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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 06, no. 13 (August 30, 1873)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1982
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1873-08-30
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS I THOUGHT I um» ., UNTRAMMELED LIVES 2 BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. V 0].. VI.-—No. 'i3.——VVhole No. 143. NEW YORK, AUG. so. 1878. 1 -._.- 4 PRICE TEN CENTS. Cl‘-HE LOANER’S BANK on THE CITY on NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 N ASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,00 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOHN J. oisoo (lb SON, Bankers, N o. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. pe...
Show morePROGRESS I THOUGHT I um» ., UNTRAMMELED LIVES 2 BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. V 0].. VI.-—No. 'i3.——VVhole No. 143. NEW YORK, AUG. so. 1878. 1 -._.- 4 PRICE TEN CENTS. Cl‘-HE LOANER’S BANK on THE CITY on NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 N ASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,00 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOHN J. oisoo (lb SON, Bankers, N o. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit 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. ubj ect to 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-ﬁlheasury. ._..___ W e 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- ' sion, for cash. Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph,’ Will receive careful attention FISK & HATCH. T0 Nvrtttt. To those who wish to'REINVEST COUPONS OR DIVIDENDS, and those who wish to INCREASE THEIRINCOME 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-.203. Gold Checks for the semi-annual in- terest on the Registered Bonds are mailed to the post- oﬂice address of the owner, All marketable stocks and bonds are received in exchange for Northern Paciﬁcs ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. E-JAY COOKE & GO. A FIRST—CLASS New York Security AT A LOW PRICE. The undersigned oifer for sale the First Mortgage Seven Per Cent. Gold Bonds of. the Syracuse and Che- nango Valley Railroad, at 95 and accrued interest. This road runs from the City of. Syracuse to 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. 1 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 bysubscription 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 oﬁered live per cent. below par. The undersigned conﬁdently recommend them to all classof investors. GEORGE OPDYKE & CO., No. 25 Nassau Street. BANKING HOUSE on HENRY CLE,‘\/VS & CO., 32 'Wlal.l Street, N. Y. Circular Notes and Letters of Credit for travelers ; also Commercial Credits issued available throughout the world. 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 or 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 negotiated. CLEWS, IIABICHT an 00., 11 Old Broad St., London. BANKING & FINANCIAL. THE ST. JOSEPH AND DEN VER CITY RAIL- ROAD COMPANY ’S FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS Are being absorbed by an increasing demand for them. Secured asthey 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. Der annum. Parable semi- annually, tree of tax. Principal in thirty years. De- nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons, or Regis- tered. Price 97% an accrued interest, in currency, from February 15, 1872. Maps, Circulars, Documents and information fur- nished. _ Trustees, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York. Ca-n now he 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 & of: Bankers, 91 and 21 NASSAU STREET, Issue Letters of Credit to Travelers‘, available 11). all parts of the world through the MESSRS. DE ROTHSCIIILD AND ’.I.—HE‘IR CORRESPONDENTS. RAILROAD IRON, FOR SALE BY s. W. HOPKINS & no, '71 BROADINAY TOLEDO,;PEOItlA AND WARSAW RAILWAY, SECOND MORTGAGE CON- VERTIBLE 2/ run. CENT. CURRENCY BONDS. INTEREST WARRANTS PAYABLE OCTOBER AND APRIL, PRINCII’AI.« 1886. We oﬂ’er for sale $100,000 of the above bonds in block. By act of reorganization of the Company thesg 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 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. road crosses the entire State of Illinois and connect with the mammoth iron bridges spanning the Missy’ g sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. The income of the road for the year will not suﬂlcient to pay interest on all the bonded indebtedness and dividend on the pr-e... ferred shares. _ For terms apply to A CLARK, DODGE £2: C., one on em. Also, make telegraphic transfers of rnia, Europe and Havana. Corner Wall and Wilma Streets. WOODHULL & GLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Aug. 30, 1873. Illinois State Fair, 1870. Alabama State Fair, 1871. From Mr. Edward Hoﬁmdn, the celebrated Pianist rsvoonssons T0 DOANE, WING . ' .- 55 he Anierican Pane. FIRS T PREMIUMS. Numerous. County Fairs. ».:“.. ..-~ CUSHING.) 4 Ohio State Fair, 1871 & 1872. Texas State Fair, 1872. “ I conscientiously believe that your Piano is in every respect (1 most magniﬁcent instrument.“ ‘ From the “ Independent.” - ‘ “ The American Piano has deservedly become a very popular instrument.” PURCHASERS’ TESTIMONIALS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE Wdrrdnted Seven [7] Years. Prices Low for the Quality. Responsible Zgents wanted for unoccupied territory. In localities where agencies are not yet established, Q dzs. ,§ 4 are established, we willsell Pianos to the public at Factory Wholesale Prices. Send for circular to Broeme St, N Y. A ART Should Adorn and Bcdutify every .H0mc, The Or hails’ Rescue , P . , 7 Engraved on Steel by J . A. J. WILCOX, from the Orig- inal Paintino by Joseph John. This beautiful picture, and one of the most thrilling sentinient, lifts the vail of materiality from beholding eyes, and reveals the guardians of the Angel World. Fancy fails to picture what is here made real through the artist’s hand, and words but feebly express the re- sponses of our soul, as we look upon the boat with its hapless freight of children, beautiful and fascinating in tragic attitude and expression-—the silvery lighted angels in their descent so soft, their ﬂight of ease and grace, their countenances radiant with love so tender, combined with energy and power as they hover near with outstretched arms to same. In a boat as it lay in the swollen stream, two or- phans were playing. It was late in the day, before the storm ceased, and the clouds, llghtened of their burdens, shifted away before the wind, leaving a clear bright sky along the horizon. Unnoticed, the boat became detached fr.om its fastcnings and ﬂoated out from shore. Quickly the current carried it beyond all earthly help. Through the foaming rapids and by pre- cipitous rocks dashed the bark with its precious charge. As it neared the brink of the fearful cataract the chil- dren werc stricken with terror, and thought that death was inevitable. Suddenly there came a wondrous change in the little girl. Fright gave way to com- posure and resignation as, with a determined and re- sistless impulse that thrilled through her whole being, she grasped the rope that lay by her side, when to her surprise the boat turned, as by some unseen power, toward a quiet eddy in the stream-—a little haven among the rocks. The boy, of more tender age, and not controlled by that mysterious inﬂuence, in despair fell toward his heroic sister, his little form nearly paralyzed with fear. But means of salvation calmed the “ heart’s wild tumult ” and lighted the angry waters as the angels of rescue—they who were their parents~—came to the little voyagers on waves of undying affection; when through that love which ﬁlls alike the heart of parent and child, a power was transmitted that drew the boat aside from its impend- ing doom and lodged it iii the crevice of the rocks, and they were rescued. This Work, whether considered in its happy conception and design, or in its fine rendering in line and stipple, is a. triumph in art and ex- alted sentiment, Size of Sheet ~ - — - 24.-X30 inches.‘¥"ﬂ Engraved Surface - _~ 15}§x19}§ inches. RETAIL PR1 CE - - - $3.00. For. SALE AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AT OUR PUB- LISHING ROOMS. Those who reside at a distance can remit $3.00 and receive the Engraving securely rolled and prepaid by return mail. Canvassing Agents ﬁnd in this new work great ele- ments of popularity and sale. Agents are wanted in every county. n. n.euu,n1u e ea, V PUBLISHERS, QC School St., Boston, Mass. THE " ’“‘”t’ietoi°’’’ S. M. Cefs I NEW SEVVING MACHINE gg as Rune very ‘Easy, Runs very Fast, Rune very Still. I-IAS Aﬁ NEW SHUTTLE SUPERIOR 10 ALL OTHERS. hefies Gempetition. GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLE. Cﬂ.1’R:hlOt.b0 Se-it VyV1°0ng'» AGENTS WANTED. Address The “VICTOR” S. M. CO.. » » I ’ A 862 Broadway, N. Y. in has Gharms! PRICE nnnucnn. The ‘Best in the World. WILL LAST A LIFETIME! ssfeoc OF THE CELEBRATED NGEB SBGANS n Daily Use. The best musical talent of the country recommend these Organs. The nicest and best. More for your money, and gives better satisfaction than any other now made. They comprise the‘ Eureka, Concerto, Orchestra and Grands. ' Illustrated Catalogues sent by mail, post-paid to any address, upon application to s. SHONNGER a eo., New Haven, Conn. THE “Silver Tongue” UQ R G A N S , MANUFACTURED BY E. P. Neeclliam &: Son, 143, 145 83 147 EAST 23d ST., N. Y." 'ESTABLISIIED IN 1846. Responsible parties applying for agencies in sec- tions still unsupplied will receive prompt attention and liberal inducements. Parties residing at a dis- tance from our authorised agents may order from our factory. Send for illustrated price list. nu lllltlﬂﬂtlltlll it. MANUFACTURE THE CELEBRATED Jubilee and Temple ORGA .: 3. These Organs are unsurpassed in quality of tone, style of ﬁnish, simplicity of construction, and dura- bility. ’ ' - Also, Melodeons in various styles, and unequaled in tone. SEND non ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Address NEW HAVEN ORGAN CO., Agents Wanted. New Haven, 0 Conn. nu. J. 0. PHILLIPS, tlelnyaei and Magnetic Healer, OMRO, Wis. . Disease diagnosed at a glance by Look of Hair, or letter stating age, sex and residence. GUARANTEES SATISFACTION. Examination and Prescription, $2.00. Dr. Phillips is faithful, trustworthy and successful. ~_—J. 0. Barrett. =3 ‘ ' Dr. Phillips, Magfnetic Physician, ‘is meeting with good success.—E’. . Wilson. MaARViN=s 1 _ A The Rest. The recent test of Fire-Proof Safes by the English Government proved the superiority of, Alum Filling. No other Safes ﬁlled with Alum and Plaster-of-Paris. VN & Co., 7%! Chestnut Street, Phila. see The Beckwith egg Penetle Family Sewing Machine, ON THIRTY DAYS’ TRIAL. WITH STRENGTH AND CAPACITY EQUAL TO ANY, RE- The Cloth-plate is the size used by a $100 Machine is of Polished Plated Steel. Attachments of propor- tionate size and quality, while the entire machine has corresponding ﬁnish throughout. Braider, Embroid- erer, Guide, emmer, Gatherer, four sizes of Needles, etc., are given with every Machine. N0 TOILSOME TREAD on THE '1‘READLE._ Every Machine carefully Tested and fully Warrdntcd. ~ BECKWITH SEWING MACHINE 00., 862 Broadway, N. Y., near 17th st. and Union Square. SELF-CGNTRADECTONS OF THE BIBLE. One hundred and forty-four propositions proved affirmatively and negatively from Scripture, without comment. Mailed for 25 cents. American News 00., New York. Mrs. $. RAY, agnetie Healer, PERMANENT RESIDENCE, 181 SANDUSKY ST., - ALLE GHAN Y CITY, Pd, Will be located for a few weeks at EXAMINATIONS BY A LOCK OF HAIR SENT BY LETTER. Terms - - - ' - - - $2.00 ’ 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 Honolulu, upon MAY 22, 1 SEPT. 11, %‘si ti’ ’ 1%-8T’ %' AUG. 14,’ l DEC.’ 4,’ at Noon. For freight and passage, apply to W. H. WEBB, 53 Exchange Place. New York. PSYCHQ ETRY. Psychometric Readings for persons who send me their handwriting, oi; w 10 will call on me in person. Fee, $2. Address, 1,114 Callowhill street, Phila- delphia, Pa., by J. MURRAY SPEAR. osnonn & CHAPIN, Bankers, .No. 34. BROAD srnnnr, I STOCKS, STATE BONDS, GOLD AND FED. ERAL SECURITIES, bought and sold on Com- mission. COUNTRY BOARD. THE LONG HILL HOUSE (Near Beer-’s Mill depot, on the Housatonic Railroad), Six miles from Bridgeport, Conn. Address, ’ o. s. MIDDLEBROOK, Box 778., Bridgeport, Conn. ANNA M. MEIXSEL, ’DAVID S. CADWALLADER, MAGNETC HEALERS, 1,114 CALLOWHJLL STREET, PEHLADELPITIA. OFFICE Houns, 9to 11 A. M.,4to6r. M. PSYCHOMETRIC EXAMINATION OF DISEASE CORRECTLY MADE FROM A LOOK OF HAIR. 109 HAMILTON ST., BROOKLYN, L. I. - ‘THE ’ Western ii val, ‘ THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL & FAMILY WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE WEST. H. N. F LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor, wrrn AN Able and Practical Editorial Stop‘, AND an EFFICIENT CORPS OF SPECIAL AND VOLUN- TARY CONTRIBUTORS. TERMS: $2.50 per Year;-$2 in Clubs of Four or More. SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS TO AGENTS. A PLUCKY PUBLISHER. [From the Chicago Daily Sun, N02). 30, 1871.] “ One of the most remarkable examples of Chicago pluck and energy is given by Mr. H. N. F. Lewis, pro- prietor of the Western Rural, one -of the ablest and most widely circulated agricultural journals in the country. Mr. Lewis lost by the ﬁre one of the most complete and valuable printing and publishing estab- lishments in the West, and also his residence and household goods. Yet he comes to the surface again with unabated ardor, re-establishes himself at No. 407 West Madison street, where he has gathered new ma- terial for his business, and from which point he has already issued the ﬁrst number (since the ﬁre) of the Western Rural, the same size and in the same form as previous to the ﬁery storm. Nobody would imagine, on glancing at the neat, artistic head and well-ﬁlled pages of the Rural that anything uncomfortably warm or specially disastrous had ever happened to it. Suc- cess to Lewis and his excellent Rural. Chicago ought to feel proud of it.” ‘ “The Largest and Hundsomest Paper for Young People.” THE Young Folks’ Rural, A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF COUNTRY AND CITY. TERMS: $1.50 per Year; $1 in Clubs of Four or More. A mm or BEAUTIFUL nnnmu cnnoiuos, MOUNTED , AND VARNISHED, sum: POSTPAID AS A GIFT ro EVERY YEARLY sonscmnnn. The Young Folks’ Rural is a novelty among publi- cations for Young People—ei1tire1y a “ new idea,” and different from any other in style and character. Six- teen pages and sixty-four co1umns——the largest news- paper in Chicago.’ WHAT “THEY SAY.” [From the Chicago Evening Post] “H. N. F. Lewis, Esq., the well-known publisher of that admirable weekly, the Western Rural, is publish- ing a monthly rural and literarv Journal, under the title of the Young Folks’ Rural. Mr. Lewis is just the man to make it a ‘ big thing.’ ” [From the Letter of Cl Western Mother.] “ The Young Folks’ Rural is just what our dear children need. Altogether it is a n-sblecnterprise, and will do an untold amount of good. It is the ‘ parents‘ assistant,’ and all thinking parents will join me in thanking. you. ” . [From a School Teacher] . “ I am a teacher, and take the paper for the benefit and amusement of my pupils. Eyes are brighter and lessons better learned when the Young Folks’ Rural makes its appearance. SPECIMEN NZLYBERS SEN T FREE. Address, H. N. F. LEWIS, Publisher, Chicago, Ill. Both Western Rural and Young Folks’ Rural furnished for One Year for $3.00. DB. BAKEBS APPOINTMENTS non 1873. ‘ Elgin, Il1., 1st and 2d; Rockford, Ill.,'3d, 4th, 5th and 6th; Beloit, Wis., 7th, 8th and 9th; Madison, Wis., 11th and 12th; Watertown, W1s., 18th, 14th and 15th; Fond Du Lac, 16th and 17th; Oshkosh, 18th, 19th and 520th; Ripon, 21st and 22d; Whitewater, 24th and 25th; Waukesha, 26th and 27th; Chicago, Matteson House, 28th, 29th,‘ 30th and 31st of each month during the year. Oﬁices, principal hotcls“in each city. Chronic complaints incident to both sexes exclusively and suc- cessfully treated. ENCOMIUMS FROM THE PRESS. The Western Ruralspeaks of Dr. Dake as one ofthe most successful physicians in the United States. DR. DAKE.———Tha.t this scientiﬁc ph sician has no equal in the West thousands will rm.—Journal, Beloit, W28. - Live, energetic,_liberal men, adverti::-ﬁe. 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 West.-—Lockford Gazette. Dumont, C. 1_)ake,_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. JOSHUA M. HOLT, Manufacturer and Proprietor r. Heyts tiegiieiie Pein cue,» NI) Ho1t’s Vegetable Liver Tonic. MILFORD, N. H. Aug. 30, 1873. / \ . W The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices: a The Principles of Government, by Victoria C. Wood- hull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE. 1. Go to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. 4. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your ﬁelds, which is kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. A Gen. Ep. James v. 1-4. THE INTERNATIONAL WORKINGMEN’S ASSO- CIATION. MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FEDERAL COUNCIL. On Sunday, the 10th inst., this Council met at 242 Spring street, the old place of meeting at No.129, of historic renown, having recently been destroyed by ﬁre. There was a large attendance of members, and the business was of an un- usually interesting character. It was reported that Citizens Madox and Kinget had ap- plied to the Commissioners of Public Parks, armed with a letter of recommendation from the Mayor of the city, for permission to address the people in the several parks of the city on Sunday evenings, and that while the former had been granted that right the latter had been denied it, un- less he pledged himself to say nothing of religion, or of politics, or of the International (beginning to be a bugbear in a country where nationalism is utterly unknown, if one be only a citizen, Which any person of mature age may be). This report naturally provoked the indignation of the members present, especially of those “native and to the manor born.” For whatever may be thought of the ex- pediency of inaugurating open-air meetings on Sunday in the public parks, the right to do so is guaranteed by the fundamental law of the land, and sanctioned by immemorial custom. Perhaps the Commissioners of Public Parks will soon dis- cover that they have made a mistake. Our political Con- stitution not only secures the right of all citizens to “ peace- ably assemble and petition for a redress of grievances,” but it also declares the right of all citizens “to bear arms’? in defense of that or any other right, invaded by those who should be the custodians and administrators of law. Let those “ who sow to the wind ” beware lest they “ reap the whirlwind.” By just such or similar proceedings the con- stituted authorities of other countries have compelled secret organizations of the people, which, assuming revolutionary proportions, overturned the governments which those au- thorities professed to represent, albeit they may have put nothing better in place of those that they overthrew, for the reconstitution or transformation of society is a growth, and cannot be made to order. True, it is a part of the duty of the constituted authorities to preserve the peace, but this should be done by dispersing rioters, not peaceable citizens in the exercise of their rights. Even at this meeting of the Council a proposition was made to authorize the formation of secret sections of the Association, acting independently, which was. however, after _a long discussion, laid upon the table, mainly upon the ground that the Commissioners of Public Parks had ex- ceeded their authority, and that whenever the people were so. disposed they could apply an effectual remedy. Let not the writer hereof be misunderstood. The genius of the International Worki-ngmen’s Association is opposed to anything like conspiracy, or that savors of secrecy. A people whose avowed mission it is to preach the gospel of the eman- cipation of labor to every human creature, cannot well begin the work by “ roping in” a limited number within a certain “ring,” whose rules of government have already been estab- lished by the “ring-masters.” Avulgar illustration, perhaps, but quite expressive! In a very different way the work is really executed. When the people have, by much agitation, discus- sion and schooling, the essential character of which is publi- city, arrived at a settled conviction, the whole body moves at once toward the desired goal and selects its own agents for the accomplishment of its purpose, regardless of the claims of self—constituted leadership of any description, nor will, nor ought any people permit themselves knowingly to be the instruments of a concealed leader- ship. The Papacy in its palmiest days under the Holy In- quisition is an illustration of what must be the consequences. . Besides, there are no means of securing secrecy in a political or revolutionary movement, but by an organized despotism . or the assassin’s knife. These, if not the weapons of knaves, are certainly not the weapons that brave men would choose. And even these means cannot be guaranteed. Really true men will keep secret whatever is necessary, bound by no other obligation but their word of honor, while the peculiar characteristic of falsehood is treachery. The experience of WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. the writer has produced in his own mind a conviction that the time of most secret societies is mainly occupied with the trial of alleged traitors, to the neglect of their legitimate business. And a very little thing, the slightest impeach- ment of the infaliibility of the “ grand” monkey or some other grand spy and informer, since being founded upon dis- trust and suspicion instead of conﬁdence and faith, sueh ofﬁcers are necessary, suffices to constitute the treason. Notwithstanding. where free meetings are prohibited, and there is no free press tolerated, private meetings and subter- ranean presses are the only available resources of the op-_ pressed, which if the “powers that be” do not heed prelim- inary warnings, the people will ﬂy to as to their last refuge, and speedily emerging from thence, overwhelm their in- vaders in the midst of fancied security. Citizen J. Osborne Ward then read the translation of an address received from Spanish Internationalists, which is hereunto appended: And just here let the writer say that the Spanish Federa- tion is among the most devoted, faithful and efficient. Atro- cities have been attributed to some of its members at Alcoy, in the existing Spanish difficulties, which the event will prove have no foundation except in the imagination of “penny-a-liners” that committed them to print. A personal acquaintance, made at the Hague Congress, with the dele- gates of the Spanish Council, satisﬁes the writer that they at least cannot be guilty of anything dishonorable or cruel. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKINGMEN. THE COUNCIL OF THE UNITED PROPAGANDISTS, TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS KINDRED REGIONAL SECTIONS OF SPAIN, SEND GREETING: Compam'0'ns—-The important progressive growth which the working classes of the world are accomplishing in these days, necessitating more and more the expansion of our bonds of fraternity, causes us to direct to all the regional federations of the world our declaration, that this Council desires to sympathise and work with all constituentsections and Trade "Unions of the paper makers, printers, book bind- ers and rulers, lithographers, engravers on metal, newspaper and book-sellers, writers, die-sinkers, and others who gain a living by their labor and thought, in their respective coun- tries, and we are disposed to extend to them all our ties of solidarity, that we may arrive at the establishment of an universal federation—the basis of our social and economical emancipation. Great indeed will be our satisfaction on the day when we shall see this important step realized; for it will be the pre- lude to the overthrow of all unjust institutions and arbi- trary powers which, sustained .by our shoulders, have through all time contributed to our ruin and, what is still more cruel, our destruction as a common race by maintain- ing ever alive the baleful idea of nationality and the hatred of races. We should fall short of our duty if we did not protest against such absurdities, nor should we effect these desired mutual relations unless we demonstrated by practical ac- tions that the workingmen of the world consider themselves brothers, and are disposed to mutually support each other, and to combine to chase out every idea that tends more or less directly to divide us. We have learned of late to com- prehend the great value to us of the idea of fraternity. Satisﬁed as we are that our brothers of all lands are struggling for the advent of justice, and understanding that their economical situation is identical with our own, we, the Spanish working-people of the above—mentioned trades and callings, invite all our brothers of other countries to accept our fraternal embrace; and we offer to share with them the heroic task of emancipators, however difficult, since, like themselves, we ardently desire that justice may be an accomplished fact throughout the world. Who can refuse to embrace so digniﬁed an enterprise? And you, workingmen of Belgium, Italy, Germany, England, America and all who sustain with such heroism thehumanitarian principles of emancipation. will you not with fervency ac- cept our fraternal salutation and call? , We, like yourselves, desire that the end shall come of the iniquitous control of man by man; and, like yourselves, we desire to struggle out of the disgraceful situation in which we are fettered to-day. As you, so also we, would rid the world of every privilege not common; for, like you, we love justice; like you, we hate division of classes, detest the principle of authority, and condemn every religious sect. All of these have the effect to keep mankind in the brute state. We repudiate the "principle of accomplishing any- thing with duties alone. We desire rights. We will not see our children and brothers dying of hunger while a privileged few are despoiling and reveling upon the products of our labor. “We desire, like yourselves, universal peace, based upon the genuine harmony that emanates from the percep- tion that every one has when the products of his labor are enjoyed integrally. We desire all this that-it may result, through our organization, in the abrogation of every species of antagonism, and the establishment of those felicitous conditions which shall render_ the existence of man no longer cruel and desperate, as is the case to-day, but tran- quil and virtuous forever. »We desire to see humanity con- verted into an universal Family, and for this we gladly seize an opportunity to participate in correspondences with you in the heated enterprise of social transformation, and you should gladly extend to us the same, if you can count upon your Spanish friends; ‘and as to us, We assure Y011 1311311 We wait impatiently your agreeable answers, assured that you cannot remain indifferent to our desires. Brothers, long live the International Association of Vv’ork- ingmen! Down with the exploiture of man by man! Live the Universal Brotherhood! Receive the fraternal embrace from your friends, the Span- ish workingmen of the branches indicated, and let us mu- tually long for justice, anarchy and collectivism. POLICURPO CASTRO, General Secretary. D5 ‘- SPIRITUALISTIC. SPEECH OF MRS. AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL BE- FORE THE VINELAND CONVENTION. THE RECOGNITION on THE HUMAN. It is greatly to my composure and advantage to-day, that I speak from a platform which extends a magnanimous cour- tesy and freedom of utterance to all who would address you; a platform admitting a more absolute liberty of expression than is perhaps presented by any other in the worldi And it is because of this magnanimity that I have been unusu- ally desirous to select a palatable and edifying theme for my brief discourse to you this morning; for I am aware that free-, dom in every department, is not incompatible with selectness and deﬁnite choice. So when I accepted your President’s invitation to address this convention, I at once found my- self ina dilemma; the various reforms of the day had each a leader and advocate here to present their necessities and claims; and I had _no faith that by following their direction of thought, I could improve upon their efforts. By so doing ‘Icould accomplish but little good, and might do positive harm. I could not, like some of your speakers, rely upon an inspiration apart from my own intelligence and individual- ity, which should guide and construct each successive utter- ance; because for some good reason which I cannot hope to divine, no angel unseals my brain and sense to the invisible and celestial with which some of you hold daily commerce, that world which envelopes and surrounds me, but through which I am doomed to walk, deaf, blind and hungry. I have therefore simply my own humanity to rely upon in the presentation of my ideas this morning, and your humanity to trust in, believing that the sympathy within you will hold you to a tender care for the infant weakness of my thought, that you will give it in your hearts a comfortable and cheer- ing nook, where as a part of your own life it shall develop into mature strength and perfectness. A But of what shall I discourse on this Sabbath summer morning to an audience like this? Of God, of Heaven, of Immortality? No! Strange fact! These themes that have apparently lain so close to the heart and consciousness of man, that have formed the foundations of the world’s sub- lime faiths, that have stimulated the imagination of man until it ﬂowered into all forms of art, and have developed the grandest and sweetest phases of human character, in the interest of which nations have risen and fallen like "mushrooms in the path of their progress, for which human life and human hearts have been given as grapes to the wine- press; these themes the scul of all ancient passion, the music of the past with which the present still vibrates-—is it pos- sible that in all this world an audience can be collected to whom these themes—God, Heaven and Immortality-will not be the paramount consideration, desire and need? Yes! And if there are men and women who do not consider these subjects of paramount interest, is it possible there are those who are conscientiously and religiously indiﬁerent to them? Yes! and, still more astounding fact, there are good and earnest men and women to whom these themes are ab- solutely distasteful and offensive, as only productive, at our present point of human history, of weakness and ineﬁiciency —the great impediment in the onward march of the race. And not only can one audience in all the world be found with these astonishing attitudes of thought and negations of belief, but every civilized nation furnishes them-every State; and there is no town so small that you will not ﬁnd a disciple there. I do "not pronounce upon the truth or error involved in this astonishing fact; to declare and prove its existence, to deﬁne its tendencies, to announce its effect up- on future character, and show how we must of necessity ap- propriate it, is my only purpose. ' And ﬁrst, we might well suppose that individuals thus alienated from those ideas which formed the moral rootage of the past, must of necessity be "exceptional in nature; that they could hold but little in common, either in head or . heart, with the grand and reverent humanity which has pre- ceded them. But an acquaintance with these persons always reveals our mistake; and we ﬁnd that the great difference is not a difference of human nature, of human sentiments or heart impulses, but in directing these sentiments and im- pulses to different aims and objects. Love and reverence and purity and integrity, and the enthusiasm which con- quers the world, are as fresh and vital with these persons as they have ever been in the past. V A century ago, it is not probable such an assembly of thinkers and believers as this convention presents could have found a place in which to hold their meetings in peace and security; much less would they have expected to re- ceive from those who held to the ancient theories, that cour- tesy and respectful hearing which marks our experience to- day. And this change in the attitude of society toward the sincere heretic is very signiﬁcant indeed. It testiﬁes that the change which hasrendered old themes and theories dis- tasteful to you, is really leavening, to a greater or less de- gree, the majority to which you seemingly stand opposed. The larger portion of all classes of religionists are beginning to estimate a man, not by what he believes, but by what he is and does. A reformation, silent and permeating, yet dif- fusive and all—embracing as the dawn light that steals over our beautiful land of vines, is working at the heart of Christendom. And since this reformation consists in an ever-decreasing pretension to, a knowledge of a personal God, and an ever-increasing estimate of the power and sacredness of human nature, it may be appropriately styled the “ Recognition of the Human.” . Wherever it becomes deﬁnite it reveals and affirms an un wavering faith in the possibilities of human nature,‘ an abiding conﬁdence in its integrity, a perfect trust that it holds within itself a germinal power sufficient to evolve its own grand destiny. This great change was in the beginning doubt, and then denial—doubt and denial of the existence of a personal, intelligent Creator, and of the exceptional divinity and supernaturalism of aJesus. The outcome of this phase of the reform is so varied and extensive it can scarcely be speciﬁed-—Liberalism, in all its different shades 4: VVOODHULL dz ULAl!‘LIN’S VVEEKLY.‘ Aug. 30, 1873. and degrees: Unitarianism, Theism, Atheism and Inﬁdelity. But progressing to a still more deﬁnite form, it has at length developed two distinct, positive phases. The one phase embraces a class of individuals who believe that all the re- ligious theories of the past and present, all the moral ideals of human history, have been and are evolved from human nature itself; are adapted in all their variety to our different stages of intellectual and spiritual development; are neces- sary steps in the forward march of the race, and, whether romance or reality, are valid for beneﬁcial results. And I cannot refrain from here declaring how cordially I welcome and how heartily I rejoice in this phase of belief in human nature. For this is_Free Religion in spirit and in truth. Does any one here say this is a wishy—washy belief and of no utility? Let him never say it again, since it is the only form of belief that positively annihilates from its ranks the demon of prejudice, and enthrones in its stead the spirit of justice. It is no milk-and-water faith, but a benign philosophy, in whose sweetness and strength all sincere worship may ﬁnd a home, and whoever ignores it should never style himself Liberalist. The second deﬁnite phase of this great reform embraces a class of persons who profoundly believe that the old faiths and theologies are productive of great evil; that they divert human effort from its normal aim, rendering human char- acter unpractical and unscientiﬁc, as holding it in the de- pendent state of childhood, and greatly, perhaps wholly, retarding that mature state in which self-analysis and self- knowledge are possible. These persons conceive no ideals of hope or faith, and look for no word of authority, outside the limits of Humanity. The Gods and ghosts of the past and present are so many attitudes of evil and error, divert- in g the eyes of Humanity from the beatiﬁc vision of its own Supreme Godliness, hindering human hands from performing a noble work for human necessities, and directing human thought and motive into new channels of selﬁshness. This class of believers are not to be lightly estimated. Girt about with the impregnable armor of science, they are the grand aggressive warriors on all forms of superstition, whether found in the front ranks of Orthodoxy or lurking subtilly in Unitarianism and Spiritualism—warriors that grant no quarter and ask none. Fired with a passionate ardorifor the perfection of human nature, self-elected knights to pro- tect and develop its possibilities, asking and knowing no other object of adoration, they have appropriately styled their worship the “ Religion of Humanity.” Need I say that I extend a hearty and sincere welcome to these strong hands, these master builders, preparing a secure foundation for this old earth’s millennium ? * But the reform goes on apart from these two distinct phases——Free Religion and the Religion of Humanity. It lies indeﬁnitely all about us. In it our civilization lives, moves and has its being. In its atmosphere Orthodoxy is both transformed and transﬁgured. The incomprehensible dogmas of the old belief are giving place in the pulpit to practical and scientiﬁc discourses or beautiful appeals to the emotional and moral nature. You may never suppose, and in justice no longer depict, modern orthodoxy as that hideous deformity which distorted the past. It is not three months since I heard an orthodox minister declare from the pulpit that the inspiration of the Scriptures was no other than. the inspiration which always has been and now is in the world, directing and guiding the thoughts and actions of men. And there was but one word in the whole discourse to distinguish it from modern Liberalism. With that ex- ception the sermon was a ﬁne expression of scientiﬁc and rationalistic ideas. But the melting process goes on. Uni- tarianism, fearing it may become unable to deﬁne its limits, makes difficult attempts to brighten and keep fresh the lines of demarkation; and who rejoices in this difficulty more than myself, as evidence, of the combining tendency of this great inﬂuence? Where is the theological surveyor acute enough to deﬁne the line where modern orthodoxy melts into Liberalism, or trace the shade where Radicalism commences ? , - And is Spiritualism outside this great work that has stolen such a march on us? Nay, it was from the beginning born into it. The various reforms represented upon this platform are indubitable proof that practically the paramount aim of Spiritualism is the amelioration of human needs and con- ditions, while the so-called Manifestations, whatever be their origin‘, are simply the human out-humanized. The voice, the touch and the vision are not the winged seraphim vailing the dread beauty of their faces, but it is the old lost love that we left‘, in the arms of Death, and whose going made the world desolate. The same, only renewed and baptized into a humanity that is forever young. It is this tendency which is to be the true Savior of Spiritualism, saving it we trust from that other worldliness in which other religions have become so deeply and sadly engulfed. But this great reform, this Recognition of the Human, is by no means conﬁned to the theological or religious phase of thought and action; it invades political, socialistic and educa- tional ﬁelds. Entering the realm of politics, it aﬁ'irms the equality of the sexes, andlike the ﬂaming sword of the Paradi- sal angel, it turns each way to ward God, Christ and the Bible from the Constitution of the United States. And what is our country to-day but the one true representative among the nations of the Recognition of the Human, and her govern- ment the Religion of Humanity wrought into statute? Sadly imperfect, to be sure, but still in the direction of this ideal. . Again, this reform, irrepressible and never to be balked, crops out in all the grotesque forms of socialism, deifying alike every sentiment of human nature, allowing equal sovereignty to every impulse and attraction of head or heart, on the ground of its naturalness, holding that every senti- ment and principle of our being if left free to its own law, will work itself clear of vice and error. And profoundly as I differ at present from Woodhullism in some of its promi- * If my very dear friend will allow, did she forget to provide for me and the thousands who believe in no Religion, but reject all as supersti- tion? J. T. nent phases, yet I do recognize it as the inevitable outcome of an injustice that has thickened the ages-—an injustice that stood in the pathway of this coming Christ, this Recognition of the Human. . And what is Mrs. Woodhull to-day but the incarnation of the indignation and agony of worn-out wives and mothers——— a cry and a burden that have been gathering through all the world’s past history, and now at last burst into expression? Deformed and uncomely as this expression may be to some of us, yet it is ﬁlled with pathos to all who remember its cause, and had she not spoken,’ or some one else as strong, dumb nature under our feet would have shuddered with the burden. But we hope, we believe, that some perfect ﬂower shall blossom out of all this mold and darkness yet. Had one- tenth of the time which man has devoted to worship been would now have been as Gods upon earth, creators of a human Providence. Yet how pathetic through the long, long past that reverent attitude of humanity, with lonely eyes forever searching for the Adorable! But the earnest gaze has low- ered at last, until humanity begins to study the beauty of its own complexion, the glory of its own countenance. Satis- factory as this gaze may be, yet there is something dreadful in it, for not yet can one-half of humanity look the other half in the face with eyes clean and clear with justice and hon- esty. ’ g ’ Extending our observation, we ﬁnd that the inﬂuence of which we are speaking has permeated all the modiﬁcations of art. However idealized, the sentiment expressed in the con- ception is strictly human. Whatever is less than this fails to attract, and soon becomes obsolete. Poetry, the founda- tion of all art, in the brain of Mrs. Browning becomes human lightning, electrifying a world; while Bret Harte, sitting by the Western sea, braids the rough dialect of the rude miner into a song of singular pathos, and immortalizes the Heathen Chinee. And Musicmthat most universal phase of art—is most ac- ceptable and popular when it expresses a human emotion in clearly-pronounced language, with feeling which modulates the tone. And I rejoice in the hope that the inﬂuence which is thus modifying art will, in the process of time, rationalize fashion in all departments, and relieve us from those ab- surdities of style and mannerism to which every soul of us at present is more or less subject. But you may say that the works of ancient artwere more or less representations of the human. True, but it was hu- manity in bad taste——not ﬁnely and wholly human, but par- tially and grotesquely so. I once examined, with some friends, the Jarvis collection of ancient paintings in the Art Gallery at New Haven. My attention was riveted by a pic- ture representing a scene in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve and God occupied the foreground. Now, all my life my conception of God had been so transcendental and undeﬁna- ble——so utterly inexpressible——that one glance at this ﬁgure gave me a sudden shock of distress. God, with along, red cloak on, and a crown on His head, giving off the orders to Adam, who stands before Him. Eve, upon the ground be- hind, seems just struggling into consciousness; and had God been pointing His thumb over His left shoulder at her the "while He extended a warning ﬁnger at Adam, the absurdity of the artist’s conception would have been so complete as to have yielded some satisfaction. As it was, even the incom- pleteness, of its absurdity was a pain to me, and I went into an outer room and stood by a beautiful statueof Ruth the Gleaner until my friends had ﬁnished their examination of the collection. Great would.be the temerity of the modern artist who should venture on a full-length representation of the Inﬁnite; and we cannot fail to perceive a great modiﬁ- cation in art when we remember that with many at present an angel’s wings are becoming objectionable. But as the “Recognition of the Human” seems to have been the companion of progress in all departments of our civilization, so I am inclined to believe it the necessary pre- lude of moral greatness in the individual. We read of one who, nearly nineteen centuries ago, wrestled forty days and nights with this recognition of the powers of his own na- ture; and when he had accepted the recognition he imme- diately began to preach, saying, “the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” And this is the enthusiasm which ﬁres and exalts every individual once favored with a vision of the possibili- ties of his own being, whether we name that vision God or man, divinity or humanity: it is all the same; all inclosed within the limits of this complex organism—blood, muscle, bone, brain, heart, and transcendent thought. Yet,why do we who possess an unwavering conﬁdence iii the powers that be, an absolutegtrust in the workings of the Uni- verse-—why do we stand before the march of this great reform with half-bated breath watching and waiting for results ? Ah, we tremble for the existence of much that has been beauty and goodness to us in the past. How will this great change,this new perception, affect human character! What will become of trust and reverence ‘and humility and gratefulness——will theynot all be lost? When Psyche first discovered the beauty of her invisible husband, he lifted his glorious wings and ﬂed, leaving her to mourn the rashness and curiosity that led to the discovery; and will not humanity, discovering its own divinity, lose that to which it has been wedded and go mourning the recovery of its lost godliness? It is well to ponder this question. Yet after long consideration I do not apprehend from this change the danger which at ﬁrst seems imminent. The “ Religion of Humanity” is an enthusiasm nearly allied to patriotism, developing heroism and exalting duty, yet is it thoroughly relieved of what may be termed “maudlin sentiment.” It believes in killing, that is, it will unhesitatingly destroy and annihilate whatever is likely to retard human, progress or prolong the period of the world’s imperfection. Its creed is, the survival of the ﬁttest, and no God that is all and in all will prevent the husbandman from destroying the thrip and the out-worm or stay the house- wife from experimenting on the speedy destruction of the red ant. ' Duty to the Supreme Humanity, the Perfection that is to be, demands an extermination of all discomforts and de- formities. Yet by noﬁmeans shall mercy or reverence be extin— 1 given to ameliorating the condition of woman, her children- guished in the human breast. Looking downward through . all grades of organisms, animate "and inanimate, man will forever discover traces of his own being, laying him under bonds of respectful relationship to all things. Little danger Ithink that man will walk the earth in an arrogant self- worship, when Science proclaims the monkey his progenitor, and one of our learned Professors already announces the discovery of the nervous system of the plant. And the ra- tional effect of all this upon man’s character will be a sympa- thy for all that is below him in the scale of being, kindness to animals and aputting himself in their place——the golden rule organized into an omnipotent common sense. The’ organiza- tion for the protection of animals in the city of Boston is sufficient evidence that man recognizes in these dumb creatures a disposition and feeling not unlike his own na- ture, which lays claim to his sympathy and demands his pro- tection, and establishes a relationship which he can no longer ignore. Thus we perceive that this “Recognition” of which I dis- course to-day establishes a broader, more universal, more positive basis of justice than has ever been established be- fore. And need I say, Can we estimate what this truer, broader justice shall ultimately do for woman; how it must inevitably insure to her all that belonged to her from the beginning; how, in her purity and completeness, she shall win from man that true adoration which is her heart’s necessity; how he, magnanimous and protecting, shall be- come all her fancy painted him? No longer shall her ideal be driven into exile, always seeking refuge in a world beyond the grave, but romance shall be reality in the days that are coming, and marriage shall be sacrament when this old world is righted! There is little doubt that this great reform is modifying our whole educational system. ﬁxing it upon a thoroughly practical and scientiﬁc basis, and directing the attention of the young mind to the realm of positive fact and phenomena. And it seems to me this may prove an incalculable blessing to the future. Not denying or ignoring, but rather reposing in that inscrutable mystery which underlies the order of the Universe,* man will concentrate his attention upon thor- oughly understanding his environments, and making the xnostand the best of them. Finding himself here without his own previous knowledge or consent, ‘what better or wiser thing can he do than to go earnestly about his own work—the work of perfecting here upon earth human life and human destiny? Buckle affirms that the advancement of civilization is an intellectual not a moral progress; that it is knowledge alone which one age bequeathes to another; but the education of the future will supplement this fact by proving that the world’s progress consists in knowledge becoming moralized and morality intellectualized. They must appropriate one another. ’Tis a union which admits of no divorce. And this process of education has already begun at the mother’s knee. “Mamma,” my boy says to me, “ shall I kill these big ﬂies on the window 1?” “Yes,” I reply, “kill them at once, but do not torment them and make them suffer longer than necessary. I wish we did not need to kill them, but we do, for they render my house uncomfortable and un- clean, and wake my boy from his morning nap. So I’ll give you a lump of sugar for every big ﬂy you’ll kill in the spring, for if we allow it to live it will become the parent of a million others before the summer is out. But do not hurt that little butterﬂy, for it is beautiful, you see, and I do not_ know that it does any harm. Some one said that it eats the seeds of the pansies; and you may observe if it does. But it is as bright and beautiful as the ﬂower itself; and a ﬂying ﬂower is of more consequence than one that must always stay in one place.” And this is the basis of that education which shall render man the conqueror Of Circumstance, and . clean and prepare the world for inﬁnite years of enjoy- ment. In concluding this somewhat desultory discourse, let me say to you one and all, that this great reform is upon us, and we cannot elude 1t. It came in an hour we thought not, and 3,11 Christendom is swept onward in its arms. Let each in- dividual appropriate it in accordance with his highest and deepest convictions. O Theologian, forget not that ‘the Great Goodness, whether divine or human, is best gloriﬁed by our-‘loving and serving the human. Remember Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest. 0 Priest, Sage and Philos- opher, bring thy gift to this altar! 0 Mother, bend with wiser fondness over the babe on thy knee, perfecting day by day with inﬁnite patience, this little one, this rare incar- nation of all that is glorious and beautiful in nature, for it is thy holy gift to the future! 0 Poet, Seer and Scholar, drink fresh inspiration from this life-current forever ﬂow- ing and forever new; and O,wondrous woman-heart, that‘ from long weariness and waiting creeps at last, sick with disappointment, to the ‘bosom of an inﬁnite God, look up, for thy redemption draweth nigh, and Man, ‘with eyes all eloquent in their search for the Adorable-—lo, he is here, even at the door! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! And 0 great strength and mystery of Nature, in whom we live, move and have our being, let us never forget‘ that thy crowning work is Man, and let us never fail to bring the ﬁrst fruits of every worthy effort to the temple of this new Religion, as the conscientious acknowledgment of our Recognition of the Human. Mrs. Bristol closed with the following original poem: My path, that runneth low and small With vexing care and petty strife, Is narrowed; yet some pictures fall Into my life. So heavenly rich, so perfect fair. I know no more my poor estate, . Bu.t walk the hills of upper air With all the great. Upon the breezy porch I staid To look and listen, yestermorn, >:= But to those of us who have no Religion, there is no such mystery. J. T. Aug. 30, 1873. 4 WOODHULL & cLArLIn*s WEEKLY. s at 5 The southern breezes softly played Among the corn. And all the glossy woodland shook As with a tremble of delight; Andjilies bowed above the brook Their faces white. " And white the winged cloud above, And white the clover ﬁeld below; And wondrous twitterings of love From throats of snow. A web of beaded silver hung Upon the wild-fern’s tiny plumes, And burnished wings ﬂashed in among The fuchsia blooms. And every sound of earth or air Lapsed into sweetness, soft and clear;—— A subtile blending, ricl1 and rare, That charmed the car. How lightly pulsed my very blood! My being bathed in Beauty‘s sea! The tide was up, and all the ﬂood Surged over me. And in my sp1rit’s ecstasy The barriers of sense and sin Seemed overborne—so heavenly high The tide rushed in! “ Oh would it might for once he found”— My heart in whisperings began, “ This perfectness in sight and sound, Sublimed in MAN.” Then suddenly I turned to look! ’l‘he Universal car had heard My inward murmurin gs, and took Me at my word. For there before the oaken gate, Upon his proud, impatient steed, He sat-a man of {urposc great, And daring deed. The windls caressing ﬁngers caught 1 The tossing plumage of hi.s hair; How heavenly rich the picture wrought! How perfect fair! And passing o’er my weak surprise, And bending with a knightly grace, He dropt the star-light of his eyes Into my face. And while I faintly faltercd down, He gently soothe-,1 my foolish fear, And, smiling on my rustic gown, Spake tender cheer. 0 very softly ﬂowed the tones Of melting music from his lips, As sweet, as when through mossy stones A brooklet slips. Yet, like an echo from a star, A grandeur deiﬁed the strain; Like thunder, blending faint and far With dropping rain. And graciously, and gently still, He took my trembling ﬁngers then; He—-the invincible of will; The man of men-— VV ho dares in every hour to throw Full challenge in Oppression’s face, That our America may grow To whiter grace. Was not my poor life gloriﬁed? For I had touched as true a hand As ever smote tyrannic pride On sea or land. And all so brieﬂy as it passed— The morning and the mceting——yet A halo in my life is cast, A picture set. And never more my heart will pray, “ Oh would it might for once be found I” But joyfully to Nature say, “ Thy work is crowned!” THE VINELAND CONVENTION. To VICTORIA C. WOODHULL: Respected M0tclam—-Although a very correct report and an able editorial have already appeared in your columns on the above Convention, I feel it to be a duty to ask a further no- tice of what, in its ultimate results, I and many others who were present at it believe will prove to be the most import- ant meeting of the present era. This is not predicated upon its numbers, for these probably rarely exceeded a thousand human beings, nor from the wealth of the individuals composing it, for in beautiful Vine- land there is as yet neither Wealth nor its inevitable comple- ment-,—pove'rty, but from the zeal which animated it from the beginning to the conclusion. Passing over the morning session, the real work of the Convention commenced with the speech of Victoria C. Woodhull on the “Scarecrows of Social Freedom,” which was ably seconded by that of Antony Higgins, of Jersey City. These put life into the meeting, and when the Con- vention met in Plum-street Hall the next morning, all felt prepared and ready for the great work before them. It is not too much to say that all knew that they were engaged in a mighty effort for the good of humanity, which was deg. tined to supersede in importance all that had ever gone be- ‘ fore it. Each Woman and each man, like Milton’s hero, re- cognizing one another as he recognized his followers: “ Their visages and stature as of Gods, Their number-—last he sums.” This feeling was heightened by the forcible eloquence of Laura Cuppy Smith, who kept back no part of the price, but told the whole truth, and withheld not from her hearers the dangers of attempting to overturn the corruptions of the age, and the difﬁculty of remodeling the social order of the civilized world. Her words fell on ready hands and willing hearts. This was proved by the burst of cheers that followed her noble peroration, “If you, Spiritualists, are afraid to take hold of this cause, we are deputed by the angel world to carry forward this work, and, by Heaven, our voices shall give forth no uncertain sound.” ‘ But the highest point, the real extasy and agony of the Convention was reached in the afternoon of Saturday, when Mrs. Stearns gave in her very sad experience of the evils of the present marriage system, followed by several other women. It was then that the full force of the movement was felt. All saw the pertinence of the remark of Antony Higgins that “Christianity and Spiritualism had_ met in deadly conﬂict, and one or the other must go to the wall.” Like the ancient pythonesses of the Greeks, timid women, one after another, stepped upon the platform and related their dire experiences of married life in all the eloquence‘ of woe. The feelings of the audience at times were too full for utterance; and when Mrs. Woodhull, with Col. Blood stand- ing by her side, declared, “This is my lover ; but whenI cease to love him I will leave him, though I trust that will never be,” the inspiration reached its culmination. The six grand resolutions on the subject of social reform were then put and carried in a‘ storm of applause, nemine contradt'cente. No one who witnessed the scene can ever forget it. It was ﬁtting that, on the Sunday following, the address of Mrs. Augusta Cooper Bristol should follow. It was all music and harmony, like a bright morning after a thunder-shower. Close 'and deep in its reasoning, carefully polished in its verbiage, the crowd drank it in with delight. , The graceful and eloquent orator appeared to hold her audience at her will. It seemed a foretaste of what would follow the social revolution planned on the day previous. In the afternoon Mr. Proctor opened by singing the grand old Marseillaise hymn and was followed by Mr. Campbell who treated of the various reforms of the age, and their afﬁnity with each other. The Convention concluded with the evening addresses of Laura Cuppy Smith, Antony Higgins and Mrs. VVoodh_ull. The hall was crammed to its utmost, and many who were unable to enter stood outside the windows to hear the modern gospel, the ‘° good news” of the present era. From the above it may be seen that the Convention was not onlya grand success, but indicated a new departure for the world. That in it true Spiritualism had made its mark, as Christianity did in its pentecostal gathering at Jerusalem. That it was the opening of the real battle between the pres- ent and the past. Every woman and every man who attend- edits sessions might be said to feel rejoicingly, and appro- priate to herself or himself the words of Mrs. Augusta Cooper Bristol, the gifted lady who delivered the Sunday—morning lecture: ' “ Now, as I stand on the hill-top, bathing in early refulgence, Poet and prophet at once, I point to the glory that’s coming; Point to the kingdom complete, the tuistical age of the future. Up from the epoch of impulse, up from the era of statute, Man shall arise at last to the plane of a God—like freedom——- Humanity grown to a height that touches the hand of Jehovah. ..u. * =l< as 4: Such is the brightness for man and for earth in the far-oﬁ cycles, Such_is the rainbow promise that hangs in the sky of the present.” R. W. HUME. .—........_. NERO-SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANS. (By William Chambless Elliott, Author of “A B C of Re- ligion,” “ Religiosophic Bible,” and “ Orations against Superstition.” II. In this enlightened day, the Nineteenth Century, sec- tarian bigots are trying to Christianize political govern- ments. How well the devotees of the Church desire and strive to govern the "State! The grandest means of securing such control is that Protestant Order of Jesuits, the Young Men’s Christian Association. Could the wolf, the jackal, the tiger, the hyena and the snake be blended into one monster, possessing only the worst qualities of each, and then into this hydra be instilled the subtle craft of the spider, the poison of the scorpion, the venom of the cobra, such a demon would be no worse than the J esuitism of the Church. This is the Nero-spirit of the Young Men’s Christian Association,whose mission is to help bring religious despotism. The pages of the past arered with the blood of countless victims to the Catholic Order of Jesuits. So it is coming to be in the days of J esuitic Protestantism. The greatest martyr age yet lies in the future; but it is ‘about ready to dawn on the world of re- formers, and, as ever, the workers of martyrdom will be Christian persecutors. Oh! what horrible butcheries were worked by the Catho- lic crusaders in the thirteenth century! How infamous were those so-called “holy wars” of the Crusades to wrest Pal- estine from Mohammedan inﬁdels. Thousands upon thou- sands were slaughtered in the unholy conﬂict, it being writ- ten in history that on one occasion ahundred times one hun- dred people were treacherously and brutally murdered in cold blood by Christian rufﬁans. There will again be mighty battles and rivers of blood, as there is carrying on to-day a clerical crusade against the religious freedom of American citizens. The dispensation of Christianity is fast declining, and therefore the rulers of the Church, with their ignorant slave-bigots, are seeking to Christianize civil government. These Protestant ministers have been holding annual coun- cils to engraft their autocratic religion into republican poli- tics. Their J esuitic movement to reconstruct the Federal Constitution was inaugurated at Xenia, Ohio, on the third day of February, 1863, while the smoke of battle between brothers North and South was hanging like storm-clouds over the American Union. In their religio-political convo- cations, these ambassadors of storied Christ, religious fanat- ics, have been naemorializing Congress to amend the liberal policy of the United States so as to secure in it a recognition of their God as the chief ruler upon earth, their Bible as the basis for the book of laws, and their Christ Jesus as the head of the nation. , If the State and its statutes ever become Christianized, baptized in that pool of Oriental superstition, Christianity; when it, its laws and its supporters will be subservient to the Church, its creeds and its rulers; then, with inquisition, dungeon, rack, knout, thumbscrew,scourge, auto-da-fe, guill o- tine and gibbet, the same old Nero-spirit of Christians will return and stalk abroad to re-enact those deeds of darkness ——and even worse than those-—which -are clearly written on the true pages of ecclesiastical history in all ages. [CONCLUDED.] SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHING. The following from the Gospel Banner, Me., gives a bird's- eye View of the doctrines taught in the sectarian Sunday- schools: These questions and answers are taken from “ A Short Catechism for Young Children,” published in Philadelphia. In the year 1864 this Catechism was used and committed to memory by every pupil, adult and infant, in the Sunday- school connected with a prominent orthodox Congregation- alist church in Eastern Massachusetts, whose pastor was a graduate from Andover. ' Q. Does your wicked heart make all your thoughts, word and actions sinful? A. Yes; I do nothing but sin. ' Q. Is your life very short, frail and uncertain? A. Yes; perhaps I may die the next moment. Q. What will become of you if you die in your sins? A. I must go to hell with the wicked. Q. How many kinds of sins are there? A. Two. Q. What are these two kinds? A. Original and actual. Q. What is the original sin? A. It is that sin in which I was conceived and born. , Q. Does original sin wholly deﬁle you, and is it sufficient to send you to hell, though you had no other sin? A. Yes. Q. What are you, then, by Nature? A. I am an enemy to God, a child of Satan, and an heir of hell. Q. Cannot your good thoughts, words or actions recover you by the covenant of works? A. N o; everything I do is sinful. Q. Can God pardon your sin without a satisfaction to his justice? A. No; he will by no means clear the guilty. Q. Why could none but Christ satisfy for your sin? A. Because none but he could bear inﬁnite wrath. . Q. How long will the wicked continue in hell and the saints in heaven? A. Forever and ever. , _ A. What will the wicked forever do in hell? A. They will roar, curse and blaspheme God. Q. What will the righteous forever do in heaven? A. They will behold the glory and sing the praises of God in Christ. HOLLY, Mich., August 5, 1873. Dear Wooalhull—In company with my companion, Sarah A., I left Chicago for a summer campaign through Illi- nois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Northern Indiana and Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and the Eastern States. We landed in this State at Grand Haven, and have stormed most of the theological citadels on the Detroit 85 Milwaukee Railroad as far as this point. I have proposed to lift some of the odium and hatred from your shoulders by professing to some of those who hate you to be ten times meaner than you; telling’ them that I am not only in favor of all the freedom that you claim for man, but that I am in favor of throwing off all human restraint and govern the world with love, even, as the Declaration of American Inde~ pendence declares, the mallenable right of every human soul. Hence, all who wish to hear me discourse on “The Gov- ernment of Love vs. the Government of Force,” can address me for August, care of Our Age, Battle Creek, Mich. ' Yours for love and freedom, Trros. COOK, SARAH A. COOK. P. S.—We ﬁnd the Woopnnm. WEEKLY on nearly every table where we have stopped thus far. You can make any use of my name you please, even to the devil of all radicals or mudsill of a new order or age. T. C. [Thinking the generous spirit which prompted the writer of this letter might interest you, I take the liberty to send. a copy to you t] CoNooRD, N. H., May 1, 1873. Dear F’l"’l87l(Z Bu:rton—Things are moving somewhat, and I wanted to see if you moved with them, as in olden time. I have seen and lectured before a good many Spiritualists since I saw you, and intend to keep on as long as possible, lifting Spiritualism up so as to make it, if it can be, the greatest reform of the age. I am not afraid of Mrs. Wood- hull, and hope you are not. Whatever she may have been, she is now the most important woman of the age. She rep- resents Free Thought, Free Speech, Free Press and Free Re- ligion! and, greatest of all, Free Woman I We shall see. Not one man in a million but what regards woman as sub- ject, serf or slave. She must ask him, not he ask her;: whether for money or for a thousand permissions to go or‘ stay; do, or not to do; to have, or not to have; to buy, or not to buy; and so on to the end of a chapter of countless- verses. . , We must stop all such nonsense. Even marriage must not touch the sacred sovereignty of individual woman, nor of individual man. Individual sovereignty is only limited by the equal, individual sovereignty of every other individual. No husband, no wife, no law nor law-maker, no Bible, no ' priest nor church can ever rightfully exercise authority in that domain. And thou shall make thyself so lovely as that thy neigh- bor will love thee as he loves himself, is the true law and commandment. You can’t love neighbors, men nor women, e 6 woonHULL & CI.AFLlN’S WEEKLY. Aug. 30, 1873. ‘hi. unless they are lovely; no more can they love you as they love themselves. A I L" What say you to this, Woodhull? I call it free religion, genuine Spiritualism, real radicalism, the progress of 1873. PARKER PILLSBURY. ORGANIZERS. - Woonsrocx, Vt., July 31, 187 . [The following communication is said to have been re- jected by all the so-called free papers in the country :] One-quarter to one-twentieth of the Spiritualists of this and other places are believers with Warren Chase, Wood-_ hull, Laura Cuppy and the like, and they would gladly aid such to a public hearing. But a large majority are more bitter toward these “Free Lovers,” and say harder things publicly than the Christians and the rabble. Shall we, free- thinkers, shut our mouths and follow the superstitions and prejudices of ignorant majorities, and pay, too, these selﬁsh, conceited, uninformed mediums to misrepresent and abuse ourselves and those we most admire? We could organize and Work together with Catholics, Methodists, Universalists just as well. Our freedom and efforts would be no less re- stricted. Shall we be true to our noblest thoughts, and live them if weihave to go alone,’ like Saul, Luther, Murray and the early Spiritualists? Did Saul of Tarsus act wisely on receiving a new truth to break away from an organization and go for the Christians, whom he was commissioned to persecute and destroy? ' Are we not all mediumistic and receiving additional light daily that may change our efforts, and we could no more belong to an organization of the past than Saul, Luther or_ Murray? See how female suffrage stands t0—day: Mrs. Elizabeth C. Stanton and her aiﬁnities, head and shoul- ders above the narrow minds of those of Boston, who would not give her a hearing because she had more ideas than voting females in her head. Shall we followfools when in majority? You say, free-thinkers. NATHL. RANDALL, M. D.- HELEN HARLOW’S VOW. This most truly interesting book for the times has so strangely wrought upon me, that now at the end of its clos- ing chapter I am disposed to turn again to its ﬁrst page and trace its living pictures. For truly its life incidents, as opened out to the public gaze, are pictures that have hitherto hung screened from the full ﬂash of truthfulness by the drapery of ﬁction or the sombre garb of prejudice. To-day, amid the agitation of the great problem of Social Reform, there is no ﬁction in the book, for every character ﬁnds its several counterparts in society as we ﬁnd it. So adroitlv have the stirring questions of the hour been touched to apprehend and admirably ﬁt the times in the advocacy’ of sexual equality, in the example of its heroine who lived the precepts few are brave enough to more than advocate, that it seems hardly comprehensible that its author in its natal day should have found the courage. to launch it upon a liter- ary ocean of prejudice and criticism at the period of its pub— lication. The too long conceded idea that the woman, who through love trusts all, should be forever ﬂung off and trampled un- der the feet of a self-righteous society that pampers her de- serting seducer, while it persistently refuses to recognize her untiring efforts to rise by her own inherent merit, ﬁnds its just rebuke in the noble achievementfof the self-sacriﬁc- ing life purpose of a grand character in Helen Harlow. _ Had this book just been issued from the press instead of anticipating as it did the agitations of the present of the all-absorbing social question, its celebrity as an agitator would have been unparalleled as an ennuciator of the princi- ples it represents. But not unlike‘ the writings which many another like its author has been inspired to write in ad- vance of the times, it will some time meet with the just ap- preciation reserved for it in the future, and so well de- served. And no library of modern literature will be com- plete without it is the opinion of an admiring reader. Annrn L. BALLOU. ..__....__. REFORMATCRY LECTURERS. C. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. J. I. Arnold, Clyde, 0. Rev. J . O. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. Mrs. I-I. F. M. Brown, National City, Cal. Warren Chase, St. Louis, Mo. »A. Briggs Davis, Clinton, Mass. Mrs. L. E. Drake, Plainwell, Mich. . Miss Nellie L. Davis, South Billerica, 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, Pa. E. Annie Hinman, West Winsted, Ct. ~ Anthony Higgins, Jersey City, N. J. R. W. Hume, Hunter’s Point, L. I. W’. F. J amieson, 139 Monroe street. Chicago, Ill. Miss Jennie Leys, 4 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass V Cephas B. Lynn, Sturgis, Mich. . Mrs. F. A. Logan, Buffalo, N. Y. Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Ct. J. H. Randall, Clyde, 0. A. C. Robinson, Lynn, Mass. lgrs. JH. Se\éeraI1ce,NMi11waukee, Wis. aura .uppy mith, 0. Atlantic street L M. L. Sherman, Adrian, Mich. ’ ynn’ MaSg' John Brown Smith, 812 N. 10th st, Philadelphia Pa. $3/.lrs.HEI.B].l‘.SStearns, Clorrry, Pa. . ’ ' r. . . torer, 137 arrison avenue Bost C. W. Stewart, J anesville, Wis. A ’ On’ MaSS' J . H. W. Toohey, Providence, R. I. F. L. H. Willis, Willimantic, Ct. Lois Waisbrooker, Battle Creek, Mich. Prof. E. Whipple, Clyde, Ohio. John B. Wolff, 510 Pearl street, N. Y. Wm. Rose. M. D., 102 Muri-son street, Cleveland Dr. Geo. Newcomer, Jackson, Mich. ' ’ Mrs. L. H. Perkins, Kansas City, Mo. James Foran, M. D., Waverly, N. Y. Mrs. J ennette J , Clark, Montpelier. Vt. -7- 19- Grreenleaf, 27 Milford street, Boston Mass . Elvira Wheelock Ruggles, Havana,-Ill. ’ Elijah Woodworth, Leslie, Ingham C0,, Mich, sooiALisTic. _..._=.a. PHARISEES ANN OYED IN PHILADELPHIA. Mrs. Woodhi/.ll——I wish to inform you and your readers the fun we have at the expense of the old fogies and Phar- isees of this city. As it must be well known by this time by those who read the WEEKLY regularly, that our townsman. Dr. S. M. Landis, has been prohibited from delivering the above lecture; he has also been deprived for nearly twenty years of the use of public halls and advertising columns of the daily papers. The people, finally seeing through this usurpation, held an “indignation meeting,” _and organized themselves into an “indignation league,” and published said prohibited lecture in pamphlet form, and ever since it has been i'ssued—-about eight weeks ago——they have a man walking the street with an immensely large banner, which has printed upon it in huge letters as follows: “Just Published! The prohibited Lecture on Woodhull and Beecher, analyzing Free Love. By Dr. S. M. Landis. For sale by this man. Price 15 cents.” The ﬁrst day the banner—man was sent around the Mayor’s office and courts, almost instantly a detective bought a book from him, and the banner-man was then told by the official that if there was anything unlawful in the book he and Landis would forthwith be arrested; at any rate he had bet- ier not stay around that neighborhood much, because the Mayor did not like it. _ Three or four days later, this same detective on seeing the fearless banner—man again stopping in the neighborhood, ap- proached the latter and said: “Look here, my man, you cannot stop here, we can’t prevent you from walking past, but I am authorized to say that you must not stop in this neighborhood. That book is not indictable, or you would not be walking the streets at all. He sells a great many books and receives a great many threats and much abuse by the professed chaste Christians of Philadelphia. Only yesterday an old gentleman ac- costed him, while he was stopping in the vicinity of Fair- mount Park, and said to him: 9‘ VVe shall not permit you to carry that board about any longer, the people have made a great fuss about it because I have not banished you; now I mean to put you off the street, because that Woodhull and Free-Love business sent around by that infamous Landis shall not offend chaste eyes any longer.” ' “ Well, sir,” replied the banner—man, “if you have any au- thority and are an officer, I can but say exercise your func- tion, take me and the board wherever you see ﬁt, but be care- ful that you do not become the violator of the law instead of myself.” “N o, sir: I will not take the responsibility,” responded the would-be ofﬁcer. ‘ ‘‘I thought you wouldn’t,” said the banner-man; “but now my old cock-sparrow let me tell you a little incident” —he now related the above interview with the detective, when the old fellow slunk away ﬁlled with holy wrath. These over-bearing usurpers imprisoned Dr. Landis three years ago for publishing his great book on the “Secrets of Generation ;” besides, he has been ﬁve times arrested, and numerous attempts have been made to assassinate him——all this in a free country, because he fearlessly and forcibly pro- ‘ claims the truth by pen and tongue while his own life is a rebuke to every Pharisee and corruptionist in the land. Dr. Landis’ books should be read by. everybody. By sending 15 cents to his address he will forward the above lecture, and ' for $1 his condemned book on the “Secrets of Generation.” His Medical Office and Reformatory Institution is at 13 N. Eleventh street, Philadelphia. HENRY S. CHUBB. mi. nsmoma, June 21,1873. Dear Mrs. Woodhull—An incident occurred here last week before the Superior Court now sitting in this place, which I think deserves to be recorded in your columns. George W. Webster was tried for adultery, and Ann F. Davis for forni- cation on the same day by different juries. Nearly the same evidence was produced in both cases, the only point made against either being that they had been seen in bed together, yet Webster (the man) was acquitted, while Davis (the wo- man) was convicted. Oh, consistency, thou art a jewel! It cannot be Said in vindication of this infamous proceeding, that, inasmuch as adultery and fornication are diﬁerent crimes, there was therefore no inconsistency in the verdicts, for it was proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that Webster has a wife living. Consequently, if the woman was guilty of fornication, the man, being married, was guilty of adultery. Could. there be a more forcible illustration of the cowardly tyranny which is exercised by our licentious male governors over their slaves? Still,can we blame the jurors for their act? N o, it is the way of the world. Ever is the woman despised, ever the man respected; the woman imprisoned, the man set free; the woman made to bear her burden, the man relieved of his load. These two juries fairly represented the state of modern society the world over. ,They were its agents, they registered its decree. “Oh, Judgment, thou art ﬂed to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.” How is it that our so—called respect- able men can daily look on such transactions as these with calmness and say there is no need of reform in the relations between man and woman? It can be for no other reason than ' that they wish to gratify their inordinate lust with impunity, knowing that it would be well-nigh impossible to do so were woman’s equality with man recognized in all departments of life. But this cannot continue long. Unless these ﬁends in human form see ﬁt to use their reason, discontent will increase, a revolution will burst forth and they will be com- pelled by force to quit their infamous ways. Query.——If the juries above referred to had been composed equally of men and women, would the same results have been reached? Ever yours in the bonds of brotherly love, ' BENJ. R. Tucxna. .£ HOW IT WORKS. BALTIMORE, Aug. 12, 1873. Mus. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL: Dear Madam—-A short time since I wrote a short article -on “The Woodhull,” which was published in the Washing- ton Capttal. I was impelled to do so by a sense of justice, for I deemed the prosecutions which had been instituted against you were nothing less than a series of malignant per- secutions, instituted for the express purpose of crushing you, and enabling the persecutors to prevent the real issue from ever being brought into the light of investigation. I said in that article (and said honestly and truly) that I did not indorsethe peculiar social doctrines of Woodhull or her disciples. I wish to always be honest and sincere, and I con- fess that I, like most people, judged your position from the representations of others. rather than from a thorough knowledge of what you really believed and taught. I am_by nature a lover of fair play, and hence when I saw you lug- ged into the United -States Courts on a false issue, I took up the cudgel in your behalf. At the same time I believed V your doctrines pernicious. I have read and twice re-read your Steinway Hall speech, as published in the last number of your WEEKLY, and as an honest man I am compelled to say to you that hitherto I have in my opinions done you an injustice; and that after a careful reading and pondering the platform therein laid down, I say, unreservedly, Amen. I used to think you honest, but insane. I now believe you are not only honest but - sane, and I fervently hope and pray that your ideas will yet prevail. You may not live to see or enjoy the full fruition of your hopes——very few reformers ever have. Moses was not permitted to enter the promised land to which he led his people. Christ and most of his apos- tles were put to death. John Brown was hanged without seeing in the ﬂesh the great deliverance for which he labored and died, but “his soul is marching on.” But no one who ever lived or died for his fellow-men has ever lived or died in vain; but notwithstanding they died without seeing -the salvation for which they wrought, we know that they still View and rejoice in the victories from the higher sphere in “the land beyond the river.” So, my sister, I, a stranger to you, say Godspeed to you, do not falter nor faint. You may not live on the earth tosee accomplished what you so earn- estly desire, but when" the summons “ come up higher ” reaches you, I believe, I feel and know that your feet shall stand on a new Pisgah, from which glorious point of vision your transﬁgured eyes shall behold the salvation you have suffered to secure, and that millions of your sex “ will rise up and call you blessed.” It is only a few months since I have been a reader of your paper, and lhave never seen you, but I both intend and hope to see you face to face within a fortnight, and thank you in person for the brave work you are doing. One of the keenest regrets I have ever felt for the loss of a fortune I once possessed, has been my inability to extend to you the pecuniary aid sufficient to place the WEEKLY on an inde- pendent basis, with presses, types and oﬁice all your own. ' You may be indifferent to the opinions, favorable or oth- erwise, of a stranger. That I cannot help. I feel better for saying what I have said, and it certainly will not hurt you. So, having said it in my crude vway, I add most heartily “ God bless you.” Faithfully yours, LYON. ST. JAGO AND CLOSE SPAIN! At last the Spaniard speaks. After centuries of misrule, Spain has adopted a common-sense Constitution. On the 17th of July the child was born in the palace of the Cortez. The great orator—Europe’s foremost reformer—Emilio Cas- telar, was the first who signed it. The meaning of it is the emancipation of Europe. Not that the dire experience of Spain alone can accomplish that fact; she but contributes her quota, and, being specially the martyr of priests and kings, it is ﬁtting that she should stand in the foreground. Here is the Constitution; let Americans, now. on the back track, look at it and learn wisdom: CONSTITUTION OF SPAIN—-PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. “ All residents of the Republic are entitled to the follow- ing inherent rights: The right of life, and its protection. The right of free expression of thought. The right of diffusion of ideas. The rights of labor and of commerce. The right of holding meetings. The rights of property without encumbrances or entail. Equality before the law. The right of trial by jury, the right of defense by coun- sel, and the right of punishment for an offense committed. These are inherent rights, and superior to legislative en- actments.” From the remainder of the Constitution, which is long, the following extracts may claim attention: , “ ARTICLE 5. Decrees and demands speedy justice. ART. 9. The government shall not detain or open any let- ters entrusted to it while passing through the post office; and the same applies to telegraphic messages. [Hear that, Comstock 86 Co. I] A 9°?*‘S7-’?‘l"“.°°N*"‘ ART. 19. All Spaniards shall have the right of openly ex- ' pressing their opinions, either orally, by writing, or through the medium of the press. [Will Commissioner Davenport please make a note of this Article ?] , ART. 26. All Spaniards shall have the privilege of opening a school or college without diploma. [Yale, this is ﬂat bur- glary 1] ART. 34. All forms of religious worship shall be tolerated in Spain. ' [Ahl Spain, there we surpass you. Religion with us is not ‘ tolerated,’ (a vile word I) it is a right, and will re- ‘main such until the Y. M. C. A. put God, Christ and their Bible into the Constitution.] ' ART. 35. The separation of Church and State. » ART. 36. N 0 State, district or municipality, shall grant any subvention to any form of public worship. ”[Attention, leg- islators of New York I] (J ) ) Aug. 30, 1873. ‘<9 Am. 38. All titles of nobility are abolished. [Massachu- Sﬁttss your Constitution decrees that your Governor shall be termed, ‘ His Excellency,’ and your Lieutenant Governor, ‘ His Honor.’ Please study this Article and amend it.] ART. 109. The Constitution of every State should prescribe public schools where. instruction is gratuitous.” [Let the South listen.], ' So speaks the Spaniard; let the world hear! There are some omissions, it is true. The land and money questions are not aired. Indeed, the latter need not be if the former is righteously settled. The word is there—“ the free use of the soil to the tiller ”-—-and the great Russian reformer, Herzen, tells us that is yet to be presented to Europe by the moujik of Russia. The sooner the better. ' R. W. HUME. I UNDER THE NEW DISPENSATION. . CHICAGO, August 9, 1873. . We the undersigned, believing in the ;divine right of unit- ing ourselves in marriage, outside of legal enactments, do at this time and in the presence of these "witnesses agree to unite our destiny as husband and wife, as long as we can live together in harmony with each other under the higher laws of our being. When we cannot live in harmony we claim the same divine right to separate as friends. ISAAC D. SEELEY, REBECCA FELL. _( E. B. J OHNSON, (MARY A. JOHNSON. Witnesses ELKADER, Clayton Co.. Iowa, Aug. 15, 1873. Dear Sister Vlctori-a-I heartily approve of the principles which the I. W. A. are laboring to establish, and wish to join them and have a section established here. There is good material and plenty of it in this part of the country needing Only 130 113-V8 the principles of that society set before them to aid heart and soul; please hand this to the proper one to send me information to proceed to become a member. We have a Free Love League, the F. L. A. S. here but a few Weeks 0151, numbering twenty members and increasing in numbers every week. Pretty good for a little town of less than one thousand inhabitants population, two-thirds foreign; among whom neither paper nor document advocat- ing free love was ever circulated so far as I can learn, before last march when I began scattering the WEEKLY. And there‘ is never a week but it numbers new readerssoon to become new friends. God bless your noble Workers: the night is well nigh past, the day is at hand. Fraternally yours, M. C. DWIGET, DIRECTORY OF SOCIAL FREEDOM. We desire to present from time to time a list of the Writers and speakers who advocate Social Freedom. The time is not far distant when it will be necessary that these shall know each other, and it is at the suggestion of one of the most able writers and speakers, and most earnest of them all on this subject, that we now invite names for this directory: Francis Barry, Ravenna, Ohio, Julia H. Severance, Milwaukie, Mis. Thomas W. Organ, Tuscola, Ill. Loren Hollister, Turner, I11. J. W. Evarts, Ccntralia, Ill. Laura Cuppy Smith, care this oﬁice. Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Conn, J. K. Philleo, Parkman, Ohio, L. K. Joslin, Providence, R. I. E. H. Heywood, Princeton, Mass. — Heywood, Princeton, Mass. Seward Mitchell, Cornville, Me. Carrie Lewis. Cleveland, Ohio. Daniel Wood, Lebanon, Me. Lessie G-oodell Steinmetz. Amherst, Mass. Nellie L. Davis, North Billerica, Mass. J. K. Moore. 011 City, Pa. . l]§‘Irs. M. E. B. Sawyer, 27wMilford_ St., Boston. rances _Rose Mackinley, 169 Mission St., S. Francisoc. Sada Bailey, Waukegan, Ill rw‘ ‘V; % < STATE soCiETiEs IN THE NATIONAL CONVEN- TION. The attention of State Associations of Spiritualists is called to the fact that each one is entitled to as many delegates in the Convention as the State has Representatives and Sena- - tors in Congress. We trust that the importance of this Con- vention will stimulate every State Association to appoint and send delegates.‘ Many have already done so ; but there are many more which have not. 6 THE DAWNING LIGHT.” Nothing in art has pleased us so much as the picture bear- ing the above name, from the publishing house of R. H. Curran & Co., 28 School street, Boston, Mass. The subject of this picture is the home of the Fox Family in Hydesville, New York, where the recognized advent of Modern Spirit- uahsm Occurred) known as the Rochester rappings. The house, out—houses and grounds are said to be literally as they were at the time the Spirits came to "open the knowledge of spirit life to the children of earth. The im- agination of the artist is drawn upon only to show the sup- posed manner in which the spirits have made their descent upon the earth. Without wings, ﬂoating gracefully upon the ﬂeecy clouds, with a halo of spiritual light eiuitting from their etherealized bodies, they settle upon the house, to immortalize it in the history of spiritualism, and:to wreath a crown of everlasting glory for the chosen hand through whom the coming dawned upon the world. This to-be-famous picture is from the inspired hand of the eminent artist, Joseph John, and was transferred to steel’ by the equally eminent artist, J. W. Watts. The execution is unapproachable as a piece of ait, all of the beauty of ‘I which has been preserved in the transfer, and does inﬁnite credit to all concerned in its presentation to the public. We believe’ that the house of every Spiritualist in the country should contain this picture. and ultimately that it will. Indeed, no such house can be complete without it, and we bespeak for the publishers a rapid sale. We have taken pains to learn the cost of this elegant work of art, and jﬁndthe price at which it is offered sufﬁcient to warrant its publication only upon the supposition of an immense sale. For particulars see advertising columns. — POWER OF THE PRESS. Rev. Dr. Stone, of San Francisco; speaks truthfully as fol- lows: “The newspaper is more feared to—day in Congres- sional halls and the high places of, corruption and villainy than laws and courts, the stings of cbnscience, and the thun- ders of Divine wrath. G-od is a great way off, and the judg- ment_ waits; but the ubiquitous reporter thrustshis sharp gaze into all overt and hidden schenfies———an unerring detect- ive. The pestilent spy will tell all he sees—tell it on the house-tops_——print for a nation of readers. Good! Give us more of this! Long live the reporter! Let every public man who meditates a little piece of gainful fraud, understand he is ‘ shadowed’ at each step by his unbought espionage, and though he may not be converted, he will be restrained.” WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. ;, K.Ul:tT’’”’ RESTAURANTS. Among the many perinanent institutions of the city are the several restaurants of Mr. Fred. Kurtz, located at 23 New street, 60 Broadway, 76 Maiden lane and at the corner of Fifth avenue and Ninetieth street. Undoubtedly Kurtz excels all competitors in the conduct of a first-class eating- house. Besides being thoroughly versed in stocking his storerooms, he understands just how to please the A general’ palate in the preparation of his dishes. Success is the best‘ test of merit, especially in this business; and if Kurtz’ merit is to be so tested, he stands pre-eminent over all other caterers. Each of the above. places will accommodate from one to two hundred persons, and all of them, at almost any hour of the day, are filled. Strangers, visitors and residents will ﬁnd Kurtz’ the most satisfactory, as well as cheapest, first-class eating establishments in the city; while those who visit Central Park should not fail to call at the new and elegant retreat at the corner of Ninetieth street. srtu ~ t t sngts Words have different and sometimes contradictory mean- ings. They have different meanings in different ages or stages of development of the peoples by whom they are designed and used. They have different meanings in the mouths of different classes and individuals, and ﬁnally they have differ- ent meanings when applied to diﬂerent classes of persons, and pre-eminently, it appears, in respect to some important words, when applied to different or opposite sexes. These different meanings of words so applied,- and so differing when applied, reveal a whole history and a whole philosophy. They tell where the world stands in its ideas. There is nothing more interesting and instructive than the study of words from this point of view. The unconscious meaning of the word is often more, by far, than its conscious meaning. Notably does this happen in respect to the words free and virtue, as applied to men and to women. A free man is a noble being; a free woman is a conteniptible being; ‘a drab, a harlot, what you will. Freedom for a man is emancipa- tion from degrading conditions which prevent the expansion of his soul into godlike grandeur and nobility, which it is assumed is his natural tendency 2'72. freedom. Freedom for a woman is, on the contrary, escape from those necessary re- straining conditions which prevent the sinking of her soul into degradation and vice, which it is, all unconsciously, as- sumed is her natural tendency. In other words, the use of this one word, in its two-fold application to men and to women, reveals the unconscious but ever-present conviction in the public mind, that men tend, of course, heavenward, in their natures and develop- ment, and that women tend just as naturally hellward. In the light, frivolous ﬂattery of women by men, just the contrary of all this is assumed, namely, that women are naturally angels, and that men are more gross and brutal, and N would be quite so, but for ,. the elevating influence of women; and with a few superior men this is said earnestly and truly. But the unconscious testimony contained in the ordinary use of the word free, as applied to men and to women,respectively, is not wiped out,nor in any sense weakened, by these casual exceptions ; and that testi- mony is, simply, that it is currently believed, both by men and women—-for men have heretofore made opinion, for the most part, for women, in respect to women——that freedom is a condition desirable and favorable for ‘men, because men are naturally good, and only require the opportunity to show that fact; but that freedom is a condition unendurable and unfavorable for women, because women are naturally bad, and only require the opportunity to show their innate ten- dency to vice or wickedness. Insulting as this estimate is to our sex, it is the basis on which the whole question of social freedom is argued by the outside world. It is naively and continually assumed that if social restraints were removed all women, the mothers and sisters and wives and daughters of our virtuous male citi- zens, would immediately_and incontinently go to tire bud ; in plain words, turn out strumpets and disgrace everybody connected with them. Men are every day saying, virtually, just this of their own mothers ; and women are thoughtless- ly chiming in, and pronouncing the ban of reprobation upon the name of their own womanhood. ‘It never seems to oc- cur to either party that the true woman’s soul would expand into a higher purity, in freedom, just as we recognize that the manly soul is exalted by the possession of that same precious boon ; and that absolute freedom is even more essential to the birth and growth of a true womanhood than it is for the development of a true manhood; and that as man’s freedom is chieﬂy political, where his life centres, so iwoman’s freedom must be social, her life centering in the social relations. . In the same striking way the two uses of the word virtue tell the same sad tale of the popular "estimate of the charac- ter or nature of the two sexes. The very word virtue is, I believe, derived from the Latin air, the distinctive name of the male man, and meant originally manliness. It -was should be left out of account. Even in respect to man it was the warlike quality of more physical strength which was first prized, and which ﬁrst received the name of virtue.. We retain this general idea of strength, or efficiency, as the ﬁrst meaning of virtue still,.as when we speak of the virtue of a medicine, of a public measure, and the like. A " ‘ But in this more spiritual and cultured age, virtue, as applied to men, has risen to a higher degree of signiﬁcance, and now means moral goodness; or a general conformity of the whole life to high moral ideas and purposes. But ap- plied to woman it is‘ conﬁned to a narrow and insulting specialty. It means that woman has never been approached in a special way by a man; and nothing but just that. Apart from that question the woman may have all the nobler qualities of her sex, be a pattern of generosity, in- spiration, religious emotionality even, and she is not virtuous and never can become so; but if she is “sound on the goose,” she may be a virago, a thief even, a ﬁend or a hag, but “ she. is perfectly virtuous,” the thing that ' “is praised above rubies.” All this is simply clamuuble. 0 It is degrading, insulting mockery, to deﬁne female virtue in this way ; or in anyway different from a man’s virtue. And women are constrained to accept these disparaging discriminations by an organized social opinion which is excessively tyrannical. From the mere imputation of 2’mpropr2‘etg/ in this one particular, women shrink and cowcr with the most abject terror. This slavery to opinion‘ must be abol- ished, women inust vindicate their right to an absolute free- dom and their own conduct, except that they have no right to encroach on others. The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time ; and that is right and necessary. Vile cannot render the terms libertine and raise as opprobrious as men have made “strumpet ” and “ whore.” Let us then resort to the opposite tactics and take the sting out of these bad words by not shrinking from any imputation whatever. The world enslaves our sex by the mere fear of an epithet; and just so long as it can throw any vile term at us, which we cowcr before, it can maintain our enslaveinent. It is not free love alone, but every other epithet mtenclecl to degrade, that woman must grow strong enough to defy before she will be free. I do not mean that they either shall be, or not be, what these words are meant to convey; but merely that they shall let the world know that it is simply uone of its business what they do, in the particular referred to; and that female virtue means hereafter something very different; that it means, in a word, just what would make a man virtuous and good- He or she who would be free, must defy the enemy, and must be ultra enough to exhaust the possibilities of the ene- my’s assault; and it will not be until women can contem- plate, and accepts, unconcernedly, whatsoever imputation an ignorant, bitter and persecuting world may heap on them, that they will be really free. '° If the terribleepithets with which the world stabs the reputation and tortures and murders the souls of women were even justly distributed, according to the world’s own idea of justice, it would be some mitigation; but it is notori- ous that women in society who really offend most against the conventional idea of virtue often go through life un- scathed, and with acceptance everywhere, and the reputa- tion in a sort of Pickwicliian sense of being immaculate, and that others who never dreamed of offending are brand- ed and expelled. * I - Women must, therefore, be their own defenders; and what I recommend-is to blunt the weapons of calumny by a complete indifference, where the strength can be summoned for such a course, to what the world says, one way or the other. Let your motto be, “ My mind to me a kingdom is.” Satisfy your own ideal of right, propriety and purity, and defy Mrs. Grundy to do her prettiest. Those are my saute’- ments. 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This is very advantageous to us, inasmuch as it not only relieves us from ageneral odium among newsmen in the country, as publishers of a paper that the News Com- pany cannot deal in, but it also takes from us a great deal of care and labor. ‘We hope our friends everywhere will sec- ond this movement of the News Company, and endeavor to extend the circulation of the WEEKLY wherever it is possi- ble. The News Company will supply the trade, returnable, until No. 149 inclusive, after which regular orders only will be ﬁlled. EXCURSION TICKETS TO CHICAGO. It should be understood that half—rate tickets to Chicago cannot be procured until ﬁfty are ordered. The railroads have adopted a rule that they will not issue excursion tick- ets less than fifty; hence the importance of our being in- formed at once by all who have decided to attend the Con- vention or to visit Chicago at that time. These tickets can be used by persons along the line of road to Chicago as far west as Ohio to advantage, We state this thus speciﬁcally, because this contingency is not generally known. If arrange- ments cannot be made because I cannot order ﬁfty tickets, the people should not charge it to my neglect. These tick- ets will be issued from Boston to Chicago, and will be good for point along the road to and from Chicago, and from such point to and from Boston. Delays are dangerous. Send on at once. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, President Association. SPIRITUALISTS or MASSACHUSETTS 2 We heard a rumor in Boston on Monday, that at a meet- ing of the Board of Government of the State Association it was decided ‘not to appoint any delegates to the Chicago Convention. The reason for this action was said to be, that the President of the Association holds that the American Association is dead. Now, if this rumor be true, we hope that the local societies will at once rouse themselves and rebut this false position. It is true that the last two Con- ventions of the Association were not largely attended; but there are already more delegates appointed in the imme- diate neighborhood of Chicago than attended both of them. The facts of the case are, that the Association is‘ just begin- ning to have life, and a pressure should be brought to bear upon the officials who have taken this action to make them see the necessity of reversing their decision. This meeting, we understand, was held on Sunday last, at the camp meet- ing at Silver Lake, and as a matter of business was therefore llegal. All who have interest should look to this matter at once. Massachusetts should be represented in the next Convention. —————-«>4»-an-———~—— THE SILVER LAKE CAMP MEETING. This ever-to-be-remembered event came to an end on Sun- day evening last, after a most extraordinary session of twelve days, during which not less then seventy-ﬁve thou- sand persons visited the grounds. On Sunday, at 2 o’clock, it is said there were eighteen" thousand ' persons on the ground, all of wl1icl1 vastconcourse eagerly listened to the most radically probing tiutlis of the new social dispensation, and drank in their meaning with evident delight. Having changed our day of going to press from VVednes- day to Tuesday, and having returned from -the meeting only this (Tuesday) morning, we find it impossible to enter into a review of the grandest‘ demonstration that has ever been witnessed in favor of the new order of things. When we say that Dr. H. F. Gardner, the chief manager, introduced the following resolution, which was adopted without a dis- senting voice, in the midst of deafening applause; it may be somewhat clearly perceived what a holdvthe theory of social freedom has already obtained upon the hearts of the peo- ple : Resolved, That anything that is inherently riglitcannot be made wrong by any legal enactment. Resolved, That anything that is inherently wrong cannot be made right by any legal enactment. Spiritualists of Massachusetts, by the adoption of these res- olutions, place themselves squarely on the platform of social freedom. Dr. Gardner, to make this evident, in substance remarked, after the passage of the resolution, " VVhat be-' comes of marriage under the ruling ‘P If it be right for the sexes to cohabit, any law cannot make it wrong,” which was received with renewed and extended applause. In view of the action of this meeting and that of the Convention at Vineland, the efforts of certain “ Rcspectables” to make it appear that Spiritualists do not adopt the issues of social freedom, are slightly ludicrous. Next week _we shall make copious extracts from the notices of the Convention by the Boston dailies of Monday, each of which gave from one to two column notices, couched in the most respectlul terms— something quite new for them, inﬂuenced no doubt by the fact that twenty thousand people are a power not to be treated in the usual blackguard method in which such meet- ings have usually been “dished up.” ' >—‘Gr>——4 WE have changed our day of going to press from VVednes- day night to Tuesday night. This has been done expressly to please our readers in the distant parts of the country,who sometimes do not get their papers on Saturday for Sunday’s reading, and to meet the requirements of the newsdealcrs, through our recent arrangements with the American News Campany. —* TO SOCIETIES AND LECTURERS. Ever since the Troy Convention, two years ago, there has been a class of Spiritualists who have contended that that convention was in no manner entitled to speak for the Spir- itualists of this country, while its action, especially so far as the officers of the association are concerned, has been pre- tendedly repudiated. All this is also true in a still more pos- itive sense of the last Convention in Boston. Whether or not these exceptions would have been taken had some other person than the one who was, been elected President, is a question about which there is little doubt. Both these Con- ventions were National-—the annual gatherings of the only organization in the country. That they wereto be held was probably known by every Spiritualist, and they were open to delegates chosen in the usual way. Every Society had a right to be represented, and was invited to send delegates. Those who did attend as delegates performed their duty as best they knew it, and their action spoke for the American Association of Spiritualists, and those who were not there or were not represented, ought not to have denied the au- thority of the Association, as representing the only-general organization. ‘But that same Association is to hold another Convention in September in Chicago. Will that be representative ? It is to this point that we now desire to call the attention of the Spiritualists of the United States. The call for the Con- vention was made early, so there might be no excuse on that score, and every possible effort made to give it wide noto- riety. Every Spiritualist in the country ought to know at this time that this Convention is to be held. The delegates who go there will transact the business of the Convention in the usual way, and their action has a right to be taken as the. voice of American Spiritualists, let objectors be who they may or say what they may. ' Therefore it behooves all Spiritualists who have any care as to what action shall be had, to be represented, so that what they deem to be Spiritualism may rule the proceed- ings, and if overruled, then to protest. It is quite probable. that very important questions will be put before the Conven- tion. Certain persons who pretend to be greatly aﬂiicted that the social uestion has obtained afoothold among Spir- itualists, think t about time to wash Spiritualism of its fur- ther contamination, and undoubtedly the effort will be made there to do this. The conservatives all the West over are rallying to the standard, with which the friends of social reform are specially delighted. If the latter fail to attend the Conveiition and the former thereby effect their purpose, no one will be at fault except those who stay away; and equally so per comm. . In all the State Conventions held recently this question has been considered, and there can be no doubt that the expression upon it by them may be taken as indicative of what may be anticipated in the National Convention. So far, however, with a single exception, not any of this action has reached the vital points of the question. It will be probed to the bottom at Chicago, and Spiritualism will from that day stand as an organized movement, committed for or against _thc new social departure. Let us, then, impress upon every society the vast im- portance of being represented, and upon every speaker, whether favoring the radical or conservative view, the need of pressing the matter of representation whenever they speak. The expenses will not be so large as to be made an obstacle. For Eastern delegates excursion tickets will be procured from Boston to Chicago and return, which may be utilized as follows : A New Yorker pays for one of these, say $24.50. Detaching the coupons between Boston and New York, he can sell them for, say $10, reducing his fare to and from Chicago to say $14.50 ; and, in the same manner, for all stations between Boston and Chicago. Speakers should explain this to societies, and also say to them that arrangements have been made with the friends in Chicago to give Eastern delegates the preference of hospitalities. Letiit then be said of this Convention as it is of the ﬁrst attended and the most earnest and enthusiastic that the with the spirit of the occasion to defend and urge before the Convention his or her ideas of what Spiritualists should do ; to do this ﬁrmly, but without bitterness or malice, re- membering that the truth of every other individual is as dear to him or her as to the advocate. First of all, if it be found that unanimous agreement can- not bc made, let them agree to disagree in peace and har- mony and brotherly and sisterly love; and second, let conservatives remember that radicals are as honest and earnest in their opinions as they are ; and if they believe in social freedom, that it does not necessarily prove that they are brutes, or that their theories are “ Animalism.” TW6TW THE LAST DISGRACE. We are not in the midst of a hot campaign, and there is no reason for attacking private character or retailing political scandal or sea~side gossip, so there is no excuse for suppres- sing the truth when its publication is needed, and no pre- text for attributing it to partisanship or prejudice. Distin- guished public men, Representatives and Senators in Con- gress have had the eifrontery to stand up in Congress and before their constituents and undertake to defend as shameless a breach of public trust as ever was thrust in the face of a decent people: and instead of a hot outburst of indignant denunciation, there has been only a sort of sick- at-the-stomach turning away from the low-ﬂung, self-seeking gang-—rascalities have been developed in all departments of the Government that should keep our prisons more than full were justice do11e——legislation has been bought and sold, and corporations have, in the most deliberate and unblushing manner, bought seats in the Senate for their retained attor- neys—-the legislature has become a market-place, and the polls an arena for violence or bribery—aud we settle down to our lower standards of morality, our debasing tendencies and constantly deteriorating moral sense with complacent calm- ness as if to the natural and inevitable. How far shall we let this numbness of perception, this utter deadness to all sense of shame, carry us? Granted that in the ﬁerceness "of our money-getting passion we may put conscience out of court entirely, and sacriﬁce everything to the main chance—-shall we stop at this? Or are we to have sitting at our hearths as household gods all shames and crimes? The last great scandal, touched lightly by the press but bruited everywhere now, is not of avarice and greed, but of intemperance and lust. Open, public, brazen, ﬂaunted in the faces of decent wives and mothers, and of pure daughters and sisters, a shame, foul-fronted, sickening, beastly. Between the sensual sot, of brilliant intellect but vile associations and depraved habits, who so lately set him- self and paramour on public exhibition in this city and Long Branch—between him and the Presidency of the United States are but two lives, and one of them of frailest tenure Is the nation drunken that it sees this large disgrace paraded under its very eyes, and takes into its nostrils the stench of the oﬁense, and makes no sign of nausea? Has dead and buried decency no resurrection? Who and where is the clear thinking statesman—no, not statesman, common man—-every day man-—hard—ﬁsted, rough and hearty, but honest way down, true to wife and family and his own man- hood, Who will roll away the stone from the sepulcher of public virtue? The time calls out for him. The country waits his coming. A nation bowed down with the shame brought on it by its trusted servants, with its face in the dust, prays in its anguish for some convulsion that shall rend the heavens and purify the air. ' And the United States Senate--what is its duty? Has it any self-respect left? The above, from the New York Trz'Znme,'seems to call upon the Y. M. C. A. once more to bring to the front their valiant Scavenger, if, indeed, his recent discouragements have not bereft him of the power to scent “obscenity.” Comstock, here is your opportunity—a ﬁghting man worthy your valor. Go for “ Whitelaw;” serve him as the Spanish cook served “ Sancho Panza,” by tossing in a blanket. Ventilate the Trrﬂmne; recover your prestige for bravery ‘and stop running after women. that was held in Chicago, that it was the most numcrously , association ever held. Let every delegate go there ﬁlled ‘ ._ W \. Aug. 30, 187.3. W()()DEIIl'IiL dz (lLAF.LIN’S WEEI§IJYe ‘A ~ 1 9 WARREN HARRIS AGAIN. INTRODUCTION. If I were to stand upon the common courtesies of a public discussion, I might with propriety refuse to notice this communication for two reasons: first, on account of the character of the communication itself, and secondly, on ac- count of the character of Mr. Harris’ communications, since my ﬁrst review of his previous criticism, in other journals, which instead of arguments are tirades merely; but I shall permit this to appear word for word as it was written, feel- ing that the style of rhetoric will not prejudice any ore against me, either as one individual or as an advocate of re- form in social affairs. It must, I think, be evident ‘to every unprejudiced reader that Mr. Harris is more interested in confusing the public mind about my methods of argumentation than he is in as- sisting it to arrive at the truth about love. In all this long communication he has never once denied freedom and set up the opposite theory. I am arguing to show the despotism of present laws, and that every law that attempts to control the affections against their own instincts should be abrogated, and thus remand the whole subject to the ﬁeld of education. ‘Here Mr. Harris would be perfectly free to put-forth all his efforts to bring people to his standard, if indeed he have one, which we do 11ot think he has as yet made at all clear. I announce individual freedom and stand by it in all exigen- cies, feeling whenever I ﬁnd I am in water too deep for me, that I can" come back to this and recover myself; and I feel safe always to assail whatever proposition conflicts with it. ’ I am aware, however, that there are many diﬁiculties to be encountered in an exhaustive treatment of any subject of vital import, and especially so in this one of the loves of humanity. Words to all persons do not mean the same things nor bear the same relations, while such confusion is possible as to put one in danger of being greatly misunder- stood. Besides, in the examination of a subject, one may often be compelled to change views regarding its collaterals and those things that grow out of the imagination. In- stance the faet that many admit the fundamental right of freedom, who differ as to what would result from it. I may have changed my opinions in regard to the effect that free- dom will have in certain directions. I make no special claim of infallibility of judgment in tracing out what would follow, but I am sure I am right in the basic question. It would be strange if at some time in the past two years I should not have made use ‘ of language that might be made to appear contradictory in the hands of one who desires to assail the main question through appeal to prejudice as to what it would produce in practice. I will inform Mr. I-larris at the outset that I hope to amend my conclusions‘ about many things; but I shall never have to conclude that despotism instead of freedom is the true law of social organ- ization, and I wish to repeat that all critics of social freedom do this in substance, and I ask them one and all to do so in theory. - Let us come down to hard pan and generalities afterward can be easily decided. But I will endeavor to show Mr. Harris that he either does not understand me at all or that he purposely misrepresents, and it will make no difference which horn of the delemma he chooses to accept. I think however, that he is in the same position that the lawyer was I in whose client, having no defense, blackguarded the plain- tifl’s attorney instead, which passed among the rabble for logic; and I also think I shall be able to show this to our readers so unmistakably that Mr. Harris may hereafter be dubbed after the defendants attorney. But to Mr. Harris: Mrs. Woodhull—In your reply to my communication, you reafﬁrm that you are a social revolutionist, but you have asked no one to help you inaugurate a new system, and that you have not yet offered a plan for social organization. The dictionary says that a revolutionist is one engaged in a change of government, and since a change in government re- quires reconstruction as well as destructionﬁyou cannot be a revolutionist, but only an anarchist; therefore Iadmit I had no right to complain that you announced no new system as a substitute for the old. COMMENTS.