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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 24 (May 15, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2071
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-05-15
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: J PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! 1 ‘BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIQNS. Vol. IX.—No. 24.—w1;o1e No. 232, “THE SOCIAL QUESTION.” EXTRACT FROM A LECTURE BY NELLIE L. DAVISJ One reform achieved is the parent of another in embryo, which, inits incipient stages of growth and development, is al- ways repudiated by those who, from the necessities of their lives, would be supposed to be its chief agitators; but in the manhood of its growth and assured success,commands forget- fulness of its former violations of old customs and laws, and receives the allegiance of its enemies, now converted by the irresistible march of mind to the beneﬁcence of a reform that they were too feeble to prevent and too cowardly or nig- gardly to help on.- No reform comes to gladden the world with its light until for long years the subtle leaven of its spirit has worked in the great heart of humanity and prepared the way for its outspoken enunciation and practical enforcement. It ‘is cra- dled in ...
Show moreJ PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! 1 ‘BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIQNS. Vol. IX.—No. 24.—w1;o1e No. 232, “THE SOCIAL QUESTION.” EXTRACT FROM A LECTURE BY NELLIE L. DAVISJ One reform achieved is the parent of another in embryo, which, inits incipient stages of growth and development, is al- ways repudiated by those who, from the necessities of their lives, would be supposed to be its chief agitators; but in the manhood of its growth and assured success,commands forget- fulness of its former violations of old customs and laws, and receives the allegiance of its enemies, now converted by the irresistible march of mind to the beneﬁcence of a reform that they were too feeble to prevent and too cowardly or nig- gardly to help on.- No reform comes to gladden the world with its light until for long years the subtle leaven of its spirit has worked in the great heart of humanity and prepared the way for its outspoken enunciation and practical enforcement. It ‘is cra- dled in the manger of the needs of all classes of society, and sent home to the hearts of the rulers through martyrdoms as nobly borne as that which immortalized itself on Calvary eighteen centuries ago. . For every religious despotism there is born a Luther: for every political despotism there is born a Cromwell; and for the social despotism of yesterday, perpetuated in to—day, there is born 9. Victoria Wood—hull, who has arisen like a dream of a womanhood as much beyond her age as Christ’s manhood was beyond his age, and as much to be reverenced when she’ is gone beneath the sea of human life, her work ﬁnished, so far as she could interpret, through her human instrumentality, the basic principles of the universe. Hers the hand that pointed out the “ Elixir of Life,” the fountain of youth, eternal, that death might be swallowed up in life, and the resurrection become the daily event of our lives in drifting out of the deeply grooved channels of error and sel- ﬁshness, and clothing the soul anew in garments of love and wisdom. " “ When Luther instituted the Reformation he did not stop I to inquire how many sects would spring up on the new ground of Protestantism; he did not weigh the possibility of the Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists and Adventists being the offspring of religious liberty. That was none of his busi- ness. He was ﬁghting for a principle that is none the less true in the nineteenth than in the sixteenth century. Insti- tutionalism had grown corrupt and oppressive, and personal sovereignty in its assertion took the form of Protestantism. The struggle of the sixteenth century will ever be remem- bored as constituting a turning point in human history, in its ‘religious phase of development. Here was established a pre- cedent and a premise that have their logical sequence in other departments of our natures. The different sects with creeds,'forms and customs widely divergent, are all Protest- ant. As Protestantism is a general term, to cover the ground of personal sovereignty in religious matters, so is free love a general term to cover the ground of personal sovereignty in our social relations. , To the varietist it may mean no specialties in love; to an- other it may mean the very reverse. We have learned after long years of toil and persecutions and bloody martvrdoms, the general meaning of Protestantism; so we have to learn the general application of free love, in allowing each and every person the freedom to live his life in his own. way. We do not expect to glide into the millennium without mighty pain-throes, as well as loss of many cherished idols. It was a long time ere the principle of Protestantism-was understood as meaning “hands oif your neighbor who in- dorses a different creed from you.” It still means, in too many private vocabularies, liberty for me; and for you—if you w,orship my God, go to my church and subscribe to my creed. The right which Calvintook he was not willing to grant to Servetus. The right which the monogamist takes he grants to others, only as those others walk his line of life and bow at his shrine. All souls know love in some degree or kind. It is bigotry to say that he who loves diﬁerently from the accepted standard does not? love at all. Love is of every shade and degree; as varying in its modes of expression as the ‘human heart or mind. Where will you ﬁnd two persons expressing themselves in precisely the same words regarding any one thing, or two persons who see alike in looking at the same object, or two» brain conformations cast in the samemold, or occupying the same, grade of development? Then why should we expect to ﬁnd their love natures attuned to the same key, and all paying‘ their respects, at the Mecca of monogamy? ‘Q NEW‘ YORK, MAY 15, 1875. _Water must ﬁow down hill, grass must grow with its roots downward, for it is the immutable laws of nature that com- pels this. Equally are those moral laws as undeviating that compel each person to live his life in his own way, despite legislative strait-jackets and informal“ courts of inquiry instituted by Mother Grundy, who would always regulate the intercourse of the sexes by law rather than by,naturo. There is no perfection of love, of soul or body, except in freedom. And the time will. yet come wherein the great Brooklyn trial will be looked upon as a most impertinent in- quisltion concerning the exercise of a soul’s birthright of freedom and mastcrless free judgment. ‘ Women have no rights under the law that men are bound to respect, and the men who frame our laws, together with the great ‘mass behind them who combine to form that giant, public opinion, care only to retain undisputed owner- ship of the bodies of their wives, while practicing the most pronounced freedom themselves. « Too often love begins with woman,where with man it as often eds. Women come slowly to understand this, through the crumbling of the idealistic sentiment of maidenhood and early wifehood- So’ the grim procession is augmented year by year with the heart-sick wives and mothers, who, with woman's uncomplaining grace, accept the heritage of centu- ries of tyrannous subjection and woful subservience to selﬁsh passion—taking up the'burden of a common womanhood, and ﬁling away in the footsteps of their progenitors adown the dim vista of a thorny past. V /‘ You whose lives are unswept by the ﬁerce storm of rebel- lion against the man-made law that killeth the spirit, into whose souls the iron has never entered; you who are too cal- lous and selﬁsh to care for the woes of others, closing your ears to a consideration of the hideous sexual evils that, clutch- ing society by the throat, distort its features like those of “ birth-strangled babes”-—beware of attempting to build a heaven for yourselves, the foundation-stones of which are wet with human gore. The marriage bond, if abrogated, and sexual unions allowed to depend for their continuance upon mutual love and reel- procity, would go a long way‘ toward setting these evils aright. The lustful might still be lustful, but could not exer- cise dominion to the extent of absolute power as in the pres- ent, when woman is given over soul and body unto a despot- ism unrivalled by any slavery in the annals of the world. Marriage as it exists today is coercive; itprotects/no man or woman, is no guard against inﬁdelity, else sixty-six’ per cent. of the frequenters of houses of ill—fame would not be married men, and houses ofgassignatlon would not be chieﬂy supported by the married of both sexes, ﬂeeing ‘from’ a marital hell to an alternative that adds hypocrisy to the already long list of evils, and creates abnormal appetites that turn like devour- ing ﬁends upon the owner, and lap up with tongues of ﬁame the dignity and self-respect cf. character, and point another wofulmoral in the story of our societary abuses. , Polygamous practices—cultivation of the passional nature -has been the gospel preached for men from time immemo- rial; repression of the same has been the edict issued for woman to obey, until this portion of her nature through ages of insane stultiﬁcation has become__so wretchedly deﬁ- cient that, in nine cases out of ten, she will fail to keep her husband within the circle of her surroundings. Sex is the basic principal of our being, our sexuality‘ one of the divinest of our functions, and let not any woman mourn over her husband’s inﬁdelity when she regards it as her chief duty to ignore her physical nature, to consider its demands “vulgar,” and to deplore that the race is not a race of her- maphrodites. The dissimilarity in the gospel of sexuality, between man and woman was forcibly illustrated in the divorce law of England of eight or ten years ago, allowing a husband a divorce for adulterous acts on the part of the wife, but deny- ing a divorce to the wife on the same grounds, unless the husband’s adultery was likewise incestuous. Public opinion tolerates polygamous practices for men, but so utterly repudiates them for women as to embody its polygamous license for men on the one hand, and its mono- gamic edict for women on the other hand, into a legislative enactment that savors of the grossest assumption of authority by men over women. No despotism or system of religion or morals that the world has known has cursed the earth with so many libertines, prostitutes, sycophants, moral and mental imbeciles, men and women whose lives are lie PRICE TEN CENTS. 1". and abortions from the cradle to the grave, as has our present marriage system, the oﬁspring of laws at variance with nature, hence perpetually disregarded, and the proliﬁc cause of so—called crime. We are slaves until we are self-owning; woman’s eman- cipation strikes the key-note of man’s freedom. The slave when armed made his cause known and honored. So with woman; she will be ﬁnally forced into becoming aggressive; but shackled as she is to the car of the social Juggernaut, trembling under the ban of caste, demoralized bythe hideous debauchery of a loathed marriage, for her we almost despair, and cry in the agony of a Gethsemane, into which we are hourly forced, “How long, 0 Lord, how long?” But occa- sionally in the exceptional woman", who dares to assert her inalienable right to self-ownership, we leave feet for the men, and ﬁnd pinions for our souls that bear us afar into the dream of that time wherein woman shall be emancipated ,from the world’s old despotism over her sex; no longer bought and sold, not for love, but for gold; maternity, the crown of her womanhood, no longer trampled in the mire or beslimed with hatred, curses and compulsion. We have looked to Jesus for} our salvation long enough; now let us look to ourselves and the conditions of our parentage, and when religionists tell us about the marriage, of the lamb as a means of saving us from eternal death and damnation, let us tell them that our salvation consists more truly in our obedience to the laws pertaining to the ‘true sexual union of the sexes than in all the lamb marriages ever dreamed of by religiousifanatics; for all the healthy brains and bodies that comes on the world’s great stage have a more than Christly mission to perform, and all the glory and honor of belonging to the human family consists in gaining a knowledge of those laws and conditions that-will open the channel for the production of a better class of men and women,who will possess no sexual follies to stand out against a background of unjust law and usurpation of authority by the strong over the weak. No woman dares to become free until ‘ she feels that she is independent of man for her support. In proportion to her helplessness she invites ownership, and repels all efforts made to liberate her from the thralldom of centuries of serf- dom; When women enter the arena of life with the same inde- pendence, discipline, education andopportunities with men, they willattain to freedom and equality. One of our re- formers has aptly said: “ So long as the man ownsthe house he will own the woman within it.” From boyhood .men are taught the lesson of self-support; they look forward to a trade or profession as a part of their existence." Schooled to this idea, they enter life with the 1 which combines to constitute the life-blood of society and civilization. On the other hand, the fashionable training bestowed upon girls unﬁts them for wives, mothers or companions. Not having any ﬁxed purpose in their lives (having been trained to no profession), and if laboring receiving such a pitiful re- muneration that competence for women in the majority of cases becomes almost unattainable, performing her work; under protest, and gladly receiving release therefrom, it is not surprising that marriage—-support the principal consid- eration, the man thrown in‘as a necessary evil—should be- come the s'u/mm/um be-‘cum of feminine life and effort. , The few women who having discerned the promise of a wider ﬁeld of usefulness for women than a toy for lust or puppet of fashion, are laboring for her elevation and emanci- pation, ﬁnd in the “signs of the times” the prophecy of an abundant harvest, and stand ready to agitate to the end the questions of religious, political and social freedom; laboring for the elevation of the innate and latent good of all. and for the suppression of the abnormaland monstrous in social and sexual practices; dedicating their efforts to the heart-broken and physically degraded wives and mothers bound in legal prostitution, and to the outcast and sinned against of society foundfin the twin sister of legal marriage, illegal prostitution; recognizing the validity of the common bond in all women's lives that links us together in a ‘_ vast sisterhood; joying together in our meagre allottment of joy, or sorrowing to. gether in curstill vaster inheritance of grief. . Meanwhile,‘ “ The world turns round and round ‘And the genial seasons run, Ever the truth comes uppermost ‘ And over is justice done,” V energy, ambition and willingness to support themselves, ‘ /I I will he understand the law of his being. Then he will see » this absolute being can come into communication with every '(._ ,, ‘I, 9 3:, I by sympathy, through this universal medium or spirit, with,’ eLoRIrIERs. . Anniluv, March 22, 1875. In the Watchman and Reflector not long since I saw ‘an article upon perfection as understood by Dr. Pentecost of Boston. It seems that the Rev.,Doctor preached before the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon’s church in England, giving a bit of his experience. He said the cry was awakened within him “ Quicken thou me ”—“he wanted to glorify God if it took al his possessions. The Lord heard his petition: instead of touching him in his church, family, or ‘property, He com- manded him to relinquish the dear habit of smoking; so tak-. ing his cigar-box before the Lord, he promised then and there to eschew the indulgence.” I ‘ At the close of his remarks, Rev. Spurgeon arose, saying: GOD’S PRETENDED “ I nowhere ﬁnd a commandment in the Bible against smok- ing, so 1 shall continue my practice and smoke to the glory _- of God as long as I’ live.” Now, dear WEEKLY, if smoking and chewing can add to the glory of God, why not drunkenness and lying, as well as all . othervile habits and abominations? Helen N ashshould see that the Christian (?) gentleman who treated her to tobacco juice from his ﬁlthy mouth once upon a time, might have been glorifying God, and be careful in future how she assails the lovers of the foul weed. Dcubtless Beecher gloriﬁed God while nest-hiding. To be sure he preached against adultery before his congregation, but what of that. The charmer en- ticed him, and not being a second Joseph he yielded, not so much for his own gratiﬁcation as for the glory of God. Public opinion not feeling satisﬁed as to his true motive, he must needs deny the charge before the church and the court, thus adding insult to injury to the woman who was willing to per- jure herself to save her seducer- If such conduct is glorify-‘ ing God, let the Christian World worship him to their heart’s content. I .» The first sermon delivered in Brooklyn by Beecher-con- tains the following language (so? says the Chicago Times) :, “ Men veil their corrupt inclinations under the garb of virtue and thus are compelled by the force of popular opinion to become hypocrites. God knowsthere isenough hypocrisy in the church. They who nibble at transgession are fools, and they who godeep in crime are wise.” If Beecher was a nib- bier twenty-nine years ago, hemust have learned much wis- dom in the interim. A * . Grant speculates; land monopolists seize upon all territory possible to increase their wealth; they attend church on Sundays, donate largely for benevolent purposes, using the hard-earned money of the poor, thus carrying on awhole- sale system of unjust and cruel robbery. Perhaps, like Spurgeon, it is done for the glory of God! Who have been the persecutors in all ages of the world? The pretended - gloriﬁers of God. Who have been and are ever on the alert to clog the wheels of progress, and crucify the reformers? None other than the pretended Christian ministers, and their blind deluded followers. , Why are women’ begging to-day at the hands of men for rights which belong to them? Because Paul, or some one equally as foolish, once said: “Let women be subject unto their husbands, and if they want to know anything let them ask of their husbands.” In my travels up and down, over eoceesm. a erstmirsvs asserts, That this being is the fountain, source and origin of all wis- dom, truth, justice and love. That this being I call God! ‘In connection with this ethical statement, I am impelled to give what has been given to me as practical axioms connect- ed therewith, that all who by thought, will and affection are in sympathy with God, are in sympathy with each other, and consequently harmonious. That being united 130 0116 being, and having one common source of love and sympathy, theywill be united in one common bond ofjlove and fellow- ship; that therefore they can do each other no intentional wrong, no more than a man can amputate hisown limb-—the nerves to be sundered, and those holding the scalpel having their source in the same brain; that being in sympathy with a perfect and infallible being, they will be alaw to them- selves, because in sympathy_with, and subject to,the highest law in the universe, namely, the author, source and origin "of all law, by virtue of their relationship with God, trans- cending all other law; that as many as can come into perfect sympathy with God may be safely released from the bondage of all other laws. otherwise not. I will now give what has been given to me to utter with regard to the- sexual question. That all sexual desire not excited, enter- tained and indulged, under the control and dire ction of God’s pure, holy and divine inﬂuence (whether sanctioned by human, ceremonies or otherwise) is lust, the most de- grading, disgusting and demoralizing of all vices, a fertile source of moral declension and. physical death. That all sexual desire, excited, entertained and indulged, under the control and direction of God’s pure. holy and divine in- wise) is love, the most blissful,.purifying and exalting of all experiences, a blending of celestial and human forces. That all who exercise the, sexual relation (whether sanc- tioned by human ceremonies or not), undirected, uncreated and uninﬂuenced by sympathy with God, commit adultery, degrade their souls, contaminate their bodies, and curse their progeny. That all who exercise this relation’(whether~sanc- tioned by;human ceremonies or otherwise) under the direc- tion, control and inﬂuence of God, are truly united, exalt their souls, quicken their impulses, strengthen and purify their affections, and ennoble their seed after them. . That the true meaning of the word adultery is to mingle that which is pure in itself’ with something of a baser quality. And new havingjuttered what was given me to say, my heart is at peace, and again I journey joyfully onward toward that eternal source from which these truths have been derived, to Whom be all praise, honor, glory and eternal gratitude! as it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be evermore. Amen! Your friend and brother in God, J AMES S. LAIDLAW. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear! But if the drum is decayed in his ear, Leave him alone to his poor rewards, ’Tis a waste of time, ’tis a waste of wordsl ’ ‘ POEM. BY mas. F. o. nrzmz. That impulse, rising in the soul, Which needeth form or chain Its warm outgushing to control, Which reason must restrain, and through this land, I’ve seen many men who, knowing their ignorance, were glad enough to learn of their wives. What would Mr. Paul say to that? ‘ Give women an equal chance with the men in making laws, and much th'at is now unjust, unseemly and impure will be done away with, and the God enshrined within each individual would be gloriﬁed in a free, beautiful and consistent manner. Talk of glorify- ing an inﬁnite God! Preposterous idea! Just as though such a God needed to be, or could be gloriﬁed by any act of man! - When the scales of justice shall be evenly balanced, and the act with the motive accurately weighed, the pretended gloriﬁers of God,_from the Pope of Rome, the preachers of the Gospel (?) the judges of the courts, and superintendants, of jails and prisons will ﬁnd written upon the inner walls of their own being, “ Thou art found wanting,” and fearful will be the reckoning. Let each one study for himself the philosophy of life, then that to glorify himself in every good word and work is his highest privilege, and let God take care of himself. i MARY M. D. SHERMAN. VICTORIA: , Daughter of Duty! Sister in God! Grace! Mercy and Peace! from God the pure, Perfect and Holy,One,! who dwelleth in the centre of the material Uni- ,-verse! through the universal Spirit that pervadeth all mat- ter. Lest it should make defrauding claim, I would not clothe with love’s sweet name. I would not call that love which could Be poisoned, marred or stained; Which could by any Wealth be bought, By any power he chained; ' Which could notgtake unerring ﬂight, Guided by its own magnets bright. - 0, no, thou pearl-winged dove, go forth! I’d scorn to check thy ﬂight; Soar onward where’er thou wilt, Where e’re thou wilt alight, I know thy own God-given powers Will guide thee to celestial bowers. Go forth in freedom, seek no guide Save that deep pulse within, Which swelleth like an ocean tide When thou has found thy kin. Then ﬁll thy cup with love divine, Thou can’st not drink what is not thine. Trust thine attractions, and in turn Attract whate’re thou wilt; I know within thy bosom burns No ﬂame of lust or guilt. Thou could’st fold up thy wings and rest Within the purest angel’s breast. . When man can make the newborn spring Withhold her fragrant breath-- Acting under an inﬂuence which I cannot resist, and sim- ply because I dare not do otherwise, I send you the follow- ing > . I Ethical Doctrine and positive declaration, that there are three unoreated and eternal things, matter, life and mind; that all material substance is permeated by a pure Spirit, which is invisible, unchangeable, indestructible, and of the same nature everywhere. That dwelling in the centre there- of and intimately associated therewith, is a sensitive soul! anyactive intelligence! possessed of self-conscious identity and absolute being. That by means of this universal spirit, molecule of matter/in the universe. and yet be located in the centre thereof, as thehuman mind can come into communi- cation with every part of the body by means of the invisible ‘ agent, known as the nervous ﬂuid, and still be located in the , brain. That this omnipotent being is therefore omnipresent by sympathy, through the universal spirit, and yet located in one place. That therefore, this being, dwelling in the centre of the universe, can come into direct communication every other being, independent of any other medium, spirit or agent whatsoever. That this beingis the original cause of all agitation, impulse, action, motion, force, evolution, combinationﬁarrangment or design, in the material universe. Or the eternal Spirit bring An offering unto death——= Then thy white wing may feel the chain ‘ Which now is forged for thee in vain. Go forth! Enraptured I behold Thee spread thy snowy wing. So will I love the fragrant dew Thoufe’re dost from it ﬂing. Go! Naught can chain thee, spirit dove; Wert thou not free, thou wert not love.- - BRoor;rIELD, 310., April 3, 1875. Dear Wieeklg/—The landlady of the hotel where I was yes- terday loaned me Gail Hamilton's book, “ Woman’s Worth and Worthlessness.” I don’t suppose it will please Gail to ﬁnd her name in such bad company as she evidently considers the WEEKLY to be; for she is'_'so “highly respectable,” writ- ing for the Christian ‘Union! * Let no tenderness infer a slur. I intend nonee—I never cut in the dark at a person——I am positively and absolutely igno- rant of Gail Hami1ton’s status. saveand except as she reveals herself to the public by her pen. Yet for allthat I might ask her if -"she is without sin, without incurring an attack for be-‘ ing personal. — I shall never forget the impetus she gave memhen an unde- ﬂuence (whether sanctified by human ceremonies or other- veloped girl I read her “ Gala Days” and her “/New Atmos- phere.” It seemed as though she had taken vigorous hold of modern shams, clothed in sanctity, and was going to “ die in the last ditch,” showing up to the gaze of men the old social wreck with its barnacles and green slime clinging to its rot- tenhull. ‘ Since then, however, .“Gail” seems to have rolled thefsweet morsel of popularity under her tongue, till the bedizened hag of respectability has overridden her. ers and correspondents for the press, that Anna Dickinson effects for them as store-clerks, in her lecture on “ What’s to Hinder”—namely, putting women, who are struggling into recognition, under the ban of vulgar disapproval and setting them back in popular esteem into the narrowest circle of their “prescribed sphere.” She may not have dreamed of any such effect, but all the same she has given ignorance a wide range of quotation from Gail Hamilton concerning the “impropriety of women leaving their sphere.” I refer the reader to her chapter in “Worth and Worth- lessness ” on “ The Press,” in which, after the manner of re- speotability, she stabs in the dark the three women’s rights papers then publ_ished—meaning, no doubt, The Resolution, The Woman’s Journal, and the’WEEKLY. What was she afraid of, if she had spoken their names right out in meeting? Was she afraid of being personal,which she seems to think so “unpretty,” though she gives Charles Dickens “particular ﬁts ” in the same chapter, and after he is dead, too! or was she afraid of losing her respectability, by quoting from the columns of the WEEKLY, of which she con- fessed to the sin of having seen three numbers, and leaving the reader to infer what paper she meant? ’ I guess “respect- ability” has it. One need not eat the devil if one does drink his broth. But I thought better of Gail Hamilton. One would suppose that if she had anything to say of man, wo- man or child, persons, property or possibilities, she, of all writers. would never mince matters. I do not deny her right to her opinions or her public ex: pressionjof them. Idecrv as much as she can the pusilla- nimity of correspondents in dealing with personalities of a private nature, save where a principle and not mere gossip is involved. She and I cannot "say enough against the ﬁd- dling of letter writers over women’s dresses. and jewels and general make up, which women seem to relish more than the correspondents—for with the latter it is a matter of bread and butter oftener than of choice. A sensible manager of a theatre once on a time, in addressing the puplic on the open- ing of a nice new theatre, informed ‘them that it depended entirely on popular taste whether he devoted his boards to the elevating inﬂuence of the drama in its purity, or whether he served them with trash and sensation. As for him he preferred the former; but he must live, and if he found the public wanted sensation for their money he should have to give it to them. ' So with “repeci‘ab1e ” newsp-apers-the correspondent gauges his or her pen tozthe status of the public and the pub- lisher; and it must he confessed that women compete suc- cessfully with men, for a woman’s sensational letter is more readable than a man’s. D Methinks G-ail Hamilton could have more proﬁtably em- ly, or done so much injury to a cause that struggles like a drowning man for life against a current of popular drift- wood. In attacking women writers in just the offensive man- ner she has, she has been as bitterly personal as any penny- a-liner, who never hesitates to lie under the table or skulk behind the door of some grand social soiree to catch all the secrets, he can and retail them for his gaping “journal.” The surface evils that never fail to appear in any advo- cacy of innovation, suggesting anarchy and misrule to the timid and nninspired, seems to have appalled “ Gail” along with the smaller fry, running to cover of sanctuary, driving her pickets clean back to the hungry garrison of “ woman’s proper sphere.” , She doubts the expediency, if not the propriety, of med- dling with women at all, lest they lose some of the cheap glitter of conceded womanliness———some of tlreir trails, and curls, and paint, and general hideousness. She clings like grim death to the divinity of woman's family mission, to all the bolts and bars of woman’s ancient harem, because a little liberty has seemed to her to unsettle the old founda- tions. She is one of the eminently respectable sort, who de- sires a new structure to be suddenly erected in the old-a. grand transformation scene. She cannot fail, with her keen insight, to know the dangerous rottenness of the old, and the need of something better toreplace it. But when she feels the tremor that shakes the corner-stone of her present habitation—-’tis so nice to be respectable, though covered with nakedness !—-she shrinks back into the tottering structure like an oyster into its shell. She has not the courage to leave a sinking ship and make for the delectable mountains of freedom; and _ if she had she could not, of course, write for the Clmisticn Union. One can aﬂbrd to pay tithes to hypocrisy and sham for a position in the Christian Union! More than one has done it, and with a life slimed all over with licentiousness has stood on that respectable sheet of paper and stoned the prophets. _ Having manifested a glimmer of contempt for sham and hypocrisy, and that ﬂimsy respectability that supports and sustains it, the musket Gail Hamilton ﬁred so deﬁantly, seems to have kicked and laid her out stunned, on the very altars where“tallow-dips are constantly sputtering to the god of sham. . There seems not to be a single woman soul in fall the ranks of the respectablesybrave and strong enough to swim the turbid tide of agitation, and with prophetic hope and faith keep her head above the strong waters that are bearing‘ woman out of the wilderness of ancient fallacious sanctities into the promised land of individual sovereignty. The golden calf is nearer at hand than the promised tablets of the higher law. Some souls must have a tangible rock of ages, though, it be nothing but a golden calf. i I 0 9" She effects the same thing for her sex, considered as writ- V -...;‘s'-.-:«.;. ployed her sharp pen and not lacerated feelings so heartless- I » 4\_ ,, ~- ‘Mae.-.. _ - g obtain any undue advantages. ‘ May ‘15, 1875. woonnntt a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY o i 3 It is so hard for loyal subjects to rid themselves of the idea of the “ divinity that doth hedge a king,” though they see that king rioting in all the licentiousness of a modern court of magniﬁcent extravagance, wasting as it were, in gdissolute idleness and gilded mockeries, the very sweat of the laborer’s brow. So the ancient idea of the “ divinity of the family” acts like a scarecrow to hold back even those women who are the greatest suﬁerers from the idea of inviol-ate divinity that hasbforged domestic chains without number. Grail Hamilton says, “ the family is the only divine institu- tion.” That is one of her sweeping, illogical conclusions, ‘served up with caper sauce, from which there is no escape in reason. She herself is fettered by it. She knows the family is divine in spite of its fruits. Therefore, any innovation that dares impeach that idea of divinity, or walk rough-shod into that sanctuary is a shining mark for the lance of her sharp scorn. . In spite of her assertion that “ the family is the only divine institution,” I must say there seems to me to be a great deal of far-fetched sentimentality even in her expression. She ‘has doubtless confounded her high ideal of the relation with the wretched reality that stares us in the face on all sides. Perhaps isolated cases serve to illustrate her point, when in fact they but serve as exceptions which prove the rule. However, she has got her standpoint, no matter by what process of deduction, induction, reduction or seduction, she arrived at it. Therefore, there is no use telling her to look around upon the scrub stock to be found in the corrals of the “ divine in stitution,” and witness the pandemoniums that thousands of “ sacred homes ” present, many of them not even whitewashed on the outside——which is all the better for the inspectors and for the sufE‘erers—-and, alas! many of them are all fair and good to look uponpfrom the surface, when in- side, a restless ghost stalks in a “ night-shirt” seeking a “ soft spot” for the family skeleton. Doubtless,“G ail” thinks that because one “holy family” has existed, it should form a nucleus about which innumerable holy families should revolve. “But she should not lose sight of the fact that one holy family went outside the prescribed pale for its holiness; that it was not at all respectable in its time; that it consorted with publicans and sinners and poor miserable trash anyhow, and lived and died execrated by all the aristocratic pharisees, and condemned by all the Christian Unions and Atlantic Monthlies of those times. Never since has a child been born approximating holiness, because “ respectable followers of the humble Nazarene have seen ﬁt to garble his immaculate conception, and utterly mistake his mission. All the way down from that “holy family” we see, if we will open our eyes, nothing but the abasement of womanhood in utter perversion of the Christ principle, which made wo- men companions and not slaves of men.‘ All the way down from that beautiful birth of Jesus and his consequent pure life, do we see children cheated of their birth-right by abject ‘ignorance that is, however, “most respectable,” and which is the prop and main-stay of the “ only divine institution, the family.” And yet, women who know its scrofulous conditioni-—for fear of losing social balance, when the divinity of the family is questioned—take sanctuary under the very aegis of social corruption and cry with all their might, “ Holy, holy, holy !” while they stone to death the instruments that are raised up to reveal‘ the rottenness and cast out the money-changers from the temple; because, forsooth! those instruments, from the necessities of the case, have come out of the social Naz- areth, from whence respectability thinks no good can come. Verily I say unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, harlots shall enter the kingdom before ye! Since none are saved by works, the faith in her truth of the’ vilest sinner that ever broke a law in ignorance, from the force of circumstance over which she had no control and out of which her truth has been evolved, shall yet redeem the whole race of sinners and be‘ acceptable of God. I, too, have an ideal of the family relation. But that im- possible ideal under present status, shall not blind me to the realities of the relation as it is. Neither shall any considera- tion of worldliness bid me hold my peace concerning the things I know of the devil that lurks in households who con- ceals his horns, hoofs and tail, under cover of the sanctuary. HELEN N ASH. THE PORTENTS or AREVOLUTION. The world is in a ferment. Continental Europe resounds to the tread‘ of marshalling millions of soldiery, and the panoply of war is to be seen from the Channel to the Bos- phorus. In England labor and capital are antagonizing, and in London-the bugle of Kenealy summons to Hyde Park the masses by hundreds of thousands. In our own country the strikes of the operatives in the cotton-mills and the mines indicate that the laborer is struggling to free himself from the tyranny of capital and monopoly. Why this wide-‘spread ferment, these convulsive throbs like the ﬁrst pprtents of the earthquake? There is a igniﬁcance in all these things. It will not and cannot be claimed that the masses are cause- lessly agitating, or that they are wildly seeking to take or’ The common people have an instinctive love of justice, and it is this which is at the bottom of this wide—spread commotion. The motive is the attain- ment of justice. Heretofore our systems of political economy have recog- nized nothing but capital, and all their teachings have left out the other side—the rights of labor. It is true some have declared labor to be the real creator of values, but after enunciating this truth they have ignored its logic, and treated only of the capital interest. Most economists have inculcated the policy of the lion, as detailed in the fable,.who managed to appropriate the four quarters of the carcass‘ which was to be divided. Tradition and prescription have made the mases docile and acquiesccnt in the past. Now, however, the fallacy and falsity of the received philosophy of economies are seen, and there is a general protest against ‘ wrong and robbery._ It has come to be seen that humanity must be the central idea in the make up of -governmentand the social polity of a State. Sismondihad a clear conception of the case when he said: “The existence of civilization, the safety of the human ‘race in this our ancient Europe, are closely bound to the triumph of this true political economy, both in public opinion and legislation, to the development of that science which has for its object man and not wealth, which asks how this wealth can be employed for the virtue and hap- piness of all, not how it can be indeﬁnitely increased.” This idea, so well expressed, is the mainspring of the labor*move- ment.” , It is only a few years ago that our republican States, in their political administration, were founded on property; a man to be a voter must be a property holder. This heresy, however, is well nigh exploded, but we are ‘not yet wholly free from its inﬂuence. Suffrage has been gradually approach- ing the humanitary standard much faster than legislation. The latter has been and is mainly in the interest of property or wealth. The law creates ‘corporations, invests them with the character of perpetuity, and bestows upon them special privileges, whereby they become monopolies. These artiﬁ- cial creatures have an aﬁiliated interest, and are so many links in that chain of despotism which binds labor and the masses, making them pay tribute to this associated wealth which is the dynasty of modern‘ states. The masses begin to see the trend of things as they are, and are only seeking to rectify the errorslof the past by over- throwing monopolies and putting government on its true basis, when it will not “ forget men for the sake of commodi- ties.” The masses the world over are striving to emancipate themselves, for they are now slaves; they aspire to freedom. In Europe and the United States slavery still exists. It is true the laborer is not a chattel slave; he has the semblance of freedom, nevertheless he is a slave,whether laboring in the cotton mills of New England or the coal mines of Pennsyl- vania. I welcome these convulsions, therefore, as a harbinger of an emancipation of labor, abetter and a. juster govern- ment, and a more perfect social order. It may be that some- thing more potent than protests and agitation may be neces- sary. Slavery, whatever its complexion or character, is unwilling to release its victims. Chattel slavery in this country doggedly refused to submit to the spirit of the age and the demands of justice, but it ceased to be amid the shock of arms and in a sea of blood. So the industrial and social slavery of to-day may clutch its victims and refuse to let the oppressed go free, but, nevertheless, emancipation and freedom will come, even if they are achieved by a revolution, whose factors are stout hearts and rattling musketry. What- ever the event may be, remember, oh laborer and toiler, “ There"s a divinity within That makes men great whene’re they will it; God works with all who dire to win, And the time cometh to reveal it." WILLIAM Fosrnis, J R. PROVIDENCE, April 18, 1875. THE HOUSE THAT BOWEN BUILT. I I. , flymouth Church.-—This is the house that Bowen built. . » II. Grace, Mercy and Pea.ce.——This is the meal‘ that lay in the house that Bowen built. III. Parootysmal Kiss:-This is the mouse that hid in the meal that lay in the house that Bowen built. IV. G0sst'p.—-This is the cat that hunted the mouse that hid in ’the meal that lay in the house that Bowen built. V. 'Dt'sso2m'u.lo.t7lon.—-This is the dog that worried the cat that hunted the mouse that hid in the meal that lay in the house that Bowen built. VI. Vricky.-—Thi is the cow with the crumpled heel that kicked till the dog was cmsgespiel that worried the cat that hunted the mouse thatghid, in the meal that lay in the house that Bowen built. ’ \ VII. Sir Marmaduke.—This is the swain all tattered and torn who soothed the cow with the crumpled heel that kicked till the dog was ausgespiel that worried the cat that hunted the mouse that hid in the meal that lay in the house that Bowen built. 9 VIII. 1 ~ Elt'sabeth.—-This is the maiden all forlorn who j ilted the man all tattered and torn, who coaxed the cow with the angry heel that kicked till the dog was ausgesptel that worried the cat that hunted the mouse that hid in the .meal that lay in the house that Bowen built. XI. H. W.—This is the priest all shaven and shorn who almost wished he had never been born when he kissed the maiden all forlorn who jilted the swain all tattered and torn who coaxed the cow with the lively heel that kicked. till the dog was ausgesptel that‘ worried the cat that hunted the mouse that hid in the meal that lay in the house that Bowen built. x. Mrs.’ M0ttltOn.—ThiS is. a “ Slice of the Judgment Day” whose “ dowright truthfulness” carried dismay to the naughty priest in " the cave of gloom ” who “sat on the ragged edge” of his doom when he kissed the maiden all forlorn who jilted the man all tattered and torn who soothed the cow with the vicious heel that kicked till the dog was ausgespict that wor- ried the cat that hunted the mouse thathid in the meal that lay in the house that Bowen built. V XI. - ~ “My Dear Von Moltlce-.”-—This is the name of the Mutual Friend who carried theisecresy through to the-end for the sly old priest in the cave of gloom who kept a dangerous cup in his room, when he kissed themaiden all forlorn who jilted the man all worried and worn who coaxed the cow with the versai?il9 11661 that kicked till the dog was dusgespielthat teased the cat that hunted the mouse that hid in the meal that lay in the house that Bowen built. xII. Mrs. M orse.——This is the typical mother-in-‘law with the terrible"tongue and ﬂexible jaw, the eagle eye and avenging claw, ‘who told of all that she heard and saw, who indulged in various comments aloud, and made it sultry for all the crowd—-for the Mutual Friend who dared to refuse to let her get at his budget of news; for the priest who, caught in what he had done, said, “ Mother, I wish you would call me -son ;" for her desolate daughter all forlorn who jilted T. T. (Tat- tered and Torn) who coaxed the cow with the frisky heel that kicked till the dog was ausgespiel that worried the cat that hunted the mouse that hid in the mbal that lay in the house that Bowen built. . . . XIII. The Graphic.-This is the cock that will crow in the morn when Justice blows her delinquent horn, commanding all to acknowledge the corn; for the mother-in-law with the lingual thorn; for the Mutual Friend with his lofty scorn; for that Slice of the Day of Judgment born to comfort and scare and guide and warn; for Bessie, who, as she has sworn, by Mar- maduke from her bed was torn, and unto his screaming and sleeping borne; for the social priest all shaven and shorn who kissed the maiden all forlorn who jilted the man all worried and worn who soothed the cow with the limber heel that kicked till the dog was ausgcspicl that worried the cat that hunted the mouse that hid in the meal that lay in the house that Bowen built»-W. A. Cnorrur, Daily Graphic. “ _ FRANCES Ross: MACKINLEY.-The numerous friends of this accomplished, cultivated and able woman, numbered a’mong the readers of the WEEKLY, will‘ undoubtedly desire to read one of her latest and most extraordinary rhapsodies, entitled “ To My Body.” It can be obtained by sending to her address 2,210 Sixteenth street, San Francisco, Cal. Price 250. ' PRESS ECHOES ON THE BEECHER SCANDAL. No eloquence of manner or trick of drama can reconcile those recorded expressions of "Mr. Beecher with his own theory, and a more substantial explanation is now looked for in va.in.—St. Louis Republican. ' In the fall of Beecher-for whatever may bathe verdict, his fall is complete—~we have the inevitable ending of the buffoonery, and such loose doctrines as have been promul- gated frcm Plymouth pulpit:-Albany Argus. Can it be imagined that any man would write these letters for no other reason than because he was sorry he had med- dled in a family dispute? It requires either unbounded faith in the man or infatuated credulity to believe that.-- Phila. Ledger. A fit ending of the buffooneries and blasphcmies and pros fessed immoralities of the bouncing board called “ Plymouth Pulpit,” on which Henry Ward Beecher, the chief mounte- Presbyterian. As for those famous letters, they are the testimony of Mr.‘ Beecheragainst his own innocence. He has not explained to be construed in a way consistent with the known sanity of the writer.——New York Times. One day last week, after Beecher had delivered his most notable evidence, an acquaintance of mine was thrown into the company of a’ group of Brooklyn clergymen, headed by Dr. Van Dyck, and was surprised to ﬁnd the whole lot disbe- _ lieved in Beecher.——-Correspm/tdencc Cincinnati Commercial. Public opinion ineNew York and Brooklyn is very much divided as to the guilt or innocence of Mr. Beecher. paper mencgenerally, with only one or two notable excep- tions, are of opinion that Beecher is guilty of what Tilton’ charges him with.——Bethlehem Daily Times. A trial of this issue of Tilton against Beecher without Bowen’s evidence is little better than a. farce. He has chal- lenged Mr. Beecher to call him as a witness; challenged him in a. way that will leave but one inference if he fails to call him, and that inference that he dare not.—-Spm}ngﬂeld Re- ‘publaica/n. dice. that a more feeble and unsatisfactory defense we have never known. Wereethe man’s life the penalty, and that defense had been made before twelve of his peers, he would surely hang.—St. Louis Times. , Mr. Beecher tells everything plausibly. He was plausible to Mrs. Woodhull in his free-love theorie. He is plausible when he preaches orthodoxy or Universalism; his anecdotes his tears, his jests are plausible. The other witnesses forgot points.-—Ut'£ca Observer. I The New York editors who reside in Brooklyn are all of one opinion in private, whatever they may say in public; and reporter in New York and Brooklyn who is not outspoken in his convictions of Mr. Beecher’s guilt.”--Gar. Springﬁeld Republican. - ation is his singular and repeated failures to recollect certain classes of facts. But he swears positively enough to what did. or did not take place in circumstances where he was ex- spirators.—-N. Y. Herald. It is now before the world, and we do not see how any rea-’ sonable, fair-minded person, who has waded through? the whole miserable _mass of testimony in this case, and who is really desirous of getting at the truth, can avoid the concluw sion that this ﬁnishes the matter so far "as Beecher is concern; Stew J cu/rnal. " bank, performed his feats of ground and lofty tumbling.-—~ ( themsatisfactorily. They areﬁnot mere ravings, and they are » News- - We have read his evidence. with care and free from preju- ’ Candor and a due regard to truth require us to sayf days and details’; in trivial incidents. He forgets essential it is noticeable that there is not a journalist, sub-editor or’ The most noteworthy thing in Mr. Beecher’s cross-examin-. posed to contradictions by nobody except the alleged con- ed’, and that it blasts 1.11139” utterly and forever.=-Delcwagrcl .9, I , twoonuunvngfa oLArr.1N*s wgnnxnv May 15,1875. , TERMS CF SUBSCRIPTION. . ’ ‘ PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. - one copy for one year, - $3 00 one copy for six months, - — - - - v 1 50 single copies. - ‘ - - = - - 10 CLUB RATES. _ Iliive copies for one year, - - - - $19 90 Ten copies for one year. - - - =- - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more at same rate), if - - ~ 40 00 Six months, - - - - - - One-half these rates. 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And Jesus answering‘ said: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage; but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; neither can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resur- rection.—ST. LUKE, xx., 34, 36. 7 And when the Pharisees demanded when the Kingdom of God should come, Jesus said; The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation; neither shall they say, 10 herel or lo therel for behold the‘ Kingdom of God is within you. , THE BELIEF IN A FUTURE. Almost the whole people of the world have a belief in an [AIdvertiser’s bills will be collected from the oiﬁce of this journal, and mdwlduahzed’ future’ 01 5'' eyond death exlstence fol must in all cases, bear the signature of Woonnuu. & Cmrnm. Specimen copies sent free. 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He has made an immense success of this article within a few years. He has - now two manufaciories in the vicinity of the above place in which he employs from ﬁve to six hundred hands. As an article of diet his preparation is unsurpassed, actually giving the real corn fresh from the cob with all its nutritive and delicious qualities unimpaired. If any of our readers require this article, they will henceforth know where to get \ the genuine stud’. , _ A I w.._4_ THE SCANDAL JURY. _ It has already begun to be whispered around that it is well known that at least one of the jurymen who is trying the Beecher scandal case is incompetent. Although on his ex- amination he swore positively that he had never expressed an opinion, he is known not only to have made such expres- sionbut that he was a violent partisan. It is intimated that this fact has already been sent West for publiication in some one of the partisan journals in Chicago. If this be really so a verdict in the case in favor of the side of which he was a partisan will undoubted be set aside and a new trial or- dered. ‘ But since the fact has come to light it maybe possi- ble that the inculpated _ juryman will not give his verdict in favor of the side upon which he ranged himself early in the progress of the scandal. Of course it would not be proper for us to indicate now upon which side this partisanship exists, but when the verdict is in we shall have no hesitation in giving the facts as they are. The probabilities now are that the case will go to the jury some weeks sooner than had been generally expeced. The declension of Mr. Beecher to call ;Mr—s. Tllton not only shortens the trial by the length of her testimony, but also by that of several others who would have been called, to whom she is said to have confessed her intimacy with Mr. Beecher. For our part we are exceedingly sorry that the whole truth. is not going to come out on this trial. There never can come peace out of this matter to the in volved parties,,until the last cause for war has been up- rooted. Not only does the Bowen scandal still sleep, but several others, in which some of the parties to the present one are involved, are also closely concealed. We say, let’s have the whole truth now that they are about it, and there- by do away with all causes for another and similar ocea- ion. . - . \ humanity. Whether Mohammedan, Pagan or Christian this belief has, in all ages, exerteda powerful inﬂuence upon the It is, perhaps, a diiﬁcult matter to say whether this belief ought to be principally and primarily y attributed to the so-called sacred writings of inspired per- sons, or their spoken words, or to an inherent consciousness that dwells in the human soul of continued existence. It is probable that if there had never been any prophecies or revelations there would still have been this consciousness indwelling in man. Hence it is to be inferred at least that, primarily, this belief arose from an undeﬁnable conscious- ness springing froni the fact itself. Let this be as it may, however, the fact stands that there is a generally prevalent and now a pretty well-deﬁned belief that death is not the end of individual existence. It is true that there is a variety of theories about what that existence really is. ,_ Each of the principal religious -"divisions of the World not only has its own peculiar theory, but among Christians there are as many modiﬁcationsof it as there are various sects. The principal factor, however, of the Christian belief is, that at death the whole future for each person is absolutely deter- mined. That if a person die unrepentent, unsaved, that there is no hope for future change, and, consequently,” that the future consists of two great and entirely opposite classes, to wit: the saved and the damned; the former inhabiting heaven, and the latter dwelling in hell. But these conditions are not held as existing now/; in- deed that, until the great jtrdgment day, the dead sleep in the earth, from which, at a speciﬁc time, indeﬁnitely in the future, they will be called to answer for the deeds done in the body. This time is designated not only the day of general judgment, but also as the day of general resurrec- tion, resurrection being supposed to mean a reappearance in the form in which humanity exists now on the earth. It is true that scientiﬁcr discovery has established a no small array of facts that damage seriously, if not fatally, the theory of a future general judgment and resurrection. There can be no such condition as suspended existence, in which the personality of each being who has lived and died, is preserved. The theory itself does not pretend to designate the place where this non-existence is located, but asks its believers to accept it dogmatically, since logically there is not a single thing to recommend it. THE EFFECT on srrarruanrssr ON RELIGIOUSBELIEF. , It is not too much to say that there has been a vast, radical and wide-sweeping change in the minds of men re- garding this theory during the last quarter of a century. Al- though the change has not yet manifested itself in religious tenets and professions, it has, nevertheless, produced a profound impression on the religious teachings and actual beliefs. No minister who should habitually preach from his pulpit the old doctrines of hell-ﬁre, infant damnation and similar horrors, ‘could for any length_ of time command an audience. The people, while still holding to their creeds and dogmas that contain these abhorrent doctrines, have in their hearts really discardedthem. ~ This immense stride in religious belief has been brought about more by the influence of modern Spiritualism than by any other agency. Science, perhaps, may justly lay claim to some of the honor, but there can be no reasonable doubt that it is to the former that it .is principally due. The belief that the spirit ofthc individual exists in the same form to which it attained while in the body, and that it is aconscious, living individuality, possessing all the faculties and senti- ments that it ever possessed, is to be attributed directly to modern Spiritualism. Thousands of persons who have no faith in the manifestations are nevertheless imbued with or impressed by’ the facts upon which they are based. The prevalent idea among people who are not even con- vinced of spirit intercourse, is undoubtedly that spirits have form and substance, and that essentially they are living, active existences, while it iswell-known that hundreds upon hundreds of families scattered over the country who are church members are secretly holding circles, the mediums for which being members of the families. say, and so we say, that the now dominating power in religion is the everywhere permeating inﬂuenceof modern Spiritualism. i THE SIGNIFICANCE or sPm1'rUALrsM.. The real meaning of this latest religious development is, however, but little understood even by those who are most conversant with its phenomena. By the large body of spiritualists the manifestations are accepted as evidence Jthat there is an existence beyond the grave, and tl1e.1a,rger " ‘ The Elixir So it is fair to’ part of them sit down‘ on that fact content to await death, having no fear of the christian God, or of his judgments; of the christian devil, or his hell. But to the logical mind, to the mind that is accustomed to trace causes to sequences and by them to establish a perfectline of evolution, these mani- festations have a much wider signiﬁcance than the simple establishment of the fact of immortality for the individual, which, taken by itself, is a remarkably narrow and selﬁsh idea. It is almost as good an illustration of selﬁshness for people to be made happy by the conviction that life extends beyond the grave, and by it to be also made careless about being actually better, as is the Christian’s conviction that he is to be saved while the greater portion of the world is to be lost. Therefore we must conclude that the Spiritgalist who accepts the manifestatationsof spirits as evidence of continued life only, and is satisﬁed with it to the exclusion of interest in humanity, is but little, if any, better than the Christian who is satisﬁed with the conviction that he is to have a seat in heaven while so many others are to perish in hell. But Spiritualism has a signiﬁcance, beyond all this, that can scarcely be conceived of by the most spiritually minded. Why, look at its own developments! From the tiny rap it has grown into the actual spirit appearance. The raps, the moving of material objects, even the speaking with tongues and healing the sick and casting out devils——all of which are the evidences that Christ said should follow those that believe, although they are not accepted as such by Christians —no longer satisfy the inquirer. He or she who seeks to be convinced of Spiritualism to-day, seeks to see the materiali- zation of spirits. It is no longer suﬁicient toknow that they have an individualized existence. Their power to reappear in the form is demanded. Even those Spirltualists who for years have been satisﬁed with the simple evidence of the raps, conveying some word of love fromthe dear one dead, are as eager and as earnest seekers for the latest light as are those who did not receive the former and the lesser lights. The course that the development of Spiritualism has fol- lowed establishes the fact that it also moves along the line of evolution. Breaking upon the world in the simplest way, it has come now to command its attention by this last phenomenon, which, when fully developed, will at one stroke dispel the mists and delusions through which Christi- anity has been so long struggling, and demolish at one blow all the various systems of theology, dispelling its ideas and fantasies about both heaven and hell and showing the real salvation. SALVATION, MATERIAIZATION AND RESURRECTION SYNONYMOUS. We do not remember ever to have any more than hinted in these columns at the length, breadth and depth , of complete salvation; but we have several times hinted, and we something more than hinted at it in the speech, of Life.” The real fact is, that sal- vation means to have attained to that of which immortality is a neccsiary part. The spirit life of itself is no more the demonstration of immortality than is the, fact that we live here. In other words, there are Cir- cumstances under which spirits themselves would lose their individuality, and their forces be resolved into the elemental conditions in which they existed originally, of course, having been vitalized by the forms through which they have passed, the-same as our physical bodies, not being immortal, lose their identity and are mixed with the elements, carry- ing with them the power acquired by virtue of having passed through the human form. Paul said in his ﬁrst Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter xv., “If in this life onl-y'we have hope 1n Chrlstwe are of all men most miserable; for if Christ be not risen (from the dead) your faith is vain; they which ' are fallen asleep are perished. But Christ is risen. from the dead, and become the ﬁrst fruits of them that slept. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,” (alive as Christ was alive, having risen from the dead,“ having been resurrected, having materialized after being’ dead); or, as Christ had it, “ They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead are the children of God, being the children of the re- , surrection. ” THE DEPENDENCE OF THE SPIRIT WORLD. Now, this is the Bible doctrine of the resurrection, and it coincides exactly with that laid down by spirits. The real salvation-——real immortality——the ultimate condition in which man is to exist is in the resurrected, or the materialized state, and until that state is reached the immortal condition is not attained; consequently, the spirit-world is equally in- terested with this, in -reaching the resurrection. The im- mense efforts that are being made now by the spirit-world to establish the resurrection—to push forward to the cul- mination-—-are put forth because it is seen by them that,phys- ically, mankind is rapidlydeteriorating, and if the process continue for another century, as it has for the last, that hu- manity, in the ﬂesh, is liable to be swept out of existence. This, of itself, may not seem to be a very appalling fact for spirit-contemplation; but when tliecollateral fact, that the ex- is tence of the spirit-world depends upon the existence of this world, and if man in the material form were blotted out so . would man in the spirit form ‘be also blotted out, is consid- ered, the signiﬁcance of the present movement for material- ization becomes evident. . The spirit-world has some source from which it draws its supplies. It cannot live, as we live, from eating and digest- ing material food; but it lives from the etherealizeol particles condition‘ ‘ , we -_.- .1.-- 9- .-.--. '¢._:_————<----————~ --—~»-—~ y --—,~ ~4.« ,o~——-———"*‘—*“"“i “T " ‘ J: "d \“i‘\.‘.~f’ I ‘rtfr .__,__m _ _..,_._...,..? --».:— --..~ -aw ""“““- in i ‘*5-*“ 1! .31!‘ 1 meaning of the teachings of Jesus. Said he: “I give unto May 15, ‘lets. \ twoonnnnn a CI.—AFLIH’S WEEKLY. ' of matter that humanity yields to the atmosphere; that which is thrown off in the insensible perspiration and by the breath from the body. If this supply were cut off by the destruc- tion of mankind, there would be nothing from which the spirits, wasted as they are in every; motion and thought of which they are the subject, could replenish their energies.- They feel and know this, and from this knowledge comes their earnestness of purpose to bring about the day i when the general resurrection shall begin; but every one in his order. THE ‘COMING TOGETHER on THE TWO wonnns. Here again, then, the doctrines of Jesus and the facts of modern spiritualism come into conjunction, demonstrating that the “ end of time” and the “day of judgment,” “ the second coming of Christ” are at hand. And here again we are also able to demonstrate scientiﬁcally that these things must be as a necessary result of the evolution of man. The doctrine of Jesus and the theory of evolution join in show- ing that the two worlds are'actually developing toward, in- stead of away from, each other. This will become evident by the following diagram : A. B I 1 Liberty, the base line of humanity. 2 Equality, the line of governmental organization. 3 Fraternity, the line of individual progress. 4 The base line of spirits. 5 The line of governmental organization: 6 The line of individual progress. a The individual man. I) Collective man-mankind. e Progress made by at toward fraternity. cZ Progress made by 5 toward brotherhood. f The individual spirit.’ g The collective spirit.’ It Progress made by f toward fraternity. 5 Progress made by g toward brotherhood. Point of conjunction. ' From this diagram it will be seen, as we expressed it last week, that when persons are transferred from the lower to the spirit sphere, that they must naturally gravitate to a point at the same distance from the base line of develop- ment as was that which they left, from its base. That is to say, if a person die, having made no advance from the base line, he would gravitate to the furthest point in the spirit sphere; if one die half way along the line, then _'he would take up his position in the spirit sphere, which becomes the base line of development for that sphere, half way up the line of development toward the common point of conjunction. Or, in other words: Those who die least developed in fraternal capacity are furthest away from earth, or rather away from humanity, in the spirit sphere, and those who die nearest to the com- mandment to love thy neighbor as thyself, which is the fraternal sentiment, are nearest the earth, or rather to hu- manity. _ wrro ARE THE MOST LIKE CHRIST. -In all ages of the world there have been representative spirits and mortals who have been so near; each other that they have been able tq make themselves known to each other. These have been those who were nearest the com- pletc fraternal development, and whenever and wherever they have come in contact they have been aware of each other’s presenc’e—-have recognized their near brotherly rela- tion. But within the last twenty-ﬁve years there has been a. very marked and decided increase in the number of those who. can thus meet; that is, there have a great many people in both worlds developed so far along theline of frater- nity as to be able to approach so near to each other that they have seen across the dividing chasm and recognized each other. This separation is not one of distance at all, but one of actual growth. So spirits may be in actual presence and still be utterly incapable of recognition, or of making the presence known or felt. And here ‘we ﬁnd a wonderful conﬁrmation of the real , mandment are most nearly related to this world after death. , of Christ or of repentance or not-—the true repentance and the :2: -3 so we ﬁnd that those who come nearest toobeying this com- It is not the mostreligious, devout and pious people profes- sedly who are able. to make themselves known through me- ‘diums, but those who are really the most developed in broth erly and sisterly love for the world.” It follows, then, that those who have the most general humanitarian 1-ove for the whole human family are really the best persons, whether they are religiously inclined or not; or whether‘ they ever belongedto any church or ever made an outward profession true profession of Christ, being to love one another. It is those who are most like Christ on earth——those ‘who have best ' obeyed this commandment to love——who now hold actual communion with those who are most like him_.in spirit life.’ ' This also explains something that has never been comprehended even by mediums: that many in spirit life are obliged to convey their messages through other spirits, that those on both sides who communicate are mediums, and approach each other so nearly in actual conditions and status of growth, as to be able to make themselves known across the chasm that still exists between this and the spirit world—no spirit having yet been able to materialize and become a “child of the resurrection,” and no one in the ﬂesh having yet been able to attain to superiority over death, or to never die, as shall those “who are counted worthy to attain that world’ and the resurrection from the dead,” as Jesus said. . T " A very large portion of the enlightened world is now ad- vanced to the points represented in the diagram by c and d in this world and to 7b and 2) in the spirit world, toward the common point where brotherhood for each is possible. This is the reason that there has been so much andosuch a grow- ing intercommunion between the two worlds during the past few years. But more than all else does this condition speak of the actual arrival of many in both worlds where brother- hood is possible; where they are actually at the same point of developinent——the common culminating point, where the two worlds shall meet and mingle—at the time when the various signs and wonders will begin to appear that are to declare that the end of the world is at hand; where the king- dom of heaven, the union of the two spheres, is possible, nay, inevitable. - ' But now comes the great and grave question, how and by what means shall the two worlds becomeone actually? How shall the two, the bride——the huma.n——and the bride- groom—the spirit—be married together, so that what God hath joined together no man can put asunder, and the real Kingdom of Heaven——Christ’s Kingdom-—be actually set up on the earth, and those who are to inhabit it, become;“the children of God, being the children of the resurrection,” or having attained to it without passing through the valley and shadow of death, by believing as Christ said those must be- lieve who should never taste of death? These are the momentous questions to be next considered, and to be ac- tually solved to the whole world’s satisfaction in the imme- diate future, for “ the end is come,” and “ it is done.” .3 4 %w THE BROOKLYN BUSINESS. BOMBASTES FUBIOSO ’I‘BACY’S rraonrsns. It will be remembered by our readers that we gave a somewhat extended review of the bombastic fulmination with which this specimen lawyer opened the case for the defendant in the Scandal Case. Blackmail, conspiracy, prostitutes, alibi, perjury, were common words in his vocabulary. He gave out that the defense would make mince-meat of everybody whohad set himself against Mr. Beecher, and he proposed that he (Beecher) would ride rough-shod over the course to a verdict of not guilty. This was a remarkable send-oif, and thousands who had looked with doubt upon the case already considered Mr. Beecher acquitted. But it will be remembered that we pointed out_ that in delivering this written anathema, the manuscript got so badly mixed that the lawyer was.obliged to stop to arrange it; that he stumbled badly, and stumbled propheti- cally. , tWell, the defense has “rested,” but how has Bombastes Furioso redeemed his promises? Not at all. According to our judgment, his own witnesses ‘have completely demol- ished the ﬁnely woven theory by which he was to rescue Mr. Beecher from the terribly conclusive (and certainly harmonious) evidence of the three principal witnesses for the prosecution, to each of whom, according to their testi- mony, Mr. Beecher confessed his intimacy with Mrs. Tilton. Mr. «Beecher himself completely killed the blackmailing business by saying that he was not aware. that he had been blackmailed until so informed by his lawyers, and that even thenqhis belief in it was intermittent, only existing when under their immediate inﬂuence. The alibi which was to be so overwhelming against Mrs. Moulton, that Mr. Beecher was not at her house on that memorable'June 2, was a complete failure, excepting as it rests upon Mr. Beecher’s evidence. It was not deemed quite expedient for the de- fense to corroborate Mr. Beecher’s evidence, that he was at the Brooklyn Eagle oﬁice consulting with Mr. Kinsella, by putting Mr.__ K. on the stand. It seems to us that this was a terrible oversight. It was vital that it should be clearly shown that Mr. Beecher could not have.been with Mrs. Moulton when she says he was, and it must have been that there was something wrong with Mr. Kinsella in other gl you a new 991l1lIl%l1£l11l¢1J.li,, that ye love one a.noth.er.” And terview with Mr. Beecher, when the latter presented his gray hairs and twenty-ﬁve years’ services as an argument for consideration; and that by some accident all this might have to be explained, and what that consideration was about shown. We haven’t any doubt that Mr. Beecher’s word is very good with that jury, but had we been his lawyer we should have put Mr. K. on the stand had we dared to do so, to corroborate it. ' lawyer. He had ambitions as a witness. He wanted to tell how Mr. Tilton refused to communicate with him until he ﬁrst gave his word of honor to not become counsel for Mr. Beecher in case he Tilton cbllided with him; and how he did. so pledge himself, and, having done so, how Mr. Tilton proceeded to read his indictment against Mr. Beecher, the charge being one of improper advances. He was particular to make it appear that he did not know what the charge was that Mr. Tilton was going to make, and that he pledged himself as to any or all charges before there was any made; but after Mr. Tilton subsequently changed his charge from one of improper advances to one of adultery, that Bom- bastcs considered his pledge to not become counsel, given in advance of any charge, as not binding. That is, he im- pressed it upon the court and jury that he got into the con- ﬁdences of Tilton and Moulton by a pledge, and after getting what" he desired from them he withdrew his pledge, and used the conﬁdence obtained for the beneﬁt of Mr. Beecher. This is very honorable conduct, and ‘ought to, and we- have no-doubt that it will, make him an everlasting reputation as a lawyer, and secure him all the practice that he can attend to during the whole remainder of his life. THE WHITE FORCES. I A Then, again, the terrible crime of having marched in the Commune procession with Mrs. Woodhull, which Bombastes attempted to fasten upon Mr. Tilton, has turned out to be a veritable will-o’-the-wisp——something that they could not put their hands upon at all, although they produced a goodly number of witnesses to bring the crime into court and be- fore the jury. The last shadow of it was, however, dispelled on Monday, when Mr. Theodore H. Banks testiﬁed that it was-he, and not Theodore Tilton, who rode home in the carriage with ‘Mrs. Woodhull, Miss Claﬂin and Col. Blood, as was testiﬁed to by Mrs. Palmer. So one after another of the phantoms conjured up by Mr. Bombastes is dissipated, until there is scarcely anything left of the terrible theory with which he was going to put -Mr. testimony for the defense left undamaged, outside of Mr Beecher’s simple and sweeping denials. We are of the opin ion that every witness produced for the defense has dam aged their side of the case. Mrs. Ovington pretty effectually established the fact that Mrs. Tilton was induced to separate from Mr. Tilton and go over to them on the 10th of July last, which transfers, the conspiracy with which Bombastes F. T. charged Tilton and Moulton, to his side of the house. pointed and positive assertions, that at the time were de- clared to be “splendid,” but alas! they too fade with age like all the rest-. Oliver Johnson, the progressive religionist, he made a mess of it, in fact put his foot so far into it that he has not been able to satisfy anybody how "an honest person can edit a religious paper, in the doctrines of which he has no belief. Of course it is only possible upon the general Beecherian theory. Then, there, was the “Life of Christ” man, whom this thing'that has got out will probably knock higher than a kite—VVilkerson, who “didn’t know nothing” about adultery, although it was discussed by his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in his own house. And Cleveland, too, the alibi man, who, by the greatest stretch, could only get Beecher into the oflice of the Olms- tz'cm Union that terrible June 2d by nearly noon. It was he also who went to Boston to meet General Butler and Mr. Moulton for Mr. Beecher, when he had been summoned there by a dispatch in Latin from Mr. Redpath “to avert a terrible calamity.” But this diplomat, armed with acme blancit power to negotiate for and sign anything in Mr. Beecher’s name, scaroelyknew what his mission was. He was only to do something in case all the charges made against Mr. Beecher by Tilton and Moulton were withdrawn, and in this way he was to avert the terrible calamity hinted at in Mr. Redp‘ath’s Latin. Of course his testimony carried convic- tion, and also carried Mr. Beecher’s-case.—higher than a kite to keep company with his ‘ ‘ Life of Christ.” THE COLORED TROOPS. , Then came the famous colored troops who fought nobly -——-they whose keen imaginations could invent sumptuously spread lunch-tables for Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull in up-stainrooms that had no existence; immense schemes for hundreds of thousands of dollars that were never conceived, much less spoken; groups of lovers indulging in all’ the de- lightful abandon possible of fairy or enchanted bowers, but reallyin no bower at all, but in a very matter-of-fact business office where stocks and bonds were bought and sold; long and numerous printed slips of famous scandals exhibited and read months upon months before they ever had existence; carrying these slips to the printing office and to their Irving Place residence, when, in fact, the messenger was, accord- ing to his own testimony, sick in bed at home in Brooklyn; making common rendezvous of houses into which they were never permitted to enter, and seeing people eating there respects, that made it prudent not to call him-L It was lwho were nevél‘ there; W2.-Cl then again W-*in.«%T Y1?-@0115 95 =5 But Mr. B. F. T. was'not content to manage the case as at Bessie Turner, “the successful witness,” made numerous probably realized that-Mr. K. had told too many of his in- Beecher safely through his ordeal. In fact, there is little 0 3 . e A weonnunr. a GL1-‘l.FLIN’S WEEKLY. May 15, is’:-5. sofa-lounges,and"ofV5trans’form*ing them into‘ beds for sleep- ing, where there never were either lounges or beds; and of visions of people occupying beds in rooms that were occu- pied by entirely different persons—-—in short and in ﬁne, of seeing and knowing anything and everything that it was considered necessary should be seen and known by colored people, which it could not be supposedthat any white persons, who were experienced in free-seeing, could ever V have seen or known. Indeed did the colored troops ﬁght. nobly; but, alas! they. “ too, false like the rest,” come home to hang upon the defense like a mi1l~stone about the neck of a’ drowning man. Indeed are we sorry for Mr. Beecher, that. has not only to carry his own load, but be loaded down by his friends with such weights as these, that no man, were he Jesus Christ himself, cbuld ever be expected to carry safely home. Indeed is his load greater than he can * -bear, and well might he cry out in. agony of spirit: “ Save me from my friends,” else I perish. v THE PARTY NOT IN COURT. Just at the last moment, -when the prosecution discovered that the defense were not going to put Mrs. Tilton on the stand, as there had been a great parade that they would if permitted, Mr. Beach for Mr. Tilton called the attention of the Court to the fact, and in advance notiﬁed the defense that the prosecution would make no objection to the intro- duction of her testimony. This from Mr. Tilton was a thun- derbolt out of a clear sky, and put the defense in a predica- ment, compelling them to declare that they did not want to introduce her, thus virtually declaring that they were afraid that her testimony would damage insteadof aid Mr. Beecher. In this, as in almost every part of the conduct of the case, the genius and strength has been found upon the side of the prosecution. Particularly was this oﬁering to not object against Mrs. Tilton’s testimony an evidence of conﬁdence as well as being the best stroke of policy that has been ex- ‘ hibited during the trial. There could be no mistaking its meaning for either side, and the public will not mistake it. REVIVAL IN PLYMOUTH. But with all this Beecher ought to be happy. Last Sunday one hundred new converts were added to the muster-roll of - Plymouth Church. No such evidence of the outpouring of the spirit has been given in Plymouth for many a day. The. trial is a success in this regard in any event. He has preach- ed with more power from the court-house than he ever did from the pulpit. The remarkable testimony given by Mr. Beecher of the brotherly and sisterly love that existed among not a small circle of Plymouthites has undoubtedly had its eﬁect. The evidence that the Christ spirit pervades the atmosphere ‘of Plymouth is unmistakable, and the world ought to have let‘ them alone. But if such results as were exhibited in their sanctuary yesterday are really to be attrib- uted to this meddlesome interference they ought to be thankful for the interference. But, then, it is a hard thing to have to remember to have been pushed into these things when itis so much easier to -be honest and outspoken on one’s own account. Twenty years ago Mr. Beecher began earnestly to inquire into social science of all the leading social lights——Fourier, Comte, Andrews. Nor was he con- tent to investigate alone, for he called in, a goodly number of friends, among them Tilton, who, some say, there re- ceived his ﬁrst lessons in free divorce. More recently he in- corporated-many ofthe new ideas into his sermons, present- . ing very radical thoughts concerning marriage. But we are sorry to see that the necessities of the trial have compelled him to apostatize. This is a mistake. He ought to have learned by this time‘ that the truth, honestly spoken, will always win. Had he always spoken all the truth that his soul received, instead of preaching to six thousand persons in Plymouth, he would have spoken. to sixty thousand, could there have been an auditorium built ‘capable of containing them. "We have -never, doubted that Plymouth Church would sustain Mr. Beecher. They are doing itinore earnestly now than ever before in its history—they accept Mr. Beecher as their teacher, preacher and guide, let his con- ductwith Mrs. Tilton and his evidence on the witness-stand have been what theyimay. So the battle forthe sovereignty of the individual andfor the sacred privacy of individual life progresses. If all Brooklyn were to be converted to this doctrine by Mr. Beecher, we should. say amen with all our hearts, only trusting that their conversion might be of. such a character as to withstand the coming verdict to be given by the jury, before whom Mr. Beecher has so consistently (?) and satisfactorily (?) explained all that has been considered mysterious by any in his dealings with the heretics, Tilton and Moulton, during the last four years. The most remarkable part of this most remarkable out- pouring of the pentecostal spirit remains to be told. Of the one hundred and four who were united to Christ in Ply- mouth, eighty-two were women, and twenty-three were men. . Commentwould be wholly superﬂuous. We rest our case. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND MARRIAGE. If there is any doubt lurking in the mind of anybody as to what the movement for woman siiifrage means in its re- lationsto thesocial question and specially to marriage, we ask that one to look over the ﬁeld and see what the leading women‘ are saying and doing. Unquestionably, Elizabeth Cady Stanton stands representative among her sex for - siiﬁrage. What her position onthese questions is, no one who has read her lecture on Marriage and Divorce can be in error. Next to-her—if not indeed with her-—is Susan B. Anthony, who is now lecturing on social purity; ‘Anna, .try’s attention those great principles of justice upon whose Dickinson deals altogether with the social evil; Mary A. Livermore presents “ Our Husbands” and “ Our'Boys”; and so on through the whole list ; but all these are subjects beyond suifrage——that is, suﬂrage might be obtained and all of these still be open and undecided questions. They are part and parcel of the great social question involving the personal freedom’ of woman.. But all of these parties assiduously._deny being infavor of free love. But now comes the most notable woman of the Paciﬁc coast, Mrs. A. J. Duniway, editor of the lNew, Northwest, Portland, Oregon, who has condemned us time and again in her columns, and publishes the following : MARRIED COUPLES—HOW To TELL THEM. If you see a lady and gentleman disagree upon triﬂing oc- casions, or correcting each other in company, you may be as- sured they have tied the matrimonial noose. . If you see a silent pair in a car or stage lolling carelessly, one at each window, without seeming to know they have a companion, the sign is infallible. If you see a lady drop her glove, and a gentleman by the side of her kindly telling her to pick it up, you need not hesitate in forming your opinion; or If you meet a couple in the ﬁelds, the gentleman twenty yards in advance of the lady, who, perhaps, is getting over a stile, with difficulty, or picking her way through a muddy path; or If you see a lady whose beauty and accomplishments at- tract the attention of every gentleman in the_ room _but one, you can have no difficulty in determining their relation- ship to each other——the one is her husband. _ It‘ you see a gentleman particularly courteous, obliging and good-natured, relaxing into smiles, saying smart 1311131.‘-ZS. and toying with every pretty woman in the room excepting one, to whom he appears particularly cold and formal, and is un- reasonably cross—who that one is, nobody can be at a loss to discover. . _ e , If you see an old.-couple jarring, checking and thwarting each other, differing in opinion before the opinion is ex- pressed, eternally anticipating andbrea-king the _thread of each other’s discourse, yeti using kind words, like honey bubbles ﬂoating on vinegar, ayvhich are soon overwhelmed by a preponderance of the ﬂuid‘; they are. to all intents, man and wife !—it is impossible to be mistaken. The rules above quoted are laid down as infallible in just interpretation——they ‘ may be -resorted to with conﬁdence; they are upon unerring principles, and deduced from every- day experience. , Of course this lady will still say that she is not in_favor of free love, although there can be no longer any question about her opinion of marriage. In view, therefore, of the fact that all the prominent women of the suﬁr-age movement hawe come forward from that question to the discussion of social problems, are we not justiﬁed in going forward again, as we have done in the past, to new and greater problems, to which all others in which we have been en- gaged logically lead. 0 AA 4 7 V7 BOOK REVIEVV. ‘Religion and Science; or, Christianity, Religion and the Bible versus Philosophy and Science” is the title of a neat little pamphlet of thirty-two pages, from the press of ..VVomen’s Publishing Co., 605 Montgomery street, San Francisco, Cal. Price 25 cents. By Dr. J. Pilkington. This is a succinct and very readable summary of the prin- cipal points that have been made in the contest of progres- sion with ﬁxedness, and are well worth a careful reading. It is also valuable as a hand-book of reference. The conclud- ing paragraphs read thus——in abstract: The Unitarian and Universalist movements in New Eng- land present a great hindrance to the Church. From 1800 to’ 1815 the oldest and strongest churches were terribly shaken. They overtook the wealthiest college, yet had no design of up- setting the Bible or Christ. Robert Owen next, in 1844. struck a vein of socialism at the head of 900 people on 30,000 acres of land on the Wabash, and in July 1845, declared mental inde- pendence. This was also bread cast upon the waters, and for twenty years it interested the public mind. Our orthodox friends called it very anti-religious, immoral, resulting in Unitarianism, Universalism, and ﬁnally Fourierism and the Free Love of Oneida, in 18et7. Next came Naturalism and Materialism, Phrenology and Mesmerism, then Spiritualisin, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker. Finally, we may add the present interesting questions, Woodhullism and Materialization which are so thoroughly opening up, unmasking the past and present social coruptions of society, and equally opening the way for a social system. according to nature. The universe, nature, declares from every pore that the truth shall make us free. THE address of Laura Kendridk date Laura Cuppy Smith), is now 201 Montgomery street, care of Albert Kendrick. ——Common Sense, San Francisco, Cal. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. The Anniversary Meeting of the National Woman Suﬁrage Association will be held in Union League Hall, New York, Tuesday, May 11, 1875. j . As but a single year intervenes before the nation’s one hundredth birthday, itbehooves the women of the country to take wise counsel together upon the great question of their national recognition as full citizens of the republic. The celebration of the Nation’s Centennial with women unen- franchised, will be the nation’s disgrace. For twenty-seven years we have publicly pressed our claims, in the light of those personal rights of self-government, upon the recogni- tion of which, as underlying principles, our nation professes to stand. Where, in the history of the world, has such able, earnest and persistent protest gone up from any class? ’Tis justice alone we ask. Let us in convention assemble in that great, commercial centre from whence our words will go broadcast over the land, andagain demand our recognition as self-governing citizens, and again press upon our coun- foundations alone a true and permanent republic can be built. The speakers of the occasion will be Elizabeth Cady Stan- ton, Rev. O. B. Frothingham, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Carrie S. Bumlham and Phebe W. Couzens. SUsAN B. ANTHONY,’ BUSINESS EDITORIALS. DR. SLADE, the eminent‘ Test Medium, may be found at his oﬁice, No. 18 West Twenty-ﬁrst street, near Broadway. PROE. LISTER, the astrologist, can be consu lted at his rooms N o. 329,. Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829. 1 ALL families and invalids should have Prof. Paine’s short- hand treatment of disease~—a small book of forty pages. Sent free on application to him at N o. 23.2 North Ninth street, Phila, Pa. MR. JOHN HOOKER of Hartford, Ct., has sailed for Europe to spend the summer with his wife, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, and son, who have been abroad for more than ayear. ~—-Springﬁeld Republican’. ' THOSE who desire admirable dental work can be sure of obtaining it from Dr. C. S. Weeks, 107 East Twenty-sixth street, three doors east of Fourth ave. Dr. W. is a careful, skillful and honest dentist.——ED. BOARD AND TREATMENT EOR INvALIDs.~—-No. 53 Academy street,_Newark, N. .I.——Dr. L. K. Coonley, clairvoyant, with ldng experience in all kinds of diseases, warrants satisfaction. ~ Uses medicines, plain and homo»-electricity, and magnetism. Solicits correspondence. Sends medicines by express. Has good_accommodation for boarding patients on liberal terms WARREN CHASE may be addressed at Cobden, Ill., during May, and at Independence, Iowa, during J mic, and at Banner of Light olﬁce, Boston, Mass., during July and August. He may be-' engaged for Sundays of July and August in or near Boston. ’ BUY IT.-Buy Brown's Camphorated Saponaceous Denti- frice, and use it regularly after’ every meal. It will cleanse the mouth, and preserve the teeth. Its components are simple, containing no grit or acid to corrode the gums. It is the very best article ever offered for a dentifrice. THE Fifth Annual Convention of the American Labor Reform League will be held in Masonic Hall, Thirteenth street, New York city, Sunday, May 9th, at 10 :30 A. M., and 2:30 and '7:30 P. M.; and on Monday, the 10th, at 2:30 and 7:30 P. M., the Monday forenoon session being given up to the American Anti-Usury Society. S. P. Andrews, J. K. Ingalls, Mary A. Leland, E. H. Heywood, L. K. Joslin, Wm. Hanson, H. H. Day, E. M. Davis, Edward Palmer, Mrs. M. E. B. Albertson, Wm. Rowe and other speakers are expected. DR. N. H.-DILLINGHAM, No. 21 Indiana place, Boston, in addition to his general practice, has neatly ﬁtted up his house for the reception of women, where they can be successfully and scientiﬁcally treated for all forms of disease; and for a resort during gestation and conﬁnement. In addition to his experience in the practice of midwifery and ‘diseases of women, he is now qualifying his excellent wife to ﬁll his place when he is necessarily absent. 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One change to Omaha, and that in the Depot of the Michigan Central in Chicago, from which the C., B. and Q. departs. The hours’ time consumed by travelers by other routes to Chicago from the East or West in transferring from depot to depot is saved by passengers by this route to get their mea1s——-an advantage over all other routes which deservedly makes it the most popular and the best patronized line of travel across the Continent. Tnnoucn TICKETS to all important towns, aul general information may be obtained at the Company’s ofﬁce, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New York. I @OIIY(uI6I1S6Ci Time Table. WESTWAHB FROM NEW max, Via Erie & Mich. Central ,& Great Western R, R’s ..,..,,_ ._.;.. . STATIONS. Express %?3 sTATro'Ns. Express. . Ly 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23d Street, N. Y ...... .. 6.45 P. 1:. "Chambers street .......... .. 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street . . . . . . . .. 7.00 “ ; “‘ Jersey ‘City... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “. “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 “ 5 “ Horncllsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ Horne1lsville...‘ . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ J_%:press. “ Buﬂfalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.45 “ —-—-'-~---— Lv Suspension Bridge ....... .. 1.10 A. M. 1.35 P. M. Lv Suspension Bridge .. . 1.35 “ 9.50 p. in Ar Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.45 “ 2.55 “ Ar Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ 11.20 “ “' London ...... ..-, . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.35 “ 5.55 “ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a. m. “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.40 “ 10.00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7.00 ‘ ‘\‘ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._ 12.15 P. M. 1.00 A. M “ Jackson; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. M. 11.30‘ “ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 " “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.45 p In Ar Milwaukee ............ .....;g2 A. M. 11.50 A. M, Ar Milwaukee ............ .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a m Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . . . '1-L55 P. M. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . 8.55 p in Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 311.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7.05 a. in Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 P. M. Ar St. Paul . . . . . . ... . . . . . .. 7.00 A M Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 15 A M Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M. .. Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 40 P M Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M. “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 “ ... “ Galveston . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ Ar Bismarck ......... . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M Ar B'ismarck..... ......... .. 12.01 P. M. “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M “ Columbus . . . . . . . .... .. 6.30 “ ‘ “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ar Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. M Ar Burlington ............ .. 7.00 P. M . “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A. M . “ Cheyenne ................. .. A “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 P. M . °‘ Ogden...._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ Ogden ............... .. 5.30 “ .. “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ San Francisco ....... .. 8.30 “ .. . Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. M- Ar Galesburg ............. .. 4.45 P. 1:. “ ui-ncy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15’ “ “ Quincey . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.45 “ “ St. Jose 11 ................ .. 10.00 “ “ St. Joseph’ ............ .. 8.10 A. M. “ Kansas ity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.40 P. M “ Kansas City ........... .. 9.25 “ .... “ Atchison......... 11.00 “ “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ . " Leavenworth..- ............ .. 12.10 “ ‘- Leavenworth .......... .. 12.40 noon. “ Denver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A M “ Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ' Through Sleeping Car Arrangements 9.15 A. M.——Day Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunda ), ‘with Pullman’s Drawing-Room Cars and connectin the following ay in at S spension Bridge with Pullman’s Palace Sle ing Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. m e to take the morning trains from there. 7.20 P. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-05-15_09_24
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-05-15_09_24
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 25 (May 22, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2072
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-05-22
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT: UNTRAMMELED LIVEM \ 1 its BREAKING THE .wAY‘ FOR FUTURE ~ GENERATIONS. Vol. IX.--No. 25.-—Wl;ole No. 233. TWO OR THREE NOVELISTS. “ Everybody,” it is presumed, has read “ The New Mag- dalen.” “ All the world ” is more or less interested in George Eliot. Wilkie Collins and George Eliot are two radically diﬂ’erIng authors. Wilkie Collins, in the “New Magdalen,” has startled a somewhat apathetic society. In Grace Roseberry and Horace Holmcroft is made clear the prevalent type of that sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, which passes current for pure virtue; a sham morality that is dead, like faith without works; the kind of morality of current value, which rides in a carriage to church to worship a God who is “no respecter of persons;” a pretence of piety which holds not the merit of being even the shadow of the substance. . We all have free choice of our ideals, no matter what are the outward bonds and conventional rules. Who wguld not , prefer to be Mercy Merr...
