will I purify , their own atmosphere, silence the fault-ﬁnder and =_ show to all the reality and vigor of the law by which they are bound. The press represents society, and the indignation of society represents and makes credible the wrath of God. The con- science of Plymouth Church slumbered until arouse by the press, but once aroused let it do its dreadful work, and let its anger be the type of coming doom. A guilty man, if pen- itent. should be pardoned; but “it may be part of his terri- ble discipline here to retain the stamp of past guilt upon his character, causing him to be avoided, though forgiven.” I . One word more. God is no respecter of persons; Plymouth . ' Church is. Had Henry 0. Bowen been a poor man and Henry Ward Beecher an obscure minister, how quick would have been the investigation-—~how swift the punishment! And just here is the dark spot on the character of Plymouth pastor. That spot he may explain, but never can wash out. In loving the darkness he has inspired many even of his own A hearers with doubt, and tarnished that transparency of char- acter for which once he was so distinguished. PAUL. “ A FRIEND on RELIGION ” oN THE sITUATIoN—-HE DEMANDS THAT MR. BEECHEH “ srEAII”-QAN THE CLERGY KEEP sILENoE ? I ' To the Editor of the Brook?/yam Eagle—Whether it were wise or not to agitate the subject, it is now too late to decide. Your several articles on the Bowen-Beecher Scandal, some most direct and pungent, have awakened a most painful in-- terest, and the religious heart is appalled and bleeding at the spectacle. , T O _ W It is the faint whisper or open talk in the family circle, on the street, the ferryboats, on ’Change, or wherever friends may meet, saying, “ Do you believe it‘? How do you get over Tilton’s letter? Why is it not denied by authority?” and the feeling so increases that it will be impossible to keep it pent up much longer. Can the clergy of Brooklyn afford longer to keep quiet? We believe Mr. Beecher, who is not the property of Plymouth Church alone, but of the whole country, to‘ be innocent. Then why not establish that fact before the world and let the infamy rest on the foul miscreant who has so outraged the heart of Christendom? If this cannot be done, then he in his high estate must fall. It is true or -it is false. We must know which. "The whisperings of years goneby in re- gard to the illness and death of a gentleman on the Heights since the published interview of Mr. Freeland, who only em- barrassed the case, the people are more weighed down with grief than before. The reality cannot be darker than the sus- picions.‘ If Tilton’s letters are not authentic, why are we not told so? Now the ministers of the gospel in Brooklyn owe to themselves and to the cause of religion to arouse and tram- ple down the foul calumny, or falling through cause, then, however sorrowful, however dark, the blow must fall. N0 mama position can protect him in .this sacred ofﬁce under this weight of shame. The higher the standpoint the greater the fall, A FRIEND To RELIGION. _.]3rooklyn Eagle, ‘April 9. ’ 4 r a THE PAGAN BIBLE, shortly to come from the Press, con. tains what everybody wants to know about the Train Mud- dle; or The Big White Elephant of the late attempt at ‘a , Public Menagerie. Orders for any nnmbcr, from one to ‘I one million, promptly ﬁlled from this office. Price 25 cents, I or $15 per*lmnd1'ed, O. O. D. i It is, too, like standing over a volcano. had died away as idle scandal, yet it is now revived, and C eEAUTIEs or MARRIAGE. ARGUMENT No. 5. I , George Scheiﬂin, a wife murderer, whose trial closed On Friday, 18th ultimo, was saved from the gallows by the able and eloquent defense he had at the hands ‘of Counselor Wm. F. Howe, who, in this case, must be accorded the credit of saving the State from again disgracing itself by a victim on the gallows. Had this man been tried two years since nothing could have saved him. As it is he gets imprison- ment for life. Had this been a woman who had killed her husband, oven Howe’s eloquence could not have saved her. AHGUMENT No. 6. A WOMAN KICKED To DEATH BY HER HUSBAND.——EAS— TQN, Pa., April 8.——Frederick Krouse, of Snufftown, a small village, near Easton, kicked his wife in the breast last even- ing, producing hemorrhage of the lungs, from which she died this morning. Krouse is now in the police station. in Easton awaiting the result of the inquest. Krouse is a German by birth, about 60 years of age, and when intoxicated has been in the habit of treating his wife, who was a hard-working woman, in a brutal manner. Last evening he went home about 5 o’clock intoxicated, and his son, fearing a disturb- ance, persuaded Krouse to go to bed. About an hour or two later Mrs. Krouse returned from her day’s labor, and going up-stairs, ascertained that her husband had taken some money belonging to her. She requested him to return it to her, and he refused. High words passed between them, and Krouse ended the quarrel by kicking his wife in the breast. A physician was sent for, -but it was evident that she could not recover. She died early this morning. Krouse has three children. ‘ ARGUMENT No. *7. UNHAPPY IN THE BoNDs.——In the Circuit Court W. Smith, this-morning, filed a bill of divorce against his wife, Charlotte E. Smith, to show he was married in 1835. Desertion and cruelty are alleged against the lady. VValter avers that she treated him cruelly ever since their marriage—using toward him “ the most opprobrious language,” and hitting him with billets of wood across the visual and nasal organs, much to the misery and discontent of the aforesaid Walter. ‘Also, that on or before the 5th of November, 1871, said Charlotte E. Smith forsook her bed and board, her lord and love, and has, since that period, absented herself from his roof tree. On all of which grounds, or any of them, a divorce is prayed for. ARGUMENT N o. 8. WIFE BEATING IN RHODE ISLAND.s—-PROVIDENCE, April 23.~—-“ Sentenced to the State Prison in Providence . for the term of his natural life.” Poor wretch! more imbecile than guilty, his years on earth are evidently numbered. In a ﬁt of drunken frenzy Francis Hughes kicked and beat his wife to death. At his trial the other day his friends tried to per- jure him out and made his case worse. In New York Hughes would probably have escaped with a few months’ or a few years’ imprisonment. G-en. Niall, Warden of the State Prison, says that he has been misrepresented by the advo- cates of the abolition of the death penalty. He is in favor of reviving it. He says it is painful to see men gradually sink- ing into idiocy and then to the grave. He also says that Rhode Island statistics do not warrant conclusions against the gallows. The State Prison‘ more than pays expenses. The convicts wear the U. S. army uniform, stripes having long ago been abolished. Gen. Niall thinks that stripes only degrade a convict, and are of little or no use for the purpose of identity in case of escape. * --————--———->——4&>—4—,------—-.- MOUNT CARMEL, Conn., April 14, 1873. Editors W'eeltly-Your paper is not appreciated at my home, and I do not wish you to send any more to me. I do not wish such obscene reading upon my table for my children to read. Please stop it at once, and oblige one that isvnot a friend to your cause. I Mns. A. DICKERMAN. [We shall gladly discontinue sending Mrs. D. the Weekly. She has received it since No. 97; but now, at No. 125, she ﬁnds it too obscene for her children. She probably fears thatit may teach them the truth about sexual vice, and warn them of its danger, and thus show them that they have not had a motlieijs watchful care over them. Well, we simply pity such stuff, which is misnamed modesty._ It says : “ Let the children grow’ up and escape if they ‘can; We not the mother’s business whether they do or not.” Isn’t it time that society take charge of the rearing of the youth, who are to be held responsible to its laws. VVe think so.] [New York Sun, April 2.] THE BALL ROLLING. The personal rights of .women (which are more important than the political), we are glad to record, have made their appearance in the State Legislature of Massachusetts. This extract is from the N. Y. Sun of April 2; “ Mr. S. E. Sewall appeared before the Judiciary Commit- tee of the Massachusetts House on Friday, to urge a modiﬁ- cation of the property laws in favor of women. Mr. Sewall suggested that the husband and wife should be enabled to deed property directly to each other, that married women should have complete power of making contracts the same as unmarried women, and that on the death (if either husband or wife intestate, theclaims on the property of the deceased should be equal. Mr. Sewall expressed the opinion which is becoming every day more general, namely, that as far as property is concerned, husband and wife should be entirely independent of each other. The semi-dependence whichpat. present exists is regarded by many experienced jurists and legislators as worse‘than absolute independence- But Mr. Sewall does not go far enough.‘ Let the law which obliges a husband to support his wife and renders him liable to im- prisonment if he fails so to do, be repealed also. Then the theory of conjugal partnership may have a fair trial. In our belief, “many experienced jurists and legislators are right;” semi-dependence is worse than absolute inde- pendence. ~ __nA A V wry w MISCELLANEOUS.’ » FINANCIAL. As a nation we are at the present ‘moment experiencing a slight foretaste of what is involved to the members of any sumption as cheaply as other earth sections, or who suffer from what statistical parlance designates “ an adverse bal- ance of trade.” ' The primal desire of every consumer is to obtain the greatest possible amount of physical comfort compatible with his income. In the prosecution of this purpose he pur- chases not according to locality or nationality of production, but. solely where his money will procure the greatest possible amount of good things. His‘ factor must scan the world, buying in the lowest market. ‘Whenever any merchant ignores this inherent tendency of human nature, he quickly ﬁnds his trade passing from under his control into that of more astute rivals, _who understand and are willing to cater to this fundamental prniciple, which governsthe purchases of the human family. It is -folly to disclaim against “ excessive imports,” for market——wherever that may be—or else to lose caste among hispeers in trade. But importations involve an outgo of equal value. Pros- perous nations give in return, therefore, some of the fruits of their labor. ' » When imports arepaid for in this manner it is absolutely impossible for them to be too great, for the nation which can command the greatest quantity confers upon its individual members the fullest supply of earth’s treasures, and ranks highest in the scale of material prosperity. It is a house well stored with all comforts, whose inmates enjoy every luxury. When national production is hampered and its fabrics are enhanced in price, payment for imports cannot be made in commodities, for no merchant will seek a far market for an article that can be purchased more cheaply at home. Payment must their be made in coin, which speedily ore» ates such a scarcity of money and consequent collapse in prices, that the debtor country becomes a proﬁtable’ one for the world to purchase in; so payment for imports is again made in the fruits of labor, and the nation buys abroad only- what its material development entitles it to consume. Should the debtor nation have exclusively a paper currency the exportation of coin neither raises the rates of interest nor lowers the price of goods, therefore importations are not continue until the proportion of specie to currency becomes so small that distrust as to the security of the paper standard arises. When this occurs natural laws again operate. But should the debtor nation have ability to settle -for its imports by transmission of interest-bearing claims, either against its unity, as in governmental bonds, or against its integral parts, as by municipal or corporate obligations, the importations will probably continue until the interest accru- ing upon such claims becomes so excessive that distrust in re- gard thereto arises in the world’s market. I ' National consumption in this case has ceased to be a ques- tion of ability to pay, but has passed into the realm of faith; when faith has run its course, commodity for commodity again asserts its supremacy as the only condition on which international or any other trade is possible. Thatthe United States during the past decade has occupied this latter position is clearly manifest from the vast amount of governmental and miscellaneous bonds now in the posses- sion of our European creditors, an amount variously esti- mated from $2,000,000,000 to $34,000,000.,000, the latter being given forth. by the Hon. Ben. F. Butler. Moreover, that this method of settling international bal- ances hasalmost run its course is probable, from the close scrutiny and continued lull in the purchase by Europeans of our bonds. * Should this cautious policy continue for the present sehson, their demand claims for remainder of 1873 present peculiarly ing within our borders. Assuming the aggregate of American securities held in Europe at the very low—minimum of s2,o0o,coo,000, allowing the adverse balance to be in same ratio as last ﬁscal year, and taking for expenses of American travelers to Europe just what was allowed fouryears ago by the Department of Wash- ington, there would accrue from May 1 to December 31 the following adverse balances: 0 Eight months’ interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .._. .. $80,000,000 Eight months’ adverse balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. 80.000,000 American travelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .- . . . . . .. 25,000,000 Bonds of the June call held in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40,000,000 Total. . ; ................................................. .. s225,oT)b,c0o It is estimated that ﬁfty thousand Americans are going abroad this season, and at the low average of $1,000 each it would make $350,000,000 in place of the $25,000,000 stated. Moreover, no allowance is made for freightage, exclusively under European control; nor for undervaluation or smug- gling, all of which would seriously swell the above large ag- gregate. award, the new ﬁve per cent. {loan (concerning the sale of which the Government has vouchsafed no information; but same amount ofinterest, could be bought at 2 to 3'per cent. below the new ﬁves, it is difﬁcult to conceive the inducement to purchase), and whatever miscellaneous securities may be placed this season in the ‘European market. But it is not at {serious drain upon the bullion now visible. community who cannot produce their varied articles of con— , every tradesman is compelled to purchase in the cheapest ‘ restricted b the ability of the country to pay in labor, but will important features as affecting the stock of gold yet'reInain- 1‘ To meet these great claims there is the $15,000,000 Alabama , asthe 10;40’s, a loan of /the same security and bearing the- all probable that the aggregate willbe sufficient to prevent a. February 28, all National Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. A‘ States cannot get a return for their capital invested here, be- 12 WOODIHULL & OLAF‘LIN’S Wl?.EKLY._ May 10, 1873. April 1, Sub-Treasury held .......... ..................... .. 4,569,537,376" 17,189,621 $86,726,997. 24,141,000 . $62,585,997 But the supply in Sub-Treasury cannot ’ aﬂord much relief from the necessity ofvholding an amount equal to the claims thereon: Less coin certiﬁcates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Total coin supply visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Coin balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $69,537,376 Accrued interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .- . . . . . . . . . .. $527,640,119 Interest due and unpaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,260,723 Bonds matured and unpaid. . . .‘ . . . . . . . . . . . .' . . . . . . . 3,023,080 Coin certiﬁcates.‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 24,141,000 ————-— 59,064,922 Treasury surplus ............................... .. $10,472,454 Nor can the specie in New York banks be reduced more than fouror ﬁve millions, without witnessing an intensiﬁed form of the goldocorners so prevalent whenever the stock of gold drops low enough for speculators to manage. It daily grows more manifest that this nation is rapidly approaching the last stage of our faith form of settling international balances. Whenever our European mortgage holders awaken to a consciousness of this position they will also realize that any demand against a foreign nation, whether expressed by Gov- ernment or “corporate bonds, is only valuable as they can draw reality out from the debtor nation. That as it is an impossibility to transfer the realities which these debts adumbrate. creditors can only receive payment in the products of labor. . Before even these products can be spared to pay foreign debt, the primal and absolute law of production requires that food, raiment and shelter be supplied in order to nourish the physical strength necessary to creation. That is, non-residents holding claims against the United cause, since the present issue of excessive irredeemable cur- 1_-ency, the United States has not been self-supporting. _ the ceremony in that way, and the chances are that the young lady has narrowly escaped marriage with a fool. But the youth is hardly to be blamed. Is it to be expected that a man living in Halfmoon, or any place of like name, will be more than half-witted? A town that cannot afford a whole moon, if it has any at all, is, if we may be permitted to bor- row an expression, no great shakes anyhow. [Two weeks ago we had occasion to point out the extraor- dinary foresight, wisdom, orwhatever it might have been, displayed by this Rochester paper in its recommendation that Victoria 0. Woodhull had better remain at home rather than follow Mr. Beecher in —a Western tour, kindly inti- Omating that the people would mob her if she dared to men- tion the name of. its God——I-I. W. Beecher. Neglecting its kind advice, however, she went, and as a consequence, in- stead of hurling brick‘brats at her, the West are hurling offers of engagements, she already having received more than she can ﬁll during the year. _ But again this “ whatever-it-may-be-called ” shows itself. We are glad to know that “ the reading of Woodhull” is awakening people to the consciousness of thedamnable per- jury to which the marriage ceremonycompels people. In our opinion, this youth was not onlysensible but conscientious. How can‘anybody know that he or she will love and live with another during life? It is one of the greatest, if not the great- est, frauds of the age to hold to this ceremony, for which no one has any respect and to which no one attaches any Weight even when going through it, except that it aids them to at- tain present desires, unmindful of the future. Whoevertakes the marriage oath perjures him or herself, since it is utterly impossible to swear to anything that cannot possibly be known.]‘ ' FROM SING SING PRISON. We are permitted to publish the following letter, written by a prisoner in Sing Sing, to one who has but recently left that » cursed institution. VVho can read it and feel that the Nor does the country have sufficient pecuniary vitality to make even an cifort for the removal of that which has so en- hanced the cost of production. Yet the only solvent for debt is payment or repudiation. » C. BRINTON, J R., 50 Broad street, New York. A FASHION N 0. III.’ Social and civil conditions are awaiting the promotion of women to higher phases of usefulness and self-reliance com- mensurate with self. government. The transition period will hold all civilized nations in painful suspense-——their institu- tions in unsettled plans, rent by confused principles, till women are prepared by physical harmony to exert the men- tal power and moral courage to take an "equal plane of action in all things pertaining to themselves, and in most things of irrelevant bearing. Their feebleness and consequent in- difference and ignorance now blind them to the vast need of that power which theycan grasp when physically disenthrall- ed, and not before. Kingdoms and’ Republics are counsel- ing concerning their necessities, and halting in conclusion, lest rights should be granted where there is not strength to use the free-thi~nker’s discretion, and honor the citizen’s privilege. . _ A Public sentiment is appoaching a crisis where it will ﬁx but one moral standard for both sexes; and preparation for that sacred event must come to men in a’ renewed apprecia- tion of women’s ﬁdelity to themselves, as well as of universal justice; and two women, in that brave use of present free- dom and utilization of present rights, which will evince that ﬁdelity. A grand charity is developing in great souls that yearn for a sublime destiny for all humanity, and poor, scorned outcasts age seen’ to be human and deserving of mercy. . 1 ~ . With this recognition it has come to be perceived that fashion and the oppressive usages linked with it, are the most. fertile sources of moral ruin among females, and ‘their cursed and crushed state so cries for alleviation that ‘every cause is under scrutiny. The abolition of prostitution is more than dreamed of; the music of its mention has already I pealed out on the startled ears of its supporters, and on the responsive atmosphere of pitying goodness. . But these mighty works can scarcely be seen to move forward till the exaltedtpurposes of women open the way and lay the basis for upholding "the true and mending the false. And it is . asked, “How shall they commence'?”—by ceasing to consume and deprave themselves, and to foster depravity in men. 'While under bondage to smothering corsets, entangling skirts I and trailing fetters, reasonpronounces it impossible for them, to acquire the independence of character and moral ﬁrmness by which to exert the ennobling inﬂuence requisite to the mo- mentous work which the present state of progress lays be- fore them. _To appear d-la-mode, they barely exist, giving mode the whole time; and the very inﬂuence of that appear- ance, not only on boys, but on men, aged and middle-aged, paralyzes their integrity, and reacts in countless forms .' MORE wIsDOMERoM THE ROCHESTER DEMO ORAT V AND OHRONIOLE. Ayouth named Alfred E. Knights, of Halfmoon, Saratoga county, was about to be married some nights since; but it appeared that he had been reading Woodhull and was afflicted with high moral scruples. “ The auspicious-moment had come,” the Saratogian tells us; “the clerical gentleman, previous to the entrance of theihappy couple, was invited to an interview in their private room, when the groom inti- mated that ‘he wished the marriage ceremony cut short,’ ob- jecting particularly and refusing to assent to that part of the form to ‘love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sick- ness and in health; and forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her so long as ye both shall live,’ saying ‘he could not promise to live with her until death, not knowing what might person who wrote it is there by right? Such sentiments do not exist in a criminal breast. When we ponder over the terrible scenes enacted in many prisons, and then again of the great, the real criminals who never reach them, it may well be asked, if it were not better that they be leveled to the ground and a system more in harmony with reason and justice erected to supply their place? A SING SING, April 17, 1873. Dear Frz'end—Words cannot express how I have missed you. I did not know how large a share of my life you were, or how strongly you had grown into my heart——my poor sad heart, that has only the truth and a few choice spirits like yourself to love now, and my past life -has been dashed out in a moment. I think were it possible your shade still lingers here with me. I feel haunted. I see you in everything. I hear, your voice in every sound. But, God be praised, this long night more to your life is over, and it will soon bloom again. _ I had the pleasure this morning of reading it—three letters from you. I was delighted that you had so -soon made the acquaintance of our Star Sisters and their noble friends, and that you was to have a column in the only journal 'of Free- dom and Truth extant. I’ll have my prayer sent you to use as you see ﬁt, and will constantly give you reliable facts to elaborate, and you can have a lively column. For God knows here are no greaterwrongs in the world, covered with the inquisitorial cloak of darkness, than are enacted here. But, my darling Carrie, I hear with the utmost joy that you intend to unvail immediately the history of ——-—~—.—. N ow I beg of you by all the good and nobleness in you, and your heart. is full, not to do this at present, at least. He is 11ot directly to blame for your great suffering; he has done what he could in his way. These politicians all think they have to be moral cowards as the Government now is. Attack the courts of New York; attack the seducers of innocence; attack the foul prison system. You can do much more good to yourself and all concerned by not driving this noble man to bay. It is a’ ﬁne thing to have inﬂuence with such powerful people. Remember that I hold up chained hands pleadingly to our Carrie, and she must husband not be prodigal of her forces. If the truth required his exposure at present, I would not say a word, but it does not. You know I am neither selﬁsh or cowardly, but it would only embitter many against the pa- per that now are learning to like it._ Let the Beecher pill be well swelled ﬁrst. Two powerful cathartics are unwhole- some at one time. ‘Now, darling, ‘curb that great nature of yours, do not be too impulsive, never strike out of revenge, but deal the nobler blow for humanity. Write to your lone- ly ‘ Yesterday I was awful blue. Cried bitterly all day. Have lots to write, my darling,‘; as soon as I hear from her. Oh! was so awful mad at your last look up; was woman. My darling love, good bye. j Do be_good and not make our dear and wild. Your sister. . _ .' ...m;g.a-.«-.1.’ INDIGNATION MEETIN GI HELD TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22D, 1873, AT THE HALL, 13 NORTH ELEVENTH STREET, PHILA., To express our indignation at the arbitrary threat of Mayor Stokley to arrest Dr. S. M. Landis should he lecture at As- sembly Buildings, Sunday, April 13, when the following res- olutions were unanimously adopted : - . And whereas, We live in a country whose Constitution vouohsafes unto each of its citizens the privilege of “free speech,” and the inalienable right to serve God according to the dictates of conscience; , And whereas, Dr. S. M. Landis has always been a highly respectable and law abiding citizen, whose zeal in agood cause cannot be denied. , And whereas, On Sunday evening, April 13, 1873, it was ;happen'.”Z The dominie very sensibly refused to perform , announced. that said Dr. Landis would lecture at the As- in hopes you would persecute her as you was then a free sembly Buildings, city of Philadelphia, on “Woodhull and Beecher, analyzing Free Love.” ~ And whereas, Mayor Stokley sent one of his police oﬂicials to: Dr. Landis’ medical oﬂice to notify him, that ‘if he would lecture on said’ evening he would surely then and there be arrested. Therefore‘, A Resolved, That we esteem such official acts of the Mayor of I this great city as illegal and tyrannical, and we hereby enter a protest against suchlusurpation, and callupon all good and law—abiding citizens of either sex to gather around the ban- ner of republican freedom, that our liberties may not be trodden under foot by those illiberal bigots who would throttle all free and independent thinkers. . Resolved, That the large and highly intelligent audience that congregated at said Assembly Building Hall, on said Sunday evening, to listen to said Dr. S. M. Landis, had an inalienable right to hear the lecture, without let or hin- drance by the servant of the people, who sought and obtained the oﬂice, whose function it is to protect, not threaten with illegal and arbitrary arrest, public speakers. Resolved, That we will stand by Dr. S. M. Landis, so long as he continues faithful in his lawful calling of preaching and lecturing on scientiﬁc and kindred subjects. Resolved, That we know Dr. S. M. Landis to be a gentle- man of honor, Worth, ability, temperance and virtue; and we alsoknow that the vile slanders ﬂoating in the air, as well as his mock trial and infamous imprisonment three years ago, have been concocted and nourished by the worst ene- mies to God, mankind and American freedom. Resolved, That we pledgeour honor, wealth and lives to sustain the right; and we prophesy that vigilance commit- tees will spring into existence when justice fails to be ad- ministered by those whom we, the people, have placed in positions for the enforcement of the laws of our country. HENRY S. CHUBB, Pres’t.. LOUIS REIMEL, Sec’y. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Christian Schenkel, Geo. W. Thomason, Geo. Rideout, Robt. Smithson. And many others. __4A. 4. r wr w HARK! FROM THE TOMBS. MR. TRAIN’S IMPROMPTU TO ELI PERKINS. EPIGRAM IN COURT ON ONE OF_ THE PARSONS. COURT ROOM, April 22. Dear E. P. .' Does the witness appear like a parson, Do you think they will try me for arson? With a thousand women under him, What a splendid chance for smuggling tin. In this screaming farce of Box and Cox, Will they Wreck my ship upon the rocks? Thos. Y. Henry, James Vincent, Robt. H. Maguire, James S. Cornel. G. F. T. THE APOSTAOY OF THE INVESTIGATOR. THE SELL-OUT OF THE FOLLOWERS or PAINE. 89 VARICK ST., N. .Y., April 25. MR. G110. FRANCIS TRAIN: "Dear S1Tr—SOme two months since I accidentally became acquainted with the correspondent of the Boston Investi- gator while he was taking notes at the Constitutional Con- vention, since which time I have seen him regularly attend at your trials. Ilearned that his articles were signed M. A., and got the paper of a friend of mine to read them, for they had an interest for me. Well, I have watched in vain to see his report of the proceedings of your present trials. THE BAGKBONE OF MENDUM. I was sorely puzzled to know what this silence meant, so last week I, happening to sit near, asked him when his re- ports were to be published. He replied that he had been ex- pecting them in each issue, but that it would surely appear in this week's paper. Now, judge of my surprise in ﬁnding the inclosed notice therein, which I am as sure of its refer- -ring to you as it is possible for one to /be sure of anything he does not actuallv know. CAUGHT IN THE TRAP. Now, my object in writing to you is to ask your opinion of a paperthat pretends to be the only free paper in this coun- , try-—that can persist in such pretensions while such a notice stares‘ its editors in the eye. This paper has for its motto, “Hear all sides, then decide;” and to think that it shuts down on its own correspondent in this manner issurely not hearing your side. You. too, who are so nobl ﬁghting its battles, who, being arrested for quoting the Bi le, which it pretends to condemn, says still, a “good deal has already been published of you,” but certainly not in its own columns. If I knew the name of this correspondent I should have ad- dressed him, but not knowing it I send this to you so that you can let him see that some at least think that too much of your side has not yet been published, and to ‘beg of him to persevere and ﬁnd some other journal through whom to send his admirable reports, such as those I have read lately. We inﬁdels intend to take WO0DHULL’S paper and Toledo Sun in future, and drop the lnvestvgator. Yours truly: ' J. SOLINGE. MR.’TRAIN’S REPLY (Advising Inﬁdels to drop “The Investigator? and take the “ Woodhull” and Toledo “Sun.”) “M. A.,” New Yorh——Yes, we would be pleased to have you continue your articles, but we must require brevity as far as possible, and we also prefer variety. Your last was concerning an individual whose utterances do not seem to us to be very important, and_of whom a good deal has already been published. J . SOLINGE. 89 Varick Street. EPIGRAMZ. Investigator, Index and Banner of Light Take no interest in this active Pagan ﬁght; Their Tom Paine creed is the Inﬁdel hash . That brings in the stamps and rolls out the cash. Mendum, Abbott and White, all on the make, Talk Inﬁdelity for greenback sake. Hence Mendum and Seavey, with eye on the pay, Write their New York editor to stop “M. A.” All right, let’s rally our Freethought host, And stop their fooling with Tom Paine’s ghost, Ask them about the money already spent, And send no more for the monument. Telegram that San Fransico Lick ' at once threw off the following epigram on the Pope and the Army of May 10, 1873. \ WAOODHULL a CLAELiN’,s WEEKLY. 13 Not to make over a single brick Of his gift to the Investigator, But rally round the Pagan Dictator, Who represents the people’s cause, While Mendum catches Bible straws. Writing to see if these men were true. When arrested I sent an “interview,” Telling them how I had lost my tracks By quoting Mendu1n’s “Bible Extracts”. ' His Pagan blood was changed to Christian curd, He returned the copy without a word. I thus this old deceiver caught, Was heafraid, or only bought? Sound the alarm bell! His race is run, Buy the Woodhull and Toledo “ Sun.” You can always reach the Apostate’s soul .When you stop the tap and re/‘use the toll. ‘ GEO. FRANcIs TRAIN, (Who believes these Inﬁdel papers are put up to be knocked. down by the Christians, as they seem to sleep together, both agreeing that the Pa an Dictator ought to be suppressed.) THE OMBS, April 27, ”73. Friend Train .- You’re not mad, And its really too bad To cajole those verdant M.D.’s you have gammon’d. Such “ experts" as poor Cross If “ squelched” ’twere no loss, But why drive to madness poor Clymer and Hammond ? The expert knows his trade- “ Lunatics ready made”—- , Besides, it is rare they volunteer what they give. When these ghouls strike the knell, Which sends reason to h——l. My good friend, remember, ’tis their trade—thcy must live. Then, coming Dictator! Like volcanic crater, Belch forth your epigrams, seething with ﬂame, On the heads of those tools, Who’ve sneaked from the schools,” Nor let them deprive you of Freedom and Fame. RooM 53, BIBLE HoUsE, April, “Y3. WM. E. M’MASTERS.. MR. TRAIN ’S REPLY (To Wm. E. McMasters, 53 Bible House, N ew York)- EPIGRAM. THE COMING LI’I‘ERATURE—-MORALS AND PICTURES. So the artist orator has began To see the power of Epigram. The old styles are passing away, Night is morning, the light of Day In splendor though the future looms In Epigrams and in Cartoons. Proverbs and Picture Literature, Fame and Fortune are bound to secure. “ Better marry,” said Paul, ‘ ‘than burn,” Signifying “ than go to Hell.” Better lie, say this “Expert” ﬁrm, When Truth won’t earn its fee as well. THE QUACKING SOCIETY OF DAM-PHOOLS. Doctors Gloss, Humbug, Arson and C’/timer, (“ Experts” Cross, Hammond, Parsons and Clymer) Have found a new way the people to rob, By making men “ mad” as a put-up job. Tired of lancet, too old for speculem, This “Expert" Club ignore all gentlemen. Would men of honor swear one’s mind away, Sane or Insane, perjure themselves for pay ? This mad "Expcrt” and legal “Squirt,” Combined on mind to throw their Dirt ; While with wink and shrug they both agree To share the Crime and Divide the Fee. 7 GEo. FRANc1s TRAIN, (Who, when he marks a man in EpigraIn,_it lasts him all his life.) THE Tomas, New York, April 28, 1873. I DEDICATED TO THE CHURCHES WHO DON’T KNOW ‘ ANY BETTER THAN TO FIGHT THE COMING DICTATOR. Mr. Train, on -being shown the certiﬁcates at once declared that this persecution came from Rome; that the Y. M. C. A. were only agents in disguise of the two Popes, Pius and Beecher; and the Coming Dictator Ignatius Loyola: ' ‘EPIGRAM (to the Catholic “ Experts”) THE COCOANUT MILK ACCOUNTED FOR. The “insane” order came straight from Rome, So I ﬁght the battle all alone. As Archbishop McCloskey and Purcell Pronounce the Commune the workings of hell, They see that the church must come to grief, And so they strike-at the Commune chief. ‘T As Pope Saint Peter was a lying J cw, Let me in epigram the Popes review. When old Pio Nino disappears, He will have reigned twenty-seven years. A SAIL ON THE SEE OF ROME. Peter reigned twenty-four, Adrian twenty-three, Clement twenty-one in this century, While Pius Seventh, who Napoleon crowned, Reigned twenty-three years with fame renowned. The First Sovereign Pontilf was Stephpn Third, » Who laid the base of the Temporal Power; King Pepin, the short, of whom you’ve heard, Started the joke in a harlot’s bower. One hundred sixty—two Popes, it appears, During this thousand ninety—four years, Have ruled. Six years and nine months reign ' Was the average. Adrian did attain That high place, the only Englishman Since this Papal Dam-phool-dom began. Italy furnished one hundred thirty-ﬁve, France fourteen—seven Germans were in the hive. Two Spaniards, one Dutchman, one Portuguese, And one Greek make up this Roman ﬂeece. Two-thirds the sacred college must agree Which Cardinal shall ﬁll the Papal See. _ Sixty—seven is average age These Popes spin out on history’s page. I believe that Chambery is the oldest, While the yc1,in.ssst, Bonaparte. is the lisldsslia LE PAP-Esr MoR'rl VIVE LE. PAP! Will be the cry Should Nino die, .