‘ [It matters little to me by what name it may please any one to denominate me, so that they do not misrepresent that which I do. If to be an anarchist is to assert social free- dom as strenuously as Luther did religious freedom; or as Cromwell did political freedom, then am I an anarchist; and more than this, I am proud’ to be classed with these names to which they who enjoy the fruits of their work look back almost with reverence. If Luther was an anar- chist; if Calvin, Fox, Murray and Parker,were anarchists; if ‘Washington, Franklin and Paine were anarchists, because they asserted the rights of freedom in certain directions, then Mr. Harris, if he choose, may, with my full permission, also call me likewise. Isn’t Mr. Harris just the least bit ridiculous? Does it occur to any that he thought suﬁiciently ahead to see to just what his conclusion would leadj? It is a great thing to start from the right point and to keep straight ahead, since such procedure never leads to ludicrous positions of logic.] . You insist that the question of freedom is the ﬁrst to be discussed and settled. Well, if freedom consists in an indi- vidual having sole jurisdiction over all his or her capacities and powers; and if community may, by organization, limit that jurisdiction for the protection of society; and if that rule applies alike to religious, political, intellectual, social and industrial capacities and wants, then you have settled that question yourself, and I accept your settlement of it, and I insist that until (as a Scotchman would say) you “ eat in your words,” you cannotconsistently evade any question by referring to the “abstract question of freedom.” COMMENTS. [Yesl I insist that freedom is the ﬁrst question to be settled. If it be right, then we may lookto what shall come from it. If it be found wrong, then there will be no need to look to consequences, since it must be denied; and “ sarkasim” can’t make foolishness out of that method of reasoning. But the logic that argues that the limitation of individual freedom for the protection of society is eating the words which declare the right of individual freedom to me, is foolishness. What is individual sovereignty? Clearly, sovereignty over the sphere of the individual. If the individual proceed not beyond that sphere then there is no need for society to be protected. If, however, the indi- vidual do proceed beyond his sphere into the sphere of another, against the consent of such other, then there is need that this other should be protected; and it is the busi- ness of the community to extend the protection needed to preserve the invaded sovereignty. Does not Mr. Harris now see wherein he fails to‘ grasp the meaning of freedom? It does not in any sense mean the license or guarantee to invade the sovereignty of any other person, since this would be despotism—the enforcement of the will of one upon an- other against his or her will. But if this other consent that his or her sphere be invaded; or still further, if he or she desire that the two spheres shall merge in one, then there can be no rightful power to oppose it. Now, the freedom with limitation for which certain freedomists contend, is the right-of the community to interfere with this sovereignty of two such individuals; but to us this is the confusion of ideas resulting from a desire to regulate principles by estab- lished customs, forms or laws, and will have to be aban_ doned when brought in contact with stern rules of logic. Therefore I say it is impossible to have freedom unless the very thing is maintained that you say I have eaten my own words in asserting. There can be no freedom if each and every person be not inalienably possessed of his or her own sphere of freedom. If, however, to say this is to eat my own words, then I confess I am thankful for the aliment they contain. _ They do not make me sick or turn my head, from indigestion, as it seems to me some heads must have been turned before they could here lead their unhappy pos- sessors into such inextricable confusion as exists in some quarters, upon so clear a question as social freedom.] You say, society must not enforce limitations which will interfere with individual natural rights. But the only way to decide whether an individual has a natural right to per- form a certain act, is by first deciding whether that act will affect society in such a way as to make protection necessary; hence the question of protection comes before the question of freedom. You say that society may enact that there shall be no rape committed, but that it cannot rightfully enact that two persons desiring the sexual embrace shall not have it. Now suppose a man magnetizes a woman and so controls her mind that she consents to sexual intercourse, when she would not, it free from that inﬂuence, and the burden of maternity is imposed upon her, against her ordinary feelings, can society rightfully limit that man’s' jurisdiction. for the protection of others who are liableto be inﬂuenced in the same way? Is it not as great a wrong to impose aburden upon her by the force of the will, as by force of muscle? ‘ Suppose. the woman had been insane, and by taking advantage of that insanity, a burden was imposed on her, or on society, would not society haveja right to protect itself or her? You will not deny that, with many women, the sexual excitement is, for the time, an insanity. Now, if advantage be taken of that temporary insanity, to impose a burden on.the woman or on society, has society not a right to try to protect itself? COMMENTS. [An individual can perform no act in freed om within his own sphere that can injuriously affect society. ‘Instance, a person may regulate his religious convictions according to the evidences received; he may change his political pre- dilections as often as he pleases ; he may remove from one locality to another every day if he will, and neither Mr. Harris nor any other stickler for “limitations” will dare deny him the right to do any of them ; and in not daring to deny this, I say they ought not to dareto deny the exercise of the same right in social affairs. If it be contended, how- ever, that such exercise may affect the community detri- mentally in the possibility of children, I reply to this that there are many other admitted rights that might possibly be presented as argument against freedom with some con- sistency, but not this one. -Society wants children: so this in itself is no objection to the possibility of their being pro- duced; but it needs healthy and good children. But will: limitationists maintain that to have such, society shall regu- late by law all the habits of men and women that tend to produce those of an opposite kind? Shall society say to parents, you shall or shall not eat and drink this, that or the other; shall or shall not sleep, labor or travel as they may choose, and a hundred other things that, under present advancement toward democracy, are equally as ridiculous? But if not, how can it be maintained that the rule that is abrogated in everything else, that is really of consequence, shall be maintained in love, which ,is_happiest let alone? Answer this who can. Itis because Austin Kent sees the absolute impossibility of escape from this point that he challenges liar:-is and all others to .cli,s_,cuss this question. If any enter the arena, he will, before he makes his exit, learn the same thing. It is self—evident, and blindness only pre- vents people from seeing it. I made the clear statement that society has no right to prohibit sexual intercourse when any two desire it. But you suppose cases where “magnetism” is used to eﬁect it. Well, shall we here also maintain different rules than any- where else‘? Suppose you desire to obtain a loan of a hun- dred dollars fro_m a woman who has it to loan, and by your magnetic power persuade her to loan it, but afterward, when your magnetism has passed oif, she repent, shall society shut you up to prevent you from doing the same thing to another woman‘? Again, suppose yourself to be in love with some woman who does not entirely reciprocate the attachment, and that you make use of your magnetic power of persuasion so profusely that she consents to marry you, but after doing which she repents, shall society inter- fere to set the w7°.0n_(/ right? Mr. Harris, you insult Woman- hood when you make such a proposition. You debase her to the level of a mere instrument, to be played upon by men. What have been your experiences that you should have the capacity to think that women ever have the need for the protection you hint at? Inject a little common sense into the consideration of the sexual question, and the bug- bears of sexual slavery will disappear incontinently. Place the sexual problem upon the same standards of controversy that all other questions occupy, and the advocates for “limitations” will have no standing ground. But if women become insane over sexual excitement, as you say they do, why, I should say that they, instead of the men, should have the beneﬁt of the protection of society in a comfort- able insane asylum. But does not Mr. Harris forget that sexual intercourse is the antidote to this sort of insanity ; or can he not even perceive so apparent a fact as this? In- stead of children being _a burden upon society, it ‘should pay large prices to women who will furnish them. This is , my idea of what you call “ burdens.” If I am wrong, how- ever, let society determine that there shall be no more burdens, as by its customs it is rapidly doing, and where will society ﬁnd itself in twenty years‘? I say, let every woman, married and single, present society with children as frequently as they can feel it right for them to do so, and let society take its hands off in this business. So much for your children bugbean] _ You say parents are the agents of society, to keep it in ex- istence, just as the tree is the agent of society to produce fruit by which to maintain life! But society, byengrafting, compels the tree to bear such fruit as it chooses, and if your comparison is just, society may compel individuals to bear children from any individual scion they may see ﬁt to en- graft upon them. You say you have not had to run over your own words, or to dodgebehind the great word freedom; no, but you ran round your words, and tried to dodge behind a tree, and like an ostrich thought you were safe, whenonly your head was hid. COMMENTS. [And here again you overreach yourself. I Fruit trees do not constitute a part of society. Individuals are members of society, and what they produce belongs in common to themselves as its members. Men have the power over trees to compel them to their will, inside natural law; but society only has the right to educate parents to conditions that will produce good fruit. The agency in each case must be gov- erned by the rights which attach to the agents employed. Society, by education, however, does as literally engraft up. on parents the fruit it would have as it does upon trees. And it is to just this freedom that we would have men and women come—to the freedom and to the wisdom that shall permit them to select the best engraftments that society can present. If this freedom were permitted, will Mr. Harris say that men and women would not‘? avail themselves of the ‘ best methods for children? If so, then I think it is his body that is hid behind an assumption, while his head is at the mercy of whatever danger, from lack of perception, and it does not take much running round of words or anything else to see the position, either.] You say I started with the intention of criticising socia 1 freedom, but that I had criticised everything else but that. I started with the intention of criticising just what the invita- tion was for, that is, your “ argument for social freedom.” You asserted, in your article on Physical Degeneracyfthat the base of the brain was continually generating a force which must have expression, in use, through the sexual sys- tem, or be thrown back upon the brain, demoralizing and laying waste everything within its reach, and producing most if not. all cases of insanity. This assertion you used as an argument against what you call social despotism, and in favor of social freedom; and if the assertion were true, it would be the strongest argument you have used. I criticised that argument by showing that if sexual desire was not re- pressed, it would lead to sexual intercourse; that pregnancy is the natural result of, and, at_least, to be expected from sex- ual intercourse; (as you say in your comments) that preg- nancy causes a suspension of sexual desire, and that the re- pression of sexual desire causes repression; hence repression is inevitable, and if such horrors are caused by repression, nature has made an awful blunder. COMMENTS. [I beg your pardon, sir. I never said, in my comments, anything like this: that “ pregnancy causes a suspension of sexual desire.” Indeed, I know that it does not; and I almost think I can say that I do. not think it ought; but I will not argue this question here. Imerely offer the ideaas fooch for thought, which those who have the right to know may con at their leisure. But if it did, how should that necessa- A i I 1 J ‘z 4 10 q I wooronurr. a CLAFLIIWS WEEKLY. . .. Auo~.3(),1873. L‘) rily cause repression of the sexual desire, as you seem to as- sert? how should a suspension of sexual desire by pregnancy cause a repression of sexual desire? I may be very obtuse, but for my life I can’t see at what you are driving by this style of criticism. Therefore I reaflirm all of which you ac- cuse me, lacking only this which you seem to think para- doxical, but in which I cannot discover the solution. I said in my comments: “While to say that, in a natural state, men and women would be less true to their real ~natm=es than are the beasts and birds, is to impeach that nature and its creator, and not me;” and I say so still, and therefore I see no physiological difficulty to be solved, as you suggest, as follows :] I asked for a plain, scientiﬁc solution of this physiological diﬂiculty, but in your column and a half of comments on this one paragraph, the following is all that has any bearing at all on the point in question: 1. You believe that frequent pregnancy is itself a disease. 2. You know, from experience and observation, that “le- gitimate fruits of unions based wholly on love, are few but noble children.” (Are these illegitimate fruits of such unions?) 3. You assume that in freedom in sexuality woman will not be continually pregnant, and say that in“ support of this I might cite the fact that women who receive the em- braces of men promiscuously never conceive; although I would not have it inferred that the conditions of a true order of society are at all analogous to prostitution.” 4. “I may also add that the immediate cause of constant pregnancy is the demoralized sexual condition into which women are drawn by the demands of legal prostitution and its consequent irresponsive, unreciprocated sexuality.” You say common prostitutes never conceive, and that legal prostitutes constantly conceive; that a demoralized sexual condition is the immediate cause of constant preg- nancy, while in “ Sexual Vice N o. 1,” you say a demoralized sexual condition is the reason why people are unable to beget and bear as many children as formerly. In the pre- ceding column you say that conception is the natural re- sult of, and at least to be expected from, sexual intercourse; while here, you say that the results of natural love unions are few, and of unnatural unions, without love, many. How can unnatural unions produce fewer natural results than unnatural unions? A COMMENTS. [Legal prostitutes conceive frequently because they are sexually demoralized by the constant excitement of their sexual organs by intercourse without the consummation of, the act——an entirely different condition from that of prosti- tutes, who, as a general rule, when free from contagious di- sease, are not sexually demoralized. A demoralized sexual condition, then, on the part of women causes pregnancy; but the demoralization of men and women from sexual vice in youth, which exists so much more generally now than for- merly, and from unreciprocated promiscuousness of men with women, is the reason that there are not so many chil- dren born as formerly. Thousands of sexually demoralized women conceive almost regularly monthly, and as frequently morbidly miscarry, while the men with whom they con- sort may not be demoralized to any great extent. Is it not clear, then, that pregnancy may be more frequent than it was years ago, and still result in fewer children, especially when we remember that it is" estimated that no less than one- third of all conceptions are now systematically destroyed -—another proliﬁc cause of sexual demoralization among women, and affecting men only by inﬂuence? This is so straight and clear to me that I wonder a person of as great pretense as a critic as Warren Harris, could possibly think he had found a snarl of statements impossible of extraction, which he evidently did think. But what about the latter query? Does this also, as the former, require only to be analyzed to be found like it, clear and sound in its phi- losophy? Conception is a natural result of sexual inter- course. ’ Anybody will not dispute this. It may not, how- ever, be the only natural result. It will follow when it must follow, but not when conditions prevent. If it were the only natural result, then conception should follow all sexual commerce, which it does not. Now, in perfect love unions the natural results of intercourse are not frequent pregnancy but healthy children, while the frequent conceptions of un- healthy conditions furnish diseased results, so clearly shown in the present generation of children, that every observer ought to be convinced. And thus it is that the healthful re- sults of natural unions may be fewer than the diseased results of unnatural unions. Are you answered? If so, I will pass to the insanity criticism by stating a fact of record: that out of one thousand men who in the recent war l.eft their fami- lies and enlisted in the navy, and were conﬁned on ship- board, two hundred were discharged, within a year, insane from repressed sexual desire, and take up the next diﬂiculty upon which you have stumbled] . The only thing you have offered to maintain your asser- tion that insanity is caused by repression is the account of the insane Irishman, and if that proves anything it proves just the contrary from what you intended. In the ﬁrst place, there is no intimation or evidence that the insanity was caused by repression; but even if it had been, he be- came quiet, and consequently the repression must have been removed, without sexual intercourse, while the warden watched the progress of the treatment. You say the account was evidently dressed up to rnakelit proper to appear in print; but it must require a sharp scent to detect any evidence of that kind. If the treatment was what you intimate, the warden would not have had it pub- Wlbhed unless he was crazier than those he had the care of. Your own words show that repression, instead of being ﬁuch a bad thing, is really a good thing. In the Beecher- so Tilton article you say that “ Plymouth Church has lived and fed, and the healthy vigor of “public opinion for the last quarter of a century has been augmented and strengthed, from the physical amativeness of Henry Ward Beecher. Will you say that the repression which was necessary to produce this result was not better than the unrestrained use of that force through the sexual system? And if Beecher could repress that force sumcientlv to produce such resuits, pression, beneﬁt society in a proportionate degree? If, as Joseph Treat says,’ the repressing or suppressing that in- stinct in a Newton and a Humboldt developed a “ Prin- Gipia” and a “ Cosmos,” why not encourage others to obtain a mastery over their passions instead of helping to make. them slaves to them, in the name of freedom! You repeat that the sexual passion is the “ voice of God in the soul,” and add: “ You may possibly assume, and be con- sistent in it, that you have no such voice in your soul; but I respectfully deny you the right to assume that position for me, or for anybody but yourself.” The last thing in the world I would do would be to assume that position for you. I freely admit that that voice may be like the “ thunders of Sinai ” in your soul. But about its being the “ promptings of our best nature,” Sada Bailey says itlis no better than benevolence, but just as good. Then if it is no better it can- not be the best. In your article on “The Basis of Charac- ter,” in the WEEKLY for May 31, you say: “ Immense sexual power, unaccompanied by correspondingly developed intel- lectual and moral capacities, produces brutality in man and beastliness in woman.” Does the “voice of God” have to be smothered and the “ promptings of our best nature” held in check to prevent brutality and beastliness, or is this a “sexual paradox?” ‘ ' - COMMENTS. [Mr. Harris is entirely at fault if _ he suppose that I have ever said that Henry Ward Beecher’s magnetic effect upon his audiences resulted from _the repression of physical amativeness. This effect has been possible because he possessed this physical amativeness. Had he lacked it, having all his intellectual powers intact, he would also have lacked the success that has attended ,him. If nature had desired that man should have larger intellectual powers, proportionately, than he has ama- tive, it would have so constituted him from the be- ginning. Nature aims at and continually struggles for equal balanced organization throughout, and when man is formed with one side of his nature predominant, the remedy is to develop the weak and inactive sides to the level. No organ of the human bra1n_can possibly be too large, if all others are of equal power; but organs may be too small, which is evident when it is remembered that to bring others down to their size is not the proper method of establishing equilibriums. So if ‘ Henry Ward Beecher’s amativeness is larger than the other sides of his character, these last need to be developed up to the standard of the former, so that a large rounded-out character may result. Murderers and thieves are not so because the organs of destructiveness and acquisitiveness are too largely developed, but because their compensating organs are too small or inactive. This is the rule that is practiced in every other part of nature. If we have anything growing we do not stint the growth of the larger to make it possible for the smaller to keep pace, but we stimulate the growth of the smaller to gain this end. Neither do I think it established that Newton developed ,a “ Principia,” or Humboldt a “ Cosmos,” through hav- ing repressed their Tamativeness.‘ On the contrary, if these valuable contributions were possible of these men under re- pression, zf that, indeed, were their cases, we believe that still greater things would have been possible under an en- lightened use of their amativeness, through the divinity of inspiration, such as woman’s love and love of woman only -—reciprocal love-—can develop; that is to say, the best things emanate from those ‘persons whose characters are the most evenly balanced throughout. A literary or scien tiﬁc production written by a person with an unevenly bal- anced brain will necessarily. partake of the one-sidedness‘ of the writer. The healthiest persons ‘physically are they who most evenly exercise all the parts of their body. So also is the healthiest and most active brain that one which has proper exercise. in all its various functions. The great error of moralists is, that they pretend to think that the basic portions of the brain are immoral. This will have to be rectiﬁed before a correct system of ethics can exist. A small amativeness is equally to be deplored with a similar develop- ment of intellectual capacity; and a.person having large sublimity and ideality is as much a slave to them as he is to amativeness who has large sexual capacity. Now, what man and woman want is, evenly balanced characters, and when this is wanting, then the development of theinactive and weak faculties; and therefore, that the cure for brutality in man and beastliness in woman, is not the destruction of amativeness but the bringing forward of the other and balancing characteristics.» .In such people the destruction of these impulses would: leave their subjects without char- acter at all, while their exhibition‘ needs only to be limited to exercise underconsent to. secure theperfect prot'ection of society-—the individuals forming the community.] Again, in your deﬁnition of social freedom (which Sada Bailey says I did not quote correctly, although I used your exact words and put no interpretation on them), you tell what rights the “demon ” and the “ angel” have. I contend thattheir rights must be decided by the effects their acts have on .other-individuals or on society. I asked if a_ parent would havea right (by compulsion, of course.) to prevent’, sexual intercourse between an “angel” daughter and 3. why cannot those who have a less amount of force, by re- I *5 as to induce her to become “a consenting party.” Sada Bailey says: “Yes, a thousand times we answer yes!” To show that you would say, yes to the same question, she re- fers me to your editorial on the ninth page, of April 26, where I ﬁnd the following: “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.” ‘ In the introduction to the article under consideration you ‘say: “I "am anxious to defend, explain and restate my views of this question to my utmost ability.” In my com- munication I gave, as brieﬂy as possible, in my own words. what I understand; your doctrines to be in regard to sexual matters, and asked you if I understood you rightly. In re- ply, you go through another column and a—half of verbal gymnastics, in which a soreness and irritability is manifest- ed which would hardly be expectcd from those who have conﬁdence in the truth of their own teachings, or who feel that they “ have a solid foundation of principles upon which to stand.” You talk about putting words in your mouth you never uttered, and call it bushwhacking. I put no words in your mouth. I did not deny your statements, nor ask you to justify my conclusions. I said I understood you to mean that there was no cure for sexual vice but sexual in- tercourse. I came to that conclusion from your saying that it could not be abandoned; that there is not “any known remedy in medicine” for its eﬁects; and, “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.” You talk as if I had no right to come to‘ any understand- ing of what you meant, at all. Why do you use words if you don’t want people to understand what you mean? If» I misunderstood you, you could easily have said so, but you do not. If that was what you meant, and you believed it to be true, what is the necessity for all this squirming? Are you ashamed to advocate the truth? COMMENT S. - [N ow about the control of sexual desires in children. Does Mr. Harris admit them to be natural? We presume he must answer yes! Well, then, if they are natural, what better right have parents to deny their satisfaction than they have to deny the gratiﬁcation of any other natural desire that chil- dren have; that of food, for instance? If he will answer this, then we may know ‘something as to what his answer ought to be about children, and if he is consistent, then it will be the same that every person who is governed by reason must give. I com anxious to present whatever new thought I have about this whole question; but I must be permitted to choose my own method of arrangement. I do not desire, indeed I will not begin at the wrong end of the matter. I will start from the base and build up, and when Mr. Harris speaks of soreness and irritability, I respectfully refer him to the Re- ligio-Philosophical Journal of arecent date to one of his own articles, which, if it were mine, I should blush to own, and certainly should have to feel very sore and irritable before I could produce such an article. But mark you, Mr. Harris. I said there is a remedy for the effects of sexual vice in children, but I did not say what it is. What right, then, had you to even presume, much less to assert, that it is sexual intercourse. I say you had a right to infer whatever you might; but I repeat that you had no right to have come to any understanding of me upon that point at all. Wlien I say that sexual intercourse is that rem- edy, then you will have a right to your conclusions. Until then, however, you have no such right; you neither under- stood nor misunderstood me. You assumed merely, with- out any foundation whatever. Perhaps you can squirm out of that; but if you can, you cannot compel me to state, even truths until I choose to do so. This is my freedom, and hap- pily I can compel you to respect it. I do not think that even my bitterest opponents and enemies will accuse me of being ashamed of the truth about anything; and consequent- ly I think this attempted fling just a little bit harder hit for Warren Harris than it is for Victoria Woodhull, and if it please him to make more such, she will not object at all.] I did not tell what my views were in regard to the doc- trines contained in that paragraph, because I wanted to be sure that I understood you, and also because I did not con- sider it necessary, since I am not a leader in a revolution, neither have I any great mission to perform, but I do feel it my duty, when those who are acknowledged as leaders teach what I consider dangerous errors, to show wherein I think they are wrong. I believe in educating children thoroughly in all that relates to the sexual system, and that the moth- ers are the proper teachers. If they have not‘ sufﬁcient physiological knowledge, let it be taught by medical men and women who make it their study, and have all the neces- sary apparatus for illustration which » schools could not afford, even if school teachers could be found competent to“ teach a subject of such vast importance. ' I am not going to “ comecto any conclusions,” but I would like to ask if the functions of the sexual organs are just as proper subjects of discussion and investigation in schools by children of both sexes as any other subject? and if “‘ sexual intercourse, where there are legitimate natural desires, is not obscene, and no pure-minded person can ever conceive it to be so,” then why would it be improper or obscene, if there were among the older scholars those having legitimate natural desires, for them to give practical illustrations before the school for the instruction of the smaller children? And Why would it be improper at school exhibitions to exhibit the progress in that branch as well as in elocution, since it is such an important element in a great preacher, provided always that there is a mutual ‘desire and neither party ob- “demon” who had so overcome her by his magnetic power jects to it? ' AN, Aug. 30, 1373. woonH;ULL & CLAFLIIWS wnnxtr. ii — COMMENTS. . [Has Mr. Harris any doubt as to whether children have, not to say sufficient, but any physiological knowledge at all of sexual science? If it be something that they need to be taught, why should not the teachers who teach the other branches of education also teach this ‘.9 I am sure I can see no more reason why medical men and women should any more teach sexual science than profess- ors of mathematics should teach the science of numbers, and if our present system of common schools cannot afford the necessary apparatus, then let there be a speciﬁc appropria- tion for the especial purpose. I cannot conceive any im- propriety in a full and free discussion and teaching of sex- ual science. I cannot see" why the subject should any more tend to create uncalled-for desires than should the treatment of the stomach and food create uncalled-for hunger. The trouble is that the sexual question is in an entirely abnormal condition; and it requires to be driven out of it into a nor- mal condition, where healthy action only can exist; and when Warren Harris rectiﬁes his ideas of sexual propriety he will see this. In such a, condition there will be no such thing as the morbidly occurring one—sided desires that now make up sexuality. There will be reciprocal desire only~—a natural supply to meet a natural demand. To me he is obscene who considers sexual intercourse obscene. It is one of the most beautiful operations of nature, and ought to be based upon a well-established scientiﬁc basis so as to secure the best re- sults in children and the most perfect happiness to the par- ties. All things, however, that are proper in themselves are not proper at all places. Whatever is of public interest is proper to be displayed before the public. Whatever is purely individual in its character should be performed by the indi- vidual alone, instance the necessary evacuation of the bowels and bladder; and so also should that which interests two people be performed by them where it will not interfere with others or the public. It seems to me that any one who has no better conceptions of individual and communal lim- its than Mr. Harris appears to have, is poorly calculated to discuss any questions in which freedom is involved] I do deny that sexual’ intercourse is the only cure for the effects of sexual vice. An unstimulating diet, bathing, air, exercise, constant occupation, encouragement in the deter- mination to rise above the slavery to the passions, together with the recuperative powers of nature, will cure any one who is Worth saving, and those who are not had better die as soon as possible than to risk cursing the next generation for the sake of curing themselves. COMMENTS. [Since I have not said that sexual intercourse is the only cure for the effects of sexual vice——n1ind you, I say effects- that is, spermatorrhea—I have no special issue at this point, except to remind Mr. Harris that his cures are only’ palli- atives. A cure for any diseased function is the substitution of healthy action for diseased action. His treatment may have a salutary effect upon the disease, butif he think a cure effected in any" case, let him cease administering the remedy and see if the disease do not almost immediately re- turn. - I make the further ‘assertion, that when once spermatorrhea is fully developed in any person that it cannot be permanently cured without substituting some other method of disposing of the seminal ﬂuid, or by the destruc- tion of the organs that produce it. Dispute this who can. Nor should I think it better that a victim of the ignorance that society almost compels to exist on this subject, had better die then to be saved, even if the salvation have to come through sexual intercourse. What proportion of men when marrying are subjects of the effects of sexual vice? Can Mr. Harris form any estimate? The statistics of physicians say one-half. According to Mr. H. all those should be prevented from marrying. Isn’t that so? I would recommend the critics of. social freedom to follow out their lines of argument to all these involvements before putting them before the world, since, if they do not, there will be those who will surely do it for their and remind them of their follies.] , You ask if there is any escape for the unmarried from either unnatural sexual vice or natural sexual virtue? By the last Iunderstand you to mean sexual intercourse, though I suppose you will say I have no right to understand any- thing by it. If that is what you mean, I do think there is an escape from it, and that thousands do escape both. This is a question of physical necessity entirely. You claim that the highest sexual union is the permanent union of one man and one woman, and profess to think that ultimately all will arrive at that condition. Now, take one Such union. If the “natural result of sexual intercourse take place, I would like to have you tell how the man is to escape from “unnatural sexual vice or natural sexual virtue ” for about a year; and also if you consider intercourse during pregnancy “natural sexual virtue ‘?” If he can escape bothlfor a year, would it not be possible for him to escape for several years? The difﬁculty is the same whether we consider the case of one man and 0116 W0II1aI1i 01‘ Of the whole number of men and the whole number of women. COMMENTS [I asked the solution’ of a question: you present the question but do not answer it. It does not belong to me to aid you out of any dilemma in which you may ﬁnd yourself in this discussion. You reply if he can escape for a year he may for a longer time. To which I say, Amen! But, how escape? That is the question at issue just here, and I can’t see that you offer any solution. But I suppose you thought to force me to state my ideas of another question by forcing- this one in this way, and that is as to sexual intercourse out- A side of permanent sexual unions at speciﬁc times. It is not established that intercourse during pregnancy is either wrong or hurtful. This is an open question. If it be pre- tended that it is decided, then I say it is decided arbi- trarily. Passing this, however, it must be remembered that permanent unions in freedom are based upon a continuous natural attraction, and when this does not occur, there can be no such things as natural permanent unions; there can be only those that are liable either to interruption or change. The error of the present is that interruptions are held to be causes of permanent separation, whether the natural attrac- tion continue or not. But here is where the purity of the sexual question begins: Where there is freedom, intercourse will be based upon the fact of conditions in the two sexes that have an affinity for each other, which being brought into the sphere‘ of each other’s inﬂuences, ﬁnds expression. This action, carried into the perfect permanent unions, solves the query proposed, since, admitting the decision re- ferred to, there being no desire on the part of the pregnant woman, there will be no awakened response from which to escape. It is to just such conditions of purity as these that sexual freedom and science will lead, and to the utter wiping out of the human form that one-sided, abnormal, merely animal desire for self-gratiﬁcation passion that now consti- tutes the basis for almost all. sexuality; and thus, instead of being a “question of physical necessity entirely,” it is a question of natural adaptation and aﬂinity altogether. I wish to repeat here in reply to this: “You claim that the highest sexual union is the permanent union of one man and one woman, and profess to think that ultimately all will arrive at that condition; ” that this is what I believe will be the ultimate result of freedom sexually. This, however, is directly opposed to what ‘many believe, who, equally with me, are advocates of freedom. It has nothing whatevr to do with the principle of freedom itself, since, if it be right, it cannot matter whether it‘ lead to permanent union or to utter promiscuousness, because, being right at bottom, the result must be right. No consistent person, then, can reject freedom as a principle because he or she may think it will lead in any now seemingly repugnant direction. Further, when all the present morbidness of sexuality is overcome by letting the light of truth and science in upon it, I believe there will be no "male passion except in response to a female demand. Woman is the sovereign in the domain. of sex, and to her it belongs to determine for herself when intercourse shall occur. Therefore it must follow that where the demand exists, that there will ﬂow the required supply. It is not the cold air that pushes its way into rariﬁed locali- ties, but it is the existence of the rariﬁed conditions that call upon it to come. This, in sexuality, however, cannot come until the conditions are placed like all others upon the plane of perfect freedom, and as a result of a long-con- tinued investigation and experiment] I have not misrepresented you as advocating that promis- cuousness was better than the monogamic relation; but that it is better for those who are on that plane, since to them it is freedom. But I think, from a statement in your paper of March 15, that with you the prospect of a speedy arrival at that monogamic state is not ﬂattering. You say, “ If it were possible that there could be a person from whom a certain other person could satisfy all intellectual cravings, and who could impart intellectual food to no other person, that would be a permanent intellectual union. Upon the same con- ditions, sexually, a permanent union may be predicated, and upon no other.” COMMENTS. I have stated the principles upon which perfect and be- cause perfect, permanent_ unions of any kind may be predi- cated; and the facts that exist are found to coincide with such statement. I am not responsible for either the princi- ples or the facts. If you or any one can discern methods other than those of adaptation and harmony from which unity can, follow, I for one shall be put under obligation. But I said such a case as you quote me as saying, would be permanent, intellectual union. Do you question it? And I used it to illustrate from what a permanent sexual union may be expected; and I again insist that upon no other predica- tion can such a anion be. But I must now still further explain, else next you-will have me saying there can never be a per- manent sexual union by that standard. So to anticipate: Intellect is the result of the various inﬂuences in the en- vironment of the individual, operating through the nerves open the brain, and speaking after the manner of the age is promiscuous in its character. It receives and gives when- ever there is a demand that is a sufﬁcient attraction; but nobody thinks of calling promiscuous intellectual inter- course, prostitution of the intellect. I The refore in my former article I said: “ If it were possible,” which from the nature of the case it is not. But sexuality so far as ex- perience goes to’ show it,_ or reason to indicate it, is not pro- miscuously acquired. It is a natural capacity that develops in the individual whether he have intercourse or not, and when developed make its natural demands for satisfaction. Now, sexuality is different from intellectuality in this, that it is purely personal; and all persons are possessed of it in a greater .or less degree, and so far are similar. Intellect, however, isgeneral, the conceptions of identical things’ by different individuals, male or female, being the same conceptions of the same things. So it must follow if the sexual nature of one individual ﬁnds itself counterparted in a single other individual, ﬁnds all its desires and de- mands met and ﬁlled, and at the same time it meets and ﬁlls all the desires and demands of its counterpart, that will, must be, a permanent sexual union. i/Vhen such a union exists it will be impossible for the sexual demands of any ~ third person to interfere, because there will be no response to the demand, there will be no supply to meet the demand; in a word,,there will be no recognition of the demand, since, naturally, there will be no unity. Love of the sexes is sexual attraction, and where there is attraction there is love; and if there be arbitrary restrictions to prevent its expression, then nature is aborted and happiness denied. There is a vast domain here for investigation ; but I have indicated the direction it must -take, and can do no more now. I may add, however, that this philosophy, which looks to such perfected conditions and consequent perfect happiness a11d joy,_is called by some “Animalism.” To ’me it is the divinest religion that can touch the soul. Would to heaven that every living soul weretouched by its quench- less ﬁre.] You say, you “ﬂatly and emphatically” deny that you have invaded the pursuit of happiness on the part of any- body, and that you “have not attempted, or thought of at- tempting, to prevent anybody from pursuing happiness in his or her own way.” I should be entirely unable to account . for such an utter disregard of facts if you did not say, “ VVe must begin at the other end and build systems upon prin- ciples, without regard to whatever is or has been, and let th facts take care of themselves.” . ' You did not attempt to interfere with Mr. Beecher pur- suing happiness in his own way when you insisted on his presiding at your lecture till he begged of you on his knees, with the tears streaming down his cheeks, to let him off! Nor when you threatened to expose him, after he had said, “ Oh, if it must come, let me know it twenty-four hours in advance, that I may take my own life.” Nor when you invaded the most secret and sacred aﬁairs of his life and dragged them to the light, and exposed him to the opprobrium and viliﬁ- cation of the public. You did not “with deep sincerity ask his forgiveness” because you were invading his pursuit of happiness, but because you were promoting it. I looked in the dictionary as you requested, and I ﬁnd the deﬁnition of “reputation” to be “good name ;” and of “ character,” “ reputation.” If you mean by character, what a person really is, then, to talk about destroying or stealing character is to talk nonsense. You might as well talk about stealing aperson’s memory or of destroying his benevolence. You admit that you damaged Beecher’s reputation, and I W111 leave the reader to decide whether that is not placing him in such relation to third persons as to destroy, at least, some of his means of pursuing happiness in his own way. If you tortured him, as you describe, for the purpose of enabling him to enjoy a greater amount of happiness in the future, then, that is just what the Jesuit told his victim, as he applied the .red-hot pincers to his quivering ﬂesh. If 3, person who is on the plane of promiscuity has a right to practice promiscuousness, why has not the person who is on the plane of the hypocrite a right to practice hypocracy? And if freedom in promiscuousness is the only Way to grow out of that condition, why is not freedom to be a hypocrite the only way to grow out ofhypocracy? COMMENTS. [Yes, I made use of such means as I had at my command, that were mine, to induce Mr. Beecher to preside at the Steinway Hall lecture, and you and everybody else have the right to just such use.‘ If, however, there were a law to compel him, against his own will, that would not be right;_ I used no physical force, only the powers of persuasion, such as I am now using with you to endeavor to establish in your mind the principles and rights of freedom. I could not induce Mr. Beecher to do what I desired. I did not in- duce him by force. Therefore I think even Warren Harris will not presume to deny me the right I then exercised. At; least I shall continue to exercise itin similar ways whenever opportunity demands it. But I did not interfere with any- body’s pursuit of happiness. I did not so much ‘as say to Mr. Beecher, You ought not to do thus any more. He is just as much at liberty now as before, so far as I am con. cerned, to continue his practices with whomever he pleases; and I know of no position in which he has been placed by this, with third‘ parties, that destroy any of his means of pursuing happiness in his own way. I If Warren Harris is cognizant of any, I shall be obliged for the information, and will do my best to replace them for Mr. Beecher’s use. Not only did I not do all this that you say I did, but I en- deavored to show to the world that the means by which Mr. Beecher was pursuing happiness, which thousands were denying themselves, because Mr. Beecher publicly de- nounced such pursuit, belonged as much to them as to M13 Beecher; and if they were right in Mr. Beecher, they were right also for everybody else; and if I damaged his reputation, it was only by saving others from being further imposed upon by his hypocrisy. And I did this in the interests of happj- ness for humanity, and for its emancipation from a slavery I held over it by those who themselves, in practice, deny its authority. But Mr. Beecher, by his practices, was pursuing his own happiness, while by his hypocrisy he was interfering with ' my means of happiness. He was saying to those who would otherwise be my friends, andexerting all of his immense in- ﬂuence against my public social position, and by this was virtually saying to the world at large, that Victoira Woodhull is a bad woman and teaching immoral doctrines, and lead- ing people down to helland the devil. Therefore,with his hypocrisy I had something to do, and by doing what I did I prevented it from further interfering with my good and what I conceive to be the public good. I willingly admit; that the person on the plane of promiscuousness has the right to its practices under the limit of consent, and that .\ __ ..._ ,..,_n__.¢_...._ . . _ _ . ? - ‘ ....«-''''°...,'«)g;_§;-,__tg1:1u:r_-—.i—....,.____..__‘ ‘ ‘r “ 12 , VVOODHULL dz CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Aug. 30, 1873. the person on the plane of hypocrisy has the right to prac- tice his hypocrisy; but I have the right in both instances to endeavor to induce those upon whom they are to be prac- ticed to come up to higher planes. Promiseuousness sexu- ally, if mutually dest'red, is happiness to both parties ; but hypocrisy is a false pretence, and cannot add to any second persons happiness. CanWarren Harris modify his reasoning by analogy, so as to see this distinction, aye, this difference ? And can he not also see that progress out of the con- dition must necessarily be made where attempts to practice -hypocrisy are impossible of eﬁect, while promiscuousness sexually, when it is not mutual, where it is simply self-grat- iﬁcation, brings its own penalty—-—dcstruction of sexual power. Every person who -pursues sexual gratiﬁcation merely for itself, loses the power to pursue it at all in from six to ten years. There are thousands of such oietims all ooer the world; and that practice has deprived the world of more happiness than all other things combined. Think of this, and then tell me I shall not preach against it, whether in or out of marriage, or wherever it may be.] . I wish to add a word or two in reply to Sada Bailey. She said she was prepared to prove that I respected legalized adultery more than the real soul marriage, and proceeded to prove it by the condition of things in a country hamlet of her acquaintance. I cannot see how that proves what I think any more than I can see how a problem in geometry can be demonstrated by one of Watt’s hymns. She cites the case of a “truly noble young man and woman” of “superior culture in morals and intellect,” Who had “the ﬁrst-born of their true, pure and perfect love” murdered to save their own respectability; and says: “You, 1 Brother Harris, would say that this couple should have re- strained their passions until after the legal ceremony.” Yes, I should say that those as destitute of moral courage as they proved to be should restrain their passions, and if they could not restrain them themselves they should have help to do so. She says: “The best organized children are murdered be- fore birth, or soon after.” If that is true, it must be the un- married who kill their children, who are the results of un- restrained passion, or else the children of marriage are the best organized. The most of her reply is in regard to mar- riage, which I did not allude to, only to say that I knew there were faults in the marriage institution and much misery in married life. Perhaps this will not meet your views of what criticisms of social freedom should be; but. I have exercised my own freedom in writing, and you can exercise your freedom in regard to printing it. Yours and the readers’ for true progress, - WARREN HARRIS. DANVILLE, Vt., J uiie 9, 1873. COMMENTS. Finally, passing what relates to Sada Bailey, I desire to say that if I had consulted my own happiness, peace and comfort, I should have never entered upon this warfare. Not any one will scarcely accuse me of self-interest in call- ing down upon my head all the indignities, brutalities and abuse that Ihave suffered. The world’s wealth could not have induced me to endure what I have endured. I have ' parted with everything that, in the world’s estimation, is desirable in earth life——-with wealth and powerful friends ; all are gone. From a home surrounded by all the com- forts of life I have come to the street, with no place to lay my head, sleeping one night here, and the next there, and the next somewhere else, and at no timeknowing where the next will be. And I am hounded all over the world as the vilest woman in the world, and wherever I go am exposed to the jeers and insults of the thoughtless mob and the up- turned noses of my sisters, whom I would emancipate. Surely I have not conjured all thisfor my own happiness. My spirit friends, those who would have the conditions of spirit-life inaugurated on earth, and who are preparing the way to do it, have required this service of me. This and the misery I have seen and that gr know exists called upon me so potently that I could not disobey. I could not now re- treat if I would, and I would not if I could. I shall go on dealing the heaviest blows upon the accursed system that I can deal ; and let it lead me to whatever it may, I shall go forward. And, mark you, Wari'en Harris, out of all this shall come a freedom for men and women, built upon the possibilities of manhood and womanhood, that shall despise the thought that either cannot stand without the aid of law, alone and erect in the world. Then, I trust, I may feel compensated for the little that I may have done to promote it, and for all of present happiness that has been denied me A through it. I am yours for all progress, since all progress is advance- ment. 1 VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. >—4Q>—-4 ANNA M. MIDDLEBROOK. This able and earnest lecturess, who for the last year has been out of the ﬁeld, is open for engagements after the beginning of September, either for Sundays or week-day evenings, to speak for Spiritualists, Liberalists or other reformatory societies. Mrs. Middlebrook has been a faith- ful laborer in the ﬁeld of -reform for twenty-ﬁve years, but not like most of the older laborers has she halted at any given point in the advance. She regards Spiritualism as including all questions in which humanity is interested, even the social not excluded. Beside being a dear friend we regard her as among the most efficient members of the grand army of reform, and we hope that many souls may be blessed by her ministrations. Her address is Bridgeport, Qt. THE friends of social freedom should remember that the WEEKLY is the only avowed organ for this reform, and that, as such, it is obliged to bear the weight of all the vitupera- tion and abuse spewed out upon its advocacy by the general press; and therefore that it requires the active support of every person who has the moral courage to stand by his or her convictions, none of which, perhaps, requires more than to subscribe for and read the WEEKLY. L —-—-————>—<0>-<———-—-— BOSH. The Herald of Saturday, 16th inst., has a _leader entitled “The Death Struggle; or, Modern Conservatism and Modern Radicalism.” It devotes about a column and a half to laud- ing the recent pilgrimages in France to the shrines of the saints in various parts of that country. It asserts that all classes join in the same except the Communists. This shows the sense of the latter element. After all its praise of the movement it is constrained to admit that such doings will not answer for the latitude and longitude of the United States. Hear it: “ VVe have little hope and we have less desire to see shrines in the New World, except such shrines as ought to belong to every man’s household, and these can neither become too numerous nor too sacred ; but although a peculiar people, with a peculiar history, we may still learn from the experience of other nations.” That may be, but we shall never learn from French experience in this particular. The Yankee is hard-hearted and slow of belief. He is like the unbelieving Scotch carpenter at the time of the Reformation. While priests and people were in tears before the eﬁigy ofthe Virgin, which was apparently weep- ing, he stood calm and unmoved. On being remonstrated with for his hard-heartedness, he replied : “ Holy father-—I ﬁxed that lady last week, and in order to‘ do so I had to drive a dozen tenpenny nails into her back; if she could have cried, she would have cried then.” Verily, the Herald is right. Our Lady of Lourdes will not answer here. She may do to wool Jacques Bonhomme, but heaven defend her from Youmans, Agassiz and Darwin. mlgm THE card of Dr. P. J. Koonz, Dentist, No. 1 Great Jones street, will be found in the advertising columns. The doctor has done our work for the last three years and that of many" whom we have recommended to him, and always most sat- isfactorily. He administers gas for the painless extraction of teeth, and performs all the operations of dentistry and dental surgery. He is a young man, but for his devotion to his profession he deserves public conﬁdence. -————-<—O—<II—-————-—— _ LOUD TALK. From the New York I-Ieralal of the 19th inst. , the follow- ing is extracted: “ SUNDAY DISGRACES IN THE CITY.—A report was pub- lished in the Herald yesterday of the proceedings of the late Sunday Spiritualistic conference. Spiritualism has proved itself not only a failure, but a humbug and a nuisance. Un- der the latter name it comes within the jurisdiction of the police. It is a disgrace to the name of civilizationto permit such execrable scenes to be enacted in this city on a Sunday. The last meeting of these fanatics (if the name fanatics be not trenching too much on the bounds of respectability) proves what a contemptible set of human beings these Spirit- ualists are. Nothing can be‘ too vile or degraded for them, and none but the vilest of either sex can be connected with them.” . , If the Herald will question its reporter, it willﬁnd that the disturbance complained of was not originated, or even made, by the Spiritualists attending the meeting, but by undevel- oped Christian interlopers, whose zeal outran their discre- tion. But, admitting that the Spiritualists are guilty of tol- erating loud talk in their free platform, it is submitted that to brand two millions of American citizens as the vilest of their respective sexes inthis Republic, is considerably louder and much more unjustifiable and reprehensible. ———- THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. Delegates and visitors who contemplate going to Chicago to attend the Convention should at once confer with the un- dersigned. She proposes to obtain tickets from Boston to Chicago. 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Now, this looks to us somewhat like the Western fashion with criminals——hang them and try after- ward, Here, then, was intentional incarceration for four months for an alleged violation of law, instigated by the prosecuting witness and sanctioned by the Court and the District Attorney (Dep.) Purdy. N 0 other offense was charged or proved. But Simpson is out, and it happened in this wise: The attention of J. B. Wolff was called to the case. He pro- cured the aid of And. H. H. Dawson, of 231 Broadway, one of the ablest criminal lawyers in the country, who stands on the honor of profession, cannot be bought, and attends to his business promptly. The result was that Mr. S. was brought before Judge Blatchford on a writ of habeas corpus, and, after a hearing of the case, the bail was reduced, and Mrs. Simpson was accepted. Deputy Purdy was present and objected to reduction of bail, as well as to accepting the wife, whose property is abundant, at the original amount -—$5,000. The next case to be taken up is that of Kendall, who was arrested on a decoy by Comstock under an alias, indicted, tried, jury disagreed, and now awaits the law’s slow delay and the leisure of the judges. This man’s offense is mailing a surgical instrument in answer to a decoy letter (the only act) by the agent of the Christian Inquisition, which in- strument is patented by the United States, and thereby authorized to be sold throughout the whole country. We predict that Comstock dz Co. will ﬁnd the shoe on the other foot ere long. __.A 4 WT THE ALDERNEY DAIRY.‘ Country daires in cities are becoming quite the rage. At 113 Nassau street, Mr. J. B. Gibbs, a hotel and restaurant keeper of thirty years’ experience, has opened a large and sumptuously appointed “dairy” under the above name. Here those who have never visited the country may ﬁnd a large farmhouse in active operation. Everything that is pro- of diet is here to be found fresh, pure and rich. 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The ac- countof Brick Pomeroy’s secmces with this medium consti- tute almost the best experiences that have ever been related. duced on a farm which enters into the composition of articles - Aug. 30, 1873. wooDHULL.toLArLiNm WEEKLY. ‘ m MISCELLANEOUS. TO THE Y. M. C. A. GENTLEMEN: We accept and greet you as brethren and friends. N evertheless. you exclude us from all fellowship. We who address you are men and women, but you are ex- clusively men, you are a Caste, bidding us all to stand aside, those of us who are women because they are such, and those who are men because they cannot go where women cannot. Did you derive this partition-wall from Christianity? If so, it will not help us to like your system. Nor will the exclu- sion of women give us assurance" as to yourselves, your own morals. To women we know that you must ﬂow, and if you make them not companions and co-workers, it is the ordina- tion of Nature that you must seek them for what is lower. Permit us to say, that for your own sakes we earnestly pray you to disband, that is, to enlarge your band to the reception of your equally-worthy sisters. N 0 longer let all read this egotism and assumption of superiority in your very name, Y. M. C. A. . For if, through all the past—even reaching back far enough to take in all the great and good of the ages—man has not made woman his companion and co-worker, then that is the very thing, he always has sought her for what is lower, even in the case of these good and great: the very best of men have not recognized woman, she has never had her place- and you ar perpetuating the outrage. So our ﬁ st protest is that you are not the friends of woman, you are not true_to her; not only do you not iden- tify yourselves with her, by making her part of your organi- zation, but you leave her out of your whole scheme of evan- gelization: she is well enough off, let her remain in her hell of to-day! And what is that hell? Almost universal lust and prostitution in marriage, wholesale and compelled pro s- titution out of marriage, with denial of equal human rights to every woman not yet included. And who debauch and brutalize women in marriage? Tens and hundreds of thou- sands whom your Association fellowship as so good, that if everybody else was like them there would be nothing more for you to do: tens of thousands who are themselves actual members of your Association! - And who prostitute all these women out of marriage? Still tens of thousands whom you send straight to heaven, still thousands of members of your own Association. If you call all these Christians, then we are not. Then we must seek to convert you, or prevent you! Even in the name of your own Christian sisters, including your very Christian wives, we must reform or thwart you, and that, too, though they themselves should hug their chains and welcome their degradation—all the more, if they could do that! Even be it your Christianity which curses them, and even be it that they blindly swear by that very Christianity, yet we shall not care for any holy cloak, nor evangelizing scheme, which lets you wrong woman! In this free country you have the same natural and legal right to pursue ends, that we have. “Yet this country is not for you, it is for the whole people. This government is not for you, it is for everybody. If “ the saints shall inherit the earth,” be sure, no less shall the sinners, and as much more, as the sinners are more numerous than the saints. The Con- stitution makes all equal. The Mohammedan, the -China- man, the Hindoo, each has the’ same right here that you have, each has the same right to his religion. If you are good, and willing to do as you would be done by, then you say, Give all these religions an equal chance. If you do not say this you are not good, but persecutors and tyrants, as well as cowards—you are afraid to trust your religion against the others. And that is owning your system not truth, but error. Your Christianity has persecuted from the ﬁrst, sim- ply because it could not maintain itself without. Constan- tine, your ﬁrst Emperor, himself already one of the blood- iest of monsters, fulminated an edict making Christianity law, and enforcing it with pains and penalties. All Christ- endom fought Islamism, that is, persecuted the Mohamme- dans, through the long and bloody Crusades. The whole Catholic Church persecuted the few and scattered Protest- ants, through the ten centuries constituting the middle ages, and then when Protestantism gained power, it in turn per- secuted Catholicism, and since that day the Protestant Sects have done nothing but persecute each other. Christianity drove the Puritans from England to Holland, and the Pil- grims from Holland to New England; and the same Chris- tianity banished Roger Williams from Massachusetts to Rhode Island, whipped Quakers at the cart’s tail, and hung Mary Dyer on Boston Common. That is not true, sung by however sweet Poetess “ Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where ﬁrst they trod; They have left unstained what there they found, , Freedom to worship God!” _ They only sought to ﬁnd “freedom,” not to found it; and they did not leave it “ unstained,” for the very moment they found it themselves they persecuted it in others! And so on to this day. I But if Christians have always persecuted each other, still more have they all joined together, Herod and Pilate-like, to persecute those not Christians. Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Robert Taylor, Abner Kneeland—gentlemen, could not your God take care of these men? And if he could, why did they need to be persecuted? Or was he after all, not a match for them? The fact of their persecution says he was not, that they were too much for him, and the Christians had to turn in and help him! Do you say these were bad men? Well, if they were, could not God manage them? Suppose they were devils, could not God handle the devil? N o, spite of all you can say, your persecution is confession; you confess in it that your God is no God at all, and that your Christian- ity is not truth, for then it would be able totake care of it- self. And nearly everything else that you do is the same confes- sion. The effort to get God into the Constitution, is simply because he is soweak that if not put there he will go under. Forcing the Bible on our schools, Sunday laws, statutes against blasphemy, excluding Atheists from oﬁce, and in- ﬂicting disabilities on Inﬁdels in the Courts—are all because God and Christianity are not able to maintain their own ground. This whole attempt which you and Christians gen- erally make to ostracize a man in business or society, be- cause he does not believe in your religion, is proclamation that that religion cannot win on its own merits, and then unless aided by perpetual hounding and harassing, cannot win at all. , And exempting Church-property‘ from taxation tells the same story. In New York City the Churches own property to the amount of over $41,000,000, and similarly in the other cities and throughout the country, aggregating literally hun- dreds of millions in-all—none of itltaxed. In Great Britain in the 13th century, the Church owned over half of the whole real estate on the Island—none of it taxed. All because Christianity can not support itself, and so it has to “ sponge” ——the world has to be “ bled” to sustain it. Gentlemen,what call you that but cowardice, meanness, outrage? Confession of which any noble nature would be ashamed as infamous! And your attempt to suppress WOODHULL St CLArLIN’s WEEKLY, in the matter of Mr. Beecher, and your actual sup- pression of George Francis Train’s publication, are the same absolute and ignominious acknowledgment. You said in both cases, as plainly as you could, “ there is something rot- ten in Denmark.” And by this time you are all proved violators of the Con- stitution. So far from having any Constitutional right to suppress either of these two publications, the Constitution expressly forbids you to do any such thing. And all that you are‘ trying to do is Unconstitutional, the Constitution in both letter and spirit prohibits your whole movement. This is not a Christian country, it is not a Christian government. It is professedly a Republic. To recognize any one religion in this government, to allow that recognition, is to outlaw all who accept any other religion. Your government can recog- nize morals, and it should, but it can not recognize Christi- anity, for that will be to outlaw every J ew, Athiest, Deist, Spiritualist, Buddhist, Mohammedan, Japanese and China- man in the land. Such recognition of Christianity in the government would have proscribed Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lafayette, Humboldt, John Stuart Mill, and Shakspeare; and it would to—day, ban Hux- ley, Spencer, Darwin. Tyndall, Lyell, Carpenter, Agassiz, Youmans, Emerson, and all the noblest thinkers in the world. Christianity makes a Republic impossible, that is, Christianity dominant; for of course, Christianity in a Re- public has the same right to preach, pray and proselyte, that every other religion has——that is simply free discussion. Christianity asserts a king, and teaches a kingdom, even in its “Lord’s Prayer; ” and then Christianity universal, in- stead of a republic, a democracy, could be nothing but a des- potism. You see that Christianity compelled despotism un- der the “ divine right of kings," but it does and must com- pel it just as much in a so-called republic, because then, everybody has got to be Christian and submit to this king- there is no freedom! All religions as religions, are despot- isms——“ you ought to think and act and feel as I do! ” And so all religions are enemies to peace, love and good neighbor- hood among men, they all stir up strife. they all make war— and your religion is worse in this respect than any other on the globe. Your religion has kept everybody by the ears ever since that was said: “ I came not to send peace but a sword.” Your religion will not let you “ do as you would be done by,” even if it commands you to do so—~it commands you to do the opposite, and makes you do it! It will not let you be good citizens, will not let you even be gentlemen! But you will say that God has given certain laws, and you have no escape but to obey them. But that is the very question, whether there is a God? The Constitution gives all other men the same right to believe there is no God,.it does you to believe there is one! And just so with regard to the Bible and Christianity——a1l the rest of us have the same right to scout these, that you have to accept them. It is as broad as it is long; and in a republican government, and under our Constitution. " what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” That is the very thing, you are despots already in assuming your God and that we must all obey him! You are already not republicans but monarchists, in assuming your Bible and Christianity, and that we must accept them because you do! You can’t even get back to the principle that we are your equals! “God, Bible, Chris- tianity”——-but here is where the equality comes in, 'we’ee the same right to deny all these, and make you submit to us, that you have to assert them, and make us submit to you! “ It’s six of one-and half a dozen of the other.” It’s men on one side, and it’s men on the other. Now you see Chris- tianity makes a republic impossible. You are yourselves out-and-out despots, all the time! - But you are too late in the day. Once, almost everybody believed in your God, Bible and Christianity, and then you might have gone ahead; but you are as much mistaken as Rip Van Winkle himself, if you suppose you have not been asleep till times have utterly changed. Now you are on the defensive. You dare not discuss your own doctrines. You fear to enter the lists with us, in vindication of either the God, Bible or Christian system you accept. We challenge you to do so. For years we have had multitudes of cham- pions in the ﬁeld, eager to give you the opportunity to ﬂesh your swords. but you have persistently declined. Even printing the very Bible itself was too much for you, you had to suppress it, the obscenity was too patent for you. Ab- solutely, the same obscenity in any other ‘book you would not tolerate, but seeing it is in the Bible you think you must submit. But we do not deem that book ﬁt for the center-table, however the indelicate and unreﬁned may venture to place it in the hands of their daughters! Actually, you are “ hoist with your own petard,” for Beecher, the very Beecher whom you have sought to defend, audaciously walks into his own pulpit, and repudiates your Whole Bible and Christianity, even till the New York Herald has to come out and rebuke him! Because he “throws a tub to the whale,” and tries to prevent your seeing what plays on the Bible like a ﬁddle, and makes it mean any-, thing, everything or nothing, as he pleases. The Bible itself, what the book is and says, he denies, and only caresfor what he himself puts in it. He is ten times more Inﬁdel to-day, than those whom your Church used to burn 300 years ago, and had he lived then, he would have been burned ﬁrst of them all. And all your great preachers preach what would have been arrant Inﬁdelity a little while ago. _ And you will not stop till you all stand with the great Scientists who have made human nature illustrious. The Scientists, Inventors and Discoverers—Columbus,. Coperni- cus, Newton, Franklin, Morse, Liebig, Watt, Faust, and those they represent——-have done incomparably more to bless mankind than all preachers; these are the great and honored names of the race, and you never will be able to stop till you stand with them. You do stand with them on Geology; your “ six days and six thousand years,” have forever “gone up ;” and you yet will stand with them everywhere else, and be Inﬁdels all round. Science is true, and is the test; and then the Bible is not test, and that is on its face, Inﬁdelity, the Inﬁdelity in which we all agree, whether called Spirit- ualists, Universalists, Unitarians, Free _Re1igionists, Mater- ialists, or by whatever other name. So you will not succeed. “ The stars in their courses ﬁght against you.” The simple fact of the world’s progress dooms you beforehand. But you may bring about blood,'for you will be resisted—to the death. And then the blood, even to perfect rivers, will be on your own heads. You will be written down the murderers’ of men, the murderers of all , whom you compel to fall defending the rights which you would strike down. You will go down to history, rebels against republicanism, traitors to a free government, con- spirators overmatching Catiline, Bomba, Domitian! Why are you not honest? Why do you not rebuke Colfax and all these other Christian swindlers and defrauders? Because they are of your own party? Then are you your- selves Pharisees? “ They never fail who die In a great cause; the block may soak their gore; Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs Be strung to the city gates and castle walls; But still their spirit goes abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a (loom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts, Which overpower all others, and conduct The World at last to freedom!” J osnrn TREAT, M. D. NEW Yonx, July 25, 1873. (Entered according to Act of Congi-ess,‘in the year 1873, by Cornelius Burling, in the oﬁice of Librarian of Congress at Washington.) WHAT EVERY MAN, FEMALE AND MALE, AND PARTICULARLY EVERY LABORER, OUGHT TO’ KNOW. _ [CHAPTER V. CONCLUDEDJ The people must distinguish that the politicians always call themselves the people, and that the only individuals of the people, whoever ally themselves with the politicians, are the mob—that is the ignorant poor of the people, and that this combination of politicians and mob passes as the people, because of the inaction, the silence of the people; and so the people are by their inaction and silence committed to to the politicians, for silence gives consent. Will the people speak and act? First Constitution of the State of ‘New York Kingdom, 20th April, 1777, a few months before the making of the articles of Confederation, which was November 15, 1777, and which Constitution recites in full the Declaration of Inde- pendence, and puts it forth as the declaration of principles - on which they propose to form a government and constitu- tion, recites: - . A . “ And, whereas, The Congress of the Colony of New York did, on May 31, now last past (1776), resolve as follows: “ Whereas, The present government of this colony by Con- gress and committees was instituted, while the former gov- ernment under the Crown of Great Britain was in full force, etc. . “ And whereas,» Many and great inconveniences attend said mode of government by Congresses and committees, as of necessity. In many instances legislative, judicial and ex— ' ecutive powers have been vested therein, especially since the dissolution of the former government by the abdication of the late governor and the exclusion of this colony from the protection of the King of Great Britain.” Mark this- the protection of the King of Great Britain. These declarationists and ‘constitution makers thus com- plain of the tyranny of congresses and committees; for junction of legislative, judicial and executive powers is tyr- anny. Why, they themselves formed these congresses and committees, and they were complaining of the tyranny of themselves! Two things are remarkable about this whole business: 1st. How transparent. the scheming and hypocrisy of these declarationists and constitution makers is; how needlessly they have committed themselves on paper; and 2d. That this scheming and hypocrisy have never been ex- posed. , Well, they complained of their own tyranny. What was the matter? Why, they wanted another mover to the con- summation of the entire scheme whichwas to crown them all kings. They were not yet masters. Well, from the same instrument, ﬁrst Constitution of this State, we further quote: * * “ And whereas, It is necessary that the exer- cise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government ex- erted, under the authority of the people of these colonies, for the preservation of internal peace, virtue (l) and good order, as well as for the defense of our lives, liberties and properties, against the hostile invasion and cruel depreda- tion of our enemies.” . A ‘ “All the powers of government were exerted under the he is at, you are blind to shut your eyes and not see! Heﬁauthority of the people; ” but the people had no power 2 . z ? 1 l 14 ' woo:oHULL dz CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Aug. :30, 1873. whatever; they were helplessly in the hands of these men, and these man went on doing as they pleased, and styling themselves the people, and their acts the acts of the people: fraud and lies throughout. Well, they talk the old political slang about law and order and virtue, and then comes the point: All the powers of the government to be exerted for the defense of our lives, liber- ties and properties over the declationists and constitution makers, who were playing this game in the name of the people" and at their responsibility; and if they, these decla- rationists and constitution makers, succeeded, they were to be the masters, the kings of the people; and if they failed, they would run for their lives and leave the people to pay the cost. The people can’t run away; they must remain with the land and pay! pay! pay! V The late Artemus Ward said “he should support the gov- ernment in this war to the last drop of blood—-of all his wife’s relations; ” so declarationists and constitution makers safely ensconsed at home or at their rendezvous, support the cause of the people to the last drop of blood, the last dollar, the last crust of the people. ’ If the cause of the people be won, it is the cause of the declarationists and constitution makers, of course, and they take the stakes. They are the governors. If the cause be lost, it is then the cause of the people, then they, the people, pay. The declarationists and constitution makers make no claims then. No. Then the people are the principals undis- puted. 4 The cause of the people is always lost; lost if won, lost if lost. THE SENSIBLE Ass. An old fellow was feeding an ass in a ﬁne green meadow, when he was alarmed by the sudden approach of the enemy, and he became impatient with the ass to put himself for- ward and ﬂy with all his speed. The ass asked the old fellow whether or no he thought the enemy would clap two pair of panniers upon his back instead of the one he was accustomed to carry? The old fellow said, “No; there was no fear of tha .” “Why, then,” says the ass, “I’ll not stir an inch, for what is it to me who my master is, since I shall but carry my panniers as usual.” APPLICATION. This fable shows us that the people have no interest in the revolutions of government. Revolutions do but alter the names of their governors. They cannot be made poorer, or made to work harder. They get nothing by success in the ﬁght, and, in case of defeat, are in danger of suffering igno- minous death. , But to return to the ﬁrst Constitution of th e State of New York, we quote: ‘ “ Resolved, That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies.” Well, these men have just been complaining of the tyr- annies of congresses and committees, which are only other names for assemblies and conventions. And bear in mind that these men and their confederates, all politicians, com- posed all these congresses and committees, assemblies and conventions; that they were all acting together, and acting out a cut—and-dried scheme, which was moving to its con- summation like clock work. Politicians always effect their tyranny by complaining of tyranny, as a thief when pur- sued diverts attention from himself by crying “Stop thief,” and so he is confounded with his pursuers. Well, we resume our quotation. It was resolved that it be recommended to the assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, “ To adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people (not the people) best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constitu- ents in particular and America in genera .” Well, see the people have nothing to do with all this; their opinion is not to be asked; they are to have no say, no, not at all. But these politicians are going through the sham of publicly presenting a matter to their confederates which they, with their confederates, have already privately ar- ranged! Well, -such government is to be adopted as the politicians shall in their opinion sanction! Now mark the beauty of the ﬂourish, “ best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular and America in general.” The thing is so compact that, like a wall, it can’t fall over. “ Happiness of constituents in par- ticular and America in general, or America in particular and constituents in general;” it works equally well either way. It is like the description of a Western bird called the “ teeter-ass,” from its continually bobbing, ﬁrst head up then tail up. A Western orator compared his opponent, who kept up like motions, to the bird; and added that there was “about as much in one end as the other.” And so of this ﬂourish. ' Well, politicians keep up this perpetual slang of “happi- ness and safety of people,” etc. It is with them perfectly irrepressible; it is the molasses with which the ﬂies are caught, and whenever there is a lull a fresh daub is applied; for they labor under a perpetual suspicion that something is wrong, and they pause till business starts again. Well, this "ﬁrst Constitution of this State was carried through just as we all know, our present Constitution was carried through, and the last proposed one defeated. We all know that the people have nothing to do with all this, and the people at last commence to understand that their power is limited to a choice of Kings, and so they are apathetic. _The men have really little more to do with the business then the women: they feel they are powerless. _ The business is alto- gether in the hands of governors, tools and mob; these hree powers constitute the American people—-“ We, the people.” lst. Governors. 2d. Tools thatare paid, subordinates, pimps, etc. 3d. Tools that are not paid, the mob. Well, a few words more generally andthis examination of title of our masters to_us is ended, and these few words necessary to convince as hammering is necessary to drive nails. Now, it sumciently appears from the declaration of inde- pendence what the objections to the rule of Geo. III. were: that they were his uses of his prerogative—royal. And as you cannot have a king without prerogative, the objec- tion was in substance to the government of a king. And it also appears from the constitution of the United States, that these declarationists set up the government of a king,precisely as was the government of Geo. III. ; giving to the president the powers of a king and making of the people a mere ﬁgure- head, a sham as a power, but in reality making of them what Geo. III. made of his people, subjects, slaves, chattels, things. Now, it may be said that the people in fighting the battles of the Revolution, indorsed these declarationists these con- stitution makes—not at all. These declarationists, these con- stitution makers had usurped the government; they were the government defacto, as were J eﬂ’. Davis and his confederates the government de facto of the Southern States in the late rebellion. We all know how the people there were compelled to support him and his confederates. ’ So were the people compelled to _support these declara- tionists and constitution makers; not but what the people wanted what the declaration promised, and fought to get—— those that willingly fought; but they were the victims of a fraud, for, the ﬁghting once commenced, they were commit- ted as against the king and as with the declarationists. And this and the object of the declaration effected, the people were at the mercy of their leaders, the declarationists. And they got the constitution of the United‘States. Compare these two papers——the promise and the performance. Can greater fraud be imagined? Politicians always look at poli- ticians. For politicians to look at people-—treat with people —would be a dangerous precedent for governors. Suppose Lincoln & Co., at‘ the breaking out of the insurrection of Jeff. Davis, etc. (and having, as they had, full knowledge of the matter, as the people had not: till after the rebellion, when the Southern people were allowed to talk), had treated the action of J eff. Davis 85 Co. as an insurrection, and pur- sued the leaders only, how long would it have taken to end Jeff. Davis 85 Co? But this would not answer the ends of politicians. It would be a breach of faith between politici- ans; and besides, were any of these politicians held ao- countable by their Northern brethren for treason, after the war? No. ' After the war, as before and during, they all fraternize together—all one family, and the farthers, sons, brothers murdered in the games which these pall-bearers compelled them to ﬁght for them, as of old the Roman Em- perors compelled gladiators to murder each other in the Colliseum. What of all these? Why those who are not in their graves can turn hand-organs or peddle if they have a hard life. If these cripples, whom we have among us on both sides (for the people on both sides were equally the victims of pol- iticians), would but tell what they know of the doings of these politicians, amateur generals, and not in office, and the people were not as they are victims of their training, the people would not tolerate these anthropophagi among us. [To BE CONTINUED.] QUARTERLY MEETING. The Central New York Association of Spiritualists will hold its next quarterly meeting in the Baptist Church, on Stanwix street, in the city of Rome, on the twenty-third and twenty- fourth of August; commencing at one o’clock P. M., Saturday. Mr. Austin E. Simmons, of Woodstock, Vt., will speak on the occasion. All are cordially invited. MR. CRANDALL AT APOLLO HALL. The audience assembled at Robinson Hall on Sunday even- ing last was scarcely prepared for the ﬁnished and elaborate essay delivered upon that occasion by Lucien S. Crandall. Classic, elegant, permeated by a subtle philosophy, blended with an exquisite and far-reaching spiritual perception, the address penetrated the soul of one listener at least in that Hall like a prose poem or a beautiful strain of music un- marred by one discordant note; and had the lecture been delivered to an audience of literary persons, it would have met the unanimous response it deserved. As it was, Iam sure Mr. Crandall has left the impress of his thought upon many minds, who will hold him in grateful remembrance. Yet I would remind him that those who hunger for bread, for strong meat, fail too often to appreciate the reﬁned ﬂavor of the grapes of Ascalon. In reaching for the stars we must . not ignore the herbs and ﬂowers beneath our feet; and yet, who does not love the stars? I, for one, shall not soon for- get the star whose rays solaced while it brightened the dusk of last Sunday night. LAURA CUPPY SMITH. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., July 29, l8’73. Sister Victom'ar—Permit me to say to your readers, that after the issue of one or two numbers more of Our Age, I shall commence a series of articles from one of our best writers and speakers, giving the facts of modern society as she has found them by going behind the scenes—not fancy pictures, but actual facts. Those who wish to have them will please send in soon. These articles of themselves will be worth the-subscription price of Our Age ($2.50 per year). . Lois WAISBROOKER. The following extracts are taken from that very ably con — ducted paper, the Vineland Independent, of the 13th inst. : “The announcement that Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull would deliver an address, though an admission fee was charged, ﬁlled the large hall" to repletion. Her appearance on the stage was the signal for loud and long-continued applause.” Further on it says: “The attendance was large, and the enthusiasm unbounded. The harmony of the views of the speakers was remarkable.” Again: “The immediate effect of a public and almost ybe repetitions, and probably‘ 13119)’ area but 1'6P617i’0i011S are unanimous adoption of the platform of principles we pub- lish below by a large meeting in our midst, ‘cannot help stirring up the people throughout the length and breadth of the land. This series of propositions will be discussed fully and earnestly, assailed and defended. They will have to stand or fall by their merits or demerits.” This is all we ask. Like Themistocles, Victoria C. Wood- hull has appealed and appeals to the people, caring nothing for self, but all for the cause. Her motto is that of the great Athenian, “ Strike, but hear!” THE undersigned, feeling that the times are ripe for a social club in this city, invites those who are of like mind to communicate with her, with a view to securing asuitable place for ‘weekly meetings, for mutual improvement and social enjoyment, and with a hope of ultimately organizing a unitary home. Address, E. M. BECKWITZEI, Station D.‘ HEALING by laying on hands, at 97 Clinton Place, by L. A. Edminster, of Boston. All female diseases successfully treated; the best of reference can be given. Patients visited at their homes, or treated by Magnetic Conductors. N 0 medicine used. Ters $2.00 each treatment; oﬂice hours from 9 to 11 A. M., and 2 to 5 1-. M. Send stamp for return letter. QUARTERLY MEETING N OTIC]"* The ﬁrst quarterly meeting of the Western Reserve Woman’s Emancipation Society will be held at the Univer- salist Church, in Parkman, commencing on Saturday, Sept. 6, at 10 A. M., to, continue two days. D. M. Allen, Lucia H. Cowles, Sarah L. S. Philleo, J. H. Philleo, Francis Barry and others will address the meeting. The platform will be free to opponents, but the meeting will not be diverted from the objects to which the Society is devoted—namely, “The absolute freedom of woman through the overthrow of the popular system of marriage.” Friends expecting to come on the cars will take notice that Garretsville, on the Mahoning branch of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, is the nearest station. The hack from Garrettsville to Parkman (6 miles) connects with trains both east and west, which meet at Garrettsville at 9 A. The Free Lovers of Parkman will entertain the friends from a distance to the fullest extent of their ability. By order of the Executive Committee, FRANCIS BARRY, Sec. LIBERAL INSTITUTE. CARVERSVILLE, BUCKS Co., PA. This institute will be opened in September, for persons of both sexes. There will be an educational department, and also a healing department, under the care of competent per- sons. Address, WM. R. EVANS. The following poem, descriptive of “ The Orphans’ Rescue ’, (advertisement of which appears on the second page, and a copyﬁof. which hangs in our ofﬁce, attracting the attention of all who visit it), is from the pen of Cora Van de Mark, and is a word-picture so touchingly beautiful and graphic that it will seldom fade from memory’s canvas: ’Twas near the close of a summer-day; The clouds had wept their grief away, And left a sky so bright and clear, It seemed that heaven itself drew near. A boat, in which two children played, By swollen waves was gently swayed; Till, loosened from the stake that bound And held it to the beach aground, It ﬂoated quickly from the shore, As though the cataract’s deep roar Had charmed it, by a magic power, To hasten to its doom that hour. The frightened children saw the fate That must their little bark await; The boy, accustomed to her care, Turned to his sister in despair. But through her veins what impulse thrilled, And all her sensate being ﬁlled With such a wild, resistless hope? She seized, with steady hand, the rope, And, standing with one arm upraised, With calm, heroic face, she gazed On foaming rapids, rock and fall, Prepared to bravely meet them all. But suddenly she felt a power, Born of the danger of the hour, Turn, quietly, the boat aside, And land it just beyond the tide, Where rocks a niche of safety made, And they could wait for human aid. She did not see, with spirit eye, Her parents’ outstretched arms so nigh, But felt the strong magnetic thrill Of love, which danger changed to will, When she that subtle power obeyed, The hand of Death the angels stayed. As we look on this picture, in rapture we’re lost, While our mind travels back o’er the years that were dark; And we see, as we never have seen them before, The dear, loving hands that have guided our bark. Ah! many a soul from its moorings has slipped, And drifting, with neither a compass nor oar, ’l\/lid rocks oftemptation and rapids of sin, Been saved from destruction by those gone before. We see now but dimly the strength of that love Which cares for the lily and sparrows that fall; Yet often we feel that his agents are near, And know that, in some way, God watches o’er all. Oh, ye_ who in rapture Heaven’s grand pictures view, . Send down to our artists more visions of light; Till the vail of mortality falls from our eyes, And faith is exchanged for the blessing of sight. . 1. 1 1.4’ 1. Ta Aug. 30, 1873. WOODIIUILL & oLAEL,iN}s WEEKLY. 15 JAMIESON’S BOQKI “ THE CLERGY A SOURCE OF DANGER TO TH AMERICAN REPUBLIC.” ‘ GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION. INFAMY. lrhdl Exp0se—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. CLUB RATES : Three Copies, expressage or postage paid, . . $4 50 Six as (L 44 cc . . ' 50 Ten cc cc cc 1: . . _ "12 50 Parlor Edition, gilt, 20 cents per vol. extra. AGENCIES. Terms made known on application. Address all orders to W. F. JAMIESON, 139 and 141 Monroe street, Chicago, Ill. WHAT THE PRESS SA YS .' We consider Mr. J amieson as having done a most useful and needed work in publishing this book. 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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 fruitdryer, and trimmed with evergreens, is a Christmas trce._ 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, inelvstng stamp. Clothes Dryer. Fruit Drer. Christmas Tree. DR. E. WOODEUEE, otanic Physician. . OFFICE AT HIS ROOT, BARK AND HERB STORE, 38 CANAL ST., UP STAIRS, GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Where for thirteen years every description of Acute, Chronic and Private Diseaseshaye been, successfully treated strictly on Botanic principles. No POISON UsED. A . P. 0. Drawer, 2,391. Counsel. at ofﬁce Free DR. 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A * new volume begins July 1. A M. C. BLAND & C0,, Publishers, 287 W. Madison.St., Chicago, Ill. 1 NOTICE TO INVESTORS. _.._..—__ CHICAGO AND CANADA SOUTHERN. sddiou 7 percent. GOldBonds AT 90 AND ACCRUED INTEREST. COUPON AND REGISTERED. INTEREST PAYABLE IN ‘ GOLD. APRIL AND OCTOBER. We now offer these Bonds atthe above VERY LOW price. THE CANADA SOUTHERN, or Eastern end of this line, whose Bonds were so rapidly sold last sum- mer, IS NOW FINISHED, and will be opened for business in connection with the 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. V — 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 any other ronte. Hav- ing connections with all the lines running into Buﬁalo 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 (‘it C0,, Bankers, 27 Pine Street. LEONARD, SHELDON & FOSTER, Bankers, 10 Wall Street. Di}. JOSEPH TREAT, Of Vineland, N. J., gives THREE LECTURES: HENRY WARD BEECHER, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, VICTORIA C. WOOD HULL, 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. 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DR p.I KOONz, . Dentist, No. 1 GREAT JONES sT., NEAR BROADWAY, N E W Y ORK . Laughing Gas administered for the Painless :Extrac- tion of Teeth. The Friendship Community Near Buifalo, 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 gressive, and allows equal ‘rights _to all its ‘members, _ oth men and women, in its business affairs. More A ‘members are wanted. The Uommanést, 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’clock, For the discussion of scientiﬁc and other interesting subjects. Good speaking and entertaining discussions may ' always be expected. WM. DIBBLEE, LADIES’ HAIR DRESSER, 3 854 BROADWAY, Hasremoved from his Store to the FIRST FLOOR, wherehe will continue to conduct his business in all its branches TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. CHEAPER Egan heéretofore, in consequence of the difference in s ren . CHATELAINE BRAIDS. LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S WIGS. and everything appertaining to the business will be kept on hand and made to order. DIBBLh.\\‘1.NI_A for stimulati-n , J APONICA for soothing ant. the MAGIC TAR SA VE for promoting the-growth 01 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 laidy should ever be without it. Can be obtained only a WM. DIBBLEE’S, : 854 Broadway, Up-stairs. To the Liberalists of the .West. I leave New England September 22, for California, via,U. & C. P. R. R. Shall be able to stop a few even- ings and two Sundays on the way. Societies on or near the route desiring my services will please communicate at once. Address C. Fannie Allyn, box 209, Stoneham, Mass. Californians wishing lectures may address me at San Jose, Cal. NEW YORK SAVINGS BANK EIGHTH AVENUE, Cor. Fourteenth St., ‘IX PER CENT. INTEREST alloweibon all sums from $5 to $5,000. Deposits lgiade Em or before August 1 will draw interestfrdm ugus .1 Assets, $2,423, .15 Surplus. $2oc.2r2.95 TiTUs & JORDAN, Attorneys 3lC0l1llSe1101‘S, 19 NASSAU STREET, GEORGE o. TITUS HGNVJ. PARKER ;loaDAN.l NEW Y0BK~l ’mutual‘assistance and support. It is liberal and pro-* HISTCRO %A?R'?. TI-IE A Beautiful Picture, REPRESENTING THE as Home of the FOX LY In I-Iyolesville, N . Y. PROF. JOHN, OUR EMINENT AMERICAN ARTIST, visited Hydesville, and executed a carefully-drawn picture of the house wherein began modern spiritual‘ telegraphy, together with the yard, orchard and hill- side, so as to furnish the present and future genera- tions with as perfect a representation as possible of geration. To render the work more attractive, spirit- ually impressive, and signiﬁcant, the angel worldA through spirit direction and inspiration—-was most beautifully and grandly united with the “real mate- rial.” Dreamy, uncertain and suggestive twilight pervades the foreground. Heavy clouds rest on the landscape in the distance. Luminous ﬂoods of light stream up from the east, and gild in gorgeous tints with antiquarian wings, lower over the house, and in their descent a spiritual aura falls over the mystic house and yard. A light for the weary pilgrim shines from the Window of the house. The lights and shad- ows have seldom been equaled in ancient or modern painting. The work has been translated on steel by that dis» tinguished engraver, J. W. Watts, in a high style of art. The engraving is an honor to American Art, and worthy a place in every home and Gallery of Art, an d worthy of the great event that it commemorates. A Circular containing a Map of Hydesville, a Dian I gram of the ground floor of the house, and explana- tory reading matter accompanies each engraving. Price Two Dollars. 9 Sent by mail, IPOSWSO free, securely rolled. on re- ceipt of price. Those that desire to sell the work by sub- scrtptton, buying at wholesale, can also remit Two Dollars, and recei/ve the work and sub... scrtptton papers, and information in regard to terms, by matl, prepaid. All orders for the work should be addressed to as as follows: R. H. CURRAN & cO., Eublleh-era, 28 SCHOOL ST., BOSTON, Mass. the house and surroundings, without the least exag-.,'~ the high-ﬂoating clouds. Angel bands, not deformed ' ,_ - .16 woonHUI.i.& CL AFLIN S VVEEKLY. FLOWERS AND RUSTIC WCRK; Flowers are one of the few things in life that bring us unmixed pleasure. They are the most innocent tribute of courtesy or aifection as acceptable in the day of feasting as in the house of mourning. Florists are thus in a sense public benefactors. Hod gson, at _ No. 403 Fifth avenue, from among the palace. ‘..n.l:cs I us away to the sights and odors of the country with his rustic work, his gnarled boughs, and curiously crooked seats, his fragrant ﬂowers and beautii ully as- - sorted bouquets. Of all the ornaments now devised for beautifying gentlemen’s grounds, there are none that can surpass rustic work, either in grandeur, beauty, utility or dura- bility. It may be introduced almost anywhere if the surroundings are in the least rural; in many cases it can be placed where nothing else could be, oftentimes converting an eyesore into a place of great beauty, and yet ornamental and useful. As it is, there are few that have either the taste or good judgment for the judi- cious arrangement of the materials out of which the best rustic is made. To make or design rustic objects, the maker or designer must exercise good judgment as to the best place for his object—whcther it is a house, bridge, vase, basket or any of the many objects that may be formed of rustic work-—-for if the objeet is in a bad position, be the object ever so good, it loses half the effect, or even becomes an eyesore. There mustbe something rural in the locality, something in tone with the object. Perfect taste is required for the form of any object, although in anything rustic the form wil1 be much modiﬁed; yet there must be an original de- sign to give meaning and grace to the object. In all cascs,.unless working with straight material, nature must be followed as nearly as possible, avoiding right angles or anything that looks formal; every piece should look as if joined by nature. This not only gives beauty but stability to the work. To -all this must be combined the skill of the builder, to give strength, finish and neatness to the whole work. Many people think that as a matter of course carpenters can build rustic, but there are few if any that can give tha natural rusticity so necessary to it. It is a trade by itself, and requires men with a natural taste and in ventive genius. Some men work at it for years and cannot do it creditably. There is nothing that may not be made in rust-ic work, from a dwelling-house. to a cage, a bridge to a card basket. Many of the vaies are ﬁlled with plants and look very handsome, with ivy half hiding the woodwork, and ﬁne ﬂowering plants capping the whole and making it a thing complete in itself. There are also many ﬁne baskets ﬁlled. Certainly nothing could be more ornamental or better in a window than one of these. But these things, to be appreciated, must be seen; for large constructions we would advise any one to visit the grounds of Mr. Hoey, at Long Branch, or- Peter B. King, Esq., on the Palisades overlooking the ‘Hudson, or General Ward’s estate. FOR USE IN FAMILIES, urns. FAMOUS HALFORD LEICIESTERSHIRE Table, Sauce,“ ’I‘}IE‘BES‘l‘ RELISI-I Put up in any part of the world for Ifaniily Use. Can be bought of any First-Class Grocer L4 FEARLESS Exposirroiv on THE so OIAL DISEASE./' THE riieiiinrriin LECTURE Woodhull and Beecher, ANALYZING FREE-LOVE! By SIMON .M. LANDIS, M.D., D.D. SYNOPSIS or‘ LECTURE. 1. Introduction. 2. Analyzing Fr'ee—Love. 3. Social Love. 4. What will create Thinking Brain. 5. What brutiﬁes mankind. 6. “Free-Love.” '7. Free Lust Teachings and Practices. 8. Victoria C. Woodliull’s Doctrines. 9. Summing up the Woodhull Doctrine. 10. Henry Ward Beecher’s Doctrines. 11. Beecher a sly fellow. 12. Beecher’s Teachings productive of Lust. 13. Beecher”s private acts. 14. Beecher feeds his people on ﬂowers, but deniesthem the necessaries of life. 15. Whoredom ‘or Murder. 16. Beecher’s doctrines crucify Christ. 17. Recapitulation. This is the Lecture that was advertised to be deliv- ered at the Assembly Buildings, Philadelphia, Sunday, April 13, 1873, but Mayor Stokley threatened to arrest Dr. Landis should he deliver it. Published by “ THE INDIGNATION Lniieun.” Price 15c. Sold. by Agents and Newsdealers. Address Dr. S. M LANDIS, No. 13 N. Eleventh st., above the Bingham House, Philadelphia, where he cures all diseases of the sexes without drugs. HITE STAR LINE. For Queenstown and Liverpool, Carrying the 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. m. Oceanic, Saturday, February 8, at 3.00 p. In. Baltic, Saturday, February 15, at 3.00 p.,m; Celtic, Saturday, February 22, at 1.00 pﬁm. Atlantic, Saturday, March 1, at 3.00 p. 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M., Daily Western Express, for Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman’s Palace Cars. for Pitts- burg, Cinncinnati and Indianapolis. *8:30 P. 111., Daily Western Express, for West Phil- adelphia, Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman’s Palace Cars. through without change, to Pittsburg, Crestline, Fort Wayne and Chicago. 9:00 P. M., Daily Great Southern Evening Express for Baltimore and Wasliington, with Reclining Chair Cars, and with Pullman Palace Cars through from New York Washington. Tickets for sale at Ticket Oﬂiccs, foot of Desbrosses and Cortlandt streets, and in Depot, Jersey City; and at New York Transfer Co.’s oﬂiccs (Dodd’s Ex- press), No. 944 Broadway, New York, and No. 1 Court street, Brooklyn. Passengers, by leaving suitable notices at these ofﬁces, can have their baggage called for at residence or hotel, and carried through to des- tination. Tickets for seats in reclining chair cars and coni- partment cars for sale at‘ the Desbrosses street office A: J. CASSATT, F. W. JACKSON, Gen’l Manager. Gen’l Supt. * Daily. THE NEW MQLA! Kate Oorsoiws Discovery.’ THE LANVS AND PRINCIPLES OF MAGNETISM, CLAIRVOYANCE & MEDIUMISM. This is unquestionably the most important mono- graph on Mediunisliip ever yet published in ' any country on the globe. _How to obtain the Phenomenon in all its phases- Conglomerate Mediumship. —New and Startling Doc- trine of Mixed Identities.~A handbook of White Magic.——Explicit forms for all phases of Cabalistic In- cantatory and Thauniathurgic Science and Practice. Miss K. V. Carson, Edttress and Public/zor, Toledo, 0. It is requested that subscriptions for this extraordi- nary Treatise be in Clubs to one address, rather than by single copies, to save time and trouble in mailing, as they COST BUT FIFTY CENTS EACH. Synopsis.‘ White Magic an actual fact.——Identiﬁcation of the returning dead.—Coi1ditions essential to their reap- pearance. Essentials of Mediumship and Clairvoy ance.——Blonde and Brunette Media.—Curious reasons. A vast discovery of inestimable importance.——Con- vlomerate Circles.—The Yu-Yang.—Psychic Force.- ' iiedial-Aura.—Spanniiig the Gulf of Eternity l~A Spirit.—Electric People.—To get the Phenomena when alone.—0dyllic Insulation.—To form a Splendid Cir- cle.—Double Circles and new arrangement of the sit- ters.—Materializatioii of Spirits, and how to bring it- aboutl—The Phantom hand of Toledo.—The Spirit- » ro0m.—Machinery essential to Physical Manifesta- ’ tions!—An Astounding Idea: Atrilisnil--Mergement of Identities.—Avdead one walks, talks, eats, drinks and does what it chooses while occupying another’s body, while the latter’s soul is quiescent, and con- sciousness and identity wholly lost! a most momen- tous problem, of enormous 1niportan_ce to every Phy- sician, Judge, Juror, Minister, Spiritualist, husband, wife, in short to every human being. It is the most ‘astounding thought yet evolved since Spiritualism be- came a ﬁxed fact, as it accounts for much heretofore wholly unaccountable. PART II.—How to 1VIesmerize.——Clairvoyance.—-Psy- chometry, their laws and differences.—The Eastern Mystery of obtaining Seership.—The Mystical Mirror, in a drop of common ink.—To reach Clairvoyance.— The Breath-Power.~—An Arab Secret.—l‘»Iagnetic Spells —“ Voodooism ” Black Magic.—Secoiid Youth and how to gain it. Single Copies, 60 cents. -Published: in Pamphlet Form. TH serous-raids fstiitii, With numerous Extracts from THE PRESS OF THE COUNTRY on THE ‘ Prosecution and Illegal Arrest of the brave defenders of freedom, VICTORIA C. W7 3OD..HULL, TEIVIVIE CLAFLIN, AND COLONEL BLOOD. Price of pamphlet reduced to~$;;,15 per hundred. Apply to the Editor and Publisher, ' " Aug. 30, 1873. ..,3, ‘WXL FREDERICK KURTZS DINING. ltO0lNlS, 23 New St. and 60 Broadway 76 Maiden Lanedr I Liberty St. Ger. 5th ave. &.59@th sf- 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 waiters. bf EW YORK CENTRAL AND HUD- _ SON RIVER RAILROAD.——Commencing Mon- day, June 23, 1873. Through Trains will leave Grand Central Depot——- 8:00 i,g'ar., ~’.'I-'ca.go and Montreal Express, with drawing-room cars through to Rochester and St. Al- ' bans. ' 9:00 A. M., Saratoga Special Exprc-« 3. 10:00 A. m., Special Chicago Expre‘s, with drawing- room cars to Rochester, Buffalo, &c. 10:45 A. M., Northern and Western Express. 3:40 P. 111., Special Express for Albany, Troy and Saratoga, commencing Saturday,‘ 21st inst. 4:00 P. 111., Montreal Express, with sleeping cars from ' New York to St. Albans. _ p 7:00 P. 11., Express, Daily, with sleeping cars for Watertown and Canandaigua. _ _ _ 8:30 P. M., Paciﬁc Express, Daily, with sleeping cars from Rochester, Buﬂialo and Niagara Falls; also for Chicago, em both L. S. and M. C. Railroads. 11:00 P. M., Express, with sleeping cars for Troy and Albany. 2:00 P. m., Hudson train. _ 7 :00 A. m., and 5:30 P. M., Ppughkee sie trains. 9:10 A. M., 4:15, 6:2“) and 7:45 P. M., eekskill train s. 5:00 P. M., Sing Sing train. Tarrytown trains from 30th Street Depot, stopping at all Stations, leave at 6:45, 8:25 and 10:20 A. M., 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 4:40, 5:15, 6:30, 8:00 and 11:80 P. M. Sunday Way Trains—For Tarrytown, from 30th street, at 8:25 A. M., and 1:00 P. M. For Pouglikeepsie, from 4th avenue and 42d street Station, 9:10 A. M. , C. H. KENDRICK, General Passenger Agent. ERRY P. THOMAS’ MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, 1,239 Broadway. , JERRY THOMAS would iespectfully inform his friends and the public in general that, having entirely renovated and reﬁtted his Museum and Art Gallery, and made many important additions thereto, will have a , GRAND REOPENING, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1873, d on which occasion a full band will discourse enliven- ing strains, and a ﬁne collation will be spread for the beneﬁt of his patrons. All free. THURSDAY, July 10, the establishment will be thrown open exclusively for ladies. . TWENTY Y EARS PRA 0 T1 OE. DR. PERIKINS Can be consulted as usual at his office, No. 9 FIFTH STREET (South Side), OPPOSITE PUBLIC SQUARE, KANSAS CITY, M 0.. 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 Spermatorrlioea, 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, parched 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 permanentlay 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 CHARLOTTE BARBER, ‘ Toledo, Ohio. all is strictly conﬁdential. Post box 1,227. ,;, ;,__ ;DR. PERKINS, Kansas City, Mo. .36. r
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Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1873-08-30_06_13
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 06, no. 14 (September 6, 1873)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1983
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1873-09-06
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: “<1- I ._ , ‘V7. 4-.. BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. ‘PROGRESFS I THOUGHT! Z“ ' 1- " ' —— UNTRAMMELED LIVES: I . A Vol. VI.——No. 14.——:Whole No. 14.4; NEW YORK, SEPT. 6, 1878. -q _PRIC‘E TEN<CENTS: THE LOANER’S BANK on THE CITY on NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK.‘ .._—-.._- CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,00 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. * R? 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 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to check at sight. Intere...