Show morePROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT: UNTRAMMELED LIVEM \ 1 its BREAKING THE .wAY‘ FOR FUTURE ~ GENERATIONS. Vol. IX.--No. 25.-—Wl;ole No. 233. TWO OR THREE NOVELISTS. “ Everybody,” it is presumed, has read “ The New Mag- dalen.” “ All the world ” is more or less interested in George Eliot. Wilkie Collins and George Eliot are two radically diﬂ’erIng authors. Wilkie Collins, in the “New Magdalen,” has startled a somewhat apathetic society. In Grace Roseberry and Horace Holmcroft is made clear the prevalent type of that sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, which passes current for pure virtue; a sham morality that is dead, like faith without works; the kind of morality of current value, which rides in a carriage to church to worship a God who is “no respecter of persons;” a pretence of piety which holds not the merit of being even the shadow of the substance. . We all have free choice of our ideals, no matter what are the outward bonds and conventional rules. Who wguld not , prefer to be Mercy Merrick, with her high conceptions of the good and the true, though fallen into the depths and ragged edges of shame, remorse and despair, than a. narrow-souled, petty-minded, conventional machine, such as Grace Rose- berry is? Such women as she hold the base coin denomi- nated virtue at a. much higher price than the outcasts among whom Mercy Merrick fell as among thieves, in that they succumb in most instances only to the highest bidder in the matrimonial market, and sell themselves to’ respectability instead of against it. i’ , When Mercy Merrick protests in bitterness of soul that she is “ tired of hearing of the virtue of women who have never been tempted,” she unmasks the sham pretensions of all the Grace Roseberrys in existence. With that sort of adaman- tine virtue, which is absolutely above suspicion of temptation, this world has nothing whatever to do. The bloody sweat of dark Gethsemane falls in vain upon fossilized morality of that super-Christly stamp. There is no grace in the soul that has never been tempted. It is counted better to have sinned and suffered through the divine grace of repentance working in the heart, than to be impervious to temptation. Any" Mercy Merrick is farther on the road which leads salvation- ward than the barren soul which says to her in her penitence and grand aspiration after a purer life: " Stand aside! I am holler than thou.” But is that rare nature portrayed in the character of Julian Gray the mere coinage of Wilkie Collins’ brain? Or where did he ﬁnd the type ? Such a man as Julian Gray would be / worth a pilgrimage to ﬁnd, though he snubbed his bishop and Whistled opera airs in the street daily. A nature so attuned to sympathy, with a noble, penitent soul, must have the hem of his garment touched by the sorrowing sinner. Thank God for the pure religious faith in human nature that gave the “ New Magdalen” to the world! Considering George Eliot with Wilkie Collins, and “ Felix Holt” in comparison to the “ New Magdalen,” Wilkie Collins seems a king in very truth by grace of God, while George Eliot reigns_a queen by acclamation. George Eliot is a rare woman—no doubt the greatest living novelist; but her books, after suggesting the rarest possibilities of character, disap- point the aspiration of the reader who is looking for an ex- ample above the conventional rule. . She may be of the Thackeray and Dickens school, which aims to portray men and women as it ﬁnds them, but ﬁnding them altogether too consistent with the author’s cynicism. But she rather seems to me like an author who possesses a most iconoclastic_ ideal, which she seeks to ﬁt to prescribed ideas andprevailing customs. Hence the sense of a great want somewhere which ﬁlls the ﬂattered fancy of the reader, as page after page lures him on but to be disappointed ‘in the result. _ . , Those writers, who, like Dickens and Thackeray, aim to paint-every-day men and women, would do better to give us extravagant ideals, like Bulwer or George Sand, to keep them from making caricatures of their kind; while those who possess a rich ideal should be careful to hold the white gar- ments of their best conceptions out of the dirt of common- place fallacies. It is hard to have dear Mr. Pickwick rendered ridiculous , even upon his best occasions. One must feel a spite toward _ Thackeray for gettingthat rare old hero and gentleman, Col. Newcome, a little tipsy one convivial night when the wine wentround, and then permitting him to get laughed at by a féol. Though the " fool” got a glass of wine in his bosom for . H the aﬁront, still _we__never feel the insu_lt.,atoned for.___ NEW“ YORK, MAY 22, 1875. Reading “ Middlemarch” and “ Felix Holt,” one is pursued through thevolumes by a phantom of unrest—a shade of dis- appointment——and at the end one sighs and says, “ What did George Eliot create those rare possibilities in Dorothy Brook and the young doctor for ?” “ What did she make Felix Holt a Radical for?” When we put down her books we are at aloss to know where we have been with George Eliot. Reading “ Consuelo” and the “ Countess of Rudolstadt” one knows one has been to Utopia with “ George Sand.” Reading the “ New Mag- dalen ” we feel we have been at the feet of Jesus of Nazareth with Wﬁkie Collins. George Eliot holds a prop under tottering idols, while she suggests slyly to theinitiated that there will be some rich developments when the idol does tumble down. She don’t seem to possess any particular God herself, but she propi- tiates other people’s Gods. No part of a Catholic herself. ishe puts the “ Blessed Virgin ” in capitals. A rank icono- clast in her own life, having personally snubbed Society’s dearest idol, she nevertheless embitters noble lives in her books for non-conformity to social edicts. Not sacriﬁcing herself to conventional Molochs, she yet mercilessly lays out her heroes and her heroines on the reeking altars. Her round men and women are for ever in the square places, with the ﬁat men and women pointing their loan ﬁngers at them. _ “ George Eliot ” has got material in her heart and brain, and she has got the,cu5e i-n her own life to give the world a rare work of future possibilities, built on the facts of the past and the present. She has made a sham society lower its turned-up nose at a willful disregard of its most “ sacred ” rights, and even Mrs. Grundy is “ at home” now to “ George Eliot.” Wilkie Collins and Chas. Reade do not display so deep a cynical insight, so profound an analysis of motives, so search- ing a sweep of worldly wisdom, but their deep-souled faith in human nature is more than a match for philosophic brilliancy. What has been the bitterness of “ George Eliot’s” life that she has dropped dead sea-apples all through her pages? I shall continue to read her books, but not in simple faith that I shall love my kind better for them. But all such books as the “ New Magdalen ” leave the impression of faith at the foot of the cross. The true standard of greatness is after all in the heart. Christ needed not to elucidate prob- lems in Euclid to enable him to sympathize with sinners. The one pearl of great price is a heart full of love to one’s fellow-sinners, and such a heart do we ﬁnd in the pages of “Wilkie Collins.” HELEN NASH. i WHAT IS TRUTH? This question was asked the Nazarene centuries ago, but as he did not answer it, we are inclined to think he either could not, or thought it best to leave it an open question for each individual to answer for himself. , , In all ages of the world there have arisen sects and divisions, each claiming truth especially revealed to them. If we in- quire what is truth, they refer us to their God, their Bible and their creed. The Baptist informs us that truth is a belief in three Gods in one: faith in the atonement, and baptism by immersion, and membership in his church. The Methodist informs us that truth is in his manner and form of worship. The Presbyterian diifers from his Baptist and Methodist neighbors in forms and ceremonies, and be- lieves that sprinkling is the true form of baptism: while the Quaker informs us that truth consists in silent worship and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. N ow, amid such conﬁicting beliefs, how can truth be arrived at, since each sect diifers in one of the grand essentials necessa1'.V to constitute a Christian, and to inherit eternal life. / « Said a church member to us a few days ago, “ Are you still a believer in Spiritualism, and an advocate of the Free-Love doctrine, according to the gospel of “Woodhull? My advice to you is to make your peace with God; renounce Spiritualism, and forever reject the false and abominable teachings of a woman who is turning the world upside down, and who will call down the wrath of an offended God upon her own soul and those whom she is leading astray.” We replied, “ Spirit- ualism is our anchor, our comfort in sorrow, our strength in life, and our positive knowledge of the future. It is no blind belief, it’is no delusion, it is an actual verity. We have no peace to make with God, or need for .a Jewish Savior, who, boasting of all power, hadaot suﬁlcientto save hipcselﬁroni PRICE TEN onnrs. A” his enemies, the cross, or death. We consider the teachings of Mrs. Woodhull lofty, consistent, and to live up to them would make humanity truer and better. We have received more knowledge and learned higher truths through the noble little woman you call Woodhull, than from all your Bibles, churches, or creeds, since the world began. Our advice to you is, seek truth outside the church. Worship no longer an unknown God; earn your own heaven, save yourself, and go without fail and listen to the grand utterances of Mrs. -Woodhull the ﬁrst opportunity which presents itself, and answer to yourself the question, What is Truth ?" Our sister wished us to return to the church, but, as we had no desire to be again in leading strings, we concluded to press on in our inquiries after truth, and the laws governing us. To this end we asked of the granite rock, the mineral,’ vegetable and animal kingdom, and as our inner life is un- folded so do we comprehend its truths, lawaand forces. We interrogated the ocean and her deep rolling anthems inspiringus with admiration and deepreverence for the rich and varied truths she so faithfully chanted. We inquired of the waving forests, the singing birds, the blooming ﬂowers, and found each struggling to understand and illustrate truth for itself. But when we come to man, we ﬁnd him conﬁning his thinking, reasoning powers within the narrow conﬁnes of a church creed. We ﬁnd him stultifying his soul’s growth, limiting his freedom of speech, blindly accepting the sayings of a salaried priest, who informs him that reason;is carnal: that he must rest contented with knowing only Jesus; that truth is within the church and its saving ordinances. Foolish man thus to triﬂe with his demanding nature, and suﬁer himself to be led into the ditch of damnation, which is ignorance. T ' In the writings of Dick, the Christian philosopher, we ﬁnd that his aspirations, enjoyment and employment upon enter. ing spirit life would consist in travelling from sun to sun, from star to star, from system to system, viewing the magn-1- ﬁcent architecture of worlds piled upon worlds. Spurgeon, the eminent divine, upon reading Dick’s aspirations, said he could employ his time during a portion of eternity much better than that. He said he wished to look ﬁve thousand years at the right hand of Jesus, and ﬁve thousand at his left hand. He would spend ten thousand years in looking at the right foot, and ten thousand at his left foot, and twenty thousand at his wounded side. Now, we candidly think, none will envy him his ﬁfty thousand years of monotonous gazing at one object. For our part, we would ljke so roam with Dick through planetary spheres, learning "the customs and occupations of the diﬁ"erent inhabitants, learning also of their laws and aspirations. We wouldlike to visit the various workshops where the ingenious mechanics are em- ployed; the studio of the artists, the sculptors, and the grand old masters of music. What is truth? The answer is as bread as the universe. There can be no absolute truth, for that which may seem as truth to-day will to morrow assume a broader aspect. As the mind of man expands he goes out in his longings for higher truths. He questions causes, searches for laws govern- ing forces, and thus ishe constantly arriving at truth which is the soul of things. MARY M. D- SHERMAN. ADRIAN, Mich., Feb. 16, 1875. “WHAT IS IT ?" BY WARREN CHASE. . ‘What is it that makes a man a tyrant over the women 0 his own home, and a gentleman to all women he meets ou t of it? What is it that makes a man kick his wife out of doors, and refuse all further intimacy with her after she is sexually intimate with some other man, while he is con- stantly seeking, planning, contriving and securing sexuo intimacy with other men’s wives, and even with females in houses of ill-fame? What is it that makes a man enraged with a murderous intent to kill a neighbor who has gained; the conﬁdence and sexual intimacy of his wife, while he has done the same thing to that neighbor’s wife? Is there any- thing rotten in Denmark, or in our marriage system? What is it that so terribly pollutes a womanlin her intimacy with a _ a pure man,when§she could not be polluted by sexual intimacy with the mostloathsome and diseased libertine if he was her legal husband? Does the statute or church ordinance make A an act a virtue or a crime by its sanction or condemnation‘? Is an act in marriage, that pollutes and demoralizes a woman i made sacred and holy by the sanction of the marriage carting, .,.,.,..../no-vy7»......,_.,......« an» ._-., ., .x/ , »' — ' 1. ' . K, 2 I " j,WOODHULIl CLAF/LlN’S ’WEEKLYl, Mayo 2?, -1875. cate? Does an act that produces nomoral, physical or spirit-A ual injury become a virtue with the marriage sanction, and a horrible and degrading crime without such sanction? Is. marriage the philos'~phcr's stone that can turn all lust into love, and all sexunlpollution into a virtue? Is there any such thing; as rape, adultery. pollution, prostitution, or licen- tiousnessbetween parties in marriage? VVe believe there is farnlore than between those not married. If Glendenning hid been married to Miss Pomeroy, and the same results and death had followed their intimacy, would there have , been any crime or wrong? What would have been the moral status of the parties if Mrs. Tiltonand Beecher ,had been man and wife, or if they had both been divorced from other parties and free, or both never married ? Wbuld the actual eﬂect on the parties have been any dlii’~:rent. Is it the morals of the "parties, or the mm~a’e of the public that suffer? What is the moral status of the public that so eagerly devours every vulgar word orthought growing out of this scandal? Can such moral stan- dard be lowered much by free love? If Tilton went “after strange women, was not Elizabeth as fairly entitled to a bill of damages as he is against Beecher: or did. she notown him as he dill, or does, her? If both Tslton and Beecher _Wcm after “ strange women,” which polluted El‘-zabeth the most. or did one pollute her and not the other? If she loved and sought the society of Beecher as much as he did hers, was she not equally guilty with him and ought she not to payhalf the flue? "is not Tilton in favor of Woman’s rights? But to return from these notorious cases to the starting point. What is it that makes so many menicold, indifferent and negloctful of their wives and daughters, and so polite, attentive and accomodating to other women? is it not be- cause there is ownership fore quality, and lust forlove, in the man? A lady told us the other day of a clergyman and his ‘wife visiting at her house, and discussing in her parlor the subject of kissing. She defended it as innocent and harmless; he and his wife strongly opposed it as dangerous and leading to moral depravity/. She soon after retired to the dining- room to look after the supper when he folldwed her, and putting his arm around her attempted to adopt her theory on the sly. No, sir, said the lady, step into the parlor with me and let your wife see you do it and you can kiss me, but not behind the door nor in the dark can you adopt my theory, tie l)eggvd her not to expose him. and she did not, for there were-.~s+-veral in the parlor, and she thought the per- sonal rebuke sutﬁcieut; but we think he should have had the full benefit of his conversion before them. Most ministers who oppose free love in public can be converted, or are con- verts, in private, and often get snubbed by social reformers, » whom they mistake as being of their kind. \Ve have had manv of these parties exposed to us by reliable testimony, and some who stand as high as Beecher have not fal‘en. be- cause the charity of parties whom they have sought sexually has excused them: but they will pass through an open door ‘ soon, and beiseen as they are, and without masks. GOLD. It is in the power‘ of every person to produce; some one thing, some another; it is unchecked, free production and transmission that is wanted, not more gold. The only pos- siole way that more gold. coufd beneﬁt mankind would be to .;.1_ave it found in quantities (opposed by both science and policy), to make it as cheap as iron, to break the iron rule of those who now check production and transportation, by hold- lug ev.- ry other loterestin tribute to the monopoli.-ts of gold. If all were allowed to produce whatever of value they choose, whether it should be Wheat or shoes, ﬂowers. statuary or ornaments, iron, silver or goiéd, food, ciothing or implements, whichever the nature of their surroundings admitted,a1.-lddo so ulitrammeled, re-calving-for that production (when stored in public Warehouses) a certiﬁed acknowledgment of the value of the same (measured by a universal standard made of some substance vs hich is in itself of no intrinsic value except as a nwa.-ure of values) to be used as a circulating medium. This kind of m.one~.y’would relieve the oppression and stagna- tion at once and everywhere, making universal ‘aplenty. To have this there is no need of finding and coining the so- called precious metals; (always diﬁicukt‘, laborious and restricted by its very nature and surroundings, therefore c‘*l‘osen by those who desire to rule), only made so by an ima- ginary rule iillpwsed by tyrants: oiherthings, as wheatgcotton or iron, are really of more intrinsic value, and would ileof. far greater legitilmxts consequence and value, if allowed their just consideration, than either gold, silver or diamonds. The Very essence of the devil, and a more torturing hell than can be imagined. are created by the ﬁnancial system of to-day, and its collduclors and managers. , Of what value, c~xc::pt-on imaginary one, is the golden pave- ment of the New Jerusalem, compared with iron “Russ” or _thc asphaltum. an article as common and cheap as cltyin some pl..ces, but an article of really more uti.lly and value than gold. Whisper it not intalath, tell it not in Judea, that therenre a thousand things that are of more value than gold; for upon the clay thou tellest thereof, the nameof master and ‘servant must be abandoned, and some new and disgusting nom~ncVl-ature adopted. fordno one will bow down to us and obey our slightest behest as now, for all will be equal, each will have to serve themselves or go unserved. N»! stopll there is :1 coin lh it can be used. acoin of value untofd. I will describe it. A N.=.vad.1. julge was lost in the mountains of Tlvabe. wandered. for (lxys without food and became delirious. In that c mditicn he was found by alowly, despised - gqlmw; all heretl Ilili were expended ineud-avorstolead him "in the direction of hisuhome, to food and water; but in his ‘dell lulu he struggled to go in the wrongdireotiou. to the desert again. The wretched female savage ran, ran miles, for "help to bi-i-nz this human being 8110303.‘. "When; she found _it-fouhi lxel'_h«islm.ndund returned—-thejudgo had wandered . miles into the desert, sank upon the sand andeexpired. , Eventually his remains were recovered by his wlfe; and 7 -ifVl‘ielids,"l:o§.§ether>with his gold watch and valuables that/were '~-~ i1p.')n_his person, untouched by these__Wre_t_ches who found the iiuziaug lhn__.tl’au0FU°1‘ "“11S'.Wu's iound in the possession of this squaw, the coin mentioned. This poor creature was the pos-T, sessor of a coin that would beggar an A. '1‘. Stewart. or even. .a Rothschild, to purchase-—the coin of universal good-will and, brotherhood; With this coin, when it becomes current. can be purchased all that the wants of mankind in their sorest need and distress‘ may require, that cannot be obtained by the other currency suggested. ' . i FREDERICK Moutrrox S.d—A.'W. Los ANGELES, April, 187.3; s ‘WOMAN’S SPHERE. She was not l'.lrn1‘d for man to rule \vll.h,sl-m releull ss hand; She was not form‘d a chattel slave, To be at his c« mmand; She was not form’d to be the means Of bearing down :2. name Unio an otfsprin g cursed, debased, , That cause her spirit shame. She feels her rights, but she is bound ‘ By those whom passions hold; She knows her claims to earth and heavlu‘; For this her heart is bold. She presses through the ﬂood of thought, » ‘Sarcasm, scorn and ire; She holds her way uudl-unled, ﬁrm, Enrubed in Love’s attire. She knows when reason, justice pure, Sh-all place within each he-art '.l‘h«-so living truths whiih guardthg sgul, , Then slavery will depart. And Freedom can her cou se pursue, Sn".-tninher glorious cause, While Wisdom helps to form anew ’lhc Falheﬂs lgroken laws. Then priest or pjriestcraft ne’er can stay Equality or light, ’ But man shall own and bless the cause "Which gave to earth new light; , And, through her powers for good and right, ’ Life’s burdens" shall decrease; While ’neaih her inﬂuence, ch lste and pure, Liseasc and crime shall cease. ; ‘ -—lS7za]cer and .5’/zakeress. THE ORGANIZATION A ND FUNCTION OF THE BRA IN. Bvan examination and .t‘:alysis of the human brain. it is now conceded to be a combination of at least thirty-ﬁve complete and distinct organs, each acting independent of the rest and exerting power over all in proportion to the degree of development. The siza of the faculties determine the measure of their power, and the inﬂuence each or several exert upon the action of the body may be found to depend upon two primal caus =s. The first. on pre-natal conditions; the second. on the circumstances surrounding the individual, exerting an external influence to contract or expand these organs in-a greater or less degree. - To one of these causes, or both can be attributed every evil that now exists. The United ﬁt/ates pays annually sixty millions of dollars for the discussion of m'ora.l questions, and yet no advocate of things divine dare make the assertion that the present unfortunate condition of the race is the direct consequence of blind ' ignorance and superstition; that a. corlupt and false social system is covering the divine form of woman with shame and lgnominv, and exposing the strength of man- hood to disease and death. In looking at the propensi‘a.ies incident to various tempera.- ml-nts, it Will he found, that no one faculty of the brain can Well be dispeiised with; that each and all are requisite to the mental and physical needs of mind and body, whim they furnish the propelling forces of the human mechanism. To deny the use a (1 exercise of any one of these endowments is to impulse nature with disorder. They are all good, in so far as they are equally balanced or bad in proportion to the extent which they subserve and enslave the rest. AA man devoid of amativeness is as deﬁcient as the person in whom there is no venerallon or oonscientiousness. If amativeness by hereditary trzmsmissiou be so largely developed that the faculties of the intellect must give place to the exercise of this passion, he in whom this abnormal propensity exists is as devoid of perfection as though wanting an arm or an eye. By the power of attraction he will exercise this proclvity, to the exclusion of some one or all of the other faculties. It is an uhjrsci; of no surprise that earth's lllhﬂbliaﬂt-8_"l'.BSOI‘t to methods of systematic self-destruction. ‘ The masses are brought into this breathing world scarce half made up, un- ﬁnished and deformed. with a superabundance of 3 occipital‘ brain—auim-al propensities "out of all proportion; they must, perforce ministerto gratiﬁcation of lust. The conditions which surround their growth are such as to augment the dis-' order they have received by birth. Placed in a barren soil, they maintain relations with mind and matter at variance with all the laws of unity and order. As the parent hasbut one incentive, is moved to get wealth, place or reputation, so the child inheriting the like propensity, will transcend the order of universal law to conform to special commands and ullnatural requireinents. We are the products of lust and avarice, living in a world where acquisitiveness is the bone of contention. Do you queston why from the marble ofa giant, we have hewn a pigmy? Out of Wrong conditions is it possible to produce a lofty species of human life? In sexual select.ioxi, weignore the law of vital aﬁinity and think to escape HaH1I‘e’s exacting penalty. A nation labors with its physical and moral wrecks. Procreuted at the fountainlhead in ilhbecllity, born under ashadovv of darkness, and sentforth in pain, they wander ghostlike here and there, and ﬁll the earth. Man. created in the image of.his Maker, is the only contradiction of eternal ﬁtness. . s A Goethe has said, “* Surely what is best hath found us, or we Wiusomewhere ﬁnd the best.” \‘ The best hath_not.A found us‘ yet. though thepdawn ofra. new day is now at hanch Modern igaocial relations have, beenyfound i_l_iﬂ.>d(:q'.>]a,I',elt0.' meat: deé‘ lﬂavlldi 9‘ thetimes. T 23313013013. Bonaparte has said, “Unless T...}.. withhthnenade it will drag il...‘*O*i blind delusion will no longer satisfy the soul. Generations to come will divest the mind of empty shows, and know the truth. “ Untrammeled thought hath waked the nations. and mankind perceive that vice is discord, war and misery, that virtue is peace and hep-= 7 T D. G. Cnrrrnxnan. .====..-..= piness and harmony.” , LOOK AT THIS! This gem of the mine, below. which our Christian neighbors complacently smile upon and wink at as the “ gospel truth." because it comes under the head of legal marriage, I want the readers of the WEEKLY to ponder over again, and take . from it a fresh impetus to ﬁght for freedom for woman; in other words, for “ sexual emancipation,” if the whole car of Jugszernaw , in the shape of popular opinion, rides over them with its banners ﬂying. Read the following: About thirty years ago, while lecturing in one of the Western States, I was for a few weeks the guest of a wealthy farmer. He was a man of considerahlcintcllect and nearly sixty years old. His wife was about the same age. The old lady with much sorrow in her voice,‘ and many fears "in her W eyes, told me how she had loved her husband, as a woman only can love. she had toiled early and late to help him gain a home and borne him Ihllteen children, four of whom were imbecile, and one did not smile until it was four vears old. ' She said that to save herself from his sexual abuse she had often ﬂed iuthe night from his bed to that of her grown-up daughter, only to be dc-agged back by her hu-hand, and forced to submit to his demands. He broke her arm once with a cart-whip, and often in-ﬂicled blow 6 upon her person. Even when declining years should have made her venera- ble, she has spent many nights in out-hollet-S and beneath hayst cks, protect her! What if the instances of cruelty to the slaves in the South were not so prevailing as to condemn it for nearly half a. century? The number was suﬂicient, even alongside of the real acts of kindness which the slaves met with many times from their masters, to curse it at last, and send it to its sure doom. One “poor old Uncle Tom ” was enough to conﬁscate every State in the South, and set on ﬁre at last the con- science of every man who trod free soil.‘ I never think of Woman-slavery but my whole soul is ﬁlled with its counterpart, negro slavery. The slave-mart, the de- gradation, the utter helplessness of the negro bears ﬁt com- parison to the servitude and abjsctness of my own sex under the rule. and held ﬁrmly in the leash. of marriage contracts. Tell me where is the difference? And tell me again is it less improbable that war and bloodshed must be the arbiter in the coming struggle of woman to ‘free herself from bondage? It will be a socio-religi i-political War, and in it the curse that rests upon woman will be remanded to the lowest hell of woman to day has to brave juries and potentates and hell itself to be virtuous! Out upon a system which conslgns lust-begotten children to mad-houses and a life-loin: idl av, through the sexual savagenes of even one such “ husband " as this man,.who made the night hideous with his orgies! Prate of intemperance as the “ fatal scourge ” when rape and child-murder and woman's suﬁlrimz from man’s licensed passion stalks unrebuked in our churches and best society! Vengeance is written on the tablet of my heart for the cures Think you, ye respectables. did she ever sign for freedom? munity would have listened a moment to her leaving home, and asking if there were not a law under which she could say her sexual nature was her own! T \Vhy, the pulplts would have been horriﬁed to have her solicit their eloquence to plead for her. She would have been told. and she knew it, that “home was the best place for a. wonian, and bearing children a. Bible injunction, and marriage gave the husband the right, etc., and Logo home and bear it as well as she ‘could; but help her they could not, for the man was her husband.” This is the logic in plain facts, and plain words. Let us have facts. more facts, till they dam up the stream of oppression, and then burst the ﬂood-gates. and submerge the whole country in their terriﬁc sweep. Do you think me ‘ horrid” and cruel. you wives, who decorously ,“submit yourselves unto your husbands,” and have everytriug safe, smooth and bright for you on the sea of life? What if you are a happy wife, is not the system accursed which hands over the most of married women to the insatiable lust and the animal, and no wish or power to control the virility and passional demand of their sexual natures? The Bible says: "Think of thosethat are in bonds as bound with them,” and [:do! Do you think I would submit to a cruel husband for a day? No! and you. perhaps, would not; but there are thou... sands who do, anddare not do otherwise. It is for such that the angel world has sent Victoria Woodhull, and -yet her own sex receive her not, and she walks the earth a martyr woman, of Whom the world is not Worthy." , CHARLOTTE -BARBER. “TRUTH.” IS ALWAYS STRANGER THAN FICTION I Dea_r‘W'eekly-Still the war goes on! The views which you utter conc». ruing “ free love,” are read from Maine to Florida, with di_ﬁ'erent degrees of approbation. his a race for life-- possible abatement to your popularity. Pe_ople—=-—the unthink-= ing andiccaiiservativemwlll continue to condemn you and your views. But what car: you for them! Have you not shown, yourself ‘as a. freethinker, a free-distributor of views which no other woman in the landh-as tad moral courage to do? If these viewsprove inconsistent to others, what care you? Let the war go on! Continue to put forth your doctrines, which sooner or later, will be read with avidity. You will always be popular in spite of all the multitude can do to overthrow ‘you from your present position-21 position that has been most; 'nobly" maintained T throughout. iHvlen Nash has already proved your supporter, and many others will gradually be lpiralo tlcable ru bbish; 1. '1i‘kc‘*;'our‘spirit 5'-you sealant to enter into "t‘he'woriz‘°jbe£cre hiding mm the tyranny of him who had promised to love, cherish and . human device, from which it sprang. Talk of virtue, whens that it has heaped on this one woman‘s body and soul. A Perhaps not," because no good (f?) man or woman in the com- ‘ cruelty of men who happen to hive a larger development of but youmust have been convinced ere now, that there is no , convinced that your doctrines are possible, andinot ims , .-<«,SIi0.,.«“v- .,,., _-.:. .- . ' ..'...t‘_. ~ _ iii! .—.. May 22, 11875. woonnULL gs CLAIl‘LIN’_S WEEKLW I _ K :3 you with ad will and a determination to succeed. Succpessplhas already crowned your noble lr'ﬁ'uI‘i7z’~l in behalf of our‘ enslaved wires. The 0t)ll**i'-!‘_\"’ wants a million suchiwomen; and the the question is asked, “ Why are there not" more of them?" the answer is, “Because they all lackihe moral courage to espouse their own cause.” Hundreds of wives. aye thousands of them to-day, were they permitted to speak theiroown ihoughts~——wou1d advocate your cause. Many people are against you, as you we lknow, e=-speciallyat this time, because of your connection with the Tilton-Beecher muddle. As the WEEKLY of May 1, 1875, was put into my hands, the vin- dication of yourself against the charges made by Woodlev inipresed me, inasmuch as I knew VVo0'd"l'Fy’s statement to be false at the time. As you say——and I know it to be true in each particular-—-.no WEEKLY was published at 44 Broad street during the summer of 1871-'-illid no WEEKLY was given to the public between June 23 and Nov. 2.'——-which fact you can establish beyond a doubt. No other inference can be drawn from-it, but that the negro Woodley perj ured himself. Is it possible he was hired to make t.his erroneous statement knowing it to be false? This is a question which he should answer, for I call it the grossest blackmail. If people will per- sist in overstepping the bounds of common honesty and ver- acity they will eventually only hurt themselves. .As I said before, continue in your noble work as you have done, and ‘prosperity will soon smile in your face. / Hnxnx Wrscnnsran Mommy. ‘ BOSTON, April 24., 1875. ' LICENSED. _ BY PROF. J’. B. coox. Licensed your manhood to barter and sell, And against jusjce and love to rebel; The truth to re-j :ct and in darkness to dwell. Licensed to live by your learning and wit; ln Church or in Scale in‘ hi.«h places to sit; For humanily’s good you care not a whit. Licensed to plot. scheme, plunder and steal, In ways that are popular, legal, genteel; Get something for nothing, come woe or come weal. Licensed by custom, by law or by creed. _ Naunal growth to stunt or impede, And. sanction society"s wrongjand miedeed. Licensed to spoil and to poison the air By your foil‘ emanations. here, there, everywhere; Forthe lights of ihexiecent “ a ﬁg “’ you “ don‘t care.” Licensed some woman’s form to enslave, And soon lay it low in a premature grave; There‘s no one to pity, and no power to save. Licensed your animal self to transmit; Children, nnioveli and unwelcomed beget, Full of disease, repulsion, regret. BROADWAY H ALL. In H. W. Beecher‘s sermon of April 18 occurs the following passage: A “ I am a ﬁrm believer in the divinity of Christ,” said Mr. Beecher, “ but I think there is truth outside that belief. If my son should say that the grandeur and spirit of the old church that came down from Christ, and has gone on increas- ing through all the ages, had so captivated his trust that he could not find peace outside of its fold, would I think him hopelessly lost? No, I would take him by the hand, lead him to some priest in whose faith and truth I could trust, and I would commit my boy to histeaching. There is truth enough in that church to bring my boy to he-avcn,‘and We will discuss diff rences when we get there.” f Truth cannot be condemned by a just deity, therefore he who conscientiously denies Christ may be saved; at the same time the doctrines taught in the Catholic Church are vindi- cated as substantially correct. If the above positions be sound what need of a creed? some might say, and we believe that all must admit that creeds change.’ Five such altera- tions are recorded in the Bible itself. The faith of Abel; the advance in the time of Seth, when, we are told, “ men ﬁrst began to call on the name of the Lord g" the patriarchal dispensation, under which all were forbidden “ to eat ﬂesh with the blood thereof, which is the life thereof;” thelllrlosaic dispensation with its voluminous laws, and ﬁnally, the Chris- tian ‘dispensation under which some of those laws were quoted, repudiated and changed.’ “ I ‘ If creeds change it is only proper that churches should also. - We are, therefore. glad to hail the advance‘made by the Pastor of Plymouth in the above quotation. His is now a church whose "doors areopen wide enough to admit all man- kind. The philosopher Darwin, and. perhaps, Dr. Darwinls re- spected progenitors, may there ﬁnd entrance. Tnis iiberality cannot be attributed to mercenaryinﬁuences, as in the case of the learned‘ Doctor, inasmuch as the entailment may be said to have been cut 011'. All classes, savage and civilized, believers in all creeds and in all gods, or conscientious re-I pudiators of all deities, ought therefore‘ ‘to rejoice iuthe : charity*e’xhilbit,ed in the above extract. , - 'We’ff,ancy, -however, that ‘orthod'oIxf>Christian.s" will -be apt" to feel‘ horriﬁed“ on‘ reading *the7above' admissionsby‘ the Pastor of Plymouth, though to the WEEKLY they appear to be more in conformity with the charity inculcated by"*the, great Nazarene than any that can be now found in any other orthodox church, either Protestant or Catholic. _ WOMAN.—A woman has no more bewitching grace than a I sweet laugh. It leaps from the heart in a clear, sparkling rill ; and the heart that hears it feels as ifbathed in an exhilarat- ing spring. Have You ever pursued an unseen fugitive through trees,‘ led on by herfairy laugh? VVe are pursuing that wandering voice to-day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of care or irksome business, and then we turn away and listen. and hear it ringing through the room like a silver bell,,with mind. How much we owe that sweet laughl. It I turns the prose of life into poetry, and ﬂings showers and sunshine over its darkest hours. 7 IN MEMORIAM. M In Janesville, Wis.. on the 12:11 of April, was born into spiritlife, Miss Kate Wheclock, aged 20 years. Our pen can- not stny itself from wriiing a few words of tribute to the our home by adoption at the age of seven, she greiv up with us the sweetest household treasure of,us all, until our love for her almost exceeded the love for those of closer kin. She possessed a most rare and lovely character, and it isbut ﬁtting that we should name some of those intrinsic exceilences, that she may stand out as a bright example for others to emulate and follow. During the thirteen years that this sweet girl was a member of our home, under no provocation whatever was she ever heard to speak an angry word or give harsh answers; wasnever heard to complain or express impatience over trials she had to meet, or obstacles to contend with; was never heard to severely criticise or speak ill of a human soul, but with unfailing kindness and charity, always found a. good side to every body. She was the embodiment s of truthfulness and goodness, and was remarkable for the maturity of her womanhood. and the perfect uaturalness of her life and conduct. She was brave and independent in spirit, courageous enough to do her own thinking, and to act in accordance with her own convictions. When Victoria lectured in this city, she was brave enough to go and hear her, and to openly express her approval of the lecture, though her associates assured her it would disgrace her if she did. She was a firm believer in the glorious ti uths of spin itualism, and the light of our beautiful faith opened her inner vision to the realities of spirit life. She always lived in the sphere of harmony, and music was the chief love of her brief life. And though for us her voice is stiiled forever, her lips mute. and her hands chilled beyond the power to touch or to caress. yet we know that she liveth and loveth still, and that her exquisite voice brings joy and cheer to the hearts in that other home circle “ beyond the river,” whither the tides of time are fast drifting all who loved her. ' From her sister. ELVIRA W_nEELocK RUGGLES. J ANESVILLE, Wis, April 18, 1875. V VALCOUR ISLAND. April 19, 1875. Various rumors having gone to the public in relation to my imprisonment, brought about by Orren Shipman, I am induced to state that the whole affair was of much less im- portance than was at first reported. An imprisonment of ten" days is a pleasant diversion in one’s life, especially when the cause of imprisonment is so poorly based as it was in thisinsianoe. . Hopingto avert hisinevitable doom in bankruptcy, and be- lieving that Twas instrumental in bringing that re~uit about ftvrithe purpose of procuring the property for the community through the creditors at :3. fair price, Mr. Shipman instituted a. suit against me in trover, and thrust .i11B into prison. But in the trial I obtained a verdict of no cause of action and judgment against the plaintiff for costs. These unpleasant controversies have enabled our enemies among the secular press to circulate the ru more that our community has failed, which is by no means the case, as we will be enabled to show to the satisfaction of our friends ere long. ' J onx ‘WrLLcox, South Piattsburg, N. Y. , .‘E'ENNvILLE, Ind. Woodhull and CIa_ﬂ'£n--Inciosed you will ﬁnd three dollars to renew my subscriptionto your valuable paper the VVEEKLY. P ease accept with it my congratulations on your worthy efforts in behalf of woman. » i « God speed the day when wlimen all over the World may see and know as you do that there is a great, a. pressing need for each and every one to some boldly forward and claim the freedom of soul and body which has so long been denied them: I am yours for truth, DIANA. VVRIGHT. SHEFFIELD, Eng, April 15, 1875. Enrrons WOODHULL st CLAELJNSTWEEKLY: Dear Fn'ena's--As you so kindly invite every one who has -well deﬁned ideas on the subject of the natural relations’ of man and woman, I take the opportunity of contributing my mite. Iconsider that we have out-grown the present laws governing the liberties of the sexes, and that a legal or re- ligious ceremony is utterly useless. 4Hr-re in England the over-populated condition of 1 rge manufacturing towns is distressing. The man’s_wages do not keep the family inithe sheercst necessities, and the woman has a trade at which she labors while producing children, attending to her house as best she can; and the conditions of the lower class of Wo1'k~ ing people is worse than that of the plantation negroes before the -war. The paupers are increasing in number. and the upper class women are agitating for the ballot, and bid fair to have it. Great eﬁort is being made to educate the masses. The boarding schools are numerous.‘ Compulsory educa- tion ‘working well. But what can be done to elevate the middlz—a~ged married women from their wretched condition? ' There is one womanof 35 years who is gainingthe gratitude of the mothers of the present day by teaching them how to physiological fact, whichishe ‘has proved ;tobe efficacious where both parents unite in their -wish-to have no more family, and this is easily put into practice. Many an over- do anything to spread the fact in your valuable paper? Surely every woman should know how to protect herself, and your WEEKLY is the only paperewhich speaks out plainly and boldly on these subjects in spite of M.D.’s or D.D'.s. If you can put the- information in proper form, and give it to the public, you will only be calling forth gratitude from the suf- fering thousands who are learning more from you than any one now before the public how to live happily, purely and well. , Bless you a thousand times for your tract, “ The Elixir of . Life,” loaned me by a friend. Future generations will, in- ? deed, rise and call you blessed. I would I could send you a ' thousand pounds. memory of this beloved sister. A cousin, but also a child of _ limit the number of their children by the observance of al burdened mother has already proﬁted by the idea. Can you Thanking you agai‘h'”aiid‘ again for being so brave as to take the stand you have for humanity. and against "Mrs. Grundy,” I am yours for-all true reform and progress, JANET SPENoEn, Stalker Place, Sharron Vale, Sheiﬁeld, England. PRESS El‘-HOES IN‘ THE BEECIIER S(‘ANDAL. MR. BEECHER CONTRAI)ICTING HI.\l:ELF FLATLY. Beecher has shown himself to be the most forgetful and untrustworthy-«witness, measured by the simple rules of com- mon sense and of law, that has yet testified in the case, un- less those negroes can be excepted. In a 0:il‘ofullV prepared written " statement," “he purposely creutvd tho in-pri-‘ssinu that Mr. Moulton threatened him with a pistol, and thus ex-= torted from him Mrs. Tiiton’s letter of retraction. ‘ I-Ie swears on thewitness—stand ihatthe showing of that pistol was purely accidental, and had nothing to do with the surrender of Mrs, ’l‘ilton’s letter. As a lie is the intent to deceive, Beecher his lied once on his own testimony. Beecher, in his statenient, represented*Mou1ton as a blackmailer, and purposely caused that impression to go abroad. He swears that he did not so regard him—-all his testimony shows that he did not. and shows that this theory was merely the trick of lawyers. He swears that the lawyers forced him tojutter lie number two. Innocence needs no lawyers tricks. llaving, in eilect, sworn that he lied in calling Moulton a blackniailer, and having sworn that he lied in representing that Mouton threatened him with a pistol, we are prepared to believe that he has not altogether clung to the truth when he has said he didn’ t.——C£“r» c’I3n'n ati En qu irer. MR. BEEOHEn's FRIENDS DISAPPQINTED. There is a good deal of clisappointnient pervading all classes that Mr. Beecher has not more clearly explained his damaging letters; but as they are very ditﬁcuit to explain, perhaps he did the best he could. And upon ihe whole, it is safe to say that he did as well as any one could under his circumstances. ‘We think he has failed to change the opinions of those who were previously convinced of his guilt, and the issue still remains unsettled, and probably will thus remain, whatever shall be the verdict of the jury. We wish we could give Mr. Beecher a stronger li]dUl'S8i.u6lll» than this, but we cannot do so conscientiously‘. -.-—f,Rom'tes-tar Democrat. ' There has never existed a man with such a m‘-racuous fa- cility for throwing open the sluice-gates of .<:u1~‘b. Upon the slightest provocation he deluges everybody about him with the ﬂood of his emotion. He makes of every nian's hirt bo- somapocket handkerchief for his woes, and is undeniably the champion weeper of the world. What a beautiful and child- like nature a man must have who spends the major portion of his time in crying and kissing! A pendulum eternally oscillating between the extremes of Woo and joy.——1Jo.sto1t__ ‘Journal of C ommerce. It is evident that a serious inroad has been made on the defense, and unless he recovers the ground gained by the adroit and masterly tactics of Mr. Fullerton, his friends r ill have reaon to look forward ‘to the result with anxizty. To one in his position, where evcrythimr 5* Pfllds “P011 W9 3315' isfactnriness of explanations, forgetting is confessing.—Ncw York Graphic. .Whatevei- verdict the jury may render in the case will not eﬂ:“>:»ct the verdict of the country at large, which will he. that free love thrives in the atmosphere of I’ly1nouth.—.Newa.ik‘ Ad-certi'sw. Plymouth Church has, by its pettifogging conduct in the case, written its name in eternal infamy. The world will stand aghast at the proclaimed immorality of these latter»- day saints.——Southwes£. ' 4 >-4%»-4— CLX PPINGS. A nREssiu'-A.KER‘sapprentice speaks of her cross—eyed lover ' as the fellow whose ooks are out bias. - A 0I'.0sE’observer says that the words which ladies are fun did W est of are the first and last words. A NEWSPAPER biographer trying to say his subject “ was hardly able to bearthe demise of his wife.” W38 H1368 by W6 inexorable printer to say, “’ wear the chemise of his wife.” 1:1: is said that the new postal cards are to be made of mate-‘« ‘ rial that will protect the secrets of the writers-at least they ” are to be in, violet. “ Two Irishman traveling on the Baltimore and Ohio’ rail- road track came to a mile post, when one of them. said: “Tread aisy, Pat; here lies a man 108 years old——-hi.s name was Miles from Baltimore.” 9 “ ‘Now let us talk about your business a‘r”l"aii's,” said a ("on~= . necticut girl to syoung fellow after he bai proposed mar: iage, to her in a long address ﬁlled with expressions V of passionate love. SHE‘s a regular coquette, is Miss Paciﬁc Mail. Do you notice how she jilts her first love for her second, and do11’t~ - consult Pa-na’-Ma on the subject, either? OLD—EAsHIoNEi)- lady: “Mr. Editor, please to print me a. piece ,again_st- the foolish fashion which the women have of, »_ pinning their./veils clcsely about their. faces.”;, -Ed»i_-tor:..- “ Never, madam! When we pitched, into their bustles and panniers they got their backs up higher than ever. . If we now I I [fly at their faces it will avail nothing. Fashion, madame, is an impregnabie fortress, whether you attack in front or in ’ therear, and woman is its commander.” THIS is how Mary Kyle Dallas says it feels: “ Take a man and pin three or four large tableclotlis about him. fastened back with elastic and looped up with ribbons: drag all his own hair to the middle of his head and tie it tight, and hair» ' pin on about ﬁve pounds of other hair and a big bow of rib- bon. 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LUKE, xii. 31. ‘ Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom, when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority; then shall the Son himself be subject, that God may be all in all. --I. Conxnrnmns, xv. Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage-supper of the Lamb.--Rnvni..u:roivs, xxx. 9. . THE KINGDOM. The kingdom is _a signiﬁcant expression. It is ﬁxed, deﬁnite. It is not a: kingdom to be somewhere, some time, and of whatsoever character; but it is the kingdom of which sort there can be a single one only——that one for which all look forward as a more perfect condition for mankind in the future; that place, condition or existence into which all people are to be gathered ultimately. All are aware that the chief feature of religious eﬁort has , ever been to so pre- pare the people for death, that at the coming, at some in- deﬁnite time in the future, of the great day of judgment and resurrection, they should receive the sentence——“ Well done,” “ enter in." But science having established the fact that a condition of suspended existence for the soul is an utter impossibility, we have been compelled to look for some other method in which this great day of the Lord is to come than that usually accepted by ,-the‘ Church, which method must be inaccordance with the now well-estab- lished doctrine of general evolution, by which all other things in the universe are developed. ~ " Such an" investigation as this indicates would have been ‘impossible, except as a matter of theory, until within the advent of modern Spiritualism. The facts connected with its development, fraught as they are with the most tremen- dous interests of humanity, have not only made this investi- gation possible, but have actually led the way in which it is to be made. If a time come when two spheres of existence, always before separated by a great gulf ﬁxed between them, begin ‘to communicate with each other, and then to apil preach and to appear to each other, the fact of development toward a common point, or of progress toward a given centre, is thereby revealed. So when Spiritual communion so far advanced that the presence of spirit bodies became known to the material senses, it was patent that the two ex- . “great gulf” had become narrowed, and nearly, if not quite, spanned. N ow, here was a fact upon which to base a proposition. What did or does it mean? Look back to the diagram of the two triangles, and there see in the culmination of their two apexes the reply-—a coming together, a unity, a reunion of what had been separated. It should be borne in mind that this diagram does not represent distances and separa- tions of space or direction, but distances and separations by virtue of different degrees of growth; diﬁerent states of development. Persons going from the earth to the spirit‘ sphere, are as far away from full development, or from the ultimate condition in that sphere as they were in the one left;/and they must approach it by growth in the same way as do those still remaining in the earth sphere. It seems that this must be evident to everybody who considersrthe question; indeed, that it is self-evident. I I L THEIR CULMINATION. ‘ But this brings‘ with it the necessity of accepting. another fact which has scarcely ever entered into the thoughts, and never into the creeds, of man. If by progress it is possible for those in and those out of the ﬂesh to arrive at the same condition, then the existence in which both shall exist when it is attained must be the same. To a certain degree this fact is illustrated by the present existence. There are various conditions in this life—-—some low and material, others high and spiritual—the difference between which being a result of the diﬁerent degrees of actual development, and this deter- mines absolutely the materiality or the etheriality of every human organization. This same line of development, ‘car- ried forward to the ultimate, must of necessity take the in- dividual to that point of spirituality, or ethereality, or re- ﬁnement, or puriﬁed materiality, over which the spirit exer- earth sphere are developing into this condition, those in the spirit sphere are also developing toward the same condition from an opposite direction; that is, while mortals are becom- ing materially spiritualized, spirits are bccomihg spiritually materialized, while to be materially spiritualized and spirit- ually materialized are one and the same thing; they are the perfect harmonization and blending of the two natures of man. Resurrection or materialization is the term used to indicate the arrival of spirits at this ‘condition, and spiritual- ‘ ization that of mortals. The understanding of {these two opposite methods of arriving at the same condition reveals another mystery that has been concealed in the sayings of Jesus. He said that by certain methods of life, that is by understanding and living the whole truth——being led by the spirit of truth indicated by Him as a perfect belief in Him- self——neople should never taste of death, meaning, unmis- takably, physical death; or, in other words, their bodies should never see corruption, should grow into the immortal state without passing through death and the resurrection. Nothing can be clearer than that He taught these two modes of development. He said, St. Luke xx., 34 and 36: “They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection of the dead, cannot die any mo;-e,” The doctrine of evolution says, that they who grow into the perfected material state, and they who materialize from the spirit state, cannot die any) more. St. Paul’s teachings were also very explicit upon these points. He said that death is an enemy to man which is to be‘ destroyed; in fact that it is “the last enemy that shall be destroyed ;” and that,“ when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortali- ty, then cleathpis swallowed up in victory;” that is, is de- stroyed. He also taught that there is no immortality ex- cept through the resurrection. He said: If in this (the earth) life only, we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable; for if there be no resurrection, then is Christ not risen, and if Christ be not risen, then they that are dead are lost. So here again is found a perfect harmony between the two methods of knowledge-that of spiritual comprehension and of intellectual investigation; or that of prophecy and of science, which two methods, when blended into unity, cor- respond to the unity and blending of the earthly and the spiritual, and naturally accompany them; in other words, spiritual comprehension and prophecy are the methods by which the spirit receives and gives; while intellectual inves- tigation and scientiﬁc research are the methods by which- the uninspired‘ mind learns and teaches. In this again —-in the fact that the truth about the ﬁnal condition of man, is beginning to be discovered by both methods-—is the evi- dence of the near approach of that condition—+the discovery being its J ohn-the-Baptist, while the culmination will be the Christ itself. . ' - , THE Invo NATURES, . _ Man, everywhere, is conscious that within him there are two conﬁicting forces, and that out of the struggle be- tween them, comes the government of this life. These two forces are the Spiritual and the Material——the inner and the outer—-and the standard of life is determined by the domi- nance of one or the other of these. . Stated by the theory of evolution, their action may be formulated‘ asfollgws: At birth, each person inherits certain qualities and capacities of “body and mind with which he begins the journey of life Which is peaceable, quiet and joyous; or. stormy, irritable and miserable, in "the exact ratio “of the harmony or the discord between these two natures. The-material (in biblical terms called the carnal) nature has its exempliﬁcation in the istenccs were not widely separate; was evident that the beasts. Their life represents _the harmonious and\natural_ condition. They have natural appetites and passions belong- cises absolute control.. At the same time that those in the - ing wholly to the material, which when adequately sup- plied, they are perfectly satisﬁed. They live on, ﬁnally de- caying and dying as if in accord with the highest purposes of their nature, rather than by any conﬂict within ‘them, as is the case with man who dies of disease, this deathbeing the triumph of the material forces in the struggle between them and the spiritual, or between the two natures; al disease in man being a result of this warfare for the supremacy. (Paul, in reasoning upon these natures, said: “ If I do that which I would-not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I see-a law in. my members (body) warring’ against the law of my mind.” Here again is found still further evidence of the same general truth of which we are treating. The degree’ of subjection to the law of the body determines the status of the individual; demonstrates, how far along the line of evolution he has progressed from the base line of humanity toward brotherhood, where there is no longer any conﬁict between the law of the body and j that of the spirit. The development from one to the other, being the Spiritual conﬂict by which the body is brought into harmony with the spirit, and this conﬂict being nothing more or less than the natural progress of the individual ac- cording-to the law of evolution, which carries him forward and upward from the conditions in which he is born to- ward the point of complete harmony within himself, when and where only he can be in harmony with his brothers, the human family. From this it will be seen that general har- harmony or brotherhood must come as a result of the bar- monization of the individuals of whom the brotherhood consists. In other words, there must be brothers before there can be a brotherhood, but when tlrere shall be brothers, then there will be a brotherhood. THE TWO TRIAINGLES. The two triangles represent the spirit -and the earth sphere; and their coming together represents the union of the two in one. The union of two making one, let it be in whatevc1“departmen.t of nature, is the natural marriage; is the union of the two sexes; is the uniting of the positive (the male) with the negative (the female). This coming ‘to- getherwthis marriage——of the two spheres, will not be dif- ferent in kind from the general marriage. Indeed, it will be the ﬁrst complete and inseparable union‘ ever formed, be- cause the opposites thus brought together will be the first perfected spiritual and material types of being——the spiritual standing for the positive or the masculine, and the . material for the negative or the feminine sides of life. That is to say, when there shalftbe a spirit perfected materially, . and a. person in the form perfected spiritually, then there will be a marriage of-them, which will forever unite the two worlds into one; which will represent the two processes by which immortality is attained, and which will spread until the whole world shall be saved ﬁnally and absolutely, ‘L salvation meaning immortality and nothing else; and im- ‘ mortality meaning the power over death; or becoming superior to "death as was J csus, exempliﬁed by his rising from the dead. The spirit or the person having attained the immortal con- dition is répresented by the complete union or coming to- gether of the two triangles, or the double triangle. In such an one the /spirit sphere is represented perfectly blended in ’ the material sphere, and this condition is the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven then is the immortal con- ' dition, to have which is to have salvation. Having this key with which to solve the otherwise meaningless passages of the Bible, its signiﬁcance becomes clear. Death is the great and ﬁnal enemy which is to be overcome. Having been brought into the world by the eﬁort inherent in man to dis- cover the hidden mysteries of the universe, it has been an universal inheritance in the language of the Bible, or as a legitimate and ' necessary result of which in the language of evolution. For this desire for knowledge man has struggled and suffered through the centuries, but is to be ﬁnally restored to the original condition of harmony and happiness. He has run the gamut from that condition through all the harmonies and discords of the scale, to repeat its harmonies (speaking in musical terms) in the higher octave. He has ascended from the plane where the individual was at harmony with himself in the purely ‘A material sense, as the -brutes are harmonious, and has struggled all theway up between the inﬂuence of the law of ‘ _ the carnal and that of the spiritual, ‘to ﬁnally reach the place where these two become one, adding to the gl'ory and beauty of the outward form, the diviner symphonies of the internal] spirit, which having subdued; things unto himself sur- renders the conquered kingdom up to the Father, ‘so. that He’ ” may be all in all. This spirit is the Christ that the Father hath sent into the world that through him all might be saved- who suffers on the cross of aﬂiliction, dies and is ﬁnally raised from the dead to become the fruits of the resurrection and to inhabit the kingdom-of God,_where the tree and the river of -life shall feed his people eternally. l “ THE STAR or BETHLEHEM. When Jesus was born the star in the East guided the wise men to the spot where the young child lay. He wasthe . star in the east that had arisen to become a light unto the "whole wo1Td. He was the ﬁrst perfected man, who by virtue of the purity of his birth, inherited the kingdom from the beginning. He was the perfect man physically, and the perfect man spiritually. He represented both the earth and the spirit sphere, and was, therefore, the ﬁrst and as yet the only begotten Son of God, and by being such became, the i I have had a marked‘ effect upon the issue of this case? (our criminal jurisprudence and practice. , system is cleﬂy wrong and in opposition to justice. hfaylﬁ 2, .1875. WOODHUALL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. H5 Saviour of the World; because every one who enters into the Kingdom, and becomes a son of God, havingbeen born as‘Jesus was born of the spirit, must go in by the same way -—by the same door——by which he went in who, in this birth, is made the elder brother; to all who shall follow. The diagram to represent the Son of God—-the Christ--is the fol- lowing: J I / g/ which is the double triangle or the six cornered star——-the star of Bethlehem. It is the two triangles grown together-— the two worlds permeating each other, utterly, in a per- fected blending, or, in the language of the Ancients; it is the living Lord. Jesus is so far the only individual who is represented by this star. Standing, as it does, for the unity of the spiritual and material, none can come within its sacred light until their material natures become subject com- pletely to the rule of the spirit, and when this comes then they to whom it comes are no longer subject to the law, but to grace, to whom all things are lawful, and to whom all power-is committed. Such are they who are of the Kingdom of Heaven, having become the sons and daughters of God. LESSONS OF THE BEECHER TRIAL. The desperate struggle between Mr. Tilton and Mr. Beecher, now in its ﬁfth month, has demonstrated at least one thing conclusively. We are aware that our people have always considered their system of court-practice so nearly perfect that it is not susceptible of improvement. It is our opinion, however, that this is a delusion, and perhaps one of the worst ones from which we suffer. It is a most singular fact, connected with our institutions, that the people hug to their breast many, even-barbarous, customs, thinking them to be perfection in their kind, and one of these is our administra- tion of t j ustice. 1 - Everybody knows, in the ﬁrst instance, that the real truth newer is told from the witness-stand. Especially is this true of the Beecher trial. Witnesses, before being permitted to testify, are sworn to “ tell the truth-, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” but they no more than take the stand and begin to exhibit their evidence, than they are compelled to break their oaths by the objections of lawyers and the rulings of Courts. How can a witness tell the whole truth ‘unless permitted to go on in his own way to tell his whole story? Take Mr. Henry C. Bowen as an illustration‘: Suppose that he "had been allowed to read and explain the writing known as the “ Woodstock letter;” can any one doubt that facts [would have been developed which would Here was a letter in which Mr. Bowen made the most serious charges against Mr. Beecher. It was this letter that led to the conﬁdences between Mr. Bowen and Mr. Tilton, and these again that led to the writing by the latter of the letter demanding Mr. Beecher’s*retirem‘ént from Plymouth Church, of which Mr, Bowen was the bearer." This interview has been made a subject of investigation in the trial, and a part of Mr. Beecher’s defense rests upon this interview between himself and Mr. Bowen. Now that the facts which led to that interview are ruled out, the whole truth about it can never be learned by the jury. Their admission would also have explained clearly the reasons for the c_onduct_ of Mr. Bowen at that time, which now stands inexplicable. But there is another side to all this. The above illustrates a. point where the suppression of, a -part’ of the facts results in keeping back a part of the truth, which in this case it mayibe assumed was favorable to -Mr. Beecher. But there is another kind -of suppression that operates just the reverse of this. A fact, standing by itself, may be frequently so modiﬁed by antecedent or subsequent _events, ‘or by both, as to be entirely changed in its bearing. If-cut» off from these, itmay mean a great deal more than it would connected with them. Thus an act‘ may be stated, but the reasons that led to it suppressed. So, in either of these cases, the whole truth is not told; indeed the witness is not permitted to tell it, although. he is required, before beginning to testify, to make oath that he will do so. It seems to us that these practices should be remedied, and that witnesses should be allowed and required to tell all they know in the -iﬁrst instance, and should then he cross-examined to test the cor- -rectness of their stories. And, this leads to still another serious defect in our methods of administering justice, which is more forciblyillustrated in A Here the, entire The public is made the _ prosecutor, and is represented- by an 3' attorney, styled the prosecuting attorney. These oﬂicials proceed almost universally upon the theory that they are to secure the conviction and not the acquittal of those who are brought before them and charged with crime. Indeed, this is the result of their practice, since they endeavor by every possible mode to Hippress such testimony as is favorable to the defendant. crimes of which they are not guilty, and suﬂer the disgrace of imprisonment unjustly on this very account. Especially is this true of the many poor persons, to defend whom pro- perly requires the expenditure of large sums of money, which they do not have, while pitted against them are the whole power and wealth of the State, besides, frequently, the influ- ence and wealth of those who suppose they have been injured by the defendants.‘ It is not a too severe criticism of this practice to brand it as barbarous, simply, and as utterly unworthy of, and a dis- grace to, the enlightenment of this day and age. All trials for all causes, especially all trials for criminal causes, should be conducted purposely to arrive at the truth. I There should . not be two sides to any case. All trials should be conducted by the attorney for the public, whose duty should be not to secure convictions, butto establish the facts. If his eﬂorts lean to either side, they should lean to that of the persons on trial, because, being charged with crime, the influence of public opinion is against them in its effect upon the jury. It is clear that an immense revolution would be effected were all our court proceedings based upon these principles of public justice. At least, if it must be considered that there are two sides’ before a court in an inquiry into any cause, civil or criminal, they should both be represented by a public oﬂicer, and not by private counsel on one side. If it is held" that a person is innocent until found guilty, then he should have the same means and equal opportunities to establish his innocence as those used against him have to establish his guilt. Not to have these is to have entirely unequal conditions between the contesting parties. Even in civil cases trials before courts and juries would be diminished fully one half if people were required to bring their causes for action before a public tribunal to be adjudicated wholly by public oﬂicials. Private counselors are the real cause of the larger part of civil actions. They live from their prac- tice, and they induce their clients to bring actions when they know they have no case, or, having a case, that they have no competent proof. When we look over the country, and see the great num- I ber of lawyers, courts and court oﬂicials, and then calculate the expenditure necessary to support them, a sum total is presented entirely beyond common acceptance. Some years ago the costs of _civil actions in one of the Western States were calculated and compared with the amount of judgments recovered, when the balance was largely against the latter. ’We have no doubt the same would prove true everywhere. It seems to us that this is a sweeping condemnation of the wholesystem, because, if true, it then costs the public more to support their courts than is recovered by their practice. ZioURNALisT1o HONOR. It is the almost universal custom among editors in this country to say whatever they please derogatory to, or in abuse of, any dew and unpopular doctrine, and to refuse to print any and all replies or defenses. Some weeksago the Sun contained a lengthy editorial of this class from which we selected a single paragraph, and made, as we thought, a very temperate reply. Of course it was not printed, nor did we expect that it would be. The Sam can publish long dissertations, characterizing the morality and tendency of free love, giving its own ideas of it, but it cannot afford to publish a plain statement of it as it is held by its advocates to be, which shows clearly that i.t is endeavoring to cover up the real issue, and by so doing to keep women under the control of legal and slave love; or, in other words, sub- servient to man, sexually. The following is the communi- cation referred to: S ' WHAT is THE LOGICAL INFERENCE? To the Editor of the Su-n»—In_ the Sun of this morning I ﬁnd the following in an editorial entitled “ The Road Toward Free Love :” * Theire really is only one logical result of breaking down the rigid restraints which the experience and custom of _de- cent society impose, and Victoria Woodhull has reached it~ and planted‘ herself on the unsavory conclusion. For her audacity in following up her premises’ so 10 belly. and will- ‘ ingly accepting the conclusion, she _so far eserves a much higher respect than those who enjoyed the loose practices yet dared not consort withher in their ultimation. If a re‘- ligious and spiritual excuse can be found for promiscuous kissing,"s'o also a like warrant may be reasoned out, or" rather, in the Brooklyn language, felt out, for what such kissing is apt and pretty sure to lead to. ’ Whatever may be the “logical result” at which this hints, there can be no doubt about the logical inference that is conveyed. While thanking you for the personal refer- ence, I must beg ‘to dispute your inference, and I do this in behalf of my sex, against the innate purity and virtue of whom this inference is directed. You say, virtually, that if free love were the rule of society, that promiscuous- ness would follow as the “logical result.” With this I take distinct issue, and aﬂirm that such a ‘result is not possible of woman’s nature. The practice of free love would be its substitution "for the slave- love that now exists. It would relieve the world of all the commerce that is now enforced against the will of woman, and of all, unwilling child-bearing that spreads misery, vice Doubtless many persons are convic‘.ed of j and crime broadcast over the world. Those who can see in the advocacy of free-love a greater scope for debauchery only, do not see the issue at all for which its advocates con- tend. This class of people, however, do not insult these advocates‘ only, but also universal -womanhood; since,‘ they say, in substance, that if free love werethe rule, woman would be less pure, less virtuous than now. I)o the op- posers of free love ever stop to, think that purity and virtue are innate in the individual, and not a result of the ob- servance of a law; that they are natural, and not legal qualities? ?’_ I undertake to maintain that a free and independent womanhood would never marry for a home or position, or sell itself in prostitution; and I lay this before the conscience of every pure woman, and ask eachto hear me out in it, and by so doing defend themselves against this attack made upon all women. - The difﬁculty now is that woman is virtually compelled , to barter her sex in distasteful marriage, when the other kind does not‘ present itself in time, or else in prostitution for support. I venture to say that not one woman in a hunidred—-nay, not one in a thousand — would endure un- desired comnierce if all women were equally protected and supported as Jesus taught, in brotherly and sisterly love, having all things common. This is the Christian doctrine, although it is fashionable to follow it in theory only, now- adays. Of course, so long as the teachings of Jesus are repudiated and competition is the rule of society, woman being denied her equal part within the same, she must and will revenge herself upon society by sacriﬁcing her innate sense of virtue and purity to obtain her equal share of the supports of life; but once let her assume an equal position with man, and no such vicarious course would be even seemingly necessary for her to follow. Iii conclusion, I commend these questions to mothers, wives and daughters: Do you see if there were no slave-love in the world that you would be happier, purer and more virtuous than you can possibly be while your love is con- trolled bylaw or custom or any other thing? And do you not also see that all love must be free; while that which purports to be love, which is not free, is not love but lust? VICTORIA C. Wooi)nuLL. 50 Bnoxn smear, N. Y., April 19, 1875. ;__;Q 4 V C THE BEECHER TRIAL. The evidence in this case is very nearly completed. The rebutting testimony will probably be ended to-day——Tuesday —after which the sur-rebuttal, which will necessarily be brief, will be offered, and then will come the great eﬁforts of I the lawyers. It is understood that Mr. Evarts will sum up for Mr. Beecher so far as to fully review the evidence and place it properly before the jury, while General Porter will descant upon the personal portion, the position, relation, and inﬂu. once’ of Mr. Beecher. Mr. Beach, it is also understood, will do the whole of Mr. Tilton’s case. The most brilliant efforts of which each of these eminent men is capable may be ex- pected on this occasion. Since our last issue there have been some unexpected de- nouements, which may have important bearings upon the result. -Mr. Tilton, very unexpectedly, called Mr. Bowen, who testiﬁed to some facts about the delivery of the original letter from Tilton to Beecher, which were ﬂat contradictions of Mr. Beecher. Mr. Tilton also called Mrs. Woodhull and Colonel Blood, --who, after being in attendance for four days, upon each of which it was expected that they would be placed upon the stand, were dismissed without being called to testify. In rebuttal there is but little scope for. testimony, as it can be conﬁned to special points from which the cross-examination cannot depart. It is difficult, perhaps, to determine the reasons that operated ﬁrst to call, and after- - ward to dismiss them; but, doubtless, it was considered that their testimony would be damaging to both si ies. But having being dismissed by the plaintiff without ex- amination, Mrs. Woodhull is now subpcened by the defend- ant to appear and produce “ all letters, books, papers and documents, in any way relating to any matter. of. difference between Mr. Tilton and Beecher.” In-our opinion, Mr. Til- ton having opened the door for conflicting testimony by put- tingMr. Bowengupon the stand, without knowing exactly ‘= W" what his evidence would be, committed a sad blunder by" gave notice to the defendant that he. was fearful, and the de- fendant has taken advantage of this to call us_ himself._ I V Could we have gone upon the -stand and toldthe‘ whole story as we know it, there would have been some satisfac- tion; but to be put upon the stand when there is‘ no oppor- tunity to testify to anything save what the party calling may desire, is a limitation at once annoying and most unsatisfac- tory. We shall see. - ._ .34 w , THE RIGHT SPIRIT . In the Irzfslt World for April 17 there is an able and ex- haustive editorlal of four columns, entitled “Worldliness of the Church,” in which it is manifestly shown that the true spirit of Christianity-—thc simplicity of early Christians ——is ignored by the Church, and that pomp, form and cere- mony have taken its place—-the spirit has departed, leaving nothing but empty form. We excerpt’ the following to show the general drift of the article: calling, and then dismissing us Without examination. It’ ¢._. ~l—."'-_._4§ 6 woonnutt. a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. wail rm Erninzence, Cardinal McC mkcy, introduce among: us the old world st; In and fashion ‘I’ It would seem this isto 1 be. immediately after the fact of his elevation to that dig- nity was made known. 9. pair of spleiidl-’i black horses and a magniﬁcent coach bearing his coat-of-arms were ordered for him. '1 he costwas: ‘ Coach .............. .................... ..a3.oeo:' Two horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 72,000 Harness . . . . ..— .......... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 500 Total . . . . . . . . . . . .......... . . $5,500 Five thousand ﬁve hundred dollars for a parade equipagel As much as a poor workingman, at $10 a week, could make in eleven years. And the average ‘workingman at that same has to feed a wife and four or ﬁve children and try to keep the landlorrlha sheriff from the door, too. Well. if in all this the simple faithful have_not.hing to gain, “society,” at least, will have some cause to rejoice. ' pl‘ 4 Ir “DAWN VALCOTZR COMMUNITY.” To Mr Rnsraorun AND ESTEEMED FRIENDS, ‘VICTORIA. TENNIE AND COL. BLOOD: I end you our new circular, containing my invitation and offer of all these beautiful lands as aifree gift for a com- munitylsuccess and for reconstruction. Please read Mrs. Shipman’s history of the past failure and you will know the plain, honest truth. My statement in the circular is vir- tually an offer to you for this great work, so that the world may have a. community of the right stamp. Without reserve I offer the estates. and hope you will count them your home, and grant your efficient aid and control. I , Believing the course you advocate is on the side of virtue, honesty and truth, I appeal to you. Will you give these'Vob- jects and aims your personal attention. Will you be our pillar of strength against wrong and to favor the right. 1_ will answer questions and cheerfully give information. I am very truly-yours, URBEN SHIPMAN, ‘ Box 0. S., Wincoski, Vermont. COMMENTS. It will be seen from this proposition that Mr. Sliiprnan is apparently in earnest in his desire to have a. community formed upon his property, since he now proposes to give it unconditionally for that purpose.‘ It is not our place to judge of the right or the wrong of the movement that has failed. Undoubtedly there was misunderstanding on both sides.’ This Offer of Mr. Shipman goes a great way, how- ever, to establish his honesty of purpose, let the misunder- standing be what it may. ~We have a well-founded convic- tion that Mr. Shipman’s desire to have his property used for community purposes will be gratiﬁed, though he may have to wait awhile patiently for sucha consummation. -15 A 7 gr HOME TALK. BY J. H. NOYES. -We are making a great present to the world at great cost to ourselves, and that present is, the liberty to think and speak about marriage as about other subjects. Hitherto. :marriage has been considered beyond the reach of discussion ; it has not been allowable to think that there could; be any serious wrong in it. There has been. the same kind of feeling about its sacredness that there is in the Old countries about kings. And what is curious, this idea. of the unapproachable sacredness of marriage is kept up in full force among people who are practically dislcyai to it. How many do we know that are ﬁghting behind the fortiﬁcations of that institution, ﬁring away at us’ with ammunition belonging to it, and yet, practically, are utterly disloyal to ma.rriage--more so than we are. ’ . . The really good object of marriage may bestated as the productionof family blessings. There is a certain amount or courting. kissing, embracing, amatory conversation, sexual intercourse, begetting, bearing, nursing and educating chil~ dren, all of which come under the general head of family -blessings. I "accept it as the natural, legitimate business of human» nature to produce these blessings. ,But the question .’_is, how to produce them of the very best ‘quality, and in the greatest" quantity. Can they be best produced by families in pa.irs,£ or by larger partnerships? We will -assume that in each case theobject is the same, and that the estimation and appreciation of the object is the same ;‘ and then the simple, practical question remains, which is the best way to secure this object; by dotting the world over with little families consistingof pairs, oriby larger associations? Perhaps there has not been experiment enough in larger associations to settle the question; but people assume that it is to be done in pairs. I consider that as unwise as it would be to say that all the business in New York city must be done in ﬁrms ofgtwo.' As- human. happiness depends in at great measure on these family blessings, I believe that a vastly greater amount of happiness could be producedby large cor- porations, than by individual pairs. The world must have liberty to test this question; it must have liberty to try all sorts ‘of families, and not be conﬁned, to what may be called , the one-horse family. Itis just suclra problem as that of the railroads.“ We ‘have gotibeyond thinking that a’ one-horse wagon is all we can ride in ziwe A have conveyances nowadays which will carry six,or"s'ev'en’ hundred. people at once; and the world must certainly have liberty to ﬁnd out which com- . binations-are bet for producing family blessings. We. are presenting the world with that liberty at our own cost—-the liberty to think, try exper/iments,_and discuss this great subject of the production of family blessings, without any holy horror of new inventions. Vfe shall have to stand and take thethrashing of the whole world in this matter un- till we get that liberty and can present it to mankind. Every malicious.whips_ter can get up and give us a castigaticn f.or heresy, corruption, licentiousness and all that sort of thing. But we will notbe discouraged; we shall have this liberty,’ andshall give‘ it to the world. It cost Paul a great deal more than we shall lose, to present to the Gentile world the liberty of the gospel.and.of being saved from Judaism. He had to be whipped and stonedrfor daring to give the world the lib- ‘erty to believe in Christ.-==-Oneida. Circular. BLOOMINGTON. January 24. 1875. I am sorry that my articles upon children's rights disgust- ed a few of your correspondents. I never read the honest thoughts of any reformer with disgust. If a person sincerely believes in anything, they have the right to advocate their doctrines through pulpit, press and rostrum, and the only weapons we should use against them should be by means of free speech and free press. 2 , Thevteachers of the United States, who represent advanced ideas, have unanimously adopted the Kindergarten method of instruction as the true method of developing the youth. But the sum and substance of the Kindergarten system is to give intelligent answers to all quéstions prompted by nature. But how shall we get at nature in its purity? Let us suppose a. case under this system: One of my critics is given charge of 500 children in their infancy. She has assistants enough to see that all their wants, food and raiment, are furnished by thegovernment whence they came. She is to give them purely scientiﬁc knowledge, and no social. political or reli- gious rules are to be made until there is an absolute necessity for them. She is to give them a full knowledge of every part of their bodies. One part is not to be called clean and a.nother*unclean, but every part is to be considered beauti- ful and good for the purposes for which it was created. Everything goes well. They master the rudiments of their education. Hereditary weakness is partially corrected by a thorough system of gymnastics, and hereditary dishonesty by mutual trust and love of justice. They have passed into -their teens, full of life, joy and happiness. The modest teacher has thus far been able to discharge her duties with- out " disgust.” But now ;a. change comes over her proteges. The young masters begin to show unmistakable signs of man- hood, and the misses are not slow to reciprocate. Only one of two courses is now open to the prudent teacher. She must stamp out all this spontaniety of affection; brand all sexual instincts as infamoiis, and enaci the legal rigmarole of license, marriage and divorce, or else she must allow Nature to take her Own course, and meet diiﬁculties as they arise. What; would some of these diiﬁculties be? First, probably, rape. From the nature of the case, there is no crime against ‘woman, as Woman, except rape. And this, we apprehend, would n.Ot prevail after a race of people had been properly generated. But wherever it did take place it should be pun- ished by the most stringent penalties. The second diﬁiculty would probably be :1. too rapid inciease in the population. Now, when we look at the vast uncultivated regions of South America, Africa, Australia, and our Own country, when we think of the tons of produce hoarded from year to year to be speculated upon, we can easily see that the reason of squalor, destitution and want is not that there is not enough in the world, or that there are more than can be provided for, but because the necessaries of life are barbarously kept from the poor and recklessly squandered by the rich. I I It would be well, however, under the circumstances. for the diﬁident teacher, upon the occasion of the first birth, to gather her large family around her and give them some speciﬁc rulesand wholesome ad vice how to keep the popula- tion within easy means of support. reminding them that they are to be self-sustaining after reaching the years or accounts- bility. These rules for checking the too rapid increase in population should exclude any practice which would have a tendency to weaken either parents or offspri-ng. I will now notice more speciﬁcally some points in the un- salacious doctor’s criticism : “ My soul rebels against the idea of love and sexual gratiﬁcation being considered as one.” And yet she never knew of mutual love between man and woman that did not result in sexual gratiﬁcation where legal hindrances and Madam Grundy did not prevent it. “The tree must not be sapped at the roots if you would. have per- fect fruit in their time.” I do not wish to make the chaste , doctor blush,‘but I must show her how the tree of youth is sapped, girdled and scorched at the present time. Not one young man in ten but what is guilty of 'maturbation before reaching his ﬁfteenth year. ' Added to this are buggary, sodomy, etc. The young ladies are a shade better, but still had enough. Now, I propose in the place of these ruinous, unnatural practices, which now disgrace our youth, to sub- stitute a moderate, natural, healthful. use of their sexual Organs. J. I. F. I , Amnxnmm, New York. April 25, 1375. llfy dear and calolavnt Siste'r-—-Igam glad every day that I live to see the banner of social freedom wave, and thatawoman’s hand lifted it to the breeze, and that she planted the staﬂ in the hearts of fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters of earth. ' M ' V Whatv though, they -bleed, L agonize and i die. . Have not- hearts bled, hopes been crushed,‘an‘d «countless millions of lives been laid upon their burning altar of legalized selﬁshness these thousands of yearmand woman not permitted to pro- ' test; mothersdaily compelledrby law to witness the nailing ~- of their sons to the cross,an.d thcprostituting and ravishing of their daughters, till the smoke of their consuming life ﬁlls the atmosphere through all the grades ofhuman life! I prayGOd.» the tocsin may ’:,not._cease its-trumpet tones, till every child of earthpsliali knoiwfthe wayof life. i -- Yours truly, ' Mes. A. E." l3RowNE. I _ BIG INVENTION. Lloyd, the famous mapman, who‘ made all the maps for General Grant, and the Union army, certiﬁcates of which he published, has just invented a way-Of'getting a relief. plate ’ from steel so as to print Lloyd’s Map of American Continent, --showing from ocean to ocean-—On one entire sheet of bank note paper. 40x50 inches‘ large, on a lightning press, "and ‘colored, sized, and varnished so as to stand washing, and mailing. for 30 cents, and plain for tourists 25 cents,’ or mount- ed with rollers ready for the wall, and delivered post-paid anywhere. in the world, on receipt of 50 cents. This map. shows the whole United States and Territories in a group, from surveys to 1875,. with a million piaceson it, such as towns,~c'1ties. villages,-:mou‘ntains, lakes, rivers, isireams, gold mines,_railway stations, etc. _This‘map-should, he, in every house. . 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HOWARD, M.D., President. E. 1). Wilson, Secretary. I ' @“'Send Austin Kent one dollar for -his book and pam- phlets on Free Love and Marriage. He has been sixteen years physically helpless, conﬁned to his bed and chair. is poor and needs the money. You may be even more bene- ﬁted by reading one of the boldest, deepest, strongest, clear- est and most logical writers. You are hardly well posted on this subject till you have read Mr. Kent. You who are able add another dollar or more as charity. His address, AUSTIN KENT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44 DR. R. P. FELLOWS.-—-'i‘his distinguished magnetic physician stands to-day one of the most successful spiritual physiciansiof the age. He is now treating the sick in every State of the Union by his Magnetizr-.d Powder, Wilh asuccess which is truly re- markable. M. Heasley, Wheeling, W. Va... says: “ I can now hear the clock tick and strike for the ﬁrst time in three years.” T. 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Doubleday, 684 Sixth avenue, N. Y.~ “ 4; 4 W AN hon_est old gentleman from arural county, who came .. down to New York to spend the Sabbath with friends, wa . asked by one ofthenii whatthe people up his way thoughtof th_e;Bee‘chersca'nda.l. He replied that he never tried it. and. , . didn’t know anything about it"-V-that he andall nigeigﬁbog-‘g L burnedkercséne: ‘~ L “May 22, 1875., “ OUR BOY ?’ AND “ OUR GIRL.’—’--This is the title of -5. pair "' pf very;.;beautiful _oil chromos placed upon our table. They.‘ are foompanion pictures. '.the,:subjects' being as little boy" and 'g'ir1; Thelittle boy; with chubbyface and curly. locks, ilooks; really,the p._eIjsoniﬁoation.of a fond mother’s hopes, while the, g91<1en misses of ~"1.‘°.1i‘.°“1!”i§“9r.-filll .8ra9.efs11y~over her deu- cate littlepface, neck and shoulders. By avcloseroxamination. ‘ -'.'e’v' ..,m.. ,........._—,D..,. «.5 ...4 . ., -............,...._--_,». , _ - V. ‘..ns..w..n.1.s_—.;J—. .-.4r._., _, ""7 ~ - _ , ,. .. , .2 .- :~r- ;-.-,- .1-:_-;,:.i§:s-u:‘___, \ .\ i". .. :r_ / Kl.‘ ..., .... -3»..- . _.:.-.-‘;,..V. , b1\ A are- = ; . . . . . , MAQLQ sent free. A Address, Mayra,“ 1875. 7 owoonuusts ..cL.s.s,L1N°s wE_;EyK,L,v.‘ if: V BUREAU or QCRRESPCNDENCE. T Or THE PANTARCHY. The increasing number of letters in respect to the nature, purposes and prospects of the T Pantarchy. suggests the propriety of organiz- ing a bureau for the purpose of answering such and similar inquiries. There are two other kinds of-letters: the ﬂrst touching social diﬂiculties, and asking for advice or consolation; the others asking information on matters of reform. spiritualism, unitary life, the new language, and the like. To serve this great want, THE BUREAU OF CORRESPONDENCE will undertake to answer -ANY QUESTION (admitting of an answer) upon ANY SUBJECT. If the question is of a kind which the Bureau is unable to answer, the fee will be returned. The fees charged are: For a'reply on postal card to a single inquiry, 10 cents; for a letter of advice, information, or sympathy and con- solation, 25 cents. In the latter case, the let- ter of inquiry must contain a stamp, for the answer. Newspapers inserting this circular, can avail themselves of the aid of the Bureau without charge. A ' STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. THEODORA FREEMAN SPENCER, JOHN G. ROBINSON. M. D., ASENATH C. MCDONALD, , DAVID HOYLE, - Board of Managers. Address Mr. David White, Soc. B. C.~P., 75 W. has St., New York. PROSPECTUS. WOODHULL St CLAll‘LIN'S WEEKLY. It advocates a new government in which -the people will be their own legislators, and the oiﬁcials the executors of their will. It advocates, as parts of the new govern- ment- 1. A new political system in which all per- sons of adult age will participate. 2. A new land system in which every in- dividual will be entitled to the free use of a proper proportion of the land. 3. A new industrial system, in Which each ,individual will remain possessed of all his or her productions. 4. A new commercial system in which “cost.” instead of “demand and supply,” will determine the price of everything and abolish the system of proﬁt-making. 5. A new financial system, in whichithe government will be the source. custodian and transmitter of money, and inwhich usury will have no place. 6.._A new sexual system, in which mutual consent, entirely free from money or any in- ducement other than love, shall be the govern- ing law, individuals being left to make their Own regulations; and in which society, when the individual shall fail, shall be responsible for, the proper rearing of children. 7'. A new educational system, in which all children born shall have the same advantages of physical, industrial, mcntal and moral cul- ture, and thus be equally prepared at ma- turltv to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. All of which will constitute the various partsof a new social order, in which all the "human rights of the individual will be as- sociated to form the harmonious organization of the peoples into the grand human family, of which every person in the world will be a ‘ member. Criticism and objections specially invited. The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday. Subscription price, $3 per year; $1.50 six months; or lUc single copy, to be had of any Newsdealer in ‘the world. who can order it from the following General Agents: The American News Co., New York City; . The New York News Co., New York City; The National News Co., New York City; The New England News Co., Boston, Mass. ; Theilontral News Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; The Western News Co., Chicago, Ill. 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" Chambers street .... 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street 7.00 ‘ 1*‘ Jersey City ............... .. 9.15 3 11.15 3 1: Jersey Cit .....IIII'.IIII 7.20 “ «- ’§.‘.’i5r‘;‘r’.‘.‘””“’.'".":.":::::::: 13:32 .. .. 333 « « r’%.‘.’.€r‘.‘.‘r‘3.‘*" “ """ {£2 3 .....E””"’.'.*’.L' Lv Susi)'ension"Brldge; ...... .. 1.10 . M. 1:35 P. M. Lv Suspension-Brldg'e::f.::: 1:35 “ 9.50 . in A! Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.45 “ 2.55 “ Ar Hamilton .............. .. 2.55 " 11.20 “ -‘ London ................... .. 5.35 5.55 “ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a m. “ Detro1t..._ ................ .. 9.40 10.00 “ “ Detroit ................ .. 10.00 “ 7.00 ‘ :: .(I3at.l(iks(vn .............. 13.53 am 31680 A. M. réslckson ............... .. A. M 13.30 “ cago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . ‘ icago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . “ 8.45 p in Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .‘ [-930 A M. 11.50 A. M, Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A M 530 a n1 Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . .' . . _ 8-55 1» M . .. Ar Prairie du Chcin . . . . . . .. 8.55 p m Ar‘La Crossc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 11.50 P M. 7.05 A. M Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7.05 a In Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 P M Ar St. Paul . . . . . . ... . . . . . .. 7.00 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A M Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M. A: Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.40 r. in Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. M. .. “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ .. , “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 "‘ . Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 11.00 P. M. Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 M. . “ Columbus....'. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M. “ Columbus .............. .. 6.30 “ . “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M. “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ar Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. no . Ar Burlington ............ .. 7.00 P.» M. “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M- “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A. M. . ‘: ghayenne ......... .. ghciyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 1:.‘ M. . 0 I I I - I O I‘ '' coo c o - o o o Q Q o O - Q n o - cl - on _ “ S§n er3~1r'ra.'rié1s'r-Jr‘. . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. “ SagneFni-ancisco ....... .. " " Ar Halesburg ................ .. 6.40 A M Ar Galesburg .............. .. 4.45 P M . “ uincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15 “ . “ uincey . . . . . . . . , . . . . .. 9.45 “ -“ St. Jose ii ..... ........ .. 10.00 “ “ t. Joseph..... ....... .. 8.10 A. M .. “ Kansas ity .............. .. 10.40 . M. “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.25 “ .. “ At,chison,..,.... ,... 11.00 “ “ Atchison .............. .. 11.17, “ :1 Iﬁeavenworth .............. .. A‘ Iﬁeavenworth .......... .. 12.40 noon. ’ enver. .. ............... .. . M enver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. _, Through Sleeping Car Arrangements 9.15 A. M.--Day Express from Jersey City (daily excegt Sunday), with Pullznan’s Drawing-Room Cars and connectin at_ Suspension Bridge With Pullman’s P ace Sleeping Cars, arriving. at Chicago 8.00 p. m the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there. A 7.202. M.»-Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullma.n’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs throu h to Cihioago without change arriving there at 8.00 a. m., 'ving passengers am le tim f b akf t t k the morning trains toall points West, Northwest and outhwest. P 6 or re as an , a e r CONNECTIONS OF ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF Michigan Central & Great Western Railways. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-05-22_09_25
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-05-22_09_25
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 26 (May 29, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2073
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-05-29
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: "“'“"“‘~ “ “ i”‘’‘ L PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAM_M:ELEI> LIV:nIs"i ‘K BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.‘ vol. IX.—No. 26.—wi;oie No. 234. NEW YORK, MAY— 29, 1875. PRICE TEN. CENTS. WHAT IT SHOWS. TUSCOLA, Ills., April 17, 1875. Dear Weeklz/—What a variety of opinion there is ﬂoating about concerning the “ great trial of reputations ” in Brook- lyn, and all of it more or less sincere, though founded to a great extent on prejudice. The current opinion of the great; world is that Beecher is guilty of the .charge brought against him, and that Theodore Tilton’s career and character/make no difference, do not mitigate the offense in the least on the part of Beecher; for does not the great world furnish immu- nity for men in such a case, and bear with crushing weight upon the woman always? I think it noteworthy, to say the least, that the majority of those who hold fast to the idea of Beecher’s innocence are members of evangelical churches, and they invaria...