- Whilethe grand college of cardinals Will congregate his red gown pals, Some seventy members, when complete, To choose successor to his seat. It appears there are only forty-ﬁve, Eighteen being over seventy years of age, While six are diseased, and keep alive- Only to hobble over the Papal stage. Sporza, De Angelis, Borichini, De Luca, Parebianco, Pecci, Are cardinals, the cab legram states, Among the most favored candidates. But the greatest are oftentimes the least, When Popes can be made from ranks of the priest. THE SCARLET W 0F BABYLON- The ancient Popes were thieves and scamps, Surrounded by robbers, w—- and tramps, Instigators of the bloodiest wars, — Barbarous executions, inhuman laws, Caligulas, Nero’s, of their time, Whose brutal lusts made sacred crime. \“ Glory to hell, in the lowest amen, I And on earth war and ill will toward men.” Was Paul beheaded and Peter cruciﬁed At Rome ?— Perhaps the church has lied! It is well known that old Paul preached for hire, While Peter was an infernal liar. But suppose it true, by what divine right Were Popes entailed mankind to ﬁght? Who gave the cardinals the power To make the people cringe and cower Before some God Almighty potentate, Who guards with bayonets his holy gate? Arian Heresy, Athanasian creed “And Papal superstitions have gone to seed. THE TRIAL OF CHRISTIAN BLOOD. Thumb-screw, gibbet, stake and rack Mark with blood their hell-ﬁre track. A million murders in the name of God Mark where Popes and the church have trod. Arians, Lutherans, Jerome of Prague, Were swept off like cattle with the plague. In Germany, England, France and Spain These old monsters did their fraud maintain In deeds of blood I No such offenses Are known like slaughter of Albigenes. Their saints are frauds! Their God is pay, They sanctify Bartholomew‘s day. Pio Nino’s seventy syllabus Was enough to damn the Papal cuss. This supreme power of sovereign Lord Makes the Scarlet W——— a seraglia Band. The Pope is nothing more than man, And Cardinal Council, in Vatican, Bolstered up the old man’s scnilitv By indorsing Infallibility. v The Catholic chiefs but mock their prayer As secret followers of Voltaire. All clever men, where truth and reason dwells, Are Deistls, Atheists and inﬁdels. The first men to expose the Papal beast Was Luther, a Monk, and Calvin a Priest. ’ GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, (Who hereby notiﬁes the__Catholic Church to call olf their dogs or go down before the indignation of the Commune.) THE Tomas, April 27, 1873. A VOICE FROM CANADA. - 4 ‘ THOROLD,’ ONTARIO, 25th April, 1873. MR. GEC. FRANcIs TRAIN, New York City: Dear Sir—I have been very much interested in your case for some time, and am rather pleased with the way in Which you have Worried and puzzled the doctors and others. I see the Tribune advises your prompt release, and I don’t see any other solution of their quandary. You are certainly a White Elephant, as the Graphic repre- sents you. Will you kindly favor me with a few lines from your handthat they may be added to my collection of letters of celebrated individuals? I inclose you stamped envelope that you may be at no trouble or expense; and remain, very truly yours, * I , EDWIN KEEEER, Thorold, Ontario, Canada IIR. TRAIN’s REPLY. ADVICE T0 CANADA. MR. EDWIN KEEFER, Thorold, Canada: My lecture engagements in Montreal, Quebec, T-oronto, Kingston. Ontario, came to wreck, By this brutal outrage of Christian men. ‘ I On free press and speech of citizen, Give our Church system the widest path, As the grandestgswindle on the earth. Young Dodge, so ready with his pastor’s pen, Is a fair sample of our Bible men. His father’s Evangelical society, Smuggles tin to demonstrate its piety. ’1‘cll Canada that Fenian invasion, Reciprocity and annexation. Suppose your Paciﬁc Railway scheme. Is a Jay Cooke C_redit_Mobilier dream. Sir John Macdonald, your premier, Would make an immense fortune here. 2 He would beat the Tweed and Grant ring, And give them ﬁfty on a string. GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, (Who was prevented from lecturing in Montreal, December 23, by being incarcerated in the Tombs the 21st, where he has been in close eon- ﬁnement for eighteen weeks for quoting three columns of the Bible). THE ToMBs, April 27, 1873. I ____...__ THE COMING DICTATOR TO THE COMING EDITOR. MR. 'rRAIN’S COMPLIMENTS TO ELI PERKINS ON HIS REPORTS IN THE “ GRAPHIC.” - . Congratulations Dear E. P.: A Your courtly pen is fair and free, While others use their ink in sport, You always give a fair report. When you show your clever W0rl<'.i.ugs In _’I,f€?7..é’I" paper, Eli i?crlr.1ns, ' _ unanimous vote of When you are editor-in-chief, “ Insane eosperts” will come to grief. GEO. ERANCIS TRAIN, (President of the Credit Foncier of America.) April 25, 1873. ' TWELVE MILLIONS OF WORKING MEN IN WITNESS BOX. WAITING AT THE PRISON DooR. _ April 21, 1873. THE TOMBS, New York, , u THE L GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, . _ (Illegally incarcerated in_ the Tombs): , g A We will be in court to—day to testify; We have known you for years and believe you as sane to day as ever. Do you Want us? HORACE H. DAY, of New York; . ALEXANDER TRQUP, of New Haven, O (Of the Legion of Labor Reform). MR. 'rRAIN’s REPLY. RALLYING ROUND THE CHIEF. Dear Labor Reformers, who ought to have followed my lead at the Columbus Convention: EPIGRAM. That is so. Organize your Troup, Alexander! All hail the 3612/9 Horace N.l We must cure the croup That chokes our manhood. Clear the way. Don’t start the cry that I am sane. ' If men are mad, am I to blame? Nature is prodigal of sensations, Fate controls both men, women and nations. Free-will be damned, no man can escape The inexorable decrees of fate. N 0 POWER CAN CHECKMATE DESTINY. It rules the whirlwind and directs the storm, It controls one’s life from the hour he is ‘born. Providence makes rough road to its end, Says Emerson. No one can unbend _ _ Its order. No whitewash through white choker Can beat the cards when fate plays poker. It wreck’d the Atlantic onsunken rock, Destroyed San Salvador in earthquake shock. It made holocaust of Stonington train, And may pronounce this deponent insane. GEO. FRANcIs TRAIN, (Who would have been President of America had he not been reserved to be the Coming Dictator.) THE TOMBS, April 24, 1873. THE LYING ORGAN OF THE JESUITS. THE ToMBs, New York, Apri1.25, 1873. Dear lVeehly——The Herald having editorially statedmthat Mr. Train’s counsel were largely feed, they refused to make the correction by publishing the following letter; showing the sameinjustice in his case as in your own. Mr. Train says their inspiration comes directly from Rome, but that their Nemesis is not far off. ' , A copy of letter addressedgto New York Herald :1 ‘ THE ToMDs, New York, April 23, 1873. Editor H erdld—The Herald is mistaken. Counselors Chat- ﬁeld, Mott, Bell and Jordan, all volunteered their services in defense of the liberty of the citizen, and are acting entirely independent of Mr. Train. He was arrested December 19 for “obscenity” (quoting three columns from the Bible, word for word), and is being (tried for insanity. He would have been sent to the asylum (without any trial) on the 20th of March, but ’for the merest accident. General Hammond, on behalf of the Commission—De Lunatico Inquirendo—-refused to sign the certiﬁcate in the form presented by Judge Dow- ling. Mr. Train desires me to say that he has not paid a dol- lar inside the Tombs or out, nor does he intend to. He is either “ Guilty” or “Not Guilty.” If Guilty he is entitled to a trial on the indictment; if Not Guilty, he has been ille-a. gally incarcerated over four months without even an examiq nation on the original charge. He appears" in pauperio »per- 3 sonne, Wishing to see how far the law dare to go, and how ' long the press will remain silent, in order to test what amount of liberty is left in the country. , , In justice to the counsel will you do Mr. Train the cour- tesy to publish this notice. A ‘ GEO. BEMIS, Private Secretary to Geo. Francis Train. Geo. Francis Train appointed Brigadier General by the Mont- gomery Legion—Pending Dictatorshi-‘p, he onhgl Accepts the Honorary Position——The Gasmen and their C’hampion—-Epi-= grams to the Sons of Toil. ’ ’ THE WAR—C,RY OF THE IRISH LEGION. CHOOSING THE CHIEF on THE CLAN. To George Francis Train, incarcerated four months in the Zomba for defending liberty: _ 8‘ At the annual meeting of the Montgomery Legion, of Har-= lem, held at their head-quarters, 2158 Third’ avenue, Wednes-« * day, April 2d, 1873, «the order of the day being the election of a Brigadier General to command said Legion, Captain John J. Martin proposed for that position George Francis Train, Who was elected amid great enthusiasm, by a unani- mous vote. A committee of ﬁve was appointed, per motion, to draft a series of resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting, and to formally -visit General George Francis Train and tender him said position. The committee appoint- ed in obedience to those instructions report the following preamble and resolutions: THE NEW BRIGADIER GENERAL OF THEEMONTGOMERY LEGION‘. WHEREAS, The position of Brigadier General of the Mont- gomery Legion is vacant, and ' ' WHEREAS, George Francis Train has been elected by the the Legion to ﬁll that honorable posi- tion; therefore be it ~, 1 Resolved, That we do formally tender the pesition of Brig- adier General of‘ the Montgomery Legion, of Harlem, to George Francis Train. Resolved, That we select George Francis Train as our commander, because his noble and manly course through life has elicited our unbounded conﬁdence and admiration. Resolved, That We regard him as the fearless champion and exponent of human rights and freedom, and at present a willing martyr In our cause and that of all freedom-loving people the world over. , I _ , Resolved, That We believe that the cause in which hehas fought so long and deterrninedly, will eventually under his leadership, triumph, and that he will then get his just deserts and be recognized as the progressive Moses of the nineteenth century; leading the people; out at the ladies ct iggiioraiise ........L...,._....,,_,-,_._..L.~ _. L. » THOMAS J. O’CoNNEI.L, Sec. (Who only accepted “ Honorary" title of Brigadicr—Genoral as he has de- ' London‘. The editor of the Herald writes me that the people I venience. L John Fraser, New York Correspondent of the Glasgow Herald.‘ 14 . " wooDHU‘LL,a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. J_ May -10, 1873, !.~——.. and superstitioninto the land of intellectual knowledge and social progress and liberty. _ Resoloecl, That we brandthe cowardly attempts of hlS en- emies to injure him in body,» liberty and reputation, as worthy of men who dare not meet .an opponent in open and fair ﬁght, but play the role of the midnight assassin. Y Resolved, That we pray him to accept the position hereby tendered him,.which honoring him as it does, will be more honored by him, and that he will thereby endear himself still more to his eight hundred and sixty admirers of the Mont- gomery Legiori, of Harlem. ‘ . " , (Signed) A CAPT. JOHN J MARTIN, Co. A., * Chairman Com. W . MR. TRAIN’S EPIGRAM— REPLY. To Capt. John J. Bfrtrttn, Co. “A,” Chairman Committee; Thomas J. Scamtell,» Esq., Sec’y lllontgomery Legion, 2158 ThtrcllAve., Ha7"lem: . I DEATH TO THE RINGS. All hail, my gallant Irish band,’ I am with you, boys, heart and hand; Your burning words my soul inspiresﬁ And kindles anew the sacred ﬁres "Of Liberty: in which I but act the part ‘ That ought to move every patriot heart. With sword and riﬂe, voice and pen, And eight hm°.d7'ecl and sixty men, I’d hang the thieves on lamp-post high That let the people starve and die. THE CODIING DICTATOR. 1lf0n.tgom.e7"y / Noble Irishman; Chieftain of immortal race, 9 With Irish valor led his clan, And left his life there in the place. When his “Atlantic” struck Quebec The Oaptamperlshedjn the wreck. I only accept your warm applause As representing the people’s cause. As your Honorary Brigadier You can command my service here; ‘But through revolution, a little later, I will command the Legion as DICTATOR. GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, (The Commander of all Legions of the workingmen.) THE Tones, New York, April 4, 1873. u..........._.a THE LEGION FIRING GUNS OF JOY. A man’s a man, for a’ that. , Through Glasgow, Sterling, Balmoral, Braemar, In Scotland I have traveled far, ' From Modocs’ lair to land of Cossacks, Yet nothing like Loch Katrine‘s tussocks. And your mountain heather and Scottish ferns Can beat the classic land of Burns. But in swindling New York takes the lead. ~There’s no fraud on the banks Qf your Tweed. While America reveres the name of Scott Your country will never be forgot. _ . GEO. FaANcIs TRAIN (Who patted Sir Walter’s old pony on the back at Abbotsford in-1850.). THE Tones, April 24, ’73. _ 4; 4. THE PAGAN BIBLE : OR, THE RELIGION OF HUIEIANITY. THE OFFICIALS TO BE INDICTED FOR BIURDER. THE PRESIDENT OF THE MURDERERS’ CLUB. FROM THE, TOM.BS TO THE ASYLUM. George Francis Train in Hell!——Blood or bread! Vive la Commune! “The Chamber of Horrors; or, the Tortures of the Damned in the Tombs.” A thrilling book of startling epigrams on the downfall of Christianity. By a Pagan Preacher; written in his fourteenth Bastile by the coming Dictator. A bombshell among the churches; exposing the . great Grant—Tweed Republican Ring fraud and the subsidized Press, giving names and amounts; secret history Credit Mobilier; Beecher, Tilton, Colfax, Dodge; obscene Y. M. C. Ass. Conspiracy. V 0 W07'hz'hgme~72./ Pay; no ﬂares! ., Start the battle.’ Gvtncl your aces.-’ The only thing to scwe the nation Is 2'mmech'az,'e repudz'att'0h. ~ , Down with the Party.’ Smash up the Rang.’ White up, people! Death to Kings! A ON E. MILLION COPIES VVILL BE PRINTED 1 Agents Wanted from all over the United States. CAN MAKE TWENTY.-FIVE DOLLARS A DAY. HEADQUAR.TEn.s or THE } _ HARLEM MONTGOMERY LEGION, April 8, 1873. , To €GEoueE FRANCIS TRAIN: Dear G’eneral~I received yours of the 5th i‘nst.. and was highly ﬂattered at the noble answer you sent us. Your ex- pressions are to the point and worthy of the master mind that penned them. I have shown your acceptance to the boys, and they feel glorious over it. I shall present it at our Business meeting on Friday next. Your acceptance has given a renewed impetus to our recruiting, as many as thirty seeking admission already. The boys are thinking of getting up a monster festival in your honor, which, for its propor- tions, will astonish the natives. -I long to see you in person, but cannot gain admittance. No more at present from your admirer, CAPT. J oH'N J. MARTIN. P. S.—If you have any orders to give, or wish any changes in the Legion, you will so write us. J. J. M. .A. EPIGRAM REPLY FROM THE BRIGADIER-GENERAL. I To Capt. J ohn J. Marttln and the .Mo°/ltgomery Leg/ton, of l Harlem: .. ~ ' , Lo! from the Tombs, this dismal region, Once more I epigram the Legion. The horn Dictator, who represents the cause Of all the people, will soon amend the laws That slave the workmen. When it comes to pass "" They insult labor, then shut Q17‘ the gas! _ ' This proves the people possess the light, And will maintain it by manhood’s ﬁght. > Don‘t forget, though with you;hand and heart, I cannot false any active part. , The coming chief of all the nation Will have no time for private station. The name of Legion the Ring alar_ms—- Push on, my boys. Aoantl Am; Armesl ’ GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN, clined active military position since organizing the Commune in France as President De La Ltgue Du Made.) THE Tours, New York, April 9, 1873 (sixteenth week). SCOTLAND IMAKING UP TO THE INFAMY OF AMERICAN BARBARISM. 150 BROADWAY, New York. GEORGE FnANoIs TRAIN, ESQ.: StT—-I am the New York correspondent for the Dathy Iferalol, Glasgow, Scotland, one of the_three_most inﬂuential and largely circulated daily papers In Britain, outside of of Scotland take a deep interest in your case, and he would be greatly obliged if you could favor me with any statement you please of the merits of the present action and your position. ' A KIND WORD FROM THE GLASGOW “HERALD.” Personally, I may add, I have the deepest respect for your genius, energy, liberality and pluck; and 1fvI can be of any’ service to you in making your claims known on the other side, I shall esteem it a favor to be_ allowed to do so. Trusting you will honor me with a reply .at your con- - I have the honor to be your most obedient servant, . A . JOHN FEAsEE. P. S.—As 1 am a stranger to you, I refer you to Mr. Scrib- ner, the publisher, should you require‘ proof of my poJsiti3on. MR. TRAIN’S REPLY. EPIGRAM. Shall be glad to see you in my”i'ooms Any day you are passing the Tombs. _ I represent your land as well as mine, Freedom belongs to every clime. Manhood is theproperty of man. ‘ Independence since the world began Signiﬁes Truth, Virtue, Enterprise, Opposed to bigotry, fraud and lies. Speaking the true spirit of the age, Of course I woke the Pharisees‘ rage. I like your ‘f Bannocks _ofgBarley Meal.” The songs ofjscotlandfinake one feel, Beck sent by Mail—Retail Price, Twenty-ﬁve Cents; or, .Fifteen Dollars a hundred, * C. O. D. Remit your Stamps for the Greatest Book since the World Began to VVOODHULL, CLAFLIN & CO., M 48 Broad street, New York. DAILY BREAD. (HARD CRUSTS OUT or LAsT sUNDAY’s BASKET.) In the following extract from the New York Herald of the 28th ult., H. W. Beecher makes it pleasant for his wealthy congregation, probably out of a proper regard for their late sufferings on his account. In commenting on the text——Matt. 8 chap, xxii. ver., “But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead ”— ‘,‘The past of any man’s life is his own.business, and be- longs to no one else, whatever he may have done. This truth, Mr. Beecher said, he would employ as a rule of criti- cism with regard to practices which were mischievous. Every man has been a creature of circumstances. Every man has had times of ignorance. Every man has had his battles with temptation. Every man has had his‘ old scars. Every one has a past out of which rose spectres that destroyed his pride, and which blurred the vision of his moral sense even. It was sinfulness. Some men felt it to be their duty to look back upon the sins of their youth, their manhood, the sins of their later life, store them up and look at them and use them as a development to a means of grace. When men have done wrong and got the impetus that comes from sorrow, they should leave behind their past and go forward. Still worse was it for men to get into a liturgical confession of their sorrow.” If this be not a liturgical confession, it is a very comfort- able doctrine, inasmuch as it disposes of the necessity for repentance which ‘is generally insisted upon in orthodox churches. Our second extract is from the sermon of Mr. Talmage, who, from his late matrimonial exhibition, may Well be termed the “Cheap Jack” of the clergy of Brooklyn. Speaking on the expulsion of the Bible from our common schools, he said : “In the ﬁrst place, he was opposed to it because such ex- pulsion would decide that a great multitude of the children of this country should have no moral and religious culture. We must take the "community just as it is, and recognize the fact that the vast majority of people do notread the Bible in their households, and do not send their children to Sab- bath schools, so that the majority .of the "children derive all knowledge about God and Christ and eternity from the Scripture lessons of the day school.” i‘ , ' If this statement be correct, as it is believed to be, it is a great crime to insist on the arbitrary Christianizing of the children, when it is contrary to the will of the majority of the people. If, however, the Christian churches are deter- mined to.do so, it would only be proper to defer their at- tempt until the Catholics and Protestants have agreed upon a plan of proceeding by which they can unitedly accomplish their purpose. But,’if Mr. Talmage is correct, our argu- ments against it will be useless, for, he adds, with the grace of an infallible Protestant Pope: “I am also opposed to the expulsion because the God of the Bible has taken this country under his especial care, and In spite 9i an own: beer» -h kevidently intends it to be a Christian Bible reading people,” I . not a wise use of the past to dwell perpetually upon the old , Here we beg leave to drop the subject, as we acknowledge we are not on such familiar terms with the Deity as to be able to asce1‘t}lin from God whether Mr. Talmage interviewed Him before he made such assertions. N EVV LEXI.CON—MORE EXACT DEFINITIONS OF I I POPULAR WORDS. BY CALEB s. WEEKS. matters. Religion—-«Uniting ourselves to the idol of our ancestors, and disowning any other God. _ ' Piety—~Sentimental devotion and acquiescing in whatever just. _ . Religious life—-Temporary vigilance‘ in such devotion for the sake of ﬁnal insurance. * Sin—Obeying the God within us before all others. Godly fear—Fear that the devil may bite us. Conversion——Arou_sing man’s fears for personal safety, till they prevail over his sense of truth and right. A B‘acksliding~—Getting more light from God than can come through church windows. A _ ,Faith—Clinging to old dogmas and distrust of nature, es- pecially human nature. Righteousness——.Iea1ously maintaining old forms of faith and worship. » , Sa1_vation—Being saved from the consequences of our own wrong acts. ’ Seeking salvation——Endeavoring to escape the penalty sup- posed to be deserved by letting an innocent one suffer for us. . Morality—-Keeping our impulses subordinate to the com- mands of a God with whom,“ human nature is at enmity.” ' Maintaining and teaching morality-—Espionage over and gossiping against the lives of our fellows, particularly their love—lives. Virt-ue——Subordinating human nature to the arbitrary au- thority of State and church ideals and functionaries. Vice——Rebelling against such authority and following one’s own ideals. ' « Purity»-Keeping the mating loves chained according to the requirements of a dogmatic authority which declares hu- man nature depraved. _ Evidence of purity in ourselves—The ability to see impu- rity of motive in most if not all of our fellows. ’ Obscenity——The effort to become acquainted with portions of our nature tabooed by the dogmatic authority of State and church politicians. Suppressing obscenity——Preventing the exposure of unscru- pulous rakishness. JL 4 7 ‘gr— AGENTS FOR THE VVEEKLY. -~ GENERAL AeENTs. Thomas J. Lloyd, Adams House, Boston, Mass. Powers Paper CO., Springﬁeld, Mass. E. S. Near 8: CO., 498 Broadway, Albany. N. Y. John D. Henck, 918 Spring Garden st., Philadelphia, Pa. J. E. Hoyt, 341 341 West Madison street, Chicago, for the Northwest. . 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Ad- v dress J. E. Hoyt, 341 West Madison street, Chicago. ———+—-—~»—+o»-<———-—--——-—~ . COMBTOCK ON THE LOOK-OUT FOR THE PAGAN 1 BIBLE}: ‘ ' " ' Inﬁdel—A person who does not believe as I do in religions that God may do, even though conscience feels it to be un- who will reveal the past, present and future fromthe cradle, A .-.~..'-.-33;" _,~_ _,_s.%:_ -. ‘ guardians. It is said that the women exercise these - with beertswaying that he had already drank too much. V May 10, 1873. wooDHULI. & o”LAEL”IN’s WEEKLY. 0. L. Jan1es’lCcluInn. VVOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ENGLAND. Woman as a voter is an accomplished fact in Eng- land.’ Every woman who occupies a dwelling in any city or town of England, Ireland, Wales or Scotland has a vote for aldermen and town officers in general. Under Mr. Foster’s new act, in England widows and Spinsters who pay rates have votes in the election of school boards. In Ireland, every woman who pays any sum as poor rate has a vote in the election of poor Tights heartily, and in many cases where saloon-keep- ers represented the wards of cities in municipal posi- tions they were ﬁnally defeated by the votes of the women. In London, as is well known, Mrs._ Garrett Anderson, M. D., is one of the most useful members of the school board, and the same is true of Miss Becker, in Manchester.‘ The right of suffrage seems to have been conferred on the principle that where womenpay a tax for any object they shall have the right to vote in the disposition of the funds. America is bound to be as far behind the age on this as she was on slavery. DEATH STRUGGLES or THE HOLY INsTITUTIoN. A few items taken at random from one day”s ex changes of a country paper: WIEE BEATING. Another case of wife-beating, almost resulting in murder, occurred last night on Desplaines street. A man named O’Toole pounded his wife over the head with a pitcher which she refused to take out and ﬁll The blows cut her ear in two and made a horrible gash on the head, and the brute followed them up with pounding her with his fist. The woman was taken to the hospital and may not recover. Mrs. Page, shot by her husband at Vallejo last week, is pronounced out of danger. A party of Ku-klux, properly disguised, visited a widow and her three daughters, near Corydon, a few nights ago, took them from the house and gave them a sound thrashing. They then visited a man residing in the neighborhood and paid him a like eompliment. The ground of complaint was immoral behavior of the parties. Look out for Mrs. Snyder, of Cleveland; she has killed two husbands, and is roaming around the coun- t ryafter a tliircl. If syphilis be the scourge of God for the punish- ment of prostitution, I wonder what relation marriage bears to puerperal fever, a far more dangerous disease, equally painful and equally loathsome, of which many WOIIIGII are now dying in Eau Claire, and proportion- ate nuinbers throughout the northwest. I heard it said of one of these women that “ she never ought to have married,” as if society left her any other alternative. Of course the authors of this terrible mortality take it as philosophically as the doctors, and being’ young men, though their victims were broken-down women, will soon get more. -Nevertheless, they get all the sym- pathy, their victims being remanded to the orthodox heaven with the murderers” best wishes. Then ﬂll up your glasses stead ! This world is a world of lies; Here’s a health to the dead already, And hurrah for the next that dies. COUNSEL FOR THE AGED. When angry Katie stoops to folly, And strives in vain new laws to make; What charm can cheer her melancholy, Or shield her brother from his fate? The only way his guilt to cover, And hide his shame from every eye, Is to keep quiet under cover, And let the saints of Plymouth lie. INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY. CLINTON, Mass. ...j__.. The object ofﬁthis organization is the publication and dissemination of radical sentiments from all SOIITCGS. . . ‘ I Yearly] 8z.bs3rt'plz'on - , . $0 25 Life Jl[e7nZ2e7*s72.t'p - - - - ,. 5 00 Address, A. BRIGGS DAVIS, ’ CLINTON, Mass. FL Those really interested in practical social ° reform should not fail to become con- versant with the nature of this institution. Full information maybe obtained by addressing C. _TWENTI7 YEARS’ PRA OTIOE’. - DR. PERKINS Can be consulted as usual at his office, No. 9 FIFTH STREET (South Side), OPPOSITE PUBLIC SQUARE, KANSAS CITY, M O.» or by mail, box 1,227, on the various symptoms of Pri- the only man on the American continent that can cure you of Spermatorrhoea, Loss of Manhood, etc., caused by self abuse or disease. I challenge the combined medical faculty to refute the above statement by suc- cessful competition. The symptoms of disease pro- duced by nightly seminal emissions or by excessive sexual indulgence, or by self abuse are as follows: Loss of memory, sallow countenance, pains in the back, weakness of limbs, chronic costiveness of the bowels, confused vision, blunted intellect, loss of con- ﬁdence in approaching strangers, reat nervousness, fetid breath. consumption, parche tongue. and fre- quently insanity and death, unless combated by scien- tiﬁc medical aid. Reader, remember Dr. Perkins is the only man that will guarantee to cure you or refund the fee if a cure is not permanently made. Also re- member that I am permanently located at No. 9 Fifth street, south, opposite the public square, Kansas City, Mo., and I have the largest medical rooms in the city. Call and see me; a friendly chat costs you nothing, and all is strictly conﬁdential. Post box 1,227. . DR. PERKINS, Kansas City, Mo. VVIVII. WHITE, DI; D., 56 VVest88cl Street (Bet. Fifth Avenue and Broadway). OFFICE HOURS! 9 A. M.~to 1 P. M. & 5 to 7 P. M. ‘ DAKE’S. APPOINTMENTS FOR 1873. Elgin, Ill., 1st and 2d; Rockford, Ill.,‘3d, 4th, 5th and 6th; Beloit, Wis., 7th, 8th and 9th; Madison, Wis, 11th and 12th; VVatertown, VVis., 13th, 14th and 15th; Fond Du Lac, 16th and 17th; Oshkosh; 18th, 19th and 20th; Ripon, 21st and 22d; Whitewater, 24th and 25th; Waukesha, 26th and 27th; Chica o, Matteson House, 28th,j29th, 30th and 31st of eac month during the year. Offices, principal hotels in each city. Chronic complaints incident to both sexes exclusively and suc- cessfully treated. . ENooMIUMs FROM THE PRESS. The Western Rural speaks of Dr. Dake as one of the most successful physicians in the United States. DR. DAKE.—That this scientiﬁc physician has no /equal in the West thousands will aliirm.-Joumctt, Belott, Wis. Live energetic, liberal men, advertise. Such a man is Dr. akc, who in thelast three years has built up one of the largest practices .of any physician in the West.—L0c/cford Gctzatte. Dumoni. C. I_)ake,_M. D., is having great success in this city. He is active, whole souled, in fact, one of the 5“ whitest” gentlemen we have evei: known. Bllﬂﬂiillii inseam HBRAHY I79 S0lltI1.F0l11‘tI1 Street, WILLIAMSBURGH, N Y. Has for sale, or to be rented out upon the usual Cir- culating Library plan, an excellent selection of Supe- rior Books, of a well-known highly advanced moral and reformatory character. Also “WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY,” the “BANNER OF LIGHT ” and other Liberal Weekly Papers. Olﬁce Hours.-—8}_ﬁ§ to 12 o’clock a. m.. and from 2% to o’clock p. m., daily, Sundays excepted. The Most Wonderful Discovery of any Age. PROF. D. MEEKER’S INFALLIBLE CURE FOR THE OPIUM HABIT. A reliable and painless remedy for the Opium habit. Cures without any inconvenience to or interruption of business. Pamphlets sent free on application. Address, H. DRULINER»& CO., P. 0. Drawer 1,016, La Porte, Ind. . PSYGHG EETEV. Psychoinetric Readings for persons who send me their handwriting, or who will call on me in person. Fee, $2. Address, 1,114 Callowhill street, ‘Phila- delphia, Pa., by J. MURRAY SPEAR. MISSES GROVER L85 CROSBY, Business & iiistical clairvoyant, 316 Fourth Avemte, NEW YORK. (Between Twenty-third and Twenty—fourth streets.) OFFICE HOURS FROM 10 A. M. TO 8 P. M. T6’7”m=9 ~ .~ - - - $2.00 to $3.00. JAMES FISK, J12, Business Control of Miss GROVER, Ii. James, Eau Claire, Wis, L HELEN C-taovsn. F IAZZIE L. Cnessr. vate Diseases. - The afflicted will take notice that I am_ Chronic and Prjv ISSUED JAN. 25, 1873. OUR CHILDREN EDITED BY ' I MRS. H. F. M. DBROWN. ____,... The editor says in the preface: ‘.‘ Another book for children! Yes, another. Why not another, and still call for the news; they want to know what is going on beyond the garden gate. Very likely they know that the future has som-erthing for them to do, so the little clears are trying hard to see and to hear what the full- grown world is doing to-day. _ Children call for scraps of history, bits ~of sermons in songs, stories of real life. They want to be amused instructed. _ I have seen the child-mind, heard the young pilgrim call for help. I am going to do my best toward meeting the demand. Some of the lovers of the juvenile world have kindly joined me in making up_ this little book. We send it out, hoping it may brighten some of the cloudy winter evenings.” »—..._4 Contents : OurChild= ;S 'd;M ° D~’ _ . w_ithout a l\I1o31¥al; TIIIIIEgangbler§:II1I7(Icti%iIIu}lgheaN§iII)I)§f Eichenberg—a Legend of the White _Lily; The Ambi- ﬁoﬁs (I3r{00se who went Abroad to win Honor; Bessie e , atydid, The Angel Escort; Jack Worthing’s Adventures; Rag-a-Muffin; Christine; The Last Price 75 cents, postage 10 cents. For sale wholesale and retail by the publishers WM. W’ 14 AUXILIARY T0 WOODHULL A OLAFLIN.” THE Wasoran' lf tl "* ~ ' -- pi-omii1§aii‘§.f‘of‘ti.-etewttiiiiff ..“.f.i‘i”.i‘ i‘if.-.t‘e‘i?.ilg ““‘i the exorcism of Social priﬁucllce and in'usti we Od religious bigotry and superstition‘ fromjthe 01$’ mind. The suppression of Free Thou ‘ht on theulgldtl form in New York and Boston agnd racti ‘III A through venality, cowardice or iindue cgutioi? 0Ve1‘y journal in the United States but one left’ thz Iconoclasts, Prophets and Evangels of to-da’ without adequate voice in this crisis of the ages. y I The maintenance and success of our Institution de- pends up_on alﬁl tﬁue friends of free speech and a free gsespdgllsx 3i! t eir unanimous, undivided patronage. Books pamphlets. tracts a 6. '~ 1. -' -. ' dispatch’ and at the lowest liéiiig? minted with List of works published and for sale at th S ~' t ’ ' oﬂice, or gent post paid 011 receipt of price 0 one y 5 “Mrs. oodhull and so 7 .1 F” - Kent. Pani., 15 cents. C13 M/edom’ by Austm ied%%“§i:.2?, ii%£.::?he' by a Woman of .. giargssr.*::.i.1::2.%W1°u»’’bwwames. Tracts “ ‘HaimonialPh'l IN 1PR’ESS: ' * ’ 1 oso 1 ‘ch , , - Letter to A. J. Davis,” ll))y V]‘3:i=iggZ‘17)C;1,1,ﬁ:anCe’ Open Also, twenty-ﬁve tracts.-to be issued iminetliately. Address: INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, ' CLINTON, Mass. “ OUR AGE 39 . 9 PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT BATTLE OREEK, Ants, DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE. Free press, free speech, and has no love to sell Re ’ A. - . V ’ pudiates enormous advertising rates. Box 502. ROTOZONE. THE FINEST AND MOST PERFECT BRAIN AND NERVE INVIGORANT IN THE WORLD. E Physicians and others will ﬁn ' in all cases of illness arising fl‘((1)IIIt §§12%1s1si’iv1En%Qt%l1a1§.51 verted sexism, even when insanity and chronic unltest has i‘esu.ltecl, The female illnesses springing from bad magnetism, inducing amative horror and disgust brain disturbance and exhaustion, vital depletion and sui cidal thought, all yield to Protozone, while barren: _ness, sterility and brain-softening are at once relieved There is but one place where it is made, viz. 17 CAMPBELL BLOCK, TOLEDO, 0., and but one agency in America, viz., MRS. SARAH P. THOMPSON, 1 Philips Court, Boston, Mass, Price single pound ﬂasks" 5. D‘ ,5 5 gross. Acltlﬁegss as Zggiggz y cgozms 07 __._______ “ THE CLERGY A SOURCE OF DAN. GER TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.” Second editionniore elegant th th ii . < _ ;3S(:311l£1e(:1]l! sold within four months f1‘f£)tIIIlZl th: TZIIIIIE SECOND EDITION N0 VV READK Price, muslin, postage prepaid — . - _ $1 75 Gilt edgeand side-title - - . . . ; 2 00 PAMPHLETS : ' “~America’s Foes,” single copy, 10 cent;,_ CO;;7[:111% and our Common Schools,” single $5 per hundred. Address all orders to W., FKJAMIESON, 139 86 141 Monroe st., Chicago, 11], DR. E. , woonnurr, otanc Physician * OFFICE AT HIS ROOT. BARK AND HERB STORE, 38 CANAL ST.. UP STAIRS, GRAND RAPIDS, M1’ch., Where for thirt aeienlyears eV€}l1‘y desgription’ of Aguﬁe, . e iseases ave een success-u y treated strict] onB ' .- - ‘ wgtanic principles. hm ;, :No POISON UsED. '“‘-_-f"" p ,,,,, ___I,... _1’« 0: Di‘a.We1'._. 