Show more“<1- I ._ , ‘V7. 4-.. BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. ‘PROGRESFS I THOUGHT! Z“ ' 1- " ' —— UNTRAMMELED LIVES: I . A Vol. VI.——No. 14.——:Whole No. 14.4; NEW YORK, SEPT. 6, 1878. -q _PRIC‘E TEN<CENTS: THE LOANER’S BANK on THE CITY on NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK.‘ .._—-.._- CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,00 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. * R? 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 Wall 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 3 and Canadas. HARVEY FISK. A. S. HATCH OFFICE OF FISK & HATCH, BANKERS AND DEALERS INI GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 Nassau st., N. Y., @' Opposite U. S. Sub-Treasury. 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. VVe make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. We buy and sell at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company ; also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- sion, for cash. Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention. FISK & HATCE. T0 INVESTURS. 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 Bondslof 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 (sevewand 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. 5-203. 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. MAY cooxs &. co. A FIRST-CLASS New York Security AT A LOW PRICE. .__js 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 areamply 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 percent. below par. The undersigned conﬁdently recommend them to all class of investors. GEORGE OPDYKE & CO., No. 25 Nassau Street. BANKING HOUSE 0).?‘ HENRY CLEWs &. C0,, 32 Wall 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 Ire-A land and all their branches. Telegraphic Transfers of money on Europe, San Francisco and the West Indies. Deposit accounts received in either Currency or 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 negotiated. CLEWS, HABICHT 85 CO., 11 Old Broad St., London. BANKING & FINANCIAL. .:_.__ THE ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAIL- ROAD COMPANY ’S FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS , Are being absorbed by an increasing demand for them. Secured as they are by a first mortgage on the Road, Land Grant, Franchise and Equipments, combined in one mortgage, they command at once a ready market. I ALiberal Sinking Fund provided inthe 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 annumg Parable semi- anuually, free of tax. ‘Principal in thirty years. De- nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons, or Regis- tered. S Price 97% an accrued interest, in ..currency, from February 15, 1872. ' Maps, Circulars, Documents and information fur- nished. A Trustees, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York. Can now be had through the principal Banks and Bankers throughout the country, andfrom the under- signed who unhesitatingly recommend them. ' TANNER & Co., Bankers, No. 11 Wall Street, New York. AUGUST BELMONT .9. Co, Bankers, 91 and 21 NASSAU STREET, Issue Letters of Credit to Travelers, available in all parts of the World through the MESSRS. DE ROTHSCHILD AND THEIR CORRESPONDENTS. ' Also, make telegraphic transfers of one on Call- rnia, Europe and Haven ‘ I A I RAILROAD IRON, EQR sALE A BY s. W. HOPKINS & Co, , 71 RRCADWAY A ToLEDo,I>EoRIA AND} WARSAW RAILWAY, SECOND MORTGAGE CCN. VERTIBLE 07 PER CENT. CURRENCY BONDS. INTEREST WARRANTs I PAYABLE OCTOBER AND APRIL. PRINCIPAL 1886. , We oifer 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 oinly,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 I road crosses the entire State of Illinois and connect, with the mammoth iron bridges spanning the Missj 5 sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. The income of the road for the year will net suﬂicient to pay interest on all the bonded indebtedness and dividend on them-3. ferred shares. For terms apply to CLARK, DODGE &: C.. Corner Wall and William Street». J 2 ., . . J. ‘e I '1 WOODHULL & OLA FLIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 6, 1873. “"3111 pf . 4 . V A In .T h e Ame H Illinois State Fair, 1870. 1 Alabama State Fair, 1871. ~ (SIUCCESSORS T0 IJOANE,‘ WING ac OUSIIING.) ,‘ FIRST PREMIUMST Numerous County Fairs. can,PianoF Ohio ‘State Fair, 1871 a 1872. Texas State Fair, 1872. From Mr. Edward Hoﬁmun, the celebrated Pianist “ I conscientiously believe that your Piano is in every respect a moctmdgnéﬁccnt instrument.” I From the “ Independent.“ ” ‘ A “ The American Piano has deservedly become a very popular instrument." 1 PURCHASERS’ TESTIMONIALS FROM ALL PARTS OF_J_.[‘HE U. S. Wdrrdntcd Seven [*7] Y curs. _v Prices Low for the Quality. . _Responsible Agents wanted for unoccupied territory. In localities where agencies are not yet established, until such are establ1shed,'we will sell Pianos to the public at Factory Wholesale Prices. Send for circular to wmo &. sou, 423. ART" Should Adorn and Bewuttfy every The Orphans . Rescue, Engraved on Steel by J. A. J. WILOox, from the Orig~ ~ inal Painting by Joseph John. ‘ Thismbegautiful picture, and one ofthe most thrilling ' sentiment, lifts the vail of materiality from beholding eyes, and reveals the guardians of the Angel World. Fancy fails to picture what is here made real through the artist’s hand, and words but feebly express the re- sponses of our soul, as we look upon the boat with its hapless freight of children, beautiful and fascinating in tragic attitude and expression—the silvery lighted angels in their descent so soft, their ﬂight of ease and grace, their countenances radiant with love so tender, combined with energy and power as they hover near , with outstretched arms to come. In a boat as it lay in the swollen stream, two or- phans were playing. It was late in the day, before the storm ceased, and the clouds, llghtened of their burdens, shifted away before the wind, leaving a clear 1 bright ‘sky along the horizon. Unnoticed, the boat became detached from its fastenings and ﬂoated out from shore. Quickly the current carried it beyond all earthly help. Through the foaming rapids and by pre- cipitous rocks dashed the bark with its precious charge. As it neared the brink of the fearful cataract the chil- dren were stricken with terror, and thought that death was inevitable. Suddenly there came a Wondrous . changeinthe little girl. Fright gave way to com- posure and resignation as, with a‘ determined and re- ' sistless impulse that thrilled through her whole being, she grasped the rope that lay by lier side, when to * her surprise the boat turned, as by some unseen power, toward a quiet eddy in the stream—a little haven among the rocks. The boy, of more tender : age, and not controlled by that mysterious inﬂuence, in despair fell toward his heroic sister, his little form nearly paralyzed with fear. But means of salvation calmed the “ heart’s wild tumult ” and lighted the angry waters as the angels of rcscue—they wlio were their parents-—came to the little voyagers on waves of undying affection; when through that love which ﬁlls alike the heart of parent and child, a power was transmitted that drew the boat aside from its impend- ing doom and lodged it in the crevice of the rocks, and they were rescued. This Work, whether considered in its happy ‘ conception and design, or in its ﬁnerrendering on lone and sttpple, ts a triumph in art and eco- alted sentiment, Size of Sheet . «- - — — 24x801inches. Engraved Surface - - 15}gx19% inches. RETAIL PRICE - - — $3.00. FOR SALE AT wIIOLEsAnE;ANI) RETAIL AT OUR PUB- LISHING ROOMS. Those who reside at a distance can remit $3.00 and receive the Engraving securely rolled and prepaid by return mail. Canvassing Agents ﬁnd in this new work great ele- ments of popularity and sale. Agents are wanted in l every county. éR.f_ Ii. CURRAN is co., 1 V , PUBLISHERS, , 28 School :St., Boston, Mass. 142 T '1 AHTHE Victor s. M. Cwsi" NEVV MACHINE V ‘ ‘ oer” Runs very Easy, 1 ’ I I Runs Very Fast, Rurtsvery Still. HAS {1 JVEW SHUTTLE SUPERIOR {Z 0 ALL OTHERS. Deﬁes Competition. GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLE. Cetrinot be Set Wrong. 1 AGENTS WANTED. A I Address The “VICTOR” S. M. CO..‘ I I = 862 Broadway, N. Y. J 142 Stu, Ml Y: 142 Music has_ charms! 1 PRICE nnnuonn. , The est in the World. WILL LAST A LIFETIME.’ A 35300 OF THE CELEBRATED NGER URGANS In Daiy Use. The best musical talent of the country recommend these Organs. The nicest and ‘best. More for your money, and gives better satisfaction than any other ‘now made. They comprise the Eureka, Concerto, Orchestra and Grrands. Illustrated Catalogues sent by mail, post-paid to any address, upon application to B. ea-nominees a co., 142 New Haven, Conn. “Silvergfongue” A ' MANUFA_CTUREp E. P. -Needham & Son, 143, 145 85 147’ EAST 236. ST., N. Y. ESvTABLI.SI:IED IN 1846. Responsible parties applying foragencies in sec- tions still unsupplied will receive prompt attention .and liberal inducements. Parties residing at a dis- tance from our authorised agentsmay order from our :factory. Send for illustrated price list. V 142 int Iittﬂttii 11. MANUFACTURE THE CELEBRATED Jubilee and Temple 8. These Organs are unsurpassed in quality of tone, style of ﬁnish, simplicity of construction, and dura- bility. ‘ ‘ « I ' . A t Also, Melodeons in _various_ styles, and unequaled in tone. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. »_ 1 Address ' p ' * ' -NEW HAVEN ORGAN 00., 142 Agents Wanted. New Haven, Conn. nn. J. C. PHILLIPS, tldarvyant and tidgtett iitdlel, p ' OBIEIO, VViS. .' Disease diagnosed at a glance by Look of Hair, or letter stating age, sex and residence. O GUARANTEES sATIsFAcTIoN. A . Eocumi/nation and Prescrtptton, $2.00. I Dr. Phillips is faithful, trustworthy and successful. Barrett. {>2} :1 v " good success.—~E. V. Wéls BOX 778. MARVIN’S 1 The Best. if The recent test of Fire-‘Proof Safes by the English Government proved the superiority of Alum Filling. No other Safes ﬁlled with Alum and Plaster-of-Paris. MARV & Co., 72! Chestnut Street, Phila. _ 142 $20 The Becliwith $20 Portable Family Sewing Machine, ON THIRTY DAYS’ TRIAL. WITH STRENGTH AND CAPACITY EQUAL TO ANY,'RE- GARDLESS OF COST.‘ The Cloth-plate is the size used by a $100 Machine is of Polished Plated Steel. Attachments of propor- tionate size and quality, while the entire machine has corresponding ﬁnish throughout. Braider, Embroid- erer, Guide, Hemmer, Gatherer, four sizes of Needles, etc., are given with every Machine. NO TOILSOME TREAD OFTIIE TREADLE. Every Machine carefully Tested and fully Wdrmnted. BECKWITH SEWING MACHINE 00., 862 Broadway, N. Y., near 17th st. and Union Sq. 142 SELF-CONTRADICTIONS OF THE BIBLE. One hundred and forty-four propositions‘ proved affirmatively and negatively from Scripture, without’ comment. Mailed for 25 cents. American News CO., New York. 1 Mrs. S. BAY, Magnetic Healer, PERMANENT RESIDENCE, 181 SANDUSKY ST., ALLEGHAN Y CITY, Pot, Will be located for a few weeks at 109 HAMILTON ST., BROOKLYN, L. I. EXAMINATIONS BY A LOCK OF HAIR SENT BY LETTER. Terms - — — — — — $2.00. 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 Honolulu, upon MAY 22, | SEPT. 11, JUNE 19., I CT. 9, JULY 17, 1 0V. 6, AUG. 14, I DEC. 4, at Noon. For freight and passage, apply 110 W. H. WEBB, 53 Exchange Place. New York. PSYGHOMETRY. Psychometric 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 SFEAR. OSBORN & CHAPIN, S Bankers, No. 3-1 BROAD STREET, STOCKS, STATE BONDS, GOLD AND FED- ERAL SECURITIES, bought and sold on Com- mission. 1 COUNTRY BOARD. THE LONG I—IILL HOUSE Sim miles from Bridgeport, Conn. Address, C. S. MIDDLEBROOK, Bridgeport, Con-I1. ANNA. M. MEIXSEL, 4 DAVID s. CADWALLADER, , MAGNETG HEALERS, 1,114 CALLOWHILL STREET, PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE HOURs, {Mo 11 A. M.,4to 6r. M.’ . Dr. Phillips? Magnetic Physician, is meeting with PSYOROMETRIC EXAMINATION oFgI)IsEAsE CORRECTLYJ on. MADE FROM A LOCK_._.0Ii‘ HAIR. (Near Beer’s Mill depot, on the Housatonic Railroad), , THE Wes1:ern Rural, THE, GREAT AGRICULTURAL & FAMILY WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE VVEST. ' H. N. F LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor, WITH AN Able and Practical Editorial Stow‘, AND AN EFFICIENT CORPSOF SPECIAL AND VOLUN-= ’ TARY CONTRIBUTORS. TERMS: $2.50 per Year; $2 tn Clubs of Four or More. SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS TO AeENTs.. A PLUCKY PUBLISHER. [From the Chicago Daily Sun, Nov. 30, 1871.] “ One of the most remarkable examples of Chicago pluck and energy is given by Mr. H. N. F. Lewis, pro- most widely circulated agricultural journals in the country. Mr. Lewis lost by the ﬁre one of the most complete and valuable printing and publishing estab- lishments in the West, and also his residence and household goods. Yet he comes to the surface again with unabated ardor, re-establishes himself at No. 407 West Madison street, where he has gathered new ma- terial for his business, and from which point he has already issued the ﬁrst number (since the ﬁre) of the Western Ruml, the same size and in the same form as previous to the ﬁery storm. Nobody would imagine, on glancing at the neat, artistic head and well-ﬁlled pages of the Rural that anything uncomfortably warm or specially disastrous had ever happened to it. Suc- cess to Lewis and his excellent Rural. Chicago ought to feel proud of it.” “The Longest and Ifdndsomcst Paper for Young People.” THE Young Folks’ Rural, A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY‘ JOURNAL , FOR YOUNG TEOPLE OF COUNTRY AND CITY. TERMS: $1.50 per Year; $1 in Clubs of Four or More. A PAIR or BEAUTIFUL BERLIN CHROMOS, MOUNTED AND VARNISHED, sENT POSTPAID As A GIFT To EVERY YEARLY SUBSCRIBER. The Young Folks’ Rural is a novelty among publi- cations for Young People—entirely a “ new idea,” and different from any other in style and character. Six- teen pages and sixty-four columns-—the largest news- paper in Chicago.’ V ' WHAT “THEY SAY. ” [From the Chicago Evening Post] “H. N. F. Lewis, Esq., the well-knowii publisher of that admirable weekly, the Western Ituml, is publish- ing a monthly rural and literary journal, under the title of the Young Folks’ Rural. ‘ if f“ , 77 Mr. LGW1?-* is just the man to make it a big thing. [From the Letter of a Western Mothen] “ The Young Folks’ Rural is just what our dear children need. Altogether it is a nobleenterprise, and will do an untold amount of good. It is the fparents’ assistant,’ and all thinking parents will join me 111 thanking you.” [From a School Tcocher.] "“ I am a teacher, and take the paper for the beneﬁt and amusement of my pupils. Eyes are brighter and lessons better learned when the Young Folks’ Rural ‘makes its appearance. __we.... SPECIMEN NUMBERS SEN T FREE. Address, I H. N. F. LEWIS, Publisher, Chicago, Ill. Both Western Rural and Young Folks’ Rural furnished for One Year for $3.00. DB. DAKE’S I iAr1>OINTMENTs FOR 1873. " El ‘n, Ill., 1st and 2d; Rockford, Ill.,'£_3d, 4th., _5th and 6th'gHeloit, Wis., 7th, 8th and 9th; Madison, Wis., 11th and12th; Watertown,Wis.,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 29th, 30th and 31st of eac month during the year’. Oﬂices, principal hotels In each city. Chronic complaints incident to "both sexes exclusively and suc- cessfully treated. r ENCOMIUMS 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 aiiirm.——Journul, Beloit, Wis. , Live, energetic, liberal men, advertise. Such a man is Dr. Dake, who in the last three years has built up West.—Lochford Gazette. Dumont C. ]_)ake,_M. D., is having great 591109955 11% this cit. . He is active, whole souled, in fact, one 0 the “w 'test” gentlemen we have ever known- JOSHUAFM. HOLT, Manufacturer and Prop1'i8t0l2’ Dr. Hyfs lvlagnetic Pain Cure, H_0]_t’g ‘Vegetable Liver Tonic. MILFORD; N. H. r. prietor of the Western Rural, one of the ablest and . one of the largest practices of any physician in the, I5‘ Sept. 6, 1873. wooDiIULI. & oLArLIN’siwEEKLY. H 3 EKLIYC. / / K ‘K . , V “ms. The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices: The Principles of Government, by Victoria Wood- hull....‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE. ‘1. Go to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. 4. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your ﬁelds, which is kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James v. 1-4. INTERNATIONAL WORKINGMEN’S ASSOCIATION. At {1} meeting of the Federal Council, held Sunday, August '24, the subjoined papers were reported by the proper com- mittees, approved and directed to be published in the WEEKLY: N Ew YORK, August 24, 1873. THE N ORTH AMERICAN FEDERAL CoUNoIL on THE I. W. A. To THE SPANISH REGIONAL FEDERATION. 'Compam2ons—We have received your circular, dated Alcoy, July 14; also, the Boletin of your Federation, which we re- ceive regularly, -and are thankful for them. By the above circular we seethat already your vindica- tion has brought upon yourselves all the calumnies which A have been spread on the Commune. The hate and revenge of the middle class (bourgeoiise) and the clergy are gathering upon you because you annihilate their privileges. Pay no attention to their f/wrores, but persevere in your heroic struggle. The clerical and capitalistic class, whose agony commenced -on the 18th of March, has received new blows at Alcoy and (larthagena. Notwithstanding all its efforts and resistance, it is destined to perish. You are on the way to scatter its fragments. From your courage and devotion to humanity will be born anew society, based upon liberty, labor, justice and solidarity. - Instead of a society wherein the capitalists are enabled, by means of a most horrible system of monopoly, to seize all the scientiﬁc discoveries, and make of the workers ma- chines handling other machines, you will hand over to the working class the implements of labor, of which they shall be masters, but no more the slaves; then, and only then, the producer of wealth will have conquered his autonomy and independence. To obtain such a noble aim you must act without fear. Make away with all the old prejudices which have been in- culcated into us by our adversaries, which make us power- less and cause the failure of so many noble eﬁorts on the part of the proletarian toward his delivery from bondage. Beware of ambitious intriguers, who aspire to popularity so as to gain power to fasten new fetters on you. I I Persevere to the utmost, and, above all, practice your de- vice—anarchy, negation of all authority, because authority means despotism and serfdom. The workers of all countries are with you, wishing you success. Courage, then, brave defenders of human rights; you will gain for reward the everlasting thanks of working humanitythroughout the world. Live the Social Revolution! On behalf of Federal Council, VV. WEsT, Rec. Sec., No. 30 Bowery. T. R. KINGET, English Cor. Sec., 234 East Fifth st. B. HUBERT, Gen. Cor. Sec., 19 Catherine st., New York. WORKINGMEN’S CENTRAL COUNCIL OF , NEW “ YORK AND VICINITY. To THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS: Gentlemen—You are hereby invited to co-operate, either by delegation, committee or correspondence, with the above Council for the Purpose of laying before the public the wrongs under which the workingmen suffer, at a mass meeting to be held under the auspices of the Workingmen’s Central Council, at Cooper Institute, on Friday evening, August 29, 11873, at eight o’clock. The speakers will discuss the follow- ing questions: - I That workingmenl demand that the Common Council of the City of New York shall not appropriate $2,500,000 to en- able 3 Private corporation to build an industrial palace, un- less the city has supervisory power over its construction and management: and ‘that we also demand that in the speciﬁ- Oations for all gove rnment work to be given out by contract, the provision that it be done at eight hours per day be in- serted. The attention of the workingmen will also be called to Other 011168171011-‘ 5 of interest. Trusting that you will respond to our call. We remain, yours? 9130': Jan ties Connelly, Osborne Ward, J - Mitchell? Lfact, its oﬂice-holders are, as a class, weak men. His Cabinet, ‘of Illinois and the West. A meeting of Western railroad Ferdinand J ubitz, George Cavanagh, John McMackin, Geo. Blair, committee. . NEW YORK, August 12, 1873. Address communications to Geo. Blair, 286 Spring street. INQUIRIES. VIoToRIA——I trespass on your precious time for a few mo- ments, to tell you what I want to see in your WEEKLY or some other paper. ‘ I The “ Credit Mobilier ” has made our present Congress famous the world over, and the “ Salary Grab ” adds the climax to their notoriety so far as they have displayed that peculiar phase of patriotism as yet. I want to see a com- plete-list of those members of the two Houses who were par- ticipators in the “Credit Mobilier,” and who were in any way connected with that class of our citizens claiming to be Christians, otherwise members of some church, whether they be clergymen, elders, deacons, officers of any other grade, or only private members. Then, again. I want to see a like‘list of those who voted in favor of the “ grab:” and with them of those who availed themselves of its provisions, though they voted in the negative, or through policy dodged the vote. Our President would be classed in this second category, as giving his signature to legalize the act. The question is, how many of those who were orare con- cerned in these peculiar patriotic acts are of the Church ? that we may know what to expect in this particular direc- tion,when our orthodox citizens get God and Christ and the Bible into the Constitution, as they propose. I. suppose there is some person in the near vicinity of each who can authentically post you in these particulars, that thus the public, through your independently free paper, can look at this beautiful picture of honesty and patriotism. With a “ God bless you” for yourself and sister Tennie and Col. Blood, yours sincerely, . L JULIUS A. WILLARD, 327’ Fulton street, Chicago, Ill. ', CRESARISM. It will be i'einemberecl that, some weeks ago we gave it as our opinion that the manner in which the N. Y. HemlcZ_ was treating this subject was a “ feeler,” to test the pulse of people. Every day conﬁrms us in that view and more fully that the Herald at bottom is in favor of “ a strong govern- ment,” as it is facetiously demominated. Read the follow- ing from its issue of August 22, and ﬁnd in it what ,we have been endeavoring to make the people see for the last year: ' . Mr. Joseph B. McCullagh, editor of the St. Louis Democrat, a powerful administration organ, and well known in the West and at Washington during former years as a newspaper correspondent, under the nom de plume of “Mack, ’-’ is now . stopping at the Astor House on his way home from Saratoga. A Herald reporter sent his card to room 108, and Mr. Mc- Cullagh at once sent word back by the waiter to show the visitor up. After the reporter had taken a seat the conver- sation at once began. ‘ Reportei'.—-—Mr. McCullagh, I came here to have a talk with you in regard to the possibilities of Caesarism. - THE ROOTS or c2EsARIsM.f I presume you have seen the Infemld articles on the subject, and the interviews with leading editors and prominent citizens? - Mr. McC1illag7L.—Yes, and I have noticed that the Herald’s editorials have generally been more correct in their ideas than the interviews and letters of correspondence on the subject. The great mistake seems to be in assuming that General Grant wants to become Caesar. Buckle, in his “ History of Civilization,” has the correct idea, I think. Neither Caesar nor Napoleon would have been able to destroy the liberties of the Roman or French nation had it not been for the fact -that public opinion in Italy and in France per- mitted—nay, demanded—-the elevation of a Caesar. Whether the public mind in this country is ready for Czesarism yet remains to be seen. I don’t think that it is in Gi-ant’s mind or will personally to become a modern Caesar; but there are a great many men who want a third term and have a desire for a strong government. Grant has shown great ability in not doing things; he has let matters go along and taken them as they came. His ad- ministration, without having any very warm admirers or many special points for admiration, has been, ,in the main, successful. G-rant has suffered a good deal from flat- terers, who have told him that he is a second Washington; but he never believed it, an “perhaps he would rather be a first Grant than a second Washington. ’ “ WHAT DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT?” Rc;oorter.——Do you believe there is any considerable num- ber of the American people who desire a Caesar? Mr. McCullagh.—I think there is, and I will give one illus- tration. The railroad interests of the West are afraid of the people. The farmer’s granges have frightened them into a fear of Communism, and made them believe that the gov- ernment is not strong enough. Every dollar of railroad stock in the States where Granges exist represents the idea of its owners that the government is too weak; and as cap- italists love their money better than their_couiitry or its institutions, they look for somebody that will lay a_ strong hand on the people and give them security that their prop- erty shall not be destroyed. This may mean empire or It may mean monarchy; but it means a stronger government than at present exists. I know a man who represents several millions of dollars in two of the wealthiest railroad cor- porations of the West, which are worth in the aggregate $50,000,000, and he says that ‘every dollar in both of these companies is in favor of what he calls “a strong govern- ment.” I once asked this gentleman what he meant by “ a strong government,” and he replied, “ Anything that would put down the Communists ”—meaning the farmers’ granges magnates was held in New York city some time ago to arrange the time-tables and tariffs. After those present had» transacted their official business, the subject of the farmers’ movement in the “West was informally discussed, and it was generally agreed that the people of the different States would prove inimical to railroad. property, and that the railroads with the exception of Senator Delano, is made up of men without political inﬂuence at their homes or elsewhere. They are all good men, but Delano is the only politician among them. A railroad 100 miles long, running through any cfthe Western States, can bring to bear more inﬂuence in at State Convention than any member of General Grant’s Cabinet. w INFLUENCE IN GETTING VOTES. . Reporter.--What foundation have you for making this statement? Mr. McC'u,llagh.—-Why, because they spend more money and have more men in their employment; and they will use the money if necessary to protect themselves and their prop- erty. Take, for instance, the Chicago 85 Alton Railroad, running from St. Louis to Chicago, in the best part of _Illi- nois, with perhaps ﬁfty stations between these two points, and employing a number of men vastly greater than all the ppstitiiasters and revenue agents in Illinois, if not in the es . Repo'rter.—-Do these men believe that the protection _of their property involves the destruction of American lib- e '? 1 rt . A It/Ir. M cOullagh.—They believe that any form of popular government which allows farmers’ graiiges to elect judges and State oﬂicers is not strong enough to protect them _i_ni their rights, and they demand any form of government which will secure their dividends and keep their stocks at par. Reporter-—Is there any other class of capitalists whose moneyed interests would urge it to seek to aid in a subver- sion of the Republic? . . Mr. McCi.ollagh (very cautiously).——I do not know that rail- road men, or any other class of capitalists, desire the sub- version of the Republic; but government bondholders must naturally be as timid on this subject as the railroad stock- holders, both classes living on incomes derived from invest- ments, and what affects the one will affect the other. When ‘the railroad stockholders get scared the government bond- holders will take the alarm, and both will unite in the com- mon cause. “ G0 wEsT FOR NEws.” Reporter-—Do you understand the interests of the railroad stockholders and those of the farmers’ grangers to be un- deniably antagonistic? ‘ _ M7‘. lVIcCulLagh.—Whether rightfully or wrongfully, it is so understood by the farmers of the West, and during the past year a feeling of hostility to railroads has grown up in the States west of Indiana which needs only a first class leader to fan it into positive aggression. A man cannot be elected constable in the State of Illinois to-day without ﬁrst proving that he does not own a dollar of stock in a railroad of any kind, and that he is not in the employmeiit of_ a railroad company; and if the present spirit prevails until next fall, every Congressman elected west ‘of Indiana, excluding the large cities, will have to pledge himself in advance to oppo- sition against the great railroad interests. “THE LORDS AND ooMMoNs.” ‘Re.porter.—If this belso, Mr. McCullagh, of what interest would it then be for the railroad men to appeal to the general government? » _ _ ill . McCullagh.——Because their idea of “ a strong govern- ment” means a permanent President and a permanent Senate. They want the Crown and the House of Lords, and they don’t care what is done in the House of_Commons. Reporter.-You have spoken about the feeling in the West. and now I wish to ask you do you not think that there is a ground-swell of Caesarism in the Eastern States? 5 Mr. McCullagh.——Caesarism in the Eastern States comes in the main from a number of wealthyshoddyites, and is in opposition to what is known as the “ eight-hour movement,” which manifests itself in repeated strikes and demands for higher wages for mechanical labor. “ No BIGGER THAN A MAN’s HAND.” During the session of the Philadelphia Convention I hap- pened to be standing one afternoon with a friend—--a noted politician of the West—in front of a large iron foundry in Philadelphia at a time when the men were going home from work. We had been talking on this very same subject. More than one hundred mechanics, with their tin dinner- buckets filed by us, and I said to my friend, “There is the source of future trouble for this country. When these men begin to think that they are working for twenty-five dollars a week, while their ‘boss,’ who was no better than they ten years ago, because he has been able to manipulate the poli- ticians, is making $550,000 a year, then they will become un- easy, and the conﬂict between the ‘ boss’_ and the mechanic becomes inevitable.” You will see that in the East, as well as in the West, the struggle is between capital and labor. Capital is always looking for protection, and it can only ﬁnd it under what ,6‘ e Herald calls Caesarism. 1 Reporter.— ou remarked that when the farmers’ granges found a leader capable enough the conﬂict would then begin between them and the railroad capitalists. Does such a leader exist? . _ _ Mfr. l‘/IeCullctgh.——I think capital will be the aggressor and that the granges will wait to assume the defensive. I could name twenty leaders in the West who would head the gran- gers’ movement when they were reduced to the simple form of opposition to Caesarism. At a guess I should say that John A. Logan would be the best man, a 3 the more likely to come to the front in an emergency. ‘ (. §;v;ILL I.oeAN BE A BRu_TUs! Reporter.——Is General McCrernand still alive}? M7‘. McCullagh.——Yes, he is alive and struggling for politi- cal honor, but in a contest like the one referred to the peo- ple would need a leader manufactured on a scale of more inches to the mile than McCrernand. They would demand some man who represented victory and enthusiasm in the last"'war, and they would follow Logan, because in a battle he aﬂlways put his hat on the point of his sword and told the boys to “ come on,” instead of telling them to “ go on,” as most of the other generals did. _ . _ Reporter,——How does Logan stand in regard to Cmsarism and the granges’ IIIOVGIIJGIW? _ Mr. McCuLLagh.——I have not seen Logan since the contest began, but I know enough of him to say that he will be op- posed to Caesarism unless he can play Caesar. He is not in love with Grant, he dislikes Sheridan, and he hates Sher- man with a cordal hatred. ' _ Reporter.-—IIow do Sherman and Sheridan stand on the question of Caesarism. sHERMAN’s HATRED or‘ FREE SPEECH. Mr. McCullagh.—As to Sherman, I only know his general views, often expressed and never concealed, that a military government is the only possible one of long duration. I have heard him‘ say in Washington, for. instance, that newspapers had no right to discuss any q_uest1on of general politics, and that there should be a censorship of the press, under which ' must look to the general government for protection. Re.porter.——What action do you think the officeholders would take were an attempt made to confer the purple upon Grant? THE RAILROAD CONSPIRATOR KINGS. Mr. McCullceg'h.—I think the Herald makes a mistake in attributing paramount inﬂuence to the oiﬁce-‘holders in con- trolling American politics. I can name a single railroad that can control more votes in the West and “ set up” more con- ventions than any office-holder west, of the Alleghanies. Grant’s administration is not strong in its office-holders; in no article should appear in any newspaper until it had been approved at headquarters. This was after the war, and un- der the administration of Andrew Johnson. _ A number of gentlemen were discussing the ﬁnancial policy: Whether theissue of greenbacks should be enlarged orpontracted. The New York papers had arrived that evening in Washing- ton having different views on the subject. . General Sher- man replying to a number of suggestions, said that “ news- papers had no right to express any opinion on the subject, and that the men who wrote for newspapers knew nothing of what they talked about. Congressmen were elected _to de- termine upon the question, and that the d-—d bohemian in- terlopers should be suppressed by law or force.” gi O I WOODHULL aci.AELii\i’s‘wEEKLY. Sept. 6, 1873. ARE SHERMAN AND GRANT ERIENDS? Reporte7'.——Are the President and General Sherman on friendly terms? " Mr. Mb Cullagh.——I do not think they are on terms of more than formal friendship, and have not been since General Rollins, as Secretary of War, refused to allow General Sher- man to run‘the War Department. Sherman is essentially an egotist, and believes himself to be the hero 'of the rebel- lion, whil.e every friend of General Grant knows that it took all his military genius to cover up Sherman’s blunders. There was some family trouble between Sherman and Fred Grant on the visit to Europe together, which resulted in the latter parting company with the former before the journey was half over, and the two great generals have never been on terms of cordial intimacy since. I suppose you know that Mrs. Grant had to go to Sheridan to get a staff appointment for Fred. It would have looked better had Sherman given the appointment unasked; but I am doubtful if General Sherman would have granted that favor to the wife of the President. Repoi*ter.—Do you think Sherman would like to enact the role of Caesar himself? ilfr. Zlfc Oullcgh.—I think he would; but he would have no chance, unless after a long struggle in which he would come out head of the army. It is not likely for the reason that ' should a long struggle ensue between this country and the people, Sherman would not be at the head of the army. In fact Sherman, without Grant’s backing, would play a small part in any revolution. . , Repoi~ter.—What part would Sheridan take in a conﬂict for empire ? Mr.Mc0ullagh.—Sheridan would support the powers that be. He would obey every order given to him, and would do his best for those who held authority to direct him. Sheri- dan has no political ambition, and would be only desirous to make the best showing for the force under his command. He is a mere soldier and nothing else, believing in the power of the sword and the virtue of blood and iron. Rc1co*rtei~.——Wh_at would the rank and ﬁle of the army do if the time was auspicious for a Caesar to seize the govern- ment? ~ 1/ Mi-. ]VIcC'ullagh.—The rank and ﬁle of the regular army would obey orders; but a man going through two counties of the State of Illinois with an old battle-flag and a ﬁfe and drum would, in twenty-four hours, recruit men enough to sweep West Point and the regular army out of existence. Logan, with the battle ﬂags of Fort Donaldson, would have an army large enough to demand the unconditional surren- der of the Army Register and everything else belonging to C2esar_ Rep07"ter.—-Do you think that any large number of the oﬁicers of high rank in the regular army have ever deliber- ately considered this project of assisting the Executive to the seat of Caesar? , » A CESAR,S PRETORIAN BAND. Mr. McCullagh.—The regular army seldom thinks of any- thing beyond the pay and rations which it draws. In the event of a struggle its officers would obey orders from their commander-in-chief of the army; but the diﬁiculty would be to obtain recruits. The ﬁghting force of the regular army is very small, and for every man who enlisted for Caesarism ahundred would enlist under the symbol of a republican people and to save their threatened liberties, so that the reg- ular army would not amount to a drop in the bucket. There is not a county in any State west of the Alleghanies that could not furnish good ﬁghting men enough to whip the reg- ular army out of its boots. “A MILLION EOR A DUKEDOM.” Repoi'tcr.—Do yogu think there is any large element in so- ciety, East or West, in favor of a monarchy or desirous of acquiring titles? Jlfr. 1lIcCiolla.gli.—I think there is a small element, large in its moneyed inﬂuence, and principally conﬁned to the East, in favor of a strong government, with power to confer titles of nobility. , . Repm~m~__..(jan you give any satisfactory reason for that . ? . bailiff ZlIcCulla.gh.—I have no speciﬁc foundation, and noth- ing but my own reasoning from a few facts. I reason from one well—known fact, that nine-tenths of the young women of wealth who go abroad from America and whose fathers have acquired large wealth, in an honest or a doubtful way, embrace the ﬁrst opportunity to marry an empty title, and many of them would rather be the wife of a bankrupt Count . in France or Italy, or in some pretty German State, than to have some honest American merchant or business man for a husband. Of course I preclude all possibility of them_marry- ing a mechanic. We need not go abroad for this spirit, for we can ﬁnd it at any fashionable watering-place in America to-day. I was standing in the ball—room o ne of the most fashionable hotels at ‘Saratoga a few evenings since; I held a. copy of the Herald in my hand, and had just been ponder- ing upon one of its articles upon Caesarism. There were several hundreds of what would be called the sweetest and perttiest of American girls present. I touched afriend on the shoulder and said to him, “ What ea splendid chance there would be here to auction oﬁ titles of nobilty among all these silks and diamonds and perfumes!” “ A sHoDDY_EMrIRE AND A PETROLEUM CZESAR.” I asked him whai he thought “ a dukedom would bring,” and he answers ,’ pointing to_ a fat old army contractor, whose daughter stood near with about $20,000 worth of jewelry upon her person, “ That damned fool would give a million for a dukedom,” and, on a careful survey of the ﬁeld, we ' concluded that an empire could start there and then with a cash capital of $100,000,000, the understanding being that .not- a cent of revenue should accrue to the, holders of the titles for the purchase money. . ' “ DO YOU SEE THAT STONE WALL? PRESS.” Reporter-—What course do _you suppose the American press would take in case Caesarism was attempted in a prac- cal fashion? 3 ' _ M4», ]V[cOullagh.-—All of that portion ofthe press that can- not be approached by military power_ will take the side of the people against Czesarism. But it is difficult to say what THAT VVALL IS FREE ’ the provost marshals may be able to do. If they can repeat e of Napoleon they will muzzle every news- ggggdgﬁigdrih the land who does not endorse Caesarism. Repoi~ter.—In the event of such a strugglewhich would win. ﬁnally the press and the people united or the military chief- ‘ 1? 9 . - ta’1JTl[:‘.. Jl[cCullc_Lgh.——The press and the people will beat all the forces that can be brought against them, and united they will kill forty-nine out of the ﬁfty men who may have the ambitition to enact the role of Caesar. It is an interesting Tole, Iknow, 10 play that of Caesar; but the press and the people will kill the would-be Caesars not only _morally but physically. Assassination will be put at a premium and the man who kills the largest number of Cmsars, will ﬁll the niche of the greatest hero in American history. . 9%‘ SPIRITUALISTIC. THE Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists will hold their ﬁfth quarterly meeting in Riverside Hall, in Me- Henry, McHenry Co., Ill,, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 12, 13 and 14., 1873. The convention will be calledto order on Friday morning, September 12, at ten o’clock A. M. Passengers from the east of Chicago will take the cars at Wells street depot at 3.45 P. M. (not later) for Fox River Valley Railroad to McHenry. A Ample accommodations will be made for all that come. Mrs. Mally Hulett Parry, Mrs. S. E. Warner, Dr. Julia Severance, Dr. Taylor, Charles Stewart, Dr. Kayner and the Gentle Wilson will be at this convention. Warren Chase, W. F. J amieson, Cephas B. Linn and others may bethere. Come prepared with blankets, comforters or Buffalo robes as if going to a camp-meeting. There wil be an informal meeting on Thursday evening, September 11. commencing at eight o’clock. “ Brothers and sisters we have work to do. Come up to McHenry and let us do it. 0. J. HOWARD, M. D., President. E. V. WILSON, Sec’y. FROM THE INDIANS’ FRIEND. On Sunday, at our circle, a spirit came and wished me to write to you an apology for him. He said his name was Decker; that in earth life he lived on Rhode Island, but not known to you. He ﬁrst met with your paper on a steamboat and thought that its teachings were horrible, and he was ashamed to have it known that he had ever read it. But his curiosity was excited, so he afterward procured another and read it on the sly. His ﬁrst impressions were deepened, and he thought that you were sapping the morals of society, and that you de. . served to be put to death. Finally he went to the spirit worldiwith this feeling pre- dominant, and to his great surprise he saw you surrounded by spirits as bright as the stars, and that your own spirit was highly illuminated vastly superior to himself. Then he found that he had been mistaken, and that you are working in a right direction. c He says that you will be sustained, and that you will tell stronger and clearer truths than you have yet uttered. But he says there are inﬂuences magnetically at work against you, especially in the home where you at present live, and that if you and your immediate friends could change your location for one where the surrounding con- ditions were more genial, it would be a great beneﬁt to you and to your cause. “ As you invite reformatory articles, I send the inclosed, with the assurance that if your paper could advocate the cause of the Indians as a matter of National justice, you would secure more general sympathy from the good of earth and a larger portion of magnetic power from the Indians in spirit life. So please give the article a careful reading, and then you will, I think. become a more complete reformer, because you will begin at the beginning-place for National progress in its external expression. It will be through the exposure of the frauds and massa- cres of the Indians that the churches will_see their own in- eﬁiciency to elevate mankind and to bless the world’. ; A ’ Yours truly, JOHN BEEsoN. THE BALLIROLLS ON! To see what effects the new doctrines are producing, what hold they are taking of the public mind, read the following from a private letter: ‘ - J _ '1‘_ Of course you have heard all about the great Convention in Vineland, but I thought you would like to know how I enjoyed it, and my opinion of the proceeding. Well, ‘I was completely carried away with the whole affair. It was the most interesting gathering of earnest women and men that I ever attended. I never heard the Bible, Christianity, God and the Devil, handled so roughly, and felt more ‘con- vinced than ever (if that were possible), that we can never have any real freedom and happiness in this world, until the last vestige of this trash is wiped out of existence. Since the Convention was held, the only topic of conversation has been free love, people who never thought of the subject be- fore, now declare that Mrs. Woodhull told the truth. The ministers are becoming alarmed, and last Sunday forenoon, Pittenger preached on “Spiritualism and its allies.” I was there and listened to it all, and was much amused by it. He said, “ Spiritualism has in its ranks the most bitter and malicious foes to God, the Bible, Christianity, Christ and the Devil,” and I suppose he is about right. But he viliﬁed Mrs. Woodhull, and denounced us all as criminals because we support her. In the evening, priest Russell held forth in the Baptist Church, but it was all the most ridicu- lous nonsense. There was never anything in Vineland before like this Convention, never before were the people so aroused. I feel prouder of the place than ever; and it has been a puzzle to me to think why we Spiritualists are here, and in many in- stances were directed here, but it has occurred to me now, that we are here to form a community that will tolerate and help give birth to these great truths of Religious, Political and Social Freedom. I don’t know whether Spiritualism is true or not, but I belijeive it is, but I do know that some almighty power_almost got control of me during that Con- vention, so that at times I could hardly retain my con- sciousness, and I believe it was the power of the spirit- world. I am glad you are engaged in such a noblework, and hope you will continue on till the Bible, ministers, and Christianity -generally, are smashed, and scattered to the four winds. BROTHER AND SISTER HARDY. During our recent visit East we had the pleasure of spend- ing an hour at the house of our Brother and Sister. Hardy, 4 Concord Square, Boston. VVe found them true and staunch friends; friends not only of spiritualism in its highest type, but outspoken advocates of every movement organized in the interest of common humanity, not excepting the" social question, that scarecrow of too many of our good spiritu- alists. Seeing the gross iniquity and hypocrisy underlying the present marriage relations, they readily offer the right hand of fellowship to those who dare throw themselves early in the breach, becoming grand pioneers in the thorny paths of reform, in a work destined ultimately to ‘utterly demolish a system doing more toward crushing the coming generations than war, pestilence, andfamine combined. ' Mr. Hardy, then in his ’teens, saw the noble Garrison hauled through the streets of Boston by an infuriated mob with a rope around his neck, for daring to attack a “ Social system” of the South, chattel slavery; and for many years were Garrison and his few fellow-laborers denied the use of any hall or public place, but were mobbed out of their own hired rooms, and by mobs not only composed of prominent church members, but by members of the city government: the same kind of pure, sleek, pious souls who deprived us of the use of music hall, after‘ engaging it and disposing of some 800 tickets. From that moment Mr. Hardy became a ﬁrm, outspoken abolitionist, not waiting till it became popular_; not saying as many of our chicken-hearted spiritualists do of the social question, “These doctrines are true in the abstract, but it will not do to jump at them, we must wait till society gradu- ally progresses up to them. Out upon such moral cowardice that waits the popularity of any reformatory movement of humanity before daring to advocate it. Let trimmers and weak-kneed spiritualists take courage and straighten up their spinalcolumns when we inform them that the outspoken advocates of reform in our social relations are already received, and gladly listened ‘to by the Boston that so long mobbed and hooted the noble Garrison, Phillips, Pillsbury, and Foster, and even publicly prayed in the Vestry of Park-street church for God to murder Theodore Parker. Our Sister Hardy, as a public medium of the highest repu- tation, is doing a noble work, daily overrun with patrons seeking communion with clear and loved ones “ just over there.” The calls upon her are so numerous that her only way of obtaining rest is to shut up house and leave the city; and more recently the materialization phase of manifestations have been developed through her in a most remarkable, manner, as the phenomena occur readily without any con- cealment of the medium"s person, either by cabinet or curtain, and in the light, and in a manner precluding the possibility of fraud. I ‘ We are glad to learn that after visiting Newport and New London they intend to start for the West about the 5th of September, visiting New York city and Moravia, on their way to Chicago, to attend the national convention. CONFERENCE OF SPIRITUALISTS. A national conference of Spiritualists has just been held at the Isliiigton Assembly Rooms, Liverpool. Among the visitors present at the meetings were Dr. G.’ B. Clark, ' Edinburgh; Mr. J. Bowman, Glasgow; Mrs. Butterﬁeld, Darlington; Mr. R. Fitton, Manchester; Mr. VV. H. Harri- son and Mr. T. Everitt, London; Dr. Hitchman, Liverpool, etc. 1t was unanimously resolved to fdrm a National Asso- ciation of Spiritualists, and among the gentlemen invited to take office on the council of the new association were Dr. J. , M. Gully, of Malvern; Mr. J. C. Luxmoore, of the Reform Club, London; Mr. Charles Blackburn, of Manchester: Dr. G. B. Clark, of Edinburgh; Mr. Alfred E. Lovell, President of the Dalston Society, London; and many other leading Spiritualists. Mr. George Sexton, M. D., LL. D., delivered a lecture on Spiritualism in Hope Hall, to a large auditory, reviewing the objections to Spiritualism made by Dr. Car- penter, Mr. Sergeant Cox and others» Several somewhat curious subjects were considered, among others the inﬂu- ence of food and drink upon mediums. The facts stated went to prove that the purer and the more abstemious the life of the medium, both as regards thoughts and diet, the better were the spirits acting upon him, and that, by lead- ing a low and sensual life, a medium was in danger of being possessed by depraved and vicious human agents. It was agreed that spiritual phenomena were not “miracles” in the vulgar sense of the term, but were facts not yet brought under the dominion of known laws, and demanding the closest scientiﬁc investigation. Dem‘ Sister Vt'ctom'a-—Resting in an old homestead in Massachusetts, I am reﬁecting on the incidents of the past week and the camp grounds of Silver Lake. I had the‘priv- _ ilege and the pleasure of opening the ceremonies, in conse- crating the new camp grounds, and soon after of listening to the bold thunder strokes of Moses Hull, I. P. Greenleaf, then the sweet and magic utterance of our dear young sister, Jenny Leys, whose words ﬁlled the hearts of the‘ thousands that listened to her on Sunday, August 10th. William Denton dealt old Theology some of his terrible knocks from which it . never recovers, and then followed miscellaneous and hetero- geneous speaking and singing, in which I had a good share, till the 17th, when my soul had a feastof gladness to see the upturned faces of ﬁfteen thousand sober, honest, earnest, intelligent men and women listening to the earnest and soul- stirring truths you uttered on the social system of our Chris- tianity and the terrible sufferings that result from it. For a quarter of a century I have been laying the ax to the root of the Christian tree, knowing that when it fell, all its u branches would die, and knowing that our system of mar- riage is one. Few persons, perhaps none, have gathered mgre histories of suffering and misery under this system than I have in the last twenty years, and I have hoped and prayed,- and watched and waited for the agitator that would arouse the people to action. Not alone in social nor alone in religi- ous questions, but on both; for I knew the Church must de- fend her holy institution, and the holy institution must cling to its parent stock or perish if severed. ' To me you seem the instrument in the hands of a higher power to do the great and needed work, ﬁtted and sharpened by an experience and observation that were necessary, and born with conditions and the ante-natal stamp that sharpens you for the conﬂict. You may seem devil t0 S0me, no doubt you do to many who have never seen nor heard you. To me you are the angel of mercy to the poor crushed hearts who are yearly sacriﬁced by thousands, tens of thousands, on our matrimonial gibbet. I have read the graveyard rec- _l.\ \ Sept. 6, 1873. WOODHULL .2. CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. ords; I have heard the pitiful stories of hundreds. “ Write my epitaph,” said a dying sensitive person, “ froze to death in the summer-time.” “Say I died,” says another, “burned up by the lust of a husband that had no love.” I have done a few good deeds in life that have brought me blessing by helping with legal and other advice some poor crushed hearts to escape the matrimonial yoke; but never, as the angels know, have I disturbed one of those rare unions that brought joy and happiness and peace, every one of which Would be as secure and sacred without the legal bonds as with, since neither needed law to protect the love given or received. : I have private histories by the thousand, but they are sacred to friendship and memory; but the lessons are for public use. I have long declared that rapes marriage should be punished the same as those out of it, and. the wife protected the same against the sexual abuse of her husband as against any other man, which of course would virtually abolish marriage except as a civil contract, subject to the will of contracting parties, and leaving each person complete control of his or her person. - . Our pious friends at Oneida, N. Y., have come nearer solv- ing the social and sexual problem than any other people I know of. They generate children that do not need to be re- generated. They have no polygamy nor monogamy, no out- casts nor prostitutes, and no libertines nor venerial diseases; not one-fourth as much female weakness and complaints as the same number of the sex taken in any class of society else- where. Their system of male continence is a science, and must be studied under discipline to be adopted; but it can be made universal. But I have wandered far away from the camp-meeting, the purpose of this note, which was to greet you and to rejoice with you in the success of your efforts to awaken the public mind to a sense of the terrible, cruel, wicked heart and life-crushing system of hypocritical Christian marriage. The upas tree of Christianity must fall from the blows that are attacking it, and with it all its branches must die. God bless you, says WARREN CHASE. THE MILKY WAY. , To VICTORIA C. WOODHULL: Respected Illadamz A correspondent of the New York Ijferald, who signs himself J . S. C., appears to be fully cogni- zant of this via. lactaaa of the ancients. He deprecates the fact that the Spiritualists of Robinson Hall have occasional- ly Magdalens and Peter the Wild Boys among them. Evi- dently he believes that extraordinary good folks only should attend the Robinson Hall meetings whose words are their bonds on change. He further tells us how the society of (progressive?) Spiritualists has been incorporated; and that its “ object is to establish the fact that spirits of departed be- ings return and communicate with mortals.” Permit me to say here that if that be the sole use of the development of the human faith called Spiritualism, the job has been done, and the society would do well to adjourn. But J . S. C. admits there is a division among the Spiritual- ists. The opinion of the ﬁrst (or conservative) class has been stated. The second (to which the writer belongs) he terms radicals. These believe it to be the province of Spiritualisin to effect mighty reforms in everything pertaining to human- ity. Like the riﬂ’-raﬁ of Jerusalem in the year thirty‘, they would be delighted to see the Great Nazarene using his whip . of small cords in Wall street to-day, and consorting with the Magdalens of Water street to-morrow. But J. S. C. very po- litely informs his compeers in the Churches that “The last- named class contribute little or nothing to the society; they have no voice in its government; they simply attend the lectures, which any one has a- right to do by conforming to the regulations.” Well, one of these regulations is, that, after the opening speaker, any person, female or male, shall have a ten min- utes chance to ventilate his ideas. Another is that, either in conference or at lecture, the entrance fee shall be ten cents. Under these circumstances, as a member of the general pub- lie, I think it indecent in J. S. C. to complain of the small- ness of any contribution to the society; if it be too small, it is the fault of the society, for they ﬁxed it themselves. As J. S. C. very truly says, 1, and the thousands of Spiritualists outside of the ring, have no voice in its government, but, among Spiritualists, such a strait-j acketing process ought to be deplored rather than paraded. ' In conclusion, permit me delicately to suggest to J . S. C. that it was not exactly polite in him to drag in the names of the “women Claﬁin and Woodhull” into his ‘discussion; and to inform him, if he is not aware of the fact, that, if Victoria C. Woodhull did not deliver the evening lecture last Sunday, the Society of Progressive Spiritualists ought not to be cen- sured on that account, for they solicited her to do so. As it was, her alterego, Laura Cuppy Smith, did. Of course her discourse was on the " subject of subjects ”——the Social question. Furthermore, her lecture was earnestly listened to by an appreciative audience far above the average in num- bers, its most radical utterances most vehemently applauded, and the public good—wi1l shown to the lecturer by a gener- , ous contribution at its close, as areward to her for her serv- ices in the cause of humanity. ‘ R. W. HUME. REFORMATORY LECTURERS. In view of the determination recently manifested by certain would—be authorities in spiritualism, and from a sincere desire to promote their expressedptlrposes, 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 I 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- 'tor'y movement, such as Spiritualism 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 understood as being something above the muzzled ox which treads out the corn, this column is now Open: (3. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. * “ How Mrs. Hull feels with regard to his position?” -rendered traveling with Moses impossible. The result was stand with rotten eggs dripping from his clothes, not one of J. I. Arnold. Clyde, 0. *3 J. O. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. Mrs. H. F. M. Brown, National City. Cal. Warren Chase, St. Louis. Mo. . Mrs. Jennette J, Clark, Montpelier. Vt. Prof. J . H. Cook, Columbus, Kan. A. Briggs Davis. Clinton, Mass. Miss Nellie L. Davis, South Billerica, Mass. Lizzie Doten. Pavilion. 57 Tremont street, Boston, Mass. Mrs. L. E. Drake, Plainwell, Mich. R. G. Eccles, Andover, Ohio. James Foran,‘ M. D., Waverly, N. Y. I. P. Greenleaf, 27’ Milford street, Boston, Mass. Anthony Higgins, Jersey City, N. J. E. Annie Hinman, West Winsted, Ct. D. W. Hull, Hobart, Ind. Charles I-lolt. VVarren, Pa. Mrs. Elvira Hull, Vineland, N. J Moses Hull, Vineland, N. J. R. W. Hume, Hunter’s Point, L. I. I VV.'F. J amieson, 139 Monroe street, Chicago, lll. Miss Jennie Leys, 4. Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass Cephas B. Lynn, Sturgis, Mich. _ Mrs. F. A. Logan, Buffalo, N. Y. Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Ct. Dr. Geo. Newcomer, Jackson, Mich. Mrs. L. H. Perkins, Kansas City, Mo. J. H. Randall, Clyde, 0. A. C. Robinson, Lynn, Mass. Wm. Rose, M. D., 102 Murison street, Cleveland, Elvira Wheelock Ruggles, Havana, Ill. ' Julia A. B. Seiver, Houston, Florida. Mrs. J. H. Severance, Milwaukee, Wis. ‘ , Laura Cuppy Smith, No. 23‘ Irving Place, New York City. M. L. Sherman, Adrian, Mich. - John Brown Smith, 812 N. 10th st,. Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. H. T. Stearns, Corry, Pa. Dr. H. B. Storer, 137 Harrison avenue, Boston, Mass. 0. VV. Stewart, J anesville, Wis. J . H. W. Tomhey, Providence, R. I. F. L. H. Willis, Willimantic, Ct. Lois Waisbrooker, Battle Creek, Mich. __.4-. ,4 V wv SOCIALISTIC. “FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS.” “A single one often upsets the philosophies of ages.” Dear Setter T/'¢ctom'd——Since Moses’ article appeared in the VVEEKLY there has been a good deal of interest manifested among the friends and enemies of social freedom to know Thinking the proper way to answer this query is through the same medium used by Moses, I send this. Use your own discretion with regard to its publication. Moses said in his “ experience” that “he told me all.” This is true. For a long, long time, however, I suffered, as all must suffer who are not large enough ,to comprehend the needs of certain human souls. _I thought I owned Moses Hull, and I could not and would not “lend him to any other woman.” I could not see his necessities naturally growing out of his conditions. Nature, made him a speaker, and speaking made it impossible for ﬁlm to be at home. Nature intended I should be a mother, and the duties of maternity as he has stated. Sexual starvation to both during his ab- sence, or abuse while at home, until both were paralyzed in our sexual natures. Yet when Moses told me of his practices I could not see how it could be possible that any beneﬁt to either of us could grow out of it. But years passed; my health grew bet- ter; Moses grew more human (if you will pardon the harsh expression) and more loveable in proportion to his under- standing of his own and my demands. I was not a fool, hence could not helpseeing that things were better with both of us; and I came to the place where I have been able to say, Thank God for social freedom! Moses is a better husband—a better man for it. I am a ﬁrm believer in the doctrine. and my friends who know me best will say that I will not preach what I dare not practice. Lust, license, lib- ertinism and lewdness, I detest. But where there‘ is free,g untrammeled, spontaneous love, its expression in the way/ best suited to the lovers must be beneﬁcial both to them and society. N o doubt many of my friends will be terribly shocked when they see this statement; but my theory is, that a prin- ciple. if it is good for anything, is worth living; and if it is worth living for me it may possibly beneﬁt others. I do not believe in anything being too good to use, hence I feel called upon to use what" little inﬂuence I may have in what I con- sider to be the right direction. Friends who knew me ﬁve or six years ago, and remember the heart-broken, ossiﬁed woman I then was, upon meeting me now almost invariably exclaim, “ Why, you look ten years younger than you did when I saw you! What is the cause pf this change?” I answer, “ Happiness.” Nowa- days my answer has changed to ‘,‘ Social freedom.” But I did not intend to say half this much; and yet there is one other query that comes pouring in that ought to be answered. It is this: “ What effect does your doctrine have upon your daugh- ters? Are you not afraid of the result of this teaching upon them ?” ‘ ' ' I remember when l was a little girl, and my father was ﬁghting the battle of “N egro’s Rights,” of hearing his op- ponents asking him the same question. My father has three daughters and one son, and although he fought for the rights of the black man, even while bullets, and brickbats, and rotten eggs ﬂew thick as hail, and has come down from the his children married a “nigger.’” I shall help to ﬁght this battle both by precept and example, and, strange as it may: seem, I expect, conﬁdently and sanguinely expect, by these very means to educate my daughters ‘entirely above danger of unhappy marriages, and so-called unfortunate alliances. Moses and I do not intend that our daughters shall come upon the stage of motherhood asignorantly as did their mother. But enough. Hoping that this suﬁiciently answers all questions of all the friends in my behalf, and bidding you godspeed, I am, ELVIRA L. HULL. VINELAND, N. J ., Aug. 20, 1873» IS JUSTICE A MOCKERY? From my observations in the United States District Court, held by Judge Benedict, I should say that it is. In the case of Dr. Bott who was convicted of sending ' ‘powders of subnitrate of bismuth and gentian, there was clearly a monstrous piece of injustice done toward that prisoner. The facts are as follows: Anthony Comstock, the sneaking agent of the so-called Y. M. C. A., went to ‘Washington City, and under an assumed name, sent money to several advertising physicians begging them to send him some medicine for the purpose of re- lieving a poor unfortunate young lady whom he claimed had listened to the seducer and got into trouble. I Those who were foolish enough to respond were speedily arrested by this pious pretender. . , On the trial of Dr. Bott, this gentleman admitted that he sent a harmless powder, knowing that it would fall into the hands of Comstock. Whereupon Judge Benedict ordered the jury to ﬁnd a verdict of guilty, which they promptly did. Dr. Bott was not allowed to prove, which he readily could have done by the entire medical fraternity of New York, that there was no intention to produce any criminal result, as the powders were perfectly harmless, and would produce the opposite result from that sought to be obtained by Com- stock. . In the case of Kimball, charged with selling a syringe, an article indispensable to every lady’s toilet, and which syr- inge is daily sold by thousands in all ﬁrst-class drug-stores, the prosecution closed their case, and the defense prove con- clusively that Kimball was innocent of any crime. Yet Judge Benedict allowed the prosecuticn—-a thing hitherto unheard of in a court of justice—-to reopen the case, for the purpose ‘ofsummoning more witnesses in order to prove that the aforesaid syringe could be used for an im- moral purpose. Notwithstanding this unjustiﬁable proceeding, the Dis- trict Attorney was only able to drum up two professors, who demonstrated their entire ignorance of the subject. Professor Thomas knew nothing whatever of the nature of" India rubber, but was willing to swear that he believed the article was obscene. ‘ ' So also did Professor Roosa, who is a specialist on diseases of the eye and ear, and of course not an expert on the sub- feet in question. _ - I I am happy to say that Kimball was not convicted, as the jury disagreed; yet the poor man must remain in prison for months pending a new trial. If Judge Benedict would turn Comstock and his put-up job out gf Court, as did Judge Blatchford in the Woodhull and Claﬂin case, he would deserve the praise of the com- munity. A WITNESS. REFERENCES. The same paper in which Warren Harris charges Victoria with being an “anarchist,” contains the Address of the Spanish Internationalists, signed by POLICURPQ CASTRO, General Secretary, ending with the words, “ Let us mutually long for Justice, Anarchy and Collectivism.” Oriental style surpasses Occidental, and no American-born (Ernestine L. Rose is a Hebrew Pole,) has ever equaled the simultaneously eloquent, poetical, allegorical speech of the Eastern nations, exempliﬁed by Castelar, Garibaldi, Mazzini, Kossuth, Hugo and Goethe. And now it has taken a Spaniard to crystallize the thought of thousands of our own Internationals, in words too felicitous to have occurred to any of them, “Justice, Anarchy, Collectivism.” “ Anarchy ”——without Government ——self-controlled—free I I “ Collectivism ”—Association-—or- ganized Brotherhood-—universal Commune. Then the word Anarchy is its own argument and demonstration; instead of meaning evil, on its face it means good, and what everybody should be proud of--Freedom! Then we all make it our motto, we are all anarchists! Friend Harris, do you take? Suppose we do have all .“anarchy” in the matter of Love—-no governm(ent—every- body free: what harm can possibly come of it? The bad men cannot injure the women, because the women aregoing to be free, too! N 0 matter how bad the men are, giving them freedom is at once cutting them down to the freedom of the women. That’s the only reason why the bad men can do all this evil now, that they are not restrained by the freedom of the women! That’s the onlv reason why they can victimize wives on the one hand and prostitutes on the other, that the women are not free to refuse! So it is your very government instead of “ anarchy ” 'that’s doing all the mischief, and we must have “anarchy” to put an end to it! - Really, do you take? The boot is quite on the other leg, t's'n/t it? And certainly, you are not afraid the women will plunge into debauchery, and transform into sexual monsters! You know the blessed mother who bore you, the sisters who lay in the same cradle with you, thelwife of your bosom, the daughters of your own body, would not! And the women all round you in Danville, and then in Vermont, and then in the whole United States, would not! Well, then, let’s go ahead! ' I Or is it that there is one woman in Danville whom you want to own? 0 Warren Harris, I know you are good and noble; give up that woman, surrender her back to herself, make that bird of the greenwood free! If you want to bind her to you forever, and resign that precious love never, earn it, win it, win her, chain her to you with bonds of voluntary love called out by your own! And if you can not, live what shall make her know she lost more than you did! Mr. Harris asks why a man can not live “ several years ” without sexual intercourse, if he cana “year.” If a year were the proper limit of continence, then’ of course, “ several years” would violate that limit; and if less than a year be the limit, only the man can abstain that length of time with- out material ill, all the more “several years” would be \ ‘e" , I "WCOODHULL 85 CLAFLITBWS WEEKLY. Sept. 6, 1873. wrong. And suppose a month a very natural and appropri- ate limit: then, with the same naturalness that a man could abstain a month, he could not a year. Mr. Harris in eﬁect claims Mr. Beecher’s-right, on the principle of freedom, to do all he has done. But when Mr. Beecher let Woodhull, Claﬂin and Blood go to jail, for fab- ricating a libel on him, at the same time that he knew they did not fabricate it, but he had the tripartite covenant in his pocket, showing that the story was years old, and when he knew. that his coming forward, stating this fact, and de- manding their release, would set them at instant liberty—— when Mr. Beecher thus and then let them go to jail, he damned himself to all time as the meanest, most infamous man who ever lived! and as the accepted representative, be- yond anyother man, of the Bible, God, Christ and Chris- tianity, damned all these as not rising to the level of com- mon decency! 0 Warren Harris, come out for the freedom of women! Welcome their evangel, which you may read in avery old book: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to proclaim good tidings unto the meek, he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, the opening of the prison to them that are bound, and to set at liberty them that are bruised!” I J. T. ...__..__ JOURNALISM on THE TIMES. Decor Weehly——I ﬁnd the following abusive thing in the Cincinnati Times. It followed an article copied from the VVEEKLY, entitled “ Under the New Dispensation :” FEMALE RADICALS. Vineland, N. J ., was last Sunday invaded by Spiritualists of the Woodhull order, who believe in free love and all sorts of radicalism. The occasion was known as a State Conven- tion, and 200 or 300 were present. “ They were,” says a New York Herald reporter, “the queerest lot of people I ever saw in my life. Yet I recognized all the types of monomania that I have observed for the past eight years as ajournalist among those Spiritualists and. women’s rights advocates in all their conventions and assemblages from Boston to St. Louis.” A couple of specimens: - A lady with short hair and a face like a 'nutmeg—grater stepped up to me on the forward deck of the boat and said: “S-i-r, what in the name of Gr-ee-ho-vah do you think of our vmov-e-ment ?” . “ I think, madam,” said I; “ that it passes the founding of ' a joke.” - “ A joke? a joke, sir?” said she, with a horrible twist of her mouth-. “ Have you no soul see-em—pathee? Have you lilo inner consciousness? Does not the divine basis of your groveling nature soar to a higher and more «sidereal sphere——to a lof- tier existence? Will you not gather at the river with us. and join the heavenly band, where all shall be joy and bliss and a serenity of unﬂeshly exuberance?” “ No, ma’am,” said I, “ I haven’t got the time.” Think of being shut up with these people on a narrow boat for an hour and a half, 200 of them. Another lady, with short hair, and dressed in aman’s San- dusky linen duster and a man’s yellow linen pants and a man’s tie, struck me on» the arm with her fan, the only article of woman’s apparel about her, and said to me in a whisper: . "‘ Brother, do you not think that we shall soon arrive at a ‘ state of perfection? Is not this day a glorious harbinger of of our future s-t-a-t-e 1”’ I was compelled to, answer that I did not know, and that I did not care a cent if it was so. ' Mrs. Woodhull was present, of course, and after her, we are told, the most brilliant woman among them was Laura Cuppy Smith. Mrs. Smith made an address, in which she referred to Woodhull as the Redeemer, and to virtue and respectability as the two thieves on the cross. Mrs. Woodhull followed her in an address, in which she advocated the abolition of marriage, declared that few children knew their own father, cursed the Christian re- ligion, and howled generally. The recent illness of this wo- man didn’t do her any good, apparently, and her several arrests and her imprisonment have served only to make her more radical and unreasonable. To this I made the following replv, which was refused: ’ LOVELAND, Onro. V, EDITOR CINCINNATI Tums: Why will you belittle your columns by publishing such vile abuse and palpable falsehood as that contained in the article headed, “Female Radicals,” in the Times of the 13th? Is there no sense of the “ eternal ﬁtness of things” on your editorial staff? Have you not yet learned that wholesale, personal abuse is no argument, and that, if you have nothing better to offer an ignorant‘ public in your paper, a sense of self‘-respect, yea! innate mcmliness, ought to keep such base coin from passing current through the columns of a daily paper of the caste and calibre yours is supposed to con- sist of? You know as well as the reporter who wrote the senseless stuﬁ, that it is false! No such conversation ever passed on any steamer going to a “ Radical Female Convention.” You know Woman’s Rights women have weightier themes to occupy their -attention than forcing their views upon the small fry usually sent out to report their proceedings. You know newspaper reports are the most unstable evidences of human action under the sun; yet, when you editors don’t happen to coincide with a movement, which contains more heart and brain than is required to run a daily paper, nothing so tickles your dull fancy, not even the nettle for the ass’s nose has such affinity, as you for. the nasty old rotten eggs of ridicule. - p ' Bah! you’ve! been addicted to throwing them at your betters so long, you ‘ are ‘all tainted with the vile, odor. No ,‘ editorial office of a daily paper in the land is above the dirty business, not even that conservator of popular inconsistency, that palladium of public pruriency, the New York Herald, whose vbarn—yard bawlings are re—echoed by all the spurless young literary (?) roosters in the country. i I HELEN NASH. LETTER TO HELEN NASH. RAVENNA, Ohio, July, 1873. My Esteemed Friend—-In your letter to the Free Lovers as- sembled at Ravenna, June 1, you earnestly appeal to them not to forsake the old name. I cannot let the opportunity pass of assuring you in the most emphatic terms that noth- ing is farther from our thoughts. The Free Lovers who formed the Western Reserve Woman’s Emancipation Society belong to the Old Guard. We should as soon think of for- getting our own names, or that we ever had mothers, as not to expect to be known as Free Lovers wherever we are known at all. The oﬂicers of the society, with one or two exceptions and some of the other members, are old pioneers. Carrie Lewis, our President, so long ago as 1856 (seventeen years ago) raised the greatest hue-and-cry by proclaiming at a large convention of Spiritualists at Ravenna the most,radi- cal doctrines now entertained by Free Lovers. It was the winter previous to the Carrie Lewis Pronuncia- mento that I first met J. H. Philleo (Vice-President of the Society and President of the Convention). He was on a Garrisonian lecturing tour, and I on an anti-marriage lec- turing tour. It was about that time that he lost his standing and his position as a Grarrisonian lecturer on account of his frank avowal of Free Love ‘sentiments. ~ J. M. Allen, Sarah L. S. Philleo, J. J. Bigelow and Lucia H. Cowles have been Free Lovers I know not how long; but I knew them as such more than a dozen years ago. Ann B. Spink, our Treasurer, is a Free Lover of years standing; I know not how long, but I do know that if I am a judge there is no more clear-headed, fearless, immovable Free Lover in the whole country. Sarah M. Day, the leader of the radical Sp_iritualists and Free Lovers of Ravenna, though dating her conversion to Free Love within a few years, is a ﬁrst—class Free Lover, and glories in the name. And last, though not least, Francis Barry, whose name all over the Reserve is more odious than Free Love itself, is the oldest Free Lover west of the Alleghanies that history gives any account of, and for the last twenty-seven years has been the most open-mouthed Free Lover in the whole country, and never more so than since the Ravenna Convention. . I have been thus explicit because we have been charged, by inferenceand by those whose good opinion we value more than anything save our own consciousness of duty done,with the greatest crime (I speak ﬁdvisedly, and mean just what I say,) that any intelligent h an being can commit, that of failing to throw the whole’ inﬂuence of our character and names against marriage——the foulest abomination that curses the earth. In a word, we chose the name we did, not as asubstitute for Free Love, but in explanation of it. N 0 Free Lovers in the country will apply the term to themselves as often as we, nor be so bitterly persistent in their denunciations of the infer- nal ’,system, the utter abolition of which the word Free Love implies. With the greatest esteem, — THE PROBLEM or LIFE. FRANCIS BA RRY. A Lecture Delivered before the First Spiritualist Association of New York, at Robinson Hall, on the Evening of August 17, 1873, by LUCIEN S. CRANDALL. _ The scalpel of anatomical investigation, as well as‘observa- tion through the scientiﬁc methodism of phrenology, has laid bare the fact that in the centre and base of the brain is located the arbor vitae or “tree of life.” Into this sanctum sunctorum of sensation is received the report of each faculty, and of each function, through faculty, and from it issues every mandate to the same. Exercise of faculty being purely mandatory, it is reasonable to conclude that from this same centre issues the controlling impulse that incites faculty, and function through faculty, to action. And, as all agree that the mandatory power resides in Will, it would seem that the arbor vitae is the literal seat of "Will; but since ,we uncon- strainedly will to do only those things which we love, it is made clear that Will is but the activity of .Love—-its mes- senger. Thus are we brought to perceive that Loveuisits in the sanctum sanctorum of our being, and that through Love’s subtle force outworking in matter we live, and move, and are. But this force is constantly opposed or hedged about by the resistance of matter; and hence is it that Love’s out- work is ‘limited to the ‘ range of possibilities incident to the quality of_ matter with which it has to do, and in which it has to dwell. . By wayof illustration, let us consider the case of a man conﬁned within this hall——chained to the centre, if you please, but from which point he has equal opportunity for observation through the several windows. Let us name this prisoner Love. Then, by aid of imagination, let us multiply the windows, and so place them in wall and ceiling as to‘ pro- vide unobstructed view of all without that is within the limit of his vision. Continuing the ﬁgure, let us name the general outlook Faculty, and, designating each window in corres- pondence with its visual presentation, sketch each picture as Love scans his universe. Let him first look out through the window of Form, and therefrom perceiving the correspond- ential status of each component of the landscape he. will be prepared to justly estimate the share of suggestiveness that Size, Weight, Time, Color, and Order each contributes to the wealth of expression by which nature speaks to the all-seeing eye. For classiﬁcation and subdivision of general outlook, “ let these be aggregately termed Perception—the P1'6Se1lt- ment of consciousness. _ . Then through Calculation’s window he sees the adjustment of ‘supply to need; through A.limentiveness,broad harvest ﬁelds and ripened fruitage; through Destructiveness, the giant arm of husbandry appears; through Combativeness is seena mighty bulwark guarding every just possession; and through Amativeness, if its glass be clean, behold on all descending a shower of vivifying strength, a baptism of ten- derness so bedight with grace that every timid ﬂower comes forth to feast on its delights-—the pregnant fruit is mellowed by its warm caress, by it the nodding grain is clad in burnished gold, and even the azure glory of the sky re- treats in dazed embarrassment as beauty’s queen thus dons the mantle of her loveliness. And the classiﬁcation of these is se11sation—the experimentiveness of function. Now, prisbner, let us examine what lieth in range of the bosom of a mountain, in which are garnered gouvenirs of earth and air, and -on whose rocky walls are writ the hiero- glyphic hereditaments of the measureless past. Then Con- structiveness, which is a palace; and Imitationitranscribing the loveliness of the landscape to adorn those palace walls; and Secretiveness, the boudoir in which dwells sweet mod- esty; and Cautiousness, the hedge that fences in:each trusty path; and Adhesiveness, before whose window is stretched the limb of a rosebush, on which are perched two ﬁnches side "by side, and chaste-hued loveliness adorns each breast, and" on their necks laid tenderly across each other is gathered, in crimson and purple and gold, a sheen as from the aggregate hues of heaven, and, thus standing, behold as each unselﬁshly looks out to guard its sweet companion, between itself and harm is interposed a faithful breast. And this is mateship —the angelic benediction of amativeness. Then Philopro- genitiveness which, if heed be given to the lesson of the ﬁnches, is the Grod—like endowment of mateship; and then to crown these two, through Inhabitiveness is seen a love- liaunted home, and beyond that home a patriot’s country. And these constitute the limit line of conscious and func- tional experiment——the mountain outlooks of matter~— earth’s horizon. And now comes the fourth tier, whose outlook is the aesthetic realm, wherein are mistily blended earth and sky. Here is Causality’s window, and its symbolical presentment is a far-seeing lens, pointed anon toward valley and moun- tain and cloud; and Suavity, whose outlook~is haze and Indian summer dreaminess, robing each far’-off object in that mystic gauze which hides deformity and adds sugges- tiveness to charm; and Ideality and Spirituality and Sub- limity, whose joint outlook is cloudland—the ﬁeld of fancy. Here let us rest a moment; this scene is ever shifting. Nimbus the clouds when fancy’s eye is ﬁxed on earth alone, for then is heaven o’ercast and faithless sorrow melts in tears; stratus, when storms are passed and sorrow’s mists move up the mountain side; then there is fancy’s cirrus, the ﬂeecy gatherings that vail the sun, yet are they as smoked glass, piloting sunward the tender eye; and then the towering c-umulus—the battlemented castles of the sky- the ever changing landscape of the ether beulah, opening rare vistas of the grand beyond; on earth side is silver, on heaven side is gold and glory. Next is Hope, looking out into that upper deep where ﬂoat the stars. Next Conscien- tiousness, a light in the watchtower of-equity; and next is Approbativeness, ambition’s eagle-‘perch and eyrie. And now the skylights. Concentrativeness, whose lesson ment in purpose; and Firmness, which is steadfastness of purpose. Then Veneration, nature’s grand cathedral in whose wall is niched each canonized remembrance, at whose altar reverently kneels each holy aspiration, and from whose sacred choir swells the glad jubilate of fruition. And then Benevolence, whose outlook is the adjustment by which each lens isset and focalized—leveling the line of vision-— determining the horizon of every faculty. Then last and grandest, Reason, the fateful pilot in whose hand is destiny. 0, prisoner, if this window be not crystal, vain thy visions rare of earth and sky; thou shalt not proﬁt though their wealth be_ multiplied, for thy day is darkness, and jewels to thy touch shall be as common stones. , Thus in detail have we made the allegorical round of faculty.» Combinations of outlook, upon which we will not dwell, will readily suggest themselves, and thereby the in- mg inﬂuence. Now, let us not forget that the glazing of these windows is of function, and that functiop’s outwork is through organ, and that organ is of matter; and so the integrity of function in its outwork through organ must of necessity be determined by the quality of matter of which the organic medium or channel for functional action is composed. Thus grossness of matter is callousness of organ, and callousness of organ is obtuseness of function, and obtuseness of function is opacity of faculty’s outlook, and from opacity of faculty is obsession of thought; and the obsessed creations of love, by reason of outwork through opacities of faculty, we have been taught to denominate evils, and their ﬁnal manifesta- tions, by way of obtuse function, through primal grossness of matter, we have learned to denominate sin. Primal in- tegrity or possibility of matter is an endowment of genera- tion, by which process alone can matter be cleansed of inbred grossness, is the literal and true regeneration. . To continue the ﬁgure, all ﬂesh is glass, and in the al- chemy of maternity is it determined whether .we shall opaquely reject, translucentlyfilter, or with crystal clear- ness transmit the truth which, being universal, comes to all. In the hand of maternity is the key of all human ﬂower and fruitage through determination of soil-possibility- N 0 man can rise above his mother, for she it is who, as his foetal pulse ﬂutters beneath her heart, is gestating the soil in which the all-pervading, restless spirit is to outwork the fullness of fruitage or the poverty of barrenness. True, there are the so-called acquirements ;' yet what is the process of educational acquirement but simply washing the windows of faculty, that perchance man may come into clearer per- ception of truth ?' And though faculty be laved in the lore _,/ . third tier. First: Eventuality, whose outlook is as into the I is application to purpose; Self-esteem, which is stablish- ' quirer may estimate relative weight and consequent modify-- _‘ tion, and hence it will clearly appear that intelligent genera-* Sept. 6, 1873. \ of the ages and polished by the friction of ceaseless ex- periment, except by the endowment of motherhood man’s” glass be crystal, how can he arrive at crystal perception? 0, ye who proudly sit‘ in the councils of nations and wield, the mighty power of disciplined mentality, ye cranium- crammed, whose breath is history, ye great alumniated, whose degree-extended names are the envy and wonder of the world, one timid, tender, shy-eyed woman, with heart attuned to the glad joy of prospective maternity, is greater than ye all! Grandly this truth is dawning, and the splen- dor of its ray shall quickly ﬁll the earth. Away, ye prating priests, who preach the Utopian dream of regenerate soul in unregenerate ﬂesh! Away, ye peace-perplexed, who rant of that ever-distant day when swords shall be beaten into pruning hooks! When love ascends the throne of matter——‘ when brutality becomes ‘love’s willing Ingomar——when womanhood, like sweet Paxthenia, seizes ‘spear and shield and leads, not follows—-then, and not till then, will man be brought to walk in paths of peace. In the pioneer history of a neighboring State it is recorded. that a little band of Christians ‘once set about building for themselves a house of worship. In course of time (this being before the fashionable days of brick and mortar) the huge timbers were hewn and drawn to the spot, and after the foundations had been duly laid, then came the “ raising day.” And many a sturdy farmer came at the buildcr’s call to give the cause a lift. Across a little creek, and. up on a rising bank were gathered the ladies of the congregation,‘ looking on. Promptly the sills and sleepers were laid and leveled, and then the huge “ bent” was pinned together in its place and all made ready for the lift. At the word of the -master builder they ranged themselves ‘along the plate. and then, with a steady “hea’o heave,” the ponderous network of timber begins to rise. Steadily up——up—-out of reach of those brawny arms; then came the pikes. Up, and up a lit- tle higher, and then the huge framework refuses to move. Every muscle is strained to the task, but in vain. Slowly the bent begins to settle. Pale faces are turned toward the impending peril. Death, fearful and imminent,‘ looks down in frowning silence. Then rang out the voice of that master builder: “ VVives, if you would have husbands; mothers, if you would have sons, come to “the rescue.” For a moment the warm blood curdled about those hearts; then, not stop- ping to ask, “Is it woman’s sphere? ” they dashed through the creek and up the bank, soft hands grasped the rugged pike—-up went the bent. O, that the voice of that master builder might ring through every nook and corner of the land! 0, mothers, how long shall the dram-shop, the brothel, the gambling-hell and the church combine to degrade the fruit of your travail; how many more daughters and sons must perish ere you rise in your might and ‘strangle their destroyers? A l ‘ . Having now arrived at logical premise concerning regen- eration, let us examine that obverse phenomenon of Love’s outwork through matter termed degeneration. And what is degeneration but degradation of function through abuse of organ? For through abuse of organ is loss of functional in- tegrity, and loss of functionalintegrity is obsession of fac- ulty, and from obsession of ‘faculty is obtuse perception, and obtuse perception is ignorance. What then is so-called evil but the outwork of Love through ignorance? And what is so-called sin but the manifestation of ignorance through degraded function? Thus are we returned to intelligent gen- eration as the true process by which man is to be lifted to- ward the heights of progress, and thus are we also brought to perceive that the possibility of improvement, through gen- eration and regeneration of matter, is the true predicate of man’s future. A Abstract regeneration, then, is simply the puriﬁcation of matter, that Love, in matter, may have crystal outlook, and be thereby enabled to outwork truthfully, which outwork is righteousness. And what is puriﬁcation of matter but elim- ination of grossness? And what is elimination of grossness but precipitation of excrement? And what is aggregate pre- cipitation of excrement but that grim, mysterious terror we term Death? 0, maternity, when from thy generative cru- ‘icible comes forth crystal purity, then shall evil cease, and sin shall be no longer, and sorrow and terror shall ﬂee away, and life shall know no sunset. and no night; for 10, the mighty King of Shadows is no more—grim Death has laid aside his crown! O, mothers of‘; men, when will ye come into perception of this truth, and, appreciating the gran- deur of your mission, rise to the full stature of your might and unfetter motherhood, that Love may do its perfect’ work ? And now, to sustain. the position taken, let us invoke the universe by the analysis of man. Beginning at wisdom, which is his crown and his to-day, let us go down the retrograde of his generative upbuilding—-even into the gray dawn of material creation, which was his birthday and be- ginning. A A ‘ 7 ; And what is wisdom but the assimilation of knowledge? And what is knowledge butthe digestion of experience?- And what is abstract experience but experiment? And what is abstract experiment but sensation? And what is abstract sensation but consciousness? .And what is abstract consciousness but functional quickening? And what is quick- ening of function but the; i-nletting of vitality? And what is function but the hereditary transmitment of vitality’s ex- perimentiveness through generation? And what is abstract generation but sexuality? And what is abstract sexuality but organic blending? And what is organ but the heredi- tary'transmitment!of vitality’s experimentive outwork in matter? And what is abstract vitality but thezchemical eﬁervescence of inorganic blending? And what is inorganic blending but the incarnation of matter? And what is ab- stract incarnation but assimilation? And what is abstract assimilation but appropriation? Andiwhat is abstract ap- propriation but use? And what is abstract ,use but control? And what is abstract control but power? And what is ab- stract power but force? And what is abstract force but the eternal, creative, elemental positive? And whatis abstract resistance but solidity‘? And what is. abstract solidity but rest? And is abstract rest but the beginning-—the eter- nal elemental negative? ‘ And rest begat centripetality, and centripetality begat globu- larity, and globularity begat gravitation, and gravitation be- gat conjunction, and conjunction begat blending, and blend- ing begat equilibrium. This was the ether epoch--the birth- day of the molecule. Andequilibrium b'e1gat"eEerves‘cence, and effervescence begat motion. and motion begat friction, and friction begat heat, and heat begat light, and light begat viviﬁcation. This was the gaseous epoch—the birthday of chemistry. And viviﬁcation begat penetrability, and pene- trability begat energy, and energy begat evolution, and evo- lution begat congenitality, and congenitality begat absorp- tion, and absorption begat sustentition. I This was the saline or inorganic epoch—the! birthday of vegetation. ' And "sus- tentition begat mastication, and mastication begat diges- tion, and digestion begat assimilation, and assimilation be-i gat circulation, and circulation begat secretion, andsecretion begat tissue. And this was the organic epoch—the birthday of vitality. And tissue begat organism, and organism begat function, and function begat sensation, and sensation begat experiment, and experiment begat consciousness, and con- sciousness begat intelligence. This was the epoch of men- tality—-the birthday of wisdom. And intelligence begat-per- ception, which is the eye of wisdom; and perception begat memorization, which is the ear of wisdom; and memoriza- tion begat experience, which is the hand of wisdom; and ex- perience begat knowledge, which is the mouthpiece and taste of wisdom; and knowledge begat analysis, which is the nos- tril of wisdom. » ‘ Thus, step by step has creation ascended the gamut of progress, and man stands to-day on the ﬁfth step of the seventh epoch, at the completion of which shall sound the grand chord of fruition, as the mighty hand of time at last I spans the octave of destiny. A Thus do we perceive that in the beginning was rest, then force against rest, and the world that is and all therein is simply and only the result of force in ceaseless. effort to be one with matter. Thus do we perceive that wisdom is an ejfect and not a cause of creation. And thus "is it seen that in the ever restless effort at equilibrium or mateship with! matter, love’s outwork through matter has been thie"'s‘uc- cessive generation of form after form of life, each new gen- eration gathering to its estate the hereditaments of its every predecessor; up through the lifting sexualities of time, gen- eration after generation, until to rest is added motion, and to motion life, and to life consciousness, and to conscious- iv ness intelligence, and to intelligence faculty, which is the continent of wisdom. Behold, is not man the grand corres- pondence, nay, aggregation of all that was before? And still love struggles on toward mateship with matter, and generation goes on toward sublimation, and the day draws near when death shall be no more and men shall walk with angels hand in hand. Love, mighty builder! . G-rand the height From which to-day outlooks thy all-seeing eye; But grander visions wait to greet thy sight When “ prisoncr’s 7’ glass is trained to scan the sky. Love, mighty builder! (llud that day When sorrow’s mists forsake affection’s eye-— When by thy hand all tears are wiped away, And o’cr life gleams the golden by-and-by. And what is the process of reproduction through genera- tion, by man, but a correspondential type of primitive crea- tion? And what is the ﬁnal outwork of generation but ag.. gregated hereditary transmission of all that was before of matter, or form in matter, through outwork of force, since creation began? First, abstractmatter, or possibility of generation; second, impulse, the building force; third; V blending, or sexual contact; fourth, effervescence, or com- bination of acid and alkaline secretions; ﬁfth, combustion, or transitional motion; sixth, resultant heat; seventh, the light of heat, or the electric spark which is the viviﬁcation of matter. Is not this the process of generation? Then, by reason of form possibility, or rather form inevitability, hereditarily resident in that matter which has now become a continent of force, force outworks in matter to the effect that it shall take shape and semblance. And this is repro- duction. Behold! is not it the inevitable result of primary forcein effort at mateship with. primary resistance-—the ag- gregate hereditary form-experience of matter through the ceaseless experimentiveness of blind outworking force-—the ever—varying containment of force, which is new form, re- sultant from equilibration? , ‘ . v , - 2 ‘ ' Thus have we traced man’s building from that day when he was “without form and void,” up to condition of wis- dom. And now. by the infallible law of correspondence, let us set the trident and triangulate his future, to the solution of this mighty problem of life. ' _; Sefven steps in the ladder; seven full tones in the octave of . epoch; seven correspondential creative outworkings of Love, and we shall have reached the apex of destiny. First was the “ tonic ”—rest; 2d was the “ supertonic ”—force; 3d was the “mediant ”-einorganic; 4th was the “ s‘ub’dominant”—- organic; 5th was the “ dominant”’———functio_nal; 6th was the “ submediant ”——intelligence; to-day is man in the seventh epoch, which is wisdom—the restless “leading tone ” whose inevitable is harmony. And what of this seventh? Where ~ ‘ rests the ﬁnger of time to-day in its ﬂight toward the heavenly octave? First was wisdom’s perception; 2d was ‘wisdomfs memorization; 3d was wisdom’s experience; 4th was ,wis- dom’s knowledge; and to-day is wisdom in its ﬁfth transi- tion, which is analysis-—the correspondent of primal friction. What shall bethe sixth transition but the correspondent of primal heat, which is angelic love? And what shall be the seventh transition but the correspondent of primal light, which is celestial illumination? And where shall the mighty seventh lead but unto fusion—the perfected mateship of force with resistance—-Love with matter? And thus shall man be- come the rounded cotinent of all that was, and is, and of all future possibility. And when the last of matter shall wooDHULL ad oLArLIN’s wEEKLr. 7 an have reached that height, the pean of the universe shall strike, and grandly swell the chorus of the stars. ' I Thus has this all pervading force which, arrived at the estate of wisdom, we term love, in constant struggle toward mateship with matter, through the generating and regener- ating outwork of sexuality, brought all that is of intelligence or strength or beauty to the hereditary endowment‘ of man. And to-day is Love struggling to outwork angelic condition and celestial illumination through sexual impulse. . And by ; the eternal past I predicate the day of its inevitable triumph. Chafe not, then, champion of right, for lo, the sexual dial of destiny is set. Ere long from out the haze ofignorance shall gleam its golden index. Up through the mire and clay of marital blind experiment; up through the slime and rottenness of promiscuous experience"; up through’ the miasmic mists where ﬂit the treacherous ignis fatuilof “ in- telligent selection‘;” up toward the zenith of _sex‘ual‘analysis shall tremble the ﬂaming ﬁnger of fate. ‘And at blast when the high twelve of mateship shall strike, to knell the; old and herald the new,‘ behold that ﬁnger pointing heavenward—- straight into the blue empyrean of purity. ” I I ‘ . And now, what is this force termed love but omnipres- ence,‘ for where is it not? And what is itless than omnipo- tence, for what is there built that was not "’builded by it? What is this mighty phase of force called gravity‘-—this giant power that chains the .everlasting hills and holds the restless ocean in its graspf! What but the affinity of matter-—the mateship of the imolecules? And what is this other subtle form of force called electricity but abstract sexuality——the elementary male and ;fjemale-positive and negative? And what is its polarity but abstract creation? — What is this silent, swift-winged messenger. and why, speeds he_)o’er the wires? ’_Tis theqlightning lover leaping to ‘ehlbraﬁé j his mate.‘ I ﬂ A , ~ i “ I i I ’ « Search ye the ‘sea, the sky, the sod; L ‘ Search; but let reason be thyrod » ‘ 7 “ »: ‘Andstaﬁ, lest by the path each sage‘ has trod 7 : Before, thy feet ‘shall also heed the bigot-’s-nod, H And thou, too, fail to ﬁnd out God. ' Search; and from out each shady nook, ' ‘And grassy dell, and babbling brook, ‘ Behold a voice shall issue, saying: Look Above, below, mark every line and crook; We are J‘ehovah’s manifest-God’s book. List; and from rock and shrub and tree, From stable land and restless sea,’ This truth shall coineato dwell with thee -In conﬁrmation strong: All things that be Are born. of law; yctlaw is liberty-. A Freedom for mountain grand and humble dell To clothe themselves in sumptuous garb, as Well As sounding sea and babbling brook tq. tell, . By voice of crystal pure and sunbeam-tinted shell, I How sweet the bonds in which they dwell. ’ ’ And voice of inspiration-heaven’s baptismal dove». . Those glintillgs rare of light from realms above; And on the earth below, all things that move, Or rest, in grandharmonial beauty join to prove ' That law doth reign‘-—the law of love. Love! Lo, thy grace hath clothed the sod; ‘ Love ./ Be thy impulse true our staff and rod; Love I Every beauteous path man’s feet have trod Since time began is thine. Why longer plod In darkness searching? Thou art_God. / . Q To-night I launch this new philosophy upon the .wo1.1d_ The problem of life is solved; and this the answer; Lose, /53 God! Sexuality is the Christ! I L p o_ . BOOK REVIEW. V A , Poems, by Augusta Cooper Bristol. This work, published by Adams & Co., ,Boston, and written by one of.'our;most; gifted reformers, merits a notice from us. _ It is divided into two parts, the former ‘containing ’miscellaneous elforts, the latter being “Poems“on the'_-War.” * The themes selected prove that it is a live work,and themanner in whichthey are discuss — ed shows that they are treated by a live author. The melody and metrical accuracylcxhibited cannot‘-be surpassed. It is a work that will well repay perusal, and is one that ought to be in the hands of. every reformer. , "When this old earth is righted,” “Past and Present,’\.’ “Reﬂection and"Prophecy” (from which an extract was given last week), “ Spirit Love,” and The Bird Song among the minor poems or lyrics appear to us to possess superior excellence. As a specimen we select; from apoem called *‘ The New” ‘the three closing verses, sub- mitting the same to the judgment of ourreaders: ‘ at “ Sing, little blue—bird, the message: yevbring, ’ ' « God is forever withman! . i 1 1 ‘ * Cleave the soft air with a rapturous wing, God is forever with man! ‘Warble the story to forest and $1112 ' “ Sweep up the valley and bear to the hill ! The sacred refrain of your passionate trill, . God is forever with man! _ '--. Open bright roses, and blossom the thought, , ‘ God is forever with man! _ , * . ~ ' Precious the meaning your beauty hath wrought , God is forever with man! _ Spread out the sweet révelationaof bloom, Lift and release from an odorous tomb The secret embalmed ina honeyed perfume, , God is forever with man! Dance, happy billow, and say to theshore, ‘ ’“ God is forever with man!. -« ' 3 i ; Echo, seacaverns, the truth evermore, God is forever with man! V _ J ' Bear on, Creation, the symbol and sign, ‘ i That being unfolds in an aura divine, ' 0 And soul moveth on in an inﬁnite line,“ ' ‘ 'r< ' : ‘S 1 . God is forever with man! \ Those who would like to ‘hear more=of thefsainei kind of harmony can obtain the work, by applying. personally ‘or by letter, to Mrsi Augusta Cooper Bristol, ,Vineland,:.N_ J, PI'i0€ $1.50. . ~ _ . , . : . v -ll": I WooI)IIUI.L a CI.AFL1N’S WEEKLY?‘ Sept. ,6 1873. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 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If you have not aheady done so, Subscribe or renew at once. -——---saws»-——~ THE CAUSE ‘ IN MAINE. Brother Seward Mitchell vyrites from Cornville, Me., that the labors of Nellie L. Davis in that State during the past summer have been of great proﬁt, setting almost the whole people into thought regarding the great social question that is beginning _So wonderfully to agitate the public mind. Her blows against the “peculiar institution” have been heavy, as well as those against old Theology. Miss Davis is thoroughly devoted to social reform, and, though young and without personal experience, grasps all the horrors of the terrible slavery to which married women are liable to be the subjects. Her inspiration is of the highest order and confounds the “wiseacres.” He is gratiﬁed to know that wherever she goes she testiﬁes ‘to the steadfastness of purpose that actuates those who con- duct the WEEKLY, and we are happy to have so earnest and honest a friend as Nellie L. Davis, of North Billerica, Mass. Brother M. also states his anxiety to have M aine fully rep- resented in the Chicago convention, to which we add our earnest wish that it may. ’ ——-%-———-———»-4§+—-<————- The following notice was sent us for insertion in the WEEKLY, and it was inserted : SPIRITUAL MEETING. The Central New York Association of Spiritualists will hold its next quarterly meeting at Rome, N. Y., on the 23d and 24th insts. Good speakers are expected, and a general invitation is extended to all. A E. F. BEALS, Pres. L. D. SMITH, Sec. . It also appeared in the Banner of Light and the R. P. Journal. We also received a special invitation to attend the meeting from some good friends in Rome. When these zealous ofﬁcials heard that there was a probability that we should be present we were immediately informed that-our presence was not desired, while we were informed by our friends that Beals said if we should have the audacity to come, then he would have nothing to do with the meeting. And yet these immaculates——these sexually holy men-«have the impudence to extent “ a general invitation to all.” We I wonder if this Beals was in fear of an exposition of his real sexual morality that he was seized with such a fright. A pretty pass have- things come to,. that the presence of a single person is considered cause sufficient to break up a meeting. We didn’t go to Rome. We trust Brother‘ Beals feels better. Jgr 4 f w! ‘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—-Woodhull, Claﬁin or Blood. A For every club of ﬁve subscribers—ﬁfteen dollars—ﬁve copies of the WEEKLY one year, ﬁve photographs and one copy of “Constitutional Equality, a right of woman,” by Tennie C. Claﬂin, price $2.00. I For every club of ten -subsCribers—thirty dollars——ten copies of the ‘WEEKLY, 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). i For every club of twenty subscrib ers-—sixty dollars-—twenty copies-of the WEEKLY one year, orty photographs and two copies each of 9‘ The Principles of Government” and “ Con- .st1t11tiona1_Equa1ity , HAS IT ANY MEANING‘? ,We reply, yes! A deep and fearful signiﬁcance, to which it is to be feared Spiritualists will _only waken when the in- _ quisition is established. ’ But what is it? . Well, this. It will be remembered that the God-in-the Constitution men——-thank heaven there are no women in it—— a male concern altogether—have already held two national conventions to devise methods and means to secure their reign over the people to the sacriﬁce of personal rights even in matters of conscience. What has made it necessary, in this age, that these pretenders should feel called upon to take this step? What new causes have appeared upon the surface of society, that has shown them the need of immed- iate action? Science and inﬁdelity for a century have as- saulted the rampartsof Christianity, effecting many breeches in its walls; but Christians stood, calmly Watching their efforts and thinking them impotent for harm; and so in- deed they were. But a new enemy appeared in the ﬁeld, which, added i to the strength of the other two, at length aroused them to a sense of danger. The arch enemy to all their possessions is Spiritualism. In this they saw the opponent that would un- mask all their hypocritical pretentions, unvail their unknown God and dethrone their devil from his place in hell, and in the highly ﬁgurative language of an eminent divine, knock the bottom out of that institution itself. To have persons who had died and been consigned to the unquenchable ﬂames come back and inform the credulous that it was all an immense humbug; that there was indeed no such place, and that no one whom they had seen since the entrance to the new life could tell them of any such place; -that they had seen no God, nor any great white throne upon which He was wont to sit; that the judgment and resurrection days were myths, in the sense in which they are popularly taught, and ' that all the Christians teach about the next life is pure bosh; to have them constantly coming back and doing all this and much more that is destruction to their system, showed them clearly that something had to be done, and that quickly. . As their God and Christ and the Book of Books were the things most in danger, they proposed to install them in a place of safety, by enthroning them in the Constitution, from which place they may issue forth to subdue the heretics who had dared to dethrone them in heaven and hell. Strange as it must seem, in this proceeding they were ably seconded by God’s arch enemy, the devil, since this latter personage is in equal danger with the ﬁrst. For mutual safety they made up their old quarrel and united against the common enemy—the enemy who, like the enemy of pre- tended powers in this country palming themselves off for I somebody, exposes their pretenses and destroys their stand- mg. This proposed reinstallment of the dethroned Gods, how- ever, not meeting with so hearty approval by the people as it was supposed it would, compels “ the endangered” to put forth new efforts to pave the way for this ﬁnal movement; and these are directed toward the destruction of the means of propaganda for Spiritualism. They began by attempting to establish a censorship over the press, taking for the ﬁrst victim one supposed to be most obnoxious to the general public. From this they would move further and then fur- ther, until not a person in the country“ should dare to ques- tion the truth of their God. the fact of their devil or the divine origin of their Book. So far, however, this part of the programme has miscar- ried, and instead of securing what they -desired, they have involved themselves immeasurably. Many of the best- informed members of the press do not hesitate to say, and boldly, too, that the Y. M. C. A. is in its decadence,-from the very means by which they sought to establish their threatened power. This makes them desperate, and they strike wildly out to hit whomever, they may, in their insane rage, not perceiving they are killing themselves by the effort. But here they ﬁnd open allies in the press, where, in violation of the freedom of the press, they had only had silence. Some of the most inﬂuential journals of the land join with, aye, take the initiative, against the common ene- my, Spiritualism. Thus we ﬁnd the agent of the Herald pro- curing the arrest of almost all the public media of a sister city, and its columns overrun with the most outlandish lies and abuse of Spiritualists in general, recommending their meetings to the surveillance of the police. At the same time it instigates ‘.‘ Christians” to go to them for the purpose of making disturbance, thatit may be chronicled in the papers that these disturbers of the Gods and devils of the Church are also common disturbers of the peace. [See quotation from the N. Y. Herald in last number.] And now comes forward the New York Times, in open alliance with the Herald, advising that it would be an easy matter to suppress media in New York if Supt. Matsell would take it in hands. It cites, Davenport-like, an English case in its Sunday edition of the 24th inst., of one Lewis, whom aMrs. Hill had arrested upon the Charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, and whom the magistrate sentenced tosix weeks’ imprisonment, at hard labor—-the money he had obtained being six cents, a week for each cent. Drawing.its lesson from this, the Times recommends that “the trade” in New York be served similarly. The pretense for such proceeding is that what is proposed to be done is not done. Let us examine this, and see if it ,.n%_ s / / Sept. 6, 1878. - differ from almost every other trade. There is no dis-5 tinction made between those who use ca_rds and those who profess second sight merely. They are all alike, and so they really are. Cards are used by clairvoyants to concen- trate the attention. Of themselves they show nothing, but in the fact that the mind ﬁxes itself upon these, “the in-2 ﬂuences” operate upon it, showing certain things which? are retailed to the inquirer. Others look into a stone, and others, still, into cups and what not——all for the same purpose, though it may not be recognized by the operator himself. ! Now, there are hundreds of thousands of cases well established, and about which there can be no doubt, that truth or facts have been received by these means; and Lin? doubtedlythere are asimany more where the information, has not turned out to be true. But mark it, these persons make no personal pretense to infallibility. They merely; profess to retail what is given them by Spirits, orwhat ‘ shown them by clairvoyance, and all who apply to theni V know this. They pay their money and take the risks, and there can be no such thing as false pretense in the sense in which the law regards false pretense. Nor can it be estab- lished, even where untruths are received, that the “ medium ”= is guilty of false pretense. Crime consists, not in the act itself, but in the intent. If a person under right intentions, perform a wrong deed, the law does not hold him guilty. Now, who shall presume to say that whatever is received from media is not given under the intention of good faithif Is it to be supposed even that a medium will, wilfully,’ « knowingly and maliciously, tell lies when the truth is just as easy to be told and will serve everything better? would be a fool who should so imagine; but just so dd they pretend who accuse mediums of false pretenses. Why do these sticklers for strict morals carry their com- plaints into other “trades.” When lawyers fail, when doctors fail, when merchants fail, when architects fail, when teachers fail, when ofﬁeials fail, when preachers fail to perform their pretentions why are they not prosecuted for receiving money under false pretenses. When the absurd farce of the communion is enacted, and people are made to believe that they eat the body of Jesus and drink the blood of Christ, why are not the ministers prosecuted for fraud? Ah! “But it makes all the difference imaginable as to whose ox it is that is gored. ' But this practice of fortune-telling and Spiritualism is I putting the great “Goddess Diana” to shame, and “ our 7’ “ trade’s” “our easily gotten gains,” are threatened and they I must therefore be put down at whatever cost, and so “ we” strike ﬁrst here and then there, hoping soon to ﬁnd a vul- nerable spot that shall destroy the whole danger. Time and again we have warned Spiritualists of what is , coming. We have told them that Spiritualism means death to all existing forms and customs. The lords of these know this, but Spiritualists sleep on, or continue to gaze upward in utter ignorance of the threatening storm. The time, however, will come when this stupor shallbe cast loose from them, but it will be only when the danger is at their very face and they are asked to recant the dangerous doctrines under the pressure of the rack or the fagot, or other equally persuasive arguments. We have done our duty. We have told you that tliese things shall come, and they will unless you save yourselves, and by concentric action ward off and kill that which threatens. Think of it before it is too late; since to think of it you well be compelled; if not now, then only a little later on. -—————.