Show more"“'“"“‘~ “ “ i”‘’‘ L PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAM_M:ELEI> LIV:nIs"i ‘K BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.‘ vol. IX.—No. 26.—wi;oie No. 234. NEW YORK, MAY— 29, 1875. PRICE TEN. CENTS. WHAT IT SHOWS. TUSCOLA, Ills., April 17, 1875. Dear Weeklz/—What a variety of opinion there is ﬂoating about concerning the “ great trial of reputations ” in Brook- lyn, and all of it more or less sincere, though founded to a great extent on prejudice. The current opinion of the great; world is that Beecher is guilty of the .charge brought against him, and that Theodore Tilton’s career and character/make no difference, do not mitigate the offense in the least on the part of Beecher; for does not the great world furnish immu- nity for men in such a case, and bear with crushing weight upon the woman always? I think it noteworthy, to say the least, that the majority of those who hold fast to the idea of Beecher’s innocence are members of evangelical churches, and they invariably with one voice protest that there is not a particle of evidence in the whole case against that supposition. They take fully as unreasonable a course as the Chicago Intern Ocean, whose ed- itorials are simply amusing to read for their dogged persist- ence in calling black white and vice verse. I I confess that I am staggered by thesublime swearing of the great preacher, in the face of reason and evidence enough of his guilt to hang him a dozen times. I have conversed with men and women of all persuasions, from Catholic to Atheist, down through all grades and shades of profession a. and belief, and I do not ﬁnd a soul but admits strong circum- stantial evidence of Beecher’s.guilt, except the zealous church , members of the evangelical orders, and many of them admit the evidences but prefer to accept Beecher’s explanation for ’ the facts in the case, because they think that the interests of ‘religion are at stake in this trial and the defendant must be upheld at all hazards. A lady writing me from Boston says she believes Beecher guilty, and from the standpoint of Mr. and Mrs. Tilton’s letters she thinks his guilt doubly damned. Since then Bessie Turner has lifted the roof oﬁ the Tiltonian sanctuary, and we are led to believe that all that glitters is not gold. Those gushing letters were pretty and sweet, yet they hinted at the eternal skeleton, though its closet door was gracefull >- draped with rose-colored damask. VVe must not permit our fond imagination, conjured up by those tender epistles, to blind us to the fact in evidence, that Theodore Tilton was in the disgusting marital habit of snubbing his wife here, there and everywhere—in presence of servants, strangers and children; that he frequently made the sacred hearth-stone too hot for Elizabeth. And we can infer from the ‘hints ‘dropped in her letters that she was only a. woman after all, and not the “ ecstatic ” angel she has been made out by both _ plaintiff and defendant. Would any one suppose that I hold in my heart a beautiful ideal of true marriage, or any thought of possible sanctity of home and family? I presume not, since it falls to my pen to depict the stern reality of existence as it manifests itself to me on‘ all sides constantly. A person of the masculine per- suasion told me the other day that the idea he had drawn from my letters to the WEEKLY was, that I am a. man-hater. I dislike to have it so set down, because no woman can hold a higher estimate of true manhood than I do. As to whether I’m a “man-hater” or not, I say, with Anna Dickinson, it depends altogether on the man. I do hate with all my soul the pampered vices of men that make degraded slaves of women, and above all do I detest the marital tyrannies of men—the mean habits of assumption and dictation they acquire over ‘their wives after marriage, 1 to say nothing of their sisters under the paternal roof. If I could ﬁnd a man so self-respecting that he would cut his throat before he would snub his wife, no matter how ignorant and exasperating she might be, I’d fall down and kiss the hem of his garment. The more ignorant a man’s wife is, the clearer would the chivalry of his nature shine if he desisted from that detestable habit of snubbin g, so common to married men. l’ve’ heard men at their own ﬁresides and tables, in the presence of guests, servants and children, speak to their wives in such a way that all the hot blood in my veins has boiled with righteous indignation, and 1 would have justified and gloried in the wife’s fair conception of the law of self- defense if she had thrown a cup of coffee in her “lord and master’s ” face, instead of letting the cruel tears of a deeply wounded sensibility spring to her eyes.‘ - And what is the underlying cause of such a mockery of the J _ _,,',._e,a‘rly,'hcpes of wedded bliss? We see that the vulgarity of such relatioiisis not conﬁned ' tothe poor’, the lowly and the ignorant, but it crops out in high and reﬁned households—in the family circle of sentimental and “ ecstatic ’? Christians, lovers of art and poetry, popular litemteurs, whose rosy- rounded sentiments of love breathe of all the harmonics of the spheres. My opinion is that the “ harmonics of the spheres ” is a myth, and that there is just as much miserable mixing up and» everlasting clashing going on with the spheres as with that epitome of a sphere, the “ sacred human family.” Familiarity is sure to breed contemptl There is too much unrestrained familiarity in families. Yet as the family is constituted how is it possible to avoid it? Parents and children mix,together like cattle; they eat, drink, sleep and perform all sacred personal duties almost in each others face and eyes, and if there is a soul so highly attuned as to with- stand the degrading inﬂuence of such familiarity, I should like to find that soul. With husband and wife such familiar- ity is of a doubly vitiating character. If no man is a hero to his valet, most assuredly no man is such to the wife of his bosom, neither is she a heroine to her lord. But her deep aifectional love, such as a mother’s for her child, outlives the decay of her respect for what was once the exalted god of her fond imagination, throned in the fairyland of love’s young dream. But when Adonis loses his respect for his nymph, there is not affection enough left in his soul to prevent his snubbing her in public. No matter how sweet, how rosy bright, how clear blue and golden, dewy and fresh and fragrant was the morning of love, the disgusting familiarities of the licensed riot of marriage turn into a hot, sultry, arid, brazen noontide, a dull, chilly miasmatic twilight; and the end is a man’s and a woman’s heart full of graves of disappointed hopes, over which the hard realities of the daily struggle sweep like a deadly sirocco of the desert, blasting every green thing, and drying up all the well-springs in the soul. 0, the marital deserts along life’sborders! 0, if a thousand Bessie Turners could be permitted to lift the roofs oil’ a thousand marital charnel-houses, that outside are plastered deep with conventional whitewash! What sights and bad odors would escape! What an army of restless ghosts hunt- ing “ soft spots” to sleep in and making night hideous with their wanderings upstairs and down! Husbands and wives who have become so degraded from their pristine glory of love that they do not hesitate to quarrel and snub each other in the presence of strangers and the children of their love, or lust, as the case may be, when, in those halcyon days when love sang a siren song in their enamored cars, they would have cruciﬁed themselves ere they would have let out the innate devil. But the devil is in us all,.and if we make a contract with another soul" to live as one for all time, what else canwe look for but that the grossly familiar relation will sooner or later breed contempt and become a soul wither- ing blight? People may mutter to me about the “ sanctiﬁed relation ”.and the “ sacredness of the family,” a wife “beau- tiful and gloriﬁed in her womanly faithfulness, ministering like an angel to the father of her children and her holy house- hold cares”—to me that sort of talk is nothing but the most disgusting cant, while the realities of the case are what they are; while the state of things in myriad households is such a sad, sad history of dead and buried darlings of a hopeful soul, foully murdered by that same insatiate familiarity, which is as sure to breed contempt as a dead carcass is to exhale contagion. 1 I speak what I do know, for I read the history of sham readiiy, and its secret places are open to me, though to the casual observer its other name is sanctity, and its secretness passes for sacredness to those who would prefer the worship of a golden calf to a knowledge of a bitter truth. Let not one falsehood be suﬂered to go undiscovered, let not one family altar reared upon broken hopes and crushed hearts be suifered to perpetuate its sham and hypocrisy in the name of religion anylonger; let the roofs come oil’ all the households where a lie is lived, for the sake of appearances and for the mainte- nance of “ Christian morality”——another name for Brooklyn corruption. The world is at a stage when it can bear a full revelation of all the disgusting truth that underlies this social cesspool, for only the truth shall make us free. Brother Talmage and his ilk may make a. pretense of being ashamed of developments, and sigh for a lodge in some vast wilderness where clerical gentlemen can have full swing for “ true inwardness,” and “ paroxysmal” indulgence undis- turbed by any ‘unfortunate publicity ; though, at the same 1. time, no penor tongue is so fertile as Brother Talmage’s tongue and pen in nasty language wherewith to characterize the Beecher business. The world should thank Brother T. for his just estimate of the affairgiand for doing the subject ample justice in his own peculiair style, much that of a Bil- lingsgate ﬁsh-monger in ye olden time. But if the rev. gent would only draw more ﬁtting co nclusions from the obscene drama daily enacted in Brooklyn, he might hope to achieve his evident purpose since the inc eption of the great scandal. and ride into popular favor in the “ City of Churches ” on the downfall of the Plymouth Pastor. .But Talmage will have to cultivate a. larger growth of heart and soul-intellect ere he can hope to live in the hearts of the people as Henry Ward Beecher has and does. Talmage is a captions bigot, a snarl- ing, snapping clerical cur, with about ‘as much conception of an eternal principle as a pig has i of purity. Yet, unlike the hog, who never looks up, Talmzag e looks up and aspires (?) to Beecher’s position in Brooklynl God alone knows the end from the beginning, and God has sent the advance guard to tell the people of the corruption s of the times, and ‘he has illustrated it with the Beecher‘ scandal, the odors of whose- offense rise to heaven. I speak: of God as though I were ac- quainted with him. I'm not; I use God where, perhaps, I should put truth as a principle. Early habit is strong. I God was a personality to me once, and I cannot keep the idea from cropping out. ’ To continue, I think we are to take this great social drama as a type of the whole social corruption, a beacon kindled on a hill to light up the surrounding; valleys of darkness. And only onetruth is evolved from it to my mind—the truth that love must be free ere lust be slaim at the feet of justice. The deadly wrongs, a result of love in bondage, wherein woman, the natural priestess, is made the slave, cry to heaven for vengeance; and truth’s plowsh are in Brooklyn shall yet overturn the whole social sub-strratuiii, ushering in an era of sexual purity that even Brother Talmage can contemplate without wishing suppressed; an era that only the prophets of the future dream of at this day and hour of the social re- volution. AHELEN NASH, . OBITUARY NOTICE. , . 1 Passed to the other life on March 27th, 1875, at Riverside, California, ANNIE DENTON CRID GE. In 1854 we united ourselves on; a non-compulsory basis, re. cognizing no authority of church or state to regulate our per. sonal relations. We have ever since, whether together or apart, been united by the closest ties of love and congeniality in all things, and are still thus united, her almost last words being “ Love is stronger than death.” From the age of about eighteen she was a determined lib- eralist in religion; she welcomed the phenomena of modern , Spiritualism at its ﬁrst appearance, and, soon after our union, became a “seeing medium ” under circumstances which left no room for doubt. About the same time, experimenting in the manner suggested-by the writings of Dr. Buchanan, her psychometric faculties were developed and quietly matured, principally, however, in the direction of science. She applied this faculty, assisted by Prof. Wm. Denton, her brother, to geology, astronomy, physio1ogY 3 and to the elucidation of these delicate relations of the brain and nervous system to the spirit which so far transcend ordinary scientific methods, But “ Chill penury repressed her noble rage ¢ And froze the genial current of her soul." Though rarely wanting necessaries of life, so called, we _could but rarely command the requisite leisure and external conditions for pushing these investigations to the extent ﬁe- served,—and still more rarely the means to publish them in the form desired, though many of her examinations have been published in the “ Soul of Things,” by Wm. Denton, Vol. I. and III. She considered psychometry, as she under- stood it, to be the connectingglink between Spiritualism and science, making the immortal and the spiritual not merely something to be learned from those who have passed the veil, but a part of ourselves now, placing us “ face to face ” with that life which even Spiritualists, for the most part, see only “through a glass darkly.” 5 In woman’s emancipation she took a deep interest, and was the first to lecture on that subject in the British Provinces as far back as 1855-8;‘ but she soon become rather tired of its merely external phases, and went to the root of the matter, or very near it, believing that to be thoroughvthe reform must commence at birth or before, and that it was even more _l . —.—~ ‘-_ﬁ3F;‘i‘(.; 7...,-,.._.<_¢_.-__ ..; ,.:_' in .. __\£,..,....__.,.,,._,,, 2 ‘\ WOODHULI. & CLAFLIN’S VVEEKLYZ May 26, 1878. 4-7 , . important to prepare women to exercise the suffrage judi- ciously than to obtain the suffrage itself. These views she de- sired to present to the Woman's Convention at Washinsztml in January, 1870, but was denied the ﬁfteen minutes requisite by the externalists who controlled it. One of W110!“ Ocoupillg more than that time “ gassing,” in order‘ that the gag might be kept on. But it is what they all must come to, and until the-essence of power is reached the forms are useless. The “Rights of Children” received hgr very early atten- tion, and she has written much on the subject in a frag- mentary Way. She had great power of teaching children at- tractively, and no lyceum, at which she could be present and speak, was a failure, for ever could be. Seeing the clumsy and absurdly inappropriate style, largely seasoned with . 01-thodoxy, in which nearly all children’s books are written, - she prepared a series of four volumes, to be followed by two more, but they are still unpublished. She has also written seiiéral stories for children, inculcating radical religious ideas, which were published in the Present Age. ‘ \ ,i .7“In personal freedom, she was, ever since I have known her, 2‘*.\noe_asurably a believer, but did not accept it in its fullest 'sign*i1,1,-mules until about 1869 or 1870. The illd‘usti'la1 condition of woman was with her a subject of earnest and iq,,g.ooutinued thought. Believing that occu- . pation omthe land was’the keystone of woman’s independ- V pﬁnce, she. with two children, left Washington in December, I 1870, for-Southern California, to engage in the raising of semi- tropical fruit and fruit trees. After waiting nearly two years for irrigation, she commenced active operations in the sping of 1873, but conditions incidental to a semi-pioneer life and ‘limited means placed obstacles in her way which it re- _quired considerable vitality to overcome. I visited her in I 1873-4, but returned East to obtain more means, and hurriedly came back in March last to ﬁnd her almost a skeleton from A long sickness, caused mainly by exposure and over-exertion. From ﬁrst to last she was cursed by the “misery of the isolated household,” whereby at least ﬁve-sixths of woman's labor in the household is worse than wasted. In the co-opera- tive household she would have recovered without difficulty had she ever been sick at all. But she yielded at last to the . force of conditions surrounding her, and the want of sulﬁ- cient and suitable maghetism from others. She now desires me to add that it “ was always her wish that no ties should bind where the spirit is not held by its kindred spirit, and no barrier separate those whose spirits are united, come what may. Freedom always, always free- dom, culminating in order, as it must. The order which is without freedom is but the order of death ; the beauty which has not freedom for its basis is the beauty of desolation, if such can be; and the life which is without freedom is but a shadow and a fraud on the giver of life, be that what it may. So may the grace which comes from the innermost soul of ‘ things cousecrate the efforts of all true souls which inhabit the physical form, as to render them impervious to criticism from those who live under the shadow of death, and enable them to stand erect in the fullness ’ of a noble life, and look back from a. better land to their earthly career without shame and without any regret. except that they could no. have done more for that gospel of love and freedom, which embodies the “salvation of humanity.” ALFRED CRIDGE. RIVERSIDE, Cal., May 2. 1875- TI-IE BROOKLYN - BUSINESS. As was stated in our last number, Mrs. Woodhull was subpcenaedlby the defense on Tliestlaypof last week by the process called in legal parlance" duces tecum, which means to produce papers, books, etc. In accordance with the re- quirement, she proceeded to Brooklyn on Wednesday, the 12th instant, and called at the head-quarters of the defense, where Mr. Beec‘ier’s lawyers were congregated. The_V (the lawyers) desired to have the letters delivered to them before going into court, so that they could learn their contents before introducing them; but she declined to deliver them for inspet-.t.ion unless compelled to do so under instructions from the court. The following will show the course taken: (From me Trz'.bunc.) INTEREST EXCITED BY MRS. WO0DHULL'_S PRESENCE AND WORDS. ' Hardly a day passes now in‘the_T‘llton-Beecher trial with- out producing a. surprise, or a dramatic incident, of some kind. «The court had just been called to order yesterday, and the plaintlﬁ”s counsel were on the point of calling Mr. Moulton to the witness chair, when Mr. Evarts interrupted them, saying that he was expecting some papers in regard to which he might wish to question Mr. Tllton, and that be pre- ferred not to have another witness put upon the stand until they came. Half an hour pa:-s(d. and the large audience began to grow very impatient, and to wonder what cause there could be for the delay. Suddenly, about 25 minutes before 12 o'clock, Mr. Shearman entered the court-room by the door leading from Chambers. Closely following him was a lady who was immediately recognized by many as Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. Expectltion had been excited by the understanding that she would be called for the defendant, and her sudden appearance created one of the most marked sensations that has occurred in the court-room since the trial bl-gill. Many rose to their feet and ﬁxed their eyes on Mrs. Woodhull. The counsel on both’sides turned in their chairs and looked at her. The jurymen smiled and whispered to one another, casting curious glances toward Mrs. Woodhull. Mr. Ssearmaii pushed his way rapidly through the crowded aisles, and Mrs, Woodhull kept close at his heels, appearing tn sur ‘ilk from the universal notice which she had attracted. I Mr. Shearman found a seat for herin the rear of the Ply mouth ddtegation. She was plainly attired in a dark purple dress, and wore a thick blue vail thrown back over her bonnet. Mr. Shearman stated that Mrs. Woodhull possessed letters aiwhivcih she declined to produce without’ -receiving instruc- ,1inna from the court. Judge Neilson declined to giveany .instruc.tious, and, after considerable discussion. ,Pl‘il1°.i,P9-11Y between Mr. Fullerton and Mr. Evarts, Mr. Shearman said: “Mrs. Woodhull, we call upon you for those letters of Mr. Tllton.” Mrs. Woodhull arose and came forwardquletly, and stood in the midst of the group of lawyers"chairs. Her face flushed, and she seemed to feel embarrassed by the steady staring of the audience. Mr. Evarts and Mr. Shear- man conversed with her in‘ low tones for several minutes. Mrs. Woodhull’s gestures showed that she was speaking very earnestly, and the result of the conference was awaited amid "dead silence in the court-room. The counsel for the plaintiff appeared to regard these proceedings with suspicion, and Mr. Fullerton asked Judge Neilson to inform Mrs. Woodhull that she was not called upon by the Court to produce the papers. Presently Mr. Shearman said that Mrs. Woodhull desired to say something to the Court. I Mrs. Woodhull then turned, and bowing to Judge Neilson. she spoke in a low voice, saying: “ Your honor, I have ‘a very few unimportant letters in my possession, and I feel that if they bring me in at this stage of the proceedings an explana- tion is due. They are letters which are entirely creditable to myself as well as the gentleman who wrote them. I have no disposition to keep them from any court of justice. But perhaps you are not aware—I cannot say you are not aware-— perhaps you do not remember that I have been imprisoned several times for the publication of this scandal. During that time my office was ransacked, and all my private letters and papers taken away. I have reason tobelieve that some of my letters are in the hands of the defense, aswell as of the prosecution. The very few unimpoxtant letters that are left in my possession can resultin no disadvantage to myself, and, of course, I do not wish to be held to act from‘ any thought of that nature. I am perfectly willing to give them with this explanation.” , This address was listened to with the strictest attention. Every eye was ﬁxed on Mrs. Woodhull, and people in the backparts of the room rose up to get a look at her. Her ‘voice trembled a little, and she ﬂushed very red at ﬁrst. Judge Neilson bowed, and when she had ﬁnished, said, «é Well.” . 5 Mrs. Woodhull then took out herlpocket-book, from which she produced several letters, which she handed to Mr. Shear- man. That gentleman smiled in a gratiﬁed way as he took them. Mr. Evarts put on his spectacles, and taking the let- ters from his junior counsel, carefully inspected them. Then they were handed all around among counsel for both sides. After a short conference with his colleagues Mr. Evarts said that he would not require Mr. Tllton to take the stand at that moment. The plaintiff's counsel objected to having the matter deferred, and Judge N eilson ﬁnally said that if the defendant’s counsel thereafter recalled Mr. Tllton they must have Mrs. Woodhull in attendance. Mrs. Woodhull remained in court only a few minutes after delivering the letters, seeming to be annoyed by the attention she attracted. (From the Herald.) The proceedings in the Brooklyn trial opened with an ex- traordinary scene yesterday moruing. It was half-past eleven before the business bsgan, The court-room was just com- foltably ﬁlled. About twenty ladies, including Mrs. Beecher, were in attendance. Several gentlemen, among the rest Mr. Robert Mackenzie, a. great shipbuilder of Dundee, Scotland, were seated beside his honor on the bench. During the idle half hour a low gossipy hum pervaded the court room. When it was half-past eleven a smartly dressed lady, Wearing a red and yellow ﬂower on her bosom, a black hat enveloped in a blue gauze veil and a suit of gray surmounted by a blue vel- vet jacket, entered and walked briskly into the middle of the chamber. All eyes were turned on her. It was Victoria 0. WO()dhull,-Wh()S8 name has been so woven into the warp and woof of this Brooklyn scandal. She was looking well; her age might be thirty; her eye was bright and radiant, and the occasion was evidently one of moment to her. « . Speculation was rife as to the things she would be asked to tell. Mrs. Beecher took naturally some interest_in the ap- pearance of Mrs. Woodhull, whom she had never seen before. Tllton did not at ﬁrst pretend to be aware of her presence. The foreign gentleman sitting beside his honor on the bench was, perhaps, the most curious of all. To him Mrs. Wood- hull was a greater phenomenon than any otner personage in the case. From his position -he had a good look at her. It was not long before Mrs. Woodhull obtained a ‘chance of be- ing heard. _ As Mrs. Woodhull rose from her seat in rear of Mrs. Beecher and steppedinto the charmed circle occupied by the opposing counsel every eye in the room was ﬁxed on her movements. She was very pale, and her lips trembled with suppressed emotion, but she marched forward bravely, yet with an air of deﬁance, such as might be expected of a prisoner who came to be arraigned. When she reached the place where Mr. Evarts and Mr Snearman were standing, the latter gentleman put out his hand and again demanded the letters, as did Mr.‘ Evarts. She opened her reticule and gave up one by one six or eight short letters, which were eagerly seized and perused by the counsel for Beecher. So engrossed ,were they that/Mrs. Woodhull was suffered to -stand, a. fact that led Mr. Beach to say po.itely, “ You will please sit down, Mrs. Woodhull,” and she at once sank into a chair. The features of Tilton and his counsel at this juncture werea study. The plaintiﬂ pursed his lips and peered at Victoria in an inquiring way as lhough he was puzzled to see her in the court~ room at all. and on the side of the defendant, even though unwillingly. His counsel were evidently surprised at the unexpected appearance‘ of Mrs. Woodhull. and they con- versed eagerly as to the probable contents of the letters and the use to be made of them. Mrs. Woodhull glanced at Tllton, and’ meeting his eye in a moment, they looked sted. ﬂushed slowly but vividly. Mrs. Beecher had all this time been gazing ﬁxedly at the “publisher” of the scandal. Insensibly her mouth. closed ﬁrmly as she surveyed the woman who had just spoken to the Court, and then her lips curled and a bright glitter grew in. her eyes. Mrs. Woodhull was apparently unaware of the steadfast gage of Mrs. Beecher, ‘gard to which I may have to ask Mr. Tllton. fastly at each other for nearly a. minute, and Vlctoria’s face- though her eyes were catching, as it were, the glance of every; eye within her range of vision. ' p for her on one side, and he became a. part of the audience, though. the object of attention to all curious eyes. (From the Sun.) “If your honor please,” said Mr. Evarts, in the Beecher trial yesterday morning, 5‘ I am expecting some papers infre- I prefer not to have another witness put upon the stand, as I am expecting to have them brought into court in a. moment or two.” The audience had already waited ten minutes longer than usual for the beginning of proceedings. , The time passed idly until half-past 11 o’clock, and impa- tience began to be plainly expressed in J udge Neilson's face. Then Mr. Shearman entered from the ante-room, escorting Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. She was at once recognized, by reason of the likenesses of her that have had circulation, and she was closely watched. never looked better. She was flushed, but composedunder the tremendous aggregate of staring. She was tastefully attired. Her black straw hat was of the spring style, and was trimmed with dark ribbon. A dark veil hung from the back of the hat. Her dress was black silk, andover it she wore a sleeveless jacket. Dark gloves and a little bunch of ﬂowers at her throat were among the adjuncts of her fashionable apparel. The narrative of Mrs. Woodhull’s movements before going into court, and while the proceedings were hindered by her absence, is as follows: Having the subpoena served on her by Mr. Beecher’s lawyers on Tuesd_ay, and also numerous letters received from Theodore Tllton and others connected with the scandal, she went to Brooklyn-early in the morning and was received in Mr. B-eecher’s consultation room, at Montague and Court streets, by Mr. Shearnian and Glen. Tracy. She was not in an amiable mood, and when‘ Mr. Tracy offered an apology for his reference to her in his open- ing speech for the defense, she said: “ I shall accept no apology from you, sir. The only one that you could make, should be made as publicly as was the insult that you oﬁ°ered.” “ But,” said Mr. Tracy, “ I knew of you only from what I had read inthenewspapers, a d—” ‘ “ That will do, sir.” interrupted Mrs. Woodhull; “ I wish to hear no more. You grossly maligned me without cause, and I can accept no apology." 4 In the court Mr. Shearman was much excited. He had‘ read the letters which Mrs. Woodhull had prod uced, and they rattled together in his hands. “ These—won’I:——do,” he said: “ these——won’t-—do, Mrs. Woodhull.” “ Very well, sir,” said Mrs. Woodhull; “ I am not to be the judge of that. They may not do for Mr. Beecher, but you were anxious to have them.” Mr. Shearman and Mr. Tracy requested permission to re- tain the letters for a short time, and Mrs. Woodhull con- the subject of her conversation with Mr. Beecher" when. ac- cording‘ to her story, she and the preacher were alone to- gether for two hours. Her reply was: “ We didn't talk about the weather all that time.” The fact that Mrs. Woodhull was in consultation with Tracy and Shearman having become known, there was a large gathering i 1 the hallway and on the staircase when she went away. In the street she met Mr. Fullerton, who de- tained her for some minutes in conversation. . (From the Brooklyn Eagle, May 12, 1875.) , “Mrs. Woodhull, I call on you for the production of the papers." . Mrs. Woodhull arose from the rear of the Plymouth Church section, and advanced toward the counsel for the defense. A stir and a buzz, and then a dead silence. She stoodand spoke in a. low tone with Mr. Shearman and Mr. Evarts, and at the close of the conversation Mr. Evarts announced that Mrs. Woodhull desired to make a statement to the Court. Another surging of the audience, followed by deep calm. faced the bench, and made the brief address reported in another place. She was somewhat nervous, but digniﬁed, and her few words evidently made a favorable impression on the audience. The scene when Mrs. Woodhull was delivering up the let- ters to Mr. Beecher’s counsel, was full of interest. A grati- ﬁed smile was on Mr. Shearman’s face, as he received the missives one by one. Mr. Evarts reached out his hand, closed on them in a business-like why, and glanced them over. The tall. lithe, ﬁnely moulded ﬁgure of Mrs. VV0odhull contrasted well with the somewhat meagre form of .\lr. Shearman, and the lean and angular frame of Mr. Evarts. In the rear, watching every motion of the woman, sat Mrs. Beecher. The sight of the letters going into the greedy hands of Mr. Evarts made the plaintiff's counsel uneasy. They ﬁdgeted, con- versed in low tones, were ﬂushed and harassed. Mr. Tllton turned his face toward Mrs. Woodhull ‘and watched her in- tently with an anxious, half desparing look. (From the Comwnercial Advertiser.) » At twenty-ﬁve minutes of twelve, great excitement was caused by the entrance of Mrs. Woodhull, preceded by Brother Shearman. l . Instantly every one rose in his seat, and for a while a sub- dued murmur ran throughout the court,-room. Mrs. Wood- hull advanced and was given a seat directly in front of the railing, and to the back of the Beecher party, ‘ Mrs. Woodhull’s face wore a somewhat deﬁant expression, and her lips were compressed, and altogether. her manner was that of a person resolute in maintaining silence. (From the Brooklyn Aagus) Another eventful day in the record of the great trial. The appearance of Mrs. Woodhull this morning was not entirely unexpected, but it is doubtful whether anybody anticipated that she would make a speech to the Court. -Her remarks appear in the proper place in our full record. Her style of delivery was noticeable for earnestness; herwordswere well chosen, and it was_evideI1.l’- thﬁi ’°h_°,Y W9“ spoken withoup Then the counsel made room ’ Mrs. Woodhull had probably‘, sented that they should. Mr. Shearman asked her to tell-him‘ Judge Neilson signiﬁed his consent, and Mrs. Woodhull V -54 May 29,1875. woonH§ULL a cLArL1N*s WEEKLY‘ . is previous consideration. In her allusion to her imprisonment for the ﬁrst publication of this scandal, Mrs. Woodhull be- trayed more feeling, and there was just the menace of do- nunciation in her tone. She asserted in the same vein that in the letters written by lVIr. Tilton to her nothing at all would be found at all discreditable to the writer or to herself. After concluding her little speech, she conversed for a moment with Mr. Evarts and Mr. Shearman. A gentleman touched her elbow and pointed to a chair which had been placed for her occupancy. Mrs. Woodhull gracefully acknowledged the courtesy. but said she then preferred to remain standing. Then diving down deep into the recesses of a huge morocco , wallet which she carried. she brought to light some twelve or I ﬁfteen communications which she had received from the plaintiff. Mr. Shearman bent eagerly forward to receive them, and immediately passed them to Mr. Evarts, who was standing by his side. Mrs. Woodhull then answered some unimportant queries made by Mr. Evarts concerning the let- ters, and a moment later seated herself in a chair adjoining the one occupied by Mr. Tice, and removed only a short dis- tance from the chair in which Mrs. Beecher was sitting. By this time the face of the Broad street brokeress, which had betrayed little trace of color when she entered, had ﬂushed and brightened wonderfully. Mrs. Woodhull was tastefully dressed. Mr. Tilton regarded her with undisguised interest, and the interest aroused by her appearance continued until she retired from the court-room. (From the Evening News.) At the opening of the City Court, Brooklyn, this morning. Mr. Evarts arose and said they would have to wait the arrival of some documents about which they would have to ask Mr. Tilton some questions. “All right,” said Judge Neilson. Few in the c0urt—r0om, however, understood the import- ance of the brief address of Mr. Evarts. After waiting some time, a stir, was heard at the side door, and the shuﬂiing of feet in the gallery broke the stillness of the long wait. Mr. Tilton’s lawyers and the crowd of specta- tors hall.’ rose from their seats and lurking toward the private door, saw Counselor Shearman walking ahead of Mrs. ‘Wood- hull. A buzz and chorus of whispers, “ There’s Mrs. Wood- hull,” roused those who were not acquainted with the remarkable woman. The curiosity to see the lady who had stirred up this terrible strifemade manystand up, and Judge Neilson rapped them down with the sound of his mallet. Mrs. Woodhull took a seat with her back to the railing inside the bar, and about thirty feet from the bench. She was slightly embarassed, owing to the curiosity she had ex- cited, and especially under the ﬁre of a number of ogling Women who sat near her. . She was dressed in adark blue silk promenade suit, basque K cut, to resemble sleeveless waist, coat sleeve, with narrow bands of velvet running down toward the waist, where knife plaitings cbncealed the bands. Around her neck was a ﬁne black lace barb, that encircled an Alexandre coll..r. and at her throat a small tea-rose with geranium leaf. Her head was adorned with a black chip hat, half concealed by a navy- "colored blue veil. When she sat down Mr. Shearman said : “If your Honor please, we have summoned Mrs. Woodhull. in order to produce certain letters she has in her possession from Mr. Tilton. She refuses to surrender them, however. Without your Honor’s direction.” Mr. Fullerton: And the Court will make no such order. Mrs. Woodhull is here as a witness, not as an expressman. Let them put her on the stand, and she then can produce the letters. ' p ' . As this would place Mrs. Woodhull at the mercy of a , cross-examinatlon by the plaintiffs lawyers, Mr. Evarts was too shrewd not to see, and he smiled as Mr. Fullerton sat down. Judge Neilson foreshadowed what the little game of the defense was in the following remark he made: . “ I don’t see what you could gain, Mr. Fullerton. "The de- fense probably wish to identify the letters through another party. If that is the programme, why it gives you no right to a cross-examination. However, I shall decline to instruct the lady to produce any document. Mr. Evarts argued and cited authorities to show that wit- nesses had been summoned to prove or produce a document without being put on the stand. . Judge Neilson held to his decision declining to compel Mrs. Woodhull to produce the coveted letters. . Finally Mr. Shearman went to where Mrs. Woodhull was sitting and engaged her in earnest conversation. A pause ensued, and during the lull it seemed as if the defense would be compelled to place the woman on the stand. .Mr. Evarts, however, tenaciously forced the subject on his Honor, and informed him that Mrs. Woodhull had no personal objection to producing the letters. but thought their privacy should be maintained iuviolate until requested by the court to deliver them over. ‘ Judge Neilson then said that if the lady was willing he was satisﬁed, and at _ this point Mr. Evarts‘ beckoned to Mrs. Woodhull. She approached the lawyer and stood close to him while he stooped down and whispered to her. Her face was ﬂushed, and her lips moved in that rapid manner that is- so characteristic of her. A . Mr. Evarts, when he had received the letters, held a, short conversation with Mr. Fullerton, after which he arose and said he would prefer to defer the cross-examination of Mr. ‘Tilton. _ Mr. Fullerton stoutly protested against the programme be- ing’ carried out. He declared that the Court had waited until nearly twelve o’clock for the purpose of allowing the counsel to get the papers, in order to cross-examine Mrs. Woodhull, and now that the lady is in the jurisdiction of the Court, and theipapers in their possession, they decline to call Mr. Tilton. V A long argument took place on the subject between Mr. Beach and Mr. Evarts, when it was soon developed what the scheme of the defense was. It was this: Mr. Evarts wanted to examine Mr. Tilton in regard to these into the room with the air of a. tragedy queen. Tilton once said, was “too meat.” letters, but at the time dldgnot care, about Mrs. Woodhull’s possible explanation of them? He was therefore desirous of getting her out of the jurisdiction of the court. _ Judge Neilson ﬁnally ‘suggested that Mr. Evarts should stipulate to have Mrs. Woodhull present when Mr. Tilton’s cross-examination was begun. (From the Telegram.) The main topic of conversation among the visitors was the coming advent of Mrs. Woodhull on the witness stand, and the promised fight between her and ex-Judge Fullerton. She‘ was subpoenaed yesterday at her residence in No. 26 East Flftielh street. . At 11:38 Victoria Woodhull entered the court and walked She was pre- ceded by the little lawyer, Mr. Shearman. The contrast. as Mr. Fullerton passed close by her, but avoided looking at her. Floor Manager Cauld well obtained a .nice,. roomy seat for her not far from where Mrs. Beecher sat. She was dressed in a dark drab suit, trimmed with velvet, black hat. trimmed with velvet, and ostrich feather. over which was thrown a blue veil. In the corsage of her dress she wore a bouquet of white and red roses. * ‘ At ten minutes to twelve Mrs. Waiodhull rose from her chair, in compliance with a signal made by Mr. Shearman, and addressed the Court after speaking laughingly wiih Mr. Evarts, who could crack a joke, it is thought, anywhere on this side of eternity. The voice of the head of the Spiritual- ists trembled slightly, as she spoke. womanly, and not suggestive of the shrieking sisterhood. She stood a couple of feetin front of Mrs. Beecher, as she spoke, and between Shearman and hlvarts. (From the Tribune, May 15.) The Judge has been censured for permitting Mrs. Wood- ‘ bull to make the little speech which she addressed to him last Wednesday morning. He complains that the censures are unjust. Mrs. W'oodhull had been talking with Mr. Beecher’s counsel, and, suddenly turning, she addressed some ‘respectful_ words to him. “What could I do ?” said Judge Neilson; “I could not peremptorily cut her short, and if told to retire she would surely have gone, taking with her the papers she had been subpoenaed to produce.” Judge Neilson thought it desirable that counsel should see the letters, although little use could be made of them. It was then at too late a stage in the case to introduce more letters in evidence. The only way in which the letters could have been employed would have been to question Mr. Tilton con- cerning expressions in them. From the above it would seem that Mrs. Woodhull’s few words have hurt somebody. The question is, who‘? Again, the wide publication of the letters made ﬁrst in the Herald, and afterward copied into nearly all the city pap_crs,. sliows that there is much more importance attaching to them than would at first appear from their reading. These are the letters published: I Frrrn AVENUE Hornn. My Dear V2'ctom'a-—Put this under your pillow, dream of the writer, and peace be with you. Aﬂ¢0bl0IJat61Yy THEODORE ’l.‘IL'roN. , » THE GOLDEN AGE. My Dear V'1'ctor7'a—I have arranged with Frank that you shall see Mr. Beecher atniy house on Friday night. ' He will attend a meeting at the church till 10 o'clock, and will give you the rest of the evening as late as you desire. You may consider this ﬁxed. Meanwhile, on this sunshiny day I salute you with a good-morning. Peace be with you. Yours. Tnsononn TILTON. , - / TUESDAY. My Dear Victoria-—Emma is expecting you at dinner this evening. It will be a picnic frolic for the three of us, held in the library, around the centre-table, and graced with Frank’s Burgundy. I will call for you in a carriage at your oﬂiice at a quarter past six o’clock. You will stay all night at Emma’s. Do not fail to be ready. "I Hastily, T_ T_ A THE GOLDEN AGE. V'I5ctoria——I have a room temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where I shall abide for a few days and um-bu Fmnkss return. I will ride up with you in your carriage this after- noon at ﬁve o'clock. If I don’t call for you, please can for me. Hastily, T, 1: Tan GOLDEN AGE.= My Fm'end——I drop you a line, hoping to catch you with it before you leave. I am anxious to see you again tcpday’ if convenient to yourself. Can you stop at my office on your way up town? If so, at what hour will you call? Or if I should go down to your oiﬁce at 5 P. M., or later, would I be interfering with your departure for dinner? My boy win bring me an answer. Ffaﬁerﬂally. 'I‘H:so. Txrrozv. . A THE GOLDEN AGE.‘ My Dear Fm'eml’,—-I make haste to say, whize yet able to sit up (for I am giddy with faintness this morning), that your wishes, so far as they relate to my action, shall be faithfully fulﬁlled. If no one else should remain to honor you, I, who know you well and believe in you nttery, will give my honest witness that you are one of the best and truest of human souls. ‘ _ I Mrs. Hooker’s letter, which I inclose, is no fuller of good will toward-you than your uprightness and singleness of mind merit. I think the advice she gives concerning your non-acceptance of the committeeship, like Mrs. Davis’s ad- vice concerning your positive withdrawal, is not so good as the suggestion with which I hereby replace both——namely, that you abide in your lot, neither wavering nor ch mgeful, but like the apostle who said, “Having done all, still to stand." I have no patience with any other policy than justice and courage. I counsel you against any appearance of sur- rendering to the apprehensions of timid friends. But, then, Her voice was soft and ' I am not a woman, and perhaps my advice is made of too stern 2:. stuff. - You settled everything last evening but the biography. Is it to go on or stop? And will you see Mr. Beecher this even.- ing. as arranged? Yours ever, T. T. Now, tliefact is, that the first of these letters was not in: Mrs. VVoodhull’s possession, and was not given by her to Mr; Evarts in court. That it is published now as _one of them conﬁrms what she said in court, viz.: That she believed the defense had .more of her letters that had been taken from her when she was arrested in November, I872, when her- ofiice and private trunks at home were ransacked and riﬂed’ of every suspicious bit of paper and Writing. That the de- fense declined to examine Mr. ,Til.ton on these letters when; they evidently contradict him about the character of his re- lations with Mrs. Woodhull may be wohdered at; but if the letters be read carefully it will also be discovered that they also as abruptly contradict Mr. Beecher, who lestiﬁed that » his meetings with Mrs. Woodhull were purely accidental, which would have been contradicted by the prosecution: had the defense attempted to question Mr. Tilton about them. So the case is closed, leaving mystery upon mystery unsolved, fact after fact concealed, and perjury piled on _pe1'jury, challenging the future for determination. (Written for Wdodhull & Claliin’s Weekly.) BEECl:lElt’S SOLILOQUY. BY A. L. W. Oh! the burning recollection, and the future retrospectiou, Of the troub'es which assail me, I would bury out of sriellt; l’ve been false to my convictions, and now follow the predtsti-one, Which my truest friends predicl;ed—-if I would not act ari.=ght— Said they, “Sanction what you practice, cla/mber up the moral height ‘ Into light.” ' But I spurned them from me, saying, I have been so long delaying, That I dare not now give utterance. or proclaim that I am free; I must still continue preaching. and by outiward conduct teaching, That which I have failed to pracilce; but‘ to-night I plainly see All my falsehoods and deccptions swept, like mist from off the sea.-,. In this social victory. Ah! distinctly I remember that bleak eYen.lng in December, Being summoned to the presence of the injured Theodore; Where, with trembling agitation, heard I Tilton’s accusation, And the promise that I made him, that Pd see his wife no more; Never would I write her letters, never enter through his chamber door, As of yore. Ever since I made confession, that my actions and profession Savored not of love Platonic, I have suffered tortures (lire; Nowvmy aching heart seems bleeding. and the voice within me pleading, Bids me assez t my manhood, and confront the scoinful ire Of the witnesses arisen to proclaim that I’m a. liar, Fit for fire. Bids me to make reparation, and withdvaw my acrusatton, ’G-ainst the truest friends that ever God raised up to me before, And I feel almost persuaded, that I viill be more deg‘ sided’ Than the 10» est thief or felon, if I continue to ignore All the sympathy and councils from the ‘bounty of their store, ‘ Evermore. And to-night a better feeling o'er my inmost sense comes stealing;,, L‘ke a zephyr gently waited from an ever fragrant shore, , Filling all my soul with gladness, and dispelling grief and sadness, Prompting me to rise triumphant, and on truthful wings to soar O’er my past misdeeds and follies, and to be a MAN once more, Evermore. VINELAND, N. J ., May 1, 1375, To lllrs. V. G. Woodhull—I fr.--qgiently look over your leg... tures, and never do it without being lifted and blessed. It. is true that the repeated readingsvare elevating and restfu1._ Those persons (women in particular) who reach after you; with a large sympathy, far’-reaching. earnest and persever-- ing, are generally limited in their means. In the last clause of “Tried as by Fire,” preceding the A bendiction, you ask for “ sustaining love, sympathy, and to feel yearning hearts following you with prayers,” Ah, my». . dear woman, the blessing is just as much yours as if you heard it. If the aspirations were audible, they would come to: you with great power and pathos from numberless woman. souls, whose petitions arc? ascending continually. My heart responds to your appeal; is with you in every- labor, and reaches after you as you pass from one lccality to. another on your vast mission for woman, and through her- for therace. _ The manner in which you are bringing forward the old. and new testament prophecies and showing their bearing upon the present and coming times, looks to me so fully in harmony with the present outlook and with what is expected ’ of its future, that it is simply a. splendor, a.- grand congum_ Ination ‘to lead woman to her place in the establishment” “upon this earth of a reign of peace and harmony and um. mately of happiness.” , That the best of blessings, may rest with and sustain you for your great work, is the prayer of yours truly, I RU-’T1I»-6,. MILLS. MARK'S BooK or THAN§Ks.——"I feel so vexed and out ‘of tlsznper with Ben,” cried Mark, “ that I really must”~.~4DO something in revenge?” inquired his cousin Cecilia, “N0, look over my book of thanks.” " What's that “I” said Cecilia, as she saw him turning over the leaves of a copy—book, gem- ly full of writing in _a round text band. “Here it is," said Mark. Then he read aloud: “ ‘ March 8th-—-Ben lent ‘me 1113 bat.’ ” “ Here again: ‘January 4th-—when [lost my shilling, Ben made it up to me kindly.’ Well,” observed the boy, turning down the leaf, “ Ben is agood boy, after all.” “ What do you note down in that?” asked Cecilia, looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. “ Allthe klndnesses that are ever shown me; you would wonder how many there are, I ﬁnda great deal of good from marking them down. I do not forget them, as I might do if I only truted to my memory, so I hope that I am not often ungrateful; and when I am cross, andput of temper, I almost always feel good- gzlsrglored again if I only look over my book.”-=Th,g Maggot 4 a, is Trans or fSUBSCRl”PTION. PAYABl'f.$: IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, —. $3 00 One copy for six months, - - — - ~ - 1 50 Single copies, - - — — ~ - 10 CEUZB RATES. Five copies for one year, — ' - ' a - $19. 90 Ten copies for one year. ~- = ,_ - ~ - 29 00 . Twenty copies (or more are same rate), _ - - A - 40 00‘ six month 5, . . - - - One-half these rates. FOREDQN SUBSCRIPTION , can anumnn are run AGENCY our -run amnarcm mews counter, LON ran,» ENGLAND. ' one copy for one year, - One copy for six months, — nlvrns or ADVERTISING. Ber line. (according to location). , - - From $1 06 to $2 50 Time, column and page advertise ments by special contract. Special place in advertising [ace-luimns cannot be permanently given. 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After Mr. Shcarman demanded the letters, the Court having refused to order their delivery, saying the only way to ob- tiin them would be by attachment, they were delivered, as it appears voluntarily, but really under ...this condition : Mr; - Shearman said that unless they were so delivered he should be compelled to have the Court issue an attachment which would consume a half hour more time, which he did not think it worth while to do, as the result would be the same in the end ; and so thought we. Nor did we desire to leave the impression that there was anytliing in the letters discredit- _able of. itself to anybody, which a refusal to deliver them and a failure to compel them would have left. As it was it I was a choice between the delivery that was made and ‘that of giving them under compulsion, we choosing the former. , m in 4 w wow BROTHER wIiEELEu:s QUESTIONS or MOMENT. It seems to us that Brother Wheeler ought to have had and held the opinions expressed in his article in another column at or about the ‘time of his birth, so that no external inﬂuence whatever should ever have been permitted to have had‘ any eﬁect upon him. He ought never to have received any communications or instructions from any source, since then he could have said, I, am now an individual, indepen- dent of everybody and everything. But the facts of the case arethat nobodyé-not_‘even Bro. Wheeler—-can everbe so. In the ﬁrst, place, he and everybody else‘ were at birth what othershad made them to be, and after birth, on through ﬁfe, are. what‘ the circumstances by which they are sur- rounded, acting upon the organization which Was given to them. have made them. Even now, every ‘movement that Bro. Wheeler makes is so made because the ‘inﬂuences and povvers that operate upon him compel him to make it. So, whetherwilling toadmitgit or not, the inevitable conclusion _ to which an must come when they shall analyze human action is that there is absolutely no such thing possible free agency, which is the thing for which Bro. Wheeler con- tends so stoutly, but that in place of this, “ All are but parts of one ‘stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the Soul.” So then, whether it be spiritsseen UILSBBI}; l?9_1'S0n9~1i‘ ties presuming or declining ; powers visible or invisible, by which we are acted upon through life '; or whether it be all of these blended together, it cannot alter the fact that the universe’ as 9, whole, of which every one is a part, works together by immutable and never-failing laws, which move it to happier and better conditions as rapidly as it is possible . . . s . ‘ , , . for Nature to obey the mandate issued from the beginning, by which God, the All Power and Everywhere ‘Present, 13 reconciling man unto Himself develop like everything else. three persons shall have been developed into the conditions lwo~onHuLL as CL’AFLIN’S WEEKLY THE HIGHE1tANI‘)mTIiE Vnonwnn RELATIONSHIP. While he yet talked to the people, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him, Then they said to him, Behold. thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. But he answered and said unto him who told him, Who 18 my mother? and who are my brethren? ‘ And he stretched forth his hand to his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethrenl ‘ For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the glue is my brother, my sister and my mother.—S'r. MATTHE w, xii. 46 to In this doctrine of Jesus, which is repeated in the ‘Gospels of "St. Mark and St. Luke, is found still more proof of the ultimate character of his mission, and conﬁrmatory evidence also of the ultimate character of the doctrine of Communism" as the ﬁnal condition in which the human race shall inhabit the earth. . The great human family can never be instituted so long as the modern Christian idea of the isolated family prevails. This latter-day Christianity, when examined by the light of the teachings of Jesus, is found lacking at every point. In no single instance do the practices of modern Christians agree with the teachings and practices of Jesus. And least of all do they agree on anything in which the fam- ily is concerned. At the age of twelve years, Jesus, with his parents, Joseph and Mary, went up to Jerusalem to the feast of the Passover. When they returned, he remained behind, which was not discovered until theyﬂwere a day’s journey on their way. Returning, they found him debating with the doctors, and when his mother reproved him, he re- plied, “ How is it ye sought me?‘ Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Now, Jesus had brothers, by name James, J oses, J uda and Simon, besides several sis- ters, whose names are not given. Although he did many works, which were seen of tliem, nevertheless they,-’_did not believe in him, as we are informed by St. John (vii. chap. 5 verse). So when he had departed from them to teach and to perform his Father’s work,‘ and was sought of his mother and brethren, he did not recognize them, but claimed that those were his family who believed on him. “ hat a mighty lesson of triith is there in this, to the pres- ent, and how strangely it harmonizes with the most radical views held about social organization! The truth, to any one, is what he or she conceives it to be, and for thattruth he has the right, indeed is in duty bound, to forsake all and follow it. He who does less than this fails to act up to his highest conviction of right. The legitimate relations, or family ties, that grow out of these truths are those of like- ness in truth and not of consanguinity. The desperate hold- ing to family relationship rather than to those which would naturally follow were it dissolved, is the cause of more unhappiness and strife than any other single custom, save only that of marriage contracted and maintained after the same rule. . These great truths about relationship begin to have force among us, because we are now rapidly approaching the time when the higher relation will begin to be established on the earth. A brotherhood cannot consist of families irrespective of their construction. It must consist of persons who are alike, and probably to be found at ﬁrst singly only, in many families, from which they must come forth. The formation of a brotherhood 1n the sense of modern communism and in the sense taught by Jesus and practiced by the disciples and the early Christians, are equally destructive of the isolated family; and yet modern Christians teach that it is the most sacred of all institutions, and that everything else must be given up tosave it. Of course marriage is the cornerstone of the isolated family, and when it falls, the family will fall with it, or rather with it merge into the greater and the grander family which Jesus came to establish. The family of the future must be based on attraction and not on legal- ity or consanguinity. It is not expected that the whole world is to be brought into the greathuman» family at once. It must begin and It will have begun when any that must precede it and are brought together; and from them it must spread over the world.» It cannot be calcu- lated, even, how long a space of timemay be required from the time it is begun to complete it; but that it will be begun " and that it will be completed must be admitted by whoever believe either in the teachings of Jesus or the science of So- ciology. The brotherhood that‘Jesus taught and the social organization that science teaches are one and the same thing. ’ The great diﬁicultywith the many attempts that have been made has been the same thatwas present when , ‘Annanias and Sapphira sold their possessions to join the disciples but-kept back half the price. i “ If any man come to me (that is, to the truth), and hate not his father, his mother, and wife, and children,»and breth- ren, and sisters, yea and hls.own life also, he cannot be my disciple,” said Jesus. That is, if any one do not love the truth well enough to do it and live it and teach it and ac- knowledge it, at all times and in all places, without let or hindrance from any or all circumstances whatever, then he is no disciple of that truth. Paul taught decisively upon this point, since he said, “ Be ye not unequally yoked-with unbelievers. Come out from among them saith the Lord.” What would be said should any of the modern professed ministers of Christ stand in their pulpits and teach these plain doctrines of the Bible? or rather, would it be possible for one to be found who believes sufficiently in Him whom he professes, to go into his pulpit and preach as com- manded? , ‘ We dwell upon these things because they go far toward Near twenty centuries ago Jesus introduced these doctrines. on the earth, and ever since they have been growing in the hearts of men, and now they are so nearly culminated that there are thousands who recognize them and are ‘almost per- suaded, as was King Agrippa by Paul, to become Christians. The kingdom of heaven does not come by observation. It must be within the man before he can enter into it and live in it. But when it exists there, although it has not been‘ ob- served to come, nevertheless the fruits of its existence are observed and testify to its reality. Sowhen some weeks ago, we spoke of those being nearest the kingdom who were nearest in communion with the spirit world, we did not mean to be their entrance into the kingdom or its coming _to them would be observed, but we meant just this: that when the kingdom known that the kingdom is set up within him. Nor is it necessary to imagine that only those who profess. to be mediums and in communion with spirits, are the only ones who are nearly related to the kingdom. There are thousands still in the bosom of the churches who are just as much in communication with the friends upon the other shore, as are those who stand before the world as being so, Moreover there may be thousands everywhere whoare really, though perhaps unknown to themselves, very nearly developedinto the conditions of brotherhood. It is not what men and women profess or seem to be that can determine this question,.but it is what they really are. As there are many better Christians outside of the Church than there are inside, so may there be many better real disciples of brother- hood within the churches than there are without them. There is a great deal of truth in the saying of Jesus, That the last shall be ﬁrst, and the ﬁrst shall be last, and it is not inapplicable to those who are to enter into the Kingdom. Many who stand, as they imagine, nearest the gateway, and ready to enter, may after all have to wait until thousands, seemingly far away, have entered. A wise and an advanced man once said that many reformers, so called, are like apples that ripen early, and drop oﬁ the parent tree because they are wormy or rotten at heart. We fear that this is too true, and that many who have been loud in all sorts of reform for even years arestill far away from the desired road to the Kingdom. It is from" this fact that we hope and anticipate when the hidden mystery of the Bible is revealed to the under- standing of those who hold it in unquestioned respect that they will gladly receive the new baptism. We are well aware that there are thousands now in the modern church who are anxiously looking for the truth. They are earnest and anxious", and will, we verily believe, be the ﬁrst to ac- cept it when it shall come with power and authority, and until it do so come none can receive it who do not perceive it spiritually, or else who have not arrived at it scientiﬁcally. The same condition that exists in the Church in regard to the religious side of the truth, also exists among the wealthy in regard to that of industrial justice. The few persons who are very wealthyjn this country know that their condition is not the Christian one, and they are beginning to call out, “What; up their wealth to any one who demands it, nor can it be expected that they will. Indeed they ought not to give it up until it is properly provided. If they could be shown the proper way and could be convinced that it was the proper way, we do not hesitate to assert that there is scarcely a very wealthy man in the country who would not be glad to be well rid of the terrible responsibilities of his wealth. The difficulty of coming at this solution, lies in the fact that those who have had the capacity to accumulate wealth have not had the capacity or the time to study the relations of wealth to society; while those who have studied and- partly solved these relations are considered to be of so little capacity be no conﬁdences between them. We have no doubt if there were to come a real disciple of as the proof of belief in-him, should follow-—tliat the earnest Christians and many of the wealthy, ,would lay everything‘ down at his feet and at once join the common»; family. It cannot be expected that anybody is going to be made to be- themselves believing—not themselves having the power “to ing out all manner of devils, raising the dead-and drinking deadly poisons without harm, and then if unbelief continu'e, knowthat condemnation shall "follow. The people are ready for this now; but they were not so, to any great extent, when Jesus did these works. _ on them and Wondered, scarcely convinced that they were not deceived of their own senses that they saw what they saw; but now it would be diﬁerent. The real development toward Christ is much greater than there is any idea of, gen- erallyprevalent. We see the disintegration of the isolated family going rapidly on in a thousand unsuspected ways. Marriage and the family are the great obstacles to a rapid and happy consummation of many things; and their grow- ing weakness, indeed their tottering condition, instead of being the dreadful thing -that it is thought to be by many really good people, are just the most needed and absolutely necessary steps toward what all desire should come. ' It may beset down with safety that a people who are the May 29, l87§.’. ~ showing that the end of the Christ Dlspensation is at hand. .- understood to say, as some did understand us to say, that“ is once come to man, he will yield fruits by which it will be " shall we do to be saved” in real earnest. They will not give‘ by those who have made the accumulations that there’ lieve very much or very deeply, by those who preach,ln‘ot' Multitudes for the moment looked - Christ into the world--one wh om the signs laid down by J esus . . ‘ ‘do the works of belief. Let one come healing the sick_.,. ga,g1j. ‘ A E i l s’ )‘H—TmM~M mm 4 J ..m . i. -WOODHULL e ci..zirLi,u*s WEEKLY. i psi ‘most addicted to family cliquishness-where members of families cling together to the exclusion of everybody else, whether there are any ties between, them save those of con- sanguinity or not——are the farthest away from Christian brotherhood or B Christian communism; while those who are given to seeking congenial companionship outside of family relations—-those who do not ﬁnd their soul’s desires satisﬁed within the narrow limits of a modern home—-those who fre- quent their “ clubs” and places of ‘amusement for relief for . their yearnings—are on the very verge of brotherhood--are well developed into the higher than earthly relations, and are" best prepared to become Christian Disciples after the manner of those whom Jesus chose and loved. All this is‘ a necessary result of progressive civilization. The ever increasing combination of human interests brings the people more and more into general social relations. To one who has wisely traveled the world over, and proﬁtably mingled with its most enlightened people, the isolationiof the modern Christian family is an abominationuindced it is death. Jesus declared that one of the principal signs of the coming of the end of the world should be just the disin- tegration of the family that is now going on. He came to set the different members of families against each other as a necessary step toward the construction of the greater and the grander human family, of which he is to be the’head. So let the Christians who think that they love Christ so well take heed lest they be found loving him with their lips only, while their hearts are far from him, when he shall come with his holy angels——when he shall come the second time to judge the world. Let them take heed, lest when he shall come and bid them to his feast, they “have bought a piece’ of ground which they must needs go see;” or “ﬁve yoke of oxen and go to prove them;” “or have married wives and therefore cannot come;” lest they be unprepared to “ let the dead bury their dead ;” indeed, lest they be -unwil- ling to leave family and friends, wife and children, and fol- low him, becoming members of the new, having put off the old, relationship; and alwayi remembering this: that the modern Christian family cannot exist when Cliijist’s_ family shall have been instituted over the earth; when old things shall have passed away and all things become new. THE BROOKLYN BUSINESS. There is any amount of speculation as to what the result of the trial will be. When the case closed, there is no doubt that a very large preponderance of opinion was upon the side of adisagreement. It is admitted, generally, outside of a small and very select class, that the weight of "evidence is on the side of the prosecution. It is also conceded that that side of the case has been the most successfully conduct- ed. True, Mr. Evarts, the senior counsel for the defense, has a wider reputation than either of the counsel for the plaintiff, but it can scarcely be said that his talent is of that kind best calculated to win in such a suit as the one in ques- tion. Had the trial risen from the plane of petty personality’ into a grand contest for principle, perhaps Mr. Evarts might have been more at home; but as it was, he was not only outwitted, but outargued at nearly every point by Mr. Beach, and beaten at cross-examination by Mr. Fullerton; while Mr. Shearman and Hill, in their respective parts, were more than matched by Mr. Morris, except, perhaps, in devotion to their client, where, it may be fairly conceded, Mr. Shearman stood pre-eminent. Next to a disagreement, there are probably more people who look for‘ a verdicttfor Mr. Beecher. Those who make up this portion are principally from two classes: ﬁrst, that class of religionists who cannot believe that it is possible for a minister of the, Gospel to do such a thing as that of which Mr. Beecher is accused. This class think that the verdict ought to be in favor of religion; not, perhaps, because they feel that the weight of evidence is upon that side, but be-. cause itfwould do their cause an irreparable harmto have it otherwise. They regard the whole matter as a contest be-’ tween ,Christia_.n'ity and inﬁdelity, in which thellatter, by everyfoul means", seeks to overcome the former. The other class represents theprofessed respectability and wealth of the country, and have little careabout the facts in the case, regarding‘ itas a business necessity that Mr. Beecher be sus- tained, if- not exonerated. . l Then’ there are those who think that the verdict ought to be for Mr. Tilton, and those-whdhopie that it“r'na.y be. » They are ’thds’e'who’ have carefully read the whole eVi_de_nce,1and who‘ compose the thinking part of the coinmuniity. They care} little either for Mr. Beecher or Mr. Tilton as persons, but really desire that justice may prevail. They have already arrived at their verdict, and none of the sophistry of Porter, the shrewdness of Evarts, or the logic or invective of Beach, can change or conﬁrm it. A part of this class, while feel- ing that the verdict should be for the plaintiff, and that the jury should so ﬁnd from the evidence, has grave doubts about the action of the jury being improperly inﬂuenced. It is well known that any amount of money needed to secure a disagreement, if a verdict on the wrong side were feared at all, could be raised. The persons who compose this class are not overburdened with faith in the efficacy of juries, and many of them believe that a large proportion‘ of men have their price, which can be easily learned when-it is ‘desired. If there should be a verdict for Mr. Beecher, almost the whole of this class would believe that it was obtained by , improper means, whether there should be any active grounds for suspicion or not. The effect of a. verdict of this kind would be to create a small but strong Tilton party, which cannot be said now exists in the country. The friends of Mr. Beecher are those who appear—-who make themselves known. That Mr. Tilton has a party undeveloped is also true; but they, for the most part, keep their own counsels. They are like those who favor radical views, who do n_ot feel that there is anything to be gained by expending their forces against established things. But let the Sumter gun be ﬁrcd,then very many of them would speak out. There is really a question whether it would not be even better for Mr. Tilton’s future if such a verdict were rendered. An oppo- site one, or a disagieement might result in leaving his best (his real) friends unknown, while it is as certain that the real truth in this case will come out in any event as it is that the sun will continue to rise and set. A future triumph in this way would be of inﬁnitely greater value to Mr. Tilton and of inﬁnitely greater damage to Mr. Beecher than anything that could occur now. A disagreement in this case is probably to be desired by reformers, because it will leave the whole matter to be de- cided by the public in its own peculiar and generally just way. Moreover, it would leave the principles out of which the case has grown open to discussion, ‘ both privately and publicly, and what would be of especial advantage in a reformatory sense, it would continue to ﬁll the public prints, whether the editors would have it so or not. B The people, let the editors say what they may, ‘still greed- ily devour anything and everything that pertains to the scan- dal, and they will continue to do so. Never, until this whole question of the proper relations of the sexes is settled, will there cease to be a growing public demand for literature and journalism in which the principles involved, or the facts elicited, are discussed. Of this, these who consider them- selves to be the conservators of morality may rest assured, and they will ﬁnd, perhaps to their astonishment, that the public morality, instead of deteriorating under this tendency, will improve. . Should there be a verdict against Mr. Beecher, it is dim- cult to determine what course the expressed public opinion might take. But as we are of the opinion that a verdict of this kind would ultimately do Mr. Tilton more good than any other could do him, in the present, so also are we in- duced to believe that a verdict against Mr. Beeeher would do him more good than any other. There are thousands of people who really believe him to be guilty of the charges made by Mr. Tilton, who, when a verdict shduld once have been given against hid), would begin to remember the im- mense work that he has done in liberalizing the religious thought and theory of the count.ry, and who would begin to condemn Mr. Tilton and everybody else who had anything whatever to do with his downfall, in unmeasured terms. In these memories they would forget everything, and mourn his loss as if it had been brought about by the foulest means. Such is the cliaracteristic of a large part of the American peo- ple, and it is a legitimate outgrowth of the growing idea of the sovereign right of the individual to manage his own af- fairs in his own way in all departments of life. But let the verdict be whatever it may, for our part we are assured that it will be just as those who havp planned and executed the whole aﬁair, shall wish it, and just as they knew it would be from the ﬁrst. Looking at it from the conflicts of progress, the individuals are lost sight of in the good that is to come to the world through it. Therefore, to those who view it in this way, it matters little what the twelve men who shall determine it, may do. important jury, the future, can and will ﬁnd but one ver- dict—a verdict of universal good through individual suffer- ing—a cruciﬁxion of personality that the world inight be saved, in- which both Mr. Tilton and Mr. Beecher will be ‘-considered as saviours. . A _ .Q.4 . w can THE rnnss IGNORE THE TRUTH? pursue toward the full and free" discussion of the problem of life, we are led to askif indeed its representatives and man- agers have not yet learned the futility of attempting to gag fany' truth out of existence? -The editors of the leading papers, especially the great dailies, seem to imagine that they carry the destinies: of this-people in their pockets, and that they can command and secure silence upon any subject that they choose to condemn. They forget J. Peter Zenger, whom itwas attempted to crush into seclusion, in this same geity, a'hundred and forty years‘ ago’. / Hewas one of the Sons‘ of Liberty,.andp'ub1ished an opposition paper that the Church and the State of that day did not like. So he was -imprisoned, but he conquered-in the legal contest that fol- lowed, and lived to fulminate his ideas with tenfold power, being defended and advised by the venerable Alexander Hamilton, of Philadelphia. Our own case has its parallel to this in many respects, and especially in being ‘defended by counsel from the City of Brotherly Love. , ‘ Last week we published a. letter in reply to an article in the N. Y. Sun, which that paper had refused to print. There is no person in this country who knows the iniquities of the social system better than Chas. A. Dana. He was one of the “Brook Farm” community, and has studied the question in all its bearings and knows the truth. But he re- fuses to let it ﬁnd expression in the columns of his paper. He not only does this, but he characterizes the doctrines that he understands so well as logically leading to unsavory things. ‘ ’l.‘here’ is such a thing as consistency, and somefew grand standpoint of progress, and as one of the inevitable- The inﬁnitely more When we contemplate the course that the public press" . editors maintain it ; and it is consistentwto refuse to charac- terize freedom for the affections and at the same time to re- fuse to print articles in its favor. But it is not consistent to condemn a theory or «doctrine without argument, and to stigmatize its holders and advocates as improper people, and then refuse to publish their defenses. It is not only not consistent, but it is unjust and‘ ungenerous. But these are the’ best weapons that many editors can ﬁnd to ﬁght the common enemy to man’s usurped power over woman. They: know if they permit the arguments of those who believe in freedom for the aﬁeetions to, appear in the popular public prints,tliat they will appeal to he common sense of woman as truthful and just, and they fear to awaken the idea of in-' dependence in woman, just as the slave holders dreaded to have their personal property hear the claims of indepen- dence and freedom made. But a still more ungallant trick than this kind of sup- pression is commonly practiced by a too large class of editors They permit their columns to be used by private indi- viduajlsto blackguard and demean, and to vent their spleen and spite upon the advocates of freedom, and then refuse the damaged party all redress. This is a free press with a vengeance. Not many days ago the Telegram, which always takes a malicious delight in admitting anything that is con- temptible and vile into its columns about free lovers (im« agining that they are a class very nearly related to those who are better described as free lusters), printed a letter from a well known woman sulfragist, which was evidently written by her purposely to offer the personal insult it con- tained, which was as false as it was malicious. In January, 1871, at the Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington, there were present a number of persons, just then come, by invitation, into the suffrage movement, being wholly unacquainted with its personnel. At the even- ing session one of these persons observed a woman in the ante-room, evidently in great distress. Inquiry was made of some of the acknowledged controllers of the meeting, and it was found that the distressed lady had been denied the platform on account of having “ a damaged reputation.” The new comer stoutly objected to any such ostracism, and said plainly-that if that woman was not good enough to come on that platform, that she was not, and that she would not. After considerable controversy among the “heads,” it was agreed to permit the ostracised lady to appear and speak; and she did do so. But she now repays the sister who stood by her then, by writing blackguard things in the papers and telling infamous stories of her privately, wher- ever she has an opportunity. This Christian lady is the one referred to as the Teleg7°am’s correspondent, and is still a prominent woman sulfragist, who thinks that the free lovers have damaged the suffrage movement. There is this consolation to be gleaned from all this : We at which the most clubs will be hurled, and therefore rest content under the malicious” innuendoes and ungenerous in.- sinuations that are poured upon us from the bitter tongues‘ of shallow women and through the columns of a venial press, that does not dare to let the truth have a fair heating in its columns. We know very well that the almost unani- mous combination among the editors of the daily press to ignore the discussion of the evils ofrthe social system, must some day give way, to let the light of truth shine in upon- the foul things that now lie concealed beneath the cloak of respectability. “ Cover them up l” will not do for a rallying cry much longer. It must and will be replaced by “Drag them out 1” and that, too, soon. The widespread canvass of things a matter for common consi_'deration_, and the very editors who have fought so long and foolishly to strangle yet conceived by them. L [K -- 4 " if Rich, and shall review it as soon as we have time. QUESTIONS OF MOMENT. » me E. w11i:nI.i‘zin.C spirit manifestatio_ns had intelligently dawned upon earth ; and mayhap we have our conceptions ‘on _this,parti,cul’a1f point, upon the variety of our notions, and the remarkable will catch at a straw.” _ C . From childhood we have been taught the importance of “straws ”. to buoy us up. Spirit manifestations had a ten- dency to shake man _ loose from old dogmas, and without; stopping long enough to reﬂect that old ones werejust as good as new, We directly work these manifestations into an imagin- ary -ne plus ultra, of all philosophies, on the simple virtue of having proved our old philosophies false. We did not think to ask an assurance that it would not repeat an old.fraud,a_nd “ give us a. stone when our yearning hearts asked for bread.’,’ But we trusted it, because it made a pretension, without insisting that we should have all the values that the heart could ask. Hence we have left for ourselves the certainty of making another change. for the honest soul will change until it ﬁnds for itself substantial justice. , If I were to say that therewere not a half-dozen individuals on the face of this earth who had ever intelligently comprehended the signiﬁ- know that the tree that bears the choicest fruit is the one- the, Beecher trial has done a vast work in making these‘ -the birth of freedom for the affections, have entered into this, propaganda with the liveliest. zeal, and thus defeated the objects previously in view in a way and to an extent not -’ WE have received “_The World's Sixteen‘ 1. Saviours,” by Kersey Graves, from, the press of Colbyrfifé We talk as if the age of progress, the era of rapid ai_:1viande'-“ iments, has been fairly inaugurated since the moment that‘; ease and readiness .,wi_th, which we change on,é'ithl’”ng'ft?.fS another. It is an old and trite saying, the .“a drowning‘ma_n r c I A woonnntt ..s ctsrtmts WEEKLY. canoe of spirit manifestations, 1 should say just what Ithink about it. If this is thought to be illiberal, it may be set down as honest. 4 I , These manifestations were not produced to enlighten us upon old topics, nor to introduce new ones; but to incident- ally expose the frauds that had always misled us; not to sug- gest some important aids to inform us when our broth is seasoned. to suit us, "but to frankly acknowledgethat our- selves are the best judges; and equally so with everything appertaining to ourselves as individuals. No sooner is intel- ligence gotten to us from the unseen to tell us of the where- abouts o'f devoted, loved ones, that so distinctly made exist- ence plain to us (and which had ever constituted.-«the, I forbidden pass or line of demarkation in the conﬂict-of ages), that class of spirits who had always watched and wrought to keep man in the dark, and who had by this means ruled him, saw that in case he could not be gotten back into deep water without discovering the trick by which it was done, they could never maintain their power over him, against the near and endearing attractions of those dear fond hearts we had missed, without knowing why. These creatures had ruled for thousands of years un- der the cognomen of a God. In the advent of spirit mani- festations there was whispered back to us that we had an interest in the unseen, nearer and dearer than any yet inti- mated by either gods or angels, and that interest nestled in the hearts of fond ones who had, up to the period of that event, failed to make man cognizant of their "whereabouts. When this knowledge began to manifest itself, baser spirits were in ﬁdgets, because they saw that their power was at an end, unless man could be thrown into the dark again, where mystery and extravagance could sway him as the feather is blown about by the winds. Hence the performances and conflicting variety of notions demonstrated from the unseen to amaze and bewilder man. To enlist the attention and sympathy of the awakened mind and to afford it business to help others, are just the methods by which these same infa- ‘ mies have fooled the religious world for centuries—always in ﬁts to set others right, with no assurances of being right themselves. There is a craft in this, and in its cunning lies its power. ' 4 g ’ 7 _ To imagine’ that goodness would not allow this is to make goodness responsible for all the ills we suffer. whether by im- position or otherwise. Whatever power presumes to control man; call it (or th-em) whatever name we choose, whether a great sovereign God, a divine providence or :1 divine fatality; whether good or bad spirits from the unseen, that power is responsible for all the miseries that afflict the race; for to pretend to manage for good without being able to do so, is a sham, and any power is out of place that presumes to regu- late interests not its own. 01' that intrudes the sacredness of personal being in another. The plea for such an assumption has all the merit in it of a claim that would justify a first- cluss assassin; and the question just here as to why there is or ever should have been any attempt from the unseen to govern man inthis life, is a startling one. Call the pretender to such right Jehovah. God, Lord, Theodore Parker, Thomas Paine‘, Red Jacket or Blue Jacket, the tyranny to the sove- reign soul is the same, in either case. Man is made over, put down and really set forth as a natural know-nothing. Invade the rights of the wasp, he is directly conscious of the wrong, and resents it. The timid mouse will run while he can, yet he will die game when he must. Man alone is craven. There is a subtle, lying inﬂuence on him, coupled with a false edu- cation, that makes him tremble almost at his own shadows. The unseen braggartly claims an advantage over him, and he, coward like, allows it. Nature speaks for herself in all other manifestations; here usurping tyrannies seize the reins and man is and ever has been wrecked. Why is it that man, the only complete solved problem of creation, should be the Worst solved, is a question that must gLoAoutsid"e of the ﬁtness of thitgs to ﬁnd ananswer. , That, -man‘ should be a perpetual riddle to himself (if by any neces- ity),demonstrates his existence as failure. I am not d»iﬂi- ‘cult,’ yet no power shall set’ before me‘ enigmas for me to guess outwith my consent. Frank and plaintreatment or none; ‘fairness or open deﬁance- If this position is deemed. ‘dangerous, let those fear it who see the danger, Ivdo not. I would, stand eternally alone’ in the ‘realm ofbeing, sooner than make company with those whose ‘conceptions could only be weakness to me. Who requires or counsels me to feel de- pendent tells me that I am an incompleteness. -This, if so, is notwrong; nor could the fault be mine, since I would have been complete if 1 could. But I do not love dependence, nor to be told that I am lacking. It always. seems a treason to nature and her methods. - ' ‘ ‘ . My conscious soul has never wished to be constitutionall and organically better than it is. I am not envious now; yet when J. was a boy‘ and saw my father with a feather in his cap, and spurs on his boots, I wanted aﬁfeather and spurs. My cooler reﬂection tells me that it was the feather and spurs that had my admiration, and not my father. These ‘baubles put my fathergin the shade, simply as all honors, wealth. and those performances that go to make up distinc- tlons, obscure the man. We admire him for these, just as the simple child loves the monkey for his ingenious tricks. All Iask of this, or another mode of being, is room and free- dom, to repeat myself. When I trench upon another’s inborn rights, I will confess that others have a retaliatory right to trench on me. I would live unlet and unhindered, working in with the harmonies of being, where discords are never dreamed of. Allelse is treason to nature, and could but work a wrong to me, even though I were fool enough to esteem it divine. 5 . v When, I was some ﬁve years old, my grandmother told me the story of the two she bears that God sent out of the wilderness to devour two and forty children who had mocked at the prophet. My little soul instantly thought as meanly of her God as if he had eaten them up himself. The phases of modernspiritualism, as it has loomed up for many" years past, where spirits claim a right to managethis world and direct man in this life, is of the same type. ’Tis treason against the sovereign soul to invade its sanctity and.‘ claim a right to‘ control it‘; and yet it is done with the claim that strains to justify it. Has man lived for the past twenty- seven years and gained nothing to his stock -of personal knowledge in regard to the character of the actors in the un- seen, who claim so much right to meddle in the affairs of men? When the gentle, tiny “ raps ” first heralded the fact that loved and dear ones were directly in our midst, and had ever held holyreveries with every quiet soul, though unre- cognized, yet as unpresuming in what they did as is sunlight in its laughing frolics with the air we breathe; these intelli- gent “ raps,” that worked their way to man so ingeniously through the dense stratum of falsehood that closed about him and held his attention, told us more than mere implica- tion cou1d=——that some foul wrong had shut this knowledge from us in all past ages. And this it was that forced the powers who perpetrated the wrongs to adopt some new ex- pedient, or lose their hold on man. And this new expedient is noisy, popular spiritualism that dares to control ‘human brains and arrogantly dictate to humanity what they should believe and how they should live, while it is as destitute of life as any theory that had preceded it. And it is the same stripe of infamy that began its infernal record thousands of years ago, and man on this earth has never had the quiet his heart yearned for since. The same footprints are seen to-day, in this shade of spiritualism, that have been so promi- nent and barefaced in other ages, viz.: a‘ claim of right to correct and manage man. In these gassy, pretentious and noisy performances, it unwittingly crops out that these meddlers in the aifairs of this mode of being are men and women themselves, who are destitute of every sense of per- sonal justice; for every interference with man throws him off his centre, where they have him at their option. Man does not seem to see a poialnt as invariable in its results as the explosive nature of powder when in contact with a spark of ﬁre. And that point is, that he cannot have any use of him- self while under the control of any abstract inﬂuence, whether by personal conifact or by those agreements that create an obligation: and;-this is just where he has always been beaten by a subtle power that he does not understand. The analogies between the claims of the God of oldest times .and those spirits who set up to control mediums, or in any way to exercise authority to-day’, are marked and distinct. Each begin with treating man as a know-nothing, then blaming, commanding, directing and threatening him. VVhile sitting in a, circle in ’58, I was amazed to hear the controlling spirit talk of “ punishing men and women.” I asked,“ Why do you punish them?” He said, “ Because they Won't obey us. That is, they wont do as we want them to do.” I then asked, “ How do you punish them?” He carelessly let off (as with a sly wink), “ Oh, we know how to do that.” And so they do. I soon lost my last six thousand dollars. - Our methods of pursuing life justifies one man in robbing, another in dealing, compels another to steal, and drives another mad; and to-day Sfate prisons, poor-houses, insane asylums, and all those bastiles that whisper of degradation, and mortify glorious men and women, are ﬁlled with their victims. In ‘G7 I said these creatures will never rest until this whole thing is thrown back under the god-power, where they can keep man in sufficient awe to control him easily. Some time in ’58 these spirits began to lay the foundation for this work. The first prayer was‘ uttered through Mrs. Conant, of only two or three lines, to some great abstraction, and the nameof Rev. Asahel Nettleton, or Nathaniel Em- mons, was given. (As I have not seen the piece since I can- not be quite positive which.) Something over one year ago they proposed to lay aside prominent actors, and to this end called a convention, with the ﬂourish of wishing to establish “the bureau of the harmonial brotherhood,” and signed the order from “the Spiritual Congress of Nations.” The con- vention was a failure. But the spirits who signed the call with stolen names exempliﬁed the worst possible taste in appending what they supposed would be taken for charac- teristic reprosentations of the persons named. For instance, ‘Jesus is set forth -as calling hi nself “ the humble Nazarene.” Some coxcomb they would have us take as a remarkable indian spirit, is autographed as “ Big Sunlight,” and all other signatures are as characteristically stupid; and yet these creatures would be taken for those artless and unpretending souls they set forth by name! " In the call for the convention by these celebrities on the 23d of December, 1873, I was overlooked, but have since been addressed by an especial letter with some insinnations; then a. statement that the medium knows nothing in and of her- self, and that “ I must give them the credit of going behind the scenes in such matters." They shall have it. “ The Spir- itual Congress of Nations,” ambitious for the credit of being sneaks, nosing in matters that could by no possibility be any of their business! This is a step down from the spread-eagle performance of forming “ The Bureau of the, Harmonia] Brotherhood,” but it is in keeping with the whole batch of their performances, from the ceremonial juggiery among the Israelites in the wilderness of Judea to the last especial con- trol of the human brain. These creatures in these acts (like the God of Moses getting mad on Mt. Sinai), have overshot greatness a long ways. This claim of sneaking around “be- hind the scenes,” brings to my mind a great lubberly half. wit, who lived just where any one would keep him, and if he could hear of a young lady who was to have a beau, he would walk three or four miles of a Sundayinight, and, cat-like, spend hours to get a peep in at the window. Butl never knew that he claimed such an act as being especially smart or any remarkable indication of greatness. ‘ Does this position ignore spirit presence and spirit loves? By no means ;. but it scouts these loud-mouthed pretenders ill Wh3*‘=9V61‘ 1131116 the?’ may come. Man has allowed spirits, calling themselves God, Galen, Greeley, Parker, Spinosa, and other consequential names, to invade the sacredness of his soul, and dictate to him the conditions and way of life with a mean audacity that plainly revealed an outlandish spirit trying to imitate agreatness and goodness he never realized; and hence the awkward performances of the Grreeleys, Parkers, Paines, Websters, etc., and yet man has been as tame as -a whipped puppy under it-all. If some person had. _ 29,1875’. I tyrannically assumed the rare privilege of telling us we were ignoramuses and needed a. discipline to impart to us a sprink- ling of thier wisdom, we should demonstrate our good sense by showing him the door, and hurry him up to ﬁnd it. AUBURN, March 26, 1875. MRS. EvAR'r’s said to Mr. Evart/s one morning: “Get up and open the dampers, William;’’ and Mr. Evart's said ab- sently, turning over for another nap, “ Your honor will please note my exception.” \. BUSINESS EDITORIALS. DR. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-05-29_09_26
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-05-29_09_26
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 01 (June 5, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2074
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-06-05
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: . r” g . I?” v I>RQGrBEssz FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! _?__‘u ‘I BREAKING "rHE WAY FOR FUTIIRE GENERATIONS. Vol. X.—-No. 1.-——VVl:ole No. 235. ;— 4:.‘ NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 1875. PRICE TEN oEN'rs. 3!- THE WILTON OUTRAGE. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., May 16, 1875. Dear W eekly/—Ta1k about savages and barbarians, scalping- knives, tomahawks and rattlesnakes, they are not to be men- tioned in the same era with the reﬁnement of torture inﬂict- ed upon one poor civilized white girl by a set of respectable, Christian ladies in a N orth-western town. I am glad there I’ is one paper in the land that will dare characterize the inhuman conduct of those feminine ﬁends as it richly deserves. And that paper is our free and fearless WEEKLY. Other papers have chronicled the “spicy piece of news” with gingerly comments of the aﬂair, as though fearful of treading on the tender, sanctified, corns of modern respect- ability. , — I came across the recital for the second time in the columns of the ...