2,391. :,_; 4, _Counsel_at oiilee Free, another? Little folks see the world in books. They ' Independent Radical Traci Ssieiy” Terms, 10 cts. ﬁrst,'6 cts. atterinsertions. $2.50 a-year — ALL women know that it is beauty, rather than genius. which all generations of men have worship- ped in the sex. Can it be’ wondered at, then, that so much of womaiiﬂs time andattentioii should be directed to the means of developing and preserving that beauty? Vfomen know too, that when men speak of the intellect of women, they speak critic- ally, tamely, cooly; but when they come to speak of the charms of a beautiful woman, both their language and their eyes kindle with an enthusiasm which shows them to be profoundly,'if iiot, indeed, ridicu- lously in earnest. It is part of the natural sagacity of women to perceive all this, and therefore employ every allowable art to become the goddess of that ‘adoration. Preach to the contrai'-y as we may against the arts employed by women for enhancing their beauty, there still stands the eternal fact, that the world does not prefer the society of an_ ugly woman of genius to that of a beauty of less intellect- ual acquirements.‘ _ The world has yet allowed no higher mission to woman than to be beautiful, and it would seem that the ladies of the present age are carrying this idea of the World to greater extremes" than ever, for all women now to whom nature has denied the talis- manic power of beauty, supply the deﬁciency by the use of a most delightful toilet article known as the “Bloom of Youth,” which has lately been in- ‘troduccd into this country by Gnoncn W. LAIRD. A delicate beautifier which smoothes out all "in- dentations, furrows, scars, removing tan, freckles and discolorations, and imparts beauty, cf‘earness, and softness to the skin. giving checks the appearance of youth and beauty. With the assist- ance of this’ new American trick of a lady’s toilet, female beauty is destined to play a larger part in the admiration of men, and the ambition of women, than all the arts employed since her creation. Ladies, beware of Dangerous and Worth- less Ianitattons of George W. Louis-d’s “_Bloom of Youth.” i§Z,§°THE GENUINE EENDE-ns THE COMPLEXION CLEAR, BRILLIANT, AND BEAUTIFUL; THE SKIN Sour AND SMOOTH. This delightful Toilet Prepara- tion is used throughout the world. Thousands of testimonials have been sent to the proprietor, indorsing and recommending the use of this purely harmless Toilet preparation. A dangerous Counter- feit of" this article was--in circulation; had it not been stopped, it was calculated to damage the well- known reputation of the Genuine Preparation. BE PARTICULAR toask for the Genuine. It has the name G-. W’. LAIBD stamped in glass on the back of each bottle. I Ladies who are careful to obtain the genuine “Bloom of Youth,” will certainly be pleased with the effect produced by it. -——o~>o———- One of the most eminent Physicians of New-York City, . ' K Dr. LOUIS A. SAYRE. After carefully examining the analysis of the genuine Laird’s “Bnooivi OF YoUTn,” pronounced the preparation harmless, and free from any ing-re». dient injurious to health. , A ' (New-York. Herald, April. 16, 1870.3 ho1nzson’s-C1-own Criinolizms I Are Charming for Light}: ess. homsonm Crown (?I'ii.1(b35n_-91!. - ' Are Superior for Elasticity. Inoimsotﬂs Crown Cri no! inc: Are unequalled for Durability. homsonm Crown Criuolines, — Iifa wvggi, are the best in the world, and more dely known than any other. _. At wholesale by , THOMSON, LANGDON &. Co., 391 Broadway, New York. .n;oWE"s Sﬂli VERY DESCRIPTION 0}‘ SCALE wanna; 19 our " &'nFd:l'£3;n3AI§:;Yra1I;l.thos8nd £0: Cztalogule andtciprcsilinr. ~ ,escormse alseanaa 2 vmtsixssl-,ccE.E4A¥. ‘ .. I" P ’ ° -u-can sorta scans co... ‘~» ' —.-.=. ' 8 3&1 Fleet. Kev ?;vg; tszssenewsgges i 16 \ WOODHULL a cLAELIN’s WEEKLY; May I0, 1873. The Friendship Coniinunity Near Buffalo, Dallas Co., Missouri, has 500 acres of good land, on which its members all live and work to- gether, combining all their property and labor for their mutual assistance and support. It is liberal and pro- " ressive, andallows equal rights _to all its members, Eoth men and women, in its business affairs. More members are wanted. The Communist, its monthly paper, will be sent free to all desiring further information. Address ALcAN- DEE LONGLEY, as above. V]-‘HE NEW YORK LIBERAL CLUB Meets every Friday evening at 8 o’dlock, For the discussion of scientiﬁc and other interesting subjects. Good speaking and entertaining discussions may always be expected. SAFES. .—___.— Marvin & Co.’s are the Best. . 265 ' BROADWAY. >____________________.___C____*____._.__._—..-——— VVM. DIBBLEE, LADIES’ HAIR DRESSER, 854 BROADWAY, Has removed from his Store to the FIRST FLOOR, where he wil_l continue to conduct his business in all ‘its branches TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. CHEAPER than heretofore, in consequence of the difference In his rent. A V CHATELAINE BRAIDS. LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S WIGS. am; uzerything appertaining to the business will be kept ﬁx Sand and made to order. I , QA f ‘t' ltin , JAPONICA’ for po1o)tIil3i§gL MA(_)cr.Id 1Tn.AIItasAd.i7E roir promoting the growth oithe hair, constantly on han . Consultation on diseases of the Scalp, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 A. M. till 3 P. iii. Also, his celebrated . HARABA ZEIN, or FLESH BEAUTIFIER, the only pure and harm- less preparation ever made for the complexion. No lady should ever be without it. Can be obtained only at WM. DIBBLEITS, 854 Broadway, Up-stairs. A_l\iZERlOXN' BATH NORTILEAST CORNER 1.'7th St. & Irving Place, Embraces the most comprehensive system of remedial agencies of anylike institution in this country. In addition to the TURKISH, ' RUSSIAN, - ORIENTAL, SULPHURETS, SULPHUROUSJVA-PQR) FUMIGATED, - C. I MERCURIAL, - . . . IODINE, ETC., BATHS, Treatment by ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM receives special attention. These Baths are select, and given singly, and are administered in such away as to healthfully adapt themselves to each individual case of either sex. PRICES OF BATHS'——Fi'om $1.00 to $3.00. NEW YORK, May, 1872. EN TRAN OE T0 GENTLEMEN‘;S' BA THS, Irving Place. TH : ENTRANCE T0 LADIES’ BA ’ 125 E. 17th Street. _ CHARLES H. FOSTER, TEST MEDIUM, ’ 16 EAST T WELETH STREET. TITUS & JORDAN, Attorneys & Counsellors, 19 NA.8S»-All STEEET, assess agggiggam Essie 959:9 Eon USE IN FAMILIES, , THE FAMOUS Tabla Sauce, THE IEEST RZEJLISI-I Put up in any pai't_:of the world for Family Use. Can be bought of any First—Class Grocer ‘ Closed. 7 Open. TI-IE CRUSADE FAMILY SHIP, A New Incomparable - CLOTHES DRYER, CLOTHES FRAMES, BARS, AND LINES, FRUIT DRYER AND CHRISTMAS TREE COMBINED. A GOOD THING, Patented May 24th, 1870. It is used for wet or dry clothes, in doors or out, stands ﬁrm or will swing and revolve, opens and closes like an umbrella; with racksmade of lath added, is a fruit dryer, and trimmed with evergreens, is a Christmas tree._ Send, for circular descriptive of it or for the article itself, at any store, or send to the Patentee and Manufacturer, , _ W. LIVINGSTON BROWNE, Shortsville, Ontario County, N. Y. P. S.—Sales Large, and easy. Agents wanted for the article, or territory. Address the Manufacturer, as above, ﬁwlosing stem}?- Clothes Dryer. Fruit Dryer. Christmas Tree. KNABE ta coxs rIANos. (ESTABLISHED 1833, BALTIMORE, - MD.) 18,000 of these Celebrated Instruments are'now in use this country and Europe. hey have been awarded 85 Gold and Silver Medals. Every Instrument fully warranted for ﬁve years. wAnEnooMs: . 650 Broadway, N. Y., and 69 Washington Street, 7 , _ Chicago, Ill. J. BAUER a CO.,_ _ GENERAL AGENS. Pianos to rent; sold on installments; and_old ones taken in exchange. Illustrated atalogues sent on ap- plication. PIMPLES. I will send (free) recipe for my VEGETABLE BALM, removing PIMPLES, BLACK WORMS, BLOTCHES, FREcKLEs, MoTHs, TAN and all Diseases of the Skin, leaving it clear and with a healthy glow. Also, sure process for ﬁne growth of Hair on bald heads or smooth faces. ,, THOS. F. CHAPMAN, CHEMIsT, P. O. Box 5,128. 197 Broadway, New York. THE THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION I on THE imerican labor Reform league “ILL BE BLED IN HEW YORK Y,MA‘Sf cps as Era. rrin vs-L ihstisulsrs hereafter? HALFORD LEIOESTERSHIRE HOME INSUPIANBE 00lilPlNY, No. 135 BROADWAY. Branch 0ifioe,586 Sixth Avenue. Capital, — s2,5oo,ooot Assets over 4,000,000 .._u—=- This Company having provided for all its Chicago losses, without borrowing a dollar or disturbing a single Bond and Mortgage, invites the attention of the public to the following certiﬁcate of Hon. George W. Miller, Superintendent of the Insurance Depart- ment of the State of New York, that the Capital has been restored to the full amount of Two and One-half Millions of Dollars. ‘ CHARLES J .~ MARTIN,’ Pres. J. H. WASHBURN, Sec. .—___ INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, ALBANY, N. Y., Dec., 27, i Having, on the 10th day of November, 1871, made a requisition, directing the oﬂicers of the Home Insur- ance Company, of New York, to require the Stock- holders of said Company to pay up the sum of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars deﬁciency then existing“in the Capital of said Company, and upon due examination made, it appearing that the said amount of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars has been duly subscribed and fully paid in, in cash, I hereby certify that the capital of said Compa- ny has been fully restored to its original amount of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and aﬁixed my oﬂicial seal on the day and year above written. ' (L. S.) GEORGE W. MILLER, Superintendent. I FREDERICK KURTZS DINING ROOMS, 23 New St. and .60 Broadway AND 76 Maiden l..ane& I Liberty St. Mr. Kurtz invites to his warm and comfortably fur- nished dining apartments the downtown public, as- suring them that they will always ﬁnd there the choicest viands, served in the most elegant style, the most carefully—selected brands of wines and liquors, as well as the most prompt attention by acccnixilished ' $50,000 Will be distributed this year,‘ to the subscribers for the AMERICAN WORKING PEOPLE, a large quarto, 16 page Monthly, costing but $1 50 per year. a premium to ever subscriber, varyingfrom 25 cents in value up to'$2, 5, $10,,$20, 3100, $ 0, and $500 in Greenbacks,.besides Watches ewing Machines, Par- lor Organs and numerous other premiums of value. 7 Send for Specimen and Circulars to * CAPRON 85 CO., Pittsburgh, Pa. THE LAW OF MARRIAGE, _ - AN EXHAUSTIVE ARGUMENT AGAINST MARRIAGE LEGISLATION, BY C. L. JAMES, For sale by the author, post paid, for 250. Address, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. The Great Discovery! CATHARTIC MEDICINE MADE PLEASANT TO THE TASTE AND DEIGHTFUL IN EFFECT. D R. o R V I s K Cathartic Compound . Is pleasant to the taste, and will be readily eaten by children or adults. It is free from poisonous dru s, is purely vegetable, and, unlike other Cathartic Me i- cines, the dose need not to be increased from con tinued use. And it positively cures constipation. The directions accompanying each package. Read .\the following recommendations: “ NEW YORK, J iily 8, 1871. “ DR. ORVIS2 Dear Sir——Please send me, C. O. D., one has acted as a charm with in wife. “Yours, TUNIS H. BLACKWELL.” have ever known.—A. 0.) - “BROOKLYN, L. I. Nov. 8, 1871. “Dear Sir: Since your Cathartic Medicine was made known to me, I have used it, and it only, in my family, to obviate the evil it is intended to remedy; and I as- sure you I prefer it to all other expedients. Its opera- tion is gentle and wholesome, not enervating the sys- tem, or leaving a tendenc to increased diﬂiculty. It clears the complexion, re ieves oppression and invig- orates the whole physical economy. “Respectfu ly, Mrs. R. C. MAITLAND.” It is extensively used by Dr. Foster, of Clifton Springs, and many other eminent Physicians. SPECIAL AGENTS: Hudnut, Herald Buildin ,Broadway, New York; D. G. Farwell, cor. Amity an Broadway, do. ;-Mac , cor. 6th avenue and 14th Street, do.; Robt. S. McCur y, 494 Broadway, Albany; J. K. Post & Co., Lane & Paine, and Almy, Osburn House, Rochester, ‘N. Y.' S. E. Samuels, Columbus, 0.; Dixon & Deidrich, Dayton, 0.; Briggs, Clifton Springs, N. Y. . FOR SALE BY‘DRUGG‘LS’TS GENERALLY Price 25 cts. per Package. §Address all Orders, DR. A. ORVIS. Rochester. N. Y. CANCER. J. M. COMTNS, M. D.,- P1l0li. Ol oisiiiiics & msiisis ill‘ iiiiiiis, Gives special attention to the treatment of CANCER, cg atill varieties, and is radically curing large numbers 0 em. @" Call or address at 143 E. TWENTY-SIXTH STREET, N. Y., Fromsto 9}; E. M.; 4 to 6p. M. ',' The Road to Power. SEXUAL SCIENCE. PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REGENERATHION. A pamphlet of 60 pages, by F. B. Down. Priceless to wives and mothers and such as are trying to be men. Price 500. Ad ress F. B. DOWD, Wellsville, Mo. DR. H. SLADE, (CLAIRVOYANT,) . J. SA'IDl\/IMONS, 210 Wiisr FORTY-THIRD _STREET, N. Y. OFFICE nouns FROM 9 A. M. TILL 9 P. M. NOT OPEN SATURDAY. ‘ 7 Per Cent Gold Bonds, Issued by the Montolair Railway co. —’AND-— . Guaranteed by New York Midland.‘ The MONTCLAIR is the DIRECT and SHORT LINE on THE MIDLAND throu h New Jersey. Its bonds are issued on the basis of alf cost. They are GUARANTEED. It is a home road, running DIRECT FROM THE CITY or- NEW YORK, assured of a large business and a. line future. THIS BOND OFFERS AN ADVANTAGE OVER ALL THE OTHER MIDLAND FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS, IN TIIAT, WITH EQUAL SECURITY, IT IS LESS IN LRICE. We commend it to investors. For sale by Allen, Stephens dc Co., BANKERE NS. E‘? STREET? It gives ~ Author of “Manual of Transcendental Philosophy.” ’ box such as I had before; and am pleased to say, it (This was one of the worst cases of constipation I lllhtliill iiisi iioiisioi
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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1873-05-10_05_23
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1873-05-10_05_23
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 05, no. 24 (May 17, 1873)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1967
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1873-05-17
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS x a FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVESii BREAKING THE, WA Y FOR FUTURE lamvenen TIONS. Vol. V.—-No. 24.—Whole No. 128. NEW YORK, MAY 17, 1878. 1 .:“ PRICE TEN CENTS. ,THE IVIUNSTER SBANDAL N PLY EH Edward H. G. Clark and Theodore Tilto11’s V, THIS NUMBER or THE i.A1l cash orders for which, will be promptly ﬁlled at $7.00. per hundred copies; or inlots of ﬁve hundredvfor $30.00, C. O. D. IN Address, Vrorronin C. ~j WOODHULL, 48 Broad Street, New York. l‘ IPROSPECTUS OF THE WEEKLY. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY—the test of --a free . press and free speech, and the only organ in the world of THE NEW SOCIAL DISSPENSATION; and the only paper in the country that dare defy the com- bined power of Church and State, under the administration of the infamous Agent of the YOUNG MEN’s CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ——the man with a dozen names and a pliable conscience. I The columns of the WEEKLY are devoted to the absolutely free discussion of all subjects which involve the interests and well-be...
Show morePROGRESS x a FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVESii BREAKING THE, WA Y FOR FUTURE lamvenen TIONS. Vol. V.—-No. 24.—Whole No. 128. NEW YORK, MAY 17, 1878. 1 .:“ PRICE TEN CENTS. ,THE IVIUNSTER SBANDAL N PLY EH Edward H. G. Clark and Theodore Tilto11’s V, THIS NUMBER or THE i.A1l cash orders for which, will be promptly ﬁlled at $7.00. per hundred copies; or inlots of ﬁve hundredvfor $30.00, C. O. D. IN Address, Vrorronin C. ~j WOODHULL, 48 Broad Street, New York. l‘ IPROSPECTUS OF THE WEEKLY. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY—the test of --a free . press and free speech, and the only organ in the world of THE NEW SOCIAL DISSPENSATION; and the only paper in the country that dare defy the com- bined power of Church and State, under the administration of the infamous Agent of the YOUNG MEN’s CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ——the man with a dozen names and a pliable conscience. 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The in- quisition which the authorities,‘ located in this city,’ attempt- ed to establish over the freedom of the press, by their arrest of ourselves and Mr. Train upon the charge of obscenity; and, perhaps, the fear that we had libelled Mr. Beecher have, until now, prevented the Company from supplying its customers. Hundreds of newsmen have, in the meantime, received notice that the Company does not furnish the. WEEKLY, and they will now be obliged to renew theirorders before they will be ﬁlled; Will our friends everywhere take the trouble to inform their newsmen of this change i the relation of the Company to the WEEKLY. R M4 ryrw TO SUBSCRIBERS. Bills for subscriptions that have expired are now being sent in the papers weekly. We specially request that all who receive them will reply to them at once. The bills are made to show what is due up to date, and also a renewal for another year. Those who do not wish to renew will please remit what is now due and order the paper discontinued. Those who wish to renew may either send both these amounts or simply a renewal for one year, or three dollars, upon re- ceiving which a- receipt for same will be returned. Again permit ‘us to say, Do not delay doing one or the other of these things 2'-rnmedidtoly. THE TITUNDERBOLT. A paper bearing the above name has been issued from the press, simultaneously in New York, Albany and Troy, which purports to have been written principally by Edward H. G. Clark, of the latter city, and published by some un- known parties, who, however, are understood to be men of Notice of this undoubtedly expecting it, therefore I do not need to apolo- gize for copying it entire. _ It will be remembered that Mr. Clark has written several criticisms upon the various phases of ‘the Beecher-Tilton Scandal, which have been copied into the WEEKLY, not ex- cluding his severe allusion to _myself, without comment. May iii, iéde. But‘ I shall remain silent no longer and permit this con- spiracy to proceed, apparently to whitewash somebody, but really to blackwash me, to pass as current stuff without showing its true character and bringing it home, to its real source. I shall, therefore, analyze this thunderbolt as severely as my crucible will admit of, notwithstanding he has been led to convey the impression that ‘I am too igno- rant to attempt any such -thing, and attempting, could only expect to write myself down anass; however, the public shall have the opportunity to judge between us as to which of us is the greater. But I shall borrow no adjectives with which to do this, as he has felt it necessary to do to accom- plish thc purposes of the Thunderbolt. The paper is called the Thunderbolt. After a careful and candid reading, however, I do not think the name it bears is justiﬁed by its contents, unless, indeed, a thunderbolt may be a general concentration of many lesser bolts which have already been expended, and are gathered together to be hurled anew and en mdsso at a given point for a certain pur- pose. This paper contains no new facts; indeed, no new arguments regarding existing facts. The several features of the Scandal are concentrated, and—-—as every one who reads it can well surmise—with 'a well-deﬁned purpose in view, which I denominate the double one of whitcwashing and blackwashing. T _ This will become evident when other things which do not appear upon the face of the paper itself are shown. It will be remembered that I recently published a letter from Mr. - Clark to George Francis Train, in which he said he had » stolen Theodore Tilton’s “_true story.” How the stealing of such a document was done, if what I surmise be true, is not . hard to conjecture. Some three months ago a strange paper made its appearance entitled the Rainbow. The moment I saw it I said, that is the ‘ Golden Age "print, its typos, rules, head-lines and all; and so it turned out to be. The moment I saw the Thunderbolt I said, that is the Golden Age print; its types, rules, head-lines and all; and I believe it will so tug out to be. It bears the marks of Theodore Tilton too corf spicuously to permit one to whom he has so of ten, as he has to me, pointed out the characteristic points of the Golden Age to doubt this. I, therefore, have no hesitation in ex- pressing my belief, and resting upon it, that this paper was not only written by the knowledge and consent of Mr. Til- ton, but that it was published by him, or at least composed - and olcotrotg/pod by him. If any doubt this let him or her com- pare the Thundorboltwith the Rainbow, andboth with the Golden Age. This at ﬁrst blush may seem improbable, since the Thun- derbolt is severe upon Mr. Tilton. Evidently, however, he realizes the futility of escape; indec(l, that he deserves it all and more, and therefore makes ‘a virtue of necessity and aids in thmpublication, perhaps even connived to bring it about. g . But what, upon its face, are the purposes of the Thunder)’- bolt ? Ostensibly they are to show the danger by which the Republic is threatened .by the overt acts of the Federal au- thorities, acting under the inspiration of the Y. M. C. A. in prosecuting .Woodhull, Claﬂin and Blood for obscenity, to ' protect the reputation of Mr.‘Beecher, and to relieve Mrs. Tilton from the position into which she was thrown by the publication of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal; but this will scarcely be held to be its real objects by the careful, analy- tic reader. The reasons to such will appear to be-- 1. To white-wash‘-Mr. Tilton for the part of. informer which he has played in exposing Mrs. Tilton’s love for am‘: liason with Mr. Beecher, which it performs in a rather du- bious manner. 2. To black-wash me for having giving publicity to the Beecher-Tilton Scandal, which had. previously only been talked about behind the doors, which it does not do with colors that will wash. I 3. To ﬁx irremediably upon Mr. Beecher the fact of his private devotion to the principles of , social freedom, and to brand him to the world as one of the most consummate and hypocritical villains living, which, I fear, is done only too mercilessly. _ I These, I say, are undoubtedly the motives that led to the publication of the Thunderbolt. But all of them could not have existed in the ‘mind of Mr. Clark; nor were they all ap- parent in any of his previous articles written by him and copied into the WEEKLY. But Mr. om-1; himself informed me that he was in receipt of letters in which I was severely denounced, and I am informed by another, that Mr. Clark has been “advised to treat Mrs. Woodhull in the most con- temptuous manner.” Here, then, we ﬁnd the source of the animus which pervades the Thunderbolt, and it is the same as that from which I believe the paper really issues. , Mr. Clark, I have good reasons for believing, had no in. considerable regard for me personally; but that has been more than overbalanced by the inﬂuence that has been brought to bear upon him since he began to write about this matter. When he informed me that he was receiving very bitter letters regarding me, I at once, and frankly replied, a.skin_‘g_ their source, and saying: Give these letters to me to publish in the WEEKLY for the beneﬁt of the public. I denounced as dishonest and cowardly those who would stab me behind my back when they have the opportunity to_ meet me squarely and openly; and to those terms I now add vicious and malicious, and hurl them all in the faces of any one who has busied him or herself inwriting letters about, me all over the country, endeavoring to vitiate the truth of my statement of November 2, by falsehood and malice, but fail-‘ ing to submit them for publication in the WEEKLY. "-4 ‘:1 l , i 1 -a yr. ‘ \ _r-<;-».=.-:-:‘<<*-‘er-'-<'.-. - '. . , —.-..u._ \ lllay §1’?, 18%. assassins emssises , Therefore, when I ﬁnd emanating from the pen of a gen- tleman, who previously held me in esteem, the contemptuous words and the [still more contemptible insinuations with which I am described in the Thunderbolt, I am forced to the conclusion that the real motives for them lie outside of the person over whose name they stand. . .. I , Another conclusive reason that Mr. Clark is not the real source of the Thunderbolt, the responsibility of which he, however, assumes, is that of_ his own knowledge he would not have laid himself open to the terrible repulse he must now sustain. The Thunderbolt is vulnerable at every point. Moreover, had the statements been entirely the work of G Mr. Clark, I have a sufliciently good opinion of his ability ' to believe it would not have been so faulty in its construc- tion as to make it certain that, when only one of itschief corner-stones is removed, as it will be, the whole thing will tumble inan insigniﬁcant mass of ruins. Besides, it is con- tradictory and unreasonable in its positions, and resorts to falsehoods and unwarrantable insinuations to sustain them. I have said to the readers of the VVEEKLY that Mr. Clark is -9. gentleman. I fear they may not be able to agree with me when they shall come to realize the true character of the Thunderbolt, which is supposed to represent the char- acter of its writer, but which I hope only represents the terrible pressure to which he has been subject- ed by those whom he at least has honored in the past. I freely, confess that thecourse taken_ by Mr. Clark in his previous articles, excepting only a few of what Ithought unnecessary epithets used about me, won for him a high place in my esteem; but I also freely confess that the Thun- derbolt has staggered me. I expected great and good things of it. I did not think it would stoop to pander either to prejudice, position or passion; but that it would be_ just what ought to be expected from a gentleman who is every inch a man. But if the Thunderbolt is found, when sub- _ jected to the crucible of stern analysis, to be based upon \ other than purely and highly moral motives, and to be elab- ‘ orated for other purposes than the vindication of truth and the establishment of justice, and that these are promoted by falsiﬁcations and the use of unjustiﬁable methods,what must the conclusion be, except that the Thunderbolt does not sus tain the reputation of Mr. Clark. If it do not, neither he nor his friends ought to censure me for showing it, since neither he nor they can possibly be more disappointed than I shall be. » - And at the very outset,’before proceeding to the argu- ment, I am compelled to call attention to a fact which I fear will cast doubt even over other portions of the Thunderbolt which ought to stand unchallenged. It is of little conse- quence to me how it may please critics to treat me person- ally, if their efforts carry forward the glorious cause to which I am devoted; hence, personally, I might consistently per- mit the Thunderbolt to stand unscathed; but its defects are too apparent to justify me in passing what I refer to without comment, or, when comment is begun, from pressing it persistently to the end. Moreover the glory of the cause of freedom and justice will not allow me to stand publicly convicted by silence, of endeavoring to promote it by fraud. Therefore, observe the following quotation from the Thun- derbolt, and if, as I said, it vitiate the whole affair, let those who resorted-to a subterfuge so vulgar, bear the odium, and not me: “ susrrcrous roarnv BY T. T. ” [MEANING THEODORE 'l.‘ILTON.] i 5. Pubuthad in the Golden Age, November 12, 1872 (just after the Woodhull account of the‘Beecher-Tilton Scandal). " I clasped a woman’s breast As if her heart I knew, Or fancied would be true, Who proVed—alas! she too- False like the rest." Now why was this quotation made in the Thunderbolt—- special care being taken to state the date, and to italicize the parenthetical explanation? Evidently to convey the idea that my publication of. the Scandal had proved me, “ too—— false like the rest.” I ask again, Can there be any other construction put upon this remarkable quotation? and I answer, No other can be imagined. But what are the facts about this poem which I now copy ’ entire from the .WooDHULL & CLAFLIN WEEKLY of date December 23, 1871, where it was copied from the Golden ‘ Age of November 12, 1871: SIR MARMADUKES MUSINGS. BY THEODORE TILTON. rr"‘.L I won a noble fame; But, witha sudden frown, I The people snatched my crown, And in the mire trod down — My lofty name. I bore a bounteous purse, And beggars by the way Then blessed me day by day; But I, grown poor as they, Have now their curse. ‘ I gained what men call ‘friends; But now their love is hate, ' And I have learned too late How mated minds unmate And friendship ends. “‘ " ‘ ’ I clasped a u2oman’s breast, ~ .‘I{‘ As if her heart, I knew _ 2 : Or fancied, would be true, ¢"”""';""l*":?' - Who pro2)ed—dlas, she/t00.’— False, like the rest. a I now am all bereft-— , As when some tower doth fall, With battlement, and wall, And gate, and bridge and all- And nothing left. But I account it worth All pangs otfair hopes crossed, All loves and honors lost, To gain the heavens at cost Of losing earth. So, lest I be inclined To render ill for ill, I-Ienecforth in me instill, Oh God, a sweet good will To all mankind. SILEEPY HOLLOW, November 1, 1871. Mr. Clark is one of the editors of the Thunderbolt, and although the poem stood in it, below the article to which his name gives personal responsibility, he is not relieved from the general editorial responsibility. And can there- fore do no less than hold Mr. Clark responsible for this fraud, since a fraud of the most- malicious and vicious kind I must show it to be. It will be seen that the poem, instead of‘ having been pub- lished in the Golden Age, November 12,1872, was really published a yearibefore, in 1871 ; therefore the explanation (just after the Woodhull account of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal) bears the stamp of a vicious and malicious lie, in- vented to cast a reflection, upon me, and to question the character of the intimacy between Mr. Tilton and me. If Mr. Clark is responsible for this, or even if he has permitted this to be done by others—he being the only one known in the Thunderbolt—I say he must have been insane to thus tamper with ﬁgures and dates and records, and expect it to pass the scrutiny of the world. It might, perhaps, be ex- pected to pass the “Damphools” of whom Mr. Train treats, but even Mr. Clark’s “ ignoramus,” of 48 Broad street, ought not to be counted among so dulla crew as that. As if, how- ever, to court the responsibility of the intentions of this falsehood, Mr. Clark apparently proceeds upon its theory, dragging them conspicuously into another portion of the Thunderbolt, for which he cannot escape responsibility. Therefore I see no escape for him from either, and fear he has unwittingly been betrayed into something that a calmer survey of the ﬁeld, and less reliance upon the honoref those who write bitter letters about me would have saved him. Since, however, the inspiration of this poem has been called up and falsely stated, I may, with consistency, give the truth regarding it. This poem was written by Mr. Tilton, so he informed me, in Young’s Hotel, Boston, where he had gone to lecture in Tremont Temple, on “Home, Sweet Home,” witha revolver lying beside him, with which he intended to end his misery, leaving the poem behind as an explanation of his suicide. Returning, however, to_ his better sense, he desisted and re- turned home, called at my residence, 15 East Thirty-Eighth street, read me the poem in manuscript, and gave me this history of it. It was immediately published in the Golden Age, whereupon Mr. Tilton’s friends complained bitterly that he had told the whole story of his wife’s inﬁdelity by that poem, which ought never to have been written, much less published. ' I therefore hurl the lie and the insinuation in the face of the manufacturer, whoever he may be, and there they shall stick as an everlasting mark of infamy. I do not do this because I would ation. I have the honor of informing Mr. Tilton, ‘Mr. Clark and the world, that I shall ever be only happy and proud to acknowledge all the service rendered me by Mr. Tilton; and, moreover, that I never receive or accept ser- vice of whatever kind, or contract alliances of any sort. ‘of which I am ashamed to accept the responsibil- ity. And I wish it to be distinctly understood if pretensions have been put forward which any one thinks an honor to himself but a disgrace to me, I shall not hesitate-to correct the error into which men usually fall; or,_ if it requires it, to show that whatever is to their credit is also to the credit of women. I believe that the world shall come not only to know, but also to recognize that any asso- ciations between men and women, cannot at the same time behonorable to the former and disgraceful to the latter; and I have permitted many a lie to go unheeded to teach the world justithis fact. It is simply nobody’s business what my social relations are, or what they have been, unless I am found advocating publicly one thing while living privately quite a diifereift one. , I - But since, as I believe, through the conspiracy of Mr. Tilton, this insinuation has been publicly made in reference to himself, I think I have the right to call upon him to pub- lish a certain letter of -mine to him, written on four pages of wrapping paper, which contains a statement that will either prove or disprove what he has thus wantonly thrust before the public. fully to this matter and of whatpvhe has denominated the breach between’ us, but for which he has assignedla lie as the cause. ’ I have thus shown the character of one portion of the Thunderbolt which has special reference to me, in order that all other like portions may be critically considered by the reader; and now further, in order that both statements, the; “false”,and the “true,”~may stand side‘ by side, I proceed? to republish the original one of November -2, 1872: __V__ _....—— '7 -,x_ ‘ V _ ‘ ,.x:—- ....'.v .~ -«e>~~«' -:-"32" - > 9.. .—\ P-1 . . , shrink from the insinua-_ Further on I shall have reason to refer more . run BEECHER-TILTON SCANDAL cash woonnolgm. . ;with ventilating‘ one of the most stupendous scandals; which -has ever occurred in any community. I refer to that which i has been whispered broad-cast for the last two or three years through the cities of New York and Brooklyn, touching the ‘character and conduct of the Rev. HENRY WARD BEEGEER in his relations with the family of THEODORE ’.[‘IL'1.‘0N.V I if):- tend that this article shall burst like a bomb-shell into the ranks of the moralistic social camp. ' I am engaged in ofﬁcering, and in some sense conducting, a. social revolution on the marriage question. strong convictions to the —eﬁ‘ect_ that this institution, as a. bond or promise to love another to the end of life, and fore- . go all other loves or passional gratiﬁcations, has outlived its day of usefulness; that the most intelligent and really vir- tuous of our citizens, especially in the large cities of Chris- tendom, have outgrown it; are constantly and systematically unfaithful to it; despise and revolt against it, as a slavery, in their hearts; and only submit to the semblance of ﬁdelity to it from the dread of a sham public opinion, based on the ideas of the past, and which no longer really represent the convic- tions of any body. The doctrines of scientific socialism have profoundly penetrated and permeated publicopinion No thought has so rapidly and completely carried theconvictions of the thinking portions of the community as stirpiculture. The absurdity is too palpable, when it is pointed out, that we give ahundred times more attention to the laws of breed- ing as applied to horses and cattle and pigs, and even to our barn-yard fowls, than we do to the same laws as applied to human beings. _It is equally obvious, on a.