--«own THE DECLINE OF DESPOTISM. Evidence upon evidence is accumulating, going to show the desperate_ strait to which conservatism is being reduced even by the very methods by which it hopes to save itself. The Judiciary has been relied upon to conserve the interests of the public by maintaining intact the customs the past has bequeathed the present. V But as reason and intelligence dawn upon abuses, learned justices are compelled, for con- sistency’s sake, to accept the common-sense view of whatever comes before them. And thus we ﬁnd- Judge Blatchford ruling in the United States Court in this city, in accordance with the principle of democratic liberty and personal sovereignty, in our own cases and in that of Mr. Dana’s, of the Sim. Recently, an eminent Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, in a case in which the mandatory character of marriage laws was the question involved, held that they were not mandatory in their character——were provisional merely. This decision, if sustained, settles the question of marriage forever, by mak- ing it purely a civil contract, to be entered upon and aban- doned by the consent and will of the contracting parties. All reformers have to do now is to ignore the law and go on about their business. To this view we have always held. It is impossible that there should be any law to make marriage law and customs compulsory, and this decision virtually re- mands the whole question back to individuals, and says to‘ them, you need not give any attention to priest or squire; make your own‘ arrangements as you wish to make them, if i you have the moral courage to do so. This is all there is lacking now to revolutionize marriage and restore the lost right of individual control to the people. Still another case in the Courts further conﬁrms the prog- ress that is being made toward equality and" justice. This has just transpired in St. Louis under the infamous Social Evil bi1l——W. G. Eliot against Kate Clark for keeping a dis- reputable house. The learned jurist, Judge Calvin, of the Court of Criminal Correction, decided thus: Judge Calvin, of the Court of Crin1inal:Cor1'ection, to-day rendered a decision in the case of W. G. Eliot against Kate Clark for keeping a disreputable house, which was argued on last Saturday, and in which was involved the question of the constitutionality of the social evil ordinance now in force here. The Judge decides that the provisions of this ordi- nance are diametrically opposed to the State law under which this prosecution is had, and that the amendment to the city charter permitting the City Council to regulate prostitution was a special act applying only to St. Louis, and therefore 1, unconstitutional, inasmuch as that instrument provides that the General Assembly shall pass no special law in any case in which provision can be made by general law. The Judge says further, it is a special law in its application to but one sex and not to both sexes. In this it is against the spirit of the Bill of Rights. The law should operate uniformly. The offense charged in the information could not be if the other sex were not participants in it. It is unjust and unfair that of the parties to the offense, one should be required to con- form to multitudinous and grevious and burdensome regula- tions, while the other party does not even receive a tacit re- cognition. This subject cannot be rendered less a crime by humane legislation than it actually is. No law but the uni- versal law of compensation can regulate it. My views of this matter are that the words “to regulate,” in the connection in which they appear in the charter, are not inconsistent with any law of this State, "and have received a construction altogether too bread; that they do not justify the passage of the ordinance relied upon by the defendants of such a mean- ing of the words ‘I‘ to regulate” as was understood by the City Council to be the true meaning. I say, then, that the G-eneral Assembly exceeded their constitutional powers when they made the grant, because no such power exists in the Constitution. Thus in spite of all, does the revolution move onward to- ward justice and right, but its passage is rousing the bigots and despots of the past to the necessity of action, and it will come in some terrible and dangerous form when least it is to be expected. Let them know that their sceptre is really about to pass away from them and they will sacriﬁce the lives of one- half the race sooner than yield it. Prepare then for the com- ing—~“ In time of peace prepare for war.” —————---—-——+—-+0 TO OUR CATHOLIC SISTERS AND BRETHREN. For the past six months the New York Herald has trum- peted the pilgrimages now taking place in France. In these Our Lady of Lourges stands pre-eminent. The last of these published Saturday, the 23d ult., occupiesaipage andaquar- ter of that journal. As Spiritualists, let us admit the state- ments. Hundreds of thousands in France believe in them. There is no reason to doubt them, and they establish the fact of spiritual intercoursegwith humanity in the form. We are thankful for the admission, see the pile, in the language of the gamester, and go better. But we would remind the Herald, while it is in the spir- itual mood, that the wonders which have taken place here, namely, the appearance of the engineer at Lansingburg, the boy at the Newburyport School-house, and many others, are of the same genus. They equally demand from our savans a solution. If Spiritualists’ solus attempt that solution, it is because no others will. Probably, ast-he Hemld has en- gaged.in the business, it will be able to ferret out the truth, in which case we, in common with the rest of the world, will have reason to rejoice. In the meantime, let us com- mend to our Catholic sisters and brethren the following questions which we ﬁnd in the report before us : “Did not something of this sort happen to Elijah and to St. Philip, to St. Ida of Louvain, to St. Joseph of Copertino, and to St. Rose of Lima? And how can any person who believes or pretends to believe in the Old or the New Testament assert that it is impossible.” Let us warn the public that the time is rapidly approaching when the above questions will be put to all Christians, whether Protestant or Catholic, by the Spiritualists of the age, and it would be curious if questions put by one body of Christians to another should be taken up in the end by a third party, and eventually confound both. WHAT OF THE NIGHT ‘B SILVER LAKE AS AN’ INDICE. Following rapidly upon the very remarkable Convention at Vineland came the immense outpouring of the Spirit- ualists and Socialists of Massachusetts at Silver Lake camp- meeting. Like the former, the latter stands for the people among whom it occurred, marking the progress they have made in the basic principles of reform, and more than the former perhaps, indicating the fact that Spiritualists, as a class, are rapidly accepting these principles as the foundation for any right progressive movement for man- kind. We "do not say this with any view to attempt to commit Spiritualism to social reform, but to state a fact that must be evident to every unbiassed observer of the times, the awful eontortions of the “respectables” to shirk the fact, to‘ the contrary notwithstanding. But to Silver Lake. This was the ﬁrst camp-meetingthat ever assembled near this most beautiful sheet of water. It was the successor to those of late years held at Walden Pond, and, like them, was under the direction of Drs. Gard- ner and Richardson, of Boston. The grounds consist of a thickly-studded grove of small pines, situated on the southern borders of the lake—a high, bold bluff, now purchased by the Old Colony Raildroad and ﬁtted up ex- pressly for camp-meetings. During the encampment which began on the 8th of the month and ended on the 18th, there '«w..oor>HUL~L a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. 9 were presented many of the features of a small city. An immense eating-house was built, together with all the various out-houses usualpat such places. Beside these there were a railroad ticket, express and post-oflice, a photographic gal- lery, depot for literature, and a grocery and provision store. -A good speakers’ stand was also provided and an immense canvas stretched, under which there are seats for ﬁve thou- sand and standing-room for ten thousand persons. This encampment consisted of three hundred and sixty tents of the style known as “the Sibley Tent,” sheltering about two thousand persons. The tents were upon the avenues and streets, in regular order, the name of the occu- pants usually appearing upon the front. Such‘ was Silver Lake encampment when visitors /were absent. On special picnic days, Wednesday and Friday, the Old Colony Rail- road and its numerous branches and connections brought many visitors to the lake. The ﬁrst grand picnic day was Friday, the 8th. The services under the canvas were opened by Dr. Gardner, who, in a felicitous manner, rehearsed the causes that had led to the preparation of the grounds for this meeting. The Doctor was succeeded by Hon. Warren Chase, J. P. Greenleaf, Ed. S. Wheeler and Moses Hull in the morning; while the speech of the afternoon was by the latter gentleman, who said: I While denying the existence of a. personal devil, the‘ speaker said, this word, from the use made of it by the church, had become a synonym for something -radical and reformatory from the day when John the Baptist was de- clared to be under the inﬂuence of a demon, to the present hour. How then could Spiritualism hope to escape being branded as the work of demons? which by the way the speaker thought was the most brainless method of begging the question concerning the existence of the spiritual phe- nomena. The Church was either right or wrong in her decla- rations concerning the presenceof the devil in every reform; if wrong, then it was proved that she was liable to mistake, and if mistaken in one point, to be equally fallible in all her arbitrarily assumed grounds»; if right, then indeed humanity owed to the devil -the chiefest thanksgiving, for he was——ac— cording to the declaration of the Church of that day—the inspiring genius which led Jesus Christ to liveiand work among men. It was clearly to be noticed that the devil would not remain with any new system after it became popular and corrupt, and also as plainly perceivable that the Church always grasped the next -to the lastnew reformatory movement, with which to combat its successor. The lecture —of which but afaint outline is here presented-—was his- torical, philosophical and argumentative by turns, and was heartily’ approved by the audience. At the conclusion of the address the crowd dispersed from the speakers’ stand, and wandered for a brief season around the grove, ere the warning engine bells summoned them to their seats for home. _ The immense concourses of the people, however, were re served for the special lecture days, Sundays. We glean the following condensed account of ‘the services on the 10th « inst. : At an early season in the morning visitors from the sur- rounding country for twenty miles distant began coming in, till a space of ten acres allotted for the purpose on the south side of the camp was as thoroughly packed with teams of all sorts as was considered consonant with their safety. _ I The Plymouth train was the ﬁrst to arrive. Its crowds’ of passengers, upoii debarking at the plank platform erected by the O. C. R. R. Corporation, found themselves directly in front of a wide avenue which led overa gradual ascent to the camp, a few white tents, backed by green tree-tops, peeping in-vitingly over its summit. . In due time the long trains from Boston and way stations moved up majestically, and poured out a deluge of humanity upon the camp which effectually astonished all the regular residents. Those who came to listen to speeches, as well as to enjoy the beauty of the scene, assembled at the platform, where, at about half-past ten o’clock, Dr. H. F. Gardner called the as- sembly to order and introduced as the regular lecturer of the morning Miss Jennie Leys. In commencing she said: At such a time as this, full of life rather than death, we cannot come to you to open any sepul- chral gate. Vital revelations were abroad, of interest alike to Spiritualist and atheist. Spiritualism represented not so much wings for heaven as feet for earth. It might perhaps be more pleasant to the believers of Spiritualism to watch the revelations of their philosophy, the forms of hope, bright- robed in the roseate hues of the empyrean that were wafted by them, but the soul alive to the vital interests of our day could not stop there. The old time spirit of persecuting big- otry now loomed above the placidity of Christianity--the right of freedom in political things was even now being put on trial, and the student of history could only see the prom- ised land of liberty of speech and action across the Red Sea waves of a struggle more fearful than humanity had ever known. The freedom of speech and the press had been chal- lenged in the attack of the Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion upon the two female editors in New York city, who, though voiceless and voteless politically-—placed practically by their sex beyond the pale of the law as to its beneﬁts, but sternly held accountable to its penalties—had stirred the na- tion to its utmost depths. Victoria C. Woodhull and her sis- ter Tennie C. Claflin were the freedom angels of the world, uplifting womanhood to the sublime heights of peace and truth. The most fearful aspect of the case to the mind of the well wisher of reform was the profound apathy and listless- ness which rested upon the minds of the people, who failed to understand that a terrible struggle of bigotry was already being inaugurated by the God-in-the-Constitution cabals. The speaker then proceeded to consider the aims set forth by the petition issued at the Cincinnati Convention in the interests of Christian bigotry for the recognition of God in the Constitution of the United States. Earnestly the Church was toiling for this result; year by Year the Young Men’s i ‘\ ,. l x P 7 people in the 10 woo1)nULL J5 CLAFL.IN’S WEEKLY.-‘ Sept. 6, 1873. Christian Association was enlarging its borders. Let the lib- eral element organize in self defense. She was sure that in the contest with error the right would alWaYS 001110 11DPe1" most, but history revealed that it was too often through the gory shock of war. She would have these elements of phys- ical conﬂict scattered before they obtained sufficient magni- tude to change their base of operations from the ﬁeld of men- tal discussion to that of bodily carnage. The speaker closed her address by a fervent appeal in favor of woman suffrage, which she believed, if granted, would do much in the needed direction, and inaugurate a nobler manhood for man and a higher womanhood for woman. Her remarks were listened to for upward of an hour with the most profound attention, and received filieqiiemt signs of approval. A The lecturer of the afternoon was William Denton. He began his remarks by saying that he should have made a very poor Hebrew prophet; their songs were overloaded with lugubrious wailings of horrors to come, especially with re- gard to the cities round about J udea; but there W38 SO much of hope in his nature that he instinctively turned his gaze to the bright side of things, and though he recognized the im- mense importance of the warning proclaimed by Miss Leys in the morning session, yet he would on this occasion like to discourse of some of the brighter portents in the sky which revealed themselves to his soul. Referring to the desire shown by the Churches to put God in the Constitution, the speaker said it was because they feared the rapid spread of in- ﬁdelity to their dogmas which was perceptible throughout the land. Foiled in the combat of argument, they naturally ﬂed to seek the arm of law, to force their peculiar ideas upon the people. But he thought this putting God in the Constitu- tion—-while he would be a dead letter there, as he was gen- erally in the world of to -day—would be a step which would arouse slumbering souls, and lead hundreds of those who had heretofore done nothing, to put forth sturdy efforts for the ﬁrm upholding and broad dispensing of liberalism. While discourse of some of the brighter portents in the sky which ﬁve years after its advent, Spiritualism had in that time cir- cled the globe, upsetting the scarecrows reared in the past by old theological systems, and giving faith in the progres- sive powers of the human soul. Spiritualism gave a brighter gospel than that proclaimed by him of Nazareth, because it taught that man was never lost, and therefore never needed to be saved. The human soul needed no mediator between itself and God any more than the infant required one be- tween itself and the warm, pulsing breast of its mother. Spiritualism did more to heal the broken-hearted than all the systems which earth had known, and would yet, by its own intrinsic power, fold all peoples ‘beneath its sheltering wings. The lecturer made eloquent reference to the enslavement of woman, founded on customs inaugurated by Bible prece- dents, ’and her needed enfranchisement, and said no religion which had ever been preached had done so much for woman's cause as Spiritualism. . At the conclusion of the services the human tide ebbed rapidly from the grounds, sixty-seven cars crowded to their utmost capacity took up the journey Plymouth and Boston- ward, multitudinous teams rattled away in divergent direc- t igns, and silence and twilight descended upon the previ- ‘ xly busy scene. " out the conclusion of Mr. Denton’s address Dr. Gardner AL 1 some remarks of a congratulatory nature to the people Offerek led, gave a brief history of his experience regarding assembl ‘etings in the past, announced that on the following grove m orace Seaver, Esq, editor of the Boston Investiga- Sunday 11? *1. Warren Chase, of St. Louis, would address the to?’ and OJ ‘ morning, and that Victoria Woodhull would fternoon. ‘IX of the meeting was not reached until L "he announcement of speakers for which day ‘icate that the subject, of most vital‘ in- t t to every one at the present time, would have con- fﬁesatidn Endeavol‘ to shirk it who may, there can be .,:1O(:.1iSmkin‘% the meaning of the vast concourse of people . _t assembled at Silver Lake on this day. They did not ‘may ‘simply to hear the common topics of phenomenal go-t ereﬁsm discussed. These at least to older Spiritualists .E:‘1-felts :61: mo mug considered to cause the soul to move in . ‘ nse to appeals of mere oratorical power. It can lespo hat those orators who dwell upon this scarcely be <l0‘1l3ted )5 . . Class of su bjects speak to hearts that do not stir with enthu- . ,6-C res onse. There is no escaping facts, though a cer ::-IL: ldass lzyfdvwriters for so-called Spii'itualistic journals seem determined to‘ read everybody out of the Spiritual arena who shall dare to contend that the social problem belongs of legitimate right to Spiritualism. Had these very respect- been at Silver Lake on that ever—to-be- they would have: thought that Spirit- able saintly p61’S0;-15 a Sun ay remembem , all directions, “especially in the ualism means reform In , 'al sphere. ‘ %0(‘l71Ve arrived on the ground about three o’clock Saturday fternoon From that time certainly there was no speaker :11 the stand who did not make the social question‘ the main -Issue AS we 3,11-ived under the canvas Mrs. Colby, a S Sage, of g,,,,,,», powel‘ and thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the times, was elucidating certain portions of the great issue. She had succeeded Anthony Higgins, of Jersey City who had dealt some squarely planted blows on the ’ tism. There, too, we also found that face of old ccnserva old wheelhorse of reform, W’arren Chase, and Mrs. Albert- son E S. Wheeler, Chauncey Barnes, 9-ndlmany Oll’-191" well known and able workers. It was easily to be seen that the encampment "had not assembled merely to enjoy the comforts and recreations of camp life, but rather to meet as people engaged in a great and common cause, to compare records and see how nearly they were all related speak in the 9- But the clim- Sunday the l"/tha _ was such as to ind in spirit To us, as we came in contact with the large num- ber of those whom We not so much as a single Cl had met and known, there seemed iscordant feeling. At least it ap- peared that if there were disagreeinents upon anything it was understood that it should not assume even the semblance of inharniony. So it was a matter of surprise when we learned that there was dissaI.isfact.io1i about the manner in which the meeting had been conducted. It seems that some of the people did not think because Drs. Gardner and Rich- ardson had managed the preliminary arrangements and were to reap the beneﬁts, if any accrued, that therefore they should control the platform. The assignment was that they had been invited there to a mass meeting, and having paid for coming, when assembled they should have some- thing to say as to what speakers should be heard. Many did not hesitate to assert that the management persistently refused to admit the social question to the platform,'and that it was broadly hinted “that Mrs. ‘Noodhull need not think she could come to Silver Lake and run the meeting in the interests of that question.” _ , Now as to the reality of all this, we know nor care noth- ing. Certain it is we went there to speak some plain truths to the people, without any thought of “running” anything in the interest of anything or anybody. We knew very well that the people who should assemble that day would certainly expect to hear the social question discussed radi- cally, and we did not stop to ask whether it was a proper subject for discussion or not, but the reception with which we met on - our arrival upon the grounds, from , the “ people,” at once set us at rest as to their feelings. So, when in the evening we were called upon to speak a few words, we took occasion to remark our surprise at hav- ing received an invitation to speak before what we had un- derstood was to be a too—respectable crowd to tolerate the social question. This called Dr. Gardner to the front to ac- cept “the joke,” as he called it, of supposing that it were possible for him to have anything to do with anything so respectable as that; and to establish his position thoroughly he desired to offer the resolutions written by Henry C. W'right some years ago, and which were printed in the last WEiii<Lr: 1. Resolved, That anything that is inherently right cannot be made wrong by any legal enactment. ,2. Resolved, That anything that is inherently wrong can- not be made right by any legal enactment. , He said he advanced these as his own, and put them to the audience, and they were adopted with enthusiastic una- nimity. This settled the question as to whether the social question was considered contraband. At least, never a word more was heard upon the subject. Another Sunday morning dawned, bringing a heavy shower ofgrain which, for a time, threatened to extend into the day; but gradually the north wind conquered and rolled the heavy clouds away, leaving the skies clear and the sun bright. A more glorious day could not have been. It was certain that the closing sessions of the meeting were to be an immense success; and so they were. Soon after nine o’clock, the long trains of cars began to arrive from Boston and intermediate points, and also from Plymouth, bringing swarms of people, who quickly passed into the encampment. Beside those who came by cars, there were the whole country folk, with whose horses and carriages the roads and woods for a mile around were blackened. At ten o’clock not less than twelve thousand people had passed the entrance, priest of whom were con- gregated under the canvas to listen‘ to Horace Seveer, editor of the Boston Ivzvestigator, and Warren Chase, who had been advertised to speak in the forenoon. Of the day’s proceed- ings the Boston Post says : “The camp meeting of the Spiritualists, which for nearly two weeks has ﬁlled the wooded glades of Silver Lake Grove with throngs of happy campers out, is over, and this morn- ing the hundreds of white tents which have given the bean- tiful grove almost the appearance of an encampment, will begin to disappear. During the larger share of the time through which the meeting has extended, it has been favored with exceptionally ﬁne weather, only two of the days having been at all stormy or unpleasant. Yesterday, which was to be the ﬁnal day of the meeting, opened clear and cool, despite the rainy promise the clouds had given on Saturday evening. Long excursion trains started for the ground from this city, Fall River, Plymouth and the south shore during the morning, every one of‘ them being ﬁlled to its best capacity with pleasure and proﬁt seeking visitors. The num- . ber of people present during the day was certainly as great as 12,000, "while many accustomed to estimate crowds put it as -high as 16,000, and even more. It certainly" was large enough to completely ﬁll the grove, and even spread out over the adjoining ﬁelds. Beside the Spiritualists and their friends and the visitors who were there as a pleasant escape from the city, probably no small number were attracted by the promise of an address from Mrs. Woodhull, who had been announced as to be present in the afternoon. The exercises were opened by a song,” “ How the Gates Came Ajar,” sung, by request, by Mr. J. Frank Baxter. Dr. Gardner then stepped to the front and congratulated the audience on having such a beautiful day to come together in. They would hear some radical things, but the platform established there was a free one, and open towhomsoever might desire to use it, so long as free speech was not tamper- ed with. But the managers did not hold themselves respon- sible for any of the opinions advanced. For those, the speakers only were to be held accountable. He announced the presence on the grounds of Col. Blood, who would re- ceive' subscriptions to WOODHULL Sc CLArLiN’s WEEKLY. He considered it a representative paper. Under the circum- stances which have occurred during the last few months Mrs. Woodhull personally was lost sight of, and she became introduced and began his remarks by addressing himself t0 the “ Spiritualists, Free-Thinkers, Inﬁde-ls, Atheists, and all others present who were in favor of free thought.” He thanked the chairman for the liberality of ‘the invitation which allowed him, a materialist, to speak from that plat- form to that audience. It was one of the impossible things to ﬁnd two people who believed alike. In fact to bring mat- ters to a ﬁner point, it was rare to ﬁnd one man always agree- ing with himself. He had one idea -and method of life which he'thQ_ught best suited to this world, the only one he had ever lived in or knew anything about. If, as the Spirit- ualists claimed, there was another, he thought the best way of getting ready for it was by living right in this. After all they agreed on the really essential points. They agreed in maintaining free thought, free speech and a free press, in progress, liberality and the inalienable rights of man and woman too. They were both opposed to bigotry, priest- craft and sectarianism. From the outset he had seen that Spiritualism was working in this direction, and so far it was doing a great work in breaking down party walls. There should be the same democracy in society as in Nature, where the rain and the sunlight fell on the church of the minister, the cathedral of the bishop and the camp-meeting of the Spiritualist with the same impartial meed. The time ought to come, and, in fact, must soon, when the question, “ What does he believe?” would be impertinent and inexcusable. It ought to be taken for granted every man believes the best he ; can, and in so far as Spiritualism hastened the day when that should be so, he was in favor of it. If Spiritual- ism was a fact of Nature, then it was true, Until that was ‘undeniably provedhe and other skeptics would candidly ex- amine into it. Theliberality which seemed to mark Spiritual- ists, making them willing to consort with their most deter- mined doctrinal opponents in this world, argued str ongly for the belief that the same breadth would characterize them bility of another life much more inviting than did the selﬁsh exclusiveness of Christianity. If there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamed of in our philosophy, he was willing to accept them whenever proven. Truth can never hurt any‘ one. He believed in the practical phase of Spiritualism thoroughly, in its efforts to improve society in the various directions of philanthropic work. Most espe- cially was he in sympathy with it in its struggle for woman’s rights. On the condition of woman depended the improve- ment of the race. It was foolish to keep down one-half of humanity in the hope thereby to elevate the other half. The hand that rocks the cradle makes the world. In conclusion, Mr. Seaver mentioned the curious coincidence that the day was the thirty-ﬁfth anniversary of the release of Abner Kneeland from Leverett-street jail, where he was incarcerat- ed for blasphemy. The effects of his life were manifest now in such innovations on the old-time beliefs and prejudices as the opening of the libraries on Sunday, music on the Com- mon on Sunday evenings. If the Pilgrim Fathers could look down on the Common, and see there, on their holy Sabbath day, a band of music, they would cry, “ O, carry us back to some other place than this degenerate Boston!” The world is improving. If ._it was not, we might better have had our eyes put in the back of our heads, so we could look back into the twilight of antiquity rather than ahead to the future. Hon. Warren Chase, of St. Louis, was the next speaker introduced. He said he had been for so many years picketed alone on the outskirts of reform that he hardly recognized now the hosts of friends that had come forward beside him. There were thousands who now occupied; socially and re- Iigiously, the same ground he had done for thirty years. It was not for lies but for the truth that the martyrs had been slain. Jesus was cruciﬁed, Galileo condemned, Copernicus anathematized, Quakers imprisoned, Servetus burned, Vic- toria C. Woodhull incarceratedin. Ludlow~street jail, not for telling falsehoods, but for making known the truth. And the world sent its saviors to the stake, the halter, the heads- man, now to the jails, by and by only to glory and victory. He had never been a Christian. Believers in that religion claimed that it was a revelation from God; but there was not. one truth which we know which had not been learned by experiment, not one which had come to us by revelation. Science alone -has given facts, revelatipn none. It tells nothing deﬁnitely of our origin, nothing certain of our future. What then? “ God has revealed himself.” What God? If the- Jehovah of the Jewish creed, then the revela- tion is only a curse. And there is nothing in the New Testa- ment but what is old. All its moral sentiments are to be found in the literature of preceding nations and races. What were its miracles? There are thousands related in profane history which have as strong evidence in their favor as any related in the Bible, and there is no reason why one class should be taken and the other left. Spiritualism is reveal- ing a new world. Christianity is doomed to fall, and with the tree will go the branches. The social, political, religious systems which are its offshoots must perish with the parent tree. The world ought not to be horriﬁed at the idea of tearing down the old faiths and ideas. The future held in its hands materials with -which to build a better and purer and holier system, and he prayed for the day to come when the old things should pass away, and all become new. At the conclusion of Mr. Chase’s address, the audience ad- journed for dinner and recreation. Many parties had brought lunch with them, and gathered in little groups under the trees to V eat it, giving the woods the appearance of being tenanted by a vast picnic party, while others repaired to the dining-hall and restaurant. The afternoon meeting was -announced to‘ begin at 2 o’clock, but an hour before that time the seats of the audience tent were ﬁlled, and the people waited a little -impatiently for the appearance of Mrs. Wood- hull. By this time fully 18,000 people had assembled on the grounds. Some twenty minutes before the hour, Mr. Baxter took his seat at ‘the organ, and sang 0“ Jessie’s Dream, or the Relief of Lucknow,” and “ Mother kissed me in my dream.” Dr. Gardner then came forward and said he had no sym- pathy for those sensitive people Who Collld 11013 endure the L the representative of an idea. Mr. Horace Seaver, was then» discussion of ‘ subjects usually tabooed, but he expected after they reached the other, and this fact made the .possi- . ‘S; . S. ,ﬁfg\ ,- ...~«—«----- -- Sept. 6, 1873.’ \ during the afternoon some plain truths were to be spoken, and if there were any such sensitive persons present and there happened to be a lack of seats, he hoped they would go out before the address began, so as to give other people a chance to sit. He disclaimed any responsibility for any- thing Mrs. VVoodhull might say. He differed widely from her in many opinions, but the platform was free. He him- self believed whatever was natural was right, and no legis- lative enactment could make it wrong. With this explana- tion he had the pleasure of introducing to the audience . 2 VICTORIA c. WOODHULL. Mrs. Woodhull came forward, and was received with en- thusiastic applause. She was plainly dressed in black, and her face bore evident traces of recent suifering. She began at ﬁrst in a rather low tone, which became full and clear, however, as she went on, until the volume of her voice ﬁlled {the entire canvas. She began by saying she had some plain truths to tell, which she knew would not please all ears, but she valued truth more than popular- ity. The good opinion of the audience she craved, for they were her friends, but public opinion she stamped in the mud. It was a stench in the nostrils of truth, to which she could only say, “ Get thee behind me, Satan!” Shewould speak the truth, even if she died in doing so. The time must come when misery and heartache should be banished from earth, but before that time, other and terrible things must be. So much suffering as that the soul—sick, of earth now endure could only be washed away in the blood of millions of mar- tyrs. With this introduction she proposed at once to pro- ceed upon the scarecrows of social slavery. The farmer puts up in his cornﬁeld objects which, at a distance, bear the ap- pearance of men, to frighten away the crows from the grow- ing corn. The crows have just sense enough to see that they appear like ﬁgures of their great enemy, and shun them, but close examination shows they are only men of straw. So in the religious ﬁelds bigots hold up Satan and hell—ﬁre to frighten the people; but as all men are not crows, some are able to see the straw through the rags in which it is stuffed- So in the social ﬁelds scarecrows were put up, but she knew they were all of straw. The great contest of the day was be. tween freedom and absolutism. In the evolution of civili- zation, humanity walks from despotism toward liberty. If the sovereignty of the individual is right in politics and re- ligion, so it is in the social relations. This means that free- dom for the individual, socially, is a right—is an inherent right——which neither Church nor State can deny or abridge. ‘ Nobody doubts this. But what is freedom? The right of each individual to make such use of his or her powers and faculties as he or she may elect. Anything less is restriction, and restriction by any person or aggregate of persons is des- potism. Here is raised scarecrow number one. They say i: all restriction were removed, anarchy would hold high car- nival, and our liberty be sunk in the darkness of the Middle _ Ages. Those who say this fail to see that perfect freedom is the guarantee of perfect protection. Then comes scare- crow number two. Suppose perfect freedom is admitted to be right, it is not expedient it should be exercised. Every one is willing to accept it for himself; but what might not his neighbors do? If they should act as they might, society would be demoralized. But who had the authority to deny er right to eat, drink, sleep, love as she might? If freedom is admitted, rather than despotism, it is nobody’s business what another does, so it does not interfere with his or her happiness. Then comes scarecrow number three. If there is no law to compel people to live together, the whole frame- work of society will be broken up. She denied it in toto. The safeguards law has put about the married relation here- tofore have made the family only a source of misery. The children who are unfortunate enough to be born in it have the seeds of vice implanted in them from birth. These safe- guards have been the source of more crime than all other causes combined. Scarecrow number'four——What will be- come of the children? Truly, a pretty question to ask, when children are born and reared as they now are. Could mat- ters be much worse? In the new order of the world, women will be self-supporting, and beyond the danger of undeﬁred maternity. Then the woman who is willing to bear children will be considered the creditor of society, and society will take care of her and her children. N 0 love is like a mother’s, and the suggestion that the child shall become the ward of society may seem heartless, but the truest love is that which asks the most for the child; and if this order of things should give the ,most, the sincerest love would be mani- fested in yielding to it. The children do not belong to the parents now, for if they did, how does the ownership disap- /pear at the age of twenty-one? Or how can a child under that be held responsible for a crime? And how can society compel its education?- In the future, relations are to be based on the kindred of souls, not on any family clanship. Mrs. Woodhull closed by reaﬂirming her devotion to the cause of social freedom, and declared that if she knew for every word she spoke against marriage She muﬁt Spend a . year in Sing Sing, yet should she speak. She was willing to stand on the scaffold, even, in behalf of her suffering sisters. After the address of Mrs. Woodhull, which had been re- ceived with many marks of approbation, was concluded, Miss Lizzie Doten spoke brieﬂy in the same 1361101‘: but somewhat less energetically and radically. She then recited the following poem: THE SOURCE OF POWER. The noblest lesson taught by life To every great heroic soul, Who seeks to conquer in the strife, - Is self-control. Truth grants no sceptre to the hand, Where pride and passion hold the sway‘ He who with honor would command, Must ﬁrst obey. An honest doubt is oft the seed Of truth, that bright celestial ﬂower, And weakness, through some noble deed, Is changed to power. The brave of heart, the pure in mind, Will dare to see the truth aright, While coward souls, perverse and blind, Will shun the light. But though unnumbered eyes were closed, Still would the sun as brightly shine, _ And truth, by all the world opposed, Is still divine. The servile reverence of the past, Which marks the worship of to-day, Before the truth advancing fast, Must pass away. And strength of mind, and breadth of thought, And inspiration from above, Shall be by earnest spirits sought, In truth and love. \ A voice, whose word of power sublime Transcends the might of human law, Shall in the truth’s appointed time The world o’erawe. Then “Tyranny, which oft unfurled Her blood-stained banner to the sky," Shall from her throne of power be hurled, And, helpless, die, The world is sick and sore at heart, ‘ With patient hope deferred too long, And seeks for one who knows the art, To make her strong. The man who dares »;to think, to live True to his soul’s divinest light, Will to the World an impulse give For truth and right. The cross may meet his noblest deeds, ‘ The faggot blaze at every word; Yet o’er the angry strife of creeds He will be heard. Thus through the ﬁre and through the ﬂood, All bruised, and scarred, and battle-worn, Baptized in sweat, and tears, and blood,‘ Great souls are born. That which is crucified to-day, The distant future shall adore, And Truths which Error seeks to slay, Live evermore. Great souls e’er set their standard high, And, toiling on through storm and night, _ ‘ They wake the nations with their cry For “ Light!” more “ Light!” The world will learn. when wiser grown, This lesson comes with every hour, That Right is Might, and Truth alone The source of power. In the evening I. P‘. Greenleaf gave a lengthy address upon Spiritualism. He summed up theresults of the last twcnty—ﬁve years of Spiritualism, and laid them at the feet of the new dispensation which, as the past had taught the relationship of spirit to spirit, was now to teach the rela- tionship existing between persons, to the end that there may be unity, harmony and peace in the world, and as a result of them, happiness and progress. It was a masterly effort from the logic of which there is no escape. Even those weak Spiritualists who feel that Spiritual1sm has all under which it can stand, could not evade the force of the argu- ment. Spiritualism now means better men and women through better conditions of generation and growth. After Mr. Greenleaf had closed came the usual parting words from Warren Chase, E. S. Wheeler, and the closing by Dr. Gardner, who made a very appropriate and happy adieu, and everybody left the canvas for the last time with apparent reluntance, evidently feeling that the many words of proﬁt there listened to would implant its scenes and sur- roundings indelibly in the memory of each. THE LESSON. Every event has a lesson, and especially has every event of such moment as the one we have chronicled, a lesson that should be carefully studied by the earnest reformer. It is by rightly appreciating these “great teachers that we are guided to the best uses of means and to their right adapta- tion. ~ ‘ An audience of eighteen thousand persons cannot con gregate without there is a deep meaning in the coming to- gether. There must be some common cause of inspiration moving every heart. In view of the fact that all this im- mense mass struggled to obtain a place under the canvas, there canlbe no doubt that they visited the camp to hear what was to be said rather than for mere pursuit of common recreation. They were after “more light.” In view also of the manner in which the several speakers were re- ceived by the audience, there can be no doubt as to what subject it was upon which more light was wanted. The audience did not stir with enthusiasm until the broadest phases of the social problem were boldly launched and solved. These elicited frequent and prolonged applause, leaving no uncertainty in the minds of any as to the senti- ment. generally entertained. Conservatism was _ at _a large discount. Phenomenal and theoretical Spiritualism were below par; but practical reform, in whatever shape it pre- sented itself, was the ruling theme. In a word, that audi- ence wanted nothing else and were not satisﬁed until they had ituin its broadest and clearest sense, and presented in a common-sense light. That audience wanted truth, truth that they could take home with them, and by which they might become better men and women. Nor did they care how radical it should be, nor how baldly and boldly pro-J woonnuti. & 0LAFLI,N’S‘WEE.KLY. . 1-1 _. .. claimed. Undoubtedly they were ready for the whole truth about love‘ and its uses and natural results, and would probably have gone home better satisﬁed had they had it all , as it shall soon be given. This Silver Lake meeting, together with the Vineland Convention, have forever settled the question past ‘all con-’ troversy, that Spiritual.ists are ready for the whole truth, and, do not fear to ask for and receive it openly before the world. So far as people can settle anything that is settled by the nature of thingsuthey have settled that Spir- itualism includes social reform and all other reforms. From this it will be useless for any future gathering to attempt to wrest Spiritualism, while in becoming this it takes on a new character and enters upon the work of the world’s salva- tion, never more to be impeded by the cry of “ side issues.” Still another important victory was gained by this meeting for reform. On Monday morning every Boston: paper, six in number, contained lengthy and respectful accounts of the day’s proceeding, without a single word of the usual vituperation and abuse——something which by itself is a rev- olution. The explanation of this-is, that the papers respect at least one thing—and let it be involved when it may, they never fail to recognize it'——an immense outpouring of the people. Eighteen thousand people congregated in a not very thickly settled part of the State, are a power that not one of the Boston papers dared to ignore, even though they were Spiritualists who adopted the social problem as an issue. Had that meeting showed unmistakable evidenccv that they rejected the social question, is it to be imaginwa that so respectful reports as were given of the speech 9011 sexual freedom would have appeared? Never. They we ,-re compelled by the power of public opinion as expressed by that vast meeting. I F This departure of Spiritualists of the East will nndov lbt- edly be adopted by the Spiritualists all over the country ‘.and result in their close organization for reformatory labor, No doubt they of the Tuttle-Britten-Jones-Holbrool5-I/Vil- coxson school will kick, but it will be against the ‘pi-icks. They will be compelled -to yield the point that the flpiritual platform includes the truth that is found in any; person which, under common rules of order, may rigltitfu11y_ be presented anywhere, subject to no restriction ‘except the common courtesies of discussion. A word more regarding the conduct of camp-meetings. It seems to be proper that the people who assemble at them ought to have the right to determine how they shall improve their time and to whom they will listen. The management, it would seem to us, have completed their sphere of duties- -when they have arranged for the meeting, and for its gov- ernment, and received its beneﬁts. The meeting itself ought; to arrange its own methods of amusement and instruction- It should not be compelled to endure anything not agree, able, nor be denied anything that it desires. It is not tc be-, imagined that Drs. Gardner and Richardson would get 3, camp meeting together and then compel it to listen to di- vines of the Catholic or Orthodox church. Yet they have the same right to do this that they have to select speciﬁc. persons from among Spiritualists.‘ The same right permits; both. It was the perception of this that causedthe protest. against the management, and the formation of a State Camp Meeting Association, which was done, and to which con- siderable stock was subscribed on the ground. It seems to us, however, that it would be better if Dr. Gardner would yield the point upon which he so stoutly insisted, of con- trolling the platform. His desire should be to study the pleasure of the meeting, and he_cannot tell so well for it as it can for itself what is its pleasure. Settle this, and there will be no need for the continuation. of the rival prop'os.itio.n. The movers in it, however, seem to be in earnest, and alarge committee is appointed to obtain subscriptions to the stock, and when such men as Harvey Lyman and F. S. Ladd, of Springﬁeld, and A. C. Carey, of Lynn, are engaged, it does not mean child’s play merely. We wouldsuggest to Dr. Gardner that he advertise for the next camp meeting that the meeting, when assembled, shall choose its own ofﬁcers and conduct its own business outside the engagement of a fem; prominent speakers forspecial days and occasions, wh-"1011 will probably satisfy everybody. Nobody in the CO11I1Ijfy is so well adapted as he is to make a complete success of a camp-meeting. Of this, the success of this one leaves no doubt, and with the slight concession referred to,’ he Inay. continue year after year to call these meetings together ,5, the entire satisfaction of everybody, and have the pectjniax-3.» beneﬁts that they must yield. . THE ReZz'gz'o—Phz'Z0s0p7w'ccl Journal of the gain u11;_ contains the following letter: _ . . S. S. JoNEs, Chicago: _t Dlccw S:°—‘—W1lT; you be; SO'klIl‘(‘l as to give 1,175 a list, (if S'pﬁ~=... 1 ua spea eis no ainte with Free Love, sg W1-led, and; the Woodhull mania; speakers who have delicacy and. moral purity enough to conduct themselves decently in pub- V 11c, and not disgust an audience at Spiritual meetings with £)‘u(l1%s3sre(réaic-l1lck;ié1‘)” (sac) on Woodhull and the immaculate you by order of the Spiritual Society of Gun Lake, Yours. etc. _ M. J; CHAPMAN. The VVEEKLY respectfully indorses the above J. Chap- rnanls iilequest, that_is all, except the dessertation ” part of _ t as given a list of the free guardians of the Spiritual fold, now let Brother Jones supplement it with the balance. of those who are willing to be muzzled I 12 A I I NWOODHULL tar. CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. V‘ 9 Sept. 6, 1873. VoICEs or THE PEOPLE... \ FREMONT, Ind, July 2, 1873. MRS. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL: Dear F'r’13end——This age will be unable to compensate you for what you have done for mankind, in being true to the right; exposing corruption in high places, by holding up the conduct of some who are leaders in Church and State. As the Church beckons the State follows——and by elucidating principles which regulate the weal or woe of our race, show- ing how imbecile, simple and silly the attempt by legislators ' to deﬁne and regulate the proper line of action, in the prop- agation of the race, while nature itself has made the most ample provision and the only one which can be made to reach this end. I ’ It is hoped now that the friends of mankind will come for- ward, and aid by all means in their power to hold up the standard so grandly waving over the ﬁrst battle-ground. The republic is gone the moment the freedom of speech and of the press have yielded to the wishes and demands of these Christians, as expounded by the Y. M. C. Association. Then all honor to Victoria C. Woodhull, and what aid wife and I may be able to give will most gladly be done. My own attention has been given to the study of this money question, and had I the attention of the public press, in six months a revolution that would waft us onward to a higher and more equitable ground would follow as effects fol- low causes. Ideas are power, and the knowledge of them is intelligence; and the intellectual ability to control the physical matter of this universe at will, is real wealth. My idea of this question when understood by mankind will supplant the present money power of the nations, will turn the tables whereonthe present money kings count as their own the fruit annually earned by the laboring milions with as much certainty as they do the coin, stocks and bonds under their own lock and key into vastly different channels; ._will make as just changes between those two classes as the abolition of slavery did between master and slave. - And should the WEEKLY survive, as I hope it may, through its columns the friends of mankind may be enabled to read what is refused by all the outside press. Yours, P W. HOPKINS. MIsCELLANEoUs. (Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Cornelius Burling, in the oﬁice of Librarian of Congress at Washington.) WHAT EVERY MAN, FEMALE AND MALE, AND PARTICULARLY EVERY LABORER, OUGHT To KNOW. ' , I . CHAPTER-vi. THE RIGHT OF PETITION--A SPECIMEN BRICK OF THE CON- STITUTION OF THE "UNITED STATES—-WHAT THE RIGHT OF PETITION MEANS. In this great country, where the people are the masters! “ “We, the people of the United States,” etc. ‘ ‘ “We, the people of the State of New York,” etc. The masters have reserved to themselves the right of pe- tition. To whom? Why to their servants, of course. See Constitution of United States, and the Constitutions of the State. of New York down to the last, including the proposed rejected one. To pet72tvJon.——To solicit, to supplicate. “ You have petitioned all the Gods.”-Shaltespeare. \ To solicit.-—To importune, to entreat. A - “ We heartily solicit your gracious self to take on you the charge and kingly government of this your land.”——Shake- spcarc. To supplt'cate.—To implore, to entreat, to petition sub- missively and humbly. . “ Many things a man cannot with any comeliness say or do; a man cannot brook to supplicate or beg.”—-Bacon. - ’ To t'mportune.——To disturb by reiteration of the same re- quest. “We have been obliged to hire troops from several princes of the empire, whose ministersand residents here have per- petually importuned the Court with unreasonable demands.” Swtft. , To implore.--To call upon in supplication, to solicit, to beg, to ask. . “ Do not say it in superstition that I kneel and then im- plore.”—Sha.kespeowe. V To beg.—— To seek by petition. V “What subjects will precarious kings regard? A beggar speaks too softly to be heard.”—Dryden. To ask.—To petition, to beg. ' “We have nothing else to ask, but that which you deny ‘already._”—Shakespeowe. — Pett't'a'one7'.-—B.eggar, pauper, Vagabond (synonyma). “ Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,” etc. “ Lear.-—Thou hast seen a farmer’s dog bark at a beggar? “ Gloster.—Aye, sir. A “‘Lea*r.-—And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority. A‘dog’s obeyed in ofﬁce.”——Sha.kespeare. “ Pecksm'ﬁ°.——If there is any additional comfort you would desire to have here at any time, pray mention it. Even to strangers, far less to you, my dear Martin, there is no re- striction on that point.” I‘ “ It was undoubtedly true, and maybe stated in corrobora- tion of Mr. Pecksniﬁ, that any pupil had the most liberal permission to mention anything in this way that suggested itself to his fancy. Some young gentleman had gone on “‘ Glcndoweo~.—I can call spirits from the vasty deep.” “ IIotspm*.—Why, so can I, or so can any man: but will they come when you do call for them ?”'——Shakespem"c. So we see to petition is to beg, and the right to petition is the right to beg; and that “we, the people,” may have the right to beg, express constitutional provision is necessary—— not the right to beg among themselves, but the right to beg of their governors, -who are thus constituted their owners; and so, “ we the people,” are by expressfconstitutional pro- vision licensed beggars, and are thus distinguished from those other beggars, the outlaws, “ the pauper-vagabonds and fugitives from justice,” of whom we have discussed." And to beg is to speak, no more or less; and so that “ we, the people,” may have the right to speak toltheir governors, express constitutional provision is necessary. And bear in mind the other provision of this same constitution, which expressly prohibits the people speaking to their governors, the conspirators who close the doors against the people and keep books secret from the people. ' Now, when the people are by the constitution thus ex- pressly prohibited any privity, part, power or voice in the government, a11d are expressly prohibited all rights except the right to beg, forthese constitution-makers to put the name of “ We, the people,” over the door, is a shameless fraud and false pretense——a fraud and false pretense that makes of the entire government a mere Peter Funk shop. And here, 0 reader, reﬁect and realize what trained Pagans or what scheming Pharisees these constitution makers were who put such trash in constitutions for government; and this right of petition, this right to beg, to speak, is of a piece with all the rest of that written-out agreement of division of prerogative royal called the Cbonstitution of the United States. _ ' How long is the intelligence of the people to be insulted with such trash for government; with Pagans and Pharisees for governors? 0 CHAPTER VII. WAR—WHAT IT IS. The infant, the moment it draws breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; And the young giant, that must subdue at length, Grows with its growth and strengthens with its strength. Pope- But death gets but the body, dead~the corpse, the earth; - the living body, the breathing being, governors have. Each subject is, however, the slave of his governors, and such slave he continues while he breathes—from the cradle to the grave. These governors will a war, the subject must ﬁght the bat- tles. Asa farmer separates his cattle for the butcher, so these farmers of mankind separate and break up families. They take the son from the father, mother; the brother from the brother, sister; the husband from the wife; the father from the children. Reckless that they consign mothers and chil- dren, to want and misery, that they convert them to beggars, to outcasts ; that they blast the calculations, the prospects, the hopes of the family; that they convert a happy home to deso- lation. As they take the subject reckless of consequences to to his family or dependents, so they hold him and use him reckless of consequences to himself. Disobedience is death. And what is obedience? Obedience is to mangle, to kill, to be mangled, to be killed; father against son, brother against brother. And while harnessed to this bloody work, the sub- ject is used asnever master used beast’: he is used as a mere machine——starved, marched till he drops; and, dropping, left to die as a dog dies, and, dying, to rot on the earth as a dog rots. ’ Prometheus of old, fable tells us, was chained to a rock, and living, his vitals. were torn by vultures. So the subject is chained to this bloody work, a target for balls or weapons; or in swamps or prisons the prey of starvation, fever, rot. And while the subject, so a prisoner chained, labors at the peril of his life or starving rots, and his family, perchance, the while deprived of his support, protection and care, are wandering, starving outcasts, his governors, they and their families, ;friends, tools, pimps, at liberty, at ease, revel in luxuries abundant. . Ferocious beasts tear their prey to satisfy hunger. In con- tests for prey they sometimes tear each other. Man compels beast to tear beast for his gratiﬁcation; but he also compels man to mangle and kill man for his gratiﬁca- tion. Governors of ferocious dogs match them for stakes on their relative powers of tearing each other. The beasts are thrown at each other conﬁned in.a pit. The aggression ﬁres the natural ferocity of the beasts. There is no escape. With teeth and claws they must tear and be torn. Governors of men arm them with deadly weapons, con- ﬁne them in armies, and then command them at each other to mangle and kill. Disobedience is death; there is no escape; they must mangle and kill, and be mangled and killed. In the slang of the gamblers, the governors of the dogs, the dogs are said to ﬁght for the stakes. Dogs pressed by hunger might ﬁght for meat, but dogs have no appetite for money, and would not ﬁght for it. N 0, these stakes are the property of the gamblers, the governors of the dogs, and on the decision of the ﬁght they go to the gambler, the governor of the victorious dog. . I But the dogs themselves, their lives, bodies, limbs,’ are staked in the ﬁght, and the dogs ﬁght to redeem themselves; but in so ﬁghting, they do but ﬁght to redeem themselves to the gamblers, their governors, whose property they are. In the slang of the gamblers, the governors of the men, the men are said to ﬁght for their country, their liberty, etc. But the country is the property of the gamblers, the gov- ernors of the men, and in no event of the ﬁght can it become mentioning the very same thing for ﬁve years, never having A the property of the men. , The men are the slaves of these been stopped.”--Chuzzlewit. same gamblers, their governors, and in no event of the ﬁght a can they become free; so the men do not ﬁght for their country or their liberty, etc. ‘ But “the lives, bodies, limbs of ' the men themselves are staked" in the ﬁght, and the lives. bodies, limbs of their wives and children, and of their female, and inﬁrm, and in- fant, and aged dependents, and the homes and substances of these men and of their wives, and children, and de- pendents are staked in the ﬁght; and the men ﬁght to re- deem themselves, the wives, and children, and dependents and homes, and substances. But as the dogs, in ﬁghting to redeem themselves, do but ﬁght to redeem themselves to the gamblers, their governors, whose property they are, so the men, in ﬁghting to redeem themselves, their wives and children and dependents, their homes and substances, do but ﬁght to redeem themselves, their wives and children and dependents, their homes and substances, to the gamblers, their governors, whose property they are. G’—lory.——The reputation a subject acquires by the jeopardy of his/life, body, limbs in the maintenance of the govern- ment of his governor over him. All government looks to the personal aggrandizement, the personal emolument, the personal gratiﬁcation of the gov- ernors. The person of the subject is held and traded with as a perquisite of office, as pirates and bandits hold captives. As pirates and bandits release captives for ransom, so judges release the accused by their discretionary power as to bail and sentence; so governors release the convict by their dis- cretioiiary power to commute sentence or pardon. To use the persons of the people at will, to take, to use, to live on at will the substance of the people is the stake men play, for which they seek to be governors. This is the stake for which governors compel the people to ﬁght, and for which governors stake the lives, bodies,‘limbs, homes, substance of the people. CHAPTER VIII. MORAL. “Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”—Shalcespeare. Grea.tness.—State, place, power. Greatness means power, and power, government. Mankind, in all ages and countries, ever have been and are the same; and in all men the instinct of the cannibal, the instinct to prey on his fellow, is latent; in some it is predominant. The last achieve greatness, power, govern- ment; the others, if greatness, power, government be born to them or thrust on them, possession provokes use, and use cultivates and develops the instinct predominant. Robinson Crusoe, when he lived alone, of necessity served himself, but when Friday came, as Friday was a savage—— that is, an ignorant man——Crusoe made a servant of Friday. “Knowledge is power,” and ignorance is weakness, and ignorance is always governed to house, clothe and feed knowledge. Knowledge is always the governor and ignor- ance always the subject, the servant. Knowledge is power because lies prevail for truth. Knowl- edge is a monopoly because of the prevalence of lies. When the distemper rages the antidote is in demand; butéwhen health prevails the antidote has’ no sale. Power, govern- ment has its origin and maintenance in force, brutality,» blood. Knowledge, pimps to power to maintain itself a monopoly, and to maintain itself a mono poly it teaches the people lies for truth; for let truth prevail, let the under- standing of man govern him, and the monopoly of knowl- edge is gone. Knowledge maintains the government, that with it as a catspaw it can take of the people wherewith to house, clothe and feed itself. Knowledge subsists on the people through government, and government is tolerated because of the false teachings of knowledge. Asabeast is trained to submit to man, so man is trained to submit to wrong. So lies prevail for truth, and so government, as it has heretofore existed, continues. Wherever two or more men live together, one or more will govern a support, more or less, of the rest. Left to himself, man will govern man to his use as he can. The beast will govern the beast and the beast will submit to the beast, and each will make for himself the best terms he can in the government. The governor governs nby conspiring with others, and he is in turn the subject of those others; and all—-governors and subjects—-are entangled, subjected, de- graded, brutalized by the conspiracy; for the conspiracy ex- ists at the expense of the independence, the manhood of all, for the governors are the slaves of those who sustain them, ' and the subjects are the slaves of all. Each uses all as he ‘can; each avoids the use of all as he can; each submits to the use of the rest as~he must; each lives by contrivance, and each succeeds as he is a good contriver,,a good hypo- crite, a good liar. _ The desire of desires with man——the beast—is to be an hereditary governor, king or subordinate. Hereditary gov- ernment to the governors, king or subordinate, affords the fullest gratiﬁcation the beast can have. It puts in the hand ..of the governor, king and subordinate, the government as a power, to compel to his use his fellow man, as the ambition, avarice, lust, hate or whim of the governor may dictate. , Oﬁice is power, and the emoluments of office are posses- sions; names are nothing. A king is but a governor, and a mere governor in title may be a king in power. The king gratiﬁes himself as he can; and so does each and every subordinate. The paramount desire of the king, as in- volving the gratiﬁcation of all other desires, is to retain his power and possessions, to increase his power and possessions, and to secure them to his child and children: and the para- 4 mount desire of the king is the paramount desire of each and every. subordinate. , A So, king and subordinates, all are engaged in an incessant strife of ambition and covetousness to hold power and pos- sessions, to increase power and possessions, and to secure power and possession to child or children. Kings and subordinates are but governors, and presidents Sept. 6, 1873. WOODHULL & iOLAFLI.N’S WEEKLY. 413 and subordinates are governors; and what is true of the one is true of all. ' We see how naturally an hereditary government grows on one that is not——hov§ naturally it may grow out of ours! The strife now is for renomination, re-election, reappoint- ment, and we all know that incumbents stick at nothing, that oﬁice-seekers stick at nothing. ' By-and-by those in power will seek to hold that power by force. It is only a question of time. The remedy is for the people to assert themselves in time—now. An ounce of pre- vention is worth a pound of cure. Every government on earth is a despotism, and despotism comes of conquest, or as the maturity ofdemocracy. Democ- racy is the natural government ofjman. Every individual as a member of society, asks the enforcement of principle for his defense against his fellow; and every despotism asserts it- self to be governed by principle, and man tolerates it as an assertion of principle. ual, the beast, is the governor, and he enforces principle as he in his discretion sees ﬁt, so he enforces principle when and inasmuch as it does not interfere with the gratiﬁcation of his individual will; and ‘the governors in a government are inﬁnite, so each waives principle as he can and so prin- ciple is waived, for thetoleration of the beast, till principle is but a name and its enforcement a false pretense, a lie. Every official is a danger, because the business of the offi- cial is government, and he studies government to make it his property, his estate, for office is property——estate, andﬁthe in- come of office is the earnings of the people diverted to the use of the oﬂicial by force of government. Every ofﬁcial is therefore a danger, and of the conspiracy of ofﬁcials comes despotism. Give the ofﬁcial individual will (prerogative royal) in the least and he will enlarge it by gradual encroach- ment and despotism is certain. Now either government must continue as it has continued, a curse to the people, or government must be the literal, ex- act application of principle. To 'give ,a governor permission to waive principle is to make of government a matter of pro- hibition merely, that governors may peddle dispensations, licenses to commit or'pardons for commissions, as the Church invented hell, that priests might peddle insurance against it; abolish hell and “Othello’s' occupation gone.” [TO BE CONTINUEDJ CRESSWELL AND ORTON. The public generally may not be aware of the contest that is being waged by these two men over the question of nationalizing the telegraph system. But to give the public an opportunity to judge as to who will come off‘ con- queror, we reprint from reports before us some of the opinions of Mr. Orton and the methods by which he en- forces them, as illustrated by the condition, described by him, of “ rival lines :” EXTRACTS FROM ANNUAL REPORT on THE _ ' PRESIDENT OF THE WESTERN UNION TELE- > GRAPH CO. EXTENT OF RIVAL ORGANIZATIONS. In estimating the future value of our property, we_ should take into consideration the extent and importance of the various rival organizations which are competing with us, and the probable effect of future extensions of their lines upon our receipts and proﬁts. The following statistics will show the comparative extent of the lines, wire and oﬁices belonging to the Western Union Company, and those work- ing in exclusive connection therewith, and of those of all the rival organizations: Number of miles of line belonging to W. U. system, 66,263 H “ “ wire “ “ “ 121,595 “ stations “ “ “ 4,692 Number of miles of line belonging to U 6‘ H H “ stations “ “ ' “ Rival Companies, 6,773 4‘ - 45 9, 337 Thus it will be seen that, of the total number of miles of line in the United States and the British Provinces, the proportion belonging to all rival organizations is about ten per cent., and of wire and stations about seven per cent. The increase of the lines ‘of the Western Union Company, by construction alone, during the past three years, exceeds, by 1,195 miles, the total amount of lines belonging to all the rival organizations in the United States and Canada; while the amount of wire erected by this company, during the same time, is 9,000" miles more than that owned by all the rival com- panies combined. ’ The effect of these rival lines upon the business of this company has not been seriously felt. While their operation has occasioned, reductions in rates between many places—in some cases below a just and remunerative scale, still the number of their oﬁices is so small in comparison to those belonging to this company that the loss of all the business which they obi ain is barely appreciable in our receipts. At some points where they have established themselves our earnings are greater than they were before the rival offices were opened. This increase is to be accounted for by the extension of our lines and the opening of new oﬂiices, and would unquestionably be larger were it not for the opera- tion of competing lines. The fact is interesting arid in- structive, however, that most, if not all of the existing rival. lines, although they compete with this company at the,-chief commercial centres, where success could be obtained if it were possible anywhere, nevertheless operate at a loss, while the superior facilities of this company enable it to do business at a proﬁt. The greater reliability and more uni- versal connections of our lines secure to them avast majority of the business, even at competing points, while a~consider- ablo portion of the messages originating at various stations upon rival lines are necessarily given to us for transmission to such places «as they do not reach. The best evidence of But the trouble is that the individ,-. the comparative insigniﬁcance of these lines upon our busi- ness, however, is found in the large increase in the number of messages annually transmitted by this company, which, during the year ending December 31, 1868, exceeded that of the previous year by 1,618,584. I PRESENT CONDITION OF’RIVAIi LINES. The present condition of all the competing lines’ is pre- carious. The Franklin Company was made by a consolida- tion of the “ Insulated” Company, having four wires be- tween Boston and Washington, with the old “Franklin” Company, having two wires between Boston and New York. The capital of the former was $1,250,000, and of the latter $500,000, being at the rate of $2,551 per mile of line. The new organization has been in operation about two years, during which time the receipts have fallen so far below the expenses that the company has contracted a debt, including that of the “ Insulated,” which was assumed by the new company, of about $150,000; and its lines have deteriorated to such an extent that a large sum would have to be ex- pended to put them in a proper condition for business. The “ Atlantic and Paciﬁc” Company owns a line extend- ing from New York to Chicago via Albany, Buffalo, Cleve- land and Sandusky, averaging about two wires, which was built under a contract to take stock in payment, at the rate of $1,666.66 per mile. It is erected along the highway, where no rights of way have to be paid for, and the cost of the line probably does not exceed $200 per mile, so that the con- tractors who receive their pay in stock at the rate of $1,666.66 per mile can make money by selling it at ﬁfteen cents on the dollar; but they frequently get several times this amount, the price depending mainly upon the credulity of the customer. In some instances parties who have sub- scribed to this stock have refused to pay their assessments, on the ground that the subscriptions were obtained I by fraudulent representations; and the truth of the charge has been virtually acknowledged by the withdrawal of the suits which were begun to compel payment. The origin of nearly all the competing lines is the same. They are the oifspring of a class of speculators whoseonly Object is to make money by their construction, and who have no interest in their future operation. In order to give an air of respectability to their schemes, they generally secure the names of some prominent men to act as directors, and extensively advertise them in their prospectuses. The time may come, however, when the deluded stockholders will attempt to recover theﬂinstallments which they have paid, from the honorable men who thus lend their names to varnish a sham for the pittance of a few shares of worthless stock. Great ingenuity" is displayed by the promoters of these speculative telegraphic schemes, in deceiving the public and disposing of‘ their stock. Agents are employed to go from town to town to solicit subscriptions. The ﬁrst installment is generally a small one, just enough to pay the canvassers their commissions. Landlords are induced to take stock for hotel bills, and by every means the bubble is ﬂoated. Occasionally the farce is carried to the extent of declaring a dividend after the line has been in partial opera- tion for a short time, and this ruse is extensively advertised for the purpose of selling more stock. When the true character, of the company becomes well known, and no more ‘stock can be sold under the old name, a new one is taken. Thus the “ Atlantic and Paciﬁc” is suc- ceeded in Canada by the “ Dominion ” Telegraph Company, and in Illinois and Wisconsin by the “ Great Western," all of them being manipulated by the same parties. The “ Franklin” Company gives place east and north of Boston to the “ International” and the “ Northern; ” while the “ Paciﬁc and Atlantic,” “ Mississippi Valley” and the “ Na- tiona ” Telegraph Companies alternately appeal to the cre- dulity of the Southern and Western public. f The latter com- pany, which claims to have organized three years ago under an Act of Congress, and has ﬁlled the country with runners begging for subscriptions to its stock, has never set a pole. The operation of these separate and irresponsible lines during the brief period of their existence retards the prog- ress of legitimate telegraphy, and impairs the general unity of the system. Any assistance which is given to further such schemes has the direct effect of aiding a class of specu- lators to ﬂeece a credulous public by inducing them to in- vest their money in the construction of‘ lines ‘which never have paid, and never can pay, the expenses of operating them, and which are of no beneﬁt to any person but those who originate them and proﬁt by their construction. So faras we are concerned, there is no cause to fear the effects of such competing lines. They have diminished our receipts at only a few points, and at those but very little, while at others they have increased in spite of them. Our gross earnings are steadily augmenting in consequence of the opening of additional offices upon new lines, which thus far have yielded more revenue than the oppositionlines take away. Of course our expenses will show an addition slightl- disproportionate to the growth -of the receipts, because as tariffs are reduced and new oﬂices established, more labor is required to produce the same ' return. As long, however, as we open more stations and erect more miles of wire annually than the opposition companies,we shall be relatively stronger at the end of every year than‘ at the beginning, while the op- position will be both positively and comparatively weaker. The few half-built competing telegraph lines in operation in various parts of the United States are not to be placed in the same category. with the Western Union lines. A few poles with a wire thereon do not constitute a telegraph. A ditch ﬁve feet by three might be dug parallel to ‘the Erie Canal at ‘but triﬂing cost compared with the latter; but would its stock, if both were owned by corporations, be .worth as much in proportion to cost as that of the canal? An established and proﬁtable business, with facilities kept at all times equal to its growing demands, has a value far be- yond the more cost of the property necessary to carry it on.- Indeed, cost, although sometimes considered in ascertaining" value, is rarely aniessential element; “What will it pay?” when correctly answered, being of more consequence than “ What did it cost? ” , “ FAST” METHODS or TELEGRAPHY. It is a favorite device of the promoters of speculative tele- graph schemes to pretend to control some important im- provement in telegraphy which will give their lines special and peculiar advantages over all others. It is currently report- ed that a new telegraphic bubble is about to be ﬂoated, having for the inﬂating power a wonderfully rapid means of trans- mitting dispatches by the automatic process. The patent for the automatic or “ fast” system is owned by the Western Union Company, and no cause, therefore, exists for appre- hending its use upon rival lines; but, inasmuch as we have given it a long, thorough and expensive trial, the result of which is that we have discarded it as totally impracticable, I deem it proper to give the subject a brief mention. For many years past efforts have been made to perfect a system of rapid telegraphing which should be able to trans- mit several times as many dispatchesper hour over a tele- graph wire as can be done by the Morse instrument. The theory upon which all the experimenters in this direction have proceeded is, that electricity has a deﬁnite velocity like light, and that all that is necessary to produce the most rapid writing at any distance is an instrument to record the signals produced by an automatic process similar in princi- ple to Professor Morse’s original type and port rule trans- mitter. , _ In 1844. Mr. Bain, of Edinburgh, devised a plan of perfo- rating the dispatches for transmission through a strip of paper, in the characters of the Morse alphabet. The pre- pared paper was then passed between a metallic comb and roller, which were in connection with the line wire, the air- cuit being completed when the teeth of the comb passed through the holes in the paper. At the receiving station he used cl_1emically—prepared paper, upon which the messages were recorded in colored dots and lines. The apparatus, although very attractive in theory, has never been of any ‘practical value, as the time occupied in preparing the mes- sages for transmission is many times greater than that re- quired for sending bythe Morse system, and an equal if not greater length of time is consumed in copying them, while the Morse operator, who reads by sound, copies his messages as fast as they are sent. Subsequently Mr. Humaston and others invented instruments for more rapidly perforating the paper, which it was thought by some would bring the “fast ” system into general use, but these anticipations have never been realized. Hr. Humaston’s apparatus, although very ingenious in design, is of so complicated a character as easily to get out of order, while its capacity for producing the Morse characters, when worked by an expert operator, is only about one—third as great as that of the ordinary hand key. Added to these difﬁculties are the still more serious ones that messages cannot be sent by this system at a faster rate of speed than by the ordinary Morse apparatus, except over comparatively short distances; that it cannot be used upon a wire strung upon poles with other wires, nor will it work during a magnetic storm, except by the employment of a double line. Taking all of its merits and demerits into account, it is so greatly inferior to the Morse and other sys- tems in use, that it cannot be proﬁtably employed either in connection or in competition with them. When the “ fast” method was invented, the relative proportion of telegraphic. 1 facilities to the requirements of the public was very small; but during the score of years which have intervened, the — rate of increase of the lines has exceeded that of the busi. ness, so that at the present time there are not only enough wires to transmit all that is offered, but they are equal to the performance of a much larger service, provided the messages could submit to a delay as great as that required to prepare them for transmission by the punching process. Therefore, the introduction of the complicated automatic system, even if it were practicable, is unnecessary. The bulk of the business is received at our offices for transmission between the hours of 11 A. M. and 2 P. M., and all must receive immediate dispatch—both law and custom requiring that every message shall be forwarded in theorder of its receipt. This peculiarity of the service necessitates the erection of many more wires than would be nnec if the work could be spread over the whole day. In Belgium, speed rates are established to compensate for the loss by the reduced tariff, and a telegram requiring immediate transit-, is charged three times the ordinary ,rate. This innovation is embodied in the so-called postal telegraph system sought to be introduced in this country, Were this plan inaugu- rated here, business men, to ,whom time is money, would be obliged to "pay an extra price to secure that promptness and certainity of transmission without which the telegraph is of little value for all important transactions. “ . The value of the telegraph does not consist in the amount; of time which can be saved by it over the mail or other means of communication, but in its practical annihilation of time. A telegraphic dispatch,‘ for example, might occupy two days in going from New York to London, and yet reach there eight days in advance of the mail, but this would not be a proper performance of the functions of the telegraph. Instant and constant communication is what is essary required, and hence. the introduction of any apparatus which inter- . poses an unnecessary delay in the preparation of dispatches, either for transmission or delivery, is a change for the worse. This is a disadvantage which the so-called “fast systems ” labor under, and which will for ever preclude their use. The automatic system, however, is especially -unﬁtted for the transmission of press reports, as this process enables but one station to receive at the same time, while the Morse wires can be connected throughout the country, and the news sent to every ofﬁce with a single manipulation. The preparation for transmission of so great an amount of matter by the punching process as we daily transmit for the press, would entail an expense for labor and machinery far greater than the entire receipts of this company for regular press reports. ~ JULIA WARD HOWE. [This woman some time ago had the courage to say some‘ thing of us in the columns of the Woman’s J ownal, over which she presides as editor. Fearing some of our readers 14 C ~ WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 6, 1873. _ may never have had the opportunity of reading this speci- men of Boston Puritanism and self-conceit, we transfer it to our columns, hoping thus to be able some years hence to reprint it for her especial beneﬁt, and we submit it without comment :1 S ’ WOODHULL AND CLAFLIN. WHAT JULIA WARD HOWE sAYs ABOUT THEM. That two of our country-women, having breathed the same free air and enjoyed the same general opportunities vouch- safed by Providence to the rest of us, should now appear as prisoners in the common jail, under an infamous charge, is indeed a sorrow to all good men and women. But that a career of unparalled recklessness and proﬂigacy should have been forcibly interrupted by the strong arm of the law is matter for rejoicing to the community at large. With the horrible scandals whose circulation has given occasion for the arrest just mentioned, the press of the coun- try has at present absolutely nothing’ to do. It has, how- ever, its protest to make against procedures which dishonor and degrade the. opportunities of journalism. If any hus- band wishes to criminate his wife and any other party, let him do so in the -manner appointed and recognized by so- ciety. This would allow the parties called upon to meet him fairly in the ﬁeld, and to encounter irresponsible asser- tions with well-considered evidence. But for any husband to commit the mother of his children to the ruthless hands of the professional defamer, under whatever estrangement, under whatever suspicion, would be an act equally criminal and cruel. , A The phrase just used touches the gravamen of the whole matter. If Mrs. Woodhull and her sister have any profes- sion, it is this unhappy one of defamation. VVa1l street, unsaintly as it may be, would have given peaceable place and possession to two hard-working, honest women brokers. But in their case it soon became evident thatvtheir chief business was to pry into business of other people, to steal secrets which did not belong to them, and to drive a dis- honorable trade for their suppression. To balanced this lowest degree of human meanness, pretensions to super- human power were asserted. With the {unhappy history of the Woodhull & Claﬂin periodical, I have no wish to meddle- in these columns. While all of us have loathed the doctrines set forth in that print, and while its falsehoods have moved our earnest in- dignation, we have thrown no stone, because the editor thus offending against the laws of morality and truth was a woman, and we, as women, do not feel called upon to de- nounce her. But, now that the audacity and publicity of her offenses have reached their climax, we are forced to say, “ Learn the true uses of speech or be forever silent! Human society guards reputations as jealously as it guards lives, The spirit, the greed, the folly of individuals are not allowed to triﬂe at will with the name and fame which are dearer than life to those who think honorably.” Let, then, the prophetess of falsehood learn a lesson from the severe retri- bution which has overtaken her. Let her seek some honest business, no matter how humble, leaving the manoeuvres of banking to those who have been bred in them, the reform of society to those who at least understand the basis of the moral law, and the reputation of her fellow—beings tolshose . whom it most concerns, themselves and God. EXTRACTS FROM A PRIVATE LETTER. BURLINGTON, Iowa, July 25, 1873. * * * I read the newspapers, and have the lively satis- faction to learn that Miss Hoey (whoevershe may be) drives the most valuable and stylish team of anybody at Long Branch, Jay Gould has the most costly turn—out,f,Gen. Porter a ﬁne stepping team of bays, and that President Grant’s “stables” at that place only contain six horses! How very interesting! Are we turning into a nation of ﬂunkeys, and N ewlYork papers taking the lead? Out here at least we have Missouri bandits ditching railway trains, dirty people cleaning up for fear of the cholera, and the farming popu- lation working with all their might and main to pay interest on their mortgages, and other more or less fashionable in- telligence. I also read Mrs. J ones’s obituary in the New York Times, a true and fair sample of how history is written. History as written in books and taught in schools and col- !‘ ‘leges is a fraud, and history as written in our newspapers is worse than a fraud——it is outrageously stupid. ‘Another funnything is to see England, the old but now played-out bully, take the lead in these so_-called international arbitra- tion arrangements, the thing we shall come to one of these days of course,'jbut no"'thanks to England and her philan- thropy. Now that Uncle Sam is too many for her, and Kaiser Wilhelm is a bigger bully than John Bull himself, it reminds you of the devil turning monk to see England turn up her eyes and turn international arbitration peace- maker. B. G. [From the Spﬂngﬂeld, Mass, Daily Um‘on,”July 2.] Harvey Lyman’s new block on East Worthington street, upon which work was recently commenced, is eighty-one by sixty feet, and will be four stories high. There will be four stores on the ﬁrst _ﬂoor; “ Liberty Hall,” sixty by forty feet, will occupy most of the second; and the other ﬂoors will be used for ofﬁces and tenements. The store fronts will be of granite, and the window-caps of Ohio freestone, while pressed brick will be used in front and common brick for sides and rear walls. An elevator will be provided for the convenience of the occupants of the third and fourth ﬂoors. The block will be built by the day, and will probably be com- pleted by October. ___._..u-... THE power of positive ideas and the power of the positive afﬁrmation and promulgation of them, move the world. Breath is wasted in nothing more lavishly than in negations and denials. It is not necessary for truth to worry itself, even if a lie can run a league while it is putting on its boots. Let it run, and get out of breath, and get out of the way. A man who spends his days in arresting and knocking down There is nothing more damaging to a man’s reputation than his admission that it needs defending when attacked. Great sensitiveness to assault, on the part of. any cause, is an un- mistakablesign of weakness. A strong man and a strong cause need only to live an affirmative life, devoting no at- tention" whatever to enemies, to win their way, and to trample beneath their feet all the obstacles that malice, or jealousy, or selﬁshness throws before them. The man who can say strongly and earnestly “I believe,” has not only vital and valuable possession, but he has-permanent source of inspiration within himelf, and a permanent inﬂuence over oth_ers.———Dr. Holland. RAILROADS AND THEIR APPOINTMENT S. There are various opinions regarding the several great railroad lines which connect the Metropolis of America with the great West——north and south. "The chief end that seems to have been aimed at is speed, and some roads have been so absorbed in this as to have entirely overlooked the matter of comfort, which to all but persons traveling on business purely, is an important item. One of the main lines at least, and we think two, and they the so-called popular lines, have been wonderfully negligent in some things of great value to the general public. There is, how- ever, one route West, the Baltimore and Ohio, which has given special attention to all the requirements of the traveler —speed, comfortable cars and well-managed eating-houses, which last is a cause of great complaint upon. some other roads that make greater pretensions than this route makes. Its management works in a quiet, unostentatious manner, and, especially since completing its new and quick Chicago connection westward from Parkersburg, has taken a ﬁrm hold upon the traveling public, and is obtaining its full quota of the public patronage. In point of time, its VVestern connections compare favorably with any route, while in many things it is superior to all other routes. QUARTERLY MEETING N OTICE. The ﬁrst quarterly meeting of the Western Reserve Woman’s Emancipation Society will be held at the Univer- salist Church, in Parkman, commencing on Saturday, Sept. 6, at 10 A. M., to continue two days. D. M. Allen, Lucia H. Cowles, Sarah L. S. Philleo, J. H. Philleo, Francis Barry and others will address the meeting. The platform will be free to opponents, but the meeting will not be diverted from the objects to which the Society is devoted—name1y, “ The absolute freedom of woman through the overthrow of the popular system of marriage.” Friends expecting to come on the cars will take notice that Garretsville, on the Mahoning branch of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, is the nearest station. The hack from Garrettsville to Parkman (6 miles) connects with 9 A. M. The Free Lovers of Parkman will entertain the friends from a distance to the fullest extent of their ability. By order of the Executive Committee, FRANCIS BARRY, Sec. ATTENTION, UN IVERALISTS. From the Herald of August 24 the following is extracted: “In assuming that men are to beunder the inﬂuence of the animal passions of hatred, revenge, covetousness, etc., in the spirit world, “J. E.” takes altogether too material- istic a view of that situation. In this world men often covet their neighbor’s lands, or houses, or jewelry, or green- backs, or wives, but it is diﬂicult to conceive of any such temptation to covetousness in the spirit World; and as to ill—favored, deformed evil spirits there, I should require better authority than Emanuel Swedenborg, who might have made all these discoveries through the medium of crooked spectacles. Prove to me by any fair construction of Bible languagethat the causes that lead men to sin here will exist in the spirit world, and I will admit that punish- ment will be there also and there remain as long as the sin. The argument that because God permits sin and suﬂ’ering here He will therefore permit it in another state of being and to all eternity, is a favorite one with advocates for the doctrine of endless misery, but is not sound. The physician often wounds to heal; but when he continues to inﬂict pain a moment beyond the time the good of the patient requires, he becomes no longer a physician, but a ﬁend. Punishment as a means is salutary and often exerts a restraining inﬂu- ence ;, but when applied as an end it becomes vindictive, a-nd therefore cannot be inﬂicted by a God of love. As for evil spirits, if any such exist, they are either self—existent and beyond God’s control or were created by him who is sup- posed to be the Creator of all things. For what purpose they were created may bean interesting study to those who believe in them. - O. H.” It is the belief of the Spiritualist that as the tree falls so it shall lie. Undeveloped souls in the spirit land are as numerous as they are here. But they are all progressing. They are attempting to. arrive at perfection, but they never will succeed. The "moment man is perfect he is God, and that can never be. But, brother 0. II., we have eternity to work in, but eternity is not long enough to enable us to accomplish the task set before us. A R. WV. HUME. - QUARTERLY MEETING. _, Notice is hereby given that a Quarterly Meeting will be held under the auspices of the Indiana State Association of Spiritualists at Oxford, Benton Co., Indiana, commencing Friday, September 12th, 1873, at 7% o’clock P. M., and con- tinuing over Sunday. Copie one and all. If any Of the friends, on arrival at the depot, are not met I by the Committee of Arrangements, they will proceed at once lies and liars will have no time left for speaking the truth. A trains both east and west, which meet at Garrettsville at to the Ohio House, or Treasurer’s oiﬁce, where they will be cared for. _ J. R. BUELL, Secretary of Indiana State Assogiation of Spiritualists. IOWA SPIRITUALISTS. The Spiritualists of Iowa will hold their Fifth Annual Convention, at their Hall, in Walniit street, Des Moines, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 3, 4 and 5, com- mencing at 10 o’clock A. M. Good speakers will be in attendance, and at least one good test medium. The friends at Des Moines always take care of visitors. U So come on, all friends of the cause, speakers, mediums and everybody else, and let us make the occasion one worthy of our good cause. J. P. DAv1s, Pres’t. J. SWAIN, Sec’y. Dns MOINES, Iowa, August 20, 1873. THE OLD AND RELIABLE ROUTE BETWEEN NEW YORK -AND BOSTON VIA. LONDON. There are not less than ten different routes connecting the two great commercial and ﬁnancial centres of the East- New York and Boston. Each one of these claims some peculiar advantage over all others, and most of them are kept continually before the public in some way to attract the travelling people, which the shrewd managers of thoroughfares know so well how to do. ' There is one route, however, that does not need -to resort to this sort of puﬂing upon false pretenses to secure all the custom it can accomo- date. The ample provisions for comfort and rapidity ex- tended to travel for the past twenty-ﬁve years have secured for the steamboat line, via. New London, a hold upon it that nothing can break. The management wisely increase their accommodations as business extends, and the public may always rely upon ﬁnding every possible comfort. The elegant ﬂoating palaces, The City of Boston and the City of New York, are not to be surpassed either for speed or for comfort, while special attention is given to the hotel table- which is so much neglected on some self—st-yled fashionable routes where more attention is paid to external show than to real accommodation. Triivelers to and from the West will. do well to ‘obtain their tickets via. New London and!Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad. All trains on this route are run by the new air brakes, which put them completely under the control of the engineer. By this route passengers secure a good night’s rest either way, besides being under the con- duct of gentlemanly OlIlCl2LlS. KURTZ’ RESTAURANTS. Among the many permanent institutions of the city are the several restaurants of Mr. Fred. Kurtz, located at 23 . New street, 60 Broadway, '76 Maiden lane and at the corner of Fifth avenue and Ninetieth street. Undoubtedly Kurtz excels all competitors in the conduct of a ﬁrst-class eating- house. Besides being thoroughly versed in stocking his store-rooms, he understands just how to please the general palate in the preparation of his dishes. Success is the best test of merit, especially in this business; and if Kurtz’ merit is to be so tested, he stands pre-eminent over all other caterers. Each of the above places will accommodate from one to two hundred persons, and all of them, at almost any hour of the day, are filled.‘ Strangers, visitors and residents will ﬁnd Kurtz’ the most satisfactory, as well as cheapest, ﬁrstclass eating establishments in the city; while those who visit Central Park should not fail to call at the new and elegant retreat at the corner of Ninetieth street. THE undersigned, feeling that the times are ripe for a social club in this city,. invites those who are of like mind to communicate with her, with a view to sepuringasuitable place for weekly meetings, for mutual improvement and social enjoyment, and with a hope of ultimately organizing unitary home. Address, E. M. BEoKw.I'rH, Station'D. HEALING by laying on hands, at 97 Clinton Place, by L. A. Edminster, of Boston. All female diseases successfully treated; the best of reference can be given. _ Patients visited at their homes, or treated by Magnetic Conductors. N 0 medicine used. Terms $2.00 each treatment; office hours from 9 to 11 A. M., and 2 to 5 P. M. Send stamp for return letter. APPROACHIN G CON FLICT-‘- The irrepressible issues between universal liberty and des- potism to precipitate a terrible war within ﬁve years that will terminate in the overthrow of the American Republic and the establishment of a military dictatorship. 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We will send the LAD'IEs’ OWN three months on trial for 50 cents, and allow that to count as the sub- scription if you renew for the balance of the year. A new volume begins July 1. M. C. BLAND & CO., Publishers, 287 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. NOTICE TO INVESTORS. ..__.:._. 1oHIoAeo AND CANADA soUTHERN. minor 7 per cent. Gold Bonds AT 90 AND ACCRUED INTEREST. COUPON AND REGISTERED. INTEREST PAYABLE IN GOLD. APRIL AND OCTOBER. We now oﬂ":er these Bonds at the/«above VERY LOW OVER TWENTY WRITERS EN- I FURNI SHED R0 OM.——A LARGE, handsomely Furnished Front Room to let, With- out boggd, in Brooklyn, uear CIty Hall. House has all impro ‘ ments; family small, and no other lodgers or boarders will be taken, and none but pro resslve P91‘ sons need apply at 222 State street, Brook YD- MADAME CLIFFORD, (LATE OF 24 MYRTLE Av.), . THE GREATEST LIVING Medical &’Business Glairvnyanl, HAS REMOVED T0 222 STATE ST.‘, near CO URT, Blcooklyn. SA '1 'ISFA 0 TI ON G UA RANTEED. Office hours from 9 A. 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Examines diseases personally and by hair, and is , consulted on all affairs of life and business generally. , susfmm ‘ART. THE _OF ; Murat srulrrltlu, Home of A the FOX (FAMILY II1 I-Iyolesville, N. . Y. price. THE CANADA SOUTHERN, or Eastern end , of this line, whose Bonds were so rapidly sold last sum- mer Is NOW FINISHED, and will be opened for business in connection with the TOLEDO AND WABASH and other Western Roads, at a very easy day. The CHICAGO AND CANADA SOUTHERN, or Western end of this-line, is now being PROF JOHN. ovn EMINENT AMERICAN ARTIST, visited Hyd.esv1lle, and executed a carefully-drawn picture of the house wherein began modern spiritual telegraphy, together with the yard, orchard and hill- side, so as to furnish the present and future genera- " tions with as perfect a representation as possible of the house and surroundings, without the mast mag- ! geration. To render the work more attractive, spirit. WM. DIBBLEE, LADIES’ HAIR DREssER, 854 BROADWAY, .-:v:.«n:-.:.~w ;:.:z Open. THE CRUSADE FAMILY SI-IIP, A New Incomparable :3». .- Has removed from his Store to the FIRST FLOOR, :':::,I-:~ . l CLOTHES DRYER, CLOTHES FRAMES, BARS AND LINES, FRUIT DRYER AND CHRISTMAS TREE COMBINED’. O A GOOD THING, Patented May 24th, 1870. It is used for wet or dry clothes, in doors or out, stands ﬁrm or will swing and revolve, opens and closes like an umbrella; with racks made of lath added, is a fruit dryer, and trimmed with evergreens, _ is a Christmas tree._ Send for circular descriptive of it or for the article Itself, at any store, or send to the 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 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. It makes the shortest and best connec- tions going West, both at Toledo and Detroit, and is Where he will continue to conduct, his business in all its branches TW EN TY—FIVE PER CENT. CHEAPER ltlllgan hdretofore, in consequence of the difference in s ren . CHATELAINE BRAIDS. LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S WIGS. and everything appertaining to the business will be kept on hand and made to order. DIl3_BLh._\*§_NIA for stimulating, JAPONICA for loothmg am the MAGIC TAR SALVE for promoting the growth 01 the hair, constantly on hand. Consultation on diseases of the Scalp, Mondays, ually impressive, and signiﬁcant, the angel world‘ I through spirit direction and inspiration—wa,s most beautifully and grandly united with the “real mate. rial.” Dreamy, uncertain and suggestive twilight pervades the foreground. Heavy clouds rest on the landscape in the distance. Luminous ﬂoods of light stream up from the east, and gild in gorgeous tints the high-ﬂoating clouds. Angel bands, not deformed with antiquarian wings, lower over the house, and in their descent a spiritual aura falls over the mystic Patentee and Manufacturer, W. LIVINGSTON BROWN E, Shortsville, Ontario County, N. Y. P. S.—Sales Large, and easy. Agents wanted for the article, or territory. Address the Manufacturer, as above, tncloslng stamp. t 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 lddy should ever be without it. Can be obtained only a the only Seven Per Cent. Bond on any through Trunk line now oifered. Pamphlets and all information by house and yard. A light for the weary pilgrim shines from the window of the house. The lights and shad. ows have seldom been equaled in ancient or modem WINsLow, LANIER & Co., painting. Bankers, 27 Pine Street. The work has been translated on steel by that dis _ tinguished engraver, J. W. Watts, in a high style of art. The engraving is an honor to American Art, and Worthy a place in every home and Gallery of Art, an d worthy of the great event that it commemorates. WM. DIBBLEE’S, ; LEONARD, SHELDON & FOSTER, A - 354 Broadway’ Up_,,,,,,_ Bankers, 10 Wall Street. Clothes Dryer. Christmas Tree. DR. E. VVOJDRUFF, Botanic Physician. OFFICE AT HIS ROOT, BARK AND. HERB STORE, 38 CANAL ST., UP STAIRS, GRAND RAPIDS, Mz‘ch., Where for thirteen years every description of Acute, Chronic and Private Diseases ha_ve been _; successfully treated strictly on Botanic principles. . -12;‘. \ NO POISON USED. ‘,3 P. 0. Drawer, 2,391. Counsel at office Free DR. AMMI BROWN, Fruit Dryer. A Circular containing a Map of Hydesville, a Dia- gram of the ground ﬂoor of the house, and explana- tory reading matter accompanies each engraving. To the Liberalists of the West. I leave New England September 22, for California, via U. & C. P. R. R. Shall be able to stop a few even- ings and two Sundays on the way. Soeietieson or near the route desiring my services . will please communicate at once. Address 0. Fannie Allyn, box 209, Stoneham, Mass, Californians wishing leetureﬂnay address me at San Jose, Cal. Dr.IJOSEPH TREAT, Of Vineland, N. J., gives THREE LECTURES: HENRY WARD BEECHER, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, 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 85 Claﬂin, 48 Broad st., N. Y., or of J. P. Mendum, 84 Washington st., Boston, Mass, or of J. A. Lant, Editor of the Sun, Toledo, 0. Price Two Dollars. Sent by mail, postage free, securely rolled. o11’re- ceipt of price. JOHN GAULT, (EMPIRE BUILDING), 69.62 '71 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Those that desire to sell the work by sub- sertptton, buytng at wholegale, can also remit Two Dollars, and receive the work and sub. sortptton papers, and tnformatton in regard to terms, by mail, prepaid. ID , Vvlzg DEALER IN e o . ree A Removed to 20 East Twenty-fourth Street, (Bet. Ftfth. Avenue and Broadway). Near Madison Square 9’A M t OIFFICE HOURS: CIGARS’ - ' .l.o P.M.&5to’7P.M. _ ENGLISH SAUCES, TITUS & JORDAN, CANNED FRUITS, Attorneys 82; Counsellors, Bankers Md (Brokers ’ 7 For Shipping and Family Use. 19 NASSAU I9“-‘1iEET; No. 4.0 BROAD STREET 1 - 7 anon‘ - Stoc Bonds do... ht (1.1 S . non. (:I.EP(j’l.Rr'Il%E‘I[gSJ’0RDAN.;' NEW Y°RK'4,miﬁBi°]g° an ombwg an S0 d on com A All orders for the work should be add ‘essed to us as follows: ' R. H. CURRAN & .00., Publishers, lee sonrooa sau, BOSTON, Mass. BARTON (Kt ALLEN, Packages put up for Sea Voyages and Inland . Travel. >_ I’. g): - .cures all diseases of the sexes without drugs. wooDn:ULL & CL AFLIN S. WEEKLY. Sept. 6,,i_873. FLOWERS AND RUSTIC WORK. Flowers are one of the few things in life that bring us unmixed pleasure. They are the most innocent tribute of courtesy or aifectioii as acceptable in the day of feasting as in the house of mourning. Florists are thus 111 a sense public’ benefactors. .T:Iodgson., at V No. 403 Fifth avenue, from among the palace takes 1 us away to the sights and odors of the country with his rustic work, his gnarled bouglis, and curiously crooked seats, his fragrant ﬂowers and beaiitiiriily as- sorted bouquets. . Of all the ornaments now devised for beautifying gentlemen’s grounds, there are none that can surpass rustic work’, either in grandeur, beauty, utility or dura- bility. It may be introduced almost anywhere if the surroundings are in the least rural; in many cases it can be placed where nothing else could be, oftentimes converting an eyesore into a place of great beauty, and yet ornamental and useful. As it is, there are few that have either the taste or good judgment for the judi- cious arrangement of the materials out of which the best rustic is made. To make or design rustic objects, the maker or designer must exercise good judgment as to the best place for his object——whi-.tlier it is a house, bridge, vase, basket or any of the many objects that may be formed of rustic work-—for if the obj eet is in a bad position, be the object ever so good, it loses half the effect, or even becomes an eyesore. There must be something rural in the locality, som ething in tone with the object. Perfect taste is required for the form of any object, although in anything rustic the form W111 be much modiﬁed; yet there must be an original de- sign to give meaning and grace to the object. In all cases, unless working with straight material, nature must be followed as nearly as possible, avoiding right angles or anything that looks formal; every piece should look as if joined by nature. This not only gives beauty but stability to the work. To all this mustbe combined the skill of the builder, to give strength, ﬁnish and neatness to the whole work. Many people think that as a matter of course carpenters can build rustic, but there are few if any that can give tha natural rusticity so necessary to it. It is a trade by itself, and requires men with a natural taste and in ventive genius. Some men work at it for years and cannot do it creditably. There is nothing that may not be made in rustic work, from a dwelling-house to a cage, a bridge to a card basket. Many of the vai-es are ﬁlled with plants and look very handsome, with ivy half hiding the woodwork, and ﬁne ﬂowering plants capping the whole and making it a thing comple-te in itself. There are also many ﬁne baskets ﬁlled. Certainly nothing could be more ornamental or better in a window than one of these. But these things, to be appreciated, must be seen; for large constructions we would advise any one to visit the grounds of idr. Hoey, at Long Branch, or- Peter B. King, Esq., on the Palisades overlooking the Hudson, or General Ward’s estate. FOR USE IN FAMILIES, , THE FAMOUS Hiir0sn irucrsrrssnisr Table Sauce, THE BIBS‘)? _RELISH Put up in’ any part of the world for Family Use. Can be bought of any First-Class Grocer Z, FEARLESS EXPOSI TI ON 017 THE ’ S0 OI./IL DISEASE.’ THE rneiiinrrnn LECTURE Woodhull and Beecher, ANALYZING FREE-LOVE? By SIMON ll/I. LA IBIS, M.D., D.D. SYNOPSIS or‘ LECTURE. , 1. Introduction. 2. Analyzing Free—Love. 3. Social Love. 4. What will create Thinking Brain. 5. What brutiﬁes mankind. 6*. “Free-Love.” 7. Free Lust Teachings and Practices. 8.’ Victoria 0. Woodhull’s .Doctrines. 9. Summing up the Woodhull Doctrine. 10. Henry Ward Beecher’s Doctrines. 11. Beecher a sly fellow. 12. Beeclier’s Teachings productive of Lust. A13. Beeclier’s private acts 14. Beecher feeds his people on ﬂowers, but denies them the necessaries of life. 15. Whoredom or Murder. 16. Beeclier’s doctrines crucify Christ. 17. Recapitulation. ‘ This is the Lecture that was advertised to be deliv- ered at the Assembly Buildings. Philadelphia. Sunday, A9,-11 13, 1873, but Mayor Stokley threatened to arrest Dr. Landis should he deliver it. Published by “ THE INDIGNATION LEAGUE.” Price 150. 1 Sold by Agents and Newsdealers. Address Dr. S. M LANDIS, No. 13 N. Eleventh st., above the Bingham House, Philadelphia, Where he rency. WHITE STAR LINE. For Queenstown and Liverpool, Carrying the ' UNITED STATES MAIL. New and fu:ll—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. 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 pﬁm. Atlantic, Saturday, March 1, at 3.00 p. in.» From the White Star lé)j<1)tc:k, Pavonia Ferry, J erseg‘ Y» ’ Passenger accommodations (for all classes) unrivaled . combining Safety, Speed, and C.omfort. Saloons, state—rooms, smoking room, and bath rooms in midship section, where least motion is felt. Sur- geons and stewardesses accompany these steamers. Rate-s~—Saloon $80, gold. (For sailing after 1st of April, $100 gold.) Steerage, $30, currency. Those wishing to_ send for friends from the Old Country can now obtain steerage prepaid certiﬁcates, $30, cur- Passengers booked to or from all parts of America, Paris, Hamburg, Norway, Sweden, India, Australia, China, (to. 1 Drafts from £1 upward. ‘ For inspection of plans and other information, apply at the Company’s oﬁices, No. 10Broadway, New York. J. H. SPARKS, Agent. 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, Saturday, February'8. “ St. Laurent,” Lemarie, Saturday, February 22. “Pereire,” Danre, Saturday, March 8. Price of passage in golﬁi (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 going to or returnipg from the Continent of Europe, by taking the steamers of this inc, avoid both transit by English railway and the dis- comforts of crossing the Channel, besides saving time trouble and expense. GEO. MACKENZIE, Agent, No. 58 Broadway. 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. ST. AUGUSTINE HOTEL, St. Augustine, Fla., 4 E. E. VAIL 36 G0. PROPRIETORS. .—.___ This large_ and elegant Hotel will Open on the 15th of December next. The House is new and splendidly furnished, and is located on the oldest settled place in this country. Driving and Sailing, Fishing and Hunting unsur- pctsseol. MRS. M. M. HARDY, TRANCE 0 MEDIUM, N0. Concolcd Square, Bosrpzv. 1 HOURS FROM 9 A. M. T0 3 P. M. Terms (for Private Seances in Regular Hours): $62.00. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.— GREA T NA TI ONAL R OUTE’. The shortest and quickest line from Baltimore and Washington, and direct and favorite route from Bos- ton, New York, Philadelphia and the Eastern cities, to all points in the West, Northwest and Southwest. STEEL RAIL! DOUBLE TRACIY.’ STONE BALLASTED I the celebrated Pullman Palace Drawing-Room. Cars from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, to C01- umbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis, without change. Tickets via; this popular route can be procured at the principal Ticket Offices throughout the East, and at the Company’s oﬁices, 82 and 8'? Washington street, Boston; 229 Broadway, and No. 1 Battery Place, New York; 700 Chestnut street, Philadelphia; 149 West Baltimore street, Baltimore, and 485 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. C. SIDNEY B. JONES, L. M. COLE, Gen’l Passenger Agent, Gen’l Ticket Agent, Cincinnati, 0. 0 Baltimore, Md. THOS. KILKENY, , Gen‘l New York Passenger Agent, 229 Broadway. THE NEW WIOLA! Cures without any inconvenience to or interruption of business. Pamphlets sent free on application. Address, DRS. D. 82; ILMEEKER, P. 0. Drawer 475, La Porte, Ind. SAFETY, SPEED AND COMFORT. NORWICH LINE. For Boston, Worcester, Fitchburg, Groton Junction, Lowell, Lawrence, Nashua, Manchester, Concord, Pal- mer, Brattleboro, and intersecting points. The new and staunch steamers ' CITY OF BOSTON, CITY OF NEW YORK. CITY OF LAWRENCE and CITY OF NORWICH Will leave New York daily (Sundays excepted) at 4 o’clock p. m., from Pier N0. 40, North River, foot of Canal and Watts streets. For New London, and Norwich, their connecting with Express trains for the above points, via Vermont Central. Norwich and Worcester, and Boston,. Hart- ford and Eric Railroads. For through tickets and rates for freight, apply at the office, Pier 40, North River. W. F. PARKER, Agent. New York, June '7, 1872. - , SPERMATORRHEA CURED BY A SPIRIT PRESCRIPTION, AND I WARRANTED, non $10. It is an outside application. No medicine given. Send for free circular to DR. 1:. woonnnrr, Grand Rapids, Mich. PROTOZONE. THE FINEST AND MOST PER- FECT BRAIN AND NERVE’ IN ‘VIGORANT IN THE Wo.RL1). ' Physicians and others will ﬁnd it wholly unequaled in all cases of illness arising from excessive or per- verted sexism, even when insanity and chronic unrest have resulted. The female illnesses springing from bad magnetism, inducing amative horror and disgust, brain disturbance and exhaustion. vital depletion and sui- 'dal tliou_g_ht, 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., Protozone Laboratory, *‘ N 17 OAJIPBELL BLOCK, _ TOLEDO, 0., and but one agencyéin America, viz., MRS. SARAH P. THOMPSON, 1 Phillips Court, Boston, Mass. Price “(single pound flasks) - - - $5.00 D1‘SCOUNT_,' Kate C'oTson~’s Discovery! THE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES OF MAGNETISM, CLAIRVOYANCE & MEDIUMISM. This is unquestionably the most important mono- graph 011 Mediumship ever yet published in any country on the globe. How to obtain the Phenomenon in all its phases~ Conglomerate Mediumship.—New and Startling Doc- trine of Mixed Identities.———A handbook of White Magic.-—Explicit forms for all phases of Cabalistic In- cantatory and Thaumathurgic Science and Practice. Miss K. V. 0orson.'Ecll15ress and Publisher, Toledo, 0. It is requested that subscriptions for this extraordi- nary Treatise be in Clubs to one address, rather than by single copies, to save time and trouble in mailing, as they COST BUT FIFTY CENTS EACH. , 7 Synopsis : White Magic an actual fact.—Identiﬁcation of the returning dead.—Conditions essential to their reap- pearance. Essentials of Mediumship and Clairvoy‘ ance.——Blo1ide and Brunette Media.——Curious reasons. A vast discovery of inestimable importance.~Con- glomerate Circles.~The Yu-Yang.—Psychic Force.~ = Medial-Aura.—Spanni1ig the Gulf of Eternity!—A Spirit.—Electric People.—-To get the Phenomena when alone.—Ody1lic Insulation.—To form a Splendid Cir- cle.—Double Circles and new arrangement of the sit- ters.—Materialization of Spirits, and how to bring it aboutl—The Phantom hand of Toledo.—The Spirit- room.—Machinery essential to Physical Manifesta- tionsl—An Astounding Idea: Atrilisml——Mergement of Identities.——A dead one walks, talks, eats, drinks and does what it chooses while occupying another’s body, while the latter’s soul is quiescent, and con-' sciousness and identity wholly lost! a most momen- tous problem, of enormous importance to every Phy- sician, Judge, Juror, Minister, Spiritualist, husband, wife, in short to every human being. It is the most astounding thought yet evolved since Spiritualism be- came a ﬁxed fact, as it accounts for much heretofore wholly unaccountable. PART II.~How to Mesmerize.—Clairvoyance.——Psy- chometry, their laws and differences.-—The Eastern Mystery of obtaining Seership.—The Mystical Mirror, in a drop of common ink.——To reach Clairvoyance.- The Breath-Power.—An Arab Secret.—Magnetic Spells ‘——“ Voodooism ” Black Magic.—Second Youth and how to gain it. Single Copies, 60 cents. Publisltecl can.‘ Pamphlet Form. Brrcsss4if?Es stitnir With numerous Extracts from THE PRESS OF THE COUNTRY on THE Prosecution and Illegal Arrest of the brave defenders of freedom, VICTORIA C. WJQDHULL, TEN N IE CLAFLIN, AND ’ COLONEL BLOOD. Price of pamphlet reduced to $15.per hundred. Apply to the Editor and Publisher,‘ * CHARLOTTE: BARBER, Toledo, Ohio. DOZENS OB GROSS. ADDRESS AS ABOVE. Unrivaled for scenery, and the only Line running _________________....... rnnnnniox KURTZ’S DINING aoons. 23 New St. and 60 Broadway 76 Maiden I.ane&. [Liberty St. AND Cor. 5th ave. &I9Cth st. Mr. Kurtz invites to his large 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 waiters. A - 5 140 EW YORK CENTRAL AND HUD- SON RIVER RAILROAD.—Commencing Mon- day, June 23, 1873. Through Trains will leave Grand Central Depot-— 8:00 A. M., Chicago and Montreal Express, with drawing—room cars through to Rochester and St. Al- bans. . 9:00 A. M., Saratoga Special Express. 10:00 A. M., Special Chicago Express, with drawing- room cars to Rochester, Buffalo, &c. 10:45 A. 31., Northern and Western‘Express. 3:40 P. 11., Special Express for Albany, Troy and Saratoga, commencing Saturday, 21st inst. 4:00 P. 11., Montreal Express, with sleeping cars from New York to St. Albans. _ 7:00 P. M., Express, Daily, with sleeping cars for Watertown and Canandaigua. _ 8:30 P. M., Paciﬁc Express, Daily, with sleeping cars from Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls; also for Chicago, via both L. S. and M. C. Railroads. 11:00 P. M., Express, with sleeping cars for Troy and Albany. 2:00 P. 11., Hudson train. 7:00 A. M., and 5:30 P. M., Rouglikeepsie trains. 9:10 A. M., 4:15, 6:20 and 7:45 P. M.,Peekskil1 train s. 5:00 P. M., Sing Sing train. Tarrytown trains from 30th Street Depot, stopping at all Stations, leave at 6:45, 8:25 and 10:20 A. M., 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 4:40, 5:15, 6:30, 8:00 and 11:30 P. M. Sunday Way Trains~—For Tarrytown, from 30th street, at 8:25 A. M., and 1:00 P. M. For Poughkeepsie, from 4th avenue and 42d street Station, 9:10 A. M. C. H. KENDRICK, General Passenger Agent. JERRY P. THOMAS’ _ ' MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, 1,239 Broadway. JERRY THOMAS would respectfully inform his friends and the public in general that, having entirely renovated and reﬁtted his Museum and Art Gallery, and made many important additions thereto. . TWENTY YEARS’ PRA GT1 OE. DR. PERKINS Can be consulted as usual at 'his office, No. 9 FIFTH STREET (South Side), OPPOSITE PUBLIC SQUARE, KANSAS CITY, M 0.. 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 Spermatorrlioea, 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- 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- - 7 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 permaiiently 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 chatcosts you nothing, and all is strictly conﬁdential. Post box 1,227. 133,. PERKINS, Kansas City, Mo. duced bv nightly seminal emissions or by excessive . tongue. and fre- '
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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1873-09-06_06_14
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1873-09-06_06_14
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 06, no. 15 (September 13, 1873)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1984
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1873-09-13
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: A»...-\ _.—-. PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT I UNTRAMMELED LIVES l BREAKING THE “WAY -FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. VI.~—No. 15.—Whole No. 145. NEW YORK, SEPT. 18, 1878. PRICE TEN CENTS. TH LOANERF BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORR. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., $500,00 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TION-S, 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 oifered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, N o. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubjcct to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four...