Show more. r” g . I?” v I>RQGrBEssz FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! _?__‘u ‘I BREAKING "rHE WAY FOR FUTIIRE GENERATIONS. Vol. X.—-No. 1.-——VVl:ole No. 235. ;— 4:.‘ NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 1875. PRICE TEN oEN'rs. 3!- THE WILTON OUTRAGE. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., May 16, 1875. Dear W eekly/—Ta1k about savages and barbarians, scalping- knives, tomahawks and rattlesnakes, they are not to be men- tioned in the same era with the reﬁnement of torture inﬂict- ed upon one poor civilized white girl by a set of respectable, Christian ladies in a N orth-western town. I am glad there I’ is one paper in the land that will dare characterize the inhuman conduct of those feminine ﬁends as it richly deserves. And that paper is our free and fearless WEEKLY. Other papers have chronicled the “spicy piece of news” with gingerly comments of the aﬂair, as though fearful of treading on the tender, sanctified, corns of modern respect- ability. , — I came across the recital for the second time in the columns of the New York Clipper, which I beg parson Talmage’s par- don for mentioning; but he can use a deodorizer and employ some sweet sister of his ﬂock to swing the censer while he sleeps. I presume the Police Gazette and Dau’s Doings have had the tale I refer to, illustrated for the delectation of a select class of readers. If those “juicy” sheets have only repro- duced the features of those consistent followers of Mrs. Grundy, those “highly respected ” ladies who performed the demon-hatched work of tarring and feathering a young girl in the town of Wilton, Iowa, we should for once feel indebt- ed to their proliﬁc artists; for ’tis meet we should learn the varying expressions of human ﬁendishncss and female devlishness, though masked in the garb of social purity, sanctified by Church and State. it Listen to the storyi One of the best-known citizens of Wil- ton had a daughter so unfortunate as not to bear _a good name for two years. She was seventeen years, old, “hand- some, intelligent, and of winning manners.” Years ago her mother died and her father gave her suc- cessively two step-mothers, and was much absent from home himself. These are circumstances and surroundings enough to move the bowels of “compassion of any humanized soul, . save, perhaps, a set of immaculately virtuous old ‘Christian(?) hags on the rampage after a young girl who has strayed from the social corral, and who can discount a painted savage on the war path in the execution of malicious cruelty. It is asserted the girl had turned her step-mother out of doors, and she sought protection of her neighbors. That is a likely story! We believe that, of course ;' it is full of Beech- erian plausibility. , _ , More likely the step-mother was in league with the “ twelve or more ladies,” who had resolved, in their virtuous wrath, to exterminate that girl; so she, the step-mother, gave the operators a clear field for their tar bucket and bag of feathers. I wonder what sanctified marriage-bed furnished those feathers? I wonder if in handling pitch those “ladies” got soiled? Perhaps they received an absolving kiss‘ from the minister before they started out. ' The girl had possession of her father’s house for a week, where she entertained nightly some of the “most respect- able ”young men of Wilton. The night selected by those amiable dames for the work of devastation, was Friday, some time early in April. The hour was eight 1?. M., a decent Christian hour for “respectable ” females to be out; neither too early to tar and -feathera young girl nor too late for rigid virtue to walk the streets. The wind howled, as is ﬁtting it should when grim, gaunt and hideous witches ride the air. Few souls who valued comfort were out of doors in Wilton when those avenging furies took up their line of march for that doomed domicile. Silently those “ladies” assembled in the back yard with the awe-struck tom-cats dumb for sympathy. Silently they laid hold of numerous iron bolts that their patron saint, the devil, had left handy, and at a concerted signal from the presiding fury, the old boss tiger—cat herself, crash went the Windows of the lighted room! I The neighborhood was aiibusedl The girl shrieked! The “ladies” yelled! The four young men en dishabille took to their heels and made for -the opened windows, whence, all but one escaped amidst the cry of “ Shame! Shame on you I” from those valiant Amazons,‘ every one of them, I’ll wager, much opposed to woman’s rights, but belonging to the insane sisterhood who led the late frantic temperance raids. The young man who did not at ﬁrst succeed, tried again, iheads ind clothing of those other soiled doves! you took in the infernal torture of that girl; ’tis a deed -resorts to avile revenge; it holds up awarning ﬁnger and .written by the same woman, was dropped on the door-steps V believed at that time that the name of this woman had been and made his egress by “laying out ” two of those devoted Christan warriors on the ﬂoor. , One of the young men was a son of one of the “ladies” who helped on the work; another was in the employ of the husband of another “lady, ” and boarded in her house. After the escape of the lively young men the “sport ” com- menced; the tar ran down the long locks of the girl (0, what would she not have given for short hair then! ) the feathers ﬂew and stuck ‘to the girl and to the contaminated hands, The poor victim’s cries for help and mercy were unheededs and soon “ she was unrecognizable.” The deed was done and devils danced, while those virtuous matrons returned to their chaste sheets! The female ﬁends out of our social hell had accomplished the supreme work, which, the Davenport Daily Gazette said, no man in Wilton could be found to as- sist those “ladies” in! Ladies, indeed! That tarred and feathered girl is white and clean beside them. The house was rendered uninhabitable, and as trophies of the war, the “ladies” carried off the hats, boots, coats and vests of the young men. ' The wandering girl was found, out in the night and the bit- ter cold, by a man who providedrshelter-for her, and she next day left the pure precincts of Wilton, sent far on her road to hell by those—what shall I call them. Virtuous females will do, for only a woman hardened inlthe great worhl’s miscon- ception of virtue could have committed such a deed. Could I ﬁnd it in my heart to say it of a single soul, how- ever depraved, I could say it of these “ladies” who tarred and feathered that young girl-—God damn them! One of those young men beat his mother for her part in the aﬁair, and they all left town, leaving sorrow and disgrace at their heels and in their homes as a result of feminine fury let loose without sense or judgment to guide or check. And there is no worse fury to set on a cause than a set of ignorant, prejudiced, vicious minded women. They have not foresight to see that they can not drown out the social evil with a bucket of tar or smother it with a sack of feathers, though they take them steaming from a licentious, sanctiﬁed marriage-bed. That evil has got the upper hand, “ladies, ” and your husbands, and your son s, your fathers and your brothers, and even the unborn babe in your wombs, they are all mark: ed from the sins of the parents! . Think not, “ladies, ” to escape thejudgment for the share darker than moonless midnight and stamps you more hope- lessly depraved than the struggling victim of your misguid- ed wrath. . _ There is such a thing as righteous indignation, but it never says, “ Let him or her who is without sin among you cas the first stone!” _ I Go, “ladies,” on your-virtuous way, breeding sinners for more of your class and calibre to pour tar and feathers over; but verily I say unto you, “A harlot shall enter the kingdom before ye !” . ’ HELEN NASH. “SAUGE FOR THE GOOSE ETC.” V “ Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.” —Bla7ce. — ' ' What the obscurantists would do to suppress freedom of thought, speech and action, is indicated in the following un- couth denouncement of the Evening Bulletin, of San Francis- cc, of April 24: “ A NUISANCE. , . . “ A well known citizen complains that a copy of an indecent paper, containing an article by Rose Mackinley, has been dropped in his door-yard. The article is vile enough to have been the product of the most abandoned woman in town. Some months ago an indecent poem, purporting to have been of private residences through a large part of the city. Many unwarrantably used. But arecent contribution in W001)- HULL AND CLAELIN’s WEEKLY over the signature of this person, removes all doubt as to the question of authorship. There is not another city within our knowledgewhere such a nuisance could be committed in this public way without an arrest and speedy punishment.” ‘ . I am surprised that "the editor of this paper, in whose Sat- urday number there sometimes appears a scholarly book- notice, should so far forget what is due to belle-lettristic’ art, as to invoke the constable against a license of opinion that should be judged only by the critic. Certainly a different spirit presided over the penning of the above call upon Dog- berry to that which inspired, in the same journal, avery ap- preciative review of a recently published volume of the poems of William Blake. Neither Solomon, Aristophanes, J uvenal, Rabelais nor Dean Swift have exceeded Blake in a cool ana- tomical wavof dealing with the reﬁnements of mock-modesty. Perhaps this prudish editor would not have been so ready to laud this somewhat erratic genius, had he been aware that the poetry and philosophy of Blake fordshadowed the prin- ciples of that much-maligned school of thinkers, called in America, “ free» lovers.” Blake expatiates upon sexual lib- erty more forcibly, boldly, and at the same time poetically, than any writer I know of. The progress of public opinion toward sexual disenthrallment, is to me most signiﬁcantly in- dicated in the recent recognition extended toward the start- ling revelations of this great spiritualist and free lover. The volume of his poems last published has been very favorably noticed by conservative journals, and his works are now in demand at the circulating libraries, an unfailing sign of grow- ing popularity. _ I would especially recommend the perusal of Blake’s works to students of the social question. On that topic they will ﬁnd him as much! a great teacher as were Pythagoras, Epicurus and Socrates to their disciples. What Homer and Shakespeare are to the art of poetry, Blake is to the art of life, the peerless exponent of the highest truths whereon it is founded. The following extractsfrom Blake will illustrate what I say above, and perchance convince the editor of the Bulletin that one to whom he has givenchigh praise is as frank in expression (or indecent, if the prim so choose to call it) as I am, in the article in ~Woon1IULL AND CLArLIN’s WEEKLY, I which he so ﬁercely censures. EXTBACTS FROM BLAKE. “ Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and ﬂaming hair; But desire gratiﬁed Plants fruits of life and beauty there.” “ Moral virtues do not exist, they ave allegories and dis- simulations.” “ He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.” “ The pride of the peacock is the glory of God; The lust of ‘the goat is the bounty of God; The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God; _ The nakedness of woman is the work of God." “ Was Jesus born of a virgin pure, ' With narrow looks and soul demure; If he intended to take on sin , His mother should a harlot (have) been: Just such a one as Magdalen, - With seven devils in her pen; Or were Jew virgins still more cursed, And more sucking devils nursed?” “ Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.” “ Those who restrain desire ‘do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained, and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governsthe unwilling.” “ The one thing unclean is the belief in uncleanness, the one thing forbidden is to believe in the existence of forbidden things.” , I - I “ What is it men in women do require! The lineaments of gratiﬁed desire. What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of gratiﬁed desire.” , “ Let" not pale religious lechery call that virginity that wishes but acts not.” ’ u I tell you no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments.” “Can that he love which drinks another, As a sponge drinks water?’ That clouds with jealousy his nights, With weepings all the days?” ' “ He who preaches natural religionlor morality, is a ﬂa.t- ‘ terer who means to betray and to perpetuate tyrant pride.” “ Why should I be bound to thee, O my lovely myrtle tree? Love, free love, cannot be bound To any tree that grows on ground.” “ Divide from the divine glory the softness and warmth of ’’*---~..\ , 2 O woo1)nUI.La CLAFLIN’S wnnntr. .6 June 5, 1875. human color—subtract from the divine the human presence —-subdue all refraction to the white absolute light, and that light is no longer as the sun’s is, warm with sweet heat of life and liberal of good gifts; but foul with overmuch purity, sick with disease of excellence, unclean through exceeding cleanness, like the skin of a leper ‘ as white as snow.’ ” It may be as well for me to say, also, that the manner in which anything I have written came into the possession of the well known and immaculate citizen to whom the Bulletin refers, is as mysterious to me as it is that the modesty of the shame-faced burgher should have permitted him to read or even_handle a ﬁlthy sheet. I have never distributed any of T my pennings in this city. Some few copies of my poems I have given away here, but only to friends and personal ac- quaintances. I In a world so openly licentious as this, a virtue that fears to be corrupted by anything thatit may read, is, as ‘we are told by Macaulay, like the felon who begged to have‘an umbrella held over his head from the jail to the gallows, be- cause it was a drizzling morning and he was apt to take cold. FRANCES Rosn MACKINLEY. APHRA BEEN RETREAT, May 5, 1875. [N. B.—-The works of Butler, Dean Swift and Lawrence Sterne, three eminent English clergymen of the Episcopal Church, are considered standard British classics, and are to be found in all our best libraries. Those who read them have little reason to criticise the writings of Frances Rose Mackinley as being too truthful and too outspoken to be tolerated. In our opinion, both in style and perspicuity of expression, the works of the author of the above letter will bear a favorable comparison with those of either of the British divines mentioned; and, on the score of propriety, are certainly far less cens'urable.] A FEW MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE CHURCH AND ‘ THE COURTS. BY WARREN CHASE. . Since the Beecher trial is a model for future reference and may be a guide in other suits, cases and States besides New "York, we propose to keep some important points in the case before the people. This suit is brought for damages done to the property of Theodore Tilton by_Henry Ward Beecher. It should have been an action for trespass, or trover. It could not be for stealing, since Beecher did not carry the property off the — premises of Tilton, the lawful owner of it. Now, if this ac- tion for damage could be made to lay, would it not be neces- sary to have an appraisal of the property and an estimate of its real value before it was injured, and after, so as to ascer- tain the exact amount of damage? It would not be diﬁicult to prove the ownership of Tilton because Beecher himself. was a witness to the legal transfer of title and sale of this property to Theodore. That he was the real owner by law no one can dispute, but the value of the property is a ques- tion to be settled in the trial———the real damage being the vi- tal question. How much did Tilton value this property? VVas he assessed and taxed for it? We have no recollection of this kind of property being exempt from taxation by special act of legislature, and believe thisis the only way that property can be exempt from such liability in N. Y. Church property and some other kinds are by special provis- , ion exempt; but this kind of_ property is not named in the list of exemptions; hence we wish to know why Tilton did not give in to the assessor this piece of property at $100,000 or more if he intended to hold Beecherfor damaging it to that amount. Men were taxed for slave-property in the South, why not for wife-property since it is acknowledged to be property in law? If Mrs. Tilton was anybody and owned _ her body she could bring a suit for assault and battery, or per- ', __ sonal damage if she chose; but no other person could unless he had a right of property in her. If Mr. Beecher had injured the horse or house owned by Mr Tilton he could recover the actual damage by appraisal and proof. As this suit is for damage, why not go by the same rule and ascertain the real damage to Tilton’s property and assess accordingly. There is another view of this case which is largely on Beecher’s side. He gives his meaning to conscience in a ser- mon tojwhich we heartily subscribe, and by this rule his con- science was for him alone and not for an orthodox church nor for anybody else. By it he must be tried for moral or sinful acts, and not by that of public opinion. He is account- ‘able on his own conscience. Now we believe that Mr. Beecher justiﬁes himself co nscientiously for all he has done to Mrs. Tilton, and that he does not believe that Tiltonreally owned, Mrs.‘Ti1ton at all, but that she owned her own body and had aright to dispose of it as it was evident to- her Tilton did with his, as he pleased, not consulting her. Hence he could say conscientiously he did not make any improper proposals to her nor take any improper libertiesswith her, since they were all welcomed and even invited. Since his testimony on the witness-stand contradicts other witnesses and his former statements, it is evident that his conscience has been lim- bored up on these subjects since the trial, and especially since Tracy’s wonderful speech disclosed the plot and character of the conspirators. Poor Elizabeth seems to be a nobody in this case, or a puppet to be danced about for the amusement of all parties, and about as important as a wax doll in the audience, only to be looked atand talked about. Beecher would not insult or injure her; of course he would not"; his heart is too generous and too honest and conscientious to insult her or to make improper proposals, or take improper liberties, and he says he did not. But he has not told, noris it likely he will tell, what he has done with her consent and invitation, and who would expect or require him to do it? will she, should she, tell it? Will he, should he, tell it? Let Tilton tell it if he will, and prove it if he can. How do the consciences of these men diﬁer? ‘Is -not each acquitted by his own conscience, while he will not forgive his brother? Is _ Tilton without sin or is Beecher ?— , ONE of the old settlers at the Isle of Shoals, seeing the name» of Psyche on the hull of a yacht the other day, spelled it out slowly, and then exclaimed: “ Well, if that ain’t the duru- dest way to spell ﬁsh!” ‘ VOICE OF COMMON SENSE.—GOD AND THE DEVIL. BY BACKWOODS RHYMER. God made this world himself alone, With no one to assist him; And then, too, on the other hand, There were none to resist him. . He made the world for our own use, We could not live without it; And so he made it.very quick- Was just six days about it. He made the rocks, and hills, and plains, And all the towering mountains, And all the little rippling rills, And all the ﬂowing fountains. He made the sun, and moon, and stars, And placed them all in order; Then spread a curtain over all, With a star-spangled border. V ’Tis said he made these things at ﬁrst, From nothing but ethereal; But could he form such solid things, And make them all material? He made an Indian and a squaw, And placed them in the bushes, And taught them how to get their meat, By catching fowls and ﬁshes. And then God made another pair, And called them Eve and Adam: When they’d been here a few short years, He wished the Devil had ’em. There was aniangel up above, Who always had been civil; But now he got so awlful proud,- He turned into a Devil. And then they had a war in Heaven»- His temper got so heated, , That Michael and the Dragon fought—— The Dragon got defeated. And then God sent old Satan down, With mother Eve to’-grapple; And Satan turned into a snake, And offered her an apple. She took the apple, ate it all, But just the core and paring; And those she gave to her old man, And that set him to swearing. Se now we all must go to hell, With devils there to grapple, Because, six thousand years ago. Our parents ate that apple. We’ve many men in all the world, In every land and nation, Who make jackasses of themselves, And call it inspiration. God made ten thousand little things, Black, yellow, green and red bugs; And then he made two species more—- We call them ﬂeas and bed-bugs. He made a million things with wings, Gnats, black ﬂies, and mosquitoes; But, 0 the devil, how they bite! Those wicked little creatures. ‘ I wish they never had been made- Those naughty little midgets; They bite our dear sweet babies so, Their mothers get the ﬁdgets. V But God saw ﬁt to make such things, He made them all to suit him; And we can have no right at all To grumble or dispute him; Ten thousand times ten thousand things, And little living creatures- One man could never name them all, Or know them by their features. There are bugs and worms, ants and toads, And caterpillars crawling; And snails, and birds, and crows, and hawks, And cats that do the squalling. 3 God took his servant by the hand, And gave him good instruction; If he received it, very good, If not, he’d see destruction. They went upon the mountain top, , To make the Ten Commandments, To be a guide to all the race Of Abraham’s descendants. God wrote them on two flattened stones, , That one small man could handle; It took just forty days and nights, And Moses held the candle.’ God worked right on, ﬁve weeks and more- Paid no regard to Sundays; But strove as hard through all these days, As shough they all were Mondays. He never stopped to rest at all, No, not a single minute; And now, to say that he was tired, I say there’s nothing in it. God never tires nor stops to rest, But works in every nation; He rolls the wheels of time along, And stops at no one station. The Book of Nature is quite plain, If you will read the volume;',', The ;truth you’ll ﬁnd on every leaf, In every single column. The book we call the Bible here, If you will read its contents, One half you’ll ﬁnd is decent good, The other half is nonsense. There is no devil in the world, In no dark place he lurches; He has no refuge anywhere, Except ’tis in the‘ churches. And priests may keep the devil there~ They think it very funny; As long as they make them believe, They grab the people’s money. But let folks hear, and pay them too, Yes, any one that pleases; I’m sure of this, they can’t get mine, Till melted brimstone freezes. . Now take a peep at Plymouth Church-— Behold their godly teacher; There’s no worse devil in theworlrl, Than their beloved Beecher. Andwhcn all ﬁnd he’s lied like hell, N 0 one believes his story, ' Hc’1l take a rope and hang himself, And swing right into glory. CHAMPLIN, Minnesota. . . DAWN VALCOUR COMMUNITY. VALCOUR ISLAND , May 5, 1875. — Numerous versions of the history of this movement have been given to the public, but none of them have done us justice. , Feeling it my duty to give a brief sketch of the most im- portant incidents that have characterized our history, which ’ may be of service to similar enterprises, I present the follow- ing outline: » For some reason we obtained in the outset greater publicity through the public press than any communistic enterprise that ever started in this country. We were brought rapidly munists in’ the country. Probably the popularity of the movement was largely attributable to our proposed system of organizing the com- munity into groups drawn together by the laws of congenial association as a means to overcome the antagonism that will mental temperament. In attempting to harmonize a num- ber of individuals in one family, reared as they have been in hotbeds of vice and crime, the problem of successfulx'com- munistic enterprises is rendered extremely doubtful. That the future destiny of the race is to be the union of society into one fraternal bond of love and tender forbearanoefor each other’s misfortunes in life is unquestionably the destiny of the race. But from the lower to the higher gradations of human development, we pass up through successive stages of enfoldment. _ First we have the isolated home system that inculcates within us a love of self and a tender regard for the members of the family, while a cold, relentless selﬁshness controls our every act toward all the remainder of the race. This system has served its uses, and lies to-day at the foundation of all the ills of human life. The next step upward in the re- construction of society will be the organization of small com- munities or groups drawn together by the laws of associative attraction, the number of which is to be determined by that which will produce the best harmony, while each group will be united in co-operative industry with a number of other groups: the number of the groups also to be determined by the best results to be obtained in the industrial pursuits in which they may be engaged. The relation of the groups to- ward each other to be comparatively the same as the rela- tions between isolated families, except that they will be co-operative instead of competitive. The third and highest organization of society will be the collective union of the community into one common family, ignoring all social distinction, each individual working as faithfully for the interests of the whole as we work now for the promotion of selﬁsh interests. V With this preliminary explanation I will now proceed with a brief rehearsal of our experience. To begin with, we were somewhat unfortunate in calling in a class of members who had, as a general thing, made life a failure; they were destitute of means, and, with a few ex- ceptions, were rather inexperienced in any particular indus- trial pursuit. A much better class was disposing of it s property with a view of joining us this spring. It is unfor- tunate, perhaps, that a large percentage of those who are ready to embark in an enterprise of this character at ﬁrst are made up largely of adventurers who have nothing to loose, but join with a view of promoting their selﬁsh ends, without contributing to the general welfare of the enterprise. They terrible wrongs and deceptions that have been perpetrated upon them. They are the bane of communities. N 0 man or woman should be admitted as members unless they are will- ing to make as much personal exertion in building up «the home as they would be under the necessity of doing as pro- ducers in a new country. Yet ten earnest, determined pio- neers, who are blessed with patience and who know no such word as fail, will lead on to success a hundred indiﬁerent members who are always ﬂoating down the stream of life. We never had at any one time more than thirty members, although hundreds were corresponding with us with a view of joining us as soon as they could dispose of their property. We would have succeeded beyond a question, although we would have passed through the trials incident to the growth A and development of the new enterprise in which we had embarked, if it had not have been for the one bone of con- telhtion, the unsatisfactory property basis and the code of tyrannical laws imposed upon us by Mr. Shipman through the bond. The ﬁrst bond that existed during the time we were organizing was without conditions, other than the simple transfer of the property to the community. This usurpation of power by Mr.'Shipman was met with universal disappro- bation among the members, which resulted in the most of sible to do so, exactly where the blameexisted. My theory was that if there was dissatisfaction among a considerable number of the members, that the dissatisfaction should be overcome by the removal of the cause that had produced it; but Mr. Shipman differed with me and held persistently that the bone of contention should be removed by coercive laws. His mode of government has been used successfully in the into communication with nearly all the prominent /com-' always result from bringing together too great a diversity of ’ are the ﬁrst persons to pass resolutions of censure for the - them leaving. It is unnecessary to state, even if it were pos- . 1%!‘ 3'1-. «hi. b"‘L-. V . jlllle 5, 1875. woonniutt s ci.ArL1N*s w‘t:“nxLsa ~ ‘ lower stages of human growth and development, but is in no wise calculated to produce harmony among advanced .thinkers. The most prominent cause of contention was the estimated value of the property. In our statements in circulars, we claimed the property to be worth $100,000 to a community, and we still hold to the same opinion. Shipman seized upon this f opportunity to prociaim himself a philanthropist by making a gratuity of $74,000 to the community, while he only exacted $26,000 to be paid for the property. Comparing the ' price of Valcour lands with lands upon the main shore, I be- lieved the property cheap at $26,000, but I was astonished, at a very late day, When I ascertained through Shipman’s creditors that they did not consider the property good for the debts. This grows out of the fact that lands on the small islands without schools and churches are not held as high in the money market for isolated homes as the same lands upon Grand Isle or the main shore, though, on this account I held it was worth more for a community. But it seemed strangely inconsistent for Shipman to proclaim himselfa benefactor to his race, as a great donor of gifts, when he was exacting of us more than double what he could realize in the world’s market. It was utterly impossible to reconcile this com- plicated condition of aﬁairs in the minds of the mem- bers. The most of them maintained the present -mar- -ket, value of the property should determine the price that the community should pay Shipman for it. But this position was untenable, since Shipman would not accede to it. I maintained that the intrinsic worth of the propertyfar exceeded its market value, and that we could not afford to sacriﬁce the opportunity of securing/it asfa basis for our community, even though Shipman’s course had made him distasteful to all the members. Oftentimes when those troubles would seem about to wreck us, Shipman would make overtures looking toward the probability that he would make an investment of the whole property subject to the payment of his debts. This was the point that I was working for, but the most of the members had no faith in his promises. Had Shipman done as he now proposes to do in his circular, we would have saved him from ruin, and the community from a disruption that has given to the world the idea that we have failed. But we now see the wisdom of- it all. VVe get rid of many insurmountable obstacles by obtaining the island property directly from the creditors, and we are still deter- mined to exemplify the principles that have been previously set forth as the basis of our community. Address John Willcox, South Plattsburgh, N. Y. (ro BE CONTINUED.) — VICTOR HUGO’S OPINION ON WOMAN’S RIGHTS. The Society for the Improvement of the Condition of Women have sent an address to Victor Hugo, appealing to him, in the name of right, to lend them the aid of his valu- able voice. The poet replies in the following characteristic letter: I Mesdames—-I have received your address, which does me honor. Iam aware of your noble and legitimate demand. In our society, ‘such as it has been made, woman suﬂers. She . is right to claim abetter fate. I myself am only a conscience, but I understand your rights, and to obtain them is one of x the duties of my life. You are, therefore, not wrong to rely on my good will and assistance. Man was the problem of the eighteenth century: woman is the problem of the nineteenth. And who says woman says child—that is, the future. The question thus put appears in all its profundity, and on its so- lution depends the fate of the supreme social battle. What a strange and anomalous situation! In reality man depends on you, for woman holds the heart of man. Before the law she is a minor, incapable, without civil action, without political right—in short, she is nothing; before the family altar she is everything, because she is the mother. The dc- mestic hearth is what she makes it. At home she is the mis- tress of good and ill. Sovereignty complicated by oppres- sion. Woman can do all against man, but nothing for herself. It is imprudent of the law to make her so weak when she is so strong. Let us recognize that weaknes and protect it; let us recognize that strength and counsel it. There lies the duty of man, and there is also his interest. No, I shall never cease to say it, the problem is laid down, and it must be solved. She who bears half the burden ought to have half the right. Half of the human race is deprived of equality; it must be given to them. This will be one of the grand glories of our grand century. Let the right of woman counterbal- ance the right of man——that is to say, let the laws be placed in conformity with the morals and manners of the country. Accept, mesdames, my respects. ‘ - A TRIAL LAMENTATION. Dear Edz'tors'—I humbly pray that you will cast a ray of light over a mother’s heart whose son seems to be going down behind the hills of perdition. life are farmers. Our home has been one of the most happy; our children are industri- ous and intelligent; the best books and papers have found their way to '_our domicil. The d.'ay’s work being over, the ‘evenings were spent in reading, talking, singing and other social amusements. Evening greetings were frequently inter- changed with our neighbors. Our boys were as chaste as our girls; and our girls—well,_ they were immaculate. Our hus- bands were as pure as new mown hay and as sensitive as the morning dew-drop.. But alas for our neighborhood! a storm has swept over it. The north pole seems to have been torn from its moorings and scattered in icy fragments around our hearth-stone. Our husbands and boys. no more read to us ‘from thedaily papers, and we are forbidden to read them for ourselves. They hold them from us with a suspicious grasp, while they gather in groups, snicker and laugh over that which our curiosity is killing us to hear. By attentive listen- ' ing we catch an occasional word like “paroxysmal,” and innumerable_ways of kissing, when we, poor ignorant things, never knew but one; “ amorous glances,” which all the men of the place spent twenty—four consecutive hours in trying to give; “Bessie " and “ soft places,” “pillow” and “night scenes.” And, as if itching for more, they express regrets at not seeing the inside and “bones of a Woodcock,” “Vickey’s merits,” etc. “ Lie and lying” have become house- hold words. And Oh man dieu, my son so far forgot him- self as to say“ adultery” when asked if our minister attended the prayer-meeting. He has been running to Brooklyn every day for the last three months, and now our husbands and all the boys of the place are on the Brooklyn rampage. Our farm is neglected, ourhorses strayed or stolen, and there is noth- ingleft but one poor old ox and the girls to do the spring plowing. The women becoming exasperated, called a meeting and appointed your correspondent a committee of one, to go at once to Brooklyn and inquire into the cause of these terrible results. On leaving the ferry I asked where all the men went that visit Brooklyn from afar. “To the trial,” was the ready response. I hastened to the citypcourt-house, ran the gauntlet of more than a thousand men and boys over apavement of saliva, knocked at the court—room door, when a man squeezed his head through a crevice so small that on withdrawing it he left red hairs sticking to each_ side, and said I could not come in. I showed him my ticket of admis- sion——“ Can’t come in, judge says so, so” I turned away some- thing frightened. I had heard these very words from our boys. Just then a door opened on the opposite side of the hall, and a voice sang out, “ Make way for the counsel,” and giving me a poke or two in the ribs with his elbows, precipi- tated me on a slide over juice, into the very face of the judge himself. “Your honor,” I said bringing up short, and with as much composure as a woman could at suddenly encoun- tering and old Jersey stump over which a last year’s pumkin vine had run leaving nothing but a round specimen of its fruit on the top. if “ Yes,” he said, locking coyishly from under his eyebrows, and nervously ﬁngering the button of a long frock-coat. I held up my pass. He never spoke, but shook his head like our old brindle when about to kick. Our neighborhood is demoralized, our boys are ruined, I said, still pleading for one little glance at the court—room “inwardness.” Old brindle again: “Bad atmosphere,” sung out a mysterious voice.’ Still I plead, declaring that I was not afraid; that I was im- pervious to all kinds of contagious complaints, from whoop- ing cough and measles to vertigo and small-pox; that I had been vaccinated and baptized, and was never known to faint. “N evertheless, madam, you were born without feeling,” was the heavy reply that fell ‘on my poor head with the weight ’ of a cheese press. “This is a place of emotion; men weep here; plaintiﬁ and defendant weep: jury, counsel and witnesses weep; specta- tors weep; and my own pent-up fountains I am holding in reserve for my charge. Then the gates will open, and this very court-house be ﬂooded with the long and resistless dis- charge, and all women found here will be forever lost.” Well, I was scared, and never stopped running till I reached the ferry-boat. ‘ Now, in the name of all the singing-birds in my garden, wha are we to do? The revelations of that court-house have destroyed the purity of our husbands, made rakes of our boys, and our girls are all encierzte. DAISY J AYNE. LESSONS OF LIFE. ? MILWAUKEE, March 15, 1875. Dear Friends of the Weekly—I have been thinking much of late on life and its lessons, and propose from time to time to jot down some of my thoughts for your perusal. The ﬁrst in importance of all considerations, is how to live so as to insure us the best possible health. Proper genera- tion is of the utmost importance, but in order for children to be properly generated, woman must have perfect freedom sexually, and this can only be acquired through pecuniary independence. I claim that among the people of ordinary intelligence, the lack on the part of woman of any avocation whereby she can make a good, respectable living, is the only reason why she submits to undesired and often disgusting relations, either in marriage or otherwise. ‘So, as the case stands, the right education of those who are already upon the stage of life is necessary before We can have any children properly born. A child must, even when properly begotten, if reared with- out regard to the laws of health, eating every kind of un- wholesome food, drinking disease-producing beverages, breathing air ﬁlled with the emanations from decayed teeth, putrid stomachs, tobacco-ﬁlled carcasses, and all manner of evil fumes combined—soon become unhealthy; for a child is being formed faster after birth than before, and takes in more to build up its system well or ill. It requires nine months of gestative life to produce the average weight of seven pounds, but see how much more the child builds in the next nine, and so on year after year. Those who are so wisely talking of the importance of proper generation, should not lose sight of the fact that we are constantly dying, con-' stantly being born, and as a child’s ante-natal life is poisoned when its embryo form is nourished by the scrofulous blood of a pork-eating, whisky-drinking mother, so a child, though born with pure blood, can be ruined in health by its ignorant smother feeding it upon unwholesome food, and then trying to remedy the disease thus caused by something still worse in the form of poisonous drugs. It is estimated that it only requires about seven years for every particle that composes our bodies to be disorganized and replaced by new; so persons who have the misfortune to be badly” organized, will, if wise, take courage and strive to learn what food they can use to furnish the material for proper building," that will not make impure blood ; that will not overtax the system to digest and assimilate. For instance, a person with scrofulous tendencies will learn better than to eat pork, pastry made with lard, or any other greasy food; will eschew salt and other condiments, and will live upon fruits and grains in their various forms of prepara- tion; will drink only water and thus rebuild in purity. I know this can be done, from my own experience with regard to myself and also" my; experience with hosts of patients. There are no elements in this form of ‘food that can be. con- verted into impure blood, and just in proportion asthe sys- tem is rebuilded will the impurities be more rapidly thrown. oﬁ. Then the sewerage of the body, the perspiratory ducts, should be kept open and thoroughly cleansed by judicious bathing, else the effete matter from worn out, broken down tissues will not escape, but, being retained in the system,will cause disease. , ' ‘ When I see the manner poor humanity is living in: when ‘know that the greatest dietetic abominations are what are considered by our appetite-depraved people as the greatest luxuries; when I see the result of all this ignorance pictured in the wan faces, stooping forms and listlessness of our chil- dren entirely wanting in the buoyant step and spirit that . b910DgS Of right to childhood, I only wonder that any one‘ lives to maturity and notthat everybody is sick as I see them around me; I only wonder they are not all dead. Hu- manmature is surely tough to stand so much abuse. People ought to be as much ashamed to be sick as they are ashamed of drunkenness, and when they come to understand that all sickness is the result of wrong doing, that ignorance alone s responsible for it, then we will ﬁnd people in earnest to learn how to live instead of boasting of their delicacy and feeble- ness as they do now. . I It should be our religion to live so as to be healthy, strong and vigorous. Then will we be ready to meet the emergen- cies of life with brave hearts, self-supporting and self-poised; then will what seems to us now like mountains crushing us to earth be no more than mole-hills, easily removed because we are strong; then will we be saved the agony of watching with throbbing brows and aching hearts by the sick bed of those we love, feeling for the last faint ﬂutter of the waning heart, straining our nerves to catch one more tone of love ere they leave us forever. The ties of kindred will be no more harshly sundered, but all will live to ripeness and ma- turity. Old age will not mean churlishness, decrepitude and imbecility, but richness, sweetness and spirituality, and death will only be opening the portals of a more richly fur- nished apartment, beautiﬁed by the result of good works here. Then life will not only be but seem a blessing. Yours fraternally, J ULIE1‘ H. SEVERANCE, M. D. ‘ 201 MONTGOMERY Srnnnr, San Francisco, Cal., E I ‘ May 13, 1875. , Dear PVeekly—A short time since the New York and San Francisco papers gave a detailed account of the illness and death of a talented and lovely woman, and promising vocalist. The lady had been formerly a resident of this city, and the news of her demise occasioned a profound sensation even in this great centre of fashion and folly, not only because of the ~ youth, beauty and genius of the deceased, but in consequence of the fact, revealed by her upon her death bed, that the fatality was the result of an abortion procured at her solici- tatlon through the agency of a certain female practitioner. Language was exhausted by the New York correspondents of the San Francisco press in denouncing the infamy of the abortionist, and she was characterized as a monster in human form, a wretch unﬁt to live, and all agreed that the virtuous conservators of public morals had ﬁtly expressed the uni- versal sentiment, no one stopping to considervthat the abor- tionist is the legitimate fruitof our present social system, and nourished and sustained by it. Compulsory maternity ﬁnds refuge in infanticide. The victim of seduction does the same, and the married matron and the despairing girl enter the door of the abortionist on the same errand, though in different guise, both regarding the practitioner, male or female, as an angel of deliverance, a benefactor, a friend in need, and if successful they are profoundly grateful, but if death ensues the victim of ignorance and false education spends her latest breath in betraying the person whose aid she had supplicated with tears only a.- short time before. Out,‘ I say, upon such " treachery! Every enlightened mind reprobates infanticide w and all other forms of murder, legal or otherwise, and a few at least realize that the social condition that makes such a crime possible is alone responsible; that when a more whole. some systen is inaugurated it will disappear. An inﬁdel physician in Binghamton told ime last summer that a married lady, a member of a church in that city, while be- seeching him in vain to produce an abortion for her, con- fessed that she knew of ‘‘ thirty married women in her own church that had sought relief from the burden of unwelcome maternity in the samesWay.—one of them nine times.” This inﬁdel doctor gave me permission to use his name if neces- sary as conﬁrmaticn of this story, and I relate it here as proof that so-called Christian women, married‘, moral and respectable in the estimation of society, assist largely in creating the demand that the hated abortionist satisﬁes amid universal execration if detected, and that the sooner we turn our attention to the underlying cause of the evils we deplore, instead of dealing simply with results, the better. We shall then ﬁnd where the blame legitimately belongs. Yours for the whole truth, LAURA Kiz:NnnIoK_ I THE POOR PAs'roR.-—'l.‘he self-denying clergyman has some triﬂing compensations occasionally. There is poor Dr. Hall” of New York. Finding it absolutely impossible to endure any longer the plainness of their church edifice on the corner of Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street, costing not much over $200,000, his suffering ‘Presbyterian people have bought, further up, a piece of ground for $350,000, and are erecting; thereon a building costing over $500,000 more. The poof pastor’s humble house was abandoned and sold at auction "for $24,600, and his ﬂock have bought him a tolerable home for $60,000, where, on a salary of $10,000 or $15,000, he may eke out a scanty existence. ll/Ieantime thousands of heathens, within sight of this new temple, are starving to death, intel- lectually and morally, as well as physically, and the lofty spires of this $900,000 monument to worldly pride and luxury look down on them in pious sccrn.—~Ch'£ca.go Courier. “ EACH one of us,” says James Freeman U-la;-ke H has 5, dif , _ ferent Satan.” James, the reader will observe, has been mar- ried some years, and ‘doesn’t l;;;,‘{1gve there is an unfaithful . man in the whole world, s ‘ ..- .. —*"*,a;‘<_‘§ . -\- . 4 I V V . WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’,S WEEKLY ¢June5,1875. . . . . I k . 5 I ’ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIOIL SEXUAL PURITY—“THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW {to legal marriage and its violations. 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Any errors on our part will be promptly corrected on notice, And Jesus answering, said to them, The children of this world marry and are iven in marriage; but they that are accounted worthy to obtain . that wor d and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; neither can they die any more; for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resui-rection.——LUKE xx., 34 to 36. Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.-— ST. MATTHEW, vi., 10. We know that whosoever is‘ born of God sinueth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself,,and that wicked one toucheth him not. And We know that the Son of‘ God is come, and hath given us an un- derstanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. ' This is the true God and Eternal Life.—2 JOHN v., 18 and 20. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remainetlt in him; and he cannot sin because he is born of God.-—IBii) iii., 9. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound, the myster of God should be ﬁnished, as he hath declared to his servants the prop ets.—REvELATioNs, x , 7. THE TWO KINDS OF LOVE. It will be remembered by those who have been following this series of editorials that some weeks agb we abruptly left the consideration of a certain phase of the general question, to discuss the general facts of brotherhood, most, if not all of our remarks since then relating to this kind of love. .Noth- ing can be more evident than that there are two kinds of love, one of which relates to the general conditionof all peo- ple, regardless of sex, and the other built upon the distinc- tions of sex. In the present development of humanity, no- body will pretend that these two loves are alike; although there are some who may think that the love of sex will, at some time in the future, be merged in the other kind. But against this position we hold that the love of sex will become ever more distinctly separated from brotherly love as men and women grow moreaiid more perfect, spiritually. So far as love for the whole goes, it will, of course, sup- ply equally all the physical needs and furnish every one alike with all the comforts and-" luxuries of life. But each and all might have all these things in abundance, and mankind still continue to die. Death isthe result of a failure of some one or more of the nutritive functions of the body—of digestion, assimilation or renovation. It is not at all improbable that a natural understanding of all these, and a like understanding of just the material that is needed to replace the worn out particles of the body,would tend to prolong life and to insure health. But this process can never be carried to the point of overcoming death, which is the great and ﬁnal enemy over which man will have to triumph so that he “shall not die any more, being equal to the angels.” In the legal administrations of man, there have been no pro- visions made that are based upon the principles of sex-love, except so far as legal marriage may be held to be provision. Legal marriage, however, does not pretend to take any cog- S nizance of love. It is law, and nothing else, and stands in force whether there is love, indifference or hate really exist- ing between the parties married. All legal enactments are based upon the material relations of man, and are the forms of which Jesus represented the spirit—are the body without the soul—are the lifeless forms out of which the spirit long since departed; indeed, in which there is no life—in which nothing but death resides. THE BIBLE MYSTERY. . It is not a little singular that in all of Christ’s teachings he said almost nothing about any kind of love or any of the other relations of the people, save those growing out of brotherhood. Aside from his conversation at the well with the Samaritan woman, to whom he said that if she had asked of him he would have given her water that should be a well in her, springing up unto everlasting life; aside from his, Neither do I condemn, thee, go and sin no more; and aside from his declaration that in the kingdom of God there is no marriage, he said little that can be construed literally to relate to the love of the sexes. Indeed, his dis- pensation may be regarded as relating wholly to humani- tarian love, although if the hidden meaning of much that he said were understood, it would be found to refer almost altogether to something else. There is a hidden thing per- meating the whole Bible. The book itself purports to be a mystery in its most essential parts-—a mystery that was not to be revealed until the Seventh Angel had performed his work; until the biblical end of the world, whatever that may be proved really to mean, should come. Not even the most dogmatic Christians pretend that the hidden things of which Christ and his disciples, and especially St. Paul, spoke so frequently, have ever been revealed to them. Indeed they cannot consistently so pretend, because the_Revelations made by Jesus to John on Patmos, claim speciﬁcally that the mysteries of the book—the whole book—are to be un- sealed at some time in the future, long distant from that in which they were written. 1 It is true that St. Paul had considerable to say about mar- riage and adultery; but what does he tell us he means by all this? In his letter. to the Phillipians he says: “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife,~and they two shall be one ﬂesh.” But he hastens to correct the literal rendition of this language by also saying: “This is a great mystery; but I speak con- cerning Christ and his church.” If this jlangiiage to the Phillipians instead of having reference to the legal marriage relation of the sexes, as it is held to do by modern Chris. tians, in fact related to the connections of people with the church of Christ, as St. Paul himself explains that it did, then it follows that all of ' his writings in which the words marr~iage,wife, adultery, fornication,etc., etc., are used, must by the same rule be also held to refer to the church and no? become clear as this subject develops. When we shall show what it is to, ioin the church of Christ and to become a son or a daughter of God, then indeed it will be seen that who- soever marries her that is divorced from the church, coni- mitteth adultery. But this not yet; for, like the disciples of Christ, “ye cannot bear them now,” and for the same reason. This that his chosen ones could not bear, was the same hidden mystery, but it was made known to Paul, who considered it “not lawful for a man to utter.” N ow, to what part of our natures does this mystery refer?" Surely not to those parts about which it was not pretended that there was any mystery; surely not to the physical needs of the body; not to the religious demands of the soul; ’ not to the intellectual comprehensions of the mind, because all of these were treated of without reserve or constraint. There was no mystery possible of them. Everything else save the sexual nature—everything save the proper methods of re_production——.is to be found on almost every page of the Bible, but of these there is scarcely a word. It is very naturally to be supposed that, upon so important a. matter as that of having the race born properly, Jesus would have taught profusely, instead of giving his attention wholly to curing the ills inherent in the ﬂesh. But he said to the Centurian that “Except a man be born again of water and _ of the Spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven;” and even this he would not explain. Here, then, we have. a direct clue to the mystery so strictly preserved by Jesus and by -Paul. It is to be born of the Spirit, and to be so born is to enter into the Kingdom. While to become an in- mate of the Kingdom is to also become a Son of God, whom Paul informs us cannot sin, because his seed remaineth in him; and this, Paul says, is a great mystery. And, indeed, it remaineth so to this day. THE MYSTERY on PRACTICAL LIFE. In all things that have already been examined in this series, it has been found that, between the prophecies of the Bible and the deductions of science, there is a perfect simi- larity. So in this mystery that has prevailed all over the earth so long there must also be found the same relation. If it can be discovered that the great mystery of life and of living, is the same that is concealed in the«Book of Prophecies, then still another link will be added to show the connection between the inner and the outer, the material and the spiritual life. V It may not have ever occurred to many that there is a great mystery in our everyday life; but it only requires a moment’s consideration, after having the attention called to the fact that there is such a mystery, to realize fully that it does .ex- ist, and that it is as jealously guarded—as carefully conceal- ed——as is that of the Bible. As all references to the Biblical mystery are made in parables and in allegorical pictures, so also is every allusion to the great mystery of the origin and plan of human life, with the people, shrouded in imagery and spoken of in language which none but the initiated ever for a moment suspect has the remotest reference to the thing really involved. People complain of the difﬁculty of under- standing the Bible, but they never stop to think that the language they themselves use about the Very things in which that Book is mysterious, l"1 more open to this criticism, - Who is there that speaks out in plain language, which every- body can understand, about the hidden facts of the sexual relations which are the hidden mysteries of the Bible? Who, indeed! There is no one who dares to speak, upon these subjects, for if they do they are hurried to prison to stop the vulgar obscenity, and to prevent the demoraliza- tion of the people. Of such people St. Luke wrote truly: “ W0 unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge. Ye entered-not in yourselves, and those that were entering in ye prevented.” As Jesus had many things to say to his disciples which they could not bear, and as Paul knew things that it was not lawful for a man to utter, so now there are truths pressing upon the world to ﬁnd a way to the hearts and understand- ings of the people which it is not lawful to utter-—‘-which even the disciples of truth cannot yet bear. Nevertheless, they must be spoken, else the destruction which the race has inherited will culminate in its being carried down into oblivion, only a Noah’s arkfull possibly being saved. Then who shall prevent the lips of those that know these things from giving them forth to the world, from sounding the alarm from the house-tops and from the heights of the mountains! Cursed forever should be the tongue that refuses to utter the prophecies that are committed to its keeping to be proclaimed! But yet who shall have courage, in the face of all the terrible powers that are arrayed against the truth, to stand in the open places of the earth and call upon the chil- dren to keep their hands from polluting the holy temple of their bodies, and to preserve it for God’s divine purposes of happiness and of redemption, and to tell their guardians what must come to them to keep them pure and good and S strong, and to preserve them always ﬁt emblems of the king- dom as Jesus declared them to be when they were brought to him for his blessing! Who will be willing to be sacriﬁced upon the altar of _ public opinion for bringing the abomination of desolation —-the great whore of Babylon——legalized adultery-modern marriage—to judgment by showing its votaries the unnatural practices and life-destroying miasma that lurk behind. its wordyzenactments-——that the law of it killeth while the spirit of it only, giveth life, and that where there is law there can rwvv... __ -7-»-ao.>~. .3, ,,\,. June 5, 1875. ._§_ woonnunr. La C‘I‘.AFLIN’S‘WEEKfI..Y. 5' ..« be no spirit—that law‘ is lust, and that love alone is of the , spirit—is of God! Who shall go to tl1e aged, the weak and the inﬁrm in every way, and charge it upon them that death, disease and suﬁering are stamped upon their bodies because they have not lived a pure and natural life sexually——to the aged, that for ‘them even there is a balm in Gilead, which obtained, would bring back youth and strength and resurrect them from “this death” into the kingdom to be the sons of God; to the disease-cursed race, that there is a spring of waters perennial to drink from which will heal its every ill and banish the -burning hell from which it now is suffering; and to the suf- fering from any cause, that there is a land ﬂowing with milk and honey and a tree and a river of life, from which all who will may minister to every human wantl Who will I i and who shall dare! And yet these are the very things for which the whole world is hungering and thirsting; these are the very things which are possible of every living soul; these are the things with which God has endowed every hu- man being, for the kingdom of heaven is in every one, and only needs to be sought and found to be enjoyed. This mystery of mysteries—this of which Christ dared not speak, and of which Paul in his most exalted moments and to his most Christian brethren, dared not utter except in metaphor —the meat which Jesus had of which his disciples wot not of———the things that were lawful unto Paul, but which even he did not at all times consider expedient, for reasons not explained-——the thing that the world most wants and needs and yet most strenuously rejects—who, then, shall dare to reveal this mystery to the world and thereby save it from itself? . J ’ THE ELIXIR on LIFE. The friends of, and searchers after, truth who, with us, have diligently weighed each thought that has been given through us to the world, and especially "those who have ‘seen beneath the surface of what was said in the speech that bears the name at the head of this paragraph, will remember that . there we spoke of the present tendency of the human race toward extinction, and, as clearly as we dared to then, maintained that this destruction, if it were not warded oil‘, would come as the result of sexual impurity and debauchery, and that the only salvation possible is in a perfected sexual blending; or, in other words, in natural sexual purity, of which there is scarce any in the world, and where its pos sibilities even do exist it is prevented from expressing itself, and of thus saving its subjects. It would have been mad- ness for us then to have said as we feel now to say, that these possibilities reside in every human being; that they were given of God from the beginning to all alike, and that until the death of the physical body, at least, no one can be despoiled of this inheritance, although each may, as every one makes haste to do as soon as its germs begin to move within the growing body, barter away its realization for something which, when compared with its glories and muni- ﬁcence, is less than a mess of pottage. This inheritance is indeed the elixir of life, but it does not exist where the people who are searching for it expect to ﬁnd it; or rather the methods by which they seek it lead them away from, rather than toward, the place where it is to be found. In- deed, “straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be who ﬁnd it.” Never- theless, the way is in every one, and every body desires to partake of the riches of the Kingdom; but they are reserved solely for those who enter by the straight and narrow way, and to so enter is to maintain one’s-self “ unspotted from the world,” that is, sexually pure, for he or she who is this _re- mains as little children. ’ But our friends of the celibacy order must not conclude from the language of this article, or from the quotation from Paul at its head, that we have found that they have got the truth; for they have only a part of the truth, which is always the worst kind of a lie. They, like all the other sects in sex, die of disease. The truth, possessed and lived, will con- quer death. So celibacy is not the truth, any more than polygamy, polyandry, monogamy, promiscuousness, pros- titution, select variety, or any other known kind of sex re- lations, is the truth. The advocates‘ of each of the va- rious theories think that their practice produces the most happiness, but if the happiness which each confers were consolidated with that which every other one reveals, the sum total would be insigniﬁcant merely, besides the joy and gladness that will come when the truth, in all its glory about the sexual relations, shall be-born into the hearts and lives of men and women. ' MORE LATTER-—DAY CHRISTIANITY. We sometimes wonder if professing Christians ever con- sider what Jesus could have meant when he declared em- phatically that “the publicansand harlots go into the king- dom of God before you.” New here is a positive declara- tion of . the meaning of the language of which, there is no possibility of being mistaken. The reason that these classes will be the ﬁrst to go into the kingdom is, because they are in a better condition to accept the real truth when it shall come than any other class. The truth has never yet come, for Jesus said, and evolution ‘ says, that he who has the truth shall never die. This is the test; and this it is for which all seek. . ' There is another inconsistency for which Christians are answerable. They pray after the manner taught by their professed Master, that “Thytkingdom come, Thy willbe , done in earth as it is in heaven,” and he also informs them that in heaven they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Yet when a movement is begun to bring at least so much of “Thy kingdom” and “ Thy will” in earth as to neither marry or to give in marriage, they protest against it with all their might, and say it is of the devil. What good can be expected from such consistency as this? I To, .if possible, still more deeply impress the import of all this language, we repeat that little children are sexually pure, and that the mystery to be revealed will teach how this purity may be preserved and still not ignore\the natural powers and needs of the sexual functions; will teach woman that her menstrual ﬂow is so much human life spilled on the ground and wasted, which, saved to the race, would fully renew its wasting energies, and together with an equal sav- ing in the seed of man, which is now worse than wasted, would not only completely rejuvenate mankind, butﬁfor all coming time preserve and sanctify its life. Remember we tell you that these things are true, and that they are to be revealed to man in the immediate future, for “the seventh angel has begun to sound,” at which time it was appointed that “the mystery of God should be ﬁnished ”—-—that is, re- vealed. ‘ 43 r'< A DEFINITION OF FREE LOVE. We have numerous inquiries still coming in as to what free love means, and several requests to keep a deﬁnition of it standing in the WEEKLY. We present the following as a full and concise statement: - Free love is the regulation of the affections according to the conscience, taste and judgment of the individuali, 11 place of their control by lawgwhich, since they are of natural and not of le gal origin, can have no rightful or proper dominion over them. _ A V r V « THE BROOKLYN BUSINESS. The most damaging thing that has happened to Mr Beecher’s side of the case, just now coming to its end, is the stab given it by ex-Judge Porter. In our estimation this wound will prove fatal to a verdict for the defense. There have been many serious wounds inﬂicted upon Mr. Beecher. His side of the case was badly crippled in its opening by the high—handed, vituperative and bombastic promises of Mr. B. E. Tracy! and a series of witnesses, whose personal feelings for Mr. Beecher were so strong that their bias amounted almost to a perversion of the facts they stated, followed in the train and strain of this opening, which have their logical sequence in the summing up of ex-Judge.Po'rter. Perhaps Mr. Beecher’s lawyers really know the bottom facts of their case, and as lawyers always do when such facts are against their client, resort to-blackguarding the opposite side as their best defense. If this is really the case it furnishes a solution to the extraordinary speech that has been made by Mr. Porter. But even this ‘solution shows the want of wis- dom that has ruled Mr. Beecher’s side of the case. It is true that the conﬂicting evidence that has been intro- duced will make it a difficult task for the jury to come to a. just verdict, founded strictly upon the evidence. It is this fact, in connection, with the above probability, thatcaused Mr. Porter to still more mystify the jury by giving addi- tional coloring to the disparaging facts developed against . Mr. Tilton by the stream of coarse and vulgar (not to say false and blackguard) language that has fallen -from that lawyer’ s lips. In a low police court, about a drunken brawl in a house of ill-fame, we should’ expect to hear such language as Mr. Porter has oﬁered to the jury in this case as argument; but when the most renowned and popular preacher of the day and age is on trial for seducing one of the lambs of his flock, and he is defended by the foremost lawyers of the day in this way, we confess to being utterly confounded. Even a lawyer, who is a reﬁned gentleman, ought to remember that he is a gentleman when playing the lawyer; but when such an one forgets the ' gentleman when pleading for his client, and lhurls vile epithets not warranted by any evidence introducedlinto the case, then he ceases to be a gentleman, and begins to be the vulgar braggart and malicious blackgu ard. ’ J For our part we do not comprehend why a lawyer in his pleadings should not be held as strictly accountable for the language he uses as at any other time.’ If he uses false, ma- licious and libellous words for the purpose of aﬁecting the jury adversely against the opposing party,” then such language" seems to us to be even more reprehensible than at any other time or upon any other occasion, for not only is the oppo- 7nent’s character damaged before the public just as much as it would be otherwise, but the justice of his case is also liable to be impaired before the jury. In such a case the lawyer resorting to such tactics is not only liable to the person dam- aged for his libel upon him, but he is further liable, in equity. for whatever loss, in the case in question, which he suﬁers ‘ But after all, as we said in the beginning, we ‘ believe this course will do Mr. Beecher harm and Mr. Tilton good. The world generally has become too intelligent and is too largely developed in genuine morality, and desire to render justice to each other too earnestly, to be inﬂuenced by such vituperation and vulgar abuse in the direction soughttby it; but when Mr. Porter advanced in a menacing attitude upon Mr. Tilton, threateningxand almost striking him, Mr. Tilton would have been justiﬁed in repelling the attack as if he felt it were to proceed to actual blows. What any other man may do, a lawyer may do, -but not more. If we were in Mr, Ti1ton’s place, and Mr. Porter should‘ advance upon us, as he has upon him, we should assuredly repel the threatened attack in a manner that would forbid its being repeated. _ _ - ~ Mr. Porter ends his tirade, for it can be called nothing else, to-day—Tuesday—-and Mr. Beecher..at least should be glad enough that it closes without more seriouscomplica- tions than have been developed; and Mr. Evarts takes up the line laid down. - For the sakeof truth and justice we hope that he will abjure’ the course that Mr. Porter has followed, and give the jury a fair, and if possible,’ a logical construction of the testimony that has been offered in Mr. Beecher’s defense. Not any arguments that he can offer, however, can wholly repair the damage done by Mr. Porter; therefore if Mr. Beecher obtains a verdict, it may be justly attributed to his personal reputation and his long life of varied usefulness, rather than to any defense that his lawyers have made of him. , . _ From Mr. Beach we shall expecta masterly and wise handling of Mr. Tilton’s side of the case. He has the op- portunityto kill Mr. Porter as a lawyer, and although they are personally friends, we do not think he will hesitate in this case, where his own reputation as a lawyer is so directly at stake. For, whether justly or otherwise, which ever side wins or loses in this case, the lawyers upon the former side will leave it with their reputations fully established for all coming times, and those upon the latter side with their ability as counsel and advocates sadlyshattered. If Mr. Beach wishes to win a verdict from the jury, let him adopt a course just the reverse of that which Mr. Porter has followed. Instead of invective, abuse, contumely and contempt,’ let him use the weapons of the contrary c1ass—— let him praise Mr. Beecher for all that he deserves‘, and then lay the weight of evidence that he has to use against him before the jury; and above everything else let him not argue upon any facts or suppositions that are not to be legiti- mately drawn from the testimony educed from the witness- stand. ‘ I’ Let this trial result as it may, it will make no difference in the public verdict. That is already made up. Mr. Beech- er’s own testimony did more than anybody else’s to conﬁrm his guilt. It was not natural; it was overstrained and im- probable, and its various parts were not in harmony either with themselves or with the commonly accepted meaning of language. At every point his explanations of his conduct, which he had to admit, had the evidence of being forced constructions, made to harmonize with a necessary theory. Nor will the diﬁiculty, as between the two contestants, be settled when the case shall end, unless there shall‘ be a ver- dict against Mr. "Beecher. When the jury shall have decided upon the testimony that has been offered in court, under the ruling of the court, then the evidence that has been excluded by legal rules will begin to be made public. Thus the case will enlarge until all. the factsin any way connected with the parties will be revealed, beside develop- ing various other parties similarly involved with them, and still on, through them, others again, until the great abomi- nation, modern legal marriage, which has brought desola- tion over the face" of the earth, shall stand not only revealed, but condemned before the world as the place where hypocrites, thieves and liars, adulterers, fornicators and workers of all iniquity hide themselves from the public gaze and reprobation. _4m; 4 frwrw ~ BEGINNING TO SEE IT. It will be remembered how almost universal has been the denunciation measured out by the press upon us for having made the Beecher scandal public. ‘A very large part, if not the whole, of this-blackguardism of the press that-has per- meated the whole people, had its origin in the abuse leveled at us for the act. .We have had no way of counteracting this inﬂuence outside of our immediate circle of readers and the few whom we could reach through the rostrum. Whenever we have attempted to combat it through the press by written articles, theyhave been denied admission, simply because we were the writer. Articles written by others, bearing upon the scandal, have also been rejected by the prominent dailies, because they chanced to contain some sentences or passages that might be construed into a justification of some part of our conduct——into a “ defense of Mrs. Woodhull.” Matter of the utmost importance has been rejected solely on this account. The papers have refused news and facts re- garding the parties involved, startling in their character, rather than print a word which might be made to appe ar favorable to us. , ' This has been the wisdom, or the foolishness rather, that has ruled the press of this city, as well as many of the inﬂu- ential papers of other cities, for nearly three years now. We say foolishness, because men blessed at all with the dawning of reason ought to have known that they could not, by ignoring the truth,-blot it out of existence or sup- press utterly the recognition of a great public beneﬁt by blackguarding its author. To escape doing justice and to make what they ought to have known, and in many cases probably did know, would result in greatadvantage, they have persistently argued to show that it was a great calam- ity to publicly assert that Mr. Beecher was guilty of legal adultery with Mrs. Tilton; that it was a terrible wrong to tell the world that the social system was honey-combed with rottenness and irregularities; inst as if to cover up the facts would really suppress the diseases. All such writers may have been delta and asses, incapable of comprehending a 1 all. 5 , woonnunt &%lC5':LAB“‘L’ihi"S w€EEKr3.r. June 5, 1875'.- principle or of tracing a cause. If they were, then we say God have mercy on the public teachers, and on the public for having such teachers. We are inclined, however, not to attribute their course to a lack of brains, but to the pos- session of quite another ‘motive. It is well known that nearly all of the editors of the great daily papers knew more or less about this enormous scandal, but since it was Beecher -—-the American Protestant Pope—Wh0 was involved, they hadn’t the courage to attack him;'they bowed in abject scr- vility before his power, and at’ the nod of his head they all bent their backs. So when the facts came to theknowledge of a woman who had a paper of her own in which to print the scandal, and in which she did print the facts that they had not dared to print, or else that they had been purchased from printing, they all joined together like a pack of hounds to bay her to prison or to death. . Such is the gallantry and the honor and the valor and the magnanimity of American * journalism, conducted by these valiant men. But we believe all this will change. Having found that even a woman may attack the strongest power in the country and not "be crushed to death, these men are beginning to gather up courage to have an honest opinion or two of their own; and to print a thing or two without asking Beecher’s permission. We confess to not a little surprise at this, but" it is nevertheless so, as may be seen from the following, which we excerpt from an editorial in the N. Y. Sun, of the 22d inst: As to the Beecher business leaving. any “permanent poi- son lurking in the vitals of society,” as the young editor puts it in his weighty way, there is no chance of that if the scan- dal is probed to the bottom and the guilty punished accord ing to desert. This whole year's turmoil means the effort of society to get rid of a virulent poison; and it is a healthful action indicative of an encouraging‘ condition of the social body. If it had not occurred, the young editor and everybody else might have felt despondent about the religion and morals of the community. These are matters on which the young editor may well continue to ponder in that tall tower. “ The effort of society to get rid of a virulent poison.” In- deed there is hope for Mr. Dana yet. “A healthful action indicative of an encouraging condition of the social body.” Well done for the Sun. “ If it had not occurred everybody might have felt despondent.” Well! well! Is wisdom and common sense really coming into some editor’s brains? If Mr. Dana goes on in this way may we not expect to ﬁnd him saying just what he thinks: That Victoria Woodhull did the world a service when she piiblished the Beecher scandal, and that the press treatment of her has been infamous,‘merely; and may not some other editors become gentlemen also, and, forgetting that it was a woman who did what they dared not do, at least cease their base viliﬁcations of her? .._ ‘Q A r wfw THE REAL BROTHERHOOD. Couldanything be more beautiful than the genuine sisterly love between two women, one of whom was the legal wife, and the other of whom is the natural wife of Moses Hull, about all of whom there has been the most dastardly viliﬁ- cation even among reformers. Mattie Sawyer has just re- turned from a sisterly visit to Elvira Hull at Vineland. What an advance is this upon the modern Christian method! Had Elvira and Mattie been Christians, after the latter-day sort, they must have.been bitter ‘enemies instead of friends as they are. It is well known that Elvira, on account or her virtue and courage, has been so badly ostracized that she has found it diﬁicult to live in Vineland; In her emergencies she has been assisted by her sister Mattie, who has the ad- vantage of being able -to earn more than her own support before thepublic. If anybody can point out a more beau- tifulillustration of--the reconciling power of freedom than is furnished by these two, let him orher who can, lose no time‘ in so doing. Long lives of usefulness and happiness to them _ '43 g 7 ‘yr THE oMIssIoN or THE TRIAL.’ - In the New York Sun of May 20 there was anable edito- rial uuder the above caption, in which this phase of the trial was elaborately set forth. Both sides were very properly characterized as wishing to suppress testimony that they feared. Mrs. Tilton’s rejection by the defense, and the ex- clusion thereby of Miss Anthony, Mrs. Bradshaw, Mrs. Richards, and others to whom she is said to have narrated her intimacy with Mr. Beecher, were severely commented upon. What Henry C. Bowen was not permitted to testify to was charged up against Mr. Beecher with telling effect, as having been prevented by his lawyers. The following, upon still another point, will serve to show the tenor of the whole article, which was more than a col- nmn in length: Mrs Woodhull is another omitted witness. She was com- etent had talked with both parties about the scandal, and Evas as’near to it as almost anybody else outside of Tilton, 1»; 3 Tilton and Moulton and Beecher himself. She has a L Zr to tell and she ivill surely not keep it locked up in her breast tgreecer Neither, for that matter, will the knowledge of most {f the éther uncalled witnesses whom we have named be P91‘- nently buried. It will come out some time to trouble iagrgbse who should have brought it out now. Frank Carpenter, h ﬁat was also left out by both sides. That he knows a t egrdeal, however, is indisputable; and in self-defense he go-(1)1 b su}-3 to give it to the public. He has been accused of :31 ckglaumg and that is an imputation which no man whose chiracter is worth a rush can afford to endure without ﬁght- ﬁng‘ it with all the force at his command. . . _____.._..————~>—+G 1A SUANDAY-SCHOOL teacher told her class about the wise and foolish virgins, and asked them the next Sunday to re- peat the story. All but one little miss had forgotten, and she only remembered that it was about “ them Women who for“ got their 1._:e1'9sene.” - your giant hands and lay all these fences right and left. “ THAT FENCE.” _ FARMINeToN, Mich., 1875. Dear WeehZy—-Three or four years ago there appeared in the Christian Union a short article entitled “ That Fence,” com- plaining of the Baptists for their close communion, and clos- ing with, “ In spite of the fence we must keep up friendly re- lations with the Baptists—must shake hands with them through the pickets and kiss them through the knot holes." I immediately wrote aletter to Henry Ward Beecher, for publication in the Christian Union. I felt sure that the sen- timents of the letter were those of Henry Ward, but I ceased to wonder at its non-appearance when I learned that rather than acknowledge his real sentiments and confess to a blun- dering attempt to practice them clandestinely, Mr. Beecher would take “ coldpizen.” Neglecting to retain a copy of my letter, I will reproduce it now from memory: To I-Ienry Ward Beecher~—1 looked at “ That Fence” in the last Christian Union—looked at it just a moment, and then my eyes wandered to other similar fences that cover the en- tire world like a tangled not-work. There was the national fence, the eclesiastical fence, the matrimonial fence and a complete mesh of small fencing that deﬁed my power of clas- siﬁcation. I tried to see the fence that marks the boundaries of heaven and hell, and to see the wax that Brigham Young used to seal Nettie V. Smith-for eternity. These obstructions pertaining to eternity seemed intangible, and I concluded they were creatures of the imagination; but this made the earthly fences seem all the more real, tangible and hideous. I walked by the side of the national fence; I heard the roar of cannon, the rattle of musketry and streams of blood came running to my very feet! I then gazed upon the eclesiastical fence and saw upon every, panel the words, “ Stand by thy- self for I am holier than thou.” The wranglings and conten- tions of the inmates were hushed only when they wished to organize raids upon the people outside. ‘ i I Then I‘ came to the matrimonial fence and heard a count- less throng of women each sigh and say: “Forced from hoine and all its pleasures.” “ Time was when Iwas free as air," “ But caught and caged, and starved to death.” I then saw that all these fences were intended to prevent the union of mankind upon the principle of natural selection —-aprinciple containing the elements of happiness and peace. With a world thus organized for mutual help and mutual en- joyment, life would be worth living for. Now, existenc c, with most, is but a struggle for life, and a very severe strug- gle at that. Then, economy, equality and general prosperity would supersede waste, poverty, intemperance and war. Brother Beecher—brother by virtue of our common humani- ty—how refreshing the sight would be if you would put forth Sam- son would tip his hat to you, and posterity would bless your name forevermore. But no, you would remove the inside fences, only to repair the outside fence that is to separate all Christians——so called—from the rest of mankind. You, per- sonally, would shake hands with and kiss us through the pickets, but your companionsjnside would never be satisﬁed till they had served us outsiders as the crusaders served the inﬁdels of Palestine. . Sometimes “the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties” is commendable, but this “kissing through knot holes” is al- together too difficult. Down with the fences. Yours for enlightened universal liberty, G. R. HOW WE FADE. As the trials of life thicken, and the dreams of other days fade, one by one, in the dim vista of disappointed hope, the heart grows weary of the long-continued struggle, and we begin to realize our insigniﬁcance. Those who have climbed to the pinnacle of fame, or revel in luxury and wealth, go to the grave at last with the poor mendicant who begs by the wayside, and, like him, are soon forgotten. Generation after generation, says an eloquent writer, have felt as we feel, and their fellows were as active in life as ours are‘n‘ow. They passed away as ‘a vapor, while nature wore the same aspect of beauty as when the Creator commanded her to be. The heavens will be as bright over our gravesas they are now around our path; the world has the same attraction for 0H- spring yet unborn that she once had for ourselves, and that she now has for our children,-The Telegram. THE Star represents Mr. Beecher sowing turnip seed on his farm at Peeskill; but the picture is so poorly executed that the seeds appear to be mostly wild oats. , THE BIBLE As A SCHOOL Bo0K.—Scholar (reading '1t)——These are the children which Milcah bore. School Marm—Stop! That is wrong. Read it over.” Schol-ar——These are the children which Milcah bare.” School Marm—That will do. That is quite possible. might milk a bear, but they couldn’t milk a boar.” A FRENCH butcher, who was on his death-bed, said to his wife: “ If 1 die, Francoise, you must marry our shop boy He-is a good young man, and the business cannot be carried on without a man to look after it.“ “ I have been thinking about that already,” said his wife. P. WAS attacked with a disease for which his physician pre- scribed calcmel. After he had taken it for some time, one day the doctor asked him if the medicine had in any manner affected his teeth. “ I don’t know,” faintly whispered P., “ but you can see; they are in the top drawer of the bureau. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-06-05_10_01
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-06-05_10_01
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 02 (June 12, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2075
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-06-12
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: R v‘ PROGRESS: FREE THOUGHT 3 UNTRAMMELED Lrvrasi ’i BREAKING THE ‘WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. X.—No. 2.—Whole No. PRICE TEN "CENTS. A JNEW YORK, JUNE 12, 1875. /. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AI‘ DE GABMO HALL, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JAN. 10, 1875. BY LUCIEN J. CRANDALL. 4 0, Jerusalem, J erusaleinl How oft would I have gathered you together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing; but ye would not. I have chosen this wail of the sad Nazarene, not so much because the weight of a great name is consociated with it; neither for the reason that it is as it is the peerless voicing of an exquisite sorrow; but because its pith and substance has been, in all ages, the gasp that has gurgled in the throat of every heaven-persuaded, hell-pursued instrument, by which the elevation of mankind has been wrought. Eighteen hundred years ago, a strange, so-called fanatic . dared to lift up his voice against the damnation of priestcraft and the blighting curse of hypocritical self-abnegatio...