‘ little reflection, that stirpiculture, or the scientiﬁc propagation and cultivas tion of the human’ animal, demands free love or freedom of and best knowledge on the subject, as an essential and prece. dent condition. These considerations are too palpable to be ignored, and they look to the complete and early supercedure of the old and traditional institution of marriage, by the sub- stitution of some better system for the maintenance of wo- men as mothers, and of children as progeny. All intelligent people know these facts and look for the coming of some wiser and better system of social life. The superco- dure of marriage in the near future, by some kind of socialis- tic arrangement, is as much a foregone conclusion with all the best thinkers of to-day as was the approaching dissolution of slavery no more than ﬁve or ten years before its actual aboli- tion in the late war. But, in the meantime, men and women tremble on the brink of the revolution and hesitate to avow their convic- tions, while yet partly aware of their rights, and urged by the legitimate impulses of nature, they act upon the new doctrines while they profess obedience to the old. In this manner an organized hypocrisy has become the tone of our modern society. Poltroony. cowardice and deception rule the hour. The continuance, for generations, of such utter falsity, touching one of the most sacred .i11.terest_s of humanity, almost eradicate the sense of honesty from the human soul. Every consideration of sound expediency demands that these ment of the higher order of life. Impelled by such views, I entered the combat with old errors, as I believe them to be, and brought forward, in addi- tion to the wise and powerful words which others have uttered on the subject, the arguments which my own inspira- tion and reﬁections suggested. No sooner had I done so than the howl of persecution sounded in my ears. Instead ofre- plying to my arguments, I was assaulted with shameful abuse. I was young and inexperienced in the business ofreform, and astounded to ﬁnd what, as I have since learned from the em; and slanderous and foul-mouthed accusations came from precisely those who, as I often happened to know, stood nearest to me in their convictions, and whose lives, privately, -were a protest against the very repression which I denounce. It was a paradox which I could not understand, that I was denounced as utterly bad f cr aﬁirming the right of others, to do as they did; denouncedby the very persons whom my doctrines could alone justify, and who claimed, at the same jtime, to be cons/cientious and good men. , My position fled, nevertheless, to contiiiuous conﬁdences relating to ipeople’s own opinions and lives and the opinions and lives of ‘others. My mind became charged with a whole literature of ‘astonishing disclosures. The lives of almost the whole army of spiritualistic and social reformers, of all the schools, were laid open before me. But the matter did not stop there. I found that, to agreat extent, the social resolution was as far advanced among leading lights of the business and wealthy circles, and of the various professions, not excluding the clergy and the churches, as among technical reformers. . It was, nevertheless, from these very quarters that I was ,most severely assailed. It was vexaigious and trying, I con- fess, for one of my temper, to stand under the galling ﬁre of lpersonalities from parties who should have been my warmest sadvocates, or who should, else, have reformed their lives in Saccordance with a morality which they wished the public to i —understand' they professed. I was sorely and repeatedly tempted to retort.‘ in personalities, to these attacks: But simply as personality or personal defense, or spiteful retort, I have almost wholly abstained during these years of sharp conﬂict from mak ng any use of the rich resources at my command for that kind of attack. But, in the meantime, the question came to press itself upon :my consideration: Had I any right, having assumed the Ichampionship of social freedom, to forego the use of half the weapons which the facts no less than the philosophy of the subject placed at my command for conducting the war- through any more tenderness to those who were virtual trai- to;-31-,o_t11e truth which they knew and were surreptitiously ,»,-._.l - ..-.-....». - I propose, as the commencement of a series of‘aggressive' moral warfare on the social question, to begin in thiiarticle ‘ I have . days be shortened; that somebody lead the van in announce- veterans in the cause, is the usual fact, that the most persist*- , mm DETAILED srsrnmnm or run wnonu mm» 3’! £38.‘. 7 — A the varied union of the sexes under the dictates of the highest — ‘‘ \';-\\.i.\\\~-..=.~.\xm\3;n.m.~;i??-M~ ggﬁnguponl’ Hadnotthesaoredoawnethuman rigntsand ‘ I .4‘ _ ~"" 4-New ' :: " I " . ’ V I V . I ,. / a thousand times more dreadful that they should be enacted. ‘ to my conclusions. , I went back to and studied the history ‘ ential man, North and South, in the community. Reputa- ‘As Bismarck is reported to havesaid: “ If an omelet has to ‘Brooklyn-—~were rife with rumors of an awful scandal in Ply- from any direct notice of the subject, and the rumors them- —';{‘IL',11oN was an earnest and apparently conscientious ad vocato * biography of me, and in numerous other publications in the so \ oh-some ohhniinés wheeze.- so 7‘ Mar 1'7. @873. ~ human well-beinga paramount claim over my own conduct ? I Was I not, in withholding the facts and ‘conniving at a putrid mass of seething falsehood and hypocrisy, in some sense apar- taker in these crimes; and was I not, in fact, shrinking from the responsibility of makingthe exposure more through re- gard for my own sensitiveness and dislike to be hurt than from any true sympathy _with those who would be called upon to suffer? ‘ T i . These questions once before my mind would never be dis- posed of until they were fairly settled upon their own merits, and apart, so far as I could separate them, from my own feel- ings or the feelings of those who Were more directly involved. "5 have come slowly, deliberately, and I may add reluctantly, of other reforms. I found that GrARRISON not only denounced slavery in theyabstract,-but that he attacked it in the concrete. It was not only /“ the sum of all villainies,” but it was the par- ticular villainy of this and that and the other great and inﬂu- tions had to suffer. He bravely and persistently called things by their right names. He pointed out and depicted the indi- vidual instances of cruelty. He dragged to the light and scathed and stigmatized the individual offenders.’ He made them a hissing and a by-word, so far as in hiin lay. He shocked the public sensibilities by actual and vivid pictures of slavehclding atrocities,. and sent spies into the ‘enemies’ camp to search out the instances. The world cried shame! and said it was scandalous, and stopped their ears and blinded their eyes, that their own sensibilities might not be hurt by these horrid revelations. They" cast _the blanket of their charities and sympathies around the real oﬁenders for their misfortune in being brought to the light, and denounced the informer as a malignant and cruel wretch for not. covering up scenes too-dreadful to be thought upon;‘ as if it were not Butthe brave old cyclops ignored alike their criticisms, their protests, . and their real and their mock sensibilities, and hammered away at his anvil, forging thunderbolts of the gods; and nobody now says he was wrong. A new public opinion had to be created, and he knew that people had to be shocked, and that individual personal feelings had t o be hurt. be made some eggs have to be broken.” Every revolution has its terriﬁc cost, if "not in blood and treasure, then still in the less tangible but alike "real sentimental injury of thou- sands of sufferers. The preliminary and paramount question is: Ought the revolution to be made, cost what it may? Is the cost to humanity greater of ‘ permitting the standing evil to exist? and if so, then let the cost be incurred, fall where. diably committed to the most radical of all radicals. Assur- ance was made doubly sure when he presided at Steinway Hall, when I, for the ﬁrst time, fully and boldly advanced my free-love doctrines. who stood before the world so fully committed to the broadest principlhs of liberty, made itconvenient to be conspicuously absent from the convention of ' the I/Vomen Suifragists at Washington last January. All sorts of" rumors were there- upon rife.’ Some said he had “gone back” on his advocacy of free-love; some said that arupture had takenplace between him and the leaders of the suffrage movement, and many were the theories brought forward to explain the facts. real cause did not transpire. until Mr. TILTON was found at Cincinnati urging as a candidate the very man whom he had recently so severely castigated with his most caustic pen. It was then wisely surmised that political ambition, and the editorial chair of the Tribune, and his life—long personal de- votion to Mr. GREELEY, were the inducements which had suﬁiced to turn his head and heart away, temporarily at least, from our movement. It was noted, however,sthat this man But the About this time rumors ﬂoated out that Mrs. VVOODHULL, disgusted at the recent conduct of Mr. TLLTON and the ad- vice given him by certain of his friends, was animadverting in not very measured terms upon their conduct. An article specifying matters involving several of these persons, obtained considerable circulation, and with other circumstances, such as the deﬁnite statement of facts, with names and places, in- dicated that the time was at hand, nigh even unto the door, when the things that had remained hidden should be brought to light, and the whole affair be made public. :Some time in August last there appeared in the Evening‘ Telegram a paragraph which hinted broadly at the nature of the impending ea‘/pose. About this time, a gentleman from abroad, to whom I had related some of the facts in my pos- session, repeated them~ to a member of Mr. BEECHER’s church, who denouncedthe whole story as aninfamous libel; but some days later he acknowledged both to his friend and me that he had inquired into the matter and had learned that it was “ a damning fact.” sponsible‘ position, and his word is good for all that he utters. Such was_the facility with which conﬁrmations were obtained when sought for. When, therefore, those who were convers- -ant with the case, saw in the Boston Herald and other papers that I had made a public statement regarding the whole mat- ter, they were not in the least surprised. It shows that the press had concluded that it was time to recognize the sensa- ‘tion which, whether they would or not, was destined soon to shake the social structure from its foundation. A This gentleman occupies a re- A reporter was then specially detailed to interview me it must. If justice to humanity demand the given expendi--«_. in order, as he said, that the matter might be published in ture, then accepting the particular enterprise of reform, we: accept. all its necessary consequences, and enter upon our certain of the New York papers. been suppressed is not possible to affirm with certainty, but Why that interview has “WOTK: fraught: it may be; With 1‘eP11gD3«1109 170 0.11I‘S91VeS 35 3719' it is easy to, guess. An impecunious reporter can be bought necessarily with repugnance to others. , I have said that I cameslowly, deliberately and reluctantly to the adoption of this method of warfare. I was also hin-. dered and delayed by the fact that if I entered upon it at all E saw no way to avoid making the ﬁrst onslaught in the most distinguished quarters. It would be cowardice in me to un- earth the peccadillos of little men, and to leave untouched? the derelictions and offences of the magnates of“social and intellectual power and position. How slowly I have moved in this matter, and how reluctantly. it may be inferred, will appear from these little points of history. More than two years ago these two cities-—New York and mouth Church, These rumors were whispered and covertly alluded to in almost every circle. But the very enormity of the facts, as the world views such matters, hushed the agita- tion and prevented exposure. The press, warned by the laws of libel, and by a tacit and in the main honorable consensus to ignore all such rumors until they enter the courts, or be- come otherwise matters of irrepressible notoriety, abstained selves were ﬁnally stiﬂed or forgotten. A few persons only knew something directly of the facts, but among them, situ- ated as I was, I happened to be one. Already the question pressed on me whether I ought not to use the .event to for- ‘ward the cause of social freedom, but I only saw clear in the matter to the limited extent of throwing out some feelers to the public on the subject. It was often a matter of long and anxious consultation between me and my cabinet of conﬁden- tial advisers. _ In June, 1870, WOODHULL St CLArLIN’s WEEKLY published an article in replyto HENRY O. BowEN’s attack on myself in “the columns of the Independent, the editorship of which had just been vacated by THEODORE TILTON. In this article the following paragraph occurred: “At this very moment awful and herculean efforts are being made in a neighboring city to suppress the most terriﬁc scandal which has ever astonish- ed and convulsed any community. Clergy, congregation .. and community will be alike hurled into more than all the consternation which the great explosion in Paris carried to that unfortunate city, if this effort at suppression fail.” Subsequently I published a letter in both World and T7’/mes, in which was the following sentence: “I know a clergyman of eminence in }'Erm:>kl.yn who lives in concubinage with the . wife of anm,‘§«a,u clergyman of equal eminence.” It was gene1.\’i¥ and well understood among the people of the press especiahf, that both of these references were to this case of Mr. Bnncnnirs, and it cam_e to be generally suspected that I was better informed regarding the facts of the case than others, and was reserving publicity of my knowledge for a more convenient season, This suspicion was heightened nearly into conviction when it transpired that THEODORE" off with a few hundred dollars. would readily pay thousands to shut the columns of the press against this exposure. copy of the report, as the interviewer prepared it, and in this shape I shall now present it to the public. And there are those who Fortunately I have a nearly verbatim But before proceeding to the main matter, let me relate, more in detail, the facts which ﬁnally determined me to en- ter upon this adventurous and responsible method of agita- tion. I In September, 1871, I was elected, at the annual convention at Troy, President of the National Association of Spiritual- ists. I had never consociated with the Spiritualists, although for many years both a Spiritualist and a medium myself, with rare and wonderful experiences of my own from my childhood up. I went to this convention merely as a specta- tor, with no previous concert ‘or machinery of any kind, and was myself as absolutely taken by surprise by my nomination and election as could have been any one present. It was said editorially in our paper, September 30, 1871, and said truly: “Her surprise at her reception, and her nomination to the Presidency of the Society was equaled only by the gratitude which she felt, and will ever feel, at the unexpected and tu- multuous kindness with which she was then and there hon- ored beyond her desert.” ~ . In woonnom. 82; CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY, of Nov. 11, 1871, I ad- dressed a President’s message tothe American Association of Spiritualists. In that document I made use of these words: “A new and mightierpower than all the rings and caucuses, than all the venal legislatures and congresses, has already en- t tered the arena. Not only are all the reform parties coales- cent in the reform plane, but they have already coalesced in spirit, under the newllead, and ‘a nation will be born ina day.’ They have already taken possession of the public con- viction. look to the coming of a new era; but all of them are not so well aware as we are that the spirit world has always exerted a great and diversiﬁed inﬂuence over this, while it is not till quite recently that the spiritual development of this world has made it possible for the other to maintain real and con- tinuous relations with it. Somewhat unconsciously, but .really, all the people ' “ Your enthusiastic acceptance of me, and your election of me as your President, was, in a sense, hardly your act. It was an event prepared for you, and to which you were im- pelled by the superior powers to which both you and I are subject. It was only one step in a series of rapid and as- tounding events, which will, in a marvellously short time, change the entire face of the social world.”., This and similar to this was the complete avowal which I then made of my faith, in the spiritual ordering of human events, and especially of a grand series of events, now in ac- tual and rapid progress, and tending to culminate in the com- plete dissolution of the old social order, and in the institution of a new and celestial order of humanity in the world. And of many of my radical theories, as appeared in his far-famed let me now take occasion to affirm, that all the, otherwise Golden. Age and elsewhere. Mr. TiLToN’s warmest friends‘ were shocked at his course, ‘and when he added to his re- markable proceedings, hisgbrilllant advocacy of my Fourteenth Amend nienc theory, in his letters to Honacx,-: (JREELEY, CHAS. SUMh‘r.4i: and .h.L',§';.‘, Qanmmzm. they ecu.‘-~:.i.m_l,ex'ed him. irremg-_ r -£ on viewed, terrible events which I amabout to recite as having . occurred in Plymouth Church, are merely parts of the same drama which have been cautiously and laboriously prepared to asi ound men into the consciousness of the possibilities of a better -life; and that I believe that all the parties to this am- -,b*rogl~to_ hav.e_ beemgthgqgghguh the unconscious agents _.9£t)16., higher powers. It is this belief, more than anything else, which ﬁnally reconciles me to enact my part in the matter, which is that of the mere mmcia to. the world of the facts which have happened, and so of the new step in the..di’sso- lution of the Old and in the inauguration of the New. At alarge and enthusiastic,_National Convention of the re- formers of all schools, held in Apollo Hall, N ewY ork, the 11th and 12th of May, 1872, I was put in nomination as the candidate of the Equal Rights Party for the presidency of the United States. Despite the brilliant promise of appear- ances at the inception of this movement, a counter current of fatality seemed from that time to attend both it and me. The press, suddenly divided between the other two great par- ties, refused all notice of the new reformatory movement; ,a series of pecuniary disasters stripped us, for the time being, of the means of continuing our own weekly publication, and forced us into a desperate struggle for more existence. I had not even‘ theimeans of communicating my condition to my own circle of friends. At the same time my health failed from more exhaustion. The inauguration of the new party, and my nomination, seemed to fall dead upon the coun- try; and, to cap the climax, a new batch of slanders and in- ‘ jurious innuendoes permeated the community in respect to my condition and character. T » Circumstances being in this state, the year rolled round, and the next annual convention of the’National Association of Spiritualists occurred in Sept., 1872, at Boston. Iwent there-dragged by the sense of duty-—tired, sick and dis-» couraged as to my own future, to surrender my chargeas President of the Association, feeling as if I were distrusted and unpopular, and with no consolation but the conscious- ness of having striven to do right, and my abiding faith in the wisdom and help of the spirit world. Arrived at the great assemblage, I felt around me every- where, not indeed a positive hostility, not even a ﬁxed spirit of unfriendliness, but one of painful uncertainty and doubt. I listened to the speeches of others and tried to gather the sentiment of the great meeting. .I rose ﬁnally to my feet to render an account of my stewardship, to surrender the charge . and retire. Standing there before that audience, Iwas seized! by one of those overwhelming gusts of inspiration which sometimes come upon me, from I know not where; taken out of myself; hurried away from the immediate question of dis- oussion, and made, by some power stronger than I, to pour out into the ears of that assembly, and, as I was told subse- quently, in a rhapsody of indignant eloquence, with circum- stantial detail, the whole history of the Bnncmm and TILTON scandal in Plymouth Church, and to announce in prophetic terms something of the bearing of those events upon the fu- ture of Spiritualism. I know perhaps less than any of those. A present, all that I did actually say. They tell me that I used some naughty words upon that occasion. All that I know is, that if I swore, I did not swear profa/nely. Some said, with the tears streaming from their eyes, that I swore divinely. That.I could not have shocked or horriﬁed the audience was shown by the fact that in the immense hall, packed to the ceiling, and as absolutely to my own surprise as at my " ﬁrst election at Troy, I was re-elected ‘President of the Association. _ Still impressed by my own previous con. victions, that my labors in that connection were ended, I promptly declined the office. The convention, however, re. fused to accept my declinature. The public press of Boston professed holy horror at the freedom of my speech, and restricted their reports to the nar- rowest limits, carefully suppressing what I had said of the conduct of the great clergyman. The report went forward, however, through various channels, in a muffled and muti- lated form, the general conclusion being, probably, with the uninformed, simply that Mrs. Woodhull had public?/y slandcred Mr. Beecher. " . Added, therefore, to all other considerations, I am now placed in the situation that I must either endure unjustly the imputation of being a slanderer, or I must resume my previously formed purpose, and relate in formal terms, for the whole public, the simple facts of the case as they have come to my knowledge, and so justifyﬁn cool deliberation, the words I uttered, almost unintentionally, and by a sudden impulse, at Boston. I accept the situation. and enteradvisedly upon the task I have undertaken, knowing the responsibilities of the act and its possible consequences. I am impelled by no hostility whatever to Mr. Bnncnnn, nor by any personal pique to- ward him or _any other person. I recognize in the facts a. ﬁxed determination in the Spirit world» to bring this subject to the light of day for high and important uses to the world. They demand of me my co-operation, and they shall have it, no matter what the consequences may be to me personally. The following is the re-statement from notes, aided by my recollection, of the interviewing upon "this subject by the press reporter alreadyalluded to: Reporter.-—“ Mrs. WOODHULL, I have called to ask if you are prepared and willing to furnish afull statement of the BEECHER-TILTON scandal for publication in the city papers?” Mrs. Woodhull.——“ I do not know that I ought to object to repeating whatever I know in relation to it. You understand, of course, that I take a different .view of such matters from those usually avowed by other people. Still I have good rea- son to think that far more people entertain views correspon’d- - ing to mine than dare to assert them or" openly live up to them.” V ‘ RepOTteT.-—“ How, Mrs. WOODHULL, would you statein the; most condensed way your opinions on this subject, as they 1 differ from those avowed and ostensibly lived by the public at large?” - A Mrs. Woodh/u.ll.——“I believe that the marriage. iustitution, like slavery and monarchy, and many other things which have been good or necessary in their day, is now eﬁcte, and in a general sense injurious, instead of being beneﬁcial to the community, although of course it must continue to linger until better institutions can be formed. I mean by marriage, in this connection, any forced or obligatory tie between the sexes, any legal intervention or constraint to prevent people" gram adiuatins their 1976 rplations precisely as they (10 ads. ““~. V..-- ~~ “ ’ x E; "r.‘g:,. ‘ -fMay 1’7,“l873. religious aﬁairs in this country, in complete personal freedom; changing and improving them from time to time, and accord- ’ ing to circumstances.” ' \ Rmorter.——“I_confess, then, I cannot understand why you ‘ of all persons should have any fault to ﬁnd with Mr. BEECHER, even asmming everything to be true of him which I have hitherto heard. only vaguely hinted at.” Mrs. Woodh1¢ll.—“ I have no fault to ﬁnd with him in any such sense as you mean, nor in any such sense as that in which the world will condemn him. I have no doubt that he has done the very best which he could do under all the cir- cumstances-_—with his demanding physical nature, and with the terrible restrictions upon a c1ergyman’s life, imposed by ' that ignorant public opinion about physiological laws, which they, nevertheless, more, perhaps, than any other class, do ’ their best to perpetuate. The fault I ﬁnd with Mr. Bnucnnu is of a wholly different character, as I havetold him repeat- edly and frankly, and as he knows very well. It is, indeed, the exact opposite to that for which the world will condemn I condemn him because I know, and have had every op- portunity to know, that he entertains, on "conviction, substan- tially the same views which I entertain onthe social question; that, under the inﬂuence of these convictions, he has lived for many years, perhaps for his whole adult life, in a manner which the religious and moralistic public ostensibly, and to some extent really, condemn; that he has permitted himself,- nevertheless, to be over-awed by public opinion, to profess to believe otherwise than as he does believe, to havehelped to I, maintain for these many years that very ‘social slavery under I which he was chaﬁng, and against which he was secretly revolting both in thought and practice; and that he has, in a word, consented, and still consents to be a hypocrite. The fault with which I, therefore, charge him, is not inﬁdelity to ' the old ideas, but unfaithfulness to the new. He is in heart, in conviction and in life‘, an ultra socialist reformer; while in seeming and pretensio-n he is the upholder of the old social slavery, and, therefore, does what he can to crush out and oppose me and those who act and believe with me in forward- :ing the great social revolution. I know, myself, so little of :the sentiment of fear, I have so little respect for an ignorant 3 and prejudiced public opinion, I am so accustomed to say the thing that I think and do the thing that I believe to be right, that I doubt not I am in danger of having far too little sym- pathy with the real diﬂiculties of a man, situated as Mr. BEECHER has been, and is, when he con-templates the idea of facing social opprobrium. Speaking from my feelings, I am prone to denounce him as a poltroon, a coward and ‘a sneak; not, as I tell you, for anything that he has done, and for which the world would condemn him, but for failing to do what it seems to me so clear_he ought to do; for failing,’ in a word, to stand shoulder to shoulder with me and others who are en- deavoring to hasten a social regeneration which he believes in.” . . Rqaortcr.-—“ You speak very conﬁdently, Mrs. WOODHULL, of Mr. BnncHnR’s opinions and life. Will you now please to resume that subject, and tell me exactly what you know of beth ?”. . Mrs. Woodh/u.ll.——“ I -had vaguely heard rumors of some scandal in regard to Mr. BEECHER, which I put aside as mere minor and idle gossip of the hour, and gave to them no at- tention whatever. The first serious intimation Ihad that there was something m"5re than mere gossip in the matter came to me in the committee room at Washington, where the suffrage women congregated during the winter of 1870, when I was there to urge my views on the Fourteenth Amendment. It was hinted in the room that some of the women, Mrs. ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, a sister of ' Mr. Bnncnnn, among the number, would snub Mrs. WOODHULL‘ on account of her social opinions and antecedents. Instantly a gentle- man, a stranger to me, stepped forward and said: “ It would ill become these women, and especially a Bimonnn, to talk of antecedents or to cast any smirch upon Mrs. WOODHULL, for ’I am reliably assured that HENRY WARD BEECHER preaches to at least twenty of his mistresses every Sunday. “I paid no special attention to the remark at the time, as I » ‘was very intensely engaged in the business which had called me there; but it afterward forcibly recurred to me, with the thought also that it was strange that such a remark, made in such a presence. hadgemed to have asubduing eﬁect instead of arousing indignation. The women who were there ceuld not have treated me better than they did. Whether this strange remark had any inﬂuence in overcoming their objec- tions to me I do not know; but it is certain they were not set against me by it;.and, all of them, Mrs. HOOKER included, subsequently professed the warmest friendship for me.” Reporter:-—“ After this, I presume Vvou sought for the solu- ,tion of the gentleman’s_remark.” ' Mrs. Woodhull.—“No, I did not. It was brought up sub- sequently, in an intimate conversation between her and me, by Mrs. PAULINE WRIGHT DAvIs, without any seeking on my part, and to my very great surprise. Mrs. DAVIS had been, it seems, a frequent visitor at Mr. TILToN’s house in Brooklyn-—th'ey having long been associated in the Woman’s I Rights movement—-—and she stood upon certain terms of inﬁ- macy in the family. Almost at the same time to which 1 have “ referred, when I was in Washington, she called, as she told me, at Mr. TILToN’s. Mrs. TILTON met her at the door and burst into tears, exclaiming: ‘ Oh, Mrs. DAVIS! have you come to see me? For six months I have been shut up from the world, and I thought no one ever would come again to vis- it me.’ In the interview that followed, Mrs. TILTON spoke freely of a long series of intimate, and so-called criminal re- lations, on her part, with the Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER; of the discovery of the facts by Mr. TILTON; of the abuse she had suffered from him in consequence, and of her heart-brok- en condition. She seemed to allude to the whole thing a to something already generally known, or known in a considera- blc circle, and impossible to be concealed; and attributed the long absence of Mrs. DAVIS from the house to her knowledge of the facts. She was, as she stated at the time, recovering from the effects of a miscarriage of a child of six months. The miscarriage was induced b y the ill-treatment of Mr. TIL- -aox in his range at the discovery of has z. riminal intimacy with wooDHULL &oLArL1N’s WEEIKVLY. Mr. Bnncnnn, and, as he believed, the great probability, that , she was ancients by Mr. BEECHER instead of himself; Mrs. TILTON confessed to Mrs. DAVIS the intimacy with Mr. BIBECEER, and that it had been of years’ standing. She also said that she had loved Mr. BEECHER before she mar- ried Mr. TILToN,‘and that now the burden of her sorrow was greatly augmented by the knowledge that Mr. BEECHER was untrue to her. She had not only to endure the rupture with her husband, but also the certainty that, notwithstanding his repeated assurance of his faithfulness to her, he had recently had illicit intercourse, under most extraordinary circum- stances, with another person. Said Mrs. DA_vIs: ‘I came away from that house, my soul bowed down with grief at the heart-broken condition of that poor woman, and I felt that I ought not to leave Brooklyn’ until I had stripped the mask from that infamous, hypocritical scoundrel, BEECHER.’ In May, after returning home, .Mrs. DAVIS wrote me a letter, from which I will read a paragraph to show that we conversed. on this subject. “ EXTRACT FROM A LETTER. .“ ‘DnAu VICTORIA: I thought of you half ‘of last night, dreamed of you and prayed for you. “ ‘ I believe you are raised up of God to do a wonderful work, and I believe that you will unmask the hypocrisy of »a class that none others dare touch. God help you and save you. The more I think of that mass of Beecher corruption the more I desire its opening. ’ " ‘ Iver yours, lovingly, PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS. “ ‘PROVIDENCE, R. I., May, 1871.’ ” Re,porter.—“ Did you inform Mrs. DAVIS of your intention to expose this matter, as she intimates in the letter?” Mrs. Wood7Lull.—“ I said in effect to her, that the matter would become public, and that I felt that I should be instru- mental in making it so. But I was not decided about the course I should pursue. I next heard the whole story from Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANToN.” Reporter.--“ Indeed! Is Mrs. STANTON also mixed up inithis aﬁair? Does she know the facts? How could the matter have been kept so long quiet when so many people are cog- nizant of it?” ’ * Mrs. Woodhullw-“ The existence of the skeleton in the closet may be very widely known, and many people may have the key to the terrible secret, but still hesitate to open the door for the great outside world to gaze in upon it. This grand woman did indeed know the same facts, and from Mr.- TILTON. himself. I shall never forget the occasion of her first rehearsal of? it to me at my residence, 15 East Thirty-eighth street, in a visit made to me during the Apollo Hall Conven- tion in May, 1871. It seems that Mr. TILTON, in agony at the discovery of what he deemed his wife’s perﬁdy and his pas- tor’s treachery, retreated to Mrs. STANToN’s residence at Tenaﬂy, where he detailed to her the entire story. Said Mrs. STANTON, ‘ I never saw such a manifestation of mental agony. He raved and tore his hair, and seemed upon the very verge of insanity.’ ‘ Ohl’ said he, ‘that that damned lecherous scoundrel should have deﬁled my bed for ten years, and at the same time have professed to be my best friend! come like a man to me and confessedhis guilt, I could perhaps have endured it, but to have him creep like a snake into my house leaving his pollution, behind him, and I so. blind as not to see, and esteeming him all the while as a saint—-olil it is too much. And when I think how for years she, upon whom I had bestowed all my heart’s love, could have lied and deceived me so, I lose all faith in humanity. I do not believe there is any honor, any truth left in anybody in the world.’ Mrs. STANTON continued and repeated to me the sad story, which it is unnecessary to recite, as Iprefer giving it as Mr. TILTON himself told it me, subsequently, with his own lips.” Re.porter.—“ Is it possible that Mr. TILTON conﬁded this story to you? It seems too monstrous to be believed I” Mrs. Woodhull.-—-“He certainly did. And what is more, I am persuaded that in his inmost mind he will not be other- wise than glad when the skeleton in his closet is revealed to the world, if thereby the abuses which lurklike vipers under ‘the cloak of social conservatism may be exposed and the causes removed. Mr; TILLTON looks deeper into the soul of things than most men, and is-braver than most.” Reporter.—“ How did’ your acquaintance with Mr. TILTON begin 1?” ' ‘ ms. I/V(o*odh/u.u.,-‘-—‘ ‘ Upon the information received from Mrs. DAVIs_and Mrs. STANTON I based what I said in the WEEKLY, and in thelettersin the Times and World, referring to the matter, -I was nearly determined—-though still not quite so— that what I, equally with those who gave me the information, believed, but for wholly other reasons, to be a most impor- tant social circumstance, should be exposed, my reasons being, as I have explained to you, not those of the world, and I took that method to cause inquiry and create agitation re- garding it. The day that the letter appeared in the World Mr. TILTON came to my oﬁice, N o. 44 Broad street, and, showing me the letter, asked: ‘ Whom do you mean by that?” ' ‘Mr. TILTON,’ said’ I, ‘I mean you and Mr. BEEGHEB.’ I then told him what I knew, what I thought of it, and that I felt that I had a mission to bring it to the knowl- edge of the world, and that I-, had nearly determined to do so. I said to him much else on the subject; and he said: ‘Mrs. WOODHULL, you are the ﬁrst person I have ever met who has dared to, orelse who could, tell. me the truth.’ He a0kI10W1“65-ged that the facts, as I had heard them, were true. but declared that I did not yet know the extent of the de- pravity of that man—meaning Mr. BEECHER. ‘But,’ said he, ‘ do net take any steps now. I have carried my heart as a stone in my breast for months, for the sake of ELIZABETH, my wife, who is broken-hearted as I am. I have had courage to endure rather than to add more to her weight of sorrow. For her sake I have allowed that rascal to go unscathed. I have curbed ,my feelings when every impulse urged me to throttle and strangle him. Let me take you over to EfizA- BETH, and you will ﬁnd her in no condition to be dragged b9f01‘9 the Public; and I know you will have compassion on her-' And I went and saw her. and I agreed. with mm on the propriety oiﬂelay." . . 2r,~.¢.-.-.-a‘:.x~>’='«,;e“—..e.."~‘-.>n27>v::a2:.22as-«eats.-::;,-_.;s«;-4.‘ , . ~. v — .--- . . Had her ‘I? 4- ~ *' Reporter.-“ Was it during this interview that Mr. Tiilmu explained to you all that you now know of the matter ?" I Mrs. Wo0dhult.—“ Oh, no. His revelations were made subsequently at sundry times, and during months of friendly intercourse, as occasion brought the subject up. I will, how- ever, condense his statements to me, and state the facts as he related them, as consecutively as possible. I kept notes or the conversations as they occurred from time to time, but the matter is so much iinpresscd on my mind that I have no hesitation in relating them from memory.” bility of this ercpose you may involve yourself in trouble"? Even if all you relate should betruc, may not those involved deny it in toto, even the fact of their having made the state- ments ?’ ’ know this thing must (mine out, and the statement of the plain ungarnished truth will outweigh all the perjuries that . can be invented, if it come to that pass. I have been charged with attempts at, blackmailing, but I tell you, sir, there is not Amoney enough in these two cities to purchase my silence in this matter. I believe it is my duty and my mission to can‘ ’ the torch to light up and destroy the heap of rottenness, which, in the name of religion, marital sanctity, and social purity, now passes as the social system. I know there are other churches just as false, other pastors just as recreant to their professed ideas of morality—.—by their immorality you: “know I mean their hypocrisy. I am glad that just this one case comes to me to be exposed. This is agreat congregation. He is a most eminent man. When a beacon is ﬁred 9n the mountain the little hills are lighted up. This exposition will conservative society.” Reporter.—“ You speak like some wierd prophetess. madam.” _ \ Mrs. WoodJwl.l.—-“I am aprophetess-—I am an evangcl-Ii am a Saviour, if you would but see it; but I too come not-to bring peace, but a sword.” « Mrs. WQODHULL then resumed, saying: “ Mr. TILTON ﬁrst began to have suspicions of Mr. Bnncnnn on his own return from a long lecturing tour through the West. He questioned his little daughter, privately, in his study regarding what had transpired ‘in his absence. ‘ The tale of iniquitous horror heart of. a stranger to stone, to say nothing of a husband and father.’ It was not the factlof the intimacy alone, but in ad- dition to that, the terrible orgies-—so he said--of which his house had been made the scene, and the boldness with which matters had been carried on in the presence of his children-«-- ‘These things drove me mad,’ said he, ‘and I went to ELIZABETH and confronted her with the child and the damning tale she had told me. My wife did not deny the charge nor attempt any palliation. She was then ancients, and I felt sure that the child, would not be my child. I stripped the" wedding ring from her ﬁnger. I tore the picture of Mr,‘ Bnncnnu from my wall and stamped it in pieces. Indeed, I do not know what I did not do. I only look back to it as a. time too horrible to retain any exact remembranm of. She miscarried the child and it was buried. For two weeks, night and day, I might have been found Walking to and from that grave, in a state bordering on distraction. I could not realize the fact that I was what I was. I stamped the ring with which we had plighted our troth deep into the soil that covered the fruit of my wlfe’s inﬁdelity. I had friends, many and ﬁrm and good, but I could not go to them with this grief, and I suppose I should have remained silent through life had not an occasion, arisen which demanded that I should seek counsel. fact, and what had transpired between ELIZABETH and myself, and when-I was absent he called at my house and compelled or induced hisvictim to sign a statement he had prepared, declaring that so far as he, Mr. BEEGHER, was concerned, there was no truth in my charges, and that there had never been any criminal intimacy between them. Upon learning this, as I did, I felt, of ‘course, again outraged and could en- dure secrecy no longer. I had one friend who was like a brother, Mr. FRANK MOULTON. I went to him and stated the case fully. We were bothemembers of Plymouth Church. My friend took a pistol, went to Mr. BEECHER and demanded the letter of Mrs. TILTON, under penalty of instant death.” piteous and abject beseeching of ‘Mr. BEECHER not to be exposed to the public. “and told me that he had it in his safe, where he should keep it until required for further use. After this, Mr. T1LToN’s house was no house for him, and he seldom slept or eat there, but frequented the house of his friend l‘vIOULTON";. who sympathized deeply with him. Mrs. TILTON was also-, absent days at a time, and, as Mr.‘ TILTON informed me, seemed bent on destroying her life. I went as I have said too see her and found her, indeed, a wretched wreck of a woman, whose troubles were greater than she could bear. She made no secret of the facts before me. Mr. B°EECHEB’S selﬁsh, cowardly cruelty in endeavoring to shield himself and create public opinion against Mr. TILTON, added poignancy to her of herself, but labored under fear that murder might be done on her account. V ' » g 7 _ “ This was the condition of affairs at the time that Mr. TIL- TON came to me; I attempted to show him the true solution of the imbroglio, and the folly that it was for a man like him, a, representative man of the ideas of the future, to stand whining_over_inevitable events connected with this transition age and the social revolution of which we are in the midst. I told him that theefault and the wrong were neither in Mr. B-Encnun, "nor in Mrs. TILTON, nor in himself; but that it was in the false social institutions under which we; stila live, while the more advanced men and women of the world have outgrown them in spirit; and that, practically, everybody '3 living a false life, by professing a. conformity which they do. not feel and do not live, andwhich may cannot feel and live Reporter.-——“Do you not fear that by taking the responsi- Mrs. Woodhull.——“I do not fear anything of the sort. 5 . send inquisition through all the churches and what is termed that was revealed to me. was,’ he said, ‘enough to turn the , Mr. BEECHER learned that I had discovered the " Mrs. WOODHULL here remarked that Mr. MQULTON had. ‘ himself, also since, described to her this interviewggwithall the ' _“Mr. MoULToN obtained the letter,” said Mrs. W, anxieties. She seemed indifferent as to what should become , L my more than the grown boy can re-enter the clothes early childhood. I recalled to his attention splendid pn ssages of his own rhetoric, in which he had unconsciously justiﬁed all -the freedom that he was now condemning, when it came home to his own door, and endeavoring, in the spirit of a ty- rant, to repress. “I ridiculed the maudlin sentiment and mock. heroics and ., ‘ dreadful sues’ he was exhibiting over an event the most na- . escape of a slave. , a» ti ’«2{u.=,r- «In-.w-.1 . social question will be solved. tural in the world, and the most intrinsically innocent; hav- ing in it not a bit more of real criminality than the awful wickedness of ‘negro-stealing’ formerly charged, in perfect good faith, by the slaveholders, on every one who helped the I assumed at once, and got a sufficient ad- mission, as I always do in such cases, that he was not exactly a vestal virgin himself; that his real life was something very different from the awful ‘virtue ’ he was preaching, especially for women, as if women could ‘ sin ’, in this matter without men, and men without women, and which, he pretended, evento himself, to believe in the face and eyes of his own life, and the lives of nearly all the greatest and best men and women that he knew ; that the ‘dreadful suzz’ was merely a bogus senti- mentality, pumped in his imagination, because our sickly reli- gious literature, and Sunday-school morality, and pulpit pharaseeism had humbugged him all his life into the belief that he ought to feel and act in this harlequin and absurd way on such an occasion-——that, in a word, neither Mr. BEECHER nor Mrs. TILTON had done any wrong, but that it was he who was playing the part of a fool and a tyrant; that it was he and the factitious or manufactured public opinion back of him, that was wrong; that this babyish whining and stage-acting were the real absurdity and disgrace——the unmanly part of the whole transaction, and that we‘ only needed another Cer- vantes to satirize such stuﬁ as it deserves to squelch it in- stantly and forever ?;I tried to show him that a’ true manli- _. ness would protect and love to protect; would glory in pro- tecting the absolute freedom ofﬁthe woman who was loved, whether called wife, mistress, or by any other name, and that the true sense of honor in the future will be, not to know even what relations our lovers have with any and all otherpersons than ourselves——as true courtesy never seeks to spy over or to pry into other people’s private affairs. » “I believe I succeeded in pointingout to him that his own life was essentially no better than Mr. BEECEER’s, and that he stood in no position to throw the ﬁrst stone at Mrs. TILTON or at her reverend paramour. I showed him again and again that the wrong point, and the radically wrong thing, if not, indeed, quite the only wrong thing in the matter, was the idea of ownership in human beings, which was essentially the ‘same in the two institutions of slavery and marriage. Mrs. TILTON had in turn grown increasedly unhappy when she found that Mr. BEECHER had turned some part of his exu- berant aifections upon some other object. There was in her, therefore, the same sentiment of the real slaveholder. Let it be once understood that whosoever is true to himself or herself is thereby, and necessarily, true to all others, and the whole The barter and sale of wives stands on the same moral footing —as the barter and sale of slaves. The god-implanted human affections cannot, and will not, be any longer subordinated to these external, legal restrictions and conventional engagements. Every human being belongs to himself orherself by a higher title than any i which, by surrenders or arrangements or promises, he or shecan confer upon any other human being. Self-ownership is ina- lien‘\able. These truths are the latest and greatest discoveries in true science. _ “Perhaps Mr. BEECHER knows and feels all this, .and if so, in that knowledge consists his sole and his real justiﬁcation," only the world around him has not yet grown to it; institutions are not yet adapted to it; and he is not brave enough to bear his open testimony to. the truth he knows. — ' “ All this I said to Mr. TILTON; and I urged upon him to make this providential circumstance in his life the occasion upon which he should, himself, come forward to the front and stand with the true champions of social freedom.” Reporter-.——“ Then Mr. TILTON became, as it were, your pu- pil, and you instructed him in your theories.” I " Mrs. Woodhull.-—-“Yes, I suppose that is a correct state- ment; and the veriﬁcation of my views, springing up before my eyes upon this occasion, out of the very midst of religious and moral prejudices, was, I assure you, an interesting study for me, and a profound corroboration of the righteousness of what you call ‘ my Theories.’ Mr TIL'roN’s conduct toward Mr. BEECHER and toward his wife. began from that time to be so magnanimous and grand—-by which I mean simply -just and right—so unlike that which most other men’s would have _, been, that it stamped him, in my mind, as one of the noblest souls that lived, and one capable of playing a great role in the social revolution, which is now so rapidly progressing. “I never could, however, induce“ him to stand wholly, and unreservedly, and on principle, upon ‘the free—love platform; and I always, therefore, feared that he might for a time va- cillate or go backward. But he opened his house to Mr. Bnncn/En, saying to him, in the presence of Mrs. TILTON: ‘ You love each other. Mr. BEECHER, this is a distressed woman ;. if it be in your power to alleviate her condition and ‘make her life less a burden than it now is, be yours the part to do it. You have nothing to fear from me.’ From that time Mr. BEECHER was, so to speak, the slave of Mr. TILTON and Mr. MoU‘L'roN. He consulted them in every matter of any importance. It was at this time thatMr. TILTON intro- duced Mr. Bnncnnn to me, and I met him frequently both at Mr. T1LTON’S and at Mr. MoUn'roN’s. We discussed the social problem freely in all its varied bearings, and I found that Mr. BEECHER agreed with nearly all my views upon the question.’ ’ I Rep.orter.~—“‘Do you mean to say that Mr. BEECHER disap- proves of the present marriage system?” ' 1 Mrs. ‘W oodhull.-—‘a‘I ,mean\ to say just; tms-—tha,t_ Mr, BEECHER told me that marriage is this grave of love, and that he never’ married, a couple that he did not feel condemned.” Reporter.—" What excuse did‘ Mr. BEECHER giveior not gvowing these sentiments publicly ‘?” I / through the ﬂoor. 3 ‘ - ‘woo:oHULL J: ULAFL‘IN’S .W"EEKIIY.' I May 17, 1373. Mrs Woodhull»-“ Oh, the moral cowa.rd’s inevitable excuse -——that of inexpediency. He said he was twenty years ahead of his church; that he preached the truth just as fast as he thoughthis people could bear it. I said to him, ‘Then, Mr. Bnncnnn, you are defrauding your people. You confess that you do not preach the truth as you know it, while they pay for and persuade themselves you are giving them your best thought.’ He replied: ‘ I know that our whole social system is corrupt. I know that marriage, as it exists to-day, is the curse of society. We shall never have at better state until children are begotten and bred on the scientiﬁc plan. Stirpi- culture is what we need.’ ‘ Then,’ said’ I, ‘ Mr. Bnncnnn, why do you not go into your pulpit and preach that science?’ He replied: ‘If I were to do so Ishould preach to empty seats. It would be the ruin of my church.’ ‘ Then,’ said I, ‘you are as big a fraud as any time-serving preacher, and I now be- lieve you are all frauds. I gave you credit for ignorant hon- esty, but I ﬁnd you all al1ke—all trying to hide, or afraid to speak the truth. A sorry pass has this Christian country come to, paying 40,000 ministers to lie to it from Sunday to Sunday, to hide from them the truth that has been given them to promulgate.’ ” Reporter.-0-“ It seems you took a good deal of pains to draw Mr. Bnncnrzn out.” Mrs. Woodhull.-—“ I did. I thought him a man who would dare a good deal for the truth, and that, having liked the life he had, and entertaining the private convictions he did, I couldperhaps persuade him that it was his true policy to come out and openly avow his principals, and be a thorough con- sistent radical, and thus justify his life in some measure, if not wholly, to the public.” Reporter.——.“ Was Mr BEECHER_ aware that you knew of his relations to Mrs. TILTON ?” I Mrs Woodhull.—“Of course he was. It was because that I knew of them that he ﬁrst consented to meet me. He could never receive me until he knew that I was aware of the real character he wore under the mask of his reputation. Is it not remarkable how a little knowledge of this sort brings down the most top-lofty from the stilts on which they lift themselves above the common level.” Reporter~.—"Do you still regard Mr. BEECHER. as a moral coward ? ” . Woodhull.——“ I have found him destitute of moral courage enough to meet this tremeudous demand upon him. In minor things, I know that he has manifested courage/. He could not be induced to take the bold step I demanded of him, simply for the sake of truth and righteousness. I did not en- tirely despair of him until about a year ago. I was then con- templating my Steinway Hall speech on Social Freedom, and prepared it in the hope of being able to persuade Mr. BEECHER to preside for me, and thus make a way for himself into a consistent life on the radical platform. I made my speech as soft as I conscientiously could. I toned it down in order that it might not frighten him. When it was in type, I went to his study and gave him a copy and asked him to read it carefully and_give me his candid opinion concerning it. Meantime, I had told Mr. TILTON and Mr. MOULTON that I was goi-ng.to ask Mr. BEECHER to preside, and they agreed to press the matter with him. I explained to them that the only safety he had was in coming out as soon as possible an advocate of social freedom, and thus palliate, if he could not completely justify, his practices by founding them at least on principle. I told them that this introduction of me would brid.ge the way. Both the gentlemen agreed with me in this view, and I was for a time almost sure that my desire would be accomplished. A few days before the-lecture, I sent anote to Mr. BEECHER asking him ‘to preside for me. This alarmed him. He went with it to Messrs. TILTON and MOULTON ask- ing advice. They gave it in the aﬂirmati-ve, telling him they considered it eminently ﬁtting that he should pursue the course indicated by me as his only safety; but it was not urged ' it in such a way as to indicate that they had known the re- quest was to have been made.’ Matters remained undecided until the the day of the lecture, when I went over again to press Mr. BEECHER to a decision. I had then a long private interview with him, urging all the arguments I could to in- duce him to consent. He said he agreed perfectly with what I was to say, but that he could not stand on the platform of Steinway Hall and introduce me. He said, ‘ I should sink lam a moral coward on this subject, and I know it, and I am not ﬁt to stand by you, who go there to speak what you know to be the truth; I should stand there a living lie.’ He got upon the sofa on his knees beside me, and taking my face between his hands, while the tears streamed down his cheeks, begged me to let him oﬁ. Becoming thor- oughly disgusted with what seemed to me pusilanimity, I left the room under the control of a feeling of contempt for the man, and reported to my friends what he had said. They then took me again with them and endeavored to persuade him. Mr. TILTON said to him: ‘ Mr. BEECHER, some day you have got to fall; go and introduce this woman and win the radicals of the county, and it will break your fall.’ ‘ Do you think,’ said BEECHER, ‘ that this thing will come out to the world?’ Mr. TILTON replied: ‘Nothing is more certain in earth or heaven, Mr. BEECHER; and this may be your last; chance to save yourself from complete ruin.’ “Mr. BEECHER replied: ‘ I can never endure such a terror. advance, that I may take my own life. I cannot, cannot face this thing!’ “Thoroughly out of all patience, I turned on my heel and said: ‘ Mr. BEECHER, if I am compelled to go upon that plat- form alone, I shall begin by telling the audience why I am alone, and why you are not with me,’ and I again left the room. I afterward learned that Mr. Bnnonnn, frightened at what I had said, promised, before parting with Mr. TILTON, that he would preside if he could bring his courage up to the terrible ordeal. ” . “ It was four minutes of the time for me to go forward to‘ the platform at Steinway Hall when Mr. TILTON and Mr. MOULTON came into the ante-room asking for Mr. Bnnonnn. When Itold them he had not come they expressed astonish- meant. I told them I should faithfully keep my word, let the Oh! if it must come, let me know of it twenty—four hours in consequences be what they might. At that moment word was sent me that there was an organized attempt to break up the meeting, and that threats were being made against my life if I dared to speak what it was understood I intended to speak. Mr. TILTON then insisted on going on the platform with me and presiding, to which I ﬁnally agreed, and that I should not at that time mention Mr. BEECHER. I shall never forget the brave words he uttered in introducing me. They had a magic inﬂuence on the audience, and drew the sting of those who intended to harm 1115. However much Mr. TILTON may have since regretted his course regarding me, and whatever he may say about it, I shall always admire the moral courage that enabled him to stand with me on that platform, and face that, in part, deﬁant audience. It is hard to bear the criticisms of vulgar minds, who can see in social freedom nothing but licentiousness and debauchery, and the inevitable misrepresentation of the entire press, which is as perfectly subsidized against reason and common sense, when social subjects are discussed, as is the religious press when any other science is discussed which is supposed to militate against the Bible as thedircct word of God to man. The editors are equally bigots, or else as dishonest as the clergy. The night- .mare of a public opinion, which they are still professionally engaged in making, enslave: and condemns them both.” Mrs. WOODHULL concluded by saying that since her Stem- way Hall speech she had surrendered all hope of easing the fall of Mr. BEECHER-, that she had not attempted to see him, and had not in fact seen him. She only added one other fact, which was, that Mr. BEECHER endeavored to induce Mr. TILTON to withdraw from his membership in Plymouth- Ohurch, to leave him, Mr. BEECHER, free from the embar- rassment of his presence there; and that Mr. TILTON had in- dignantly rejected the proposition, determined to hold the position with a view to such contingencies as might subse- quently occur. So much for the interviewing which was to have been pub- lished some months ago; but when it failed or was suppresed, I was still so far undecided that I took no steps in the matter, and had no deﬁnite plan for the future in respect to it, until the events as I have recited then, which occurred at Boston. Since then I have not doubted that I must make up my mind I deﬁnitely to act aggressarily in this matter, and to use the facts in my knowledge to compel a more wide-spread discus- sion of the social question. I take the step deliberately, as an agitator and social revolutionist, which is my profession. I commit no breach of conﬁdence, as no conﬁdences have been made to me, except as I have compelled them, with a full knowledge that I was endeavoring to induce or to force the parties to come to the front along with me in the announce- ment and advocacy of the principles of social revolution. Messrs. BEECHER and TILTON, and other half-way reformers, are to me like the border States in the great rebellion. They are liable to fall, with the weight of their inﬂuence, on either side in the contest, and I hold it to be legitimate generalship to compel them to declare on the side of truth and progress. My position is justly analagous with that of warfare. The public, Mr. BEECHER included, would gladly crush me if they cou1d—will do so if they can—to prevent me from forcing on them considerations of the utmost importance. My mission is, on the other hand, to utter the unpopular truth, and make it eﬂicient by whatsoever legitimate means; and means are legitimate as a war measure, which would he highly reprehen- sible in a state of peace. I believe, as the law of peace,‘in the right of privacy, in the sanctity of individual relations. It is nobody’s business but their own, in the absolute view, what Mr. Bnnonnn and Mrs. TILTON have done, or may choose at any time to do, as between themselves. And the world needs, too, to be taught just that lesson. I am the champion of that very right of privacy and of individual sovereignty. But, that is only one side of the case. I need, and the world needs, Mr. BEE(_3HER’S powerful championship of this very right. The worldﬁs on the very crisis of its ﬁnal ﬁght for liberty. The victory may fall on the wrong side, and his own liberty and mine, and the world’s, be again crushed out, or repressed for another century for the want of ﬁdelity in him to the new truth. It is not, therefore,~Mr. Bnncmm as the individual . that I pursue, but Mr. BEECHER as the representative man: Mr. BEECHER as a power in the wo . -; and Mr. ‘BEEOHEB as my auxiliary in a great war for freedom, or Mr. BEEGHER as r a violent enemy and a powerful hindrance to all that I am " bent on accomplishing. To Mr. Bnncnnn, as the individual citizen, I tender, there- fore, my humble apology, meaning and deeply feeling what I say, for this or any interference, on my part, with his private conduct. Ihold that Mr. TILTON himself, that Mrs. BEECHEB herself, have no more right to inquire, or to know or to spy over, with a view to knowing, what has transpired between Mr. BEEGEER and Mrs. TILTON than they have to know what I ate for breakfast, or where I shall spend my next evening; and that Mr. BEEcHER’s congregation and the public at large have just as little right to know or to inquire. I hold that the so-called morality of society is a complicated mass of sheer impertinence and a scandal on the civilization of this advanced century, that the system of social espionage under which we live is damnable, and that the very ﬁrst axiom of a true morality, is for the people to mind their own business, and learn to respect, religiously, the social freedom and the sacred social privacy of all others; but. it was the paradox of Christ, that as the Prince of Peace, he still brought on earth. not peace but a sword. It is the paradox of life that, in order to have peace, we must ﬁrst have war; and it is the paradox of my position that, believing in the right of privacy and in the perfect right of Mr. BEECHER socially, moraﬂyand divinely to have sought the embraces of Mrs. TILTON, or of any other woman‘ or women whom he loved and who loved him, and be ing a proinulgator and a public champion of those very rights, I still invade the most secret and sacred affairs of his life, and drag them to the light and expose him to the opprobrium and viliﬁcation of the public. ask his forgiveness. But the case is exceptional, and what I do I do for a great purpose. '-The ‘social world is in thevery agony of its new birth. or, to resume the warlike simile, ‘ . . w:e:z>:" i~:-'s>:i‘=.~'- xi I do again, and with deep sincerity, I May 17, 1873. woonncter acLArLIN=s ws‘nr:Lv., 2; the leaders of progress are in the very act of storming the last fortress of bigotry and error. Somebody must be hurled forward into the gap. I have the power, I think, to compel Mr. BEECIIER to go forward and to do the duty for humanity from which he shrinks; and I‘ should, myself, be false to the truth if I were to shrink from compelling ‘him. Whether he sinks or swims in the ﬁery trial, the agitation by which truth is evolved will have been promoted. And I believe that he will not only survive, but that when forced to the encounter he will rise to the full height of the great enterprise, and will astound and convince the world of the new gospel of freedom, by the depth of hi experiences and the force of his argument. - The world, it seems, will never learn not to crucify its Christs, and not to compel the retractation of its G-alileos. Mr. BEECHER has lacked the courage to be amartyr, but, like Galileo, while retracting, _or concealing and evading, he has known in his heart that the world still moves; and I venture to prophesy, as I have indeed full faith, that he and the other parties to this social drama will yet live to be overwhelmed with gratitudeto me for having compelled them to this pub- licity. The age is pregnant with great events, and this may be the very one which shall be, as it were, the crack_of doom to our old and worn out, and false and hypocritical social insti- tutions. When the few ﬁrst waves of public indignation shall have broken over him, when the nine days’ wonder and ,the astonished clamor of Mrs. Grundy shall have done their §=Worst, and when the pious ejaculations of the sanctimonious shall have been expended, and he ﬁnds that he still lives, and that there are brave souls who stand by him, he will, I be- 'lieve, rise in his power and utter the whole truth. I believe I see clearly and prophetically for him in the future a. work .a hundred times greater than all he has accomplished in the past. 31 believe, as I have said, a wise’ Providence, or, as I term it, and believe it to be, the conscious and well calculated interference of the spirit world, has forecast and prepared these very events as a part of the drama of this great social revolution. Of all the centres of inﬂuence on the great broad planet, the destiny that shapes our ends, bent on breaking up an old civilization and ushering in a new one, could have found no such spot for its vantage ground as Plymouth Church, no such man for the hero of the plot as its reverend pastor, and, it may be, no such heroine as the gentle cultured, and, perhaps, hereafter to be sainted wife of Plymouth Church’s most distinguished layman.‘ Indeed I think that Mrs. TILTON has had, at least at _times, a clearer intuition guiding her, a better sense of right, and more courage than her reverend lover; for, on one occasion, Mr. TILTON told me that he took home to her one of my threatening notices, and told her that that meant her and Mr. BEECHEB, and that the exposure must and would come; and he added that she calmly replied‘: “I am prepared for it. If the new social gospel must have its ma-rtyrs,'and if I must be one of them, I am prepared for it.” ’ In conclusion, let us again consider, for a moment, the . right and the wrong of this whole transaction. Let us see Whether the wrong is not on the side where the public puts the right, and the right on the side where the public puts the wrong. The immensephysical potency of Mr. BEECHER, and the indomitable urgency of his great nature for the inti- macy and the embraces of the noble and cultured women about him, instead of being a bad thing as the world thinks, or thinks that it thinks, or professes to think that it thinks‘, is one of the noblest and grandest of the endowments of this truly great and representative man. The amative impulse is the physiological basis of character. It is this which ema- nates zest and magnetic power to his whole audience through the organism of the great preacher. Plymouth‘ Church has lived and fed, and the healthy vigor of public opinion for the last quarter of a century has been augmented and strengthened from the physical amativeness of HENRY WARD BEECHER. The scientiﬁc world know the physiologi- cal facts of this nature, but they have waited for a weak woman to have the moral courage to tell the world such truths. Passional starvation, enforced on such a nature, so richly endowed, by the ignorance and prejudice of the past, is a horrid cruelty. The bigoted public, to which the great preacher ministered, ‘while literally eating and drinking of his ﬂesh and blood, condemned him, in their ignorance, to live without food. Every great man of Mr. BEEcHER’s type has had, in the past, and will ever have, the needfor, and the right to, the loving manifestations of many women, and when the public graduates out of the ignorance and preju- dice of its childhood, it will recognize this necessity and its own past injustice. . Mr. BEEoHER’s grand and amative na- ture is not, then, the bad element in the whole matter, but intrinsically a good thing, and one of God’s best gifts to the world. ‘ So ‘again, the-- tender, loving, womanly concessiveness of Mrs. TILTON, her susceptibility to the charm of the great preacher’s magnetism, her love of loving and of being loved, ’ ‘none of these were the bad thing which the world thinks them, or thinks that it thinks them, or professes to think that it thinks them to be. Onthe contrary they are all of them the best thing—the best and most beautiful of things, the loveliest and most divine of things which belong to the patrimony of mankind. So again, it was not the coming together of these two loving natures in the most intimate embrace, nor was -it that nature blessed that embrace with the natural fruits of love which was the bed element in this whole transaction. They, on the contrary, were good elements, beautiful and divine ’ elements, and among God’s best things for man. . _ A "5 The evil and the whole evil inthis whole matter, then,'lies elsewhere. It lies in a false and artiﬁcial or manufactured opin- ion, in respect to this very question of what is good or what is I ’_,UV§ in such matters. 11: 1i.es,i.n the belief-that societyhas \ wish to shoulder any of the responsibility on the spirit world the right to prohibit, to prescribe and regulate, or in any 1 manner to interfere with the private love manifestions of its . members, any more than it has to prescribe their food and . , their drink. It lies in the belief consequent upon this, that THE BEEOTTER‘TH‘T°N SMNDAT‘ AND THE BEEOHETTBOWEN“ lovers own their lovers, husbands their wives and wives their COMBTOOK ?OTT(SPTRAO,T"‘THE SEAT‘ BROKEN. AT LAST“ husbands, and that they have the right to complain of, to , ;Yrg;:fUT:IT;'H;-AEJSEENTTETEREHEODORITE T1LT§N’§‘gB'::;‘:T spy over, and to interfere, even to the extent of murder, "’ ‘ TBLE AT EST" O ‘ ‘ with every other or outside manifestation of love. It lies in ITY>” BUT GODT‘ TRUTTT“TTTE SEXUAL ETHICS OF PLYMT the compulsory hypocrisy and systematic falsehood which is thus OUTH CHUROH‘"A NEW REVELATTON”‘THE BROOKLYN enforced and inwrought into the very structure of society, SAINTS TORTURE SAINT PAUL INTO A F3EE‘L0VER"‘THE and in the consequent and widespread injury to the whole “ THUN_’%3rRBOLT; SHATTERS A BAD CROWD AND PLOWS community M UP THE HOLE ROUND. Mr. Bnncmm knows all this, and if by my act he is com. CHRISTIANITY is the highestword of civilization, and the pehed to ten the World that he knows it, and to force them spirit of Jesus is the true “. RELIGION or HUMANI'rY.”- But. to the conviction that it is all true, he may Wen thank God to-day the “ORTHODOX PULPIT ” Is A MENACE T0 FORTY MIL- that I-live, and that circumstances have concurred to eman- cipate him, despite of himself, from his terrible thralldom, and to emancipate, through him. in the future, millions of. others. i conspiracy.” ’Tis the purpose of this paper, Still in conclusion, let me add, that in my view, and in THE THUNDEEBQLT, _ the view of others who think with me, and of all, as I be- to stun the nation into a knowledge of these crimes. The lieve, who think rightly on the subject, Mr. Bnncrmn is to- “Evangelical Church,” With its i“Y011I1g- M6-11’S Christian day, and after all that I have feltcalled upon to reveal of his ASS00ial3'10D»’’ 811311 110 1011861‘ Cheat the Gr0_V61”11m?11t» b1‘°W“ life, as good, as pure and as noble a man as he ever was in beat thecourts and subsidize the press with impunity. ‘When the past, or as the world has held him to be, and that Mrs. 3‘ TOPUTTTO 1? _°T“°1ﬁ°d. between ‘T3 PTTOSITS and 1TS e§hJ°‘.)rs’ TH-W is Still the Pure» charming» cultured W°man- 1‘ is» ﬁfiiiifspﬁiréﬁii§3i.°§i.