Show moreA»...-\ _.—-. PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT I UNTRAMMELED LIVES l BREAKING THE “WAY -FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. VI.~—No. 15.—Whole No. 145. NEW YORK, SEPT. 18, 1878. PRICE TEN CENTS. TH LOANERF BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORR. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., $500,00 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TION-S, 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 oifered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, N o. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubjcct 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., W’ Opposite U. s. Sub-Treasury. 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- sion, for cash. Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention. FISK & HA'1‘C.H. EWESIES. 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 (sevewand 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. 5-20s. 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 0N MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. MAY CGOKE & CO. A FIRST-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 oﬁered ﬁve per cent. below par. The undersigned conﬁdently recommend them to all class of investors. , GEORGE OPDYKE & CO., No. 25 Nassaastreet. BANKINGVHOUSE OF HENRY CLEWS & oo, 32 Wall Street, N. Y. Circular Notes and Letters of Credit for travelers ; also Commercial Credits issued available throughout, the World. Bills of Exchange on the Imperial Bank of London, National Bank of Scotland, Provincial Bank of I Ire- land and all their branches. Telegraphic Transfers of money on Europe, San Francisco and the West Indies. Deposit accounts received in either Currency or 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 negotiated. CLEWS, HABICHT & CO., 11 Old Broad St., London. BANKING & FINANCIAL. " ._—_._. THE ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAIL- ROAD COMPANY ’S FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS Are being absorbed by an increasing demand for them. Secured as they are by a ﬁrst mortgage on the Road, Land Grant, Franchise and Equipments, combined in one mortgage, they command at once a ready market. ALibera1 Sinking Fund provided inthe Mortgage Deed must advance the price upon the closing of the loan. Principal and interest payable in com). Inter- est at eight (8)I>er cent. per annum. Payable semi- annually, free of tax. Principal in thirty years. De- nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons, or Regis- tered. Price 97% an accrued interest, in currency, from February 15, 1872. Maps, Circulars, Documents and information fur- nished. ' 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., Bankers, 91 and 21 NASSAU STREET, Issue Letters of Credit to Travelers, available 111 all parts of the World through the MESSRS. DE ROTHSCHILD AND '1-I:IEI1t CORRESPONDENTS. one on Call- Also, make telegraphic transfers or rniamurope and Haven RAILROAD IRoN, FOR SALE BY s. W.’ HOPKINS a oo 71 BROADWAY TOLEDO,PEORIA WARsAW RAILWAY, SECOND MORTGAGE ooN- VERTIBLE *7 PER CENT. CURRENCY BONDS. INTEREST WARRANTS IPAYAS: I OCTOBER AND APRIL, PRINCIPAL 1886. We oifer 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 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 spanning the Missi s sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. The income of the road for the year will not suiﬁcicnt to pay interest on all the bonded indebtedness and dividend on the Dre. ferred shares. For terms apply to CLARK, DODGE 4%. CE. ' W Oomer Wall and William Streets. ‘V .2 .2», WOODHULL & GLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 18, 1873. In view of the increasing importance of the money question as related to the reconstruction of society, we, -this week,»pre— sent the principles that underlie it, and ask for them the care- ful consideration of every reader. This lecture was delivered originally at Cooper Institute, New York city: THE PRINCIPLES or ririncr. MONEY! IS IT A PRINCIPLE OR A PROPERTY? To the careful student of history, there is avery great deal more to be considered than the mere political facts that stand as land- marks along the path of progress which the nations have traversed since the plains of Iran poured forth their hosts westward. These facts are the mere externals that adorn the pages of historic lore, and embellish the memories of the great men who have lived in and moved the world at various times in various nations, or which clothe the lives of tyrants and usurpers with their just reward. The superﬁcial student of history cares only for the results of the evolution of nations——for the fact that Sesostris was the greatest of Egyptian kings; or that Semiramis rose by her military sagacity from the rank of a mean-oﬁ‘icial’s wife to be, ﬁrst, the Queen of Ninas, and afterward to be the Assyrian Queen, who should march an army of three millions imen across the Indus to conquer the Indian King. Running down the course of events, he traces the rise and fall of ‘ nations—after Assyria then Egypt, next Persia, Greece, Rome and then the Dark Ages, out of whose womb was evolved modern Europe; and, lastly, the birth, development, struggle. and recovery of the most remarkable nation which has yet arisen in the world. @ Behind these facts, which are but results, lie the real motor powers of history ; and they are deeper, broader and more important than is that which they evolve. There is an external and an internal phase to everything existent in the world. Up to this generation the external has apparently borne the more prominent part i.n determining what should be next. But now the analytic age has begun, wherein facts do not suﬁice; wherein new systems, new theories, new philosophies and even new religions are constructed, not by an examination of the errors of what has been, but by the cltscovery and ctppltcatton of the principles, powers, which underlie those errors. Heretofore there has been no inquiry made by the rulers of the eeple into the general principles of government. It was sufficient that there was a government maintained, the governors caring for little b ut the power to compel the people to do theirbidding. But it is begin- nino" to dawn upon the minds of those who have something more than 23 a selﬁsh interest in humanity that there is Ct science of government; aye, even that there is a science of society: and such minds are endeav- oring by the deepest researches to discover the principles of these Sciences. _ , p In our government, the principle of individual rights is theoretical- ly held, though in its application government still interferes with those rights. The legitimate functions of a government, based upon the ri_ghts of every individual over whom its power is exercised, are limited to the - cluttes that will best subserve and protect the interests of individuals. The proper understanding and practice of these functionsis the most ' l”n.or or a co ale to arrive at but havin arrived at this as ' important t 11 O p 1 , , the basis of all the relations of the people, the scientific construction of the various departments of the complete superstructu.re.which is to cover all the public interests of all the people, as well as to maintain their private interests intact, can be begun. After the general principles of government are properly formulated in Constitutions and vitality given them by laws, a correct, a scientiﬁc ﬁnancial system stands next in importance. ~ If a country have a true system of LC/()2/'(f7"7l'7}’Li’?'7Zl, and do not have atruc system of ﬁnomce, it can never attain to any permanent prosperity. Literally‘ speaking‘. ﬁnance is a part of government, since, in organizingtit, means for its support are among the ﬁrst considerations. Hence it is plain, if there are prin- ' ciples of government, so must there also be principles‘ of ﬁnance. It has never been pretended, so far, as I know, even by the pros foundest political economists, who are sticklers for the gold standard, that any financial systems the world has ever known were developed by the scientiﬁc application of self-evident truths, which is the nature of principles. I _ l _ I The various systems of which use has been made weresimply experi- mental, devised for politic reasons, as the best methods to meet the exigencies of the times in which they were required. Instance the Greenback, the necessity for whichlwas such as to shake the nation to its very centre, and to ﬁll the minds of_ all patriots with a dread fore- boding. . g If there have been no scientiﬁc money systems in vogue, and it now comes out that the world has arrived at that degree of advancement wherein policy should give way to prtrtczples, even in ﬁnance, there can be nothing gained by going back to reviewthe errors, failures and fallacies of the past. Nothing valuable can be gained by wading through the almost innumerable statistics which have accumulated to . a sufficiently great extent to bewilder the most comprehensive intel- lects. Having for ten years been deeply engaged in studying the prin- ciples of government, I learned that no system of government could be perfect unless its ﬁnancial department was perfected ; therefore I have frequently endeavored to solve the ﬁnancial problems which statistics propose, but z'm)ctrz'ctbly failed to learn. anything that even promised to look well as a basis for a new and improved system, to say nothing of its promises in operation. The conclusion was inevitable, that there have been no acknowl- edged or even known, fundamental principles of ﬁnance operating in any of the many systems of the many nations, and thatthe so-called money of the world is not now, nor ever woos, money, in the scientiﬁc ‘sense of that term. All the statistics, failures and errors of the past, with which the history of money abounds, being of no value, must be utterly ignored in any inquiry which proposes to predicate a natural and scientific money, as distinguished from arbitrary inventions, devised to meet the various exigencies of nations in their growth, prime and decay. And any person who proposes to teach ﬁnance, or a new system, by array- ing before you the evidences of the past, contained in ﬁgures amounting to billions of dollars, simply proposes to try another experiment, to cul- minate in another failure. - Therefore I shall present no principals, per cents. and compounded amounts, except, perhaps, as examples to illustrate the mathematical. impossibilities of the fallacious theories by which ﬁnanciers have at- tempted to dazzle the world, but who have only succeeded in accumu- lating in the hands of a very select few that which by an exact ustice should belong to, and be distributed among, the people generally. In order to intelligently discuss and arrive at legitimate conclusions regarding the question of money, it should be ﬁrst determined just what- is to be involved in the discussion; for around this, as around all other general things, there has been such a mass of rubbish and extraneous matter aggregated that the main question is always in danger of being est sight of, unless this be ﬁrst removed and the real issue left clearly exposed. , Most of the confusion which follows the attempts to solve the mon- ey question arises out of the fact that the same words in the mouths of clzffercnt people do not mean the same things, or that r:l2,7/jtreiit words are used by clt'fferent people to mean the same thing. If there are two words in common use to represent similar objects, but which, upon. close anal- ysis, do not represent precisely the same thing, it is better that one of them be discarded. - It is necessary, therefore, to settle, prior to the beginning of this argument, precisely what the several terms do mean which are prominently in use in connection with the money question. It is, perhaps, near the truth to say that this settlement is the argument. Very few persons have any well-defined comprehension of what is the I real signiﬁcance of the terms golcl, movie;/, c2trren(:g/, -z'm;~2.m,'c_ zzctlue and zoeall/2,. If these words are analyzed, what do they scientiﬁcally repre- sent ? _ Gold is a product of the earth only to be originally obtained by labor and expense, and both practically and scientiﬁcally bears like relations Sept. 13, l 873. ~03 to labor that all other things do which are produced by labor; and none other. But there has been an importance attached to gold which has not been accorded to any other product of labor. It has been coined and called money, because it was coined, and by custom and common acceptance made an arrbttrary standard of value, which none of its qual- ities warrant when subjected to analysis, as will be shortly shown. Gold bears the same relation to real money that a religious theory bears to real religion, which theory, when comprehended by the intel- lect of the people, loses its value as a substitute for real religion; but which, until comprehension comes, it is better to have than to have none at all. So also with gold. It has in theory been considered as money; but when a true money comes to be comprehended, it will lose its value as a substitute therefor, and sink to its proper sphere among the other products of labor. it is altogether probable that gold was the very best substitute for money during that part of the world’s evolution wherein people were guided and controlled by policy and before principles were recog- nized as that which should govern, let their action lead_ where it might. As the world is now beginning to act from principle, for the sake of the truth, so also must they now begin to formulate the principle of money for the sake of the principle. W'ealth is whatever is produced by labor which adds to the com- forts, the happiness or the lzfe of man; and everything that does this, either directly or indirectly, has intrinsic value——that is, has the capac- ity to bless mankind. , Vllealth may, and should, be divided into two kinds, namely, per- manent wealth and transt'tory wealth. Permanent wealth consists of all those products of labor which are not themselves transferable into life, comfort or happiness, but which may at all times be exchanged for that which is thus transferable into that which can be used to continue life. Gold, silver and precious stones are among the best illustrations there are of permanent wealth. Transitory wealth consists of all those products of labor of which oltrect use is made to maintain life or to add to its comforts and happi- ness, and which, by such process, are absorbed into and become a part of the life of humanity. Transitory wealth, it will be seen, is much the more important of the two, since, if people only possessed permanent wealth, their life could not be continued an hour by it, unless there were a possibility of exchanging it for the necessities of life. It would seem that all kinds of wealth are intrinsically valuable, since its various kinds may be either oltrectly used to maintain life or may be eacchangecl for those which will maintain life. Wealtli and intrinsic value, then, mean the same thing. But what does the term money mean: or hasit no necessary sig- niﬁcance in the inquiry? There was a time when there was no such thing or worcl as money ; but at that ‘time there was life to continue, for which wealth was neces- sary. It seems that wealth had existence before money was thought of. ‘Wealth is substance, of which money is the principle or repre- sentative, but which, in itself, has no intrinsic value. Money is an invention made to represent wealth, or value, in order that its various kinds may be exchanged with facility, or that they may be exchanged without the absolute and direct and immediate receipt A and delivery of one product of labor for another product of labor. All the products of labor may be exchanged directlz, and without the use of any representative or go-between, which for the time being stands rep- resentative of the one or the other, but not so well at all times and under all circumstances. Money is anything which stands representa- tive of any product of labor; that is, that can be made use of to facili- tate the exchange of any of the results of labor, which are wealth. A representative of anything cannot be the thing itself, therefore, if money 1S a representative of wealth it is not itself wealth. We1'e A, B and C to at all times exchange their products between themselves by direct transfer, they would haveno use for money; they would exchange —-deliver and reeeive~‘—‘actual values. But when A desires from B some- of his products, himself not having on hand any of his products which B «desires, he receives from B his value and gives him his representative of value——his note~promising that at a future time he will deliver B the actual value which he desires. VIVOODHULL &: CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY.’ , Currency is only a form -of money, the same as gold is only a form of wealth; and in the same manner that gold is wealth, is cur- rency money. Money being the principle of representation in exchange, everything of which use is made to facilitate exchange in the form of representative value is money. Anythingwhich can be transferred from one party to another, anything that is negotiable which is not ac- tual value of itself, is money. This includes not only all currency, bank notes, but also bills of exchange, the ledger and bonds. These are all representatives of wealth, all demands for payment at a future time of a certain speciﬁed sum, and consequently are money. It is quite evident that, with the terms wealth and money, We have all the necessary distinctions which should enter into the abstract question of ﬁnance. All other terms are but names for separate kinds or forms of these terms, to be made use of when they respectively arise in making exchanges. Now, every one must at once concede that that which best represents all of the products of labor will also best exchange them, and is there- fore the best money. It is equally clear that gold in no way represents any labor but that which produces it. If gold were a true representa- tive of the results of all other labor, except that which produces 11:, would it not also be apparent that such labor must be equal to all other labor. ‘Were gold a thousand times more valuable than it is held to be, it would not even then be able to represent all other values. Therefore, gold is a false standard of value, a false representative of wealth. Many people think and speak as if gold would be of no use to this country if it were to come into disuse as money ; that we should en- tirely lose it as wealth; the very reverse is really true, since we should have just the same quantity of gold that we now have, to be used for the same purposes for which it is now required, to wit : to ex- " port to other countries in exchange for imports. Suppose our imports to amount to a thousand millions dol- lars per annum, and that we export cotton, corn and pork to that amount, what use would we have for gold except to loan other countries‘; and could we not loan it as golol, taking their representatives of value for it equally as well as though it were coined into money, having the seal and stamp of the government ? It is well known that we do not export gold to Europe as so many American dollars, but as so much gold, by weight of a certain degree of fineness, the stamp of the government attesting to that degree. Again: Suppose that we had no cotton, corn or pork to give in ex- change for our‘ imports, and that we produced a thousand millions dol- lars’ worth of gold per annum, should we not be equally well conditioned to trade with Europe? It is seen that the real character and qualities of gold are the sam as are those of any other product of labor, which we can exchang direct, for other products of labor which we want more than we .dq the gold. If at any time the balance of trade is against us, and we have no cotton, corn, pork, gold or anything else to make itygood, we must then make it good by our representatives of value—-oiir bonds—to be converted when we shall have these products. This process has been actually going on ever since we began to export bonds, either national, state, county, city, railroad or bonds of other incorporated companies. Now, is it not perfectly evident that we have not only produced by labor what we have exported, which we have been pleased to denom- inate merchandise, but also that we have produced all the gold that has been exported; and in this connection is it not i just as much an article of merchandise as is either cotton or corn? Grold cannot at one and the same time be ‘both money and merchandise. _ If golcl‘ is money, so also is wheat, cotton and corn money, since they perform the same services and possess the same qualities as merchandise that gold does. To be perfectly clear in our conclusions, moneyimust be resolved into its uses, and entirely divested of all its ﬁctittous and z'rrele-vant relations. The fact that money is that thing which is’ made use of to exchange" real values must be the initial starting-point, of which sight must neverbe lost until it isclefinttely 's“ea1e‘d what will best perform this serv-7 ice. Anything which can be made use of foriany other purpose what- ever, is not the best thing to be made use of as money; because the de- mand for such a thing for such other purposes destroys its ‘positive value as money by causing fluctuations in its exchanging power. It is a grave ﬁnancial error-for this country to endeavor to return woonnum. .3.-. o1.ArL1N=s WEEKLY. Sept. 13,1873. to gold as money. All the practices under the gold standard havebecn positive and ample refutations of the arbitrary value accorded to gold. A dollar in gold: can only exchange a dollar in value in any other sub- stance; and the practice of issuing a greater amount of bank notes than the bank has gold dollars to redeem them by, is a legalized system to rob the people; since it is evident that a bank having three hundred thousand dollars in notes in circulation, and only one hundred thousand dollars in gold in its vaults, can redeem but one-third of its circulation if it be all presented at once for redemption. All the other securities of a bank, such as its discounts, personal property and real estate, may become of no value, or may be . placed out of reach of the holders of its circula- tion, so that the only real security for its circulation is what it may have in gold in its vaults. Beside, what right has a bank to receive legal interest on three times the amount of its real security? Is not this . a most transparent method of swindling the people? Hence I assert that the use of gold as money always results disastrously to the producers ‘of wealth, and always beneﬁcially to those who are permitted to absorb all their productions. Another unanswerable reason why gold ‘cannot’ answer the re- quirements of money is found in the degrees of value which belong to different products of labor, and which are universally determined by the sacriﬁce required to produce them. That is to say, all other things_ being equal, the relative value of products is determined by the time and labor required to produce them. The increase in the value of man.- utactured material is in exact proportion to the time required and wealth consumed in their manufacture. The value of gold is deter- mined in precisely the same manner ; and it is simply foolishness to as- sert’ that the value of gold never changes, or that it has the same pur- chasing power at all times. Suppose there should be immense ﬁelds of gold suddenly developed all over the country, so that it would become as common and plentiful as iron or coal, would it not decrease in value in comparison with other products? That is to say, would an ounce of gold then possess as great a proportionate value to other products as it now does? No one will pretend it. Then gold is just as much the subject of fluctuation as is any other product of labor, and for just the same reasons——demand and supply-._=-which are the great arbitrators of values in all parts of the world. I Everybody knows that for a certain quantity of gold a certain quan- tity of cotton may be obtained, and for a certain quantity of com a horse. The fact that the horse is obtainable by the corn does not convert the corn into money, neither does gold any more than the corn become money be- " use the cotton is obtained thereby. The gold for the time is equal in lue to the cotton, and so is the corn to the horse. Now, what is required money is this: Suppose the gold, cotton, corn and the horse to be of giqual value, a person possessing an amount of money representing the value of either of the four can, at his discretion, purchase whichever he may choose; since the money would equally represent the gold, cotton, corn and the horse. Anything that may be used for money that will not do the same thing for any variety of the products of labor, values being equal, is not money in any sense of that term. i ‘ Incidentally in this connection, because it has an indirect bearing upon the question under consideration, I wish to _call attention to a mistake that has been productive of more ﬁnancial ills and consequent injustice to a large proportion’ of the people, who are the wealth pro- ducers, than any other single cause, and that is the fundamental error of A making land, wealth, which it is no more entitled to be, scientiﬁcally, “ A than gold is to be called money. Wealth is that which is produced. Land exists. All improvements made upon land are wealth ; but the land proper, never. In this almost fatal mistake-—almost fatal to the humanitarian in- terests of the so-called common people—which isfundamental in its na- ture, is found the basis upon which rest the vast disparities in the dis- tributions of wealth, and which gives to certain favored individuals the means of realizing vast fortunes without ever resorting to the produc- tion of wealth, or of even accumulating it by trafficking in the different kinds of wealth. There are numerous examples of this manner of becoming pos- sessed of riches. People acquire title to lands which, by favorable location, come into great demand and consequently rise in value from A Q . one dollar per acre to hundreds of thousands of dollars per acre. By what principle of equity and right should. any person be entitled to such vast increases in capital invested in land, when it is entirely attributable to the movements of the community which produce it, and in no single particular to the individual? To be so entitled is for the individual to possess advantages over others to which no just communal government should for a moment consent-'—is to have the right to appropriate to self the results of labor which belong in common to all the people. Such results are against all principles of equity and justice, and is one of the greatest, if not the greatest error of the present, regarding the equities of property, and is the foundation and prophecy of all other kinds oi monopoly. It occurs to me that an iobjection may be raised to my argumént classing gold as wealth, and deﬁning wealth to be that which can be made use of to minister to life, comfort and happiness; or perhaps to the distinction of permanent and transitory wealth. Grold, as perma- nent wealth, can only minister to man through its exchange for other valuables of which direct use can be made. It may be said that in that sense gold can legitimately be money. But if there are objectors to this argument, I beg to call their at- tention to the conclusive fact that gold can never be representative of all other kinds of wealth. It is just as impossible that it should be, as it is that a bridge one hundred feet in length should span a river ﬁve hun- dred feet in width. It must further be remembered that the uses for which money is required demand an invention which can be made use of for no other purpose whatever, and that money is the name of an in- vention demanded and made for the purpose of facilitating exchanges- for making them easy, convenient and adaptable to all conditions of all persons. Every attempt ever made to compel gold to answer the demands of money has been a disastrous failure. So long as a country enjoys continuous prosperity under a gold standard of value, it is all well enough. The people make use of an expanded volume of currency in the full faith that prosperity will continue and everything be smooth and right. But anon a change comes, the nation is precipitated into conditions which require more than its accumulations of gold to meet. That being exhausted, it is inevitable that representation be resorted to. The wealth in the form of gold not being adequate, and other wealth not having been used or accepted as money, paper representatives of it are the only resort. So it appears that when an emergency arises the people are involuntarily pressed to the use of the principle of representation, which is the only scientiﬁc thing that can be called money. So that while a paper representative of wealth is, _with everything else, a product of labor, it is more than that; it is the embodiment and application of a principle, which other products of labor are not; and all principles are fundamental ; are the basis of all permanent and all purely scien- tiﬁc things and truths, while wealth is the realized product of the out- working of principles, directed and appropriated by man for his use I and convenience. The direct inquiry can now be made as to what will best perform what the people require of money; and money is that which can be used to represent real values without an absolute transfer of such values. The basis of all value of this country is our present accumulated real wealth and our capacity to increase it, and this accumulation and the prospective increase may be wholly represented by money and the na- tion never ‘become bankrupt. T I A person may possess wealth to the amount of ten thousand dollars upon which he may issuehis representatives of value, or promises to pay that value. These representatives 01 value would circulate among those who believe in the capacity and intention of the utterer to give up to them, when demanded, that which they represent. Everybody by his individual right has the authority to issue such representatives or value, and no government has any right to prohibit their circulation; because ethe people, as individuals, have the right to take or refuse them. The issue of bank notes is upon the same principle, and so long as the government does not in substance indorse these issues, the people have the perfect right to deal in them———-to receive and deliver them. . But there is an insuperable_ obj ection-——one which cannot be over- Sept. 13, isis. WOODHULL a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. I ts come by any governmental requirements——to these representatives being called the real money of the people, since circumstances over which neither their utterers nor receivers can have any control may render them Valueless——may make it impossible for those who uttered them to re- deem them——and their holders ﬁnd themselves with bits of paper repre- senting nothing; but for which they parted with real value. So far as this condition is conﬁned to individuals who had no other reason for receiving them, and no other assurance of their real value than the supposed capacity and intention of the uttering person or persons, it is strictly a- legitimate condition; and one with which the sufferers can ﬁnd no fault; since of their own free will and choice they received the utterers assurances that his representatives were of real Value. An individual upon his personal judgment, without undue per- suasion, accepts another’s representative ; if it prove bad he has him- self only to blame for the loss, as coming from an error of judgment; and no power or authority has any right to step in to compel the making of amends for this error. ilhis is the simple doctrine of the rights of in- dividuals, with which no third party has any right to interfere alter the occurrence of the fact. But when banks are organized under certain formula of law, framed by the people or their representatives through government, the people receive and pay out their issues-—representatives of their value—-not because they have special conﬁdence in the capacity and intention of the individuals who compose the management, but be- cause they suppose the management has conformed to those certain forms of law which are intended to render them safe. In this way the govern- ment, at least indirectly, gives credit to the bank, and currency to its issues, and the people accept them simply because the government has done so. 4 But if these banks are mismanaged either ignorantly or intention-. ally, or managed by designing men, as often they are, who make use of the governmental sanction to swindle the people, as many times they have, where can the people look for redress ; where should they look for redress? ~ The government is justly responsible to the people for all such issues, since it did not require real security from the banks, and ‘government should make reparation therefor. This is precisely our objection to any and all forms of bank issues. There can be no arrangement made so perfect in security to her people as to guarantee them absolutely against all hazard, that will permit the banks to make the proﬁts which they seem to think they are entitled to make from the people. In absolute security there can be no proﬁt. Bank proﬁts demandthe circulation of more notes than they have real value to represent. Proﬁts come only from speculating either upon the conﬁdence or the money of the people, and government has no right to protect such illegitimate and unjust practices. Our present system of banking is a swindle upon the people, which it is simply surprising that they endure as they have and do. For the banks to be permitted to ﬁlch from the people twenty-four million dol- . lars per annum is an outrageous vi llainy which, if comprehended by the people in its true light, could not exist another year. ’Tis true these banks complied with the law passed in a time of dire necessity, and that through them the government acquired the means to conduct the war. But did not the people themselves do even more than furnish money, which was promised to be returned; did they not freely give their lives, which can never be returned, and which the government never thought of promising to either return or guarantee, and that, too, for the pitiful sum of thirteen dollars per month ? What comparison is there between the sacriﬁces made by the two classes of people, the capitalists who have absorbed the wealth of the country and the laborers who still continue .to give life, property andvitality to the country. There is absolutely no chance for a comparison ; the distinction is too great. It seems to me that if either class is entitled to superior consider- ation——to receive millions of the people’s money———it is the common peo- ple who so freely oﬁered their lives to save their country, instead of those who simply loaned their money at enormous rates of interest, ‘ with the certain knowledge that it would "be repaid. The present claims are too preposterous, and deceptive, and too unjust to be long continued. All bank notes in their ultimate effects are frauds upon the people, andtheir continuation as a circulating medium is only possible because that part of the people who suffer from them have not yet risen into a proper understanding of the question. The time is, however, near at hand when those who have reveled in the result, of. the wear and tear of the muscle, and the sweat of the brow, of the common laborer, will be compelled to produce honestly and equitably everything they would enjoy. The substitute for all kinds of bank notes as the money for the people should be a purely people’s money-a national currency whose basis of value would be the accumulated wealth of the country, and also its capacity for regularly increasing such wealth. Is there any re- liance to be placed in a currency issued by an individual or a number of individuals through an incorporated bank, based upon his or their Wealth, which is at all times liable to pass into the hands of other indi- viduals? Yes, there is a presumptive.reliance—~an indeﬁnite security—- but the security is not perfect. In comparison with this security place that of a currency issued by the government, based upon the entire wealth of the whole country, which, no matter how much it might be ' changed about among the different persons comprising the nation by va- rious contingencies, could never depart from the country; which fact would render it safe under any and all contingencies that could possibly arise, excepting alone the entire destruction of the country and its gov- ernment by a foreign power; which contingency is not suﬁiciently im- minent to cause any present alarm.‘ A A national currency thus based would have not only all the gold of the country as a basis, but also all other hinds of wealth. Is it not per- fectly plain that such a money would be just so much better than common bank notes, with a one-third gold basis, as the total amount of the wealth of the country is greater than such amount of gold? It would be in the most complete sense the people’s money. It would be a system of mutual banking wherein every individual of the country would have an interest, instead of there being a vast number of mutual banking institutions, such as has been proposed by a person of profound ﬁnancial ideas. As before stated, my objection to all systems of individual bank- ing is that the basis of their issues is at all times liable to pass from the possession of such individuals ; whereas, in a national currency-—the money of the people, themselves in the aggregate the basis and security--~ there could be no such liability; since, if parts of the security pass from original to secondary hands, it is still the basis of the currency, and could ‘never be transferred beyond the jurisdiction of security by the operations of designing or incapable persons. By no possibility could there ever a loss occur to the holder of such a currency, except it be destroyed in his hands. Undoubtedly the greenback was the nearest approach to a real money’ that any people of the earth ever made. "We have only to observe how admirably it has answered nearly all the purposes for which people re- quire money, to be convinced thatlit has the very best——the most secure —basis that it is possible for a money to have. It stands representative of the capacity and willingness of the government-~the representative of all the people—-—to pay. , But it is one of the most eliZ7"‘icult of things for the people to divorce their minds from the idea that gold is the only possible, real money. Yet the facts attaching to the greenback stand out in bold and indis- putable relief, perfectly and entirely dispelling all basis for the idea. Because the greenback was the first step toward a real money that the country ever took, which left gold entirely out of the question, the im- pression still remains with the people that a return must be made to a gold basis; never stopping to [observe how vastly superior the wealth basis is to what the gold basis would be. Bank note currency, or a currency issued by an individual or. by a class of individuals, always carries along with itself the idea and need of redeemability. If, however, there is any thought among the people that the utterers cannot meet their promises of redemption, at that very time when, of all others, conﬁdence is necessary avoid-ruin, they rush to prove the suspected incapacity; and generally they do prove it. The idea of, and necessity for, redeemability, is that which most re- quires to be divorced from money. -v,Money-—real money--—should never require to be redeemed. It should always be just as valuable to retain possession of as anything could be into which it may be converted. Anything that requires to be redeemed in order to make it permanently ‘ valuable or a representative of value is utterly unworthy the name - of WOODHULL J3 C'LAFLiIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 13, 1873. money, because it does not truly represent real wealth. It is that cure rency of which there is doubt about the real wealth it pretends to rep. resent which requires to be madercdeemable before it will circulate; and this fact proves most conclusively that it is not money in any true sense of that term: that is to say, it is not that which requires to be converted into substance. ' It is readily perceivable that a national currency having continually all the nation’s wealth, accumulated and prospective, as its" basis, never need to be redeemed. Tlii_s single consideration is of quite suﬁicient importance to alone warrant its immediate adoption and use upon the standard of wealth. The gold standard is the flimsiest deception of whichit is possible to imagine. The people’s talk of approaching a gold standard as the ultimate of appreciation is the merestjeu d’esprit. Gold is now selling at say 113. Suppose that during the next year its price Should gradually decline to par, or, in the phraseology of the goldites, their country’s general credit should appreciate to par, would the process of appreciation necessarily stop ust at that point? Why should it not just as reasonably continue to appreciate, so that in another year gold would be below the par of the country’s credit? This simple analysis proves beyond all cavil the arbitrariness of the gold standard of value. The credit of a country increases or diminishes without any regard Whatever to its gold producing or paying capacity. It is governed by its capacity for the general production of all kinds of wealth over and above its average consumption. It is just the same with a country as it is with an individual; the individual, to become wealthy and to have a good credit, must not necessarily ever have any gold ; but he must be able to produce or acquire more than he consumes by his general expenses. i A country must proceed by the same process to become . wealthy, and it is simply an absurdity for people to talk of the prosperity of the country when high prices for everything are induced and fostered by a system which restricts general production in order that special pro- duction may ﬂourish. 1 Individuals cannot get rich by rading among themselves, no matter they increase the price of their wares ten per cent. every year. Neither can all the individuals of a country do the same thing. What is required by both is increase in the quantity of what they trade in. It is not the price of wha.t a people have that constitutes their true wealth, but it is the guantity of their commodities. A barrel of ﬂour is possessed of no more real value if it cost twenty dollars instead of five. It will not maintain life a day longer, let the price even be a thousand dollars. Thus we arrive at the real basis of values——the real wealth— and I have introduced this, precisely for the purpose of showing the ' high-priced protectionists that they know nothing about true values or true economy, as well as to also show that there is no real wealth except that which conduces to higher ends than its simple acquisition. Wealth as an end is despotism, —Wealth as a means is humanitarianism. But to return from this departure to the main subject. -For the idea of redeemability for money there should be substituted that of convertibility. A real money should at all times be capable of being converted into that of which it stands representative. And here we ar- rive at the last analysis of a real money. It will be readily seen how completely a national currency meets this requirement. It would be representative of the productive capacity of the country, and could al- ways be converted into whatever portion or kind of its products might be required; or into the products of other countries which may be ac- quired by the direct exchange of our own products. What more than this can be demanded of money; or what better thing invented as money; or what more capable of inspiring and main-lg taining an even and legitimate conﬁdence? National currency being the very best possible money, because it is I ll not only the most convenient but also the most secure, there remains nothing to be done but to continue to so acquaint the people, untilythey: become convinced of the rapaciousness of those systems by which the large ority are compelled to labor all their lives for the very select few. There is no difficulty in arriving at all the initial points necessary, to determine the amount required, how it should be distributed iiand: . . ‘ . . ‘ﬁg,’ kept in circulation, or how its circulation should be regulated.'_;ial;‘a3;.These, :are all practicalities of ﬁnance. - But there is one thing which -has never yet receivedﬂcqnsiclprittiéiiﬁ which is absolutely necessary to make money meet all the requirements of money, and at the same time to maintain a ﬁxed and absolute value at all times and under all circumstances, which money never has had. From its lacking, have come all the various financial convulsions. And this is, an absolute measure of value. V Can money be measured so that the same fixedness shall attach to it that attaches to everything else with which we have to do? Money itself has always been considered a measure of value; and it is this false stoppage and foundationless position that has made possible all ﬁnancial discords, irregularities and inconsistencies. Does it appear to be a strange proposition that money should be measured? Vllhy should not a dollar be just as absolute as a dollar as a pound is as a pound ; or as a foot is as a foot; or as a gallon is as a gallon? A cord of wood con— tains one hundred and twenty-eight solid feet, or eight cord feet. It must always be eight feet in length, four feet in height and four feet in width, or r some other multiples of one hundred and twenty-eight cord can never be any more, never any less than just that measurement. And the same rule holds of everything else with which we have to do; with quantity, time, space and motion.~ All these have ﬁxed and un- varying modes of measurement. Butmoney, the lever by which all these are moved, has been left to fluctuate as it would~—-to be moved by every ‘different inﬂuence, so that in many instances what should have brought contentment, peace and continuous prosperity, has bequeathed the direct reverse. _ , It does not concern us that there are more yards of cloth at one time than another, provided that yard-sticlcs are all of the same length. But what would concern us would be this: That if with increase of the quantity of cloth the length of the yard-sticks should increase propor- tionately; or with the decrease of the quantity of ﬂour the pound should decrease in like proportion therewith. \ y Now this is just what has always been true of money; its real value increases and decreases, just in pro- portion as those things which it professes to measure have increased or decreased in quantity. \Instead of these things being exchanged or converted into something measured by as fixed a standard as they are, the attempt is made to measure them by something which constantly in creases and decreases in representative capacity. In other words, a dollar is not at all times one and the same thing. Sometimes it is but seventy ﬁve cents. and sometimes a dollar and a halt. That is to say that seventy ﬁve cents at one time possess the same representative power that a dollar and a half does at another time, which is in substance to say that money has no measure. . , Now what is desirabl.-. and indispensable is to give money a fixed measurement, wliicl shall ‘oz jus:’ as $1bSOl11l3x, in its measure or the value .01 money‘ as‘ the pound 1.. in its measure of weight, or the yard-stiel: is in its measure 01 distance. There never is -any more cloth, though there be a thousand more yardsticks. Nor is 2 yard-stick ever any longer or shorter, if the quantity to be measured is increased or de- creased a thousandfold. Now just to such a ﬁxedness must money he reduced before it will subserve its best purposes and uses, and the only way ‘-.his can be done is by that method which wil. also remove the only I possilate objection there can be brought against such a national currency as is proposed. This objection is that by over-issues of currency its Value would or might be depreciated. Let it be supposed that the country’s extremest need to meet . the demands oi‘. the greatest amount of , trade is a billion dollars cur» rency. At certain times there are greater and less demands for money, which, under our present practices, make a dollar, to-day, worth four per cent. per annum interest, and tomorrow increase it to ten per cent. It must be remembered that we are now speaking of an irredeemalile currency, the representative of the wealth of the nation: that the govern- ment representing the nation hasuttered it, in behalf of the people, upon the soundest and, in reality, the only sure basis of value any money can have—-the productive power and capacity of the nation. An over-issue is the only thing to be guarded against. The government must be prohibited by some absolute law from resorting to the process so well known. in railroad management as the “watering process.” And this is to be accomplished in the following manner: .' This currency~—-thisnioney-—must be made convertible into 2. national bond, bearing such a rate of interest while in the hands 0.1 the people as ’ shall be determined upon as “the true measure of v_alue”~—~say three or it .4. A ._ 4, AG- Sept. 13,1873. . ' I WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. U four per cent.—~which experience would iiecessarilv determine the true point of bal.ance; and the bond also convertible into currency at the option of the holder. , _ In other words, the people should demand that the Government issue one thousand million dollars‘ in bonds, bearing three per cent. in- terest, payable in currency, and that it issue one thousand million dol- lars of circulating medium or money to be loaned to whomsoever deposits the bonds as collateral; all loans to be made at three per cent. per an- num; to be for six months, with two renewals of three months each, one-half payable on each renewal. The principle underlying the time V being that all credits should be settled with each year’s products. The operation or such a system can be very easily traced. When- ever there should be so much currency in circulation that it would be worth less than four per cent., the surplus would at once be invested in the four per cent. interest-bearing national bond; and when business should revive and the demand for money to transact it should make money worth more than four per cent., then bonds would be converted into currency again until the equilibrium should be re-established. And whenever the demand should be such that all the money would be converted, and money still be worth more than four per cent., then the government should issue enough to produce the equi- librium. Thus it is seen that the four per cent. or the three per cent. interest- bearing national bond becomes the ﬁxed measure of value for money. It would always be worth just that amount——-never any more; never any I less The gallon measure always gives just the same quantity of mo- lasses. The yard-stick always gives just the same quantity of cloth. The pound weight always gives just the same quantity of sugar. So, too, would this measure of money always give just the same amount of real wealth, or its representative, every day, week, month or year, whether applied to wealth in business, to bonds, or to money at inter- est. An oscillation would be perpetually maintained; ﬁrst, conver- sion of currency into bonds; next, conversion of bonds into currency; and whenever the supply of currency should be deﬁcient, then the issue of more by the government to meet it. Thus there would be a people’s money regulated to ﬁnancial equilibrium, which is the ultima thule of convenience for exchanging the products of industry. It may be remarked, parenthetically, here, that even three per cent. per annum interest is altogether too greatly in favor of capital. A care- ful calculation oi interests and general increase of the nation’s wealth discovers that less than a two per cent. interest is required to make the capitalist and the laborer stand upon an equality. Had I the time I would be glad to present you some ﬁgures to show to what condition we are tending. I will simply remark, however, if capital continue -‘o receive the present rates of interest for the next thirty-five years, at the end of that time it will have absorbed all the wealth or the country. That is to say, that interest compounded at the rate of 6 per cent. upon the present Banking Capital will amount to a sum larger than the pres- ent aggregate of wealth together with the same rate of increase which has governed it during the past, added thereto. is not this a sufficiently alarming fact to cause people to stop and consider the despotism into which they are rapidly, merging? _ Everybody who knows anything about the relations of money to the people must prefer such aimoney as we have indicated to any other kind. It is really the greenback system extended to all uses for which money is required, and to which is given a ﬁxed measure of value. All people at present interested in national banks and high interest-paying borids are constitutionally opposed to such a change in our money system. This, however, should not deter its introduction and use. The people’s welfare is what should be consulted, and made the test of all propositions that are to become theirs to practice. National banks and all banks of issue, with their drain upon the people to make their immense proﬁts, must be done away, and banks simply as depositories for the accommo- dation of the people, alone exist. The national bank and other currency would be gradually called in at -the rate of, say ten per cent. a month. I I may add in justiﬁcation of this plan, that if the Government can loan three hundred millions to the banks for nothing, it can loan to the people for three per cent. ; if at the same time it can pay three percent. on its bonds and in currency, instead of six percent. and in gold, it se- cures a new-found advantage. V K ,_ But one of the chief beneﬁts which would come to the people from the proposed currency would be the interest which would accrue to the government—-«all the people———for the use of this money. A In other words, all the interest now paid to banks of issue for loans, for the same convenience should be paid to the government. A part or the people, for the use or money belonging . to all the people, themselves in- clusive, would pay interest to the government therefor, And what more legitimate method of . governmental support than this, if by it all other means of taxation could be annulled? The interest now paid by the people of the country to the Banks and Capitalists would, twice over, pay all costs of maintaining the government. A three—per-cent. interest ' paid to the government on air loans the people required would not only relieve the people who produce wealth of one—half the interest they now pay, but also of all taxes of all kinds. Is not this a matter to "be looked into in the most serious manner? With such a currency system once inaugurated, the country would begin a gradual process of general prosperity. Wealth, insteac of ac- cumulating in a few hands, would continually tend to an equal distribu- tion. ainong all producing people. I A large part of the speculative mania. would be rendered futile, and those now devoting‘ all their time to hatching schemes by which to defraud the producing classes of ' their wealth. would be compelled to turn producers themselves. It is calcu- lated that one-tenth of the male population oi“ this country is engaged in speculative pursuits. In other words, they ‘” live and grow fat" from those who are engaged in production. And that is our boasted equity, our equality. __ It should be the object of all reform to make a nearer approach to a system of complete justice and a perfect equity. Any reform tha"‘ does not base itself upon such a proposition and whose outlook is not in this direction is no reform, and does not deserve the serious attention of any. There is scarcely an idea prevalent in the community of what true jus- tice and equity consist. But it may be stated as follows; No person has any just claim to the ownership of anything which he did not produce or which he did not acquire by an equitable exchange of something which he did produce. Tested by this rule, the accumulated wealth of the world is in unjust hands; it is held by those who have a no better title thereto than if they had actually stolen it. It has been fraudulently acquired, and that is the word which best expresses the manner of its obtainment. And one of the most eﬁ"e'ctive methods of remedying this growing evil is to attain toa true money system-—one founded in the requirements to be met and based upon that which it is to represent——that which it is to be used to exchange. Anything that departs from these standards is not scientiﬁc money. That which has these for its standards is a scientiﬁc money. . . Aside from all that has been said, there is a general principle rising into the comprehension of humanity which must of necessity" dethrone that which has so long been worshiped as the money god. The day for arbitrary rule and standards is drawing to a close, whether they be standards of materiality or spirituality; of morals or intellect; of des- potism or democracy. Gold is an arbitrary money standard, and with all others of like character must fall. The tendency of the world is against it, and its doom is already sealed. It has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. I The interest of the common people, who should always hear every new Christ, demands a reform in our monetary and ﬁnancial systems. We are aware, however, that there is a great deal of prejudice in their minds in favor of “hard money,” and they must be awakened to the fact that hard money is a myth—a play upon words—-—a deception prac- ticed upon them by those who have played the partof “the appropria- tors of wealth ” lo I these many years, and who would continue to ﬁlch. I year after year all that the “toiling millions” can compel nature to yield I up to them. In this process the laboring classes are the mere avenues through which the earth pours its wealth into the coffers of the capital- ists. , _ I I Some object that the very numerous and intricate ‘methods to which resort would be required would prove unmanageable, and that corruption would inevitably creep in and undermine its usefulness. Let such consider our almost perfect postal system, and how well bal- anced are all its movements and checks, and ﬁnd therein their answer. 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There can be no arrangements made with railroads gener- ally; hence all people in the East will be compelled to reach New York as best they may, excepting those who naturally go to Boston. ‘ * Respectfully, A A VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, President American Association Spiritualists. I‘ 4 r wr LECTURES IN THE WEST. Victoria C. Woodhull is engaged to lecture 111 Cincinnati, Ohio, Friday, September 5th. Dayton, Ohio, Tuesday, September 9th. Fort Wayne, Ind., Wednesday, September 10th". Chicago, Ill., Monday, September 15th. Friends desiring to secure her services in the vicinity of the above places, for the dates not mentioned, will please correspond with her at Louisville until the 28th of August ; at Cincinnati until the 8th September; afterward, until the 18th September, at Chicago. ' -=--—-=--—-->-40»--<---—---—-— A SPECIAL WORD TO CONTRIBUTORS. We desire to say to those who favor us- with articles, that we receive weekly three times as many as we have room to publish, and, consequently, that a large proportion can never be published. In view of this it should be impressed upon our contributors that articles of more than a column in length will in all probability fail to appear; not because they are not proper and all that, but on account of want of space. Boil them down to their smallest possible limit. Almost every article received might be condensed into one- half the space and lose none of its effect. “A word to the wise,” etc. We have also adopted the rule that articles hereafter ap- pearing in the WEEKLY shall bear the full name and address of their writers. It is desirable that they who write shall give the weight of their inﬂuence to maintain what they ,-2"-:_m'ite_. TICKETS TO THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. Final arrangements ha.ve been perfected for reduced rates on tickets between Boston and New York and Chicago. No general arrangements can be made with the railroads reaching all parts from which delegates may desire to go. No railroad issues a less number than ﬁfty such tickets. All persons who have not already applied to us for rates or tickets should do so at once. Printed instructions covering all that is necessary to be known will be furnished from this office to all applicants, free. Tickets good from the 6th to the 30th of September inclusive. Now, let everybody who intends to go to Chicago send in their names at once. —é———>-«ar-4 OUR friends must pardon us for again calling their atten- tion to the necessity of putting forth renewed efforts on be- half of the WEEKLY. Especially do we request that those who have sent six months’ Clubs, will secure their renewals before the expiration of the first term. Bills will be sent for renewals as fast as they fall due, which, if not paid in a reasonable time, the names will be stricken from the list. Whoever has fcllowed the WEEKLY through the past eight months cannot now well afford to give over the con- tinuation. Important events are on the point of occurring. Any day is liable to bring such revealments as will startle the world. The Social Question is up for discussion, and the WEEKLY is the only paper in which the solution of the many objections to freedom are to be found. If you have not already done so, subscribe or renew at once. 7 -49» < A WORD TO THE FRIGHTENED. We are in the receipt of a sufficient number of communi- cations to indicate that the relation of Moses Hull’s experi- ence has shocked a good many sensitive souls almost out of their propriety. They seem to forget that the social ques- tion is up for discussion and solution, and that a single fact aids more in the solution than many arguments. In the true view of the case, if those experiences are entirely in opposi- tion to the highest truth, still should the world have cause to thank Moses Hull for having the honesty and the moral courage to come before a pretentious world with these facts. Whatever is best, whatever may turn out to be for the best, so far as he has gone in the solution of this question, he has had the strength to give it to the world, which, instead of stoning him, should honor him for it. It is just such frankness as this on the part of all persons that would solve this whole question in a single month. Moses Hull has trav- eled enough, and has conﬁdences enough—both male and female——to show him that he was perfectly justified in stat- ing what he did about those who, most likely, would criti- cise him most severely. This will undoubtedly be carried so far as to sting him into telling the whole truth, as he knows it, which so far he has not done. Consider for a moment what would result should every person speak even so much of the whole truth as has Moses Hull! Why, hypocrisy and falsehood and deception would be killed dead for all time, and truth and honor and integ- rity be substituted in the vacant places in people’s souls. Is Moses Hull any worse because he has told the truth than he would have been had he gone on a living lie? Would they who condemn him have it understood that they uphold lives of grossest deceit? But just this they do when they rail out against him. It is useless to attempt longer to cover up this matter and endeavor to make it appear all right on the‘ surface, while within is deceit, dishonesty and damnation. Or shall hypocrisy still hold its sway over the world, and consign it to the depths of lowest hell? The world is in the pains of a great labor, and the child, freedom, is striving to be born. Will the people persistently forbid the birth, and be themselves involved in the results? A higher and might- ier civilization than has yet been known in the sidereal uni- verse is struggling to be ushered into existence on this planet. If it succeed not, the dark ages were as nothing to what shall follow. Eternal life is in conflict with hundreds of thousands of years of virtual death, and it behooves the enlightened people of this world to see to it upon which side their inﬂuence is thrown. This may be laughed at now; but ten years shall not pass until those who laugh will have cause toregret their foolishness, and to cry out, Oh, that there has been more Moses Hulls, willing to become “ a pro- pitiation for our sins!” Now here is a fact in the world that is to come to light. Everybody knows it, and yet almost everybody pretends that not anybody knows it, or pretends to think that not anybody knows it, or pretends to think that he thinks that not anybody knows it. We have not been in the so—called Spiritualistic ranks many years, but long enough to have learned that, as a rule, they are all as good, or as bad, as Moses Hull, or no better or no worse than he is, while’ our observation among the world at large long since convinced us that its condition is the same. Then why attempt to hide it longer. I repeat, everybody knows it. There is some- thing wrong somewhere, and let us have it out, so that, knowing what it is, the remedy may be found and applied. Be assured that we are after the truth, and we consider every fact that points us in the way that she lies as invaluable. Least of all should professed reformers stand blocking the‘ way and throwing stones at those who are honestly seeking. These Christian Spiritualists should remember that he for whom they profess so great regard associated principally with harlots and other similar classes. Beware that ye do not become the scribes and pharisees to this generation. Think of the whole matter carefully——prayerfully. It is evident that Moses Hull has done no one any wrong. He cannot be charged with compulsion, except so far as his wife was concerned; and for this he ought severely to be cen- sured, as had every other man who does likewise, and their name is legion. From Elvira Hull’s letter in last week’s issue, it will be seen that she, as well as Moses, received beneﬁt from that which is so terrible in your eyes. Now, if any of his companions have been abused by him, they should make it evident, so that the right and the wrong of this whole matter may come to the surface. What the world is seeking, and what it ought to seek, is happiness ; and re- member that each individual has the God—given right to seek it in his or her own way. It is more than probable that many who have gladly wel- - corned Moses Hull to their homes will now close their doors in hisface; but will such, before doing this, remember that, in some way, if not in the one speciﬁed by him, they are as much open to censure as he. The fact is, however, even viewed from the standpoint of the objectors, he is a safer person to admit to the family than before, since now he stands in his true colors and cannot be mistaken. Do these who write and say that Moses I-Iull can never enter their doors again, wish it to be understood that their wives and daughters now, being made acquainted with the real Moses Hull, are more in danger from him than they were previously, when they pretended to think him a safe companion? W/Ve fear this sort of morality is too much after the sort that is maintained in most fashionable hotels, in one of which not long since we were informed, in the most matter-of—fact sort of manner, that the morality of this business did not consist in its existence or non-existence, but in bemgfound out-—that is to say, hotel-keepers do not care what irregularities go on in their houses so that they do not ﬁnd each other out. Strong as the world is, brave and ﬁrm as human nature is, good and true as men and women innately are, the system of hypocritical pretension that holds high sway to-day will be too much for them all, and if it do not have vent soon will sink everything in eternal ruin. V N ow, if it be true that the system of compulsory marriage is productive of so. much misery as it is at present indicated that it is; if it be true that the compulsory consorting of two persons tends to disease, unhappiness and death; if it be true that all defective children are the result of ill- assorted unions and undesired pregnancy; if it be true that four-Iiths of all married people chafe under the bondage; if indeed it be true that almost the whole misery and crime and horror there is in the world exists because the law insists on compulsory monogamic marriage—-we ask, in the name of all that is good, and true, and pure, and holy——aye, and human and divine, if it be not time that the wrong there is be righted? We say, Amen and Amen I and we say heaven bless Moses Hull for telling the world how he found more happiness, better conditions and a truer life. It seems to us that the time has come in which reformers should be not willing merely, but desirous, to examine the view of all persons bearing upon the vital question of re- form; and especially so to analyze the real meaning of ex- periences, let them come from whatever source. We want the truth, let it be what it may, even if it be revolutionary to all our present conceptions and ideas of right and propriety; and least of all should we be aifrighted at it. whatever may be the garb in which it comes. Therefore, if in these expe- riences there appear things that, at ﬁrst glance, and before having been thoroughly considered, seem to shock our sen- sibilities, we should not discard them as valueless or harm- ful, and cast them by with the pharisaical feeling, “ O God, I thank Thee that I am not as -this man is.” “ IS IT WOODHULLISM? ” No! there is no such thing as Woodhullism 01’. any other ism standing for the people in freedom. This inquiry comes pouring in upon us from all quarters. We must confess to the greatest surprise that people who have read the WEEKLY have not yet learned to be individuals, and to permit all individuals to stand upon their own merits. This, about which these inquiries come, is Moses Hullism and nobody’s else “ ism.” There may be others, as we know very well there are thousands similar to him; but that does not make them Hullites. When shall we learn to let people be honest and frank, without endeavoring to damn them for the attempt? Once again we wish to say, if there be anything that may be called Woodhullism, it is the theory that every indi- vidual is personally free and has the right to live his or her own life; and that he or she who lives such life openly before the world is a savior and he.ro. We teach Individualism; and we wish everybody in the world was as well advanced in it as Moses Hull, and like him willing to give his or her experi- ence for the beneﬁt of the world, even if like him also, it is known that cruciﬁxion will follow. Again weihsay, heaven bless Moses Hull for having the moral courage to lay his life before the world, and we prophesy that before a year more is passed, the tongues that now would destroy him will speak his praise, not perhaps for what he has done, but for having manhood enough to stand with it before the world accepting all consequences, One thing is certain, Woodhullism, as it pleases some to call it, is not cursed by deceit or mildewed by hypocri_sy.‘ 1A,, 3.3 ' ___ Sept. 13, 1873. W_OODHU'LL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. A J 9 LIZZIE DOTEN AND WARREN CHASE. At the Sunday afternoon session of the 17th ult. an inci- dent occurred which is worthy of more than a passing ref- erence. After Mrs. Woodliull’s speech, Lizzie Doten spoke for about ﬁfteen minutes. She said she did not agree with all that Mrs. VVoodhull had said ; but that there was a great wrong somewhere she had no doubt. She did not, however, go to the length of abrogating all marriage law, which she considered as a result of a high civilization, and remarked that Mrs. Woodhull herself was a result of that system which she sofreely condemns. As Miss Doten returned from the desk Warren Chase stepped to the front and said: “ I stand before you, not a result of the marriage system. My mother was not married, and I honor her for the moral courage she exhibited in daring, against the established customs, to be- come a mother to me.” This declaration was received with the most enthusiastic applause, which was evidently an in- dication that that immense audience did not regard the mar- riage law as a necessary cause of good children. And we beg to say that instead of children being a result of the mar- riage law, they are entirely independent of it. The law is an interpolated incident merely. We are fearful, if Lizzie Doten attempt to arrive at the scientiﬁc solution of this mat- ter, as she announced she was endeavoring to do, that she will have to start from different premises from these she now oc- cupies before she will arrive at one that will be evident to others, or contribute anything really beneﬁcial to the present knowledge about generation. ‘ I >46 PLATFORM OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS PARTY— TWELFTH PLANK. “ That wars and public feuds should be abolished by means of international arbitration.” The depth of this proposition is not evident upon its face, It is merely the abstract statement of a universal principle, which, whenever adopted as international law, will cause revolutions little dreamed of even by many of its most strenuous advocates. Hidden within its few ,‘words is the complete principle of communism. It is the organization of communities for protection, whether it be for nations, com- munities or individuals. Those who introduce this as a rule for nations, do not, however, see that it applies with equal force for all aggregations of individuals down to the single individual. It is indeed the law of public order and pri- vate security, and when realized will abolish wars and feuds, both public and private. VVe arenot entirely conﬁdent that the great nations of the world, aside from the United States,are ready to adopt this law as applicable to nations. England perhaps of all nations would be most ready, since more than any other nation, does she requires it protection. Her large and acknowledged posses- sions, scattered allover the world, would in a general war be at ithe mercy of the greatest conqueror, while her East India possessions furnish a coveted prize for more than one sister nation in Europe. All the smaller kingdoms of Europe would eagerly embrace a guarantee, such as inter- national arbitration would furnish them; Spain, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzer- land, Italy, Turkey, and probably Austria all would at once consent to it; but of France, Germany and Russia, there are reasons for serious doubt. Upon these three nations does the peace of Europe depend. Either one of them can pre- cipitate a continental war at any moment, while either two of them can crush or control the third. They also represent the three dominant races of Europe: France, the Latinic; Germany, the Teutonic; and Russia, the Slavonic. There can be but little doubt that the general tendency of events on the continent is to the ultimate con- solidation of Europe into three kingdoms, or rather nations, since it is not at all probable that the Latin race can ever be consolidated into a monarchy. The French have already pro- gressed far toward democratic institutions; the Spanish, still more than the French, are ﬁlled with ideas revolutionary to present systems, even of republicanism, while the Italians only require to have an example to follow. It is at any time to be expected that the policy of the German Empire may be such as to almost compel these three nations to contract a defensive if not offensive alliance. A large part of Austria naturally belongs to Germany, and will be absorbed to enlarge the already enormous power of the Empire. In this position, with Russia willing, the Kaiser might turn his longing eyes upon lVestern Europe with a fair prospect of adding it to the Empire. Can Russia be made satisﬁed? Aside from Turkey, it is not probable that Russia has any serious design upon continental Europe. The Czar, however, does need the Dardanelles and a free passage to the Mediterranean Sea. Germany, with Southern Europe in its grasp, cares nothing for what Russia needs; So if Russia will consent that Germany gather in Western Europe, Germany may well consent that Russia may gather in Asia, and thus divide the continent between them; and there is no power in the world competent to prevent them from carrying out just such a scheme. In view of these considerations the policy of all the smaller nations of Europe, France included, is to establish international arbitration for the settlement of all diﬁiculties, and to protect. themselves from their more pretentious and ambitious neighbors. Combined, and with the influence of this country, the wily statesmen who control the des- tinies of Europe might feel compelled to waive their scruples and to consent to join in common arbitration. ' In the sense of what are known as grand tactics for humanity, which ignore present or temporary results, there is a question as to the wisdom of such action. Not any- body with the history of the world in his mind will ever attempt to deny that war for conquest has been the greatest civilizer the world has ever known. It may well be ques- tioned whether all its missions as such are yet performed. Indeed, it may be seriously argued whether in a hundred years the world might not be better off, humanity greater, happier and grander, if the ambitions of Germany and Russia were to succeed. Is it not almost evident that South America and Mexico would be better off in twenty years should the United States by force acquire control over them? Has not humanity been blessed beyond measure by the forcible conquest of this country from the red man? Who shall dare to say that equally beneﬁcent things might not ﬁow from the carrying of this policy over all the con- tinent? Surely we shall not. Even in the light of the teachings of Christ, which Christians cannot refuse to ac- knowledge, he came to bring not peace but a sword, and to set the whole world by its ears, if all he said is to be be- lieved; and we think he succeeded pretty well. A But to return to the simpler tactics of government. Inter- national arbitration, thoroughly established all over the world, means‘ universal government, and toward this con- summation the world is unquestionably tending. The arbitration, consisting of the representatives of nations, would of course be superior to any single nation, and hence really the superior government. Were the United States, Germany and Russia to unite in this arbitration, they could compel all the rest of the world to their terms. It is enough to almost confound the comprehensive mind, when it ob- serves how near to the possibility of a universal government the world has arrived—so near, that an insigniﬁcant incident -might be suﬂicient to induce a movement that would lead directly to it, and that, too, without such a thought even "entering the minds of the movers. But whether this is near at hand or still afar off, the rule upon which it will operate when ;it_,’shall come, is the law of organization, which, beginning amongindividuals, must extend through nations to include the whole world; or be- ginning with the world must descend through nations to every individual. Three individuals may illustrate the principle; or it may be enacted by the many _millions who now people the globe, and may be perfectly exempliﬁed, practically, when the national rights of individuals shall be the base upon which it shall be constructed. Give all people the right to all that belongs to them as individuals, and have all this vested inalienably in them by the organization of society to protect and secure these rights, and that mo- ment a perfect system of democratic government will be established. Until such a time is possible, we do not care much what is, only that whatever it may be it shall hasten the coming of the ﬁnal inauguration of a government that shall be perfect both in its relations to individuals and to communities. If it were clear that this might come almost at once by the means of a terrible universal war, in which one- half the world should be arrayed against the other half, whereas without which it would be delayed thousands of years, we should say: let the war come and that quickly. ' LAURA CUPPY SMITH AT ROBINSON HALL. This talented and earnest laborer in the ﬁeld of social and spiritual reform spoke to the Spiritualists in Robinson Hall on Sunday evening, August 24, ult. Upon some of the communications that have appeared in the secular papers emanating from the “tender-conscienced” of the society which gathers in this hall, her discourse and its effects upon the audience were a severe commentary. These good people pretend to think, or pretend to wish to have others think that they think, that everything in our present social cus- toms is sound. We fear, however, that this is more pre- tension than reality; at least many, who affect so much, carry about with them heavy ‘loads of social infelicity, which, if the clear and free sun could shine in upon. they would themselves feel the most wonderful relief ; but they fear the remedy, nevertheless, and shrink from everything that inclines to shed light upon this vexed question as threatening them_. Mrs. Smith’s lecture was entitled, “ Non-committalism the bane of Spiritualisin.” She showed that Spiritualism was suffering from a sham respectability, and that thousands who cry out against social reform are really the most in need of it. She repeated a prophecy of Andrew Jackson Davis, made ﬁfteen years ago, when he said that Spirit- ualism stood in danger of one thing only, and that was, of getting respectable; and that when it did get respectable, it would have received its death-blow, for any further good. She advocated the whole social question as basicto any right movement for general reform; in short, whoever reads the WEEKLY may take its essence and know what she dealt out to that audience. She was warmly applauded throughout, receiving the highest token of appreciation for her ultra-radical words. Another commentary on the man- agement of that society, by which it is hoped theywill proﬁt. We understand that Mrs. Smith is open to engagements after the Chicago Convention. It is superﬂuous to state to the readers of the VVEEKLY that she everywhere gives the imost complete satisfaction, since the accounts copied from time to time into the Weekly from local papers speak louder than any words of ours could possibly speak. » Her present and probably her permanent address is 23 Irving Place, N. Y. city, _ 43.4 V wv THE PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE. We call special attention to the speech in this number on Money. At this particular time, when revolution to all ex- isting things is in the air, it is well to consider the princi- ples that must underlie any right system of reconstruction. The basis of the new order of things will be Industrial, leav- ing all things else to regulate themselves in freedom, thus adding to liberty in politics and religion, freedom in the re- lations of the sexes. THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION AND ITS MARTYRS. ‘ PRESENT It is almost impossible to form a correct estimate of the- long list of melancholy evils which destroy happiness in millions of homes under our present social system, which places woman, by the bond of marriage, wholly under the power of man. It is merely the outcroppings of the list of evils growing out of the same, which are published in the - daily papers, from which selections are given in another part of this periodical. The character of all social evils is such that they are hidden from the world as much asfpos sible, and only the few fatal cases meet the gaze of the public. “ Enough,” as old Menenius says, “with over measure,” is given to show the infernal pit of horrors into which man has been plunged for his crime of vainly endeavoring to wrest by law from woman her natural right of power in all ques- tions relating to the affections. The marriage bond is merely a piece of paper or parch- ment, as the case may be, but it carries tons of laws on its back. By it, the young man who secures a -wife feels that she must forever hold herself sacred to his will, and men- tally schedules her among his other possessions. It is to be expected that he should so feel. For him the woman of his choice is called upon to surrender her very name and to ac’.- cept his, as her badge of servility to him forever. As a rule, it is assumed that the power that nature has granted even to the females of the inferior animal creation is surrendered also. It is the lover who sues for favprs, the husband ex- pects such as his right. Out of abused privileges spring most of the evils of which women have such just cause now to complain. It is to remedy this sad state of affairs that the social revo- lution has been inaugurated. It is eminently ﬁtting that woman, the sufferer, should take the lead of the movement. There are hundreds of able women lecturers who are sound on the subject, but the true leaders—-the modern martyrs—- who almost daily crucify themselves on our platforms forthe good of their sex, can be counted by tens. It is not with pleasure they tear open their bleeding bosoms and expose their sorrows to the rude gaze of the public, but because they know that such exposes are necessary for the advance of the revolution, and for the subsequent good of humanity. All honor to them for their bravery and their truth, which, thank heaven, all over this broad land is now being well recognized, applauded and accepted by the people. Courage, then, brave defenders of the true dignity of your sex, fearless asserters of the great natural personal rights of woman. Although your long night of suffering seems even yet shrouded in darkness, the gray light of morning may be seen by the watchmen of the press break- ing forth slowly over the mountain tops. The word is for- ward! The vanguards have already met in the clash of bat- tle, and victory has perched upon the white ﬂag of social freedom, which you have long so gallantly unfurled and so bravely defended. The bugles of victory at Vineland are re- echoed from the shores of Silver Lake, and it were sin to doubt but that, thus doubly crowned, you will again over- throw the enemies of true Spiritualism at Chicago. __44: V C 4 THE SOCIAL POTTERS’ FIELD. The terrible list of murders and suicides which have oc- curred during the past week, and which are reported else- where in the WEEKLY, are a horrible and ghastly comment on the present social system. Most of them may be traced to two causes. First, from jealousy, which rises from self- love; secondly, from marriage, which establishes for‘ man an assumed right of property in woman. There is an entire abnegation of self in the highest form of love in both man and woman. When that is not, or when it is subverted by lack ‘of reciprocity, for that is the food of love, crime readily ﬁnds entrance. Despised or unrequited affection not unfrequently changes into hate; hate stimulates the desire for vengeance, and murder closes the scene of horror. I It is in vain to point to lovers the folly of resorting to violence in order to generate affection. In a proper state of society such changes would occur without trouble. To idolize either a man or a woman is both unmanly and un- womanly. But if there be any justiﬁcation for such folly it belongs to the sex which has for ages been ,“cabined, cribbed, conﬁned” by insane and partial human laws to- seek for advancement only by the ladder of love. Let us: hope that, in the near future, all this will be changed. At; present the poet truly tells us: I ‘“Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ’Tis woman’s whole existence. Man may range.- The .0-Ourti the camp, the city at the mart, 10 woonr1ULL as CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 13, 1873. Sword, gown, gain, glory offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambitison to ﬁll up his heart. Men have all these resources.” The time will soon arrive when the same ﬁelds will be open to woman also, in which case our weekly list of sexual horrors will be diminished, if not exterminated, -7-—-*®>—< SINGULAR OMISSION. It is believed that the on.ly Robinson I-Iall lccturc delivered during thepresent year that has not been advertised in the New York I-Iemlcl and other city papers, was the one lately given by Laura Cuppy S-mith on “ Non-committalism ;” but, notwithstanding that neglect, the Hall was remarkably Well ﬁlled. Vtlhy this singularity? We pause for a reply. %+®y—< MISERIES OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM. ONE nAY’s HARVEST. To report all the- crimes ﬂowing out of the present mar- riage (system, which is builtupon the idea of property in (or the absolute ownership of) woman, would occupy far too much space in the WEEi:LY, although to thoughtful minds such a record would be the best argument against the longer continuance of the present system that could be produced. In lieu of the same we shall restrict ourselves to reporting days of singular atrocity. The four homicides described below, and the two cases of adultery and breach of promise are all from the New York Sun of Wednesday last, August 27: N o. 1.—“ A Husnxnn SHOOTING Hrs WIFE AND Arran- WARD HrMsELr‘.—Abcut 12 :30 this morning Oﬂicer Lawrence Burke, of the Mulberry-street police, who was on post in Grand street, heard the reports of a pistolin Centre street. On the second floor No. 221, lived Christiana ‘.Visbrecht,who lived apart from her husband. Last night he returned home and their differences seemed to be amicably adjusted, the hus- band promising to live with his wife, but a few minutes later several pistol shots were heard, and in their apartments Mrs. Wisbrecht was found lying on the ﬂoor, blood welling from two wounds in the face and one in the left knee. Ofﬁcer Burke summoned to his assistance Officers Davis and Sta- com, and the apparently dying woman was taken to the Mul- berry-street police-station. In an adjoining room "Wisbrecht was found seemingly dying. He had shot himself in the mouth, the ball passing upward, lodging probably in the brain. The husband and wife were taken to Bellevue Hospita .” ' , No. 2.—“Levi Lincoln married Abby Lincoln in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, in 185?’. in 1855 he suedfor divorce in the Superior Court in this city, alleging that Abby had a husband (VVm. H. Reed) living when he married her. The case was referred to ‘Wm. M. Tweed, and on his report a decree of divorce was granted. Mr. Lincoln, when he aban- doned his wife, kept the Tontine Hotel in this city, and there he became enamored of a Miss Margaret Leary. On the day after the divorce Miss Leary and he were married. Then the decree of divorce was set aside for illegality. Mrs. Abby Lincoln was allowed to put in a defense, and she set up that after she married Reed she learned that he had a wife living, and that upon being apprised of it she aban- doned him. In April last she sued in the Supreme Court for divorce, alleged Lincoln’s adultery with Miss Leary, and in June last she obtained an order giving her 55500 counsel fee and $10 a week alimony. Yesterday a motion was made on behalf of Mr. Lincoln before Judge Daniels to vacate that order, Lincoln claiming that he is a bankrupt, owing $10,000 and having noproperty, and that he is earning but $15 a week. The Court granted the motion, and gave her a week alimony. No. 8.-—“ Onxznn BY A Wrrn’s ELOPEMENT.-——Early last spring Felix Holzafﬁe and his wife rented a room at 75 Riv- ington street,-where, as far as the other occupants of the house are aware, they lived happily. His wife is one or two years younger, and possessed of considerable beauty. A few days ago Mrs. I-Iolzaffle quitted her husband, taking her trunk and valuables. At ﬁrst the deserted husband su.p- posed that she had started for Europe, in furtherance of a design which she had frequently spoken of, but soon he learned that she had eloped with John Sprink, of 101 Stan- ton street. For several days Holzaffle vainly sought his ex-ring wife, and it was noticed that her unfaithfulness had apparently dethroned his reason. A few mornings ago apie- tol shot was heard in Holzafﬁe’s room, and at the same time a sound as of the falling of a body. Several of the neighbors entered the room and found Holzaﬁile lying on the floor and bleeding from a shot wound in the left breast, a little above the heart. His right hand, which was extended at his side, lay over a large-sized navy revolver. It was thought that he was dying.” . N c. 4.