Show moreR v‘ PROGRESS: FREE THOUGHT 3 UNTRAMMELED Lrvrasi ’i BREAKING THE ‘WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. X.—No. 2.—Whole No. PRICE TEN "CENTS. A JNEW YORK, JUNE 12, 1875. /. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AI‘ DE GABMO HALL, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JAN. 10, 1875. BY LUCIEN J. CRANDALL. 4 0, Jerusalem, J erusaleinl How oft would I have gathered you together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing; but ye would not. I have chosen this wail of the sad Nazarene, not so much because the weight of a great name is consociated with it; neither for the reason that it is as it is the peerless voicing of an exquisite sorrow; but because its pith and substance has been, in all ages, the gasp that has gurgled in the throat of every heaven-persuaded, hell-pursued instrument, by which the elevation of mankind has been wrought. Eighteen hundred years ago, a strange, so-called fanatic . dared to lift up his voice against the damnation of priestcraft and the blighting curse of hypocritical self-abnegation. Away with him! crucify him! cried the masses whom he sought to elevate, and he in whom there was found neither fault -nor blemish, was doomed to an untimely and ignominious death. To-day, faintly, dimly, tremblingly the thought begins to glimmer on the minds of men that there is indeed a glorious existence beyond the grasp of death ;*a life not bought, a life not granted, alife not gained; a‘ life not secured through priestly mediation ; no pitch-fork-armed demon at the foot -—no wrathful despot at the head—man and man only—ﬁrst, ~last, always; naught higher than his attributes—-naugli’t lower than his elements; a life inevitable, indestructible——eternal. And whence this glimmer of light athwart the minds of men? Who raised the issue with error? Who rent the vail of hypoc- risy that hid the sun? VVho broke ground for thelgrave of reason’s prostitution? Who leveled the javelin that at last has pierced and burst the bubble of priestly pretension? Back from this free-platform—away into the mists of the centuries—-points the ﬁnger of justice; back to that babe in Bethlehem. There was it born. Then was it launched upon the world. ‘ A Bridge those centuries——follow that thought. Trace to its to- day the cumulative force of that revolt. Forecast the morrow“ How long (re the conscious dignity of manhood shall come to ﬁll the minds of men, and consequently rule the world? In the light of the worlds true signiﬁcance, who shall deny that Jesus of Nazareth is Christ? In one of the great manufacturing towns of ‘England a weary spinner sat by the ﬁre-place of his poverty-stricken home, sullenly musing, as was his wont when returned from the labor of the day. On a couch near by reclined his dis- eased and bed-ridden wife. Suddenly he seized a spent cin- der, and rapidly traced upon the hearth the symbol of a device that his thought had builded. Then, more like ma- niac than reasonable man, he seized his astonished wife, and holding her tenderly in his arms, as though she were the merest child, he stooped on the hearth, and directed her eyes to the strange ‘lines that this ﬁre-light revealed. _ “ There, Jennie, there it is. ‘Do you see this, and this, and this? It is a spinning machine, Jennie, and you shall be rich, Jennie—richl There, on the hearth, is better than a ton of gold, and you shall have food and clothing and a car- riage, and the most skillful leeches in the land shall attend you, and you shall be my blooming wife again, as in the days when you were acknowledged to be theswiftest spinner and the sweetest lass in all the town. ‘Twill do the work of a dozen men! Think of it, Jennie! ‘ Spinning Jennie ’ they used to call you, and ‘ Spilllling Jennie’ shall be its name.” The machine was made, and right well did it set out to realize the hopes of its inventor.- But alas! The rabble raised its voice against it—the machine was dashed to pieces by the mob. The heart of that spinner sank in his bosom. The gold- en dream was broken. He who had thought to elevate his fellow-man from the bondage of the wheel and distaff——he who had thought to bring a joyful song into the mouth of his sad-eyed mate was doomed to miserably perish by her side. And a hundred years had rolled o’er his grave e_re the labor-_ ing world came to perceive that a Christ had been among them. , A talented young.Portaguese conceived a glorious thought, and straightway laid the same before his king. The monarch, scarcely comprehending, placed at his command the necessary aid.» A few months later, the delighted youthkwith thankful heart and generously worded speech, craved audience of the king, that he might tell him of the signal triumph his muniﬁ- cence had aided to achieve. “Look, sire: from out this window you may see my little vessel glide across the bay, oarless, sailless; despite the wind, hither, thither, at my will. Come, ‘sire, and ride with me.” “Art thou dazed, my son? How thinkest thou to brave the wind and cross the bay, with no arm to loose the sail or bend the car?” _ “Ah, sire! the elements have yielded to my will. Lo! the vapor of the boiling water has become my slave. When free ’twas but as dew upon the grass, as weak and powerless as the chyme upon the wall; but I have chained it, and, like giant strong, ’twill drag my boat in spite of wind or wave. Let me persuade thee, sire; come ride, with me.” ‘ “Away with him! Destroy that work of hell! W'hat do 1 see and hear? What blasphemy is this? Shall feeble man presume to launch and sail despite the winds of heaven? I will not hear, I will not see! Let him be exiled and let it be sunk!” . ’ Toil, weary oarsman. “Reef” and “ square " and “ furl,” thou tempest—cradled buifeter of wind and wave. Three hundred years shall roll away ere in the womb of fate again shall leap thy Christ. Humbly obscured in the heart of this great city to-day a weary woman—crushed.i';bafﬂed, desolate —- waits but to gather strength and hope ere she again moves forward in, the mighty ﬁght her burning words have challenged. Moth- ers, is it not your conflict? Why desert her? Sisters, is it not your battle? ‘Why shun her? Wives, is it not pre-emi- nently your ﬁght? Why scorn her? 0, sweet ideal of mate- ship! Oh, grand ideal of motherhood! Alas! the old, old story. Alas! the old,:old fate. Oh, womanhood! thou hope of man! 0, Jerusalem! Jerusalem! ' _A Though these pictures may be overwrought, the funda- mental truth remains that all ages have had their restless reformers—now in this ﬁeld, now in that—but no matter how diverse those ﬁelds, a common disappointment meets them at the last. Oh, Jerusalem! Jerusalem! in all tongues, in all climes. Again and again though the champion of truth dash himself against the wall of apathy that isolates him from his fe1low—men, yet again and again doth he fallto the ground, until at last, when spent with fruitless toil-—the wings of his hope all torn and shattered—-he yields to fate and wails the wall of the Nazarene. Why the cross, the hem- lock, the ostracism of men? Let us probe, if we can, to the very Vitals of the case and see if we may not ﬁnd the reason and the compensation. ' . r ‘Why did that sad-eyed man of sorrow tread the stony shore of Galilee and sow thereon the seeds of discord? Why preach sedition in the Holy City? Why hurl the hot lava of his wrath agains/t hypocrisy? Why scorn the great? Why court the lowly? Why doth the wise man do him honor and V the good man hold him to his heart to-day? Methinks a subtle truth begins to penetrate the minds of men. L He was eﬁ‘ect fron cause. His life was an inevitable career. He could not, if he would, have been aught than what he was. Oh. wondrous alchemy of maternity! Oh wondrous mother- hood! How hath bcnignant thoughts and pure desires within! thy heart laid low the mighty wrongs of time and wreathed the cross of trial with the laurel crown of triumph! And “Mary waitedin the temple” and with the love ofGod there grew another love. And the same promise that was made to Eve was made to her: Through the sweet office of mater nity shalt thou become as God, a builder and creator of men. And as that strange pulse ﬂuttered beneath her heart, and a strange new happiness began to ﬁll her life, what one of us can doubt that‘ in the fullness of her joy a sweet desire to bless the world became the burden of her aspiration. Ah, holy mother! thus wert thou overshadowed by a holy spirit! Ah, child of love, thus wert thou made to be the,Ohrist! Thus by an unusual and original method of thought are we brought, as I think, to a more subtle apprehension of the power that molds the destinies of men; and have struck, as I believe, the real key to the analytical exposition of many apparently unjust conditions. That this method of thought is reasonable seems to ﬁnd ample conﬁrmation throughout all nature. Indeed, the sub—human phenomena of nature, in all their varied presentments, point to the one thought-— that our needs are our builders, and that our upbuilding goes not one jct beyond our aggregate wants. [It I may here interject a thought I will say, let no man ever hope to get above want. To cease to need is to be de- prived cf the one essential requisite of. growth. There is a smell of varnish like unto a coiﬁn in the thought of a mi!- 5 . saviors. Each struggling thought is a Christ. lennium, in which no tantalizing want shall goad our peacefu rest. I cannot believe in that prophesied rest. Harmonious action——-movement without friction—that is true re pose. In harmonial uses I apprehend, and in harmonial uses only, shall we realize the true millennium. I see no good reason why our thoughts of heaven should be associated with some mystic land beyond the limit of our mortal vision.] But, to return to the fact that all nature corroborates the thought that our needs are our builders: The mighty oak that on the bold summit of some promontory seems to dare the furious storm, was not caressed into such strength. Oh, no; the bowling winds have oft essayed to topple it, but each essayhath stirred its vital currents, and the lithe form sway- ing to and fro hath pumped the sap that is it life. Higher. shoots the leafy bough, lower delves the ﬁbrous roots, stabler grows the stalwart tree. So, also, ’tis the crowding need that blossoms out the ﬂower. ’Tis the -surgin g current of our vegetative life that builds the heart——that citadel of our strength. And so, also, ’tis our needs that build the experiences from which outgrows the individual, the intangible, the indestructible, the immortal part of man. Thus, too, our trials are our saviors. A glance at the map of our countryreveals the fact that all along the Atlantic coast a comparatively ‘unbroken and iso- lated wall of sand, like the picket line of some mighty army, protects the main land from the encroaching waters. Thus out of the jaws of destruction hath come protection. Ex- haust thy wrath, oh vengeful ocean; lash, and surge and roll. Behold from‘ out thy turbid bosom thou has heaped a ram- part strong. Behind it rolls a peaceful tide, and smiling in the rear appears the sun-kissed land. Is not this also the hint of a compensation in every case of trial? Doth not our sorrows build in us a wealth of sympa- thy, rendering us rich in tender pity, cementing us closer to the great humanity? This is the commonwealth: The ag- gregate sorrows of mankind. A commonwealth of ex- perience; a commonwealth of sorrow; acommonwealth of trial. Thena commonwealth of sympathy; a commonwealth of pity. Then a commonwealth of charity, of benevolent solicitude. Thus are we brought near to the great heart of Jesus, and thus are we gathered into his loving arms, even beneath the sheltering wings of his tender care. Finally, then, our needs are our creators, our trials are our Therefore, blessed are the poor in spirit (they who recognize great needs Within themselves), for ultimately theirs shall indeed be the kingdom" of heaven. STIRRING THE BROOKLYN CESSPOOL. , . ~ UP THE OHIO RIVER, May 8, 1.875. Dec/r Weelcly—-I saw a letter of Jane Swisshelm copied into the Cincinnati Commercial some ten days ago. It concerned the everlasting Beecher business. All things considered, Jane’s letter was signiﬁcant. Straws show. which way the wind blows. Mrs. Swisshelm was, in the ﬁrst of it, one of the most vehe- ‘ment of Beecher’s supporters, advancing the most earnest Julia Ward Howe and other “highly respectable ” leaders of the conservative wing of women.’s righters. Jane, Julia & Co. thought Mr. Beecher’s life ought to be a sufficient refutation of a story springing from “ such a source.” And on all occasions they failed, not in zeal, how- ever much they lacked in judgment, for they bore aloft, with amazing persistency, the draggled banner of Beecher-’s inno- cence, hesitating not to follow the example of the pastor of Plymouth injlinging vile epithets at her who haddared to open up the mass of corruption, and . seat the god of Brook- lyn on the sharp and ragged edge of his own cesspool. But mark what a ground and lofty somerset Jane Swiss- helm has taken! She is not prepared at this stage of the testing a belief in the “great” preachers innocence. She believes him a guilty man’; in fact.-tshe thought there was more truth than poetry in the whole affair from the ﬁrst. But like a certain consistent dear old Baptist deacon once upon a time, in his view of “ Burr’s,Thoughts on Revivals,” though it was every word true as gospel, it never should have been published. And while Jane thought it possible to keep the truth under cover, and hold the stench’ from the public nostrils, she thought it her_ bounden duty to even strain asseverations of his innocence, much after the manner of’ developments to write herself down a goose by longer pro- V 'W/3/1/7/‘Z/C/3,4/r~ Pee 2 woonnuti. a otsrtiuis WEEKLY... June 12, 1875. point of conscience for the sake of a “ revered citizen,” the cause of religion and public morality. She is still gt the opinion that the originators of the un—pleasantness are a “bad lot." I i i Such is the tone and tenor of Jane’s letter. And such is the tone and tenor of the “ weight” of a rotten public senti- ment, fosteredby that lank ghost of shams, modern respect- ability. I With the so-called Christian church undermined by a mass 5f deceitfulness and hypocrisy similar to that brought to light in Plymouth church, there are not wanting plenty of “ galvanized” reformers to hold up with their weak backs‘ the sinking foundations, as Jane Swisshelm would have held up Henry Ward Beecher and his church. The present deplorable status of Christianity must fully answer all aspirations of such souls. But Jane has had the grace to repent in a measure the error of herways, though for the life of her she can’t see any good to come of such a disagreeable stirring up of bad odors. Let her get out of-the dark valley of social shadows, and climb the mountain of social freedom where her vision will be puriﬁed to see the end from the beginning of what seems to her only a miserable matter. With her feet once planted on the hill-top of this great social truth she can scan the height and the depth, the length and the breadth of this up- heaval and be beyond the reach of its tide of destruction, high above the line of its foulness ;' she can stand, even as emancipated spirits stand, calm and content amidst the wreck of Worlds. - The prophetic soul, gifted to see the handwriting of truth shining in space down the ages, is far removed from the dis- .-cords of revolutions and earthquakes that tend toward the amelioration of mankind. Can Jane Swisshelm believe in a be neﬁcent power guiding the universe can she have faith in the law of progress as she professes, and yet imagine that an aﬁair like this Beecher scandal contains only the seeds of depravity, breathing noth- ing but contagion to the world? An affair that has completed the circuit of the round earth, ~ rung in the circles of the spheres, shaking foundations and --upsetting time-honored idols as never a matter has done be- fore, and yet there are found souls in this hour so steeped in the gross materialism of worldliness, so given over to the ﬂesh pots of mammon, that they are blind to the handwriting on the wall of the secret chamber of their licentiousness and hypocrisy! “ .Truth’s me-ne, meme, tekel uphmsin is blazing in vain for those who fail to see aught besides a great evil in this social holocaust. How could developed souls in higher spheres endure the contemplation of the wrongs and miseries, the’ tears and sighs and heartaches, the disease and suffering and _ death, the discords and distractions, the strong for everde- vouring the weak, if their spirits had not caught the divine, eternal harmonies that compose the undertone of the music of the ‘spheres, enabling them to'rest in the storm, and be lulled to sleep amidst the warring of the elements? “That is the temporal struggle of Henry Ward Beecher’s soul compared to a knowledge oftruth, and the sweet and sacred calm that shall as surely follow the outburst of the tempest as day follows night? What are the tears and woes i of Elizabeth Tilton compared to the purity of the atmos- phere, toward the clearing of which she has furnished some thunder and lightning? What are the short-lived miseries of the actors in this grand drama of the ages in the balance against an omnipotent and omnicient will evolving good for ever out of evil? which good the souls of Beecher and Mrs. Tilton will as surely share as though theyhad committed adultery seventy-times-seven, and been hauled over the coals of an eminently Christian (?) Church as many times for the same, purged in the Church’s purgatorial ﬁres, and at last washed clean in atoning blood, though not permitted to ‘ minister at the immaculate altars of time, after the adul- terousiact, even if the mercy seat were drenched with their bitter tears of repentance? ’Tis not the policy to reinstate repentant sinners in church emoluments here, notwithstand- ing a “ true repentance cleanseth from all sin,” and “there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons.” According to the pure and undeﬁled doctrine of Christ, no Christian can presume to keep Mr.‘ Beecher out of Plymouth pulpit, even if his guilt be proven beyond a doubt; for there has been suiﬁcient _evidence of his repentance that the church is bound to respect if it intend to follow Christ, and not show itself the very mother of inconsistency and sham. Seventy—times-seven shall the followers of Christ forgive, and kill the fatted calf I when the repentant prodigal return s. Yet mark the reality! If Beecher be proved a guilty man his future usefulness is done, his past work obliterated !_ p ; VVhere is a hell hot enough for such miserableperverters of Christ’s teachings? In what depraved bowels’ of iniquity did “ Christians” hatch the devil of their “ pious judgments? ” Were it not for the fatal dogmas of total depravity, and eter- nal damnation blinding the eyes of Christ’s professed fol- lowers, who are as ignorant, however, of the ﬁrst Christ prin- ciple as‘a savage is of tenderness—I say, were it not for those. two dogmas Christians, so-called, might be able to stand ﬁrm in the midst of an eruption like this, in very spirit and in truth, praising God for his wondrous ways to man, instead of con- -juring up a malignant devil for master of ceremonies, with myriad imps to poke the lurid ﬁres. But modern Christianity would lose centripetal force de- prived of its devil whom the poor Christian’s God has created to help him out with the management of this earth. For my part I prefer to have faith, in the midst of seeming chaos, that God, ’ whatever he is, is master of the situation and knows his business, and that he will do all things well withoutthe aid of the devil, total depravity or eternal damna- tion to help him dispose of a too heavy job. As order comes out of chaos and good forever out of Naza- reth, so I’m sure and steadfast in the faith that wisdom and truth and blessing to/humanity will come out of the Beecher scandal. HELEN NASH. I TO‘ HELEN NASH. In your article in the VVEEKLY of May 29, you state that a person of the masculine persuasion told you that the idea he had drawn from your letters to the WEEKLY was that you were a mom-hater. i ‘ Ne w, I think you will ﬁnd “that he is not an exception to the male readers of your articlgs. Having always maintained a profound respect for consistency, I must beg leave to dissent from some of your views therein expressed, on the ground that you utterly ignore those short-comings in woman, of which you so justly and bitterly complain of in man. Ac- cording to your article, insolent, overbearing snubbery would ‘appear to be a vice to which the male sex only is addicted. To this view of the case I object, on, the ground that the assumption (if it may be termed such), is an untenable one in the light of existing facts, for that vice prevails to a great extent among both sexes, not only toward one another, but toward those of their own sex. Scores of instances come to my notice where her sex only saved the woman from a severe castigation, whereas had the same conduct emanated from a man he could not have easily escaped the consequences. If I understand the WEEKLY correctly, its objectseand aims are in the interest of human rights, based (as they must be to be effective) on the eternal principles of justice, truth and love. Taking this stand I would rather strike at causes than at the effects of which you complain, for it must be borne in mind that causes for which neither individual man or woman is responsible, but which are themselves the effect of defunct institutions, are the foundation of our social wrongs. How much of the blame is to be laid at the door of female igno- rance respecting the problem of life and the equitable relation ofthe sexes, you can judge as well as I. Nevertheless, the bold fact staresime in this face that from the primitive stock to the present time, wom an has had a much broader ﬁeld of opportunity than man td help her solve this great social problem, while to solve it requires but one step on her part ‘to accomplish it, and thatiis to render the emotional faculties subservient to the intellect, and at the same time developing and Astrenigthening the latter. Yet with the historical expe- rience of centuries, she has not yet risen to the dignity of teaching her male offspring true manliness. ‘Who, « I ask you, has the training and rearing of the average man? Is, it not his mother, whose inﬂuence upon her offspring for good or evil has no equal ? * A suffragist once, in support of female suffrage, truthfully asserted that all great men owed their greatness to their mother. I wonder if the conservators of our public morals could not, if they would, trace the evils that ﬁll our prisons, almshouses and all kindred demoralizing institutions to the same source? It is an indisputable fact that of all duties in life which require for their efficient discharge the ‘best and noblest qualiﬁcations those of a mother are the highest and most responsible; yet I defy any one to point out a position which is so utterly and universally unaccountable to society, and to which society has so utterly denied its just claims. I therefore ask the conservators of public morals what right they have to expect any good to come out of a Sodom, where‘ vice and crime with all their ‘heinous concomitants are permitted and encouraged to reproduce themselves ad Zimtum, and that too for the sake of maintaining the very system which permits and fosters such reproduction, t’. c., marriage. I I, for one, think that the time has come when quality in- stead of quantity should be the aim of propagation; but this you will never come to so long as mothers raise daughters merely for the matrimonial/market, to be disposed of in the shape of so many tempting morsels tolthe rapacious lust of the highest bidder. What is most astonishing to me is the fact of the readiness and apparent relish with which young women of their own accord adapt themselves to these con- ditions, and even tax the patience and ingenuity of the modtste to the extreme in order to get themselves in that condition in which they are best ﬁtted to excite the grossest sensuality, and strainthe passions of the male youth to that pitch where self-control is no longer ‘possible; for it is a fact, admitted by all men who have studied human nature in its sexual phases, that perfect female nudity could not excite the sensuality that is engendered by this vicious system of display, which does its utmost to cause sexual excitement. Again, it must be self-evident to you that man is not to blame for woman’s condition with the alternative before her of accepting it as she ﬁnds it, or endeavoring to better it. Her own mother instinct should cause her to resort to the latter, which she certainly can if she only will. If my ex- perience with the average woman serves as an index, I ﬁnd thatthe cause of her tardiness in this reform lies in the fact that her emotional faculties predominate to an improper degree over all others, and that she, to a great extent, ignores the claims of her intellectual faculties to that proper share of development which is necessary to secure the right of a distinct individuality. While such is the case her emotional faculties have a natural tendency to gravitate to either one of two extremes—either she becomes a sectarian fanatic, and conveys to her oﬂspring the detestable and damnable ortho- dox cast; or. else she gravitates to the other extreme of vice and debauchery, implanting in her offspring the condition of her external surroundings at their very inception, Hence my plea is not for man’s rights nor woman’s rights, but human rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap- piness; not as we individually understandthem, but which shall secure to each individual the highest degree of develop- ment possible for them to obtain. I often hear the assertion that familiarity is sure to breed contempt, and, before I knew better, often used the expres- sion myself; but I must confess to a surprise to hear you use it, and at the risk of imitating;,Evarts, “ I object.” Familiarity between the sexes, especially if indulged in a pure spirit, begets the height of reverence; whilst in my case it "almost approaches to worship. This to a depraved mind might not only seem absurd, but the average‘ woman would. esteem a man holding such views exceedingly soft, and shall be the result of conditions andsurroundings that ~ and contempt. - If I could find a woman with her mental, moral and phys- ical faculties blended in one harmonious whole, I would have reached the highest ﬂight of my ideality, to which it would be my greatest pleasure to render homage, and bestow upon it an unquenchable love. PHILADELPHIA, May 22, 1875. VEnfrA s. READING, May 27, 1875. Enrrons WOODHULL St CLAFLIN’S ‘VVEEKLY: Dead Fm'.ends.—-Since here I have procured you two new subscribers, and I only wish it could have been ten times that number; but the leaven worketh slowly, however spasmodic it may be at times. Thousands acknowledge the utter rot- tenness of the social system, but it requires more than ordi- nary moral courage to break the social cords and stand out as independent individuals. With the majority it requires the sustaining power of public opinion, which to them is the most powerful of all conscious inﬂuences. Your pioneer work has been grand and sublime, only to be fully appreciated in the time to come, when a. vast amount of other work hasbeen accomplished through other instrumen- talities. The new social structure will not be complete until many more noble lives have been sacriﬁced upon the altar of human redemption. But the basic work had to be done of necessity, and you, the chosen instruments of the spirit—world, have labored faithfully and in an almost superhuman earnest- ness for the accomplishment of great ends. The foundations have been well laid, and the spirit of the whole structure has been implanted and imbued with new life by your own self- sacriﬁces in -the cause of eternal truth. The ﬂood-gates of light have been opened and the ceaseless stream is now ﬂow- ing in upon the minds of all thinking individuals. _ The dark spots upon the earth are numerous, but the angel of light hovers over them ever ready to extend a helping hand. You have sown the seed in a public manner and now the work must be continued privately by hundreds of social re- formers whose life-forces have been aroused by your teach-’ ings. The grand work of cementing the social elements into new and reﬁned‘ forms is the-work of generations, and has yet to be accomplishedrby other hands. Yours fraternally, D. S. CADVVALLADER. 525 West 7th St., VVilmington, Del. - PROGRESSIVE SETTLE MENT. Having received applications from a suiiicientn umber of persons, who are ready and anxious to commence the glorious work of showing the world that there is a better system to resulted in excessive wealthon one side, and poverty, crime and misery on the other hand, weihere propose a plan for gradually changing this present system into that better one that shall eventually benefit the mass of humanity. For this purpose we propose to secure a beautiful farm within four miles of the Centennial buildings in Philadelphia. The situation of the land is admirable for the purpose intend- ed. It is neara railroad station, a half hour’s ride from the centre of the city. So those doing business in the city can go into the city in time for business in the morning, and re- turn home in the evening. The best way to secure this will be to form a joint stock when a sufficient number of shares be subscribed to ensure its success, and the trustees elected; the remainder to be paid in three installments, six, twelve and eighteen months. Those wishing to pay the whole amount will be allowed inter- est on the amount paid up. It will be a perfectly safe invest- ment, as there can be no doubt that as soén as the proposed settlement is fairly established, the land will be worth four times as much as it cost. It contains a valuable stone quarry, which will not only be a source of income, but will enable the buildings to be erected at considerable less expense. The land is in a high state of cultivation, with good buildings upon it. The plan is to reserve a portion of the land for a park, in which to erect a building to contain a lecture room for lec- tures and amusements, etc., library, reading and school rooms. Around the park the various buildings are to be erected; one portion for the isolated dwellings; another for co-operative dwellings; :3. third for the unitary home, associative farm, workshops, etc., which are to be owned by the members, with shares of stock to represent the amount each one has put in; and a ifourth for the community, where the funds are put in one common fund, and all share alike, each one working for the good of all. Those who are satisﬁed that associative labor will produce, after we are in successful operation, all the no- see no necessity of cultivating selﬁshness any longer. The practical operation of these systems will eventually decide which will prove the most eﬁectual for ameliorating the con- dition of humanity. Let each one be fully persuaded in their ow.n minds which will do the most good. Address, with stamp. GEO. D. HENCK, i 1,204 Callowhill street, Philadelphia. A TYPAL WOMAN. er FRANCES nosr: MACKINLEY. ‘ - “Love hath its own belief, Own worship, own morality, own laws; And it were better that all love were sin Than that love were not.” Enshrined in the very love-nook of my memory is the nore de Warens, who was the mistress, in love and philoso- phy, of the “Evangelist of the French Revolution,“ as Car~ lyle calls Jean Jacques Rousseau. Jean Jacques has perpet- uated the profound and reverential remembrance he cher- ished of her in these words: “I dare to assert that if Socra- tes could esteem Aspasia, he would have respected Madame de Warens.” She was in the bloom of her charms,.a matron of ftwentyveight, when he, a boy of sixteen, ﬁrst beheld and might, if they knew it, make himthe object of their ridicule , be evolved than our present antagonistical one which has , company, of 250 shares of $100 each, one-fourth to be paid cessities and even luxuries with six hours’ labor per day, will I image of that large~thoughted woman, Madame Louise Elea- June 12, 1875. in the same breath loved her. He thus describes,with appre- hensive zest, her lucious shapeliness: “I see,” he says, “ a face loaded with beauty, ﬁne blue eyes full of sweetness, a complexion that dazzled the light, the contour of an enchant- ing neck.” * * * “ Her air was caressing and tender, her look extremely mild, the smile of an angel, her hair of an ash color of uncommon beauty, to which she gave aneglected turn. She was of small stature, but it was impossible to see a ﬁner face, a ﬁner neck, more beautiful hands or well-turned arms.” lVhat a suggestive picture! Does it not incite in the reader a tender voluptuousness and prompt him to _be- stow in imagination an epulose of kisses upon her soft,-nega- tive,Womanly visage and symmetrical shoulders? A like win- ‘some debonairity of physiognomy, not beheld in the marble nymphs of Praxiteles. _ Let u pause to admire this life-like image of the lovely De Warens, as sheipresents herself to our clairvoyance! We are en rapport with her. She inspires us with conﬁdence. She will grant us a kiss, an embrace, whatever else we may wish. Amative longings stir within us. Perceiving them, she smiles concessively. \'/Vould that she were tangible! How we regret that she is but a phantom. Oh that she were an objective entity for an instant, and acquiescent as in life to the enfoldment of loving arms! An aura of ideal incitement emanates from her to us. As our eyes dwell upon her, intimations of indefectible beauty indicate to our minds the sphere to which she belongs. Phryne the adored of Diogenes and Aristippus; Flora, Pom- pey‘s mistress, and other fair hetarai of antiquity, ﬂit through the ﬁeld of our psychic vision. She seems the reincarnation of some Dryad, who had wantoned in the love-life of the Saturnian age. The lovely body of De Warens, like that of Ninon do Lenclos, was environed by an atmosphere of sensu- ' alization, radiating an inspiriting elfulgence. The neck of Venus, a skin through which the warm blood flushed, and a grace of manner betokening a ductile and complacent tem- per were in her, as they would be in any ‘woman, the natural signals of an untrammeled free lover. She governed her conduct by the absolute arbitrament of her own judgment. Any crudity in her gentle temperament would have made her deﬁant of social laws; but she was so harmoniously con- stituted, so poised in her convictions, that she behaved as if oblivious of all man-made codes,‘placidly unwitting that her conduct could offend. The consciousness that freedom is the only means of devel- opment inspired every faculty of her sensory. She reasoned, as did Madame Von Kalk, “ that the creature should suffer no restraint, and that love needs no laws.” She worshiped, as the truest religion, the art of living which teaches us to unfold and elevate all our powers in accordance with the dis- position nature has given them. To her esthetic perception, as to that of the poet and artist, there could be neither grace, beauty nor power, without freedom. This broadness of thought was actualized in the unrestraint of her life, and her conduct exempliﬁed her obedience to the promptings of love. She could not conceive why abstinence from coition, called chastity or continence, should be considered a virtue. Her sexual sy mpathy was spontaneous, effervescent, generously indiscriminate, and the proclivity to self-lfestowment a fre- quent impellant, to which she rendered a prompt and devout V compliance. We are told by J can Jacques that Do Warens had more reason than passion. This adds to our estimate of her greatness. The sensual must {of necessity submit to the ratiocinative, and judgment, never contemptuous nor arrogant, but always a kindly tutor, should find in passion a docile and elfectionate pupil. The love of the peripatetic for his mistress did not enlighten him beyond the surface of her ‘ character. He informs us that in her beneﬁcent libcrality to lovers she would have yielded herself with a perfectly calm conscience to twenty paramours in a day, “ without any more scruple than desire.” There is more pique than sense of truth in this statement. Jean Jacques could not divine how much a. sentimental love.-longing contributed to the genial receptivity with which De Warens abandoned herself to the arms of a lover. A potent but reﬁned amativeness, conjoined with boundless liberallty, made her a sexual philanthropist. Jean Jacques has embellished belles-lettrcs with his pro- ductions. No man has ever written more naturally, more frankly and more fervently. He has dared to anatomize his own soul, and to depict humanity in a revelation of himself. In his minor personal characteristics he reminds me of Dante. Tormented by the demon of suggestion, these two. restless spirits were, in their outward conduct, when not in an obsti- nate and moody abstraction, querulous, suspicious and mis- anthropical. There is asimllarity of type in their visages, though the face of Jean Jacques has the softer lines. Jean Jacques was an earnest and uncompromising reform- er, with larger aspirations toward what he thought to be truth, and yet he was far inferior to De War-ens in intrinsic nobility of nature. Compared with hers, his mental horizon was contracted. To appreciate her, it needed a soul as capa- cious as her own. He could readily discern such of her good qualities as were apparent to the most superﬁcial observer, and gives her the credit, “ that she abhored lying and duplici- ty, was just, equitable, humane, disinterested, true to her word, her friends, and those duties she conceived to be such, incapable of hatred or revenge, and not even conceiving there was a merit in pardoning.” Jean Jacques saw only extrinsi- cally. Had he been gifted with spiritual insight, he would have noticed that the sexual sentiment of De ,Warens was not dormant, nor even diﬁicult to arouse, though by no means excessive» in its demands. It was one of her essential endow- ments, glowing and diffusive as the current of her blood, ani- mating her every glance and movement. He says of her that in the midst of the most touching. “ nay the most edifying, conversation, she would glide into this subject (sexual topics) without the slightest change in either her tone or manner.” =%< * * * “She would even at a pinch have interrupted the talk to make theo_ry practice, and then have resumed the thread of discourse with the same serenity as before, so thoroughly was she persuaded that it was purely a maxim of social polity, to which every sensible man or woman might give his own interpretation, application, or exception accord- ing to the‘ spirit of the matter, and without the slightest chance of offending God.” Manifest in such courage of thought and action is the transcendent supremacy of De W'arens above ordinary. narroW—souled and selﬁsh humanity. To attain to a cognizance of the exalted sphere whence she derived her in- spiration, we must withdraw from the social immaturities of this world into the abstractions of the highest thought. P11-de-Toursin, Switzerland, was the birthplace of our he- roine. She was born in 1700. She became Countess de Warens in her early maidenhood, but was separated from her hus- band before-her acquaintance with Jean Jacques. Botany was her favorite study, and the compounding oflherbal medi- cines her method of applying it to practical uses. “ Herself a fairer ﬂower,” she could not but worship ﬂowers, the ma- terial symbols of her own beauty and spontaneity. One of her first lovers was a Mons. de Tavel. This gentleman be- 3 longed to that limited number of enlightened minds who discern that unhappiness must predominate in this sphere while unbounded independence is not permitted inthe exer- cise of the sentimental and affectional emotions. Her spirit, innatcly liberal, began thus early its natural expansion under the inﬂuence of this clear-seeing thinker. Jean Jacques, when in his twentieth year, became a mem- ber of De ‘Narens’ household. She had then alove companion about her own._age, Claude Anet. The favor thus granted to Jean Jacques of constant proximity to the being whom he loved, ﬁlled up the measure of his highest inspirations. , (To be continued.) [Written for Woodhull & Claﬂin’s Weekly] HOW WELOVE. BY WILLIAIVI BRUNTON. We speak of love in foolish way, As though we made the sense; ; As well conceive we make the day, Or that we drive it hence. It springs within our heart as flowers, Because the seed is there; It grows in life, like summer bowers, And we pronounce it fair: It grows or fades without our thought or will, It comes and goes, andwe obey it still! We talk of love without a thought, And make it chains to wear; We think it comes where’er ’tis sought, Amid the false or fair, When only hearts divinely true Can know its precious worth, And only souls with courage due Can win its smile on earth: It will not live in bonds, but thrives when free; And all the pure in heart its joys shall see I GEMS FROM FOURIER. SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY A. orunon. I. As preliminary to great expressions, it maybe ‘appropriate to commence with certain general summaries, exhibiting, at a glance, past, present and future social conditions, -as Fourier understood them; also deﬁnitions of certain words which he uses very frequently, and in a somewhat different sense from that in which they are ordinarily employed. TABLEAU on THE FIRST PI-IASE or THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT. Period 1. Confused seriism, called Eden, or terrestrial Paradise, the characteristic of which is association by instinct and circumstances, rather than by system and science. 1% Otaheitans. (REMABK.—Tlde Samoans, which will hereafter be more specially mentioned, now exhibit a more favorable example of the first period than the Otaheituns, who, since Fo_urier’s time, have been much corrupted by “civilization” and its religion.) Period 2. Savageism—Inertia in industry. 2%. Tartars and Nomads. Period Patriarchate——Minimum industry. }~§. Circassians, Corsicans, Arabs, Jews. Period 4.. Barbarism. Pivot———Absolute slavery of woman; mean industry.‘ 4%. Chinese; 4%. Russians. Period 5. Civilization. Pivot——lZlxclusive ‘marriage and civil liberty of the wife; great industry. , 5%. Owenites or Communists. In periods 3, 4 and 5 (including of course their inter- mediates), industry is “unsystematic, illusory and repug- nant.” Period 6. Guaranteeism ordemi-association. Deﬁned by M. Doherty in introduction to translation of one of Fourierfs works as follows: “ Universal insurance and discipline against poverty and loss, ignorance and immorality; uni- versal federation of States to protect themselves against the possibility of war and proﬁt by the reign of universal peace.” This is probably the period on which we are now, partially and with halting steps, entering, as will be hereafter more fully explained. . V Fourier classiﬁes Periods 2 to 6, inclusive, as “social limbos” or purgatories, which must be passed through on every planet (the more quickly the better) in the progress from Eden to the true Societary or Combined Order, which the inhabitants of Jupiter have long since reached. (See Denton’s “ Soul of Things,”"Vo1. -Ill.) Period 7. Simple Seriism—“Association Hongree ’.’ or “ Grelded Association,” which is imperfect by reason of non- conformity to the numerical conditions and combinations of» “series” and “groups,” considered by Fourier requisite to make all labor directly or indirectly attractive, and thus secure the full beneﬁts of association. The celebrated “ Social Palace of Guise ” is but an “Association Hongree," yet has more than realized all. that Fourier expected from this Period. ,, ‘ 7%. Mixed Seriism. » Period 8. Seriism composite and divergent. Period 9 Seriism composite and convergent. The 9th period belongs to the second phase. Fourier con- woonngott .soLArLIN*s wssxtri J :; tinues the “tableau” through several “ phases” to the ﬁnal death of the planet.——(Vol. II., p. 33; vi. xi.) The pivotal character of each period, he states, is always, drawn from customs in regard to the sexual relations--the position of woman. There is a peculiar relation between industrial and sexual conditions~—an obvious correspondence. 1n periods 6, 7 and 8 industry is “societary, truthful, at- tractive.” List of the Nine Lymbtc Scoarges and of the Opposite Bless- _ tugs Resemsed for the Societary Qrder. [Lymbic,——adjective of “limbo,” hereinbefore deﬁned.] Lymbtc Scourges. Soctetaiy Beneﬁts. 3 1 Indigence. 2 Fraud. 3 1 Grraduated riches. 2 Prac- Oppression. 4 Bloodshed. 5 tical truth. 3 Effective gua- Excessive temperatures. 6ln- -rantees. 4 Constant peace. 5 fectious maladies. 7 The vi— Temperatures moderated. 6 eious circle. General guarantee. 7 Experi- Mgg General Egoism. mental doctrines. MY Duplicity of social ac- {xi 2; Philanthropy, collec- tion. tive and individual. M Y Unity of social action. CHART or CIVILIZATLON. Infancy. First Phss_e.'--Simple Germ-—-Monogsmy or exclusive mag- riage. . Composite Grerm-Patriarchal or noble feudality. P’L'oot——Cz'm't rights of the wife. Counterpoise——Grreat confederated vassals. Tone—lllusions of chivalry. Growth. - Second Phase..——Simple Germ—-Communal privileges. Composite Germ—-Culture of arts and sciences. Ptvot—Emanc73patton of laborers. Counterpoise-—Representative systems. . Tone-—-Illusions on liberty. T/"z3roSltty. Third Phase.—-Simple G-erm—Mercantilo and ﬁscal spirit. , Composite (}erm—Stock Companies. Pi'uot—:JlIaritz'me monopoly. Counterpoise-——Anarcbical commerce. ‘Tone——Illusions on political economy. Old Age, Caductty or Decline. Fourth Phase.—Monts-de-piete in cities. Limited number of masters. P'tcot_.——Industrtal feudalitu. Counterpoise——Farmers of the feudal (gov’t) mono- poly. A Tone——l1lusions on association.——(VI., 387.) REMAnK.——“lVlaritime monopoly,”_pivot of third phase; in Fourier’s time the railroad system was in its infancy, and the bulk of transportation was by water. “ Maritime mo- nopoly,” therefore, virtually implied monopoly of,transporta— tion, by whatever mode, and is a pivot of our present social state, which is, in the United States, in transition from the third phase to “ Guaranteeism,” the “fourth” phase being apparently Wanting¢——just as, geologically, in some regions there are direct successions of tertiary strata to primary, the secondary being absent. The structure of society in the’ United States is unfavorable to the existence of the fourth phase. “ Monts-de-Piste” in France are governmental pawn-shops . exempt from the drawbacks as these exist in Anglo-Saxon- dom. ’ That is, one can deposit in a Mont-de-Piete any articles of property, and obtain thereon a cash advance but little short of actual value, with privilege of redemption on payment of a very small interest. They are proﬁtable to the government, and of very great advantage to the people. Party politics and the necessary accompaniment of political‘ dishonesty would probably prevent their success in the United States,but 3.65 intro-convertible government bonds would be first cousin to them. K “ Limited number of masters” is understood to mean lim- itation of taxation on certain occupations, the unnecessarily large number of professional men, merchants, store-keepers, agents, etc., who, with their families, have to be supported by the community. Fourier considers that a heavy license tax on such occupations would reduce the number down to some- thing like requirements. In connection with this matter, he thinks the Jews should not be allowed to -follow commercial avocations in the proportion of more than one to one hun- dred, for reasons speciﬁed. The results he desires to reach, however, could not thus be attained in the United States, and the indications are that this “phase” will be “ jumped” here. The Granger-s have-al ready onefoot in the sixth period, a guaranteeism, and the radical spiritualists, etc.,' are scouting a little in the seventh, but don’t know their bearings yet. “ Thim’s what I’m afther tellin’ yez.” . DEFINITIONS OFVERBAL IDITSSYNCRACIES. Fourier uses three words in a rather peculiar sense, viz. : 1. Civilization.‘ His denunciations of this condition are not to be construed into any advocacy of preceding conditions, from which he regards it as an advance. 7 He believes there - was a degeneracy, in happiness, from Edenism to Savageism, which was inevitable, and we cannot get back to Edenism even were it desirable. But he believes we have remained too long stagnant in civilization, causing abuses to be devel- oped which would have been otherwise not felt; he believes that misery must follow unequal developments, and that such is the result to day of an industrial development far in ad... Vance of the social. ‘ 2. The Passions. He thusdesignates collectively, the ﬁve external senses : the four affections of sexual-love, friendship, ambition and familism, the love of variety, love of intrigue and emulation, love of combination or cumulative action, all of which have their uses in a true social condition. but are inevitably mischievous, when falsiﬁed in their action as in present and past social conditions. 3. “ Under the name of philosophers, I include” he says “ only the authors of the uncertain scienceswpoliticians, moralists, economists and others, whose theories are incom- patible withexperience and have for rule only the fancies of their authors. 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The wisclom that is from above is ﬁrst pure, then . joeaceable, gentle, easy to be treated, full of mercy and goocl fruits, without partilaity and without h_2/pco- risg,/.——James, iii, 17. A - NEIJV YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1875. PERSONAL AND SPECIAL. Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claﬁin will be at home, at No. 26 East Fiftieth street, at ten o’clock daily, to their friends and to the friends of the truth, let it be What it may and lead «where it may. The office of the paper will be at its old quarters, 111 Nassau street, Room 9._ . Tl-IE DOUBLE TRIANGLE; on, THE SIX-POINTEDTSTAR IN THE EAsT. lllor we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.-—-ST. MATTHEW, ‘1i., 2. o__ Tphisﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of Whicﬁthe WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been ‘clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- .. , ‘ T sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the ‘ . I c - earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the V ' establishment thereby of the universal human family. It 5 I also represents still another and more important truth which y , ' has not yet been intr_oduced,but which,’ deﬁned in afew I ~ 1 " ‘ . words, is,God in man reconciling the world-unto Himself. . 7 — _. we adopt T this dliagram as emblematic of our future work, 3" I ' i - and as symbolizing the possession by man of the whole a ' A math, Which.“ hope and trust may be;short1_y realized. o SEXUAL IMPURITY—— I THE WIDE GATE AND BROAD WAY. Enter ye in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the Way that leadeth to destruction, and manythere be who go in thereat; because strait is the gate and narrow is theway which leadeth to life, and few there be that ﬁnd 1t.———ST. MATTHEW, vii. 13-14. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the laW.—I. CORIN- THIANS, xv. 56. » Behold! I set before you the way of life and the Way of death.—— JEREMIAH, XXI. . For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of_ God is eternal life;— RoMANs, v1. 23. ~1- But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed; then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, When ﬁnished, bringeth forth death.——JAnEs, i. 14—15. And death and hell were cast into the lake of ﬁre; this is the second death.—REvELATIoNs, xx. 14. METHODS or KNOWLEDGE. The knowledge of good and evil came ﬁrst to the world (and it comes ﬁrst to every person) by their contrast in ex- perience. A thing may appear to be good to one because it has been taught as being good; and in like manner a thing may seem to be evil to one because it has been taught to be "evil, When, in reality, to the individual so holding the things involved, the ﬁrst may have been evil and the latter good. The progress of civilization, at all stages of its march down the centuries, has been a constant illustration of this statement. At every step it has provensomething to be good that was held to be evil, or else about which there was nothing known; and as constantly proven something that was held to be good, even divine, to have been an evil from which the world suffered—sometimes severely. Every advance that has been made in the science of matter, mind or spirit, has been so made at the expense of the over- throw of some idol o_r tenaciously held- doctrine, theory or opinion—idols and opinions,_if not actually fashioned in Wood or stone and worshiped ';_ externally, were, nevertheless, so woven into the souls ofithe people that their lives were a constant burnt offering, to them, being so completely moulded after them that to yield them up was like yielding up their lives. Many advanced reformers, even in these last days,.,_, are Weak and foolish enough to say that if such and such things are true they would rather give away their lives than to live them, and that they would sooner bury their children than have them become subject to this or that if it is also true. So with the advance of civilization and enlightenment, the same old spirit of the devil—of bigoted into1erance—reigns as supremely as it did when the Jews cruciﬁed Jesus for presuming to claim to be their Saviour, or when Galileo was ostracized for discover- ing and asserting that the earth is round. v THE ORIGINAL SIN. ,_ According to the Christian plan, and, perhaps, according to the plan of evolution, as it may be shown hereafter to be, the fall of man Was in some mysterious manner brought about by thejmproper use of the sexual organs of the pre- viously sexually pure race in that age of the world when the possession of knowledge began to distinguish man from the brute creation. It was a sexual sin for which the curse that was to multiply the sorrows and conceptions of woman was given, because no one——not even the bigoted Christian, so- called——will, in this age of theworld, attempt to claim that a curse fell upon theeworld until this day which had no legi- timate relation to a proper cause; that is to say, the act or the sin was a sexual sin, else the effects would not have been sexual eﬁects. , I Now then, also according to the Christian theory (and they certainly ought not to ﬁnd fault with us for accepting their own positions for argument’s sake) if this sexual sin had not been ,committed byour ante-diluvian parents, and the sexual curse upon the race had not followed because of that sin, no otherkind of sin could ever have come into the world; and that if no other sin had ever come. into,-_,the world, then all now living, as Well as all who have died, would have been in salvation. We accept this theory. Indeed .we shallpat another time, attempt to prove that this theory is correct. But we accept it now for the purpose of advancing another ar- gument which follows from that position, to Wit: that if sin . came into the world through some improper sexual act—— through sexual impurity——it will never begin to leave the World—n'ever go out of the world partially or wholIy—save through proper sexual acts—through sexual purity. We have long known this truth, and because we have known it we , have pleaded so earnestly as we have for sexual regeneration, being ‘Willing to sacriﬁce, as we have done, all earthly com- forts and luxuries, and to live, as we have lived, in extremest need, sometimes, in order that We might be the faithful dis- ciples of this great truth, and successfully rouse the people to the importance of its consideration. ' But as knowledge of good and evil came to man by their contrasts in man, so must the knowledge of sexual purity and of sexual impurity also come by their contrast in man. In other words, sexual purity must be known by its contrast with sexual impurity, since, except there had been impurity, its opposite could never have been conceived of or known by man; except the knowledge of the impure were ﬁrst come, there could be no knowledge of.purity. It might have had existence, as it has existence in the beasts, but there could have been no knowing that it existed except the knowledge that was with God the Creator. As by the fall of man (let that mean whatever it may), the knowledge of sin .31 e,, of evil—;came into’the world, and death by sin, so by the same knowledge will the world come to purity, when the heights of the latter and the depths of the former shall be fully revealed to man. No man can choose the former Thus it is that until one hath been tempted of all evil, he cannot know all good. Thus was Jesus tempted; and thus has every one been and every one shall be tempted ere he can be saved as Jesus was saved. The negative purity that sin, represents the original condition of man; is a condition in which, when tempted of sin, one is sure to fall, except the knowledge of good and evil come by grace, and not by works; that is, by being taught of those who have‘the positive and not the negative knowledge. The world recognizes this philosophy in many “things. Green, the reformed gambler, was the most powerful exhort- er against gambling who ever exhorted against it. The re- formed drunkard can tell of the miseries of drunkenness with a force and eloquence that is impossible of one who has never experienced its curse, either in his own person or in that of some one closely connected to him. But the world will not listen to a reformed prostitute; indeed, will not permit a prostitute to reform, if it can prevent it, and when one does so reform, it does everything that it can do to drive her backward. This is done because they who stand in the Way are, though perhaps unconsciously, in a condition equally as bad as those whom they condemn; and the reason they con- demn is because they have not yet come into a knowledge, neither have they learned from any who have the knowledge, of good and evil sexually; do not yet know the diﬁerencc between sexual purity and sexual impurity, because they have lived after the ordinances -and laws of men, and have thereby made the law of God about those things of none effect, as Jesus said of the Scribes and Pharisees, as recorded by" St. Mark vii., 1 to 14. L SIN AND DEATH SYNONYMOUS. Therefore, regeneration can come to the world, sexually, which, as has been shown, lies at the foundation of all other purity, only when it shall be known really of What sexual purity consists. ' It Will not do to look to the laws and ordinances made by man to learn this fearful knowledge, but to the law of God, Written in the heart of every man, which to be read there by him, must be consulted. There is no lack of methods to ﬁnd out all this if we go to this interior law. We knowthat to sin is to die; and that to conquer death is to ﬁrst conquer sin. Sin is death; purity is life. These are the tests. Those who are pure as Christ was pure, having been tempted of everything and stood ﬁrm; or having fallen and been resur- rected through long and bitter suffering, shall never taste of death. This it is to believe on Christ; this it is to have ever- lasting life; while to be saved from sin and death by Christ is to learn through him, by example. For such Christ died and was raised again. How simple; yet how sublime and clear all this becomes when read with the understanding; when considered in the light of common sense, instead of being blindly accepted, simply because it is set down in the Bible. Those who read it after the latter sense are the blind 1ea,de1:s of the blind, who both fall into the ditch. not all sinned and come short of the glory of perfect knowl- edge? What can professing Christians say? Are they not I in the same condition as the unbelicver and the inﬁdel; do ruption as all other bodies see it? Why then do they glory in their shame? Do the Works that Jesus enumerated as the signs that follow belief follow them; do they have everlasting life; do they not taste of death? Then Where. fore do they set themselves up as being above or better than , other people? Is it a glory to serve God with the lip When the heart is far from him ; or, is it not rather better to be of them who fall on their faces confessing, knowing themselves to be full of sin and death? THE MOTHER or‘ ABOMINATIONS. What shall those who stickle for modern marriage boast over the polygamist? Are their works superior; are they healthier and purer; do they not both die at or about the same ages? What are the fruits of legal marriage? We have only to look in any directioninto modern society to ﬁnd them everywhere evident. K In the ﬁrst place, its children, with the exceptions only of those of the different order-, are born with the brands of misery, vice and disease indelibly burnt into their bodies, developing at an-early age, when they live at all after ﬁve years, into sexual -vice, which culminates in -boys in involuntary seminal loss during sleep, and in girls in habitual leuchorrhoea, and other disgusting and degrading afflictions. These results of vice make almost the whole people unﬁt to reproduccltheir kind; and their lives a continual reproach to society, and a curse to them- selves. While the few, who are the exceptions to the rule in youth, enter into marriage so ignorantly and voraciously, that the curses which others invoke before maturity are soon invited in other ways. happymarriages. lWhat hath a married woman—who by sexual debauchery, by sexual submission to her husband when she knew it was degrading toher soul, has incurred _ the universal curse of leuchorrhoea, or some otherform of ,“ weakness’—’—got to boast about over the prostitute who has / contracted the same disease in another and perhaps more virulent form? Little, indeed, except that she has done it according to law, while the other has done it in spite of the law, When will the legal purites learn thatvirtue is in- herent in the hearts of men and women, and is not alegal commodity possessed by the observers of any man-made‘ when he stands in the complete comprehension of b0t_h- , ordinance; that it is something vital a.ndrea1, and not legal ~ ‘ one has who has never been tempted, who has never known 7 Who then shall boast; indeed, who can boast, for have _ they not, like all other people, die, and their bodies see cor- ’" And so it comes that ,.there are no healthy people and no- E E '4' E F L \ ‘--m” .;-g,‘,...»...;,.l.. ,. . _ . . ,_¢......-a; _. ‘ “ ngy-—-' 5s‘: *9 '. ‘marriage? Is it not the’ mother of harlots? : , selves are not the mothers of harlots. \ J unel2', 1875. WGQDHULL & OL,AFLIN’3 _WEEKLY. ‘ 5 and fornfal only. Legal marriage has another condemnation that is kept carefully concealed from the world. Though known and mourned by thousands, it is scarcely acknowl- edged to have existence by anybody. But we charge it home upon those who hold that marriage is the only con- dition of purity, that they who marry in perfect health and vigor, and live wholly within themselves, 2'. 6., both the man and the woman, within ten years become sexually estranged, and devoid of attraction for each other. There maybe exceptions- to this rule, but we have found none, and such as are, or may be held to be exceptions, if the truth were known, would not be exceptions. So the fact is, that the ‘very power upon which marriages are founded is destroyed by the present system in a half score of years. Consider this, and then let it be said, if it can, that a practice that leads to such results is perfect purity! I CONDEMNATION 0E MODERN CHRISTIANITY. When Jesus said that the publicans and harlots would go into the kingdom ﬁrst, he knew what he was talking about. ~ It was true then and it is true now; is true because the king- dom of heaven being within men and women, they are near- er to its recognition than are those who are not yet freed from the bondage of the law. So also are they who are groaning to be delivered from that bondage nearer to the kingdom than are those who still yield blind obedience to the law, thinking that obedience is purity,whether it be sanctioned by the heart or not. Let purity be whatever it may, the road that leads to it has its beginning where the law is in full force, and it passes through freedom before it reaches the opposite terminus. There is ‘no salvation in law, for “law,” as St. Paul said to the Hebrews, “is a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things, and can never make the comers thereunto perfect;” also to the Romans, “ Ye are dead under the law ;” also, “ the let- ter” (the law in contradistin ction to the spirit) “killeth.” So, judged by their own judge, the bible, those Christians who hold to legal marriage where there is none of its essence—its spirit—present, are adulterers in the eyes of the inner law, for they are no longer pure, sexually, either in act or spirit. I ' THE DEVIL THAT SITTETEZ ON THE PEOPLES. Is not what Jesus showed to John when in spirit on the isle of Patmos, true, literally, that these per- sons represent “Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth,” since are they not and are not all the abominations of the earth the fruitsof legal Harlots them- “I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth on many waters.”—Revelations, xvii. 1. “The waters where the whore -sittethv are the peoples, and multitudes. and nations and t_ongues.”——Ibid.-, 15. Can language be used that would be plainer than this; and does not this language say, with- out‘ the possibility of misconception, that the great whore sitteth on the peoples, on the multitudes,—on the nations, V and on all tongues; and what thing sitteth upon the peoples as legal marriage sits, whether itbe monogamous or polyga- mous, in Christian, Pagan, or whatever other countries? “For all nations have drunk of the wine of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her.” And when the angel cries with a loud voice, as the angel of destruction to legal marriage is now crying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful —‘bird,” is it not natural that they who have ruled the earth through her, should “stand afar off and cry alas! alas!-. that great city” (city, in Scripture, always meaning woman), Babylon. that mighty city.” Indeed,,are we now in the seventeenth and eighteenth chapters of Revelations, and verging on “the marriage of the lamb,” the ultimate, the real, the only true marriage .where the holy city, the new Jerusalem, shall come _“ down from God, out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband,” as shown to John. “The kingdom of heaven is within you,” said Jesus. Put this and-that to- gether, and is it not easy to determine what all these mys- terious things contained in the Bible mean? ' PROPHECY AND EVOLUTION AGAIN. » The Biblical doctrine of purity corresponds precisely to. the doctrines of latest developments in social science. They both teach that the human form is the place where the kingdom of heaven is to be set up, and that this can never be done until a naturally pure condition is attained. Paul said, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God ?”-—temples not made by hands—~which, when constructed righteously, can never taste of death; and science teaches that the human body, -in its natural condition, being perfection in form and function, must be everlastingiwhen perfectly made and per- fectly maintained. As the fall of Babyloniwas the last of the destructions of the seven angels, seen by John, and as it imme- diately preceded in his prophetic vision the inaugu- ration of the new heaven and the new earth, so does the present social upheaval all over the world,indicate the end of the old dispensation and the: confusion and anar- chy that reign in all departments of life, especially in this country (being the signs alluded to ’byJesus), presage that “ the kingdom, of heaven is nigh and at our doors,” into which not every one that knocketh shall enter; but only such as do “ the will of my Father, which is in heaven ;” such as are “the sons of God,” and do not commit sin, be- cause their seed remaineth in them;” such as whose names are found written in the “Book of Life ;” and all these shall drink of the water of the river of life V and eat of the fruit of the tree of life, and never know hunger or thirst. (See last two chapters of Revelations.) , SALVATION OF THE BODY sAvEs THE soUL. But upon all those who remain in their adulteries when the light of truth shall shine upon them——upon all those men who continue to be impure, under the law or otherwise, holdingtheir wives in sexual obedience to themselves; upon all those women who, after the truth has been given to them, shall still permit God’s holy temple to be desecrated by legal or other adulteries——upon all these there shall come the judgments of God, and they shall have their part in the second death; for the ﬁre that shall -burn them-is even now lighted in the bodies of the larger part of_ the human family——the ﬁre of sexual disease—wliich is the hell-ﬁre and the ﬁre of brimstone of the bible. All transgressions of the world come by reason of the original sin which was a sexual sin; hence this sin is the father and the mother—t-he responsible, cause and be‘ginning—of all sin. To destroy this sin in hell, would be to wipe. away all other sin, since if it do not exist, none othercan exist; that is to say, if sexual purity have rule, those over whom it rules, who are its subjects——those whovhave been born of the spirit and become the sons of God——cannot do any wrongful acts, and their names are therefore written in the Book of Life. In this view of the condition of the people, sexual impu- rity is “the wide gate” and “the broad way” that leadeth to destruction (death), incwhich nearly all of the people of this earth walk; while sexual purity _is “the strait gate” and “the narrow way” leading to a life which but a . few ﬁnd, as Jesus said in the quotation at the head of this article. In conclusion, we commend the following for the faithful consideration of our readers, together with the 23d verse of the 2d chapter of St. Luke, as an incentive to search the Scriptures, for in them there is eternal life set forth, though yet a mystery to the world: “ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man deﬁle the tem- ple of God,»him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”——l CORINTHIANS, iii., 16 and 17. All of this relates to the mystery of Christ’s mission, as expressed byIPaul, Ephesians iii., 9, thus: , “To make all men see what 1S the fellowship of the mystery, which,_from the beginning of the world, hath been hid in God.” ' ' In view of all that can be gleaned from the Bible doctrine of salvation, without inquiring of its hidden mysteries at all, the conclusion is inevitable that it means being saved from the death of the body; it is to never taste of death. There- fore, all the teaching of latter-day Christians about saving the soul and letting the body take care of itself, is contrary to the teachings of Christ. In this again is the harmony be- tween revelation and'scientiﬁc demonstration, found to be perfect, because science teaches that to preserve the body with all its powers and functions, is to preserve life itself. «Q->——<-———-—-——o— A VVORD MORE. We do notiwish to be thought egotistical when we say that we think we have earned the right to be considered devotees to the truth as we see it. We have always said , that what we were doing from time to time was merely to prepare the way for the great and ﬁnal truth, never profess- ing that we were speaking or advocating the whole truth. But we do say now that we are preparing to lay the whole truth about the sexual question, which is the truth concealed within the Bible——the mystery of God from the beginning— before the world. We have been shown what this truth is, and also shown how clearly it is laid down in the Bible, and how readily it is seen and comprehended when the key to its mysteries is furnished. It is the truth by which the world is to be saved, and the only one by which it can be saved. It is the sum total of all things that have gone. before it in the world, and will stand when once revealed as long as the world shall stand. This truth cannot be born in a moment. It has been ‘conceived. It is being gestated. Finally it will be born. We are now endeavoring to lay the foundation for its acceptance when it shall come. ‘ Many of our readers know that we have been the faithful servants of the higher powers, whose mission it is to give this truth to the world; that in pursuit of this service ‘we have given all that we had to give, besides devoting all our talent and time to accomplish it. We have withheld nothing, and we shall not spare ourselves in any wayso long as we are required bythose whom we serve. For ourselves per- sonally, however, we do not ask anything; but we do ask those who have been reading the WEEKLY to remember that a certain sum of money is required every week to insure its issue, so that ‘through its columns we may communicate this truth to the public. We have on our list more than enough subscribers to sustain its publication, but when these permit their subscriptions to run, as many have, for three and six months past their time, we are compelled to look in other directions for support. This, while we are developing this sides, ounphysical condition prevents us fromqlecturing, which for two years has been our chief support in time of need. May. we not say to our readers that they cannot aﬁord to not support the WEEKLY, now,.by the prompt pay- ment of their subscription, which is all we ask. Remember that we have given and are giving our all to this work, ,while all we ask of you is a simple three dollars a year. new phase of the truth, is quite impossible for us to do; be- AN ETHICAL VIEW OF LEGAL PRACTICE. A more instructive lesson than the Beecher "scandal trial was never given in the legal world. More obscure points of law have been raised, discussed and ruled upon than in any case‘ that was ever tried. All of the good that legal tribunals can possibly effect for the people ‘has been fully and fairly demonstrated; and all the injustice that may be measured to those who seek redress at its hands has also been most forci- bly exempliﬁed. , No reasonable personcan have read care- fully the proceedings that have run through days into weeks and through weeks into months, without coming to the de- liberate conclusion that, let the verdict be what it may for Mr. Tilton——one of guilt or of acquittal—he will be the great loser in the case. The law and legal tribunals are instituted, ostensibly, to render justice to those who shall Invoke their judgments; not to measure it to or for those who do not seek their decisions. It presumes one innocent until _he is proven guilty affirma- tively: and also holds him harmless of whom damages are that, when any one is found guilty, in the first instance, when charged with crime, or to have damaged another, in the second instance, in a pecuniary sense, that such guilt and such damage is positive, is prima facia, whether committed, in either case, against a person of high or low estate, or of good or bad general repute. and administered by the courts. But how terri.bly is this theory perverted when reduced to practice; for the practice is, that, if a bad person ask redress for a grievance done him, whether he can get it or not depends upon himself, not upon the justice of the cause. This is strikingly illus- trated_by the trial in question. The whole force of the de- fense, both as to testimony and to argument, has been to prove that Mr. Tilton is a person of so badly damaged repu- tation that he_ has no right to have the damages that he asks; while Mr. Beecher’s immense reputation and services are held up as reasons for thehbelief that he cannot be guilty of the offenses charged, although there have been so manyiof his own writings exhibited that go to show strongly in favor of the plaintiff’s accusations. The position upon which the defense stands is, that a minister of the Christian Churchis less liable to err with women than other classesof men; but this position is negatived by thejfact that during the last twenty years more than seven hundred of this class of peo- -ple have been provenﬁguilty of adultery (to say nothing about a thousand others who have escaped suspicion)——a propor- tion vastly larger than attaches to any other single class of persons. Indeed, the very position of clergymen makesthem liable to this sort of offense; and they are,no better or no worse than other men under similar circumstances. It seems to be forgotten that there are anypther persons involved in this case who once had reputations. No man stood higher in public estimation than Theodore Tilton until this blight had entered. his household; while nothing is pretendedly advanced against Mr. and Mrs. Moulton, save their connections with this very scandal, with which the latter two became acquainted and interested quite as much for Mr. Beecher’s sake as for Mr. Tilton’s. Until there was a charge of adultery made against Mr. Beecher by Mr. Tilton, Tilton’s reputation and word was as good as Mr. Beecher’s; and certainly Mr. Moulton’s word was never called in question untilhis own foolishness to make the truth about Mr. Beecher a falsehood, not for his own sake at all, but for /Mr. Beecher’s and Mrs. Tilton’s, caused him to’ prevaricate, if not to lie, constructively, at least. So, at the time that the causes upon which this action was grounded had their origin, all the principals to it were upon an equal footing as to reputations for veracity. The word of either one of them would have been implicitly taken by any and all who knew them equally well. But the very devices that Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton have planned to protect Mr. Beecher from the public responsi- bilities of his actions, are now turned against them and made the chief instruments to break down their credibility; while forward by his lawyers to damage and blacken them. The law, which_was framed to give justice, permits these things; and the practice of the Court has made the trial one of Mr. Tilton’s reputation instead of Mr. ,Beecher’s adultery. Mr. Porter would make the jury believe him to he, does that establish the fact that he has not suﬂfered legal damages from Mr. Beecher? If Mr. Tilton had served a term in the Peni- tentiary for ah infamous crime, of which there was no doubt that he was guilty, would that lessen Mr. Beecher’s legal guilt, or Mr. Tilton’s rightful (according to law) damages? Not at all. Nevertheless, the whole conduct of this trial has been upon the theory that it would. Indeed, ithas been the only defense offered by Mr. Beecher, save his unsup- ported denials of three opposite witnesses. Mr. Beecher is held up by his lawyer as a Christian minister, who repre- time, they attempt to put aside one of the mostpositive things stated in the Bible, which declares thatby the mouth of two or three witnesses shall all things be established. Mr. the charges made by-Mr. Tilton. Mr. Beecher denies that. he ever made such confession, and that he ever committed I the acts upon which it is based. By Mr.‘ Beécher’s book he i claimed until the damage is proven and estimated. And I _, We say that this is the theory upon which laws are made A all their actions in the cause of Mr. Beecher are brought. But, suppose that Mr. Tilton Is the infamouswretch that. sents the doctrines and character -of Christ; but, at the same ' Tilton, Mr. and&Mrs. Moulton, each and all testify positively ' that Mr. Beecher confessed to them, separately, the truth of ' o g \ WOODHULL a. CLAFL—IN’S WEEKLY. June 12, 1875. . is convicted, and his lawyers should not have the effrontery to stand before the bar of public justice and claim immunity for him on account of his character, and, at the same time, ignore the teachings upon which they base their arguments. Consistency is a jewel" in suits for adultery as well as in other causes; and for Christian ministers as well as for other people._ , ' " ' V » The practice of courts, therefore, byreason of the tests to which plaintiffs are subjected, tend to frighten away from their protection just that class of people who most need their aid; for when one has suﬁered a severe injury he hesitates to ask for legal redress, because he knows that his character will be overhauled from the cradle to the grave, and all its blemishes paraded to the jury to defeat legal justice in the caseion trial, and to the world to damage him in all the future, in his associations with it. The result of all this, practically, is that he who is not perfectly clean has no right to seek redressvthrough the law and courts for any ‘injury or damage suffered, while it is just the reverse that ought to be true, since it is the" weak and the unfortunate who need protection more than the strong and the great in the world’s esteem. Five months have been consumed in this trial, not to demonstrate whether Mr. Tilton has suﬁered legal damages at the hands of Mr. Beecher, bu-t whether his repu- tation entitles him to seek redress. This position may be denied, but it is the logical outcome of all that has been done in the conduct of the cause for the defendant. Mr. Tilton rested his case when he had offered aﬁirmative evi- dence suiﬁcient to establish the charges made. He did not I go, as he might have done, into an‘ overhauling of Mr. Beecher’s character and relations with any or all other women with whom rumor connects him. He separated all issues from his own, and presented that clearly and plainly He offered two witnesses to conﬁrm his own statement, whose reputations for veracityare as good as Mr. Beecher’s. Mr. Beecher denies. The question, and the only question is just this and not whether Mr. Tilton abused Mrs. Tilton or struck Bessie Turner, or visited Mrs. Woodhull, or was en deshabille with Miss Lovejoy, or in love with some or many other women than his legal property. In our own estima- tion there cannot possibly be a greater disgrace than a law that makes a woman of money value to a man; but so long as the law does so make her, we say let its practice be based upon that theory, and not permit the devil, concealed within the law, to be whipped over the back of a man’s reputation who has been legally damaged. In other words, if Mr. Beecher seduced Mrs. Tiltongthcn, in law, Mr. Tilton is as much entitled to recover as Mr. Beecher himself would be if it were his property, instead of another man’s that had been damaged. ' 0 A4 rva THE BROOKLYN BUSINESS. MUTUAL DECLARATIONS OF WAR. It is already evident that the scandal business in Brooklyn, instead of drawing to an end, as the conclusion of the present suit against Mr. Beecher approaches, has really only been begun by it, not merely as between the parties involved in this issue, but as between Mr. Beecher and other parties with whom he has been connected in various ways during his twenty-ﬁve and more years’ services in Plymouth Church. That there is a deadly feud existing between Mr. Beecher and Mr. Bowen is now evident if it were never so before. ‘ Mr. Bowen says that he was a member of Plymouth Church before Mr. Beecher came into it, and that he intends to re- ‘ ‘main a ‘member after Mr. Beecherhas left it. This can mean one thing only—-open war. Especially can there be ‘no other interpretation to this when Mr. Beecher accepts the ’ challenge and replies from the pulpit to this declaration of I‘ war, “That there" are members of the church who have re- mained so longer than they can be of any service to it,” and . whose room is better than their company, as he did on . Sunday last, with Mr. Bowen sitting in his usual place. This open deﬁance of Mr. Beecher has a peculiar signiﬁ- cance in view of the fact that the daily Times of Sunday morning contained a full-page interview with Mr. Henry E. Bowen, son of Henry C. Bowen, in which there were sundry recitals not at all creditable or complimentary to Mr. ‘ Beecher; indeed, which go far to prove that Mr. Beecher is almost anything but what he is being painted to be in the U Summing up ”, in. the present trial. From this interview we make the following pertinent extracts: Soon after my father had communicated to him certain damaging facts about Mr. Beecher, he discovered a change in Mr. Beecher’s conduct toward him, and my father soon found out that Mr. Beecher had been apprised of his (my father’s) knowledge concerning him, and from that moment Beecher had become my father’s enemy. It was enough for Beecher to know that my father was acquainted with facts damaging to his moral character as a minister of the Gospel. Ever since that time Mr. Beecher and a. certain set called his “bosom friends” turned their guns on my father, and have been ﬁr- ing at him continually. .1 know that my father knows very wellwhere he stands, and that he does not fear either Mr. Beecher or Plymouth Church. He will keep the peace as long asipossible, I think ;_ but if war is proclaimed either by Ply- mouth Church or Mr. Beecher, he is ready for it at the tap of the drum. I am perfectly satisﬁed that if my father should tell what he knows, that a good many persons and families, directly and indirectly, might suffer. On a Sabbath afternoon a well-known gentleman connected with Plymouth Church called on him at hishouse. VVhen the doors were closed he made a. most solemn and urgent appeal to him to “come out for Mr. Beecher.” He said: “If you will do that, Mr. Bowen, all Plymouth Church will throw their arms about you, and you will at once be recognized as one of the greatest men in the country.” My father coolly and ﬁrmly told that gentleman that his only reply to his ap- . peat was that there were not men enough, nor inﬂuence enough, nor money enough either, in Plymouth Church or Christendom, to induce him to come out for anything but the truth. _ . My father has a letter from one of the most prominent men in Plymouth Church urging him to commit what might be called perjury in regard to the interpretation of the Wood- stock letter. He wanted him to lie about it in a. card which he desired father to publish, asserting that the letter referred only to a “business difﬁculty with Mr. Beecher.” My father promptly said, “ N 0, sir; you will get from me only the truth when I speak about that or any other matter.” I Beecher swears that my father handed him the letter from Tilton demanding that he should leave Brooklyn. Béecher, however, denounced Tilton bitterly, and asked my father to be his friend, and that if so he said he was all right. Mr. Beecher thought he induced my father to discharge Tilton, and yet in less than two days he retracted his charges against Tilton by letter, was hobnobbing at Moultonls, and joined with him (Tilton) in denouncing my father. Beecher wanted my fat_her’s help against Tilton, andiwas glad to hear that he felt friendly, and yet he soon ‘ after printed a card in the Brooklyn Eagle, which was interpreted by every one to mean that my father was, and that Mr. Tilton was not, the author of the scandal. He also stood up in Plymouth Church pro- claiming to the world that Tilton had never slandered him. Where was the treachery, sir? I tell you, sir, if Beecher is not a treacherous man such men are scarce. When Tilton, with Oliver Johnson, called at my father’s on Christmas Day, Tilton, among other things, charged Beech- or with having had criminal intercourse with his wife. This was in 1871._ . My father had business troubles with Mr. Beecher who men that my father owed him mono .7’ =z< =:= >z< ‘ t . was arbitrated by Mr. Charles Gr0l11d,y and “ Mr. Goilillgbﬁligthf in a. verdict in writing that Mr. Beecher should pay my fa- tqer $1,000, and he paid it. * * * My father keeps pa- pers (as the Court and lawyers found out several Weeks a fraud he has Mr. Gou1d’s written award and all the papers he case.’ ' /I 7 MOULTON AND BEECHER, If anybody thinks there can be peace in Plymouth Church with such sentiments and feelings as are indicated by all this, he will surely ﬁnd himself in error. But this is not all that threatens. _Pei‘haps Mr. Beecher’s friends think they can browbeat Mig. Bowen, and that because an open rupture would probablyginvolve a member of Mr. Bowen's family besides himself, he will not dare to, or at least that he will not make war. But if all this should be really so, which it is not by any means certain, or even probable that it will be, there is another and more deadly feud from which the volcano will certainly burst. Mr. Beecher’s counsel have endeavored to smirch Mrs. Moulton in every possible way, to weaken herlvery damaging evidence against Mr. Beecher. Mr. Moulton will never forgive him for this; and if he could for this, he never would for the inference Mr. Beecher him- self gave to the world in his testimony, when he said that he refrained from returning Mrs. Moulton’s kiss, to which she testiﬁed when he had prompted his lawyer to ask her the question that called for it. There could be but one general meaning that he intended should be drawn from his evi- ‘deuce, and that is, that he was afraid to return her salutation lest he should be enticed thereby, which meant that the kiss itself wasgiven by her as an enticing kiss, and intended to have that eﬁect; or else that his, given to her, would have been so to her; and that she would have been enticed there- by. The whole world puts one or the other of these inter- pretations upon that testimony, and Mr. Beecher intended that it should. Mr. Moulton will never rest until this im- putation is wiped away. Is it asked what can he do? There are several things that he may do; but knowing the case as we do, we believe that Mr. Moulton, knowing that the bottom. facts have not been brought to the surface in this trial, will ﬁrst insist upon his own trial upon the criminal indictment for libel. We should not be surprised if he should demand a trial before the verdict is in in the present cause. Mr. Beecher would be compelled to accommodate him, or else be open to the ‘damaging inference that he does not dare to meet him on this issue, where the rules of evidence will be opened so much wider than they have been in" this case, in which Mrs. Tilton and all those to whom she confessed her intimacy with Mr. Beecher were excluded because Mrs. Tilton is the wife of‘ the plaintiﬁ. . In this dilemma Mr. Beecher would be compelled to use Mrs. Tilton, which he refused to do in this ‘case, and her evidence would be confronted by at least a dozen reputable witnesses, to whom she never made any secret of her relations with Mr. Beecher. THE FIRST BUMBLINGS on‘ THE COMING VOLCANO. If ‘A t should turn out that Mr Beecher escapes from the present-suit with a verdict in his favor, or even upon a dis- agreement, what hope would he have in a criminal suit for libel against Mr. Moulton, with such evidence as this against him? ' Mr. Moulton may make no such movement as this, but we confess to astonishment that it has not already been made. In any event, however, let it be understood that we believe, and so declare, that the social volcano which slept under in the distance when the present suit shall have closed. Mr. Evarts is right when~»he»says_ that this attack upon Mr. Beecher was an attack upon Christianity and the present social order of society; but he was wrong inattributing that wise motive to Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton. which this is the collision of the skirmish lines only, these two shams will go down and be forever buried in oblivion among the things that served their purposes and then fell. I L_:1n 4 7“, ‘YVW “N ESI‘-HIDINtE}” is not original with Reverend Henry Ward Beecher. Natural history tells u of a bird of gush called the cuckoo, which ﬁnds the nests of other birds, fattens on their eggs, then leaves her own eggs in the other bird’s nest for the other bird“'to hatch. 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ASSOCIATION or SPIRITUALISTS will hold their Fourth Annual Convention in Grow’s Opera Hall 517’ West Madison street, Chicz.-=.go, .ll., commencing on Fri- day, June 11, 1875, and continuing over Sunday, June 13: The Convention will be called to order at 10 o’clock A. M. on Friday. 0. J. HOWARD, M.D., President. E. D. Wilson, Secretary. Ei§Send Austin Kent one dollar for his book and pam- phlets on Free Love and Marriage. He has been sixteen years physically helpless, conﬁned to his bed and chair, is poor and needs the money. You may be even more bene- ' ted by reading one of the boldest, deepest, strongest, clear- est and most logical writers. this subject till you haveread Mr. Kent. You who are able . add another dollar or more as charity. His address, AUSTIN I<ZEN'r, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44 DR... R. P. FELLOWS—This distinguished magnetic phys'i- ~ cian stands to-day one of the most successful spiritual physi- cians of the age. He is now treating the sick by his Magne- tized Powder in every State of the Union, and in the British Provinces, with a success which is truly remarkable. T. Blair, ‘Woodstock, Ill., writes: “After being bed-ridden, I am now up and around, and can eat and sleep better than I have for years.” M. Heasley, Vifheeling, W. Va), writes: “I can now hear the clock tick distinctly without using the ear- trumpet'——the first time for years.” M. A. Charlton, Alle- gheny, Pa., writes: “ My Bronchitis and Catarrh diﬁeulty is entirely relieved.” L. B. Chandler, No. 1 Grant Place, Washington, D. C., writes: “For twenty years past I have tested the skill of some of the most eminent physicians, and unhesitatingly aﬁirm that DR. FELLows is one of the best.” Thé Doctor is permanently located in Vineland, N. J ., where the Powder can be had at $1 per box. 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The hours’ time consumed * _ . _ by travelers by other routes to Chicago from the East 01 West in transferring from depot to depot; is saved - , , by passengers by this route to get their meals—ari advantage over all other routes which deservedly makes DRAﬂ[A- ITS PERSON4E- it the most popular and the best patronized line 01 travel across the Continent. , _ _ _ Rev. H. W. Beecher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'I‘heodore Tilton. THROUGH TICKETS to all important towns, aiil general information may be obtained at the Company’5 DQ300115 05 P1Y111011t11 Ch11F011- -" - - - - » . -.13‘. D. 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V . and Corﬂandt 5t,.eet,,,, as follows: \ -— - (1}’0,“1‘~‘011 - - - - - - - - - - - ‘ - ° - - - - -~ , ,, geillsotljl ~ - - - - - - - - “ - : Express for Harrisburg Pittsburgh the West and “NW” , ” 3~‘9"3St°“ - < - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ - ~ ‘ '- - - 3' V95 .011 - - - - - - - - - ~ - - - 1 -_0 -- -v 71* , ' South, with Pullman Palace Cars att h d 9:90 A M . — Arliisinarelz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.00 P. M. Ar Bismarck....... . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 P. M. SAX THE ‘WOMEN AND CHILDREN 5aiid 8:30 _P. M. Sunday, 5 and8:30 M.’ U ’ I " “ §_)‘<_>llimbiis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 A. M. . . . . “ Columbus . . . . . . . .. . . . . 6.30 “ .. .. THE SICI{ AND INFIRDII F0r,Bi‘~151m01‘9s Vrashiﬂgmn and the South, Limited “ Lltilc Rock.‘ . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . ,. 7.30 P. M. , “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . Washington Express of Plillman_Parlor cars. daily, « Ar 11112-llngtoii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A. 111- Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . 7.00 P. 11. . _ . FROM ’ :§%c%t I-,b1um]1;§3.;.?3t 9’30 "f" M‘; arnve at Washington o.....in ................... .. 11.00 1». M. 3 83515 ................ .. 7.45 1. n. EXPOSURE AND DISOOMFORZ. ya, 9-,. 3,, ‘am at 8-40 A- M-» 3 and 9 P- 31- bun- “ " . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . - - . 5 ~’ ' : . . .1 ........................ .. : ~ 0.31:??? ............ .. In M Abolish that in the back yard. by . W. A~ M-1 mo: 3’ “ S-5.11 "Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . .... “ San Francisco. . . . . .. . 8.30 “ . . .. ‘, using the 8’.3:49'g)I;(§)’971’)8i(‘i0’ 9%J,',]I;’{g‘IZa3;11%da%§1';:egct(1)‘I3id cS1’§é1sd§,yi,59ﬁ7» *3’ l‘:;*.“.‘%“§‘~.i‘;"‘.‘°.*‘°’.‘.'.'.'.'.::::::::::::: .1-12 ‘iv :12: A5 3.‘li.‘i’i‘2.‘;’.*‘?’.'.'.'::::.f:': :::: 3:22 "Is “' ::i: ‘ii'M'R@N$ EARTH GLQSETZ §§‘.§%"§.§5 ‘I‘;.?.‘2; 10% 'f.‘.%‘2; 2» §:.;.?:;.145"*-,1“,,-':,},é “ Sr. J0'-‘~el>h ---------------- -. 10-00 “ -- “ 5% J05eP1‘------ ------- -. 8.10 A. M. . . _ — :— . 6:30, ’7, ’7:é0, ’a:i0, ’10,'11’:30 Pi if ’an’a ’12‘n{oh’t ’s{mZ "‘ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.40 P. M. “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.25 “ . 1,. .. /, " day, 5:20, 7 and 8:10 P. M. , D ' “ Atcliison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. l1.00 “ “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ . . 1' ‘ For Elizabeth, 6 6:30 7:20 7 40 3 9 10A M 12 ‘° Le:-weii.worth.. .......... .. 12.10 “ " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon. ' M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 93:40. 4:10, 430 4’ 5E) ’5;20 '5-40’ 5 “ Deliver. .. ............... .. 7.00 A. 11. “ Denver.. .......... .. - 6:10, 6:30, ’7,’7:30,8:10,10, 11:30 P’ Mﬁand 12 night.’ = . Sunday, 5:20, 7 and 8:10 P. M. ' For Rahway, 6. 6:30, 7:20, 8, 10 A M , 12M. 1 2 . . 2:30,3:1’l,3:40,4:10, 4:30, 4:50, 5:20 5:4o,6,6:i0,6:’30’,7’ 3 _., 1 . _ 1 0. : 8:10,10.l’. iiuana 12 llighio sund’a.y, 5 20 and 7 P ’ Triroiigii Sleeping Car Arrangements 6 ,,Ii;,<g,1',i;,Vgo«i,;,1dge,,§’:r.tg5x;s,§r(1,b,;)>1x,. ggd south Amboy. . . . . , » For New Bl'.l,l11S\Vl,Cl{. 7:20 and AIM. 12 M. 2 3'10 0.1? A. I.i.—Day Express irom Jersey City (daily except Sunday), ith Pullmai1’s Drawing—Room Ca s ., .. -. ’ . - ’ ' ’ v and chiiiizictiiig at Suspension Bridge with_Pulln1s_.n’s Palace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. in ~ - 5'20’ 6'10’ 7 P’ M" and 12 mg n Sunday’ 7 the following in time to take the morning trains from there. . ' '(’ ‘"1 . __ For East Millstone 12 noon 3:10 and 4.301) M ”‘ 20 T‘. M. ——Night Express from Jersey City (daily) with Pl11lD’.‘.&I1’S Palace Sleeping Cars runs tli h t 5 . For Lambertville 21’ (1 Fl " t , 9:30.A. M. I ‘ ’ ’ Cb’icn;;-.i without_ change, arr_ivlng_ there at 8.00 a. m.’, giving passengers ample time bier breakfast 2I>.’i)i%._gtak€ The C1§;Ep;3§;6re?y?eC}1t]!3eE_3A1:.!Cl§l1%leclatgtﬁtanaafgSimplest P‘ . . D erflmg on , and : tie morning trains to all points West, Northwest and Southwest. I P Handsome’ Durable, odorless? - RI‘ Ph1l11P5b.111’g and Belvldere, 9:30 A- M» 2 and ’ ‘ _ 2 Send for a circulIi:r'1::,tl?t:6 to $25‘ '9:;:§00lr&.Bl\<.;1I.’f1§1321:t:30(;7,v f%tii)d1’7a1I’1fil\([jamden’ 7:20 and CONNECTIONS or ERlE RAILWAY WITH MAIN Liiﬂis AND BRANCHES or W‘”‘EF I§I1‘):;Y §11§g}'§‘1§1N0$0SE'5' 90-: £3; t’§;i.:’§3,3}§a§.f%3a §‘4:.§Zi‘“é’ :2’011’i.P li1’.’I.ina 2 P M / " , - - For Hightstown, Peinbertoifand Camden, via Perth = 2 ‘ ' ”"*“* A b 2:°0 P. M. F H‘ ht t :— . . liiichigaii Central & Great W esterii Railways. 1-H E ggmmg N EST 61‘ ° - . °” ‘g 8 °‘”“ *“‘”“m”?"°“’ ~ I r , ‘ l _ ~ Ticket oiiices 526 and 944 Broadway 1 Astor House, : _ . At st. Catliarines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. _ Is published monthly }Jythe'FRIENDsHIP COMMUNITY, and foot 01" l§esb}'0Bses anc1C9rtl-andt’et,reets; 4 Court , " _ ‘At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. of Dallas County, Missouri, and devoted to Liberal §7(§%‘:)tI‘:£]3l"°°'I;:1I31§‘gir:11l’11é1 é(1::»e,1,1gﬁ§‘é1;1 (1_31§aIt{t11d5(i)11l Street. Z At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. Communism and Social Refbrm.’ Fifty CONS 3 Yealﬁ FiiANK’TnoMPsoN, D. ’M. 30%)’: J1-flee. _ ’ At Pam,’ with G, W, branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk Railway, Specimen copies sent free. More members wanted. , General Manager. General Passenger Ag’t. " 6 Alt Longoii, with bfranchgor Petrglia aiid garnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an Address ALCANDER L0NGLEY{ R0090 39, 203 N. Third . aily inc 0 steamers rom t ere to eve an . . st., St. Louis, Mo. ’ . _ . At Detroit, with Detroit 85 Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De H O R) _ , troit, Lansing 335 Lake Michigan R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit & Bay City R. R. A Q feat Q - -t ‘ "" ‘ , ‘ . Branch 1.51:5 s. 85 M. s. R. R. to Toledo. . U “O35 y. _ _ » 4 I r1 . 1 , i 5‘ At Wayne, with Flint ob Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc. ' ‘ 5 1At1’psi1f»iit%3vsl;¥hDﬁatr;>it, gillsdale <93Ii31e1>li_River1,1%- R8. for Manchester, Hi11sda1e,Banker’s, Waterloo THE PENDULUM ORACLE. Answers any <iues- A WIDE AWAKE SPIRITUALISTIC 8‘ 7 “o uin’0‘a"l y, . 'anc es er eiiver an ianapo is. , . _ A ‘ , ~ , U At JLac\hsol_i, with Grand River Valley Branch, for Eaton Rapids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncia, P6113’ E>11’o'I’Ei.13€(3)r:1e(<:3’t1y ggd Zizrjtle. 8 Thedmolﬁt’ amusing tying ~ SOCIAL REFORM JOURNAL’ { water, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three Rivers and Cassopolis. . g ' py ° 1 5 cure ' “Ce 50 Cents: by ' ___ Also with Jack, Lansing 85 Saginaw Branch. for Lansing Owosso, Saginaw, Wenona,_Standish,,Cz'awford mall 50 °ent5- 13- DOUELEDAY. 584 Sixth ave., —,= and intermediate stations. Also with Fort Wayne, J ack Saginaw R. R. for J onesville, Waterloo, Fort New York. . ‘ Prominent among the Reforms advocatedin HULL’S 1, . ~ . Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cin. R. R. to Cincinnati. V . CRUCIBLE are the following: , ll‘; At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. ‘R. . ". " 6' _ .’ _ Tm; “ LADIE-3’ GARMENT gm. 1. Reform in Relivion, such as shall do away with " A Kalamazoo with South Haven Branch, to G. Junction South Haven etc. Also with G. Ra ids &I .3 ’- ' PENDER ” is a simple ingenious ' f .. 5’ ' . R R. 1‘ or Clam Lalzze and intermediate stations. Also with Branch of L. S. :96 M. R. R. P n ' admirable contrivance for supporting n:,ag1IgnoEBthe0utWa’a forms .and restore the power of ~ At Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw. ’ ' : :1Vé;l;1eI1‘ 5 garments (]))verDtheir shoul- g 2 Ref ' . th G A’: Niles’ with South Bend Branch‘ . I ‘take pleasure in Rrec<I>('r)nIi:G:ij:iSing away viiﬁllintllfe i"rinasecli<iol:::n aI.ii1:n:i,1oEii1(::11)1ol}ii:s 8111:1111 do At New 1311112110 with—Chicago ét Mich. Lake S. R. R. for St. Joseph Holland Muskegon Pentwat a th ‘ L 1 1 ~ N ’ . "1: : °.’ * . an mtermedmte Smt’iOnS_ — ’ ’ ’ “9 an asea véﬁﬁgﬁegggmﬁg all matters concerning the gﬁvernment of the People . _ . "At Michigan City, with Indianapolis, Pezira miiceg nn. Also with Louisville, New Albanya 0111- and it We“ deserves the careful con: “‘t°"h° h”“‘1S°f the1’e°P1"' * cage R. R. - P t A n ° sideration of every lady. ~ 3. Reforms , regulating the relation of capital and ._§:_— ‘ , — At Lake. with Joﬁet Branch to -Janet. lg.-1$:;%1€:l7:!3-W is using one W]i)ti1t1. L. W AIflNER. lzéilbrﬁélsliﬁpllé (agngillioaill sgzurtc Ito labor, the producer of ’ ' _ , _ _ ’ . .11 . n ‘ , ‘ ¢ , 1 b . At Chicago, with all railroads diverging” . satisfaction, b Erea C(;ﬁ’};?_Ni;\€r’_nd ea4§.h]:(;iE10I£'H1:;‘fC(i§',‘l£§%§giEK’%ﬁ1EeIéCl{E18115 of the seézes to _ ﬂ._ . - . I have examined the “LAI>iiz:s’ (‘A Y S - ' 9 A . We ,0 W91‘? 1119111 81‘ of _ f ’ Q ' V1f:(]‘:i3}£%1BLEhDS‘[i.§3i(gl.(I)1‘;}lz:l‘13?:2T'i7-.§Dr' J'tP' M1119?» 3 FENDER,” and take pleasure in cOn1m€I]ld?I]l:'Ei}i;’1c:tB “SS1 eaﬁch 593'‘ thf’ eI}t1m. CODHO1 Of the“: own P913011. and 3 f . - - . P -g P y ‘ Dulce 5. met’ Phil?” adapted to promote the health and comfort of women. Place pmSt,mm0n’ In 0.1’ out of m".”“3gea 1°01" 11101193’ 01' , > _ ‘ v _ del hia, has discovered that the extract of cranberries A O,LEAPY M D any other cause, out of the question. , Cured Vvlthout tne Knlfe O10 pa1n_ an hernp combined cures headache, either bilious, ,, « ,, _' _ ” ’ " ' Any thought calculated to beneﬁt humanity - A ‘§""i’ti 9; 20-K heir*°ha-mirilgia and ..i.:l2.r£<..:“:. 1mr°VeW of or any . v ' ' - -rvousnes . isl a riump inme lea ' t 1‘ - '13‘ , '11 ﬁ d - , 3 aiidl sugerers all ovter thieil co1l;iig(l);ry are ofdgigzgg Dn. .MARY SAFFORD BLAKE. ‘c’§f,§,‘;§‘,‘,‘?,?sHUV§;., C:,_,C,:L}’,f_C’rd1a1 Welcome 1“ the ' v _ , g . ~ inai . _ e prepares 1 in p ea cents a box. The _ -""'— . , ‘HULL’s CRUCIBLE joins h d 'th ll . f 3 A SPECIALTY FOR TWENTY YEARS» Doctlor is largelyknown and highly respected»-—Pltéza. Sample, by mail, 50 Cents and Stamp. reformers of whatever scliilol? “aiid siivelgogiiglss ﬁg; ’ For seven years Professor of Obstet ' s a d (Mp W Bulletin. 2’ ’ Best of Teﬂmto Oammmerg’ ggiﬁiiyhowever unpopular’ Caculated to beneﬁt hm ’ " . A - ’ .. ric 11 - . . . ~ : — - Diseases of Women in a New York Medical College. V JQHN D’ EIASCKELI-'91 60 STATE ‘STREET: , Those interested ni_a_ live,Re."ormatory Jouina are ' gg. ‘ PROF J M COMINS M D EIGAGO. I-In invited to hand in their subscriptions. M V _ V u 1 1 . ’ . ’ ' x ' 9 iv ,.~ I v ,,_-n _ ‘_. _. , __ ' TERMS ;— . use Iieaumgton. Aeemte. " - V -5 7’ "' 1 . , . 1' ' NE W X,ORK ‘ PYEDEET bP£I°liﬂ$§Eg? One subscription, 52 numbers . . . . . . . . . .. 332 50 ' ' ' — re s orcar s a e s, , . ’ . H H - . ' ;—I , . Pffﬁg 91-,0, Eﬁgergiggﬁ £o,1;,.I,%:;evV%1i§(: Psyclzoinctiist and Claiirvoyanl, “ “ “’ £1‘ :2 . . V n. 3,. I, 4 , I 5 . H - us1n_e‘s on o elrprin ing an WILL GI - - ~ - - ~ -- ;-» - "- ‘ P S E 6,} U E R Y” ' » \ _ advertising, savemoney and increase , VE : A few gglect advprtisem, _t .H ,4 _,ﬁ_ 4 ,1 - _ A _ ‘ _ _ ‘ \ trade. AinateurPi-intingydelight Diagnosis of disesise for . . . . . 00. . by letter $1 50 .,. ,0. t 1 ‘ tr. -Wl ,c a«.-- .....v. _ (ll; na. » , H < Power l.:-ecu {given me go_ delineate character, to \ fulpastime for spare hours. BOYS Diarznosis and prescription for 1 .: “ I '-0 230 aha" 16’ em“ Anythlllg known ~- =. ~ . 1,.,mb£.g’ , ‘ Q ’ 5 S”BSf’;’vf Catt er’ $ “N”h$’Veg1teatfuS1a1ddtma1§em°neYfast Delineatimi of Character 1 00 “ E1 00 am‘ as reilfesented, Will not lw :1 ziiw is an \ ._uii., ' vi ’ ~'-‘ ' ' ‘-"Gan ' ’ ° .. . 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-06-12_10_02
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-06-12_10_02
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 03 (June 19, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2076
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-06-19
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: I BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. 4 PROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT x iUNTRA_MMELnD V01. IX.-—N’o. 3.+WL¢1e No. i S NEVVYORK, JUNE 19, 1875. ._A__.__' PRICE; run onn;rs;, ‘The truth shallmothe you free.—Je_sus. Inthe clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shall be ﬁnis/zed.—-Ste. John the Divine. - ‘ Whereof I was made Cl minister /to preach the un- searehcible richesof , Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been but in G00l.——Paul. ' RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY AND SOCIAL REFORM. Ar HOME, May, 30, 1875. Dear Weekly-—It seems‘ to me sometimes the most astonish- ingothing in the make-upof our common humanity, the ease and grace with which certain members of “ our best society” will admit the weakness and wickedness even of our social and religious_ status. and.then live and act in daily-life as though- present institutions andcustemsrwere infallible, the safest and best for human nature’s daily-food. I have been in conversation bef...
Show moreI BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. 4 PROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT x iUNTRA_MMELnD V01. IX.-—N’o. 3.+WL¢1e No. i S NEVVYORK, JUNE 19, 1875. ._A__.__' PRICE; run onn;rs;, ‘The truth shallmothe you free.—Je_sus. Inthe clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shall be ﬁnis/zed.—-Ste. John the Divine. - ‘ Whereof I was made Cl minister /to preach the un- searehcible richesof , Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been but in G00l.——Paul. ' RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY AND SOCIAL REFORM. Ar HOME, May, 30, 1875. Dear Weekly-—It seems‘ to me sometimes the most astonish- ingothing in the make-upof our common humanity, the ease and grace with which certain members of “ our best society” will admit the weakness and wickedness even of our social and religious_ status. and.then live and act in daily-life as though- present institutions andcustemsrwere infallible, the safest and best for human nature’s daily-food. I have been in conversation before now with professing Christians of both sexes on the social question, and in no in- stance have Ifound, them even, slow to admit the unhealthy condition of, the moral. and. social atmosphere of to-day, and. the powerlessness of the Church, as a popularized organiza- tion to mend thepmatter. ’ Hold a..conﬁd_ential argument with any church-member of more than common intelligence, and possessed of as much honesty, of thought and expression as can be expected of’ a creed-bound soul,‘ and it does not matter; how strongly you put ideas and..facts—as to results» of the social and religious scheme, they seldom fail to concede allthat the -boldest free- thinker, free-lover, inﬁdel, atheist or what-not has dared to. think upon the subjects; showing that ev.en the sacred pale of,Mother Church does not keep her children’s eyes closed to; a certain claissaof glaring facts in our presentcivilization; and; thatall the Church’s canons, and anathemas, and excommu- nications will not serve in these" free timesgto keep back the impulse to express free thought. . ‘ o However, they still stick in their outward allegiance to the- infallibility of the Church. and to the immaculateness of social rule, thou ' h admitting thatthe Church andMrs. Grundy are, and ever: ave been, . the rankest. enemies of radical reform. hoiwevef. they fxnay pwheelinto line after great: revolutions have decided vital issues, and shout with the 1,0.udest—-“ See! _ behold what God has ‘donefor His people !” ~ I am, led to these, reflections by a conversation I held a few‘ days since with a. dear oldlady whom-I metgup the Ohio riv- er. I was ushered: intoher room to wait for myvown to be got ready for me—-because the parlor was occupied by a_ couple those itinerant and interesting studies of human nature and soeialpurity, commercial travelers. The moment I entered the “ dear old lady’s” presence I scented an atmosphere of purityandreﬁnement, also of great religious rigidity-,xwhich, however, did not scare 011’ my in-' stincts from coming into rapport with the innateharmony of the,old1.ady’s nature. Evidence of religious bigotry cannot prevent;n1e»from sipping delicious draughts from a congenial cup when the gods offer it. A ' My “ dear, old lady”'I at once knew was not of the com- mon stcck; shedidn’t act as though her virtue were in dan- ger of contagion from a “ strange woman,” but she entered into. easy converse; and I was not long in learning that she had not fed all her life on gallvand Wormwood, or traveled up and downthe world in the bonds of iniquity. She was, in short, growing old gracefully. ' In the course of our talk togetherwe soon get into the deep waters of the Beecher scandal. I foundher sweet soul full of that charity whichlis greater than faith or hope, which ever puts itself in another’s place before it passes judgment. ‘I Sheadmitted the evidence of Mr. Beecher’s guilt, and she "also admitted that it is possible he may justify himself to him- self? in.the;f'ull fear of God, save and except in the manner of his defense, in view of his having done that wherewith he‘is_ charged. ' » - A “ _ She thought if Mr. Beecher held ideas to justify his course as charged, and of the truth-of which charge she has no doubt fromthe-evidence, shewould have honored him for bravely maintaining these ideas; whereas she can feel nothing but tify himselfto his own conscience in the presence of his God, in all save his most -lamentable denial of principle; and that his higher conscience will yetso prick and sting him for his course, that, no matter how he may become exalted through a verdict of acquittal which is highly probable now, he will yet put himself in the dust of humiliation before his out- raged soul and? confess the truth, and so redeem his tarnished honor, and be ﬁtted, by a ﬁery ordeal in the ﬂame of worldly scorn,—to becomethe apostle of the great truth which his in- ner life has proven. ’ A Suchis the dream of the indestructible grandeurof that man’s nature. But I am told he is not made of any such stuff, that even as Theodore Tilton has sunk out of sight in the depths and ﬁlthiness of worldliness, even so will the “great “preacher” sink. Yet my dear old lady “ hoped he might be brought unto such a stateof grace” as I dreamed for him. From Beecher there was not a. step to the social evil. And .1. found even I had not dared to think more radically on the subject‘ than that pious old lady. Ivfound-that all her faith and hope for the race turn upon the pivotal idea of'woman’s complete sexual emancipation. She has come to the conclu- sion that nothing less than that will redeem the World from the present abandonment to sexual sin; that no twisting of that old Bible text——“-wives submit yourselves, etc”—is going tolserve, but only -a complete revolution of its meaning and intentwill serve to send the scale of manhood and woman- hood? to a just‘ balance ultimately. And when I said to her that it does not matter how that ‘ grand-result is to be achieved, whether it bring anarphy for a time, free-love, promiscuity, polygamy or whatever other so- called evil thing, and she did not demur, Ithcught the climax reached. Yet I fear that even she, divested of hermomentary enthu- siasm, and with her Church weighed in the balance and found Wanting, would look back upon Sodom. I ﬁnd plenty of souls ready to admit these truths, and even to advise me to run the race tor the martyr’s crown, who, when the time comes to choose betweenme, my cause, and their social and religious status, would denounce me in synagogue, deny me more times than Peter did his Master; for they cannot bear the warfare with the Church—not with religion, by any means, ‘but the corrupt and offensive Church, that in its prosperity waxes full of all manner of uncleanness. lWithout an effort that old lady admitted that the Church is bound to be the greatest enemy that this‘ cause of i'voman’s sexual emancipation willhave to encounter. She was con- sistent enough to know that there are no ﬂowery paths of dalliance toward the end, but that it is straight on through ﬁre and smoke, through ﬂood and fury to the triumph of the war; and if the’Church oppose. as oppose it will, the interests of the-race demand the subjugation of the Church. Yet in the dire press of such an alternative I think I saw ample-‘evidence that she would hold ‘fast to the Church, un- mindful that pure and undeﬁled religion can rise triumphant, like the phoenix from its ashes, over the ruin of every estab- lished church under the sun. The pure spirit of truereligion, the eternal spirit of truth, isriding on this storm whose mutterings are already heard; and it writes with lightning on the walls of all the godless Churches, given over to the worship of mammon, “ Mene, mene, tekel upharsinl” H Christ himself would choose the company of publicans and sinners again in preference to the “best society” of “His “church” to-day. In vain would the parsons and the deacons and the grimly virtuous sisters invite him to tea to help eat hot biscuits and fried chicken at eight 1?. M. in Mrs. Grundy’s drawing-room, with the linen covers all removed for the oc- casion to show him the ﬁne furniture. Even in the midst of the “grace before meat” the instinctive purity of Jesus of Nazareth would shrink as of old from the whited sepulchres; he would again have to admonish the Scribes and the Phari- sees and the hypocrites; after which he would go to the hum- iible cabin. of the Marys and the Marthas and spend a congenial ‘evening. _ My “ dear old lady” told me she thought I was called to the inevitable martyrdom of thiscause. But could I_ count upon even her support. in the midst of-the ﬂames? Alas! I fear not. To be called to martyrdom and not to be chosen is most un- fortunate; but to be vch_csen,,on,e must have the baptism of contempt-fora "course-in~ directfantagonism-to_ a pgingipie; :91- the—sakeof.'a:-temP‘l'ra1mess=«of‘pottage3" ” i “ ” "" ﬁre which has not yet wrapped in its sacred ﬂame the soul of; . e W HELEN Nssny ..a,(_...._ .........u.=: — T ‘;}¢.,'_.;.. <».“x:-<.-.496 I assured herthat I believe Henry Ward Beecher does jus- THE GREAT SOCIAL PROBLEM. ” Friends of the Weelcly—Will you acknowledge the receipt‘ of the money sent, in your list, as donated; by Iiibertyﬂircle No. 1-, Friends of Progress, andothers? I regretthezamounti was so small in comparison to your need; but. yet more, be.-. cause it indicates an ignorance of. and,indiﬂ’erence..to--the,sa-, cred cause of freedom among its professed adherents.-and,,, as; I know, intolerant and bigoted opposition to the WEEKLY and its proprietors. I am thankful, however, that a few on this coast appreciate the lofty purpose, unselﬁsh, endeavors and heroic struggles of a; trinity of souls, which deserve to be ranked with tl1e‘noblest'benefactors of “suffering humanity: at least as muchas it is possible" for any -one to appreciate Nor would such closer contact, involving, as it must,fa knowl- valuation of, and indebtedness for,.such,s_erv.ice .as,ma_ke sor- ~dinary efforts seem valueless. I If anything could dishearten me it would be the intolerance, malicious scheming: detrac- tion, and‘ the whole host of evil spirits that constitute the make-up of a large number, ifnotthe largest numbers, ofthe professed leaders and advocates” of liberal ideas. No‘ consid- erable advance will be made until itis clearly seen, as it even- tuallymust be, thatthe spirit which prompts any one to desire. the exclusive use-of the special functions of--.another:is.iden- ‘appropriation of all natural. and created wealth.. I I-know, that Victoria, like many, probably. a majority, of free lovers, advances the idea that V monogamyis thehighest, form of sexual combination. I assert there is not a known» fact from which a valid argument can be drawn for such a claim. The monogamic relation is as low and immoral state, such as a philosopher would naturallyipredicate of a race just ‘emerging 'from”brutehood. When men-and women become sweet and pure—-human--they willabhor-the thought of an exclusive. attachment, if, indeed, they wiil not then be una- ble to conceive of its beingpossible, rightly regarding itasian old diabolism, the necessary product: otgross unspiritual con- merce of .men and women. The non-exclusive free lover, governed by principle, is as far above the exclusive one as is he whose soul goes out to all souls freighted with Sympathy anda blessings beyond him whose love is conﬁned‘ to the atomic spacefcalled home. A fewimight be trusted with such liberty but the rest would abuse itlt Ah!‘ [- see. ~ You think the liberty-of, the-crest should ‘be intrust.ed~t0- you for safe keeping. So has authority in all time. justiﬁed; thevusurpa- tions of rulers. Such is the claim under which. kings, priests, aristocrats and democrats have attackedthe liberties Iofunan. It is this idea that founded the inquisitiompburned heretics, laid waste populous lands by ﬁre and sword. This has been the watchword of all who have done iniquity in the name of their god. There are yet those who believe each is the ligst guardian of his own happiness. But mankind is not pre- pared for such amovementl When has man been prepared for any advance other than by-the conception of : an idea, yet not knowing how to apply it until taught by repeated failures and at the cost or human life? Theboy does not learn to ‘swim until feeling desire he attempts the feat while yet unable to accomplish it. And boys get drowned now as they did ten thousand years ago. Shall all boys, therefore, be forbid the water until they canswirm? Whenever any -one accepts an idea, he is prepared to attempt its execution. All right prac- tice is the result of wrong practice. How else have- civilized; nations reached their present status? The bird willnot leave. its nest until ﬂedged; neither will mankind permit them- selves freedom beyond their capacity to enj oy.. V I Ours is the exalted function, not devoid of pleasure, to teach by precept and example to what divine excellence. all can ascend by forever striving to use all their faculties in the best way that their existing limitations will permit. To-day we gratulate the birth and life of the father of his country, but is this just to his compatriots? '1‘hisicountrywas not the product of an exclusive begetti-ng.’ Itwas a. free love child. Thisfalse and unjust distinction in easures. the status of the nation. Wegawards the highest honor to. theimilitary chief- tain, while by our ethics he is least entitled. to it among lead- ers. ' V ‘ J osnrn H. SWAIN. San Fmncisco, Cal, 1875. ‘ l : ‘ . ' I "I ._ ..__.:_...«__ ,;j4.....,-,_;_,.«.=~~»—«---3-,-v-~——_ _;~q=‘«:'\'v.—;’I1‘.'¢‘—".,:.-—_;T;-‘>~..:.‘..‘au'.3"‘-' " '- those with whose daily lifehe iswnot. personally fam-iliaivr. ~ edge of their necessary limitations as mortals, .lessentheirg tical with the selﬁshness which ' isthe rootof‘ all-the. unjust. ditions. ‘Promiscuity! Well, we must, wait_wit_h patience, until you have grown-' both moraland intelligent‘-enough.to I distinguishpbetween promiscuity and non,-exclusive com-. H We have often said in these columns. and oftener upon ‘ ¢ 2 l - WIOODHULL & CL.AFLIN’S WVEEKLY. _~‘ ‘June 19, 1875. the rostrum, that there is an honest difference of opinion among those who favor freedom for the affections in regard to what direction the results of freedom would take. Some hold that »it would lead to the obliteration of ‘all special at- tachments between the sexes; others, that it would tend to the establishment of selected variety, and others still, that exclusive attachments, such as are attempted by law now, would be the ultimate. But all of this is but a difference of opinion. whichever prevail as a result of freedom, it would be a natural and consequently a'right result. There are strong arguments to be madefor each of these positions; but which one can be said to have the balance in favor of it will probably never be decided,’ absolutely, until decided by ex- perience. In the meantime, if freedom were the rule, there would be representatives of each of the positions, and each of these parties would be living their highest ideal of the sexual relations. As people, being free to choose the food they eat, naturally choose that which contributes most to their health,:abjuring those things that they learn by expe- rience areharmful, so would people naturally adopt the sexual relations that by experience they should be taught were most beneﬁcial to their health and happiness. ' A cardinal fact in these relations, now almost wholly ignored by the people, and altogether by the law, is, that relations that are not conducive to health, cannot promote either the happiness or the welfare of individuals or the community constituted by them. Moreover, there is no doubt that dif- 'ferent people require diﬂerent relations. Some to whom promiscuousness brings death, would be beneﬁted by wise selection, while there are thousands, specially -women, actually dying, now, because they are restricted to commerce with their legal choice. The sexual relations should be governed by the law of their own existence——by attraction and adaptation. Where these do not exist, to maintain them _is to invite disease, suffering and, ultimately, death. Like St. Paul, we say: “Let every one be fully persuaded in his own mind,”“and then act accordingly. We are willing to rest under the criticism of Bro. Swain, whom we know to be an honest and earnest seeker after the truth, and a deer of it as he sees it when found ; and also under that of the sticklers for legal marriage, who have the form merely of that which we still believe will exist in spirit when per- fected men and women shall know the truth, and knowing it, be made free thereby. ' There is, however, this single point, which, perhaps, may be properly mentioned ‘here. There are two reasons that may be cited as leading to commerce—that which may be said to occur specially for reproduction (if this is possible at all, aside from all considerations of attraction and adapta- tion), and that arising from mutual love and desire, into which the consideration of children does not enter, except as apossible result. If it be admitted that commerce, in perfected conditions, will be for reproduction only, then se- lection for that purpose will be the rule,regardless alike of love as a. base or happiness as a result, and not utter indiscrimina- tion. But if the amount of happiness to be derived, or the amount of physical beneﬁt that is to follow, is a factor in the causes leading to it,then such commerce will occur as produces the most of these results. Here we arrive at the true point of decision, since it is true that the amount of happiness and health to the individual varies in his or her relations with different persons. Consequently, in selecting, those will be chosen by both sexes who contribute most to happiness and to health. There must, it seems to us, be preferences; and if there are preferences as between different individuals, then some one will be preferred above all others. This, it seems to us, is logical; and if it is logical, then monogamic attach- ments will be the logical result of freedom. Moreover, we do not believe there can be a perfect sexual blending, such as must come. to prepare the way for the resurrection, save between pairs of individuals who are perfectly adapted and magnetically related to each other. That is to say, there can be no more than one perfect negative to each positive, or vice versa. Those who think that the future of the sexual relations will be more exclusive do not take the spiritual side of the matter into the consideration at all, but look upon I it from a purely material standpoint. As God and Nature—w the positive and the negative of the universe—-are one, the two making and being one in all things——so do man and we‘- man, created in His image, make one for all the purposes of life. - ‘ -L —:_:_. I emrs FROM ronnrnn. N 0. II. WOMAN’S RIGHTS ANTICIPATED. “ The best nations—whether,in‘ the barbarian, civilized or savage conditions—are those in which women enjoy the most liberty.” Examples.—-The Otaheitans, occupying a. position midway between Eden and Savageism. ~ - - The Eden period is considered by Fourier a primeval con- dition, in which association, or rather, communism, was uni- versal though unsystematic. Of this condition he considers Otaheitans the nearest remaining exemplar, until they were corrupted by European civilization which their want of or- ganization prevented them from withstanding. The Samoans to-day retain several of these beautiful and harmonious characteristics destined to reappear more deﬁ- nitely and permanently in the social order of future gen- erations. Perhaps a few may have already reached-it. Here is a description cut from a recent number of the Cincinnati T1’/mes: _. .1 . . “The Samoans are the most lovely race of savages with. It is not at all a diﬂerence of principle, since let‘ whom it has been my fortune to meet. They have not the ﬂat noses, thick lips and frizzled hair of the negro type, but have ‘distinctly European features and a very pleasing expression. The color of their skin is a rich golden; their whole costume is limited to a light fringe of grass around the waist, and the women conﬁne themselves, in the way of tattooing, to a couple of thin blue lines across the lips. The men are of great physi- cal strength and enormous stature: they have a queer disdain for us whites and say that while we employ brute-force, c. g. Armstrong guns, etc., like a bull, they have the reason and intellect of the child that runs away from the bull. They live a happy, graceless life ; the earth, unasked, produces her treas- ures in abundance; they have no need to dig when all is ready to their hand. They bask-in the sunshine, or bathe in the cool waters of some retired cove, and cannot understand why we should come to thrust our business worries upon them,to buy their land and grow cotton and sugar and disﬁgure the ro- mantic picturesqueness of their island with convenient but intrusive roads; and above all why we should send mission- aries who can’t agree among themselves, and who attempt to introduce all-concealing garments of which their want was before unknown. It isn’t half as pretty 3. dress as the garlands of fresh ﬂowers with which they love to adorn themselves in their artless and primitive simplicity. They are not made according to our ideas——far from it, but they have a strong sense of the esthetic, and chastity does not rank as a virtue among them where the reverse is no sin.” (11: will be observed that I am adding materials for elucida- tion here and there, as they come to hand.) . As intermediate between barbarism and civilization, Fourier classes the Chinese and the Japanese. Among the Chinese, women enjoy very little liberty; among the Japanese, very much. The Japanese he considers much superior to the Chinese, and the more accurate knowledge of both, acquired since his time, has fully vindicated his esti- mate. The Chinese improve very little, if at all, on acquaint- ance; the Japanese very much. . As civilized nations, he contrasts the French and the Spaniards in their treatment of women——the French being among the best of civilized nations, and the Spaniards the worst; and in France women have comparatively very great freedom; in Spain, very little. “If God has given to amorous customs so much inﬂuence on the social mechanism and the metamorphoses to which it may succumb, it is because of his horror of violence and op- pression. He desired that the happiness or unhappiness of human societies should be proportioned to the liberty or the constraint which they permitted. But God only recognizes as freedom that which extends to both sexes. He also willed that all the germs of social horrors, such as savageism, bar- barism and civilization, should have no other pivot than the servitude of woman; and that all the germs of social good, such as the sixth, seventh and eighth periods (see the pre- ceding article of this series), no other compass than the pro- gressive enfranchisement of the weaker sex. “Those truths are not perceived by civilizees; they judge women by their present manners—by_ a dissimulation which our customs make compulsory in depriving them of all liberty. They (civilizees) believe that this duplicity is the natural and invariable attribute of the female sex. Yet if \ we observe, even now, so much difference between the ladies of our capitals and the odalisques of the seraglio, who believe themselves automatons created for men’s pastime, how much greater difference will there be between our ladies and those. of a polished nation, where the sex would be elevated to entire freedom? And what kind of freedom will be de- veloped among such women? “These are questions that philosophers are careful not to raise; animated by a spirit of oppression, by a secret antipathy to women, they habituate them by empty compli- ments to divert their thoughts from their slavery, and smother even the idea of inquiring as to the manners which would characterize women in a social order; that would weaken their chains.”—(Vol. I, pp. 89, 90.) “Social progress and changes of period operate in the ratio of the progress of woman toward liberty; and the decadence of the social order operates in proportion to the decrease of liberty of woman. * * The extension of the privileges of women is the general principle of all social progress.” (Vol. L, pp. 132, 133.) p ‘‘lt is a surprising thing that women have always shown themselves superior to men when they have been enabled to develop on the thrones their natural gifts, of which the diadem assures the free use. Is it not well known that out of eight woman sovereigns, free and unmarried, seven have reigned gloriously; while out of eight kings, seven’ are habitually counted weak? And if some women have not shone on the throne, it is because they have, as in the case of Mary Queen of Scots, hesitated and become annoyed before prejudices in regard to the relations of the sexes, which they should have boldly trampled under foot? When they have taken this lat- ter position, what men have known better how toibear the sceptre? The Elizabeths, the Catherines, did not make war, but they knew how to choose their generals, and it suiﬁced - to have good ones.” [REMARK.—Elizabeth is not a good casein point. It seems probable, if not certain, that the successes of her reign were achieved by her ministers, her naval and military command- ers, and the energy of her people, in spite of her littleness, her meanness, her caprices, her vacillations and her want of prin- ciple; but she often put the “right men in the right places.”] “ In every other branch of administration have not women given lessons to men? What prince has surpassed in ﬁrmness Maria Theresa, who, in a moment of disaster, where the ﬁdelity of her subjects was tottering, where her ministers were struck with stupor, undertook alone to revive all their courage? in She knew how to intimidate, by her bearing, the Hungarian Diet, which was but little inclined in her favor; she harangued the magnates in Latin, and ‘ brought her very enemies to swearon their swords to die for her. ~ Here we see an-iindication of the wonders which feminine emulation will bring about in, a social order which will leave free play to her faculties? . - - « “ And you of the oppressing sex, would you not exceed the failings with which woman is reproached, if, by a servile education, you were, like her, trained to believe Y0111‘361V63 automatons, made to obey prejudice and to crawl before a. master that chance may have given you? Have we not seen your claims of superiority confounded by Catherine, who has trampled under foot the masculine sex? In establishing titled favorites, she dragged man in the mire, and proved that in his full freedom he can degrade himself below the woman whose vileness is excusable because compulsory. . “It would need, to confound the tyranny of man, that there should exist for a century a. third sex, male and female, stronger than men. This new sex would prove by blows that men are made for its pleasures, as well as women; then men’ would be heard protesting against the tyranny of this her- maphrodite sex, and confessing that force should not be the only rule of right. But why should men refuse to women those{privi1eges, that independence,which it would reclaim as against the third sex? ‘ >:< >z< az * * >x< >1: >:< “ In describing women who knew how to soar from such viragoes as Maria Theresa to such lighter shades as N illoid de l’Enclos and Madame de Sevigne, I am sustained in maintain- ing that woman, in a state of freedom, will surpass man in all functions of mind or body which are not attributes of physical force.” (Vol. I., pp. 148-9.) PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL IN TERCOURSE. Common, indiscriminate sexual intercourse is not a natu- ral condition. It is a prostitution.of the sexual functions, in total ignorance of what is a natural, healthy sexual act. Any male or female once enjoying a natural, sacred, crea.-_ tive love culmination, simultaneously, under love’s most in- tensifying magnetic quickening of life’s energy, never can feel or be promiscuous thereafter. It is a perfect and total cure of promiscuity. All below that most sacred realization will be an undesirable prostitution of life forces. Only those who can debauch each other below the sacred experience can be and are promiscuous, and the lower down they go in de- bauchery the more promiscuous they are, until they reach the bottom of masturbation, impotency; then any india rubber male or female representation will answer their pur- pose as well, because they have utterly and entirely vitiated their sexual nature, and are very much disgusted with the sexual question. This is the eternal truth, evident to every one now standing in purity on the sacred eminence of creative love power. Just in proportion as we rise up to more exalted and perfected creative love conditions with another, will all below that point grow stale and undesirable with others. Thus, freedom in love will only lead away from promiscuity, through the most careful selection, on to the most sacred monogamy in the fullness of life and love. Those who so carefully avoid free love, to shun promiscuity as they suppose, will be sure to grow more and more pro- miscuous, and away from love and sex, until rubber is all they want to complete sexual‘ impotency and disgust. Nature seems true to herself. A burnt child dreads the ﬁre. Im- potency manifests disgust of the sexual question. The pros- tituted are fearing prostitution, and the promiscuous are fearing promiscuity. Thus sinners are always fearing and stoning each other, but it does seem to be more to cover up their own sin and shame than to free themselves from it. The foregoing is only a. plain statement of facts, audit is time that all those who fear promiscuity so very much, should know what ails themselves, and what it is within them that can so excite their fears. They should be made aware of their already debauched condition, which enables them to even imagine that such could ever be the case with others, and that the measure they mete to others is but a. measure of themselves. A little careful examination of their own condition might possibly reveal the fact that they are already prostituted, and thus far never yet in all their inter- course did love culminate simultaneously in each one, in the creative love and life-giving act, so that really they are only on the road to promiscuity, and utter impotency and disgust; of sex. May they have mercy on their own damned con- dition in life before they thrust their own, shame at free lovers, is my sincere prayer. Come, friends, wake up! and show these very sensitive and modest sinners, ever looking through promiscuous eyes, what ails them. that “love is the fulﬁlling of the law” and “ worketh no ill,” and that “to the pure all things are pure,” while to the im- pure there is nothing pure. A. D, BOWMAN ...j.__. FREE LOVE. When two persons of opposite sexes intuitively perceive that the magnetic life or emanating sphere of the one is such as to excite to grander action the life of the other, they ﬁnd ' a powerful attraction existing between them spiritually, mentally and physically. Their thoughts, charged with the affections from which they spring, ﬂy back and forth in rapid succession in their efforts to project themselves from the one to the other, and the loving glances of the eyes, by giving quick indication of the hearty response these thoughts and aﬁections meet in the soul, stimulate each to that perfect union of ﬂesh with ﬂesh wherein the love of becoming one with the other ﬁnds a fullness of expression. This ultima- tion of love, which in outward things so beautifully gym- bolizes the inner union of soul with soul, is, in our eyes, 3 divinely beautiful thing; and we cannot resist the conviction that where an inner oneness exists, coupled with a desire on the part of each to respond to the love of the other, the affec- tions ought to be left free to assert themselves to whatever extent the love of echoing Grod’s life from one to the other may lead. a When one meets another, the music of whose life is per- ceived to be in harmony with the grand symphony its own heart-strings {are pouring forth, we can conceive of no more beautiful thing than the union of the two in that loving em. brace which places the seal upon the harmonious relations existing between them. This natural blossoming of love, by enabling the aifections and aspirations of each to more then v Let them know , I v\ f i 5.1. . 2 . ,3 . X \ 5,’! June 19, 1875. oughly permeate those of the other, animates both with new vigor, and inspires them to pour forth a purer and sweeter music, a grander and more harmonizing inﬂuence. Sexual intercourse, however, which is not the spontaneous outbirth of a hearty love of soul for soul, is a thing so re- volting that it is well to term it adultery; and, while those who indulge in such intercourse, whether in the marriage re- lation or out of it, are the true adulterers, those, on the con- trary, whose sexual intercourse is but the bursting into bloom of the beautiful bud of genuine love, reﬂect upon earth the pure and chaste life of heaven. We cannot understand why those who reject the doctrine of total depravity, and endeavor to overthrow the belief that man’s thoughts tend only to what is false and evil, hence that he cannot trust his own reason, do not perceive that if there is enough truth in the thoughts of man to warrant his trusting them for guidance in matters of an intellectual nature, there must also be enough gopd in the affections of man to warrant his trusting them for guidance in matters of an aﬂ’ectional nature. If the reasoning part of man came from God, surely the aﬁectional part did also. If ‘God has given man reasoning powers to guide him intellectually, and ordained that by their free exercise he is to continually pro- gress in wisdom and knowledge, has he not also endowed him with affections to guide him in matters pertaining to the domain of the heart, and ordained that by their free exer- cise he is to rise to higher and purer states of aﬂectional life? If man cannot progress intellectually so long as his thoughts are not allowed to act in freedom, how then can he arrive at purer states of aifectional life while his aﬂections are cramped and repressed in their action by the creed that dominates popular opinion? Those who maintain that humanity can arrive at truth and wisdom only by consulting much with ~ their thoughts, must, so far as we can see, admit that they can arrive at what is pure and clean in love matters only by taking counsel with their affections. The affections, at the present time, are in about the same condition that the intellect was in the days of papal supre- macy; for, to listen to their protest against the state of slavery in which they are held, is, to—day,, thought to be as dangerous as it was then to heed the chaﬁngs of reason against the credal walls that imprisoned it. Those who believe that man’s life is so entirely separate from God’s as to be totally depraved, are consistent in holding their reasoning faculties in with bit and bridle, and in suppressing their aifectional nature as much as possible; but those who regard man’s life as inﬂowing from a pure and wise source, are, in our opinion, very inconsistent, if they deny to the heart freedom to act as its affections shall dictate, and at the same time leave the head free to entertain whatever opinions its thoughts may decide upon as right and true. “The voice of God in the soul of man” can be as correctly interpreted by the feelings of the heart as by the thoughts of the head. Intimacy between the sexes is one of the pure and beauti- ful methods instituted by the Creator for molding his crea- tures into more perfect images of himself; for making a man more truly a man, and a woman more thoroughly a woman; therefore, we advocate a breaking of that yoke that binds and fetters the aﬁections of mankind, and seek to so modify pub- lic sentiment that the sublimest expression of love may ever appear sacred and pure, even though it manifest itself con- trary to the laws and restrictions which man’s selﬁshness at present imposes upon it. Man, in his eagerness to limit the affections of a certain woman to himself, and to check the affectional freedom of his brothers lest their love also should ﬂow out toward the one he has found so lovable, and they become sharers with himself of the love and life she has to give, heaps up laws and precepts which prove the death-warrant to his own freedom as well as theirs. Thus is self-love, in its blindness, ever hanging itself upon the gallows it intended for others only. We think the outward restraints at present fettering the affections of mankind are outgrowths of their selﬁsh, unde- veloped condition. If so, one of the great ﬁelds of labor for the social reformer is to help him self and others to that high- er plane of life where one acts from pure, disinterested mo- tives and legislates for noble ends. , When men arrive at that purer plane oflife which is ac- tively engaged in seeking the welfare of others, they will ﬁnd, perhaps, to their surprise, that self is most abundantly served when so absorbed in endeavoring to bless others that its own interests are forgotten. Love, to be essentially free; must not only be “liberated from the restraints imposed upon it from without, but also . delivered from bondage to the lower nature within the man himself. The nature of love is to bless others; hence, it cannot be free while enslaved to the seeking of one’s own gratiﬁcation; therefore, we lay great emphasis upon cultivat- ing a sincere regard for the good and happiness of others; that love, being no longer held in slavery by selﬁshness, may be free to manifest itself in all the beauty and boldness of its real inner character. C. W. B. DAWN VALCOUR COMMUNITY. (Concluded.) _ Moved by an irresistible power that continually over- shadows me with the one thought»-that the hour has come when the two worlds are to be interblended in one by the the union of the advanced minds in a fraternal bond—I have never despaired for a moment of the ﬁnal success of this Val- cour ‘movement as a prelimiary step toward the dawn of peace and harmony that is‘ destined to strike down all dis- tinctions and classiﬁcations among men. But we were des- tined to pass through a series of trials in order to ﬁt us for the great work. Our short experience has demonstrated that it ‘ was impossible for us to carry the burdens imposed upon us by Mr. Shipman. He instituteda formidable effort, aided by two or three others, to rule out social freedom by placing the sexual relations under the control of an executive board com- posed of three members, with himself at the head during life. It became evident that we must divest ourselves of this authority before we could possibly succeed. Failing in our utmost endeavors to induce all parties concerned to come up to a complete recognition of the principles of justice and truth, I was compelled to precipitate Mr. Shipman’s affairs into bankruptcy, as the only available means of securing the property at a fair valuation for our future basis. During this period all those who were found to be unﬁt to become good and useful members were induced to leave; thus the report went broadcast through the land that we had failed and aban- doned the enterprise. I No one who is conversant with revolutions in human society can fail to discern that we are upon the eve of important changes, changes that are destined to overthrow the present order of things, and from among the dust and ashes of the ages that have accumulated among the human rubbish, a new order of society is to dawn upon the earth, that will not stop short .of guaranteeing to each child of Grod its unalienable rights. The hope that lwould some day see this grand re- sult realized has been continually before me. During my past life I have dreamed. only of an ideal future when an order of society would be established on earth where strife, discord and hatred would forever cease, simply by removing the causes that lie at the basis of those evils in the present order of society. The same propelling power that has imbued me with this thought, assures me that the hour has arrived when the work is to commence; that the time is past when the old system of introducing temporary reforms in society, while the ‘basis is fundamentally wrong in every particular, will be effectual. I now realize more fuliy than over that no community movement that falls short of a complete recogni- tion of the rights of woman, not only in every industrial de- partment, but also in her absolute right to control her sexhood, can possibly succeed. The time has come when we must stand squarely upon issues, not only in words, but deeds. If we expect assistance from the guiding hands of ad- vanced minds of the ages past, without whose assistance we will certainly fail, we must come up to a complete recogni- tion of every human right. If a cowardly expediency re- strainsvus from a full expression of these truths, then we ' render ourselves unﬁt to be trusted with the work that is to reform society. We, as humble instruments, are not pos- sessed of that independence of action that we sometimes im- agine. All great reform movements have their birth in the higher spheres of the spirit world, and in the proper time they come to the earth as irresistibly as the tides. All of the ad- vanced thinkers of these times are more or less ‘mediumistic, and they are attended by guardians who are leading them forward to a practical realization of human redemption on earth. When we gave to the world our plan of organization, which is probably the best one ever given to the public, it 1 met with a universal expression of approbation. ‘But as soon as the breath of discord was introduced by Shipman’s unjust exactions in relation to the property, and his efforts to sub- stitute for -our constitution his code of blue laws imposed upon us in the bond, we began to realize that we were los- ing ground. Our correspondence ceased, and it was evident that the unseen intelligences who were watching our progress had telegraphed to our numerous friends to wait. I realized our situation at a glance, and spent the weary days and weeks in a fruitless eifort to convince Shipman of the necessary. steps to be taken in order to meet the demands of both worlds in this great work. But this wasiuseless, as he only believed in one world, and that one was within the limits of himself. Iturned to the members and begged of them to stand by the cause, but they had become so disheartened, and faithless in the possibility of effecting anything like a satis- factory compromise with Shipman, that they would not even accept any terms that he might propose. I realized that the case was hopeless. The most that we could do was to sub- mit with all the calmness that we could command, and wait until Shipman should despair of attempting to rule a com- munity under a despotic government. His ﬁrst move, when he became hopeless of subjugating us, was to thrust me into prison. This miscarried. His next move was to write us down through his circular. Realizing the bitterprejudices that exist against the ‘advocates of social freedom, he con- ceived the plan of fabricating a bundle of charges in regard to our sexual relations; but he lacked generalship in this, since his circular and appeal to others to come to his aid in the formation of another community were addressed to social reformers. ‘ In conclusion we may sum up the case thus: Our enter- prise failed-——so far as it has failed-—because it was impos- sible to negotiate with Shipman for the property, the market value of which is less than the incumbrance upon it; and because of his policy of oontroliing the community himself by creating a centralized power, with himself perpetually at the head, under whose management and control the entire business and social affairs of the community were to be sub- jected. To secure this management of the government in the hands of the privileged few, he enlarged upon his gra- tuities and the inﬂated value of his domains, and insisted that ofﬁcial privileges were only to be bestowed upon those who brought the largest investments. Property qualiﬁcation was to be the ruling power, and to secure this end he pro- . posed to establish what he termed in the bond a “senior order” that was to be formed upon a basis of capital, the poorer classes enjoying the privileges and blessings of carry- ing forward the manual industries. It may be thought strange that we would submit to such arbitrary dictation, but, as I said before, it was imposed upon us through the bond after we had made our investments. But we still live, and are the better and the wiser for the experiencewe have passed through. I We cane East for the purpose of starting a community, and, as we are determined to secure a basis that will recognize perfect. equality among the members in all the affairs of life. we expect the co.-opera tion of reformers in both worlds. We are still situated upon Valcour Island, holding super- vision under the sheriff of this county over that property which is now under process of foreclosure on mortgages. ‘We ask the co-operation of a few persons of means to secure this property as a basis for our future work. Persons of limited means can correspond with us, and state the amount they can invest immediately. woonngum. la CLAFLIN’-S ‘WEEKLY: . s We have sufficient inducements already to warrant us‘, in going forward; but, after the amount to be paid down is met, we wish to make some improvements necessary to the com- fort of the members, and for this need additional funds. Cor- respondents will please inclose stamps. JOHN WILLCOX. V Address, Dawn Valcour Community, South Plattsburgh, New York. VALCOUR ISLAND, June 1, 1’87’5. THE MAN WHO wanrnn INFORMATION. . From the Detroit Free Press. . Yesterday noon, while all the people around the oﬂice ex- cept the “ head reporter” were at dinner, the smell of smoke suddenly became apparent, and a fat man, smoking a big pipe, came toiling up stairs. When he‘ had recovered his breath and taken a seat he inquired: “ Is der big editor what knows everydings in?” “ N o—gone to dinner,” was the reply. “ Und he shall come back purity soon?” “ In about two hours.” b ' ' “I can’t wait so quick as dot; I haf to go to a funeral.” “ Did you want anything?” . “ Yes, I wants to know somedings about dot Peecher scan- dal. You zee, one day about dree months ago, a fellow comes mit my zaloon and he says: ‘ Did you hear noddings about Mr. Peecher? ’ und 1 say nix, und he say Mr. Peecher shtole. corn.” “ Yes.” " “ Und der next day when I went home my wife says: ‘ Did you hear noddings (about Mr. Peecher? ’ Und she said Mr. Peecher shtole a dog.” ' “ Yes.” “ Und when I was in der street-gar a man says: .‘ Hello, Mr. Ritterman, what you dinks about Mr. Peecher?’ Und" I says no man can be a goot man who vill shteal a dog. Und den everybody laughs und winks, und I don’t know about it.” 54 YeS_n - / “ Und when I was in der Zity i-Iall a man shtrikes me on der pack, und says: ‘ Hello, old front, is Mr. Peecher guilty?’ Und I said I dunno, und he said Mr. Peecher hiret a man to blow up a schurch mit a barrel of bowder.” 4sVY'es.9v . “ Und den ven I vas in Dearborn a man looks bretty sharp at me und says: ‘ You lif in Dadroit, don’t you?’ Und I said I hf in Dadroit. Und he says: ‘ What is your shudgment on dot Peecher pisiness ? ’ Und I said noddings. Und he said Mr. Peecher had a fight mit a zircus man.” “ Yes.” ' “ Und when my pig poy come home from Doledo he say: ‘ Fadder, what you dinks about dot Mr. Peecher?’ Und I says I dunno, Hans. Und he says Mr. Peecher got some gloze und shumped der dai1or’s bill.” -" Yes.” “ Und when I goes home or in der street-gar, or mit my zaloon, or in der best-office, somebody say somedings about dot Peecher pisiness, und I dunno. Who is dot Mr. Peecher? Where he lif ? ” I N “ He is a great preacher, and he lives in Brooklyn.” ' “Z0? Und what he do?” i , “ He got one of those tobacco boxes with a needle in the cover, and carried it around in his pocket. When a man ﬁve feet.” : “Is dot bossible ? ” Y “ Yes, and he had his vest pocket made so deep that a cigar would go clear out of sight, and _he kept it full and deceived the public.” . - “ My zoull but is dot zo ? ” “ Yes, and he keeps an old wild-cat bill in his wallet to lend out when a man wants to secure tlieloan of a dollar for a few minutes.” 1 “ Vell I deglaresl Ven a breacher shall do like dot we shall vonder vat next. {Z0 dot is der Peecher pisiness, eh? Vell, Vell.” ‘ THE Hrsronv or META.L Stuns.-The era of the metal signs of the present day began in 1852. Mr. Charles Monks in that year arrived in New York from Liverpool, where he had learned his trade in letter engraving. He was then a poor boy of seventeen. But being of an ingenious and push- ing disposition, and moreover, being forced by the necessities of his condition, be conceived the idea of getting’ up an en- graved metal sign to fasten on the bottom of show window ledges. He prepared a sample, and solicited orders for it in Broadway». ‘White, the hatter, iwho kept his store where Knox does now, next the Herald building, was the ﬁrst who took hold of it. Mr. Monks made a sign for his show window ledge, which, on account of’ its novelty and ‘bright and neat appearance, attracted much attention. After that Mr. Monks had no difﬁcuityin procuring orders. But his great improve- ment was in his semi-circular, door jam metal signs. The ﬁrst one he made was for Messrs. Mellis 82: Ayres, at that time old and heavy dealers in laces and white goods, on'the corner of Broadway and Reade street, opposite Stewart’s. Its success as a sign was simply immense. The store was besieged by persons inquiring for the address of the manwho made the signs, for the purpose of getting similar ones made. But his address could not be furnished. Mr. Monks, for- tunately for himself at that time, had not given it, and so was saved from annoyance and interruption. He had more orders than he could possibly ﬁll at any price he chose to ask. He had no assistance, and could rocure none. In his little shop in the basement of No. 15 lm street he labored day and night alone. Driven at length by the increasing demand for his metal signs he sent over to England and engaged four men to assist him, paying all their expenses of outﬁt‘ and passage across. He then moved into more ambitions quarters, corner of Broadway and Walker street, where his business enlarged rapidly. During this time it never occurred to him to procure a patent for his improvement, and as soon as his apprentices acquired sufficient knowledge of the trade to do the work, they quit him and began for themselves in dif- ferent cities of the Union. The metal signs were also intro- duced iiito England and on the continent, and new they are made and used ail over the world. Two years ago Mr. Monks moved his establishment to the corner of Broauway and Lie- penard street, where he constantly keeps from twelve to ﬁfteen men engaged on indoor work, engraving and preparb ing these signs. Mr. Monks is still a young looking man, and doubtless has a long and successful future before him. tried to open it the needle went into his thumb about twenty- I _which the WEEKLY is noW« devoted. 4 L i wooDHULL & 'O‘L‘A’FLIN’;S'WEEKI:_Y ;r.....-sa--9, irnnnor sues-cmprm1v.i PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. .1- One copy’ for one year, - $3 00 50ne'=copy=‘for-six months, - = ;- -, ~ — 1 50 ’ ‘Single copies, 1 - ‘ - - - - - 10 CLUB RATES. Five copies for one year, - : - - -- $12 00 Ten copies for one year. ' ' . ’ °’- - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more‘ same rate), . - ' - - 40 00 Six months, - -’ “- - - - ’-One-half these rates. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION CAN BE MADE TO THE AGENCY 015‘ THE AMERICAN NEWS '00MPA'.r.‘u'Y, LON DON, ENGLAND. 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To him that overcometh, I will give to eat » of the hidden manna-.——-St. John the Divine. .That through death he might destroy "him that had the power of death, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime sulgjeot to bondage.——Paul. . — ' I The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then yoeaceable, gentle, easy to he entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and withouthy-A 10_0orisy.——J ames, iii., 1 7 . And these ‘signs shall follow them .' In my name shall they cast‘ out devils,‘ they-shall take up serpents; and if they ‘drink any deadlything it shall not hurt them,‘ they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall reeover.—Jesus. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1875. PERSONAL ANI) SPECIAL. Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claﬁin will be at home, at No , 26 East Fiftieth street, after 12 o’clock daily, to their friends and to the friends of the truth, let it be what it may and lead where it may. The oﬁice of the paper will be at its old quarters, 111 Nassau street, Room 9. THE’ DOUBLE TRIANGLE ;, OR, THE SIX—POINTED STAR IN ‘THE EAST. ‘_For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship h1m.——ST. MATTHEW, ii., 2. . "This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of It has been clearly shown, in our present series, of leading articles that it repre- sents the ‘coming’ blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself. ‘We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future .work, and as symbolizing the possession by man of the whole truth, which we hope and trustmay be shortly realized. , THE HUMAN BODY-—-THE A HOLY ‘TEMPLE. A Who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill ?—- Psnnms, XV., 1. - \ Jesus answered and said, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.——JoHN, ii., 19. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place ?—IBID, xxlv., 3. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thmehonor dwelleth.-—ImD, xxvi. , 8. And the temple of God was open in heaven: and there was seen in his temple the ark of h_is.testament.~—-REv., 1:1,, 19. L - Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live (feed) of the things" of the temple ?~—1 CORINTHIANS, ix., 13. And _thou shalt know that my tabernacle shalt be in peace; and thou shalt visit my tabernacle, and shalt no_t sin.—JoB, v., 24. One thing have I desired of the Lord that I will seek after, That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, and behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.—-IBID., xxvii., 4. And I heard a voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall‘ be his peo- ple and God himself shall be with themandibe their G0d.——REVELATIONS, xxi., 3. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man deﬁle the temple, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy; which temple ye are.—‘l CORINTHIANS, iii., 16 and 17. And what agreement hath the temple of God with Idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.- II CORINTHIANS, vi., 16.. ‘ What I know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you. which ye have of God. and ye are not your own ? For ye are brought with a price ; therefore glorify God in your body and in, your spirit, which are_God’s ——IBID., vi., 19 and 20. Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty; a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man.—HEBEEws, viii., 1 and 2. ’ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the great city, the new Jerusalem, descending’ out of- heavcn from God. And I saw no temple therein; for the Lord God Almighty and ‘the Lamb are the temple of it.,—REv., xxi., 10 and 22. Stand _ in the gate of the Lord’s house and ~say,'Hear the word of the Lord all that enter in at these gates. Amend your ways and your doings, and I wsll cause you to dwell in -this place. For the children have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord. They have set theirvabominations in the house, which, is called by my name, to pollute 1t.-J EREMIAH, vii., 23, 24 and 30. .3 . Therefore, are} they before the throne of God, and serve him day and , night in his temple; and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyeS.—REVELA'l‘IONS, vii., 15, 16 and 17. 1 And the Lord whom ye seek shall ‘come suddenly to his temple, even the messenger ‘of the covenant iniwhom ye delight; for he is likea reﬁners ﬁre. Even from the days of your fathers ye have gone away from mine ordinances. Return tome, andl will return to you. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, ‘and prove_me if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour you out _a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive il:.——MALACHI, iii., 1, 2, 7 and 10. A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGrELS—I.N HIS 0WN—Il\zIAGrE. Man stands on the apex of creation, its crowning work. Beneath his feet is his mother earth, in whose womb he was conceived of the omniscient and omnipresent God, the. great and only Creator of the universal immensity. As far back into the eternity past as when the elemental gas or gasses of which the solar system is composed, ﬁlled the space over which the sun holds perpetual sway, it may be saidthat God begun the work of creating man———a work, when conipleted, to be in His own image. I/Vhen the earth was set apart-— amid the other circling stars assumed its orbitular homage to the parent Sun—‘—.the immediate work began. As the master builder goes to the forest and the ledge, and fashions the-parts from which the temple made of hands is to be framed, in which the outward show of worship is perform- ed, so did God “in the beginning” begin to fashion the parts of which he should construct his holy temple, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens; and the stars, already build-if ed, sang glad anthems, and in their prophetic strains pierced the inﬁnite future and saw the work completed. Nor did He; rest from his labors at all, but on through countless millions of eras, ﬁrst by this step and then by that, until the earth was no longer without form and void, He wrought. From the ﬁery mass the rocks were made and the waters condensed; and by these, together with the winds, the dust of the earth was made, and so on from simplest organic formation, through ﬁn, feather and vegeta- tion, up to animal, ultimating ﬁnally in the highest form of which it is believed the elements are possible—-man. No single part of all this gigantic scheme could have been omitted. Strata on strata, and formation on formation, - _ each making the’ next possible, and_the next coming as the inevitable, was the way in which the foundation for the ap- pearance of man was laid; and when he stood forth, God rested from his labors. Each thing, including man, that he had formed, now reproduced its kind. Seeing the immense machinery that he had set in motion ‘revolving in perpetual order,_he pronounced it good, and so it was. Even man can now observe its various parts and realize that they are good. 1 ’ Is THERE ANY'I.‘HING,BEYOND HIM. It has been said by some wise minds that there is no con- clusive proof that man is the highest formation of which the earth is possible; and that, ultimately, he may be merged into something else. The argument that man, being limited to his own possibilities, thinks himself perfection in form and feature, and that nothing better is possible, would be valid of the future if we did. not know the past. But man can conceive and analyze the past. He takes up the methods by which he was formed and comprehends them, and he ﬁnds that all the possibilities of the earth have been exhausted, in his creation, and that he in turn assumes the use of all below him. Nothing previous to him made use of everything. The animals, next to him in form, staid their hunger and quenched their thirst, and thus they lived and died; but man from that condition, originally, has gone forth over the whole earth, making everything within its conﬁnes minister to him as he went; even harnessing the lightnings and compelling them to do his will. Well indeed might God rest from his work when he had formed a thing so nearly like himself as this, who, taking the wo,'rk':s.:that God had fashioned, and learning from his constructive methods, has made the face of earth to teem with useful- ness and beauty. Is it too much to say that He created him in His own image, when what man has accomplished is observ- ed? In this country especially, which two hundred years ago was a howling wilderness, is it not almost impossible to withhold from exclaiming, Doth not‘God continue his work- ing through man,-that all these things are done; that the desert places are made to blossom like the rose, and the mountains are transformed into blooming. gardens? What other more complex machine than man can there be formed? A _ THE ULTIMATE CONDITION.‘ Admitting that man is the ultimate product of the earth’s possibilities, the question then arises, How is he to exist ulti- mately? There hav,e been various theories prevalent in the worldin regard to the future condition of man; but the Christian belief ﬁnds expression in the term resurrection, and this means a ‘return to the physical body. "Undoubtedly the doctrine of the resurrection is taught in the Bible; but there are a great many reasons for believing” that that doc- trine means a great deal more or less than what is involved in the.’ Christian theory. That theory is, in short, that at a given day, at some time distant in the future, all the dead are;to‘ be called forth from the ground where they have slept, to be judged according to the deeds done while in the body; the good to be sent to heaven and the bad to hell, both to live there for ever. The “Master” himself, however, nega- tived this theory when he said, “There is none good but one, that is God.” According to this all are bad, and going to hell instead of heaven. If, however, there are any say- ings so worded in the Bible as to conflict with known.prin- ‘ciples of life or science, such sayings must be harmonized with the revealed truth, or else they can mean nothing to the analytic mind. Everybody knows that when the Bible is read literally throughout, thousands of utter contradictions appear; but they do not by any means impair‘ its just or proper claim of inspiration. They only reveal the imper- fectness of human language and understanding. Moreover, W the, Bible itself does not pretend to speak inpositive lan- guage, but rather in parables; but the hidden meaning is the truth. Christ taught almost wholly in parables, sometimes afterward having to unfold his meaning even to his disciples. — If they, whom he had chosen, and upon whom he had poured out of his spirit, could not understand the hidden meaning of his teaching, how can it be expected that every- body, or rather anybody, can do so now? For instance, he said to the Centurian, “that unless a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.” The Centurian, not understanding him, asked for an explanation; but Jesus, for some reason, would not- give it, and only repeated his statement. He also said to his disciples that he had many things to teach them that they were not then able to bear. Many have said that Christ’s teachings are deﬁnite, and that the salvation and damnation. by them is arbitrary and ab- solute. But that this is an error is clearly shown by the fact that he himself. recognized progression. If his disciples were not able to bear the whole truth then, he must have held that they would be able to do so at some future time. Many other things might be cited to show the same fact. Nothing is clearer than that the doctrine of evolution is taught in the Bible; indeed, that it is founded upon that theory is evident- from beginning to ending. SALVATION, RESURRECTION AND JUDGMENT. We have before shown that the salvation taught by Christ was the being saved from death. If this subject were fully developed, as it will be at some future time more fully than it has yet been done, it would be seen that salvation, to- gether with everything else in the world, is a process of evolution. People are saved in part whenever they receive D a new truth in their hearts and live it in their lives; and are saved completely when the whole truth is born -into them; the whole truth being the acquisition of the power over death. Death is man’s last and greatest, as it is his ﬁrstand ‘ most insidious, enemy. To become conqueror over this fell destroyer is to have, not to hope for, eternal life; and until eternal life is obtained salvation; is not complete. So salva- tion really goes on ‘from day to day, and means, in its last analysis, interpreted in the language of to-day’s understand- ing, growth. If this is the truth about this phase of the general question, then it follows that the day of judgment and of resurrection, of salvation and damnation (condemna- tion), of rewards and punishments for the deeds done in the body, go on from day to day as the deeds are performed —-the judgment and resurrectionday of the Bible meaning all the ‘time, and the sounding of the trumpet, the power that moves men to action. I GOD IN PERFECT TEMPLES ONLY. The reason we dwell on these things is to be able to arrive at a reasonable cdnolusion about what constitutes the ﬁnal completion of the building of the holy temple of God,which as clearly established, is the human body; this being God’s last and best work, in which when,complete—when per- fected—Grod shall come and “ dwell, and they shall be His people and He shall be their God.” One thing seems evi- dent, and that is that God, the great high priest, cannot dwell in His temple until it is completed; and that it cannot be completed until i.t has become superior to all things by which it is liable to be destroyed; that is, in the language of scripture, until, all its enemies have been destroyed; andin the language of latter-day science, until the laws-of. lifeare so thoroughly known and lived, that the thing made perfect fiﬂ” . W-OODHU I» L .0 I-.A..F L I ms WEE K L Y. s- -in?.form“and.function in thewomb of nature in the-begin-in " -ning,;ean be perfectly maintained by a life in accord-with the requirements ‘of ‘its organic laws. _ . The logic’-of this position is complete, since if death be an enemy thatdeprives man of a sphere of life to which he has afterward to be resurrected when the requisite conditions come, then the condition to which he isresurrected is the further"-on development than death, into which, when death is destroyed, man Will develop, without passing through its portals and the resurrection to attain. Therefore it must be ., «;,§{9ncluded.that theperfect temple in which man is to wor-E "‘ship*Gg‘od, and in which God is to come to dwell with man, , is the;huip.gi,_1 body risen or resurrected into a condition over which deatliihlias-lost its dominion. In biblical terms, death is the devil, orltlie sum of all evil things that stand in the way of life eternal ; or, translated into scientiﬁc phraseology, is -all. those ‘stages of progress through which man passes in his development from an ignorance of good and evil to a knowledge of all good and evil, or into the perfect knowl- edge whose accompaniment is always the perfect love which casteth outfear to which all their lives men have been in bondage - by reason of death which has been considered as the goal through which all must, sooner or later, pass to ﬁnal and eternal salvation or damnation. . e ’ So here again it is found that biblical and scientiﬁc truth agree perfectly. leads those who follow her deductions to their ultimate, to realize that when the physical development of man shall be completed ; when man shall have discovered the hidden laws ' of life, and shall regulate the perfect functions of the temple in which he dwells by them, that life may be per; fectly maintained and death destroyed or done away. It is only in such‘ temples that God can dwell. “If any man deﬁle the temple, him shall God destroy.” Does he not do this? Does not death follow the deﬁle- ment of. the temple? In the temples that man has erected, and into which he enters on every seventh day to worship God, He does not dwell. These are "the figures or the images only, as Paul ‘said, of the true temples. Neither in this mountain or at Jerusalem shall man worship ; but in spirit and in truth, said J esus— in the temples not made with hands—which, when mendo; there will be no use for those they make with hands. The fact that ,,there are so many temples made with hands, into which aii__ the -professedly Christian world feels it to benecessary to enteriand worship, is a certain evidence that their temples, not made with hands, are not'yet the abode of "God. Not having consciously the kingdom of heaven within them, where God comes and dwells with them, they still go after him, thinking to ﬁnd him in the temples made withhands, and there to worship him; and theyare so blind that they do not see their own condemna- tion in the act. If a person has God dwelling in him, he need- not go to church to worship him, nor by so doing to ‘make ‘ it evident to others that he is one of God’s people’, to whom He has '‘ come and with whom Herhas taken up his abode. Those who have to make a profession of faith to make it appear that they have God, only expose their own hypocrisy, for God’s presence in any human being is self- evident proof of the fact. A NEW ORDER on SOCIETY INEVITABLE. It is legitimate now to consider for a moment what effect A the indwelling of God in man will have upon the practical lives of men and women. We do not think that any pro- fessing Christian, to say nothing about people who make no professions, will undertake to ‘Y say that there is anything in the present orders in society that could have any place among a society of sons and daughters of God, or perfect men and women. Everything: now maintained. by law, custom or public opinion, is a positive denial of 7the'teach_— ings of ” Christ. It is = nothing but’ the most shameless ‘hypocrisy to profess to be followers of Christ when a life, inopen disregard of the only commandment that he ever A gave to man, is lived. When Christians say that they love their neighborsas they do themselves, they know» they either try to deceive - those to whom they speak, or else they are themselves deceived, which amounts to the same thing. ‘All those who are born- of God are equal in everything, and a ‘society composed of “ Sons and‘Daughters ’f would be one_in which there should not be a single distinction in any material sense; in which each would be upon an equal footing with every one, the greatest in any probable sense being the'servant.of the least in every. possible way. Christians are specially severe on all attempts, at community-life, but they know ’-weli?