‘iEiiiiaiiiisifeisaiiéi ES’ 312$? ‘Z3 ii§;°3i then, thegpublic opinion that is’ wrong, and not the individ- ' _ _ common sense a further lease of their own life. The Timm- uals, who must, nevertheless, for a time suffer its persecu- -“demo” has power to eﬂect much of thispurpose through the ti0I.1- _ ‘very “ forbidden fruit ” that has tempted the present quacks MI’S- ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER has» f1‘0m the “me of conventional piety to become liars, perjurers and lawa, that I met her in Washington, stood my fast friend, breakers. By this “forbidden fruit” I mean and given me manifold proofs of her esteem, knowing, as THE g,REATEsT_sQg1AL—DRAMA she did, both my radical opinions and my free life. I have . or MODERN TIMES, been told, not by her, but upon what I believe to be per- 1 . THE BEECHER-TILTON SCANDAL I- fectly good authority, that she has for months, perhaps for ‘ ‘ years past, known the life of her brother, and urged on him to once a. truth and a falsehood; or, as Theodore Tilton has: 0 . . . . . . . ,, - J . announce publicly his radical convictions, and assured him himself explained, a “true story l111deI‘11eS “ the false one. | that if he would do so she, at least, would stand by him. I Three months after the _W00dhu11 account .11adt-be6:J1hP1;li3- know, too, by intimate intercourse, the opinions, and, to a 11S_hf’d» 3;1‘Tt11°t £119 had‘ fﬁ1Ve‘1ﬁfhetI1’1“bT1°uaﬁrelfaziageezninf great extent, the lives of nearly all the leading reformatory dema'1_O 1 "" TOO.mO,n _S 3 Or O OO 11 5' _ fl . A B sulted in connection with it by the moral and legal fiau o . men and women 111 the land; and I know that Mr. EECHER, , , ,, . ,. . , ,, t . . . . . . ‘ obscene literature ——I was stung into wilting A FULL passing through this crucial ordeal, retrieving, himself and ‘ , _ ACCOUNT, ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM on THE BEECHER-T‘ standing upon the most radical platform, need not stand TILTON SCANDAL_,, In that article (published in the Troy 310119 for an hour» but that an army OT gTOTiO_uS and emancii Daily Press of February 11th, and since reproduced in other Dated Spirits Wm gather SP°nt3ne0U-Sly and lnstantaneously journals), the Woodhull account was given in condensed. around him, and that the new social republic will have been form, as follows; ’ ‘ ‘ E for ever established. VICTORIA C. WOODEULL. “The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case” is this: Mrs. Wood-‘ \_ . hull declares there has been along-continued liaison between I publish the following letter, not to attempt t0 justify Mr. Beecher_and Mrs. Tilton; that it first came to Mr. Til- the exposure given above, but to show that I am not alone to11’s knowledge through the revelations of one of his chil- in the belief that beneﬁt will accrue to the world from it. dI'e‘-‘ll that he a<>011Sef1 Mrs» Tilton OI ‘it, and received 1161‘ It may have been Mr Parker who moved me to the utter. acknowledgment of guilt; that he was driven nearly to in- ances made at Boston. I have no doubt it was he Since I sanity at the moment, and treated Mrs. Tilton so severely have been so informed both by himself and his friénds I that she miscarried a child, which was considered the off- , . . . - ' f M . Beecher. Mr. Tilton kept his grief secret how-' desire It to be distinctly understood, however,‘ that I do not :T‘:1rI:'°f‘; E Mr; W00 dhuu as S e rt S’ until Mr_ Beecher Wentfaga-m , . to his house, during his absence, and extorted a letter from TOT What I have done’ although I know I shall have Its Sup’ Mrs. Tilton to the effect that he had never been guilty of port in whatever way I may need itin carrying forward this the Wrong She had‘ acknowledged to her husband, Then system Of 90013-1 Wa1'f9»1'e- The Public Wm ere 10113 learn Mr. Tilton, doubly outraged, conﬁded his grief to a bosom that if it attempt to stopthe social revolution which is im- friend, Mr. Frank Moulton, who went to Beecher’s house pending it has more than one weakwoman to contend against. and forced him, at the mouth of a pistol, to give up the V, C, W, letter. _ I This story, in whole or in part, Mrs. Woodhull says, was ﬁrst revealed to her by Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis, who re- ceived vtfrom Mrs. Tilton; and then by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who received it from Mr. Tv'lton. The knowledge of [From The AThunderbolt.] THE REPUBLIC TIIREATENED. served shame its special retainers have raped the goddess of American liberty. And to accomplish this outrage they have resorted to fraud, and have not scrupl-ed at a “monstrous RINeeoL1> Sr. Paovmnnbn, R. I. g T , September 16, 1872. My DrAe—VIc*ronIA: / pahied by Mrs_ Colonel Pope, of Harrison street, on Mm/J. refers to an allusion which she made to in VVOODHULT: H Conant and found her at home; Dr Pyke was with her 8‘ CLAELIN S WEEKLY at that tune’ Subsequently’ ' ’ . — .' . ' " » '. “ l'hd ltt*’ bth He, the doctor, entered into conversation with me concern- "V;I;:%31;:sd 3,1/‘:[,Z:6SV::)1°::?£: Wag tiibfgfloivijg Seningz 0 ing your attack upon Beecher, as he termed it, which I de- ’ _ y “ ‘I know a clergyman of eminence in Brooklyn who lives fended, whereupon Theodore Parker controlled Mrs. Conar in concubmage with the wife, of another clergyman of equal and spoke in substance as follows: I minence.’ ” ‘ “When Hem? Vvard-‘Beecher, knowing Spiritualism 150 be 6 Mrs. Woodhull’ aﬁirms that the day when this letter ap- tmea Stood in his OWI1 Pulpit and dellmlnced it as ‘One Of peared in the World, Mr. Tilton came to her ofﬁce, N o. 44 the most dangerous humbugs of the day,’ the spirit World Broad street, and showing Mrs. Woodhull the letter, asked felt that it had pleaded and borne with him long enough, and her whom she meant, “Mr. Tilton,” she replied, “I mean that they would unmask and show him to the world a hypo- you and Mr. Beecher.” . T, crite as he is. This it has done, and it mattered little whe- A0001“<3-ing 130 MI‘S~ W005-hu11"S St3-’06meI1t,,M1‘- T11t.0D then ther Mm Conant’ Victoria Woodhuu or Lam-agouppy smith acknowledged that the account was true, and worse than she was the instrument used. The spirit world has not yet com- had heard it But he 5315 that 119 Was br0ken-heaftédy the‘? pleted its work. Other canting hypocrites remain to be pro- his Wife was br_°1,ien'hea'TTe.d’ and that She eépeolaily was claimed to the public in their true colors, .and the Scripture “Ten in no condétlon g(1be,i,1.§:'g§e::§f£(:f:htihni O shall be veriﬁed, ‘There is nothing secret" that shall not be Tﬂton took her 0 See rS° 1 O ’ P e stor . The same thing was again detailed to her made known, nothing hidden that shall not be revealed.’ If ,3? 1:&0$ﬂ.D0naT_:, friend, Mr_ Frank Moulton, and ﬁnally by I could have divested my medium of the inﬂuence ofpersom Henry w,,1.d_Beecher himseu, in the form I should have proclaimed this through her lips on Mrs, W00dhu11’g declared purpose in. publishing the the Platform Of John A- Andrews’ 11311 On Wednesday after‘ Beecher-Tilton Scandal was to create a “social revolution.” te1‘~110011-" ' She wished to show that f‘ the foremost minds of the age” I think I have given you Theodore Pa.rker’s words ver- had “ outgrown the institution of marriage,” rendering to it batim. only the outward homage of hypocrites, not the adherence‘ The same evening 1 was conversing with E. B. Beck- of conscience or the practice of life. There is no danger that LIONS OF PEOPLE. To save one powerful preacher from de- This scandal, as reported by Victoria C. Woodhull, isat‘, . My husband and myge1f c9,11ed on Friday evening, accom. it came to Mrs. Woodhull in the early part of 1870, and she . with regard to the Byron affair, with this addition, that you with, a prominent lawyer of Boston, who remarked that there seemed to» him to be a retribution following the Beechers, and that you could use in your own behalf the same argument in vindication of your exposure of Beecher that Mrs. Stowe and/her family had used in her defence had not accused the living, who could defend themselves, of half so base a crime as she laid to the charge of the poet and asister woman, the dead who could not'reply. I thought and send it to you. the suggestion too good to be lost, shall use it myself freely, = any “ social revolution” will grow to proportions beyond the actual truth and common-sense contained in it. But in one thing Woodhull and Claﬂin instantly succeeded: they cre- ated a v i . s0cIAL PANIC THAT TURNED NEW YORK INTO A MOB ! Their scandal, as they have since boasted, was indeed “ a bombshell ” that carried dismay on’ every hand——an infernal machine of letters so terriﬁc “ that many even feared to read it,” while others “ cursed and prayed, laughed and Cried, as ifxin the presence of the crack of doom.” The plans of this “ Social Revolution,” it seems, were somewhat deeply laid. The issue of AWOODUULL at CIiAr-: Lwns Gm: Sznm I x.m’s Wssatr containing the “h6n;bshe11” was dated.- .- .., 3 I I I P woonnnm. & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY? May 17, I873. ‘ n._ I November 2, 1872. But, anticipating" that some steps might be taken to suppress the entire issue‘ when its contents should become known, the paper was dispatched to its subscribers a week in advance, and (if the word of its “social revolutionists” can be trusted in anythi_11£f,)-. “to the entire list of newspapers in the United States, Canada and Great Britain.” Then, on Monday morning the 28th of October, it was put on sale at the Woodhull headquar- ters. Before night the demand “grew to a rush.” During the week it increased to V“ a crush,” needing even the reg- ulation of the police. , ’Tis said the sales reached a hundred and ﬁfty thousand copies, and promised two millions. For several days newsmen retailed the paper as high as ﬁfty cents. On the dayiof its suppression $2.50 was a common price for it. In ‘some instances single copies brought $10,; and one extraordinary lover of literature ,is reported to have invested $40 in a copy. Owners of the paper then leased it to other readers at a dollar a day. But by Saturday, ‘November 2, the general panic of “ good society” in New York had so far subsided, that “some steps” were indeed ta.ken—and with a vengeance-—'to sup- press the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. And ’tis these steps alone that make ”the scandal of suﬁicient importance to claim the interference of persons in no way connected with it, and to need the unfaltering scrutiny of the public. The “ steps,” then, were nothing less than a DARING CONSPIRACY, I — I not merely against the audacious and hated women, Wood- hull and Claﬂin, but _ AGAINST THE WHOLE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ! In no other terms will I ever consent to describe that bas- tard New York-monstrosity, begotten of lust, fear and guilt -the arrest of Woodhull and Claﬂin for “ publishing obscene literature. ’ ’ I — , If I had myself been situated like Theodore Tilton on the day of that arrest, and the darlings of my household had been so cruelly belied as his “ true story ” claims of his own, I don’t know but I could have gone into Broad street and cut the throats of Woodhull, Claﬂin and Blood, with as little compunction as I would shoot a mad dog. But that would have been a business and arisk conﬁned to three or four per- sons. It would not have been a national fraud, endangering every great principle at the bottom of human liberty. The special friends, however, of Henry Ward Beecher-——the skulkers of Plymouth Church and the Young Men’s Chris- tian Association-—-preferred to deﬂouer the laws of their country and the freedom of its people by a gigantic per- formance of bigotry and chicane. In the shadow of their C false pretenses, the Woodhull slanders, however atrocious, have grown comparatively dim and insigniﬁcant.’ The ques- tion of the mere rake, whom the moralist might pity and forgive, sinks in the question of the conspirator and traitor whom the patriot must hate. ' I - A law of the United States, passed J une 8, 1872, makes a ; vvery proper provision in aid of public morals bf branding the transmissiongof obscene literature through the mails as a misdemeanor. The Act is this: “ No obscene book, pamphlet, picture, print, or other pub- ‘ lication of a vulgar or indecent character, or any letter upon the envelope of which, or postal card upon which,’ scurrilous epithets may have been written or printed, or disloyal de- vices printed or engrossed,_shall be carried in themail; and anyperson who shall knowingly deposit, or cause to be de- posited, for mailing or delivery, any -such obscene publica- tion, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- viction thereof shall for every such offense be ﬁned not more than ﬁve hundred dollars, or be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the Courts.” . _ A Whatever sins Woodhull and Claﬂin had committed in issu- ing their WEEKLY of November 2, 1872, they had carefully avoided any violation of this statute against obscene litera- ture. Their paper contained a harrowing account of seduc- tion—a_.n instance of such diabolical heartlessness that the noted philanthropist, Parker Pillsbury, has since declared that if its revelations were true, “ no matter though Mrs. Woodhullwere an imp of hell, she should -have a monument of polished Parian marble as high as Trinity steeple, and every father and mother of daughters should be proud to contribute a stone.” In addition to that nightmare of hor- rors, the papercontained several bold articles on social, re- ligious and ﬁnancial themes, in the midst of which was the Beecher-Tilton Scandal—-a sad, unexpected story of adultery, but differing little in its details from scores of such stories reported in hundreds of newspapers. There istonly one test of obscene literature. 6 THE PURPOSE OF THE PUBLICATION 3 I and any other test a free people should resent, if necessary, T WITH BATTLE AND BLOOD! Any other test would overturn the Bible, destroy the classics, and exclude physiology from humaneknowledge. -It would - insult the grave of ‘every great thinker and poet, from Plato to Shakespeare and Burns. It would steal the bread and meat of letters, and leave only the baby sugar-tits of a Sunday—school library. The purpose of obscene literature is to pamper lust; and no fact, no ﬁction is obscene without this purpose. - But the expressed intent of the Woodhull articles was to destroy lust; and,‘ whether this intent was real or feigned, the articles were so written as almost to stop the breath andfreeze the soul. In aword, they were ghastly, sickening libels, if false, but no more obscene than a . picture of the cruciﬁxion. Woodhull and Claﬁin, however, were two women regarded almost as outlaws. They had become feared as “black- mailers,” and unfragrantly notorious as “ free-lovers.” For such reasons, undoubtedly, the special guardians of Mr. Beecher’s reputation thought that the worst of means might. . be good enough to _sweep “female nuisances” out of Broad street. Public sentiment was exasperated, not quite enough for a direct mob, but an indirect mob, slinking behind a pretence of law, might crush its victims with safety. In his position, the legal‘ subterfuge was found in the act, of_ Congress passed to punish the venders of obscene prints. Then 7 ’ ‘ P MR. ANTHONY J. .ooMsTocK, BACKED BY THE YOUNG MEN’s CHRISTIAN AssocIATIoN, stepped up to mana.ge the dangerous fraud. Mr. Comstock is generally credited with “ good intentions ;” and as hell, also, is said to be paved with the same materials, I have never _ doubted theiripresence in the man.. God seems to have made him partly a fool, in order that the fellow could do a good work as long as he could be kept from getting above his business. ‘ The dirty wretches who corrupt young minds by feeding them on licentious books need some little man, by nature a spy and hypocrite, to check their villainous trade. A full-grown, honest soul could neither sell the books nor dodge and lie to catch those who do. In such a dilemma the earth hasa Comstock. Mr. Comstock declares that, in prosecuting Woodhull and -Claﬂin,he has never moved in collusion with Mr. Beecher. In spite of the habit of tongue necessary to his vocation, he probably tells the truth: Mr. Beecher has acted, from the ﬁrst, through his friends. But-one of the affidavits on which the arrest of the two women was procured, was made by one Taliesin William Rees, a clerk in‘-the ofﬁce of the Independ- ent; and that Mr. Henry C. Bowen, the proprietor of that journal, might be trusted to‘ act for Mr. Beecher (when he could save himself by the same industry )» will be quite evi- dent by and by to the “gentle reader” of the Thunderbolt. Is it not known that the scheme was planned in Mr. Bowen’s office~—spies being thence dispatched t_o Woodhull and Olaf- lin to buy papers, and order them sent to certain persons by post? On receipt of the papers, Mr. A. J. Comstock made his complaint before Commissioner Osborne, and the women were arrested. P They were in a carriage at the time, and claim to have been hunting up the oﬂicials who had come for them. _ I As the charge against them was A FRAUD, BORN or A _1>LoT, and as they, if no one else, had brains enough to know it, they naturally supposed it could soon be broken. But in this opinion they measured only the justice of law itself, not the powers of a mob called “public opinion,” which renders American law useless on so many important occasions. The United States Government, however, treated Woodhull and Claflin with endearing familiarity. It sat in their lap on the way to Court, through the supreme gallantry of Marshall Colfax or Bernhard——one of the two Chesterﬁelds who had them in charge. It then hurried them, not into open court, but into a side room where the “examination” might be private. In this “star-chamber” they met ﬁve persons- District-Attorney Noah Davis, “a member of Plymouth Church and a family connection of Mr. Beecher;” Assistant District—Attorney General Davies, Commissioner Osborn, and two other gentlemen, one of these being also a member of Plymouth Church. But the “brazen sisters” sent for counsel, and, insisting on being conducted to the proper court'-room, their examination was ﬁnallyheld in public. In THIS EXAMINATION _- V the prosecuting blunderer, Gen.Davies,let out the secret that Woodhull and Claﬁin were not merely guilty of “circulating obscene literature,” but of a “ gross libel” ona “gentleman” whose character it was “well worth the while of the Gov- ernment of the United States to vindicate.” Interpreted, this lingo meant that a United States Court had been pro- cured to convict, on the pretense of obscenity, two women who had libelled a. man-—this man declining to protect him- self, except through a conspiracy of his friends and lackeys. This “ holy show” of American jurisprudence took place on Saturday, the 2d of November, 1872, and was ﬁnally ad- journed to the ensuing Monday,.’the prisoners being held to bail in eight thousand dollars each, with two sureties. But when PMonday came the Beecher tools of the United A States Court dodged a‘ further examination altogether. By an unheard—of 4 proceeding, the Grand Juryhad pushed in an indictment which took the case out of Commissioner Osborn’s jurisdiction. ’ The motive was evident; Mr._ Beecher’s General Davies had found that his owner could never be persuaded or dragged into court to pursue Woodhull for her “ gross libel,” and that the charge of “obscenity” was a most ruinous one to try, if Plymouth Church had any further desire tosave its Bible. For by far the most “indecent passage” in WooDHULL &rCLAFLIN’S WEEKLY had been cut out of the divinely inspired book of Deuteronomy. By this indictment, however, the prisoners were remanded to jail in utter disgrace, the mob of piety and fashion was appeased, and the Young Men’s Christian . Association was sustained in fraud ! So much done, it was only necessary to muzzle the New York newspapers (some of whose editors had strong per- sonal reasons. for dreading “black-mailers” if not “free- lovers”), and to bribe or cheat the Associated Press into sending lies by lightning throughout the country. Both feats were performed. A consultation of leading quills adopted darkness and falsehood as a deliberate policy; and as for our “ country press,” that never dares to sneeze unless the metro. politan‘ nose is crammed with snuff.» The telegraph-even prated about the ﬁnding of “immodest cartoons;’.’ and on the 4th November the credulous public actually supposed that two women, claiming to be “reformers,” were guilty of the meanest oﬁ‘e11'se in the calendar of shame. The ablest lawyer in the United States has since given an opinion scouting the whole arraignment, and of course theparties will never be tried‘, much less convicted. But, on a second arrest, they were taken before another United States C0mmissioner— Davenport--who was obliged to make some appearance of a “decision.” And that fearful and wonderful thing was this: . “ As to the intention of Congress in the framing and pas- sage of the statutequnder which these proceedings were in- stituted,.I am clear that a case of this character was never contemplated. * * However * * I am, disposed to, and shall hold, the prisoners.” ‘ ' - And for this “ decision,’ the Commissioner declared there was no American precedent, but that an “ English case fur- nished one. » ’ From Commissioner Danvenport’s ruling there is just one logical deduction: that this faithful servant of her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain, should be swiftly retired from the American bench and sent where his English decisions may be rendered inEnglish courts. A I have dwelt upon the dry details of law, and in the miser- able company of its New York expounders, to show beyond a doubt that the ridiculous proceedings against Woodhull and Claﬂin were simply THE WORK or A VIRTUAL, non. And in our “ commercial metropolis ”—-the great city of this _ Beecher-Comstock rabb1e—there was only one notable man “ with brains and pluck enough to care nothing about persons, and to look only at’ principles. In an age of Daniel Drew, “Jim ” Fisk, and Phelps, Dodge 85 Co., that man is naturally deemed “insane.” I refer to George Francis Train. This “lunatic” instantly perceived the vast public dangers that loomed up in a conspiracy by which the Church might shut the mouth of slanderers or truth-tellers alike, disembowel literature, and stay the march of humanity itself: “Beecher must have justice,” said Train; “so must Mr. Tilton——so mustithe Sisters Claﬂin.” To these women he said: ‘ . “Never approving your doctrine of Free Love, I fought you out of the Woman-Suffrage movement and the Inter- national, when you were in prosperity; but now you are in adversity, I am your friend.” From his hotel (the St. Nicholas) he instantly wrotethem a note: » “ I will go your bail. I am satisﬁed the cowardly Christian. community will destroy you, if possible, to cover up the rot- ten state of society.” Events have since proved that the “ mad-cap,” _ GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, was the one greatly sound mind in New York. In spite of the momentous principles at stake, it soon be- came evident (as I have already shown) that the great “ churches of commerce” and the Young Men’s Christian Association were in league with the greedy, corrupt press of the city, and that all had joined hands to deceive the nation. Not even a public hall could be secured by Mr. Train to speak in. I HE, Too,.-wAs GAGGE1)! It was in this exasperating state of affairs that he took des- perate measuresand issued a newspaper of his own—the Tra/in Llgue. He rung a score of changes on the expressions called “obscene ” in WOODHULL & CLArI.IN’s WEEKLY. He ﬂung them into the streets of the city andidared the authorities to arrest him. He demanded the prosecution of the Bible Pub- lishing Company for printing “disgusting slanders on Lot, Abraham, Solomon and David.” But the Government footboys of Mr. A. J. Comstock had become timid and wary. They let Train alone, while the cords were drawn more tightly still ‘around Woodhull and Claﬂin. In unspeakable disgust Mr. Train then issued his ' H SECOND TRAIN LIGUE, in- which he scattered about the most shocking parts of the Old Testament, under the most audacious of sensational heads, but used no doubtful words except those having the authority of the Bible itself. The work was a coarse one. Only aothorough “Pagan Preacher” could have done it. It seemed revolting and- blasphemous; and my own ﬁrst im- pression was that Train should be punished for it. But bet- ter aware now of the provocation, I_ have no doubt‘ that his- tory will justify the Train Ligue, as the natural reaction of Comstcck’s idiocy, and as a last Democratic‘ test of absolute religious equality. Mr. Train was ‘finally arrested by the State, not the United States author- ities, and after the latter had declined to touch him. He was thrown into the Tombs. He pleaded guilty to ‘ “quoting obscenity from the Bible,” and refused to leave the Tombs on bail. The Church and the Young Men’s Christian Association, again, dared-not risk a trial-—which would either justify Woodhull and Train or else convict the Bible. In such straits, the Beecher-Bowen-Comstocktraitors have attempted at last to end their conspiracy by sending George Francis Train to a “lunatic asylum.” To OPPOSE THESE AssAssINs or LIBERTY is nowthe highest duty that God gives me to see. I would help do it, if necessary, with battle and blood. I will first do what I can with ink and types-—going back to the cause of the struggle. . I THE BEECHER-TILTON’ SCANDAL. “ I said that Victoria C.Wo'odhull’s account of it is “ at once atruth and a falsehood.” A As for Theodore Tilton’s “true story,” long since promised to the public, that also -shall now be judged. In a criticism of my own,from which I have already quoted, I said two months ago. that Mrs. Woodhul1’s statement must be accepted as substantially .true, for of the six persons on whose authority itwas told, not one had uttered a word of direct denial. I have now in my possession two letters from Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis——both dated at Paris, one the 20th of November and the other the 28th——showing that I. was mis. taken. But a mere extract from one of these letters had been set aﬂoat in the newspapers, and had at last. become so tortured by a change of names that, as I saw it, I knew it must be either a falsehood or a forgery. Mrs. Davis’ first let- ter is this: P E 7- ‘ PARIS, November 20. To JUDGE ---— g " Dear Fm'end—Yours, with its astounding contents, is just received. Thanks for your consideration. In relation to the Tilton versus. Beecher affair I have only this to say: I was never on any terms of intimacy in the family of either party. I never visited at Mr. Tilton’s but once in my life, and that was ten ycarsAag’o, in company with Mr. and=lM-rs.‘ Johnson. A year o‘r'55two*s"iiice: I‘~‘called~a-t Mr. Tilton’s house for some books.w;hich I_:-?ha?d- :le1?it‘.Mr.-Tilton. Ithen saw Mrs. Tilton for ten or ﬁfteen:minute'§-, 3‘3;_),e_i;._ / *~» 1' 8 Mrs. Tilton two or three times at the houses of mutual , others revealed this thin pretense. They perhaps question ' Work, and I believe you will unmask the hypocrisy of a class " letter from which Mrs. Woodhull claimed to have taken this and I believe that you will unmask the hypocrisy of a class 1 women on the platform of Boston. I will not use them till _ and if Iremember rightly, vs as the ﬁrst one received from May 17, 137:. wootonctta oLArI.IN*s WEEKLY. I . . p 9* friends, but at no time has there ever been the slightest ap- proach to a conﬁdential conversation between us. Nor have I ever even insinuated that there had been. If Mrs. T. has ever, in my presence, spokeI_i of Mr. -Beecher, it has been in terms of respect as a man ofhonor and her pastor. _ I did believe that V. C. Woodhull was going to do a great work ‘for woman. I am grieved that she has failed in what she gave promise of doing. , - _ I am writing in great haste, and must ‘be very brief, that my letter may go to England to-night by a friend, and so reach you at the earliest hour, and set your mind at rest that I could never have originated or spread this scandal. Yours very truly, P. W. DAVIS.” COMMENTS. V [A letter differing somewhat from this,but evidently having the same source, went the rounds of the press in December. At that time I pronounced it, so far as it denies the truth of my ‘_"statement, as false, and I now re-affirm that I, have good reasons for stating that this letter has been “ doc- tored ” by Mrs. Davis’ friends since it was «received. Mrs. Davis is an honorable, straight-forward woman, and will not consent to lie. Had I used her name in this connection against her expressed wish, which I have not, I am sure she would not deny it. Mrs. Davis knew that I intended to use the “Beecher corruption” to bring on the social revolution, and instead of endeavoring to dissuade, always encouraged me to do so. I therefore again repeat that I believe this letter is a fo1;g_ery, and I know that at least one of the per- sons behind Mr. Clark believes it to be so. I shall never be- lieve that Mrs. Davis will consent to have this stand as her letter until I either see her own handwriting to that effect or she tells me herself that it is so. I therefore callupon Mrs. Davis to state to me in writing, which I promise in advance to publish in the WEEKLY, the truth or falsity of this whole matter. ' p I know that this letter has been in the hands of Mr. Tilton as well as others from other persons whom I named as my authority; and I also know that had they contained the much-needed contradiction they would have been published authoritatively by him long since. Nevertheless, he took care to have it come to my ears that he had letters completely re- futing my statements; but the perusal of the letters to and by the language used, but not the thing stated. Now let this be disproved if it can be, by the publication of the original let- ters from Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Stanton; all others, as I be- lieve, are forgeries.] I “ According to the WOODHULL, she received a letter from Mrs. Davis in May, 1871, in which Mrs. D. said: “ Ibelieve you are raised upof God to do a wonderful that none others dare touch. God help you and save you. The more Ithink of that mass of Beecher corruption the more I desire itsopening.” In Mrs. Davis’ second note from Paris, she refers to her extract, and says: “The reference in my letter I do not remember; but, if there, it was in allusion to statements made by them to me. But Ithink it was not there.” A COMMENTS. [Now, if Mrs. Davis wrote the above, which I do not be- lieve she did, the following may refresh her memory: . HOME, Wednesday. Dear Victoria-—I have prepared the manuscript and row turned it to Mr. Wood. There is a sentence missing at. the end of Mrs. Stanton’s address, which I have written in pencil. I think if the appendix was begun in the middle of the page it would look better. I wish that a dozen could be sent at once to Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, Pioneer, San Francisco, California. Pray ask Mr. Andrews, Col. Blood——any one who has time, to see that it comes out right this time. If he would send me a copy before the edition is struck 013?’ it would be a. good thing. It seems to me, on the whole, that it will not be best to send the platform out in this edition—that is, to bind it up with it. The appendix closes properly with the winter’s work. The platform belongs to another season. How I wish, dear, you could be here a little while, it is so quiet and peaceful. I wonder I ever want to go anyWhere—,— into the turmoil and strife of life. Ithought of you half of last night, dreamed of vou and prayed for you.’ ' I believe you are raised up of God to do a wonderful work, that none others dare touch. God help you and save you.'t The more Ithink of that mass of Beecher corruption the. more I desire its opening. - _ I-wish you would send me the names of the two kept you give me leave, but it will help me to act as I must. I suppose you have seen the scrap I inclose; at all events, lt’s best you should be-armed at all points. If Mr. Andrews will give" an hour or two to that book it» will give me rest. Kind regards to him and Tennie. , Ever yours lovingly, P. W. DAVIS. PROVIDENCE, May 29, 1871. Immediately after the Washington Convention in Janu- ary, 1871, Mrs. Davis begun the preparation of “The Twenty Years’ History of the Woman Suffrage Movement,” which was published under the supervision of IVOODHULL & CLAF- LIN by their printer. This letter refers to that work and was in May after the Convention in Apollo Hall, her on h( “°5'I:.ﬁ§51l‘ﬂ home after that convention. * 1 W111? caiilﬁiad this -etter, the original ‘of Which in her own . I. ...-. .........I___ .i..en..—.......-..~;;—.m.\m.s....wks..-.:as~.s.v.:-a;m:.;-5;-.* :1 I‘; handwriting and bearing her own" signature, "I happen still to have, and believe that Paulina Wright Davis ever wrote the ﬁrst letter in the Thunderbolt, pretending to be from her. I will not attempt here to show the inconsistencies of the several statements contained in the letter dated Paris, November 20, 1872, which that of May, 1871, does not refute, since I have no excuse to review Mrs. Davis until I am satisﬁed that she has denied something. But Imay consistently show the disparity between such points of the the two letters as their own language involves. * “ I did be- lieve that V. C. .WOodhull was going to do a great work for woman; I am grieved that she has failed in what she gave promise of doing.” N ow, what was that work? Her letter to. me, fully explains. “ I believe you are raised up of God to do a wonderful work;-and I believe that you will un- mask the hypocrisy of a class that none other dare touch. God help and save you. The more I think of that mass of Beecher corruption the more I desire its opening. ” It seems clear that she conceived the great work that I was to do was the very thing I have done and the very thing that Mrs. Davis desired should be done. Where, then, haveI failed to dowhat she believed I was raised up , of God to do? And can Mrs. Davis be grieved because I have opened just . what she desired shouldgbe opened, which ,“ none other dare touch?” I And she was thinking more and more of “that mass of Beecher corruption.” Now, what did that mass consist of ? A mass means more than one thing OI one kind, and Mrs. Davis is a careful writer, never writing one thing and mean- ing another. When she said “that mass of Beecher gor- ruptign” she meant just what I have stated that she said to me she learned from Mrs. Tilton, not only about herself, but all that has more recently come to the light of day, by the publication of Tilton’s letter to Bowen regarding a member of his own family, which is the foundation for the statement by Mrs. Tilton, that she had recently learned that Mr. Beecher had had intercourse under most extraordinary circumstances with another person. What those extra- ordinary- circumstances were, may be learned by referring to Tilton’s letter to Bowen. In Mr. Bowen’s own language, “He took her in his arms by force, threw her down upon the sofa, accomplished his deviltry,” and left her * * * I repeat that the ﬁrst knowledge I had of the Beecher- Tilton matter was imparted to me by Mrs. Davis at my ofﬁce, 44 Broad street, where she called on her way over from Mrs. Tilton’s, and related to me what she had just heard from her. But she told me nothing of Mr. Bowen. Whatever I know of him I learned much later, from Mr. Tilton himself. Neither did Mrs. Stanton say anything to me about the Bowen affair, and when I published my first intimation in the World and Times that “ I knew a clergyman of eminence in Brooklyn who lives in concubinage with the wife of another clergyman of almost equal eminence,” I meant Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton.” Had I known at that time that Bowen was mixed up in the muddle I should have used it, because he had just made a furious and unwarrantable assault upon me in a leading editorial in the Independent. Mrs. Davis, I am certain, did not originate this scandal, but that I ﬁrst heard some of the particulars from her I have ample proof, which will be advanced should 'a denial from her ever make it necessary. But I wish parenthetically again to state my position regarding Mrs. Tilton. I conceive that Mrs. Til- ton’s love for Mr. Beecher was her true marriage, and that her marriage to Mr. Tilton, while loving Mr. Beecher, is prostitution. If I have any cause to criticise her, it is for consenting to remain the legal wife of Mr. Tilton. ,As I said in the original article, Mrs. Tilton is really far advanced in the principles of social freedom, as I learned from Mr. Tilton himself. ’ - A , I In View of all this, can anybody ‘believe what Mr. Clark infers from the pretended letters of ‘Mrs. Davis that “ Mrs. Woodhull is ﬂatly denied.” If there is a denial it is Davis against Davis. Besides this, I have a recent letter ffom Providence, from one who knows some of Mrs. Davis’ friends, which says: “There are not a few of her friends who do not credit the authority of the letter.”] “As far, then, as Woodhull has given Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis for authority in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal, she is fairly and ﬂatly denied. ’ ’ I E E _ “The position, however, of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is . quite different. At Lewiston, Maine, she undoubtedly ‘denounced ’ Mrs. Woodhull’s story, as the -newspapers de- clared atthe time; and Theodore Tilton holds a letter from her, in which she declines to stand in the precise attitude portrayed by Mrs. Woodhull. Yet an excellent lady, whose letter I have traced to its source, declared in the Hartford Times soon after Mrs. Stanton was interviewed in Maine, thatlshe “had charged Mr. Beecher, to parties residing in Philadelphia and known to the correspondent, with very much the same oﬁense of which Mrs. Woodhull speaks.” This testimony is conﬁrmed by Edward M. Davis, Esq., the disci- ple and son-in-law of the venerable Lucretia Mott, and by Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, who asserts that Mrs. Stanton whis- pered the scandal to her “ a year and a half ago,” and -said; "‘ the Woodhull knew all about it.” At Rochester, not long ‘since, Mrs. Stanton publicly ‘refused to”deny anything; and, last of all, she has recently sent to me, through a mutual friend, this word: “AssURE MR. CLARK THAT I CARE MORE FOR JUsTIcE THAN FOR BEEOHEE.” I MI‘S- Stanton, in Short, has been somewhat perverted by Woodhull,-and denies the per'vsrsion.”” » ’ " — — ' ' .3 COMMENTS; 1 — [Why has the part played by Mrs. Stanton been so niggardly treated by Mr. Clark? It seems to me that she is of suf- ﬁcient importance to havegreceived ‘greayericonside ra- 3. tion. ’ Or does Mr. Clark know that too many people have learned the same facts from her that I learned? People in California and Chicago, as well in Philadelphia and Iowa, testify to the same things. Mr. Clark says I have lied. In what. Mr. Clark? pray informine. And if I have lied, do you mean to also say that Mrs. Stanton has lied? But why does Mr. Clark say, “At Lewiston, Maine, she undoubtedly denounced Mrs. Woodhull’s story,” when he knows that she has denied that telegraphic statement of “ two clergymen.” The following we clip from the Springﬁeld Republican’: Boston letter: -“Mrs. Stanton, by the way, has disclosed a curiousfact about the dispatch from Lewiston, Maine, sent allover the country, some months since,--to contradict Mrs. Woodhull’s -Beecher slander on Mrs. Stanton’s authority. She never authorized such a dispatch, and asserts that the two clergy- men at Lewiston who called on her to talk about the matter, quite misrepresented what she said to them. Without going into the general question of fact,it is» understood that Mrs. Stanton’s correction of Mrs. Woodhull’s account referred. only to some expressions of her own there quoted, and she expressly disclaims any statement that Mrs. Woodhull’s story was “ untrue in every particular,” which the Lewiston, dis. patch made Mrs. Stanton say, but which she neveI"has said.” - There has been a great deal said by the members of Ply. mouth Church about a letter from Mrs. Stanton in the hands of Mr. Tilton, which they claim is parallel with the Lewiston telegraph dispatch. N ow that Mrs. Stanton has said that “ two clergymen” stated untruth in the Lewiston dispatch, will the above—mentioned members please publish the letter, so that the public may see if they too have not, in their zeal for Mr. Beecher, gone as far beyond the truth as their Lewis-« ton friends ? ' q , , -It will also be remembered that in the “ J ustitia” letter published in the Hartford Times, and dated November 25, 1872, the writer, in speaking of the reason that this alleged denial could not have been written by her, said: “I will tell you’, Mr. Editor; simply because Mrs. Stanton dare not im- peril her own reputation for veracity; for she has herself known to me, the writer, and elsewhere, with very mnch the same offenses of which Mrs. Woodhull speaks. ” In direct connection with the above, we ﬁnd the following in the Patriot, of Chariton, Iowa: “In the Council Bluﬂ"s Nonpareil Mrs. Amelia Bloomer says: In the general condemnation of Mrs. Woodhull for publishing the scandal told to her, the question of its truth or falsity is in a great measure lost sight of. A does not, now that thething isecutge would like to see ‘ the Beecher- Tilton Scandal’ tried on its merits. One year and a half ago this scandal was whispered in the ears of A. B. by one of the parties given as authority, by ‘ the Woodhull,’ and the one so whispering gave Mr. Tilton himself as her authority. She further said that ‘ the Woodhull’ knew all about it, and threatened its publication. This agrees, as far as it goes, with the statement of'Woodhull, and proves she did not get up the story for the purpose of ‘ blackmailing.’ 