—“ ALICE Dnnors’ LOVER.-—SCt9’t Francisco, Aug. 26. Orin Dubois, of San Jose, has employed a young Chinaman. The Chinaman fell in love with Mr. Dubois’ daughter Alice, aged seventeen. He obtained her photograph, and she d_e— lmanded its return. Yesterday he gave the picture to her and ﬁred three shots at her from a revolver. Her steel corsets turned the bullets and she escaped. The Chinaman then blew his brains out.” No. 5.~—This is a lengthy report of a case of breach of prom- ise in Ireland, in which Miss Sheehey sued Captain O’Leary for damages. The jury gave her the same, in the shape of £1,587. I I ' This terminates the Sun’s record of the social crimes and sorrows of the day. In case No. 1 it appears the husband returned home for the purpose of shooting his wife and him- self—-probably as the surest method of preserving peace in the family and maintaining the bond of marriage. In case No. 3, Holzafﬁe lkills himself because his wife ran away. He was, however, very young—on1y twenty--one years of age. Probably if he had had twenty years’ more experience he would havelooked upon the exit of the woman who did not love him in a very difl'e1'ent light, and dismissed her with a blessing. , [From the N. Y. Sun, Thursday, August 28, 1873.] As comments on the present social order or disorder of society,.we glean the following items from the above-named paper: N o. 1.—THr. SUICIDE or A SUITOR.---The melancholy end of the greatest harpist in America, who killed himself with a pistol ball at 4.2 South Washington Square, New York, on the 27th August, 1873. ' No. f-2.—BRnAc'H‘ or Pnonrsn SU1T.—Frederika Augusta G-easka, versus SussmanReinl1art. Damages laid at $10,000. No. 3.——Two widows I claiming the property of Peter I-Iarrison, who died. at Highland Falls, on Tuesday last, ‘August 25th. ‘ N o. 4..—-Mrs. Beers, once a Murray Hill belle, of the name of Nellie Murray, since then married", separated, and the N. Y. Sun adds, poisoned. To these the N. Y. Hemlcl of the same date adds the fol- lowing: N o. 5.——FrnNDrsn OU’.[‘RAGE.——Rape of a girl at VVilliams- burg, aged only thirteen (we decline to give the name of the victim), by a scoundrel of the name of Louis Zegler (but like Comstock he has many aliases), and is otherwise called Louis St‘. Clair, and the Monkey. No. 6.—-VVAsHrNe.'roN, August 28.—Mrs. D. W. Smith, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, arrived here yesterday in search of her husband, whom she discovered last evening en- gaged ina game of cards with Elizabeth Lippencott, late of ‘vVillian;sport, and with whom Smith has during his sojourn in Washington been living. Mrs. Smith on discovering the pair, at once proceeded to a general destruction of the ele- gantly furnished apartments. After destroying over $600 worth of mirrors, statuary and furniture, she took Smith by the ear and walked him to herhotel. The parties hold a high social position at home. , , Gracious heavens, if her husband don’t love her after such an exhibit of her affection, he must be incorrigible. No. 7.——,ANTE-NATAL HoMIcID:s.—Coroner Herrman was notified yesterday that Mrs. Catherine Thiel, of No. 446 East Thirteenth street, was prostrated on account of premature birth. Mrs. Thiel says that she was married in November, 18’7'2,to Nicholas Thiel; she had been previously married twice while Thiel had been married three times. They were married but a few months when Thiel exhibited jealousy, and at one time struck her in the face. Four weeks ago she had a mis- understanding with a daughter of her husband by a former wife. At that time her husband knocked her down, kicked her in the stomach, and struck her with his fists. She was conﬁdent there was then life in her child, but after the assault there were no symptoms of it. If there be a situation which, under any circumstances, ought to challenge the tenderest respect of a man, it is when a woman is about to become a mother. To slay a child in its mother‘s womb is worse than ﬁlicide. ' N o. 1.—August 29.——ANOTHER WOMAN SHor.—Chai-les Schultz, aged 52, shot Mary Harnish in the jaw and hand yesterday in a fit of jealousy, and then attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head. No. 2.—BAL’1‘IMORE, Aug. 28.-—A terrible murder and at- tempted suicide occurred at the boarding-house, 58 St. Paul street, kept by Mrs. Showalter. At 9 o’clock at night Dr. Showalter, her husband, who is said to have been very dis- sipated and quarrelsome of late, and to have frequently threatened the life of his wife, while sitting in their room alone this evening seized her, and drawing a razor, cut a fearful gash on the left side of her throat, severing the caro- tid artery. . _Mrs. Showalter died in a few minutes. He then out his own throat from ear to ear, after which he made his way to the street and sat down on the curb stone, and thence was taken to the Washington University Hospital. No. 1——-AUG. 30.-Mary Sullivan, of Fourth avenue, near Nineteenth street, was stabbed in the left breast by her hus- band last evening and seriously wounded. No. 2-AN Insane Lovnn. Srroocrs HIS Swnnrrrnnnr AND KILLS HIMsr:Lr—Montpelier, Aug. 29, 1873.——Tl1is forenoon Joseph Daniels, a workman in the Montpelier Manufactur- ing Company’s establishment, entered a room where Miss Carrie Demmon was working and shot her, inﬁicting a serious wound. He then shot and killed himself. He had been paying attention to Miss Demmon, and as it is not known that any trouble had arisen between them it is in- ferred that he was insane. N o. 3-DEATH FROM MALr>r-:.AcT1cn-—Baltin1ore, Aug. 29, 1873.~—On Monday afternoon last Louisa Ross, a young girl, died_at I-Iagerstown, Washington county, under suspicious circumstances. A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that death was caused by an abortion. A coroner-’s jury, summoned last night, found the verdict that*Miss Ross came to her death by an abortion practiced by Susan Hays, John McCanley being accessory thereto. The affair has created universal excitement in “Washington county. No. 4—HonnnsLE TRAGEDY-—Baltimore, Md., August 29.- About nine o’clock last night, Jacob Showater, 58 St. Paul street, near the Mercantile Library Building, killed his wife by cutting her throat with a razor, after which he cut his own throat and ran out of the house. He was found bleed- in g in the gutter, and was taken to the Washington Univer- sity, where, the resident physiciain,_after an examination, pronounced his recovery doubtful. ' No. 5—Tnn BANCKER CAsE——VE:aDIc'r.—“That Sarah M. Bancker came to her death from an abortion due to causes to us unknown, and we severely censure Dr. William W. Bancker for not reporting the birth of the foetus to the proper authorities; and we also censure Dr.‘ Theodore Quick for not stating the remote as well as the immediate cause of death on the death certiﬁcate.” I ! ITHAT FUND 2‘! I THAT FUND I ! I The persons selected to take charge of this fund have al- ready contracted for a Press—“A-1 ” Hoe’s No. 7, large cylinder, printing machine. The size of the WEEKLY com- pels a large Press, containing all of the recent improve- ments, to ensure a high rate of speed and safety. This Press will be available for all kinds of ﬁnest job press work, and will be used for this work when not running the VVEEKLY, which will still further reduce its expenses. 1 In view of this we trust that the subscribers to the fund- will remit at the new ﬁrst possible opportumtgz,/, so that the cash payment may be made in conformity with the contract for the Press. Let those who cannot conveniently send the whole subscription now send one half and the remain- der afterward. The following subscriptions have been re- ceived : Amount previously acknowledged. . . $1,121 0. B. H., Mazo Manic, Wis. . . . . . . . . . . . 20 L. N. G., Pittsburg, Pa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 F. R. L., Springﬁeld, Mass . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 A. H. F., Buffalo, N. Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 N. R., Woodstock, Vt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 N. H., Hampton, Minn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 G. D. H., Philadelphia, Pa . . . . . . . . . . . .. ‘30 E. B. E, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 N. E. C., Cleveland, 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 E. W. G., East Turner, Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A Friend, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Gr. W. 0., South Abington, Mass . . . . . .. 5 S. K. J., Providence, R. I . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 H. S., San Francisco, Cal . . . . . . . . . . 5 M. S. S., Painesville, O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 N. K. D., Boston, Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 J. B. M., South Chelmsford, Mass . . . . .. 5 D. lV..S., Flushing, Mich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A. P. J., Bordentown, N. J . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 J. A. B. D., Newtown, Conn . . . . . . . . . .. 1 $1,836 __.._..__.....4g,_4_____.i. JONES’ EULOGIES. We congratulate our readers upon being able to present them the emphatic denial of Bro. Jones. idle hope they may have sufficient conﬁdence to believe him. Of our own knowledge we do not correct him; but there are six lies uttered in his “ eulogy” that when he wrote them he knew to be lies. We repeat we do not know that the conversa- tion related did occur, because we were not there; but as truthful a woman as lives in the land wrote it, and we be- lieve it. Passthat, however; the subject matter upon which the conversation was based is supported by the evidence of not less than twenty reliable witnesses whose written testi- mony we have in our possession. Perhaps Bro. Jones will call upon us to publish these letters? VVe wish our readers to bear in mind that we never said a word about Bro. Jones’ life until after a year’s slander and abuse by the Jouomal, and not then until in the Journal he took position opposite to social freedom; and not then, even, to show “freedom as a fundamental doctrine of Spir- itualism,” but to show that Jones lives the doctrines he de- nounces. Will Bro. Jones, when next he attempts to berate us, please remember this, or we may—following Horace Greeley’s example--feel inclined to repeat: “You lie, you villain! you lie!” But hear him: WOODHULL SLANDERS. In a recent number of the Woodhull paper is published what purports to be a conversation between a Mrs. W:n’s friend (which abbreviation we suppose may be deﬁned as willful nameless liar) and the editor of the Rel'lgt'o-Pht'losoph- teal J ourual, in which article it is reported" that the afore- said Woodhullite’s friend said: “Jones, there is a slander being circulated about you, and I want to be able to contra- dict it from your own lips.” Upon which Mr. Jones replied: “But it is true,” etc., etc. (too mean and scurrilous to be quoted). “ Since then,” says the W——n Woodhullite woman, "‘I have never wanted to touch the Relt'gt'o—Pht'los0p7w'cal Journal.” This is a specimen of the dirty slanders uttered by that infamous sheet, edited by the President of the American Association of Spiritualists. It is a fundamental doctrine with her, that the corner-stone of Spiritualism is based upon promiscuous sexual mclulgcnce. To the end of maintaining the truth of her theory, she trumps up and publishes the most malicious falsehoods against those who publicly de- nounce the pernicious influence of such a doctrine, with the intent of making the public believe that the most highly- respected and advanced minds—men and women of the age, practice that which she teaches to be the gospel of Spiritualism. There was never a more glaring, unfounded, unjust, mean and contemptible falsehood uttered than the pretended con- versation of the Woodhullite “friend” with the editor of this journal. Like the pretended letters which she claims to hold of Henry l/Vard Beecher, it is a he, manufactured for the use of those who, like a scavenger cart, carry nothing but garbage. - V ‘ No Mrs. W’-—-n’s friend, nor any other garbage ‘mange/0" ever presumed to present themselves to us as an interrogator "in regard to their favorite hobby, nor will they do so, know- ing well, when they know us at all, that there is not the least ground for so doing; nor would they be tolerated in our presence-——if ignorance and impudence should prompt ii s4 ll Sept. 13, l873. wooDHULL at OLAFLll~'~l’S WEEKLY. . * 1:1 » the trial——any longer than it would be necessary for the foul breath of the blatherskite to reveal his or her true charac- ter, which is always manifested as rapidly as one breath fol- l’ows another! So far as domestic happiness is concerned, we may be per- mitted to say we believe that we with our wife and children enjoy a full share——an amount that is perfectly satisfactory to ourselves, and no one has ever heard a lisp from the lips of any of us to the contrary. Vile wretches, who know naught of anything better than the polluted atmosphere ex- haled from their own foul carcasses, are ever busy in throw- ing ﬁlth upon others, with a cry “ I am as sweet and clean as they are! Don’t you see I am ?” while the exhalations they would have judgment passed upon as coming from others, is naught but their own. It is for that class of slcmderers that certain would-be leaders in Spiritualism crave the columns of the J ommal through which to circulate their foul aspersions of character against such noble workers in the ﬁeld of reform as Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton, Mrs. Emma Hardinge Brit- ten, ‘William Denton and many others. Failing in such at- tempts, they seek revenge by similar onslaughts upon the editor of that paper whose columns they cannot control. ‘We emphatically denounce the whole pretended conver- sation as a tissue of lies, wilfully put in circulation out of pure malice. >—4®7-—-ﬂ INIDUSTRIAL Jll STICE. 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, cricth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James v. 1-4. INTERNATIONAL MATTERS. THE REFUGE OF DESPOTISM—PRIESTLY ARROGANCE AND VVORKINGiWIEN’S SERVILITY. At the meeting of the American Federal Council held on p the 31st ult., the subjoined correspondence, taken from the Pr"mte'r’s Circular of August, and published in Philadelphia, Pa, without a word of comment, was read at the instance of Sec. 26, Phil. In respect to the principle of individual and national self-government, which is a fundamental principle of the organization of the I. VV. A., the Council could not in- terfere. This principle, however, does not prevent the ex- pression of individual opinion, and the writer hereof cannot refrain from expressing his own. If there be in the I. IV. A. any members who imagine that the pledge of the order to ignore the discussion of religious subjects means that it will not resist the interference of ministers of religion or religious bodies with secular affairs, it is time they were undeceived. Quite the contrary. That part of the platform is a negative protest against the teach- ing of any religion as a speculative matter, concerning which each individual has aright to his own inferences, based upon- ascertained truths. Wlien, therefore, in a country so near to us as Canada, the priesthood of what claims to be the Catholic (or Universal Church), assume to dictate to associa- tions of workingmen what they shall or shall not do in purely worldly matters, and denies the right of good Catho- lies to burial in consecrated ground, simply because they dared to go about their own business in their own way with- out ﬁrst asking the permission of his “Lordship,” the Bishop of Montreal, it is a usurpation of authority which should be resisted even unto death, if need be, wherever it is attempted to be imposed; and it is moreover a matter of universal concernment, especially deserving of the attention and action of the several sections of the I. VV. A. throughout the world. Nor need there be any fear of offending tender consciences of Catholic members. If, in the war to effect the emancipa- tion of labor from wages-slavery through a social revolution, by the conquest of political and every other element of power, there be persons enlisted who will lay down their ‘arms at the dictation of a priesthood of any denomination, it is time that they withdrew. They are not worth saving, be- cause they will not be saved. The principle of authority in Church is substantially the same as that in Industry. The people are too ignorant to form their opinions after due en- lightenment. They must, therefore, accept them ready made and at second—hand. The people don’t know enough to transact their own business. They do, therefore need “ boss- ing.” At least this is the theory of Spiritual and Industrial Despot-ism, and whoever makes war upon either of these forms must be prepared to make war upon both of them. The cause assigned for the interference of his “ lordship” with the internal affairs of the Jacques-Cartier Typographi- cal Union, No. 145, has nothing to do with its justiﬁcation. It may be admitted that “strikes” are not always expedient, because their declared objects are not always attained. But the right to strike. that is to refuse work at the wages offered by the employer, is as just as the right of the employer to re- fuse employment. If the latter may “ lock out,” the work- men may therefore, properly strike. And after all has been said against the expediency of “strikes,” the fact remains that they are in one sense invariably asuccess. The mini- mum of the means of subsistance is the maximum of wages. The worker must live as well as his boss. The maximum of the ability of the worker is the least time required. There must be a more equitable division of labor. “Strikes,” con- sequently, keep matters from growing worse, if they effect no other good object. They are wasteful, certainly. But if the worker would live on bread and water, wear sackcloth and ashes, and dwell. in a tent, he would get nothing better. Even his own prodigality prevents the utter degradation of his class‘ WILLIAM WEST. EROM MONTREAL, 1?. Q. MONTREAL, July 12, 1873. To the Eclitor of the Pr27m‘c7°’s Uérczzllair : SIR-At an adjourned meeting of the Jacques-Cartier Ty-- , pographical Union, No. M5, held on Tuesday evening, July 8, the following report was presented: To the Qﬁfccvis cmd Jfcmbers of the J‘cocguc.3-C’co7°t/Z67“ ."’,z/pag9°ap7L- ’ feel Union : . GENTLEMEN——Your Committee, appointed to take into consideration the amendments to our Constitution suggested by His Lordship, Bishop Bourget, has the honor to present the following report : . ' Before giving the result of our deliberations, we beg to . submit the following statement in order that all our mem- bers may fully understand the difficulties under which our Union labored. On the 230th ult., Samuel Chabot, a member of the Mon- treal Typographical Union, No. 97, fell off a barge in the bar- bor and was unfortunately drowned. His body was recov- ered on the 23d, and the 24th was ﬁxed as the day of his burial. I11 accordance with Article XV. of the Constitution, the members of No. 9?’ attended on the day named to assist at the funeral. Imagine their surprise and the surprise of the deceased’s relatives when informed that he could not be buried in consecrated ground, because he was a member of the Printer’s Society. Upon representation to the Cure of Notre Dame, M. Rousselot, the body was allowed to be placed in the vault until such time as the Bishop was put in possession of facts concerning the Society. It was at this stage that the Jacques-Cartier Topographical Union, No. 145, came upon the scene. Being altogether French, and composed (with two exceptions) of Roman Catholics, it was deemed of the greatest importance that the minds of the members should be set at rest on the question of their allegiance to the Church and to the Union. Hence our Corresponding Secretary addressed His Lordship, inquiring on what ground he had condemned our Society. On the 26th ult., Mr. Crossby received the following reply: MONTREAL, June 26, 1873. SIR—Withou.t entering into discussion as to the nature of the .Iacques—Cartier Tygographical Union, His Lordship, the Bishop of Montreal, in reply to your letter of yesterday, has instructed me to notify you that your Society is interdicted, because it engages in things unjust and condemned; for ex- ample, to make strikes and to prevent honest and quiet workmen, who do not belong to the Society, engaging in an ofﬁce in which your members work, or to oblige those who do not belong to your Society to join, under penalty of being refused work. This is eminently unjust. I have the honor to be, sir, your very humble servant, J. O. PARE, Priest. Here a committee was appointed to wait upon and corres- pond with His Lordship, with the following result: On Friday, a messenger from the Bishop called at Mr. Lovell’s to see Mr. Crossby, but the latter was absent. On Sunday afternoon Mr. Crossby called on the Bishop. He was kindly received by His Lordship, and informed that, after reading his letter and the books he had sent, he was satisfied with the objects of the International Typographical Union, and would therefore withdraw his objections to the number “ 14.5,” and to the words “ International Typographi- cal Union.” His Lordship further stated that a written re- ply would be forwarded to Mr. Crossby on Monday. That reply was received, and is as foilows: EVECHE or MONTREAL, ’7’th July, 1878. SIR——Mgr. the Bishop of Montreal has authorized me to say, in answer to yours of the 1st inst., that he has no inten~ tion to destroy the Society of the Jacques-Cartier Typo- graphical Union, if, as you have hopes of, it is ready to adopt the modiﬁcations of its rules noted in the Constitution I have the honor to return you. These changes are comprised in the following chief points, to wit: 1. To add to clause first of Article I. a formal protest against any alliance with the International of Europe, 01 any other organization intended to undermine the social and religious order. 2. To strike from the rules and regulations of your Society everything that might authorize strikes. 3. Not to employ unjust means, or those opposed to indi- vidual freedom, to lessen the number of printers. The Bishop of Montreal hopes that the Union will, like himself, appreciate a good understanding, and that it will make known the result of its deliberations upon the reform in question. - - I am, etc., J. O. PARE, Secretary. Your Committee, after serious deliberation, recommends that the alterations suggested by His Lordship (as they do not conflict with the Constitution of the International Ty- pographical Union) be accepted, and that a committee of ﬁve members be named to revise our Constitution. . P. A. Crossby, G. Fortin, J. Thompson, T. Godin, T. Cor- mier, P. Griffard, F. Barbeau, C. Belleau, J. Trudel. MONTREAL, July 7, 1873. The report was unanimously adopted, and the Correspond- ing Secretary (Mr. Crossby) was instructed to notify the Bishop that his suggestions had been approved. A Worki11gn1en’s Mass Meeting, was held at the Cooper Institute on Friday last, in order to welcome Mr. Joseph Arch, the leader of the agricultural laborers of England. Although he had not arrived, and consequently could not address the meeting, it will be seen by the resolutions thai the good work of uniting the two great labor interests (agri- culture and mechanics) went bravely on: “ Nt'nth.—That we sympathize with and hail with joy the success of the farmers’ movement in the West and South, and that while we consider ourselves as a homogeneous part of that body, which was never complete without the agricul- turists, we extend to them the hand and tie of solidarity; and as cheap transportation is as necessary to us who starve for the food the farmers produce, therefore we believe that the only means of relief isaby substituting a government railroad which shall be managed by the people themselves, and subject to their watchful guardianship and legislation, and deﬁantly subversive of the arrogant roads of the con» tract system, whose alarming effrontery and growth threaten to undermine the liberty of American institutions. “ Teuth.——That we purpose using all lawful and honorable means within our power to crush a system which has for its object the degradation of the worlringman; and we are deter- mined, seeing the great injustice that is being done and the great evil that is growing in our midst, to co—operate with all those who will befriend us in sweeping away this great and growing evil from our midst. And we are determined never to stop until success crowns our efforts.” “When the two halves ‘of the labor ball are well cemented together, and it commences to roll, there will only be one cry heard from the idlers and non-producers of the nation. It will be, “ Stand aside; clear the track?” INCIPIEN T REVOLUTIONS. V , The communists are not all dead yet, in spite of Tiers’ three years fusillade at Satory. In Spain, France and Ger- many they are all alive and kicking. The following extracts are N. Y. Ifemld leaders of the 29th August. “ BREAD IN PARIS.-—There is an ominous muttering among the dangerous classes against the high prices which they now have to pay for bread. This danger must be removed or there will be trouble which may be too strong for the existing government. It was the bread question in Paris which pre- cipitated the ﬁrst French Revolution. Marie Antoinette wondered why, if the hungry people could not get bread, they did not eat cake; but she did not fully comprehend the difficulty, and we know what it cost her and the Bourbons.” It seems singular, to those who do not know the power of the In.ternationals, that a rising should occur in one of the chief commercial centres of Germany, an empire in which every man is disciplined as a soldier. But such is the fact, and from the telegraphic dispatches of this day’s date, (Aug. 29,) it would appear that the soldiers took part with the people in the capture of Leipsic. “ RADICALIST AGITATION IN GrERMANY.—The special Ifemld telegram from Leipsic which we publish to-day sup- plies a very serious inkling of the disposition which exists among certain classes of the German people for the com- mencement of a radicalist agitation, which may be directed in the healthy path of progressive reform, or toward a com- munistic realization, just as its leaders direct. Leipsic, the second city of Saxony in importance and a chief seat of Ger- man commerce, has been disturbed during the past few days by military insubordination and democratic demonstrations. The “ Socialists,” as the reformers are termed, appear to have obtained complete control in the ancient town, and evince a disposition to take the law in their own hands. This intelligence will attract earnest attention in Berlin, and well it may’. The men of Leipsic may demonstrate, eventually, whether German imperalism is perfect and in- fallible as a system of universal government in Fatherland.” To this list let us add brave old Spain who is new passing through her baptism of blood and fire. From Monarchy to Republicanism, from Republicanism to Communism seems to be her marching orders. So the European world rolls on. ' R. W. HUME. -r 1.1:-V-< SPIRITUALISTIC. . ANCORA, New Jersey, Aug. 24, 1878. Our dear Victoria’s banner, with the reformatory inscrip- tion of Free\Love, floated triumphantly in the intellectual breeze at the late Spiritual Convention in Vineland, New Jersey. This meeting was the most radical and practical in the development and application of truth I ever attended. The great wheels of nature never moved more harmoniously. The attractive influence and visible energy of the spirit world made the meeting a great success, which will be realized for everlasting good in every department of human society. Vineland, the modern garden of Eden without fences, snakes or devils, was a ﬁtting place for the fruits of social freedom to mature into the sweet resolutions which were unanimously adopted by the people and sent out for the world’s approval. ’ Letvall who can, live them and earnestly teach them, for they contain the true elements and principles of social, family and national freedom, justice and harmony, which is so much desired by the lover of truth. When these pure principles of social freedom have been more thoroughly introduced to the thinking world, and when they have been investigated with a proper spirit searching for truth with a love for it, then will the evidences presented in favor of social reforms be gladly received by all unprejudiced minds’; then will the accomplishment of the great work of social happiness and progress be attained with increased rapidity; and then will the rewards of all present reformatory efforts be duly enjoyed by our self-sacrificing philanthropist Victoria C. Woodhull. ' The end of the world in the blessed union of the sexes is not yet; but the present beautiful and harmonizing prin- ciples of Free Love, which fall like dew and sunlight on the barren and desolate wastes of married life, clearly represent the hidden glory of that wisdom and power which shall bring about a universal social reformation. Timid, half- way reformers suppress the truth which ought to be spoken and “prophecy smooth things.” In an age so exciting as the present, and as the incoming future promises to be, we need fearless men and women who will grasp the whole truth and embrace a suffering world. Inferior minds are not able now to face public opinion, and still less will they be able, as the great conflict gr-ows,‘to throw themselves into the breach and control thegwarring passions of lust and sense. Not a moment is to be lost; for while this halting, withholding disposition rules among re- formers, the Young Men’s Christian Association are gaining strength from the evil one more rapidly than the pulsations of the heart, to smother and crush out what little love and energy you have for the work of general reform. I Come, come, be decided and enforce the great vital prac- tical principles of reform. lNait no longer for the harvest ..(of the seed which was sowed so freely in Steinway Hail. i This latter means, in reality, to override the existing law. , .9, . if 12 WOODHULL‘ & CL._AFLIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 13, 1873. Behold it is springing up all around you, and the approach- ing abundance was clearly seen at the late Vineland Con- vention; it will go into every household in all the land. The earnest pleadings of the living and the last call of the dying are for this breadof life. DR. H. P. FAIRFIELD. THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT~—A VISION. BY R. w. HUME. Oppressed with woe, in pensive mood I pondered o’er my day of life; For age’s snow was o’er me strewed, And I felt weary of the strife. The giant wrongs I strove to quell, Soarcd haughty in their “ pride of place;” * As rain on rocks my efforts fell, And I seemed distanced in the race. “ Alas! alas!” I cried in grief, And mourned my long and ill-spent day; “ There‘s no return, there’s no relief, And I have ﬂung my time away.” Just then an angel o’er me stood,’ And laid her hand upon my brow; “ Oh, cease!” she said, “thy craven mood, And hear thetruth and heed it now. “ There’s not one honest, earnest thrill That e’er found lodgment in thy mind ; But shall develop yet and ﬁll With ﬂowers the garden of mankind. “ There’s not one holy, righteous word That e’er hath passed those lips of thine, But in the future shall be heard, And bear good fruit in happier time. “ There’s not one blow in freedom’s war, For justice and for human right, Though dealt by feeblest hand shall fail; For victory must crown your ﬁght. “ Then cease, oh cease your clamors vain, And view your past with clearer eye; Night’s shadows soon shall be dispelled, And morning brighten all your sky.” Stopped was the ﬂow of sorrowls tide, My tears their tribute ceased to pay; “ Give me my pilgrim‘s staff,” I cried, “Forward, I follow, lead the way.” * A term in falconry—the highest pitch of ﬂight. Sister Victoria——Please say to your readers that unavoid- able circumstances prevent the lady I spoke of giving the articles I spoke of at this time, she being so fully occupied that she cannot prepare them at present; but I have other articles that I shall commence publishing soon, which may prove equally interesting. LOIS WAISBROOKER; SOCIAL PALACE ASSOCIATION, HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY. v An association has been formed at Hammonton, New Jersey, for the purpose of uniting together those interested and desirous to see the system, domestic and industrial, of the Social Palace practically realized in this country. Those persons who are interested in the purposes of the association and desirous of furthering its objects, or of ob- taining further information upon the subject, are requested- to address the secretary. It may perhapsbe well to state, that in I-larper’s Ildagazine for April, 1872, will be found an account, with illustrations, of the Social Palace founded at Guise, France, by M. Godin. EDWARD HOWLAND, Secretary. Address, Box 88, Hammonton, N. J. LONG HILL, Trumbull, Ct., August 28, 187 . Dear Friends—You will remember the old gentleman, Charles Bishop, who was so anxious to see you at the time of your visit at our house. To-day, at his special request, I spoke the last words over his dead body, and followed it to the grave. He was a Spiritualist, and thoroughly in sympathy with your labor and other needed reforms. Two days after he grasped your hands, his last sickness came, and now he has gone home. _ ANNA M. MIDDLEBROOK. BOSTON, Aug. 4, 1873. My dear Friend—I wrote you brieﬂy yesterday on the need of organization among the free and progressive minds of the country and the world. It seems to me, however, that I ought to lay before you more fully and without delay my thought on that subject. I write to you because you hold a pivotal position and probably have a larger constitu- ency allied to you both by aﬁection and conviction than any other person in this nation; and because you are moving to bring a large body of people up to a recognition of the need of organization. I It is clear to me that there is to be quite soon among the free thinkers, the free religionists, the free lovers, free traders, free governmentists, free moneyists, free homeists and free everythingists, as spontaneous union, for the pur- pose of securing for each and every vital idea a practical social recognition and incarnation in the institutions, the form and body of society itself, and thereby the protection of the rights and liberties of every member of society. Even if you succeed in organizing the Spiritualists into a body of practical workers, and if the free religionists, the Pantarchists, the half dozen different schools of labor re- formers, the Internationals, Suffragists and Equal Rights party; each and all push their distinctive issues (which may be well as a natural distribution of the several branches of labor i.nto a proper and convenient form for full and careful consideration-—so to say, committeeizing the whole body o_f reformers and all the subjects to be considered), there will still be wanting some form of association which shall unitize and focalize to one'centre_the deliberations and plans of all those groups or committees. The need of some such unity, I am sure,,is felt by all thoughtful friends. The great body of the people who make up the rank and ﬁle of any one of these reforms are not up to the full stature of the men and women who really lead and represent these several underlying radical ideas. My thought, then, is this, that whether you are successful in drawing the Spiritu- alists, as a body, up to your ideas of organization or not, you will have a large following of the most earnest, wisest and best of them, and they at least should be united by or- ganization. For the purpose of forming the central body or congress of all these different reform bodies let there be invitations sent out by afew persons_of known liberality, breadth of view and tried devotion to the representative women and men in every department of reform, inviting them to a congress for the purpose of‘ deliberating on a plan of organization, which shall unite all reformers into what will be practically a new church and a new State. In the doing of a work like this, it would be of the utmost importance that there should be no haste. There should be ample time and great deliberation. It could not be done in a week nor a month; and if it were well done in six months or a year, it would doubtless be well worth the cost. 2. It is certain that no one plan would be likely to be ac- cepted as a whole, but it is quite probable that the best features of most, if not all, would be essentially adopted. 3. It would be indispensable, then, to the best success and ultimate harmony that all mere personal ambition and prede- termined adhesion to pet schemes should be absorbed by de- votion to'what in itself should be manifestly best. 4. The ﬁrst session of such a congress would likely be very short. It would likely be devoted to a general comparison of views—ﬁrst, as to what should be the scope and form of organization; the choosing of committees to report on diﬁer-j ent subjects at an adjourned session. At that session, re- ports would be acted upon and a committee chosen to report to that or a succeeding sessien a plan or basis of organiza- tion for the critical consideration of the congress, for amendment, acceptance and adoption, or rejection by the same. 5. It seems to me that the object sought by the Congress should be unity of spirit, thought and purpose. It would therefore try to act from unanimity, and not on the majority or force principle of civilizers. 6. Hence it would not be governed by Cushing’s Manual, but by that inward manual whose law is kindness, fairness, candor, truthfulness, and whose method is the preference of one another in honor. - *7. If such a work could be accomplished in a year of hard- earned labor and discipline, it would be cheaply earned, and would, in all probability, be the means of great good to the people of the whole nation and the entire globe. Faithfully, J OHN ORVIS. P. S.—-There is "probably nothing new to you in these sug- gestions, but it will be encouraging, perhaps, to know that other minds are running in the same line with your own. I should like to have the foregoing appear in your paper; but I leave it to your judgment as to whether it should come out before the meeting of the N ational Convention at Chi- cago or not. J. O. Gr-4---——---=- MISCELLANEOUS. (Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Cornelius Burling, in the oﬂice of Librarian of Congress at Washington.) WHAT EVERY MAN, FEMALE AND MALE, AND PARTICULARLY EVERY LABORER, OUGHT TO KNOW. CHAPTER VIII. PRESCRIPTION. “ We hold these truths to be self-evident—that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its .foundations in such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to cﬁect their safety and happiness.” This is a part of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence is a declaration of the rights and wrongs of man, and the part above set forth is the declara- tion of the rights, and all the rest of the declaration is but a declaration of the wnongs; and each and every one of those wrongs is but an exercise of prerogative royal, individual will as government. So all those wrongs can be fully summed up in the one general declaration of the wrong of individual will, enforced on the people as government. Now, ﬁrst let us make the part of the declaration above set forth more certain and deﬁnite. “ We hold these truths to be self-evident——that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” “ The pursuit of happiness” is vague. equivocal. All sen- sualists are in pursuit of their happiness. The rights of man can be deﬁnitely stated as the rights of personal liberty, perso- nal security and private property. Well-—~ “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that to secure these rights govern- ments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent- of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” Well, “ truths ” and “ rights ” and “principles ” are all synonyms, and mean understanding, the word, Vox Populi vox Dei—-the voice of the people is the voice of God—for in the people individual will is reﬁned out, and understand- ing pure prevails; and understanding is right, for it is Vox Dei—the voice of God—-as distinguished from wrong, which is the will of the individual (when not the will of the people, when not right) enforced on the people——that is, on the in- dividual, for government. So this declaration complains of the enforcement of indi- vidual will as government as a wrong, and insists on the en- forcement of the will of the people as right, and this is all there is of the declaration, and this is all there is of govern- ment. The will of the people—right; and the will of the in- dividual-wrong. “We hold those truths to be se1f—evident—that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, etc.” ' Well, if “ all men are created equal,” then it follows that all men have equal rights; and if “ all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, etc.,” then it fol- lows that all men have the natural endowment of equality. “That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men.” So government is to secure these. rights, and with the secur- ing of these rights the business of government must begin and end; for one step beyond§the securing of these rights, which are the will of the people, is the enforcement of the will of the individual as government, which is wrong. The will of the individual may perhaps govern the individual, but the will of the people alone must govern the people, and the will of the people is the enforcement of right as govern- ment, and right can know no distinction of persons, female or male, white for black, for all are men; and the declaration declares “ atl men are created equal,” and all men must mean. all men, female and male, white and black—for man is female and male, white and black. All men, female and male, white and black, are the sub- jects of government, and these inalienable rights of all men, female and male, white and black, are involved in the government; government is but the charge of these rights for their enforcement. “That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men.” Now, plainly, to deny to any man, female or male, white or black, eqality in the government—-equal voice, equal power in the go vernment—-is to deprive them of their natural inalienable rights; it is to take away these rights; and the sole use of government to man, female. or male, white or black, is to secure to man these inalienable rights; and inalienable means that which cannot be taken away. “That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Yes. the consent of the governed is an essential requisite to the securing of these rights to man; for without such con- sent, government is an outrage, a despotism, for it is the forced deprivation of the rights of man—and man is female and male, white and black, so the ﬁrst essential requisite of government is the consent of all men to it——-all men, female and male, white and black. “And to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.” So woman must have her perfect equality with man in the government, THIS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL POSITION, THE PER- ; rncr EQUALITY on ALL MEN; and the next is: “ That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.” And with the securing of these rights, the business of gov- ernment must begin and end, and rights are the will of the people as distinguished from » wrong, the wiil of the indi- vidual. And the individual will enforce his will as he can; and if the people want their will enforced, they, the people, must en- force it; for the individual never will. Put this enforcement of the will of the people, at the will of the individual, and the will of the people is gone, and tthe will of ihe individual is su. preme, and bestiality, despotism reigns. Now, if the will of the people is to be enforced, the people them- selves must enforce it; the people must see that their will is ex- pressed in the law, and the people must themselves enforce the law. ~ The will of the people is right, justice—no more—this is easy of expression ; and the people, as the jury, must see that this right, this justice, be done. There is no justice the individual can do that the number of individuals, the jury, cannot better do. For the individ- ual is subject to his individual will, bestiality; but in the number of individuals, the jury, the people, individual will, bestiality, is reﬁned out and understanding reigns. Voa; populi vorc Dei reigns. , - So the whole question comes to the question of judge or jury. Judge, king; jury, people—judge wrong, jurygrightf judge bestiality, jury understanding. This is the whole question: Which of these two powers is to reign? The one or the other must reign supreme, alone. Where the one reigns the other cannot exist. With us the judge, king, has reigned supreme, and he has made the jury a mere pretense, a form, a lie. Now, either the judge must continue king, and his will the law, or the will of the people must be the law, and the judge must be the mouthpiece, the utterance of the law; the judge must have no individual will, no individuality; for, give the" judge individual will, individuality in the least, and presto! he is king at once, for the judge must be king or nobody; and the judge must be nobody, or the people must be no- body. This is the question: Judge or people. And judge is bestiality, despotism, Paganism; and the people is under- standing, liberty, Christianity; for Christianity is under- standing enforced as government. And make Christianity a reality and it is government. Shut your ears to preachers, and use your eyes and 11;}. I ,4 ’“’ ’~. Sept. 13, 1873. D W'()ODHULL cc ()LAFLIN’S WEEKLY. . 13 derstanding. and read the teachings of Christ in the Testa- ment, and see how He preached understanding and de- nounced Paganism ; but Paganism reigns supreme, Christ to the contrary notwithstanding. ‘ Now let us see if Paganism as government cannot be put down and Christianity be enforced. This is the question: Christianity or Paganism. NOTE.-—“That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.” Government is to secure these rights, and to secure these rights there must be law deﬁning these rights, and courts, judges, juries, etc., for the enforcement of the law. So government means law, courts, judges, juries, etc., no more. This is all the government the people want——the enforcement of right, the administration of justice. In the State of New York there is no administration of justice, for there is no trial by jury to the judgment of thejudge. So the judge is ' all and the jury nothing. And why take the oerdict of a jury when the jury has no power to decide! And even the judgment of the judge is nothing, for his judgment is subject to revision by his superior judge, for in this State the king system of judges exists -—one judge is the superior of another, and so appeal lies from judge subordinate to judge superior, until the king, the Court of Appeals, is reached, and this Court can be reached only by the rich, for to reach it delay, expenses, securities are necessary, and these the poor man—the people——has not; so the judgment of the subordinate judge becomes the law to the people—the poor man, who by reason of poverty cannot ap- peal: the system of appeal is provided for the escape of the rich men from the poor men, the people. I And even of these judges no judgment, no law can ever be had; for of * the subordinate judges that can hear a cause, thejudgment is notjﬁnal, is not law, and the only court whose judgment is ever ﬁnal, is ever the law, the Court of Appeals has no original jurisdiction, and so cannot hear a cause, so there absolutely is in no sense a court of justice in the State—not one court that can hear and decide a cause. Justice can in no wise be had. And each judge is king in his jurisdiction, and exercises the preroga- tive royal of making other judges at will (referees). This system, like the mythological monster of old, has the capacity of reproducing it- self, ad inﬂnitum; so although no justice can be had, judges there are ad tnﬁnétum. The whole system is a_ denial of justice, and is devised to put the people at the mercy of the individual, the judge, his friends, tools and pimps. The system is a libel on understanding and a stench in the nostrils of justice. Can the reader doubt that as to government he is a mere trained beast, when he endures such perversion of government for govern- ment? How long will the people continue to support a government that does not afford them a court of justice? How long will the people continue to support a government that judges and friends, sons, brothers, partners, etc., may make business and proﬁts? And in criminal matters the governor pardons whom he will, for the criminal system of” law is the king system supreme-—the principle that the governor, the king, owns the subject, the convict, and so can do with him as he will, imprison him or free him, pardon him or hang him. There is no law in the State for the restraint or prevention of crime, except the will of the governor—the king. ' A CARD. While I have the most entire sympathy with every work looking toward the emancipation of woman from her en- slaved condition, I must for the present devote myself to dress reform as a special branch of the central one; I do this, both because I see so clearly that the others cannot be car- ried forward to completion without it, and because there seem to be fewer willing to take hold of it than of any other. I shall be glad to correspond with all friends ofthe re- form who are willing to assist me in it. Suggestions as to the best methods of procedure, how to raise money to be used in publishing and distributing tracts, or help to obtain a public hearing in any way, will all be gratefully received and duly acknowledged. O. F. SHEPARD. VINELAND, N. J ., August 29, 1873. ALL HAIL I LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 20, 1873. All hail to such brave souls as Moses Hull. Men and women are few who dare place themselves against the scorn which prejudiced society will hurl upon them when they are noble enough to announce their convictions, much more their practice, if it does not conform to the time-worn cus- toms of that society. Therefore, when a man has dared, as ‘ Moses Hull has dared, to start a new impetus to the revolv- ing wheel of progress, in my opinion as effective as any yet given, he and the cause of truth deserve the expression of approval from the approving, as there are legions of misled mortals with their barb of selﬁsh ignorance not only to drive ' but to pin him to the wall of discomﬁture. For this reason. I take my pen to write, noble Moses Hull, _ who has dared to do what, I fear, scarce another dare, not in practice but in public announcement, teaching most potently the lesson of frankness and shame to the hypocrite, who evenmay feel it abominable to live a lie, yet so court the favor of this monster society that they demean him or herself—to avoid suspicion, I opine—to condemn others if there is ought in their line of action to shake the suspicion that they are walking in the path their honored, yea, re- spectable (?) selves have long years trod. The needs of individuals are varied. Many need experi- ences similar to Moses Hull’s, as thesad, sadfstory of many a weary, worn wife and tired, discouraged husband will tell. And yet, with the teaching of error encompassing us, how few who try to administer to mind or body dare inform the patient the cause of his ills; but patients are fast learning the cause, and sooner or later will apply the remedy. 5 Frequently words like these are poured into my ears: “I do not believe God intended persons to marry?” Then comes the same sad narrative of soul pollution and death of body. Mind you, friends, half the individuals who utter this quotation would scorn to have the term Spiritualist or F1~ee_Lover applied to them; but their bitter experience has taught them there is something wrong in their social and sexual relations. When they tell us where and how remedies might be obtained, what can we answer? For with Laura Cuppy Smith we long since learned that the majority of women at least “are like dogs in the manger; do not love their husbands themselves and swear by heaven no other woman. shells” and teen are ditto, Yes, even» Whi19_t3king.. the privileges they deny others. God pity and Christ cure them is my prayer; while I will further add, I am not in habit of worshiping mortals, neither usually in favor of high monuments or embalming, but am fully convinced Moses Hull is deserving of all three for taking a stand the ungrowing cannot but condemn, while too many favored with growth will not dare sustain; but the angels will place a star upon his forehead, the meekest will yet be willing to wear a crown of thorns, hard pressed down. Again God bless him, is the prayer of ANNE L. DEWEY. THE MORNING COMETH. BY HELEN. M. WALTON. The morning light is breaking, And the storm clouds parting now; For I see the gold and crimson Gleam on the mountain brow. Dark, misty, curtained error Rolls backward in its gloom, And the resurrection morning Lights up the midnight tomb. Shine forth, oh! glorious morning! Like a warrior sword in hand; And cleave the hosts of darkness In sky, and sea, and land. ’ Break! Break! Oh, glorious sunshine; On the future and the now; And lift the crown of sorrow From the martyr‘s lowly brow. Pale woman, weeping sadly, Enchained beyond control, Wears still the captive fetters That eat into the soul. - Dear children, knowing hunger, And mother starving too; We ﬁnd at every corner Of this great city through. We also ﬁnd the churches, Whose brazen bells give news, Of time of prayer for Christians To kneel in cushioned pews. The silks and satins rustle, Flushed worshipers exclaim, “ Good-will to all the heathen,” ' And this in Jesus’ name. But, just outside the churches, Hard by their costly doors, A Nazarene of sorrow For his brother man implores. For the anguish of the people He ever walks and prays, Through all the slums and hovels, By dark and dubious ways. He enters not the churches, But passes by in dread; To lift from out the way-side The poor man’s weary head. Methinks they named him Jesus Who, in the olden time, Called every man “his brother” And nothing called he “mine.” This man of God—all meekly-— On whom the angels smiled, Is sacriﬁcedand daily In the person of his child, The world with cruel mockery, In every thoroughfare, Compels the poor and feeble The cross of Christ to bear. The great church of humanity Is ever with us still; We cannot miss its portals, Ignore it as we will. The brotherhood of races, The sisterhood of love, The fatherhood of all mankind Make trinity above. Then, onward, glorious morrow! That gives the light of day . To all who sit in darkness, ’1‘o all who watch and pray. O’cr the worker and the prophet Cast thy mantle all aﬂame, With the glory and the brightness Of the blessed Master’s name. THAT EXPERIENCE. Victorta———Permit me to say that my article, published in your paper dated August 23, has brought me scores and scores of letters, nearly every one of them asking important ques- tions and demanding private and conﬁdential replies. It would take all of my time and dollars of stationery to answer them. During the ﬁrst few days I undertook to answer them, but have been compelled to give it up. Just one in- dividual has been thoughtful enough to send money to pay return postage. I can answer no more private correspondents unless they pay the postage, and even then I prefer to answer through WOODITULL 8: CLAELIN’s WEEKLY. If persons wish to write, having their questions answered pro bono publtco, I will save their questions and arrange them in proper order, and by and by prepare an answer and pub- lish in the WEEKLY. ' Let another thing be understood once for all. Anony- mous letters will not be noticed. I ‘must have the con- ﬁdence of those whose communications I notice. My address is for the-present 27 Milford street, Boston. . Mosns HULL. A SPECIMEN LETTER. Sister T/"tctorta~——Inclosed ﬁnd a specimen of the letters I am receiving from the best minds in the country. Such straws indicate the direction of the wind. But what a race of cowards we are! ’ Of all the letters I have received in- dorsing my course, this is the only one I have the privilege of using as I choose. They usually say, “ This is private and conﬁdential.” I am glad to ﬁnd a few such men in the world, and when I ﬁnd them I am more than proud to have them known publicly. Mosns HULL. FLORENCE HEIGHTS, N. J ., August 18, 1873. Frtend Ilfoses Hull——I have just read your letter in the WOODHULL 85 CLAFLIN WEEKLY, August 23. You have hit the nail right on the head. The dispute lies in the deﬁnition of adultery. You have made a bold stride in the right direc- tion, and well-informed persons will sustain the position. I have studied this social question for the past half dozen years, and can heartily concur with your sentiments. Go on with the good work and break up all existing slavery, no matter what its name or nature. You can use this as you see ﬁt. Yours truly, P. P. FIELD, M. D. THAT BOAT STORY. As I was the only woman wearing the reform dress among that boat—load of radicals going to the Vineland Convention, it is safe to infer that the Herald reporter made reference to me in his attempt to be funny. For the relief of friends who may feel concerned for my good behavior, I will state that I carried no fan, and did not speak to the reporter or any other stranger. If he will produce the ‘man who owns my coat and pants (for he says I wore “ a man's coat” and “ a. man’s pants”), I promise to deliver them to the rightful owner; until that time I intend to wear and enjoy them I" myself. Am sorry he and the rest of the boys feel so bad about it, but can’t help it. Yours for freedomof lung and limb as the necessary re- sult of, and aid to, all mental and social freedom. OLIVIA FREELOVE SHEPARD. DES MOINES, Iowa, August 24, 1873. Vtctortd—I am a reader of the WEEKLY and also of the R. P. Journal, and permit me to say, I am very much sur- prised at the course pursued by many of those professing to be reformers and natural philosophers, as regards the teach- ings of Victoria C. Viloodhull. Why, one would infer from the writings of her opposers that she was the great discov- erer and dispenser of the Free-Love doctrine, when the truth is, the Free-Love idea is as old as the human race. Every one loves, and the grade and extent of that love will depend on the natural development of the individual. “Like attracts like.” “Birds of a feather will ﬂock to- gether.” Who can destroy natural law? If the love element of our na.ture is perverted, what is the producing cause of that perversion? Surely Victoria Woodhull and her co- laborers, with their united inﬂuences, cannot produce that cause. It would not be catching among those on a different plane of growth. N ow it seems to me that, instead of making the present advocates of Free Love targets to ﬁre at, the opposers of these sentiments——if they think them wrong and pernicious in their tendency—-ought to search for the cause producing I the present radical, socialistic ideas so widespread and hav- ing so many earnest and accomplished advocates, and make haste to reveal the cure, thereby becoming the saviors of the human race. A searcher after truth, ALMIRA F. PATTERSON. “CHILDREN AND FOOLS,” ETC. It is an old saying that children and fools tell the truth, sometimes to the confusion of older people and knaves. We cannot help recalling this old “saw,” upon reading the fol- lowing extract in 'the N. Y. Herald of the 26th ult., con- tained in an editorial entitled “ Barbarism and Civilization Side by Side”: _ . It seems, really, that the more pretence of virtueithere is in some communities the more appalling are the crimes com- mitted in them. Philadelphia claims the merit of being a very moral and orderly place, and, we are willing to admit, a large portion of its population is respectable. Still, the revelations lately made by our correspondents show that in no city is there grosser immorality, though frequently cover- ed over by an outward show of decency or by a Vail being thrown over it. There is a good deal of the same Puritanioal spirit in Philadelphia as in Boston, which makes a show of respectability at the front door, while the side or back door is open to vice and uncleanness. It is just this sort of hypoc- risy which hardens and demoralizes a community and leads to such horrible cruelty as that of Mrs. Rowland, as well as to the frightful orgies in Philadelphia that have been exposed in this paper. There is in juxtaposition with our boasted civilization, particularly in the large cities, a fearful amount of demoralization. Where is the remedy? Better police regulations and a more vigilant police force would help to remove the evil. But what is most needed is a more general and higher order of education. Then, those who assume to work for the morals and salvationof the community, the ministers of religion and the churches, pay little attention to the poorer classes. They, together with the wealthy, could do much more to instruct and reclaim the vicious and to break up the haunts of vice. It is a sad reflection that in the midst of our Christian civilization, and where costly churches are errected in almost every square of our cities, crime should be so rampant and vice prevail so much. The same paper says: A Southwestern man, speaking of woman’s rights, says there is but one trade open to the gentle sex, and that trade is marriage. [From the Springﬁeld Republican, Moss] The decision of the St. Louis judge against the constitu- tionality of the social evil regulation system in that city, of course, does not settle anything, as the matter is to be car- ried to the Supreme Court. But he has got hold of a very sound idea when he demands that the law should operate I uniformly—-that the man should be subject to its regulations and the publicity it involves equally with the woman. The time is coming when public sentiment will sustain this de- mand, if it does not now. ‘ l .’ »--.A“_.A_,.~«M 14 WOODHUIJL «it CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 13, 1873.’ [CONTINUED raom PAGE 7.( is in the present? Do not all national banks, though nomi- nally distinct, really have a common fountain-head in gov- ernment? Does not all their currency come from govern- ment? Suppose all these banks, instead of being independent institutions, were an organized system, having a common head, as the banks of New York city virtually have in the Clearing House, would not that be a condition so nearly re- lated to the system which would be required as to show its entire practicability? Indeed, there is scarcely need that there should be a new department inaugurated to bring such a currency home to the people. Perhaps there never was a system operated in which there was less proportionate loss through its executive officers than in our postal system. And this is because the responsibility comes home to the people. The postmaster is always a resident of the place in which he ofriciates, and, either with or without a civil service law, should be the ap- pointee of the citizens whom he is to serve; and, of course, would be a person. possessing their special conﬁdence. To such persons might the care of the public money well be in- trusted; and in all places except cities a single person could perform both the services of postmaster and of United States ﬁnancial agent. . Means can be easily devised to make all post-oﬁflces offices for loaning, as they now sell post-oﬂice stamps and money- orders. In all that I have said my only purpose has been to en deavor to arrive at a proper understanding of the most im- portant feature of governmental justice and uniform equity- among all the people. All past systems have failed to secure this. The world has constantly witnessed the proceeds of the labors of the millions aggregatecl in the hands of the few. This advantage which one class has possessed over another cannot long exist under the rapid spread of intelligence which markes the present generation; and it behooves this people to give due consideration to any scheme which pro- poses to lessen this advantage. And most especially does it become the duty of the people, if there be suchathing as principles of ﬁnance, to find them out and cause them to be practically applied. In ﬁne, and to resume: the idea of money must first be separated from that of the intrinsic value of gold, or any other commodity, and conﬁned to the mere capacity of rep- resenting all commodities, and so of facilitating the ex- changes of wealth. This, it has been abundantly demon- strated, can be as well, and for various reasons, better done by strips of paper, properly stamped and signed, than by gold or any other metal. In the next place, these strips of paper, signed by the gov- ernment, with the credit and wealth of the whole country, are better than individual promises; though the issuance of individual promises should not and need not be prohibited, as we do not now prohibit anybody from making or receiv- ing private notes, drafts and checks. Again, the government money need not be redeemable, but only convertible into new strips of paper when the old ones are worn out, and into commodies when they are used in trade, and into other government securities bearing in- terest, as I have pointed out. Still again, money has also been held to be a correct mea- sure of values. This it ought to be, indeed, but has never been so, because it has never been measured itself. Of what use would yard- sticks be, used for measuring cloth, but which had never themselves been measured by anything? The system which I have stated for measuring money itself is believed to be perfect. It is not the individual dollar, rel- atively to the half dollar or the hundred dollars, that has failed to be measured or ﬁxed, but the rate ofincrease rela- tively togother values, of all the government currency aﬂoat. By the coiivertibility of any excess of issue sinking its value below a certain standard into interest-paying bonds, any over-issue is immediately absorbed., while a deﬁciency of is- sue will be revealed by the fact that absolutely no bonds be sold. In this manner the whole operation will be self- adjusting from day to"_ day; the value of the aggregate of government money will be accurately measured and kept uniform; and any interest. or temptation which the govern— ment might have to an over-issue would be immediately neutralized by the absorption of such surplus into bonds, upon which the government itself would be paying in- terest; or, in other words, assuming an unnecessary and useless burden, in the face of the people and of its own economies. Can anything more perfect be devised? If so, let us have it by all means; if not, let this device be adopted. A self-adjusting, self-regulating ad- measurement of the value of money would make it a true measure of other values, and is a suggestion which, if it can be secured, is of unequaled importance. Another somewhat similar idea was glanced at in passing -—that of a deﬁnite method of determining scientiﬁcally the equitable rate of interest. This I cannot stop now to ex- plain. It will, however, only be when we come quite down to that basis, that the full value of this ﬁnancial system will be experienced. Finally, in its basis, this system of government money is money issued at the mere cost of printing and circulating; but by adjoining with it the idea of a complete, simple and exceedingly economical means of raising the revenue of the country, the three or four per cent. is paid to the treasury; that is to say, by the people individually to the same people . intheir collective capacity. Under this system all the various revenue officials and tax assessors and gatherers would be dispensed with, and a vast system of economy in- augurated which in a few years would transpose us from a borrowing to a loaning»; nation, making us the ﬁnancial ex- ample f or all the world. This it also seems to me is another invaluable feature of the system, all of which I, however, respectfully submit to‘ the decision of the people. The interests of humanity which are involved in this ques- tion are greater than are the interests of those who have as- sumed to rule the world, and who are endeavoring to fasten upon the people despotism, to escape from which would re- quire the shedding of whole rivers of human blood and the destruction of the best evidences of our civilization, for which we have a perfect right to feel the greatest admira- tion. A timely understanding of the money question would guarantee precisely the reverse of all this, and cause human- ity to take still greater and more rapid strides toward that perfect enlightenment which can alone thoroughly recognize the common brotherhood of the human race, toward which end all reform should be directed. 5 LA 4 r \WT BUSINESS EDITORIALS. RAILROADS AND THEIR APPOINTMENTS. here are various opinions regarding the several great 1'ail1.‘oad lines which connect the Metropolis of America with the great lVest—-north and south. The chief end that seems to have been aimed at is speed, and some roads have been so absorbed in this as to have entirely overlooked the matter of comfort, which to all but persons traveling on business purely, is an important item. One of the main lines at least, and we think two, and they the so—called popular lines, have been wonderfully negligent in some things of great value to the general public. ,Ther<—: is, how- ever, one route VI est, the Baltimore and Ohio, which has given special attention to all the requirements ofthe traveler —speed, comfortable cars and well-managed eating—l1ouses, which last is a cause of great complaint upon some other roads that make greater pretensions than this route makes. Its management works in a quiet, unostentatious manner, and, especially since completing its new and quick Chicago connection westward from Parkersburg, has taken a ﬁrm hold upon the traveling public, and is obtaining its full quota of the public patronage. In point of time, its VVestern connections compare favorably with any route, while. in many things it is superior to all other routes. KURTZ’ RESTAURANTS. Among the many permanent institutions of the city are the several restaurants of Mr. Fred. Kurtz, located at 23 New street, 60 Broadway, '76 Maiden lane and at the corner of Fifth avenue and Ninetieth street. Undoubtedly Kurtis excels all competitors in the conduct of a ﬁrst—class eating- house. Besides being thoroughly versed in stocking his store-rooms, he understands just how to please the general palate in the preparation of his dishes. Success is the best test of merit, especially in this business; and if I’:U.1‘tZ’ merit is to be so tested, he stands pre-eminent over all other caterers. Each of the above places will accommodate from one to two hundred persons, and all of them, at almost any hour of the day, are filled. Strargers, visitors and residents will ﬁnd Ifurtz’ the most satisfactory, as well as cheapest, ﬁrst-class eating establishments in the city; while those who visit Central Park should not fail to call at the new and elegant retreat at the corner of Nineticth street. QUARTERLY MEETING. Notice is hereby given that a Quarterly Meeting will be held under the auspices of the Indiana State Association of Spiritualists at Oxford, Benton Co., Indiana, commencing Friday, September 12th, 1873, at 7% o’clock I’. M., and con- tinuing over Sunday. Come one and all. If any of the friends, on arrival at the depot, are not met by the Committee of Arrangements, they will proceed at once to the Ohio House, or Treasurer’s office, where they will be cared for. . J. R. BUELL, Secretary of Indiana State Association of Spiritualists. THE undersigned, feeling that the times are ripe for a social club in this city, invites those who are of like mind to communicate with her, with ‘a view to securingasuitable place for weekly meetings, for mutual improvement and social enjoyment, and with a hope of ultimately organizing aunitary home. Address, E. M. BECKWITII, Station D. HEALING by laying on hands, at 9‘? Clinton Place, by L. A. Edminster, of Boston. All female diseases successfully treated; the best of reference can be given. Patients visited. at their homes, or treated by Magnetic Conductors. N 0 medicine used. Terms $22.00 each treatment; oﬁiice hours from 9 to 11 A. M., and 2 to 5 P. M. Send stamp for return letter. APPROACHING CONFLICT- The irrepressible issues between universal liberty and des- potism to precipitate a terrible war within ﬁve years that will terminate iii the overthrow of the American Republic and the establishment of a military dictatorship. Church, State and Capital are combined, under the leader- ship of the Republican party, to precipitate the conflict that will end in a defeat of their aspirations, and the ultimate triumph of industry, socialism and rationalism. \ The nation is slumbering upon the brink of ruin as uncon- ciously as the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum in that awful moment that preceded the belching forth of Vesu— ' vius. The most astounding foreshadowing of the future destiny of this nation ever issued from the press. _. A book of 250 pages will be sent to any address, post-paid, for $1.50. Liberal terms given to agents. Address, JOHN WILLCOX, v: ' I72 and 174 Clark street, Chicago, Ill. IOWA SPIRITUALISTS. The Spiritualists of Iowa will hold their Fifth Annual Convention, at their Hall, in VValnut street, Des Moincs, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 3, 4 and 5, com- mencing at 10 o’clock A. M. G-ood speakers will be in attendance, and at least one good test medium. The friends at Des Moines always take care of visitors. , So come on, all friends of the cause, speakers, mediums and everybody else, and let us make the occasion one worthy of our good cause. J. P. DAvis, P1'es’t. J. SWAIN, Sec’y. DES Momns, Iowa, August .20, 1873. QUARTERLY MEETING NOTICE. The first quarterly meeting of the Western Reserve Woma11’s Emancipation Society will be held at the Univer- ‘ salist Church, in Parkman, commencing on Saturday, Sept. 6, at 10 A. M., to continue two days. D. M. Allen, Lucia H. Cowles, Sarah L. S. Philleo, J. H. Philleo, Francis Barry and others will address the meeting. The platform will be free to opponents, but the meeting will not be diverted from the objects to which the Society is devoted—namely, “ The absolute freedom of woman " through the overthrow of the popular system of marriage.” Friends expecting to come on. the cars will take notice that Gcarretsville, on the Mahoning branch of the Atlantic and Great VVestern Railroad, is the nearest station. The hack from Garrettsville to Parkman (6 miles) connects with trains both east and west, which meet at Garrettsville at 9 A. M. The Free Lovers of Parkman will entertain the friends from a distance to the fullestextent of their ability. By order of the Executive Committee, FRANCIS BARRY, Sec. A NEW HYGIENIC INSTITUTION. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement (in another column) of “ Champion Cure and Liberal Insti- tute,” at Carversville, Bucks Co., Pa. ’ It is matter of congratulation that we now have an insti- tution founded upon the true philosophy, and entirely free from sectarian bias. 4* Vfe are assured by the character of the men and women engaged in the present undertaking at Carversville, as well as by the direct encouragement of spirit friends, that the germ there planted is to grow apacc, and to become an ex- ample of success to foster the establishment of similar insti- tutions. NEW IVIEDIUMS IN THE FIELD. Mrs. S. S. Baldwin and the Dormand Bros. have just con- cluded a series of wonderful seances in New Orleans, all of which were well attended and highly satisfactory. These young men are as yet mere novices, with unsurpassed powers, yet no mediumistic experience, and with but little if any appreciation of their, as I regard it, great prospective mission. MISS CROSBY, whose card will. be found in another place, continues at 316 Fourth. avenue. Those who visit her speak highly of her mediumship. SPIRITUALISM IN NEW YORK. ’ Mrs. Katie Robinson, a ﬁrst-class test and business me- dium from Philadelphia, will be at 316 Fourth avenue for two weeks only. Harry Bastian, one of the best physical medi- ums, will be here in a few days, and beat all the Rutgenstreet ghosts. REFORMATORY LECTURERS. C. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. J. I. Arnold, Clyde, 0. J. O. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. Mrs. «I. F. M. Brown, National City. Cal. Warreii. Chase, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. .~Iennette J, Clark, Montpelier. Vt. Prof. J. H. Cook, Columbus, Kan. A. Briggs Davis, Clinton, Mass. Miss Nellie L. Davis, South Billerica, Mass. . 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ART Should Adorn and Beautify every Home, The Orphans’ Rescue, Engraved on Steel by J. A. J. WILcox, from the Orig- inal Painting by Joseph John. This beautiful picture, and one of the most thrilling sentiment, lifts the vail of materiality from beholding eyes, and reveals the guardians of the Angel World. Fancy fails to picture what is here made real through the artist‘s hand, and words but feebly express the re- sponses of our soul, as we look upon the boat with its hapless freight of children, beautiful and fascinating in tragic attitude and expression-——the silvery lighted angels in their descent so soft, their ﬂight of ease and grace, their countenances radiant with love so tender, combined with energy and power as they hover near with outstretched arms to save. In a boat as it lay in the swollen stream, two or- phans were playing. It was late in the day, before the storm ceased, and the clouds, llghtencd of their burdens, shifted away before the wind, leaving a clear bright sky along the horizon. Unnoticed, the boat became detached from its fastenings and ﬂoated out from shore. Quickly the current carried it beyond all earthly help. Through the foaming rapids and by pre- cipitous rocks dashed the bark with its precious charge. As it neared the brink of the fearful cataract the chil- dren were stricken with terror, and thought that death was inevitable. Suddenly there came a wondrous change in the little girl. Fright gave way to com- posure and resignation as, with a determined and re- sistless impulse that thrilled through her whole being, she grasped the rope that lay by her side, when to her surprise the boat turned, as by some unseen power, toward a quiet eddy in the stream—-a little haven among the rocks. The boy, of more tender age, and not controlled by that mysterious inﬂuence, in despair fell toward his heroic sister, his little form nearly paralyzed with fear. But means of salvation calmed the “ heart’s wild tumult ” and lighted the angry waters as the angels of 7'escue—they who were their parents—-—came to the little voyagers on waves of undying affection; when through that love which ﬁlls alike the heart of parent and child, a power was transmitted that drew the boat aside from its impend- ‘mg doom and lodged it in the crevice of the rocks, and they were rescued. This Work, whether considered in its happy conception and design, or in its ﬁne rendering in line and stipple, is a triumph in art and em- alted sentiment, Size of Sheet Engraved Surface - - 15}§x19}§ inches. RETAIL PRICE - - $3.00. non SALE Ar" ‘WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AT OUR PUB- ‘ I _ LISHING ROOMS. Those who reside at a distance can remit $3.00 and receive the Engraving securely rolled and prepaid by return mail. 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THE FINEST AND .MOST PER- FECT BRAIN AND NERVE IJVVIGORAJVT IN THE IVORLD. _ Physicians and others will ﬁnd it wholly unequaled In all cases of Illness arising from excessive or per- verted sexism, even when insanity and chronic unrest have resulted. 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., Protozone Laboratory, 17 CAMPBELL BLOCK, TOLEDO, o., and but one agencyiin America, viz., MP?! SARAH P. THOMPSON, 1 Phillips Court, Boston, Mass. Price (single pound ﬂasks) mscoonr $5.00 DOZENS OB GROSS. ADDRESS AS ABOVE. ANNA M. MEIXSEL, DAVID S. CADWALLADER, MAGNETIC HEALERS, 1,114 CALLOWHILL STREET, PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE HOURS, 9to 11.1. M.,4to6P. M. PSYCHOMETRIG EXAMINATION OF] DISEASE CORRECTLY MADE FROM A LOOK OF‘ HAIR. RIE RAILWAY.——SUMMER AR- rangement of trains, taking effect J nne 23, 1873. From Chambers Street depot (for Twenty—third Street see note below.) 9 A. M.-Cincinnati and Chicago Day Express. Drawing-room Coaches to Buffalo and sleeping coaches to destination. 1 A. M.——Express mail for Buﬁfalo and Niagara Falls. Sleeping coach to Buffalo. . . 7P. M. (daily).—Cincinnati and Chicag Night Ex- press, Sleeping Coaches through to Buifalo, Niagara Falls, Cincinnati, Detroit and Chicago without change. Trains leave for Port Jervis 8, 9, 11 and *11:15 A. M.; 4:30, 16:30 and *7 P. M. Goshen and Middletown, *6, 8, +8:30, 11 and *11:15 A. M.; 3:45, 4:30, ‘r6:30 and 1*7 P. M. VVarwick, 8, 1-1 A. M., and 4:30 P. M. Newburg, 'f8:30, 9 and 11 A. M., and 4:30 P. M. Suﬁern, *6, 8, +3230, 11 and *11:15 A. M.; 3:45, 5, 6, t6:30) *7 and *11:3O P. M. Ridgewood, Hohokus, Allendale and Ra1nsey’s, *6, 8, 18:30, 11, *11:15 A. M., 3:15, 5, 6, “r6:30, 7 and *11:30 P. M. Paterson, *6, 6:45, 7:15, 8, “r8:30, 8:45, 10, 11, *-11:15, 11:30 A. M., 12 noon, *1:45, 3:45, 4, 5, 5:15, 6, *6:30, *7, 8, 10:30, and *11:30 P. M. Newark, *6, 7:15, ‘-58:45 and 11:30 A. M., and 3:45, 5:15, *6:30, P. M., and 12 Saturday nights only. Rutherfurd Park and Passaic, 6:45, 8, +8:30. 10, 11, “r11:15 A. M., Passaic only; 12 noon, *1:45, 4, 5:15, 6, *6:30, 8, 10:30 and *11:30 P. M. Eillsdale, Hackensack and Way, 5, 8:15 and 'i8:45 A.M., 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 P. M., and 12 Saturday nights only. Spring Valley and Way, 5 and 9:30 2.. M., 4:45 P. M. Englewood, 5, 8, 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 12 and Saturday nights only. 6:30 and *7:45 P. M., and 12 Saturday nights only. Sparkill, 5, 8, +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 Saturday nights only. Piermont and Nyack, 8,19 and 9:30 A. M., 1:30, 3:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:30 and 17:45 P. M. and 12 Saturday nights only. : N. B.~Trains leaving Chambers street on even or half hours leave Twenty-third street 15 minutes earlier than above time. The 5 a. m. and 12 mid. trains start from Chambers street only. N. B.-—Tra.ins on the N. R. R. and Newark Branch leaving Chambers street on quarter hours leave Twen- ty-third street 30 minutes earlier than the above time. Tickets for passage and for apartments in drawing- room and sleeping coaches can be obtained, and orders SELF-CONTRADICTIONS. OF THE ’ BIBLE. One hundred and forty-four propositions proved aﬂirmatively and negatively from Scripture, without comment. Mailed for 25 cents. American News Co., New York. ENN SYL V A N IA RAILROAD.-— UNITED RAILROADS OF NEW JERSEY DIVISION, foot of Desbrosses street and foot of Courtlandt street. Change of hour. Commencing Sunday, Oct. 27, 1872. For West Philadelphia, 8 and 9:30 a. m., 12:30, 4, 5, *6, *8:30 p. m., 12 Night. For Philadelphia via Camden, 7 a. m., 2 p. In. THROUGH TRAINS. 9:00 a. m., Great Southern Morning Express, for Baltimore and Washington; for the West, via West Philadelphia, Baltimore, and for the South, via Balti- more, and via Washington, with Drawing Room Car attached. 9:30 a. m., Western Express for West Philadelphia, Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman’s Palace Cars, through from New York to Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, Columbus, Cincinnati and Louisville, and with Parlor Cars from New York to Pittsburg. 1:00 p. In. Express for Baltimore and Washington, and for the West, via Baltimore, with Drawing Room Car attached. ‘F5200 p. In. Daily Western Express, for Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman’s Palace Car, through from New York to Pittsburg, Indianapolis, Louisville and St. Louis, to Columbus, Cincinnati and Chicago. *7:(‘.0 p. m., Daily Western Express, for Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman‘s Palace Cars, for Pitts- burg, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. *8:30 p. m., Daily Western Express, for West Phil-u adelphia, Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman’s Pal- ace Cars, through without change, to Pittsburg, Crest- line, Fort Wayne and Chicago. 9:00 p. m., Daily Great Southern Evening Express for Baltimore and Washington, with Reclining Chair Cars, and with Pullman Palace Cars through from New York to Washington. Tickets for sale at Ticket Oﬂices, foot of Desbrosses and Cortlandt streets, and in Depot, Jersey City; and at New York Transfer Co,’s oﬁices (Dodd’s Express), No. 944 Broadway, New York, and No. 1 Court street, Brooklyn. Passengers, by leaving suitable notices at these oﬂices, can have their baggage called for at resi dence or hotel, and carried through to destination. Tickets for seats in reclining chair cars and com- partment cars for sale at the Desbrosses street oﬁice. A, J. CASSATT, F. W. J ACKSON, Gen’l Manager. Gen’l Supt. * Daily. Champion Cure and Liberal Institute, Ar Cxnvnesvrnnn, BUCKS COUNTY, Pr“, 5 ILL BE OPENED FOR PATIENTS and pupils SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH, 1873. The Medical Department IS under the charge of Mrs. Maud C. Walker, M. 1)., a regularly-educated physi- cian, of wide experience in hospital-‘ and ordinary practice. She will be assisted by S. M. Sawin, M. D., an experienced army-surgeon, educated at Concepcion Medical College, Chili, S. A. The Academic Depart- ment is headed by S. N. Walker, A. M., a graduate of Vermont University, to whom application for circulars should be made. for the checking and transfer of baggage may be left at the Company’s oﬂices, 241, 529 and 957 Broadway; corner 125th street and Third avenue; 2 Court street, Brooklyn; at the Company’s depots and of agents at the principal hotels. JOHN N. ABBOTT, General Passenger Agent. * Daily. 1* Sundays Middletown only. I Sundays only. THE NEW MOLAI Kate Corsonﬂs Discovery.’ TEE LAVVS AND PRINCIPLES OF MAGNETISM, CLAIRVOYANCE & MEDIUMISM. This is unquestionably the most important mono- graph on Mediumship ever yet published in any country on the globe. How to obtain the Phenomenon in all its phases-— Conglomerate Mediumship. —New and Startling Doc- trine of Mixed Identities.—A handbook of White Magic.——Explieit forms for all phases of Cabalistic In- cantatory and Thaumathurgic Science and Practice. Miss K. V. Corson, Ediiigaﬂd Publisher, Toledo, 0. It is requested that subscriptions for this extraordi- nary Treatise be in Clubs to one address, rather than by single copies, to save time and trouble in mailing, as they COST BUT FIFTY CENTS EACH. Synopsis .' White Magic an actual fact.—Identiﬁcation of the returning dead.—Conditions essential to their reap- pearance. Essentials of Mediumship and Clairvoy ance.—Blonde and Brunette Media.—~Curious reasons. A vast discovery of inestimable importance.—Con- glomerate Circles.—The Yu—Yang.—Psychic Force.— Medial-Aura.~Spanning the Gulf of Eternity!—A Spirit.—Electric People.—To get the Phenomena when alone.—— Odyllic Insulation.——’l‘o form a Splendid Cir- cle.—Double Circles and new arrangement of the sit- tcrs.——Materializaticn. of Spirits, and how to bring it aboutl—The Phantom hand of ’_I‘oled0.—’l‘he Spirit- room.—Machinery essential to Physical Manifesta- tions!-—An Astounding Idea: Atrilism!——Mergement of Identities.———A dead one walks, talks, eats, drinks and does what it chooses while occupying another’s body, while the latter’s soul is quiescent, and con- sciousness and identity wholly lost! a most momen- tous problem, of enormous importance to every Phy- sician, Judge, Juror, Minister, Spiritualist, husband, wife, in short to every human being. It is the most astounding thought yet evolved since Spiritualism be- came a ﬁxed fact, as it accounts for much heretofore wholly unaccountable. PART II.——How to Mesmerize.~—Clairvoyance.—-Psy- chometry, their laws and diﬁerenccs.—'I‘he Eastern“ Mystery of obtaining Seership.—The Mystical Mirror, in a drop of common ink.-To reach Clairvoyance.~— The Breath-Power.—-An Arab Secret.—Magnetic Spells —“ Voodooism ” Black Magic.——Second Youth and how to gain it. Single Copies, 60 cents. CIIIR OPODAL IN S,TI T UTE. Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails, Frosted Feet and Excessive Perspiration, WARTS AND OTHER EXCRESCENCES CURED WITHOUT PAIN BY DR. VV. E. RICE, 208 BROAD?!/"A17, NEIV YORK. Corner Fulton Street. BUNIONS, NAILS, ETC., AT IIIODERATE RATES. Rice’s Corn, Bunion and Pile Cure sent by mail on receipt of 50 cents. A Certain Cure if used ac_c07:ding to directions. Cresskill, 5, 8, +9 and 9:30 A. M., 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 5:30, Sept. 13, 1873. FREDERICK KURTZS DINING soons. 23 New Stand so Broadway 76 Maiden‘ Lane dz 1 Liberty St- AND Ber. 5th ave. &:9Sth at. Mr. Kurtz invites to his large 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 accomplished waiters. 140 ONG ISLAND RAILROAD COM. PANY. On and after Saturday, July 26, trains will leave James Slip as follows:~—Leave Thirty-fourth street, East River, 15 minutes later. 7:30 A.M.-New London express train, connecting with the steamer Sunshine, arriving at New London at 2 P. M. 7:30 A. M.—Greenport and Sag Harbor, Mail and Rockaway excursion trains. I 9:30 A. M.—-Port J eiferson, Locust Valley and Rock away excursion trains. 12 M.——Rockaway express train. 12 M.—Special train for Newport, R. 1., with draw- ing-room cars attached, stopping only at Jamaica, Mineola and Riverhead, arriving at Newport at 7 P. M. 3 P. M.—R0ckaway and Hempstead express. ley express trains. 5 P. M.-—Port J efferson, Locust ‘Valley and Rock- away express trains. 6 P. M.—Northport, Locust Valley and Rockaway ac- commodation trains. Trains connect at Jamaica with East New York and at Mineola With Hemp stead. Sunday trains leave IIunter’s Point as follows: 9 A. M.—Port Jeﬁerson, Northport, Locust Valley and Hempstead excursion trains. 10 A. M.—Rockaway excursion train. 1:30 P. M.-—Rockaway excursion train. 7 P.M.—Northport, Rockaway and Hemp stead trains. 7 :30 P. M.——Rockaway accommodation trains. JTWENTY YEARS’ PRACTICE. DR. PERKINS Can be consulted as usual at his office, No. 9 FIFTH STREET (South Side), OPPOSITE PUBLIC SQUARE, KANSAS CITY, M 0.. or by mail, box 1,227, on the various symptoms of Pri- vate Diseases. The afﬁicted will take notice that I am the only man on the American continent that can cure you of Spermatorrhcea, 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- ducedby nightly seminal emissions or by excessive sexuai Indulgence, or by self abuse are as follows: Loss of memory, sallow countenance, pains in the back, weakness of limbs, chronic costiveness of the bowels, confused vision, blunted intellect, loss of con- ﬁdence in approaching strangers, great nervousness, fetid breath. consumption, parched tongue. and fre- quently insanity and death, unless combated by scien- tific medical aid. Reader, remember Dr. Perkins is th-e 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. MRS. M. M. HARDY, TRANCE MEDIUM, No. 4: Concord ﬁqrlare, BOSTON. ‘ ..._.._.. HOURS PRoM_9 A. M. T0 3 P. M. Terms (for Private Seances in Regnlcw} Hows): $3.00. 3:30 P. M.—-Grreenport, Sag Harbor and Locust Val» /
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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1873-09-13_06_15
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1873-09-13_06_15
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 06, no. 16 (September 20, 1873)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1985
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1873-09-20
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: .,..-._ PROGRESS! EREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES: —’9r- . « V BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. VI.——NO. 16.—Wl1ole N O. 146. _’ NEW YORK, SEPT. 20, 1878. PRICE TEN CENTS. T-HE LOANER’S BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,00 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TION-S, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. . Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOHN J. crsco & SON, Bankers, NO. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubjcct to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of F...