-enough that that‘. form of society is the only one in which it is possibleto live after the commandment , of-Christ. Nevertheless, it «is next*to -andmpessibility‘ for ‘even a few‘ people whohave the ‘Christ-Spirit,‘ and who are ‘desirous of living “Christian 1ives,'_to live at allin society as N novwconstituted. "Should any attempt be made in this city to i set up the kingdom of heaven, according to Christ’s teaehings,.Christians who yet worship in-temples made with hands, would ﬁnd .some way to destroy it and prevent the worship .of.God in the temples not‘. made with hands‘ eternal in the heavens. THE sons AND DAUGHTERS on son. to establish community life.before,the..individuals.of " which the communities are to _ be composed are perfected (are born Science, no less clearly than the Bible,“ , , in or by the body ? And yet it is in this way thatthe kingdom of, God is to, and O - will be set up in the earth Those who are Sons and Daugh- .t§rs_.of Himmust and will come and betogether in one place .with onejraccorcl. We .are.We1l€aware;that all attempts made of .the..Sp‘irit‘.andfsup_eriorito death), will .be partial if not ‘ complete failures. . The attempts, however, are none the .less evidence that the truthful.method of life is at last come into the mind and heartof man, and is endeavoring to ﬁnd expressionin a practical form of social organization, which, though.failures, are nevertheless prophecies of that which is to come, that shall be perfect. - When a number of peo- ple who have been born of the Spirit shall institute a com- munity life, they will be God’s people, and to them “He will come and take up His abode. Here, then, the perfected temples will be congregated, which will constitute the<Holy City, and heredisease anddeath, misery. and crime, will be abolished, -and God twill wipe away the tears from off all faces; for the former things will have then passed away, and the new heaven and the new earth come to. all whose names are found written in the Book of Life; to all who have been “ born" again” of the Spirit, andeaten the fruit of the tree of life. As a matter of course there is a great deal to be said about thetemple of God which cannot be written. There are some things that cannot be written at all; some things that have to be made a part and parcel of one’s life before they can be possessed. Hence, before‘-the kingdom of God can spread over the earth to any extent, it will have to be set up at some given place, towhichall who desire to enter into the Holy Rest will have to .come, being drawn by the truth—£. e., drawn of God. Thosewho love the truth for its own sake; who are willing’ to desert all worldly things, and to follow where it leads; who will leave,.,father and mother, sister and brother, husband and wife, children and friends, if need be, and obey its commands, are near to thekingdom of God. For such, “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered ‘into the heart. of man the things which? God hath prepared ;” because it is these who love Him, and with whom He will come to take up His abode, in their per-V fected human bodies—the true and only and the living tem-‘ ples of God——for each one of which there. shall be a chosen high priest, who having once entered into the holy of holies; shall there ﬁnd the hidden manna and in it life eternal. Oh that the mystery were revealed to man! Oh that its won-* drous wisdom and its glory, outshining the sun, were already the inheritance of the people! i .3 NECESSARY rnncnnnnrs. _ I Before this can come, however; man must learn to rever-i ence the holy temple of God, where the ark of the covenant and the gift of eternal life repose; and in the language of the prophet Jeremiah, As they enter in at the gates amend their ways and their doings, so that their abominations shall no longer pollute the temple; or as Malachi besought, Bring their tithes_into the storehouses and the windows of heaven , shall pour out blessings which there shall not be room enough to receive. Let the words at the head of this article be read with diligence and an earnest desire to be led into “that which is within the veil,” that the Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth, may come and open the blind eyes and the clouded minds that have all these years been looking ‘out- side of their own bodies, and irrespective of its condition, for the coming of Christ and the glory of God. ‘Consider for a moment what would ‘be the result if the people could come to recognize thatlheir bodies are God’s holy temples; and that their sexual organs, being the means by which his crowning work is created, ought never to be deﬁled with an unholy touch or thought, or ever made the instruments of selﬁsh gratiﬁcation merely. If the people should enter into. these sacred relations only as if they were communing with God———with the same spirit in which really earnest and-honest ‘Christians enter into the temples made with hands which they have falsely thought to be God’s temples—and not with unbridled passion,_ what would «be- come of the debauchery that now runs riot in the world? Let these things sink deep into the heart, and then see if any can ﬁnd it in themselves to speak lightly of the work that we have been trying to inaugurate; see if words will rise to the lips to brand us as seeking the demoralization of the race, sexually! No; let the sexual act become the holiest act of life, and then theiworldwill begin to be regenerated, and not before. Suppose that those who read the Scripture, and pray regularly before eating, should go through the same ceremony before entering into the relations which should ‘be the holiest of all relations, how long would the beast- liness that now holds «high carnival under cover of the law continue? If praying people believe the Bible; believe that their bodies are God’s temple, why should they make such hot haste to deﬁle them by their selﬁsh lust and inordinate lasciviousness ? Let these people become consistent at least, and, in the most important act of life,a'sk God’s bless- ing to rest upon it. . eon IN HIS n:oLY,‘ TEMPLE. - g In conclusion, we desire to present another phase, which this subject assumes, for consideration,.Without any attempt at elaboration. If the human body be the temple of God, in which the spirit of Godand the Holy Ghost dwells, as Paul says, continually; and if the life of the body, which is the veritable man and woman, is a part of God, being a portion of the life of the world, canit not be easily conceived that V God’ himself suffers or delights in every act that is performed And in this.sense is it not also easy to conceive that He can have perfect joy only in perfected bodies, and that in such only, can He, being perfect himself, dwellperfectly. If we canenter fully into the comprehen- <sion, of these. things, -we should‘ _no longer exclaim‘-with the «Psalmist: “'What~-is man, tliatthou art mindful or him, or the son of man, that thou visitest him 2” THE ALTERNATIVES. We are constantly receivingletters of -inquiry -fromthe legal sexual slaves of the country, asking for advice. .In general terms these letters are all alike. They represent their writers as being the subjects of commerce that is forced upon them by the legal masters of their bodies when it. is either utterly repugnant to them, or else whentheir bodily conditions ought to forbid it. To one and all :of these poor slaves we say that your condition is a fearfii one; but one from which yourselves alone can rescue you. To remain the submissive subjects of such debauchery of the body and such degradation of the soul, is to occupy a posi- tion to which that held by the commonharlot is to be1‘pre- ferred, because she does not curse the world with degener- ate progeny, while you are doing it constantly. We -‘say, j emphatically, to every wife who yields herself unwillingly towher legal master, that she is prostituting her body- and degrading her soul. Moreover, we also say to everywife who is in ill health that her physical condition. is due wholly to improper -sexual commerce; to sexual impurity and debauchery; and that it is the duty of everyone wholﬁnds herself suffering from such commerce to withdraw ab solutely from the bed“ of her legal and lustful lord, and to reassume control of her own person, and to regain her physical health, andbecome as she was before she was sexually debased. Such wives have no right to bear children; have no right to load the world with curses initlie form of human life that are the results of their debauchery- children who are conceived’ in iniquitous commerce, and brought forth in disease and" lust. And still again wesay that every woman should remain in perfect control of her own person, never for a moment, for any reason, ‘resigning it, either for hire or love, to another’s will, when her own will does not ﬁrst give consent. In sex, woman is queen, and she should never resign or lay aside her high preroga- tive as the natural and the rightful arbiter of sexual things. To do less than this, so far as it is less, and speakinginthe natural instead of in the legal sense, is to be a prostitute; "and a worse prostitute than though one otherwise, since the ef- i fects that follow legal prostitution are many and deplorable, while those that follow the other kind cease mostly with-the lives of its subjects. So our advice is simple but eﬁectual, to wit: Separate, and hold yourselves aloof fromthe thing-‘ that is debasing, debauching and demoralizing you: that is,sink- ing both soul and body into hell. How many will .have»vir., tue enough to do this most essential thing? __4A. 4 7' Vwr EXPLANATORY. From several letters of inquiry received recently, we are led to believe that a portion of our readers are not ‘reading our leading articles, because they are tinctured‘ with the Bible. To those questions, already received,'we replythat, if the leading articles, since the new advance, had been read carefully, they would never have been asked. For the present, we must ask our readers to lay aside their prejudice against the Bible, and wait until they know what isvreally bound up within its folds. Then they will go back" to search its hidden meaning with an eagerness unknown to them now, as hundreds already have done since we began to unfoldits mysteries. No person who has any interest in becoming superior to death, or in escaping the destruction that within the near future is certain to desolate the earth, can affordto not read every line and word now beinglwritten upon, and leading up to, the mystery of all mysteries, which is'con- tained in no other book save the Christian Bible, not even in the Bibles of other nations, and which was never revealed by any Saviour except Jesus of Nazareth, for which reason he is the Saviour. LO HERE! LO THERE!» ‘ For the past two years we have been besieged, not to say — annoyed, by constant inquiries as'to who wrote this and . who that editorial, or who constructed this or that speech. In exceptional cases only have we ever given any attention to these inquiries; natural enough in themselves‘, to be sure, but, as we have believed, having no bearing upon the prog- ress of the truth, for which alone we are interested. A truth is a truth, let it be written by one person or by an- other, and our purpose has always been to publishas much truth in“ the WEEKLY as we could ﬁnd, notsupposing our readers would care whether-we or‘ somebody elseexzpressed ‘it, as it made no difference to us if it were wellexpressed. But there are certain personsinimical to’ the" cause, as ‘we represent it, who have busily engaged themselves “in attempting to prove that all we desire is to be the recognized leaders and expounders of the truth of the new dispensation, and in this, that we subsidize everybodyto our selﬁsh pur. poses, our interest ending there. If this were done'igno- rantly, in the ﬁrst instance, as it has been by many, second- arily, we should still maintain silence;'but since the pri-- mary purpose is a covert one, and, in its secondaryieifects, results in weakening our means of support, andvin de- creasing conﬁdence in the permanency cf the WEEKLY, as well as-in our own honesty of purpose, we ‘feel it to be a, duty to say/a few plain words, not because we have any wish to take whatever credit or discredit may rightly _'or ‘wrongly existvfor anything that has been publishedin’ the 5‘WEEKLY or said‘ in our speeches, but'beicai1se"the’ ide‘a”has been spread broadcast over the country that we are mere ~ V . writes the purest English in the most poetic style. 5 I , bwoonnunr. a oLArL1N's WEEKLY. ,a June 19, 1875. puppets, moved by some master-‘hand behind the scenes, which idea has lost us the support of many former friends? To illustrate what we mean: A few days since an old friend,'and contributor to the paper withal,while visiting us, exclaimed, in evident astonishment: “ What, you don’t pretend that you wrote that editorial?” naming a recent leading article. “Why, of course we do,” we replied. S . v “I was told in Boston,” it was answered, “that Mr. An- drews was the author of all your leading editorials and the director of your policy. His friends there claim this; and they further assert that you seldom or never write an article,- and that you are not capable of doing so. They even claim that he has written all of your speeches, and, in short, that had it not been for him you couldn’t have moved in reform at all.” As we said before, we only reply to this statement that is causing so many people to ask the question direct, in order to make it unnecessary for any further inquiries to be made, and that a falsehood already widely circulated may be estop- ped from further weakening the support of the paper; and not because it makes any difference to us from whence the truth comes, only so that it comes; While we were in -Europe last year, there were two, per- haps three, papers issued in which the leading‘article' was writtenby Mr. Hume, who left us because we made the new departure in April. With these exceptions, no leading -articles, and with the exception of such minor editorials as were written by Mr. Hume during his association with us, every other editorial has been written by ourselves, save two, or perhaps three, which were contributed years ago by Mr. Andrews. All other articles from him, published in the WEEKLY, were over or under his own name. He also assisted us in the preparation of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal article, and in the speech delivered on the 9th of January, 1878, in Cooper Institute, entitled “ The Naked Truth.” All other direct aid that we have had in our work has been received from our Spirit Guides, to whom we are primarily indebted for all the principles and-ideas that have been elab- orated in the WEEi:LY or in our speeches. We do not wish it to be understood, however, that we have been the mediums simply of spirits to communicate‘ their literal words without comprehending their meaning ourselves ; for this is not so. They have given us principles which, by their direction, we have studied out and elabo- » rated, and thus made them our own,and ourselves capable of communicating them, as we are doing now, in unsealing or revealing the hidden meaning and mysteries of the Bible. Not that we would exalt ourselves at all even in this regard, since had they not ﬁrst instructed us, we could have done nothing of ourselves. We know that they have been the in- spiration of everything that we have done, and that they still continue to be so, while our desire is to be worthy of receiving the great truths they have to give, and of being the medium to communicate them to the world. Neither would we in any manner appear to wish evento detractlfrom Mr. Andrews’ immense intellectual achieve- ments. We could not if we would. They stand prime facm evidence of his giant mind, and he, in turn, weknow, is too great, too just and too good to wish by any means to de- tract from our labors to augment his own. Of all men with ' whom we havebeen associated Mr. Andrews stands pre- eminently the most learned, and, save one (in our esteem, perhaps wrongly), the wisest. But there are radical dif- ferences between us that were tlie cause of his withdrawing the Bulletin of the Pantarchy from the WEEKLY, and of the _ suspension of his articles. "At another time we shall at- tempt to clearly deﬁne these differences, and to outline the immense work that Mr. Andrews has performed in the scientiﬁc, world; being head and shoulders, as we believe, above any other scientist, even Mr. Herbert Spencer. . In a word, then, we wish it to be understood, once and for all, that we are not the mouthpiece of any person save the spirits, whom we serve as we say; and especially that Mr. Andrews is capable of_putting his own thoughts before the world without making use of us as a medium, and that too, as we gladly admit, in a much more attractive manner, in a literary sense at least, than we are capable of doing; for unquestionably Mr. Andrews, of all present_'public teachers, This is so evident to us that if we had now a matter of as great moment as the Beecher-Tilton article—anything that needed to-be elab- orated in the choicest possible way——to put before the public, we should go to Mr. Andrews, and invoke his talent in this regard, and he would give it, as he did in that instance, freely; although at the time he disapproved of the step as too dan- gerous to be taken‘ (and for just the reason that it was dan- gerous, to wit: that those who communicated the facts to us would deny the authority, and leave us to stand the brunt of the vengeance that it was certain to invoke, as they did until compelled to substantiate them for other reasons than our vindication); and he refused to assume any of the re- sponsibility, which of course did not belong to him. We have adhered strictly to this view. When in prison upon the charge of obscenity that was alleged by the United States ' against that article, we were oﬁeredour release if we would confess that Mr. Tilton or Mr. Andrews, pr any other man, wrote the article. As in duty and honor, and as in accord with the real facts as we viewed them then and still view them, we were .. bound to do, we assumed the entire respon- sibility. Perhaps Mr. .Andrews’ friends would; not make such hot haste to lay their claim for him, i the real history fof that article were written and known. We are willing that any whochoose to do so may credit that article wholly or in part, as it may please them, to Mr. Andrews; but they can never make him the person who was dragged through, the prisons of New York, or the sub- ject of all the other terrible ordeals through which we have passed on account of its publication; ordeals necessary to make it bear its proper fruit to the world, and to lead up to the recent results in Brooklyn, so that it shall stand in his- tory as the landmark of ‘a new social era. ON Monday,-.Mr. Evarts made a terriﬁc use of the Tilton- Moulton version of their intimacy with Mrs. Woodhull. Every point against them might have been turned in their favor had they dared to introduce the evidence that was needed to rebut the testimony upon which Mr. Evarts, in the absence of that testimony, very properly based his remarks. We are glad to see that Mr. Evarts, in his necessary refer- ences to Mrs. W., departed altogether from the theory laid down by Mr. Tracy in his “opening.” Mr. Evarts closed Tuesday. Mr. Beach, for Mr. Tilton, promises to close Friday. ' Saturday the Judge will charge the Jury, after which they will retire, perhaps for seventeen days. Cer- tainly the Judge will not dismiss them until every method of forcing a verdict has been exhausted. WE take special pleasure in calling attention to the very excellent article in another column by A. D. Bowman. It is the tersest and, at the same time, the clearest statement of the philosophy of sexual freedom that we remember to have ever seen. We have often presented the same philosophy; but we do not believe that we ever put it in a so self-evident form as Mr. Bowman has done. THE ﬁrst of the “present series of articles unfolding the hidden meaning of the Bible (which are to be continued until the great mystery always professedly contained in it is revealed) was published in the WEEKLY, dated April 22d. All of the back numbers of the series can be obtained by ap- plication at the ofﬁce by letter or otherwise. Every believer in a better order of society should read them carefully. :§2 WOODBINE STREET, Boston, June 4, 1875. My Dear Vt'etom'a.——I have just ﬁnished reading your “ com- mentaries ” in the last number of the WEEKLY, and I feel that I cannot any longer withhold the expression of my high appreciation and admiration of the same. They far exceed anything and everything which in the past have been given us, in other ways and forms, to prove the fact that indeed the spirit world is communing with us humans, and giving of their wisdom and knowledge to bene- ﬁt and bless us. They unlock the mysteries of those old Scriptures, which for so many ages have been a dead letter, and wholly hidden from mortal conception and understand- ing. I don’t know how they appear to others, but to me they possess an importance and a value which no language can adequately express. It seems like a resurrection from the dead that there is yet ‘something to learn from that valued old book, the -Bible, of which I, in common with others, had no conception. And as I discover this new light, this last revelation from the heavens through the “ Spiritual Congress,” and through you, the second revelator, I feel to ask, as did the disciples of Jesus on one occasion, “Who, then, can be, saved?” and to exclaim, with the old jailor, “ What shall I do to be saved?” How can I purify this old body and make it indeed “ a temple of God?” Will you tell me? Will the “ Congress ” make the way so clear, so plain that none need err; that none who earnestly, honestly seek but shall ﬁnd? \ Thanking you for what has been given to illumine and make understandable those obscure, yet most valuable portions of “the old Scriptures,” I earnestly pray that you may proceed in your labors, and have strength and illumi- nation to point out the way, the true way, to live and act, so that we may be saved from “ that second death,” which is sure to come upon all who violate N ature’s divine laws. ' J. M. STERLING. P. S.—I was much pleased with your reply to my inquiry relative to Andrews, etc. In some way this should come be- fore the public, for he and others are robbing you and the spirit world of what does not belong to him. I wrote Mrs. Barber a severe letter for her inconsistency, and in reply she owned up and promises reformation. It was thoughtlessness in her. But I do wish that some one would, in the WEEKLY, put this properly before the public. ’ Your paper is improving constantly, and I do wish that I could aid you. but cannot at present. Hope to see you soon’ en route to Philadelphia. J. M. S. JEFFERSON says that those things cost us most anxiety and distress which never happen at all. ' NATIONAL 01TY,.Cal., May 4, 1875. Dem" Mrs. Wo0dhull—We are glad to know that you are not slain, by the shot and shell that come from the Beecher- Tilton army. In ‘fact you are not in the habit of dying; I would as soon think of demolishing chain-lightning as you. But I am surprised at the course taken by three of the actors in the Beecher farce—Tilton, Mr. and Mrs. Moulton. It seems this trio had been your friends—loving, loyal friends, so you thought. They had feasted you, praised and gloriﬁed you. Were they honest in so doing? They swear on the holy book that all their kisses were gags. They opened wide their doors and bade you enter in; not that they loved you, but that in so doing the seal of silence might be set upon your lips. What shamsl What mockery in friendship’s sweet name! I would not dare hint that these saints of mine have sworn to a falsehood. but I do aver that if I were one of the twelve jurors I should reject the testimony of these who have in thepast been so untrue to their own souls. In Mrs. Moulton Iram greatly disappointed; I expected she would say: “ Yes, I loved Mrs. Woodhull; I honored her and trust-‘ ed her. What of it? There did not seem a fragment of ﬂinch and duplicity in her heart.” But, as Browning says, “God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures boasts two soul-sides—one to face the world with, one to show a woman when he loves her.” When the storm is past, will you not all recall with pleasure the dear old days when friendship did not seem all a fable? And it may be that these ﬁre-dogs will consume the dross and bring out the gold, and that all your and their dreams of heaven may be realized. I hope so. ' In faith and hope I amyour friend, H. F. N. BROWN. GRAND CAMP MEETING AT DUBUQUE, IOWA. To Sptrttualtsts and Progresst'om'sts—-The Spiritualists 0 Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin will hold one of the largest camp meetings ever held in the West, commencing on the 29th day of J une, and continuing over the 4th of July, 1875, in a beautiful grove on the bluff, one half mile from the busi- ness centre of the city of Dubuque. In order to make this meeting a . grand success. it is neces- , sary that all who are friendly to our cause should interest themselves in the matter earnestly, and by coming together on that occasion show the world that we prize the Truth as the angels have taught us, and the interest we feel in main- taining its principles. We expect a grand jubilee, and hope all the friends in these States and elsewhere, who can do so, will meet with us. N o pains will be spared by the committee in preparing the grounds and furnishing the facilities for comfort, pleasure and intellectual enjoyment. You will see by large posters, and also by the press, that we are to have ﬁrst-class speakers and test mediums on the oc- casion. The railroads will carry passengers at one and one-ﬁfth rates, some of them half fare. Certiﬁcates will be issued at the camp grounds for return. There will be a boarding-house to supply visitors with food at reasonable rates; and a platform for dancing, music, etc. Friends, let us meet on a fraternal and exalted plane, ask- ing more light on this all-important question; let us have a glorious time, long to be remembered‘ as an honor to our cause, “ a feast of reason and a ﬂow of soul." To this end, and for the triumph of so good a cause, let us meet and mu- tually work. _ Yours, for truth, DR. C. P. SANFORD, Iowa City. W. CHANDLER, Dubuque. Managers. SOME years ago a Frenchman who, like many of his coun- trymen, had won a high rank among men of science, yet who denied the God who is the Author of all science, was cross- ing the great Sahara in company with an Arab guide. He noticed. with a sneer, that at certain times, his guide, what- ever obstacles might arise, put them all aside, and kneeling on the burning sands, called on his God. Day after day passed, and still the Arab never failed, till at last one even- ing the philosopher, when he rose from his knees, asked him, with a contemptuous smile, “ How do you know there is a God?” The guide ﬁxed his eyes on the scoﬂer, for a moment, in wonder, and then said, solemnly, “ How do I know there is a God? How do I know that aman, and not a. camel, passed my hut last night in the darkness? Was it not by the print of his foot in the sand? Even so,” and he pointed to the sun, whose last rays were ﬂashing over the lone desert, “that foot- print is not that of a man.” THERE is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier that this high form. Bending be- fore men is a reverence done to this revelation in the ﬂesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.- N ovalis. _ 1-. 4 f vf* BUSINESS EDITORIALS. BE YoUR OwN PHYSICIAN.—C0nfectl0neI‘y is bad for the teeth. Nothing is much worse for them. N 0 one should ever indulge in this direction, without using immediately afterward Brownls Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice. If people will eat confectionery, they should use this denti- frice to cleanse the mouth and teeth. THE NORTHERN, WIscoNsIN SPIRITUALISTS CONFERENCE will hold their Ninth Quarterly Meeting (for the election of officers and other business) in Spiritualists’ Hall, Omro, Wis., on June 25, 26 and 27', 1875. Let each one consider himself or herself responsible in making this meeting a grand success. A free platform is maintained in Omro. Every effort will be made to entertain free all who may attend. Reduced rates’ at hotel for those who choose to stop there. Good speakers will be engaged for the occasion. Efforts are being ‘made to secure the attendance of one or more good test mediums. Let there be a grand turn-out. DR. J. C. PHILLI1=s,§for the Society of Omro. DR. R. P. FELLows—This distinguished magnetic physi- cian stands to—day one of the most successful spiritual phygiQ clans of. the age. He is now treating the sick by his Magne- tized Powder in every State of the Union, and in the British Provinces, with a success which is truly’ remarkable. T. Blair, Woodstock, Ill.. writes: “ After being bed-ridden, I am now up and around, and can eat and sleep better than I have for years.” M. Heasley, Wheeling. W. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-06-19_10_03
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-06-19_10_03
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 04 (June 26, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2077
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-06-26
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: . ., _ -_____. -1 ruaocanlniesz FREE THOUGHT: Urs'rRAMMEL;E?D rniiviaies / BREAKING THE TWAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. V01. X.—No. 4..—w1~.-ole No. 238. NEW YORK, JUNE 26, 1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. . 1’ ‘he truth shall make you f7'ee.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the ' mystery. of God shall be ﬁn2’shed.——St. John the Divine. _ T/V/Lereof I was made a mt'niste7' to preach the un- ‘searchable riches of Christ, and the anystery which from the begz'nn.i7!ty of the world hath been but in G0cZ.———Paul. >~*O¥—*~ A NEBRASKA “ DOGBERRY.” Dee/r ll7eckly—I wish to reproduce a conversation concern- mg; the Beecher scandal that I listened to yesterday on the train coming from Omaha to this place, just to illustrate the astonishing difference of opinion that can prevailupon the same evidence, and the blinding power of prejudice over the human mind, and the judicial human mind at that; for the source of the sweeping assertions that will fellow w...
Show more. ., _ -_____. -1 ruaocanlniesz FREE THOUGHT: Urs'rRAMMEL;E?D rniiviaies / BREAKING THE TWAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. V01. X.—No. 4..—w1~.-ole No. 238. NEW YORK, JUNE 26, 1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. . 1’ ‘he truth shall make you f7'ee.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the ' mystery. of God shall be ﬁn2’shed.——St. John the Divine. _ T/V/Lereof I was made a mt'niste7' to preach the un- ‘searchable riches of Christ, and the anystery which from the begz'nn.i7!ty of the world hath been but in G0cZ.———Paul. >~*O¥—*~ A NEBRASKA “ DOGBERRY.” Dee/r ll7eckly—I wish to reproduce a conversation concern- mg; the Beecher scandal that I listened to yesterday on the train coming from Omaha to this place, just to illustrate the astonishing difference of opinion that can prevailupon the same evidence, and the blinding power of prejudice over the human mind, and the judicial human mind at that; for the source of the sweeping assertions that will fellow was no less than a Judge—a circuitJ udge on his rounds I inferred, from the drift of the talkto which I was privileged to become a listener. _ I The “ Judge” seemed extensively known and “highly respected ” in these parts, for quite a number of hardy . \Vestern pioneiers on the train paid deferential respect to him, and took particular pains to dub him “ Jedge,” as they shook hands and passed on. No doubt the “learned -‘Judge ” is weighty in inﬂuence hereabout. The Judge’s companion was what the reporter’s might call a solemn old pump, and he may be a deacon in the Methodist or Presbyterian Church in “ good standing,” as well as an honorary member of the Y. M. C. A. He sandwiched the conversation, in which his part consisted mainly of——“ Yes, Jedge, your mighty right ;” “ That’s jest my view, Jedge ;” “ precisely so, Jedge ;” and the like, with a savory lunch of bread and strong cheese, so strong that it would have driven me off the ﬁeld had I not been’so determined to hear those weighty opinions on the subject in hand. For short, I will call that “ solemn old pump” S. O. P. ; it will expedite matters. The Judge himself was a fair speci- men of the Westerii itinerant species, most respectable in general appearance, with little, bigoted black eyes, and a most uncompromising expression all over him, from head to foot, speaking volumes for the cases he has tried by the sheer force of ‘prejudice, regardless of evidence of any sort. His manner of expression plainly said, “ I know what I am talk- ing about, and the opinion of any other man is notworth a rush against mine.” In short, Mr. Podsnap must take a back seat; for certainly he was never gifted with such a masterly style of sweeping all opposition from his path as this worthy circuit Judge of Nebraska. The Judge was reading the biased scandal columns of the Inter-Ocean. and S. O. P. was piously perusing the Christian Union. Presently S. O. P. said, in a reverential tone, as though addressing an oracle, whose dictum must be consid- ered infallible: “J edge, are you following this unfortunate Beecher-Tilton trial?” “I have sifted the entire mass of argument and evidence thus far,” replied the oracle, with a young Gibraltar in his tone. ’ “Ah, indeed!" said the deeply impressed S. O. P. “Well, Jedge, have you come to any conclusion in your own mind?” “I have given the affair most careful consideration from beginning torend, and in strict accordance with rules of evi- dence and judicial precedent, there can be but one conclu- sion arrived at, sir.” The air with which that explosion of profundity came forth was indescribable. 1 trembled for the opinion to come, for I thought if it should happen to differ from my own view I should feel shattered into bits and hopelessly demolished beyond all means of grace. “ Well, Jedge, do you think Beecher is innocent or guilty?’ said S. O. P., evidently hanging on the reply as though it were a “ sharp and ragged edge of despair.” “ There is not a shadow of doubt, sir, but Henry Ward Beecher is entirely innocent! and that the entire business is the most stupendous, malicious and skilfully wrought-out conspiracy either of ancient or modern times!” There are no words to convey the manner of the Judge, when he said that. I shriveled all up in my seat, and thought I was struck by lightning. S. U. P. heaved a tremendous sigh of relief and gasped--“You don’t say! Jedge. Well, I'm glad to hear you express yourself so decided.” V’ “ Yes,” continued the Podsnapian expounder of precon- ceived opinion based upon prejudice, “ the mass of evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of Mr. Beecher, and undoubtedly stamps that man Tilton as, as——well, sir, as eminently no man at all I” “Jess so, Jedge—-that’s jes the way I look at it”—-said S. O. P. with accumulating conﬁdence in his own importance. “You must not lose sight, sir”, continued the Judge, as though in fond imagination he were addressing the “intelli- gent” jury on the case, “ of the fact that it makes no differ- ence what verdict is rendered in the case. Juries are often inﬂuenced against the clear aspects of a case; their untutored prejudices and passions are played upon by sharp practice, ,and _I_ have often, sir, in my professional experience known juries to bring in a verdict directly opposed to the evidence as I considered it and charged. Mr. Beecher, sir, is being tried before the infallible bar of public opinion, where he al- ready stands, as he has stood from the first, acquitted.’ VVhy, sir, do you think a recordsuch as Henry Ward Beecher’s is to be ruthlessly swept aside in a moment at the instigation of a set of licentious free—lovers, with that abominable Victoria Woodhull at the head of them? No! sir: this trial is a death- blow to all such damnable theories, hatched in a hot-bed of harlotry and lust. All good people, sir, must rejoice that it has brought to light the unclean thing, at the same time they deeply sympathize with Mr. Beecher, knowing that he is to come forth from the ﬁre with shining garments unsinged!” I think that right there the “learned” Judge observed my short hair and hurled that javelin for my especial beneﬁt. I felt completely annihilated for the moment, and had to gath- er myself up and assert the pieces. S. O. P. was so overcome by such sublime and withering eloquence that he didn’t ﬁnd voice for the space of a minute, while the Judge seemed. lost in admiration of his master-stroke of logic and oratory com- bined. At last the awe-struck senses of S. O. P. asserted themselves and he started of with—“ Well, J edge, what do you think of the witness, Moulton “I” How I trembled for the reputation of Francis D. Moulton! 5 “I think, sir, that man, Moulton, is a fraud of the most stupendous and unscrupulous possibilities and transparent purposes; a ﬁtting tool, sir, of_the master genius, Theodore Tilton. 1 cannot regard his evidence in any other light than a most skillfully woven and willfully adhered to tissue of plausible lies; lies, sir, of the ﬂimsiest and most. refutable kind! It is never, sir, any evidence of,_ veracity on the part of a witness that he fails to contradict and cross himself——any lawyer will tell you that; on the contrary, sir, we regard a stumbling witness as much more reliable, for then we are sure he has not his story out and dried as it were. A reliable witness is apt, from the more force of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, of which it is utterly impossible, sir, that he can be supposed tobe absolutely certain while depending alone upon a treacherous memory of times, places and levents,—I say such a witness is apt to become completely entangled in the threads of a sharp cross- examination. But, when a witness like that man, Moulton, goes around and around in a. complete circle, as it were, never tlnuous cross-ﬁre, I mark that witness, sir, I mark him! No, sir, there is no doubt, under the logical and scathing force of Gen. Tracy’s opening argument, that the whole lot of the plaintiff's witnesses are a perjured set of conspirators.” “ Well, J edge, that speech of ' Tracy’s was a witherer, wasn’t it?” ' ” “A speech, sir; it was the most convincing and unanswer- able argument and statement of facts on record! And when Evarts closes fortthe defense, and draws from the same line of proof, there will not be a vestige of Tilton and the free love party in existence !” .» “ What sort of men are Tilton’s lawyers, J edge ?I’’ “ Tilton’s lawyers? Well, there’s Beech; he’s a keen blade, sir, but a bad lawyer.——a bad lawyer, sir I, I He constitutes the force for the plaintiff.” \ , The air of utter damnation with which Tilton"s lawyers were rolled up and bundled out of existence in Beech was, to say the least, novel, and shows the facility with which an impartial Nebraska circuit judge can dispose of an opposing element. ' deviating, and completely cool and collected under a con- / The above is not “ garbled,” nor exaggerated; but is in sub- stance, grandiloquence, and force of denunciation the same that I listened to. 1 have a good memory,‘ and I ehargedgit with that conversation, besides strengthening my memory by repeating it all to a friend within half an hour. The dogmatic assertions need no comment. But _I cannot resistthe re- flection that if the boot had been on the other foot, and an inﬁdel or a free lover were on trial in Beecher’s place. 0111'” judge would have found the same evidence, indeed mlmh less of it, overwhelmingly against the defendant, and the entire aspect of the case tilted over-to the other side. Such is human judgment; but one does look for more corn- mon sense and less prejudice in a judge, thousih he be 3» 011" cuit judge of Nebraska with little piggish black e)’6S- 0. learned judge! O, wise old judge! A second Daniel! lilrmnn Nssn. THE WICKEDNESS OF OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM. BY . ELVIRA WHEELOCK IRUGGLES. VVithin sight of my mother’s home live two well-to-do Ir- ishmen. Both of them own a house and some land. They are each also the legal owner of a woman, whom they tyran- nize over just as their despotic and wicked wills may dictate These women are the veriest slaves to these men. In addition to woman’s holy (?)’“work of bearing and rear- ing children, they are forced to do all kinds of house and ﬁeld drudgery up to the very hour of their conﬁnement, and as soon as it is possible for them to be on their feet, are again driven into service, regardless of any pain or suffering they _ may have to endure. Year after year they have borne this, in addition to the unwelcome burden of aichild either undr r their hearts or on their bosoms, until their lives are sapped of all joy or hope; and then, worse still, after‘these cheer- less, toilsome days, the nights come only1to bring them face to face with the misery of their sexual servitude; and what these poor women have to suffer under cover of the dark- ness, at the demands of their legal task-masters, only their own lips can ever tell. One of them has repeatedly been so terribly beaten by her‘ legal owner as to endanger-her life, and yet that marriage is a holy one, according to Catholic V and Christian edicts. Good God! I sometimes wish that all women so brutally enslaved would rise en masse and murder their tyrant owners by thousands, that the world might be . rid of such monsters of depravity. To cap the climax of their infamy, these men openly declare it is their G-od-given right to rule over woman; that she! is inferior to man, and was made expressly to minister to him; and they get it, too, from those infernal. interpretations of Bible teachings, which have so enslaved woman and demoralized man ever since that book had an existence. Yesterday Iwent into the home of one of these women. As I entered her children played on the ﬂoor in rags and dirt and she, weary and depressed, seemed to lift her feet as though they were chained, and her form was bent as though a heavy yoke was upon her. She sadly greeted me and tried to smile as she spoke to my little rosy-checked boys, but it was only aphantom smile, for her life is dead to cheer or laughter; and yet she is young, and nature gave her a good face anda comely form, but hunger of heart and unceasing toil have robbed her of every womanly grace. Her face is utterly "without hope, her form crooked and bent, and her heart a graveyard of dead and buried hopes. She once lifted her skirts to show my sister her knotted and deformed limbs, which, she said, were caused by abuse and over—work.‘ Day after day she mechanically toils, serving her relent- less master; night after night yields her body to the insa- tiate demands ,of his sexual nature, and is powerless to save herself, no matter what the consequences to her or to the idiot and imbecile children she may bring into existence. And yet this is all right, this legalized tyranny and prostitu- tion, because it is under the cover and by the sanction of our holy (?) marriage institutions. Oh, humanity! what a dese- cration of a thing so sacred as aitrue marriage relation, un— ‘ sanctioned by church or ceremonial. When will the world be wise enough to distinguish between true and false mar- riage relations? “But,” asks one, “why do these women submit to all .. this?” Our answer is, ?‘ What can they do? How help themselves? Where ﬂee for protection or rescue? Do not our laws sustain man in_ all this cruelty? There is no pro- tection, no asylum for such women, and awoman, for the \ woonHULL a CLAB‘LlN’S w_jhnKLY. June 26, 1875. love she hears her children, will suffer any kind of martyr- dom; will bear to have her body bruised and scarred from crown to sole, and the very*1ife-blood of her heart forced out of her. , Hence the wickedness of our human laws, and of our social edicts in everpermitting man to so outrage and enslave woman in any sphere or condition of life. It should be a crime, and the penalty severe indeed, for a man so much as to lay the weight of his hand upon woman, except in acts _ of love; and until society in some way protects her from these outrageous abuses it need lay no claim to being civilized, however much Christianized. As I walked home from my visit to that weary woman my spirit felt burdened, oppressedand saddened almost to the A extremity of hopeless despair to know that in this city of Christian churches, Christian culture and Christian charity such wicked tyranny over women is allowed in the name of Christian marriage. I feltlthat I would like to topple every Christian church—spire to the ground, cast into the ﬂames every Christian Bible in the land, and annihilate utterly this Christian institution of marriage which so completely places woman in social and sexual servitude to man, and de- grades her’almost into -a sexless being. As for myself, I boldly and truthfully aﬂirm that I would sooner lay my body down upon the pavement of the city streets, and invite the chance passer to use it for the gold he would give in pay- ment than to submit to the social and sexual servitude that our legal marriage system permits and sanctions in the name of religion, morality and Chtistianity; and to-day the ﬁres of indignation burn within my soul as I think of the crimes perpetrated against nature, against manhood, womanhood and childhood, against humanity everywhere by the sanction of an institution that is destitute of the ﬁrst principle of truth as regards _the true associations and relations of the sexes. . Oh, Victorial thou blessed evangel of the truth that shall make, us free, unto thee we lift the voices of our anguished souls, and know that through the transcendent might and ‘wisdom of thy spiritually sustained and illuminated woman- hood the whole world’s sisterhood of women, aye, and the world’s brotherhood of" men, are to rise from out life’s dark- ness and its depths on to the glory height of existence where light and love, wisdom and truth, fragrance and bloom shall make the atmosphere of being perennially fresh and joyous; when man and woman, with hand clasped to hand, heart linked to heart, and soul wedded to soul through the sweet magic of love’s holy law, shall walk lovingly together down the shadowed aisles of time, and up the sunny slopes of the “ evergreen hills” on life’s immortal shore. ‘‘ Victoria, more than amaranth-crown or laurel-wreath shall deck thy‘brow when emancipated humanity shall for ever sing the victory songs, and bear the victory banners of liberty, fraternity and equality. ’ JAnnsv1LLn, Wis., May 26, 1875. .___..—._— TRUE WOMANHOOD; OR, A CAUTION T0 LADIES SOLICITING THE ASSISTANCE 0]!‘ MEDICAL MEN WHIfN~IN DELICATE OR DOUBTFUL HEALTH. . As a large number of applications have been made t) Dr. Bruce for this purpose, I, as his agent, have thought it my duty to print the following~—taken from one of the London papers and published a few months ag‘o——as a caution to those unfortunate females who are in trouble, and a warning to others never to depart from the paths of virtue. [If poor,simp1e and unsuspectingwomen were in possession of one-twentieth part of the knowledge that I possess on all such matters, they never would submit to the promises made by their lovers, etc., until they were made wives, or procured a written contract, properly signed and stamped, that they were not to be cast upon the world unprovided for and un- protected; and that a certain sum should be paid to them weekly or yearly for the loss of their reputation and position in society. Were this fully carried out by every young wo- man previous to her seduction, we should not have atithis moment nearly 10,000 poor girls walking the streets of Lon- don night after night selling their virtue for a morsel of bread. T . . ‘ Love-children should not be despised or rejected, neither should their parents; and until the women of England have the power to vote, and pass laws inflicting weighty penalties by ﬁnes and imprisonment for seduction, and that much more than the penalty is at present, so long will child murder go; on increasing more and more everyday. During the few yearsDr. Bruce was in England I knew him to have over ﬁf- teen applications weekly from women in all ranks and posi- tions in life for the purpose of requesting him to assist in ommiting an illegal act. I A clergyman of the Church of England, in a pamphlet on this subject, has stated that out of 150 young women in his parish, he could not put his hand on one of them and say for certain, “ I know you are a virgin.” ' A We have Moodys, Sankeys, Spurgeons, and scripture read- ers without number, and after all seduction goes on greater than ever, and there are none to come for ward and say what, is to be done to stop this evil. We keep the young people huddled together in their rooms and attics on the Sunday, giving them an opportunity to have sexual intercourse, in- stead of allowing them to go into the country by boat or rail, or to the sea-shore at Brighton, and spend a few hours in the aquarium there, enjoying the pure and fresh air, and banish- ing from their thoughts all that is sensual and lustful. The Rev. ‘Henry Brown, rector of Woolwich,,brought to that town a few years ago a Scripture reader for the purpose of visiting the soldiers’ wives who lived outside the barracks, and whose husbands were at the time serving“ their country in the colonies and other parts of the (.2ueen’s dominions. The S'cripturereader’s visits became so frequent to the apart- ‘ ments of oneof the soldier’s wives that he was appointed to visit, that the rector, in order to prevent a greater, scandal, was obliged to have him removed elsewhere, and this pious‘ saint turned out to be a married man. , When male and female were ﬁrst created, I believe it was for the purpose of being together for sexual purposes and helpmates to each other. All the other animal creation are allowed 'to'mix together for a similar purpose. Hypocrisy and mock modesty have got such a hold upon us that it is supposed to be cruel if not sinful and wicked for a man to touch a woman. If such an act is performed privately or in the dark and no one sees it done, it is not much thought of, but if carried on openly, without a marriage ceremony being performed, or, in other words, living together unmarried, it is looked upon as a grievous sin in the sight of God and man. If Nature is to have her ehjoyments as one of Heaven's best gifts, then the people must have recourse to sly and cunning ways inorderthat that which God implanted in the sexes should be enjoyed. Any man may go into what is called in large towns “gay houses” as often as he thinks proper, had nothing is said to him, nor is there any notice taken of his conduct by any one; he is merely put down as “ a fast young man ;’-’ but should he take a female into his house to attend to his domestic affairs and his wants, without ﬁrst going through a certain ceremony called marriage, he is looked upon as a very wicked man.» It is the unlawful binding of two together for life that causes scores of women to be murdered by their husbands. Were man and woman free agents, knowing that a separation could be effected in an hour, a bad wife, if mar- ried to a good husband, would soon reform if she knew that she could be sent adrift at an hour’s notice; and the same law would apply to the bad husband who was united to a good, kind and industrious woman. ' It is those bad marriage laws that compel nearly 10,000 poor women to walk London streets and dispose of their virtue’ on the highway; and here I may ask, Where is the Earl of Shaftesbury all thisitime? Are costermongers of a higher type, and their souls of more value, than poor seduced girls who could get homes -to live in and be taken care of by men who would respect and support them, did society not set its face against cohabitationﬁof this kind? Thisgas a matter of course, could never be upheld aslong as our marriage laws continue as theyare at the present time-. No man feels disposed to marry what hypocrites call “a fallen woman ;” he does not mind living with her, and may in time, if she proves herself worthy of a kind husband, marry her, or make her what is known as his lawful wife. Our marriage laws should be so established that the moment the husband and wife ﬁndout that they are not suited to each other, a separation should take place at once, and all that should be required would be three at testing witnesses to the separation, allowing the separated party each to go their own way. Ninety out of every hundred men aid women will tell you, after they are married, they never got the one they loved. What a wretched thing,Vthen, to bind two together for life ‘to hate and deceive each other all that time. Oh. wicked priestcraft, when will your serpent ways be cut short? ‘Not until the race of mankind trample your vile laws under their feet. Now is the time for woman to come to the rescue of her sis- ters, and demand sufficient compensation in the face of our tyrannical marriage laws for loss of reputation. as the only means of preventing girls from being ruined, and an end to the murder of newly—born children. These poor seduced girls may some day be selected for wives or mothers; then what follows? The moment those lordly saints ﬁnd that those girls are not virgins, notwithstanding those honorable gen- tlemen ('3) may have robbed scores of girls of their honor, What are their words at the time they discover that theyvhave been “ taken in and done for?” They may be heard a long way off calling their utrvies prostitutes! And those dear ivy’-fared men are as pure as amgels. Oh I I ! Change your marriage laws, and nature will soon ﬁnd her true position. When the sexes are properly mated, then we shall have peace, comfort and happiness in every family; and your costly divorce courts will be no longer required. , 1 M. A. ORR. 11 THE TERRACE, Union Road, Clapham, London, S. W’- BRUTALITY OF MAN TO VVOMAN. l ﬁndthe above in a recent number of the "Washington Tribune, and assuming that the. gist of the paragraph is true propose brieﬂy to consider the matter to see if there can be found any good reason why this brutality exists. The imme- diate cause doubtless is the free consumption of fusil oil and drugs which stimulate man’s passions and force them to over- ride the betterside of his nature. But back of poor whisky is the radical cause~——the supposed inferiority of woman. This ﬁgment of the law which Mr. Evarts endorsed in his plea for Mr. Beecher, which Christianity,:or the :popular religion declares to be one of its fundamental principles, which it is blasphemy to deny, is the motive spring of this violence and brutality which man manifests toward woman. The prac— tice is barbaric, and with all our civilization we have not yet outgrown it. Christianity has been voicing itself these eighteen hundred years, yet this wicked and demoralizing idea dominates. So long as theiaw and the church—Pilate and Herod—strike hands and support the barbaric notion of the subordination of the woman to the man, we shall have Wifeqgeaters and wife—abusers. So long as the woman is a thing—-—is semi-c'hate1ized—-we shall h.ave an incomplete,a one- sided civilization and a soulless religion. Indeed, our entire social fabric will be ill—shapen and illy adapted to human needs. so long as man is recognized as the “lord of creation,” and woman is a slave, for the latter is the outcome of the present order of things. ‘ Theinferiority of woman is a pestilent heresy which works mischief continually. Not only does it crop out occasionally in brutality and personal violence, but in numerous other ways. . Woman has no fair show in the race of life, but is at a disadvantage. The marriage relation, which should be one of freedom, is debauched through this subordination, and she; is the mere instrument of lust, forced to endure the tortures of passion, seeking unlimited gratiﬁcation and indulgence at her expense, besides forcing maternity upon her under the worst possible conditions to produce a healthy, well- balanced child. Mrs. Grundy may howl andring the changes as much. as she may on the freedom of the affections, or free love, her inﬂuence will be but temporary; in the end, she and her co-workers will meet the fate of Haman—-hang on a gal- lows of their own raising. Though there be popes who issue their bulls and fulminate anathemas, as have the managers of the Lake Pleasant camp meeting in Massachusetts, they are only Dame Partingtons engaged in a fruitless effort to sweep back the waves of the Atlantic with a broom. The democ- racy of souls is the slogan of to-day. The world will yet rally under the banner of a wider freedom than has yet set its im- press upon society and its institutions. - “For “ ever the truth comes uppermost, And ever is justice done.” WILLIAM Fosrnn, J R. Pnovrnnncn, June 7, 1875. Irwincvlble and most Dear Sister Helen Nash: 1 Many a time I’ve longed to say “ right out” that you are fairly and squarely meeting the emergencies of the time, and pressing with your fearless foot, the traps set for women, which seem as harmless to you as that coat of tar and feathers was, or ever will be, to the actual errors and sins of the present day, which those Wilton ladies (ah!) were striving to correct. Never have I actually behold a thing so damnabla. » For fear that some people may shudder at your denunciations, and to make it doubly strong, I don’t think I shall hold back a like quiver full of divine vengeancewhile it presses upon one so heavily to give utterance to it, viz., to repeat word for word the most womanly expression I ever have seen publicly rendered by a woman, which is 2.“ God damn them!” I am glad to start in after you, andl am not ashamed to play sec- ond ﬁddle in a cause so glorious! Oh yes! God will! Justice is the foundation of His throne! Never will those Wi1ton “ border rufﬁans” rise above, or outlive the certain damna- tion which has fallen, thank God, directly out of heaven upon them, and hereafter will shrivel their souls into the merest caricatures of womanhood (God spare the name!) and black- ._ en their names to their latest posterity; while it will, doubt- , less, fasten on that young girl for life a hatred of her own sex, and raise in her estimation, the worthies or the unworth- ies of the opposite sex who “ wouldn’t have lifted a ﬁnger to hurt the girl,” or to help (of course not-)_ the friends, mother included, who were “ crusading” virtuously with a tar buck- et, and making that village of Wilton the theatre of a scene that the imps of hell might gloat over. Who’ll_ blame that little girl of Wilton if she looks hereafter for her “ friends” among the male sex? An awful power is given them, and they will of course use it just as they always have; viz., to drag her, their willing victim, down as fast as time and foolish implicit yielding of herself, and obedience to their lustful cravings will carry her. A woman might reg- cue her! But she will never be made now, under this aw- ful load of injustice that must haunt her very sleep, to see it! I feel like creeping on my hands and knees before that girl! What a disgrace those Wilton she-devils have heaped on us, as women! I cringe under it, and feel as if I had been al- ready scathed with lightnings and the fury of God’s wrath. That young girl’s soul, if eternally damned, will plead forever: that it was women’s hands that thrust her .into hell. 1 am glad we have han to see it through an empty tar-bucket. Crystal skylights never would suffice for eyes that gleam with the lurid glare of hellish hates and unchristian judg- ments upon their own sex! Most heartilydo I endorse any and all condemnation of those wretched, society-begotten, Church-bastards and home-dragons that have ﬂourished in our faces their virtuous parchments and marriage-certiﬁcates by which they have performed the deed. It bespeaks the wrath of God to fall with terrible vengeance on this accursed system, which does for one movement give shelter to a horde of Christian barbarians. Never mind, little girl out there in VVilton; you are surely to be avenged. Some of your sisters are on their knees to you, and if you will forgive as Christ forgave, and if you will see that in God’s name there are women all over the land praying for forgiveness. from you, and such as you, maybe (oh, Christ; grant it) you will save yourself, and will wipe out the stain which those Wilton women have heaped on us, not with tar which they poured out on you, but through the loathsome hypoci isy and scurrilous purity which they have made blacker than it ever was, and by the side of which their tar and feathers is as white as a basket of new-blown daisies. I am not ashamed of the horde of prostitutes who live amid the reeking pestilenceoozing up out of our social hells; these things are the ulcers born and bred in the bone and ﬂesh of false and corrupting, social wickedness; but I am ashamed of women, of the thousands who stand represented to-day by that band of Wilton thieves and girl traducers, who unblush- ingly ride in “ palace cars ” to their trial, for an outrage upon one of their own sex, and one whom their own brothers and sons have helped to put where she was~—a defenseless child, formed by society, molded by its selﬁshness and its greeds, to be the tool of those*young men. Many an hour of mental anguish has swept over my soul since I have been made to see that the fruits of our social system are apples of Sodom. ' It has been the bitterest draught I ever tasted. And do you, readers of the WEEKLY, fall into line and curse this damnable outrage. If it were my daughte1'——-almost as defenseless, for she is bereft, too, of a home and a mother; if it were my pretty, loving, unsus- * pecting child living in a State where public opinion is the same, and the spurious religion preached in the churches the same; where even her own father would forsake her if she should commit that one unpardonable sin—my pretty child,. only sixteen; were it she, would I stop with a “ God damn them?” No! Iwould seek to hurl at them, and at society which has begotten them, the last drop of vengeance which heaven holds. “ God is love,” but He is also justice; and of him it is written: “ Vengeance is-mine ; . I will repay.” . May God spare you, sister,,to swear, in the name of a.justice- loving God, as long and as terribly as you will! Sound your bugle-blast, and “Nash” your teeth at whom you will; In thing but womanlyf aithfulness, and none but women who kg». .3-—— > .:5‘$,‘ _ , M June 26, 1875. woonnutt & CLAFLIN’S w,naKLr= ‘ are willing to be cruciﬁed, can turn this deadly sirocco of in- justice into the birthday of a new Christianity, and a new Christian brotherhood and sisterhood. ’ G od bless you! Cnannorrrn Bassoon. 2,210 MOUNT VERNON Srnnnr, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Ems. W"oodhu.ll——You will please ﬁnd inclosed another installment from me toward helping to keep alive the’ best paper published in America, and one which deserves to be handsomely sustained, notwithstanding I think you are -sacriﬁcing yourlife for a set of ungrateful and unappreciative wretches. Yes, I shall continue to subscribe as long as I can raise the necessary amount, even if it be for no other purpose than to secure Helen Nash’s letters, which are worth more than double the price of subscription. I say more than double; I beg her pardon; they are above price. May her life be spared and her pen sustained for many, many years, is the profound prayer of your humble servant, S. T. , SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 4, 1875. - Wononsrnn, Mass., June 9, 1875. DearVictorict——-I have read the WEEKLY for some time, and the more I read the better I like it. My heart is filled with love for you. May the Lord shower blessings upon you in recom- pence for what you have done for poor oppressed woman. You have done immense good; you do not know how much. You have opened t-he eyes of ‘thousands of women to things that they never dreamed of before. We had thought all along that our government had emancipated all of her slaves, but it is not so; we have been fooled all this time, and I have , just found it out. Millions of the best part of God’s creation are still in legal slavery, and we might have been there to all eternity if it had not been for you. Now that we have got our eyes opened we are going to work a female revolution; will tear this old rotten government‘ into rags. We’ll climb to the top of the capital, and in the words of Patrick Henry shout, “ Give us liberty or give us death.” Yours Was the voice that ﬁrst sounded the alarm; yours the pen that sent the lightning ﬂashes of truth forth to the world. We are now ready for the work, and nothing earthly or heavenly shall -stand in our _way. Husbands, children and lap-dogs clear the track!” The State can take the children, Bergh the dogs, and the husbands can go to grass, like old king Nebu- chadnezzar, for our watchword is victory or death. - SYBIL S. BARLOW. - -:-v.._;~ ;..- .. A SERMON. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s tezth are set on (dge.~B1BLE. But how about the mothers? Do they never eat sour grapes or help to edge the children’s teeth? Yea, verily, verily; but since woman has been regarded and treated as a mere appendage to man——a necessary evil—she is not men- tioned or considered as a factor, or as having any efficient or determining part in the matter of the condition of the chil- dren’s teeth or any other of their characteristic conditions. It was all he or mam'sm, as in theology, so-called, all the gods and devils are he ones; a very jug-handled affair. But the mother, whether she is recognized or not, has to do and much to do, is deeply concerned or involved in the matter of the state or condition of her children’s teeth, and all their other conditions of life, oftentimes far more than the father. It does not mean-—-at least, we do not regard it in that light—that the father or mother, or both, set their children’s teeth on edge by eating sour grapes after the children are born and are growing up to manhood or womanhood; but it has reference to the condition of the parents at the time the children are conceived, at which time, by the transmission of those very ante-natal conditions, not only are the conditions - of their teeth determined, but also the condition of all the other parts or organs and faculties of their being. The semi- nal or sexual secretions that were united by sexual com- merce, and resulted in the conception of each child’, were derived from all the parts, faculties and functions of the 7 whole being of each parent, and the conceptivelunion em- bodied or faithfully represented all the peculiar or particular characteristics of both parents, whether of love, lust, hate, murder, theft, union or opposition,‘ each and all were repre- sented; so that the child, so and then conceived, is, or be- comes, a living and embodied developing history of the con- dition of its parents, or a picture of their condition, to be de- veloped by time and circumstances. ; Are the parents ‘pure, healthy, harmonious, lovely and loving, each the other, with a pure, divine love; symmetri- cal and beautiful in form, and graceful in appearance at the time of conception——the child, as it grows‘ and develops, will tell the joyful tale and no mistake. Were the condi- tions of the -parents the reverse of all the above——then the child will be a living, truthful, developing tell-tale of the sad facts. Not only its teethpbut its whole being will be set on edge, and the ragged edge. Sour parents beget sour chil- dren, with teeth set on edge. “ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean one?” Do sweet waters ﬂow from a bitter b‘ fountain ? From beautiful fountains bright streams ﬂow; from blend- ed lives dlVll16, a perfect soul, crowned with love, can grow, 0 and never know aught of crime or what spur-edged teeth mean. - Could parents, or those intending or even desiring to be- come such, realize that this is the state of the case, and they ,-have any divine regard for the welfare of their offspring, or of humanity, how careful would they be as ‘to what kind of grapes they eat, whether sweet or sour. In other words, Whether they are in right conditions, free from base, foreign - elements of being that would mar the beauty, loveliness and divinity of their offspring. . Let children be rightly, divinely and properly generated, and they will need no regeneration by sacriﬁcial atonement. But to be~so generatedthe parents must be free at the time of their generation from the presence and effects of all kinds of sour grapes. Then neither the teeth nor any part of their children will be set on edge. And this, we affirm, is the true and only true basic point at or from which any and all true and real, lasting and efficient improvement of the human or any other race of beings can begin, and be carried on by natural, normal and divine means. , . The parental dict must be of sweet grapes in order that a sweet unedged-toothed humanity may be generated, or chil-- dren so begotten that they can and will surely be developed up to a natural and normal manhood andwomanhood. May the day be hastened, in its own ‘good time, when the hosts of the spirit spheres shall be heard, saying with loud voices, “" Glory to God in the highest, for there is peace, love-.- free love—-purity and good-will among all the inhabitants of earth;”‘ when all the inhabitants‘ of the universe shall be indeed one great, harmonious, peaceful divine family. Amen and amen. DAVID M1L~Ls. Hammonton, New Jersey. . . ABOUT THE BIBLE. Editor of Woodlilill rt Claﬂin’s Weekly—By your last paper it appears that some persons do not read your recent edi- torials because they savor of the Scriptures, Jewish and Christian. To me that is more matter of sorrow than sur- prise. I wish your articles on the Bible could be, as the Methodist Bishops say of their Book of Discipline,j“ read, marked, learned and inwardly digested” by everybody. From a lecture of mine, delivered two or three years ago in Cincinnati, and published in the city newspapers, I select the following paragraph, which is at your disposal if you deem it worthy a place in your well-ﬁlled but too scanty columns: “ I said, in reading the Scripture passages which form the point of departure for this discourse, that my complaint and criticism of all our interpretations and commentaries are that everything is made to relate to or depend on a future, existence away over in other and unknown worlds. That is why the Bible is so undervalued by many of the noblest men and purest women in this world, and the most intelligent too as well as the best. But the Book will yet appear one of .mighty meaning and power when the true reader and inter- preter shall appear to unloose its seals. Much, if not most of it, was writtenthrough spiritual mediumship, and it is both shame and sorrow that so few spiritualists seem to know anything about it. For, as the poor Australian wandered for ages over the shining gold of his native soil, all unconscious of its presence and priceless worth, so the Jewish and Chris- tian Churches, priesthoods and all are blind to the treasured riches which lie buried in what they proudly call the Word, the oracles of God. They have found there Sabbaths and sacriﬁces, ceremonies, circumcisions, baptisms, sacraments, unity and trinity of Godhead, and other mystery and ‘mum- mery about heaven and angels, hell and devils, and ever- lasting ﬁre and brimstone, away in unknown space and time. All these they have found, but they have not found that the history and biography of the holy and brave men and women of those periods are sacred and immortal, a divine inspira- tion, because they, like the abolitionists and other true re- formers of our time, took their stand outside the prevailing religions and churches, away from the respectabilities and reverends of the popular pulpits, and earned their crowns, and many martyrdoms, by rebuking sin in high ‘places and low places, in State, church, pulpit, all alike.” I will add; no more from the lecture; but will say in apology for those who so dislike the Bible and your late articles re- lating to it, that they and all of us have been most fearfully misled and deceived concerning it. It has been made an idol, a fetish not to be read and studied, and tested and judged as other books, but blindly believed and adored, the priesthood its sole interpreters, and they as divine as their God. - , When the abolitionists attacked Southern slavery, the clergy threw down the Bible before them in their march, exclaiming: “Drive over that if you dare !” “ There is our warrant for slavery; :there, in Old Testament and New, it’s breeding, and buying, and selling and driving, and work- ing of slaves, and sending them back to the whipping—p’osts, manacles and branding-irons of their Christian masters, when ’ they seekto escape by ﬂight!” And so with temperance and every moral reform. - V ' H . ' And so with every scientiﬁc advance, as well, from Coper- nicus exploring the heavens above, to Columbus scanning, and spanning the earth beneath. The Bible, in the hands of an ignorant, or bigoted, or hypocritical priesthood, must be cap- tured and conquered before any real progress can be made or victory won. That is one grand reason why so many of the best and most intelligent as well as virtuous men and women have come to hate the Bible, and whatever pretends or pro- fesses to be based upon it. . A - But it is coming to be better understood. New readers, new interpreters, are arising, and new meanings and truer are rapidly being unfolded. So let the brave WEEKLY hold on its way.’ PARKER PILLSBURY. [As an illustration of the manner in which the railroad, and most other public interests of the country are conducted, we publish the following-EDs.] . BURLINGTON, CEDAR RAPIDS AND MINNESOTA RAIL WAY COMPANY. Mr. J ohn I. Blair has published a circular in relation to his connection with the above named road, which has called forth another from Fred. Taylor, as Chairman of Bondhold- er’s Committee. It seems, by Mr; Blair’s account, that he represents a ﬂoating debt of an Iron company, which two years since sold to the Railroad company $400,000 worth of iron on credit, receiving as security for payment a large amount of bonds of the division for which the iron was bought. The misfortunes following nearly all Western roads did not spare this. Mr. Blair, as representative of the Iron company, secured two other gentlemen named Blair from New Jersey, and Messrs. Moses Taylor and VVil1iam E. Dodge to become‘ directors, himself l?resident,~whic,h gave ample assurance to the ownefa of the roads that at least cm}. debt would be paid. k Though Mr. Blair frankly shows the property is almost worthless, and doubtless bondholders and stockholders will gladly yield it into the hands of men so exclusively respecta- ble, to divide what, if any, surplus is leftjafter the Iron com- » pany is paid, Mr. Blair says the only interest to himself and friends was “stock transferred to make them directors," " and thus take care of the property for bond and stockhold- ers.” Here is a “superﬂuity” of generosity, benevolence and pure, undeﬁled, disinterested-goodness. Let us see why Fred. Tay1or’s committee behave like unruly school boys, who ﬁnd fault with masters for doing in their behalf what the inexperience of youth renders im- possible. Here are the “Divisions.” Main line, Burlington to Austin . . . . . . . . . . ..261 miles. Milwaukee—-Cedar Rapids and Postville. . .100 “ Paci.lic——Vinton to Traer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Z5 “ Muscatine--Muscatine to Nichols . . . . . . . . . .. “ Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 miles. Fred Taylor’s circular to bondholders claims that Mr. Blair A and the Iron 00. hold only the bonds of the Paciﬁc division, 2:’) miles, for their iron. This leaves to other parties, Brown. Jones St Smith, 393 miles; and it is here that Fred Taylor and his bondholders begin to scratcl: their usually dull pates, and “ Want to know you know,” if this road owes an iron com- pany in New York $400,000, and a debt for labor of $1,000,000, does it follow that the men who represent the $400,000 should be placed in a position where they certainly pay themselves first; and our property represents, according to Mr. Blair, over $4,000,000, at only $10,000 a mile? 0 The question is answered yes. “You bondholders have allowed an immense property to be handled in at wretchedly loose manner. It is doubtful even if Mr. Clews has evervbeen over the road. What else could be expected? One point i\Ir. Fred Taylor omits, natural enough perhaps, as he and his firm are fairly subjected to criticism for loaning money on a road under such questionable management. But what can we say of the Iron Company who sells its iron on credit to a road which has never merited nor has received a general credit either in Wall street or anywhere else; and yet John I. ' Blair, the sharpest railroad manager, pow erccellence, in America, sanctions a sale of $400,000 on an unﬁnished division of 25 miles to this, at that time, very ricketty road? , I CUI BoNo? Lnnknon, Me., June 7, 1875. I have a new demand for the WEEKLY. The farmers come - for it to hang up in their corn-ﬁelds to scare the crows from pulling the corn. It is a terror to evil-doers. Is this the reason Beecher 8: Co. are afraid of it? Please explain. I DANIEL Woon. SOME of the women are in ecstasies over the pull back I style of the dresses nowadays. Says one of ’em: “ VVoman has certainly evoluted a little out of theoriginal sin. At last you see, in broad daylight, her legs, her arms, her whole natural shape. but progress is our watchword, and the eye of prophecy be holds, in a future Eden, woman robed in a garment which will allow the free action of all the organs, for all are ‘ honor- able.’ Therefore, rejoice with me that my sex once more dares to show Adam the woman-—not a bundle of rags, but, A the form divine in its beauty and grace; and pray with me” that the day is not far distant when the legs, now tied back, A be emancipated, the arms, now trussed like abaked fowl, be allowed to move to the melody of bodily motion, and,through,—.;... . A ' the recovered laws of health. a new woman-coiistitution] formed, to which she. shall cling with Andy Johnson tenacity,‘ A or ever and ever.” Amen.-Exchange. How SHE CALLnn.——Yesterday noon, as ‘a Sixtlj_?g;tr{aél:;-hmgn was digging in his garden, his wife appeased aliftiie ,iiaos.aiia shouted: A " :‘ ‘~'7j'f'-‘ ‘" 5 * “Come, you old fraud—-—come in to dinner!” As he did not come, she opened the door pretty soon, and ' yelled: g “ Hain’t you comi1ig.to dinner, you blasted _She saw a neighbor in the garden along with her husband, and ﬁnished: ' “ old darling you l”~—Detro‘£t Free Press. A FERRYMAN, while plying over a water which was oifly slightly agitated’, was asked by a timid lady in his boat whether any persons were ever lost in that river. “Oh, no,’ ’ said he, “ we always finds ’em agln the next day.” H A. COUPLE of disputatious neighbors were contending as to which is the oldest business in the world, when the wife of one of them, with her babe in her arms, s/ilenced them by de- claring that the oldest business in the world is ‘the nursery business. “NUMBERS is what does the business,” shouted a man who lives on_ Mechanic street. “ When. my wife is alone, I can reason with her and run things to suit myself, but when her mother is around, I am not even a stockholder in the con- cern.” t * “ STAY,” he said, his right arm round her waist‘-and her face expectantly turned to him. “ Shall it be the kiss pathetic, ' sympathetic, graphic. paragraphic, Oriental, intellectual, parcxysma-l, quick and dismal, slow and unctuous, long and A tedious. d6V0l&i0Ila1. 01' What?” She said perhaps that would be the better way. 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(‘NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1875." PERSONAL ANI) SPECIAL. Mrs. Woodhtill and Miss Claﬂin will be at home, at No 26 East Fiftieth street, after 12 o’clock daily, to their friends and to the friends of the truth, let it- be what it may and lead where it may.‘ The office of the paper will be at its old quarters, 111 Nassau street, Room 9. THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE; OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. .For ve have seen his star in the East, and we are come to Worshi I1.‘-.111.-—tT. MATTHEW, ii., 2. This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- , sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants‘ of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself. «we adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work, and as symbolizing the possession by man of the whole truth, which we hope and trust may be shortly realized. .\v ' INSPIRATION AND EVOLUTION. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is proﬁtable for doc- trine, for _i-eprooi’, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.—2 TIMOTHY, iii., 16. ' ' ' - Having made known to us the mystery of his-will according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself, that in the dispensa- tion of the-fulness of times He might gather together in one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in h1m.—ErnEsIANs, i., 9 and 10. - The word has gone out of my mouth and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall sware, surely shall say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength; even to Him shall men come, and all that are incensed against Him shall be ashamed.-Isauii, xlv., 23 and 24. . But every man in his own order.——1 CORINTHIANS, xv., 23. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.——1 CORINTHIANS, xv., 19. able to bear it; neither yet now are ye able.-1 CORINTIIIANS, iii., 2. I have planted; Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.-1 CORIN- THIANS, iii., 6. . The night is far spent, and the day is at haI1d.—ROMANS, xiii., 12. The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.—ST. MAT- THEW, viii., 33. Watch. therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord shall come.- ST. MATTHEW, xxiv., 42 . A First the blade, then the car; after that the full corn in the ear.—ST. MARK, iv., 28. ’ ' _An%the Gospel must ﬁrst be published among all nations.-—ST. llfank, xii1., . » THE TRUTH A TERRIBLE THING. We are in receipt of numerous letters asking us to hasten to tell the whole truth~—that is, to reveal, ﬁnally, the mystery of God hidden in Jesus Christ since the foundation of the world. To this we reply, that they who make these requests do not know what they ask, and we should be culpable for recklessly giving this terrible thing to the public without ihaving ﬁrst fully prepared the way for its reception. A pleasantjtasting poison in the hands of -those who know noth- ing of its virtues and potencies, would be no more danger- ous to them, in regard to the loss of physical life, than would be the possession of this mystery to those who are not prepared to make the proper use of it, upon their hopes of eternal life for both body and soul. This mystery has been given to us, and we know its fearful import; and we know also that we have no right to force its terrible responsibilities upon anybody, to say nothing about forcing it upon those who do not seek it, without ﬁrst explaining what these responsibilities are, and warning those who do desire it, that to have it and not to live it is to commit the unpardonablc sin which cannot be forgiven either in this world or in the world to come. This is the truth that Pilate sought from Jesus and was refused; this is the truth about which Jesus spake when he said to his disciples: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables (and in this way must we speak yet a little longer); this is the truth that Nicodemus asked when he demanded to know what it was to be born again, to which Jesus, instead of replying, merely repeated his previous statement: “Marvel not that I said unto you ye must be born again.” Jesus knew that Nicodemus was not ready to adopt and live this truth, therefore he knew also that he ought not to give it to him. What this birth is, John tells us more explicitly in chapter i., verses 12 and 13: “ But as many as received him to them gave He power to of the will of the ﬂesh; but of God.” Paul also said to the Corinthians (1, iii., 1 and 2): “ And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto Spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.” “I have fed you with milk and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able tobear it, neither yet now are ye able.” _ Paul also said (001. iv., 3 and 4): “Withall praying for us’ that God open unto us a door of utterance to speak the mysterygof Christ, for which I am also in bonds, that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.” Jesus, at another time, said to his disciples: “Cast not your pearls before swine lest they turn and rend you.” We refer to all this to show that there was a truth hidden in Christ that Jesus did not teach to the people generally; that he revealed to none save to Peter, James and John, when he took them up into the mountain and was transﬁgured before them; to Paul, through the “Spirit of Truth,” after his (Paul’s) conversion; and to John, on Patmos; a truth that is hidden even to this day, to be now, or soon, given to the world as the end of time approaches- a truth upon which hangs the entire hope of all the world for eternal life; for without it the end of time will surely come with destruction‘ to all, and will certainly come in the same way to those who do not receive itwhen it shall be given. THE BIBLE nasal) ON onowrii. We are aware that the question will at once be asked: If this is such an important thing; if the very existence of man, even spiritually (as it does), is endangered by its beingﬁconcealed, why did not Jesus reveal it at once? The reply to this is very easy and extremely simple, and upon it hangs the full explanation of the subject standing at the head of this article—Inspiration and Evolution. It has been claimed that the doctrines of the Bible totally disfavor the theory, of evolution; but we reply, that this is an utter mistake; that, on thecontrary, it is based wholly upon that _theory. The vital truth contained, though sealed up,~.in the Bible is a truth that could not be accepted in the age in which Jesus lived. The world had not evolved socially. and spiritually enough to make it possible for that truth to be lived by the body then. A long course of social and ‘spiritual growth was requisite before it could be realized in the life of humanity. Even the Apostles, to whom it was , communicated by Jesus, did not have eternal life, because I have fed you with milk and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not ~ become the sons of God; which were born not of blood nor. June 26, 1875. they could not live it. That was the reason why Paulwas a bachelor, and why he said: “It is good not to touch a woman.” In the light of this new truth, when given to the World, it will be seen that Paul was right. It is this part of the truth that the Oneida Perfectionists attempt to live, although they do not hold to Paul’s literal words in this re- _ spect, if they do to the word of J ohn,whicl1 apparently con- demns the emission of seed, which is one—half only of this great mystery; and, because one-half only, the worst kind of an error; an error that like the sin itself is death. Jesus was the only person who ever lived who had the power in him to live this truth; and it is for the reason that He did live it, that He was the Son of God, and, being the only one, also the only begotten Son of God. In this He was the beginning of the new dispensation. He saidthe old—-the Mosaic——was fulﬁlled in Him, “I came 1101; to destroy, but to fulﬁll ;” and He did fulﬁllthe dispensation of law, and usher in the newer and higher dispensation of freedom individually, to which the world to-day is just be. ginning to attain, having since His time grown so far away from the old dispensation of law that many are really ready to enter into the new one of love, the door to which is freedom. ~ The old has been virtually continued in practice until now. The Ten Commandments are the basis of our present social system. An eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, and life for life still rule the world in so-called Christian laws, although Christ came to precisely reverse this order of law, and to replace it by the law of love which Christians even have not yet accepted, while those who have most nearly adopted this new law have, to a very great extent, rejected Christ, because they do not yet see how Christ is really the Saviour; but they will see when the mystery is unveiled, and that clearly. THE DUAL uETiIoDs. So it is not the Bible that denies the theory of growth, but those who have claimed that they are the rightful inter- preters of its seeming contradictions. The Bible itself is a marvelous history of growth, and as clearly indicates that growth is the natural order of creation as it is possible to indicate it by language, used by people who were not yet instructed in the scientiﬁc methods of investigation. None of the prophets, to whom God gave visions of the future, knew anything about evolution or science; but they related what they saw spiritually.