'A. B. has kept this scandal to herself, and never would have revealed her knowl- edge if it had not come so fully before the public. . While deploring, for the sake of all parties concerned, for the sake it has ever cometo the light, she hopes, now it is out, that truth will be elicited and justice ‘done——that the chief actors may receive their share of punishment, instead of being ‘shielded from censure, while the tale-bearer alone is con- demned.”— ’ - It is useless to add more to this. Neither of these refer in the slightest manner to the solution of the matter by the Bowen affair; nor are they based upon -“rumors” or “ha- lucinations.” It is preposterous simply, to attempt to evade the fact that Mr. Tilton is the authority to more than me for the details of the Beecher-Tilton, not the Beecher;-_Bg>wen, Scandal. I have only to ask if ‘Mrs;‘ Stanton could have denied the truth of ‘my statement regarding Mrs. Tilton, would she not have done it long ago‘? Everybody must un- hes-itatingly answer yes. But instead of this, her letter to Laura C-urtis Bullard, which Mr. Tilton has in his possession, "I ‘only qualiﬁes the language used, but not the thing,said. I believe she claims she did not say that Mr. Tilton called Mr. Beecher a damned lecherous scoundrel. ~ I am satisﬁed to let it remain as Mr. Clark concluded, Woodhull, but denies the p‘erversion.”] “ THEODORE TILToN’s LETTER To HIS “ COMPEAINING . _ FRIEND :” ' One of the strangest epistles on record, and one which every careful reader was immediately obliged to record as a nega- tive’ confession of much that Mars. 'Woodhull asserted. “174'l3IvINesToNE ST., BROOKLYN, Dec, 27,1872.—My’ Com- plaining Friend-—\Thanks for your good letter of bad advice You say, ‘ How easy to give the lie to the wicked story and thus end it forever.’ ‘Butstopvand consider.’ The story is a whole library of statements--‘a hundred or more-’—'anld[it would be assertions would be as vague and irrelevant as to take up the Police Gazette, with itsctwenty-four pages of illustrations, and say, ‘ This is all a lie.’ So extensive a libel requires‘ (if an- swered at all), a specialdenial of itsseveral parts ; and further- more, "it requires, in this particular case, not only a denial of things misstated, but a truthful explanation of other things that remain unstated and in‘ ‘mysteryf In other words, the false story (‘if met at all) should be confronted and con- founded by the true one. Now, my friend, you urge me to speak; but when the truth is a sword, God’s mercy some-- times commands it‘sl1eathed. If you I (10391; bum The following was published in the WEEKLY of Feb. 15: is charged Mr. Beecher to parties residing in this city and ‘t believezshat 191:2». 'iﬁFuo<ilrnl»F~ﬁ§9£;§z=‘l!factureiI't-h—esé Stories; and ' , . of the church, for the sake of decency and good morals, that , “Mrs; Stanton, in short, has been somewhat perverted by _ strange if some of them were not correct, though I doubt if , any are. To give a general denial to‘ suchian encyclopeedia of ' lo q I f ““‘w'eon“nufr.t“as GI.'AFI.IN’S WEEKLY. _ May 17, 1873. to defend my wife and little ones, you know. not the ﬁery spirit within me. But my wife’s heart is more a fountain of charity, and quenches all resentments. She says: ‘ Let there be no suffering save to ourselvesalone,’ and forbids a vindi- cation to the injury of others. From the beginning she has stood with her hand on my lips. saying, ‘ Hush!’ So when you prompt me to speak for ‘her, you countervail her more Christian mandate of silence. Moreover, after all, the chief victim of the public displeasure is myself alone; and so long as this ishappily the case, I shall try, with patience, to keep my answer within my own breast, lest it shoot forth like a thunderbolt through other hearts. “ Yours truly, THEODORE TILTON.” V MR. '.1‘ILTON’S “THUNDERBOLT ” HAS COME! I have tapped the mysterious cloud in which it lay sheathed; and if it now “shoots” through any “hearts,” let their owners remember the danger of conspiring against the most sacred rights of an American citizen! Iwill remark, at this point, that the defense which Mr. Tilton prepared against Mrs. Woodhull——-which he indirectly promised to the public, and then “ concluded to withhold’ » —is a thick, heavy pile of manuscript, written on foolscap, and bound in ﬂexible black leather. It has every appearance of elaboration——being -erased in parts and’ rewritten-—and is =3‘very circumstantial. How this “true story” came into my possession is of no consequence to the public, but can easily be ascertained in the courts, if any of the specially interested parties should have the temerity to press an investigation. I shall give the substance of it, but as brieﬂy as possible, and chieﬂy, though not Wholly, in my own language. Here, then, is . ' THEODORE rILroN’s “ TRUE sronr.” - ,. He asserts that, inthe fall of.1870——-Mrs./Tilton having just returned to her home from a watering-place—she was visited by Mr. Beecher; and that on this occasion the pastor of Plymouth Church unbridled his ﬁery passions, and besought ‘ of Mrs. Tilton the most intimate relationship accorded by her sex. Such warmth of pastoral attention was declined by Mrs. Tilton-—not with the loud anger of ostentatious virtue, but with the mature sadness of common sense. .The good lady was surprised, and the true wife reported the occur- rence to her husband. Greatly angered and grieved, he re- quested her to make a memorandum of it. She did so; and ‘ I give her own words, literally, as they were written: » “Yesterday afternoon my friend and pastor, Henry Ward Beecher, solicited me to become his wife in _all the relations which that term implies.” ' In his manuscript book Mr. Tilton comments, with some evidence of pride, upon the delicate and skillful manner in which Mr. Beecher’s hideous overtures were‘ here expressed. . Mrs. Tilton’s language is striking, and is apt to impress it- self on the reader’s memory.” , COMMENTS. I [As a correction to this-introduction to the “ true story,” I ask Mr. Tilton to publishlto the world a certain letter re- ceived from Mrs. Tilton, during her absence from Brooklyn at “ a watering-place,” in the summer of 1871, and refresh his own memory somewhat about the facts therein treated of. I remember them very distinctly-. Perhaps he will accom- modate Mr. Clark with the loan of that letter. Will Mr. Clarkplease manage to steal that letter if Mr. Tilton will not loan it? I assure you that it will give a great deal of light as to my truth or falsity; and if Mr. Tilton will not loan ' you the letter,and you cannot manage to steal it, please ask him if that letter did not state that Mrs. Tilton said she had been reading “ Griﬂflth Gaunt,” and that night, while on her knees till midnight, she had awakened to the horrible crime she had committed against her husband. I am sorry to be . obliged to jog Mr. Tilton’s memory on these points; but Mr. Clark might also ask him ‘if, in that letter, she. did not state that she felt that she had been divorced from him, and that she could never live with him again unless they were re- married. Again, it may not be invidiousto inquire, What was the cause of the misunderstanding between Mr. and / Mrs. Tilton, which could cause Mrs. Tilton to feel divorced? Surely the refusal to accept Mr. Beecher’s kind proposals could not have been a cause for divorce! Such faithfulness is generally repaid by other treatment than.this. But let us have the letter. Do not let this rest upon my word merely when so good proof exists. If Mr. Tilton prepares a “true story” and permits it to be stolen, let it be a “true one,” not a partly true one, but a wholly true one—a half-truth always being a lie.] , a V “At the time Mrs. Tilton’s memorandum was written, Mr. Tilton was the editor of the New York Independent and of the Brooklyn Union, receiving $5,000 a year from each of these sources, and about $5,000 more from still. another source, and was in most intimate business relations with Mr. Henry 0. Bowen, the eminent publisher, and a fellow member of Plymouth Church. As Mr. Tilton was writing his “true story,” he could hardly be blamed for a yearning look backward at those halcyon days of the Bowen ﬂesh- pots. ' - About six weeksafter Mr. Beecher’s pastoral interview with Mrs. Tilton, the nature of it was explained by Mr. Til- ton to his friend and patron, Mr. Bowen. The conﬁdence was natural; for Mr. Tilton affirms that, during a whole pre- vious year, Mr. Bowen had been denouncing Mr. Beecher as “A connurron or BROOKLYN SOCIETY,” and charging him, — in unmistakable terms, with “NUMEROUS ADULTERIES AND RAPES.” M13 Tilton justiﬁes his own terrible statement, at this juncture, by the aﬁidavit of another gentleman (whose name has thus far been kept out of the scandal), but who swears that on two, occasions he had also heard Mr. Bowen impute these crimes to Mr. Beecher- Again, during a sum- mer respite at his country seat in Woodstock, Conn.,, Mr. Bowen had written a letter to Mr. Tilton,- condemning Mr. , Beecher more severely than ever, and bitterly accusing him- _ 991! of inﬁdelity to his own conscience in having so long de- layed an exposure of so base a scoundrel. He added that he should publish Beecher’s guilt on returning to the city. Mr. Bowen failed to keep the promise; but he still vented his indignation in private to Mr. Tilton‘, who ﬁnally unbosomed the story of his own household. ‘ Thereupon Mr. Bowen became unusually excited. He -said the time had come to act. He urged Mr Tilton to write instantly to Mr. Beecher, demanding his retirement from Plymouth Church and his withdrawal from Brooklyn. “ Write that letter,” exclaimed Mr. Bowen, “ and let‘ ME ca/rry it to the Scoundrel for you.” Impelled by such eloquent friendship, Mr. Tilton says he wrote the following note: “HENRY W. BEECHER: “ Sir—-For reasons which you well understand, and which I need not therefore recite, I advise and demand that you quit Plymouth pulpit forever, and leave Brooklyn as a resi- dence. ' ‘—‘ THEODORE TILTON.” The note, was then handed to Mr. Bowen. according to his ' vehement solicitation, for delivery to Mr. Beecher. In Mrs. Woodhull’s account of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal she cites a o Frank Moulton as one of herwitnesses. This gentleman’s name appears also in Mr. Tilton’s manuscript- book. He is a member of Plymouth Church. He has long been Mr. Tilton’s most intimate friend. He was called into the d ﬁiculty at the very ﬁrst step. A day or two after Mr. ,Beecher’s visit to Mrs. Tilton in the coveted light of a “wife,” Mr. Tilton consulted Mr. Moulton, it appears, and placed Mrs. Tilton’s memorandum in his hands. And now, after sending the note of “advice and demand” to Mr. Beecher, Mr. Tilton imparted the circumstance to Mr. Moulton. “But, Tilton ,” said Mr. Moulton at once, “ did Bowen sign that letter with you ?” “ N O,” replied Mr. Tilton; “I signed it alone.” “ Then you are a ruined man!” a How Mr. Frank Moulton acquired “ the gift of prophecy,” we need not pause to inquire. But that he understands the “ pillars” of Plymouth Church was soon -proved. For when Mr. Tilton’s friend, Bowen, reached Brooklyn Heights with the letter which he had so earnestly requested to bear to “that scoundrel, Beecher,” he certainly delivered it with remarkable suavity, under the circumstances. Said he: “ Mr. Beecher-——a letter from Tilton.’ Tilton is your impla- cable enemy, Mr. Beecher, but I will be your friend.” It is unnecessary, perhaps, to explain Mr. H. C. Bowen’s motive in this unparalleled act of “ strategy,” not to say treachery. But not long afterward it became known to the “ newspaper world ” that Mr. Bowen had concluded to dis- pense with the services of Mr. Tilton on the Independent. To kill off a useless friend, and at the same time grapple a useful enemy with “ hooks of steel,” is sometimes an object to a shrewd man of business. 7 Some eight months after the commencement of the Beecher—Tilton. differences, an investigation and a storm were thought to be brooding over Plymouth Church; and Mr. Beecher,-fearing that Mr. Tilton’s memorandum (which he had heard of) might be brought to light, made bold to visit her in Mr. Tilton’s absence. Although informed that she was sick inbed, he insisted on seeing her, "and was ﬁn- ally admitted to her room. Mr. Tilton’s “true story” de- clares that the great preacher drew a doleful picture of his troubles. He pleaded with Mrs. Tilton that he _was on the brink of ruin, and that she alone could save him. Mrs. Til- ton ﬁnally sat up in bed, with book and paper in hand, and wrote at Mr. Beecher’s dictation a few lines, the point of which is that in all his intercourse with her he “had conduct- ed himself as a gentleman and a Christian.” Flushed with success, the Plymouth shepherd then pressed her to add that the troublesome memorandum in ‘ Moulton’s hands had been wrested from her when she_was “ ill,” and in “ an irre- sponsible condition. She gave an oral promise also, as Mr. Tilton adds, that she would not appear against Mr. Beecher in any coming investigation, unless her husband should move in the matter. In . “ the Woodhull’s ” scandal, she speaks of Mrs. Tilton’s “sweet concessiveness.” Much of it seems also evident in Mr. Tiltons “ true story.” On Mr. Tilton’s return home, Mrs. Tilton again told him what had happened. He assures the reader that he would now have borne the humility of his wife’s merciful retrac- tion, had it not been for the concluding portion, which ap- parently placed him in the position of having compelled her to indite herﬁrst memorandum. Mr. Tilton’s proud spirit, outraged at the possibility of this appearance of vulgar mal- ace on his part—or even blackmail itself—had recourse at Once to his unfailing social strategist, Mr. Moulton. He urged Mr. Moulton to hasten to Mr. Beecher, and force him to give up Mrs. Tilton’s last paper. Mr. Moulton went; and he had a long, private conversa- tion with his beloved pastor. He requested and insisted that the document should be given up. Amongotherthings he reminded Mr. Beecher that the statement which he had just worried out of Mrs. Tilton was false on its face-—as the lady was known to have been not “ ill” and “ in an irrespon- sible condition" when her original memorandum was made, but wncom/monly well, as Mr. Beecher remembered——she hav- ing just retwned home from a summer resort. Mr. Moulton further elucidated to his minister that Mrs. Tilton was now “ill” and in an “irresponsible condition,” instead of on the former occasion. , a Mr. Moulton’s persuasions were not easily answered, though Mr. Beecher still held on to the paper. As the dis- cussion sharpened, however, and Mr. Moulton evinced that he was not to be triﬂed with, Mr. Beecher ﬁnally asked him what he would do with the paper if it should,be placed in his hands. “I will keep the first memorandwm and this one together,” said Mr. Moulton, “ and thus prevent you and Til- tonfrom-harming each other.” a ' . ' “ But,” said Mr. Beecher, imploringly, “ Frank, can I, can I conﬁde in you? Will you protect the paper!” “Yes,” was the reply; “ nobody shall have it; I will take care ofiit.” a . s ' ’ “ How ?” _aske¢$7Kx- Beecher. [ f‘In ever;=f'?I9aa7f’ ‘Ir. Moulton; and then, put- ‘ting his hand on a pistol in his vest pocket, he added: “with Mr. Beecher thereupon gave up the document, and Mr. Moulton has faithfully kept his promise. But he returned at oncelto Mr. Tilton, and’ made a full, circumstantial record of the conference with Mr. Beecher. The record was written this, if necessary.” ‘ in short—hand, but was afterward rendered into ordinary‘ English, and it now occupies several pages of Mr. Tilton’s “true story,” and is highly dramatic reading.” COMMENTS. [Here we have as tangled a web as was ever unraveled. But does it explain away the original statement upon these facts? Read both carefully and then consider the following which I purposely omitted stating at the time, as I had no desire to introduce Mr. Beecher to- the public in any light other than was-necessary for my purpose. But the above is given to the public, as will be believed, by Mr. Tilton’s consent, and I am therefore justified in saying that what is here called his -“ true story” differs in some material points from the story he told me, which was this: He said after he had learned of the facts, and while Mrs. Tilton was still dangerously ill from the premature birth of a child induced by his treatment, that he met Mr; Beecher at Frank Moulton’s and there confronted him; that they endeavored to compel Mr. Beecher to terms, and that the interview was suddenly terminated by Mr. Beecher beg- ging to be excused for a few moments until he could con- sult a friend. This was granted. He left them, returning in half an hour or so, his manner entirely changed. His suing for mercy was turned into deﬁance. ‘He simply rang the door bell and said, “ Gentlemen, I do not see ﬁt to pro- long this interview; I have got my vindication in my pocket,” and turned upon his heel and incontinently left. _ He said both he and Frank were utterly astonished at the conduct of. Mr. Beecher, but it was fully explained when he returned to his home, where Mrs.,Tilton, in deep dis- tress, stated that Mr. Beecher had been there, and that she had signed some paper she scarcely knew what, but she was afraid it was something that might do harm. It was then that Mr. Moulton went to Mr. Beecher, and in the manner that I have already described demanded the document. No such rendition as the one given in the “true story” was ever given to me either by Mr. Moulton or Mr. Tilton, and it is entirely inconsistent with his conduct to- ward Mrs. Tilton, and his grief and rage before me, and es- pecially his conduct when he ‘took me to ride to the "grave Where was buried, as he said, the fruits of Mr. Beecher’s intimacy with his wife, at which time, sitting on the Battle Hill Monument, he went anew over the whole story, in- cluding the stamping of the wedding ring into the soil of the grave. It is also utterly inconsistent with the sentiment of the poem in .which is “ She, too, false like the rest.” And a what was the great grief that caused him to walk the streets of Brooklyn the whole night inconsolable, as he has done night upon night either alone orrwith Mr. Moulton; and his constantly-expressed desire “to die, as he had nothing to live for’ in this world?” The purported faithfulness of Mrs. Tilton in saving Mr. Beecher from becoming an adul- terer ought to have made Mr. Tilton extremely happy in her possession. Or was he distracted because she did resist the persuasions of Mr. Beecher? But I have no desire at this time to call attention to the other discrepancies between Mr. Tilton’s statements to me and his “true story,” except to say that my statement stands, made by me as. I received it, factafter fact from Mr. Tilton himself, most of which were. also conﬁrmed by the several witnesses whom I have men- tioned. Had Mr. Tilton never told the same story to others than to me, I might feel called upon to go into a detailed . proof of the whole matter; but since he has so repeated it to a half-dozen persons whom I know, I do not think it neces- sary to refute hislater and amended statement. The public will place it side by sidewith mine, and give due weight to the fact that the amended statement was prepared under the bias of an emergency which, perhaps, he did not contemplate when he made the former and unbiased statement to me and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Col. Mix and others; although I ought to say that Mr. Tilton always gave me to understand that he should be glad when the matter was out, but that he should not want to be the one to ﬁrst move in it.] “In due time Mr. Tilton became acquainted with Mr. Woodhull. He says he had previously declined an introduc- tion to her; but met her accidentally one day in company with a mutual friend, and was presented to her- He after- ward visited her at times, as did most of the other men and women in New York ‘who were connected with the Woman Suffrage movement. On one occasion of a visit at her oﬂice she suddenly seized a copy of the World, and, thrusting it before him, pointed to this passage in a letter she had writ- ten to that journal: “ I know a clergyman of eminence in Brooklyn, who lives. in concubinage with the wife of another clergyman of equal eminence.” _ “Mr. Tilton,” said Woodhull, “ do you know whom that means?” “ N o.”*' “ It means you and Mr. Beecher.” Mr. Tilton claims that he said nothing, or almost nothing, in reply, but was simply thunderstruck. He instantly per- ceived that the woman had heard, in an exaggerated form, rumors that had been traveling about for a year or two, and hefeared that in her possession they might become very dangerous. He soon left Mrs. Woodhull, and sought, of course, the Napoleonic Moulton. The result was the delih. erate plan of-a campaign to get thoroughly on their right side of Woodhull, keep there, and thus close her mouth. "He then ~ called upon her frequentlyesometimes company with Moulton, sometimes alone; took her part publicly, and de- \s;.:.-.- -«-—~=-_--.-u—¢.- -M-._~.-,._, l.-....,.... ._..n-..___..,. ...,._.__ ..,., ... 5 ,: iii - .1 ». ,- --.1.-r.-a: ._ ‘ . it were not ridiculous. May 17, 1373. fw o o n H UL’i'3" & c'L'A“r r.i"n*“s win is K yr‘. ' iii”; fended her character. He sometimes saw her in such ex- altations as he considered states of trance, and her husband inaﬁinity, Colonel Blood, used to read to him extracts from . the heavens, which Victoria was said to have received (often the night before) from “the spirits.” Mr. Tilton does not deny that he honestly considered Mrs. Woodhull a remarka- ble woman, with a “mission ;” and, if mistaken, he naturally contends that Mr. Beecher, his sister Mrs. Hooker, Mrs.Stan- ton and many others “trained in the same regiment” of -erring mortality.” [M1‘. Tilton did not meet me accidentally in company with a mutual friend, but he came to my ofﬁce with Stephen Pearl Andrews and was introduced to me, and this was the only time I ever saw him previous to that when he called with the World. To others he has said that upon that occasion I sent for him to come to see me. In his “ true story” l1& has neglected to do this, and he does so because he knows it is not true. I neither sent for him nor thrust the World before him when he did come. He came of his ‘own accord with the article in question from the World, and asked me: “ Whom do you mean by that ?,” But the idea that an exaggerated rumor that had been traveling about for a year or two, which he could have instantly corrected if false, but which he did not even attempt to do, might be- come very dangerous in my hands, would be preposterous if I do not think any logical mind can read this part of the “ true story” and not conclude, if it be true, that there is still another true story which he at least has not told, and that the magniﬁed proportion of the cam- paign which was planned to capture me is only to be be- lieved upon the theory that whatlknew, which it was neces- sary should be kept quiet, was not exaggerated rumors merely. It must be remembered that this occurred in the spring of 1871, soon after the May Convention in Apollo Hall. It will also be seen by reference to the “ true story,” that this im- broglio with Mrs. Tilton began “in the fall of l,8’70;” that it was “ six weeks” thereafter that Mr. Tilton explained the matter to Mr. Bowen, after which the other facts occurred. But it was “eight months after the commencement of the Beecher-Tilton differences” that ‘Mr. Beecher visited Mrs. Tilton and got the letter from her. Now this would carry the time forward at least to August, 1871, and yet I am found possessed of “exaggerated rumors” regarding it in May of this same year, before they happened, which. _“ had already been traveling about for a year or two.” Figures are dangerous things with which to attempt to lie,because they always mean deﬁnite things and the same things to all people. In constructing a “true story,” Mr. Tilton should have made more careful use of such a dangerous agent. Of course he presumes that he can place his own word in opposition to mine, and be believed; but he is not egotist enough to im- agine he can arrange ﬁgures to suit himself and be able to palm them off as correct when any one is liable to prove them. The failureto keep his time correctly, to my mind, will invalidate his “ true story” to no inconsiderable ex- tent, in the minds even of those who may wish to accept and believe his false one. Mr. Clark ought to have been clear enough to have detected this discrepancy in the “ True” ' Statement] “ On statements furnished by Mrs. Woodhull and Colonel Blood, Mr. Tilton ﬁnally made the last bold stroke to win the undying gratitude of 44 Broad street by giving his name and the literary ﬁnish of his pen to the “ Biography of Vic- toria C. Woodhull.” He was mistaken, he now. thinks, in that person. With “ the Woodhull ” “ gratitude” is noth- ing, “ principle ” everything; and principle in her case, as in Vanderbilt’s, is to “carry a point.” Mr. Tilton had a ter- rible warning of this phase of her character, when some of his lady acquaintances and special friends deemed it neces- sary, in the early part of 1872, to disown Mrs. Woodhull in the arena of Woman’s Rights on account of her social doc- trines. The Woodhull instantlysﬂanked the movement by sending the ladies printed slips of their own private histories (in an article called “Tit for Tat”), declaring that if they A should disgrace her for teaching “, soct'alfreedom,” she would print the article in her WEEKLY, and they should sink with her for practicing the theory.” COMMENTS. [I scarcely know in what manner justly to characterize the misconstruction contained in the above paragraph. To properly show all the circumstances involved would require an entire paper, which -is impossible here; but as it refers to circumstances that have been variously and widely com- mented on, and in a manner most prejudicial to me, I feel that I ought not to pass them without the notice they deserve. Mr. Tilton upon several public occasions, long before my publication of the scandal, regretted that he had written my ‘biography, in a manner and with explanations that perhaps ought atqthe time to have received notice. The statement here, however, is very guarded, compared with some others he has made. Just previous to the writing of that biography, I The Victoria League had been formed, __and it was found V necessary to put some authoritative statement before the world regarding my past life in the form of an auto- biography. I put Col.. Blood in possession of the material, and requested him to arrange it for me. While he was doing this, Mr. Tilton came forward with the proposition that this must be his work, and he insisted so strenuously on performing it that I consented, and he didit. But he did not take the manuscript prepared by Col. Blood as his ’ only authority. All the i1I;1)c:'tf111t orseemingly extravagant statements he took special pains to verify by other authority, while all the “ﬁnish,” and that which upon its face is his mm, am; which _r_ea,11y gives it all its importance, was the; ‘- vac .-«I result of his own observation and was his own judgment. He may, for aught I know, have written that biography for some motive unknown to me; but it isabsurd to pretend that it was to keep me from publishing the scandal, the basis for the whole of which, as I have already shown ac- cording to his ﬁgures, did not at that time exist. _ _, But what, as early as the Cincinnati Convention, had‘ occurred to cause him to change his judgment of me? He had found me a “truthful person,” and one with whom he was proud to be known or connected. Something must have compelled a change. He has stated on some occasions that it was the “ Tit for Tat” above referred to. What was that article? I will state just what it was, and thus at one and the same time correct the erroneous version given above, and show that it was not the cause of the breach between Mr. Tilton and me. Agnumber of women, all of whom belonged to “ one set,” had for two years taken every occasion to let their long and loose tongues wag in defaming me. I determined to stop it. I grouped them together in an article which I had put in type, sending a proof of it to each of the persons involved: In the next issue of the WEEKLY I wrote an editorial, in which I faith- fully promised them if the blackguarding of me did not cease I should publish the article. Not one of these, however, was “ some of his lady acquaintances and special friends,” who disowned me “in the arena of Wo1nan’s Rights” “on account of my social theories,” since none of them had ever taken any part with the wing of suffragists in which I labored. Nor, was it because they disowned me as a suffragist that I prepared the article, as Mr. Tilton’s “true story” relates? And no’- body knows this better than Mr. Tilton himself. He knows it was because I was constantly belied by them as to what Free Love meant to me in practice. The editorial to which I refer suﬁiciently indicates this, and it was not misunder- stood by any of them at whom it was written. I have had no occasion to publish it.] “This generalship may be defended by the old proverb that “anything . is fair in love and war; ” but such a. blow “under the belt ’ was severely rebuked by Mrs. Stanton, and was regarded with reasonable terror by Mr. Tilton. He new became fully conscious of Mrs. Wood- hul1’s capacity of destruction, and retired completely. from her circle. The impending “ crack of doom ” was not to be hushed up with “gratitude.” Mr. Tilton had himself conﬁded the substance of his “true story” to Mrs. Wood- hull-, and knew that so much of his fate was in her hands. Still, he aﬁirms that he was astonished beyond measure when she at last magniﬁed it into the unearthly proportions of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. ’ COMMENTS. [What does Mr. Tilton mean when he says, “I was severely rebuked by Mrs. Stanton”? I have Mrs. Stanton’s letter to me regarding it; but when he says it is in the form of a re- buke he only agaln willfully perverts it. I never received a kinder note from Mrs. Stanton than that one, and I there- fore hurl this utter disregard for truth in his teeth as another evidence that he has “a constitutional disregard for truth which is ever showing itself even when an opposite course would serve him better.” - Now, as to the “terror” it inspired in Mr. "Tilton, and “ the terrible warning ” it was to him, and his “retiring com- pletely from her circle,” I am perfectly conscious that he was terriﬁed by it, since he came with it to me and said Laura Curtis-Bullard had just left his office, having come therewith the article which he held in his hand. He said, “ Strike out this portion,” pointing to a part of it, “and I will help you kill the rest.” But he played none of the “heroics” with which he has been in the habit of relating this interview, which hesays occurred in his office instead of mine—only another evidence of his constitutional defect. Theodore Til- ton never attempted heroics with me but once, and he found they did not have the desired effect, and he at once and for- ever abandoned their use; but he has become so accustomed to them when others are involved, that when I am not pres- ent he forgets himself and assumes them in things which in- volved me. . ‘ _ - c ‘‘He had become fully conscious of Mrs. Woodhull’s capa- city for destruction and retired completely from her circle,” and this he presents as the cause of the breach between us to which I refer in the opening of this case. But before pro- ceeding to perform a disagreeable task, I must premise by saying I had hoped that selﬁsh personal considerations on the part of Mr. Tilton, if no higher motive, would have for ever saved me from the necessity of doing this; but since he seems to court distinction, let him have it to his heart’s con- tent. I therefore state, as emphatically as I can, that it was not “Tit for Tat” that caused him to “retire from her circle.” At the time he-came to me with that article I had not seen him for six weeks, and I should not have seen him then had it not been for “reasonable terror ” that something regard- ing a particular friend of his which it contained was going to be made public. But he did call quite frequently after that, during the interval until the Cincinnati Convention. The day before he left to attend that Convention he called upon me for the last time. 7 He said he was “ going to the Convention to report it for the Tribune.” * ' ~ I said, “ Theodore you are lying again. /, You are going to Cincinnati to nominate Mr. Greeley, and I see, clair- voyantly, a coffin following you, in which you will be re- sponsible for putting him, because it Will. result in his k-death.” _ . I" ~ -' L-1 - . l .