Show more.,..-._ PROGRESS! EREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES: —’9r- . « V BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. VI.——NO. 16.—Wl1ole N O. 146. _’ NEW YORK, SEPT. 20, 1878. PRICE TEN CENTS. T-HE LOANER’S BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,00 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TION-S, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. . Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOHN J. crsco & SON, Bankers, NO. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubjcct 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 RISK. 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 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 commig. sion, for cash. Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, Will receive careful attention. ‘m INVESTGRS. To those who wish REINVEST COUPONS OR DIVIDENDS, and those who wish to INCREASE‘ THEIRINCOME 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 C —-yielding an income more than one-third greater than U. S. 5-208. Gold Checks for the semi-annual in- oﬂice address of the owner, All marketable stocks and bonds are received in ' exchange for Northern Paciﬁcs ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. IJAY COOKE & CO. 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. 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., FISK a Ehcrca. I “ No. 25 Naesauﬁtreet. terest on the Registered Bonds are mailed to the post- RANKING HOUSE or HENRY CLEWS 4&3 CO., 32 Wall Street, N. Y. , Circular Notes and Letters of Creditvfor travelers ; also Commercial Credits issued available throughout the world. _ 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 or Coin, subject to Check at sight, which pass through the Clearing House as if drawn upon any city bank; in-terest 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, HABICIIT & CO.,- 11 Old Broad St., London. BANKING & FINANCIAL. THE ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY ROAD COMPANY’S FIRSQI‘ 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 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) Der cent. per annum. Payable semi- annually, Eree of tax. Principal in thirty years. De- tered. Brice 97):; an accrued interest, in currency, from February 15,1872. 4 _ ‘Maps, Circulars, Documents and information fur- nished. . ' ~ — A - Trustees, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York. - A ' 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., Bankers, Issue Letters of Credit to Travelers, available 111 all parts of the world through the MESSRS. DE ROTHSCHILD AND THEIR CORRESPONDENTS. Also, make telegraphic transfers or ' one on Call- rmaygﬂurope and Eavan nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons, or Regis- I 91 and 21 NASSAU sTREET, RAILROAD IRON, FOR SALE 4 BY s. W. _Ho1>KINs oo, '71 BROADWAY ToLEDo,rEoRIA WARSAW RAILWAY, SECOND MORTGAGE corn- VERTIBLE 7 PER CENT. CURRENCY BONDS. "INTEREST WARRANTS‘ PAYABLE OCTOBER AND APRIL, PRINCIPAL 1886. We oﬁer for sale A $100,000 of the above bonds in block. By act of reorganization of the Company these bondsare convertible into the ‘First Preferred Shares of. the Company, which amounts to only 17,000 shares, and into the Consolidated IB:onds :4 (recently negotiated at Amsterdam) of six millions of dollars, which cover the entire line for of completed read, to gether with all the rolling stock and real property, to road crosses the entire State Illinois and connect with the mammoth iron bridges spanning. the Missi El sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. income of the ;road_ for the year net suiﬁcient to pay interest on V all the bonded indebtedness and dividend en the me. ferred shares. For terms apply to ,__ A Corner Wall seems the value of more than t'en’millions of dollars. The CLARK, *DODG{E«&, O... I M». ii 1: fl. s [r A E ,. I. I 1. 7: ‘y? ‘,,u-;;_‘ r’ For ‘J i - il£._'.« 2 f‘ /' «~- /W ‘ ‘. A ,3 #2 1,.’ ,4 :52, -.155 ., C, A 1-1“ . the object. Perfect taste is required for the form of . trial for 50 cents, and allow that to count as the sub- new volume begins July 1. WQQDHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 20, 1873. FLOWERS AND RUSTIC WORK. Flowers are one of the few things in life that bring us unmixed pleasure. They are the most innocent tribute of couitesy or aﬁection as. acceptable in the day of feastingas in the house of mourning. Florists are thus in a sense public. benefactors. Hodgson, at No. 403 Fifth avenue, from among the palace takes , us away to the sights and odors of -the country with his rustic work, his gnarled boughs, and curiously crooked seats, his fragrant ﬂowers and beautifully as- mrted bouquets. ' ‘ Of all the ornaments now devised for beautifying gentlemen’s grounds, there are none that can surpass rustic work, either in grandeur, beauty, utility or dura- bility. It may be introduced almost anywhere if the surroundings are in the least rural; in many cases it can be placed where nothing else could be, oftentimes converting an eyesore into a place of great beauty, and yet ornamental and useful. As it is, there are few that have either the taste or__good judgment for the judi- cious arrangement of the materials out of which the best rustic is made. To make or design rustic objects, the maker or designer must exercise good judgment as to the best place‘ for his object—whcther it is a house, bridge, vase, basket or any of the many objects that may be formed of rustic work—for If the object is in a bad position, be the object ever so good, it loses half the effect, or even becomes an eyesore. There must be something rural in the locality, som ething in tone with any object, although in anything rustic the form will be much modiﬁed; yet there must be an original de- sign to give meaning and grace to the object. In all cases, unless working with straight material, nature must be followed as nearly as possible, avoiding right angles or anything that looks formal; every piece should look as if joined by natu re. This notonly gives beauty but stability to the work. To all this must be combined the skill of the builder, to give strength, ﬁnish and neatness to the whole work. Many people think that as a matter of course parpenters can build. rustic, but there are few if any that can give tha natural rusticity so necessary to it. It is a trade by itself, and requires men with a natural taste and in ventive genius. Some men work at it for years and cannot do it creditably. There is nothing that may not be made in rustic work, from a dwelling-house to a cage, a bridge to a card. basket. Many of the var‘-es are ﬁlled with plants and look very handsome, With ivy half hiding the woodwork, and fine ﬂowering plants capping the whole and making it a thing complete in itself. There are also many ﬁne baskets ﬁlled. Certainly nothing could be more ornamental or better in a window than one of these. But these things, to be appreciated, must be ‘ Ch seen; for large constructions we would advise any one to visit the grounds of Mr. Hoey, at Long Branch, or- Peter B. King, Esq., on .he Palisades overlooking the Hudson, or,General Ward’s esta-te. BALTIMORE & OHIO‘ RAILROAD.—— GREA T NA TI ONAL R0 UTE. The shortest and quickest line from Baltimore and Washington, and direct and- favorite route from Bos- ton, New York, Philadelphia and the Eastern cities, to all points in the West, Northwest and Southwest: "STEEL RAIL 1 DOUBLE TRACK! STONE BALLASTED .r Unrivaled for scenery, and the only Line running the celebrated Pullman Palace Drawing-Room Cars from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, to C01- umbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis, without change. Tickets via this popular route can ‘be procured at the principal Ticket Oiﬁces throughout the East, and at the Company’s oﬂices, 82 and 87 Washington street, Boston; 229 Broadway, and No. 1 Battery Place, New: York; 700 Chestnut street, Philadelphia; 149 West Baltimore street, Baltimore, and 485 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. C; ' ‘ SIDNEY B. JONES, L. M. COLE, Gen’l Passenger Agent,‘ Gen’l Ticket Agent, Cincinnati, 0. Baltimore, Md. THOS. KILKENY, , Gen’l New York Passenger Agent, 229 Broadway. Ladies’ Own Magazine. THE goNLY FIRST-CLASS LITERARY, HOUSE- HOLD AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE IN A I ,* ‘THE WEST, AND ~ - THE ABLEST, BEST AND MOST POPULAR IN . AMERICA. - CHARMING STORIES, INSTRUCTIVE ESSAYS, BEAUTIFUL POEMS, Live Editorials, Superb Engravings. OVER TY ABLE WRITERS EN GAGED UPON IT. I Only $2.00 a. Year, ’orTwenf/y Cents oi Copy, . I AND A SUPERB ORIGINAL OIL CHROMO, WORTH ‘$5, 4 FREE. SUBSCRIBE AND MAKE UP A CLUB, AND ‘ ’ SECURE A HANDSOME PREMIUM. We will send the LADIES’ OWN three months on scription if you renew for the balance of the year. A ‘? M. c. BLAND is co, Publishers, 287 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. FOR USE IN FAMILIES, ~, THE FAMOUS \ HALFORD IIEICESTERSHIRE Table Sauce, THE ]3:E1S‘I‘ RELISII Put up in any part of the world for Family Use. Can be bought of any First-Class Grocer HITE STAR ‘LINE. For Queenstown and Liverpool, Carrying the UNITED STATES MAIL. New and full—powered steamships. Sailin from New York on Saturday, from Liver- pool on hursday, calling at Cork Harbor each way Adriatic, Saturday, February 1, 3.00 p. 111. 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. in. Atlantic, Saturday, March 1, at 3.00 p. m. From the White Star léhtck, Pavonia Ferry, J ersef y. Passenger accommodations (for all classes) unrivaled combining Safety, Speed, and Comfort. Saloons, state—rooms, smoking room, and bath rooms geons and stewardesses accompany these steamers. Rates—Saloon $80, gold. (For sailing after 1st of April, $100 gold.) Steerage, $30, currency. Those wishing to send for friends from_ the Old Country can now obtain steerage prepaid certiﬁcates, $30, cur- rency. ' Paris, Hamburg, Norway, Sweden, India, Australia, ina, &c. Drafts from £1 upward. For inspection of plans and other information, apply at the Company’S oﬂices, No. 10Broadway, New York. J. H. SPARKS, Agent. EW YORK CENTRAL AND HUD- SON RIVER RAILROAD.-—C0mme1:icing Mon- day, June 23, 1873. Through Trains will leave Grand Central Depot— 8:00 A. M., ,Chicago and Montreal Express, with drawing-room cars through to Rochester and St. Al- bans. 9:00 A. M., Saratoga Special Express. 10:00 A. M., Special Chicago Express, with drawing- room cars to Rochester, Buﬁalo, &c. . 10:45 A. M., Northern and.Western Express. 3:40 P. M., Special Express for Albany, Troy and Saratoga, commencing Saturday, 21st inst. 4:00 P. M., Montreal Express, with sleeping cars from New York to St. Albans. 7:00 P. M., Express, ‘Daily, with sleeping cars for Watcrtown and Canandaigua. 8:30 P. M., Paciﬁc Express, Daily, with sleeping cars from Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls; also for Chicago, Ma both L._ S. and M. C. Railroads. 11:00 P. M., Express, with sleeping cars for Troy and Albany. ‘ 2:00 P. M., Hudson train. '7 :00 A. M., and 5:30 P. M., Roughkeepsie tra.ins. 9:10 A. M., 4:15, 6‘:2:'l and 7:45 P. M., Peekskill train s. 5:00 P. M., Sing Sing train. . Tarrytown trains from 30th Street Depot, stopping 3:00, 4:00, 4:40, 5:15, 6:30, 8:00 and 11:30 P. M. Sunday Way Trains—For Tarrytown, from 30th street, at 8:25 A. M., and 1:00 P. M. For Poughkeepsie, from 4th avenue and 42d street ' Station, 9:10 A. M. C. H. KENDRICK, General Passenger Agent. NLY DIRECT LINE T0 FRANCE. NERAL TRANSATLANTIC COM- THE GE , , . ‘ PANY’S MAIL STEAMSHIPS BETWEEN NEW YORK AND HAVRE, CALLING AT BREST. Continent will sail from Pier No. 50, North River, as follows: “Ville de Paris,” Surinont Saturday, emu-uary 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. ...... ..$1251 Second Cabin ...... ..$75. EXCURSION TICKETS AT REDUCED RATES. These steamers do not carry steerage passengers. American travelers going to or re urnipg from the Continent of Europe, ytaking the steamers of this inc, avoid both transit by English railway and the dis- comforts of crossing the Channel, besides saving time trouble and expense. GEO. MACKENZIE, Agent, No. 58 Broadway. 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 inutual assistance and support. It is liberal and pro- essive, and allows equal rights _to all its members, oth men and women, m its business‘ affairs. More members are wanted. .. The Uommumist, its monthly paper, will be sent free to all desiring further information. Address ALCAN- DER LONGLEY, as above. BARTON a ALLEN, Bankers and Brokers, No. 40’ BROAD STREET, THE NEW YORK LIBERAL CLUB Meets every Friday evening at 8 o’clock, For the discussion of‘ scientiﬁc and other interesting subjects. , Good speaking and entertaining discussions may Stocks, Bonds and Gold bought and sold on com- m_i5510Do A ......,.,.....m....i...u always be expected. in midship section, where least motion is felt. Sur-. Passengers booked to or from all parts of America,- at all Stations, leave at 6:45, 8:25 and 10:20 A. M., 1:00, . The splennid vessels on this favorite route for the THE Western Ru ra, AGRICULTURAL & FAMILY VVEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE WEST. H. N. ‘F LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor, -2!’ WITH AN _ . Able ¢md‘P7'act2'cal Editorial Staﬁ, AND AN’ EFFICIENT conrs OF SPECIAL AND voLUN- TARY CONTRIBUTORS. ’ TERMS: A $2.50 per Year; $2 in Clubs of Fou/row More. SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS TO AGENTS. A PLUCKY PUBLISHER. [From the Chicago Daily. Sun, Nov. 30, 1871.] “One of the most remarkable examples of Chicago pluck and energy is given by Mr. H. N. F. Lewis, pro- prietor of the Weslern Rural, one of the ablest and most Widely circulated agricultural journals in the country. Mr. Lewis lost by the ﬁre one of the most complete and valuable printing and publishing estab- lishments in the West, and also his residence and household goods. Yet he comes to the surface again with unabated ardor, re-establishes himself at No. 407 West Madison street, where he has gathered new ma- terial for his business, and from which point he has already issued the ﬁrst number (since the ﬁre) of the Westem Rural, the same size and in the same form as previous to the ﬁery storm. Nobody would imagine, on glancing at the neat, artistic head and well-ﬁlled ~ pages of the Rural that anything uncomfortably warm or specially disastrous had ever happened to it. Suc- cess to Lewis and his excellent Rural. Chicago ought to feel proud of it.” The Largest and Hundsoniest Paper for Young People.” THE Young Folks’ Rurai,‘ A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF COUNTRY AND CITY. TERMS: - $1.50 per Year,‘ $1 in Clubs of Four or More. A PAIR. or BEAUTIFUL BERL1N_cHRoMos, MOUNTED AND VARNISHED, SENT POSTPAID AS A GIFT To EVERY YEARLY SUBSCRIBER. The Young Folks’ Rural is a novelty among publi- cations for Young People—-entirely a “ new idea,” and diﬂerent from any other in style and character. Six- teen pages and sixty-four columns—the largest news- paper in Chicago.’ WHAT “THEY SAY.” [From the Chicago Evening P0sl.] “H. N. F. 1I.ewis,1l1Esq.i1th§:)Vw<;ll-kiégwn Zpublishaer of that admirab e wee I y, t e 63 em um , is pu liSh- ing a monthly -;;_'u§]£cJ.I,a.1—%1 litelrary jouinal, gndﬁr thle title of the Young 0 s um . * ' r. ewie is just the man to make it a ‘ big thing.’ ” [From the Letter of a Western Mothcn] “ The Young Folks’ Rural is just whatour dear children need. Altogether it is a nobleenterprise, and will do_an untold amount of good. It is the ‘ parents’ assistant,’ and”all thinking parents will join me in thanking you. [From a School Teacher-.] “ I am a teacher, and take the paper for the beneﬁt and amusement of my pupils. Eyes are brighter and lessons better learned when the Young F0 ’ Rural makes its appearance. SPECIMEN NUMBERS SENT FREE. Address, H. N. F. LEWIS, Publisher, Chicago, Ill. Both Western Rural and Young Folks’ Rural furnished for One Year for $3.00. 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 hlhan hetretofore, In consequence of the diﬂerence in -s ren . . CHATELAINE BRAIDS. LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S WIGS. andeverything appertaining to the business will be kept on hand and made to order. . I DIBBL)I..\_\".\i‘I.A for stimulating, JAPONICA for soothing am. the MAGIC‘ TAR SALVE for promoting the growth 01 the hair, constantly on hand. Consultation on diseases of the Scalp, Mondays, M. Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 A. M;_till 3 I’. 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. DIBBLEBPS, : h 854 Broadway, Up-stairs. r. Geo. Newcomer, THE I-IEALER, PIIYSICIAN AND SURGEON, HURD BLOCK, JACKSON, MICH. Thirty years’ experience. Examines diseases and sends prescriptions for one month for $3. Has a spe- ciﬁc remedy for CATARRH and THROAT DISEASE. Sends by mail for $2 for four months, and with direc- tions two months.'_S51. Pile Remedy, $2. Treatments at rooms moderate. Warrants relief or no charge. 146 GEO. NEWCOMER, M. D. SOCIAL FREEDOM COMMUNITY This Institution is situated in Chesferﬁcld County, Virginia, about nine miles from Richmond. It is founded on the principles of Social Freedom. as laid down in ihe address of Victoria C. W'0odhull, in Steinway Hall, New York, November 20, 1871. The Community owns three hundred and thirty-three acres of land, half of which is improved——-the balance is valuable timber. There is a good water-power on it, and they propose to erect a saw-mill. A few more congenial persons can be now admitted on probation. Address, inclosing a sheet of paper and stamped envelope, S. L. TIBBALS, MR0}: 42, Manchester, Chcsterﬁeld County, Va. 6-8t Champion Cure ND Liberal Institute, Cm°versm'lle, Bucks 00., Pa. Will be opened for patients and -pupils, Septem- ber 15, 1873. The Medical Department is under the charge of Mrs. MAUD C. WALKER, M. D., a regularly-educated phy- sician, of wide experience in hospital- and ordinary practice. , She will be assisted by S. M. SAWIN, M. D., edu- cated at Concepcion Medical College, Chili, S. A., an experienced army-surgeon. The Academic Department is headed by S. N. WALKER, A. M., a graduate of Vermont University, to whom application for circulars should be made. '1 THE 23 Irving Place, Embraces the most comprehensive system of rem- edial agencies of any like institution in this country. In addition to the TURKISH, RUSSIAN, ORIENTAL, SULPHURETS, _ SULPHUROUS VAPOR, 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, 1573. . [146 DR. S. LANDIS’ Famous Condemned AND Prohibited ooka. Secrets of‘ Generation (that caused his imprisonment.) Sold, sealed. 351- dh 1 Prohibited Lecture on W 00 11 1 and Beecher, allalyzlng FREELOVEI 15¢- ‘ t 1 for the rest. :%I:1(Iv:st:ahIs0Ii’}[1eeclical Institute, No. 13 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa. . AMERICAN BATH, Sept. 20, 187 3. WOODHULL & CLAE‘LIN’S WEEKLY. . . A 3 . ii. pursues _ - -7 - - Q The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices: . A . i r The Principles of Government, by Victoria C. Wo'ehs. hull ................................. t Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claﬁin . . . . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom... . . . . . . . . . 25 The Impending Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Ethics of SexualEquality...................... 25 INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE. 1. Go to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. 4. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your ﬁelds, which is kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have .reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James v. 1-4. [From the Walterboro (S. 0.) News] COLORED COMMUNISM. In Colleton County the colored people own. and are suc- cessfully conducting, some of the largest plantations. This - is done under a sort of communism. A number of them, in some cases as many as ﬁfty, form themselves into a society, elect their oiﬁcers and adopt by-laws. They have regular meetings, at which the oﬂicers report, and a speciﬁed amount is paid into the treasury by each member. VVhen suﬂicient is accumulated in the treasury, a suitable plantation is selected and the purchase made; usually the payments are in one, two or three years, a good portion being paid at the time of purchase. The land is equally divided by the officers elected for that purpose among the members of the society, or so much as they wish to cultivate. Each is free to work as suits him, and each can dispose of his crop as he deems proper. N 0 new member is admitted except by the ' consent of the whole society. A All sick are cared for by the society if ' unable to care for themselves -— oiﬁcers being elected to look after such cases and report their wants to the society at its weekly meetings, or at special meetings if the exigency of the case requires it. ’ All disputes arising among members are brought before the society, certain of the ofﬁcers being designated to hear and endeavor to ami- cably arrange all dissensions; audit is very seldom, if ever, they fail. Petty litigation, that is the great bane of the colored people in many sections, is in this way avoided. These societies are principally formed from people who work for hire—50 cents per" day being the sum generallypaid; the plantations are usually bought as soon as suﬁicient funds are in the treasury to make the ﬁrst payment. Upon those that have been in operation three or four years the land has been paid for, and the members have acquired considerable per- sonal property, and are generally prosperous. A sort of rivalry seems to spring up between them, which is productive of economy and thrift. These societies are situated in the low country east of the Savannah and Charleston railroad. We do not presume to say that only the colored people who have formed themselves into these societies show thrift and the accumulation of property, for a number, who six or seven years ago were not worth a dollar, now carry on successfully large rice and cotton plantations, and are becoming heavy tax-payers. But in the particular section in which these societies are formed, more property exists among their members than among those who are now ﬁghting the battle of life and death on their own account. [From the Atclzisou ‘0lLampi0n..] Western politicians are beginning to open their eyes to the necessity of coquetting with the Granges in order to secure oﬂice. Here is a “Serenade of a Modern Politician to his Love?’ - The moon is shining on the gr. nge, The winds are hushed, the leaves are still, The patient stars look softly down Upon my cot at Shannon Hill. Then come, my horny-handed love, And wander through the dell with me, And gaze upon the Durham bull And listen to his pedigree. Once I was in the railroad ring, But now my hands are hard with toil; I‘ve scattered hay—seed in my hair And blacked my boots with harness oil. My city cows have all gonegdry, I am no longer in my prime; My day is drawing to its close And it will soon be milking time, I think I know a new milch cow That’s just exactly what I need; She’s thin from running out to grass, But only wants a change of feed. I’ll mix amash of free-trade bran—— Swindles, high taxes, and back pay, And coax her to the ballot-box And feed her till election day. With one to grasp her by the horns, And one to hold her by the tail, Oh, let me safely sit between And calmly ﬁll my milking pail; And when November’s breezes show ’Tis time my Berkshire hogs to kill, I’ll move back into town again, And sigh no more for Shannon Hill. LADIES IN THE GRANGES. One of the most interesting features of the Granges is, that _not a single one can be organized without the companionship of the ladies. No charter will be issued to organize a Grange, even if ahundred of the best farmierswant it and ask for it, un- less a. certain number of ladies join. Their assistance and in- ﬂuence are needed. Their companionship will have a reﬁning and elevating effect upon the sterner sex. They are equally interested with their husbands, brothers and sons in the good that can be accomplished, What aids in givinﬁelief to the farmer, will give relief to his wife or daughters. They give tone and elevation to the proceedings of the Granges. They furnish a social feature to the Granges which will give permanency and stability to them. Each Grange meeting will be a socialfestival, a neighborhood visit. By all means let every Grange encourage the at- tendance of the ladies. Let there be as many lady mem- bers as male members. It will increase the interest in them and help to elevate our noble profession to that high standard we desire to reach. , With woman’s inﬂuence with us we shall have no such word as fail. Her inﬂuence is for good, and we are glad to know she will exert it in behalf of those who are nearest and dearest to her.—-—Colemom.’s Rural World. ~ I >»—#&>-—4——...___ SOCIALISTIC. UN DER THE NEW DISPENSATION. BY LESSIE eoonnm. STEINMETZ. Having received very much censure (and some approba- tion) for the course I have thought best to pursue i11pub- lishing in WOODEULL 8t CLA1u.1N’s WEEKLY of August 2 my protest against all marriage and divorce laws, and my determination to practically carry‘ out the theory which I advanced, and which in the future I believe the whole world will accept, I now propose to explain precisely what I mean; and that is, the abolishment of all marriage and divorce laws. I desire to use simple terms and plain English, that all who read may understand. I have not in the past, nor shall I in the future, practice that which I dare not preach; neither do-the insinuations nor ridicule of enemies or so- called friends affect me in the least. I shall continue to fol- low fearlessly the inspirations of my own soul, regardless of what society or public opinion may say or think. It matters not what the result of this movement may be to me; what I ask is, that jttstice shall be done by all.’ ‘Whatever good may spring from this reform through the efforts which I may make, I claim nothing for myself only as being a willing me- dium in the hands of those powerful and noble spirits who first surrounded my individualized soul with those condi- tions that ushered me into this life, clothed myrspirit in the habiliments of earth, and who have, up to the present mo- ment, led me safely through the deep valley of l:umiliation— through trials and sufferings which I believe few have ex- perienced. It ill-becomes those who are living under the damnable servitude of the “ old dispensation” of marriage, to de- nounce with contempt and derision every “new dispensa- tion” that arises. They know full well that no system of marriage could be advanced that would produce more ﬁlth, degradation. and hellish conditions than the old instituitiioii under which they now live. Great Heaven! is it possible that the human mind can fall so low? Who, with reason and “ new dispensations ” for the amelioration of human suffer- ing, that the world of spirits can advance? It is not my desire to break up the family, to separate those who love, but to bring them intomore harmonious rela- tions, and harmony cannot exist where perfect freedom is not. "What I do protest against, and will assist in regulating or abolishing, is each and every man—made law that assumes to hold authority over the body, mind or soul of either man or woman. A ' I consider that my social life does not concern those who would intrude upon it from more curiosity. yet so “much is said and so many questions asked, that I cheerfully explain a few things to those who are dull of comprehension. My marriage, published in the Relig£o—Pli'iZosoph1Tcal Jour- nal, will be found in that paper under date of December 28, 1872. Through the guidance of his spirit wife and others “ over the way,” Mr. Steinmetz and Ilovcd and were engaged to be married, meeting afterward in personifor the first time. I never would have consented to marry under the orthodox rule of “ love, honor and obey,” nor was it required of me. In my own soul I ignored entirely all legal marriage. We decided to repeat a ceremony of our own, which we both did, making no promise only to live together so long as we should love; we were then recognized as husband and wife by John Brown Smith, my brother-in—la.W, who is legally authorized to marry. - I was forced hurriedly into this legal marriage by the same power that ﬁrst brought us together in spirit, and through that same spirit power which still controls me, circumstances have been brought about by which I am now forced out of it, for what purpose the world with me must wait and see. A. poor excited friend writes, “Then this is the end of your spiritual marriage?” I answer, most emphatically, “No ;”. but, so far as I am concerned, and so far as it shall affect me in the future, it is the end of the legal bond that has held me within its grasp for the past few months. The step which I have taken has proved to me at least that my love, in order to continue, does not require the oversight of either Church or State. This protest has made no difference in my love toward him whom Iformerly called “husband.” If it has changed his love for me, Ihave yet to learn it from his own lips. I shall love him as long as he continues to justice in his heart, dare say that we do not need all the remain loveable. I would make him happy by permitting him to seek his happiness in his ownway, and will defend . him in it, so long as he does not infringe upon the soul- divine rights of others. I would nurse him in sickness, and, if‘within my power, will provide him and his child with all the comforts of life should they become in need of them. I will bless him in all things that my soul* possesses for him,‘ and if this is not the highest spiritual love, then will some of those who condemn my course be so kind as to inform ~ me what is spiritual love or spiritual marriage, which, ad- mitting the name of marriage, I consider one and the same thing? , , Another one asks, “Accepting this protest, what about property and children ?” ‘ Property must be controlled by law, until love is ﬁrst made free, and honor and justice reign in the hearts of men. Those who mutually desire to remain no longer under the marriage law can transfer property legally, and by mutual consent providing for wife and children, before publishing their protest, which transfer can be made just as easily as though continuing to live under the “ old system,” and cer- tainly should be done if they cannot trust each otheroutside of the marriage bonds. Under any circumstances men should, so long as able, provide for their families until they can support themselves. That man who could cast awife and children out upon a pitiless world, failing to provide for them when he has the power, is, to my mind, utterly selﬁsh and incapable of a truly benevolent act. Such a man only gives where he would demand a reward. If all women who desire to be free should ignore entirely the marriage and divorce law, and the father of their children should desert them, if no law was provideclthat would grant them support from their property, then the legislature would be compelled to make laws whereby the government would- provide homes and means for the education of those thus ne- glected. Following immediately with woman suffrage comes the downfall of all marriage slavery. Women will then have a voice in framing laws for the protection of their own sex, until the world shall have arrived to that state of perfection wherein each and every soul shall be a law unto itself. It is the unwelcome children that now exist who need to be pro- vided for by legislation, and not left to run“ into sin and crime as they too often are. Under the new dispensation all children will be the fruition of love, and love—children are never neglected by those who give them birth. The laws of the country will all be simpliﬁed, consequently ’a lessening of national expenses, and the money now spent in fattening the pockets of ofﬁce-holders will go where it rightfully be- longs, in providing the destitute with the comforts of life. (To be continued.) SOCIAL STUMBLING STONES. VINELAND, Sept. 3. It is everywhere apparent that social freedom is greatly misunderstood, not only by opposers, but by adherents. The method of its practicalization by some advocate being taken for the principle itself, people commence discussing the law as adapted to that one instead of the inalienable principle of universal liberty. They overlook the fact that there are as many ways of application as there are believers, and that the only point that all need, or have a right to know, is the basic truth that all have an inherent right to regulate their relations as love, reason and conscience ' direct, on their own responsibility. This axiom must appeal favorably to scientiﬁc thinkers. Applied to religion, it has been incalculably better than credal bondage, notwithstand- ing the sects have persecuted each other as savagely as mar- riage bigots do the disciples of Free '1'.‘->ve. s The fact thatiﬁxed rules among us, as marriage has de- veloped us, cannot apply to all with any more justice than to our religious sentiments, has caused investigators of social laws to search in vain for a practical standard. Marriage ﬁxed one, but one that few men conform to, and one which has fostered more falseness, hypocrisy and oppression than any system of human action. .The strongest sticklers for its perpetuity are men who do not conform, but are too selﬁsh to admit a necessity of equality of privilege. The disgust they profess for personal freedom is evidently pre- tense, for they take their own under falsehood, and seal their infamy by stealing the honor of true souls who live theirs purely. Now, it seemsto me‘ late enough in this century to make a full understanding that Free Love means the right of all to live their convictions of right, and that the various con- victions and their praticalizations are only individualisms, like the religionists’ methods of praying daily, weekly, ‘always or never, and no affair of their neighbors, provided others’ rights are not infringed. . . A I am resolved to do my duty, in giving clear comprehen- sion of the doctrine, as I hold it and understand others to. Free love is the eternal principle of liberty. Woodhullism is Victoria’s method of application. Hullism is Moses and Elvir-a’s method. Dualism is the order of one lover only. Doubtless a majority of free lovers" are of the dual stamp; and thousands of us live alone nearly all,and some all our lives, because a true mate is not met. Yet, who is to decide that these are better intentioued than those who deem that their highest good requires variety. Let me not judge but recommend tolerance. and friendship that the "best may be evolved. A A _ Bear in mind that Beecherism‘ belongs not to freedom, but is aﬁtting sample of the skulking ‘appendage that has trailed after marriage, till it is larger than. the original sys- tem, and proves that bondage begets what its law. con- demns, and is a curse. I ’ ’ As all must feel, think and act according to the organiza- tion bequeathed them, who shall claim merit above another, and who shall not unlearn arrogance, and cultivate humil- ity while trying to improve the nature bestowed. Some are so obtuse as to deny that those who mate, and those who abstain because not greatly in love, are free 4 . . , wooi:>riULL dz; OLAFfIiI‘Nj’S WEEKLY. Sept. 20, 187 2. lovers. But I confess to feeling a little wronged when de-I nied the name because of exclusiveness.’ « Free lovers believe in love wholly,‘ and in lust not at all; whereas, they are charged with the reverse, which might be more justly hurled back‘ on their antagonists. On the score of charity and faith in progress through edu- cation in the laws of life, free lovers are far in advance of be- lievers in bonds, for they show the hope that, with opportun- ity, improvement is certain: while opposers show no hope but in force, and little in that- ‘With ‘closer observation, deeper thought, and further application of the golden rule, they may take a more humane view of their fellow beings. MARY E. TILLOTSON. _ ELKHART, Ind., Sept. 1, 1873. Dear Vi'ctorz'a-—To save the virgin purity of all immacu- late “ Gun Lake Societies” from troubling them- selves to ask my credentials, as to capacity to serve them, you will henceforth consider me a candidate upon your lecture list asone who never will be “gagged.” When sub- jects become too abstrusely vile to discuss in freedom, they are too vile to experiment upon without discussion. No over—nice exclusive shall ever debar me from the fullest exercise of every constitutional privilege, not the least of which is free speech in its broadest sense. Henceforth as ever, may I be still considered in the exercise of this right, upoii all themes irrepressible. Thine, ADDIE L. BALLOU. [From the Ladyhs Own Magazine, for ;S’eptemZ7er.] LOVE.‘ Never be ashamed of ever having loved any one. If, per- chance, you have hated, then blush for it, but not for love. It does not matter at all whether the person on whom your affections ﬁx themselves reciprocated the sentiment. Where there is no shame in loving, in itself, the fact of having given love without reward can bring none with it. You have only bestowed a gift more priceless than any jewel can be, upon one who did not thank you. Since there is sorrow to one’s self in it, it is best to struggle with the heart, and keep it until it is asked for; but, if it goes irrevocably forth, de- spite all effort, no need to feel like a guilty thing, and long to , hide it from your very self. Providence gave you that great love, and I believe that somehow it will mingle with the life of one it hovers over, and shed a perfume, and lend sweet- ness to it, though it never has been spoken. [From the New Orleans Herald. Sunday, August 10, 1873.] LIFE AT THE HUB. The Two R-ital Female Hoineopathéc Phg/sz'cz‘uns of-5)0Sif07’L-— Who They Were and How They Rose to E'mz'nehce—“ A .Bmte Lady. ” BOSTON, Auensr 5, 1873. Among the successful physicians of Boston are two ladies, homeopathists, who have a large, increasingand lucrative practice in our best families, and enjoy the conﬁdence and respect of the whole community. The allopatliic doctors ﬁght them eternally and bitterly, but are obliged to concede to them first-class ability and wonderful success. Each. of these ladies has a history. They illiistratelgzclearly the fact that women are as well able to take care of themselves as men. The story of their lives, truthfully written, would make most interesting and fascinating volumes, for truth is not only stranger than ﬁctioii, but more attractive, in- structive and proﬁtable. Mrs. J. is about 70, but she moves about with the vigor of 40. Intelligent, cultivated, cheerful, bright, full of story and wisdom, she enters a sick room like a sunbeam. . At 50 Mrs.‘ J. was left a widow for the second time, and with a large family depending chieﬂy on her for support. She had long been her own-family physician, and had cheer- fully given her aid and comfort to her neighbors. Now she began to study medicine as a means of support; and after two years of patient labor, came boldly to Boston and ook an oﬁice. Her ability, pleasing manners, success and mot ger- liness soon became known. Her practice increased. rapidly, and now she has all she can do, and is really becoming rich. She makes nothing of contributing $500 to a charitable object. l-Ier rival is Miss'B., who, at 40 years of age, has placed her- self at the very head of the women physicians of Massachu- setts. Her story is a sad one. I touch it reluctantly. It is the old story of betrayal and sin, and wrong, and shame, and repentance and suife1‘ir.g. But the brave endurance. the strong determination, the uiiconquerable will, the patient labor, and ﬁnal triumph——these are all grand and noble. lt is good to consider them. It has been said: “A woman who falls, falls like Lucifer, to rise no more.” If there should be among the readers of the New Orleans Herald one poor, suﬁering woman striving to lift herself from some horrible pit and miry clay of sin and sorrow, let me sketch brieﬂy. for her consolation and encouragement, the story of Miss B. ' , , ' She was born in Plymouth, near the rock. Whether it was the sweet air of that lovely New England village, the Puritan inﬂuences that surrounded_her, or her own bright and sunny ‘nature, she grew rapidly into_ singular beauty of mind and body, and found perself at sixteen the universal favorite. Her proud and fond parents were glad to. give her the best advantages, and her rare abilities and superior charms placed her at the head of all her companions, At eighteen she met Mr. M., a young gentlemen from _New York, who had re- cently brought this fair bride to Plymouth for the summer. Elegant in person, and fascinating in manner, he was thor- oughly selﬁsh, heartless and destitute of principle. ’1he for- tune which his industrious and economical father had spent a long life in acquiring, he was rapidly dissipating in riotous and sensual living. He boasted, like Aaron Burr, that no woman could resist him. At his first intervievrwith Miss B., he marked her for his own, and deliberately set to wo_rk to accomplish her ruin. He succeeded. She loved_ him fondly, passionately, desperately, and gave herself to him as Heloise gave herself to the priest Abelard. What was it to her that he had a wife? She had his heart. She knew it. She was sure of it. She would be his mistress. it was enough. For three years she lived with him thus. . _ ._ It was during this time that, ‘n the hope of avoiding evi- dence of her criminal life, she gave her acute intellect to the study of anatomy, physiology and medicine. But it was vain to light against God and nature. She knew all of moth- erhood except its delightful compensations, and after three years, with broken heal_th._she awoke from her long dream to‘ find Mr. M. cold, indifferent, careless, neglectful and even cruel. Soon he abandoned her entirely. loo proud ‘ to follow and annoy him, and realizing fully that she was betrayed, deserted and utterly cast oil‘ by the only man she had ever loved, she hid her agony in her own heart, and re- solved to enter upon a new and noble life. iHer wise parents did not desert or despise their daughter. They Spoke words of comfort and love, and assured her of their conndence and support. But she must leave Plymouth. They sent her to Oberlin Institute, where she studied faithfully two years. Thence to Paris, where she‘ was entered as a medical student and attended lectures two years more. Her ability soon ap- peared, and she stood at the head of all her classes. With distinguished honor she returned to Boston, and took an office as a practicing physician. She is an enthusiastic home- opathist. How she patiently studied, labored and wanted, none but herself can know. _ But her reward came. She became known, and rose rap- idly to her own place. To-day. she stands confessedly at the head of her profession, and has a large and lucrative prac- tice among the best families of Boston. Few know the story of her 11fe- Few. therefore, can appreciate the real heroism, the true greatness of this noble woman. Her dignity and I sweetness of manner, her purity of life, her simplicity and modesty, her abounding charity, these are seen and known and felt. Her great sin and greater suffering, her repentance ‘ci_Ii<_1 long agony, these are hidden in her own soul. She is a living witness to the truth that it is better to live nobly than, yield to misfortune and die in despair. It is quite time the man, with no hope for this world or the next, has nothing to do but die, should yield to a better thought, a more truly Lh1‘lStla.I1 belief. It is not the least of poor Groldsmith’s sins that he wrote the lines. in the Vicar of Wakeﬁeld: “ When lovely woman stoops to folly, And ﬁnds, too late, that men betray, What "charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away? “ The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom—-is to die.” As poetry, this ‘is very sweet and touching: but as philos- ophy,_ truth and religion, it is mere immortal bosh, like much of this delightful Irishman’s writings. The above, clipped from the New Orleans Herald, is valuable as an indication of a much—needed change in public sentiment—~is, in short, very good as far as it goes, but only goes far enough to reveal the ignorance and stupidity of even the most well-intentioned persons upon the “ social ques- tion,” that “ scare—crow ” of the century. VVe. would respectfully inquire of the correspondents of this paper in question whether a ‘young man who had been the “victim of seduct'ion”——and we agree with Teiinie C. Claflin in thinking that men are as frequently “seduced” as woinen——and had “ sown his wild oats,” and a plentiful crop at that, would have elicited the slightest comment by his after success, professional or otherwise, or his example have been held up as an encouragement to any “ suffering man striving to lift himself from some horrible pit and miry clay of sin and sorrow?” Not a "bit of it! for if such should be the case, the newspapers through the country would be crowded with these revelations, and then not tell the tale of how the world’s prodigal sons sinned and did not repent, and were received with open. arms into the best society. Therefore it is high time that all this sickening cant about “ sinful women ” was nipped in the bud. The delicacy is questionable, to say the least, that gives such wide publicity to the private history of one of the two prominent and successful homeopathic lady physicians in Boston, becauseﬁforsooth, when a young and interesting girl, she was seduced by a married man, and, loving him, lived with him as his mistress till, after the manner of his kind, he deserted her, thus, as it proved, doing her good service, for we read that, aided by her unusually sensible parents, she entered Oberlin College, and afterward, going to Paris, graduated with honor, and “young, talented, brilliant and skillful,” won a place in the front rank of the profession she had chosen. Why should she not succeed, and above all, why should the love that, perchance, opened up to her a realization of all the best possibilities of her nature, be stig- matized as “her great sin?” We are quite sure that none of her professional brethren could afford to throw a stone at their beautiful and accomplished sister; and this being the case, let philanthropists generally turn their attention in the direction of redressing the social condition that allows such injustice to go unrebuked, and instead of laboring to reform prostitutes, direct their efforts toward those who maintain that very popular institution, and, ceasing their wretched cant aboutivirtue, insist upon perfect equality, the right, the absolute right, of every prostitute to take her place in the church, in the theatre, in the Stock Exchange, behind the merchant’s counter and in the drawing-room beside their male companions of the night before,'equal1y respected, equally regarded-«the purchaser and his mer- chandise moving side by' side. ' LAURA CUPPY SMITH. THE MARRIAGE LAW. BY WARREN CHASE. The smoke is slowly clearing away in the great conﬂict, and the second sober thought of the people will bring justice and truth to bear on the great question of marriage laws be- fore long. The most violent advocates of our present system are the most sexual and licentious part of community, with a few who are honest and happy under the system, and would be under the new system we propose to substitute for the present unjust and complicated laws by which parties get into and out of, the social and sexual net of matrimony. Half a century of close observation of the workin.gs of the marriage law has given us much knowledge and good oppor- tunity to speak on the subject, and also to prepare a substi- tute. VVe witnessed domestic war before we were ten years old in the household where we lived, and saw the man put the wife and mother of his children out of the house, because she complained of his too intimate sexual relations with another woman. Soon after we saw and lived "with another and a devoted couple, whose home was barren, notwithstand- ing the longing and prayerful desire for children, when na- ture had placed the impediment in their organizations and by which the blighted life of the wife went out in the mid- summer of life, and made room for one that came and bore children to the other. It was in riper years that far more heaitreiidering scenes than long ago drew our attention to the law of marriage and divorce, and we are fully satisﬁed that the complicated and cruel system we have is wrong, and should be wholly repealed in all the statutes of the States, and a simple and plain applica- tion of the general law of civil contracts be applied to par- ties in marriage and to marriages, as to other contracts made between men, or between man and woman. No especial laws are necessary as general provisions could protect child- ren better than the marriage laws now do; for they give no protection so long as the parents live in legal matrimony, even though the union makes a hell for a home of infancy. The law should know no difference between a male and female in its protection of person or property; and no mar- riage should abrogate the right of legal protection against as- sault and battery, or assault and rape, since the crime is morally as great when committed by a husband on his wife as .if».-committed on another person; and we are not sure it is not greater, since he has professed to love her and thus de- Id 13- th ,7 ,;_ceived‘her into the snare where he gets legal protection, and 0 no Ion a a betrayed Woman’ abandoned by God and Christian protection also. This is one of the counts in our indictment of Christianity, that it sanctions crime when the law protects it and condemns it when it does not. We would set asideiand repeal all especial laws of marriage, and make women and men equal before the law, and put marriage fully under the general law,by which parties are and should be held by and to their contracts entered into as part- ners, and leave individual protection for each, the same as it is in the case of parties who are not in partnership. But the objector says: “They would separate by mutual consent.” ‘Nhat if they did? They do now, with the consent of a judge and by paying a lawyer’s fee. And whose business is it if par- ties do iiot choose to remain in social or sexual or business unions, if they do separate? We are not the judges in such matters; and it is none of our business to force any kind of partnership between those who do not wish it, even if they did once proclaim it, and believe at the time it would last through. a life. But one may wish to get out, and the other not be willing. Then let the law dissolve the partnership as it does others. by proper application. But the poor children! What will become of them? What becomes of them now when parents quarrel and part? Can- not the ldw do as much for them with that system as with ‘ the present? VVe think it can do more, and better by far, for of all places to bring up children, a domestic hell—kept up by the wrangling disputes of parents——is the worst to act upon the temper and character of a child. 7 In the copartnership contract of parties entering into the relations of life where children were likely to be the result, the instincts (if nothing higher) would prompt the female (if not the male) to make the necessary provision for their pro- tection, and have it recorded in the contract, where they would ﬁnd far better security than they have now where no provision is made in the _marriage ceremonypand all is left to nature and instinct which, often, through the law, comes too late. Sourri OTSELIC, Chenangoi0o., N. Y., 3 Sept. 2, 1873. i Dear 211723. lVoodhull——May I be allowed to trespass a little upon your valuable time? I have read with the most re- markable interest nearly every copy of the WEEKLY since it was first launched upon the tide of popular disfavor. I have observed with disgust the surging of the awful tide of ignorance and intolerance that has dashed its ﬁlthy foam over the sterling and eternal truths you have enunciated; aprocess which has been in its result only like culture to corn. Your “cause” has grown and ﬂourished, and still lives to defy all opposition. The ripest thought everywhere knows and acknowledges that the VVEEKLY contains the elements of true righteousness, the first principles of a true and just government, and the germ of ahigher social life. As for my own opinion, for which no one but myself is respon- sible, I have seen from the ﬁrst your one purpose clearly; viz. : that you are striving to “vindicate the ways of God to man.” And all these “high-toned” moral “missionaries” that have labored so zealously to blow out your “ light” have only been holding up their “fans” to stop the sun from shining on the world! The strongest terms I might employ would be too feeble to express my justiﬁcation of, and admi— ' ration for, your course in regard to Mr. Beecher (whose moral turpidity equals his strength, reducing him to a state of inertia) and all other cowardly demagogues who have ma- liciously laid heavy burdens on you to bear. ‘ You have inaugurated the grandest revolution of this or any other age—one that history, by and by, will be proud to record. Your terrible truthfulness, ycur unpiirchasable , loyalty to nature and first principles——together with your awful consciousness of the divine rights and potency of love and the sacred uses of life——have very naturally made you a terror to all persons whose lives and actions are regulated by the common law of expediency. To an enlightened judg- ment, the idolatry of this nineteenth century is sickening. The tenacity with which people cling to the “golden calf ”—— marriage——is convincing proof that the majority are still sat- isﬁed to wear their baby-clothes and play with their toys. Whenever or wherever a new thought is born, this same un- developed element in man is sure to manifest itself. At one time it casts itself beneath the car of .Iuggernaut——at another . pays tithes to the priest to obtain absolution; further on it pays money and reverence to ministers of the Gospel and, again, shoots Albert Richardson, or may-be commits suicide to prove its undying faith in a religious creed or a civil in- stitution or the social slave trade._ That one word “free- dom ”~which has so broad and deep and grand and glorious a signiﬁcance, and which holds within itself the essence of all true salvation forhiimanity, but which, most of all words, is misunderstood——to me means simply the grandest possi- bilities of human nature within _that broad lati- tude which is its own natural heritage. We are not called upon in this aﬁair of social jurispru- dence to measure results. ‘We need not have so much solicitude about what people are going to do with their freedom. VVhen iiatural rights are involved it is simply none of our business what people will do with their rights any more than it was ours to decide what the /fifricaii race should do in a condition of freedom. But it was emphati- 9 Sept. 20, l8’73. WOODHULL, &.CLAFL,IN’S WEEKLY. 5 -cally our business to know what became of them while they were in bondage; and the mathematics of events has de- monstrated this to America, I believe. V Absolute “ self-sovereignty ” is the only government which has any foundation in nature; and the sooner all laws and proscriptions and prohibitions which are hostile to this truth are rendered inoperative by a higher intelligence, the sooner “ science ” can begin its work—namely, that of replacing the dislocated joints in the anatomy of social life. The “ social body” is trying to perform its labor and do its divinely-appointed work, while it is writhing in anguish every hour, because it is not only out of joint in nearly every limb, but, more than all, it is in perpetual rebellion against its own dear mother, “ Nature.” There must and will be a more friendly relation established between them. It has ever been the crowning curse of civilization that man is forever held to be subordinate to the institutions he has framed; or, in other words, the higher elements in human character are forever being prostituted to the lower; therefore that virtue, truth and integrity, which naturally belong to the very constitution of man, are inverted in their expression and subverted in their purpose. A There are so many prohibitions in the way of a true and spontaneous life that it is no wonder that what is named “society” is only a “monkey” dressed in boy’s clothes! “ Public opinion” is like a positively tight roof that don’t leak unless—it rains! and that much-misapprehended word “ virtue,” with its popular signiﬁcation, is to be found. where'?~—in the dictionary! ' When society is reconstructed on a foundation that is not in perpetual hostility to nature, “ virtue ” will have a higher signiﬁcance, and will prove itself a pure principle of the soul, instead of a name to be guarded by the impertinent “ picket-guards ” of social and Christian respectability. Men, and especially women, have been duped for ages, and they still want to be, with “ shams ” and “ scarecrows.” The highest intelligence of the present day has outgrown “ bug- gaboos,” and “ bears,” and "Santa Claus,” and the “Devil,’ and the “Bible ” (as authority), and “Christ” (as Christians deﬁne him), and “ Saints,” Sabbath-school, self-righteous “ministers,” and Sunday; also, the “promise,” as binding authority, to love somebody during your eternal life, whether the spiritual chemistry of your nature will let you or not. The best rounded-out minds of to-day have grown to this condition, and it can be veriﬁed that this repudiation of old and (held to be) sacred things does not make a condition of utter “cussed11ess ” and “ depravity” for the individuals so ‘ believing. The best thought of to-day says: Let us stop this eternal building of imaginary “mansions in the skies,” and see if we cannot build a comfortable house to live in here on earth while we stay. Let us cease trying to live and grow beau- tiful on the “love of Christ,” when we all know and feel that it is this common, human love, that grows in every- body’s garden, that is just what we want to make us good and beautiful. Let us have conﬁdence in and reverence for the pure and beautiful processes of nature everywhere. That principle which pervades the entire universe of mind and matter, and which we call “chemistry,” which unites into harmonious compounds the simple elements throughout the realm of the material universe—may it not safely be trusted to unite or disunite the souls of man and woman in tem- porary or eternal marriage? The thought that is morally sound says: If one part of the human body is sacred and pure and made for a wise purpose, so is another. Therefore let nobody defame or profane that part or function of nature which has for its oiiice the begetting of an immortal soul. Let this question of sexuality be rescued from the “mire of intemperance,” set up in its purity, grandeur and use, and be allowed to mean just what nature declares—viz., that it is the most reﬁning and spiritualizing element in the nature of man or woman, and in a normal state the highest expres_ sion of human love; maternity the holiest heritage of woman, paternity the highest privilege of man; and when woman becomes fully enfranchised, both will appreciate the gift. God speed the time when the heavy hand of authority shall» no more profane the natural functions of woman’s body, nor try to command the instinct of love in her soul. “The holiest aspirations of her mind To serve unholy ends is still conﬁned, And man nor woman never can be blessed ’Till love, “unfettered,” reigns within the breast.” MARY PEOK. [From the Oorrespondénce oft/Le (Yincinnati C’0mmercial.] EUROPEAN FREE-LOVE SYSTEM. The world that comes to Ostend is worldly; it is a host ‘of wealthy, fashionable, and, for the most part, educated peo- ple bent on seeking pleasure. And their idea of pleasure is to make among themselves a kind of l3occacio’s Garden, while the heat——and possibly the cholera—is pelting the cities. The Wilhelm Meister and the Lothario elements are in full strength, and the Philinas, and the Dames aux. Came- lias are in full glory also. Ostend is hospitable to all, its skies are bright and its surf is cool forthe moral and immoral. Yon handsome gentleman and lady are freely handed into one bathing machine without their marriage certiﬁcate being demanded. At the Kursaal—in the Casino—y0ur money is called for, but not your character. You may easily imagine that this is the Paradise of the dcmt-monole. Yes, it is, but it is none the less on that account the Paradise of the monde also. . I was sitting one day taking a little luncheon in one of the restaurants overlooking the beach, when some sensationjwas caused by a beautiful woman performing the role of Phryne in bath with such a strict regard for her classic model that ﬁnally the Inspector of the "Beach interfered. It was done very delicately. Some one was sent out'into thewater ap— parently to take a bath, but really to whisper to Phryne’s male companion that his companion must re-enter her bathing machine. The girl was apparently none the wiser for it. It was rather a wonder that there was any interference at all, as every day a score of ladies disport themselves in the waves A acters, as of that class. with almost equal disregard of conventionalivties of costume. When this particular sensation was over, a ﬁne looking gentlemen who had exhibited a good deal of interest in the incident came and sat at the same table with myself. He had with him a beautiful boy, with whom he conversed in a whisper. I remarked to him when we were fairely at our soup that there seemed to be agood many of the demi-monde in Ostend, referring to the scene which had just occurred. “The girl,” he replied,“does not belong to the demt‘-monde but is 2. Brussels prostitute.” _ “You make a distinction,” I observed. , “There is a great difference,” he replied; “it will by no means suit the facts to call a prostitute one of the demi- monde. The demi-monde is my monde, and I know some- thing about it. We never speak of coarse, licentious char- The ladies of the demtlmonde have self-respect. They may not be respected by others, but they have self-respect. They are people who have not carried their love affairs to the extent of marriage. There are vari- ous reasons why they prefer to live together as man and wife without marriage.” ' “I should be glad to hear some of these reasons,” I said’. “Well, they belong partly to the circumstances of the parties, an.d partly to the laws of the country in which they chance to live. In many countries the laws, and still more social rules, make a marriage contract diﬂicult and expen- sive. Then it must be considered that in most countries no marriage is regarded by the monole as chaste and proper un- less it has been sanctioned and performed by a priest. And who looks upon a relation between man and woman as any the better because a priest has blessed it? ” “ Well,” I answered, “ I might agree with you there; but most countries have made arrangements for civil marriages.” “ Yes, true; but still they are under some bann in this so- called monde. But, sir, that is the smallest part of the ground on which the demi-monde rest. The fact is, many people love each other, and desire, to a certain extent, to dwell together, or to enjoy the world together, but have an inﬁnite number of reasons why they do not wish to put themselves under the laws of marriage. And they ﬁnd that they can enjoy themselves just as well———they think a great deal better——without it.” As the gentleman spoke thus, I glanced at the boy he had with him, and whom I took to be his son at ﬁrst glance, and wonderedxthat he spoke so freely in his presence; but he spoke English, and I concluded that it was a language that the youth did not understand. “I am,” I rejoined, “ quite ignorant of the characters of whom you are speaking. I have only the ordinal-y,and no doubt ill-informed view of society, which view is, as you probably well know, that these mistresses get far the worst of such relationships; that aftera brief period of pleasure they are cast off, perhaps left with infants in their arms, to become the scoff of the world, and to obtain a living by sinking into that low class from which you are so careful to distinguish them.” “There are dangers of that, no doubt; but are there no abandoned wives? Is it all peace and joy with the women of the mondef? Observe that man in the water there ﬂoating with the pretty girl in the fascinating costume; I know well who he is; he is a respectable and wealthy gentleman of Paris. His wife is at home attending to half-a—dozen children. You say there are a good many of the dams‘-monde in Ostend. There are many more than there are wives, and it is because lov- ers take care that their sweethearts shall have enjoyments. Whether husbands are equally careful you may judge for yourself. There are few people that have so much enjoy- _ment as the dem1'—monde. They are not worn out with child- bearing and with drudgery for children. “ They do have children sometimes, and they love them as much as other women. But generally they observe the wise principles of your English Malthus in that particular. They are taken to the theatre once or twice every week. They have good society, too, for the demt'-monde has become so extensive that the monde is gradually becoming high and dry. The chief journalists, authors, artists and students are the supporters of this excommunicated society. And you must remember that just in the proportion that the old soci- ety dwindles, and marriage ceases to be a test of either edu- cation, self-respect or social happiness, just in that propor- tion does the dcmt-monde ascend in character. Therefore I ay they are,not now prostitutes,whatever they may have once been. The woman of the d_em13—monde is united to one man, and he is generally faithful to her—generally loves her and honors her. The only difference between her and the wo- men of the monde is that neither priest nor magistrate has made the bond artiﬁcial. When the love ceases they leave each other.” “But what then becomes of the wife, who has given the bloom of her life away, and of her children, if she has had any ?” ‘ . “Well, where there are no laws people generally make such as are necessary. N 0 man who should leave a woman helpless under such . circumstances would fail to be dis- honored and scorned both in monde and demt'—monde. The inducement may not be all that could be desired, but I fail to see that the legal bond always secures happy results among married folks.” “I will not argue the point with you,” I said; “not be- cause I do not see terrible evils besetting the theories you so ably advocate, but because 1 see that certain no less terrible evils adhering to marriage laws have A made such theories natural and such practices inevitable.” I then proceeded to give further illustrations of the dan- gers incidental to this Free-love business, but will not trouble the reader with my own opinions, preferring to state how the general decay of marriage on the continent of Europe appears to a cultivated French writer (for such I have discovered him to be). 1 was several times on the point of advancing an cwgumentum ad hominem, since he had alluded to the care with which gentlemen of his faith brought their companions to summer resorts, noticing that ﬁthere was no lady present to enjoy the charming little repast 1 I ed. thatwas before him. But before I had made up my mind whether he might not regardlgthis as an affront, a certain suspicion hadrisen in myimind, which was soon conﬁrmed. The gentleman and the boy got up and went down to the beach. They entered a bathing-‘machine together; but when they came out of it in the sea”, the boy had expanded to a young woman, who darted through the surf like a silver ﬁsh. ‘ ' During the evening sat watching the incoming tide. A great golden moon shone down, and blended with the plies- phorescent light that tinged the foam-fringes of each wave. On iticame. One after another the little sand fortresses and castles which children had been building all the after- A noon were swept away. The little things had built very earnestly, and no doubt each thought his sand bulwark a momentous institution of society——important as marriage itself. But the tide did not respect the work of the little ones now fallen asleep. It swept on and smoothed them away, and only certain things built of rock remained when the morning came. A ' M, D, C_ “RESTRAINTS ON THE PASSIONS.” Dear Mrs. "Woodhull-—The tone of my communication on “Free Love in Factories ” is condemned by a writer in the Lawrence (Mass.) Journal, who signs himself “ Morality.” I referred to the old factory boarding-house system, which in- trusted the virtue of the‘ factory girls little to themselves, but mainly to the guardianship of their boarding—mistresses. At 10 o’clock sharp,eve1y night, the factory girl must be at her boarding «house, putting herself in her little bed. What vis- itorsshe should receive, at what times and how often she should receive them, what places of amusement she should attend——all these and many other similar questions were determined by the frigid boarding—mistress. I quoted Judge Cowley’s contribution to the Labor Bureau’s Report as authority, showing that this system is passing away, and that the Lowell factory girls are getting the same freedom in their social relations which the factory’ girls of Great Britain and of Fall River have always enj eyed.’ Now, “ Morality,” who is manifestly of the Comstock school, mourns over the decline of this rigid system of by:-gong times, because it removes “restraints on the passions.” Pohz What merit is there in the virtue which exists only because it cannot help itself? Would “Morality” -have all the fac- tory girls harnessed with the “girdles of chastity,” worn in ancient times by wives whose husbands were insanely jealous of them, which made sexual conquest impossible as long as they remained on! I am sure that if it had been the custom to put these ingenious “padlocks ” on. factory girls heretofore, “ Morality ” would want them continued, be- cause to remove them would beto remove “restraints on the passions I” No virtue will be lost by any-women because she is made the _ mistress ofherself. It was because so little was left to the girls themselves, and so much reliance was placed upon these arti- ﬁcial “ restraints on the passions,” that Kate Hastings’ splendidly furnished brothel, and Kate Ridgeley’s “ Palace of Mirrors,” in New York, were found years ago to con- tain so many graduates from the Lowell factories. WILLIAM FRIAR. __—_..—- 1 THE TRINITY or LOVE. Perhaps it may appear. as a dogma to deﬁne love as 3, trinity. We may attempt to deﬁne it only by littles. It; is all good and comprehending——the divine, the very God_ But‘-asva weak expression of this divinity we attempt to de-. ﬁne these three. ' THE AMATIVE, Located at the base of the brain, it appears as a primary to the structure of love. It is only select and chaste in its use when toned, blended and harmonized with the ‘higher faculties and desires of the human. Legal or illegal prosti- tution may gratify purely amative desire. But even with- out higher combinations, if it be reciprocal and desired by two who do not know of better sexual happiness, their act should be placed in the trinity of love until they grow to it-,_ THE SPIRITUAL. By the affinities of the physical universe certain ponder- able bodies are drawn together and held in their relative places. These attractions are relatively spiritual. We can study the laws of adaptation, -and learn what particles are drawn together,Vwhether of the little atoms of earth or of the most beautiful physical structure of man and woman_ An exact science ‘underlies it all. Some objects are drawn together, and in their unity create a most beautiful and perfected whole; while if we try to put together Objects that have no affinity for each other, we attempt violence to God’s great law of love. Men" and women of oppositetem- peraments are strongly attracted to each other. They can so thrill and vivify each the other with a weird and delicious electrical lifevthat the spiritual exults in its triumph over the material, and joyously holds to its embrace its own. In all thing we are sexed and adapted to each other in the material, the Spiritual, the intellectual and the intuitive or , soUL. The soul love is the “bond golden” of Mary Davis. ‘ The conjugal of Swedenborg, which he saw in the higher spheres as abeautiful ethereal light, too pureto burn in the gross atmosphere of our earth life. _ Those who love soully, love with their whole being; and in the innerlife there are joys sweeter and diviner to the sense than mere external touch, as the inﬁnite resources of the universe are then open- ed in perpetual flow of life and youth. Inspiration, music and mystic harmonies come unbidden with the love life of the soul, such as are born into this life and are overshadow- ed by its halo of light have knownof heaven. The beautiful summer land of the poet would be barren and drear without the presence of the one we love. Love, then, becomes the soul of all beauty, the fountain of-perpetual youth. With it inspiration is born, and the spirit of inﬁnity, boundless as theuniverse of light, is touch. L. K. J osrm. 6 V I ~ , ‘WOODHULL & CLAFLI-N’-S WEIJKLY. Sept. 20, 1873. “GLASS HOUSES”-«LIMITED MARRIAGES. DAYTON, Ohio, August, 1873 . lily dewr Mrs. I/Voodhull-Allow me-to criticise the use made in Free Love discussions of the old saying that “ People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.” It has been quoted with terrible severity in reference to poor brother Jones, of the R. P. Journal, and other men and women in similar circumstances. The maxim, I apprehend, was intended to condemn the gross inconsistency and hypoc- risy of those who zealously pointed out a fault of character in one person, while they themselves -committed the same and others that were more in number and atrocity. The idea i.s, that the reprover lives in a glass house, through which his sins are visible to all passers by, and which, in an attack upon him, such as he makes on others, is, on account of its brittleness, easily demolished; while the person reproved lives in an ordinary solid house, which shelters its inmates alike from observation andcassault. Now, if I understand the theory correctly, Free Lovers do not live in glass houses, but in a fortress of reason and ex- perience, which deﬁes all methods of attack. Honestly, con- scientiously and fearlessly they take the position that men and women have the God-given, inalienable right to manage their love relations as they see ﬁt, independently of the die- tation of either Church or State——always with reference, _however, to the sacred interests of third parties who may come into existence by the exercise of that right. Shelley, the poet, held this doctrine, and lived it out beautifully till his death. Marian Evans, the author of “ Middlemarch,” is now illustrating the same theory in England, where, for peculiar reasons, legal marriage ideas are more cast iron than anywhere else on earth. Many persons in this country who live in marital relations hold each other by the same volun- tary tie of love, which is the only one that true lovers of either sex can consent to be bound by when they are properly enlightened on the subject. If, then, a Free Lover, disgusted with the inconsistency of Brother Jones and others, defends himself against their attacks by reminding them angrily that they, too, live in glass houses, he uses in his assault on these weak brethren a boomerang which rebounds and wounds himself. . It is like a set a thieves in a police-court, who, when one of their number turns States’ evidence against the rest, remind him as he stands in the witness-box that he is as great a rogue as they. But this is a fatal admission, which will forever pre- vent progress in reforming away the evils growing out of legal marriage. Long ago Margaret Fuller, as quoted in the WEEKLY of August 2 by Georgiana Kirby, expressed her belief in Free Love when she gave it as her opinion that “if two persons of intelligence and unblemished reputation should publicly declare that while they hoped their love would continue for life, they had conscientious objections to solemnly promising what they might not be able to fulﬁll, and should proceed to set up house-keeping on these terms, the public would respect their scruples.” There was profound philosophy in this, which Free Lovers should study and illustrate. Prof. Taylor Lewis, of Union College, in some of his very muddy effusions published in a religious newspaper some time ago, taught that the Legis- lature of New York should suppress the Oneida Community, as in some cities the authorities suppress gambling-houses and brothels, on the ground that the Community were a nui- _. sance, since they repudiate legal marriage and manage their love affairs as they please. But no one was ‘ever foolish enough to second Mr. Taylor’s motion, and that because the Oneida Community is a wealthy establishment, never talked about glass houses, but religiously believe that their system is far better for society than legal marriage, and practice accordingly. They therefore command respect in the.enjoy- ment of their rights. Neither would the American people ever have thought of disturbing the Mormons in the practice of polygamy had it not been for Dr. Newman, the President’s conscience-keeper, who, being exceedingly mortiﬁed at the signal defeat that Orson Pratt gave him in Utah when debating the Scriptural authority of polygamy, came home ‘full of revenge and in- duced the President to persecute them by sending a Meth- odist class-leader as judge and a district attorney to match. But even the last Congress, bad as it was, never counte- nanced General Grant’s raid on the Saints, because these Saints "boldly and conscientiously carried out the Old Testa- ment regtmc, and made Salt Lake the most moral and orderly city on the continent. In an editorialvof the WEEKLY for August 2, headed “Hard on Jones,” you quote from a Western paper some very caustic utterances on that gentleman. But if Jones, out of respect to old times and the law, takes good care of his legal wife toward whom he no longer sustains the relation of lover, yet lives with another lady in divine marriage, other- wise called free love, what is he doing that, according to your own theory, should be censured‘? Let him have plenty of grape and canister, if you please, for his inconsistency or hypocrisy, but be careful not to condemn the act which you deem right. In the debate with the legal marriage advocates, you should carry the war into Africa and prove that free love is a truer and diviner marriage than the legal relation since it has for its bond of union that, of which an Apostle has said, that God himself is a personiﬁcation—Love. It is my settled conviction, arrived at after much thought and observation as well as some experience, that if legal mar- riage were entirely abolished and if women were well edu- cated, especially in the sexology of man and woman, and if they had equal political rights, and all the avenues of busi- ness occupations were opened to them, then absolute free- dom in the domain of the aﬁections would result generally in establishing permanent monogamic relations between the sexes. I say generally, for if persons are not born into the ‘ . world right, with their ‘passions in beautiful equipoise, but lop-si-ded, there will be men who would choose polygamy. But a properly constituted man or woman, I think, would be entirely satisﬁed with the love of one dear lover as a com- panion and unfailing friend. This seems to be the teaching of nature in the numerical equality of the sexes. If, then, legal marriage is wrong and exerts a bad inﬂuence on the state of society; and if divine marriage, with the only tie of deep forbearing love, is right and would shed superior and permanent blessings on society, let free lovers no longer be on the defensive and talk about glass houses, but advance to the front and become the attacking party. They have God, reason and the holiest instincts of the human heart on their side, and the redemption of the world by adopting their the- ory is only a question of time. On looking at the conclusion of this letter, you will see that I am the same correspondent who a few years since, when residing in Youngstown, Ohio, asked through the col- ums of the ‘WEEKLY your advice concerning my contem- plated marriage with my lover J ohn—-whether or no, on the legal ground that marriage was solely a civil contract and like all other civil contracts, capable of being continued or annulled at the will of the parties, I might not marry him for a limited time to see if we were adapted to each other. You remember that you advised me to make the trial. Well, af- ter many tears Itold John that if he would give up the use of tobacco and never touch intoxicating liquor, and break away from all his old associates and go to Dayton and set up business there, and be married without priest or squire, on the principle that love and love only was the bond of union,- and that while love lasted the marriage lasted, and if it failed the marriage failed with it; if he would honestly and truly consent to all these conditions, I would consent to be his wife. He agreed to do so. He in- vested $10,000 in a flourishing business in Dayton, got his life insured for $10,000 more, made his will immediately, giving all his property to me. I turned my Oberlin education to purpose by procuring an engagement with one of the news- papers, which brings me in -$500 a year, and which goes in part toward paying up the premium on the life-insurance policy, and a happier couple never kissed each other. A real love child has been born to us, whose gender I regretted, for I wished it to be a girl that I might name it after you. But a daughter may come, and if she does, she will bear the name of Victoria VVoodhull. We don’t go much to church, but a John reads to me every evening when we have no company, and especially on Sundays after we take his namesake an airing in the park. And what will please you to hear is that John, seeing the advantage of perpetual courtship, is an open advocate of free love as\the cure for the infelicities of legal marriage and the frequency of divorce, and that his argu- ments, with our happy lives, are making converts to the faith. Sincerely your friend, M ARY ANN_ [From the Olwistian Unécm.] WOMAN DEGRADED. BEECHER FOINTS A MORAL WITH SOME UNADORNED MODERN TALES. In popular theory, and to a certain extent in law, woman still remains a weak, wavering shadow of man, his helpless care and absolute property. It was this most monstrous tradition which made of VVa,1_ worth, the husband, a brutal domestic tyrant, a, coarse do- mestic bully. Should not a man do what he would with his own? It was this sentimental nonsense that made of Walt worth, the son, a calculating parricide. Should not a son “protect” his mother? That the costly legal machinery of a sovereign state stood ready to “ protect ” her, as threaten- ing and pistols could not, was a fact too com‘mon-p1ace to weigh with him. Her honor being insulted, chivalry (16- manded that he should avenge it. Smith, who killed a man, and tried to kill a woman, because that man paid court to that woman, justified himself a hundred times over with the same plea—“she belonged to me.” And he died, to his own thinking, in the full odor of sanctity, and in the sin- cere belief that he hacl committed no crime. Gillemicoolly stabbed his wife because she refused to live with him on account of his debauchery, faithlessness and violence. He thought that he exercised the plainest right of a husband, and said to the policeman: “ You’d have done the game if your wife had left you.” And that policeman admitted that he saw the murderer lying in wait, knew his mad rages, and feared some violence, but “ did not like ’to interfere between man and wife.” Goodrich happened to be the victim in_ stead of the victor, under his system, which was ‘evidently the same, namely, that the woman is the absolute property of the man and the creature of his will. To his thinking she had no rights in the case. These are not pleasant pictures; but it is only in their con- crete form that the bad tendencies of society arrest the gen- eral mind. The one hope of diminishing crime is to reform those false modes of thought which generate crime. No one of these is more dangerous than the notion of man’s owner- ship of woman, and of woman’s accountability to man. It brutalizes the lower classes from end to end. Its consequences touch unborn children and keep the ranks of rogues and paupers full. It makes the men of the upper classes tyx-ah- nous and selﬁsh, the women silly, exacting, frivolous and and weak. Itleads to crimes of sensuality and violence, and sets the code of honor above the law of the land. I Half the social questions that vex our souls will be an- swered when the world concedes that a woman is a normal, responsible, individual human being, as a man is normal, re- sponsible, individual; that she must be the protector of her own honor, the judge of her own duty, the keeper of her own conscience, answerable only to the law and to heaven. There will be a lofty observance of marriage, a noble race of ch11- dren, only when the man and the woman. are intelligent equals and friends. And in that day the world will be ashamed to remember through how many centuries it ranged men into a mock order of devotees and women into a senti- mental priesthood. A LESSON IN HISTORY. A. D. 1900. It was a summer evening, Old Mr. Smith had come From San Francisco, by balloon, To his suburban home-- Where, by the shore of Klamath Lake, His pleasure he was wont to take. He saw his grandchild, Colfaxine, While playing at croquet, Roll something large and smooth and round To her brother, Henry Clay, And ask the young sport if he knew Where that queer palaezoic grew. The old man Smith stepped up and took The relic in his hand, And shook it till it rattled out A gill or two of sand. . “ ’Tis some squaw Modoc’s skull,” quoth he, “ Who fell in the great victory.” “ Now tell us what ’twas all about,” ' Young Henry Clay inquired; While on her mallet Colfaxine Leaned with a look inspired. “ Come, tell us who the warriors were, And why they killed each other here.” “ It was the Yankees," said old Smith, “ Who made the Modocs run, - Because they coveted the lands The red men hunted on. It’s somewhat mixed; but all agree That was a famous victory. “ Men, babes and women, ﬁfty-three, Followed the Indian chief; One hundred times as many whites Brought Mr. Lo to grief; And every red was killed,” said he, “ In the great Modoc victory.” “ But what good came of it at last?” Asked gentle Colfaxine. _ “ Good‘! Why, we got their land, you bet-— The home you're living in; And many a heathen scalp won we In that brave Christian victory. “ Great praise our Colonel Killem gained, And eke our ﬂag, I ween;" “ But did they read the Bible then?” Said pitying Colfaxine. “ Why, that I cannot say,” quoth he; “ But ’twas a glorious victory.” , ——Boston Journal. BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 27, 1873. Dear Sister W0odhull——In reply to an article in the WEEK- LY, August 23d, written by “A woman in Earnest,” I am prompted to give a brief bit of my experience, though not exactly to refute what the sister has said, but to show the antagonism of our views relative to sexual union. And in order to express my views brieﬂy, I will say that I heartly indorse all Dr. K. said in his article in reply to sister Mitchel, and all the honest and beautiful sentiment ex- pressed in the personal experience of brother Moses Hull. First, the “ Earnest Sister,” says~—“ Surely no woman not suffering from sexual disease can ever desire this union with- out desiring the proper fruit thereof.” Now, I am and hitherto have been justas healthy, sexually, as any woman can be, and I do not blush to acknowledge just here that I am largely amative, and that my nature, which I had no hand in’ creating, demands sexual intercourse. It is just as essential to my health, happiness and intellectual growth as the food I eat or the water I drink. I desire it, not only for the pleasure of the embrace, but for the peace and satisfaction which result from it. When I am happy and satisﬁed myself, I can make all around me pleasant and happy. Hence the good which this soul-union brings to me is not lost or wasted in me, as the sister has said, but is imparted to all who come under my inﬂuence. The more intellectually developed and spiritually unfolded I become, the greater is my demand for this soul food, which instead of “ giving life to ‘the babes which are, to be,” gives new life, health and vigor to those who are no longer babes. I can’t understand how the “Earnest Sister,” or any one else, can say that sexual union, unaccompanied by a desire for procreation, is worse than a waste of seed, and produces only disease and corruption. 1, for one, fail to see it in any such light. The mutual and temperate satisfaction, sexually, of two love-mated souls never did, nor never will produce disease or corruption; and so far as the seed being wasted is concerned, I regard it as sowing seed in good ground, which never fails to bring forth good fruit—though it is not nor should not be a child every time. _ . . q ‘I do not desire any more children; I have two beautiful and intelligent little girls, one a happy angel in the spirit world, the other (still in earth life) a bright little spiritual medium just six years old, and I can say with a clear con- science, that I do not desire a third. We are now a happy little family. My companion,a good and true man as the world ever knew, joins me and indorses a.llI say. We Work to- ’ gether, and with God’s help, we will take care of, and educate our little Dennie to a life of purity and usefulness. We will continue to teach her to always love and adhere to truth and justice, and when we shall have done all we can for her, and all the good we can to others; our hearts tell us we will have done our duty, and that when the time shall have come for our birth into a higher life, we will hear those beautiful and ’ comforting words, “Well done thou good and faithful servant.” I think, and I know, that I am is far better to have a few children, well raised and educat- ed, than to have so many to grow up in ignorance and neglect. There are also many who are both able and willing to raise properly a large number of children, then I say let them indorsed by many, that it I"S‘l>#\Ht‘rF Q;-4&*,§Q.:'fg§®b-3:1‘ F,-*azr—lc1~»‘ (5 ii: ‘<D‘5nQI'(3F2I Sept. 20, 1873. WOODAHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. b have them,- but those who cannot give them half the comforts and attentions that necessity demands, better not have too many. Faithfully yours for truth and right. COEINNE F. CREEDLE. BALTIMORE, August 13, 1873. Mas. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL: I M adum—I have noticed in several articles emanating from your own and your sister Tennie’s pens, that you claim that there should be no distinction made by society between the man and the woman Who has fallen from virtue. That if the woman is ostricised the man should be also—-or, to use an old and trite proverb, “Sauce for goose, sauce for gander.” I fully accept this. I am one of those who are termed the “Lords of Creation.” But I am ashamed of my sex and equally so of the majority of yours, who, as a rule, will re- ceive and pet the successful libertine (fully aware of his moral turpitude),while they will scornfully turn aside from his victim, no matter if she sinned through love while he was only actuated by lust. Man has always, from the time that Adam excused himself from blame for eating the mythical apple, on the ground that “ the woman gave him and he did eat,” down to the present hour, endeavored to throw all the blame of his misdeeds upon some woman. A 'man gets drunk and then excuses himself, because his wife makes his home un- happy, and thinks himself justiﬁed. Out upon such stuff. But this is not what I had in my mind to write when I com- menced. I have lately become cognizant of a case now pend- ingin our courts, which to my mind illustrates one of the great evils of our present social status. The veriest wretch on earth, who has run the wildest race of licentiousness, having spent not only his substance but all the vigor of his manhood with the lowest of so-called prostitutes, expects and demands, when he marries, virgin purity in the woman . whom he honors (?) with his hand and name, notwithstand- ing he can only offer her in return the dregs of an ill-spentlife. The case in point, to which I refer, is substantially as fol- lows: Last winter, a man well known in this city, who had for years been notorious for his amours and seductions, who was a persistent patron of nearly all the bagnios in the town, wooed and won a beautiful young lady. Not long after the honeymoon had elapsed he heard some stories affecting her ante-nuptial chastity, that she had been seduced by the Sn- perintendent of the Sunday school (a member of the Young Men’s Christian Association, probably); and, oh, my! how his righteous soul was vexed. A big row ensued, and he at once left her and instituted proceedings for a divorce on the grounds of ante-nuptial inﬁdelity which she had concealed from him. He was deceived in her, and I doubt not a jury of men will grant his prayer. I cannot help asking myself——Is this justice? Has not the woman who marries a man as good a right to expect that he will bring to the nuptial couch a chaste record as he has that she shall? I cannot see the dif- ference, although I am a man. Another instance: I was talking within a week to a man past ﬁfty, who says he wants to marry and settle down, but is afraid he may be cheated and not get a wife who has always been pure. And yet this same man boasts that he has known over ﬁve thousand women, and his constitution is broken down by diseases resulting from what he playfully terms his youthful indiscretions. Thus it is, and thus it will be until public sentiment demands the same rights and im- munities for woman as are granted to man. And if a wo- man is ostracised for a fault, her partner in sin shall stand upon the same platform. If she is compelled to wear the “ scarlet letter” in the market-place, let him stand along side her with the same red insignia of shame, or to return to the old and vulgar proverb, “ Sauce for goose, sauce for gander.” Yours for right and justice, LYON. SEXUAL SCIENCE. EDITOR or THE WEEKLY: LINDEN, Texas, Aug. 18, 1873. Some time since I read quite an interesting article in the WEEKLY, by Mrs. Mattie Mitchell, in regard to the frequency of sexual intercourse, and I am of the opinion that if her advice was carried out, “ the world would be the better for it.” Sexual excesses ruin thousands of our people, both in- side and outside of marriage, and sends other thousands to premature graves. I notice in the WEEKLY for August 9, Dr. T. R. Kinget differs with Mrs. Mitchell, and says that “ the gratiﬁcation of the sexual instinct is obedience to natural law.” That might do if the sexual feeling or ap- petite was a natural one every time, but there is so much of it that comes from a morbid condition of the sexual system. “The excessive indulgence of the sexual appetite pro- duces emaciation, debility and imbecility, The frame be- comes altered; the stooping posture and shuﬁling gait in- dicate weakness of body and indecision of character. The shoulders fall on the breast; the pale, sharpened features and the prematurely old and haggard expression of the face too plainly reveal the story of secret suffering and sin. Many a man has, until his marriage, lived a most continent life; so has his wife. But as soon as they are wedded, in- tercourse is indulged in night after night, neither party having any idea that this is an excess which the system of neither can bear, and which to the man, at least, is simply ruin! The practice is continued till health is impaired, sometimes permanently; and when a patient at last is obliged to seek medical advice, he is thunderstruck at learn- ing that his suiferings arise from such a cause as this.” Our people need enlightenment and reliable information in regard to sexual matters, and you are doing a great work in this direction with your brave utterances in the WEEKLY on this most important of all subjects. 1' am truly glad to’ see by the last WEEKLY that your friends are coming forward with the Press Funds, and hope you may soon get the necessary amount. ALEX. KING. NOT OURS, COMSTOCKI Recognizing the fact that prostitution is the necessary ad- junct of the legal marriage system, which we are striving to abolish for the general good of humanity, we give this adver- tisement the beneﬁt of our circulation. It is taken from the Louisville Ledger: THE DAMNATION HoUsE.—The Indianapolis Herald is cartooning the ‘Great Damnation House’ of that city. Saturday’s Herald contains a likeness of the ‘ Senior Partner’ —a woman who looks very much like the ‘ Hecate of Domes- tic Hells,’ and the ‘Superintendent’—‘athing something after the style of a man.’ The twain have an established- business in Indianapolis, which the Irferald advertises as follows: “This house, the oldest and" most fashionable brothel in the city, is patronized by merchants, lawyers, judges, alder- men, statesmen, gentlemen of elegant leisure, and the very best classes of society. People who desire an elegant and expeditous passage to Tophet can have the satisfaction of knowing that they are going to h—l in good "company by patronizing this establishment. Owing to the ‘respect- ability’ of the matron and her powerful and inﬂuential con- nections, visitors can enjoy themselves without fear of being ‘ pulled’ by the police. “Youth corrupted with neatness and dispatch. Bank clerks, statesmen and students speedily transformed into forgers, thieves and conﬁdence men. “An accomplished corps of procuresses, distributed throughout the State, to keep the house constantly supplied with special attractions. “ The schoolroom the elite of the country village, the in- conipatibility of wedlock, are all drawn upon to ﬁll the ran s. "Special arrangements made with wealthy libertines to secure the accomplishment of their designs in special cases.” ‘DIRECTORY OF SOCIAL FREEDOM. We desire to present from time to time a list of the writers and speakers who advocate Social Freedom. The time is not far distant when‘ it will be necessary that these shall know each ‘other, and it is at the suggestion of one of the most able writers and speakers, and most earnest of them all on this subject, that we now invite names for this directory: Francis Barry, Ravenna, Ohio. Julia H. Severance, Milwaukie, Mis. Thomas W. Organ, Tuscola, Ill. Loren Hollister, Turner, Ill. ‘J. W. Evarts, Centralia, Ill. Laura Guppy Smith, care this oﬂice. Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Conn. J . K. Philleo, Parkman, Ohio. L. K. J oslin, Providence, R. I. E. H. Heywood. Princeton, Mass. —- Heywood, Princeton, Mass. Seward Mitchell, Cornville, Me. Carrie Lewis, Cleveland, Ohio. Daniel Wood, Lebanon, Me. Lessie Goodell Steinmetz. Amherst, Mass. Nellie L. Davis, North Billerica, Mass. J . K. Moore, Oil City, Pa. , Mrs. M. E. B. Sawyer, 27 Milford St., Boston. Frances Rose Mackinley, 769 Mission St., S. Francisoc. ‘Sada Bailey, Waukegan, Ill. James Ormsby. 127 Spring st., Milwaukee, Wis. T. S. A. Pope, Grand Rapids, Mich. 4- A 7 -’.——~ VOICES OF THE PEOPLE. CHICAGO, August 24, 1873. Editors Week!/y——Here is an estimate of your paper which occurs in a series of random shots I am giving the local pub- lic, through the columns of the Laporte Herald .' “ The Woodhull-Claﬂin ‘paper still lives. Those who never saw it call it “nasty.” Of course that argument can’t be refuted. But those who read it are quite sure that it is the boldest, freest, noblest and fairest paper in America. I had as lief undertake to do without milk.” The Herald is the largest paper in Indiana, and is con- ducted. with a goodly share of ability and great fairness. This latter feature makes it something of an anomaly in modern journalism, and yet, much to the credit of its pa- trons, it is well sustained. , I send you this item not merely nor mainly as an evidence of my own appreciation of your efforts in behalf of free thought, but as indicating what I deem a good thing for others to do——present the claims of a genuine Republican pa- per whenever opportunity offers. This is the more necessary in the present instance, because of the cowardly course pur- sued by the press generally in stating, or rather misstating, the character and purpose of the WEEKLY and its sup- porters. ’ ‘ I The common people heard Christ gladly, and would as gladly hear and as readily apply common-sense teachings in our day. Shall they have a chance? I am satisﬁed that the masses know little of the magnitude and less of the spirit of this controversy. They have read of Henry Ward Beecher’ as “the greatest pulpit orator in America," and of_ Mrs. Woodhull as “'a blackmai-ling prostitute,” and here the case rests, save as it is urged on by the missionary spirit of those whose motto is “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” I believe with Miss Claﬂin, that the true course is to adopt principles and practices having in themselves the merit of common sense and fairness, and let Mrs. Grundy throw herself. Yours truly, R. P. LEWIS. THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION-. The legalization of usury or interest for money,_W,hich W-as. ﬁrst establi_shed in Christian England in th_e,r_éeign of Henry the Eighth, is a fraud and a wrong to the laborer. Human edicts cannot justly confer a power on money, which is merely the representative of wealth, which wealth itself does not possess, viz. : “‘-the power to increase without the direct aid of labor.” Every law passed sustaining usury or inter- est for money encourages speculation, gambling, and idle living; renders honest toil despicable, conﬂicts with the rights of the laborer, and, under it, money, instead of aid- ing the worker, becomes his competitor and his most deadly foe. . * ALEXANDER POPE ON PAPER MONEY. “ Blest paper credit! Last and best supply Which lends corruption lighter wings to ﬂy. Gold, imp’d by thee, can compass hardest things-- Can pocket States-can fetch and carry kings. . A single leaf shall waft an army ofer, Or ship off navies to some distant shore; A leaf, like Sybil’s, scatter to and fro Our fates and fo_rtu_nes, as the wind shall blow. Pregnant with millions ﬂits the scrap unseen, And either buys a king or sells a queen.” .. FROM the Word for September we clip the two extracts below: “A Western David, _Wm. Huddleston, of Lotus, Ind., is writing a new Book of Psalms. ’He celebrates ‘Salvation Through the Devil,’ in this style: A A ' ' “ Religion is a humbug, The Bible is a hoax; - The preacher’s in the pulpit ll ’ Bamboozling the folks. “ The Devil is a scarecrow, And Hell a kind of rod To drive deluded mortals To serve an ‘Unknown God.’ “ And all who trust in Jesus To save their souls from Hell Will ﬁnd their sad delusion When waking from the spell! “ All praises to the Devil For giving God the lie, ' And teaching man that knowledge Is not What makes him die.” To suppose that the Love Reform movement means free marriage merely, is about assensible as abolitionists’ would have been had they aimed to establish free slavery——the right of a negro to sell himself for life, and the right of his master to hold him for lifeprovided the youthful victim “consented” and was damned into the “ for better or for worse” state by the benediction of a clergymen. We notice with pleasure the advent of a new paper Labor Reformer, of Buffalo, VN. Y., published, as its name implies, in the interest of all producers, Welcome! the more the merrier. - ; - PEARLS FROM THE SEA OF THOUGHT. SELECTED BY HELEN NASH. To VICTORIA: ' “ And I feel, wherever We may be, . Even tho’ inabsence and an alien cllme, The shadow of the sunniness of thee, Hovering in patience through a. clouded time.” * —0wen ‘M'eredz”t7i-. “ Cursed be the social forms I A That war against the strength ‘of youth! Cursed be the social" lies I ' That warp us from the living truth?” _ ——Tennyson. “What God has joined together no man can put asunder; hence the inconsistency of attempting, by the continuation of ‘laws, the enforcment of present marriage customs.”—— Tenrrée C. Claﬂin. ’ ' I “In short, it is an eternal law of sexua1ity—-in wedlock and out of it, governing all males and females in their rela- tions with each other—that love is always necessarily con- stant till sensualized by its interruption.”--0. S. Fowler. “Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much idisputation, and yet more personal liking.”——George Eliot. “ Ignorﬁance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it; may do ,more harm.”- George ..Elfi0t’S- “Felix Holt.” _ p __ . 7 ‘ s “ Woman, in a1l,history,is',the mortal enemy of polygamy; She wishes for the love of one only; but it must be real love’ -—-an eager, restless passion—which, like a ﬂame, burns on and must burn on. A "She never pardons the chosen possessor‘ who examines ‘so little into the value of his treasure as to stupidly think, the day after the wedding, tl1‘at'-he has no more to discover.”—M'£chelet. 4 H v “ Custom calls me to’t; - What custom wills—-ought we in all things. do’t? 1 The dust on antique time would lie unswept And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to overpeer.” ‘ — --Shakespeare, “ And doubt shall be as lead upon the feet Of thy most anxious will.” ' V I -——./192072. “It may be that the novelist"s art is injured by the re- straints put upon him, as many an honest, harmless statuew at St. Peter's or the Vatican is spoiled by the tin draperies- in which ecclesiastical old women have s,waddled the fair; limbs of the arble..”——»Tha.c1ceray. ~ A "‘Nothi;ng gives a young girl such vantage ground in soci‘-« ety in, life as a mother——a sensible, amiable, brilliant and; commanding woman.”-Gail H amélton. 3, ‘~‘-Come, darling, to the feast. And none so sweet aswhem “by love alone invited.”—Br'£cIc Pomeroy. ‘ EXPLANA'l‘lf'0J‘L?T,. ‘I . _ All: who have not received“ Common Sense Theology,” who ‘subscribed for it at Vineland Convention and at Plympton Camp Meeting, are requested to send intheir ad- I dresses as the list of names wasaccidentally lost. Address, D. Howland, Hamilton, Lewiston, Me. 2 V » ‘-.».«a.-..t=.»..-..:. ..»- .-E.-;.,....E:.:ak-.e:-s-j"‘ 8 ' ‘ WOODHUYJIJ dz CLAFLIN’S‘WEEKLYF Sept. 20, 1873.‘ TERMS or susscnlrrlou. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE; Sixmonths, - - - - - -I FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION _ can BE MADE To run Aenncr or THE ABAERICAN NEWS coMPA2:Y, LON- U non, ENGLAND. ‘ One copy for one year, - - - $3 00 One copy for six-months, - - - -‘ - - 1 50 Single copies. ‘ ' I ' ~ - ' * ‘:° ' 10 CLUB CRATES. - Five copies for one year, - -' - - I - - - $12 00 Ten copies for one year, - - - - - - v - 32 00 Twenty copies-(or more at same rate), - - - - 4:0 00 One-half these rates. 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U "Through contributions of friends I have been enabled to purchasea-number of tickets to Chicago, ma U the Erie Rail- road, Niagara Falls and Detroit, so that I can furnish them to delegates and persons attending the Convention, to be held on the 16th. of September,. fortwenty-ﬁve dollars the round trip from New York, good until Used- These tickets can be had only at the ofﬁce of WOODHULL. V & CLAELiN°s WEEKLY, 113 Nassau street, Room 13, by per- sonal application» or by letter accompanied with twenty—ﬁve dollars. ’ , .._ Holders of these tickets can stop at any point on the route and remain as long as they_wish. This is the ,best that can be done for ‘delegates , to the Convention, and- I think will be satisfactory to all, being nineteen dollars less than the regular fare from New York. Round trip tickets from Boston to NewYork can be had, via Fall River route, for ﬁve dollars. ’ There can be no arrangements made with railroads gener- ally; hence all people in the East will be compelled to reach New York as best they may, excepting those who naturally go to Boston. H i A A p I U Eegpejgtfully, VICTORIA C. WOODHULL,‘ ’ _ President American Association Spiritualists. 45: 4 7 wgy THE. AMERICAN NEWS. COMPANY. This company has again accepted the general agency for the ‘WEEKLY, and Vhereafterwill supply all city and country orders. This is very advantageous to us, inasmuch as it not only relieves us from :a ‘general odium ‘among newsmen in the country, as publishers 7 of a paper lthat"the' News‘Com- pany cannot deal in, but it also takesfrom us a great deal of care and labor. '.We hope our friends everywhere will sec- ond this movement of ltheiNews Company, and endeavor to extend the circulation of the WEEKLY wherever it is possi- ble. The News Company will supply the trade, returnable, until No. 149 inclusive, after which regular orders only will be ﬁlled. ‘ ' I‘ ' LECTURES IN THE WEST. In our recent trip "to the West we spoke . only in Louis- ville, New Albany and Evansville, the places advertised. On our arrival we_found the heat altogether too great to think of ﬁlling the other. engagements; therefore they were all put over till after the Convention at Chicago. Application for lectures may be made to us at the Garden House, Chicago, I1ls., until the 18th inst. I Y BosrQ1g:_.DELEsATEs. -- Delegates and-persons in Boston and vicinity, going to Chicago, must call at the oﬂice of the Banner of Light and obtain an‘ indorsement to their application for tickets which will entitle them to the reduced A rates via Fall River. Leaving Boston Saturday, night and arriving here the next imoirning, and getting tickets, to ;,Chicago and_ return, at our oﬁice, -113, Nassau street, during the day, they may leave we the Erie Railroad ..-at 7.2. M.:, Sunday and -arrive in ‘Chicago Tuesday morning, the day of the Convention. CHICAGO CONVENTION. . -There are reasons for believing that the meeting of this important body of Spiritualists will prove in its effects to be the greatest event of the century, if not superior to any that has preceded it in the records of time. The world’s history shows that itis far easier to found a nation than to establish- a faith ; for it was a lighter task to build Rome than to con- vert it to Christianity. As much as the soul is superior to the body, so are the principles animating the mind of man superior to the mere material creations of his hands." For this reason no grand change of faith has ever occurred without great suﬁering on the part of humanity, and it is the duty of Spiritualists to welcome the same rather than seek to shun it. The time is rapidly advancinggwhen, in all probability, Spiritualists, like the ancient Christians, will be called upon to suffer for the truth, and it is questionable whether that time has not already commenced ; at least the proprietor of this WEEKLY has little reason to negative such a statement. Although, unorganized as we are, Spiritualism can hardly be called established, we have good reason to rejoice in its incipient success. . Rising in a cottage in New York only a quarter of a century ago in timid rappings, the sound of its unearthly drumbeats now reverberates through the world. The peoples of all civilized communities are waking to the call, rotten and decayed creeds are crumbling before it, and the weary and hearlgsick workers for human good rise at the gladsome sound, and again buckle on their armor for the battle; for it is evident that a battle must be fought before Spiritualism can fully develop itself upon the earth. Twelve martyrdoms baptized Christianity with blood before it was triumpliantat Rome. Mohammedanism, a later ad- vancement, commenced with the sword, and carved its path :to success, but not without intense suffering. Spiritualism, whose foundations are laid broader and deeper than either of the foregoing faiths, cannot hope to escape similar con- ﬁicts. The chart it has presented to the nations already means war ! It proposes to effect general improvements in the conditions of mankind, physical, intellectual and moral; and before the ediﬁces it purposes to build are erected, the rubbish must be removed which now cumbers the ground. It further asserts that it is the duty of man to seek and use the laws which govern spirit as well as matter, which, in the eyes of the churches, is an ecclesiastical crime ; lastly, it aims to connect the visible with the (at present) invisible world, which, to the orthodox, is an impious impossibility. Surely, with such grand designs before us, there ought to be. no division in our councils.‘ It is hoped that none really exists, save as to the proper way and time in which to com- mence the real work of the regeneration of humanity. Some of the worthiest among us, male and female, stand aghast at the height, depth, length and breadth of the reforms propos- ed, beside which those of all other existing creeds are follies. So immense are the tasks set before us, that, without spirit- ual aid, the eﬁort to accomplish them must be hopeless. Let the brethren and sisters, who have no faith in this power turn their backs upon the work. They are j ustiﬁed in so do- ing. But let those who are beyond the A. B. C. book of spirit- ual phenomena look round for help, and elevating their ﬂag “ Progress” stand ready round it to do manful battle for the right. Our duty in this crisis, is not to assert dogmatically the faith that is in us, but to entreat all true Spiritualists in the Convention to throw all mean policy to the winds, and stand fast by the truth that is in them. Be it for or against the measures we have so often and so long recommended, for Conservatism or for Radicalism, we conjure all to be ﬁrm-in defense of what they believe to be the best. Time-serving is the giant sin of the age,and Mohammed was right in condemn- ing the hypocrite to the cruelest punishment. As for our- selves, we most solemnly appeal to the Inﬁnite Father and Mother of the Universe to witness that we have striven. both in our press and on the platform, to deliver unto our breth- ern and sisters, simple but far—reaching truths, which we ourselves have received from the spirit world. A lecture tour through the principal cities of the East and West has proven to us that the people are ready to‘ accept the same. Whether, as a body, the Spiritualists of the Union are will- ing to sanction their decisions, is left to the action of the Convention. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS vs. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. Of all subjects that to the synthetic mind are most palpa- ble, there is no single one upon which such contradictory opinions obtain among the unthinking as upon that as to where the rights of the individual cease and where the rights of society begin; that is to say: What does the sovereignty of the individual include, and what belongs to society to control? These questions have agitated the minds of meta- physicians and philosophers in all ages. They have fre- quently laid down propositions and devised rules by which to determine all this, but it still seems as much a mooted problem among political and social economists and among legislators specially, as it was when Luther preferred the tothe English Throne. The difﬁculty all these long years, however, has not been so much‘ that of a theoretical solution as it has been that of a practical acceptance of the solution as a rule of action. Governments professing, one theory but all the time prac- ticing quite a different one, have endeavored to make same problem to Romanism, or when Cromwell proposed it . the people believe they were being served, while in reality they were only serving. The absolute monarch, holding his power by the right of might, has command by that right’ over all that the individual possesses, not merely as property, but over his capacities, physical, ‘mental and moral. He governs his industry ; he controls hisibeliefs, and he guides his education. The opposite theory to this is the absolute right of the individual to the results of his industry, to the results of his intellectual culture, and to his religious‘ con- victions. And this is not a right to possess them merely, but to use them in whatever manner, so that he does not in- terfere with any other person having the same right. Between these two opposite extremes civilization has been struggling for three centuries. In some minor directions it has, at times, and now seems to have acquired the conquest; but as often asit has been upon the point of becoming es- tablished as a rule of public action, some so-called public A good or necessity has stepped in between the conquest and its real acquisition, and in effect defeated its best ends. I The right to freedom of thought carries with it the right to promulgate the results of that thought; but, even in this age and ‘country, we ﬁnd not only a large body of people crying out against the right to promulgate a philosophy based upon the results of long and serious thought, but also a considerable number of powerful members of the press, endeavoring to urge the government, by the power it,pos- sesses, to prohibit promulgation and crush out the promul- gators. Happily, however, such monstrous action cannot prevail unless the plainest provisions of the constitution are openly and utterly defied. That instrument specially pro- videsthat no laws shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. This means that the individual has not only the right to think, but the right also to speak or print his thought. Nor does this place any limit to what such thought, speech or print may be. It is clear, emphatic, absolute; and whatever laws there may be in existence now upon the statute book, either national or State, are evidently null and void. Nothing can be more clearly established by constitutional law than are these several rights. But the provisions guaranteeing these rights against in- fraction by legislators carry with them another class of rights, which, until recently, have been, by general consent, or rather from there having been no inclination on the part of any considerable number of individuals to question or demand the exercise of the right, withheld by the govern- ment. The right to think, and the freedom of conscience in thinking, together with the right to promulgate the results of thinking, either by speech or print, must neces- sarily be supplemented by the right to put to practice the doctrines thus held and promulgated ;‘ always provided, again, suchpractice does not interi'ere with the same right in any other individual. To say that persons have the right to think for themselves, and to promulgate such thoughts, and thereby to induce others to think the same, and, at’ the same time, also say that they shall not be put in practice, is a self-stultiﬁcation ; and yet with just such stultiﬁcations is our jurisprudcnceﬁlled, and by them the people robbed of their choicest rights. There are no laws‘ to prevent any system of religious worship. The Hindoo, the Chinese, the Mohammedan, the Roman and the Christian may erect their temples adjoining each other upon the same street in any of the large cities of the country, and they would all worship in peace and unity. This is not a cause but a result of freedom, the establish- ment of it producing this harmony. In political matters every indiyidual or party has the right to entertain and propagate any political faith whatever, and to vote for and elect candidates to ﬁllthe public offices who will carry into effect such faiths; and nobody thinks of endeavoring to control these matters in any other way than by con- troversy, carried on in the ‘public press or on the public rostrum. So here again are the beauties of freedom for the individual exempliﬁed. And it is necessary here to observe that there is no effort put forth by any power to prevent the practical application of this freedom. It is only open to public criticism, and, perhaps, to the disapprobation of public opinion, for the time being. But when we passfrom these domains into that of the relations of the sexes, here it is‘ assumed that an entirely different rule should govern. Instead of the government permitting freedom of speech and press where this subject is involved, it passes laws by which it proposes to interfere with both these rights so specially reserved to the people unlimited. That is to say, it assumes virtually to establish a consorship over the press when it attempts to exercise its evident right to discuss the subtle problems as yet bound up in the unsolved social relations. Moreover, it also assumes in effect, even ifthe right to think upon this matter, and the right to free speech and a free press to discuss it, are granted that there shall be no practical adoption and practice of the results at which such thought and advocacy may bring the individual to desire. Instance: The examination of the social problem, and of the effects it may have had upon individuals, may bring them inevitably to the conviction that marriage, in which they may be involved with other individuals, is not only detrimental to their own interests and happiness, but also to that of the public at large. But here the government steps in and says, though you may hold to such opinions as you profess, nevertheless the public interest demands that they shall not be put into practice. You shall livewith the woman or the man whom you have married, and if you consort with any others you shall be ) Sept. 20, 1373.. ' WOCDHULL & CLAFLIl\""’S . 