‘ In these latter days, when sei- ; ence has obtained so great development, the same things can be stated in scientiﬁc language instead of in inspirational terms. _ Inspiration and science are the two methods which make the whole, and respectively stand for spirit and matter -God and Nature. God speaks to man, independently of Nature, inspirationally; but He speaks to him through na- ture’s laws-—scientiﬁcally, methodically. A person may know everything inspirationally, as Jesus did, and know nothing or next to nothing about science; or a person may know everything in nature, scientiﬁcally, and know nothing about inspiration, as is illustrated by the positions of many of the scientists to-day who have said, “,,There is no God;” because they cannot handle Him, weigh Him and reduce Him. They might just as well assert that there is no indi- vidualized human life, because they can no more handle, weigh or reduce this life than they can do the same to God. It is a part of God, and when they analyze any part of the human body or anything in nature, they are not handling what they seem to handle, but in reality they are hand- ling God, that is, His feminine half, from which the other half departs before they can begin their scientiﬁc investiga- tion. Death stands cverywliere between man and his search for God outside of self. . God is dual in nature. He is male and female, and so is man; since He made them male and female, although the male man has attempted to deny her inheritance to female man, and to assume to be the Great I Am. This has grown out ‘of the improper recognition (or the want of any recogni- tion) of the dual character of God which, from the very na- ture of man, ought to have been so clear as to be imposible, of misconception. Inspiration relates to God and to the in- terior, or the real, life of man; while science relates to mat‘ ter or to the exterior, or the seeming, life of man. At bot- tom, however, these two are one, as God and matter are one at bottom. ’ , But man could not recognize this until he had grown to, an intellecual comprehension of the truth; for the interior or the concealed life could not ﬁnd expression through the exterior or the revealed life, until that life had come into a unity with the interior. It was these two lives, two natures, that Paul recognized withinhim, warring against each other; and that Beecher recognizes within himself, in the same con- dition. The very recognition, however, being the evidence that the two were very nearly in harmony in these persons, because the former could not be recognized. by the latter, until the latter had grown nearly to a full comprehension of the former. This process of growth is God’s method of reconciling the world to himself; in other words—in the lan- guage of to-day-—is growth or evolution. The materialistic scientists of the present day make Worse blunders than the inspirational men of any age have ever made; because they use the inspirational method, and call it scientiﬁc. Science relates to thepast and present;'when‘ ever it is made use of to indicate the future, it is no longer scientiﬁc, or methodical, but pmphetic and inspirational Meteorologists predict the weather’. But that isn’t science; that is prophecy in the same sense that every foretelling is L.;__-.1 *3.“ . v..;.-:§ T3,-.. . ti. June 26,- 1875.. prophecy. When the architect plans a new structure of any kind, he ﬁrst obtains the ideas intellectually, which is purely inspirational; he then _works tl1e inspiration out, and this is scientiﬁc. This is just the truth about the inspirations of the Bible, which have been all these long years working them- selves out, orbeing fulﬁlled, in nature. The prophetic souls of the prophets being in harmony with the Divine Mind, were inspired of that Mind to predict—predicate—the future, which predictions in the long growth through‘ nature, are now about to be realized in the life of man. Hence, the _ inspiration of the Bible, and the general growth of the world, in and out of man, bear the same relation to each other that the conception and performance of every smaller thing, by man, bear to each other. < MosEs, DANIEL, crrnrsr AND Jor-IN. The laws which Moses gave were the highest that the people then could live, but the prophets of his time saw a better era coming. Jesus came and gave a new law: “That ye love one another,” whibh was a law that the best only could live then, while he in turn gave notice of another and - still higher dispensation, when all should be reconciled to God, the beginning of which time is now at hand; is at hand because the new law that can alone make this reconciliation possible has been given to be made known to the world. This will complete the creation of man or make it perfect, because it will make him what God and Nature set out to make-—an individuality in His Own Image, having com- mand over the world beneath him, from which he sprang. This command of nature means superiority to it. Man is now and ever has been in abject_ bondage to nature, since it commands him rather than the contrary. He has to obey its laws, and after all dies a failure at the end. But the last enemy shall be destroyed, and that is death; and when it is destroyed, then the creation of man, which all these countless ages has been going forward, will have been com- pleted. _ ‘This redemption is the life and immortality which Jesus came _to bring to light, and it was brought to light; this is what the Prophet Zachariah heard the Lord say in these words: “ Be ye not as your fathers. Turn from your evil ways. Your fathers, where ~ are they? And the Prophets, do they live forever?” Jesus said, “He that keepeth my saying (not sayings) shall never see death.” Nor will those who keep his saying ever see death, since that saying is the mystery of God hidden in Christ, which is soon to pe given to the world, because the world is able to receive it now. By this the world will be saved from death, to which men have always been subject, not living forever, as the Lord said to Jeremiah; not seeing death as Jesus said. Everywhere in the Bible this sealed, this hidden meaning is spoken of as “the mystery of God.” In Revela- tions, x., 7, we read: “But in the days -of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall be ﬁnished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” Now, what did he declare to the prophets? The seventh chapter of Daniel informs us fully as follows: “.But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the end of time; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” “ Then I Daniel looked, and behold there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.” “And the one said to the man clothed in linen which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders ?” . “And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by Him that liveth for- ever, that it shall be a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people all these things shall be ﬁnished.” . “And I heard, but. Iunderstood not; then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?” “And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.” I A Now this prophecy was written, so some of the best chro- nologists have said, 534 years B. C. Add to this number the 1875 years of the Christian era, and 2,405 years of the 2,500 which is the time, times and an half of the prophecy, have already expired. We are aware, however, that this chronology may be erroneous. Some chronofbgists make the end of time in the great 1890. The Millerites have set it frequently already, but it has so far failed to come, at least as they anticipated it was to come. Spiritualists say the end of time was marked by the ﬁrst rap. But this we may know: When the book is unsealed then the end of time will come shortly, and the day of the resurrection and judgment, (whatever that may mean being a part of the mystery also); and immediately the new heaven and the new earth, shown by Jesus to St. John the Divine on Patmos; also “the holy‘ city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husbemd,” also, “apure river of water of life,’’ and the tree of life which yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” 4 ’ THE GARDEN OF EDEN; AND THE RIVER OF BLOOD. Now, the river that Daniel saw, was the same that ‘J ohn saw, and is the river of life—-the great river Euphrates of the Bible, which, since the fall of man, has ‘been turned to blood,—menstruation. This river, however, John saw turned \returned) to “ a pure river_o‘f water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of Cred,” “in the midst of which was the tree of life, which yielded her fruit monthly ”-—- of the nations.” The garden which God planted in Eden was the garden in which He purposed to, and has, grown (raised), or evolved man, and it was the departure of Adam —-universal man——and Eve-——universal woman—-from the purity of their sexual natures, that cursed the ground which God set man to “keep,”_ but which in the last d_ays——the days just preceding the end of timc‘—“is to be redeemed and restored to its original condition of purity, so that sons and daughters of God may be born, as Christ was born, and man relieved from the terrible process through which, since Adam, he has been compelled to go, to attain to purity and to life eternal. Christ was “the ﬁrst fruits” of this resur- rection from the death -brought upon the world by our ﬁrst parents. The next fruits will be those who are His “at His coming,” which is at hand, “but every man in his own or- der,” that is, as each reaches to the condition by growth ; as Paul expressed it, so that none are lost, for of all that were given to Christ “ he will lose none,” though thousands of years of life in “ outer darkness ”-—the spirit——may be the penalty which thousands may have to suffer before they ‘obtain eternal life in,. or by, the resurrection. SUMMARY. There is as common illustration that will clearly show the relations of inspiration to evolution: To the student in the ﬁrst principles of mathematics a statement of an algebraic problem is a mystery; but after perhaps years of diligent application, he reaches forward to and solves the problem. Then it is no longer a mystery. So with the inspirationally stated problem of the Bible mystery. It is a mystery because the students of the Bible are still delving among its ﬁrst principles, and their minds are incapable of grasping the immense problem gontained in the algebraic statementof the mystery of God, which bears the same relation to Bible students that. the famous problem in Euclid bears to the young student -in mathematics. The difficulty against the Bible in this comparison is that it is falsely held to be a problem capable of being understood by undeveloped reli- gious intellects; while mathematics is a progressive science which everybody knows must be apprehended by degrees. The last and crowning problem cannot be solved until each previous step that leads toward it has been taken; it is the cap—stone of the dome, the approach to which is by the con- tinuous stairway, up which we must toil step by step. So it is with the crowning mystery of God. To love one another was a mystery to the Jews in Moses’ time. To love God remains a mystery until this day. The world has been growing toward it continually, and some one will arrive there ﬁrst, then he and she (since it must be two in one) can demonstrate the truth to those who follow, and thus assist them to attain the goal. I That this comparison may not be misunderstood, and that it may have its true force and application, although its fac- tors are in different departments of life, we say, by way of explanation, that the law. of evolution which makes growth the method by which intellectual altitude is reached, is also the law by which physical development goes forward; the perfected creation of man and his consequent salvation from death being physical and not moral, as has been falsely taught by almost the whole of Christendom. It is physical perfec- tion that must be attained to secure eternal life, and it is just this that the hidden mystery of the Bible will teach us how to gain. With a perfect physical body—man reconciled to God~—alljother perfections follow as its fruit, necessarily. The opposite proposition to this is the stumbling-block over which all Christians have fallen; they have given all their attention to saving the soul hereafter, when this salvation depends en- tirely upon saving the body here and now. Is it not clear, therefore, that inspiration and evolution are just what we have endeavored to show them to be? Are not the purposes of God; as stated by inspiration in the Bible, being outwrought in nature through growth or evolu- tion? And do not all the prophecies of the Bible, and especially the mission of- Christ, necessarily involve the de- velopment of society from the material to the spiritual plane? It seems to us that nothing can be clearer. It was not then or now that His mission was to be fully completed (it begun then, and is well developed now); but in “ the dispensation of the fullness of times.” What grander statement of the dispensation, this fullness of times, this end of time, will come to every’ person when he or she shall have attained eternal life in the body, which is the redemption by and through Christ, and the resurrection from the death in which all die in Adam, which resurrection is the being made alive in (or like to) Christ. Inspiration is the higher or the spiritual method of arriving at truth, which, in the full- ness of time, is developed through growth or evolution. Evolution is the reconciliation of the world to inspiration, as eternal life is the reconciliation of man to God, which is the At~One-Ment between God and man! +5.4 7v THE UNITED LABORVANGUABD. Those of our readers who are interested in this organiza- tion, the objects and aims of which were fully set forth in our issue of April 10, 1875, We would refer for later infor- mation in regard to its success and prospects to John T. Elliott, W. N. Rec., whose present address is 213 Fifth street, rear house, New York City, insteadnf the one given in the article referred to. ovulation-—“the leaves of which (tree) were for the healing ‘ and Samuel B. Wilkeson, the Life-of-Christ man. fact of growth could there be made than this? And this‘ WOODHULL & cr.ArLrN*s WEEKLY. p N 5 :5 VVE call attention to the novel scheme of Brother Moses and Sister Mattie to carry the Gospel tothe heathen, set forth in _ ’ their letter in another column. These two souls are in earnest, and are determined to stand by the truth as they see it against any and all opposition. ‘A year ago they were os- tracised everywhere, but their unyielding devotion is rap- idly winning them the respect that is their due. _If their hard lesson shall serve to teach reformers to appreciate the love of truth for its own sake (the truth to every one being what he sees it to be); then will their trials have been well rewarded. VVe -hope that their new adventure may be crowned with success, and that much good may be done in the name of “The Spirit‘ of Truth.” ‘ , THE principal feature of the Oneida Perfectionist’s theory is male continence in commerce, by which the begetting of ‘children is controlled. This is the negative side of a great truth; but after all it is the same principle practically as that which dominates in society generally, to wit: the prevention of children without restricting intercourse. Mr. Noyes’ theory is, therefore, really nothing more than a new phase of the present social system. I The new order of society, however, which will be based upon the newly-discovered truths which are to be revealed in the WEEKLY, will entirely reverse this practice, since the actionof the will will be brought into requisition fer the production, and not the prevention, of children. It will be seen at once that the action of the will aﬂirmatively, instead of negatively, is the natural order, which is seen exempli- ﬁed in all degreesof nature below man. And woman will never be emancipated from her present slavely, utterly, until pregnancy. like other things, is governed naturally by caus- ative, and not preventive, will-power; that is to say, chil- dren must be the result of a mutual desire for them on the part of both parents,‘ and the’ creative , act be entered upon to produce them. It will then be unnecessary to resort to unnatural methods of intercourse to prevent pregnancies, or to secondary means to destroy them when they result from what is now falsely supposed to be natural commerce. ' A A V vv- THE BROOKLYN BUSINESS. The public aspectof the Beecher scandal case has changed, materially, since the last issue. Outside of the tremendous revolution in the public mind caused by the able and, in most respects, judicious and well—timed speech of Mr. Beach, there have been two remarkable revelations that should have been made from the witness-stand. The Graphic of Friday last contained a lengthy interview with Mr. Frank Carpenter, the failure “to introduce the testimony of whom, by Mr. Tilton, called forth a cutting criticism from Mr. Evar-ts. The language of this wasso severe that Mr. Carpenter 1 resented it in the shape of this interview. Mr. Carpenter is vouched for by many prominent persons as a truthful and most honorable gentleman, and there can be no doubt that the substance of this interview is true. _ He not only testiﬁes that he was well aware of the nature of the offense charged against‘ Mr. Beecher by Mr. Tilton, but that Mr. Beecher knew that he knew it, and that it was adultery. He also says that Mr. Bowen knew all the circumstances,’ besides stating pretty clearly that Mr. Bowen has a matter of his own at issue with Mr. Beecher very similar in charac- ter to that made by Mr. Tilton. He also directly contradicts no less than six of Mr. Beeeher’s witnesses, among them H. B. Claﬁin, Oliver Johnson, Jackson H. Schultz, B. F. Tracey If Mr. Carpenter is correct, then these gentlemen did not tell the truth about what theyknew of the Beecher business. But in the Herald of Monday there came a terriﬁc thunderbolt against Mr. Beecher. A druggist of whom he purchased hydrocyanie acid, May 13, 1870, has been hunted up and has told his story to the Herald.’ reporter. Mr. Beecher consulted with him fully about the nature and action of poisons, and upon his recommendation purchased this deadly acid, the druggist never thinking for a moment that Mr. Beecher could use it for anylbad purpose. It will be remembered that Mrs. Moulton testiﬁed that on June 2, 1870, Mr. Beecher said he had poison on his table that he . That he had ‘ it, now seems quite evident, and goes a great way to con- ' intended to take if this scandal became public. ﬁrm Mrs. Moulton’s testimony, and to weaken Mr. Beecher’s. Moreover, there also appear two other witnesses who testify that, while they were in Mr. Tilton’s house in Octeber, 1869, at work laying carpets, they saw Mr. Beecher enter the house, and at the door embrace Mrs. Tilton in such a way as to arouse their curiosity. This led them to Watch him, which resulted in both of them seeing Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton in a such position as to leave no doubt about their relations. ' ‘ , The Herald would not dare to publish such stories unless they were entirely reliable; therefore,’ it may be expected that they may put entirely another face upon the trial. If the case should now be reopened, and this evidence introduced, there would be little doubt about the result with the jury. With the public at large, these disclosures will only conﬁrm the verdict already made. That they are having a marked effect upon Mr. Beecher, is clearly evident. ,_ After Mr. Bowen’s onslaught, he attacked him openly from Flymouth rostr-um. After Mr. Carpenter’s interview, he made a most violent and denunciatory speech against the press as a Whole, characterizing it as being hug. _ WEEKLY. v 3 A woonutr. & er.AELIN*swEEELY. ‘June 26, 1875. agry for ﬁlth. It was madness for a man in Mr. Beecher’s position to thus show the venom that stirs in his soul. Whateve1'1nay have been his previous characteristics, he has shown conclusively during this trial that the Christ spirit has no place in him. He does not stand, and, in the dignity which a consciousness of right always gives, defy them, but he shows that they sting him; shows that the darts hurled at him strike sore spots in his reputation. If Mr. Beecher had the Christ principle as a strong rule of action, let tl.e result of this trial be whatever it may, he might have emerged from its tribulations superior to anybody connected with it ; but that is nowgimpossible. He has been placed in the balance and found wanting; he has fallen when he might have risen, if he had made Christian use of his opportunities. There seems to be a fatality following him. All those who have defended him are coming to grief. After the most strenuous eﬁorts to shut out evidence from the stand, it now comes rolling onward, through the press, in resistless torrents, which, if it continue, will swamp the whole lot of them. ' ‘ . We have been reviewing the general aspect of this scandal from the‘ time in which it came ﬁrst to our knowledge, to see if we could educe any theory upon which to account for the almost continual stream of ill-starred fate that has followed Mr. Beecher. . It would seem that he had committed the unpardonable sin, that he should have fallen into such a "stream, and we are almost convinced that he has learned the mystery of God, toward whiéh we are tending in our leading articles, and has probably realized it in some of those with whom he has been thrown into contact, and afterward apostacized from the light, fearing either to live the truth or to preach it after ﬁnding it. ‘We are conﬁdent that some such solution to his singular course will some day come to light, probably with his justiﬁcation, which we are also con- ﬁdent he has already prepared’. Two years ago this scandal was sleeping, as almost every. body thought, the sleep -of death. Many of our friends ‘began tolcomplain that our expectations about its results were not to be realized. Some were even severe on us for our relations to it, all of which, we confess, began to shake us not a little in our‘ faith as to what we expected it to ac- complish. The Spirit assured us, however, that within a yearit would spring up, burst forth from a source which we did not expect, and that from this it would spread until . every fact in which Mr. Beecher was involved would come before the public; and then that it would extend into other churches until the shams of society——~popular religion and legal marriage—should sink under the damning evidences of irregularities and rottenness that should be brought to light, and the people be thus made ready to accept the new re- ligion which shall give them eternal life.. %-40_: < v“ ’ TO THE FRIENDS OF MRS. WOODHULL IN GREAT BRITAIN. Matthew Allison Orr, 11, The Terrace, Union Road, Clap- , ham, London, S. W., England, having been a subscriber to the 'WEEKLY for years, is desirous of forming an advanced party in London for the purpose of increasing the sale of the WEEKLY, and collecting subscriptions to assist in carrying on the work. Those who have friends in England are re- quested to put themselves in communication with Mr. Orr, in order that operations may be at once commenced. Sub- scriptions and contributions for the WEEKLY may be sent to him asabove, when the same will be acknowledged in the ‘ THE “I-‘IROMISED REFORMATION.” There are two ways of dealing with your opponent in a per- sonalfmatter. One is, justice to your opponent; the other, justice to yourself. The “robbing” to which Mr. Sterling refers, in the WEEKLY of June 19, and to me as a party to it, has reference to two brief sentences of mine in‘ the Crucible V of May 15. Mr. S. now openly, and with no explanation of what the censorious statement regarding myself, means, declares me as “ robbing” Mrs. Woodhull, and according to Stephen Pearl Andrews, “ what does not belong to him.” He further says, “I wrote Mrs. Barber a. severe letterfor her inconsistency, and in reply she owned up, and promises reformation, etc.” I simply and truthfully assert that I promised no “ reforma- tion” on any grounds but that of open-eyed justice to both Mr. Andrews and to Mrs. Woodhull. My reply to Mr. S. was an honest avowal of the facts as they had been given to me; and the letter, instead of beinga retraction, was atotal disre- gard of self in the matter, asking him (Mr. S.) to stand by his representations‘ of Mr. Andrews, which were marked by severest criticism , and reprehension of the philosopher’s social and moral status. I am not over half the age of J . M. Sterling, and I had heard merely that there was 9. “Pan- tarchy,“ which was as much a" mystery to me then as the wonders of the present social disclosures are to a youth of sixteen summers. I remember of drinking in this much—— that the “Pantarch ” was a. man, with an impossible scheme.‘ Mr. S. must remember that I was not so old or wise as he, when I entered Boston last winter, where I at once came into contact with a Pantarchy, with this renowned man, at its head. He was there double- freighted with philosophy and “ ﬁne presence.” He is a philosopher, with a cool head, and as a natural re- sult of his being there, and being listened to at Mr. Barker’s house at certain entertainments, styled “Friday evening receptions,” he was much lauded, and was more or less meas- ,,,.’,,,.1 withthe most brilliant woman of the age, Victoria C. Wogdﬁull. Every one knows, who ever read my articles in aha wggjmy, or who saw this same Crucible article to which Mr. S. refers, that I have said little or nothing of S. P. An 3 drews, but a great deal expressive of admiration and love for Victoria. Toward her, my sympathies have poured in a flood, and were she foremost among my enemies to—day, I should still speak praises which are due her. Of Mr. A. I knew little, and cared little. He is now, more than ever, absolutely nothing to me. The rumors to which he himself gave rise in Boston last winter, aided by the people who devoted themselves exclusively to him, so much so that there was a marked power exerted in behalf of Mr. Andrews, and unfavorable to Mrs. Woodhull during his stay there, were one and all summed up in his assumption of being, as far back as the commencement of Mrs. VVoodhull’s career, “the power behind the throne;’’ and even up to that time she was still acting from hints and impressions gathered from him. I once said to him: “She must be ocry receptive, un- usually so, to have lived, as it were, on your teachings such a length of time.” “Very,s~very,” he replied; “,the’m‘ost so of any person I ever met.” A , It is a matter of but very little moment to me whether or not Mrs. Woodhuli originated these ‘great and glorious revelations, before lying dormant and bid to human sight; and my acknowledgment, if I make any, to Mr. S., or to any person, is this: that I was remiss, and ask to be forgiven for forgetting to give God the glory that belongs only to Him in - this work He is now doing through humble instruments. I have long held to this conviction, but I now own to remiss- ness in stating fully my faith in the work as God’s work; proceeding directly from Him, through angelic inﬂuences, using the lips of a zealous and. I believe, honest woman, to “ open the eyes of the blind ” and lift up the wretched ones who ﬁrst are to seek repentance for sin, and receive forgive- ness through the Lord Jesus Christ. CHARLOTTE BARBER. '3 ’ “PAPA.” What is so; sweet as the baby’s voice- , “Papa, papa?” If of all music I had my choice, Pd choosezthe pure little ringing voice, ‘‘ Calling, cooing, ' Tender-ly wooing, I “ Papa, papa.” You wrong it by saying it’s like a bird—— ' “ Papa. papa?’ No soaring lark that you ever‘ heard, Or robin, or thrush, or bobolink—— Not even the nightingale, I think, Has a note so tender, so soft and true, A voice that so thrills us through and through, Calling, cooing, Tenderly wooing. “Papa, papa.” . Life has its sorrows-—they’re not to be missed-— Losses and pain; ' But when baby puts up her dear face to be kissed, Therc’s always a balance of joy in the scale; When I hear her sweet voice my heart cannot fail-- Calling, cooing, Tender-ly wooing, “ Papa. papal” . . —- W00cl’s Household Jllagazé-ne. N o. 4 CoNooRD SQUARE, Boston, June 1, 1875. Jlgfy Dear Mr's. Woodhull—I like your recent editorials on the sexual question and its relation to impending societary changes. I think I anticipate the views to which you are conducting your readers. . I My faith in you does not falter. The great revolution you have been the chief instrument in inaugurating still needs your inspiration and-energy. You seem to me now called to another phase of reform-labor——to sociological reconstruction. While the masses had but a faint conception of the logical is- sues of Protestantism as applied to the social sphere, you -fought the battle upon that issue; you contended for the neg- ative ground of freedom. You have been iconoclastic, a fo- menter of strife, a dlsturber of social quietude ;.but you have won the victory. What Luther was to religious freedom, what Cromwell and Sidney were to political freedom, that you have been tosocial freedom. Yet withal, freedom is only the negative ground; the «aNew Social Order awaits to be evolved, for which the inspiration of love and the rigorous exactitudes of science are required. ’ The world seriously in- quires to-day whether Victoria C. Woodhull is competent for this second and higher Work! I I have been mostly silent regarding your labors for the last year, partly for the reason that I have had my own deep valleys to pass through; my own struggles to encounter. In these, my dear Hope has participated, but the dawn of a more blessed day is now visible to us both, and we shall enter upon our future work with wiser heads and more consecrated hearts. 2 1 _ ._ With best wishesfor the trinity—yourself and Col. and Ten- nie——I am always your friend and co-worker. ‘ E. WHIPPLE. TO THE READERS OF THE7"TOLEDO SUN.” r Since coming to New York one edition of the Sun has been destroyed, and the second (June 12) prohibited the use of the mails by the post-ofﬂce authorities. Our subscribers will contemplate this invasion of their rights, and bear with us in our efforts to greet them with a radical newspaper. JOHN A. LA'NT, Editor Toledo Sun, A ' - 41 W. Twenty-sixth street, N. Y. BORROVVING TROUBLE. Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived; But what torments ofgrief you endured From‘ evils which never arrived! _ ' A ‘ [From the F’l‘€7t(,.‘7t.l _ The only way a young lady couldspell “molten” recently was M-o-u-1-t-o-n. ~ . i and 27th, 1875. BUSINESS EDITORIALS. , DR. SLADE, the eminent Test Medium, may be ‘foundlat his office, No. 18 West Twenty—ﬁrst street, near Broadway. PROF. LISTER, the astrologist, can be consulted at his rooms No. 329, Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829. AL_L'families and invalids should have Prof. Paine’s short- hand treatment of disease—a small book of forty pages Sent free on application to him at No. 232 North Ninth street, Phila, Pa. BOARD AND TREATMENT FOR INvALIns.—-No. 53 Academy street. Newark, N. J .——Dr. L. K. Coonley, clairvoyant, with long experience in all kinds of diseases, warrants satisfaction. " Uses medicines, plain and homo-electricity, and magnetism. Solicits correspondence. 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Refreshments will be furnished in the grove and hotels; Hacks will run in ’ connection with trains from State Line station, Ft. W. J. 85 S. R. R. Friends from a distance will be provided for to the extent of our ability. WM. BRYAN, President. M. MORGAN, Secretary. THE NORTHERN WIsooNsIN SPIRITUALISTS CONFERENCE will hold their Ninth Quarterly Meeting (for the election of officers and other business) in Spiritualists’ Hall, Omro, Wis., on June 25, 26 and 27, 1875. Let each one consider himself or herself responsible in making this meeting a grand success A free platform is maintained in Omro. Every effort will be made to entertain free all who may attend. Reduced rates at hotel for those who choose to .-‘mp there. Good speakers will be engaged for the occasion. Efforts are being made to secure the attendance of one or more good test mediums. Let there be a grand turn-out. DR. J. C. PHILLIPS,:fOI‘ the Society of Omro. DR. R. P. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-06-26_10_04
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-06-26_10_04
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 10, no. 05 (July 3, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2078
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-07-03
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: A v PROGRESS 2 Vol. X.——No. 5.-——VVl;ole No. 239. FREE THQUGET 2 UN’I‘RA.NIN[ELED LIVES! BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. NEW YORK, JULY 8,-1875. ‘I 31 PR1oE‘TEN CENTS. ’he:tmtth shall make you f7'ee.——JesuS. 51-“ 4.“-.m.~.suy.......~ II-0--1 .. Mprfhlt/ze ct'a3./s of the voice of themseventh angel, the my/ste7'y_ of God shall be _ft17Zt'8]l6CZ.--‘S17. John the Divine. I TV/tereof I was made a mz'm'ster to preach the any-,, searchable riches of 0/trist, and the mg/stery which from the heir/2'hm'ng of the world hath been but in G0cZ.——Paul. I go. w OH, “ VERITAS 1” AT HOME, J une 6, "75. Dear Wceklry—I-Iow often, since I perused the columns of the last number of our paper, have I echoed the wish of Burns—— A “ O, wad some power the gift’ie gie us, To see oursel’ as ithers see us.” Yet, at the same time, I could but reﬂect—-“ wise judges are we of each other!”—for here comes “Veritas ” after me with the hatefulest charge a man cah b...
Show moreA v PROGRESS 2 Vol. X.——No. 5.-——VVl;ole No. 239. FREE THQUGET 2 UN’I‘RA.NIN[ELED LIVES! BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. NEW YORK, JULY 8,-1875. ‘I 31 PR1oE‘TEN CENTS. ’he:tmtth shall make you f7'ee.——JesuS. 51-“ 4.“-.m.~.suy.......~ II-0--1 .. Mprfhlt/ze ct'a3./s of the voice of themseventh angel, the my/ste7'y_ of God shall be _ft17Zt'8]l6CZ.--‘S17. John the Divine. I TV/tereof I was made a mz'm'ster to preach the any-,, searchable riches of 0/trist, and the mg/stery which from the heir/2'hm'ng of the world hath been but in G0cZ.——Paul. I go. w OH, “ VERITAS 1” AT HOME, J une 6, "75. Dear Wceklry—I-Iow often, since I perused the columns of the last number of our paper, have I echoed the wish of Burns—— A “ O, wad some power the gift’ie gie us, To see oursel’ as ithers see us.” Yet, at the same time, I could but reﬂect—-“ wise judges are we of each other!”—for here comes “Veritas ” after me with the hatefulest charge a man cah bring against a woman who retains a spark of her sex’s sensibility. Dear WEEKLY, tell me, do I leave the impression that I am a man-hater, or is it the very coinage of the brain, that mas- culine ecstacy is very cunning in? Please come to my relief,’ you who know me face to face, and say you think “Veritas ” has had some tender spot oifended! I completely disarmed that -.“ other man,” who had drawn the erroneous inference that I am such an unsexed abortion as a female man-hater. And 0, “Veritas,” verily I would give much to disarm thee! - I don’t care so much about the rest of “ Veritas’ ” critique -—it may or may not be, just as he says; he views me from his standpoint, of course; but when he says that “all male readers ” are liable to call me that abominable thing, I almost feel “ Othello’s occupation’s gone!” VVhat shall I do to be saved, in the estimation of “ Veritas ”? . Perhaps I can redeem my jeopardized womanhood, in part, ' if I reply in all seriousness to his serious communication to me personally, with the charge of “ man-hater ” left out. Let me try: First, he sets me down as inconsistent, just like all superior lords of creation when considering a wo- man from ‘a purely masculine standpoint. Now don’t infer I hate you, “ Veritas,” because I insinuate you are prejudiced against my sex—most men are, you know; and from the tone of your letter, one can see you are no exception to the rule. But you think me inconsistent, because I “ utterly ignore those shortcomings in women which I so justly complain of in men.” Do I, ignore the faults and follies and foibles, the ignorance and stupidity and absolute depravity of female status to-day? In truth, “Veritas” has read my letters to the WEEKLY to little or no purpose when he makes that sweeping and unjust assertion. But perhaps he has read only the man-hating letters. Men are awfully sensitive about their innate peculiarities which, when I speak of them as they are manifest to my ob- servation, should not indicate that I hate men any more than my denunciations of women’s shortcomings prove that I hate my own sex. Rather the reverse: that I love both men and women so much, and have set up so high an ideal of true man- hood and womanhood, that I must denounce the follies and the vices that detract from that ideal. I think “ Veritas” has misunderstood me, and has summed up my “ results” of our present pernicious system for -my estimate and ideal of man- hood. - When I talked of the snubbery of married men to their wives I was speaking of them as a class toward a class, not considered in a general sense. I know as well as “ Veritas,” and deplore it as much as he. can, that snubbery is more com- mon to the general woman than to the general man. Men scorn to be snubblsh, save to their wives, who are snubbish themselves till after a good dose of marital mascu- line tyranny has taken it. out of them and left them as meek as‘Moses. But as a class, such as I was considering them, more married men snub their wives than vice verse. I not only “ could, if I would, as a conservator of public morals,-” ‘trace the ills that ﬂesh is heir to to woman’s present lamentable, enslaved, lust-ridden, ignorant condition, but 1 have done so repeatedly in the columns of the ‘WEEKLY, as “ Veritas ” can verify if he will take the pains. _ And as to his charge-—~for as he addressed me, I suppose he meant mefiwhen he speaks of striking at causes rather than effects—as to that charge, I must say that the effects I deal with ever suggest the cause and the remedy, both of which I’m quite sure I have not provedderelict in mentioning.‘i;'j,.;T N ow, as regards the “ sacred oﬁlce of maternity,” it offends me to the quick to have the judgment passed upon me that I do not appreciate it, and that I have in any manner failed to give it prominence in the holy of holies of my aspirations and inspirations concerning womanhood. Surely “ Veritas ” ’did not mean that I have a groveling idea of motherhood! If he did he has been a shallow reader of the woman he has criticised. , i In regard to what he says of young women of the present, I refer him to my letter of three months or more _ago, on “ Modern Girls,” and he will there see I do not “ utterly "ignore " their shortcomings. If I advocate the peculiar rights of my sex it is not because BI do not appreciate “human rlghts;” for, until justice is done to women, men are losers with them, and upon women’s rights depend men’s rights, consequently human rights- Now for “familiarity breeds contempt.” “ Veritas ” has again misunderstood me, and he imputes to me a grossness of idea that all my letters to the WEEKLY would seem to re- fute. I had little -of the sexual idea in mind when I spoke of that familiarity that does breed contempt. I up fact I had none of the sexual idea-in view, for the disgusting familiarities of wedlock are only perversions of the sexual principle in its purity, for which I have the highest reverence. There is a sweet and sacred familiarity, such as Jesus held with Mary and Martha and Lazarus and the disciples; aye, even with publicans and sinners. I cannot fancy Jesus of Nazareth calling Mary Mollie or Martha Mat, or pulling off his coat and boats, supposing he wore them in their presence, and calling for his dressing-gown and slippers, and the last Police Gazette, while he elevated his feet on the mantel- piece, and spit tobacco juice on the fender. Neither can I believe he performed the personal offices of the toilet in their presence, and wiped on a common towel, though the wiping of his feet with her hair by the ser- rowing Magdalene was tender and touching enough to melt the hardest heart. Truly much was forgiven her, for she loved much, and her familiarity with the sweet Saviour could not breed contempt. I am no strait-laced stickler for the proprieties, so called, but I believe in proper distance; or, as my father has a habit of saying, “Hands off, unless you wish to purchase.” I will not tolerate familiarities from unattractive people, though there be plenty of good souls ready to ﬂing their arms about all they meet, and promiscuously kiss all whom they come in contact with——who never seem to have had an at- traction or repulsion, to whose inﬂuence I confess to being mighty sensitive. Nothing breeds contempt in my soul so soon as familiarity that don’t attract. In conclusion let me say, I myself am after the same woman “Veritas ” is ﬁshing for, with her “ mental, moral and phys- ical faculties blended in one harmonious whole,” and I am also after that sort of a man, too! Does “Veritas ” know of such a one? Any information of his__whereabouts will be thankfully received by HELEN NASH. TI-IE INFAMY OF QPINIONS. There is nothing to which man is more prone than to be incessantly braiding opinions,» unless it be to give them im- portance. VVhile there is nothing of value in them, yet there is much that is not only dangerous but cruel. In all ages opinions have been the instigatin g causes that have torn the world into factions, while they have lighted the ﬁres and fanned the ﬂames of all the terrible persecutions that have ever raged. Where all else would fail to sever the most deli- cate and tender ties, a mere difference of opinion would accomplish it. All theories are only opinions erected into a form, and canonized byconsent and custom, bequeath- ing to the world the darkest night it has ever known. And to-day, with all of man’s conﬁdence in increasing light, this terrible night succeeds in keeping its baleful shadow in the ascendant. Opinions set forth as an importance for others to believe, whether they emanate from the brain of Bro. Wheeler or somebody else, are simply diaholisms. If any thought, conception or suggestion be transparent to the thinking mind, it is not my thought, but the thought of that mind, a step in its emancipation. I am not, nor have I been at any time, collecting rubbish from the dead past to pile .7‘ upon the already suffocating race. It is freedom from all be- lief that is needed; not something new to believe. Is it asked, “ How are we to get rid of believing?” Simply know something; if it is not much. There is awide diiference be- tween digging down to the hard rock bottom for myself, and that of speculating on the best way for others to do it. Don Quixote’s battle with the wind-mill was a very apt ﬁgure to characterize the folly of a war of opinions. I will cheerfully contribute my share to gather them into one vast mountain pile, and while I applied the torch to them and scattered their ashes to the four winds, I would repeat the funeral obsequies of the direct curse that ever smote man with its infernal mil- dew. I could then turn to my fellow-man with feelings of honest pride and congratulate him as a freeman., We have been so long befooled by abstract acquirements that we question, with the air of a Roman conqueror, the in- telligence of any one who will not confess that he has derived his stock of information from a foreign source. I have been smitten with this folly, but, I frankly confess, that though I believedjmuch, I knew nothing until Ihad promptly repu. diated my garnered crop of knowledge from foreign sources, and leaned only on the resources engendered in this think- ing soul for aid. It was not essential that I should be like others; but it will be eternally important that I shall be like myself. Rounded out in the symmetrical proportions of a beautiful selfhood, existence from every loveable source speaks to me with the easy and unaffected naturalness of life- long associates, without any stipulation from me that it shall concur in my opinions, or any danger from it that I shall be corrupted" by it. That man or woman who has not instinct or intelligence enough to repeat him or herself is poor in- deed. An old goose has brains enough to do this, if not inter- fered with. I confess that if the aim of life be to scramble a/f/ter artiﬁcial elevations,’ the opinions and experiences of tiose who have made such a. life a success are valuable; yet, these can never point us in the direct'10n’of real greatness, for ambition never yet found it. ‘ In those strictures on my article in the WEEKLY of May 29 I will call up a few passages as they shall appear to invite my attention. N ot‘ because these strictures have been point- ed at .me, for they have just as much right 'to do this with me as with anybody else. I do, however, call them up, be- ‘ cause they aﬂ’ord an opportunity to illustrate the triﬂing nature of opinions, whether they emanate in rhyme from Alexander Pope or in threatening prose from a God. , In the statement that I should have held the opinions ex- pressed in that article aboutthe time of my birth, it is barely intimated that it would be preposterous to imagine that I did. Suppose I tell you that every restless feeling awakened by an interference with me then, may be safely translated into a protest at the act as an unwarrantable outrage, and as real too as I feel it now. To ‘make this plainer, I will re- late a fact that transpired when I was about three years or so old. My father was my idol. He was much from home, and in public business of some nature. ‘When he was absent 1 would linger for hours together, watching for his coming. At length one day he came later than usual. A man came into the house with him. My father was talking in an excited manner. It was new to me, yet my little being bounded to"‘_ meet him, as was my custom. He caught me by the arm and thrust me from him with a -rough and unnatural expression. That was the last time that little boy ever lingered peering around the house corner to greet his father’s coming. N 0 better man ever lived, yet after that causeless ebullition of feeling breaking out on me, although having no connection with me, an involuntary dread hung over my being in his presence which I could not explain until riper years and quiet thought informed me. When grown to manhood I told my father what he then lost and how much I suffered, and also of the forced distance that this one move had placed between us through life. . ‘ Since my birth there have been no new qualities in the composition of my nature, although there are new unfold- ments. I then had feebler conceptions of the terrible mis- chiefs resulting from an interference with me, just as larger children now have. Hence 1 had less thorough resistance to the tyranny, thateven then sought to mould meginto a crea- ture of circumstances‘. You know this is to give circum- stances a consequence, while we allow them profanely to dispute our having any. According to these strictures, I am not even privileged to be “ what others have made me to be.” Are there not some facts that loom up beyond opinions? § 5% t . tend for such a thing. 1 dividual, while I scout opinions. , ; Ir .. .,..l.,p I _ wooDnULL~a CLAFL.IN’S w;EEKLr. July 3, 1875. Here is one, viz..: “ The human soul, either loves tq be med- dled with, or it does not.” And if it does not, such inter- ference is a downright tyranny, whether it be by some “ im- mutable and never-failing law,” some “ great everywhere present power,” or some out-and-out devil. The character of I the act is not affected by the name the actor sails tinder. It re- presents only a brazen, bare-faced rascality. I am aware that man’s education, religion and philosophy, dispute this. Sup- pose theysdo, If they disputed that war was violence, dis- puting it would not change the nature of war. I know that man has been interfered with,‘in all ages of the world--his freedom curtailed, and himself governed; and that his craven acts, eloquent speeches,-and voluminous writings, have justi- ﬁed all this oppression. With the thinking mind, one soul restive under this terrible reprisal on its delicate sensibilities, is of more weight in establishing its infernal infamy, than are all the written rescripts ever promulgated to prove its justice. The most that this kind ‘of oppression has ever said is,‘that it has laid handson us, because it could. And this, too, without consulting either our feelings or our weZl—bei'ng. This is just aslreasonable as arbitrary and irresponsible power can _be; and such rule, power or personality is, by all just decisions, a violator of our rights—a purely outlandish and unwashed tyranny; and by no quirk in logic, or dodge in pettifogging, can it ever be justiﬁed. It will be of no use, that we “ ana- lyze all human action,” and back this up with universal experience, to prove anything in its favor; for if we are all ‘compelled in our acts, I would like to know what such acts are worth, to prove anything but the victimized condition of ourselves and the diabolical character of our oppression. That man has always been managed to force on the race just such conclusions as you propose to prove by analyzing all human action, is just what I insist upon as an "indisputable fact. This very compulsion destroys all action for being valid evidence for anythingexcept against the tyranny’ that dares to compel it. Do we not all know that compulsion can have no place either in physics or ethics without inciting respectful, but eternally unyielding resistance? Whatever claim it may ' set forth, it is but an unwarranted interloper. Universal Na- ture would recoil from such an outrage, as my ‘child-soul from rough dealing. Again, if “ all are but parts of one stupendous whole,” there can be no justifiable reason assigned for one part tyran- nizing over another. Any law or life (miscalled power) per- meating being, has as much respect for one part as for anoth- er, and for each part as for the, general whole. The idea of instituted measures, by which God is reconcil- ing man unto himself, is as really horrible as it is an open dec- laration of war on the soul’s inherent rights. A Man has con- sciously no quarrel, nor a wish for any, with any power that A does not ﬁrst make war on him. And when it does, he either ceases to bela man, or he does not cease his resistance to its encroachments. This idea of reconciling man is a ruse to cover up a devil’s work in his attempts to get man under foot; and if I had no other reason to assign for the convulsions that shake the world of mind, I would not adopt this. It slanders anything but villainy itself, while it leaves man de- fenseless under any imposition that may be practiced upon him. I am not reciting opinions of my own, nor quoting Jesusor Paul to get something from them to recite. I am only repeating those facts that express themselves. I am not lugging in some great pomposity to throw an infernal shadow over struggling man already in his death-shivers under some dense shade-‘-a something in the nature of things utterly un- called for like “the great All Power and Everywhere Presen ” getting matters connected with being in running order; then squaring himself just at the “ beginning,” to cut aﬁgure by issuinga mandate to run it. This performance ought to have been prefaced by an order sending forth the publiccrier to call attention to the reading of this “mandate.” Artless nature is not in the same universe with such a gob- lin. This getting up being (which is more than implied by- speaking of the “ beginning”) then “issuing the mandate” to run it, and for the sole purpose of “reconciling man unto himself,” reminds one of the little girl relating her ingenuity for getting into bed. After all due preparation, and placing -herself beside the bed, she said “ rats" to scare herself in. If the charm of display has any merit in it, there is economy in both these performances; if not, they are equally senseless and childish. - When Victoria VVoodhull says, ‘_"There is absolutely no such thing as free agency,” she has uttered a. fact. But when she says in the same connection, “which is the thing for which Brother Wheeler so stoutly contends,” she gets oﬁ a left-handed truth. Yet I concede that she was as innocent in making her conclusion as in setting forth the basis upon which it rested. ‘ “ Free agency ” is a compound word, made up of two distinct and unequivocal meaning words. “ Free” signifying that I live and act for myself, and “agency” that I live and actfor another. .There is, therefore, “ no such thing as free agency.” Nor did Brother Wheeler ever con- I admit that I “stoutly contend ” against all that may be said to force on me an iron fatality, either by law or any kind of power. In the ﬁtness of things each human. soul is the sovereign custodian of itself. It is the only signiﬁcance of the term individual. If the inﬂuences that have invented our philosophies, together with our methods of pursuing life-—each, in all respects, full of those plots and snares that force us to compromise the individual-— have beaten us by these snares, they have not thereby,de- strayed the signiﬁcance of the term, individual. If I am driven to join a coﬂie in a chain—gang, I have no right to set forth my enslaved condition as the only true one. It would be an injustice to all. I plead for the sacredness of the in-, E. WHEELER. AUBURN, June 10, 1875. V PASSIONAL INFLUENCES. BY MARY We MOORE, M. D. In organic life, the two great powers-—-the spiritual and the mat-eria1——meet, blend, unite; not in a chemical, but in a vital formation. ‘ Vitality is an expression of this union. The stronger the contact the greater the vitality. . Highhealth is a high balance of power between these two forces. The loss of this balance is a. loss of harmonious action, inducing decline, disorganization, dissolution of the contact—dea.t1:. In the more complex grades of organic life, as in humans, the causes which unsettle the balance of power are corres- pondingly complex and diverse. They are often ante-natal, and may exist on the material or spiritual side, or both . q The attempt to arrest this condition, to restore the equi- poise, is remedial—disease, we call it—and in this effort it is ours to aid and assist nature to bring about the most judicious and favorable result. Our aids and appliances usually come in on the material side. If not drug medica- tion, then such hygienic agencies” as air, light, temperature, water, food, clothing, exercise, rest, sleep, magnetism, elec- tricity, external objects, passional inﬂuences. All hail! to the last, which is ﬁrst on the list of immaterial agents; Lighter than waves of ether, more subtle than the electric ﬂuid, it is stronger. than the giant or the storm, and holds us all in check. From the little life in embryo to the aged, dying and all, are swayed by its mighty currents, .which beat ever against the shores of our conscious life. How easily are its waves raised heavenward in hope and happiness, or depressed into the deeps of despair? This has a direct inﬂuence upon our organic life. Mark the sparkling eye, the glowing check, the joyous play of the respiration, the outward ﬂow of the life blood; or, inversely, the languor, the pallor, the repression of all things bright and glad and free. , . ‘ Let us not forget that the material and the spiritual are one, and the one aretwo, each with laws and needs and tenden- cies which coalesce with those of the other. ' People go into unphysiological habits of eating and drink- ing and stimulation fromthe wants of the soul-life, seeking to satisfy the spiritual with the earthly. Others‘ go into un- balanced conditions through unkindness and wrong. How much all these need help from the spiritual side, need harmonious passional inﬂuences to polarize anew the atoms of their being, and send the life forces exultant on their rounds! . ' Dr. Wilmarth, the good, used to report cases of collapse of the pecuniarium. He prescribed the appropriate remedy whenever it lay in his power to do so, and found it most eﬁi-o Vcacious treatment. , We are all physicians, and the world has need of our best service, for it is sick unto death. “ The remedy is olden and golden. As ye would that others should do unto you. Love ye one another. Love is the fulﬁlling of the law. Like the good Dr. Wilmarth, let us look below the surface of things; diagnose properly and prescribe faithfully accord- ing to the powers within us, comprehending the soul—sickness and heartbreak of those who are bound, as bound with them. Let us give what we have——sympathy, love, strength, wisdom ; give ourselves, largely and freely, . One night in the forum at Rome a chasm yawned wide. What was most precious to Rome must plunge in to close it. Through the land runs the rent of the fable——~the sickness and sorrow, and slavery of earth. Not patrons nor moneys shall close it. Our bravest and best, the spirits most precious to earth, must ﬁll up the void. Human loves must make up the breaks in thehearts of the World. AN IMPORTANT CARD. Sister Vt'ctor1Za—Permit us through the columns of your widely circulated WEEKLY to inform your readers of what we are doing, and ask their co-operation. The one desire We have above every other is to circulate the truths of radical spiritualism and social reform. Halls are hard to obtain, especially in places where our workqis the most needed, and where they can be had people prefer in hot weather to stay out of doors rather than to go into them, so we cannot get the hearing our cause deserves. We feel somewhat as Paul did when he said, “ Woe] abides ;me if I preach not the Gospel.” We have hit upon a plan where we can make the people hear us whether they will or not. We shall this week pur- chase a pavillion tent that will seat one thousand people, and start out as missionaries, pitching and seating our tent, and ‘remaining two or three weeks in a place; this we will con- tinue until autumn. , . You are ready by this time to anticipate our want—it is money. Shall we have it? The tent itself, exclusive of seats andlights, will cost us $265. The running it, of holding meet- ings every day, will cost not less than $1,000. On all of this we take our chances, but we fully believe there is missionary spirit enough among the reformers to pay at least the cost of starting this enterprise; that is, tent, lights, etc. We will make the admittance freeﬁalways depending upon collections to pay current expenses. Now we ask reformers not to donate anything to us, but to helpthis enterprise. Allcan see that it is not only a good and worthy one, but one that needs and must have help. Our sole efforts are to try to educate the people up to our reforms. Those wishing to ‘take stock in this movement, to receive their pay when and where we get ours, will send the amount they wish applied to this work to either of the undersigned at 24 Newcomb street, Boston. MosEs HULL. . MATTIE SAWYER. ——._.:4 TRUE AND FALSE SEXUAL RELATIONS. The adaptedness of one sex to the other, which results through their blending in complete and mutual happiness, constitutes the truth and purity of all sexual’ relations. This is based on a magnetic law, whose operation makes a. living and life-inspiring bond between the parties. Its ab- sence, allowing all that can be said favorable to harmony, in- volves a condition of conjugal indifference similar to that ex- isting between brother and sister and parent and child. The facts in these cases are that the positive and-negative forces are leveled down, so to speak; that is, neither is positive or negative to the other, and consequently the magnetic law is inoperative. Now, we say, and we say truly, that sexual in- timacy between brother and sister and parent and child is incestuousg What makes it so? The answer is, the non- operation of the subtle magnetic law that attracts, blends and blesses. There is no reciprocity of positive and negative forces in the individuals. It follows then, very clearly, that if parties, not related by ties of consanguinity, are living in sexual intimacy without being in true sexual relations, no matter if they have never been living rightly or having been living so, from any cause whatever such harmony has been broken, that such intercourse is equally incestuous, and that the resultant oﬁspring must be the victims of moral, mental or physical disease; for to the violation of Nature’s laws the child is indebted for all the disease it has by inheritance, as her action is to reproduce the perfect only and not the im- perfect. When, then, the word incest stirs us with disgust, in contemplation of the limited sphere of action to which it has been applied, let us take in its full meaning as regards the many living in obedienceto legal, but in violation of natural ties; whose lives, according to the abovefacts, are reallybefouled by that which constitutes one of the most disgusting crimes within the possibilities of common humanity—the crime of unmitigated and unbridled lust, sexual indulgence without conjugal love, and incestuous re.- latiens outside of the ties of consanguinity. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., 1875. H. W. Booznn. A HETERODOX MARRIAGE CONTRACT. This agreement, made this, the 27th; day of May, 1875, by and between Jared R. Buell, of Indianapolis, and Susan D. Gilbert, of Athol, Massachusetts, is to the following effect, v1z.: Whereas, We believe that we are united by the laws of love, which are ever essential to true marriage, we protest against the assumed rights of others to interfere with that which concerns only ourselves; but in order to satisfy the laws of the State in which we live, and the common prejudice of society, by an outward form indicative of a fact already consummated through the affections; therefore we hereby make this marriage contract, to take eifect and be in force’ after the date abovewritten: ‘ wife, with all which these terms imply, and pledge all that we have and are to the maintenance and support of each other, in sickness or in health, while these relations shall nat- urally exist. 2. Whereas, The courts of law have decided that marriage is a civil contract, and governed by the same rule as all other contracts; therefore we hereby agree that this contract exists and be in force during our physical lives, provided our mutual love-natures ever Elend as now, but to terminate without prejudice by the wish of either party, if love shall ever cease to be mutual, which event we trust and believe will never occur. ' J. R. BUELL, SUSAN D. GILBERT. Signed in presence of Abner J. Pope, Edward S. Pope. Mary R. Pope, Silas Rockwell, N. B. Eveland, J ames Don- nelly, J. B. Barnes and J. T. Morris. 0 A license had been obtained at the County Clerk’s oﬁice, and the above agreement was _ returned to that office. STOCKHOLM, N. Y., June 1, 1875. My Dear Mrs. ll7oo(lhull—I send you in this Mrs. Kent’s photograph. I desire you to see so much of one of the best women living or dead. I think her as good as the mother of Jesus. [The champion [free-love ﬁghter says I have “free love on the brain.” It does me no harm. I was very fortu- be as much so. If able I would write you a long letter on your “Elixir of Life.” I am not able. I do not accord with you, but hope it may not lessen your subscribers, The discussion, if fairly conducted, ought to do good. I am in an extreme minority, even among Spiritualists, on many subjects. Your position is in advance of ‘John H. Noyes, who is comparatively great and good, and fast becoming popular. He proposes to escape natural death by faith in Jesus, you by obedience towhat you have been made to believe are nature’s laws. If both are in error—of which I have no doubt—-your appeal to nature is right—is progress. Some over thirty years ago I too visited Paul’s “third heavens,” and told some things I saw there, which Paul thought it inexpedient for him to tell. But simple testimony of even the greatest and best minds settles nothing in these days. Everything must be tried at the bar of reason. I hope you may soon come to the hard- pan of nature’s laws. We must all bow to these laws when correctly read. I invite all radicals——spiritualists, inﬁdels and atheists—to favor the discussion. Let the WEEKLY be sustained and enlarged for that and other purposes. It is now too small to do full justice to any important subject. argument than would old John Calvin or his modern disci- ples. . The cold winter has almost used me up. Great heat is no less hard on me. I am conﬁned much to my bed." If I pass the heat of July and August in the body, it can only be in‘ extreme suffering. I desire your readers to know that every dollar they send me for mybook and pamphlets——as adver- tised in the WEEKLY—Wi11 come at a time when I most need,it. ful to you for advertising them free. Mrs. Kent joins me in love to you and Tennie. AUSTIN KENT. \ _ DECATUR, Mich., May 31, 1875. Maclames Woodhull and Claﬁt'n—-—By a card received from you to-day I have further encouragement that I may be of some little service in extending the circulation of the WEEKLY. I have been deeply interested mall the leading 1. We hereby agree to assume the relations of husband and nate in selecting a life companion. I only wish others might Mr. Noyes permits no more counter testimony or counter; If not able to send a dollar, send some less. I am very grate- ; I *4»-—“ . " ~.._.a~._ I ' July. 3, 1875. » principles to -which the paper is devoted for many years, and any services I may be able to render you will be extended with that zest and satisfaction which arises from a con- scious sense of devotion to a great and a good work. If I were wealthy, or in any measure independent, no individual who could be induced to read the WEEKLY within the limits of my travels should be without it. I hope to be able to do more as time advances. I have a good, liberal companion, and our sons and daughters are more or less in sympathy with you and with me. It will aid, me somewhat if you will please give me the wholenumber with which the subscriptions expire that I have sent you from time to time. You may, if you choose, add, any other names in Van Buren or Cass counties. Ihave been doing a successful traveling business (in den- tistry) in this southwestern part of Michigan for the last ﬁf- teen years, and have established a good reputation for hon- orable and fair dealing, and am conscious that I have the conﬁdence and good—will of a large portion of the people, even though I have always-been radical in reformatory mat- ters. Truly, C. S. ROWLEY. The following letter appeared in the New York Herald of February 27tl:,written,_ as we learn, in answer to a let- ter from a Baptist Church member who had become in- terested in Spiritualism and was earnestly and conscien- tiously investigating that subject. His mind was deeply in- terested in the matter of social reform which he believed must be based on the principles set forth in the Bible, and as yet unrealized. In the early part of this year he felt himself alone and wrote his friend for his views of association and was answered as “friend speaketh to friend,” and without any thought of publication. The views expressed are evi- dently the result of mature deliberation and afforded so much comfort to the receiver that he offered them to the Herald. in hopes others might be aided. We give below the introduc- tion by the editor of the Herald. Of course Dr. W. had no reference to La Commune as recognized in France, as any one familiar with these matters will see at once. ‘ s LA COMMUNE. The following thoughts were written to a doctor in Brook- lyn by his friend; but being of more than personal interest, they have been sent to the Herald for publication. It will be seen that they give an intelligent, practical and withal thoroughly scriptural turn to this great bugbear of the pres- ent age—-Communism—and_shows that in its truestiand best sense it is a different thing from that which it is generally conceived to be : ' COMMUNISTIC ASSOCIATION. MY Goon FRIEND—I am glad to respond to your request. Certainly we need association, and such association as shall not only secure each individual from obsessing and depressing spirits, but such also as shall be so in accord with divine or- der that spirits shall seek to come into rapport for their own_ elevation, instead of claiming to be able to advance those yet in the form, and in a great many other ways to promote per- sonal development. Association may be either temporary and occasional, or continuous and permanent. There is no question but that the descentof the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost led to such a love for man that the converts pre- 1 ferred to be “ all together, and to have all things common.” N o doubt they might have felt as you do, that by being asso- ciated together each would be stronger for the inﬂuence of the other’s faith and love, and they saw this so clearly that they had no desire for separate interests. But the main point to understand is this: the conception of community life and the ability to ultimate it were the gifts of the Holy Spirit, ‘ None of those converted would ever have dreamed of such a life, much less have lived it, but that God revealed it and gave the power, and He did and will give the perception and life to all who could or can now receive it. But he who has “not ears to hear cannot hear what the Spirit saith to the ‘ churches.” The spirit ear must be unsealed by the removal of the carnal encumbrance to spirit inﬂux on the Church of Christ :-—“ If I go not away the Comforter will not come to you,” said Jesus. There were multitudes of spirits in the heavens who could and did inﬂuence, but they were not the Christ of Grid. So to-day there are multitudes of spirits in the body and out of the body ready to inﬂuence, but they are not the Comforter; they do not bring the .Christ. You say the Comforter does not come to you, or rather, you sayyou are not comforted, which is the same thing, for God wishes to comfort and will at the earliest moment pos- sible. I would like to pursue this, but I have only written it as a basis to answer my ideas of association. Association is not possible as a permanent thing, except as God reveals the method and present purposes and inspires with the requisite will power. We may all derive much good from temporary association, but I understand you to inquire about the per- manent. At any rate certain principles must be understood . to comprehend either. It is plain we need the “ Comforter,” which is the Holy Spirit. It is not so plain, but I assume it, that our carnal natures prevent our being open to the Holy Spirit. All our purposes are based on our convictions and perceptions. We must have the spiritual eye opened. I pre- sume, then, when the Holy Ghost descended on the day of Pentecost He revealed conceptions beyond the power of Christians to make perpetual and universal. Men were not developed. We are approaching a new and more powerful descent, and let us look at the historical preparation to get us away from carnal to spiritual possibilities. . I am assuming now that permanent association is the ulti- ' mate necessity and end. The ‘ﬁrst step for man to take is to say he will not sin in his carnal nature, and, if so, he will need association with those who agree with him. This phase has had two expressions. The Shakers banded together and virtually said love cannot be sanctified; so we will not love; the sexes shall be spiritually emasculated. This opened them to some extraordinary spiritual inﬂux, but it was of a kind that closed their eyes to the idea of sanctiﬁcation, and they became “ ﬁxed to the point to which theyhad attained,” and could not, like Paul,press onward. Still this must, be the ﬁrst step in all human experience. The second step was taken by the Oneida Community, who said, We will regulate love (and, bear inmind, love is of God and is God), we will regulate love by human enactment—that is, by the vote of majorities. -That is precisely the “ fruit of the knowledge of good and evil” that God has reserved. Still here was a great advance from emasculating both sexes when they said We will rule our passions, not destroy them. Hence they preach continence, also a necessary step to consecration, to- ward which we are rapidly hastening. This latter step being based on human reason the advocates were not so open to spirit inﬂuence, and hence resisted Spiritu/alism and spirits, which is also a nececsary element in such persons’ experience, and simply means, “try the spirits.” The Oneida Commu- nity are now intellectually convinced and are examining Spiritualism. But both of these were based onthe aspira- tion after “ the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit.” And the spirit was given to the former to restrain and crucify, and to the intellect of the latter to rule‘ and guide, just as it must be given to the individual man who seeks santiﬁcation and who must pass through both these stages. But each of these have had a measure of success, but have been very limited in inﬂuence. Before these Swedenborg aﬁirmed the inﬂuence of the spirit world and a general philosophy and theology. Now, Spiritualism comes _to prepare for divine association and has a double mission. First, that spirits (“spirits in prison”) may have “revealed to them principles they could not have lived in their day, and which they must see through the practical relations of mortal life; and second, that mortals may see that holy and unholy spirits can and do come, and we can-be inspired by the holy or used by the self- exalted, the ambitious, or even the evil. All this is con- ducted on the plan of human judgment that both spirits‘ and men may understand these relations. N ow you say you “are kept in a discouraged state all the time” and again kept from association until it would seem “ as if (your) heart_ would break.” This is just what I said to you four months ago. ‘ You can now see why “the Comforter ” has not come to you. You must be instructed before you can be inspired. You are now convinced of need; ﬁrst, of God’s spirit; sec- ond, of the aid of spirits as a means; third, of association both to promote these andas a battery of strength to regu- late the above. Your judgment has development, aspiration. Now what are the conditions of divine association? First, absolute’ humility. This means a great deal. You say,’ “with means I might be able to bless,others.” Now God does not think so; if He did He would have ‘you to Work, for there is nothing He wants so much as persons who can bless others. His spirit would at once flow into such a one, because it could ﬂow through. If you had means you could give food, clothes, houses, etc., but God is everywhere taking them away. You think you could teach, counsel; but God does not think soand will not until the deductions of the in- tellect are as nothing to you except to guide yourself. Hu- mility is what we all need; to rely on God so that we can say in trial and sorrow, “ God knows and God rules, and we ‘shall have that ‘peace that passes understanding.’ ” That will help us to’His Spirit, which will enable us to trust in God’s providence—not when we have money in the bank, clothes on our back, and food in our larder for then we trust our foresight, our providence. We must absolutely trust God, and then we can consecrate time, talents and money to divine uses;thenwe can be unselﬁsh; and, if so, God can act through us to bless others; and, if He does, we shall want what God wants, and that is just as much good to one soul as to another. That is Communism; and if property is consecrated to God it removes temptation to selﬁshness. If work and a home, etc., are pledged it removes anxiety and gives better opportunities tobefriend others; and, of course, the divineinﬁuenoe will ﬂow in proportion to the joint as- piration of the whole circle and the sphere of use with which it is surrounded. This is a concise summary of the history and principles of permanent association. Of course any part of this may be applied to use, but the . principle remains the same. You and I were associated, par- tially and temporarily last summer, and with very great proﬁt to me, but nothing to be compared to the good we may have, especially when there is an overt purpose to get that We may do good, and more especially when our association is so as to attract others—mortals and spirits—-and when in all these is such humility andunselﬁshness that God can use in harmony the whole association in this way, then Christ shall reign in human hearts and send the Comforter, and “the peace of God that passes all understanding” shall be in us and keep us, and “ God be all in all.” 0. H. WELLINGTON, M. D., 18 Beach street, New York. 18 OUT-GANG LANE, Radford, Nottingham, , ~ England, January 25, 1875. ' Mrs. V. Woodh.ull—I send you a post-oﬁice order for one pound, withithe earnest wish you will be able to surmount all your difﬁculties, and by means of the WEEKLY ﬁght for the total abolition of legallfmarriage; that is, legal sexual slavery. I think you made a mistake in supposing that Beecher could be forced to publicly advocate the destruction of the present system of sexual slavery, by showing that he believed in and practiced sexual freedom. If he had enough man in him to advocate such unpopular ideas, while they remained under; the ban of prejudice and custom, he would have done so long since, and’ without compulsion. But he belongs to that large class of talkers and writers, who subordinate all their other ideas and sentiments to the one paramount one of money- making; who, however convinced they may be of the im- portance of any principle, or of the beneﬁcial results likely --to ﬂow from“ the adoption by society of any new set of ideas, always ask themselves before they venture to advocate them: Will they pay? and, if they will not, keep dumb. Now, Beecher having never yet ventured to advocate unpopular ideas-—or, if he did venture on such a position, backed out again as soon as he felt how matters stood——it was futile to expect to evoke so much manliness in him as to hope that he would act upon such diiferent motives from those he had woonsvnx. & ctxsrisvs vrssxrr» S C : obeyed all his life, as wouldsbe needful if he was to now face popular prejudice, and, regarding money as a secondary con- sideration, stand by his convictions wherever they-might lead. No; it was not to be expected after so many years of subordination of convictions to interest that he would now take the opposite course; for we must remembenthat, like the drundard or the opium-eater, the longer be has been actuated by these motives the harder it is to free himself from the shackles. V As long as the present state of society exists the wealthy classes and the classes who think they are beneﬁted by the present social arrangements will pay men who have the gift of gab to advocate their interests, or supposed interests, and pay them so well as to buy up all who are in the market,that are worth buying. But great truths are not dependent on anv man, whether writer or speaker, for their progress and diffusion, but are bound to force themselves on society in their regular order of progress; for the ideas on which society is basedobey as regular an order of development and growth as all the other operations of nature. ‘ . You can print this letter if you think ﬁt, and you can put my name and address in full when you acknowledge the money in the paper—~though I see you only put initials as a rule——for I think it is best to boldly stand by our opinions, otherwise the enemy might think we are afraid of them. I am yours, etc., THOMAS SMITH, Author of the Law of the Revolution. 64 STUDIO BUILDING Q BosToN, June 3‘, 1875. 2' Editors Weekly—Inclosed please ﬁnd three dollars, renewed subscription to your progressive and fearless journal, which is really “ breaking the way for future generations,” and which such “generations,” I think, will yet “rise up and call blessed.” A ‘ The solution of the “Social Problem” is to be sought for and found, if found at all, in the relations of the sexes. There lies the root of the whole matter. So ~ long as swindlers, thieves, murderers, are begotten, born and reared, so long will society be aiﬂicted with them—and they will continue to be so begotten and born, so long as the present careless, slipshod teaching, legally enforced, and other degrading modes of human generation continue. ' -s The breeders of pigs and poultry, cats and dogs, cattle and horses—yes, and every sort of vegetable, also——understa'nd this subject better. . . _ They study the laws of adaptation, of spiritual and material affinity, and so are constantly making progress—improving. But the “American Social Science Association” spends its time in writing and reading lumbering and long-winded es- says on free trade, tariffs, etc., with an "occasional word about drainage or sanitary matters; and still the old, reckless, god- less process of generation goes on, and rogues and murderers are forced into life much faster than they can be imprisoned or hanged. But I am hoping some day to speak more fully on this vital subject. Now I lack time, and you space, even if I should desire a hearing in your columns. ~ LORING Moomr. Woncnsrna, J une 10, 1875. My Dear Sister V 2'cto'm'a——The spirit moveth me this morn- ing to take pen and tell youthow greatly I am rejoiced at the publication of the last two articles in exposition of the so- called Bible mysteries. I sit almost entranced as I read them, and wonder if the great sin-cursed, blind world knows that a greater revelation of truth forlits salvation is now being made through the WEEKLY than has come through any other medium since the publication of the Bible itself l,- Your unfoldlngs of the hidden meanings of the “ Sealed Book ” are as plain as the daylight, and I cannot conceive how any rational mind can fail to yield assent to the blessed truths‘ arrived at. It is true that sin originally entered into the world through the procreative act, however unwilling the besotted followers of the “whore” may be to own it. This I have believed for many years. . The great value of these truths will not be recognized at once, but ultimately the world will lay hold. .of them as the only means of becoming free from thoseterrible evils and abominations into which the entire race is rapidly falling. Considering the inestimable value of these articles, I would suggest that theybe electrotyped, and that editions in book form be issued as_soon as ﬁnished. A. Brzrees DAVIS. HUMAN LIFE EXPANDING.—-There can be no better test of the amelioration which we owe to modern civilization than the increased length of man's earthly span, as compared with p the age attained in ancient and in mediaeval times. It is stated in a recent German periodical that while in repub- lican Rome the average duration of life among the upper {always the longest lived) classes, Was only thirty years, among the same classes in the present century it reaches ﬁfty years. Then, with respect to the “ good old times.” In the six- teenth century the mean duration of life in Geneva was 21.21 years; between 1814; and 1833 it had reached 40.68 years, and at the present time as many people live there to the allotted term of seventy as_ 300 years ago lived; to forty-three. The rapidity with which the mean rose in England, even in its earliest period of extension, is shown: by the comparison of two ﬁnancial transactions in that country in 1693 and in 1790 In the former year government made a considerable proﬁt by borrowing a large sum of money, on terminable annuities, based on the mean duration of life at that time; in the latter another loan, based on the same tables, resulted ina loss. The average duration of life in England at the present day is about forty years for males and forty-two for females. The ratio is, of course, higher among the better-to-do "glasses, lower among the working classes and the poor. Aristocracy and annuitants are exceptionally long-lived, and a much larger number of people than is supposed reach the age of one hundred years and upward. CHILDREN in Florida say they live on sweet potatoes in ’ the summer; and on strangers in the winter, \ L 4. i . . woonnunr. a oL’ArI.IN*;s wnsxnr July 3, 1875. _’l'ERltlS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, . $3 00 One copy for six months, ‘- - - - - - 1 50. Single copies," ,- - - - - - 10 CLUB RATES. lllive copies for one year, - - - - $12 00 Ten copies for one year. - - - - -» 22 00 Twenty copies (or more same rate), - - _ - 40 00 Six months. - - - - - ~ - 0ne~half these rates. FOREIGN" SUBSCRIPTION (JAN an nAI>n To Tnr. AGENCY on THE AMERICAN Nnws conrazzx, LON DON, r.NeI.AND. One copy for one year, - A - One copy for six months, - - - $4 00 ’- _ 2 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. Per line (according to location), - - From $1 00 to $2 50 Time, column and page advertisements by special contract. 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