-.__a He sat looking and listening "to me, _and for along time never said a word; but ﬁnally, with a sad tenderness I shall never forget, rose and left me, and I have never spoken with him since. Up to that time he had never even hinted that he regretted his associations with me; but, on the contrary, always expressed a deep satisfaction regarding it, the rea- sons for which I have no desire to make public unless com- pelled, when I shall not hesitate to do so to the fullest ex- tent. ’ p = But to return‘ to the time prior to the “ Tit for Tat” article. A goodly time before that, I was forced to the conclusion, in spite of all his ,efforls in behalf of reform, that his in- ‘ spirations and mine were entirely dissimilar. I was abso- lutely absorbed in reform projects, and was indifferent to any and all who were not the same; and I could no longer aﬁord to be annoyed in the manner in which I was annoyed by him. As he would not accept a verbal communication from me as meaning anything, I was ﬁnally compelled de- liberately to write a formal letter, which I know was de- livered to him, and a copy of which I now have before me, instructing him that his visits to me, both at my house and oﬁice, must be discontinued, plainly stating the reasons for so doing. They were not for any want of esteem and kind regard, because I had a regard amounting almost to affection for him. Besides, I had been his teacher in the principles of the new social dispensation, and I found elements in him that I was hop_eful might make him the hero of that dis- pensation. That hope I never ﬁnally abandoned until a few days after the appearance of his letter to “ my complaining, friend.” On Christmas ‘day last I wrote" him a ﬁnal appeal endeavoring to rouse him to a sense of what l1c was losing, and to stimulate him, even at that late moment, to come forward and be the hero; - ‘ . CHRISTMAS DAY, New York City‘, 1872. Theodo're——The spirit saith unto me, “Write :” “And the truth shall make you free,”-—while anything less than that will add to-the bondage of the present. I told you, a year ago, that within six months you would fall away from me. “By all that’s good, never!” you re- , plied. Nevertheless the fall came! . ~. I told you that you were going to lead your friend to his grave; you thought it would be to ‘the Presidential chair. He lies buried—a victim to the ill-starred movement led off by you. . You became a champion of advanced freedom in your sup- port of me; and your name was on the lips and treasured in the heart of every Radical in the world. You repudiated the course that had won this love, and neither Radical nor Con- servative stands by you. 7 And now I say: There is a single course of redemption left you; and for your own sake I pray you heed it. Accept the situation. Stand by principle, and be not aifrighted by public opinion._ — .You have the most glorious opportunity ever vouchsafed to man. Strike the hypocrite (if you will) the blow you have at your service; but put your loving, protecting arm about the angel_ whom he deceived. Dare to defend her freedom, and stand by her, not to the death, but to the new life. Think not to gain what you desire, by catering to the hy- pocrisy, the poltroonery, the cowardice of the-present; but strike for the glorious and redeemed souls of the near future, . and become their hero. VICTORIA. Since then I am grieved to confess I have believed him lost, lost to the cause, lost to himself, and lost to all sense of honor and truth. I believed ﬁrmly that he would come forward as he had so often said he would, when the time should arrive, and stand by the cause. He" knew that the statement of November 2d was to be published, and that I only wanted to receive the command of him whom I serve to publish it. Well do I remember an evening when he and- I were discussing this very subject, that Col. Blood turned from the desk at which he waswriting and said : “Theodore, do you think you will have the courage to stand in the gap with us when that time shall come?” He”’replied with, the most extraordinary asseverations in the afﬁrm-ative; and when the whole history of the incipiency of this scandal shall come to be known, as it soon will, if justice cannot be forced without it, I fear that the once glori- ous spirit of Theodore Tilton will set in the mud. a Nobody, not even those who are now apparently his best friends, will mourn for him more sincerely than I shall ; and whatever they may pretend to him now, not one of them more deeply regrets his position than I do, and none would do more to save him than I would do, short of thegsacriﬁce of truth, honor and justice. And in his soul Theodore Tilton knows this to-day ; but he also knows that my sense of outraged justice could not be swerved to save my own life ; and here I again say, there is still an avenue of escape for him. He knows what it is, but he will not avail himself of it. “Whom the gods would destroy they ﬁrst make 1:_nad.” Theodore Tilton rests under their ban. I know whereof I speak when I say that his aﬁirmations. “ that he was astonished be- p , -yond measure” when the scandal appeared were of the same unapproachable acting, in which long practice has made him perfect,” with which he received the announcement that the Thunderbolt had appeared; and the inspiration in both instances was the same——knowledge and expectation. Mr. Tilton did conﬁde all the details of the Beecher-Bowen- . Proctor Scandal to me, besides a dozen others equally aston- ishing and confounding; but those that I obtained from him. in this way I have not used in my war upon social rotten- ness, neither shall unless compellcd; but what I have used I was not indebted to his conﬁdence for, since I wrung it from him, perhaps not so skillfully as he did the Bowen Scandal from the lady involved, nevertheless with sufficient admit i .._ ...._....,__. “' 1 '-. .*»3‘tf.r.{4,-’}€IKoﬁ9»i:2:hr:.'.;;g . . z:'a.-.—.>x.ms>.._e..-.»-:2.-‘iv A - J" " ‘ “.4.-._\ ,.l___._.,n . the same one. 12- s ~-W-is-rwoonnutréis; CLAFLIN?S_WEEKLY.“ May 17, 1373. ‘ ness to become fully possessed of it without being under any obligations to not’ disclose it. Mr. Tilton having-disclosed it to me, “knew so much of his fate was in her hands.” Mr. Tilton could not have con- sidered the force‘ of those few words, otherwise he would never have used them. If his “true story” is really a true one, and the only true one, what-had I to do with fate to him? How could I possibly have been able to do him harm by any use which Imight make of the .so—called facts of that story? It is one of the most diﬁicult of roles to ._ maintain to endeavor to tella consistent stream of lies about any grave thing. A’ lie once told needs continual lies to - sustain it; and people forget lies, and neglect to always tell The truth will sometimes slip out un- ‘ wittingly. This instance is a singularly forcible illustration. My possession of the really true story he might consistently have considered as so much of his fate in my hands; but with his true story only he should have_ said so much of Mr. Beecher’s fate in my hands. I have no doubt every person will at once perceive this. And withsthis I may close the analysis of the matter very nearly in the language of Mr. Clark with which he closes the presentation of his‘ resume of the “ true story”: Such is a careful summary of that “true story” which Theodore Tilton said he should try to keep within his ow heart. . I ’ H Changed,’however, in this wise: Such is theresult of a hasty analysisiof the whole story which, if Theodore Tilton did not desire made public, he should, from the outset, have conﬁned within his breast.] “AS FAR AS MR. BEECHEIR IS CONCERNED, it will instantly be seen that his virtue, at best, is not al- ways the inclination of his own will. If Mrs. Woodhull has misrepresented him, and Mr. Tilton has turned her falsehood into truth, still it was only through Mr. Beecher’s failure in carrying out an immoral purpose that Mrs. Woo'dhull’s story is not correct. A correspondent of the Cincinnati «Com- mercial—who has evidently been admitted into some of the . secrets of Mr. Tilton’s fool/soap volume, and at the same time ' employed to Whitewash Mr. Beecher——-declares that the “true story ” embraces “ a period of ten years,” implicates ‘ “persons who have not publicly ﬁgured in it,” and “ eluci- dates some things not likely to be known till the Day of J udgmen .” These stilted phrases have some foundation, though it would not be diiﬁcult for so plain a man as myself to bring that “ Day of Judgment ” close to hand, if necessary. I have no wish, however, to drag any cringing mortal before the public in mere wantonness—especially any woman. I re- gard Mr. Henry C. Bowen as Mr. Beecher’s chief “ supe” and conspirator, in combining with the wretched Jesuit of Protestantism, Anthony J. Comstock, to violate American liberty. From my position, Mr. Bowen deserves no mercy, beyond the bare truth. In regard to other persons, I think the public have no special interest in them, with one excep- tion.’V * ‘ A COMMENTS. [Now here the cause which makes the case hang ﬁre in Brooklyn is at last reached. Mr. Clark could, if he saw ﬁt, bring the day of judgment close to hand, but he has no wish to drag a eringing woman before the public. Had it been my desire, as the act has been generally interpreted, to" de- stroy the usefulness of Mr. Beecher and to drive him from Plymouth Church, I could have made such use of the ma- terial in my possession as to have accomplished it. He could not have escaped under having me prosecuted on an impos- ,’sible charge of obscenity. He would either have had to throw himself upon the Church and confessed or prose- cuted me for libel, which I know very well he would never attemptjto do so long as three witnesses now living should live. But such was not any part of my motives, and I only used such facts as I had good reasons for believing would not be very objectionable to any of the parties involved, Mr. Beecher alone excepted. Arid I know that, should he be compelled, as he would have been had Mr. Tilton acted well his part, to have_ acknowledged the whole matter, that Plymouth Church would be compelled to sustain or fall with him. Mr. Beecher did not hgsitate to‘ say that he knew of ﬁfty members of his congregation who would stand by him in“ any event. . ’ But the suppression policy can not succeed.’ Everything will eventually be made public. It has gone too far.‘ All the facts are in the possession of too many persons, some of whom, I think, do wish to kill Mr. Beecher, and who will not hesitate to drag even a_ “ cringing woman ” before the pub?" lie to do it. The only method of salvation, as I frankly informed Mr. Beecher, was to come at ,once to the front and say: “Well, this is true; and now what are you going to do about it.” . I But I frankly confess that I believe the ultimate fate of the now distressed woman, who every hour of her life stands in mortal dread of the facts coming before the public, would be much better if she were herself to come out and solve this whole matter , It will come some time, and the indications new are that itlis not far off. There should be no more real dis- grace attach to her about the affair, than there should be had she personally been injured in some other manner. N o honest person could condemn her for any part she was compelled to play, and for the judgment of the dishonest none should trouble themselves. Therefore, the wise part is to at once ventilate this whole afair before its attempted suppression- , drag: a half dozen other ‘families into its vawning vortex] jLYou are not befooled by them. hence you must be cruciﬁed. _~ N... ;....'-ii.‘ ;...*-..;.:-.c 9 "As I view the whole case, in all its bearings, I deem it right to say that Mr. Tilton claims that he has been violent- ly hated by his wife’s mother, Mrs. Morris——a lady who is deﬁnitely represented‘. to me as insane. This poor lady is said to have circulated, for many years, the most damaging reports against the character of her daughter, and against Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton. The ear- liest scandals concerning Mrs. Tilton and the Plymouth pas- tor are said to have proceeded from her. I must add, also, that a long time ago there _were rumors, among the special acquaintances of the ‘parties, that Mrs. Tilton was subject to the hallucination that some of Mr. Beecher’s ’ children were those of her own household. D (But Mr. Tilton’s narrative aﬁords me no hint of this rumor.” I think it was very unwise in Mr. Tilton to attempt to drag his mother-in-law into the , But what must be said of the “ rumors ” among the special acquaintances of the parties about Mrs. Tilton’s “ hallucination”? Those strange rumors remind me at once of the ﬁnding of Moses in the bullrushes of the Nile, and of the immaculate conception of Jesus; and I have no doubt if Mr; Tilton’s “true story” stands, that this last hallu- cination will pass into history and be accounted by the future as an equally marvelous example of the Special Prov- idences of the God of the Christians. , But this hallucination, as Ihappen very well to know, did not extend to Mr. Tilton’s brain, but in him it rather as- sumed the form of madness, venting itself in violence, espe- cially upon the picture of one of the persons involved in the hallucination. Whatever milder forms it may now have assumed in him, I fear its formerviolence may cast as serious doubts upon the future divinity of this last mani- festation as the skeptics of to-day throw around that of eighteen centuries ago. . What, however, must be the judgment of the future should it come tolcnow that this paper, this Thunderbolt, was prepared in the rooms of the Golden Age; and when it shall come to be known that the letter of “my complaining friend,” which called out the reply contained in the Thun- derbolt, was actually written by the dictation of Theodore Tilton, and that at the time it was written he was preparing the way to publish in the Golden Age the whole of the “true story.” I do not think I overstate it when I say that no such combination of hypocrisy, duplicity, falsehood and social irregularities ever existed as the future will show the Beecher-Tilton-Bowen-Proctor Scandal to have been; and I am ready to stake my future upon its being so.] "‘ And now , WHAT coNoLUsIoN Is To BE DRAWN . from Mr. 'I.‘ilton’s “thunderbolt” on one hand, and‘Mrs. Woodhull’s vaunted “ bombshell” on the other? I am sorry to say I have little conﬁdence in the strict veracity of either account.” [But Mr. Clark, apparently unwittingly, hat let the cat out of the bag, since does he not say, “Mr. Tilton’s Thunder- bolt”? That is sufficient. It cannot be Mr. Clark’s Thunder- bolt if it be Mr. Tilton’s; and, moreover, does he not say that he has very little conﬁdence in the strict veracity of it? yet a little longer. I know the truth will come out upper- most, and I court its coming. Almost everybody else who is concerned in the affair seems to be using the most super- human exertions to “ squelch” the whole thing. So much, at all events, would appear at present to stand in my favor; and those who have seen ﬁt to daub me all over with con- temptuous epithets, will have more cause to be ashamed of them in the future than I have now. I can afford to stand having “ warped and stuffed out ” Mrs. »- Stanton, because know that Z . - “ Ever the right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done.”] “ As for “ the Woodhull ” there can be no doubt that she has belied Mrs, Paulina.Wright Davis completely. This excel- lent lady did believe, to use her own language, “ that V. C. Woodhull was goingto do a great work for woman,” and in that belief Mrs._ Davis - encouraged her by word and deed. About a year ago Mrs. Davis went to. Europe, and as late as May of 1872, she seems to have retained an affectionate re- gard for Mrs. Woodhull. It is supposed that when “the Woodhull” printed her , slips to use against those select advocates of Woman’s Rights-who wished to push her aside, Woodhull has since published a letter (thought to be gen- uine) which can only be explained by some such cause. Here it is : . My dear Victoria-—Driven to bay at last, you have turned, poor hunted child, and dealt a cruel blow on the weak instru- ments of men--such men as the editors of the Herald, Tribune, Sun, etc. Every one of the women you name has been hounded by these men, and now that it suits them they make cat’s-paws of them to hunt you. The ﬁrst time I ever saw Mrs. Phelps, Iwas told by a man that she was a woman of damaged reputation. T. W. Higginson said‘ the same thing of Mrs. Blake inia meeting of ladies in Providence. I was urged to avoid these women, but it was not for me to make war on any one "who would work for woman’s freedom. They have not stood by me in my faith in .you. But, dear child, I wish you had let them pass, and had taken hold of those men whose souls are black with crimes and who set up’ to be the censors of morality. They should be torn from their throne Of the judgment of woman’s morals, and made to shrink from daring to utter one word against any woman as long as they withhold justice from her.» Men are the chief scandal-mongers of the age: it is they who import all the vile scandals of New York here, and so make society destable. ‘ conﬁdence and honor. controversy. < And if he has as little in my bombshell, I can afford to wait I under the implication of having “ belied Mrs. Davis,” and of one of the slips was sent abroad to Mrs. Davis; for Mrs.‘ mart. God’ in his mercy pity you and give you grace, strength and wisdom to do your work aright. But do not again take hold of the ‘ cat’s-paw ;’ excoriate /the monkeys, the scandal- mongers, the base-hearted, cowardly betrayers of woman’s Give woman a fair ﬁeld of equality, and then if she is weak, wicked and mean, let her bear her share of the odium. “Ever yours, . PAULINA WRIGI{T..DAVIs. “FLORENCE, Italy, May, 1872.” This letter———which Igconsider worthy the head and heart of any woman that ever lived——commits Mrs. Davis to the cause of social fair-play in the broadest sense. . She has no fear, surely, for the “face of man ;” and, as one man, I always take off my hat to such a woman. Yet Mrs. Davis -ﬂatly contradicts Mrs. Woodhull, and declares that if she ever spoke to her of the “ Beecher-Tilton Scandal,” she relied simply on Mrs. Woodhull’s own declarations. Mrs. Stanton, again, has now said enough to showthat she considers her conversation with Mrs. Woodhull to have been warped, if nothing more, and stuﬁed out for dramatic effect. Then Theodore Tilton denies “the Woodhull”——that is, when the letter to his “ complaining friend” ﬁnds interpretation at last in the Thunderbolt. ‘ - This complaining friend is (-301. James B. Mix, a well- known journalist long connected with the Tribune--a gen- tleman who has undoubtedly read Mr. Tilton’s “true story,” and who has since rebuked him‘ severely for not. fulﬁlling his declared intention to publish it. In the Chicago Times of February 28, ‘C01. Mix has the one remarkable letter, as far as any hint of hidden ‘facts is concerned, that the Beecher-Woodhull excitement has thus far produced. The rest are either thick lamp-black or else thin whitewash. First explaining his position in connection with Mr. Tilton, Col. Mix says: I ’ ‘ , “We never expected again to put pen to paper in this matter. But since you, Theodore Tilton, stand trembling withyour written statement in your hand, we deem it an act of friendship to give you that spur which shall start you on the stern path of duty. * * * One would suppose that the Christian Church was founded with the birth of the reverend gentleman who is principally concerned, so mealy- mouthed are the blind idolators who worship at the shrine of Plymouth. * * FORYEARS THE swoBD oED_AMooLEs HAS BEEN SUSPENDED ABovE HIS PLATFORM, and yet he has never ﬂinched. One miscreant among his congregation has, ﬁguratively speaking, been shaking the ﬁnger of guilt at him for years. * PEOPLE Ask WHY HAs MB.‘ BEECHEB NOT sAID, ‘ THIS Is ALL A LIE.’ IT Is ONLY A LITTLE BAND or DEAR FRIENDS WHO KNOW or THE EFFORTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE DURING THE PAST WINTER TO sHIELD MR. BEECHER FROM THE rABAsITEs THAT HAVE SURROUNDED HIM, AND WHO Now FEEL THAT EVERY HONORABLE EFFORT HAVING AVAILED NOTHING, HE MUST MEET THE BLOW.” Col. Mix—impersonating Diogenes, out with his lantern to look for an honest man—-next addresses Mr. Beecher di- rectly: “ Why was it that you desired that your protege should read you his written statement, which he did but a few nights since at the house of a mutual friend? Why was it necessary for you to correspond with “ the Woodhull?” If she is the vile wretch they say she is; and if the letters you have from her contain anything’ but the Woman’s inmost "thoughts; anything that can, be construed into a threat; anything that will bear the construction of blackmail, why not give them‘ to the world, so that those who love you for your great talents and the good ‘you have accomplished in the world, may breathe freer? Why was it that she and you were together on the Heights, November 19, 1871, except it was that she then expected you to make your ‘new dc. parture,’ and become the high priest of that peculiar sect of which she is the champion? What mysterious inﬂuence was it that she then possessed over you, that you allowed her to dare to propose that you should-introduce her at Steinway Hall ? Was it her pure, unadulterated check, or did she know ‘ who was who ?’ - CERTAIN IT wAs THAT sHE wAs NOT DIS- :/IAYED; AND sHE NERVED YOUR PUPIL To DO THAT FROM WHICH YOU SHRANK. “Did not one of the noblet of men * open wide for you _another ﬁeld of usefulness? * * But, alas! Mammon again claimed you. * * The auctioneer was again on hand, and one by one the most conspicuous spots were secured. -* * Why was it that your sister Harriet, Sunday after Sunday, sat at your feet? Was it that another sister, more impul- sive, had threatened to mount your platform and plead your cause ? . “Come to the front and centre, Henry WardlBeecher! You are but human. * * You have a constituency outside of Plymouth Church, to which they are but a drop in the bucket. In your proper element, you can unmask the cold. blooded varlets that ﬂaunt their piety on ’Change and in the * * Society was organized on a substantial basis, and no man or woman can overthrow it. Let us have the truth though the heavens fall. Shall it be? Or must a des- perate woman be allowed an excuse, THROUGH THE 00wARD- ICE or THOSE wHo HAVE COMMUNED WITH HER, to give to the world that which may sear other hearts, and tea/r open, afresh, wounds that are almost healed?” ’ The immense suggestiveness of this letter, taken in con- nection With its Source, supplies all need of excuse for quot- ing it SO liberally. It is the only article from the Beecher- Ti1ton- circle that the Woodhull herself has deigned to no- tice. And what remarkable notice! She says: A “This is but another attempt on the part of the defense, many others of different bearing having failed, to draw our ﬁre before the turning point. But it will fail, as all others before have failed. * * We shall neither be surprised, an- noyed,nor driven into’ a showing of our hands until the right time comes. But when that time shall come, the “ Mam-i. coes,” “Brooklyns,” “Vidies”--the curs who bark at our heels, behind nom de plumes--* * these, we say, all these will have good reason to think the last trump has sounded; for we shall then tell the whole truth thotrji the heavens do 4, :,5Nk;l-7-,..'x. u r-:r -1-./.. ‘. -.._:,‘.A W3-.3‘.-_ - S- May 17, A1873. woonnurta -oLArLiIN*siwoE-EKLY. I A 1, fall, and though, WITH THE BEST, WE GO DOWN IN THE GENERAL RUIN.” ' It is this close, deadly ﬁre, and then the locking of bay- onets between Col. Mix and the Woodhull, that gives me pause over Mr. Tilton’s “true story;” this, and one thing more: from Brooklyn I am asked this question: _ “ How can Tilton deny even What you say he does? Mrs. Stanton has not been his only conﬁdant. My friend, , long ago received from him a story that did not so Spare his hearthstone. It was Woodhull’s account, or much like it.” I have greatly admired Mr. Tilton. I have thought him a. «hero, erring, perhaps, but loving, forgiving, and "abused on many sides. But was that “true story” written, after all, on purpose to be hidden, and to be sprung, by and by, as a trap, on history? B Is it another book by a Bolingbroke, who “loaded his gun,” as Dr. Johnson said, “but dared not ﬁre it, and so hired a beggarly Scotchman to pull the trigger after he was dead?” But Col. Mix, in his article, makes no scruple of describing Mr. Beecher as . * “THE MODERN ARBACES ”—- insatiate luxury masked in the idol of a god! The picture is either very careless or else very frightful. He tells ‘fArba- ces” that Mrs. Woodhull knew “ WHO WAS WHO,” and “NERVED HIS PUPIL To DO” THAT FROM WHICH HE “ SHRANK.” Mr. Tilton’s “complaining friend ” fears, too, that Mrs. Woodhull may “SEAR OTHER HEARTS, AND TEAR OPEN, AFRESH, WOUNDS THAT ARE ALMOST HEALED.” Then Mrs. Woodhull herself assures him that she shall YET “ TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH, THOUGH, THE HEAVENS DO EALL,” and though SHE “ GOES DOWN WITH THE REST IN THE GENERAL RUIN.” Very—weil; but When those heavens crack and tum- ble, WILL THE WOODHULL “ GO DOWN” IN THE ARMS OF “ARBAOES,” OR OF THE “PUPIL,” OR OE BOTH? Ihave so ' little faith in tho chastity of Plymouth Church that the two brethren may “toss up a cent” for the beneﬁt of the doubt. And now let us GLANCE OVER THE WHOLE FIELD of the Woodiiull-Beecher battle, pick up the wounded, bury the dead, AND LOOK ALL THE RESULTS STRAIGHT IN THE FACE. . As far as Mr. Beecher is concerned, the most direct, though interested witness, Mr. Tilton, affirms that he is not an adulterer, as charged ;- but that, in Spite of his eager inten- tions to become one, his virtue Was preserved by Mrs. Til- ton. ut Mr. Beecher’s method of magnetizing a sick person into Writing down lies for his temporal salvation, is itself as bad as a breach of the Seventh Commandment. It marks at once the perﬁdious conspirator. It is the old spirit of David putting Uriah in the “ fore front of the battle.” It justiﬁes every suspicion that leagues Beecher With Bowen and Com- stock in their raid on American law and the necessities of human progress. No : Plymouth Church may cling to Hen- ry Ward Beecher, asking no questions, and both may go to the devil together. But he is henceforth on the retired list of great names and honest men. “The Woodhull” has always claimed that his dead silence, as to her, isa “ masterly system of tactics”—a Waiting until public sentiment can tide up to his justiﬁcation in “ social freedom.” She, may bottle her soothing-syrup. The man has no self-sacriﬁce, much less a bit of aggressive heroism. He is not ﬁt to stand... even with her in “reform.” HE WILL ROT AWAY IN A DEAD CHURCH. * But he can easily be spared in all other connections. The Beecher family has been great in American history. Forty years ago Lyman Beecher had power to make even Wendell Phillips a Calvinist, though he prudently erccused him- self, as a shrewd Christian, from joining. Garrison and the Abolitionists, on the plea that he already had “too many irons in the ﬁre.” When the battle for ‘freedom had grown warm, and the ranks were pretty Well ﬁlled, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and Henry Ward Beecher stood vigorously up for old John Brown. Agrateful coun- _ try can iievervforget such services, The younger Mr._ Beecher, too, has made Puritanism as broad as the sons of Puritans would let him; but he has always been very careful not to step an inch ahead of assured support. Theodore Parker—the one great thinker of the recent American pulpit —once spoke of Mr. -Beeeher"s “ deep emotional nature, so devout and so humane,” and his “poetic eloquence that is akin to both the sweet-briar and the rose, and all the beauty which springs up wild amid New England hills.” No thoroughly trained scholar has ever given Mr. Beecher credit for anything more than Theodore Parker described. His mind is loose and uncertain. He has borrowed a great deal of “originality” from Emerson, mixed it with senti- ment and theology, and fed it to Plymouth Church. But a profound systematic thinker, like Kant or Hegel, would give him the lock-jaw. He islike the “recent book “Ecce Homo,” which furnished the crude average mind of the day with a new conception of Jesus, but was only apretty toy to real scholars. As an orator and actor, however, Henry Ward Beecher has few equals-; and like Butler at the bar, or Phillips on the platform, Beecher can always bring instantly to the pulpit all that is in him. His greatness is his readi- ness. But when he combines with Bowen and Comstock to save a name by endangering a nation, it is evident that he has been petted and pampered into counting himself a god. iWhen Harriet Beecher StOwe—after digging up Byron to brand “ incest” on the corpse——holds back Isabella Beecher Hooker from admitting her brother’s faults, the further usefulness of Mrs. Stowe to the world may also be ques- tioned. And when at last the author of “ Catherine Beecher’s Cook Book” demands that some defunct law shall be un- buried to imprison Woodhull without the appearance in court of a prosecuting witness, the end has come to an illus- trious line. “Asses de Bonaparte,” said France in 1814. America is just ready to say’: “Enough of the Beechers !” IN ESTIMATING THEODORE TILTON, ’ I scarcely know what to think. He has several letters from Beecher, exalting him as the most magnanimousof men and Christians. He would have earned these on the supposition that his “ true story” is not a false one, and he would have doubly earned them, certainly, on the supposition that the worse version of Woodhull has any truth at all in it. Mr. Tilton has been the most brilliant young editor in the United States,- though he, too, seems dependent on the in- spiration of the moment, rather than on any very deep cen- trebf thought. He may yet be pushed into showing that he has not become rotten before getting ripe. But his silence with Beecher, and his patience with Bowen and Comstock, ﬁll many who would like to love him with doubt and dis- trust. I ._ And how, ﬁnally, shall THE THUNDERBOLT EALL ON THE WOODHULL HERSELE ? I have never seen the dreaded ogre oflBroad street but once—a year or two ago——when I conversed with her a few minutes in a public hall. Her sister, Miss Claﬂin, I have never seen at all. But having taken a deep interest in great principles victimized through these two women; and having honestly sought nothing but truth in scrutinizing the Beecher-Tilton Scandal, this attitude has drawn to me many people, and has opened various sources of information on all sides. I know persons who admire Mrs. Woodhull, those who hate her, those who think her nature distorted, but her work necessary, and those who have watched and studied her, with the care of detectives, for both public and private purposes. ' ’ On seeing her myself, I said (in the Troy Whig of Septem- ber 25, 1871) that she struck me as a rapt idealist——“Out of her head” in the sense of “enthusiasm;” a nature “so in- tense that she might see visions of angels or devils,” and as many as St. John or Luther. “ Had she been carefully trained from childhood,” I added, “ I must think she would have been a wonderful scholar, poet and thinker. As it is, she is an abnormal growth of democratic institutions, thor- oughly sincere, partlyinsane, and ﬁtted to exaggerate great truths.” As precisely this opinion has been reﬂected back to me by several very acute minds—both men and women——I have no doubt, to-day, that it describes “the Woodhull,” in one mood, pretty closely. But I know, from facts in my possession, that she has other moods in which she loses her remarkable sweetness of voice and all touch of the heavens, to swagger like a pirate and scold like a drab. This phase of her character has been so conspicuous at times, before close judges of human nature, that they regard her as an ingrained liar and a complete quack. At one time? she sinks every vestige of egotism in the absorbed expression of ideas; and at another time _she would steal the genius of afriend to aid her in “ putting- on airs.” It seems as if she lo-ves notoriety more than any other being on earth; yet she loves her notions of duty even more than notoriety. She is ig- norant; and her strong signature in letters and on the backs of photographs, is commonly the handiwork of Col. Blood. It is probable that she never wrote, unaided and alone, any of her ‘ ‘great speeches ” or her stirring editorials—-the “ Beecher- Tilton Scandal ” being no exception. Yetshe is the inspira- tion, the vitality and the mouthpiece of her clan and “cause.” Her organ, WOODHULL & CLAELIN’S WEEKLY, has voices from the “ seventh heaven ” and the gabblings of a frog—pond. Its advertisements are gratuitous “ blinds ;” and its proprietors have lately had the kindness to publish myown circular without request or leave; yet the amazing journal is crowded with thought, and with needed informa- tion that can be got nowhere else. And to-day it stands as the test of a free press, and the possibility of a better breed of men than now make the city of New York a vast immoral" improvement on Sodom and Gomorrah. Mrs. Woodhull, in short, is like Daniel O’Connell, as judged by “Bobus Smith.” She ought to be hanged, and then have a monu- ment erected to her memory at the foot of the gallows.” COMMENTS. [Were it not for a single‘ point, I should pass without no- tice “The fall of the Thunderbolt on Woodhull herself,” and as that is the special one that—mOrc than all others—causes me to doubt the thorough honor and consistency of Clark, I will touch it ﬁrst, although in order of succession it should be last. He says: “Its proprietors have lately had the kindness to publish my circular without request or leave. Its advertisements are gratuitous blinds.” Mr. Clark must surely have forgotten himself to have made this ﬂing at “ me, to which I make hold to say, the most debauched Bohe- mian in New York would not have stooped. Even had I published his circular Without request or leave, he oﬁght, as a gentleman, to have accepted it as a journalistic “courtesy, and refrained from dragging it into this controversy. Besides, what has it to do with the question at issue? Does that have any bearing upon the truth, or falsity of the Scandal? I con- fess I cannot see that it does. My “ignorance ” may, how- ever, prevent me from seeing it. What business had Mr. Clark, to do this thing? I But it happens that I did not publish his circular without request or leave. — Mr. Clark, in a letter to me, sent a dozen of his circulars, and in the letter requested me to notice their contents. Instead, however, of writing any notice, I ordered the circular, or parts of it, published. It may barely be possible that this may have slipped his memory; but upon no other ground can I for- give so Outrageous a breach Of courtesy. ' And, pray, what have my “ other moods ” to do with the effect of “The Thunderbolt upon Woodhull ;” and what, pray, upon the truth or falsity of the Scandal, which Mr. Clark has taken speciﬁc pains to assert, “ as having honestly sought nothing but trpth, in scrutinizing the Beecher- Tilton Scandal?” Suppose Igm “ out of my head ;’3; that I am “an enthusiast;” that I see “ angels” or B“ demons;” that I “ swagger like a pirate” and “scold like a drab,” ‘What has all that-to do with arriving. at the truth of thcﬂthe detectives must have blackmailed omebody for two'mil-at , ..L _....-iv-,.--«e-~.._. ._.,..3;,. . _ A... Scandal? Can Mr. Clark inform me? Perhaps he may be cajoled intofurnishing me the facts in his

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