9“ —.._;. convicted of adultery. And thisis the prevalent law, now enforced in this country. . Now, this amounts virtually to providing that social ~ opinions, once formed, shall never be changed, and results as it would if the same were enforced in matters of religion. The opinions that are conscientously conceived and held by the individual, though he may outwardly pretend diﬁerently to avoid the, law and the ostracism of public opinion, are practiced by him secretly; and thus a monster hypocrisy is being engrafted upon our social system, as dama.ging in its effects upon the individual directly and upon society gener- ally as was that engendered by religious persecutions in former ages. To us it seems so clear that government has no right thus to interfere with‘ the action of the individual, socially, to which his thought and observation naturally lead J._l_1im, that there are no arguments that can be advanced to refute the position. Nevertheless, an argument is advanced, and al- though it has no possible application, still, since it is in the way of the establishment of social freedom, to stand side by side with freedom of conscience, the freedom to think and the freedom to speak and print, it should be considered, and its baseless assumptions, as the fraud which it really is, exposed. T ‘ Anything to be binding must have a basis in consistency. Now, what consistency would that be which should say you have the right to freedom of conscience, and if that con- science bring you to believe in free worship you have the right to that belief, but mind you, you must not} practice it, because it would be detrimental to the public interests, since if it were to be permitted many of the members of society, and even children, might be led away after your horrible doctrines. But would that be any less consistent than it is to provide, if in the exercise of the freedom of thought and conscience, an individual is brought to the conclusion that his social theories and practices are erroneous, and that they ought to be replaced by others that appear better and more likely to subserve his interests and increase his happiness, that, notwithstanding all this, it cannot be permitted be- cause the public good forbids it. The cases are parallel. If the former be inconsistent with the constitutional and naturalrights of the individual,~we say the latter is doubly so, since upon the latter does the happiness of the individual depend more essentially than upon the former. But the right to prevent the latter, when none is claimed to limit the former, is based upon the proposition that the latter may result in effects in which the rights of society are involved, which the proposition admits the former does not; that is to say, the latter may result in children which may be thrown upon society for support, and, therefore, the right of prohibition exists here, when there is no foundation for such claim in the former instance. Now all of this is very foolish and utterly illogical. Society might, with the same propriety, prohibit the mar- riage of people who have no visiblﬂ means of supporting the children they may have; or, again, prohibit the immigration of foreigners upon the pretense that they may not be able to provide for their children, and therefore that they may be cast upon society; or still again, provide that “not anybody shall marry who has not already a suiﬁ-‘ ciency to provide for any children that may result, because it is possible that the parents of such children, though at present able to earn this support, may die and the children , be thus cast upon society. If anybody should, either upon the public rostrum or in the public press, attempt to teach prohibitory legislation to cover all these possibilities, the people would say he is insane or a fool; and yet these peo- ple base their opposition to social freedom upon the same argument they would so utterly ridicule in every other pos- sible application. _ , It must be clear, then, that the children argument, with which to oppose a change in the present social system, is fallacious and impossible, and yet they who advance it, knowing there is something wrong somewhere, and not hav- ing the perception necessary to see it, grasp at this, and in their ignorance imagine they have an irrefutable argument. There is something very wrong with the children. It is wrong that hundreds of thousands of them grow to adult age with scarcely the education necessary to read and write, and during the time are half fed, clothed and housed. It is , wrong that one-half of all children who are born die be- fore the age of ﬁve years; it is wrong that almost one-half of all children who are conceived in the United States are murdered before they are born; but none of these, that are indeed great evils, are seized upon to prohibit» the sexual relations of the parents, or to lay a claim to the right to reg- ulate these relations. . The cure for these ills does not lie in attempting to regu- late the conditions that produce them, but in providing for the conditions that would follow did the ills not exist. Let it be once understood that it is an honor to bear children, and that when born they are independent, even of parents for their support, growth and education, and one-half of all these evils would cease instantly and the other half gradual- ly die away, and, at the same time, the argument advanced against changing the present social sj stem would be utterly refuted. . I » It is safe, then, to conclude, that the right to think, advo- cate and practice is-one that belongs naturally and constitu- tionally to each and every individual in this country, whether such thought, advocacy and practice be in religious, politi- cal or social ‘affairs, and consequently that government has V no ‘authority to interfere to prohibit either. And, ﬁnally, that the present laws which do attempt to interfere with so- cial thought, advocacy and" practice, are unconstitutional, arbitrary and void, and ought to be instantly annulled by legislation, and, whether annulled or not, ignored by all peo- ple-with whose happiness or interests they interfere. in 4 V V7 . THINKEBS TO THE FRONT. There is a paper in that excellent periodical, the old Spectator, which gives an account of an entomologist,'ter- minating with his death, which took place in consequence of his having overheated himself in his chase after a butter- fly. The Spectator makes merry in giving a list of his effects, which mainly consisted of dried beetles and spiders, and other small wares of the same nature. The widow of the philosopher, we presume, was not so well satisﬁed with the returns they produced; though, indeed, there are cases where collections of apparently insigniﬁcant trifles have netted to their more fortunate recipients very considerable fortunes. One antiquary alone, Mr. Thomas, who died in London a short time ago, having left to his son a cabinet of medals, which were sold at auction for £40,000 sterling. But it is not intended, in this article, to merely audit the accounts of such collectors, but rather to point out the world’s great indebtedness to those who frequently pass, in their generation, for idle dreamers or thinkers. It must be confessed that it would not be possible to overrate the effect of the writing of some poets upon national character or characters. Though they sometimes only cultivate, they more frequently plant their own ideas in the minds of the people with whom they dwell, which sometimes, with a {rapid growth, ripen quickly, as in the cases of Voltaire and ‘Byron, or otherwise develop slowly, with a more steady and enduring increase, as may be perceived nationally, in the permanent effects of the writings of Shakspeare and Cervantes. It is almost impossible to over—estimate the changes wrought by one such advanced mind upon the progress of a nation or an age. As we are told in Exodus that it pleased the Jewish Jehovah to confound the wisdom and necromancy of the ‘Egyptian magicians by the creation of lice, so it would ap- pear, even at this period, that the most trifling causes are destined to produce the-most gigantic effects upon the history of the world. Possibly the two most important events of the last century were the falling of an apple and the ﬂying of a kite. The former being witnessed by the eye of the philosopher, Sir Issac Newton, led to the discovery of the laws of gravitation, and ﬁnally to their application as the grand governing principles of the material universe, form- erly discovered, but not expounded, by the astronomer Kepler. The latter, in the hands of the great Benjamin Franklin, was the divine light from which have emanated the many brilliant coruscations which have sprung from our knowledge of electricity, and is now no longer the play- thing of a sage, but the time-scorning conductor of the in- telligence of the civilized world. To these might be added the story of James "Watt, the wondrous improver, if he merits not the title of the father of the steam-engine. The idea is said to have ﬂashed upon his mind on beholding the lid of a ,tea—kettle rising and falling, thus proving the expansive force of the ﬂuid. Now, Mr. Materialist, take away these toys and dreams and you would put back the clock of the world a thousand years. It is triie, and it is an honor to the age, that the specula- tions of men of science and thought are more readily applied now than of yore, but let no man lightly pass judgment upon one‘ of the dreamers now existing among us, for it is not impossible but that he may be censuring some super- lative benefactor of his race and the future glory ofthe period of his existence. ' e HARD ON, WOMAN. A Jew, in the New York Herald of the 31st ult., enters a bitter complaint against a hotel keeper because he refused to entertain in his hotel a brother Jew solely on account of his religion. The complainant does not seem to be aware that, all over this broad land, the knights of the toddy-stick assume to themselves the position held in ancient Rome by Cato, and constitute themselves, in more senses than one, the “ spiritual” rulers of the people. » So great is the power they wield, that ithas become almost an impossibility for a “lone woman” to obtain a night’s shelter and lodging in any of the hotels of our large cities. The purity of hotel life is so admirable, that these hotel-keepers (alias knights spiritual) dare not permit unattended ladies to enter into its sacred precincts. As, in the case of woman, it is diﬁicult to distinguish the black from the white sheep, they warn off all maleless females from their premises. V fﬁlsop tells us in his fable of the frogs, that after the boys had pelted the frogs for some time, one of them appealed to his tormentors, thus: “ Boys, that may be sport to you, but it is death to us.”, Verily, this might serve for woman also in an appeal to hotel-keepers on this subject. Still this ghastly persecution of the female sex is, from the stand point of the Bible, perfectly legitimate. In the 38th chapter of Leviticus, which touches the cases of women, we ﬁnd that, in the eye of. the Mosaic Law, their very natures are criminal. They are commanded to do penance for the in- fernal crime of coition; and child-bearing is an unpardona- ble monstrosity which can only be atoned for with blood. Their monthly periods are monthly villanies, and their times ﬁe » my of_ uncleanness are so’ many and so various,’ that -under the Levitical regime the unfortunate women of Judea must al-‘ most always have been a very dirty‘ lot. ‘ But the power of the Levite has in ourdays descended-to the hotel-keeper, and- he wields the sword of justice overthe unfortunate sex. In his eyes‘ all femgnes sale are unclean animals; they-'i>are not ﬁt to eat or drink with other human beings, nor ought they to be permitted to rest in the same hotels. They (to him) are lepers without his camp, crying unclean! unclean! to whom no mercy should be shown at any time what- ever. 1 * This is a bigiprice to pay for the high morality that the nation enjoys. It is a total sacriﬁceof the rights of all wo- men who choose to travel unattended by a man. But how can we right ourselves? These “brandy bishops” are our masters. What‘ does a generous public care for our wrongs? We are only women to be hooted and spurned whenever ‘occasion warrants. Talk of chivalry--’-the chivalry of man! Bosh! We only want a decent modicum of justice! ‘ VVe want the right to freedom of movement the same that man has, the right to be measured by the same rules by which he himself is meted, to go where we please uncriticized (until we misbehave ourselves) as he does. In this matter we do not ask favor and would not accept it.“ We do demand equal- ity, and have suffered in the vain effort to obtain it. Yes! for no error of etiquette, for no fault on our part, in payment or otherwise, we have been excluded from hotels for no crime except that of being-a woman. Had we been “Victor” Woodhull instead of “Victoria” Wooclhull the case would certainly have been different. There was no charge made against us, none dreamed of, on the part of the proprietor of the hotel. The “curse of sex,” as man’s partial law l1as made it, was our onlyholfense. We appealed to the courts of justice I The same result. Male justice ! What is it for woman but damnable tyranny. All the redress we had was the knowledge and experience we obtained, that in all matters respecting woman the law itself was as partial and unjust as the male law-makers who concocted it. It is not possible to over estimate the wrongs which are continually evolving out of the odious and partial “public will laws ” by which woman is hampered. She must not go out alone at night or she will lose caste. We know a case of two ladies who, after attending a lecture, went into a fashionable Broadway restaurant for some refreshment. They could not obtain it because they were without a keeper. Another of a girl, the daughter of a man.in our oﬁice. She is a typo, and her boss recommended her to take charge of a small printing establishment at Washington. Her Wash- ington employer was to meet her at the depot and conduct her to his home, for she was to live with his wife and family. By some accident he failed to do so, and she had not his address and could‘ not ﬁnd his house. She was dressed plainly and respectably, and applied to four hotels, which ‘were not full, for Congress was not in session, for a bed. She could not obtain one.‘ All she could do was to return to the depot and come back to New York, at a loss of nearly twenty dollars. So much for the crime of womanhood. ‘We could multiply instances of this persecution, but they are patent to all.v Alas for woman! if she did not make many in power over her. ,, ' Not only innkeepers, but every man, at all times,lunder the present system, considers himself in power overjevery woman. He commonly passes judgment upon all he meets with. With man it would seem that there is only one crime that woman can commit (if he can call that a crime which in himself he considers a virtue)‘; and only one virtue which she can possess (which in himself he would hold to be a weakness, if not a vice). A woman may be learned, chari- table, kind, aﬁable, true to her word, gentle and loving if "you please, it is of no consequence; if "she is not in her nature monogamic every whipper-snapper, every tobacco- stained, drunken loafer thinks himself in power over her. There are hundreds of the demi-monele in Paris who are respected and loved by all who know them. They purchase liberally and pay their debts ; it is of noconsequence. , The demi-man:who serves them with goods, who only knows how to cheat his neighbors for a living, judges them. The male beggar, who stretches forth his hand to them for alms and receives from them. liberal donations, believes himself in power over them.’ They claim and often receive from their lovers more respect, and commonly more money, than wives receive from their husbands. It is of no avail; the husband shrugs his shoulders as he passes them, and the wife tosses her head at them with disdain. Why this con- tempt ? Why this disdain ? It is not too much to say that there is more real aﬁection in the unlicensed than in the licensed love that is seen in Paris. ' The only women who are permitted to love without law are the Quakers. The good and venerable Lucretia ‘Mott proved at the last “ Woman Suffrage” meeting at Apollo Hall that the Quakers had established among themselves that for which we have been so long contending. Her words were, .“When our young folks mate, they trouble neither the priest nor the magistrate.” This is love without law, and, 0,, ‘words for it, less social misery is to be ‘found in that "seen in con-- sequence. ‘ ’- * ‘ It is true that often these‘ “rum rules” of hotel keepers are invaded. Tavern keepers are not the best judges of what is termed; morality. There ought to be a chaplain apfj pointed for every hotel,‘ to inspect women travelers who apply for lodgings or food. If the character of the cletb. be of such laws for herself, the toddy-stick to-day would not be . /\ Sept. 20, 1873. 10 A WOODHULL J5, CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. objectionable, let a girl be sacriﬁced to witness his proceed- ings. Woman has a right to object to be socially ruled by rumsellers. It is bad enough for a Jew to be ostracised by them, much more a woman. -When will man learn that ' women are human beings, invested bynature with the same rights to life and locomotion that they,have themselves, That the law which applies. to man in such cases should apply to woman also. It is melancholy to see that there is such cowardice on the part of the male sex that they should thus feel called upon to fence themselves roun.d with social customs or laws to protect themselves from desperate and (what theycall) abandoned women. “ Don’t be afraid, boys; give woman her rightful liberty, and she will neither mo- lest nor attack you.” _Anyway, anything is better for you and for woman also than any_longer submission to the mis- erable rule of the toddy-stick“ THICK DARKNESS. Were the VVEEKLY a daily paper there would not be room in its columns for the correspondence which pours in upon it from all quarters, representing all phases of the social question. More than three-fourths of it might be scheduled as “ a piteous wail of suffering humanity.” The larger half of it, containing statements of cruel doings in married life, is unsigned,‘ or, in some instances, signed with the initials only. Let us inform our correspondents that all letters not signed in full are remorselessly consigned to the waste—basket. The battle is joined; no skulking can be tolerated by us in either woman or man. Those who are not for us are against us, and the feeblest truthful utterances, backed by a brave heart and hand, are of more value in our eyes than the eloquence of a nameless Cicero. When we look at the mountain of social miseries our correspondence develops, we have a right to assert that we have not labored in vain. We have pricked the social ulcer, and though the fetid matter that oozes from it may be offensive to delicate nerves, it will] not answer for the surgeonto shrink from his duty to aid. the discharge of the same. Courage, then, sisters, aye, and brethren also, for your day of deliverance is at hand. What if your missives are dampened with your tears, they are more highly prized by us on that account. Out with your experiences, tell them boldly under your own brave signatures, and ask for and giveno quarter. The curse of the social question, in all its phases, is secresy. It is that that builds up the bloody records of the week (as given in our periodical) in more than half the incidents reported. Be outspoken, then, and fear not. Drag out the villanies of the marriage-bed from the thick darkness that has so long shrouded them; be your prayer that of Ajax: ’ “ If we must perish we thy will obey ; But let us perish in the face of day.” The grand curse of the age is the old theology that has done its best to hide fro_m the people almost all that con- cerns the physical welfare of man. The science of the botanist has wrought with nature and produced and is pro- ducing newer and more beautiful specimens of fruit and ﬂowers daily; the skill of the cattle breeder has attended to the dog, the sheep, the cow and the horse; aiding, assisting and working with nature he has done wonders. What was chance yesterday is skill to-day. And this power of de- velopment has been applied everywhere but where it is mostneeded, viz., to man himself. He is still left to in- crease and multiply untaught. He is not even protected in our cities in his right _ to proper space, air and light; prop- erty refuses room to the millions; forbids pure air, and stands between them and the light of day. How man is begotten, how he is developed, are as chance determines. When the law does interfere in social life it interferes- wrongly, as in marriage, in which it says to the youthful candidates, _“If you err in your choice you shall err for- ever.” ’ Are Spiritualists to blame who demand that, for human good, this state "of things shall cease? That, in all cases, political, civil, social and religious liberty——true liberty- shall be the rule and not the exception? That by scientiﬁc education children shall be taught to know and respect themselves? That law (which cannot make) shall not be permitted to interfere to prevent true marriages or unions? That it is not a virtue but a sacred duty to attend fully to the physical, intellectual and moral interests of the youth of the community? That the rights of property in our cities must stand secondto the rights of man, and that whatever interferes with the best interests of the masses of’ the people must be overthrown? Spiritualists have been taught by spirit powers their duties in all these particulars. Ifithey fail, it will not be from lack of wisdom to know but from the lack of will to do what is right. Ar>osroLIo‘ INGRATITUDE. To read a dissertation from a monk (who had never seen life except through the grate of his convent) upon the pleasures of home and the joys of matrimony; or a homily from a nun (who never knew man) on the extasies of love and the pangs of maternity, would be both uninteresting and unproﬁtable. People would be’ apt to say that they knew nothing of the subjects they discussed. , Yet: probably an old bachelor, whose special sanctity precludes the idea that he had any close acquaintance with the sex, and about whom he could consequently know little or nothing, has __been, of all men, .,+_,.,.¢...- _:. . the bitterest foe of the movements for the enfranchisement of woman. We allude to Paul of Tarsus.’ True, he was a Jew, and the Jews never had an idea of the liberty of wo- man. There is a disgusting dignity in the ‘way in which the Old Testament—for Adam’s sin Eve is punished; for Abraham’s crime, Hagar is the sufi'erer——the patriarchs do not court their wives—they take them. In marriage, the fathers give or sell their daughters-——Laban fashion-—-who swindled Jacob by cheating him at ﬁrst with the wrong girl. It is not much better in the New Testament. Even the Great Nazarene is not free from Jewish intolerance in the matter of women. Christ did not condemn the cruel Mosaic Law which com- pelled a woman, who had lost her husband, to marry his brother and raise up seed unto him. He merely said in reply what we believe to be true, viz. : “That there were no marriages in heaven.” Fancy that old Mosaic law applied in the United States! Oppressed as our women citizens are, “raising seed” they would be much more likely to “ raise the devil,” and they would be right in so doing. It is no wonder that an old bachelor, native of aland where such a law was in vogue, should hold woman as a very in- ferior animal to man. It isno wonder that he should say with the calm insolence of ownership and authority—“ Let your women keep silence in the churches;” your women, mark that, you Christian women, that expect your freedom from theological doctors. Again, “Wives sub- mit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord.” To an outsider, that sounds like blasphemy. But when we call to mind the conversion of Paul of Tarsus, the in- solent statement, “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence,” caps the climax of his tyranny. For it will be remembered that he himself was sent by the spirit to a woman in or- der, as the Bible expresses it, “ to learn the way,of God more perfectly.” After taking his lesson to condemn his teacher as he does in the last extract quoted from his writ- ings is simply as ungrateful as it is illogical. That is the fact, and it can’t be rubbed out even to save the credit of an apostle. Verily, when a fair consideration is given to the evils the “£1036 dimits ” of this crusty old bachelor have brought upon the sex, we think woman would be justiﬁedin re-appealing to his angry spirit in the words he is said to have heard on his way to Damascus, viz.: “Paul, Paul, why persecutest thou me?” Q->—<~——--2- - PLATFORM OF THE EQUAL RIGHT’S PARTY- THIRTEENTH PLANK. “That there should be just public laws to regulate labor and establish uniform compensation for the same.” Herein is involved the great question over which the best minds of all ags, have contended with equal earnestness and depth of conviction. The problem as to where individual- ity ceases and the community begins, is one of so much im- portance it is not to be wondered at that it is contested with such pertinacity. This proposition strikes at the root of all evils that ﬂow from the unequal and unjust distribution of wealth. It asserts that the labor of every man and wo- man is equal to the labor of any man or woman, and recog- nizes the links that bind all men and women into the human family, making equality the rule of their relations. The rock upon which they are wrecked who do not grasp the signiﬁcance of this proposition is this: That the labor of the engineer who plans the building of an immense work is of more value than that of the man who merely places "the stones" according to directions received. It should be remembered that the equitable price-—value—of anything is determined by its cost, which is made up of, two items- consumption of time and material. There can be no other system of determining values. Whatever requires a day’s time to produce, let it be what it may, is of equal value with everything else that requires the same time for produc- tion; and all this is equivalent to saying that the day’s labor of every person is equal in value to the days labor of any person. _ But is it objected that the engineer was obliged to con- sume a large amount of time tobecome competent" to super- intend the construction of a suspension bridge or to occupy a seat in the Senate of the United States, which the daily laborer is not obliged to do? The equitybetween the two cases, however, is that the compensation for the loss of time in becoming proﬁcient is found in the capacity to be the en- gineer rather than the mere mechanic; and the proof, that the engineer at the same wages would prefer to remain the en- gineer rather than to become the mechanic. Back of all this, however, there is a still further equity. When society shall be organized upon the principles of equity, the person who spends his time in preparations for the higher duties of life can receive the same pay during that time as all other labor receives. -But how shall such organization be reached ? Clearly by the will of the people manifested in the establishment of justice, which is the object of all government. If it be recognized that cost should determine the value of all things, and that cost consists of the two items—-consumption of time and material—it then becomes the duty of govern- ment to so establish it. - But this goes even deeper than all this. It is, in sub- tance, to say that, while the labor of every person is equals to that of any person, the total results of _all labor belong 6,; 1 man treats (and speaks) of woman all through the Bible. In. they would not be likely to submit to that. Instead of _ as a whole to all persons. This is co-operation in other words, and when society shall be organized upon the princi- ples of equity then the people will be industrially organ- ized. No other result than this can follow a departure from the competitive system of labor in which the shrewdest and strongest carry off the palm. Organ-ization of industry upon equitable principle, goes behind the mere fact of quantity of production by the indi- viduals composing society, and inquires into the causes that make disparities between individuals possible, and when it ﬁnds, as it always does, some good reason why a given person can perform more work than another given person, it charges the cause home where it belongs rather than upon the indi- vidual. Instance, a man crippled for life by some accident that he could not avoid, Justice says that the remainder of that man’s life shall be to him in his interest in society the same as if he had avoided the accident. This is an extreme case; but if it be just, then the same rule applies to all de- grees of disability, from total up to the highest capacity of any person. That is to say, if a given person can perform more labor than any other person, that it is no personal merit that enables him to do this, but a natural capacity conferred without his thought or consent, and, therefore, no more to be assigned to his individual credit’ than the condition of the man rendered useless by accident is to him. There is, then, neither merit or demerit in the differently endowed capacities of persons, either in labor, intellect or in morals. Each is just what he has been made by the cir- cumstances of his conception, gestation, birth, growth and the inﬂuences of his or her environments, over neither of 'which is control possible. This opens a radical question in the labor problem, to which it bears the same relation as does the question of responsibility to the moral problem. In fact, the same rule will be found to govern in the several departments of human nature which, when fully compre- hended in one, may be applied to all. We are on the eve of radical revolutions in all things, and he or she who can grasp the law of social organization will do well to expound it on every possible occasion to every possible person—and this is that law: That every person is a result of the con- ditions that have produced him, and is therefore ' not to be held individually responsible for any defects of character, constitution or condition, but to occupy equally with all other persons all the blessings and comforts of life, which in the individual world is to be secured by establishing equal rates of compensation for all classes and grades of labor, and thus form the entering wedge to the other departments --»the intellectualand moral. -——————:—>—~4Q>——-4—¥i—- BOOK REVIEW. “ Co1nmon—Sense Theology in Rough-Shod Rhymes about Human Nature, Human Life and Human Destiny.” D. Howland Hamilton, Lewiston, Maine. Through the courtesy the author we are in receipt of a copy of this peculiarly original and remarkably interesting work. The poems are keen, pithy, pointed, philosophic and argumentative. They lay hold of the vital questions of the day in a style so full of vigor and courage that they must prove really refreshing to all who peruse them. The con- clusions in them are so Well established that it is impossible to deny them. The writer appears to be one of those rare geniuses who dares to follow the truth wherever it may lead him. The price of the work is $1.50, post free. -——————-——»—+.+-—4—#-———-- ADDIE L. BALLOU. From all parts of the West we hear tidings of the grand work being done by this earnest woman. Fully imbued with the right of sovereignty for every individual, she would ﬁrst establish the right and then urge the whole of mankind to move rapidly to more elevated physical, mental and moral conditions. And so the world moves, one after another brave soul coming to the front, ignoring all personal con- siderations, to do battle for humanity. These are the leaven ' that shall leaven the whole lump. Her permanent address is Terre Haute, Ind. WE are constantly receiving inquiries about communities. In reply to them we would call attention to one advertised in another column, in the belief that it will meet the grow- ing demand for social freedom and industrial equity. Cop- ies of the address referred to in the advertisement may be had on application at this oﬁice. Price twenty-ﬁve cents. ._._...___.,_,. A SPECIAL WORD TO CONTRIBUTORS. We desire to say to those who favor us with articles, that we receive Weekly three times as many as we have room to publish, and, consequently, that a, large proportion can never bepublished. In view of this it should be impressed upon our contributors that articles of more than a column in length will in all probability fail to appear ; not because they are not proper and all that, but on account of want of space. Boil them down to their. smallest possible limit. Almost every article received might be condensed into one- half the space and lose none of its effect. 5-‘ A word to the wise,” etc. . We have also ‘adopted the rule that articles hereafter ap- pearing in the WEEKLY shall bear the full name and address of their writers. It is desirable that they who write shall give the weight of their influence to maigtainiwhat they , write. Sept. 20, 1873. WOODHULL dc CLAFLI'N’S WEEKLY. A ‘ 11. “ WILD FLOWER.” We recently had the pleasure of passing an hour with the‘ remarkable clairvoyant and test-medium, Maggie Folsom, located with Dr. H. B. Storer, at 187 Harrison avenue, Bos- ton, Mass. Her controlling spirit is a beautiful Indian maiden, named “ Wild Flower.” She has remarkable suc- cess in diagnosing disease, and her practice is rapidly ex- tending. Hertests are also of a most beautiful character, appealing with the most potent power to the aifcctional nature. Our friend, Dr. Storer, was not at home during our visit, being absent on a summer trip to Niagara Falls ; but we hear of his excellent success, and if both have only what they deserve, it will be inﬁnite. .4 - uyyj 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—Woodhull, Claiiin or Blood. For every club of ﬁve subscribers——ﬁfteen dollars—ﬁve copies of the WEEKLY one year, ﬁve photographs and one copy of “Constitutional Equality, a right of woman,” by Tennie C. Claﬂin, price $2.00. For every club of ten subscribers—thirty dollars——ten copies of the IVEEKLY, ten photographs and one copy each of “ The Principles of Government,” by Victoria C. VV ood- hull, price $3; and “Constitutional Equality” (each book containing steel--plate engraving of the author). 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Hereafter bills will be sent at_ the expiration of the time for which payment has been made. Friends will please give attention to this notice. J 4 7 "V CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Hereafter all communications for the paper, whether business or otherwise, should be addressed to WooDHULL & CLAELiN’s WEEKLY, box 3,791 New York City. Postal orders should also be made payable to Woodhull & Claﬁin. A BEAUTIFUL TR1BUTE.—Mr. and Mrs. Dr. C. A. Wright, of Milwaukie, Wis., made a ﬂying visit to our sanctum on Monday afternoon, leaving a large and exquisite bouquet of ﬂowers, which sheds its grateful perfume over our labors, and inspires us with renewed strength for the battle still to be fought for freedom. Thanks, brother and sister. Noth- ing could have been more acceptable. It will be held in kind remembrance. EA 4 7 wgr INSTRUCTIONS TO CORRESPONDENTS. In writing to us the following rules should be observed : 1st. Every letter should be plainly dated—town, county and State. 2d. When the letter is to contain a remittance, which, if a check or money order, should be made payable to Wood hull and Claﬂin, the necessary explanations should be intro- duced at the head of the letter; a failure to observe this rule Subjects the person in charge of that department to much needless reading to ﬁnd out what it is all about. 3d. After deﬁnitely stating all business matters, and espe- cially if it be a renewal or a new subscriber, then should follow any friendly words, which we are always happy to receive from all. 4th. 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 obliged to 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 receive are so badly signed that we are obliged to guess at what the writer’s name may be. SPIRITUALISTIC. PERSONAL. [We gladly publish the following letters, called forth by the mention we made of the subject matter of them. We would not willingly do any one injustice, and when we do, or think perhaps we may have done, we make all possible haste to repair the damage. Of course we do not know that Dr. Beals ever said what is reported. We did not hear him and consequently we publish-his denial. We should pub- lish the letter containing the information, but that it pro- fesses to have come from a member of Dr. Beal’s family and would make diﬁiculty which we would not do under any circumstances. To further explain: We received two letters from resi- dent Spiritualists asking us to come to the Convention. We replied that we should be glad to be there. Some days afterward we received what to us was a short, curt, even offensive letter from L. D. Smith, Secretary of the Central N. Y. Association of Spiritualists. He did not hesi- tate to inform ‘ us, in unmistakable language, that we were not wanted there. Then came the other letter, which satis- ﬁed us if we should go there would be difficulty. We did not go, but published what we did; and now we offer the letters to which reference is made above: - WEST WINFIELD, N. Y., Aug. 29, 1873. Mns. V. C. WOODHULL: Respected Frz'end—Will you allow me room in your paper to correct a statement made by you in the last issue of the WEEKLY, on the eighth page. Iwrote a notice of the Con- vention to be held in Rome, N. Y., as published, and I meant just what I said. “ a generalinvitation is given to all” and the following remark by you does me great injustice. I will not repeat it, and here let me say 1 had nothing to do in securing the speakers; the Secretary did that business. And I do not know that the Secretary has written a word to you on that subject, but if he has he alone is responsible for what he has said. , ‘ You say you were informed by your friends, that I said if you had the audacity to come to our meeting, I would not have anything more to do with the meeting. Now I de- clare all this talk to be a willful and malicious falsehood, from beginning to end, and done to injure me. And I say such friends as those you spoke of, you will have reason some time to pray Good Lord deliver us from them. And here let me say that I have not said an unkind word about your coming at this or any other time; and the friends in Rome and elsewhere, will bear me witness in this state- ment. There was some opposition to sending delegates to the Chicago Convention. I favored the move, and said that I did not indorse all of Mrs’. Woodhull’s theories, but she had done a good work, and I honored the woman or man that had moral courage and ‘independence to say what they thought was right. I also said that our platform was free, for all to express their own sentiments on any subject, and no person has ever attempted to dictate to speakers, or any one else what subject should not be discussed in our Conven- tions. I am a subscriber to the WEEKLY, and think very much of that paper. I want it understood that I am responsible for what I say and do; I shirk no responsibility. I aim to make mankind better and happier. And let us all work in the cause of humanity, and cultivat-ea kind and charitable feel- ing toward those that differ from us. Yours truly, E. F. BEALS. ROME, September 1, 1873. Mns. VICTORIA C. VVOODIIULL: Dear Madam—-In the WOODHULL 8t CLAELIN VVEEKLY, dated September 6, 1873, I saw a notice by you of .a quarterly meeting of the New York Central Association of Spiritual- ists, held in this city in August last. In said notice you greatly censure Dr. E. F. Beals, the President of the Asso- ciation. In justice to the doctor I write you to say that in all the conversation I had with him about your speaking be- fore the Convention, he did not say a word against you, or object to your speaking before the Convention. After Mrs. . Brown showed me your letter to her, in which you wrote your desire to come to the meeting, I sent a dispatch to the doctor to know what his pleasure would be in regard to in- viting you to come to the meeting as a speaker. He says he did not receive my dispatch, and came to the meet- ing without knowing that any one thought of inviting you. The friend who wrote you must be mistaken, or is desirous of amisunderstanding between you and the doctor. The meeting was a free one, and consequently a successful and very interesting one. Yours for justice and truth, SAM’L MOYER, Sec. of Rome Ass’n of Spiritualists. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., August 8, 1873. Dear Sister V7lctor'£ot—-As you are aware, there was no ques- tion or resolution embodying a sentiment that was proposed at the late Cincinnati Convention but met with approbation While the resolution discountenancing and censuring the efforts of V the Young , Men’s Christian Association and other sectarian attempts to suppress free speech and individual rights was being discussed, the opposers of that resolution attempted to show that it was meant to assail the opposers of VVoodhull, and those who were instrumental in thrusting herself, Sister Tennie, Col. Blood and George F. Train into prison, and meant also as a defense of those par- ties named. The resolution, it was assumed, was out of ‘ place, and as the writer attempted to show that it was urged in defense of principles and because‘ of repeated kindred trespass, more than because of isolated cases or individual grievances, Judge Holbrook, the president, asked what these lution asthat. As he, with, others, seemed quite forgetful of the arrests and the attendant penalties and discomﬁtures of several of our mediums in Chicago and other cities not long ‘ since for the simple transaction of their advertised business and the exercise of their'God-given powers, it may be well to answer that question from time to time by the reiteration of facts continually occurring. 1 The following letter is copied from -one just received from a gentleman who is now incarcerated in an insane asylum. Early in the season I received a letter of invitation to visit the gentleman’s pleasant home in Iowa, to rest with his fam- ily during the heated term, etc., in a warm, friendly, cor- dial manner, as free from any indication of insanity as the enclosed. The kindly oﬁered hospitality of the stranger was declined, to which this is the reply, just received: _ “ MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa, July 28, 1873. ' “ Sister Ballou——I received yours of the lstof the present month. It is as well you declined my oﬁer. I was arrested for insanity by ‘ Old Theology’ or its advocates, and brought here on the 14th. The angel world has me in charge, and it will result in good. We have discussions every day, and we are victorious. Thomas Paine is the leading spirit in discussion. Three ladies of my acquaintance act as reﬁners and moderators. We are never in trouble. . I have perfect conﬁdence in my guides: they are teaching and reﬁning me, and they could ﬁnd no place where the sur- roundings suited them better. I have a room and splendid bed all to myself. We are locked in every night, so I am not disturbed by any one. In the daytime we occupy a large hall and are taken out every day; we have a dance once a week. So you see the advantages are splendid; couldn’t be better for my present development. I enclose you a scrap from an Iowa paper. I wish you could come and see me while I am here. I have no doubt but you could get the chapel to lecture in if you should come here, or any other preacher of the true philosophy. I remain, yours for love of truth, WEBSTER ELLYSON. P. S.-—Write me how things are going on in the outside World. W. E.” PERORATION OF THE‘ SECOND LECTURE DELIV- ERED AT APOLLO HALL, NEW YORK, BY R. W. HUME. It is no wonder that before the advance of spiritualism the fountains of the great deeps should be breaking up. It is ﬁtting that in the present as in the past, the whirlwind, the earthquake and the ﬁre should now, as in the time of the seer Elijah, precede the voice of truth. It is ﬁtting that in the crash of the governing’ religious elements the present evil systems of government, religious, social, civil and industrial, which have been generated by them, should be powdered to dust under their ruins. It is ﬁtting thatthe order of society should be inverted, idlers and schemers ex- alted, and the producers of wealth trodden under foot. That law should be a snare, trafficking a fraud, and legislation a delusion. That the spade should be divorced from the soil, money exalted to a god, and the free gifts of nature stolen from the masses, and monopolized. That hypocrisy and knavery should ﬂourish, poverty and misery be the rule rather than the exception, and crimes of the most ghastly and unnatural description run rampant among us. All of these cruel effects, under which the world is now groaning, are fairly chargeable to the ineiﬁcacy of the pres- ent ruling religious systems. The great Nazarene compared religion to salt. He asserted its penetrating and purifying qualities. The world demands results. The pecuniary con- dition of our churches is a very secondary matter. To say that the yearly revenues of those of New York city amount to $2,000,000 per annum, and that they own $88,000,000 worth of property, only adds to their offense. All admit the learn- ing of the clergy and the wealth of the religious establish- ments. The machines are well found, well lubricated, well tended and constantly at work. But where are their pro- ducts? Where are their effects in legislation, in trade, in public order, in cheerful contentment, in loving brother- hood, and in the moral growth of, society ? Alas, where are they? Who can censure the people, if, after looking for fruit and ﬁnding none, they should re-echo against the churches the judgment passed upon the barren ﬁg-tree, by saying: “ Cut them down! Why cumber they the ground?” Perceiving the powerlessness of present religious systems‘ to remedy existing evils, Spiritualists now stand before the world pleading the necessity for vital changes, and demand- ing a fuller recognition from the peoples. They believe that although these old and useless faiths at present block the way, they are manifestly crumbling and decaying, and will soon be removed from their path of triumph. Neither ought we to mourn the decline of these ancient religious corporations which have so long ruled mankind. It is true that the failure of faith is general throughout the globe, and also that it is the underlying cause of all the horrors that have been enumerated. But we live at the time of transi- tion, and such occur in the natural order of events. Geolo- gists tell us that in the grand processions of the ages the magnates marched ﬁrst; but that, previous to the rise of each new development, there was a period of relaxation, disintegration and degradation. It is so withlus now. We live at atime in which the old, discordant religious forms are breaking up, making ready for a change. But the pres- ent is better than {the past, .for we can see the rocks over which our predecessors have been stumbling during the dark ages. Y . Courage, then, sisters and brethren,.let us press cheerfully forward in the path of duty. Let us prove to our neighbors the vitality of our religion -b y exhibiting it in all our words and acts. Then will the Eclipse of Faith in the darkness of which the world is now blindly groping, soon pass away; the light will arise in all its gloryover the moral world, and the dwellers on the mountains and in the valleys of the earth will have reason to rejoice in the rising of the Sun of Spirit- ualisin, and the consequent development of a more advanced sectarian institutions had ever done to provoke such a reso- Aknowlcdge of futurity, and a. far nobler and more rational 1.-9 » WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 20, 1873- form_ of religious liberty than has ever before been known to mankind. '1 A i I MARIAVILLE, Me., Aug. 25, 1873. EDITOR WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY: ' The Spiritualists of Hancock County, Maine, will hold their sixth scmi—annual Convention at Ellsworth, September 19, 20 and 21, commencing Friday, at 2 o’clock, P. M. The Spiritualists and friends of liberal thought, and all who would like to attend, are cordially‘ invited to do so. It is hoped that speakers and mediums who can will grace us With their presence and help. A Arrangements will be made as far as possible to make everything agreeable and pleasant. ' , Per order, ’MOLBORY KINGMAN, Sec. . EXTRACT FROM J. M. i>EEi3LE’s ‘LAST LETTER To‘ THE “BANNER or LIGHT.” Through our consul, the missionaries and several intelli- gent Chinamen I have learned their methods of holding con- verse with spirits. The prevalence of the. belief in spirit communion among the Chinese astonishes me. It is almost universal. With the lower classes it is mixed up, however, with absurd superstitions. ' . . [Spiritualism has every reason to hope for speedy success , mong the swarming millions of Asia. The great Hindoo family are now Spiritualists as well as the Chinese] A CARD FROM MOSES HULL. _ My letter in the WEEKLY has created a general stir. Let- ters come in from every quarter, some ‘indorsing in unmea- sured terms, and some condemning in language that cannot be misunderstood. The upshot of the whole matter is, I have decided to give my friends a chance to knowmy argu- ments and evidences. I now wish to make a proposition to sccieties who have in the past invited me to ﬁll their rostrum, that is, I would go to any of them and give them a week—day evening lecture, embracing my views on the various departments of the social question, and charge them no compensation at all over and above my traveling and hotel expenses. I have two reasons for making this proposii ion. 1. I prefer not to introduce these matters into my regular Sunday dis- courses, unless by especial request of those who employ me. 2. Those who have patronized me inithe past have a right to A demand,,as many of them do, my arguments and evidences. _ Others who have not hitherto supported me as a speaker,’ and wish my services as a lecturer on this question or any: other pertaining to reforms or Spiritualism, can secure me? on reasonable terms. Address 27 Milford street, Boston; or Vineland, N. J. Mosns HULL. IS TRUTH A VIRTUE? I send you the following correspondence to let you know how easy it is for the “suspiciously moral” to lie. When my letter appeared in the VVEEKLY, the Spiritual‘ Society of Manchester got weak in the knees, and passed a resolution to break its engagement with me because of that article.’ Before any official letter came from the society I was in- formed of its action from four different private sources, and 3130 engaged by a few line reformers to speak in Manchester at the time I was to have spoken for the society. ‘ The following is the letter received from the ‘society, and I Mosns HULL. my reply. MANCHESTER, N. H., August 31, 1873. Bro. Hull—Our society having voted to pay only $10 a Sun- day and expenses from Boston, it becomes my duty to can- cel your engagements here. ' Very tm1y yours,’ WM. 0. DAVIDSON, Sec. First Spiritual Society, Manchester, N. H. 27 MILFORD STREET, BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 2, 1873. My Bro. Da.m'dson—Thanks for your letter concerning my engagement in Manchester. I will nevertheless be there at the appointed time. . While your society is so very virtuous and respectable, why do you not manifest a little regard for truth? I was informed last week of the action of the society, and re-engaged for your city. I was not discharged because of my price, but be-' cause of my fidelity to truth! You know Your 3510 Speakers emptied your treasury, while I ﬁlled it. Does Emma Har- dinge speak for $10? If so, there is a “ falling‘ oﬁ.” I remem- ber when she demanded SEGO. V I am glad to dissolve the engagement; only let me admon- is}; you and your society that truthfulness is one of the vir- tues. ’ Yours for honor, Mosns HULL. JENNIE Luvs. , On Sunday last Jennie Leys commenced her month’s en- gagement at Robinson Hall. The large attendance must have proved to her how much the people appreciate her as a lecturer, and love to hear the truths she so fearlessly delivers. Verily, all over this broad land, human beings are ‘fa.lI1lShl1lg' for those broad, radical doctrines on industrial, social and religious reforms, which ‘Jennie Leys knows‘ so v:ell hqw 13.0 utter. Her scathing. review andcondemnatioii or the bo- gus Christianity ” of the age elicited frequent burstswof ap- plause. She fairly proved that the Churches stood in the way of human improvement, and asserted that they must. go down before the grand march of the people. In the course of her lecture she touched on the social question, and de- - manded full equality for woman, legal, social and personal.’ She objected to the Jewish Theology on the ground’ that wo-I man was not represented among its divinities, nor even heard of among its angels. At the close of the discourse Jennie Leys invited the members of the congregation to visit her, and informed them that she had set aside Thursday after- . noons and evenings for the days for receptions. C. FANNIE ALLYN IN MAINE. ‘ Dear Weekly——Again I come to do justice to another grand instrument in the hands of the spirit W0r1d.for the elevation . I of suffering humanity, On Sunday, Augustdl, I saw and heard, for the ﬁrst time, sister Allyn in South N orridgewock, and my soul was blessed, and a hungry audience fed on the richest spiritual food. Sister Allyn’s two discourses were of no ordinary character I ” assure you, and her heart was made glad by a full house and most excellent music. It is seldom any audience were better satisfied, as was proved by a unanimous vote of approval for * her noble work. Sister Allyn soon takes her departure for California, and wherever she goes she ought to be greeted with warm hands .:and loving hearts. At the close of her discourse she spoke eloquently of Victoria and her noble work. V SEWARD MITCHELL. SPIRIT WELCOME TO THE DELEGATES TO THE CHICAGO ‘ I CONVENTION. worms BY R. W. HUME. From the glorious ‘Summer Land Where the “ Shining Spirits” stand, We have come. Where the ﬂowers are in bloom And the air is all perfume, There we roam. . But our duty calls us here To our brethren, sisters, dear, So before you we appear ‘From our home. For the time it is at hand When the world shall make a stand For the right; And the moment it is near When assistance shall be here-'- “ Spirits bright.” Then for all the truth stand ﬁrm That ’tis given you to discern, _ And the mai-tyr’s glory earn In the ﬁght. For the sorrow and the crime Of this dark and evil time V ‘It shall fall; And the shame shall pass away That so long have held their sway »Over all. Like an infant at its birth, Let the peoples of ihe earth Awake to know the worth Of the call. With a magic and a power Never known until this hour, Beats our drum! And the dwellers in the world, As our white ﬂag is unfurled, How they come! Then away with doubt and care, For there’s music in the air, And the time to do and dare Has begun. Let all shout with love and truth, As t e earth renews its youth, ’ Jubilee! Let the valleys swell the sound, And the mountains shake the ground With their glee! Let‘the birds of heaven bear ‘ The glad message through the air That the “ Sons of Men ” declare They are free! From the happy Summer Land Where the “ Shining Spirits ” stand, We have come. Where the ﬂowers are in bloom And the air is all perfume, There we roam. I But our duty calls us here To our sisters, brethren, dear, So before you we appear From our home. GROVE MEETING AT BROWN ELL, MICHIGAN- “ SAINTS AND SINNERS ” — “RESPECTABLES ” AND DISREP-UTABLES IN SPIRITUALISM——WHO ARE THE IMMACULATES?—SHARP WORDS- SPIRITUALISTS COURTING MISTRESS GRUN DY. SATURDAY, August 30. The meeting opened pleasantly in Samuel J ohnson’s grove. Lewis S. Burdick, Secretary, acted as Chairman. Cephas B. Lynndedicated the grove to Spiritualism, with all its issues——side, front and back. Frank McAlpine and Dr. Merton followed in advocacy of individualism. Mr. John Hogeboom, of Kalamazoo, a good worker in the cause of Spiritualism, being in the small audience, cried out, “We have come to hear Spiritualism.” This was construed to mean that the excellent, broad, free remarks of the speakers did not touch that subject. Jamieson inquired, “VVhat is Spiritualism ?” Among. other things which Mr. Hogeboom enumerated in answer was, “to ﬁght W0odhullism.” In fact, this was the gist of his answer. Mr. Geo. W. Winslow here appeared upon the scene, and_ gave us Spiritualism according to the Hogeboom deﬁnition. J amieson proposed to debate the questioniof Woodhullism with Mr. Winslow in his own town of Kalamazoo, for a week. He said he would affirm the following proposition: Resotued, That Spiritualist writers and lecturers, for ten years prior to the public labors of Victoria C. Woodhull, were guilty of advocating as many corrupting teachings as those alleged to have been uttered by Mrs. Woodhull. The challenger proposed to take the anti-Woodhullites at their own word. He knew perfectly well that he would have an easy job. The inference was, that if Spiritualism could ﬁourish under ten years’ bad teachings of many advocates, one woman——though she were as black as her enemies painted her—could not destroy Spiritualism- Hence there was no cause for opposition to Mrs. Woodhull, who has been exercising the right of free sp_eech, which Spiritualism has always taught. On Sunday, W. F. Jamieson, Geo. W. Winslow and Mrs L. E. Drake were appointed a Committee on Resolutions. The majority report was adopted, to wit: Resolved, That we, as Spiritualists, are believers in indi- vidualism. I A questions connected with human well-being. tion of the teachings of Mrs. Woodhull; also singling out certain lecturers to be disfellowshiped because of letters lately published by them. The meeting adopted only a por- tion of the preamble of theminority report, refusing to stul- tify itself by the adoption of the balance, the main part of which was a contradiction of what the meeting had already adopted. ‘ Mr. Winslow wanted “respectable” Spiritualism to pre- vail. Mrs. Drake was of the opinion that “respectable Spiritual- ism” is a lie. ‘_ J amieson thought “it could only be secured at the cost of I principle, and would be as worthless as Orthodox respecta— A bi1ity.” ’ ‘Mr. Lynn supposed “we had been long since delivered from the fear of Grrundvism.” He thought “it looked a triﬂe suspicious when persons felt it necessary to placard their backs with the declaration, ‘I am virtuous I’ ” Mr. Winslow said “there is a lady in Kalamazoo, a medium and Spiritualist of twenty years’ standing, who would not attend this meeting because of the Woodhull element, and is virtuous. She says nothing about it.” Mr. Jamieson replied that “if that is the case, why de- mand of any convention or meeting of Spiritualists that it shall placard itself with the sentence, ‘VVe are respecta- ble?’ ” Mrs. Drake believed “ Society could not suffer much from any change which is possible. Thousands of men rape their wives. Society holds that legal rape is all right. [Tremen- dous cheers and laughter, and a disposition manifested by some men to keepup the confusion and break up the meet- ing.] \ M p L. S. Burdick (Chairman): “Come to order, gentlemen; we must have order. One at a time can be heard.” Capt. Logan said “in all the meetings which he had at- ‘ tended in a year he had not heard a single discourse on Spir- itualism.” He was disgusted. Frank McAlpine delivered a ﬁne address on “Harmony,” and urged the necessity for exercising reason in all things, proving all things, and, if we could not agree, to press on, nevertheless, recognizing the right of all to mental liberty. Dr. Merton’s lecture on “Individualism” was in favor o the broadest liberty. The entire address was scientiﬁc. A short speech from the writer closed the meeting. Sub- ject, “ Broad-gauge and N arrow-gauge Spiritualism.” W. F. J AMIESON CORRECTION. Editors Woodliull do Olaﬂt'n’s Weelcly—If my friends send you my private letters to publish, they should not make them worse than they are when written. In one from me, sent to you by my old and excellent coadjutor of anti- slavery memory, Mr. Buxton (published in the VVEEKLY of August 30), I am made to ask‘ at the close: “ What say you to this, Woodhull?” As the letter to Mr. Buxton was mainly on business, writ- ten hastily, and without the least thought that you or any other editor would ever see it, still less publish it, I was sorry to see my name placed below such a question to any editor, especially to a lady whose ﬁne taste cannot but be oﬁended at so rude a familiarity. Some one else must have asked the question. Your account of recent conventions to which you have been invited must give great satisfaction to every lover of human freedom and elevation. Your little neighbor, New Jersey, judging from reports of the late Vineland gathering, may be fvrst (if one of the least in the sisterhood of States) to accept, for full, free, untrammeled discussion, the whole problem of__ individual and social sovereignty and liberty. I say, Qccept the problem for consideration andidiscussion, be- cause it by no means follows that we are to embrace a the- ory only because we are examining it. Conventions accept after long debate, are rejected, perhaps unanimously. Indi- viduals can do the same. Temperance men and moral re- form women are not accounted drunkards nor prostitutes merely for devising means and forming societies to remove inteinperance and prostitution from the community. Many Liberals and Progressives are afraid to speak out half they do believe for fear they shall be held. accountable for what somebody else believes which they do not. .Garri- son, when I made his acquaintance and accepted his doctrine of “immediate, unconditional emancipation of every chattel slave,” was known to all Israel as holding to woman’s rights equally with men; as in favor of abolishing intemper- ance, war, and all sword-supported governments; and even the Sabbath, and all set apart, ordained and privileged priesthoods and sectarian churches. And no sooner was I known as a Grarrisonian abolitionist than I was suspected and even charged with holding and teaching all these other s'entiments—-“ damnable heresies ” they were then called. The New Jersey Convention came bravely up to even your demand. All honor to its noble men and women! ' Still more glad was I to readwhat you said of the Silver Lake Spiritualist grove meeting in Massachusetts, last week and week before. I attended that meeting one day myself, and was greatly grieved at -what seemed to me and to many others, a sort of priestly controllership worthy only the Methodist or even the Catholic Church,‘and which certainly would be fatal to all healthy, mental growth, or moral and spiritual development. Your subsequent presence there, the manner of your reception, and the resolutions offered by Dr. Gardner and so rapturously adopted by the Resolved, That weare in favor of the free discussion of all ‘ Mr. Winslow presented a minority report in condemna-~ yet she does not ﬁnd it necessary to placard herself that she for discussion reports and resolutions many times which, .. -s: , W ‘vv -¢.--—-=.‘v‘.-5.-— -.:.- : . )' esi =.;: “st:-. til ‘L i‘ -m..-_—-.- -.+—r—_ v-av‘: . .1: ti Sept. 20, 1873. WOODHU'LL J5 CLAFLIN’S VVLEEKLY. _ R . - meeting, have gone very far to remove all my apprehensions. And so I still hope to see, as my letter to Mr. Buxton ex- pressed, “ Spiritualism the greatest reform of the age.” PARKER PILLsRURY. I SHORT ARTICLES ALL IMPORTANT IN THE WEEKLY AT THIS TIME. It is often seen and acknowledged that speeches of ten minutes have more strength and inﬂuence than others of an hour. Variety is most interesting and even rest to many. If it is to be so joyous and satisfying to know each other “ over there,” especially our aﬂinities, the same enjoyments can be begun here with a knowledge of persons of our likes. Every person has inﬂuences, civil, religious and political,_ and Spiritualists do know our power is second to none in the land; for we have challenged all beliefs for the champion- ship of truth without a failure. And now to complete the full victory and have our measures fully respected, we have only to step to the front with our full names and professions upon our brows. . Could we have shown our numbers, professions and mental strength to the politicians, churches and Young Men’s Chris- tian Associations, Woodhull and Claﬂin and George F. Train would never have been imprisoned! No, not a day! This audacious, outrageous attempt to strangle free speech and press would never have been attempted. I most earnestly urge every lover of freedom to send the required aid ($20) immediately to the WEEKLY and secure a free press, and give their full names that they may be known, at home and abroad, and then a mighty inﬂuence will be felt before 0 which a weak-kneed and fashionable society will succumb, and to which yield due respect. I ' N ATHL. RANDALL, M. D., Woodstock, Vt. REFORMATORY LECTURERS. I11 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 arr. ngement, with any proviso whatever, as to what subject they shall treat, or regarding the manner in which it shall be treated.‘ A reforma- tory movement, such as Spiritualism really is, cannot afford so soon to adopt the customs of the Church and fall into its dotagef 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 muzzlcd ox which treads out the corn, this column is now open: v C. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. J. I. Arnold, Clyde, 0. J. O. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. Mrs. H. F. M. Brown, National City. Cal. Addie L. Ballou, Terra Haute, Ind. Warren Chase, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Jcnnette J, Clark, Montpelier. Vt. Prof. J. H. Cook, Columbus, Kan. A. Briggs Davis, Clinton, Mass. Miss Nellie L. Davis, North Billerica, Mass. Lizzie Doten. Pavilion, 57’ Tremont street, Boston, Mass. Mrs. L. E. Drake, Plainwell, Mich. R. G. Eccles, Andover, Ohio. James Foran, M. D., Waverly, N. Y. I. P. Greenleaf, 27‘ Milford street, Boston, Mass. Anthony Higgins, Jersey City, N. J. E. Annie Hinman, I/Vest Winsted, Ct. D. W. Hull, Hobart, Ind. - Charles Holt, VVa.rren, Pa. ' Mrs. Elvira Hull, Vineland, N. J Moses Hull, Vineland, N. J. R. W. Hume, Hunter-’s Point, L. I. W’. F. Jamieson, 139 Monroe street. Chicago, Ill. Miss Jennie Leys, 4 Trernont Temple, Boston, Mass Cephas B. Lynn, Sturgis, Mich. Mrs. F. A. Logan, Buffalo, N. Y. Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Ct. Dr. Geo. Newcomer, Jackson, Mich. Mrs. L. H. Perkins, Kansas City, Mo. J. H. Randall, Clyde, O. « A. C. Robinson, Lynn, Mass. Wm. Rose, M. D., 102 Murison street, Cleveland, Elvira Wheelock Rnggles, Havana, Ill Julia A. B. Seiver, Houston, Florida. Mrs. J . H. Severance, Milwaukee, Wis. Laura Cuppy Smith, No. 23 Irving Place, New York City. M. L. Sherman, Adrian, Mich. . , J ohn Brown Smith, 812 N. 10th st, Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. H. T. Stearns, Corry, Pa. Dr. H. B. Storer, 137 Harrison avenue, Boston, Mass. C. W. Stewart, Janesville, Wis. J. H. W’. Toahey, Providence, R. I. F. L. H. Willis, Willimantic, Ct. Lois Waisbrooker, Battle Creek, Mich. c>—4® MISCELLANEOUS. THE BLACK LIST. [ooNTINUED.] _ [From the N. Y. Herald, ‘Aug. 31.] No. 1.—ALBANv, Aug. 30, 1873.—A. 0. Foster, of Keene, N. H., was found in this city to-day with a woman named Mrs. Belle Burlingame, having left his wife and two chil- dren behind. He repented and started for his home this afternoon. - . It was all very ﬁne for Mr. A. C. Foster to repent, but how about Mrs. Burlingame? No. 2.-—FRIeHTEUL ASSAULT ON A WOMAN BY HER Hus- BAND.-—At noon yesterday Mrs. Susan Bergen, residing at N o. 75 Clay street, Newark, barely escaped being murder- ed at the hands, as alleged, ‘of her husband, Martin Ber- gen. The latter, it appears, got home shorly after twelve o’clock considerably under the inﬂuence of liquor, and got into some triﬂing dispute with the woman, who was chop- ping wood in the yard. The woman started to leave her husband’s presence, but just then he sprung forward, seized the ax and dealt hera murderous blow on the head. She fell to the earth with a cry and was soon weltering in a large pool of blood. Bergen ﬂed and hid himself in a barn, where he was subsequently found by the police. He was locked up. Mrs. Bergen was carried into the house and medical aid procured. She may not die, but her eondition yesterday was dangerous. Bergen has an unsavoryreputationsonthe police records. - . _ V. N o. 3.—Yesterday afternoon the Superintendent of the Jersey City ferry heard that a gross outrage had been per- petrated on one of the Debrosses-street boats, about two o’clock on Friday morning. Thus far the occurrence is vouched for by only one man, who avers that he was a pas- senger on board at the time. He says that there were many _men in the ladies’ cabin. On one side sat a woman, ap- parently respectable; two of the men insulted her, then put out the lights and outraged her. Captain ‘Woolsey yesterday, ordered an inquisition to be held on Monday. [N. Y. Sun, Sept. 2.] N o. 4.—A DESPERADO CLUBBING HIS WIrE.—Last eve- ning Olﬁcer Chaplain of the Charles-street Police Station heard cries of “ Murder!” at 117’ Charles street. On reaching the second story and breaking open the door he saw Joseph Columbus attempting to kill his wife, whom he had on the ﬂoor and was beating with a club. Columbus, on seeing the officer enter, attacked him, but was taken to the station. No. 5.————A Hard-Shell Baptist minister over in Indiana, who married a fortnight after his wife’s death, made the following satisfactory explanation in the pulpit the Sunday following: “ I searched the Scriptures from Ginisees to Riv- erlaltions and found plenty of promises to the widder, but nary one to the widderer. And so I took it that the good Lord didn’t waste sympathy on a man when it was in his power to comfort himself, and having a ﬁrst-rate chance to marry in the Lord, I did so, and would do so again. Be- sides, brethren, I considered that poor Patsy was just as dead as she ever would be.” No. 6.——A WEST FARMS 'WoMAN’s DEATH.--Yesterday Sergeant Steers, of the Tremont police, was told that a case requiring investigation had come to light in West Farms. The Sergeant learned that on Friday night Mrs. Henry Seigel became the mother of a lifeless child. On Sunday she died. Dr. Pratt, who attended Mrs. Seigel, made a private post-mortem examination, gave a certiﬁcate of death, and turned thebody over to the undertaker. This strange pro- ceeding excited the inhabitants. The Sergeant learned that a week ago last Friday there was a terrible ﬁght in the Seigel family, and that Seigel broke up the furniture and pitched his wife out of doors. Coroner Miller has taken charge of the body. - No. 7.-—~DAS’1‘ARDLY OUTRAGE, September 3.—About nine o’clock last night, four young fellows, two of whom escaped, seized Ellen Stone, of No. 64. West Twenty-ﬁrst street, a re- spectable woman, as she waspassing through a lonely part of the city, between Eleventh avenue and North River, and, dragging her into a lumber-yard, while each violated her per- son in turn, the others held her. Two of the villains were arrested, and gave their names as Michael Foran, alias Hef- fernan, aged eighteen years, of N o. 557 West Thirtieth street, and James Broderick, aged sixteen years, of N o. 214 West Twenty-ninth. street. Justice Ledwith committed them, without bail. No. 8.—It is not often’ that we hear of a mother-in-law killing her son-in-law with a hatchet or gun. Their style of murder is generally more insidious, but no less deadly. Mrs. John D. Dickerson, of Lamar county, Texas, shot her son-in-law, Robert Little, for abusing his wife and following her to Mrs. Dickenson’s house. He went round a corner and fell dead. Mrs. Dickerson has been held in $1,000 bail. N o. 9.———Yesterday morning Dr. Joyce, of Bellevue Hospi- tal, made a post mortem on the body of Mrs. Seigel, who died on Sunday, having last week, it is charged, been pitched out of doors by her husband. The examination re- vealed the facts as told in yesterday’s Sun, with the excep- tion that there is some doubt in the doctor’s mind about the sole culpability of the husband. Some one else, the doctor thinks, may be implicated. N o. 10.—ANoTHER QUTRAGE.--BALTIMORE.—-Louisa. Ross, a young girl, has been disinterred at Hagerstown. An ex- amination showed that an abortion produced death. A wo- man and man have been arrested. The affair creates great excitement throughout Washington county. [From the Georgetown Planet, S. 0.] No. 1l.——Fannie Bush, colored, convicted of the murder'of her infant child in Harrison county, Kentucky, has been sentenced to be hanged on the 14th November. It is stated. the woman and her children were starving and that she drowned one of them so that she might be able to provide for the rest. . N0. 12.~—A young lawyer of Chicago, disappointed-in loveﬂ demanded poison from a druggist, but was considerately given certain delicate little powders of prepared chalk in- stead. He then went to the residence of the adored one, who was sojourning at Valparaiso, Ind. He again offered his hand, which was unconditionally refused, whereupon he cried: “At your door is my death,” and swallowed the powders. The family doctor was sent for, but after tasting one of the powders he calmly awaited the result. The young man lay down and longed for the drowsiness which pre- cedes death. Nothing came. Then they sent him back to his mother. [CoMMENT.-—-As it was not the youth’s fault but his mis- fortune that he did not kill himself, we grant, him a place in this column] A A No. 13.-—Louisville, Ky.———George Mangram, arrested last week on a‘ charge of of the ravishment and murder of Mary Lee, on the commons near the city, has been before the City Court two days. This afternoon the case was sub- mitted without argument, and the Judge committed Man- gram on a charge of murder, to answer at the November term of the Circuit Court. No.14..——New York, Sept. 5.——Marx Henson shoots his wife Minnie, and afterwards himself. Cause, drink. No. 15.——Margaret Hammill burned to death or murdered. Merrigan and wife arrested on suspicion. N o. 17.——WIEE MURDER IN JERSEY CITY}-Wm. Hickey, of Second street, Jersey City, was committed yesterday on _ a charge of assault. He went home, quarsreled with his wife, and struck her on the "head with as heavy pitcher. She ‘was taken to the hospital dying. THE Oneida Communists say they are pe stered with appli- cations for membership. The Circular says: “During the Past week people have come by the cars to join; an ex- minister came on foot from the neighborhood of Perryville to join,~and every man has brought urgent appeals from highly respectable persons thatithey may form an acquaint- ance with us by correspondence that shall lead to personal union.” The Communists say that they have all the,per- lsonal union they can take care of now, and they want it un- derstood that nobody need apply.———N. Y. Sun, Sept. 1. A CORRECTION. Vt'ctom'a—I notice in your issue of September 6th that my name. is used in connection with a project for the formation of a State Camp-Meeting Association. .1 wish to say that I am not connected with or interested in the above project, di- rectly or indirectly. lDrs.s,Gardner and Richardson, either A or both of them, can conduct a,,ca1np-meeting or picnic to my entire satisfaction. My admiration for Silver Lake and Sil- ver Lake Grove was a marked case of “love at ﬂrst sight.” If the people gathering at the above-named‘ grove should make any reasonable request of Drs. Gardner and Richard- son, Ihave no doubt that it would be cheerfully granted. This idea of ru ing a camp-meeting by “the people” has been tried repeatedly, and has as repeatedly “played out.” I for one prefer thattresponsible parties, should take the re- sponsibility, and if they make a little money out of the op- eration I am glad of it, and Drs. Gardner and Richardson know as well as we can tell them that to have success they must please “ the people.” V I Hoping to meet you again at Silver Lake, I remain Yours truly, A. C. CAREY. [From a Sermon by H. W. Beecher ten years ago, on The Immaculate Conception.] , If a man asks, “Do you suppose that avirginican be a mother?” my reply is this: The New Testament tells us that the Savior was conceived of the Holy Ghost and born of a woman. The event was so far removed from the ordi- nary processes of natural law, that I have no difficulty in be- lieving that it occurred as it is described, by the power of God. Shall I believe that He who ordained, from the be- ginning of the world, that we should spring into life from the life and body of another, could not control that wonder- ful arrangement, sothat his Son should be born of a woman? The marvel to me is, that men are ever born of man and wo- man at all; that God ordained such a gate from the other life into this. I can never enough wonder at that profound and sacred mystery where two lives, quickened into union by the rapture of unspeakable love, ﬂash forth the spark of another being. It seems to me, in view of the perpetuated marvel of the beginnings of human life, a very little thing to suppose that God could make a special use of these pow- ers. And when the myriad wombs that, since the dawn of time, have issued the human race, have received the power to do it from the living remembrance and inspiration of God’s mind, shall I stagger to believe that in a single in- stance he could control that organization to his own divine and beneﬁcent purposes? May not §He, who created the very door of human life, push aside the ordinary janitor, and, with his own hands, unlatch its portals, and let his Son come through? May not the everlasting Father cry out from his throne, “ Lift up your heads, ye gates, and let the King of Glory through?” There is no trouble here to any man, unless he wants trouble, and then there is nothing on the earth out of which he cannot make it. 'When a man believes that God has made the world, the human body, and every- thing else in nature, I, for one, do not understand how he can have any difficulty in believing in miracles. I see no difficulty at all in believing that God can, if he chooses, stretch forth his hand, and use a law, or stop it, and inter- ject some eifect. AIR AND ExERcIsE.—-The late Dr. Marshall Hall, of Eng- land, said: “ If I were seriously ill. of consumption, I would live out of doors day and night, except in rainy weather or midwinter, then I would sleep in an unplastered’log—hou_ge, Physic has no nutriment; gasping for air cannot cure you, monkey capers in a gymnasium cannot cure you, and stimu- lants cannot cure. What consumptives want is air, not physic—pure air, not medicated air—plenty of meat. and bread,” etc. These emphatically delivered opinions of one of the very greatest of physiologists and medical practition, ers of the nineteenth century, are certainly worthy of notice by the multitude of those amicted with throat and lung dis. eases. He might have added in this place what he and an other really intelligent and sound practitioners of this age maintain, viz. : That free and regular, not fatiguing and un- certain, bodily exercise in the open air, is an eminently im- portant aid in the permanent restoration of health, and should be persevered in. It may be termed an essential. That on horseback is, the best of all modes; continue it al- most irrespective of weather. BRING ON YOUR BEARS. By way of a text for a short article, we clip the following from the Sun of September 3, 1873: ,1 BRITISH LADIES THAT HIT OUT FROM THE SHOULDER. Miss Rudman and Miss Tregloan kept a hotel at Bristol, England, where they made money enough to purchase a snug little piece of land near Melksham. Here they settled down. A Mr. Frederick Smith,who lives next to their new residence, has a meadow lying contiguous to some of their land; and by his deed of conveyance he claims a right of way through a t i 1 v 14 . A WooDHULL. & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Sept. 20, 1373. ﬁeld of theirs in order to gain access to his own. The ladies stoutly resisted this claim, and when he attempted to force his right the other day by bringing a load of straw to the gate, they challenged him to produce his deed. Then he put his arm through the bars to attempt to unhinge the gate, when, to use his own Words: Miss Rudman hit straight out from the shoulder with her clenched fist, and struck me in the face. She repeated this three times. She also raised her foot, and kicked me more than_once in the arm—that was through the gate———bruis1ng me very much, and making me sore for a week. She then seized my Walking stick, Wrenched it from me and struck me several times on my back and shoulders. I never touched her, but told her if 1 was doing wrong she had her remedy.” George Alford, farmer, who was driving the horse and cart- with the straw, shared no better fate, for he, while assisting Mr. Smith, received “ one straight from the shoulder of Miss Rudman on the mouth.” '[Mu-ch laughter.] “ Do you know who you be hitting?” said the farmer. “ Yes,” said the lady. “ ’Twas me,” said the farmer. “I know it,” said Miss Rudman; “ you have no business here; I’ll give you another if you don’t go. [Renewed merriment.] Mary, go and ‘fetch my big knobbed stick; I’ll show them whether they have a right here.” [Peals of laughter.] They did not wait for the knobbed stick, but retreated from the position, and left the ladies victors of the ﬁeld. _ _ Mr. Smith brought an action in the County Court against the ladies for interruption of right of way, and for £20 dam- ages for the assault. The ﬁrst part of his case he did not make out to the satisfaction of the Judge, and was non- suited; for the assault averdict of 40s. and costs was given. The case lasted all day and excited the liveliest interest in a crowded court. ° Well done, ladies. It seems that the men are so gallant nowadays" that nothing will prove woman’s right to the suf- frage and personal freedom but their ﬁsts. In this country a few noble-minded men and manly presses have brought forward the argument that “ as women do not serve in the army they ought not to be ' rmitted to vote.” We answer this with a tale. Some years ago while an old colporteur was addressing a Western audience from the stump, some children made a noise. He stopped, and told them the story of Elisha; how the children mocked that prophet, and how two she bears came out of the Wood and tare forty and two of them. A short time after the boys be- gan again, and‘ when the preacher held up a warning ﬁnger. they called out with one accord: “Bring on your bears, old fellow, bring on your bears.” A Probably Women will yet have to answer the brave and Vmanly argument, that “ as women don’t ﬁght they ought not vote,” in a similar manner. They will have to accept the situation. and like the boysycall out to the gallant knights who produce it: “ Come on, give us the muskets, we’l1 pro- tect you! Bring on your bears gentlemen, bring on your bears!” [From the Lg/nchburg Republican] A TOUCHING PoEM.—“ Old Uncle Schneider " contributes to the press a touching poem, drawn from a‘ real life incident, for which we predict extensive popularity. The poem is styled, “ Go vay, Becky Miller,” and is in these pathetic words: ' Go vay, Becky Miller, go vay 1’ I don’t lofe you now von shmall leetle bit, , My dream vas blayed out, so blea.se got up and git, Mit your false-hearded ways I can’t get along mit, Go vay, Becky Miller, go vayl Vas all der young voonien so false—hearded like you, Mit a face nice and bright und 3. heart plack and plue, Und all der vhile schvearin you lofed me so true—— Go vay, Becky Miller, go vayl Vy, vonce I dought you vas a shtar vay up high, I liked you so better as goganut pie, But oh! Becky Miller, you’m now a big lie- Go vay, Becky Miller, go vay! You dock all der bresents vat I did bresent, Yes, gobbled up efery blamed von vet I sent—- All ‘der vhile init anoder young rooster you vent—— Go vay, Becky Miller, go vayl Vhen ﬁrst I found oud you’m such a big lie, I didn’t know redder to shudder or die, Butnow, by der change! I don’t cfen gry, Go vay, Becky Miller, go vay! Don’t try to make belief you vas sorry about, I don’t belief a ding vat coomes out of your moud, Und besides I don’t care——for youlin blayed out, Go vay, Becky Miller, go vay! VICTORIA C. VVOODHULL IN LONDON. EXTRACT FROM THE LECTURE OF MISS HAY, DELIVERED AT THE CAVENDISI-I ROOMS, LONDON, G. B. During her (Miss Hay’s) visit to the United States she had met Mrs. Woodhull. It might pain those listening to her to hear it, but she must mention it. _They little understood Mrs. Woodhull, who was indeed a noble, pure woman, although it was not thought so generally. She had been and would be useful to the World, andshe had been persecuted beyond What anybody could imagine. The ﬁrst time that Victoria C. Woodhull spoke in Boston, she (Miss Hay) was controlled by a spirit to take her a very beautiful rose, which Mrs. W. has preserved to this day as a memento of ' the meeting. She thought, as has been said, that Victoria C. Woodhull was the most important woman on the globe at the present moment, and that in years to come the fact would be acknowledged. That which gives her the strength to stand before the World, daring its severest frowns, is pure moral courage and devotion to truth. And the fact that this is the source of her inspiration makes the effect of the frowns and calumny upon her ten thousand times more terrible than if she were physically hardened against them. The world may never learn and appreciate this fact in Vic- toria; but if it ever does, it will know her proportionately as it has dishonored her, and will make haste to repay the sorrows it has caused her by permitting her to render it the services in which she would find delight. We are indebted for the following items to the Figowo of San Francisco: “ A condition requiring the continuance of marriage, not- withstanding a change in the feeling’ of the parties, is ab- surd, shocking and contrary to humanity.”—Jeremy Ben- ‘ them. “ Marriage having this peculiarity, that its . objects are frustrated when the feelings of both partiesare not in liar- mony with it, should require nothing but the declared will of either party to dissolve it.”—A.lea;ander Humboldt. A NUT THAT WON’T CRACK. Some time ago the Y. M. C. Association of Saratoga Springs talked long and loud about suppressing the Hon. John Morrissey’s “ Club House.” His inﬂuence in bringing money to Saratoga was so great that the cause of Christ sur- rendered and he has added to the size of the house. As I passed by it yesterday my friend said the unregenerate W0rld’s folkshad the unblushiiig and unsanctiﬁed impu- dence to call it the Y. M. C. Association “ Club House.” ~ N. W. FEMALE SooIETY.—What is it that makes all those men who associate habitually with Women superior to those who do not? VVhat makes the women who are in the society of men superior to their sex in general? Solely because they are in the habit of free, graceful, continued conversation with the other sex. Women ‘in this way lose their frivolity, their faculties awaken, their delicacies and peculiarities unfold all their beauty and captivation in the spirit of rivalry; and men lose their pedantic, rude, declamatory or sullen manner. The coin of the under- standing and the heart changes continually. The asperities are rubbed off, their natures polished and brightened, and their richness, like gold, is wrought into ﬁner workmanship by the ﬁngers of Woman than it ever can be done by those of men. BUSINESS EDITORIALS. ._._._j. ' KURTZ’ RESTAURANTS. Among the many permanent institutions of the city are the several 1'est.aLn‘-ants of Mr. Fred. Kurtz, located at 28 New street, 60 Broadway, '76 Maiden lane and at the corner of Fifth avenue and Ninetieth street. Undoubtedly Kurtz excels all competitors in the conduct of a ﬁrst-class eating- house. Besides being thoroughly versed in stocking his store-rooms, he understands just how to please the general palate in the preparation of his dishes. Success is the best test of merit, especially in this business; and if Kurtz’ merit is to be so tested, he stands pre-eminent over all other caterers. Each of the above places will accommodate from one to two hundred persons, and all of them, at almost any hour of the day, are ﬁlled. Strangers, visitors and residents will ﬁnd Kurtz’ the most satisfactory, as well as cheapest, ﬁrst-class eating establishments in the city; While those who visit Central Park should not fail to call ‘at the new and elegant retreat at the corner of N inetieth street. QUARTERLY MEETING. ‘Notice is hereby given that a Quarterly Meeting will be held under the auspices of the Indiana State Association of Spiritualists at Oxford, Benton Co., Indiana, commencing Friday, September 12th, 1873, at 7-} o’clock P. M., and con- tinuing over Sunday. Come one and all. ' A If any of the friends, on arrival at the depot, are not‘ met by the Committee of Arrangements, they will proceed at once to the Ohio House, or Treasurer’s office, where they will be cared for. J. R. BUELL, Secretary of Indiana State Association of Spiritualists. WVE are in receipt of a capital photographic likeness of Moses Hull. Since he is the ﬁrst ‘person who has dared to go before the public with his life experiences, it occurs to us that many admirers of truth and straiglit-forwardness may Wish to obtain it We take pleasure in informing them that it may be had on application to him, at 27 Milford street, Boston, Mass. Price ﬁfty cents. A HEALING by laying on hands, at 97 Clinton Place, by L. A. Edminster, of Boston. All female diseases successfully treated; the best of reference can be given. Patients visited at their homes, or treated by Magnetic Conductors. N 0 medicine used. Ters $2.00 each treatment; oﬁice hours from 9 to 11 A. M., and 2 to 5 P. M. Send stamp for return letter. V APPROACHING CONFLICT—- The irrepressible issues between universal liberty and des- potism to precipitate a terrible war within ﬁve years that will terminate in the overthrow of the American Republic and the establishment of a military dictatorship. Church, State and Capital are combined, under the leader- ship of the Republican party, to precipitate the conﬂict that will end in a defeat of their aspirations, and the ultimate triumph of industry, socialism and rationalism. The nation is slumber-ing upon the brink of ruin as uncon- ciously as the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum in that awful moment that preceded the belching forth of Vesu- vius. The most astounding foreshadowing of the future destiny of this nation ever issued from the press. A book of 250 pages will be sent to any address, post-paid, for $1.50. Liberal terms given to agents. Address, . ‘ Jo1IN WILLCOX, 1'72 and 174 Clark street, Chicago, Ill. aunitary home. Address, E. M. BEGKWITH, Station D. THE undersigned, feeling that the times are ripe for a social club in this city, invites those who are of like mind to communicate with her, With a ‘view to securing asuitable place for weekly meetings, for mutual improvement and l 4} may be said to have originated in this country. and only IOWA SPIRITUALISTS. The Spiritualists of Iowa will hold their Fifth Annual Convention, at their Hall, in Walnut street, Des Moines, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 3, 4 and 5, com- mencing at 10 o’clock A. M. Good speakers will be in attendance, and at leastlone good test medium. The friends at Des Moines always take care of visitors. ‘ ’ So come pen, all friends of the cause, speakers, mediums and everybi'3dy else, and let us make the occasion one worthy of our good cause. J. P. DAVIS, Pres’t., J. SWAIN, Sec’y. ‘ DEs MoINEs, Iowa, August 20, 1873. NOTES ON MANUFACTURES. The manufacture of Fire and Burglar Proof Safes, which about twenty-ﬁve years ago, has nowbecome an important industry. The men employed in it are numbered by thou- sands, and the capital invested by millions. Among the establishments which have gained an enviable reputation for the excellence of their manufactures in this line is the Hal1’s Safe and Look C0., of Cincinnati, Ohio. J. L. Hall, Esq., President of the Company, has been practically engaged in the manufacture of Safes and Looks for the past twenty-ﬁve years, thoroughly understands every branch of the business, and has taken out letters patent for many valuably improve- ments which are new combined in the construction of their Safes. The company state. that upward of 70,000 of their Safes are now in use, and that their “ Burglar-proofs” have never been robbed, with a single exception, which was of the old style; and in this case the owners had been notiﬁed of its insecurity, and have since purchased one of their im- proved make. For their ﬁre proof Safes they claim that the patent concrete ﬁlling with which they are lined, makes them not only absolutely ﬁre-proof but also absolutely damp proof; that the ﬁlling always remains hard and never oxydizes the iron, and will remain good a life-time. These safes are ﬁn- ished in the most perfect and elegant manner, and are fur- nished with Hal1’s Patent Combination Locks, which are said to be the simplest and yet the most perfect now in use. NEW MEDIUMS IN THE FIELD. Mrs. S- S. Baldwin and the Dormand Bros. have just con- cluded a series of wonderful seances in New Orleans, all of which were well attended and highly satisfactory. These young men are as yet mere novices, with unsurpassed powers, yet no mediumistic experience, and with but little if any appreciation of their, as I regard it, great prospective mission. MISS CROSBY, whose card will be found in another place, continues at 316 Fourth avenue. Those who visit her speak highly of her mediumship. SPIRITUALISM IN NEW YORK. Mrs. Katie Robinson, a ﬁrst-class test and business me- dium from Philadelphia, will be at 316 Fourth avenue for two Weeks only. Harry Bastian, one of the best physical medi- ums, will be here in a few days, and beat all the Rutger-street ghosts. A WHlTMAN’S OANDIES AND MINERAL WATERS?” MANUFACTURED FROM THE WATERS on THE DEEP ROCK , SPRING, OSWEGO, NEW YORK. The testimony of the faculty is that as remedial agents these Waters stand unrivaled. . Particularly efﬁcacious in all affections of the kidneys or bladder; also beneﬁcial in rheumatism, dyspepsia and all diseases arising from a disordered condition of the blood. For sale on draught, or in bottle, by George A. Marble, dealer in all kinds of mineral waters, 26 Maiden lane, New York. A NEW HYGIENIC INSTITUTION. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement (in another column) of Champion Cure and Liberal Institute, at Carversville, Bucks County, Pa. The object of this institution, as its circular announces, is to promote among the people a pure morality, founded upon knowledge; and hence it purposes to deal liberally with the poor. Dutton Madden, the well-known Liberal, of Mechan- icsburg, Cumberland County, Pa., will be ﬁnancial man- ager, and all the officers of the institution are liberally- minded. It is matter of congratulation that we now have begin an institution grounded upon the true philosophy and en- tirely free from sectarian bias—-"William R. Evans, the pro- prietor, being equally opposed to all A place where ‘the sons and daughters of those who cannot approve ahealth-institution, or an educational one, domi- nated by a disposition hostile to progress, can be trained in 1 all the physical, intellectual and moral disciplines has been a desideratum hitherto, but is now, we trust, an accom- plished fact. Certainly it is high time that men of liberal views should begin to found distinctively liberal schools, as far removed from the control of vbigots on the one hand as from that of fanatics on the other. We are assured by the character of the men and women engagedin the present undertaking at Carversville, as Well as by the direct encouragement of ‘ spirit-friends, that the germ there planted is to grow apace, social enjoyment, and with a hope of ultimately organizing and to become an example of success, to foster the establish- ment of similar institutions. Sept. 20, 1873. WOODHULL 85 eLAEL1N*s WEEKLY. 15 The recent test of Fire-Proof Safes by the English Government proved the superiority of Alum Filling. No other Safes filled with Alum and Plaster-of-Paris. as am, 265 roadway, hi. v., 721 Chestnut St., Phila. $20 The Beckwith $20 Portable Family Sewing Machine, ON THIRTY DAYS’ TRIAL. WITH STRENGTH AND CAPACITY EQUAL To ANY, RE- GARDLESS or COST. The Cloth-plate is the size used by a $100 Machine is of Polished Plated Steel. Attachments of propor- tionate size and quality, while the entire machine has corresponding ﬁnish throughout. Braider, Enibroid- erer, Guide, Hemmer, Gatherer, four sizes of Needles, etc., are given with every Machine. ' No To1LsoME TREAD on THE TREADLE. Every Machine carefully Tested and fully Warrartted. B ECK WITH SEIVING JIIA CHINE 00., 862 Broadway, N. Y_., near 17th st. and Union Sq. 142 MISS LIZZIE L. CROSBY, BUSINESS CLAIR VOYANT AND SPIRIT MEDIUM. Magnetic Treatment. No. 3l6 FOUl_i_TH AVENUE, Between 23d and 24th streets, NEW YORK. Hours: 10 A. M. to 8 P. M. Terms: $2.00 to $3.00. MADAME CLIFFORD, (LATE or 24 MYRTLE Av.), THE GREATEST LIVING Medical & Business clairvoyant, HAS REMOVED T0 . 222 STATE ST., near COURT, Brooklyn. Examines diseases personally and by hair, and is consulted on all affairs of life and business generally. SA TI SFA 0 TI ON G UARANTEED. Oﬁice hours from 9 A. M. till 6 P. M. Life Charts writ- ten out fully. THE “Silver Tongue” O R Gr A , MANUFACTURED BY LE. P. lie dharn &: Son, 143, 145 86 147 EAST 23d ST., N. Y. ESTABLISHED IN I846. Responsible parties applying for agencies in sec- tions still unsupplied will receive prompt attention and liberal inducements. Parties residing at a. dis- tance from our authorised agents may order from our ‘factory. Send for illustrated price list. 142 new nirniﬂonnin no. MANUFACTURE THE CELEBRATED Jubilee and Temple ORGANS. These Organs are unsurpassed in quality of tone, style of ﬁnish, simplicity of construction, and dura- bility. Also, Melodeons in various styles, and unequaled in tone. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED ©A'1‘ALOGUE- Address A NEW HAVEN ORGAN C0... 142 Agents Wanted. _ Seven. Gonn- Music has Charms! PRICE EEDUCED. The Best in the Wo_rld. WILL LAST A LIFETIME.’ 35:_ooo OF THE OELEBRATED Sllllll NGER BEGINS In Daily Use. The best musical talent of the country recommend these Organs. The nicest and best. More for your money, and gives better satisfaction than any other now made.. They comprise the Eureka, Concerto, Orchestra and Grands. Illustrated Catalogues sent by mail, post-paid to any address, upon application to 3. SI-IONINGER & co., 142 New Haven, Conn. COUNTRY BOARD. , THE - LONG HILL HOUSE (Near Beer’s Mill depot, on the Housatonic Railroad), Size miles from Bridgeport, Conn. Address, 0. S. MIDDLEBROOK, Box 778. " Bridgeport, Conn. DB. J. C. PHILLIPS, clairvoyant and Magnetic Healer, OMRO, Wis. Disease diagnosed at a glance by Lock of Hair, letter stating age, sex and residence. ‘ GUARANTEES SATISFACTION. Examination and Prescription, $2.00. Dr. Phillips is faithful, trustworthy and successful —J. 0. Barrett. Dr. Phillips, Magnetic Physician, is meeting with good success.—E. V. t on. JOHN GAULT, ' (EMPIRE BUILDING), 69 of: 71 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. _.._.. DEALER IN Imported Wines and, liquors, CIGARS, ENGLISH SAUCES, _ CANNED FRUITS, ETC., ETC., For Shipping and Family Use. Travel. DR. AMMI BROWN,‘ Dentist, Removed to 20 East Twenty-fourth Street, 9 Near Madison Square. ‘DR. ZD.AI{E’S APPOINTMENTS FOR 1873. Elgin, 111., 1st and 2d; Rockford, Ill.,’3d, 4t , _5th and 6th; Beloit, Wis., 7th, 8th and 9th; Mad1S0niWlS., 11th and 12th; Watertown, W1s., 13th, 14th and 5th; Fond Du Lac, 1-6th and 17th; Oshkosh, 18th, 19th and 20th; Ripon, 21st and 22d; Whitewater, 24th and 25th; Waukesha, 26th and 27th; Chica 0, Matteson _House, 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st of cap month during the year. Oﬂices, principal hotels in each city. Chronic complaints incident to ‘both sexes exclusively and suc- cessfully treated. ENcoMIUMs FROM THE rnnss. The Western Rurals-peakr_s of/Dr. D_ake as one of the most successful physicians in the United States. DR. DAKE.——’l‘hat this scientiﬁc physician has no equal in the West thousands will aﬁirm.-—J0urnal, Beloit, Wis. 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 West.—LocIcford Gazette. Dumont C. Dake, M. D., is having great success in this cit. . He is active, whole souled, in fact, one of the “ w itest” gentlemen we have ever known. Packages put up for Sea Voyages andInlcmd , I-nsromo Am". THE illlllllﬂ , A Beautiful Picture,’ REPRESENTING THE Birth lace r OF rinnnnn SPlRll‘li.lLltllll, Home of the FOX FAMILY In I-IydesVille., , Y. PROF. JOHN, OUR EMINENT AMERICAN ARTIST, visited Hydesville, and executed a carefully-drawn picture of the house wherein began modern spiritual telegraphy, together with the yard, orchard and hill- side, so as to furnish the present and future genera- tions with as perfect a representation as possible of the house and surroundings, without the least exag- geration. To render the work more attractive, spirit- ually impressive, and signiﬁcant, the angel world—, through spirit direction and inspiration——w¢xs most. beautifully and grandly united with the “real mate- rial.” Dreamy, uncertain and suggestive twilight pervades the foreground. Heavy clouds rest on the landscape in the distance. Luminous ﬂoods of light streamup from the east, and gild in gorgeous tints the high-ﬂoating clouds. Angel bands, not deformed with antiquarian wings, lower over the house, and in their descent a spiritual aura falls over the mystic house and yard. A light for the weary pilgrim shines from the window of the house. The lights and shed- ows have seldom been equaled in ancient or modern painting. The work has been translated on steel by that dis tinguished engraver, J. W. Watts, in a high style of art. The engraving is an honor to American Art, and Worthy a place in every home and Gallery of Art. and worthy of the great event that it commemorates. A Circular containing a Map of Hydesville, a Dia- gram of the ground ﬂoor of the house, and explana- tory reading matter accompanies each engraving. Priee Two Dollars-. Sent by mail, postage free, securely rolled. on re- . ceipt of price. Those that desire to sell the work by sub- scrtptton, bu/ytng at wholesale, can also remit‘ Two Dollars, and receive the work and sub- scription papers, and tnformatton in regard to terms, by mail, prepaid. I All orders for the work should be addressed to us as follows: E. H. CURRAN & co, Publishers, 28 ScH’ooE ST., BOSTON, Mass. JAMlESON’S BOOK! __..Z. “ THE CLERGY A SOURCE on DANGER To THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.” eon IN THE ‘CONSTITUTION. INFAMY. 17‘allEdpose—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. CLUB RATES : Three Copies, expressage or postage paid, . . $4 50 Six u (G . ' as so _ _ _ 8 50 Ten 44 u at ca _ ' _ 12 50 Parlor Edition, gilt, cents per vol. extra. AGENCIES. Terms made known on application. Address all orders to W. F. JAMIESON, 139 and 141 Monroe street, Chicago, Ill. ,, , . I VVHAT THE’ PRESS SA Y6’ .' We consider Mr. Jamieson as having done a most useful and needed work in publishing this book. _It ought to be read by every one who takes the least m- ‘ terest in the Christian‘ Amendment movement, or any of the allied questions. It is crammed with mforma- tton of all ki.-nds bearing on the general .issues; and every page burns with intense earnestness.——Free Relo- C lgious Index, Nov. 16, 1872. A meaty volume, a remarkable book, Mr.‘Jamieson writes with earnestness and fervor. We commend the book to the widest possible perusal, believing that it is singularly calculated to open men s eyes and do their souls permanent good.~—Banner of Light, Oct. 12, 1872. Interesting, valuable and _timely. It abounds with importantfacts. No more zmportantoolame has been issued from the press for many 3/ears.—Bostor2. Invests gator, Oct. 2, 1872. THE REDIGIOUS ‘PRESS .1IS SILENT! SIGNIF v CANT ! . l . THE LIBERAL PRESS IS RECJOICING. Open. THE CRUSADE FAMILY SHIP, A New Incomparable CLOTHES Duran, Closed. I CLOTHES FRAMES, BARS AND LINES, FRUEIT DRYER AND CHRISTMAS TREE COMBINED. A GOOD THING, Patented May 24th, 1870. It is used for wet or dry clothes, in doors or out, stands ﬁrm or will swing and revolve, opens and closes like an_ umbrella; with racks_made of lath added, is a fruit dryer, and trimmed with evergreens, is a Christmas tree._ Send for circular descriptive of it or for the article itself, at any store, or send to the Patentee and Manufacturer, W. LIVINGSTON BROWNE, ' Shortsville, Ontario County, N. Y. P. S.——Sales Large, and easy. Agents wanted for the article, or territory. Address the Manufacturer, as above, mclostng stamp. Clothes Dryer. P$YOHO“ETRY. Psycho _ etric Readings for persons who send me their han writing, or who will call on me in person. Fee, $2. Address, 1,114 Callowhill street, Phila- delphia, Pa., by . J. MURRAY SPEAR. DR. E. WOJDRUFF, Botanic Physician. OFFICE AT His ROOT, BARK AND HERB-STORE, as CANAL ST., UP STAIRS, GRAND RAPIDS, Mo'ch., Where for thirteen years every description of Acute, Chronic and Private Diseases have been, successfully treated strictly on Botanic principles. NO POISON USED. _ P. 0. Drawer, 2,391. Counsel at office Free JOSHUA.» M. I-IOLT, Manufacturer and Proprietor ’ . r. lloyfs lllagneiie Pain tine, Holt’s Vegetable Liver Tonic. W MILFORD, N. H. its Sept. 20, 1873.. WOODHULL a CLYAFLIN s wnnxnx. 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, DRS. D. 86 L. MEEKER, A P. 0. Drawer 475, La Porte, Ind. ART Should Adorn omol Beaxutify every Home, The Orphans’ Rescue, Engraved on Steel by J. A. J. Wrnoox, from the Orig- inal Painting by Joseph John. This beautiful picture, and one of the most thrilling sentiment, lifts the vail of materiality from beholding eyes, and reveals the guardians of the Angel World. Fancy fails to picture what is here made real through the artist’s hand, and words but feebly express the re- sponses of our soul, as we look upon the boat with its hapless freight of children, beautiful and fascinating in tragic attitude and expression—-the silvery lighted angels in their descent so soft, their ﬂight of ease and grace, their countenances radiant with love so tender, combined with energy and power as they hover near with outstretched arms to save. In a boat as it lay in the swollen stream, two or- phans were playing. It was late in the day, before the storm ceased, and the clouds, llghtened of their burdens, shifted away before the wind, leaving a clear bright sky along the horizon. Unnoticed, the boat became detached from its fastenings and ﬂoated out from shore. Quickly the current carried it beyond all earthly help. Through the foaming rapids and by pre- cipitous rocks dashed the bark with its precious charge. As it neared the brink of the fearful cataract the chil- dren were stricken with terror, and thought that death was inevitable. Suddenly there came a wondrous change in the little girl. Fright gave way to com- posure and resignation as, with a determined and re- sistless impulse that thrilled through her whole being, she grasped the rope that lay by‘ her side, when to ’her surprise the boat turned, as by some unseen power, toward a quiet eddy in the stream—-a little haven among the rocks. The boy, of more tender age, and not controlled by that mysterious inﬂuence, in despair fell toward his heroic sister, his little form ‘ nearly paralyzed with fear. But means of salvation calmed the “heart’s wild tumult” and lighted the angry waters as the angels of rescue—they who were their parents—came to the little voyagers on waves of undying affection; when through that love which ﬁlls alike the heart of parent and child, a power was transmitted that drew the boat aside from its impend- ing doom and lodged it inthe crevice of the rocks, and they were rescued. This W'orlc, whether considered in its happy conception and design, or in "its fine rcndcrlng in line and sttpplc, is Cb triumph in art and ex- alted sentiment, Size of Sheet - - - - 24x30 inches. Engraved Surface - - 15}§x19}:; inches. RETAIL PRICE - - A $3.00. FOR SALE AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AT OUR PUB- LISHING ROOMS. Those who reside at a distance can remit $3.00 and receive the Engraving securely rolled and prepaid by return mail. Canvassing Agents ﬁnd in this new work great ele- ments of popularity and sale. Agents are wanted in every county. R. E. CUEEAN a co, PUBLISHERS, 28 School St., Boston, Mass. THE "Victor ” S. E. Cc.’s NEVV SEWING MACHINE Runs very Easy, Runs very Fast, Runs very Still. HAS A NEW SHUTTLE EUPERIOR '10 ALL OTHERS. Deﬁes Gcmjpetition. GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLE. Cainnojs be Set Wrong. AGENTS WANTED. Address The “VICTOR” S. M. CO" 862 Broadway, N. Y. EDR. P. J. KOONZ, Dentist, N0. 1 GREAT JONES ST., NEAR BROADWAY, NEW YORJK. Laughing Gas administered for the Painless :Extrac- tion of Teeth. s1>ERMA'I*0RRHEA. CURED BY A SPIRIT PRESCRIPTION, AND WARRANTED, non $10. It is an outside application. No medicine given. Send for free circular to 1 DR. E. WOODRUFF, ’ Grand Rapids, Mich. PROTOZONE. THE EINEST AND MosT PER- FECT BRAIN AND NER VB’ 0 INVIGORANT IN THE WQELD. _ Physicians and others will ﬁnd it wholly unequaled in all cases of illness arising from excessive or per- verted sexism, even when insanity and chronic unrest have resulted. The female illnesses springing from bad magnetism, inducing amative horror and disgust, brain disturbance and ex‘-haustion; 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., Protozone Laboratory, 17 OAMPBELL BLOCK, TOLEDO, 0., and but one agency in America, viz., M1253. SARAH P. THOMPSON, 1 Phillips Court, Boston, Mass. Price (single poiind ﬂasks) DISCOUNT $5.00 DOZENS on eaoss. ADDRESS As ABOVE. ANNA M. MEIXSEL, DAVID s. CADWALLADER, MAGNETEG HEALERS, 1,114 CALLOWHILL STREET, PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE HOURS, 9 to 11 A. M., 4 to 6 P. M. Psiroiiomnrn-ic EXAMINATION on DISEASE CORRECTLY MADE FROM'A LOCK on HAIR. SELF-CONTRADGTEQNS OF THE BIBLE. One hundred and forty-four propositions proved affirmatively and negatively from Scripture, without comment. Mailed for 25 cents. American News Co., New York. ENN SYLVANIA RAILROAD.—— UNITED RAILROADS OF NEW JERSEY DIVISION, foot of Desbrosses street and foot of Courtlandt street. ’ Change of hour. Commencing Sunday, Oct. 27, 1872. For West Philadelphia, 8 and 9;30 a. m., 12:30, 4, 5, *6, *8:30 p. m., 12 Night. For Philadelphia eta Camden, 7 a. m., 2 p. in. THROUGH TRAINS. 9:00 a. m., Great Southern Morning Express, for Baltimore and Washington; for the West, via West Philadelphia, Baltimore, and for the South, via Balti- more, and via Washington, with Drawing Room Car attached. 9:30 a. m., Western Express for West Philadelphia, Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman’s Palace Cars, through from New York to Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, Columbus, Cincinnati and Louisville, and with Parlor Cars from New York to Pittsburg. 1:00 p. in. Express for Baltimore and Washington, and for the West, via Baltimore, with Drawing Room Car attached. *5:00 p. in. Daily Western Express, for Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman’s Palace Car, through from New York to Pittsburg, Indianapolis, Louisville and St. Louis, to Columbus, Cincinnati and Chicago. *7:00 p. m., Daily Western Express, for Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman’s Palace Cars, for Pitts- burg, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. ‘ *8:30 p. m., Daily Western Express, for West Phil- adelphia, Pittsburg and the West, with Pullman’s Pal- ace Cars, through without change, to Pittsburg, Crest- line, Fort Wayne and Chicago. V 9200 p. m., Daily Great Southern Evening Express for Baltimore and Washington, with Reclining Chair Cars, and with Pullman Palace Cars through from New York to Washington. Tickets for sale at Ticket Oﬁices, foot of Desbrosses and Cortlandt streets, and in Depot, Jersey City; and at New York Transfer Co.’s oiﬁces (Dodd’s Express), No. 944 Broadway, New York, and No. 1 Court street, Brooklyn. Passengers, by leaving suitable notices at these offices, can have their baggage called for at resi- dence or hotel, and carried through to destination. Tickets for seats in reclining chair cars and com- partment cars for sale at the Desbrosses street oﬁice. A. J. CASSATT, F. W. JACKSON, Gen’l Manager. Gen‘l Supt, * Daily. ' I Chanipioii Cure and Liberal Institute, AT CARVERSVILLE, BUCKS COUNTY, PA., ILL BE OPENED FOR PATIENTS and pupils SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH, 1873. The Medical Department is under the charge of Mrs. Maud C. Walker, M. D., a regularly—educated physi- cian, of wide experience in hospital- and ordinary practice. She will be assisted by S. M. Sawin, M. D., an experienced army-surgeon, educated at Concepcion Medical College, Chili, S. A. The Academic Depart- ment is headed by S. N. Walker, A. M., a graduate of Vermont University, to whom application for circulars , should be made. ‘ RIE RAILWAY. ——SUMMER ‘ AR- rangement of trains, taking effect June 23, 1873. From Chambers Street depot (for Twenty-third street see note below.) 9 A. M.—Cincinnati and Chicago Day Express. Drawing-room Coaches to Buffalo and sleeping coaches to destination. 1 A. M.~Express mail for Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Sleeping coach to Buffalo. 7P. M. (daily).~Cincinnati and Chicago Night Ex- press, Slceping Coaches through to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Cincinnati, Detroit and Chicago without change. Trains leave for A . Port Jervis 8, 9, 11 and *11:15 A. M.; 4:30, +6230 and *7 P. M. , ' Goshen and Middletown, *6, 8, 't8:30, 11 and *11:15 A. M.; 3:45, 4:30, 16:30 and ;t*7 P. M. Warwick, 8, 11 A. M., and 4:30 P. M. Newburg, t8:30, 9 and 11 A. M., and 4:30 P. M. Suffern, .*6, 8, +8:30, 11 and *11:15 A. M.; 3:45, 5, 6, 16:30) *7 and *11:30 P. M. . V Ridgewood, Hohokus, Allendale and Ramsey’s, *6, 8, t8:30, 11, *11:15 A. M., 3:45, 5, 6, t6:30, 7 and.*11:.3O P. M. Paterson, *6, 6:45, 7:15, 8, 18:30, 8:45, 10, 11, *11:15, 11:30 A. M., 12 noon, *1:45, 3:45, 4, 5, 5:15, 6, *6:30, *7, 8, 10:30, and *11:30 P. M. Newark, *6, 7:15, *8:45 and 11:30 A. M., and 3:45, 5:15, *6:30, P. M., and 12 Saturday nights only. Rutherfurd Park and Passaic, 6:45, 8, +8130. 10, 11, 't11:15 A. M., Passaic only; 12 noon, *1:45, 4, 5:15, 6, *6:30, 8, 10:30 and *11:30 P. M. Hillsdale, Hackensack and Way, 5, 8:15 and +8245 A. M., 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 P. M., and 12 Saturday nights only. Spring Valley and Way, 5 and 9:80 A. M., 4:45 P. M. Englewood, 5,’8,‘+9 and 9:30 A. M., 1:30,f"3:15, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:30 and *7:45 P. M. and 12 and Saturday nights only. Cresskill, 5, 8, '1'9 and 9:30 A. M., 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 5:30, 6:30 and *7 :45 P. M., and 12 Saturday nights only. Sparkill, 5, 8, +9 and 9:30 A. M., 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:30 and +7245 P. M., and 12 Saturday nights only. ' Picrmont and Nyack, 8,19 and 9:30 A. M., 1:30, 3:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:30 and ”r7:45 P. M. and 12 Saturday nights only. N. B.——Trains leaving Chambers street on even or half hours leave Twenty—third street 15 minutes earlier than above time. The 5 a. in. 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 Twen- ty-third street 30 minutes earlier than the above 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 offices, 241, 529 and 957 Broadway; corner 125th street and Third avenue; 2 Court street, Brooklyn; at the Company’s depots and of agents at the principal hotels. JOHN N. ABBOTT, General Passenger Agent. * Daily. 1* Sundays Middletown only. “r Sundays only. THE NEW NOLA! Kate Cor-son’s' Discovery.’ THE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES OF MAGNETISM, CLAIRVOYANCE_& MEDIUMISM. This is unquestionably the most important mono- graph on Mediumship ever yet published in any country on the globe. How to obtain the Phenomenon in all its phases— Conglomerate Mediumship.—New and Startling Doc- trine of Mixed Identities.—A handbook of White Magic.—Explicit forms for all phases of Cabalistic In- cantatory and Thaumathurgic Science and Practice. Mass K. V. Oorson, Edltr:s;and Publisher, Toledo, 0. It is requested that subscriptions for this extraordi- nary Treatise be in Clubs to one address, rather than by single copies, to save time and trouble in mailing, as they COST BUT FIFTY CENTS EACH. ‘ Synopsis .' ‘ - White Magic an actual fact.—Identiﬁcation of the returning dead.—Conditioi1s essential to their reap- pearance. Essentials of Mediumship and Clairvoy ance.—Blonde and Brunette Media.—Curious reasons. A vast discovery of inestimable importance.——Con- glomerate Circles.—The Yu-Yang.—-Psychic Force.- Medial-Aura.—Spanning the Gulf of Eternity!-—A Spirit.—-Electric People.—-To get the Phenomenawhen alone,— Odyllic Insulation.—To form a Splendid Cir- cle.—Double_ Circles and new arrangement of the sit- tcrs.~Materialization of Spirits. and how to bring it aboutl—The Phantom hand of Toledo.——The Spirit- room.—l\/Iachinery essential to Physical Manifesta- tions!—An Astounding Idea: Atrilisml——Mergeme'nt of Identities.~A dead one walks, talks, eats, drinks and does what it chooses while occupying another’s body, while the latter’s soul is quiescent, and con- sciousness and identity wholly lost! a most momen- tous problem, of enormous importance to every Phy- sician. Judge, Juror, Minister, Spiritualist, husband, wife, in short to every human being. It is the most astounding thought yet evolved since Spiritualism be- came a ﬁxed fact, as it accounts for much heretofore wholly ‘unaccountable. PART II.—How to Mesmerize.——Clairvoyance.—Psy- chonietry, their laws and differences.——The Eastern Mystery of obtaining Seership.—'I‘he Mystical Mirror, in a drop of common ink.—To reach Clairvoyance.—— The Breath-Power.—An Arab Secret.—Magnetic Spells -—“ Voodooism ” Black Magic.—Second Youth and how to gain it. Single Copies, 60 cents. CHIR oP ODAL INSTTTUTE. Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails, Frosted Feet and Excessive Perspiration, WARTS AND OTHER EXORESOENOES CURED WITHOUT PAIN BY DR. W. E; RICE, 208 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Corner Fulton Street. BUNIONS, NAILS, ETC.l, AT IMEODERATE RATES. Ri_ce’s Corn, Bunion and Pile Curesent by mail on receipt of 50 cents. .~ A Certain Cure if used according to directions. FREDERICK xunras DINING scone. 23 New St. and 60 Eroaelwafy 76 Maiden Laneda 1 hiherty St- Cor. 5th ave. agents at. Mr. Kurtz invites to his large 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—sel,ected brands of wines and liquors, as well as the most prompt attention by accomplished waiters. 140 LONG ISLAND RAILROAD COM- ' PANY. On and after Saturday, July 26, trains will leave James Slip as follows:——Leave Thirty-fourth street, East River, 15 minutes later. 7:30 A.M.———NeW London express train, connecting with the steamer Sunshine, arriving at New London at 2 P. M. Rockaway excursion trains. 9 :30 A. M.—Port Jefferson, Locust Valley and Rock away excursion trains. 12 M.——Rockaway express train. ing—room cars attached, stopping . only at Jamaica, Mineola and Riverhead, arriving at Newport at 7 P. M‘. 3 P. M.—Rockaway andliempstead express. 3:30 P. M.—Greenport, Sag Harbor and Locust Val- ley express trains. 5 P. M.~—Port Jefferson, away express trains. 6 P. M.—Northport, Locust Valley and Rockaway ac- commodation trains. Trains connect at Jamaica with East New York and at Mineola with Hemp stead. Sunday trains leave Hunter’s Point as follows: 9 A. M.——Port Jefferson, Northport, Locust Valley and Hempstead excursion trains. 10 A. M.——Rockaway excursion train. 1 :30 P. M.-—Rockaway excursion train. 7 P. M.—Northport, Rockaway and Hempstead trains. 7:30 P. M.—Rockaway accommodation trains. NT WEN T Y A YEARS’ PRA OT] OE. DR. PERKINS Can be consulted as -usual at his oﬂice, No. 9 FIFTH STREET (South Side), OPPOSITE PUBLIC SQUARE, KANSAS CITY, M 0.. or by mail, box 1,227, on the various symptoms of Pri- vate Diseases. The aﬁlicted will take notice that I am the only man on the American continent that can cure you of Spermatorrhcea, 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 countenance, pains in the back, weakness of limbs, chronic costivcness of the bowels, confused vision, blunted intellect, loss of con- ﬁdence in approacnin strangers, great ‘nervousness, fetid breath. consump ion, parched 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. MRS. M. M. HARDY, TRANCE .MEDlUM,_ No. 4 (jOIlOO1°d ﬁquare, BOSTON. HOURS FROM 9 A. M. Te 3 P. M. Terms (for Locust Valley and Rock- Prtcatc Sconces in Regular H ours) : 3132.00. 7:30 A. M.—Greenport and Sag Harbor, Mail and g 12 M.~—Special train for Newport, R. I., with draw~ ,
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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1873-09-20_06_16
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1873-09-20_06_16
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 06, no. 17 (September 27, 1873)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1986
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1873-09-27
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: N w» s. PROGRESS 2 FREE THONUGHTI UNTRAMMELEDLIVES: BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTUREGENERATIONS. ” Vol. VI.—-No. 17.—Whole No. 147. NEW YoRK,,sEPT. 27, 1878. -—v PRICE TEN CENTS. _\ jf"§9nt . .g..__ _ _,_*_,,_ THE LoANERs BANKI OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. _ CAPITAL..., ............... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,00 Subject to increase to. ., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TION-S, 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 oifered to our CUSTOMERS. __ DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOHN’ J. orsoo & SON, Bankers, No. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit ubject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the ...
Show moreN w» s. PROGRESS 2 FREE THONUGHTI UNTRAMMELEDLIVES: BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTUREGENERATIONS. ” Vol. VI.—-No. 17.—Whole No. 147. NEW YoRK,,sEPT. 27, 1878. -—v PRICE TEN CENTS. _\ jf"§9nt . .g..__ _ _,_*_,,_ THE LoANERs BANKI OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Builing, 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. _ CAPITAL..., ............... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,00 Subject to increase to. ., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TION-S, 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 oifered to our CUSTOMERS. __ DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH, Vice-President. JOHN’ J. orsoo & SON, Bankers, No. 59 Wall 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 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- sion, for cash. Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention FISK & HATCH. T INVESTORS. To those who wish to REINVEST COUPONS OR DIVIDENDS, and those who wish. to INCREASE THEIRINCOME 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. {JAY COOKE & 00. A FIRST-CLASS New York Security AT A LOW PRICE The undersigned oifer for sale the First Mortgage Seven Per Cent. Gold Bonds of the Syracuse and Che- nango Valley Railroad, at 95 and accrued interest. This road runs from the City of Syracuse to 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. I 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 DeI'6el1t- below par. The undersigned conﬁdently recommend them to all class of investors. g GEORGE OPDYKE & CO., No. 25 Nassauﬁtreet. BANKING HoUsE or . HENRY HCLEWS la 00., . 3.2 wa.11 Street, N. ‘Y. Circular Notes and Letters of Credit for travelers ; also Commercial Credits -issued available throughout the World. A A Bills of Exchange on the Imperial Bank of London,

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